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Serious Entertaining: Memorial Day
Seasonal menu planning for the perfect dinner party.
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Though I may wear white in the depths of winter and I'm sadly lacking a summer house to "open" or a boat to speed down the Long Island coast, I look forward to Memorial Day and all that it signifies. We're entering summer territory and my heart lifts at the thought of barbecues, sidewalk dining, and post-work "I can't believe it's still light out" drinking.
I like to kick off my summer season by inviting over some friends and cooking up the types of dishes I look forward to most. (NB: I lack a grill or else, yes, some grilled peaches and vanilla ice cream would be at the top of this list).
Blue Cheese Biscuits
In the summertime I tend to make a lot of biscuits. They just beg to be packed in a picnic basket and taken to the park as sustenance for a leisurely lie in the sun. And since I'm never one to overlook the bread basket, for my Memorial Day party I'll choose these blue cheese beauties to accompany my mains. They have a pungent, salty flavor and extra thin and flaky layers.
Spiced Carrot Salad with Olives
Have some vegetarians coming to your party? Looking for a side to accompany your burgers? Try this salad and surprise everyone with how delicious you made some carrots. A combination of coriander seeds, red pepper flakes, and toasted cumin gives the carrots an earthy spiciness that plays against salty, vinegary olives and refreshing cilantro. Seriously, don't invite me to your party or I will eat the entire bowl of this while you're busy with the drinks.
Lobster, Corn, and Potato Salad
During the summer, I eat a lot of salads, though not necessarily the type with lettuce. Anything that can be eaten at room temperature gets a star in my book, as does any dish that shows off the inherent goodness of summer produce. Lobster may be expensive, but it's so buttery and luxuriously rich that a little bit goes a long way. Along with some sweet corn, creamy potatoes, and fresh basil, this is the perfect main course to embrace simple summer cooking.
Deep Dish Cherry Pie
When I bought my first bag of juicy, dark red cherries I may have cried out, "It's pie season! It's pie season! Hooray!"
I used Dorie Greenspan's incredibly flaky and practically fool-proof recipe for the pie crust, but the real star here is truly the fruit. Use the best fresh cherries you can find and adjust the amount of sugar accordingly. The filling should taste like cherries to the cherriest degree.
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We're not quite sure why the Xbox 360 has become the lonely Japanese otaku voyeur's console of choice, but D3Publisher's Dream C Club is only going to further entrench the console as perv-worthy.
Dream C Club's premise, if you aren't familiar, is to recreate the visual wonders of a Japanese hostess bar, letting the player drink frilly alcoholic beverages while chatting up (and loosening up) anime archetypes. They'll apparently be in various states of undress—but things stays PG-rated—and will perform karaoke numbers for you. Sometimes they get a little... bouncy.
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ROCKFORD — Miracle Mile Rockford board of directors announced John Mecklenburg as its new president via an Aug. 7 news release.
Mecklenburg has served on the board since its inception in 2005. He will serve the remainder of the term of past president Tom Baudhuin and a two-year term from 2015-17.
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He writes a daily newsletter that he provides for free, called Gains Pains & Capital, you can sign up at his site here, there is a sign up block in the upper left hand corner: Gains Pains & Capital. Of course he does offer paid for services of which I have no personal experience and receive no compensation or any other consideration for sharing Graham's work. I always recommend caution in paying for and following the investment advice of others.
For educational purposes, I have agreed to occasionally reprint some of his articles, I think you'll find them insightful and you will surely pick up a nugget or two with every installment. In the following piece, Graham performed a small study of the relationship in performance between gold stocks and gold miners, especially during times of equity stress – I think you may find it interesting.
Will Gold Miners Act Like Stocks or Gold During the Crash?
With stocks collapsing and Gold rallying to new all-time highs in both US Dollars and the Euro, the key question for precious metals investors is:
Will gold miners act like stocks or Gold during the Crash?
Unfortunately, there is no simple answer; it all depends on how you look at it. Historically, when the going is good, miners act like Gold. However, when things get ugly, they tend to act like stocks.
Let me explain…
As you know, over the last ten years Gold has rallied roughly 340% from $250 to its all-time high of $1,242 yesterday. Over the same time period stocks, as measured by the S&P 500, have actually fallen some 27% in value. That's a heck of a difference in performance.
When you add Gold miners to this mix (as measured by the HUI Gold Bugs index), you find that in the long-term, miners have not only acted like Gold, they've acted like Gold on steroids: since 2000, the HUI Index has rallied more than 500% compared to 340% for Gold bullion over the same time period.
So over a ten-year horizon, the answer is quite simple: miners follow Gold more than stocks. A chart plotting the three assets makes this clear:
However, very few investors only look at their portfolios every ten years. Most of us tend to look every week, if not every day. Which is why it's important to note that anyone who invests in Gold mining companies expecting to mirror Gold's performance needs to have an unbelievably strong stomach. Because when the going gets bad, miners have a tendency to mimic stocks.
The above chart (weekly) shows the performance of Gold vs. the S&P 500 vs. the HUI index during the 2008 Crash. As you can see, miners took it on the chin nearly as much as stocks during the collapse. In 2008, stocks fell 37%, Gold miners fell 30%, and Gold actually ROSE 5% (despite an extremely volatile year).
So the last time things got really ugly, Gold mining stocks acted more like stocks than Gold. However, if you could hold on through the gut-wrenching drops, mining stocks rebounded much more quickly than stocks (though not as quickly as Gold).
Personally, I doubt anyone has a pain threshold high enough to sit through a drop like that of Autumn 2008 without panicking and selling. However, those who did stomach the drop quickly saw their mining shares rise along with Gold, and start outperforming stocks handily.
Which brings us back to my original statement: historically, when the going is good, miners act like Gold. However, when things get ugly, they tend to act like stocks.
That is until today.
During this latest market rout started at the end of April 2010, the HUI index and Gold initially fell along with stocks. But then something odd happened: the HUI and Gold both stopped collapsing and actually began to rally while the S&P 500 continued to collapse:
Miners now appear at a crossroads. They have not yet totally decoupled from stocks, but are showing much greater relative strength compared to the S&P 500. In plain terms, we appear to be nearing a time in which mining stocks will trade almost entirely along with Gold rather than stocks. We're not quite there yet, but it is approaching.
What does this mean? If a Crash were to hit right tomorrow, mining stocks would likely fall along with the S&P 500. However, they would fall less, rebound more quickly, and outperform the general market.
Will this always be the case? I cannot say. But if miners ever DO become totally decoupled from stocks, they'll be a phenomenal investment. Remember, Gold only fell a mere 5% during this latest market rout. And it reclaimed ALL of its losses in roughly two weeks.
Meanwhile, stocks continue to dive.
Which asset do you want to own?
Good Investing!
Graham Summers


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In my research for the new TV series This New House (premiering at 8pm, July 29, on the DIY Network), I came across a heat source you might want to check out.
Heat pumps are tried-and-true machines that cool and heat buildings across the southern tier of the U.S. They use refrigerant to move heat from inside to outside, or vice versa. Like an air-conditioner, they take heat out of houses and dump it outside in the summer; in the winter, the process gets reversed, capturing latent heat in air down to about 37 F, concentrating it by compressing the refrigerant, and sending the heat inside. But below 37 F, they rapidly lose effectiveness, working constantly to try to keep up with heat demand. This is why they're less common or economical up north, where they require back up systems that heat (expensively) with electricity.
There's a company in the heart of the frost belt—Bangor, Maine—that's cracked the code for heat pumps for cold country. By adding a secondary booster compressor, which basically turbo-charges the process, the Hallowell Acadia heat pump (http://www.gotohallowell.com/Acadia™-Products/) is able to draw heat from air as cold as -30 F. As company founder Duane Hallowell puts it, "It's a heat pump on steroids."
The heat-pump process is based on the simple fact that heat goes to cold: whenever something is colder than the surrounding air, the heat in that air transfers to it, as the system tries to equalize. By making the outside coil of the heat pump even colder than the air, the Acadia is able to capture latent heat in frigid conditions. Concentrate that heat and transfer it inside and, voila, you're heating a northern house using the outside air. And it's all done with electricity, freeing the user from the vicissitudes of the oil and gas markets.
About 4,000 Acadia heat pumps have been sold since the company opened in October of 2006. They cost about $10,000 installed—that's compared to $30,000 for a geothermal system, which uses the ground as a heat source. The machines are eligible for tax and utility rebates up to $4000 and provide between 25 and 55% cost savings over natural gas and oil, depending on electricity costs in your area.


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Ryan Griffin returned from a shoulder injury to throw for 302 yards and three touchdowns to beat Southern Methodist 27-26 Saturday.
Griffin, who missed the last three games, completed 17 of 32 passes and threw touchdown passes of 31, 79 and 16 yards. His first touchdown gave Tulane a 7-0 lead and his second helped the Green Wave (1-5, 1-1 Conference USA) jump ahead 20-6 at halftime.
SMU's offense picked up after halftime, scoring 20 consecutive points behind two Chase Hover field goals and two Garrett Gilbert touchdowns.
Hover's second field goal, a 19-yarder, gave the Mustangs a 26-20 lead with 1:22 remaining.
Tulane began its next drive on its own 32 but quickly advanced to the SMU (2-4, 1-1) 16 behind two deep passes from Griffin.
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Jeff Sessions, the Senate's indispensable man, delivered the Republicans' radio address yesterday. In it, he focused on one of his favorite themes: it is conservative policies, not liberal ones, that are compassionate toward the poor, the disadvantaged, the downtrodden. Sessions argues that conservatives need to push back harder against the smug assurance of liberals that their policies are good for people, even as they keep people dependent, deprive them of opportunities for employment and wage growth, and steal away, on every front, the independence that lends dignity to every human life, no matter how seemingly ordinary. Here is Sessions' radio address in its entirety:
Hello. I'm Jeff Sessions from Alabama, Ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee. It's my privilege to speak with you today before the Senate considers a budget plan next week. Congress has an obligation to adopt a budget that does the most good for the most people.
Washington, D.C. provides a troubling illustration of our challenges. No city in America relies more on the federal government than Washington. Federal money pours every single day into every part of the city.
Despite this fountain of federal funds, 1 in 3 children still live in poverty in our nation's capital. Two in three children live in single parent homes. In nearby Baltimore—another city governed by liberal policies for decades—1 in 3 residents are on food stamps and in 1 in 3 youth live in poverty. Americans are committed to helping our sisters and brothers who are struggling, but we are seeing the damaging human consequences of our broken welfare state.
We spend a trillion dollars each year on federal poverty programs. That's more than the budget for Social Security or Defense. But poverty seems only to increase. Something is wrong.
Compassion demands that we change.
Amazingly, the federal government says that the more people we have on food stamps, the more it grows the economy. The Department of Agriculture proudly declares: "Each $5 in new [food stamp] benefits generates almost twice that amount in economic activity for the community." Our government is running food stamp promotions at foreign embassies. One worker was given an award for overcoming "mountain pride" and getting more people to sign up. Where I grew up in Alabama, all honest work, even the hardest, was honored. And pride, self-respect, and a desire to be independent was valued, not a thing to be overcome.
Isn't it a better goal to help more Americans find good-paying jobs, to have the pride and self-respect that comes from that? Isn't this a superior form of compassion that has a more solid moral foundation?
Yet every time lawmakers try to reform the bureaucracy to accomplish these goals, they meet with the same response: President Obama attacks the reformers, saying such ideas aren't compassionate or fair. But what is truly unfair and lacking in compassion is to protect a federal bureaucracy that is failing those that need our help the most.
President Obama speaks of his deep concern for struggling Americans, yet his plans are focused on growing government—not the economy. He has no effective plan to create better jobs, more hiring or rising wages. That's what's missing.
Apparently, the federal government is perfect, requires no reform. That would explain why our Senate Democrats have refused to pass a legally-mandated 10-year budget plan in four years.
To compel Senate Democrats do their jobs, Republicans passed the No Budget, No Pay measure. Senate Democrats have then relented and agreed to work on a budget plan.
Senate Budget Chair Patty Murray, and her colleagues, will introduce the long-delayed Democrat plan on Wednesday. Right now, our massive debt is slowing the economy and depressing wages. We have a moral duty to balance the federal budget and bring the deficit down to zero. This is the great challenge of our time. And you may be surprised to learn that we can achieve this goal if we simply hold the annual growth of spending to 3.4 percent each year. But I fear the Democrat proposal will fail this defining test and will never achieve balance. I fear it will crush American workers and our economy with trillions in new taxes, spending and debt. I fear Chairman Murray will follow the President's lead: raising taxes to enrich the bureaucracy at the expense of the people.
We need to grow the economy—not the government.
People are being hurt every day by the Washington establishment the Democrats are determined to shield from accountability. Government has never been bigger or more out of control. They say there is no problem with waste, fraud, and abuse; they say the problem is you; they say you are not sending them enough money; they say they have wisely spent every penny. So, you must just send them more. And, if you don't? Well, they won't stop spending, they'll just borrow more. These destructive policies cannot continue. We are at the breaking point.
Instead, we must act to create more jobs and better pay. And we can do it without adding to the debt. Here's how:
-Make welfare temporary and the welfare office an employment and job training office.
-Unlock America's vast energy resources to create millions of good-paying jobs.
-Defend American workers from unfair foreign trade practices.
-Reform the tax code to make America globally competitive, creating more jobs here.
-Make government leaner, less wasteful so it produces greater results for the money you earned and sent here.
-Enforce an immigration policy that protects legal U.S. workers from unlawful competition.
-Eliminate every burdensome federal rule or regulation that isn't needed and that destroys jobs.
-And, finally, we must balance the federal budget.
These steps will empower Americans—not the government. They will promote family—not bureaucracy. And they will help create a future in which the central bonds in our lives are not government rules but the love and loyalty we have for one another.
The policies the Democrats have pursued in recent years, especially those of the Obama administration, have blighted the lives of millions of Americans who have been unable to find full-time work, who have seen their wages stagnate, who have watched their children's dreams fade asthey try to enter an economy that has little use for their skills, who have lost, or who fear losing, their health insurance due to costs that are being driven ever higher by Obamacare. Meanwhile, as ordinary Americans have suffered, Washington is the country's last boom town. Bureaucrats are proliferating; lobbyists are getting rich; promoters who sell fraudulent "green energy" schemes to their cronies in the Obama administration make off with millions; the revolving door propels officials from federal agencies into the private sector, where they earn fabulous salaries advising giant banks and other corporations on how to collaborate with the Obama administration.
Obamanomics works great for some people: union bosses, scammers who sell "green" illusions, lobbyists, Obama administration cronies, bureaucrats, government contractors with pull. But Obamanomics, a deeply immoral system of institutionalized cronyism, is bad for nearly everyone else. This is the basic case that must be made over and over by conservative spokesmen.


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AT&T will be the exclusive provider of a limelight yellow 8GB version of the Windows Phone 8x . AT&T today announced prices for the three Windows Phone 8 smartphones it will sell in the coming holiday season, including a $99.99 price tag for the Nokia Lumia 920 that it will offer exclusively with a two-year contract.
In addition, AT&T will sell the Lumia 820 for $49.99, with in-store sales for it and the 920 beginning on Friday, with online orders possibly starting tomorrow. AT&T will also offer the Windows Phone 8x by HTC for $199.99, available by Thanksgiving. All three phones require a two-year contract.
In addition to the Lumia 920 exclusive, AT&T will be the exclusive provider of a limelight yellow 8GB version of the Windows Phone 8x for just $99.99.
The Lumia 920 has a 4.5-in. display and a 2000 mAh battery, as well as built-in wireless charging. For a limited time, a wireless charging plate will be available for free, Nokia said. The Lumia 920, available in yellow, red, grey, white and black, features an 8.7-megapixel rear camera with PureView technology for image stabilization.
The Lumia 820's display is slightly smaller, 4.3 inches., and its rear camera is 8 megapixels.
The HTC smartphone, with a 4.3-in. display, also has an 8 megapixel rear camera along with built-in Beats Audio technology, making it the first Windows Phone 8 to include the enhanced audio from Beats.
Matt Hamblen covers mobile and wireless, smartphones and other handhelds, and wireless networking for Computerworld. Follow Matt on Twitter at @matthamblen or subscribe to Matt's RSS feed. His email address is email@example.com.
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Learn from their sacrifice: A deadly two weeks for LEOs
The first two weeks of 2010 have left 11 officers dead
January is always a time of reflection, but this year it was supposed to be a time of relief: 2009 was over and perhaps we could enjoy a fresh start after the pain and turmoil of the previous year. Although fewer law enforcement officers died in the line of duty in 2009 than in any year since 1959, of the 125 officers lost, 48 of them were felled by gunfire. This represents a 23 percent increase in gunfire deaths, according to Craig Floyd of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Many of those 48 officers killed were ambushed, even hunted by their attackers. January 2010 was going to be the time to move forward and honor our fallen by learning from their sacrifice, remembering their families, and working even harder to keep each other safe.
Our collective hearts were broken on the first day of 2010 when we learned of the death of Officer Maylon "Tommy" Bishop Jr. of Guntersville, Ala. He succumbed to injuries he had received 16 years earlier when he was shot below the vest during a domestic dispute. Two days later, Grant County, Wash. Deputy John Bernard lost control of his patrol vehicle in a rural area near Ephrata and rolled the car over an embankment; he was found dead at the scene. John Bernard became the eighth Washington State officer killed in five months, and was the seventh buried in an unthinkable 60-day period.
The next day, Johnny Lee Wicks, upset over his recent cut in Social Security benefits, opened fire with a shotgun in the lobby of the federal court house in Las Vegas, Nev. He fatally wounded Special Deputy Marshal Stanley Cooper and also injured a deputy marshal before fleeing the building. Wicks was killed in a gunfight across the street a short time later. Stanley Cooper had been with Las Vegas Metropolitan police department for 26 years before becoming a federal court security officer in 1994. LVMPD had just buried four police officers in 2009 and now they had to bury Stan Cooper, whom they still considered one of their own. It was only January 4.
On January 5, 38-year-old Deputy Josie Greathouse Fox of the Millard County, Utah sheriff's office was working back up for an auto theft investigation when she called for assistance. Her sergeant found her in the street, a gunshot wound to her throat. She became the 129th Utah police officer to die in the line of duty, and the second female officer killed in the line of duty in just over a month. Four days later, Mishawaka, Ind. PD's Corporal James Szuba and his K-9 partner "Ricky" were killed in a head-on vehicle assault as they raced to assist in the pursuit of a drunk driver.
Another drunk driver collided with a New Orleans patrol car on January 9 while Officer Alfred Celestain and his partner were responding to an unrelated call. Officer Celestain slipped into a coma and died two days later. The next day, Louisiana State Trooper Duane Dalton's cruiser was struck while he was on patrol near Moss Bluff; he died at the hospital of his injuries.
On January 13, Officer Craig Story of the Arlington, Texas police department struck the side of a school bus on with his motorcycle after entering an intersection with his lights and siren activated. His bike burst into flames, and although citizens smothered the flames on Officer Story's clothing and dragged him to safety, he died at the scene. Craig Story was the seventh Arlington police officer to die in the line of duty.
On that same day, Pennsylvania State Police lost Trooper Paul Richey to gunfire after he and another trooper responded to a domestic dispute in Cranberry Township. As both troopers left their vehicles, shots were fired from the inside of the residence, striking Trooper Richey. More units arrived, rescuing Trooper Richey from the scene, but he died from his wounds a short time later. The suspect later murdered his wife and then killed himself. The next day, Deputy James Anderson of the St. Johns County, Fla. sheriff's office was killed when his cruiser was struck head-on by another vehicle that was driving in the wrong lane.
January 14, after killing two women and leaving two others fighting for their lives, John Kalisz slipped through a police dragnet. By the time he was captured hours later, another person was dead - Dixie County Sheriff's Captain Chad Reed. Reed was shot in the face as Kalisz was being pulled over by two unmarked police cruisers. Carrying two loaded shotguns, Kalisz had told his brother that he would kill as many deputies as possible
It's the end of a deadly and tragic two weeks. Where do we go from here?
Street Survival's senior instructor Dave Smith says, "The most important thing that each of us can do is recognize what we control and what we don't, and then work hard to do our best with what we do control."
The first two weeks of this new decade reminds us that nothing in this profession is "routine." We need to examine our habits, fight complacency, look out for each other, and be there for the families of our fallen. What the rest of this year will bring is anyone's guess, but so far, 2010 is "coming up tails" for law enforcement. Lets collectively do all that we can to turn the tide in our favor.
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This product is part of the official Manly Sea Eagles merchandise range made on behalf of the NRL. Guaranteed to create plenty of laughs and smiles! You are never too small to dream!
This item is brand new with tags (BNWT) and comes in its original packaging, so it would make an ideal gift!
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Sugarloaf Crafts Festival kicks off this weekend
Vendors from across the country offer handmade items
The Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium this weekend is set to host the spring Sugarloaf Crafts Festival, which promises to have a little something for everyone.
The festival runs through Sunday, and visitors can find unique items that are all made by hand. More than 250 craftsmen from all over the country will be there.
11 News reporter Jennifer Franciotti found Bob Dewitt there. He's a woodworker from western Pennsylvania and everything he makes -- from bowls to utensils -- starts out as a rather large tree.
"Big sugar maples, cherry, ash, walnut -- when we get them out of the kilns, we downsize the pieces into big pieces for bowls and smaller pieces for spoons," Dewitt explained.
He said it's an intense 40-step or so process using a chisel and mallet.
"The mallets are pushed through the wood," Dewitt said.
Other old-fashioned tools are used to make the items with a quality meant to last generations. That gives artist like Dewitt a sense of pride and accomplishment that he transmits to customers.
"I just had the experience of making this. Then I go onto the next piece, and then somebody picks this up and looks at it and responds to it, and that brings it full circle for me -- that feeling a person feels. I tell them they can't have it unless the promise to use it every day," Dewitt said. "That's why this show is so cool. You can connect with the people who actually made that piece."
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Thanks to Dodd-Frank, Community Banks Are Too Small to Survive
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The flood of new regulation, demands for more capital, harsh enforcement and an unexplained three-year-old de facto moratorium on de novo charters lead one to believe Washington wants fewer community banksOctober 23
In detailed comment letters, banks expressed despair over the hardships they will face if regulators implement Basel III capital and liquidity rules.October 22
A tipping point is coming regarding anger and dissatisfaction over Dodd-Frank. But a new assessment of the regulatory landscape points a way for policymakers to get out of the mess.October 23
Politicians may wax lyrical on the importance of community banks to local economies and regulators may claim the focus of their efforts is on institutions that are "too big to fail," but the facts tell a different story.
The Dodd-Frank Act, sold to the public as the tamer of the "Wall Street Titans," may well end up having a disproportionate impact on smaller institutions, thanks to the costs of capital implications of being "not too big to fail" and the advent of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
And things are really bad when even the regulators begin to notice. Comptroller Thomas Curry stated in his speech to the Florida Bankers Association last month that Dodd-Frank contained "a number of provisions that… many in the industry thought would not apply to community institutions." In particular, the move away from institutional reliance on credit ratings agencies will have a profound impact on community banks, which lack the institutional structures and analytical resources to undertake independent due diligence.
Granted, a retreat from the largely fictitious ratings system that continues to dominate the capital markets and lending practices is not a bad thing, even if it puts smaller banks at a disadvantage in the market. Nor is encouraging banks to undertake some diligence on their clients.
More problematic is the implicit government guarantee that underpinned the 2008 bailouts – and which, despite claims to the contrary, lives on in the Dodd-Frank systemic risk regime. Prior to the crisis, community banks were mostly subject to lower funding costs, being largely deposit-taking institutions that avoided the costly debt-financing activities of larger institutions. As of the second quarter and using the cost of funding earning assets as a proxy for the cost of capital, banks with in excess of $1 billion in assets have almost half (0.39%) the cost of capital of institutions with less than $1 billion (0.74%), according to the FDIC's latest Quarterly Banking Profile. This puts smaller banks at a distinct disadvantage unrelated to their activities and financial health.
Furthermore, the rules and regulations developed by the CFPB will affect all commercial banks, regardless of size, and will have a disproportionate impact on community banks (even though, in theory, the agency should supervise only financial institutions with assets in excess of $10 billion).
The largest banks, in particular those that operate in the more complex capital markets arena, are unlikely to regard the CFPB as anything other than additional red tape, in part because they serve a different market. Large corporates are unlikely to run to the CFPB if they feel underserved by a Goldman or a Citigroup.
In contrast, if public statements are anything to go by, the CFPB is clearly targeting its efforts at the consumers who use community banks. The CFPB's website highlights the bureau's focus on groups such as pensioners, students and consumers who lack financial literacy. And that means significant compliance costs that community banks will find harder to absorb.
And community banks face challenges beyond the unseen small-bank implications of Dodd-Frank. The Fed's artificially low interest rate environment means the traditional business of lending is not especially lucrative and the disincentive to save makes deposits harder to come by. So the banks will need to focus on generating other types of fee-based revenue, which will hurt consumers who will need to pay more for loans and basic banking services, or quit the market.
All of these factors are also coupled with distinct unwillingness on the part of federal regulators to approve new bank charters. In 2006, they approved over 170 new national bank charters, excluding conversions and the purchase of assets of failed banks. In 2011, the OCC approved a single de novo national bank charter.
It wasn't always so. For decades, community and regional banks received special protection from state banking laws and the implicit guarantee provided by federal deposit insurance. Despite the many community bank failures during and in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the U.S. still has more than 7,000 banks – more than any other country.
It is questionable whether this structure would ever have developed without the protections afforded to smaller banks before the crisis, and whether the U.S. market needs quite so many banks. International experience suggests not. The Canadian and South African banking systems – the world's "soundest" according to the World Economic Forum's 2012 Global Competitiveness Report – are both extremely concentrated.
Though some consolidation – particularly outside of the largest few – is probably a good thing, it should be driven by the market, independent of regulatory and short-term interest rate considerations and regulators should give new, innovative firms sufficient space and flexibility to survive. Crippling community banks under a heavy regulatory weight is not the way to bring about structural change.
Louise C. Bennetts is the associate director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute.


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Essentials: Roast Chicken Recipe
Roasting chicken always, always reminds me of Jeffrey Steingarten. I think the moment my crush on him bloomed into undying love was when I read his essay "As the Spit Turns" in the August 1999 issue of Vogue (reprinted in It Must've Been Something I Ate), in which he discusses his efforts to rig up an effective spit-roasting system at home. Two passages near the beginning won me over: "Whenever I have nothing better to do, I roast a chicken. …I'll roast a chicken in the afternoon even when I am not hungry and have plenty of food in the fridge and a reservation for dinner. It's like a hobby." And then, "The great Brillat-Savarin declared, 'We can learn to be cooks, but we must be born knowing how to roast.' I often lie awake nights worrying about whether I was born to roast.'" I like a man who has his priorities in order. It is in this spirit that I offer you Marcella Hazan's beautifully simple bird stuffed with two lemons. I suspect that many of you already love this very recipe, and if you do not know it yet, that you, too, are always tinkering with roast chicken, perhaps even roasting a bird whenever you have nothing better to do.
I have never managed to roast a chicken to Steingarten's exact specifications ("Dark and crispy skin, intensely savory, covering every square millimeter of the bird with no unsightly white patches"), a shame because I love crispy poultry skin as much as the next glutton. It's something to strive for, but is it not impossible to cry over skin that is flabby here and there when the roasted flesh beneath it is so uniformly juicy and delicious? It was once my habit to massage a bird with butter and salt and pepper and stuff it with garlic and lemon before roasting it on a bed of vegetables, but a year or two ago the recipe below won me over with its effective simplicity: chicken, lemon, salt, pepper. I don't bother with trussing, but I do flip the roast midway through cooking: it isn't too much trouble, and it does get good results. A 12-inch cast-iron skillet has been my roasting pan ever since I first made Zuni roast chicken.
Though I am fairly certain I was not born to roast—my reliance on meat thermometers suggests that I am not a natural—I see no reason to stop working towards that crispy, thoroughly bronzed goal. After all, it's a great hobby.
Roast Chicken with Lemons
Adapted from Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
- A 3- to 4-pound chicken
- Salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 rather small lemons [I have also used 1 large one with success, in a smallish chicken]
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Wash the chicken, inside and out, in cold water. Remove any loose bits of fat. Let the bird sit for about 10 minutes on a slightly tilted plate to let all the water drain out of it. Pat it completely dry with paper towels. Season generously with salt and pepper, rubbing it all over the body and into the cavity.
Wash the lemons in cold water and dry completely. Roll on a counter to soften and then puncture each lemon in at least 20 places, using a toothpick, trussing needle, or fork. Put both lemons in the cavity.
Close the cavity opening with toothpicks or trussing needle and string. Close it well, but don't make it absolutely airtight or the chicken may burst. Run kitchen string from one leg to the other, tying it at both ends. Leave the legs in their natural position without pulling them tight. If the skin is unbroken, the chicken will puff up as it cooks; the string is just there to keep the thighs from spreading apart and splitting the skin.
Place the chicken breast-down in a roasting pan. Do not add any fat: it isn't necessary. Put the bird in the upper third of the preheated oven. After 30 minutes, turn the chicken so that it is on its back, breast facing up. Be careful not to puncture the skin while turning. Cook for another 30-35 minutes, then turn the oven up to 400°F and cook 20 minutes more. Calculate between 20 and 25 minutes' total cooking time for each pound of chicken. You do not need to turn the chicken again.
Whether your bird has puffed up or not, bring it to the table whole and leave the lemons inside until it is carved and opened. The juices that run out are perfectly delicious; be sure to spoon them over the chicken slices. The lemons will have shriveled up, but they still contain some juice; do not squeeze them, as they may squirt.
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Designing a Natural Pool with additional fish habitat area for the Sustainable Hemp Home Series.
Since the Hemp Home Designs are all about Sustainability. Why wouldn't the pool be as well and while we are at building a natural pool we might as well incorporate a fish habitat into the natural pool design. This will allow the pool to serve as a food source in addition to the entertainment value.
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Casablanca Antique Venetian Glass̴ 4 Drawer High Chest of Drawers.
Taking its cue from the exotic delights of Morocco, this lovely range of venetian furniture has antiqued glass decorative panels, and warm toned silvery gold gilding which will add just the right amount of allure to your interior scheme.
The measurements are; w76.5 x d45 x h106.5cm.
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They will be abiding by the Governments regional tiered system as previously and will only restrict services in any areas classed at the highest tiers, for all the lower tiers deliveries will be to room of choice. This will be monitored daily. As always, social distancing guidelines will be followed and customers are asked to do the same and as usual our teams have full PPE and undergo risk assessments with customers with safety being our top priority.
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1 Can of random brand store-bought sauce (I like the Hunt's Zesty & Spicy)
About a quarter of one of those little store-bought spice thingies. Oregano, basil, minced onions, and double that for garlic.
Half a bottle of Texas Pete hot sauce.
Half a bottle of Lea & Perrins Worchestershire Sauce.
Two shots of Jim Beam.
Stir. Boil. Eat with well boiled spaghetti & meatless balls.
And yes, I discovered this wonderful recipe when bored and I decided to mix random shit together.


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Golden State Warriors (12-8 ) @ Seattle SuperSonics (9-10)
Start time 7:00 PM PST @ The Key Arena
Probable starters for the Golden State Warriors
PG - Baron Davis
SG - Jason Richardson
SF - Mike Dunleavy
PF - Troy Murphy
C - Adonal Foyle
Probable starters for the Seattle SuperSonics
PG - Luke Ridnour
SG - Ray Allen
SF - Rashard Lewis
PF - Nick Collison
C - John Petro
Team Leaders
PPG - J. Richardson (22.9) | R. Allen (23.7)
RPG - T. Murphy (8.8 ) | R. Evans (7.3)
APG - B. Davis (9.6) | L. Ridnour (6.9)
SPG - B. Davis (1.8 ) | R. Allen (1.8 )
BPG - A. Foyle (1.8 ) | R. Lewis (0.8 )
Matchups this Season
Dec 10 - Golden State Warriors @ Seattle SuperSonics
Jan 16 - Seattle SuperSonics @ Golden State Warriors
Feb 1 - Golden State Warriors @ Seattle SuperSOnics
Greg Anthony's recent column on how the West will finish for the playoffs.
Listed as 6th seed. Sonics. They're obviously making the adjustment under coach Bob Weiss. Luke Ridnour and Ray Allen are keys. Last year was big for the team's confidence. I think they'll have enough for the playoffs.
Listed as not making it. Warriors. This team has always had injuries. And I can't remember the last time Baron Davis played a full season.
Game Thread: Warriors @ Seattle SuperSonics 12-13-2005
Talk about the upcoming Warriors game here
Moderators: Mr. Crackerz, JREED, Guybrush, 32
The Warriors are much more talented than the Sonics and should really thrash them but the way they have played all sason, it will probably be a close game.
As far as Greg Anthony's column - Greg could never play a whole lot so he doesn't know!
As far as Greg Anthony's column - Greg could never play a whole lot so he doesn't know!
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that would be a bad trade for seattle, especially considering the circumstances. Now that teams know Artest HAS to be traded, they need not offer up as much talent as they would otherwise.


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WASHINGTON - February 26, 2010 -
On Friday, Feb. 26, President Barack Obama announced the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. HBCUs play a vital role in helping educate future generations. HBCUs help guarantee our country's long-term success in our global society.
The following statement can be attributed to NEA President Dennis Van Roekel:
"Historically Black Colleges and Universities have stood as beacons of hope, inspiration and possibility for more than 140 years. Thousands have passed through their doors and gone on to make innumerable contributions to the development and advancement of our culture and society. We applaud the president and his administration for working to ensure that our country's HBCUs are supported and protected.
"The National Education Association has a long standing track-record of working with HBCUs to help recruit more minorities into the profession of teaching. We stand with the Obama administration in continuing to help our Historically Black Colleges and Universities with their vital work on behalf of the nation's future teachers, doctors, lawyers, engineers and elected leaders."
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text: The Good: The Dell UltraSharp U3011 has incredible performance, tons of connection options, and enough OSD features to satisfy most professional artists. The Bad: The Dell UltraSharp U3011 has a higher price than other 30-inchers. The Bottom Line: The Dell UltraSharp U3011 is an impressive monitor and the most feature-rich 30-incher out there. Simply put, the Dell UltraSharp U3011 is the best 30-inch monitor we've yet seen. Not only does it deliver great performance--which is expected from most devices running at a 2,560x1,600 resolution--but it also has tons of connection options and an OSD with a surprisingly high number of calibration features. The only problem is the price. At $1,349, it's about $400 more expensive than the 27-inch Dell UltraSharp U2711, which includes mostly the same features, with less real estate. The U2711 is still the best overall large-screen monitor, but if 27 inches just isn't enough, the U3011 is a fully capable alternative. \n\nDesign and features\nThe 30-inch UltraSharp U3011 takes nearly everything great about the UltraSharp U2711, adds three inches to its screen size, increases the already high resolution, and adds even more On Screen Display (OSD) options. This in itself is nothing to write home about (not that anyone receiving such a message would be the least bit interested anyway), but when we consider that OSD options for the vast majority of 30-inch monitors (including the recently reviewed HP ZR30w) are limited to brightness adjustment options only, the fact that the UltraSharp U3011 includes a full array of OSD options is quite the oddity. In fact, the last 30-incher we reviewed that included OSD options was Dell's own UltraSharp 3008WFP from 2008. \n\nThe OSD follows a label-free design that's become the house style for Dell monitors. Five vertically arranged buttons line the lower right-hand corner of the bezel. Pressing any of the buttons brings up the OSD, which pops up parallel to the button array, and each option corresponds to one of the five buttons. Once a new menu is selected, the function of each button changes dynamically, as the top two buttons become the up-and-down arrow buttons used to navigate through the newly seen menu. Since any button labels for the OSD are actually on the screen (instead of on the bezel), calibrating the display in a dark room is easy. \n\nEach OSD button on the U3011 is responsive and depresses just enough to feel satisfying. The OSD menu options include the standard brightness, contrast, and various color options. These color options include custom color controls for gain and offset, each allowing you to adjust the red, green, and blue values in the brighter and dimmer sections of the screen respectively. Also, the hue and saturation options include RGB adjustments as well as cyan, magenta, and yellow (CMY) adjustments. \n\nMain screen presets are Standard, Multimedia, Game, Movie, Warm, Cool, Adobe RGB, sRGB, and xv Mode. There are options to adjust the sharpness and additional options for setting the OSD to stay onscreen up to a minute (useful for anyone who will spend a good amount of time calibrating) and OSD transparency level. \n\nLike the U2711, the U3011 has a matte black chassis with a gray highlight running through the middle of the panel. The panel is 1.75 inches deep; however, the back of the display--which houses the backlight, connection options, and ventilation system--extends another 1.8 inches, bringing the full monitor depth to about 3.7 inches. The panel width measures 27.3 inches; the surface of the screen itself is a slightly frosted and smooth matte. The bezel measures 0.9 inch on all sides. \n\nThe Dell UltraSharp U3011 has a host of connections including two DVI, two HDMI, DisplayPort, Component, VGA, four USB downstream, one USB upstream, and an SD card reader, making this one of the most robust monitor connection arrays we've seen. \n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\tDesign and feature highlights\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\tConnectivity\n\t\tDVIx2, DisplayPort, Component, VGA, HDMIx2\n\t\n\t\n\t\tErgonomic options\n\t\t35 degree back tilt, 45 degree swivel, 3.6-inch screen height adjustment range\n\t\n\t\n\t\tResolution\n\t\t2560x1600\n\t\n\t\n\t\tAspect ratio\n\t\t16:10\n\t\n\t\n\t\tAudio\n\t\tOption and controls for speaker bar\n\t\n\t\n\t\tVESA wall-mount support\n\t\tYes\n\t\n\t\n\t\tIncluded video cables\n\t\tDVI, DisplayPort, HDMI\n\t\n\t\n\t\tBacklight\n\t\tCCFL\n\t\n\t\n\t\tPanel type\n\t\tH-IPS\n\t\n\t\n\t\tScreen film\n\t\tMatte\n\t\n\t\n\t\tPixel-response rate\n\t\t7ms\n\t\n\t\n\t\tNumber of presets\n\t\t9\n\t\n\t\n\t\tOverdrive\n\t\tNo\n\t\n\t\n\t\tPicture options\n\t\tBrightness, Dynamic Contrast Ratio\n\t\n\t\n\t\tColor controls\n\t\tRGB, CMY, Gain, Offset, Hue, Saturation\n\t\n\t\n\t\tGamma control\n\t\tn\/a\n\t\n\t\n\t\tAdditional features\n\t\t4 USB downstream, 1 upstream; SD card reader\n\t\n\n\nPerformance\nWe tested the Dell UltraSharp U3011 through its DVI input, connected to a Windows Vista PC, using the included DVI cable. The display posted a composite score of 97 on CNET Labs' DisplayMate-based performance tests. \n\nThe U3011 displayed excellent color reproduction and accuracy. Although the HP ZR30w showed evidence of a green push, the U3011 had no such problems and as a result got higher marks in our color tracking test. In our grayscale bars test, we were able to see dark gray down to level 2, two levels above black, which indicates accurate black-level performance. \n\nThe U3011 performed well in our uniformity and dark screen tests, showing only a minimum amount of backlight bleed-through. Unfortunately, as with the ZR30w, we did see clear evidence of static streaking. Static streaking occurs when there are large changes in contrast and either the darker or lighter color "streaks" onto its counterpart, showing, for example, black bars on a white background. \n\nThe biggest advantage the UltraSharp U3011 has over the ZR30w is its detailed OSD that allows you to adjust the monitor's output, which can result in better performance.\n\nText:\nIn text, we saw no color problems with black text on a white background. Fonts were clearly visible down to a 6.8 size. Not much wrong a monitor can do at this high of a resolution on such a large screen. \n\nMovies:\nWe tested the Dell UltraSharp U3011 using the Blu-ray version of "Avatar". We saw deep blacks, and accurate color that looked great on the huge 30-inch screen. Faces looked natural with no egregious color tint problems. \n\nGames:\n\nBecause of our intimate familiarity with StarCraft II (SCII), it is our new favorite tool for judging color quality and vibrancy in games. It's difficult for a game running natively at 2,560x1,600 to look bad, and indeed SCII looks quite stunning on the 30-inch U3011.


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* 30 pct said they shopped on Thanksgiving - Reuters/Ipsos poll
* 29 pct said they shopped on Black Friday
* First time for 32 percent of Thanksgiving in-store shoppers
By Jessica Wohl
Dec 5 (Reuters) - Opening their doors and offering sales on Thanksgiving did more than give retailers an early start to the holiday shopping season - the holiday actually may have drawn more shoppers than "Black Friday."
Thirty percent of Americans surveyed in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll said they shopped either online or in stores this past Thanksgiving Day, slightly more than shopped on the day after, which is typically the biggest shopping day of the year.
Of those who said that they shopped in stores on Thanksgiving, it was the first time for nearly one-third of respondents, suggesting that moving sales events into the evening and even earlier on the holiday wooed shoppers.
"People are adjusting to the changes and they're not as upset that it's on Thanksgiving, I guess," said Jharonne Martis, director of consumer research for Thomson Reuters.
Retailers including Gap Inc and Sears Holdings Corp held special sales during Thanksgiving Day itself, while chains such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc's Walmart and Target Corp waited until after the country had digested holiday meals to offer their big discounts. Walmart started its specials at 8 p.m., the earliest start ever, while Target opened its stores at 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving for the first time.
A total of 30 percent of 3,815 respondents said they shopped on Thanksgiving, while 29 percent said that they shopped on Black Friday. Twenty percent of shoppers said they visited stores on Thanksgiving and 15 percent said they shopped online that day. People could choose more than one response.
To be sure, the difference in Thanksgiving and Black Friday shoppers is one percentage point. But the results are the latest data that hammer home not only how much more important Thanksgiving Day is becoming, but also how Black Friday shopping has receded a bit.
Black Friday is still a huge day for retailers but is losing significance as chains start promotions earlier in the week both in stores and online. ShopperTrak, which measures foot traffic at stores across the country, estimated that sales fell 1.8 percent on Black Friday itself yet rose 2.7 percent for the overall weekend, which included Thanksgiving day.
Shoppers continued to keep an eye on their finances, with 38 percent of Black Friday shoppers saying they spent less than they had budgeted, 47 percent staying right on budget, and 15 percent going over budget, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll. Nearly one-third said that they spent less on Black Friday than they had that day in 2011.
"Consumers are very cautious and careful about their spending habits," said Martis. "One thing the recession taught them is to always save for a rainy day and now we're seeing that also correlates with their shopping habits."
Forty-three percent of 1,300 respondents polled from Nov. 29 to Dec. 3 said they plan to spend less on jewelry than they did during the 2011 holiday season, while only 7 percent said they plan to spend more on jewelry. That highlights the pressure on chains such as Tiffany & Co Inc, Zale Corp and Signet Jewelers Ltd.
Meanwhile, 21 percent of those 1,300 respondents said they plan to spend more on food this holiday season, while roughly a third said they planned to spend less on clothing, toys and electronics this season versus last year.
Superstorm Sandy was also cutting into shoppers' budgets, with almost three of out of every 10 of the 423 people surveyed in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut saying that the storm cut into their holiday shopping budgets either a little or a great deal. Nationally, that figure was 9 percent.
More than 20 percent of the Black Friday shoppers said they spent less than $50 that day, while nearly 20 percent spent $100 to $199.
Department stores were the top destination on Black Friday, with 46 percent of the 1,100 who said that they shopped that day visiting those stores. Discount chains were next, with 39 percent of Black Friday shoppers, and electronics stores garnered visits from 30.2 percent of those who headed out on the busy day.
Thanksgiving fell on Nov. 22 this year. The findings regarding Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping are from an Ipsos poll conducted for Thomson Reuters from midnight on Nov. 22 through Dec. 3, 2012, with 3,815 American adults interviewed online. Results on spending within categories versus last year come from 1,300 respondents polled from Nov. 29 to Dec. 3.
Results are within the poll's credibility intervals, a tool used to account for statistical variation in Internet-based polling. The credibility interval was plus or minus 1.8 percentage points for questions answered by the full panel of 3,815, 3.4 percentage points for the questions answered by the 1,100 who said that they shopped on Black Friday, and 3.1 percent for the 1,300 asked about spending within categories.
The poll is the latest in a series that Ipsos will conduct during the holiday season. (Reporting by Jessica Wohl in Chicago; Editing by James Dalgleish)


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Once a while you may somehow want to recover permanently deleted email in the "Deleted Items" folder in your Microsoft outlook, this tip will come handy.
To Enable "Recover Deleted Items" Option:
(1) Open Register Editor
- You can run "regedit" command from the start "run" windows. The Registry Editor program will appear.
(2) In the registry editor, navigate to the following registry key:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\Client\Options
(3) Add the following registry value:
- Value name : DumpsterAlwaysOn
- Data type : DWORD (32-bit)
- Value data : 1
(4) Click OK and close your registry windows.
(5) Restart your MS Outlook.
- You will see the "Recover Deleted Items" option has been enabled under the Tools menu:
- After you click the "Recover Deleted Items", a dialogue box will appear for you to select the email that you would like to recover. Highlight the email and click "Recover Selected Items" button on the top.
P/S: This is only applicable if your Microsoft exchange server has enabled this feature. Usually your admin will only enable this feature for the "Deleted Items" folder and the retention time is up to the admin to set. If the retention time is set to 7 days, you can recover hard deleted items up tot the past 7 days.
You can also try this for other folders such as "Inbox" or "Send" folder. It may work as well. Good luck!
Note: If you're lazy to manually fix this through registry editor, there is a simple way to just run the program to automatically fix it for you. Refer to this article Q246153 from Microsoft.


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More Conversations with Your StampingApril 1, 2013
A stamping is tearing in the first die, and you're the assigned troubleshooter. To solve the problem, you first ask the folks in the toolroom if they have found a solution to a similar problem. You then brainstorm with others to create a list of possible solutions; take a stab at developing a correction procedure; and search for a solution by trial and error experimenting. Then you remember the team training received last year, which included developing a life-saving strategy for becoming stranded on a deserted island, lost in a deep jungle or some other similar experience. You have in your possession 10 items that can help save your life or increase your chance of rescue. Your assignment: to rate these items based on their level of importance. When completed, your list is graded against the "school solution." In the next phase you join a team to discuss and rank the same 10 life-saving items. Not surprisingly, the team gets a higher score than any of the individual members.
Hoping for the same success with the tearing problem, you quickly form a troubleshooting team that includes the area manager, product engineer and process engineers, material and lubricant suppliers and tryout toolmaker. Unfortunately you forgot to invite one more member to join the team, someone present when the tearing took place, knew the condition of the stamping at failure and can help define the origin of the failure. Who is this great source of high-quality data that can easily be verified and converted into information? The torn stamping.
Speaking the Language
|Fig. 1—Nomograph replaces equations relating thickness strain to major and minor surface strains. If two of the strains are known, the third can be determined graphically.
The first requirement for communicating with the stamping is having a common language—the most accepted is the circle grid. Other languages include thickness values from an ultrasonic thickness gage (UTG) or a laser thermometer gun. This permits you to ask different questions, which the stamping answers with usable data, such as: What was the magnitude and direction of the deformation at the failure site relative to its neighboring areas?
Next, the data must be converted to useful information. In this case, a forming-limit diagram (FLD) gets the call. While a standalone FLD will prove useful, we can glean even more information by constructing the FLD on a constancy-of-volume (COV) nomograph (Fig. 1). Forming reshapes the workpiece material, changing its length, width and thickness. To maintain a constant volume, two of these directions can change independently of the third. This third dimension (usually thickness) is required to balance the surface strains. For example, consider rolling out a sheet of baking dough. As length and width increase, thickness must decrease. While we can use an equation to calculate these changes, the COV nomograph proves faster and more visual when trying to understand the changes.
A circle etched into the surface of the sheetmetal deforms into an ellipse. The long axis of the ellipse represents the major strain plotted on the vertical (Y) axis of the graph in Fig. 1. The axis of the ellipse perpendicular to the major strain represents minor strain and is plotted on the horizontal (X) axis of the graph. The thickness strains are shown as the diagonal lines across the graph, with thinning and thickening values along the outside right and top edges. For example, at a deformation site with a 30-percent increase in major strain and a 10-percent increase in minor strain, the workpiece experiences a 30-percent thickness reduction.
Translating and Interpreting the Data
The FLD specifies the maximum amount of strain a given coil of material can withstand without failure for every combination of major and minor strains. Fig. 2 shows an FLD superimposed on the COV nomograph, for an FLC0 of 35 percent. For low-carbon steel this number is computed using sheet thickness and the work-hardening exponent (n-value) from a tensile test. Note the left side of the FLD contains lines of constant thinning.
|Fig. 2—Superimposing the FLD on the constancy-of-volume curve improves the translation of data from the stamping into useful troubleshooting information. The zone between the green and red zones is the marginal or yellow safety zone.
• Stamping 1: High major strains can be obtained when the minor strain is significantly negative. These negative minor strains indicate a strong compressive force in the minor direction, causing the material to expand (even extrude) in the major strain direction. While the accompanying major strain looks dangerously large, the resulting severity is in the green (safe) zone. A UTG can monitor stamping thickness at this point to look for increases in forming severity.
• Stamping 2: This stamping is in the red zone. Such severe conditions are best detected at initial die tryout when corrective actions prove most effective. A UTG can be used to track required reductions in major or minor strain values.
• Stamping 3: This common condition is in the red (failure) zone. The low values of major and minor strains do not give a visual sense of severe forming. When high major strains are detected on character lines, radii and other formations with zero minor strain, the reduction in severity is achieved only by reducing the major strain.
• Stamping 4: This strain combination approaches the top of the marginal zone, where process variations can easily push major strain into the red zone. While failures are not expected during die tryout, production speeds, increased die temperature, die wear and other process changes can easily cause production failures.
• Stamping 5: This stamping process is in the safe (green) zone and will form parts without tearing. However, the 38-percent thinning may interfere with in-service requirements such as corrosive and fatigue life. Many other specifications limit stampings to 20-percent thin-out. The UTG will verify data readings.Current practices may require the production of 20 to 200 or more tryout stampings before the potential of stamping failure becomes obvious. In contrast, the first stamping from a new die is ready to provide large quantities of data that can be turned into priceless information. The stamping is willing to talk; you need only ask. MF
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