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Hello I have been following all of your girl's stories since I scheduled my TT back in November. I will tell you a little about myself first. I am a mother of 3 amazing boys, ages 7,6,&3. I had my first son at the age of 21 and I gained nearly 100lbs. I know that is excessive and self induced but what can I say. Before I was pregnant I weighed 115 @ 5'3".
When I weighed in right before I had him I was at about 210lbs. I lost 60 and shortly after found out I was pregnant again and gained that 60lbs back. I then lost all my weight and was back down to 120lbs but I had some loose skin. Not that bad and not that insecure about it but still thought one day I would like a TT. When my second son was 2 1/2 I found out I was pregnant for the third time I only gained about 45lbs this time but he was 9lbs and 22inches the other two where about 8lbs 20/21inches. After the third my stomach just took a turn for the worse. Before I had my TT/lipo on flanks in Jan I was 5'3" and 130lbs but I couldn't wear anything that would cling to my belly I was very conscious of my stomach even in the bedroom. I would never take my shirt off around my husband or even take a shower around him. I never would let him touch my stomach even though he would tell me he didn't care I had his children. I did though. So I was just talking to him about this Dr I used to work with opened his own surgery center near where I live and I trust him. I never thought I would get the answer that I did he said schedule a consult. So I did. After my consult I was very pleased with what he had to say he is a very good dr and very caring love him I scheduled my appointment for january 18th to only get a phone call to reschedule for january 14th which was great.
After that I drove my husband crazy that is all I could think about. I would at one minute be excited the next be very nervous and scared. I went through the emotional roller coaster. Now I am here in february 3weeks post op and have had some set backs or hiccups as my PS called them he is so sweet. Ill start from the surgery date.
I went @ 7:30 am on January 14th was marked sedated woke up was great no real pain didnt feel sick was great only took pain meds for 3days and had 1 drain. I went in 1 week later was only draining 25cc per 24hr so he took out my drain on day 8. I was still wearing compression garment which I thought was to big but what did I know. Well he decided because I had some bruising that I was a higher risk for hematoma/seroma to see me back 1 week or so later. I kept having this drainage above the pubic area and wasnt healing right but thought didnt want to bother him so ill wait till my appt. I went in and of coarse me the biggest worrier was told that my fear was true I had a seroma. I said ok he drained it this was this last thursday jan 31st. Well the next day was draining and he told me to call if it did so I called. I went in Feb 1st he said there was another one on the other side but so small he isn't going to do anything we will just wait till monday at 8am when Im scheduled to come back. He said if anything changed to call him on his cell but he has a family and a life too. But last night in the afternoon im still draining a lot of fluid and now have a spot away from the original spot where it has opened a little and is draining more of a green puss but I haven't checked this morning but didn't know if it was an abscess suture. Im so nervous and of coarse I worry all the time. He said this will not affect my end result which I am pleased with the incision line and the way my stomach looks its just the draining and I cant go back to work for another week. I forgot to mention that I had foot surgery Dec 20th 2012 so I have been in this house since then except for Dr appt here and there and 1 wrestling meet for my boys, I just didn't know if anyone had any suggestions or have any of this happen to them and how long this so called hiccup will last. I'm not in pain I just want the center of my incision to heal like the rest all ready and this draining to stop. I think I will wait till monday because I am on antibiotics and I am first patient unless it gets worse or is worse when I go to get into shower this morning. I have read all your stories good and bad and all of you have helped me to actually go through with the tummy tuck thank you I just want all this to be over with my husband is going crazy too.


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Looking to become a leader in turbulent times? Geoff Holm has no doubt where you should develop the skills.
Holm says many folks have misconceptions about what goes on in West Point, N.Y.
"People have the wrong idea," the former Black Knights team manager from Fredericksburg, Va., says. "They think they're gonna be on the ground, on the front lines."
That's understandable, given the war on terror and the constant drumbeat of conflict in places such in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But actually, Holm says, "there's a wide range of jobs through the Army that translate directly into the civilian world," such as doctor, lawyer or financial officer. "You know that you're gonna be in charge of a lot of stuff and a lot of people. [Prospective bosses know you've] already had management experience."
That's part of the appeal that suddenly has made the USMA a surprising top destination for young tennis players. In January, a voting panel assembled by the Tennis Recruiting Network ranked the Black Knights of the Hudson as having the ninth-best men's recruiting class of 2010.
Army was amid a collection that included four teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference, three each from the Pacific-10, Southeastern Conference and Ivy League and two from the Big Ten.
That's heady territory for a team that has been well beyond easy marching distance from the ITA's top 25. But the Cadets have developed a strong tradition in the Patriot League, winning nine titles and appearing in the conference championship match 15 times in the 16 seasons that the PL tournament has been played in a dual format.
Full Listings: Boys' Commits & Girls' Commits

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More Transformers 4 News from CinemaCon 2013 and more to come it seems.
Michael Bay has announced that Stanley Tucci has joined the cast of Transformers 4 and he'll also be announcing another cast member name as well.
Mr. Tucci is an Emmy Award winning actor and you may know of him recently as the Scientist Abraham Erskine who "created" Captain America on the movie Captain America: The 1st Avenger.
While we warmly welcome a great actor like Stanley Tucci to our Transformers Family we are also eagerly awaiting the surprise announcement from Mr. Bay. It is said that the next cast announcement is another young cast member who will join Mark Wahlberg, Jack Reynor and Nicola Peltz.


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Okay, so here's my little rant for the day.
Me and a buddy don't play XBL often. So today, we go out and rent Madden 11 for the night for some friendly competition. Ok, cool. So we come back to my place, pop the disk in, and play some regular exhibition games against one another. One of my buddies was online playing Madden and wanted to play us online. We click to play online, and BAM. 2 day suspension?
Well, that's not really that big of a deal. It's only 2 days and we don't play that often anyways. However, Microsoft will give me no good reason as to why I'm suspended. I have no information in my XBL profile, I've never cheated/glitched/hacked/whatever you want to call it. I'm not savy enough with computers to know how to do that, nor do I care to in the first place.
I call XBL customer support, and no one can give me any good reason as to why I'm suspended. They tell me to check my email associated with my account to find out why. So I check it, no email. Call them back, they say they don't know why it never came.
The suspension is no big deal. However, I do pay for this service. I abide by the rules, and when I want to use a service I pay for, I expect to be able to actually use it. Of course the one day I actually want to use it, I can't. And no one can give me any reason for it.
Sorry for the rant, but it really pisses me off that I pay for something that I can't use and not one single customer support person can give me any reason for it, yet alone a legit reason. Heck, I'd at least be more satisfied if I got banned for a false reason. At least they'd have a reason.
Anyone else ever had a bad experience with Microsoft? Or any other company for that matter.


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'Santa' spotted on vacation
A Thanksgiving week cruise turned into memorable events for the Meehan clan. While the group included eight adults and seven children, it was the patriarch of the family, Tom Meehan, who made heads turn and questions asked.
Neighbors: Our hometown heroes
If you read my last column, you may have noted my reference to Stetson and Studs ... with no follow-up on either of those incredibly important citizens (Stetson Kennedy and the late Studs Terkel). A teaser of major proportions, eh?
Wild Weekend: Art Walk, softball, dance highlight weekend activities
Ring in the new year with Beach Blast Off
Celebrate New Year's Eve in seaside style with Beach Blast Off 2009.
Neighbors: 'First Friday' open to all adults
What's up, Record readers?
Florida 4-H to celebrate 100 years
In 2009, Florida 4-H Youth Development will celebrate 100 years of teaching youth to become community leaders with their head, heart, hands and health at the Florida State Fair.
Library 'Food for Fines' a success
The St. Johns County Public Library System has deemed its recent "Food for Fines" program a success, with nearly 8,000 canned goods collected to help feed those in need.
Parents night out in Palm Coast
The City of Palm Coast's Recreation and Parks Department invites parents to take an evening off and let the City entertain their children on Movie Night.
Activity Center for youth is open
Fun-filled times are available for elementary, middle and high school youths, as the City of Palm Coast has opened the Activity Center for elementary, middle and high school youth at James Holland Park, 18 Florida Park Drive.
Karma group to usher in new year with prayer
The St. Augustine Karma Kagyu Study Group will sponsor the 10th annual non-denominational offering of lamps and aspiration prayers for world peace when Discovery Yoga hosts prayers beginning at 7 a.m. Thursday at 3 Davis St. Doors will open at 6:45 a.m.
Jim Sutton's St. Johns County fishing report
St. Johns River and lakes -- The news this week is that bass are beginning to bed in the warmer water of the springs on the east side of Big Lake George.
Szechuan dinner made easy
Just about any large-leaf lettuce can be used to create cups or folded packets for this spicy Szechuan-style ground beef. The filling also is good on tortillas or pita pockets with shredded lettuce.
Couscous makes healthy, do-ahead meal
Couscous is a fast food, but not the kind that gets nutritionists up in arms.
Finger food gets healthy makeover
Even the name of this holiday entertaining favorite sounds unhealthy -- pigs in a blanket.
Beer braised brats make a fine wrap
If you can boil water you can get this simple, yet flavorful, wrap on the table in under 30 minutes.
Recipe Finder: Ribbon cookie a great idea for any holiday gathering
Barbara Caine of Forest Hill, Md., was looking for a recipe for a ribbon cookie.
Turn leftover holiday stuffing mix into moist muffins
If you have holiday leftovers, you've got some tasty meals ahead.
Enter the penny pincher recipe contest
Many cherished breakfast casserole recipes and fond cooking memories are disappearing from the table of family and friends in America today.
Basic canning class to meet
Learn basic canning from extension expert Tamer Briton.
Not your grandma's slowcooking
If you've been slow to warm up to slow cookers, it probably wasn't the incredible convenience that turned you off.
Volunteer training available
Haven Hospice is seeking volunteers to help in patient care, grief support, spiritual care, baking, quilting, handyman, fund-raising events support, office/administration and speaker's bureau.
City seeks residents to take great weight loss challenge
The City of Palm Coast's Recreation and Parks Department will launch its Great Weight Loss Challenge Jan. 12 and extend activities for three months.
26 grads participate in pinning ceremony
St. Johns River Community College recently held a pinning ceremony to recognize the Associate in Science in Nursing students.
Mother's milk is best nutrition
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: In two months, I will be a first-time mother. I want to breastfeed my baby, but I really am at sea about understanding what I need to do. When does breastfeeding begin? How can I know if the baby gets enough to eat? Do I breastfeed during the night? All information will be welcomed. -- L.T.
Study: Teen Rx drug abuse rising
Abuse of prescription drugs continues to be a major problem among teenagers, although fewer are smoking cigarettes, the 2008 Monitoring the Future survey reported last week.
Treatment lowers temp, saves from cardiac arrest
FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Nearly 200,000 out-of-hospital incidents of sudden cardiac arrest occur among U.S. residents each year. For every minute care is delayed, survival is decreased.
Critics urge Congress to rescind Jan. 1 pay raise
WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress have at least one reason to ring in the new year: They've given themselves a $4,700-a-year pay raise starting Thursday.
Senate Democrats seek to bar Burris
WASHINGTON -- As Senate leadership developed an elaborate set of contingency plans Wednesday to keep Roland Burris from taking over Barack Obama's seat, the disputed appointee promised not to "create a scene" when the Senate convenes next week.
National Report
WASHINGTON -- The doomed crew of the space shuttle Columbia could have lived moments longer if safety measures had been taken, but ultimately the seven astronauts would not have survived the 2003 accident, a new NASA report concludes.
Blagojevich fills Obama's seat
CHICAGO -- Brushing aside charges that he tried to sell Illinois' vacant U.S. Senate seat, Gov. Rod Blagojevich appointed former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to the post Tuesday in defiance of Senate leaders who said they would not admit anyone he selected.
Sect leader gets 10 years behind bars
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- An apocalyptic religious sect leader has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexual misconduct with teenage female followers.
Discarded lottery ticket resurfaces to win
BERLIN, Vt. (AP) -- A Vermont man is $650,000 richer after retrieving a lottery ticket he had been given for Christmas but accidentally threw away.
National Report
PHILADELPHIA -- Police investigating the death of a morbidly obese woman found her disabled mother living in their squalid mobile home with more than 60 caged birds, a few of them dead.
Ring in 2009
ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH -- Like exploding kids' cereal, blue, red, green and purple fireworks popped over the beach in the final hours of 2008 on Wednesday, ringing in the new year with a bang, while the show's bangs left one woman's ears ringing.
Computer gear stolen from Huskers' hotel
As the University of Nebraska football team was gearing up for the Gator Bowl, more than $14,000 in the school's computer equipment was stolen from its Ponte Vedra Beach hotel, police said.
Palm Coast man faces porn charges
A Palm Coast man who runs a risque photography studio out of his home is facing 37 child pornography charges after police allegedly discovered 37 images of children engaged in various sexual acts -- alone or with him and his wife -- that they believe he photographed himself.
No dumb, no drama
Thumbing through stacks of arrest reports isn't the highlight of working the crime beat. Ink stains and paper cuts are an occupational hazard for Times-Union reporters tasked with monitoring criminal happenings in Jacksonville and thereabouts.
6-year-old saves great-great-aunt
As her great-great-niece 70 years her junior climbed into the chair she was sleeping in, Annie Simmons woke up.
Winning lotto ticket sold in St. Augustine
Someone who bought a ticket for the Florida Lottery's $1 million raffle game at a St. Augustine gas station will indeed have a happy new year today.
The year's final installment of Where Are They Now?
Annual Quiz
Man's leg caught in boat's pulley
A man working on a shrimp boat five miles off the St. Johns County coast had to be rescued Tuesday morning after his leg got caught in the pulley used to raise and lower the boat's nets.
Two face charges after armed robberies
Two young men were arrested early Wednesday a short time after allegedly committing two armed robberies in West Augustine, one that netted $31 and one that netted nothing.
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Beryl Rice
Beryl L. Rice, 85, passed away on Dec. 30, 2008, at Baptist South Hospital.
Wayne B. Lockwood
Wayne Babcock Lockwood, M.D., 79, died at home on Dec. 14, 2008, following a brief illness.
Betsy A. Coxe
Betsy Ann Coxe died peacefully in her home surrounded by family on Dec. 22, 2008.
Hector A. Corchado
Hector A. Corchado, 46, of Palatka, died Friday, Dec. 26, 2008, at Haven Hospice Roberts Care Center following an extended illness.
Ralph J. Schwartz
Ralph Jacob Schwartz, 84, of St. Augustine, Fla., died Dec. 22, 2008, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Jean Parker
Jean Parker, 79, passed away at St. Vincent's Medical Center in Jacksonville on Thursday, Dec. 25, 2008.
James C. Adams
James C. "Mr. Jimmie" Adams, 83, St. Augustine, died Dec. 29, 2008, at the Riverwood Nursing Center in Jacksonville.
LaVerne M. C. Sygenda
LaVerne M. Cudnowski Sygenda, of St. Augustine, Fla., died on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008, at St. Mary Medical Center. She was 75.
Joe J. James Jr.
Joe Jimmie James Jr., 65, retired Georgia-Pacific employee, Palatka, entered the sunset of life on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008.
Judy B. Valentino
Judy B. Valentino, 62, of St. Augustine, Fla., died on Dec. 24, 2008, at Shands Hospital in Jacksonville after sustaining injuries in an automobile accident.
Patricia A. Logan
Patricia A. "MaMee" Logan, 55, entered into eternal rest on Dec. 28, 2008, at Flagler Hospital.
Charlie Erke
Charlie Erke, 40, of St. Augustine, died on Dec. 20 at Flagler Hospital. Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. today at the Church of Christ on Lewis Speedway.
Charles L. Tipton
Charles Lee Tipton, 27, St. Augustine, died Dec. 29, 2008, at Flagler Hospital.
John T. Marr
John T. Marr, 89, of Orange Park, passed away Dec. 29, 2008.
Thomas K. Klipstein
Thomas Kelly Klipstein, 81, of East Palatka, died Friday, Dec. 26, 2008, at Palatka Health Care Center following an extended illness.
Letter: Union autoworkers helped build America
Editor: In response to the guest column, "Autoworkers make too much for what they do," I say the author is suggesting that none of the UAW members have ever been members of our armed forces.
Editorial: Community rallied for Empty Stocking Fund
Despite our nation being in an economic downturn, St. Johns County rallied for the Empty Stocking Fund, The St. Augustine Record's holiday charity.
Letter: Suitcases sought by Baracoa group
Editor: Many folks helped The Friendship Association fill a 40-foot container to aid the victims of the recent hurricanes in Cuba. Container #20 arrived in the port of Moa with urgently needed mattresses, linens, clothing and food supplements and was delivered to Baracoa just before Christmas. Members of the Friendship Association were on hand for the unloading celebration. A delegation will return in two weeks to access the needs for further humanitarian aid.
Perspective: It's never too late to help save the planet
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- On a blustery blue Saturday, I stood inside a huge bin filled with piles and piles of newspapers.
Perspective: Reflections -- Seeing the good amid the bad
2008 was a tough year. Every day, it seems, brought more disheartening reports about economic meltdowns, climate change, global food shortages, terrorist attacks and other tragedies.
Letter: Questions praise for Bush decisions
Editor: I would like to answer Saturday's letter to the editor, "Cheney, Rove advised the president."
Letter: Christmas is rooted in pagan holidays
Editor: While Ann Coulter still valiantly attempts to preserve her ever-more irrelevant white, christianist, xenophobic, non-inclusive strident vision of America by declaring Kwanzaa a made "phony non-Christian holiday," let us remember that Christmas is a made-up, phony holiday, invented by medieval Catholic popes to dissuade their "pagan" communities from celebrating their various winter solstice festivals, celebrations that had existed for centuries.
Letter: Roundtable meetings open to all
Editor: This is an open invitation to anyone who wants to attend the St. Johns County Civic Roundtable meeting the second Monday of every month. The meeting is at the main Library, 1960 Ponce De Leon Blvd., 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Letter: Says union holds taxpayers hostage
Editor: As a country we are being held hostage by a labor union, The United Auto Workers.
Editorial: Mandatory safety belts make sense
Two bills on enforcing safety belt use for people age 18 and older have started their march through the 2009 Legislature that convenes March 3 in Tallahassee.
Police Report
HASTINGS -- Predator alert: A 48-year-old man listed as a sexual predator was released from prison on Monday and is now living in Hastings.
Police Report
The following was compiled from police reports collected from the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office (SJCSO), St. Augustine Police Department (SAPD) and St. Augustine Beach Police Department (SABPD).
Big-play Barker
Being the No. 1 wide receiver at Nease has become a pretty prestigious position over the last few years.
College bowls: Beavers need just 3 to beat Pitt
EL PASO, Texas -- In the lowest-scoring major bowl game in a half-century, No. 24 Oregon State shut down No. 18 Pittsburgh 3-0 in the Sun Bowl on Justin Kahut's 44-yard field goal late in the first half Wednesday.
National: Gators Harvin ahead of schedule
GAINESVILLE -- Florida's Percy Harvin ran routes and caught passes Tuesday, his most work since spraining his right ankle last month against Florida State.
The Rant
It's gotten to the point in big-time sports (not just professional) that no firing of a coach is really very surprising.
National: Daly suspended 6 months by PGA Tour
John Daly smashed one tee shot off the top of a beer can during a pro-am. At another tournament, he returned from a rain delay with Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden as his caddie. And his most memorable photo this year came in an orange jail suit, eyes half-closed.
Atlanta's Ryan wins Offensive Rookie award
NEW YORK -- Matt Ryan found a quick way to make Falcons fans forget Michael Vick, Bobby Petrino and all the ugliness of Atlanta football.
Florida handles Stetson, 78-57
GAINESVILLE -- Nick Calathes and Alex Tyus helped Florida camouflage its most glaring weakness against Stetson. The Gators will need to find ways to do the same thing in the Southeastern Conference.
CFB: Maryland beats Nevada in bowl game
BOISE, Idaho -- Ralph Friedgen's initial reaction was to put Da'Rel Scott and the six other Maryland players who broke curfew leading up to the Humanitarian Bowl on a bus with a one-way ticket back to College Park, Md.
Miami QB Marve to transfer
CORAL GABLES -- Quarterback Robert Marve is leaving Miami, ending weeks of speculation about his future and adding to the tumultuous start of the Hurricanes' offseason.
NBA: Iverson, Prince lead Pistons to fifth-straight victory
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Allen Iverson scored 19 points, and Tayshaun Prince added 16 to help the undermanned Detroit Pistons win their fifth straight game, 83-75 over the New Jersey Nets on Wednesday.
Golf keeps relationship with father on course
On the first four holes, I lost eight balls. My father grimaced.
Local Watch
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|Remarks by Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Before the Downtown Economists Club, New York, New York
February 17, 2000
The New Economy: Unanswered Questions for 2000
Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to join this illustrious group of economists in this historic setting. The end of one year and start of another is a natural time to focus on accomplishments and also to list the things to do or to understand better. In this spirit, I would like to review last year's economic performance and then raise some topics related to the underpinnings of macroeconomics and monetary policy.
Of course, the views that I am about to express are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of other members of the FOMC or the Board of Governors.
Economic Performance in 1999
Long-term interest rates trended downward in early 1999 but more than retraced those declines by the end of the year. Equity prices rose over much of 1999, raising the value of household assets and improving the general sense of financial well-being of our citizens as well as lowering the cost of capital faced by businesses.
Recovery in Asia, with perhaps the apparent exception of Japan, and a pick-up in growth in Europe accompanied this good news in the United States. During the first half of 1998, net exports subtracted almost 1ľ percentage points from GDP growth. With conditions improving overseas, the external sector subtracted less than ľ percentage point from growth in the second half of 1999.
Throughout 1999, the Federal Open Market Committee took action to maintain balance in the economy. The sense of the FOMC was that the tightening of labor markets that accompanied a growth of demand exceeding even the stepped-up pace of supply growth would likely create upward pressures on labor costs and eventually on the rate of price inflation. Accordingly, we moved preemptively, raising rates 75 basis points in three increments. This tightening reversed the easings that had been put in place during the second half of 1998 in response to the market turmoil, including in the U.S. markets, triggered by the unexpected events in Russia. As you well know, rates were raised another 25 basis points at our meeting earlier this month.
At the February meeting, the FOMC also abandoned the approach of discussing "biases" regarding interest rate movements, which seemed to engender overly strong reactions or a misreading of our intentions from markets. Instead, the FOMC adopted the approach of discussing our views on economic developments and potential risks to good economic performance. Using this new approach, the FOMC earlier this month indicated a concern that risks were weighted mainly toward conditions that might lead to increased inflation.
Sources of Performance
The final major force is the reduction of both actual and expected inflation. Relatively stable prices have allowed businesses and households to plan their economic affairs with an expectation that the value of investments will not be eroded through a pernicious and uncertain increase in the general price level. Indeed, relative price level stability has reinforced the impetus provided by deregulation for businesses to manage their affairs with a priority on efficiency.
Observations and Open Issues: Resource Utilization
The first issue I wish to raise involves the supply side of the economy and grows out of the recent, unusual conjuncture of rapid growth and high resource utilization with low and stable inflation. What is the proper measurement of resource tightness? The two most prominent measures of resource tightness, capacity utilization in manufacturing and the rate of unemployment, have historically moved fairly closely together over the cycle. However, they have diverged in the past several years, in part as the surge in investment has provided considerable capacity to the manufacturing sector while labor markets have become tighter and tighter. We need a better understanding of the implications of this divergence and, in particular, a clearer sense of which measure, or combination of measures, of resource utilization best foreshadows the emergence of price pressures.
A second, and related, issue is whether the nature of "capacity" has changed. In the 1940s and 1950s, large-scale units of fixed machinery--such as blast furnaces and assembly lines--more normally characterized manufacturing capacity. Many observers have argued that, because this capacity required long lead times to manufacture, test, and install, available capacity was easier to measure and slower to change. In such circumstances, high levels of capacity utilization were good predictors of resource tightness, which was likely to translate into pricing pressure. Now, we hear, capacity in manufacturing is more technology intensive and can be adjusted more easily to reflect supply and demand conditions. If true, this relatively "elastic" supply of manufacturing capacity would imply that capacity utilization may not become "tight" by historical standards and our measure of capacity utilization would therefore be a less-certain early warning signal of potential pricing pressure. I have seen no proof of the assertion that the nature of manufacturing capacity has changed, although the experience of the last several years suggests that it has.
A third related issue has to do with the average workweek and labor force participation. During this episode of strong growth, the average workweek has not increased significantly. In 1994, the average workweek was about 34 ˝ hours, and today it is about 34 ˝ hours. This steadiness is in part due to mix shifts, as the economy moves away from manufacturing sector jobs, in which the forty-hour workweek is the norm, to service sector jobs, in which shorter workweeks are more common. Moreover, the labor force participation rate, while fluctuating, has remained around 67 percent during this period. Given the various other elements of evidence regarding labor market tightness, including survey data on job market conditions and the measured unemployment rate, I find it puzzling that both the workweek and the labor force participation rate have not increased more strongly. One theory, of course, is that household wealth, to which I turn next, might limit the felt need by some potential workers, presumably young people dependent on parents and perhaps older citizens, to participate in the labor market.
Observations and Open Issues: Equity Markets
However, equity markets do have important spillover effects on the real economy. As you know, economists often speak of the "wealth effect," and econometric modeling indicates that consumers ultimately tend to spend about three to four cents for every dollar increment to wealth. In addition, consumer sentiment is tied to feelings of financial well-being. Through both of these channels, the so-called wealth effect and the more general influence on consumer sentiment, equity valuations can and do affect consumption and macroeconomic performance. Equity markets are also a significant source of investment capital, and valuations in the stock market are one determinant of the cost of capital for businesses. Therefore, equity prices affect business fixed investment, a major driver of our economy. Given the economic importance of equity prices, it is reasonable for policymakers to monitor developments in this market even if we do not "target" specific values. We have seen in other economies that the bursting of bubbles in financial markets can create unsettled conditions that affect real economic activity. Therefore, the maintenance of sound equity market conditions is of concern to policymakers, though how that can be accomplished is often far from clear.
My questions about equity markets center on the issue of valuation and the wealth effect. Economists propose numerous approaches to determining the "correct" level of equity prices. One such approach compares equity market valuations (namely earnings-price ratios) to the return on fixed-income securities, generally the ten-year U.S. Treasury bond. But many observers have suggested that this measure of the "correct" stock market valuation may no longer be accurate. Some suggest that the nature of equity markets has changed with the introduction of new instruments that allow for the better management or sharing of risks. Therefore, these observers assert that lower premiums over risk-free returns are appropriate and that old relationships between earnings-price ratios and the return on Treasury instruments no longer hold. Others argue that, in this world of knowledge-intensive industries, accounting treatments do not accurately measure true economic earnings, and therefore measures of "correct" stock valuations do not capture economic reality that market participants see. These assertions are interesting, but they need further investigation.
In addition, with respect to proper valuations, we know that many businesses are using options as a form of compensation to employees and that the value of these options is not being recorded as compensation at the time they are granted. We roughly estimate that accounting for the value of options granted would have reduced reported income for S&P 1500 firms nearly 10 percent in 1998. The same adjustment would have reduced the growth rate of reported income for S&P 1500 firms almost 2˝ percentage points per year, on average, during the 1996-98 period. When looked at with these refinements, the current earnings-price ratios appear even more out of alignment with historical experience.
When one considers the performance of the stock market during the recent past, it is clear that the gains are not evenly distributed, even among stock market investors. Some of the greatest beneficiaries of the unprecedented generation of stock market wealth have been those with the skills and the work style to work in high-tech companies, who are rewarded with stock, and those with the courage to invest in high-tech sectors. This observation leads to several questions. First, how skewed is the distribution of gains from the stock market? If gains are indeed skewed, what then is the actual dynamic of the wealth effect? When does an unequal participation in equities become sufficiently broad-based to influence the path of our economy? I think of these questions as providing the microeconomic underpinnings to our macroeconomic performance.
Finally, we have seen a run-up in margin debt, particularly during the last two months of 1999 and the first month of 2000. I believe that the Federal Reserve should not foster the impression that we are targeting the equity market by adjusting our one tool in the margin area, namely initial margin requirements. However, given our obvious interest in macro-stability, it is useful to understand more fully what has motivated this recent run-up in margin. Some argue that it reflects a desire on the part of investors to capture some capital gains, while others are quick to point out that, as a percentage of market valuation, margin has not increased dramatically. According to another theory, margin borrowing is the realm of the small investor whereas large investors finance equity purchases through other means. In any event, prudent margin procedures are an important part of sound business practice. I expect that those extending margin credit, especially the major clearing firms, as well as investors, and the public at large, would continue to recognize that conservative margin practices are in their own interest.
Observations and Open Issues: International Markets
One important contribution to the ongoing deterioration of our current account balance is the tendency for U. S. residents, for reasons not fully understood by economists, to have a higher propensity to import out of every dollar of income than do residents in the countries that are our major trading partners. This, of course, means that even sustaining trend growth both in the United States and in our trading partners will not necessarily close the trade gap. To do so would require a period of sustained stronger-than-trend growth overseas.
Many professional economists and market observers now question the sustainability of our current account deficit. I suggest that the combination of a large current account deficit and a strong U.S. dollar is, in part, a reflection of the relative attractiveness of the U.S. economy as a destination for foreign capital. We are attracting savings from abroad because we currently have a higher rate of return on investment than many other countries do. This state of affairs, of course, is a reflection of the factors that have given rise to this long period of domestic prosperity. How much longer prosperity can continue is obviously the key question. The answer depends on the ability of businesses and workers in the United States to continue to generate growing productivity increases. Because few of us forecast the current period of investment-driven productivity increases, it is difficult to predict when it will end. We know only that, at some point, productivity will stop accelerating. But the potential for change is not the exclusive domain of the United States. The ability of other countries to adjust their systems of production to take advantage of new technologies will be an important determinant of when other markets will offer returns that are comparable to those available in the United States. I imagine that, seeing the gains that we have experienced from our capital deepening, investors would look for the earliest signs of a similar phenomenon in other countries. The one lesson we can offer is that the configuration of competitive and flexible markets, management focused on shareholder value, and supportive macroeconomic conditions is not achieved without costs in terms of some societal dislocations and that configuration requires good fortune, sacrifice, and discipline.
Thank you for your attention.


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I recently had a chance to talk with Dr. Oz about the mysterious power of spontaneous healing. How does a mother of three with late stage lymphoma, sent home to die with no treatment, find herself in complete remission two years later? Most doctors relegate these stories to the corner and categorize them as rare, unknown obscurities. Dr. Jeff Rediger and I are fascinated by them and want to know more.
What's Going On Here?
Jeff Rediger is a psychiatrist and medical director at McLean Hospital in Boston, where he also serves as instructor at Harvard Medical School and is founder of the Center for Psychological & Spiritual Development in Cambridge.
His passion lies in studying cases of spontaneous healing, while documenting them with medical and factual evidence. In one of our conversations, Dr. Rediger relays an amazing story of an individual with multiple myeloma, who went into an MRI machine with a significantly large tumor of the spine. He had a profound, unexplainable healing experience during the procedure, and came out of it with no tumor – only healed bone in its place.
Are You Kidding Me? How Does This Happen?
I know that the body has a healing system – that it can repair and regenerate itself. I also know that the body wants to be healthy – that it wants to come back to a state of balance, where all systems operate efficiently.
Unfortunately, our conscious mind has little to do with this process; in fact it is more likely to get in the way of things – especially with how fast our mental chatter is running these days. The random thoughts and feelings that invade our conscious mind usually run counter to our healing system, rather than nurturing or strengthening it. In order to heal ourselves, we need to get out of our heads and focus on the language of our hearts.
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Eleven-year-old twins Oliver and Celia Navel live on floor 4-1/2 of the Explorers Club with their father, Dr. Navel. Their mother, Dr. Navel, has been missing for years. So when an explorer shows up with a clue as to where his wife could be, Dr. Navel drags Oliver and Celia to Tibet to find her.
Once there, the twins fall out of airplanes, encounter Yetis, travel through waterfalls, and end up in the Demon Fortress of the Warrior King where they - just possibly - might find their mother and save their father from the Poison Witches.
Thing is, they would much rather be watching television. And if their trip doesn't work out as planned, the twins could end up as slaves to Sir Edmund Thitheltorpe III, an evil explorer with breath that smells like boiled carrots and who has it in for the whole Navel family.
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Dropping the "H" Bomb
About a year ago, I wrote a post called "Dropping the 'H' Bomb". The purpose of that post was to show that we throw around the words "heresy" and "heretic" without considering their scriptural foundations. Often, when we call another brother or sister a "heretic", we are the ones who are practicing "heresy" according to Scripture. Why? Read this post and find out.
Dropping the "H" Bomb
I recently read a story about one follower of Christ calling another follower of Christ a heretic because they disagreed over certain aspects of teaching. I'm sure that many of us have heard similar stories, and perhaps some of us have even been called "heretics".
The "H" bomb is dropped to separate the speaker from the "heretic" or "heresy". It is used as stronger language than "disagree" or "different". It is used to question the person's devotion to and possibly position with God. To the person dropping the "H" bomb, the "heretic" may be sincere, but certainly sincerely wrong when compared with the bombardier.
Looking through various definitions of the word "heretic", you'll find that a "heretic" (in English) is a person who holds a position that is different from standard or accepted church beliefs. Thus, in English, "heresy" can only be defined from the perspective of a certain set of beliefs. So, someone can be a "heretic" from the point of view of the Roman Catholic Church, but that same person may not be a "heretic" from the point of view of the Anglican Church.
Similarly, looking through various definitions of the word "heresy", you'll find that a "heresy" (again, in English) is any teaching, belief, or opinion that is different from standard or accepted church beliefs. Once again, "heresy" is a valid term on from the perspective of a certain set of beliefs.
From these modern definitions, every Baptist is a heretic to every Presbyterian. Every Anglican teaches heresy from the perspective of every Charismatic. From the point of view of Methodists, everyone in the Vineyard church is a heretic. These terms have lost any meaning, but they continue to be used with force and vehemence.
Perhaps, instead of looking at the modern definitions of "heresy" and "heretic" it would be helpful to consider the source of these words, and to consider how Scripture uses these words. Also, instead of comparing someone's opinions and beliefs to the standard beliefs of a given church, perhaps it would be better to compare that person's opinions and beliefs to Scripture.
Of course, even before we think about the source of the words "heresy" and "heretic", we are immediately faced with the reality that different people interpret Scripture in different ways. Does this mean that our terms "heretic" and "heresy" are completely useless? No. It means that we must humbly admit that brothers and sisters in Christ disagree concerning the meaning of Scripture. We must also humbly admit that disagreement, in and of itself, does not constitute heresy. I may disagree with someone, and neither one of us may be heretics. However, according to the modern definitions of the words "heresy" and "heretic", if two people disagree, one of them must be a heretic.
The terms "heresy" and "heretic" are scriptural words. The noun form αἱÏεσις (hairesis) is used five times in the New Testament, and is usually translated "sect", "division", "opinion", or "schism". The Pharisees and Sadducees are called "sects" ("heresies") of Judaism (Acts 5:17; 15:5; 26:5). Christians are called a "sect" ("heresy") of Judaism (Acts 24:5; 24:14; 28:22). Finally, there are said to be "divisions" or "dissensions" ("heresies") among groups of Christians (1 Cor 11:19; Gal 5:20; 2 Pet 2:1). It is this last category that should interest us.
Scripture warns us about "heresies" among believers. But, in context, what are these passages telling us? In 1 Corinthians 11:19, Paul mentions "factions". These are probably similar to the divisions mentioned in 1 Corinthians 1-4. The danger is not found in disagreements between believers, but in separation. The groups were separating from one another and treating one another differently based on their affiliations.
In Galatians 5:20, "heresies" or "divisions" or "factions" are mentioned again along with "disputes", "dissensions", and "envy". All of these are listed as "works of the flesh" (Gal 5:19-21), practiced by those who "will not inherit the kingdom of God". This is contrasted against the "fruit of the Spirit" (Gal 5:22-23) which will be evident in the lives of God's children. Since the fruit of the Spirit includes characteristics such as patience, gentleness, and self-control, we can assume that these are demonstrated in the context of disagreements, not in the absence of them. Again, this says nothing about disagreement being "heresy".
In 2 Peter 2:1, Peter warns that false prophets and false teachers will bring "destructive heresies" with them. These false prophets and false teachers will not be known for disagreeing with other believers, but instead they will be known for "denying the Lord" (2 Pet 2:1), "sensuality" (2 Pet 2:2), "covetousness" (2 Pet 2:3). Thus, these false prophets and false teachers are not ones who simply disagree with other Christians, but those who deny that Christ is Lord, and live a life that demonstrates that they are not children of God.
Perhaps, from this connection of "heresy" with false prophets and false teachers in 2 Peter 2:1, we should also recognize why these people are called "false prophets" and "false teachers". Perhaps one of the most important passages to help us understand what it means to be a "false teacher" is 1 Timothy 1:3-11. Here, those who teach "other doctrines" are those who teach contrary to the gospel (1 Tim 1:11). In many other passages, the authors of Scripture encourage their readers to teach and live in accordance to the gospel of Jesus Christ – that is, the good news that God has provided a way for all people to accepted as his children.
So, according to Scripture, who are the true "heretics"? Heretics are those who deny the gospel of Jesus Christ. Heretics are also those who live in a manner contrary to the gospel – that is, according to the flesh, not according to the Spirit. Similarly, heretics are those who cause and encourage divisions and dissensions among the followers of Jesus Christ.
When Person A calls Person B a "heretic" for a teaching that Person A disagrees with, but which is not contrary to the gospel, and when Person A refuses to fellowship with Person B because of that teaching, then, according to Scripture, Person A is actually the "heretic". Person A is the one causing division among the followers of Christ and is thus promoting true heresy.
So, let's be careful, thoughtful, and prayerful before we drop the "H" Bomb. It could be that we are the true "heretics", not necessarily because our opinion is "wrong", but because our words and actions are divisive – and this is the type of heresy that Scripture warns us about.
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I was calling anyone a "heritic" just in case you were referring to what I wrote. I do agree that the word as it is used in scripture a bit differently. But the modern use of the word would be to say "person a teaches that Jesus was a woman" that would be "heresy" or as webster defines it a diviation from orthodox Christian teaching.
Would that be a correct statement?
I do apologize if that statement (theological heresy) offended anyone Alan. I wasn't saying it in a tearing down manner. I was more talking about the false dichotomoy that I don't find in scripture. But I will ensure going forward that I abstain from such usage. Thanks for clearing that up (yeah I felt a little guilty LOL).
I wrote this post about a year ago, and I scheduled it for publication last week. So, this post has nothing to do with your comment. I do not think your comment is "heretical".
From one "heretic" to another!
Timely, and helpful article! Thankyou!
Your words, which I will send to them, will help confirm what I've shared with several of our brethren who have come under fire from one small group in Australia which claims a certain "orthodox" Reformed heritage, uses the word "heretic" very loosely, along with apostate, deceived, etc.,and will not be convinced otherwise.
Aussie John,
I hope this encourages them. Tell them they are loved.


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Anthony Esolen on Sending Our Children into Eternity (A Graduation Address)
Parents, was it so long ago that you could rock your child here to sleep in the crook of your arm? Can you remember when they had small voices, and could run about all day with a smudge on the nose and never notice?
In my office at school there's a framed picture of which I am most fond. In my entirely impartial judgment, it is the loveliest baby picture that has ever been taken. It's of Jessica at a few months, quite bald; but no doubt if she could have spoken then, she might have justly said, with the Bride in the Song of Songs, "I am bald, but I am beautiful!" She has a look in that picture—I am sure you have seen that look from your own children—a look as if she had recently arrived here from another world, and was not entirely sure of the goings on in this one.
I don't have that picture here to show you, but I can show you this: It's a sneaker belonging to my son, Davey. His feet are bigger now, but I keep this shoe on the dashboard of my truck, as I keep that picture in my office, to remind me of the helpless and incomparably precious beings that they were, and as any parent would say, that they always will be.
The Parents' Time
It is a sweet and sometimes sad thing to live as we do, with the bodies we have, subject to change and time. We parents sometimes want to hurry that time along, to get past whatever difficult year we are in. And when our heads clear, we may want to stop time dead in its tracks, because it seems as if we had dozed in the afternoon and awoke, to find that our son was a man, and our daughter a woman.
But God lends time to us; he does not give it outright. We pray for the good sense to use it well, to love the time we are given, and to help our families love it too. You parents have not yielded to others the responsibility to redeem the time: your homes were no flophouses where strangers spent the night, no factories where the workers punched a clock and toiled year after year to produce what?—a scholarship, prestige, status, vanity.
Your homes were homes; and there, as untold generations of mothers and fathers had done before you, you did more than impart to your children the alphabet or the rules of arithmetic; you brought them up in wisdom and understanding. You brought them up in the Lord, and now, as the time nears when they will leave your home, you are rewarded by seeing a little, but only a little, of the fruit that your labor will have borne.
It is sometimes said that children have no sense of time. I have never believed it, and I certainly do not believe it about the young men and the young women seated before us now. For if we do our work right, my fellow parents, our children will notice. They will see that in our care for them we all but repeat the wistful yet generous words of John the Baptist. When John's disciples reported to him the preaching of Jesus and the miracles he had performed, John said, simply, "He must increase, and I must decrease."
There is a part of all good mothers and fathers that would like to keep their children small; but another part, a better part, that knows that our children are given to us as children only for a time; and that part says, "They must increase, and I must decrease." Nor are the children themselves unaware of it.
I remember that when I was about the age of these fine young people here, I used to like challenging my father to ping-pong matches. We had some roaring duels.
But I was young, and I got better, and he was older, and he did not. And then there came a day when I knew that he would never beat me again. I saw in his smiling eyes that he knew it too.
No doubt some of you here have had a similar experience. I did not rejoice on that day. My father might have, because he knew better. "He must increase, and I must decrease."
An Unending Story
And yet, for all that we feel the joy and the wistfulness of a night like tonight, when we honor these youngsters who have so suddenly grown tall and wise, if we were all we should be, if we were sinless, we should feel that joy and wistfulness all the more. That leads my mind to consider what must have been the peace and the privacy of a home that is a deep mystery to us.
We who are sinners feel that clutch in the throat when we see our parent who was once so trim and strong, now stooped a little under a load of firewood, let us say, that had never been a trouble before. If our hearts go out to those who raised us, what must the heart of our Savior have felt, as he laid his foster-father Joseph to rest, or saw the first inevitable wrinkles round the eyes of his mother?
Parents who now see the time coming when your children will leave to study at college or learn a trade, eventually to marry and have children of their own—what must it have been like all those quiet years, to be his mother, and know that the time was coming when he must leave, and the sword so long ago predicted, when he was so small, would pierce her heart?
But we know the story does not end there. If we were pagans, we would not know that. If we were pagans, I might tell you, with a note of urgency and some considerable dishonesty, that you should go forth and make something of yourselves and change the world. Well, if you are going to change the world, you had better do it quick, because the time is short, and all flesh is grass. Time devours his children.
Ever in the ancient Greek mythology time and change are felt as unseen threats, impersonal and deaf to all appeal. The story goes that the wise Athenian, Solon, after he had reformed the laws of Athens, went on a tour of the known world, to see the habits of men and their fate. On that tour he met the richest man alive, Croesus the Emperor of Lydia.
Croesus asked Solon whether he had ever seen a happier man than he. To which Solon replied that he had: a certain Athenian citizen, not terribly important, who fought well for his country when he was young, led a comfortable life, raised upstanding children, and then died—died before he could see how time and change would destroy it all. "Count no man happy until his end," said Solon. Croesus laughed.
He, the happiest man in the world, wanted to make something of himself, wanted to change that world—that is, he wanted more land. So he asked the Oracle at Delphi what would happen if he attacked Persia, and received the reply, "If Croesus attacks Persia, a great empire will be destroyed." So he attacked Persia, and a great empire was destroyed—his own.
When Cyrus of Persia—that same Cyrus in the Bible who sent the Jews back home to Palestine—ordered his men to place his royal prisoner upon a pyre, the bystanders heard a voice crying over and over, "Solon, you were right, Solon, you were right!"
Solon's Error
But Solon wasn't exactly right. The pagans did not know, but we Christians know, that time is going somewhere. How could it not be going somewhere, when all the creatures in this wondrous world, including even our bodies and the time they dwell in, were fashioned by God, who is the Lord of time?
We may then, with the hope that the wisest of the Greeks could not have, send forth our children into time, because that Lord of time himself came down, was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and grew in wisdom and understanding, and in the fullness of time made his glory known, not by means of a college degree, as worthy a thing as that may be, but by suffering the end of time that awaits us all, even upon a Cross. But as we know, that was not the end, either.
So how can I tell you to go forth and change the world? It has been changed, changed forever. Go forth and conform yourselves to him who changed it. Whatever your walk of life, whatever you do and wherever you go, go into time with him, for whom a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day.
Other graduates at other ceremonies may be told that they are going places. They may, and you may, and some of those places may be good, and meant for you. Then go there. But there is only one place where I and your parents really want you to go. That place is where time is going, for time is the moving image of eternity.
In that place, all this time that we have been given will be returned and redeemed—this very moment of joy and solemnity now, this brief time in a little old schoolhouse in a town with the funny name of Scituate, Rhode Island—and all the things we loved, even that little foot of a child whom you could rock in the crook of your arms, will be restored and made whole.
For the time is coming, and is near, when there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor tears, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things shall have passed away. And he who sits upon the throne shall say, "Behold, I make all things new."
Anthony Esolen is Professor of English at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, and the author of The Ironies of Faith (ISI Books), The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization (Regnery), and Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child (ISI Books). He has also translated Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata (Johns Hopkins Press) and Dante's The Divine Comedy (Random House). He is a senior editor of Touchstone.
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also, the hilarious Magic Johnson protection jokes have started now that they traded Williams for a pick
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also, the hilarious Magic Johnson protection jokes have started now that they traded Williams for a pick
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Glad to see that the Lakers will be stuck in purgatory for the foreseeable future.
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He was also Kobe's agent
This can go of two ways either they can be really successful or this will be so bad that Magic, Lakers icon, would be fired.. again(forgot he used to coach this team)
I get real leery of ex players with no experience getting these type of jobs because they were a legend in their playing days sure some work out there are many others that don't and firing them will be hard if not impossible to do if it fails.
The Lakers have nothing to lose at this point with where they are sitting.
Hiring Mike Brown to succeed Phil Jackson, letting him try a Princeton offense with Dwight Howard at C, trying to make Ramon Sessions their starting PG, signing a washed up Nash to a pretty hefty deal at Damn near 40, hiring D'Antoni to coach a team that had Gasol and D12 up front, choosing to sign Jeremy Lin instead of Isaiah Thomas (who wanted to go there), hiring Byron Scott, drafting Russell over Porzingis, Turner, or Booker, signing Mozgov and Deng to huge deals...
I mean that's just off the top of my head
The argument could be made that they were trying to tank for another once-in-a-lifetime franchise player and it didn't happen. This move could signal that even the Lakers have a limit on how long they can wait for the draft miracle. I suspect the recent increase in the fortunes of the Clippers put some pressure on them.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
Lakers family feud worsens as Jeanie Buss files restraining order against her brothershttps://t.co/UJFk1ys7jX pic.twitter.com/SjG8fRE7XL— CBS Sports NBA (@CBSSportsNBA) March 3, 2017
well this is just ugly and I feel bad that it's public
Sounds like a good stable situation for Paul to come into.
This is like the Dodgers part 2 with the McCourts and Magic was involved with that as well too.
I just hope nothing like this ever happens with the Colts/Pacers.
It wasn't this bad but it's still pretty ugly between Herb and Mel's widow
Magic Johnson: "If we cant do our job then Im going to hand the keys back to Jeanie and step aside." pic.twitter.com/zEyf7TSs0C— Serena Winters (@SerenaWinters) March 10, 2017
^^ He's not smart enough to have been making a joke ......
....... nah.
Sarcasm aside - that's really dumb.
Rob Pelinka has talked to Kobe about helping Lakers
Rob Pelinka has the inside pipeline with Kobe Bryant, so its no surprise that hes talked to his former client about being involved with the Lakers.
Pelinka was officially introduced as the new Lakers GM during the week. Pelinka was the agent to many NBA players including stars like Kobe and James Harden prior to taking the GM job. He said on Friday that he has talked with Kobe about helping the Lakers.
Mark Medina ✔ @MarkG_Medina
Rob Pelinka said he has "absolutely" talked to Kobe about having possible involvement. Pelinka: "He's 100% behind everything Laker"
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Pelinka, Kobe and new President of Basketball Operations, Magic Johnson, will be getting together to talk about the team and league.
Mark Medina ✔ @MarkG_Medina
Magic said he and Pelinka are going to have dinner with Kobe to talk basketball
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There will be a lot of championship rings on the table at that dinner meeting.
Kobe has previously expressed a willingness to help his former team, though current coach Luke Walton declined his offer for now, feeling Kobes tough love approach isnt best for the young team.
Report: Jim Buss resigns as Lakers trustee
Jim Buss fall from power within the Lakers continues.
After Jeanie Buss fired Jim from his front-office position, Jim and Johnny Buss tried to wrestle control from Jeanie.
That gambit has failed.
Nathan Fenno of the Los Angeles Times:
The three siblings have agreed for Jeanie to serve as controlling owner and on the teams board of directors as long as the family owns the Lakers. On Monday morning, they asked a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to issue an order to that effect.
According to a person familiar with the situation, Jim Buss resigned as co-trustee Thursday as part of a requirement by Jeanie Buss to resolve the dispute. Her younger sister and staunch ally, Janie, replaced the brother, joining Jeanie and Johnny Buss as co-trustees.
The person said there was no financial settlement with Jim Buss.
So Jim Buss no longer runs basketball operations, is no longer a trustee and received no payout. This is what happens you make bold promises and dont keep them.
But Jim remains an owner of the franchise. This is what happens when youre born to a wealthy father.
This will end the latest round of drama, but Jims ownership gives him some though far less say. The Buss/Laker business is too personal to assume this new legal arrangement ends the drama for good.
Does magic have the patience as an executive.
I remember when he was a coach.......he just last 16 games !!!!
Coaching and being an executive are not the same thing. I guess his only experience is being worth $500 million with his various businesses.


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- Spirits: These guys, well they last forever — to a certain extent. Although spirits do not get better with time, they usually have a high enough proof to subvert spoilage. While oxidation and evaporation will naturally occur, the best way to store them is in a small bottle and in a cool, dark place. The taste may change ever so slightly, but only the most serious of cocktail connoisseurs will be able to notice the difference.
- Fortified Wines: Fortified wines like vermouth, port, sherry, and madeira are basically just wine with an extra dose of alcohol, and like any bottle of wine, they should be stored in the fridge if you aren't going to finish them that day. Here they will last for about three weeks. They may not taste as good as the first go-around, but they are still great for cooking.
- Liqueurs: Similar to spirits, most liqueurs have enough alcohol content to last "forever." Liqueurs do have a high sugar content. If you are planning to keep them, be sure they are tightly sealed and keep an eye out for sugar crystallizing on the bottom, in which case you should toss. Cream-based liqueurs like Bailey's Irish Cream and Amarula should be consumed within a year of opening. You don't necessarily need to refrigerate them, but it's not a bad idea, either.
Keep reading to find out how long simple syrup, bitters, and other bar ingredients last.
- Simple Syrup: Simple syrup keeps in the refrigerator for about a month, but don't worry — it's so easy to make that you'll be able to whip up a new batch in mere minutes.
- Mixers: When it comes to mixers, be sure to follow the expiration date on the bottle, and once opened, refrigerate. Club soda, ginger ale, and tonic water should be consumed shortly after opening so they don't lose their fizz, which is why we recommend stocking individual-size bottles.
- Bitters: Thanks to their high alcohol content (most are in the range of 40- to 45-percent alcohol), bitters last nearly as long as spirits, though their flavor may mellow slightly over time. Toss them if they lose their aromatic punch, but otherwise, feel free to hang on to your burgeoning bitters collection indefinitely.
- Brandied Cherries: Everything is better with a cherry on top. Give your drinks that final touch with homemade brandied cherries or luxe maraschino cherries; once the jar is opened, they last refrigerated up to two weeks.
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Before hyperconnectivity, mass action took the form of marches, demonstrations and the occasional riot. Roman patricians dealt with the mob and learned to control it (panem et circenses). Representing power at both its most unpredictable and susceptible, throw the mob some some bread, some bones, or some bodies, and, satisfied, they disintegrate into constituent communities and relations. Keep the mob soothed with entertainments, and they will not even enter the streets, preferring instead the comforts of the theatre, stadium and home.
None of this is news: ochlocracy is a word the Ancient Greeks coined. We should consider ourselves lucky that the mob can be contained, the beast soothed. If the mob had been a continuous force throughout history, very little of history would remain. Every time sufficient numbers of people had come together, the mob would threaten all. In that world, cities could never persist. The Urban Revolution requires crowd control.
Now the mob hyperconnects, ochlocracy becomes hyperochlocracy, and potent beyond any possibility of control. The hyperempowered need no externalities to deliver bread and circuses; they provide for themselves. The threat of force – the stick following the refused carrot – becomes meaningless where the hyperconnected regularly outthink, outflank and outmaneuver the authorities.
We have entered the era of the reign of a new mob, with new rules. The mobile vulgaris, as the Romans called it, use the mobile to propel themselves into a new commonality. Mob rule is the inevitable outcome of the mobile.
Mobs rarely appear in isolation; mob meets mob in riot and affray: soccer hooligans, co-religionists (against infidels), political parties. Each mob meets its opposite and tries to annihilate the other. Where this can not be contained by the state, the result is civil war.
Hyperochlocracy can not be controlled by any of the techniques the state has long used, and for which the institutions of state power are designed. Neither police nor army can lay a glove on hyperochlocracy. The courts can not make hyperochlocracy subject to justice, nor jails imprison. Everything is perfectly mismatched, as though the hyperconnected exist in a different plane of being, unbound by earthly rules.
Where hyperochlocracies collide, limitation begins anew. First comes the wars between the hyperempowered, such as the continuous-but-nearly-invisible battles between various hacker communities. As successes fed a growing sense its capabilities, Anonymous fractured into several different groups, with competing aims. Group turned against group, each seeking to undermine the efforts of others, even using state power (with leaks of carefully chosen information) to disrupt the relations within competitors.
Unlike ochlocracy, hyperpolitics isn't a numbers game. Winning the battle has very little to do with the total number of combatants involved on either side and much more to do with the hypermpowerment of individuals and their ability to work coherently and effectively as a hyperempowered group. These traits are entirely orthogonal: any given individual could be great on their own and lousy in a group, or vice versa. Individuals who can bring their hyperempowerment into a group setting and harness the group, amplifying the hyperempowerment of the entire group, will be specifically able to make the most of every encounter. These are the victors of the next billion seconds, and to them will flow the spoils of the hyperconnected era.
This precise set of qualities – hyperempowered individuals who also hyperempower groups – will be strongly selected for. A small group of individuals who share these skills will far outperform a much larger but poorly integrated group. They are able to connect, share and learn from each other with a flexibility and speed that brings maximum force to their every action. A laser beam next to an unfocused bulb, these groups will slice through every obstacle, vaporize all opposition, and vanquish all opponents not similarly constituted.
Over the next billion seconds some may find that even though they can draw on the learning and experience of billions of others, they work most effectively in smaller units. They will receive the greatest benefit from networks of relations that allow them to use their innate capacity to manage these connections, amplified with a capability keeping them in constant close connection. The elites of the next billion seconds will not necessarily be broadly-based, but may instead be tightly focused, open but highly insular. They will constantly be on the lookout for competitors to co-opt into their own network of relations, or, should that fail, looking for ways to disadvantage those competitors.
None of this tends toward stability; such hyperochlocracies will be pressure cookers, within which every individual will be pushed to the outer limits of performance. The best of these hyperochlocracies will learn to manage the stress they engender, while the worst will simply decohere as rapidly as they form. The rest will exist in a state mid-way between coming together and flying apart, constantly fracturing into competing polities, some fragments regaining potency and hyperempowerment, while others, dysfunctional, die.
In our immediate future we find an echo of our tribal past. The limits of biology which bounded the tribe's numbers have not been erased. Before hyperconnectivity one hundred and fifty represented the entire map of the known. Today, one hundred and fifty stand in for the billions hyperconnected, as each acts as a filter and focusing agent for the others in immediate connection. In this new tribal formation, each constituent faces outward, connected to the communities of sharing, learning and expertise for which they are prized within the hyperochlocracy, finding, forwarding along everything of importance to those closest. Everything we once did we now do again, for the same reasons, but with far greater scope.
This is the future of the corporation, which began as a dissociated collection of capital, but concludes with the close collaboration of bodies and minds. This is the future of the school, the hospital, the government. This is the future of human organization and collective action. It is no longer bodies on streets holding banners or storming barricades. It is something more internal, more intense, and much more powerful.


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Thursday, December 23, 2010
Feedsack Fabric Repro: Ironing
Another vintage feedsack repro - 1930s/40s? This print is actually related to one of my early fabric repros, Wash Day - there's a whole series of girls doing domestic chores; I've got sewing and sweeping still to do.
The eagle-eyed amongst you will spot that I hadn't quite perfected the seamless repeat before doing this "digi-swatch", but rest assured that it's sorted now. I've just got to finalise the colours, then it'll be available through my Spoonflower with the rest.
I'm open to requests, by the way - if you have a fabulous vintage print in your collection you'd like to see repro'd (particularly handy if you're only hanging onto that dress for the print, even though it doesn't really fit!) do get in touch. (Bear in mind only certain types of print are suitable for me to repro - it has to consist of solid colour blocks and lines, rather than swishy brushstrokes)
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Labels: 1930s, Fabrics and Prints
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WASHINGTON (Aug. 14)
Andrew Young, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, come under fire from the State Department today for acting without authorization in meeting with a Palestine Liberation Organization represent tative in New York last month. The Department said that Secretary of State Cyrus Vance spoke with Young by telephone today and "expressed his displeasure over the incident and the manner in which it happened."
This was announced as Department spokesman Tom Reston read a statement apologizing for saying yesterday that Young did not know that Zehadi Labib Terzi, the PLO observer at the UN, would be present when he went to the apartment of Kuwait Ambassador Abdolla Yaccoub Bishara. In going to Bishara's apartment, Reston said today, "Ambassador Young knew that Mr. Terzi would probably be there while they discussed the question of postponing the Security Council vote scheduled for July 31 on the Kuwaiti resolution.
The resolution calls for recognition of Palestinian self-determination and the creation of a Palestinian state. It was reported earlier that the Security Council, in postponing action on the resolution until Aug. 23, was acting at the request of the U.S., Kuwait and the PLO.
"In holding this discussion with Mr. Terzi, Ambassador Young acted on his own initiative and without authorization," the State Department statement said. "Ambassador Young explained this situation to Ambassador (Yehuda) Blum (of Israel) yesterday."
The statement stressed that "This development does not change our policy regarding the PLO and we have so informed the Israeli government." Reston said that Vance discussed Young's action with him by telephone today before the Secretary received an official Israeli protest over the incident. The protest was lodged by Israeli Ambassador Ephraim Evron by telephone to the State Department.
Reston said that other differences in the version given yesterday and today is that the meeting between Young and Terzi was between 15 and 30 minutes not 15 minutes and that more than amenities were exchanged. He said that as Young was leaving the Syrian Ambassador to the UN Hamoud el-Chouff, arrived and in that case only cordialities were-exchanged. In addition, Reston also said the meeting was July 23, not July 26, as reported earlier. The presence of Young's son at the meeting was not clarified.
Reston said he did not know when Vance first became aware of the meeting. He said that except for Vance's expression of displeasure, no action would be taken against Young. "The Secretary believes that Young is an able representative of the U.S.," Reston said.


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If you are starting with Windows Phone 7, welcome. Here is the little secret, most writers assume that you are not a beginner, but rather have some knowledge about the emulation environment, etc.
So if you want to use the Accelerometer simulator or Accelerometer emulator, here is how you do that:
Then you drag the red dot (which might see obvious), or you can shake the phone.
Although the performance is less than the phone, it seems to map pretty well to the phone.
Hope this helps out.


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Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died after an attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi on Tuesday. The attack in Libya came hours after a mob stormed the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and tore down the U.S. flag.
Officials were investigating whether the rampage was a backlash to an anti-Islamic video with ties to Coptic Christians or a plot to coincide with the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the U.S.
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My research has traditionally been in Singularity Theory, a long and venerable subject dating back to Newton. Recently I have been working in Discrete Differential Geometry, in particular recent ideas surrounding generalizations of the discrete Laplacian.
My first paper in this area is on compressed manifold modes (CMMs). The Laplace-Beltrami operator on a manifold gives eigenfunctions that are non-zero on a dense subset of the manifold. In certain situations, functions that are zero on most of the manifold but are non-zero on important features are useful. This is what CMMs give us, see the figure on the right for example. In addition to giving a natural ordering of the modes and making some other practical observations, I propose an algorithm that requires on average 47% fewer iterations than the algorithm proposed by Neumann et al who were following in the footsteps of Ozolins et al. See my publications for more information.
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