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When the vapor came out it was the same construction that I thought when make a great indoor ultra micro 3d plane. And here it is. I was very happy to find this thread.
Question: Could the frames that you are building be molded some how. Maybe someone with some plastic pour molding experience could comment.
Just curious.
What are the thoughts in using Cabon Fiber arrow shafts for a fuselage center longeron instead of the balsa center? I have some that are thin walled about 5/16th inch and some thicker walled around 1/4 inch. They are around 32 inches long also and the thin walled shaft is fairly light and very strong. I have used these plastic motor mounts also in a few of my planes. They can be cut shorter in length. The arrow shafts can fit the mounts tightly also with little work.
The arrow shafts can be drilled for the small 1mm CF rods to pass through it also which will make a pretty rigid fuselage. Where did you find the kevlar thread? What are the thoughts of using hair thin copper magnet wire to make the terminal end bindings? To or three wraps would do the job. After the drop of CA glue is applied it can't be to much difference in weight. Of course my build would not end up as light as yours but in general it would still be light enough to be a good flyer as a sport flier.
Do you think there is any merit to this?
**Neons** Bob
You flatter me with your questions. Im just returning back into the hobby after a 15 year hiatus, am struggling through each challenge that I encounter as I build the RELAX, and, on most days, feel very humbled by problems I cannot solve quickly. For the sake of conversation, I can give you my opinion but by no means should it be interpreted as authoritative or necessarily credible.
Carbon fiber shafts for the fuselage longeron:
The ideal fuselage longeron for an aircraft like the Relax should be stiff as well as light. But the question can be raised as to how stiff should it be without becoming too heavy? In my opinion, the longeron only needs to be stiff enough to prevent the long fuselage from warping. The weight of the tube should be given at least equal consideration. The RELAX was designed for flying indoor precision aerobatics at a slow speed. Such performance characteristic was achieved by minimizing the flying weight. The Relaxs wing loading is unbelievably low. I estimate that my badly overweight model will have a wing loading less than 1.5 oz/sq ft. (This is in stark contrast to the pattern airplanes that I flew in the West Texas winds, circa early 1990s, which had wing loadings about 12 to 15 oz/sq ft). To acquire lower weight requires discipline, careful planning of the material/equipment as well as the building methods used. Having grown up with larger balsa models, I am having difficulty transitioning to ultra-light indoor planes. The selection of the longeron is a good place to start and I appreciate the reason why you ask this question.
I dont have any experience with carbon fiber arrow shafts and thus cannot offer any specific comment as to their merit. I have, however, searched for lightweight round carbon tubes and my initial find was discouraging. For example, a 8 mm (OD) 6 mm (ID) carbon tube weighed 34 grams when I was hoping for tubes closer to 2 grams. The balsa stick was the best I could find when I began construction. Later, however, I read that there are two kinds of carbon tubes, extrusion and wound types (http://www.radicalrc.com/category/Carbon-Rod-Hollow-410). The latter is cheaper and lighter. But, at this time, I have not purchased a wound-type tube.
Where to purchase Kevlar thread:
Kevlar thread is commonly sold in stores specialized for fly fishing. You can order the thread over the internet from stores like http://www.edgeangling.com/Fishing-T...=kevlar+thread. There might be different types of Kevlar threads. The ones that I like are those that remain wound as you handle them. I can tie the joints more neatly with this type of thread (purchase from the store in the above hyperlink). The other type unwinds into a bundle of very fine fibers and is more difficult to handle. However, I dont know which type of thread is stronger and I dont know whether they are identifiable by different names.
What are the thoughts of using hair thin copper magnet wire to make the terminal end bindings?
The need for tying the carbon rods arises because the minimal surface that each tip of the rod makes contact at the glued joint. So when considering an aircraft constructed with extensive truss elements, you might appreciate that the greatest structural stress occurs at the glue joints, not in the carbon rods themselves. Lantsov Alexey apparently understood this and incorporated the method of tying each rod using the Kevlar thread. Kevlar thread accomplished two things. First, winding each joint with thread in effect -- increased the glued surface. Second, because of its high tensile strength, the thread itself contributed to the strength of the joint. Kevlar thread has a tensile strength equal to that for the equivalent weight of steel. I suppose that the copper wire can be used in place of the Kevlar because the wire would increase the glued surface. But copper wire does not have as good strength and weight characteristics.
Do your proposed methods have any merit. The answer is of course they do. The merit, however, depends upon the desired cruising speed and aerobatic performance. I just doubt that anyone would wish to invest the amount of time, effort, and money that this aircraft requires just to build a good sport flyer. May be I'm wrong.
PS I have finally got the servos and receiver satisfactorily installed. Ive been trying for about 1 ½ months which is far more time than I anticipated. That includes working through 7 failed attempts plus the ancillary work of their removal. The latter is time consuming as it is not easy to remove joints and material that were tied with Kevlar and glued with CA. Additionally, the removal of the failed attempts incurred unintentional slips of hand that often resulted in damage to nearby support braces. The 0.6 and 0.7 mm diameter rods fractured easily but the 1 mm rods survived the abuse quite well.
Last edited by Rocky Young; Sep 23, 2011 at 08:00 AM.
how do you covey one of these? i know they are covered with mylar but i looks like they are all built in one piece/ also are these painted if so what kind of paint
Rocky -
A much lighter connection between the control horn on the flying surfaces and the pushrods is to use heat shrink tubing CA'd to the rods. it doesn't seem like it would hold up but it does. The tubing is flexible and long lasting.
Thank you for your very good explanation on the use of carbon fiber rods and kevlar threads. It is well covered here. Very helpful to me and I am sure others here. One problem I found when I split a rod or shaft is it can leave very sharp splinters. I have split CF many times and very carefully block sand them before I use them. I do not want to run my fingers along a split rod or shaft. I do not think getting a splinter is the best thing to do with carbon. Your work is very nice and I enjoy following what you are doing.
**Neons** Bob
Last edited by **neons**; Sep 23, 2011 at 10:19 PM.
Hey Alexie! This is Mike The American you use to fly with in St. Petersburg! Nice plane you have posted here! I have a question. Did I see one of your planes for sale in the hobby shop down near Gorkovskaya metro? It was a carbon mylar plane and I said that has to be lantzovs work! I see lots of people are asking about the "metalized mylar covered carbon rods" I still fly one of my planes with a couple of those rods installed. Even years later I can find NOTHING like them. It would be good to see you and the guys again! Tell Sasha I said hello! And thanks for posting your work. & I miss the plane you sold me! It was surley one of the best planes I owned!
Hats off to you on your build. I know exactly how difficult and time consuming this type of construction can be. Beautiful job! Looking forward to seeing it completed.
Let me share a couple of different ways to connect the CF rods. Not the lightest but different and possiblt these wil get thought processes going for others.
About this time last year I built my first CF framed plane but did not like the idea of tying all the joints so I laid up some 2 oz CF cloth on a glass plate and punched out 1/4 inch circles with a paper punch. After taping all the rods in place I went around and placed a dab of epoxy and a CF circle at each joint. This is not the lightest way to do it but I just could not see myself tying all the joints. The plane was then covered with baloon mylar- again not the lightest way to go but the baloon mylar was easily found at the party store.
Here are some pictures of that method.
Here is the second method I used on my second CF framed build.
I cut different size circles from CF veil and after taping down all the rods I went around at each joint and placed a piece of plastic under the joint followed by a CF circle. A drop of thin CA was then placed on the CF circle, the plastic was quickly folded over and pressure was applied with a piece of foam to mash the CF circle down around the CF rod joint. This method is lighter than the first but also more time consuming. The plane was covered with 5 micron mylar.
Here are some pictures.
I hope these methods spark some thought as to diferent ways to go about connecting the rods other than tying.
I enjoy your description/photos of alternative approaches. Please continue. I'll be trying the carbon-tissue joint reinforcement on my second aircraft.
With regard to my first attempt, I completed construction and have briefly test flown it. Here are a couple of photos. At home, I really thought the transparency scheme looked cool. But after I took off on my first flight, my opinion quickly changed. In the indoor facilities where I fly, the upper half of the walls and the ceiling are poorly illuminated and my plane almost disappears from view. In fact, within seconds of my first take off, I collided with a ceiling beam. Miraculously, the plane fell to the floor without a scratch. My next aircraft will have a similar color scheme but with an opaque white background -- to improve visibility.
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Friday, January 08, 2010
Building character
I disagree. I think people become strong like plants become strong -- by starting with deep roots. I think that childhood is a time to grow deep roots. Later you can challenge the seedling with wind, drought, and deluge and it will probably do just fine because it will have the firm grounding necessary to weather the hardship.
Much of what gets labeled "character building" is actually emotional trauma that kids, as thankfully resilient as they are, gradually get over. But I don't think that "getting over" happens without a cost -- often the result is a subtle emotional guardedness, a "hardening", a wariness, a fear of being hurt, a reticence to commit, a tendency to look to others for approval, to try to please peers or avoid attracting attention rather than stand up for what one believes. Growing up tough enough that you can shrug off others' hurts sounds like strength of character, but I think it's hardness of character. True strength of character comes of knowing deep down who you are, and knowing that you are supported and loved for who you are, so that hurts don't damage your sense of your true self.
Many of us view the traumas we went through as kids is something ultimately worthwhile because they made us stronger. I confess I used to believe that myself. But now I think we like to believe that because the alternate interpretation is to awful to contemplate -- that the traumas we went through were entirely useless and unnecessary and wrong, that they should never have happened, that we would have been emotionally healthier people if we'd been protected from those things. That's saying "I went through all that for nothing?!!!" It's not a very welcome conclusion, but I think it's closer to the truth.
Two of my kids are now teens. As youngsters they were very much protected from hurtful comments, abusive friendships, exclusionary social tactics, bullying, anxiety-provoking social situations, aggression, power-plays and such. They've grown into very strong people with strong senses of who they are. They shrug off the hurtful language and behaviour of others with little difficulty. They navigate the minefield of social relationships with confidence and matter-of-fact good sense. Strong roots, I think.
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I really enjoy your thoughts on child development, school, etc.ReplyDelete
I think you're right when you say much of the hurt kids encounter in some school settings in needless. There just aren't many adults in life -- none that I encounter -- that are cliquish and cruel the way kids and teens can be. So if a child comes out of a school experience stronger (though I think you're right; there's a difference between strength and hardness), what is the real benefit? "Preparation for real life," people like to say... but 'real life' is much, much better than jr. high!
(I was homeschooled K-12. I surely appreciate the chance I had to grow some deep roots and build close connections with the people in my life who love me unconditionally - my family.)
I agree so much with you. I am very glad my kids that did choose to go to school didn't go until they were high school age. I have lots of scars and barely healed wounds from school and I am 50 so that was a long time ago. I swore that my kids would never have to put up with what I did and they didn't. Three of mine are now 20+ and the other 2 are teens. They are all turning into wonderful adults. I firmly believe that homeschooling has played a large role in that outcome.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:34 am
I don't have any problem with home schooling, each to his own I say. But the common thread that I see with alot of homeschooling families is " the them against us mentality". It seems to me that those of us who are sending our kids to a regular school are doing our kids a disservice, thats the impression that I get from some of my homeschooling friends, what they are doing is better and I am failing my kids somehow is the feeling I get from them.ReplyDelete
Yes school can be a cruel place, kids can be mean, but I do have to agree with the quote from the beginning of your blog entry, it does help to build character, but is only a facet of what builds a child's character, other things in their lives contribute too. Whether they are the death of a family member, a move across the country, a sickness and many other life issues, it all contributes.
I spent my teenage years travelling around Europe with my parents in a camper van we brought from Canada. I did grade 11/12 by correspondence courses. Yes I had a fabulous time, and experienced many wonderful places and things that I otherwise wouldn't. But looking back at that experience, it was not the greatest thing for me as a teenager. I was very shy and when I came back to finish my grade 12 (i was short 4 credits for my graduation,) I could not relate to the kids around me, I was much more mature and had not done any of the typical things that teenagers do and spent the next ten years of my life very unsettled and had a hard time putting down roots. Even today almost thirty years later I still have problems with being settled.
I guess what i am trying to say is if your kids have never gone to a regular school you have no right to knock it down or comment on it either way. I have experienced both and can say that each had its own merits and shaped me to be the person (good or bad) that i am today. School is not an evil place and kids can learn much about life and how it works from the experience.
Kootenay gal
Kootenay gal, the original quote that I responded to in this post was from someone on a message board. It wasn't something I made up. The defence of homeschooling you're reading isn't an attempt to create an 'us vs. them' mentality. It's a response to that sort of stance from a non-homeschooling parent.ReplyDelete
I assume you're not a regular reader of this blog, because if you were you'd know that my eldest does go to school. And I went to school too. I feel I do have some basis on which to comment. I am not "knocking it down." It was the original writer in this post who brought up the issue of the emotional hurts and challenges inherent in school's social interactions and suggested that these were good things.
I'm not saying these experiences don't change people. Of course they do. So does the death of a loved one, so does moving across the country and away from friends, so does prolonged illness. But to then turn around and say that these things are good or even necessary to build character? That doesn't work for me.
- Anonymous11:00 am
I am a regular reader of this blog, and notice that you often take quotes from message boards and comment on them. In all fairness...we.. the readers don't have any idea what the context of the "conversation" was and it is hard to really get an idea of what the writer was trying to say. Its not really fair in my opinion. Its really only half the story. If you do this, you should give a little background into the virtual conversation.ReplyDelete
I just hope I never say anything on a message board that you don't agree with and end up on your very public blog!! I wouldn't like it a bit:-(
KG, the reasons I used only a small quote and didn't give the background context are two-fold. First, I believe in preserving the anonymity of the original poster. I don't want to give any specifics. And I figure that unless I'm asking permission to use their words, I need to keep the quotes under the 50 - 200 words commonly used as a cut-off for infringement of copyright. The second is that I only blog my responses if I think they speak to a generalize sentiment that I've encountered many places, throughout the webiverse and elsewhere. I would never choose to blog a response to a specific, personal situation, or one that I didn't think other homeschooling parents were likely encountering on a regular basis. The quote was meant to be an example of a generalized anti-homeschooling argument that most homeschooling parents encounter regularly, not a specific disagreement I had with someone else.ReplyDelete
Perhaps in this case I should have prefaced the quote with "The following was written by a non-homeschooling parent as an argument against homeschooling." The large majority of my readers are homeschooling moms and I think most of them would have recognized that context without the clarification, because I'm sure most of them have heard this argument many times. But your perspective is obviously not theirs, and sometimes I forget that non-homeschoolers are reading here too. Your comments have been a useful reminder.
"I believe school really builds kids character. For example, I felt lonely and "on the fringe" in school and grew to be a very compassionate person for the underdog."ReplyDelete
Is it better to be compassionate for the underdog when that compassion comes from your own victimization as a child and your resentment of those who made you an underdog or is it better to be compassionate for the underdog out of a general sense of compassion?
Just a question to think about.
I was the underdog in an extreme sense when in school. That is not why I homeschool. I think that because of my children's unique circumstances (one of those being attentive parents), they would not be the underdog as I was (because of my unique circumstances). I don't believe that my being an underdog instilled any more compassion in me for the downtrodden.
Another example that wouldn't be stretching so far is female abuse. I have never been in an abusive spousal relationship, nor have I ever been raped as an adult or teenager. However, those are my specific areas of 'compassion', where I feel most compelled to help and serve. Glad we don't have to go through crap to want to help those going through said crap.
- Anonymous5:30 am
From what you've been saying lately about how things were going with unschooling, one of the problems you were experiencing was a lack of cooperation and participation in some aspects of community life. Do you feel that the changes you have been undertaking in terms of structure at home will address / are addressing the development of character issue? What types of experiences, do you feel, develop character (and I am still not sure how we are defining it) in children within an unschooling setting? Is 'pitching in to help' or doing things that aren't 'all fun and games' part of building character?ReplyDelete
I'm not sure a string of comments is the best place to address your questions, but I'll make two short points.ReplyDelete
The first is that for all the navel-gazing and work-in-progress nature of our unschooling, much of which I've written about lately, there are a lot of things that have always worked very well. My kids are curious, exceptionally responsible when not supervised, honest, are empathic and very supportive of others' efforts and feelings. They all work very hard at their musical studies without reminders, quite independently and diligently, and do the necessary grunt-work even when it's not enjoyable in the moment. And they are very gracious in giving their time and energy to community endeavours. So even if they were staying up too late, uninterested in mopping floors and spending too much time on the computer, there's always been a pretty good basic foundation.
The second point: I think what speaks most positively about the unschooling we're doing here is that when Chuck and I addressed the issues we saw and proposed some ideas for change, the kids quickly saw the value in most of what I had proposed and bought into it by choice. All it took was two parents bringing forth their concerns and expressing them honestly, and a nine-day trial of a somewhat different way. The kids were receptive and ultimately agreed with the solutions we proposed. We have a family "game" that was given to us by my sister at Christmas for igniting dinner table conversations and we've been trying it out for fun (not that we lack stuff to talk about, LOL!). The other night the card was "What family rule to you think is unfair? What would you change it to and why?" The kids were stymied. They said that all our rules are agreed to by everyone, so how could we end up with one that was unfair?
About character. I see character as a multi-faceted thing which is the result of the internalization and integration of numerous values, things like friendship, honesty, integrity, diligence, responsibility, persistence, empathy, charity, graciousness and so on. I think that character is best developed when children have over the long term a variety of experiences and situations in an environment where those values are consistently and thoroughly modeled, discussed and supported by their parents and the other significant adults in their lives.
I think Gordon Neufeld's description of the "Flight from Vulnerability" well-describes how many kids end up coping with the social dysfunction that can occur in school settings. It is truly a different ball of wax than true self-confidence.ReplyDelete
As a homeschooling parent I would just like to say that I enjoy these posts of yours that are in reply to comments found elsewhere, because they are always of the sort I encounter in response to our choice to homeschool and I so appreciate the eloquent responses you give.
- Anonymous6:12 am
The only thing I think we can say for sure about trauma, like every other action and event, is that it changes things.ReplyDelete
I have 2 boys ages 3.5 and 21 months. My 21 month year old was diagnosed last month with leukemia The cancer is one thing, but the treatment is very traumatic.
While he is very attached and has some strong roots, he really hasn't had the luxury of developing strong roots in every useful direction. Also, regardless of age, you cannot always be prepared for the type of hardship you will encounter. We all have weaknesses and vulnerabilities and we all have trauma. Galaxies collide and it truly is the stuff of life.
I always use the plant analogy in terms of the time, care, consistency of teaching and raising children, but when it comes to trauma, we need to look at a bigger picture. Plants have evolved because of trauma. (Ok, I only took Bio 102 in college so I'm kind of making that up.) Some have big wide leaves, others thorns, others taste bitter or develop mechanisms to spread seeds far and wide, etc. With plants, it's not so much about the individual plants as it is about the species. With enough trauma, the species either evolves or becomes extinct.
So, to say that strong roots protect you from trauma or that trauma builds character, I think, ignores the complexity of humans as individuals and as a species. It also may set us up for disappointment. Something one runs into often is the "tyranny of positive thinking." I think there is a book called "Cancer is a gift." I think it's fine if someone finds this to be the case, but to try to teach us to react this way or that someone relapsed because their attitude wasn't good enough does more of a disservice than anything else.
I think the best we can do is to live in the moment, feel the hurt, recover, shrug it off, patch it up, grow stronger, learn, control the festering and bleeding (figuratively) then work on it later (when, say, language and logic skills develop more), if possible, plan a response for next time. And, to share resources (between individuals, families, communities, humankind).
My 2 cents. Love reading your comments. Love parents and teachers. Best of luck to you all raising happy, healthy and strong kids!
Ingrid T.
- Anonymous11:00 am
This was interesting. Not because I am remotely interested in whether to home school or unschool or go to school but because, no matter what the issue, people always feel the need to justify. Especially when it comes to parenting. Why do you feel the need to defend your position? Or to counter someone else? If it is what is best for you and your family and you are confident that it isn't harming them but offering them a better chance to be successful as adults in the world then do it. If not, then do what makes sense for your family.ReplyDelete
Life is too short for all of this navel gazing and arguing. Live and let live. Why should we defend our choices? Let's stop judging others and justifying ourselves and begin accepting and celebrating our differences.
Interesting for me too, Anonymous, because your comment made me feel like I was being judged for being reflective ("navel gazing") and for choosing to defend homeschooling.ReplyDelete
Perhaps it would cast a new light on it to know that the message board thread that generated my response was a request for input. That's why I wrote it. The mom wanted to homeschool and felt it was best for her kids educationally and in many other ways, but someone had told her that schooling was good for building character and she wondered if they had a point -- perhaps she should reconsider her choice.
I obviously made an error in judgement re-posting my response here, since out of context people like you are seeing it as argumentative and defensive. But heck, it's my blog. I'm not writing it in order to make others feel good. I just put in it what I want to and others can judge as they see fit.
- Anonymous3:17 pm
It is your blog that is correct. However a difference in opinion never hurt anyone, and makes for interesting reading and musing. None of the posters who differed from your opinion wrote anything unkind, they were simply trying to offer an alternative viewpoint.ReplyDelete
nothing wrong with that.
"None of the posters who differed from your opinion wrote anything unkind, they were simply trying to offer an alternative viewpoint."ReplyDelete
True, but you weren't offering an alternative viewpoint on the issues raised -- you were suggesting I shouldn't be raising the issues in my blog at all.
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Russia will not be able to fulfill its intention of setting up Russian schools in Latvia, since it will not be able to receive all the required licenses and permits, Education and Science Minister Ina Druviete has said.
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Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics called the plans "totally unacceptable."
Latvia, being a European Union member state, decides its internal matters itself, which also concerns educational matters, Druviete told Latvian Radio. She said Russia would not be able to fulfill its plans while observing Latvian regulations.
"It is not a simple process. Licenses, curriculum and accreditation are required to establish an educational institution in Latvia. There are also other mandatory preconditions. In addition, those studying in such schools would experience difficulties during state exams, which are held in Latvian," said the minister.
However, the plans have already received the go-ahead from the Kremlin, Lavrov explained, adding that Russia "will attempt to come to agreement not only with the Baltic States, but with other neighboring countries as well, where our nationals reside, setting up schools at our expense."
Lavrov also said that instruction in these schools would be based on Russian standards, expressing the wish that this school system would materialize as soon as possible. But he added that "not everything depends on the Foreign Ministry."
Latvian Foreign Minister, Rinkevics explained that the establishment of such schools in Latvia is near impossible, since all educational institutions in Latvia must observe local regulations. Such schools can be set up with the help of intergovernmental agreements, but their usefulness is questionable, emphasized the minister.
Latvia is already funding 99 schools, where classes are being taught in seven minority languages. These schools have a single curriculum, facilitating social integration based on European values and Latvia's identity. Within this context, the establishment of schools based on different standards is questionable, explained Rinkevics.
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Young Hearts Run Free : The 1970s is a decade frequently miscast; a parade of fashion disasters backed by a soundtrack of glam rock or frothy, mainstream disco. The generation who grew up in the 1970s remember the decade differently: inflation, strikes, and power cuts; the rise of the National Front; IRA terror campaigns on the British mainland; women's liberation; Mean Streets; Taxi Driver and Apocalypse Now. "Young Hearts Run Free" tells the story of the 1970s, celebrating the musicians and songs that illuminated the ideas, fashions and sexual revolutions of the decade.
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August, 19th 2014. Accra: Telecommunication operator, Tigo Ghana, has announced the installation of a world-class IVR, (Interactive Voice Response) that will give both its pre-paid and post-paid customers the opportunity to access all its product through a unified short code, 555.
This will enhance customer experience and reduce the inconvenience of customers having to memorise the various short codes for different products and services.
Customers have the option of calling 555 and following the voice prompt or dialing *555# and following the instructions on their mobile screen. They will be guided to the various products and services includingdata and voice bundles, Tigo cash and the Call centre.
Speaking on the new innovation, the Chief Executive Officer of Tigo Ghana, Roshi Motman, said "The challenge in the past has been for customers to remember the various short codes for different products and services.
In enhancing customer and user experience, it is essential that we look at simplicity and convenience and through this unified short code, customers will have access to a one-stop-shop for our range of products and services".
Customers can listen to the voice prompt in English, Twi or Ga.
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You've wept over Rudy. You've cheered over Rudy. You've been had by Rudy?!
Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana did not allege that last one on the radio this morning, but he did suggest that the beloved sports biopic was very much a movie.
As in not real.
In an interview on The Dan Patrick Show, Montana was asked about Rudy Ruettiger, the namesake of the 1993 football flick about an undersized kid whose big dreams of playing for Notre Dame come true one autumn afternoon when he gets in a game, gets a sack, gets carried off the field by admiring teammates, and gets the stadium rocking to "Ru-dy!…Ru-dy!…Ru-dy!"
"It's a movie remember," said Montana, who played at Notre Dame during the Ruettiger era, as it were, adding with a laugh. "Not all that's true.
"The crowd wasn't chanting...And then the guys carried him off kinda playing around. I won't say it was a joke, but it was playing around."
So, had any dreams crushed lately?
Actually, if you'd been paying attention (and not just blubbering every time the Sean Astin movie is on cable), you'd know that Rudy never called itself a documentary. Even Ruettiger, now an in-demand motivational speaker, bills himself as "the inspiration behind the movie"—"inspiration" in Hollywood being a perfectly legitimate license to take dramatic license.
As far back as the movie's initial release, the filmmakers were up front about how they tweaked Ruettiger's story. They told the New York Times they created the character of the big, bad older brother; and invented the scene where Notre Dame players refuse to suit up until Ruettiger suits up.
What they didn't make up, and as Montana himself attested to today, were the basic facts that Ruettiger got in a game, got a sack and got carried off the field.
Now as to the exact motivation of the Ruettiger teammates who carried him off the field?
We reached out to Ruettiger to see what he thinks of Montana's "playing around" assertion. His staff referred us to his website's FAQ, which touches on what was real, and what wasn't, in Rudy, but, sorry, doesn't say whether the on-field salute was heartfelt.
No matter. The movie one was. And that's what always gets Rudy fans heading for the Kleenex.


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Three metro counties began taking applications for marriage licenses from same-sex couples on Thursday, marking another milestone for Minnesota.
Minnesota's new law allowing same-sex marriage goes into effect eight weeks from now, on Aug. 1. The early application window gives couples who want to marry as soon as it becomes legal a chance to get their paperwork ready.
Gentry Holloway and Martha Whiteaker of Minneapolis were among the first couples waiting in line at 7:30 a.m. today at the Hennepin County Government Service Center. The school nurse and airline pilot brought along their two young sons.
• Photos: Minn. same-sex couples line up for marriage licenses
• Doors open today for same-sex marriage applications
• Same-sex couples start applying for marriage licenses
"We feel like we've been married 15 years but this just really legitimizes the whole things legally and financially," Holloway said. "It's a big deal to us."
A media scrum followed the first couples inside to the service counter.
The mood was celebratory, a far cry from the contentious 18-month battle over a failed constitutional amendment that would have banned same-sex marriage, followed by a Capitol debate marked by vigils, prayers and rallies. Instead, the focus was on the mundane details of filling out a government form.
"Any previous marriages?" Hennepin County Service Center Specialist Pauline Douglas asked. Holloway and Whiteaker replied in unison, "No."
"And it looks like you guys did the premarital," Douglas noted. "So that's good."
The women received a discount on the license because they completed premarital counseling. Whiteaker said there wasn't a lot of new information at the counseling sessions.
"Communication, conflict resolution, things we've been doing for 15 years anyway," Whiteaker said.
Their son, Jack, 10, clutched the "Chronicles of Narnia" book he brought along to read in case there was a long wait. Instead, he found himself fielding reporter questions about how he felt about the whole thing.
"[I'm] nervous and excited about what it will be like," Jack said, adding that all the reporters made him feel awkward.
The women don't plan to marry on Aug. 1 when the law changes, but soon after that, they'll return to Shovel Point on the north shore to hold a small wedding where five years ago they held a commitment ceremony. Holloway joked with Jack and her son, Josh, 6, about having them serve as witnesses.
"I thought you could be our witness but you have to be 16. Together you could be," Holloway said.
At another counter, Harvey Zuckman and Phil Oxman, both in their 60s, applied for their marriage license.
"We've been looking forward to this a long time," Oxman said.
"A long time," Zuckman echoed. "We say we've been engaged for 38 years, but really never ever imagined we'd see this in our lifetime, frankly. But here we are!"
As the two completed their paperwork, Hennepin County's Kathy Brosdahl played her role with relish.
"And now, Phillip and Harvey, for the big moment, please raise your rights hands," Brosdahl said, as the applicants took an oath that the information provided on their application was true and correct to the best of their knowledge.
The men say they'll do their civil marriage Aug. 1, and have a religious ceremony at their synagogue next May. Oxman has been busy booking the band, the reception hall and the rabbi.
He reflected on what legal marriage will mean for them.
"I think our relationship will change," Oxman said. "First of all, I can call him my husband."
The word makes him choke up. Zuckman fills in the meaning.
"We worry a lot about our future," Zuckman said. "That we want to make sure that even after one of us is gone that we're taken care of."
The men turn back to the counter where Brosdahl waits to hand them the envelope with their marriage license.
"Congratulations Phillip, Congratulations Harvey," Brosdahl tells them. "Have a great day."


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Is Your Love Worth $9 Million?
About a year ago, I blogged about the dying tort of alienation of affections. I say "dying" because all but seven states have abolished the cause of action. However, in at least one of those states, approximately 200 cuckolded spouses each year sue their spouse's paramour. Just last week, a North Carolina jury awarded a spurned wife $9 million ($5 million in compensatory and $4 million in punitive damages) against the woman she claims wrecked her marriage of 33 years. Although the defendant paramour does not have $9 million, the wife does not regret suing her husband's lover. She admits that the point of the lawsuit, at least in part, was to send a message. This brings me back to the concerns I raised over a year ago. These suits are not about compensation for one's injuries or deterring adultery, but rather seek to humiliate the paramour and assert one's own moral superiority. In fact, these suits can be harmful to the plaintiff herself. In this case, the wife owes tens of thousands of dollars in legal bills and she will probably never receive much (if any) of the $9 million awarded to her. But, as she conceded, this case is about something much greater than money; she wanted people about to enter into a relationship with a married person "to understand, before they do it, how much it hurts."
The defendant paramour plans to appeal. This might be an opportunity for North Carolina to follow the majority of states that have abolished the cause of action for alienation of affections on the ground that a spouse's affections cannot be stolen and that one person is never the sole cause of marital breakdown. However, the court might do the opposite and use this opportunity to remind us that "[w]hen a third person is at fault for the breakdown of a marriage, the law ought to provide a remedy." Norton v. Macfarlane (Utah 1991). Stay tuned.


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The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a confirmation hearing next Wednesday on Superior Court Judge Steve Jones' nomination for a federal court seat.
The panel is scheduled to meet at 2:30 p.m. in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building to consider Jones' nomination for U.S. District Court judge for the Northern District of Georgia.
Jones, 53, has been a Superior Court judge for the Western Judicial Circuit since then-Gov. Zell Miller appointed him in 1995. The circuit serves Clarke and Oconee counties.
President Obama nominated Jones in July to fill a judgeship in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia that's been vacant since December 2008.
As part of the confirmation process, Jones submitted a 56-page questionnaire and reams of supplemental information.
Jones has presided over more than 25,000 court cases. But he's also been very active in the community throughout his career, serving on boards of several nonprofits and chairing OneAthens, an organization that seeks to reduce poverty.
The judiciary committee asks nominees to provide notes, transcripts or recordings of every speech they've given, but Jones told them it wasn't possible because he's been so involved.
"Since becoming a judge, I have made it my practice to speak frequently within the community about the work of the courts and issues facing the criminal justice system, as well as legal, professional and other service careers," Jones wrote in the questionnaire.
The committee also plans to hold hearings on three other federal court nominations next Wednesday.
The hearing will be webcast at http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings.
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Revewier's grade: D+
Throughout director Russell Mulcahy's inexplicable three-decades-strong film career, there's only one entry on his filmography worth seeing "¦ and it's certainly not "Resident Evil: Extinction." (For the record, it's the one with the self-indulgent title of "Russell Mulchay's Tale of the Mummy.")
I loved Paul W.S. Anderson' s first "Resident Evil," liked Alexander Witt's "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" and hated this latest sequel. (Suddenly, the list of terrible movies based on video games isn't as lonely for "Super Mario Bros.")
Milla Jovovich is back to kick more zombie butt, but too bad Mulcahy and company don't give her much of a chance to do that. They're much too busy trying to determine how to stretch 30 minutes of material into 90, and disguise the fact that it looks more like an episode of a syndicated-TV series than an actual theatrical installment. R
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Justice Scalia ACLU Strossen debate
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and ACLU President debated Sunday on C-Span. The video of the debate and the audio-only version are currently available on C-Span as well. From the Associated Press:
Scalia, a leading conservative voice on the high court, sparred in a one-hour televised debate with American Civil Liberties Union president Nadine Strossen. He said unelected judges have no place deciding politically charged questions when the Constitution is silent on those issues.
Arguing that liberal judges in the past improperly established new political rights such as abortion, Scalia warned, "Someday, you're going to get a very conservative Supreme Court and regret that approach."
"On controversial issues on stuff like homosexual rights, abortion, we debate with each other and persuade each other and vote on it either through representatives or a constitutional amendment," the Reagan appointee said.
"Whether it's good or bad is not my job. My job is simply to say if those things you find desirable are contained in the Constitution," he said.


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October 10, 2012 at 7:39 pm #16978
Hello –
Might as well have my third issue on here at the same time as well. On my Billing and Shipping page, after clicking place order, I get the following message at the top of the page. {"result":"success","redirect":"http://pizzazzgifts.com/checkout-2/pay/?key=order_5075ce26679d6&order=25629″}
The order will continue and go through, but I would like to get ride of this message. Any ideas?
SandyOctober 12, 2012 at 10:00 am #93757
Please try to update Abundance to version 1.5 (the latest version). The text above is a json object which is generated by woocommerce – probably Abundance 1.3 is incompatible with the latest woocommerce update and you need to update your theme to version 1.5.October 12, 2012 at 6:29 pm #93758
Dude –
Thanks, I didn't realize there was an update to Abundance. I now have updated, cleared my browser history, but I'm still getting the same error message. It might be something else, I seem to be having several issues the last couple of days. Please help (again).
SandyOctober 13, 2012 at 8:11 pm #93759
Can someone please help me with this? No one can place an order at my website with this issue unresolved. Thank you.
SandyOctober 14, 2012 at 12:05 pm #93760
Hi Sandy,
Try to disable all plugins except woocommerce, this might be caused by a plugin conflict.
IsmaelOctober 14, 2012 at 11:09 pm #93761
Ismael –
I have disabled all plugins except woocommerce and I am still getting the same error message. I wonder if this issue also has anything to do with the Attracta problems I am having with the cart. (See other thread about items selected for cart not going into the cart.) I will wait and see if I can get an answer from HostGator about deleting Attracta from my website. Perhaps this will take care of this issue also.
I appreciate you staying with me on this one. I hope to know more tomorrow. (Monday)
SandyOctober 15, 2012 at 8:35 pm #93762
Hi Sandy,
Let us know how it goes. Just to note, it still is showing the old style sheet for Abundance version 1.3 when viewing the site. See: http://pizzazzgifts.com/wp-content/themes/abundance/style.css
Can you check that you've downloaded Abundance version 1.5 from your downloads on Themeforest and then try and upload it to wordpress so that we can make sure it isn't a compatibility issue with the newer version of woocommerce?
DevinOctober 16, 2012 at 5:46 pm #93763
Devin –
I think I downloaded Abundance 1.5 from Themeforest, but did not upload correctly. Are there simple instructions on how to do this? I found version.rtf and found which files were changed, but now I don't know what to do with this information. I am using hostgator but have not used Filezilla before. I saw this program mentioned in another place on this forum as a way to upload files. I can follow directions when given but just don't know where to start on this issue. Thank you.
SandyOctober 16, 2012 at 6:20 pm #93764
Okay – I have kept messing around with this and seem to have it working now. The cart is working great! Gosh, it's beautiful when it works! Thank you so much for staying with me on this issue. The site still shows me as having the older version of Abundance, so I could still use help on that. Onward and upward.
SandyOctober 17, 2012 at 9:01 am #93765
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Michael D. Higgins, set to clinch victory on Saturday in Ireland's presidential election, is an intellectual career politician with a bohemian streak who made his name as a campaigner for human rights.
He argued for the legalisation of contraception and divorce in the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Ireland of the 1970s, and has been a mainstay of human rights demonstrations in recent decades, repeatedly describing the U.S. intervention in Iraq and the Israeli blockade of Gaza as illegal.
As minister of culture and the arts in the 1990s, Higgins built up an image of a statesman above the fray of party politics. A fluent Gaelic speaker, he set up a Gaelic-language television channel and re-established a board promoting Irish films.
His victory will be a relief for his centre-left Labour party, boosting hopes that they can maintain their support even while backing a deeply unpopular austerity programme as the junior partner in a coalition government.
At 70, Higgins was the oldest of the seven candidates in the election, and his long political experience stood him in good stead during a grubby campaign full of personal mud-slinging.
Admired by his fans for his oratory and poetry, but dismissed by others as long-winded and pretentious, he kept a relatively low profile during a long stream of debates, leaving his rivals to attack each other.
Usually referred to as "Michael D," Higgins also kept his bohemian leanings and left-wing rhetoric in check for the campaign, donning a conventional suit and tie.
A frontrunner from the start, Higgins was praised for helping the independent gay rights campaigner David Norris enter the race by calling on Labour councillors to support Norris's bid despite a controversy about his opinions on underage sex.
Higgins's own admission that he had smoked marijuana -- pointedly noting that he had inhaled -- barely raised an eyebrow, and only reinforced the popularity that his championing of liberal causes has brought him among middle-class and young voters.
Higgins, a father of four, cuts a distinctive figure with his balding head crowned by wispy white hair.
He is also small, a fact that inspired one congratulatory tweet on Friday suggesting that the diminutive French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who wears high heels to look taller, would be glad of Higgins's win.
"HUGE BOOST to Franco-Irish relations," it read. "Sarkozy will want President Michael D. Higgins standing beside him EVERYWHERE."
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how late is it to get into mma?
i'm 19, and fighting professionally really interests me. i've always got into fights, so thats the only experience i really have with it. with dedication, hard work, a class or two in various martial arts.. would 19 be too late?
and dont run before you can jump.
theres along old amature route you should try before you even think about professionally and certainly just a class or two wont cut it!
as for your age, of course its not too late.
i only wish i had got involved in mma as early as 19, (im 38 now, and yes still doing mma)
why would you wish to do a class in various martial arts? the whole idea of a mma class is that they will work on all the areas, thats why its called mixed, lol.
find a class that suits what you want to do.
if its fighting in the cage, then your looking for an mma class that will cover standup, clinch and groundwork.
get enrolled, show them what you think you got, and they will show you what you havent got...
have fun!
Yeah check out some local gyms and see how you do. Dont be a punk lol. THose guys are tough and put in a lot of time. Your at a good age. Go find a good gym with good trainers that have been around not some dude who had 1 fight and thinks he can open a gym
Dude, give it up... you're way too old...
A true MMA warrior started training as a fetus. There's just no substitute for training while submerged in amniotic fluid.
And, the MMA Elite start training as a sperm cell. The father makes his testicles battle it out with each other in little cage matches and large scale BraveHeart-like battles in the seminferous tubules. :WEIGHT~13:
No man, it's never too late to start in on martial arts. I'll admit that it makes me crazy jealous to see the 12 year old kids who're able to tie themselves in knots and leap six feet into the air.
I cant wait to get into mma
as for your age, of course its not too late.
i only wish i had got involved in mma as early as 19, (im 38 now, and yes still doing mma)
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McConnell wins big — GOP runoff in Georgia — Brady Dougan nearly lost his job — Bernanke makes big bank
ABOUT LAST NIGHT: McCONNELL WINS BIG — POLITICO's James Hohmann: "Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell easily defeated his tea party-inspired Republican primary challenger in Kentucky on Tuesday, one of the biggest primary days of 2014 with voters in six states casting ballots. Democrat … picked businessman Tom Wolf as their nominee against Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the country. … The McConnell win … is a boost to the GOP establishment … The senator led his GOP challenger, Matt Bevin, by nearly 25 points with 97 percent of precincts reporting. …
"McConnell, 72, had polled well ahead of the 47-year-old Bevin, who was aided by more than $1 million in spending from outside conservative groups … . McConnell now faces Alison Lundergan Grimes … Grimes is seen as a formidable general election opponent in what promises to be a very expensive race. The Senate Conservatives Fund and the Madison Project, groups that poured money into Bevin's campaign, issued statements late Tuesday congratulating McConnell." http://bit.ly/1qTuKmn
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GEORGIA HEADS TO RUNOFF — POLITICO's Manu Raju: "Republicans in Washington got the result they wanted in Georgia: Two candidates viewed as the strongest contenders to keep a Senate seat central to the fight for the majority. But the runoff between Rep. Jack Kingston and businessman David Perdue will be nasty, brutish — and long. As in the lengthiest in the state's political history — a nine-week intra-party slugfest at a critical moment in the battle for control of the Senate. …
"Republicans will have a choice between Kingston, an 11-term congressman who has the backing of the likes of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Sean Hannity — and Perdue, a first-time candidate who boasts of turning around Fortune 500 companies and being an 'outsider.' The winner will take on Democrat Michelle Nunn, who has yet to be tested after skating to her party's nomination Tuesday night." http://bit.ly/1jqaqDO
ASIA DIPS — Bloomberg's Adam Haigh: "Asian stocks fell for a fourth day, with the regional benchmark index heading for its longest losing streak since January, as the yen strengthened and the Bank of Japan maintained its monetary stimulus. .. 'Markets are experiencing a fresh bout of risk aversion,' said Matthew Sherwood, Sydney-based head of investment markets research at Perpetual Ltd., which manages about $29 billion. … The Bank of Japan refrained from boosting stimulus as the economy shows signs of weathering the impact of the first sales-tax increase since 1997." http://bloom.bg/1knwXBp
DOUGAN NEARLY LOST HIS JOB — WSJ's John Letzing and David Enrich: "As a years-long U.S. tax-evasion case dragged on in recent months, board members at Credit Suisse Group … considered actions that likely would have cost Brady Dougan his job as chief executive, according to people familiar … To expedite a legal settlement, Credit Suisse officials considered asking the Swiss government to implement an emergency law enabling the lender to sidestep bank-secrecy rules and hand over the names of American clients to U.S. authorities …
"Board members believed such a request would mean Mr. Dougan would have to resign to appease Swiss politicians — something that seemed like a distinct possibility inside the bank until recently. Ultimately, Mr. Dougan, a 54-year-old Illinois native, dodged the bullet, further cementing the reputation as a survivor he has earned after outlasting a financial crisis and most of his fellow bank CEOs." http://on.wsj.com/1o3Sp16
BERNANKE MAKES BIG BANK — NYT's Alexandra Stevenson: "On Tuesday, Ben S. Bernanke spoke in Abu Dhabi; on Wednesday, he was in Johannesburg. By Friday, he was in Houston. That week in March was a particularly busy one for Mr. Bernanke … During his eight years as steward of the world's largest economy, Mr. Bernanke's salary was about $200,000 a year. Now he makes that in just a few hours speaking to bankers, hedge fund billionaires and leaders of industry. This year alone, he is poised to make millions of dollars from speaking engagements.
"Mr. Bernanke is following a well-trodden path that his predecessor, Alan S. Greenspan, and other Washington policy makers have taken. … Mr. Bernanke has agreed to speak with a Middle Eastern bank, private equity firms and trade associations, as well as at investment bank get-togethers, charging his hosts fees that range from $200,000 in the United States and $400,000 for engagements in Asia. While he has dined with hedge fund managers at small events arranged by investment and brokerage firms including JPMorgan Chase, some Wall Street firms have balked at the high fees." http://nyti.ms/1nddln4
MORE WOES FOR G.M. — Reuters: "General Motors … said … it is recalling another 2.6 million vehicles globally, raising the number of vehicles it has recalled so far this year to almost 15.4 million. The four recalls are the latest announced by the largest U.S. automaker, the highest profile of which is the recall of cars with defective ignition switches linked to at least 13 deaths.
"GM has been criticized by safety advocates and fined by U.S. safety regulators for not catching the faulty switch earlier. … GM also said … that it is doubling the charge it expects to take in the second quarter to about $400 million, mostly for recall-related repairs. In the first quarter, GM took a charge of $1.3 billion, mostly related to the ignition switch recall." http://reut.rs/1qTCCnG
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DRIVING THE DAY — President Obama participates in an Ambassador Credentialing Ceremony in the Oval Office and welcomes the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks to the White House … FOMC minutes at 2:00 p.m. will be especially closely watched in light of Philly Fed President Charles Plosser's hawkish comments and Chair Janet Yellen's recently articulated concerns about the housing market … House Financial Services has a hearing at 10:00 a.m. on allegations of employee discrimination at the CFPB …
ALSO TODAY: FINANCIAL HISTORY EVENT — Per release: "Is New York still the capital of global finance? Join us for a discussion with Adam Davidson of NPR's Planet Money, financial historians Youssef Cassis and Julia Ott, and Eugene McQuade, Vice Chairman of Citi. The event will serve as the book launch for Capital of Capital: Money, Banking, and Power in New York City, 1784-2012 … 6:00 p.m. Panel begins promptly at 6:30 p.m. … The Columbia University Club of New York … 15 West 43rd Street
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NEW EX-IM REPORT — New report from AAF's Douglas Holtz-Eakin argues that the bank should be reauthorized along with "elimination of preferential and quota approaches to industries and firms, increased transparency" and other reforms. http://bit.ly/1i1CdGl
FISCHER NOMINATION MOVES AHEAD — Reuters's Howard Schneider: "Stanley Fischer's nomination to be vice chairman of the Federal Reserve cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate on Tuesday, virtually assuring that the noted economist will join the central bank's board within days. … The Senate agreed 62-35 to limit debate on the nomination, allowing for a final vote just after midday on Wednesday. Fischer is widely expected to win Senate approval. The arrival of Fischer, 70, will help bring the seven-member Fed Board of Governors back toward full strength after a period when its membership threatened to dip as low as three with the departure at the end of this month of Jeremy Stein.
"Fischer's appointment for an initial four-year term as vice chairman puts him in a pivotal position as the central bank approaches decisions about the end of its stimulus programs and when to begin raising interest rates … The vote on a second nominee, former top U.S. Treasury official Lael Brainard, has not been scheduled but is expected in time for her to be in place for the Fed's next policy-setting session on June 17 and 18. Current Fed Governor Jerome Powell is also expected to be confirmed by then for a new term." http://reut.rs/1lDLdmn
DUDLEY OFFERS DIFFERENT TAKE ON TAPER — FT's Robin Harding: "One of the US Federal Reserve's most influential officials has called for a change to its exit strategy from easy monetary policy. William Dudley, president of the New York Fed, said the central bank should keep reinvesting in its mortgage portfolio until after it raises interest rates. The current exit strategy calls for stopping reinvestment before rates go up. … The call for the Fed to keep its mortgage portfolio larger for longer signals how exit strategy is now the most active policy debate at the central bank as the US economy gets closer to full employment. …
"In an upbeat speech on the economy, Mr Dudley signalled he was happy with tapering Fed asset purchases at the current pace of $10bn per meeting, and with current market expectations for a first rise in interest rates in the middle of 2015. … Mr Dudley said early evidence suggested the Fed's experimental new 'reverse repo' facility 'would help strengthen our control over money market rates'. The facility basically lets funds and other counterparties deposit cash at a rate set by the New York Fed." http://on.ft.com/RSN9je
PUTTING THE LEVERAGE BACK IN LEVERAGED BUYOUTS — WSJ's Gillian Tan: "Wall Street banks are financing more private-equity takeovers with high levels of debt, despite warnings by regulators to reduce the amount of risky loans they make. The Fed and … [OCC] last year issued guidance urging banks to avoid financing leveraged buyouts in most industries that would put debt on a company of more than six times … ebitda. …
"Still, 40 percent of U.S. private-equity deals this year have used leverage above that six-times ratio deemed the upper acceptable limit by regulators, according to data compiled by S&P Capital IQ LCD. That is the highest percentage since the prefinancial-crisis peak of 52 percent of buyout loans in 2007. Such lending all but disappeared during the crisis but has risen each year since 2009." http://on.wsj.com/1qTrMhq
PFIZER SCRAMBLES TO KEEP ITS BID ALIVE — FT's Andrew Ward and Arash Massoudi in London and Ed Hammond in New York: "Pfizer is scrambling to keep alive its £69.4bn offer for AstraZeneca as the two sides vie for shareholder support in the battle to control the UK drugmaker. AstraZeneca sought to bring a definitive end to Pfizer's pursuit by issuing a statement saying there was no chance of renewed talks leading to an increased bid after it rejected the US company's £55-per-share 'final' offer …
"But Pfizer continued to press its target to return to the table, saying: 'The fate of the deal is now up to AstraZeneca's shareholders. We believe our final proposal represents compelling and full value for AstraZeneca shareholders.'" http://on.ft.com/1jpIDU0
JPMORGAN MAKES BIG DETROIT COMMITMENT — Per release: "JPMorgan Chase & Co. unveiled … a $100 million, five-year commitment to support and accelerate Detroit's economic recovery and strengthen its communities. This long-term investment is the Firm's largest commitment to a city … 'We believe in Detroit's future, and we want to see the city recover its economic strength,' JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon will say today during a luncheon with community and government leaders at The Garden Theater in Detroit. … The investment provides long-term financial and hands-on support for organizations that are working to address the city's most urgent challenges." http://bit.ly/1kmXMph
DEMAND HIGH FOR RISKY FANNIE DEBT — WSJ's Al Yoon: "The latest place where investors are taking on more risk in exchange for apparently meager returns: the U.S. housing market. Bond buyers on Tuesday jockeyed to get a piece of $1.6 billion of riskier Fannie Mae securities, enabling the government-backed mortgage company to twice cut the yields it offered on the debt. The offering is Fannie's third sale of so-called risk-sharing certificates that enlist investors to pay for potential defaults on the home loans Fannie guarantees.
"The riskiest of the securities, linked to loans to home purchasers who paid as little as 3 percent cash upfront, drew 19 times the bids necessary to complete the sale … The sale of the debt, called Connecticut Avenue Securities after the location of one of the Washington company's offices, is expected to be completed on Wednesday." http://on.wsj.com/TsgvpQ
OBIT: ARTHUR GELB DIES — NYT's Sam Roberts: "Arthur Gelb, who by sheer force of personality was a dominant figure at The New York Times for decades, lifting its metropolitan and arts coverage to new heights and helping to shape the paper in its modern era, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 90. His son Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, said the cause was complications of a stroke. …
"Hired as a copy boy in 1944, Mr. Gelb rose to become a singular Times figure in the second half of the 20th century, leaving a large stamp as critic, chief cultural correspondent, metropolitan editor, deputy managing editor and managing editor, the post he held when he retired at the end of 1989." http://nyti.ms/1nddln4
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by Nate Wooley | December 10, 2012 4:07 pm
[1]A federal bankruptcy judge has agreed to a settlement that allows bankrupt Eastman Kodak (PINK:EKDKQ[2]) to keep its photo kiosks in CVS (NYSE:CVS[3]) pharmacies through 2016.
The settlement protects one of the most valuable assets Kodak possesses as it goes through the bankruptcy process, Marketwatch reports[4]. Executives at Kodak expressed concern that losing that placement would lower the eventual price for the bankrupt firm.
Also included in the settlement are claims the two firms had against each other. Kodak has agreed to reduced its $10.87 million claim against CVS to just $6.37 million, while CVS will take an unsecured $18.35 million claim against Kodak's sale.
The path forward for Kodak is now clearer. The firm hopes to sell off its personalized imaging and document imaging businesses, which would allow it to move forward with a focus on commercial printing.
The next step for Kodak is finalizing a buyer for the firm's 1,100 patents. Such a sale, for at least $500 million, is a condition for the financing package the firm hopes to get. Earlier today, reports came out that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL[5]) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG[6]) have agreed to jointly purchase the patents[7].
On Friday, the court will consider letting Kodak sign off on the proposed financing.
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Syrian rebels make string of military gains as regime's cluster bombs kill 10 children
Rebels captured a strategic dam in the north of the country yesterday, tightening their grip on territory straddling two provinces around Aleppo, Syria's second city.
Video footage, corroborated by news agencies, showed fighters occupying the control room and hauling away boxes of ammunition at the Tishreen hydro-electric dam on the Euphrates after weeks of fighting.
It was the latest in a string of rebel successes after months of stalemate. Last week they captured the huge 46th Division base at Atarib, north of Aleppo, after a month-long siege.
In the east, rebel forces seized a military base at Mayadeen and now appear to hold all the desert territory from the Iraqi border to the city of Deir Ezzor.
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Think Again: China's Military
An article in Foreign Policy looks at whether recent alarmist reactions to China's rising military might are warranted:
From the early 1990s, China's defense planners began intensively studying doctrine and sought to acquire superior foreign technologies for their People's Liberation Army (PLA). They also made a major strategic shift by cutting the size of their force to emphasize new technologies that would enable them to catch up with the United States and other possible foes.
Should the rest of the world be worried? Taiwan, long claimed as Chinese territory and well within range of Chinese ballistic missiles and conventional forces, certainly has cause to feel threatened. Even as cross-strait relations have warmed in recent years, Beijing has positioned more medium-range missiles facing Taiwan than ever. When asked why, Beijing demurs. India, Asia's other would-be superpower, also seems increasingly on edge. Last September, Indian analysts and media loudly worried over the publication of an article by Chinese analyst Li Qiulin in a prominent Communist Party organ that urged the PLA to bolster its ability to project force in South Asia.
But it's probably too soon for Americans to panic. Many experts who've looked closely at the matter agree that China today simply does not have the military capability to challenge the United States in the Pacific, though its modernization program has increased its ability to engage the United States close to Chinese shores. And the U.S. military is still, for all its troubles in Iraq and Afghanistan, the most capable fighting force on the planet.


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"Some swings of pendulums may be inevitable. But for a church hierarchy in Western countries beset by scandal and decline, the rise of a traditionalist avant-garde is unsettling. Is it merely an outcrop of eccentricity, or a sign that the church took a wrong turn 50 years ago?"
We will check the second option: a dreadful, dreadful wrong turn.
(See also: Fr. Finigan.)


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I like the hearts, and actually think if there were some more near the bottom it would look cool too. Like the design. +1
+1, hit me too!!!
somebody betta get her a tissue before she ruins the nice ass shirt… keep up the good work, not my style lol but i like.
nice +1. please visit my gallery :):):)
i like it.
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very nice composition.
although if i might suggest something; i'd drop the heart pattern in the background (the design would stand out more), and also i would love to see this on a different colored shirt.
that said, i really like it, so +1
aplastandocalabazas Artist
pop art whats our mission
nice, bit violent but i like! +1
so fun idea and it's nice +
Neat. Voted.


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About Scotts Bluff County
Welcome to Scotts Bluff County! It is said that Scotts Bluff (the monument) was named after Hiram Scott, a fur trapper who was abandoned by his companions and who died at the base of the bluffs in 1828. It is for him Scotts Bluff National Monument, Scotts Bluff County, and the city of Scottsbluff have been named. Scotts Bluff County was originally a part of Cheyenne County until early settlers voted for a closer county seat in 1888, which resulted in the creation of Scotts Bluff, Kimball, Banner, and Deuel Counties and greatly reduced Cheyenne County. Gering, one of the first towns in the Panhandle and a leader in the movement for partition, became the county seat of Scotts Bluff County. Some early towns in Scotts Bluff County include Caldwell, Collins(Morrill), Gering, Haig, Henry, McGrew, Melbeta, Minatare, Mitchell and Scottsbluff to name a few. More will be added later as details become available.
Scotts Bluff County Coordinator
Hello, my name is Floyd Smith III. As of March 2003, I became the "New" Scotts Bluff County Coordinator for this site. I am originally from California, but was transplanted here in 1977. I graduated high school in Morrill, then went to Phoenix, AZ to attend college. I moved back to the valley in 1989. On March 1st, 2004, I opened the West Nebraska Family Research & History Center in Scottsbluff. I do take look-up requests, but they are on a first-come/first-served basis. Genealogy is and has been a passion of mine for nearly 14 years. I cannot work miracles, but I will do what I can to help you on your ancestral quest. Please understand that all research requests I receive will be handled through the West Nebraska Family Research & History Center, therefore it's possible you may incur some research expenses. It all depends on the type of information you are requesting.
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When Clarissa Abella needs some quiet time, all she has to do is pull out a chessboard and its pieces.
"The only thing you hear is (the) clock being hit or footsteps," she said of the sounds during a chess tournament.
The silence during a tournament can be disconcerting to those who aren't used to it, but for Clarissa, her mind is focused on the task at hand. She thinks about the moves ahead of her and trying to get a better position than her opponent.
"You have to be patient with your opponent," she said. "You have to be able to slowly develop the advantage of your game."
At 13, Clarissa, a Hubbard Middle School eighth-grader, is a mid-level chess player (albeit high level for her age) with dreams of becoming a household name in the chess world.
She started playing when she was 6 after watching her dad play and attending some tournaments with him.
Although her first tournaments were less than stellar — she didn't win a single game her first time out — she stuck with it and under her father's tutelage has quickly excelled.
Her first solid performance came during a regional tournament in Dallas when she was 6 1/2. There, she won second place in her third tournament.
"I didn't expect her to win second place, maybe fifth place or in the top 10, that's what (I was) hoping (for) her," her father, Angelito Abella, said. "What she got was more than we were expecting from her."
That win really boosted her confidence and stoked her desire to win more, she and her father said.
In 2009, at the age of 9, she competed in the Super Nationals, a competition held every four years. Although she didn't place at the event, it whetted her appetite for more competition.
"I knew since then that I wanted to have a name in the chess (world)," she said.
At the end of her sixth-grade year, she moved out of the scholastic tournament world and into the U.S. class where she competes against adults for prize money.
Since then she has gradually moved up in her ratings starting as a Class C player during sixth grade and moving up to Class B her seventh-grade year, a rating she holds today.
Abella said the experience level and tenacity she is exposed to when she plays adults is an invaluable training ground for her.
In November 2012, she represented the U.S. at the World Youth Chess Championships in Slovenia in southern Europe. There she did well considering it was her first international tournament competing against some of the best young players in the world, Abella said. She earned 5.5 points in 11 rounds of play and had a mix of wins, losses and draws.
"It's still a good showing since it's her first international tournament," he said. "Most of the kids who went there, that's not their first time."
At this point, her goal is to become a national master player, three ranks up from her current ranking and the fourth-highest-ranking overall.
Although she enjoys the game, she views it as a hobby, not something she aspires to play professionally, although the best do.
That being said, there are college scholarship opportunities available for talented chess players so that is something her father mentioned as a possibility.
He said his focus for her is that she will gain more experience and learn more.
"When you play with more experienced players, then … (there's more) room to learn," he said. "Losing is part of learning. They will not get better until they learn from losing."
Clarissa said it's the analysis and problem-solving aspects of the game that appeal to her.
"You're just trying to think how to make your position better for you," she said. "Are all my pieces developed? Is my king safe?"
To keep up her skills, she practices up to seven hours a week. She sometimes plays online in tournaments or on the computer to practice but said she finds she learns better and remembers more when she plays on an actual board and can touch the pieces.
Her father is the only coach she has ever had. And although he doesn't pressure her, she said he is there to encourage her to be the best she can be and practice when she doesn't want to. He's also good at simplifying the concepts outlined in chess books, she said.
In addition to playing chess, Clarissa also swims competitively for the Hubbard Middle School team, and participates in the A+ Chess Puzzle competition in the University Interscholastic League.
Moving forward, Clarissa plans to continue improving her game but balance it with the rest of her life.
"It's not something I want to do for a living," she said of the game. "It's a hobby for me."