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Chickadee cloth diapers will make you smile at every diaper change! They're fun, they're functional, they fit!
Whether a mama loves cloth diapering, or is just getting started in cloth, everyone loves Chickadee cloth diapers!! Why? Because they are easy, they work, and they are so stinkin' cute! ;)
Chickadee Mediums are the next step when your perfect Smalls get too, well, small. Medium has a SUPER TRIM fit -- for a long time!! This will definitely be your all around go-to diaper.
And don't worry about absorbency, either -- I've tested that and with the mix of hemp and bamboo in the snap-in trifold insert, you are good to go.
Features include:
- Quality materials and craftsmanship on a tested, WAHM (work at home mom) design MADE IN USA (by me, hi!) :)
- All-in-one design: one piece! Nothing to lose in the wash! Easy as a disposable!
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- Bamboo, cotton, hemp natural fiber insert: When folded in thirds, you get 9 LAYERS of absorbency! Tested on my heavy wetter!! Each size diaper has its own appropriately sized insert.
- Quick-Dry! The insert is TRIFOLD, meaning it's a 3-layer rectangle that dries in one cycle!
- Waterproof PUL outer! No cover needed!
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- Super soft stay-dry inner keeps baby feeling dry. (If you want natural fiber on baby's bum, you can fold and leave the insert on top of the pocket: done!)
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- Snap-in Insert is removable if needed -- to prep, clean, dry how you like, use in another shell. Insert snaps are covered so do not touch baby.
Newborn: 6-12 lbs. * Rise fully stretched = 13.5"
Small: 10-17 lbs. * Rise fully stretched = 14.5"
Medium: 14-26 lbs. * Rise fully stretched = 16"
Large: 22-35+ lbs. * Rise fully stretched = 19" (generous!!)
Weights are approximate. Every baby is shaped differently, and that's why I've made 4 sizes for your little one's perfect fit! :)
Care Info
You can use your diapers right away, but for best performance, prep your inserts! Just like a fluffy towel, natural fiber inserts gain absorbency with every wash.
Every Chickadee cloth diaper comes to you already prewashed (shells and trifold inserts) once in unscented free&clear cloth-diaper safe detergent. Yay! The shell needs no further prepping, but the inserts will reach full absorbency after 5-7 more washes/dries.
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- Then dry on medium.
- Repeat the process 5-7 more times. This is easy to do if you throw them in with whatever load of hot or warm generic laundry you are doing.
Regular washing = wash using your preferred cloth diaper laundry routine. I do a hot wash with high agitation (heavy soil), with 2 extra rinses. Then I dry on medium.
Please only use cloth-diaper-safe bum creams -- I recommend CJ's BUTTer, but whichever you prefer!
Staining? I highly recommend sunning -- leaving your diapers in direct sunlight for a couple hours. Works best when they are wet. Sunning DOES work on overcast/rainy/winter days, too! I have also had great success with Buncha Farmers Stain Stick.
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Improving Efficiency
R&D company CoreCG has released MentalCore, a cross-platform plug-in designed to help artists achieve maximum creativity and efficiency while using Nvidia Mental Ray with Autodesk Maya. The plug-in, developed by supervising TD Corey Frew at Oktobor Animation and beta-tested by film, game, and TV facilities, is suitable for any size studio, supports Maya 2011 and Maya 2012, and is compatible with the Mental Ray stand-alone renderer. The tool's render globals interface provides quick access to all global settings and render passes; its node-based render pass system eases linking to objects, materials, and lights. It also comes with a shader library, color management system, and a preview renderview. Python API allows for the easy integration of MentalCore into any pipeline. MentalCore is available as a node-locked license for $189 or a floating license for $199.
CoreCG; www.core-cg.com
Boosting Development
Luxion has released a free KeyShot plug-in for Creo 1.0. With the new plug-in, anyone involved in the product development process can create high-quality imagery from Creo data with just a few clicks. KeyShot breaks down the complexity of creating photographic images from 3D models. Its ease of use allows those working with 3D data to create photographic images quickly.
Luxion; www.keyshot.com
Software Stretches, Resizes
GoPro has released a new version of its pro family of 2D and 3D production software: GoPro CineForm Studio Premium and GoPro CineForm Studio Professional. The company also made available a new version of its free software, GoPro CineForm Studio, which adds new features appealing to consumers and pros alike. GoPro CineForm Studio (free download) enables users to adjust aspect ratios and instantly correct distortions or image stretching that typically occurs when resizing images. Users can add keyframes anywhere in the video, as well as effects such as pan and zoom.
GoPro CineForm Studio Premium ($299) captures the most popular features of both CineForm's Neo HD
and Neo 3D into a singular solution designed for 2D and 3D broadcast and feature-film production. The app extends the stereo 3D tool set and is optimized for multi-camera stereo rigs, such as SI,
Phantom, Red, and Arri Alexa. GoPro CineForm Studio Professional ($999) features a new and improved user interface; non-destructive color correction, reframing/image manipulation, and 3D correction; support for 2D and 3D (all types) video cameras; support for HD and beyond; as well as independent eye control for professional 3D camera rigs.
GoPro; www.gopro.com
Virtual Environment Tool
Earlybird Technology recently launched its first product, a software tool that draws from the Autodesk Revit building information model (BIM) to generate photorealistic virtual environments that can be freely explored, much like a video game. Stadia is designed to help architects and clients experience the physical, spatial, and temporal qualities of proposed architecture, as opposed to two-dimensional drawings. These photorealistic virtual environments were not previously possible because industry-standard raytracing rendering may take several hours to generate one frame. Through a patent-pending architectural rendering engine, Stadia is capable of generating photorealistic imagery in milliseconds. Stadia sends BIM data from Revit to the cloud for computation. Users are then e-mailed a downloadable file, which contains the interactive rendering that produces imagery in real time, allowing users to walk through the building as if it was already built. The technology is available as a site-license subscription and can be downloaded as an add-in for Revit.
Earlybird Technology; www.stadia3d.com
Real-time Lighting
Lightmap has released HDR Light Studio V.3.0, the latest version of its real-time lighting software designed to allow artists to quickly light CG scenes. The updated release includes new light-blending modes that use light sources to adjust exposure, color, and saturation. Custom fall-off curves allow for fine control over synthetic light fall-off. A new color system provides color selection and analysis tools for precise color matching and auditioning. And V.3.0 now offers Collada support for the importing of geometry and camera information from all major 3D modeling packages. Render times have also been improved. HDR Light Studio can be used as a stand-alone tool by importing 3D scenes into the CPU-based LiveLight preview tool (included), or in conjunction with any number of LiveLight plug-in partners, including KeyShot, Maxwell Studio, Deep Exploration, VRED, and Patchwork3D. The Standard edition is priced at $630, while a Pro edition, which includes plug-ins for KeyShot, Maxwell Studio, and Deep Exploration, costs $946.
Lightmap; www.lightmap.co.uk
3D Digital Painting
Visual effects software developer The Foundry has released Mari 1.4, the latest version of its 3D digital painting tool. Designed to meet the needs of VFX texture and matte-painting artists, Mari is capable of handling vast numbers of pixels, and allows artists to concentrate on painting detailed, multi-layered textures directly onto 3D models in a fluid and natural way. The new release introduces Photoshop-layered PSD import and export capabilities, along with color management with OpenColorIO and triplanar projection. Mari 1.4 supports Ptex, Python OpenEXR, and C API. Version 1.4 is priced at $1980, with maintenance costing $330.
The Foundry; www.thefoundry.co.uk
New Vue of Nature
E-on Software has released the 10th generation of its Vue product for the creation of high-resolution rocks, physical water, and spline-driven effects. Advanced render-stacking capabilities have been added, too. Vue 10 xStream is the company's flagship solution, and allows 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, Cinema 4D, and LightWave users to create realistic nature imagery from host applications. New tools include spline and road tools, a new rock technology, streamlined terrain editing, and a physical water shading engine, along with improvements in overall rendering performance (up to 30 percent) and artistic control. Vue 10 xStream costs $1790. Vue 9 Infinite, a stand-alone version, retails for $1190.
E-on Software; www.e-onsoftware.com
Browser-Based Service
IKinema's WebAnimate is an all-in-one platform that can professionally retarget and customize animation through a user's browser. WebAnimate's built-in tool set allows users to fashion rigs, manipulate bones, retarget/customize motion-capture data and animation in minutes. The introductory version of the platform allows for the retargeting of motion-capture data to models from standard formats such as bvh, FBX, and, in the near future, c3d. Both experienced and beginner users can quickly port mocap data from the cloud or local sources directly to their models. They can also tap into the vast number of free mocap files that reside online. Because IKinema's solver works off a browser, users are able to animate or retarget from anywhere. The tool is available free of charge during its beta period. After that, users will only be charged when their animations or poses are exported for commercial use.
IKinema; www.ikinema.com
Blackmagic Expands Avid Support
Blackmagic Design has introduced Desktop Video 9.0, a new software update with advanced capture and playback for the Avid Media Composer 6 family of software, including Symphony and NewsCutter. Desktop Video 9.0 is available as a free download for Blackmagic Design customers. The update includes support for all current DeckLink, Multibridge, Intensity,
and UltraStudio models. Avid customers can now use Blackmagic's latest Thunderbolt, USB 3.0 and PCI Express video capture and playback devices. The company's UltraStudio 3D and DeckLink HD Extreme 3D take full advantage of new advanced 3D editing support in Media Composer 6, saving time and creating a much more fluid editing experience for 3D projects. Version 9.0 features include uncompressed and DNxHD capture and playback in Avid Media Composer 6, real-time effects, and advanced dual-stream 3D workflow capturing left- and right-eye versions to separate files.
Blackmagic Design; www.blackmagic-design.com
AJA's new Thunderbolt-enabled Io XT features dual Thunderbolt ports, allowing users to connect it to a Thunderbolt-enabled Apple computer via a single cable. The additional Thunderbolt port enables users to daisy-chain Io XT to other Thunderbolt peripherals, including high-bandwidth storage and high-resolution displays. Io XT is a portable video I/O device that supports the capture and playback of 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 HD and SD formats. The solution can unify disparate formats via its 10-bit real-time up/down/cross-conversion capability. In addition to the dual Thunderbolt ports, Io XT has two 3g/HD/SD-SDI inputs and outputs; single-link SDI 4:2:2 support; single- and dual-link SDI 4:4:4 support; HDMI input and output (including support for 3D); analog HD/SD component and composite output, 10-bit; eight-channel embedded SDI audio I/O; and eight-channel balanced analog audio output (using an optional DB-25 type cable). Pricing is set at $1495.
AJA; www.aja.com
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I am in the process of helping out a friend who is doing a similar thing but without any phone module.
What I am planning on doing is running direct from the demarc point using one pair of a Cat 6 cable and into a vdsl splitter.
My question is once I go from the splitter I will have two pairs to connect, one for the voice and one for data.
Which colour pair in an RJ45 plug carries which signal?
I am assuming it can only be 1 pair for each as that is all that comes out of the vdsl splitter, but which colours do what?
Once I know I can terminate the connection using gel filled joiners and then run it into the back of an RJ45 socket and onwards from there.


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Barclay Martin joined CFCA last year as new channels marketing coordinator.
But he was a familiar face at CFCA long before joining the staff.
Barclay, a professional musician for the past 10 years, was the composer for CFCA's documentary, "Rise and Dream," and is seen in the film learning and helping to teach 13 teenagers about the cultural instruments of their heritage.
We sat down with him to find out more about his role and how his background in music influences his work.
Q. What is your role as new channels marketing coordinator?
A. The new channels department was created to reach new audiences as well as develop innovative and creative ways for people to fall in love with CFCA's work and the individuals we serve.
It's so exciting to see people take interest in CFCA's work. Individuals working together to create sustainable, positive change motivates me a great deal.
I've developed a deep respect for the rich diversity of the people I've met through my travels.
By celebrating diversity as a global community, we become more aware of the essential elements of life that ultimately bring us closer as human beings.
Q. How does CFCA's documentary film "Rise and Dream" fit into this work?
A. "Rise and Dream" gives people a rare look into the lives of the families with whom we work.
"Rise and Dream" is a story I've had the tremendous privilege in helping to tell, and it has been amazing to see how the film has inspired moviegoers across the country.
Q. You have an unusual background for this type of work. Can you tell us a little about yourself?
A. You know, I consider myself lucky.
Having spent the last 10 years as a singer/songwriter, I've experienced the extraordinary generosity of people, invaluable lessons from travel and the power of music to create space for dialogue and connection.
My work as a musician has taught me to be resourceful, creative and, above all, observant of the changes in our world.
Every CFCA community I've visited has taught me something about how to live.
Through applying what I've learned in my career as a musician, I'm excited to learn even more from the families with whom we work.
For all that CFCA has taught me thus far, I am honored to be a part of its growth. You can rest assured I'll be scattering songs as I go.
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Hi All,
I'm not having a lot of luck declaring a combo box in the class code for my dialog resource. I'm using VC++ ver 2.0, non-MFC, Win32 with SDK calls only. I'm making additions to a large and complex legacy program.
Without the combo box declared in the code, the dialog opens fine when the program launches, but when I add the combo box, I get the following two message boxes:
"Create Dialog failure"
Engineering Note ...
Dialog Creation Error
Be sure that there is a Dialog named, "" amongst the program's resources.
Then: an "OK" box:
Exiting due to Error
[8002] Window Create
Error code-20: Create Dialog failure
When I click on the OK, the entire program exits. I've typed the three last lines of each above, letter-for-letter from the messages displayed.
In my class in my .h file, I've declared the following:
ComboBox m_PhNoComboBox;
I added the following to my constructor in my .cpp file:
m_PhNoComboBox (this, WMM_IDC_MND_PHNOS_COMBO)
right after the constructor's function identifier and parameters line and the code builds, but gives that run-time error.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? Should anything else be added?
Searching, I found nothing relevant about the error codes 8002 and 20.
Here's how I'm declaring the combo box in the resource description:
--------------------------------------Code:WMM_MY_DIALOG DIALOG DISCARDABLE 101, 36, 296, 201 STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | WS_POPUP | WS_VISIBLE | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU CAPTION "My Dialog" FONT 8, "MS Sans Serif" BEGIN COMBOBOX WMM_IDC_MND_PHNOS_COMBO,137,22,137,164,CBS_DROPDOWN | CBS_SORT | WS_VSCROLL | WS_TABSTOP PUSHBUTTON "&Close",IDCANCEL,15,177,32,14 END
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Welcome to the Vanderbilt Pulmonary Center. We care for people with cystic fibrosis, sleep disorders, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension and other lung-related conditions. We offer personalized, compassionate care within one of the nation's elite academic medical centers.
About the Pulmonary Center
* The Vanderbilt Pulmonary team is one of the best in country. We rank among the nation's top 20 hospitals for pulmonology care.
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Because we are committed to providing the best in patient care, education and research, we are proud of our recent accomplishments:
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NMC is an international network grouping major press organs, including the world's main agencies, responsible for coordinating its members' positions in response to the restrictions imposed by organizers of sports and cultural events on journalistic coverage of such events.
Walter-Petit, in conjunction with Juliette Thiébault, who will also represent the agency at the NMC, will be responsible for developing and managing agency policy on rights, while also acting as agency spokesman in relationships with such coordination bodies as the NMC.
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EA has launched the multiplayer open beta for Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, and all you have to do is sign into your free GameSpot account and wait.
You see, waiting for your key is the key to waiting to get into the C&C 4 multiplayer beta. GameSpot is doling them out by the thousands, giving players access to four maps from the game, including Afflicted Arena, a Polynesian GDI military dock under siege by the Brotherhood of Nod. Sounds exciting, doesn't it? Even the game's lead designer thinks so.
"We could not be more excited to give fans a taste of what's in store for Command & Conquer 4 Tiberian Twilight with the new multiplayer beta," said Lead Designer, Samuel Bass. "Players can expect the fast-paced strategic RTS action they've come to know and love in the Command & Conquer franchise augmented with new gameplay elements that really ratchet up the intensity, especially in our 5v5 multiplayer modes."
I can hardly wait, but wait I must. Upon logging into my GameSpot account on the beta page, I was greeted by this:
Thanks for your interest in the Command & Conquer 4 Open Beta. We're currently limiting the rate at which we're distributing keys, but we've just secured you a place in line. We'll display your key here when we release more keys in the coming days, and we'll be sure to notify you by email as well.
Hell yeah, I've secured a place in line! Now to bide my time until that fateful day. Oh the biding I will do.


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20% Time in Schools?
By Dr. Kevin Godden, Superintendent of Schools
Some of you may have heard about the concept of '20% Time.' It is a concept which has been popularized by Google, but really has been used by many successful companies around the world for years. The idea is relatively simple, but has provided significant value to these companies. In a nutshell, the policy allows for employees of the company to work on whatever they wish for 20% of their day, providing (this is important) that it advances the company's mission in some way. It has been suggested that almost half of Google's innovations have come from employees working on ideas during their 20% time. It makes sense when you think about it: people generally love to be challenged to do stuff they are passionate about, especially if it has value and will make the world a better place.
Shouldn't this be true for our students? Would they not love to be challenged to create something that will make our lives better? It left me wondering what impact this would have on student learning if we instituted this practice in classrooms? What if we told our students that they could dedicate 20% of their class time to something they were passionate about as long as it advanced their learning of the big ideas, key concepts and skills associated with their particular course or disciplines? What if we told students in our Creative Writing 10 classes that for one period per week they could work on something related to one of the big ideas that they are passionate from that course? What if we did that with students in our middle schools? Primary classrooms?
These are some who might panic at the thought of doing this, as images of students running rampant and wasting valuable time run through your imaginations. However, if you think about it, we do this quite a bit already, at least at a cursory level. Consider how we utilize 'Flex Time' in our secondary schools. Students are given a choice (well, most of them) about going to a class where they would like to work. True, many of them select places where they may need extra help, but others seek out the class they are particularly excited about. This happens in middle and elementary schools, where students are given a choice to work on a preferred activity, and in elementary schools where they have adopted Genius Hour, for instance.
The trick for making this more meaningful in our schools is to structure it in such a way that it has value for our students, their teachers and parents. It would have to be thoughtfully designed to ensure that it was productive, and that students were accountable for their work, probably no different than how Google designs it for their employees. You might be pleasantly surprised about when kids can do when we create the conditions for them do so.


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John B. Dart (Jean Baptiste) and it was one of those, Oh-my-goodness-you-mean-I-had-that-tombstone-all-along moments. This would be the other half to that pair. Mary Dart was John's wife (their marriage date is still unknown). Mary and John were my husband's 3rd great grandparents.
John and Mary had six known children: Jean Baptiste Jr, Marie (Mary), Jules, Eugene, Antoinette, and Desira (Desire).
I'm still slowly chipping away at the Dart-line. Always feels good to make some progress, no matter how small. Until next time, have fun tending your roots!
"In memory of Mary J. Dart
Died May 3, 1902
Aged 92 years"


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Edgewood County Park and Pulgas Ridge Open Space Preserve are two parks located on the hotter and drier east side of Interstate 280 in the San Carlos hills. The vegetation is a mix of grassland, chaparral, and oak woodland. It can get very hot here so it's a good idea to either visit on a cooler day or do the training in the early morning or evening. The terrain is generally hilly with some nice vistas of the Santa Cruz Mountains, the Peninsula lowlands, and the Bay.
Edgewood Park (Map) has a few nice trails worth checking out. The Sylvan trail is labeled the "exercise trail" and it provides a nice 2.5 mile loop that is mainly forested with graded inclines. The Ridgeview trail loop is also nice with great views of the Santa Cruz Mountains to the west and the Bay to the east. The Edgewood Trail provides a link to the Canada road trail, Crystal Springs Reservoir, Woodside Town Trails, and Huddart Park.
At Pulgas Ridge (Map), the best trails are the Dusky-Footed Woodrat trail, the Polli Geraci Trail, and the Dick Bishop Trail. The Dusky-Footed Woodrat is a native rat that feeds on vegetation, seeds, and nuts, and live in a complex structure built of sticks (they are known as the "architects"). My favorite part of the park was the oak forest in the lower elevations near Cordilleras Creek and I'd like to come back after some rains when the streams are flowing. The upper portion is mainly chapparal with great views of Edgewood Park and surrounding hills.
For being so near highway 280 (you can see and hear the highway in spots), these parks are surprisingly nice and offer some fun running that is closer than other trail running options. When I ran here, I combined the trails in Edgewood and Pulgas Ridge, but you can easily use Edgewood as a starting point for long runs and link-ups to other trails and parks.


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BEIJING - A privately owned Chinese company is finalizing the acquisition of an Australian mining firm that controls a major iron ore mine in west Africa, a move that would give China a stronger role in setting global iron ore prices, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported Saturday.
Xinhua, citing officials from Hanlong Group, said Hanlong plans to complete the acquisition of Sundance Resources Ltd. for 50 cents per share by March 1, after submitting paperwork to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
Calls to Hanlong's headquarters in southwestern China's Sichuan province went unanswered Saturday.
Sundance controls the Mbalam iron ore mine, which straddles Cameroon and the Republic of Congo.
Hanlong is seeking a partnership with Chinese state-owned companies and is investing $5 billion to develop the Mbalam project and to build a 340-mile railway and a shipping port, Xinhua said. Operations are expected to begin in 2014, it said.
As the world's second-largest economy, China is eager to acquire overseas assets and resources to feed its rapid growth.


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Michelle Williams Calls Beyonce + Kelly Rowland Her 'Soulmates,' Slams Online Hatersby Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Destiny's Child fans were undoubtedly super psyched when their favorite female trio reunited on Michelle Williams' new gospel track, 'Say Yes.' And now the 'Say Yes' songstress herself is speaking out about the bond that she and her former DC ladies share.
"I am so excited. It's one of my favorite songs on my album, and it's with my sisters," Williams gushed to PEOPLE about reuniting with Beyonce and Kelly Rowland on the tune. "And I can't believe it's been 15 years [since we've met]."
"That's why I was so happy when they did my album and Beyoncé had her braids! It took me back when I first met her and she had those blonde braids," she continued. "I was like, 'Oh my God, you're taking me back to 'Say My Name'!"
While Williams did get a little nostalgic, the three friends are also still very much in the present, supporting each other whenever (and wherever) they can.
"We're honored to be there for each other in our happy moments. I've never really had genuine female relationships until I met them. I don't care what anyone says, we miss each other," Williams explained. "We have that spiritual bond with each other where we know when you're really tired, you need your sister with you today or you just need a phone call to let them know you're thinking about them. I call them my soulmates."
While the trio are still just as close as ever, Williams takes notice that haters think she is less successful than her former Destiny's Child bandmates.
"A lot of things I do go under the radar, so people do feel that I'm not as successful as the other ones, but I've made Broadway history and my fourth album is coming out," she explained. "I've been working 15 years straight. I haven't stopped."
And as for the cruel comments that Williams endures from anonymous people online, she has a clear message:
"They are crazy! They're someone who takes time to Google me daily and dedicate their website to me," she said. "I try to ignore it. I've been able to say, 'Okay, my name is in your mouth. You're searching for me on Twitter. I don't even know you exist.'"
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If it wasn't for his three dogs in his new Crawfordsville home, Scott Crawford might be feeling a little lonely as he starts his new job as Wabash College's career services director.
Crawford assumed duties Aug. 8 without an assistant director and with long-time secretary Toni McKinney on vacation. So the affable Crawford has been spending his initial days on campus finding his way around and exploring the somewhat empty Schroeder Career Center.
Crawford was named the center's director in early July. He comes to Wabash from Johns Hopkins University, where he served for more than three years as director of career services for the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education. At Johns Hopkins, Crawford managed the recruiting and employer relations activities of the office and oversaw the day-to-day operations of the center and its staff.
"This is a small and unique school," Crawford said, noting what attracted him to the job. "Wabash has a niche. I like the liberal arts and working with liberal arts students. I think that it's an interesting challenge. The whole world is a possibility with liberal arts students. And I think that's a really good atmosphere for career services."
Dean of Students Tom Bambrey is pleased to have Crawford on board. "He brings a strong background, including work in a liberal-arts setting, and I believe our students will find him enthusiastic in his approach to assisting them with their career planning. Scott will reach out to students as we strengthen and extend our efforts in the Schroeder Career Center."
Crawford explained his personal approach to career guidance. "I like to take students from day one all the way to alumni status and beyond," he said. "This is the kind of place you can do that. This school is small enough you can track those students and really get to know them."
He will do that by diving into the college community and its activities.
"You get involved in the life of the school," he said. "You get to know the students. You get involved with clubs, organizations and fraternities – whatever you work with. You really work with each student as an individual student.
"When a student walks in I'm talking to him, not just a religion major. I'm talking to him about his particular thing. That's really important from a career services perspective, because that's going to make that one particular student come back when he knows you're really looking out for him."
And working at Wabash makes the personal approach even easier. "I've worked at five schools and four have been large ones. This is a luxury because I'll get to know the individual student. So if an employer calls and says I need someone to do this particular job or a graduate school calls and says we're looking for this kind of student, I can say I have a list of five right here for you.
"Then I call that one student and say, 'Guess what, these people are looking for you.' "
Crawford hopes building the one-on-one relationships will make the center stronger.
"I think the main thing is to make the center accessible where students really want to be a part of it. I want it to be where I do not have to go out and knock on doors, which I'll do, but where students are coming to us because we have a reputation that this is the place they need to be."
The Arkansas native knows he has a big helping hand already with the strength of Wabash's alumni relations. He said most alums care about their alma mater's reputation today as much or more than when they graduated themselves. "They have a vested interest in what happens to that one particular student we talked about today. It's very important to them to see Wabash student succeed and start good careers. So it's nice coming to a place with a strong, active alumni base."
Crawford's career services experience has been at a variety of both public and private institutions. Prior to Johns Hopkins, Crawford was the associate director of the Graduate Career Center for the School of Business and Public Management at the George Washington University in Washington DC. He also served as the director of career services at Adrian College in Michigan, and as the assistant director of career services at Wichita State University in Kansas. He began his career as a career counselor at Valdosta State University in Georgia.
Crawford earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas in business administration and human resources. He earned his master's degree in higher education administration from Arkansas, where he had a concentration in student personnel.
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Did you write any of the songs together?
Gales: Some of them were written together. We would go in and put grooves together and write lyrics over them.
Pinnick: I brought seven or eight songs in that I had previously written to see if the guys would like any of them. We took five of those. We collaborated on two, Eric brought a song in, and Mike Varney wrote two songs and brought them in.
Gales: Me, Doug, Thomas, and Mike all worked together. We went in and didn't waste any time. The whole project didn't take more than two weeks to do—two weeks. The core tracks were done live. I like to predominantly work that way. Once you know the direction you're going in, it should be a continuous driving force, and the people you're working with will help you refine it. I don't think it should take six months or a year to do a project. You can lose the freshness.
What inspired the cover of "Sunshine of
Your Love" ? Are you guys just big fans of it?
Pinnick: I guess I am a fan. I don't know … I never really tried to learn it before. I think there's just a vibe about it that's cool and soulful, like a "You Really Got Me" kind of thing. I think that was my idea. We tuned down really low on that one. I figured it would be really intense, because I know what Thomas can do—especially when he's got a lot of space to do it in. And Eric can do leads for three hours straight without repeating himself.
Eric, in your solo, you imply parts of the
original Clapton solo.
Gales: Exactly—you're a smart dude [laughs].
Did you learn the whole solo at some
point in the past?
Gales: I did. Me and my brothers used to play that song, and I played the solo note-for-note. For this recording, I was like, "Well, why do it exactly like the original?" That's why we dropped the key to D♭.
Did the strings get floppy when you
detuned that low?
Gales: It's not the whole guitar, just the bottom string. I usually like to play tuned down to E♭, so I just transposed the bottom string. It's a little bit looser and it's lighter on the vocals. It's not confusing—it's grown to be very easy for me to do.
We're in a few different keys on this record. Doug likes to do tunings like low C and low B♭. Some of the songs are in standard tuning, which I rarely ever do.
Pinnick: I always play in dropped-C. When I play with other people, if they don't want to tune down that low, I'll tune up to them. Or maybe I'll stay in my tuning anyway and make something up around it. I'll transpose if I need to. Whatever fits. Every now and then, there are certain songs where you just have to use the open string, so I'll tune to whatever the guitar player's tuned to. It doesn't matter to me really.
Tell us about "Me and You." That one has
some interesting chords.
Gales: I like that one because it incorporates a lot of clean stuff. It gave me a chance to throw in a lot of the Eric Johnson-y stuff that I like to do.
How did you come up with those chords—by ear or from a theoretical approach?
Gales: Whatever comes to my head, man. I say, "Put the track on and let me do something." The chords were already there, but the clean stuff takes me back to my days of listening to things like "Little Wing."
Bassist Doug Pinnick uses a rare Seymour Duncan "domino" pickup with three switches, powered by 9V batteries.
Who were some of your early influences?
Gales: My older brother would put on Robin Trower, Frank Marino, Eric Johnson, Stevie Ray, Beck, or Clapton. I was five or six years old and I was digging all this stuff. The early days of listening to Albert King is where that influence of the wide bends I do comes from.
Doug, in your various projects, do different
guitarists ask for different things
from you? For example, you're also
involved in a project with George Lynch,
who has a totally different playing style
than Eric.
Pinnick: Actually, I've been trying to change my bass playing, period. I've always been one to play really simple and stay in the groove, but lately I've been trying to get into this John Entwistle thing every now and then, and start overplaying. It's fun. The thing with Eric and George—or any guitar player I'm playing with nowadays—is that I've decided to never follow them, or to follow them as little as I can, and make up my own bass lines. Sort of like the approach of James Jamerson, or even the old Stax records with Donald "Duck" Dunn playing. The bass lines were the things that you would remember. I've been trying to go back to that sensibility. It's been interesting for me, because guitar players play more now than they used to because we've forgotten about the bass. The challenge for me is to see if I can come up with something that complements the guitar part, and sometimes those guitar parts can be pretty busy. It's been a challenge but it's been fun. The only feedback I get is that it's really, really good. Hardly anybody has ever said that they didn't like it. I know that there are people out there that don't, but I do so much stuff that if one album sucks, the next one will be good [laughs].
Eric, "For Jasmine" is a solo guitar tour
de force inspired by "Für Elise." Was it
Mike Varney's idea to include that?
Gales: I often play that live, and Mike was, like, "I think you should make that an interlude track." That one's for my daughter.
Are you hybrid-picking the wide triad
shapes you play on that cut?
Gales: Yes, exactly. I do a lot of that. I can't particularly label what all of it is. It would take somebody like you to say, "He's using this technique or that technique." I do whatever feels comfortable to me. Since the beginning, I've been told that I play abnormally. Who's to say that everybody else isn't wrong and I'm right? [Laughs.]
Speaking of "abnormal," you also play your
guitar upside down but strung normally.
Gales: Yeah, I don't re-string it or anything like that. I just take a right-handed guitar and flip it over. I don't reverse the strings. Doug does. He plays left-handed but he plays an actual left-handed bass. When I first put it like this [gestures holding the guitar upside down], that's what felt comfortable to me. Before I knew it, I was off to the races. I write with my right hand but play guitar left-handed, upside down, so my little string is up top. When I bend it, I pull down.


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Monastery of Gorgoepikoos (Geelong, Victoria)
|Holy Monastery of Gorgoepikoos
|GOA Aus
|Female Monastery
|Abbess Kallistheni
|Approx. size
|5 nuns
|Geelong, Victoria, Australia
|Liturgical language(s)
|Greek, English
|Music used
|Byzantine Chant
|Revised Julian
|Feastdays celebrated
| Jan 2 (Chapel)
Oct 1 (Monastery)
|Official website
|none advertised
The Holy Monastery of Panagia Gorgoepikoos ("She who is Quick to Hear") is a monastic community for women in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. The monastery was established under the omophorion of His Eminence Archbishop Stylianos of Australia in May 1993 by Mother Kallistheni, who remains the abbess. Currently, the monastery has 4 nuns (Sisters Makrina, Nikodimi, and Natalia, and the abbess, Mother Kallistheni) and a novice, all of whom speak fluent English.
The monastery is situated approximately one hour, by car, from Melbourne and is in Lovely Banks, which is close to the seaside suburb of Geelong.
History of the Monastery
Much of the initial capital for the Monastery was donated from the Zantis family of Goulburn. The majority of this donation was from Mother Kallistheni's father, Angelo Zantis (deceased), and Mother Kallistheni herself.
Mother Kallistheni
Mother Kallistheni, the first abbess of the monastery, was born Kalomira Zantis (nicknamed "Corrine") to Angelo and Nina Zantis, and raised in Goulburn, NSW, Australia with two siblings, Sheridan and Peter.
Her great-grandfather was the village priest and the schoolmaster in Karavas, in Kythera, Greece, for four decades. Known as 'Papa Vangelli', he was married to Presbytera Stamatia and baptised the majority of those Kytherians who then moved to Australia or the USA. Papa Vangelli had eight children, of whom Kalomira was the seventh; she married Sarandos Zantiotis and had four children, of whom Angelo was the fourth; he married Nina Souris, from Armidale, who are the parents of Mother Kallistheni.
Recent History
Initially the Monastery stood on 17 acres of land but recent land purchases have allowed for growth extending the property size to 20 acres. This growth has allowed the monastery to purchase bees to produce their own honey, a donkey and 2 alpacas.
To create privacy for the monastery, Cox Road, running outside the monastery, has recently been closed off—an initiative instigated by Mother Kallistheni.
Programme for members of the public
Pilgrims can visit the monastery daily (except Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays) and are able to attend the services chanted by the sisters.
- Monday: Open between 2-5pm on School and Public holidays.
- Tuesday: Open between 9am and 5pm.
- 9am Divine Liturgy.
- Wednesday: Closed.
- Thursday: Open between 9am and 5pm.
- 3pm Vespers.
- Friday: Closed.
- Saturday: Open between 9am and 5pm.
- 3pm Paraklesis.
- Monthly: 8am Matins in Greek and English, 9am Divine Liturgy in English.
- Sunday: Open between 2-5pm.
- 3pm Paraklesis.
External links
- Holy Monasteries in Victoria
- February issue of Orthodox Contact. The last article is of a visit the monasteries of St Anna and Gorgoepikoos.
- Holy Services in English: Programme for 2008
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|Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia
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Female: Gorgoepikoos | Holy Cross
|Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
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Proph. Elias | St John the Baptist | Holy Trinity
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| Male: New Kalenic (Serbian) | St Sava (Serbian)
Female: St Anna (Antiochian) | Nativity Skete (Serbian)
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Highlands Motorsports Park E
Crafted Sculpture of the Highlands Motorsports Park (HMP) "E" track in Cromwell, Otago, New Zealand. These race track sculptures are precision CNC routed from 26 laminated layers of beautiful Baltic Birch and covered with the topping of your choice.Full sized sculptures measure 32" across at their widest point, 1.0" wide, and 1.5" deep. Half sized sculptures measure 18" across, 1/2" wide, and 3/4" deep.


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I have just removed a hard disk from an old apple mac machine. Is it possible to move this hard disk into a pc and recover any file in it with third party software?
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How old is the mac? Most of the older Macs use SCSI and AFAIK there is no windows software that will recover MacFS drives.
There are lots of mac recovery tools however. If you are able to hook up another mac drive you should be able to use one of those tools to recover.
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thanks for your speedy response.
My girlfriend bought it in 1999, it came with Mac OS 8.5 installed. The hard drive make is Quantum Fireball 3.5 Series 4.0GB.
Normally I'd say that's a SCSI but you'll need to tell me which mac it is. During the mid-90s, Apple released a whole whack of Macs plus there was the clones that came out. I think it might be a Mac 6500, which was one of the first to use IDE -- so it may be an IDE.
That said, I still don't know of any software that supports mac data recovery on windows. But if it is a 6500 it means you could get a similar drive and do a re-install and recover option.
No idea what version it's but i can tell you that it says IDE0 HARD DISK on the motherboard where the cables from the hard disk are connected.
If the mother board says "IDE" then you can be shure about it. else it coud say "scsci"
Well, I have moved the hard disk to my pc and downloaded TransMac to open the hard disk. I can read the HD content and navigate its folders.
The problem is that when i open the macintosh HD i get this warning: Writing to Mac Extended [HFS] volumes is not yet supported and when i try to copy folders or delete content, i get the following warning: The shareware version of TransMac can not copy or delete folders.
The software costs $64.00 and the data i want to recover is not worth $64.00 and there is a 50 million to 1 chances to ever use this software again.
Is there any other software out there that can do the job cheaper or free?
Yeah!!!!! you can use a third party software Stellar Phoenix Mac Data recovery software which is a non-destructive and Compatible with HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper and FAT file system volumes.The application ensures safe recovery of data without modifying the formally saved data on your hard drive..But the software is not a freeware you have to pay $99 to get an absolute recovery...Gud Luck
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Gravestone for Brian Joseph Hadden and Stephen Gerard Hadden,
Mount Hope Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(photo by Ian Hadden)
Brian was born 25 Nov 1956 and passed away at the age of two months and twelve days on 6 Feb 1957. Stephen was born 2 Dec 1957 and died at the age of one year, two months and twelve days on 14 Feb 1959. Both died as the result of congenital hydrocephalus.
I have no recollection of Brian likely because he did not come home from the hospital but I do remember Stephen. I specifically remember sharing a small bedroom with him in our parent's home. My mother always explained to me that Stephen stayed with my parents in their bedroom, sleeping in a bassinet until our sister was born a few months before Stephen died. My mother moved Stephen to the larger crib but he was not happy out of the bassinet so, he kept the bassinet and our sister got the crib. I also remember the day Stephen died and my mother's explanation to me that he had gone to "play with the angels."
Ian Hadden with his mother Anne (nee O'Neill) Hadden and brother, Stephen Hadden, 1958
When my mother passed away in 1994, my father gave me the only photo of Stephen that exists. He told me that my mother wanted me to have it. The photo (since scanned) remains one of my most prized family records.


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Apologies for the long delay between posts, but we have been really cut off in the forest. Our only communication option has been to hike to the river, boat back down to the bay, climb a rock that sticks out of the water east of Beow Island, hope that the cell tower in the south of the bay is switched on (which only seems to happen one day in two or three), and send a text. So, to cut to the present first, we're out and well in Sorong, waiting for permits to move the specimens we collected to the Bogor Herbarium on Java. After a bumpy start, it has been "smooth sailing." No accidents, no conflicts, and lots of laughs, great food, and great birds.
I will backfill the trip's story over the next few blog posts, but I am drawn to start with an event still fresh in our minds: a crisis averted last Thursday when the 30-foot longboat we were traveling in from Kabilol to Warsambin was caught in a whirlpool in the Lepintol Straits. These must be among the world's scariest inland bodies of water: the giant salt-water Mayalibit Bay (40 km by 10 km), which drains and fills through a 300-meter-wide gap between towering limestone cliffs. At peak flow the turbulence sets up large standing waves and whirlpools as the outside tide pushes or pulls the water through. Of course the locals navigate this strait without much fuss, but they say there are still a lot of accidents. The luck of our timing was not good and we had to pass through the strait at close to maximum inward flow (with a near full-moon tide), although none of us other than Jonathan, our fantastic boat driver, really knew what was in store.
The water in the inner part of the strait was mirror calm, but as we approached the gateway I saw disturbed water in the distance. At first I thought this was the effect of ocean waves just stretching into the bay, but then realized it was turbulence generated by the current. Soon we were in bucking, twisting water, gripping desperately onto the sides of the boat. Jonathan powered through, as the surging currents pushed the outboard, and the boat, wildly from side to side. Suddenly we felt the whole boat sink down perhaps a couple feet, and I could see a giant circular swirl of water around us as the whole boat started to pivot to the right. But in another second we were through, rising back to the level of the waters' surface. Jonathan's skill was constantly apparent, as he revved and cut the engine, giving to the water's push and pull where needed. A few minutes (seeming like an eternity) later we were through, and pulling into the village of Warsambin that overlooks this fearsome patch of water.
As luck would have it, the daily truck-bus from Warsambin to Waisai was just leaving. I didn't think twice before deciding we would ride rather than continue in the longboat over the open ocean for another 20 km. We were heavily laden, and had worried the entire trip about the ocean waves kicked up by the south wind that has just started to blow. After we unloaded the backpacks and 15 bags of specimens, Jonathan continued in the empty longboat and met us later in Waisai; he said the sea had been totally calm…oh well. A very quiet, undemonstrative chap, he also said he was "pretty scared" by the whirlpool, but added that our heavy load had actually helped us stay upright in the surging current. Quite a boat trip!
It was a great relief to arrive in Waisai, the regency capital of the Raja Ampat; not just after the hair-raising boat ride, but because it represented a major decrease in our uncertainty about getting the work done and getting the specimens out safely. During our time in the forest, Acun and Endro had been dreaming about doing a bit of sightseeing, and since we couldn't really start the permitting process until Monday, we took a couple of days off over the weekend. They had been persuaded by pervasive word-of-mouth that if they didn't see the Wayag Archipelago they would have missed the Raja Ampat. We looked into it, but at $800 round-trip for the boat, and with heavy seas at this season, it didn't make sense. Instead they had a great, fulfilling trip to Kabui Bay, which has similarly striking limestone pinnacles, but which is still part of the diverse island of Waigeo.
Meanwhile, I enjoyed a day of snorkeling at the wonderful Pantai Cemara Homestay ($30 a day including 3 meals) in Saleo, just 30 minutes by motorbike west of Waisai. As I remembered from my 2005 trip, the marine life of the Raja Ampat is all it's cracked up to be. At the reef's outer edge, I dove down and held onto a dead coral boulder. Within seconds I was surrounded by schools of rabbitfish, sweetlips, and trevally—all at least double the size of fish I've encountered at any other reef. The Raja Ampat, both in forest and reef, really is one of the last, best places to be inspired by what nature can be if we let it.


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I am surprised how fast shares go in a startup company that people are excited about. Our plan is mostly done and the investors have begun to make overtures. My total ownership has been happily whittled away to include the wonderful talent this company will need.
I gratefully allocated shares to our president who is deeply experienced as both an entrepreneur and a VC. I was deeply honored when our CTO, who gets hundreds of business ideas in a year but only considers "one or two," signed up.
Ever so carefully, I identified the key talent we would need and one by one each person on this amazing team is coming onboard with their allocation. Yet until we officially close our first round (scheduled for February), I've still got ability to allocate shares pretty much as I want.
Now, much to my surprise, I realized how very quickly my ability to make unequivocal awards of shares will be gone. Now is the last moment I have to express my gratitude to people who have believed in my ability to create a new way forward in marketing.
So with the urgency imposed on me by our first formal funding round, I have barely a few weeks to share these gratitude grants.
I get to tell my dear gentle creative storyteller, a giant in the business of video, how valuable his lesson was in the meaning of video to create a powerful experience.
I finally get to 'give-back' to my "hard core" (hehe) entrepreneur, investor and civil liberties activist friend. She taught me perhaps one of the most important lessons in this space – the focus needs to be about creating shared experiences using content rather than solely focusing on the content. It is a powerful mind-bending insight that has deeply shaped how engageSimply develops its concept.
I can go back and reconnect with some of my ex-colleagues and CEOs who, over the years, inspired me, instructed me when I just didn't get it and generally invested in me by teaching me ever so patiently. I can't imagine how I would be doing this without their support and faith.
In the end, each gratitude grant is my way to repay the gift of confidence that each person so unselfishly gave me. It helped me turn a blind eye to the limitations imposed by stereotypes about what a tech CEO looks like (age or gender) or should do.
Over the next few weeks, I will have the distinct privilege and (one time only) opportunity to award these gratitude grants – without justification or encumbrance. To those of you on the list – stay tuned.
Lots of people track "firsts" (e.g. first investor, first alpha) – I want to note the "lasts." I want to acknowledge these last few precious moments when I have full control of my company and I can still allocate equity as I want. This privilege is fleeting likely not to be ever repeated.
I best be sure I don't leave anyone out. What a happy chore.
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It's been two days, and the new Basel III bank regulations are still lousy. Martin Wolf slams the international banking accord here and Yves Smith agrees here, although Felix Salmon notes some improvements over the current banking regime here and Tim Fernholz offers a full-throated cheer for the new rules here.
What makes the new rules so unnerving? Martin Wolf nails it. First, as I emphasized on Monday, he says that the only real line of defense Basel III deploys involves risk-weighted capital, and risk-weighting can be gamed. More importantly, the new capital requirements just aren't anywhere near the levels needed to rein in banks that know they have access to unlimited government support. We haven't fixed too-big-to-fail, the banks know it, and as a result, we'll need much, much higher levels of capital than Basel III actually demands.
How much more capital? Wolf says 20 percent to 30 percent, without risk-weightings. What does Basel III actually deliver? A paltry 3 percent. As I noted on Monday, that's equivalent to a leverage ratio of 33-to-1, actually higher than the 31-to-1 leverage Lehman Brothers deployed at the peak of its crisis-era excess.
What's worse, this hard leverage cap is only a test. In a few years, the Basel committee will reconvene to determine whether such measures are even necessary. I can foresee only two possible outcomes. First, the global economy has suffered another major financial calamity and all will agree that the cap must be higher—this should be unacceptable. In the second, the economy is improving, the banks are making lots of money, and regulators agree that silly things like leverage caps are a relic of the past, an overreaction to a crisis that the world has moved on from, nevermind the millions of jobs lost and careers ruined in the process. Nobody is going to suggest moving the cap to 5 percent, much less 20. Catastrophe quickly ensues.
Felix Salmon acknowledges that the risk-weighting issue remains problem, but still sees reason to be "unapologetically happy and optimistic." Whatever it's flaws, Basel III is still better than what we've got now—this is unquestionably true, by the way—and besides, Basel III also features new liquidity rules, which will help keep catastrophes like Lehman from developing, so things aren't really that bad. Basel II included no liquidity constraints, which was certainly a mistake.
This is the general consensus on Lehman's collapse, but it's not really accurate. Lehman did experience a massive run immediately before its failure, but the Federal Reserve had already given the bank access to its discount window. The whole purpose of the discount window was to provide liquidity in the face of a bank run. But the Fed didn't lend to Lehman, because Lehman didn't have the collateral to support such a loan. In other words, Lehman wasn't just shy on liquidity, it was insolvent.
Moreover, there's a reason why investors pulled the plug on Lehman in the first place. The bank was totally overleveraged, and had invested in absolute garbage. Lehman knew it was overleveraged, and knew that the market was concerned, which is why it resorted to a complicated derivatives scam of dubious legality in order to hide a mountain of debt from its investors.
Sure, tighter liquidity rules are better than no liquidity rules at all. But without major capital requirements, banks are going to be prone to massive runs, and when the market reaches its verdict on a bank's viability, all the liquidity in the world won't stop the run. When Bear Stearns went down, investors wouldn't even accept U.S. Treasury bonds as collateral. No regulatory measures can overcome such a panic.
The key is to prevent the panic in the first place, and make sure that the consequences of the panic do not overwhelm the broader economy. At an absolute minimum, that means stringent capital requirements. Tim Fernholz thinks Basel III delivers the goods, calling the accord "a tough new international regime" and "a rare sign of optimism in the battle with the banks."
I just can't understand that view. My point is not that Basel III is worthless—it's very clearly a step in the right direction. But this is the structural response to the worst financial crisis in history. Given that backdrop, Basel III is laughably weak.
This was not the savings and loan crisis. Every major U.S. bank other than Lehman Brothers had to be bailed out on a massive scale, and bank bailouts in Europe sparked a string of sovereign debt crises that almost toppled the Euro. As a result of this enormous economic catastrophe, international regulators plan to bump up risk-weighted capital minimums from 4 percent to 7 percent (Basel II was 2 percent, but the U.S. implemented 4 percent) and acknowledge that liquidity can sometimes be a problem. This is akin to a doctor telling an alcoholic to keep drinking, but start taking vitamins. After he's suffered a heart attack.
Salmon says that critics who demand that Basel III prevent the next crisis are asking too much. Whatever the regulatory regime, he says, financial crisis are always possible. It's true-- we cannot predict the unforeseeable. But this truth is also meaningless. We can take measures to ensure that whatever crisis may come is not a global economic disaster, we can ensure that the cost of cleaning it up is low, and we can ensure that the costs to the broader economy are contained. Basel III falls short on all three of these goals. What's worse, all three of them are attainable.


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By John Hielscher & Michael Pollick
At a time when golf is waning in popularity and retiring baby boomers appear poised to take up other sports, builder Taylor Morrison plans to bet millions of dollars that a new golf course will draw home buyers to Manatee County.
The builder's plans for an 18-hole, championship golf course at its Esplanade community in Lakewood Ranch come as several Southwest Florida courses — especially newer links with expensive clubhouses and other amenities — have struggled amid the prolonged economic downturn.
"For a long time now, builders have been hesitant about starting new projects and with good reason — there was too much unsold inventory," said John Brady, founder and editor of Top Retirements.com, a website that ranks retirement communities.
"The bloom has been off the rose for golf courses as well — too many of them exist and there's declining interest in the game," Brady said. "Many courses have closed or gone public, and while builders like Pulte and Del Webb have been building new communities with extensive amenities, they usually have not been with golf."
The proposed Taylor Morrison course would be the centerpiece of a 400-acre, 800-home addition to the builder's "active resort-style" community.
For its part, the homebuilder maintains that the Great Recession has created a void that the Esplanade Golf and Country Club at Lakewood Ranch will fill.
"There are fewer golf courses to play. We see that as an opportunity to meet a niche that there will be demand for," said Cammie Longenecker, a Taylor Morrison vice president of sales and marketing.
Active boomers — part of the cohort of 78 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 — will be the target market.
"We do see a large percentage of our buyers will be near retirement age or will be retiring soon," Longenecker said.
Esplanade is one of two new golf-course projects that Taylor Morrison is planning on the west coast of Florida.
The other is a 1,100-unit development near Naples recently approved by Collier County, said Tony Squitieri, the company's vice president of land resources.
Golf is a $25 billion-a-year sport in the United States, but the number of golfers has dropped from roughly 30 million seven years ago to about 26 million nowadays, according to the National Golf Foundation.
The number of rounds played, meanwhile, fell from 518 million in 2000 to 463 million last year.
As a result, more than 150 courses shut down last year alone, leaving nearly 16,000 open nationwide.
"Golf as an activity hasn't gone away," said Gene Warren, a principal at TW + A Research, a Phoenix-based retirement community consulting firm. "It is just not the activity that it used to be. It has diminished somewhat."
But he concurs with Taylor Morrison's decision to create amenities with affluent, active boomers in mind.
"Everything we see, in our analysis of what the boomers are looking for, are these activity opportunities — walking trails, bike trails, lakes where they can fish or boat," Warren said. "Their parents wanted a quiet sedentary life, but the boomers are not yet ready to deal with old age."
From a development perspective, a prominent Taylor Morrison competitor in Southwest Florida agrees that golf courses are once again in vogue.
"Golf is back, especially in a bundled format," said Pat Neal, a Lakewood Ranch-based developer, referring to buyers' desire for communities that offer a variety of activities.
Neal said that six courses closed in the Sarasota-Manatee region during the recession, which has created an opportunity for builders.
"There are still 78 million boomers who stopped purchasing during this housing crisis for six or seven years, and their biological clocks are ticking," Neal said. "So we are full of customers."
This spring, Neal acquired the Boca Royale Golf & Country Club in Englewood, which opened in 1977. Residents there pay monthly assessments of $429 for family golf.
The Esplanade course will be the region's first since Royal Lakes opened in Lakewood Ranch in early 2008, following a trio of courses — at The Founders Club, the Concession and a course for Ritz-Carlton Sarasota members and guests. Those three debuted during the real estate boom of the mid-2000s.
Taylor Morrison will limit the number of members — Longenencker could not say to what level — and the members will pay annual assessments to support upkeep.
A 12,000-square-foot clubhouse with dining, tennis courts and other amenities also is planned.
"No one has built a golf course that I know of in the past few years," said Keith Pope, chief executive of Pope Golf of Sarasota, which will manage the new Taylor Morrison course. "It is all tied to home sales and we are seeing an uptick in the housing market, so it makes sense."
At Esplanade, golf membership will stay with the home, ensuring that the course is properly maintained, Pope said.
But even well-planned courses became victims during the Great Recession, proponents acknowledge.
Most notably, the high-end Legacy course, designed by Arnold Palmer and opened in Lakewood Ranch in 1997, was seized by its lender in 2009 when the former owner could not pay a $7 million debt.
A moderate golf course costs $6 million to $8 million to develop, Neal said, and often hundreds of thousands of dollars more to maintain.
"They overbuilt golf courses in the past," said Alan Anderson, executive vice president of the Home Builders Association Manatee-Sarasota. "Nonetheless, it is a great amenity for the residents to have at their disposal."
Anderson and others also said that Taylor Morrison must have conducted extensive market research before committing to the Esplanade course.
"You don't just haphazardly plop down the millions of dollars to build a golf course and just hope for the best," Anderson said, noting that Esplanade will be the only course north of State Road 70 in Manatee County.
Warren, the Phoenix consultant, agrees.
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Brown Sugar-Nut Bundt Cake
2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup ground almonds
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
16 tablespoons (1 cup or 2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
2 cups packed brown sugar
3 large eggs, at room temperature
1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
1 cup chopped almonds, toasted
confectioners' sugar, for dusting
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, ground almonds, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
In a large mixing bowl, beat together butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy, scraping down the sides as needed. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, mixing for 1 minute after each. Mix in vanilla and almond extract. Alternately mix in the flour mixture and buttermilk, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients, mixing just until combined. Fold in toasted nuts.
Scoop mixture into a 12-cup bundt pan coated with a nonstick spray that has flour included (like Baker's Joy or Pam with Flour), smoothing the top once all the batter is in. Place into the oven and bake until a wooden skewer placed into the center of the cake comes out mostly clean with a few moist crumbs attached.
Be sure to check on the cake early - if it looks like it happens to be browning too fast, tent the top loosely with foil. Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn the cake out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar just before serving.
Makes about 12 to 16 servings.
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Oh man. The floured cooking spray is MARVELOUS for bundt pans. Try as I might with melted butter and pastry brush and flour, I never could get it coated right and my cakes looked just like that one you show.ReplyDelete
Then I found the floured cooking spray and I have a whole new kind of cake recipes open to me. :)
Joe, I am a sucker for bundt cakes and pound cakes, and I just made homemade unsalted butter yesterday, so I had to give this cake a go. All I had on hand was cashews, but I thought what the heck and used them. I'm sure the flavor isn't as great as yours with the almonds (in fact I'm wondering if I should have just skipped the nuts), but it was good. Thanks for another great recipe with fantastic pictures (even your tore-up cake) and instructions.ReplyDelete
Donna - Love the stuff and it works well with muffins and cakes!ReplyDelete
Rock - Cashews! Good call... Jeff loves them.