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Free Trial Class – Monday September 29th, 2014
The next Fundamentals course starts October 1st. This fundamentals course includes (12) sessions, class size is limited to 8 people and will teach students the elements required for Crossfit.
These 12 X 60 minute sessions will cover the fundamental movements of CrossFit. You'll learn proper technique on the foundational movements that build the base for our workouts. Also students will learn how to scale movements appropriately to your own individual skill level,… and then start ramping up your fitness with a CrossFit workout at the end of each class. Fundamentals classes start once a month, and run Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. The sessions are structured to allow you to get in the groove of the regular classes as soon as possible.
Athlete safety is our top priority. In order to ensure high levels of efficacy in your workout, we require all of our prospective members complete the fundamental program. The fundamentals program is designed to give the member an overview of CrossFit terminology, foundational movements, and to try some Crossfit workouts. Upon completion of the Fundamentals' session, you will be able to join regularly scheduled classes.
October Fundamentals will be Monday & Wednesday at 8PM and Saturday at 11AM. In addition, Fundamentals students may drop into Open Gym times on Thursday to review their new skills.


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Rare Voices Australia (RVA) is a national, not-for-profit organisation established in 2012 with a vision to be 'the unified voice for ALL Australians living with a rare disease'.
RVA is Australia's national alliance advocating for those who live with a rare disease.
RVA provides a strong common voice to promote health policy and a healthcare system that works for those with rare diseases.

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I've found that it's okay to have an inner class be static but it throws a fit when I try to make the main class static.
I was aiming to make sure that only one instance could be shown at a time.
If I make all the methods static, will that do it? I don't think making it final will do much more than make it sterile( unable to have children).


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I am Julia Best a post-doctoral researcher on the Cultural and Scientific Perceptions of Human-Chicken Interactions Project which involves researchers from six UK universities. I am a zooarchaeologist at heart and my role in large this large AHRC funded project focusses on investigating the spread of domestic chickens in Europe and how they have been exploited in different periods and regions. As such my work involves collecting data from across Europe for inclusion in a large project database. I am also conducting research into the history of egg production, analysing eggshell from archaeological sites, and working to refine and develop our knowledge of the formation, duration and extent of medullary bone in chickens.
This morning (Friday 11th) started with a cavernous yawn and a very large coffee. It has been a busy few weeks. Yesterday some of the Chicken Project team met in Nottingham to finalise our sample strategy for key case sites and to refine the searching/querying side of our database work. This involved over nine hours on a train for Bournemouth University based me, but the meeting was very productive and I even managed to get quite a bit of work done on the train. Today is what I like to call a 'bits and pieces Friday'. There are lots of bits to write up and work on as a result of yesterday's meeting, it is the last day for the placement student who has been working with me for several weeks, and I also am finishing off a lot of blogs and reports on public engagement.
I get into the office, answer emails, give Nicola (the placement student) some data to work with, type up notes from yesterday, and then phone a Chicken Project colleague to discuss our on-going data collection and fill them in about yesterday's meeting. I work in an office that contains a wide range of researchers from different scientific disciplines. As such, some of the conversations regarding our chicken work must seem a little strange. Quotes of the day so far include: "coracoids mean nothing to me", "I'm happy to give you Norway", and (my favourite) "the Buff Orpington was being a bit of a sex pest". To translate: coracoids are not one of my target elements for medullary bone analysis, Norway shall be one of the countries that I gather zooarch data for, and the later concerns the story of how a farmer decided which of his birds to cull.
After a small flurry of meetings I settle down to search out and collate zooarchaeological chicken data and finish my plethora of outreach reports. Two weeks ago I was in a muddy field, namely Glastonbury. Myself and Jackie Pitt (a PhD student at Bournemouth University) were representing the Chicken Project by running a stand in the Science Tent in the Green Futures field. We pitched up with our skeletons, interactive charting, archaeological finds and a variety of other materials and awaited the arrival of the public. They came thick and fast.
We had around 800 visitor interactions and since the audience at this festival was exceedingly varied we had people interested for every reason under the sun; from vegan caterers, permaculture enthusiasts, and sustainable food trust members, to farmers and people who worked as chicken vaccinators! People were very interested and large numbers engaged in detailed discussion and debate. Average interaction time was between 5 and 10 minutes, but there were some participants that remained for much longer too. If I had a pound for every time someone said something along the lines of "oh cool, I didn't know you could do/tell/see/find that" I'd be rich. The visitors were very engaged and enjoyed the activities/handling opportunities, including one slightly worse-for-wear individual who flumped over the table and dramatically yelled 'tell me about the chickens!', which was rather comical, but even they were keen to investigate the project. The interactive mapping of the visitors' perceptions and relations with chickens is looking very interesting, for example, most people knew someone who keeps chickens and many want to keep them. Less people knew where in the world their wild ancestors came from. Overall we certainly widened people's knowledge of chickens, archaeology, science, and anthropology and how they can all come together to explore the past, understand the present, and look to the future. As an archaeologist I get a privileged look into the past every day, but if we do not share the past with public then our work is sometimes limited.
Well, time is pressing on and I had better return to my work, so I shall leave you with a contribution from undergraduate placement student Nicola Batley:
"Not all of archaeology involves digging – which, for some of us, is a relief! I'm a student currently doing a placement on The Chicken Project, focusing mainly on the extensive database as well as other odd jobs. The archaeological story for chickens can only been seen by stepping back and looking at the entire picture; a picture than can only be painted with a lot of data! This is why I am entering into a database a wide array of information about chicken bones found from a variety of sites. Today, I finished entering in information from roughly 160 Scottish sites, on top of some of English and Czech sites I'd previously done. Database entry involves making records of the site location (not just the country, but including specifics down to the 6th decimal point of the longitude and latitude) and then constructing records of assemblages based on date, from Prehistoric to Post-Medieval. The data flow continues for these sites right down to the measurements of individual chicken bones. Once the database is complete (which won't be for a while yet!) a global picture of how the humble chicken traipsed from its point of origin and into our supermarkets will be clear to see.
While more data is collected and studied for database entry, the current information is shared through outreach programmes. This includes events such as the Festival of Learning held at Bournemouth University and even going to, and braving, the soggy Glastonbury Festival. To make the research more engaging to the festival goers and attendants of future outreach events, who may have no archaeological background, I created some less serious and more fun informative posters and documents. These included a poster with some of the 'facts' and tips suggested by Roman source Columella for chicken rearing (such as the 'fact' that chickens will die if they are breathed on by a snake) and recipes involving chicken and/or eggs from the Roman Apicius and several Medieval texts. A day on this project for me involves a variety of different tasks and each has its purpose in the greater scheme of things – it is, after all, a massive worldwide project with several contributors, which range from Universities and independent researchers, to our partners in Practical Poultry magazine."
So, welcome to the wonderful and sometimes weird world of everything chicken. For continued updates and information please follow the project on our website and twitter:


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While on a break from working, I turned on the television and saw an episode of a home makeover show. They installed a really nice pond with koi and some aquatic plants in the backyard. Believe me when I say that the pond supplies they used are really wonderful that I daydreamed we have a similar set-up in our future home. I hear that water element can bring harmony in one's surroundings so a pond would be perfect, right?
That is what I love about watching make-over shows, I get inspired and I gather ideas :)


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The phrase "banality of evil" originated in Hanna Arendt's unforgettable (and controversial) impression of Adolf Eichmann during his 1963 trial for his activities in the Holocaust. She meant it as a contrast between Eichmann's stupidity and utter smallness and the scope of his evil, but many others took understandable exception to her characterization — especially given Eichmann's rather substantial role in implementing the Holocaust.
Today, Aspen Times writer Melanie Sturm applies the term with a little more accuracy to Kermit Gosnell. Sturm contrasts Gosnell's mass murder and seemingly oblivious nature, while also noting all the people who did nothing despite the many warning signals of his evil:
It's unimaginable that any side of the reproductive-health debate could tolerate the barbarity of Dr. Kermit Gosnell and his unlicensed staff who preyed on low-income and minority women.
Yet for 31 years, the public's guardians — regulators, politicians and health care providers — averted their eyes and abandoned their duties, allowing a virtual Mengele to openly and profitably operate an unsanitary, Auschwitz-like health facility in Philadelphia where countless women suffered maiming, infection or worse.
According to the grand jury report that advanced Gosnell's murder conviction, he "regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy — and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors," as did his employees.
The grand jury faulted seemingly indifferent government officials who "literally licensed Gosnell's criminally dangerous behavior" by refusing "to treat abortion clinics as ambulatory surgical facilities." Their inaction was action and a reminder that morality is a choice when otherwise ordinary people commit appalling acts, as in Nazi Germany.
I'd add that this analogy suffers on a couple of points — notably, scale and ideology. Gosnell murdered for money and his own sick pleasure, as the horrific trophies found in his office attest. Sturm's application of Arendt's observation as well as Dietrich Bonhoeffer's that "silence in the face of evil is evil" is entirely on point, though, as is her overall condemnation of not just Gosnell but those who allowed him to operate.
In case anyone has forgotten the powerful indictment from the grand jury not just of Gosnell, but of public officials who willingly turned a blind eye to murder, filmmaker Ann McIlhenny gives Hot Air an exclusive first look at her dramatic reading of that part of the report. The video also contains some disturbing images, so click with caution:
Ann and her husband Phelim McAleer and Magda Segieda are nearing the end of their crowdfunding effort to produce a TV movie about Gosnell, "the most prolific serial killer in American history." They have to hit $2.1 million in order to secure the funding for the Gosnell Movie project, and they're close — at just over $1.99 million as of the time this post was written. More than 21,000 people have contributed to this project, an amazingly wide donor base for a crowdfunding effort. They only need a little over $100,000 in the next four days in order to succeed.
I'll interview Ann on today's TEMS show, which starts at 4 ET this afternoon. Be sure to tune in — and be sure to contribute what you can to GosnellMovie.com, too.


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I am a London-based handquilter and silent film historian - and I'm always amazed at how much one is inspired by the other! To me, quilting and research are intertwined - there's normally a story and quite a lot of reading that sits behind my quilt work, so I am very much a slow stitcher.
I blog about quilting, reading and the movies and how they inspire me at http://www.isthereroomformetosew.com where you can find out about various quilting projects including The Nelson Quilt. Inspired by a 1918 Silent Film, the Nelson Quilt is made up of 3,200 one inch squares, all sewn together by hand. I am currently exploring ways of incorporating text into my quilting, particularly with my ongoing Thames Quilt Project which takes me out from the Pool of London, down the Thames Estuary to the Maunsell Forts.
I am a hand stitcher by preference - I prefer not to use a machine at all.
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I am deeply passionate about sharing knowledge with others and have been lucky to be teaching my entire adult life. There are so many enriching experiences available to us when we learn more about the world.
Foreign languages are among my favorites, and I have specialized in teaching Latin, Italian, and Japanese. As a geologist, I am also profoundly interested in the sciences. When I teach I like to understand where my students are coming from, what really inspires them, and help them to enjoy and love what they want to learn. For me, learning is always fun, so whether you like to study or you are having trouble motivating yourself to concentrate, together we will discover the joy and fun in what you are studying.
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Luke is knowledgable, patient and efficient in teaching my daughter Latin. The first class went very well and my daughter likes it a lot. We are lucky to have Luke as my daughter's Latin tutor.
Great teacher, easy going and at the same time very competent. His extensive knowledge of foreign languages makes easy for a student to understand the difference in the phonetics.
My first lesson was great! Luke was clear, patient and pointed out all the area's for me to clearly understand each sentence completely without overstepping anything. Excited to speak fluently with velocity.
learned a lot after just one lesson!
He's very competent, friendly and humble. He knows a lot of languages at a high level and he also can teach them (this last one isn't obvious).
So far so good, Luke has been great so far in scheduling classes and keeping the 12 year old engaged and interested in the class!
Luke has patients and has an ear for certain sounds to show you opportunities. My first lesson was awesome and I im so happy I picked Luke. Can't wait progress with him. 😀
Luke is an amazing teacher! He is very knowledgeable and very kind, which makes me feel at ease. He has been very patient with me and is always supportive of my aspirations for my future with language learning. He is fully equipped with any kind of resources needed for helping the language stick! Im never scared to ask him a question or feel dumb for asking, he is here to make sure I get the most out of what he has to teach and will take the time necessary to help me understand and feel confident in what I'm learning. I feel very lucky to have had the experience of meeting and learning from Luke!
Very knowledgeable and enthusiastic teacher! You sense his passion to help others. He's also very accommodating with his schedule. I would highly recommend him!
Luke is a knowledgable polyglot. He is very patient and teach me step by step. The teaching style is super logic. I learned a lot from him. And I just came to U.S. My English is not so good. But Luke could teach me Spanish very well. I will continue to learn with Luke.
Such an amazing teacher!
Luke is very professional, totally amd completely dedicated to his students and full of passion for what he teaches. Right after the first lesson we already have established a great connection and I'm sure you will feel like you 've know him for years and with such chemistry you will progress easier and faster than any method. Best instructor ever! Highly recommended!
Luke has been very friendly, flexible and engaged to support the family as they learn English. Highly recommend !!
Really informative and interesting
Luke is amazing!! He is patient and wants you to learn and get better. I'm going to keep taking Italian with him until I learn everything there is to know!!! :) Best decision ever!
Excellent teacher!
5 star after first lesson
I have a feeling of confidence I can learn with his approach
I can be more detailed after a couple lessons ...very motivated after our first lesson
looking forward to reviewing and preparing myself for next lesson
What a great start! Luke is patient, encouraging and made my initial lesson feel fun and exciting.
I had my first lesson with Luke today and it was absolutely wonderful! He is such a great teacher! I highly recommend him if you're considering learning a language!
Luke was Amazing! I having some knowledge of the language but yet still consider myself a beginner. I was thoroughly impressed with his command of the language and also his very easy method of making you understand. I look forward to my many lessons with Luke in the future!
Very personable and easy to talk to. Look forward to our second lesson!
Great first lesson with Luke. I appreciate that he took extra time to go over everything. Looking forward to the next one.
Great experience!! Great instructor!!
David was super happy and feels super motivated to continue!!
This was my first lesson and it was great. Very knowledgeable.
Luke is a renaissance man- classics scholar, linguist, teacher conversationalist - and military pilot. I think he's really triplets.
So far so good
We are taking Latin with Luke. He is really great and the lesson is very efficient eventhough it's done online.
Luke is awesome! He is responsible, responsive, and knowledgeable. My daughter finds him very helpful, and can't say enough good things about him.
Luke was very pleasant and patient and did a thorough job of assessing my current knowledge so that he can tailor my next lessons. I am looking forward to my next lesson aleady!
Great tutor.
Luke is great!! Very knowledgeable and seems to be an expert at linguistics. Instructs very well. He is nice and funny. We would recommend him to anyone wanting to learn one of the several languages he teaches :-)
Luke is a fantastic teacher. He is patient and makes each lesson fun and very informative. His lessons are structured and easy to follow. It's been a pleasure working with him.
Excellent teacher!
This was our first experience with an online course. My son and I were immediately at ease with Luke. I appreciate his enthusiasm.
What a stand up guy! He's naturally a fantastic teacher and my wife and I feel very grateful to have him as our Italian teacher. He's extremely courteous, informative and patient. You will LOVE working with Luke, guaranteed!
Extremely knowledgeable, courteous and patient. I've sampled numerous tutors and been unimpressed until now. Very confident I can achieve intermediate/advanced mastery of Japanese under his instruction.
My kids were "meh" about Latin lessons last year. Not any more, they come hopping out of their lesson with Luke happy and bright and excited for the next one. He is encouraging, patient and has a gift for teaching young students. I hope he'll always be their Latin teacher and maybe more!
Luke has been a fantastic Astronomy teacher! He has been thorough and quick to answer all of my questions, and he has also helped me find other resources to help me with my learning. He is very friendly and a pleasure to learn from.
He is awesome! Can't wait for the next lesson!
Luke is thorough, enthusiastic, and very helpful. I am looking forward to the next lesson. Thanks.
My first lesson! I was actually rather nervous. Luke is wonderful. He makes you feel fantastico! Can't wait for more. I forgot to mention, besides his linguistic skill, I think he is very pleasant in regards to talking with you and helping you feel comfortable and encouraged.
Luke was excellent, the first lesson was very informative and I already got off to a great start, Luke is friendly and will explain things thoroughly, I highly recommend him.
Luke is a fantastic Latin teacher. I've learned more in my short time with Luke than I did in the three years I took Latin in high school. Luke is very patient and willing to go the extra mile to make sure I understand the future. I've really enjoyed the lessons. If you are looking for a top notch Latin teacher, Luke is your man.
Luke is such a phenomenal teacher. He takes the time to explain all the material in a manner that is easy to understand and comprehend. :)
The first lesson was great. Luke is clearly very knowledgable about the language, its historical and cultural context...I'm looking forward to the next one already!
First lesson with Luke was great! can't wait to continue on this journey of learning Italian.
Amazing instructor. Finding Luke was finding a gem. His method of teaching is the best, easy and simple way of learning. I recommend without a doubt.
Luke is a A1 instructor. I have reletives in Italy and would like to be able to converse with them better, so I am taking Italian lessons, from luke. Never good at language, but Luke is very patient and teaches at the students pace. Sees that you understand, before moving on. Thanks Luke
I like studying with Luke. He is patient, makes sure you are relaxed, and will go over anything again and again. He makes sure you understand the words and has you repeat them. He is very knowledgeable. I know I will learn a lot from him. He will even print out the lesson so you can study for the next lesson. I am very happy with Luke.
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Blackstar Amplification has only been around since 2007, but the fast rise of the Northhampton, England-based manufacturer shouldn't be all that surprising, since its design team boasts a number of Marshall veterans. Quality, sound, and affordable prices have also helped make the high-gain-centric brand a top seller.
At Summer NAMM 2013, Blackstar introduced their new LT pedal line, which was designed with affordability in mind (prices range from $79 to $149). The series is comprised of five dirt pedals: LT Drive, LT Dist, LT Metal, LT Boost, and the dual-mode LT Dual. Unlike Blackstar's larger HT-series pedals, the LTs have no vacuum tubes and run on standard 9-volt power. LT pedals feature buffered bypass and click-less, noiseless footswitches. Here we check out the LT Drive, LT Dist, and LT Metal. (Look for upcoming web-exclusive reviews of the LT Dual and LT Boost at premierguitar.com.)
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The LT Drive is Blackstar's new overdrive offering. Housed in a bright yellow enclosure, the LT Drive features gain, tone, and level knobs. Unlike most of the LT line, the LT Drive lacks Blackstar's ISF tone circuitry. But the pedal's simplicity is one of its best features. It's easy to dial in tones, and there's not a lot of "option anxiety" from having too many tone-shaping possibilities. The omission of the ISF circuitry also helps make the LT Drive very affordable at just 80 bucks.
The LT Drive has a fairly wide range of gain flavors. With the gain around 7 o'clock it works like a clean boost, exhibiting power tube-like characteristics. The tone control is very effective at these settings. Lower tone settings generate nice, singing lead tones. Higher ones provide more in-your-face aggression.
Bumping the gain up to noon produces a commanding rhythm guitar sound. Single-note leads are assertive too, if a little thinner than I might have expected. At these settings the output is fairly saturated—more so, to my ears, than comparable overdrives at similar settings. Still, the pedal offers great articulation, particularly with fast picking. Even in heavier saturation modes, the LT Drive is very dynamic. Picked lightly, notes get clearer and cleaner. Under heavy attack, they pop ferociously. This dynamism was more noticeable on the lower strings, and sounded especially great when I pummeled the LT Drive with A-string bends.
I expected more compression when I jacked the gain up to its highest reaches. But I was pleasantly surprised by tonal clarity and minimal loss of dynamics and definition. Maxing the gain is a ticket to hair/pop metal zones. The LT Drive sounds more aggressive than comparable overdrive pedals here, stopping just short of nü metal territory.
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The LT Drive has greater range than most overdrives. It will happily go from a low-gain, "always on" pedal to metal bombast. If you have enough amp gain to work with, there's not much it can't do short of extreme metal. It's a great all-purpose dirt pedal that can rise to many occasions.


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Penn State Brandywine will welcome Andrew Douglas, director of education at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, to campus for an attention-grabbing discussion about a pioneer of the film industry, Alfred Hitchcock. Students, faculty, staff and the community are welcome to join Douglas as he presents "The Master of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock" at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 14, in Room 101 of the Main Building.
Douglas will share some of the most exhilarating Hitchcock masterpieces with the audience through clips from The Birds, Psycho, Vertigo and more. Attendees will learn about the film legend's movie making knacks and trademarks that transformed the film industry and earned Hitchcock the moniker "The Master of Suspense."
Hitchcock's notorious twist endings and gripping movie plots are sure to come to the forefront during Douglas's presentation. The audience can expect a stimulating illustration of the director's famous camera shots and revolutionary editing techniques that have been intensifying the viewers' panic and apprehension for more than 70 years.
In addition to teaching for Northwestern and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Douglas has presented at the International Association of Media and the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conferences and has written for The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, published by Harvard Business School. He has also spent time in New York City, where he worked as a film critic.
This thrilling event, which is free and will include light refreshments, is part of Penn State Brandywine's Spring Speaker Series, which will also welcome White Dog Café Founder Judy Wicks to campus at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9. To find additional information regarding these speakers, visit Brandywine's Speaker Series webpage.


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Shells, sponges and sea creatures rarely found on shorelines have been washed up with recent storms.
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Along with piles of rubbish and debris, storms have washed up sea life that's not commonly found on beaches along the east coast.
After the storm, Seven Mile Beach at Lennox Head was a marine life wonderland.
Southern Cross University marine ecologist Daniel Bucher says many of the species that have washed up come from much deeper water than normal.
While walking on the beach, he found a perfectly intact fig shell.
Dr Bucher says it's the first time in his 30-year career that he's come across one in such good condition.
"This is one that gets me excited because I started marine biology as a shell collector," he says.
"It's dead... the animal is very large when it's fully expanded and it lives in the sediment as a predator."
It's also brought in white sea cucumbers - sausage shaped animals related to starfish and sea urchins - which live in deep water on the ocean floor.
"These are what we call deposit-feeders, so they wait for material to settle on the bottom in the sand, they've got five tentacles around their mouth and they just use those to scoop in the sand. They just eat sand, digest out the organic material and poo out little sausages of clean sand," Dr Bucher says.
"The other interesting thing is also at the other end they have what's called a respiratory tree off their hind-gut which means they breathe through their anus."
In some parts of the world, some species of cucumber are harvested and eaten.
Dr Bucher says black sea cucumbers are occasionally found on northern New South Wales beaches, but it's not common to see the white kind.
"This is where the sand has been churned up a little deeper than normal and dug up these ones that are lying buried."
Unusually rough seas caused by ex-tropical cyclone Oswald may have killed plenty of marine life beyond the low-tide mark, but Dr Bucher says these kinds of infrequent weather events can be good for the ecosystem.
"It frees up some spaces that would've been taken over by the most competitive, dominant animal.
"That provides opportunity for new animals, sometimes different animals to occupy that space. So it's part of the process that maintains the high biodiversity of this region."


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In 2008, D.C.. enacted the Clean and Affordable Energy Act, which effectively created the Sustainable Energy Trust Fund, and authorized the creation of a District of Columbia Sustainable Energy Utility (DC SEU) and designated the SEU to be the one-stop resource for energy efficiency and renewable energy services for District residents and businesses. In 2011, the District Department of the Environment (DDOE) contracted with Vermont Energy Investment Corporation (VEIC), the lead implementer for the Sustainable Energy Utility, on a year by year contract. A separate 3rd party contractor is retained to conduct program evaluations.
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Simply perusing the updated St. Louis Reserve Bank's latest charts over the past couple weeks gives one some pretty good insights into the strength of our economy. While there are indicators that have come back up a small amount, there are still many, many signs that underlying strength has not returned, at least to the degree that you would conclude by listening to our government officials and main stream media sources.
NOTE: As you view these charts, please take a moment on each one to read the left hand scale. Some are year over year (yoy) percent change, some are yoy change in Billions of dollars, and some are simply the index value or raw data. Charts and data can be displayed in many ways, so you must think about what each means. Keep in mind that we are now two years from the peak in the markets, so year over year data is change from the point that was one year into the decline already…
Before you get started with these charts, please take the time to follow this link and view the charts recently produced by Morgan Stanley in their article Here Comes A Brutal 2010 (ht Dan).
Let's begin with a quick discussion of what occurred in the markets at the end of this week. On Thursday we had an outside reversal where the markets opened higher and closed below the previous day's lows – this is usually a sign of weakness and came about as a result of rumors about Japan selling U.S. Treasuries which was later officially denied (it's never official until it's denied). Japan is a serious problem, deflation is picking up steam there and the Yen has been strengthening despite massive debt loads, now totally 200% of their GDP, second in the world only to Zimbabwe, that is no joke. So, the Japanese to get the Yen down announced that they are printing another 10 Trillion Yen! That and the rumor are likely an attempt to force the Yen lower, the result being that the U.S. Dollar goes higher.
Thus, yesterday, despite a very large spike in equities on the unemployment release, the dollar rose and broke out of its descending wedge, producing both a daily and weekly close above the upper trend line:
This is what happens during a race to the bottom – a dueling carry trade between the number 1 and number 2 economies of the world. If our current dollar carry continues to unwind sending the dollar higher, it will likely kick off deleveraging round two. The ultimate destination, I believe, is that all debt backed currencies will share the same fate, that is their own destruction. And thus the world has a very large transition period ahead, do not be fooled by the purveyors of debt, they are destroying economies, certainly not rebuilding them.
Note that in the past two weeks we had a crisis in Dubai, one in Greece, and one in Japan. All are crisis of debt. And these crisis events are coming in closer proximity. That's because they are all related. Analysts poo-pawed the Dubai default saying that it was isolated – remember what they said about subprime? These crisis are not the problem, they are symptoms of the problem. The real problem is the way that our money systems are backed by debt. More money equals more debt. This produces unsustainable math, plain and simple. This system appears to work okay until debt saturation occurs. Debt saturation is the state where incomes can no longer support and sustain the growth of debt – that's where we are, and it's where most of the world is.
Yesterday's employment massaging caused a spike in equities followed by a reversal. The Transports produced a new high and market internals were largely favorable. But for the SPX and the Industrials, the 50% retrace level of the entire bear market has so far contained prices. Sentiment has reached an extreme with Investor's Confidence showing zero percent bearish. Yesterday's spike and collapse was on very heavy volume, the type of volume spike that often signals exhaustion.
Below is a 9 month chart of the DOW. Note that we have failed to get over the rising wedge. We are producing an expanding wedge formation that is usually the mark of a top and has not been broken in either direction, including yesterday's spike that touched it and immediately was repelled. While I don't know what direction the very short term has in store, if you look at the last spike in upside volume you will see that it was just a matter of a couple of days before a correction began. The current pattern is also something new for the B wave, the only similar pattern was shorter and also led to a correction in early June.
I think the market is at a crossroads, it's a place to be careful, that is why I currently hold no positions but believe that we are nearing an important top.
Again, we must watch all four major markets, currencies, debt (bonds), commodities, and equities. Stress manifests itself in different ways. In a highly manipulated world, such as ours currently is, attempts to control one market will produce outcomes in another. They cannot, however, change the inevitable outcome, it is nature's law that all debts get repaid with interest in one way or the other. Those debts can only be repaid through productive efforts, and there is no way around that. Attempts to fool the nature of money will only cause repayment to come via one of the other major markets.
Also, as you reach debt saturation, attempts to add more debt into the system actually lead to higher unemployment. Note as you look through the following charts, how overall debt has gone exponential alongside money supply, and that in general as debt has risen unemployment has also risen, each cycle producing a higher low and a higher high.
Onto the State of the Union via the Fed's own charts…
Six more banks failed yesterday costing the FDIC another $2.4 Billion, bringing the total failure count for the year up to 130. The FDIC is functionally broke and must get most new funds from the Treasury - that means either more debt or more printing to pay for the losses. Due to the massive amount of failures waiting in the wings, the FDIC is not shutting down problem banks early enough. The entire system is a picture of disease… we keep picking at the wounds while our government and officials keep fueling the underlying condition. Truly the entire banking and money system are at risk should actually losses be acknowledged. Thus, it is my opinion that we either need to radically cleanse the system (my upcoming proposal does this) or we need to tear the system down and start over. Failure to do so is going to result in a TERMINAL cycle of printing, debt pushing, and good old fashioned hide and seek.
In terms of bank health, we know that a bank's Allowances for Loan and Lease Losses (ALLL) must be able to accommodate risk. Well, as you can see in the chart below that the number of banks whose ALLL exceeds their non performing loans has never been lower:
Total non performing loans is 4 times that which occurred during the last recession, and I believe that non performing loans on this chart are actually vastly understated as this chart does not capture hidden and deferred assets, assets owned not by banks but by the institutions that hold bad derivative paper, and also all the nonperforming loans held by the GSE's:
If you are interested, the Fed breaks down non performing loans by bank size. Below is a chart showing Total Non Performing Commercial Loans:
Net charge offs at banks is high, but I believe will need to go even higher. This statistic will not let up until people's balance sheets are repaired. The debt pushers want to repair the banks balance sheets, but not the people's balance sheets and thus they have it backwards. If they helped clean up the people's balance sheets, then the banks balance sheets would clean themselves up.
Below are two charts, one showing the average return on bank's Assets, the other on bank's equity. They are both very near zero:
In regards to the money aggregates, we find that M2 and the more broad MZM are both still positive, but when viewed in terms of yoy change in billions, you can see that the rate of money growth has peaked and now is slowing:
In terms of credit supply, here we find that total bank credit is falling in terms of yoy change in billions of dollars:
Commercial Paper of non financial companies continues to plummet in yoy percentage terms, accelerating downwards now more than 40% yoy:
Total Consumer Credit outstanding is now down more than $120 billion yoy:
Consumer credit is broken into Revolving and Non Revolving:
Total Loans and Leases at all Commercial banks is likewise plummeting yoy in terms of billions of dollars. This drop is more than half a trillion dollars in just the past year:
Retail and Institutional money funds are down substantially in terms of dollars:
First of all, the population of the United States is growing steadily, having just passed 307 million:
If I could show only one chart that tells the story of what is happening in terms of employment, it would be this chart that Point dug out of the BLS website showing the Civilian Employment Population Ratio. This ratio is simply telling you what portion of the civilian population is employed. You will not see any trend change here whatsoever:
Below is the same chart but from the Fed dating back to the late 1940s. We are currently back to the same percentage as we were during the late 1970s:
The flip side of the Employment Population Ratio is the number of people NOT in the labor force. No change of trend here, either:
If you want to see if Ross Perot was right about that giant sucking sound you hear (jobs going overseas), then the following charts are proof that he was absolutely correct. Let's start with a chart showing the total number of employees in all goods producing industries. Here, despite a huge growth in the population, the number of people employed to produce things is no greater than it was back in the year 1942:
Manufacturing employees are back to the same numbers as 1942:
The number of employees producing durable goods is also back to the same numbers that are were found in 1942. Our population then was less than half the size it is now. You can call that a miracle of productivity, or you can call that outsourcing with financial engineering behind it, or you can call it a mass exodus of what was middle class wages:
The total number of people manufacturing non durable goods is now the smallest recorded since the Great Depression:
Now, you may say that it's a good thing that all the cheap stuff is made overseas, that it's our miracle of finance that we can afford such things without having to produce goods ourselves! But that is a fallacy, we have been running huge trade deficits that have produced a massive imbalance of production. We are now paying for that imbalance and will continue to pay for it in the future.
The total number of employees in Construction is back to pre year 2000 levels, one has to wonder how much more construction our current economy needs:
Here's the chart showing the civilian U3 Unemployment rate, you know, the one on teevee. Yep, there is a trend change there, I took the liberty of circling it for you:
Please keep in mind that during the Great Depression there were periods where the rate of unemployment decreased and GDP increased, one period of positive growth lasted an entire year. Nothing moves in a straight line in any direction.
Here is the number of unemployed, nearly 16 million in all:
No trend change in those unemployed for more than 27 weeks:
But you can see that in the short time frame there has been a trend change that is actually viewable in those unemployed 5 weeks or less:
The mean duration of unemployment has never been higher:
Continuing Claims for unemployment has indeed turned down, but you have to ask why. In this case, because of the duration of unemployment there are now thousands of people falling off the unemployment roles:
To say that our Federal Government finances are a mess would be an understatement of historic proportions.
Our receipts as a nation are plummeting, what was $2.7 Trillion in receipts is now only $2.2 Trillion. That half a trillion dollars in lost income represents a nearly 19% plunge.
Of course, any sane person would cut back their expenditures if their income falls, but no, no, not our government, they think they are special and that the rules of money do not apply to them. They are wrong, they are being spanked for their insanity and will be spanked even more severely in the future. Check out our current government expenditures, now more than $5 Trillion just this year:
So, $2.2 Trillion in income, $5 trillion in expenditures equals a deficit of $2.8 Trillion, RIGHT? Wrong! In the government's EnronO'Wonderland world of accounting, you get a deficit (Net Federal Savings) that is ONLY $1.4 Trillion, as if that were not bad enough:
Speaking of funny accounting, here is a chart showing non defense gross investment, something less than only $50 billion!
And here is a chart showing nation defense gross investment, more than DOUBLE the amount of non defense investment:
Obviously neither figure is close to the amounts "invested" in defense or non defense, but the ratio of dollars spent may very well be.
And when you take all of the Current account deficits and add them together, we just broke $12 Trillion dollars, an amount equal to $39,000 for every man woman and child in the United States, $156,000 for my family of four – and, of course, this is a VAST understatement of the facts:
Nearly $3.5 trillion is now held by foreign investors:
No rebound in housing starts. If you ask me, that's a good thing. Sales have been up slightly and inventories are coming down, all that is good. However, the number of option ARM resets coming is as big a problem as subprime was.
Personal Income is down more than $200 Billion when compared to last year:
Personal Consumption Expenditures are down more than $130 Billion from this time last year:
Gross Private Domestic Investment is down nearly $600 Billion in the past year, more than half a Trillion:
Exports are STILL down nearly 20% year over year, already two years from the peak in the markets:
Imports are STILL down nearly 30% year over year:
Capacity Utilization is up off the bottom, but is still deep into depression territory, there is simply too much capacity around the entire globe. This will prevent investment for some time to come in tools and other equipments of production:
And finally, net Corporate Dividends are down more than $130 Billion from one year ago, this is despite mark to fantasy and record bonuses on Wall Street:
All in all, there are signs of a cyclic upturn in many of the economic indices. These upturns, however, have not gotten the economy anywhere near to peak levels and have been outpaced by the equity markets tremendously. While there is a short term cyclical upturn, what you'll see when looking at the charts is that each upturn now produces a lower high, and each downturn produces a lower low, all the while debt and deficits continue their ascent into the exponential heavens. Choosing to attempt more credit (debt) growth on top of saturated levels is a decision to usher in a new currency. While I can't say when, it's coming quicker and quicker.
As if that weren't enough charts, what follows is a nice compilation for those paying attention, the latest update of the St. Louis Fed's Monetary Trends. In it you will find a picture of contracting consumer credit, other deflationary indications, a money supply that was up sharply but is now not up as aggressively, but nowhere in it will you find what is happening in the shadow banking world, which I contend is also contracting rather dramatically – keep in mind that the OCC reports only a fraction of derivatives and that derivatives as reported by them are up, but only because of the commercial bank conversion of Goldman and others.
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Today at my soccer game I realized that my throw-in wasn't exactly the strongest, considering some of my teammates could throw the ball half the field.
I got to thinking how I could improve my throw.. As I was doing my Tai-chi set. One thing lead to another and I realized if i could break the throw-in down into slow motion and focus on the weight shift from one leg to another, the arm,leg and torso dynamics.
I then deducted that many actions in sports could be subject to the same analysis and one could create a Tai-Chi routine of the most common movements to greatly improve your performance in the sport.
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Confronting Terror: A Special Book Event on Remembering 9/11
On 09.12.11 07:46 AM posted by Dean Reuter
With the 10th anniversary of 9/11, some touching remembrances have been written, but also an increasing number of op-eds, editorials and blog posts, the theme of which are "let's stop looking back at 9/11 and start moving forward."* The second response is bad advice for several reasons.
While I appreciate the need to move ever forward, we must not forget the vicious attacks of ten years ago.* We must not forget that it was a calculated attack on Americans and a strike at our way of life.* We must not forget that we were attacked because we cherish freedom.
Moreover, there are important practical lessons to reflect upon regarding whether our response to 9/11 was appropriate.* If we dont reflect on those lessons and we continue or choose the wrong path, we may either make it more likely we will be attacked again or we will continue with legal and security regimes that are unnecessarily burdensome or threaten the liberty we cherish.
Professor John Yoo and I are very pleased, and honored, to have our book, Confronting Terror, featured as part of the Heritage Foundation's Preserve the Constitution Series.* The book is a collection of essays by 22 nationally-known legal and policy experts and scholars.* It not only contains some moving remembrances, but it also contains a variety of sometimes opposing essays on what we have done right and wrong as a nation to respond to the attacks.
The book starts with a speech by former U. S. Solicitor General Ted Olson.* In remarks delivered just weeks after the attacks, and the murder of his wife Barbara, Ted very powerfully recalls the events of the day.* We thought this opening chapter set the proper tone for the book, which is a forum of debate of the War on Terror issues that remain controversial even today.* Not only must we move forward as we discuss these still-controversial issues, we must continue to do so while looking back at the horrid events of 9/11, with an appreciation of the determined enemy we face.
Several other of the contributors will be present at a special discussion Tuesday at Heritage at noon, which we hope you can listen to either in person or over the Internet.* John Yoo will square off with another contributor to Confronting Terror, Nadine Strossen, the former long-time head of the ACLU.* Still another contributor, former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III will host the event and provide a few reflections of his own.
Thus, we should strive to make the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the attack both an appropriate and productive one, remembering those who passed away on 9/11 and in the wars since thenand reflecting on whether the course we have set is the best means of preserving our cherished freedoms.
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LONDON (Reuters) – A glitch in the way cells clear damaged proteins could be the trigger for the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, researchers said in a finding that could lead to new treatments for the incurable condition.
The U.S. team focused on a process called autophagy in which cells digest and recycle damaged molecules, including proteins, that develop as cells grow older. This system essentially renews cells to keep them functioning properly.
This mechanism is also important for nerve cells in the brain where defective proteins can kill cells and cause the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson's, such as tremors, said Ana Maria Cuervo, a cell biologist who led the study.
"We have found in Parkinson's there are problems in removing abnormal proteins," said Cuervo of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
The finding could potentially lead to drugs to treat the symptoms but not cure the disease, which affects more than a million patients in the United States alone and is marked by the death of brain cells that produce dopamine.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, or message-carrying chemical, associated with movement.
Cuervo had previously shown how mutant forms of a protein called alpha-synuclein — found in a tiny percentage of Parkinson's patients — blocked the breakdown of substances and prevented cells from clearing damaged proteins.
In the study in The Journal of Clinical Investigation on Wednesday, the team showed how in the majority of patients dopamine modifies normal proteins to act like the mutated ones to trigger tremors and other symptoms.
"What we have found is dopamine modifies alpha-synuclein that really resembles the mutation," Cuervo said. "That is why they have the same symptoms."
Problems in this process have also been linked with other neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease, though the specific mechanisms that cause problems in those conditions are different, she said.
Cuervo said a drug to fix the breakdown in Parkinson's patients was years away because it would take researchers time to understand fully how the process worked.
"This is not something that is going to lead to a treatment tomorrow," she said. "The hope is within five years we can get companies to find a drug able to activate this system."
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This year, the Mad Marathon has added options for participating with "Take it Easy or Take It Tough," making the race accessible to teams and families as well as challenging for seasoned marathon runners. "These opportunities align with the message of living a healthy and sustainable lifestyle. Running the marathon alone or on a team is just one of many ways to do so," says Friedsam. "We see this partnership as a way to engage people to support environmental organizations and come see why this region is so unique. We're excited to raise awareness and have a lot of fun along the way."
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We take our responsibilities to service standards and the environment very seriously and have attained several key registrations, memberships and accreditations that require adherence to strict codes of practice and are subject to external audits.
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Protecting the environment is in everyone's interests. At Total Clean we are committed to environmentally-friendly working practices and work hard to raise and maintain awareness among staff and clients.
We have received the ISO 14001 environmental certification which provides a framework of best practice to help organisations. We also subscribe to CO2 Balance as a voluntary extension of our environmental policies and are certified as 'CarbonZero' each year as testament to our commitment to offsetting our carbon footprint.
Total Defence
Faced with the dual issues of needing to ensure clients' premises are pristine and meet hygiene standards, yet wanting to achieve this without causing too much damage to the environment, we decided to develop our own range of exclusive cleaning products.
The Total Defence range includes standard products such as glass cleaner, anti-bacterial surface cleaner, bactericidal washroom cleaner and a floor cleaner, enabling us to be sure that, wherever we work, everything is not only spotless, but hygienically clean too.
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Everyone at Total Clean is committed to delivering the highest possible service to all our clients, regardless of contract size. We deliver a thorough, ongoing training and development agenda, designed to enhance job-related performance and ensure our cleaning operatives are up-to-date with the latest innovations in our industry.
All our employees play an active role in ensuring we deliver customer satisfaction without compromise.
The Total Clean quality assurance is delivered both through the way our business is operated and the service we provide to our clients.
We achieve the difficult balance of offering professional services using the latest techniques and products, whilst always incorporating a very personal touch. Client testimonials indicate that we offer excellent value for money and a personalised service that allows us to grow by referral and word of mouth recommendation.
Our testimonials
"I would just like to thank you and your colleagues for the very professional service you've supplied us during your time with us so far. From first contact, through quotation, providing professional resources and the implementation of a first class service, your staff have been extremely professional and friendly. Your company and staff have very good communication skills which is key to ensuring a good service is delivered."
– Anthony Bedasee, Rosenblatt Solicitors
"Total Clean's great strength is that they are so good they are completely unobtrusive. Everything is clean every day. Everything is tidy every day. Nothing is lost. And you hardly know they are there. It's as if it's all done by magic!"
– Wally Olins, CBE (1935-2014), Total Clean's first client, whose company remained with us for over 25 years.
"I write to express my satisfaction with the service you provide. Your supervisor is always very friendly and is much liked by the entire office. He ensures the safety of our team by regularly returning after hours to check that the premises have been left secure. We are very happy with the results achieved."
– Hannah Wallden, PSL Group Europe
"We are so grateful that you were able to assist us with an urgent deep clean over the weekend, without which we would have been unable to see any patients. The clean was fantastic and has really brought our old carpets back to life. Your cleaner is always going above and beyond for us, he ensures any request we give him is actioned immediately and the communication between us is great. Total Clean have always provided us with a great professional service and our clinic is always sparkling clean and smells fresh every day. I would 100% recommend Total Clean to anyone looking for an excellent cleaning service."
– Lucy Myers, Blossoms Healthcare
"We have worked with Total Clean since November 2011. They are reliable, hardworking and they can always step in at short notice to accommodate anything extra we might need. The management team is very friendly and helpful to work with."
– Nicole Hart, Dornan Engineering Services
"We have been using Total Clean for the last few years and have always been impressed with the dedication to meeting the high clinical standards we require. We have always found them friendly, trustworthy and would recommend them to anyone looking for a reliable team."
– Vanessa Inglefield, London Bridge Plastic Surgery


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Embodying stereotypes
The Jack Benny Program was classic, classic television. If you've never seen it, it's worth tracking down a few episodes. It was a forerunner to shows like "Curb Your Enthusiasm," where the lead character plays an exaggerated version of themselves.
And if Benny were alive today, he'd probably have schmucks like New York congressman Steve Israel chomping at his butt.
Why? Because Benny -- born Benjamin Kubelsky -- played in a cultural sandbox we're not allowed to play in anymore for fear of offending people like Israel. I'm talking about the most dreaded word in a politically correct society run amok: Stereotypes.
Benny -- who was Jewish -- was a cheapskate when in character. One of his most famous bits involved a stick-up man demanding "your money or your life!" Benny paused, the robber repeated the question, and Benny finally snapped back, "I'm thinking it over!"
So yes. Today, if Benny were alive and pulled something like this -- stereotype of a "cheap Jew" -- I could see people like Israel calling him out.
Why am I picking on Israel on this wide-ranging topic? Because he had to stick his (stereotype alert!) big nose into the not-quite-brouhaha brewing over Bravo's latest "reality" piece of crap, "Princesses: Long Island."
The show is about six unmarried Jewish women who still live with their parents and who fit the classic, pig-headed stereotype about Jewish women, particularly those from Long Island: Entitled, self-important, money-hungry, yadda yadda yadda.
Here's the problem though: The women on the show are Jewish. And they're from Long Island. And they're entitled, self-important, money-hungry, yadda yadda yadda.
So to be clear: There's a nasty stereotype involving Jewish women. Here are six Jewish women who embody the stereotype. And a Jewish politician stands on his soapbox and denounces the Bravo network for ... "promoting anti-Semitic stereotypes," as he wrote in a piece for Huffington Post.
You ask me? Borderline insane to call out Bravo for promoting a stereotype when the people on the show are living up to the stereotype. Which means it ain't so much a stereotype as it is real life, whatever that means within the swirling prism of quote-unquote reality television.
Of course, it's not just Israel and the Jews. (Great name for a Biblical band.) Every single time television execs burp up another show that traffics in race or religion or culture, crazy-eyed members of said race or religion or culture will stand up and bellow from the rafters, demanding the show get taken off the air and say things like Israel said in his HuffPo piece: "I don't want viewers of the show to think that they are, in any way, representative of Jews or Long Islanders."
No kidding.
Not every Jew is money-hungry, not every Italian is Tony Soprano, and on and on and on...
One of the best takes on the subject of stereotypes dates back to 1987 when comedian Barry Sobel (a Jewish comedian! What a stereotype ...) appeared on the Rodney Dangerfield Young Comedians special. He launched into a stereotype-laden rant that was funny because it was true. A few dozen cultures, creeds, races and religions were attacked. And yes, sure stereotypes are ugly and it's a cruddy way to paint someone, but the fact remains: Many are based on some reality.
For instance: I've got a big nose. I'm congenitavely neurotic. I'm (arguably) funny. I eschew manual labor. I use words like "eschew." I'm also Jewish.
So do I fit the stereotype of the big-nosed, weak-limbed, smarty-pants, worrying American Jewish gent, a regular Woody Allen type?
Well, yeah, I guess I do. That stereotype exists. I embody it. Steve Israel, by all rights, should be boycotting me.
Actually, I wish he would. I could use the press. "Princesses: Long Island" is getting like a million viewers a week.
Jeff Edelstein can be reached at facebook.com/jeffreyedelstein and @jeffedelstein on Twitter.