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Saturday, November 9, 2013
"Peak Foliage Burst"
During this whole fall season, I have been in constant search for gorgeous color. Traveling from place to place. I know for some of us that season has now passed. For others it has barely begun.
This image is for all you lovers of autumn out there. For everyone who loves the vibrant leaves that only come once a year.
Although this wondrous time of year is short lived, it brings with it much anticipation for me. I marvel at every tree, every color, every leaf. I enjoy each step in crunchy leaves after all the beauty on the trees has passed.
So until next year. We can savor what we saw, what we captured in photos. We can dream of the color, the scents, the amazing brilliance. We can wait longingly till the season of seemingly endless color returns!!
I hope you enjoy this last bit of peak foliage!!
Friday, August 9, 2013
"Historic Front Royal Virginia"
This isn't Wordless Wednesday, instead it's " Few Words Friday"!
These two lovely historic buildings are part of the old historic area of Front Royal Virginia.
The town, the gateway to the Blue Ridge Mountains is a wonderful mix of old and new.
Enjoy! :)
Sunday, June 9, 2013
"The Civil War"
A few weeks ago, I was able to attend a Civil War re-enactment at historic Greenfield Village. I love history, history from all time periods. This time it happened to be from the Civil War era.
There were encampments from both the Union and Confederate sides, drills, exhibits, marches, food, medics, and just about anything you can think of from that time period.
I took many photos there, and instead of my typical images of nature, landscape, architecture or cars. I decided to focus on people, the re-en-actors themselves.
There are three images in this set. I processed them in sepia to give them the feel of the time period.
One image is of a grieving widow. Which has a pretty interesting story to go with it on the etiquette practiced at that time for a woman in mourning. Quite different from today for sure!
Another portrait is of a gentleman from the Kentucky Regiment who was sitting outside of a log cabin, which had become their temporary home during the encampment!
Lastly there's a photo of men performing a drill on what it takes to use a canon. I think these guys were having a lot of fun!
I hope you enjoy this little trip back in time. At some time in the future I'll tell you a bit about the etiquette and standards that women in mourning had to endure. That's a huge story in itself!!
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
"Bright and Lively"
While searching for beautiful flowers and signs of spring. I came upon these tiny orange beauties. The petals were so small, soft, delicate, and a gorgeous hue of orange. Almost like a pumpkin! I thought they'd make a nice addition to my floral images.
In a few months we'll be seeing large sunflowers, dahlias, zinnias and such. For now I'm happy with this bunch of little wonders. Each with a perfect set of six lovely orange petals!
Thursday, February 21, 2013
For today's image I decided to go out of my comfort zone in processing and do something quite different for me!
I started with an image of a lone tree in the fog. I have processed this image in the usual way previously. I love the way it looks in its natural state, but I thought, hey why not try something new!
The first thing I did was take this into from Lightroom into Nik Color Efex Pro. I applied a monochrome solorarization to it, and adjusted it till I achieved the look I wanted. I then sent it back into Lightroom where I added a bit of contrast, as well as a bit of fill light. Finally I sent it into Nik Silver Efex Pro, where I used the initial preset, but adjusted it slightly for a darker look.
I titled this image Zapped because it gives me the feeling of electricity, or a tree hit by lightening! I hope you enjoy this image. It was fun to do, and takes something usual into something a little out of the ordinary!!
If you get the chance. Take advantage of the Solarization setting in Nik Color Efex Pro, and see what interesting images you can create!!
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FamilySearch recently sent out the following invitation. Thanks to Rene Zamora for bringing this invitation to my attention.
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Dear Family History Consultants, Center Directors, and Extraction Directors and Assistants,
We are excited to invite you to the eighth annual St. George Family History Expo, to be held at the Dixie Center, 1835 Convention Center Drive, St. George, Utah on February 24 and 25, 2012.
The opening keynote speaker is Dr. Susan Easton Black who is a professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University. She is also an author of several books about Joseph Smith, Jr. and the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Exhibitors from throughout the United States will teach about the latest products and services available in the industry. Representatives from various genealogical societies will also be on site.
Over 50 classes will be available and will cover a range of topics such as research tips, online resources, helps for writing personal histories, recent updates in FamilySearch (shared by staff from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah), and much more. You can review the complete class schedule at www.fhexpos.com/expos/
We debuted a program called "Ask an Admin" last year. We will have two data administrators from new FamilySearch at the expo. They will spend one on one time with patrons and helped them with their pedigree questions. In many cases, they can to actually 'fix' the problem right then!
You can sign for a 20 minute time slot at the FamilySearch booth on Friday, February 24. Time slots are available on Friday afternoon and evening, and Saturday, February 25. They have the ability to correct many issues, like looping pedigrees, some gender issues, badly combined records and so forth. They will work personally with patrons and will help create support cases for issues they aren't able to correct at the Expo. For cases that are created, they will be able to monitor them back in Salt Lake to make sure they reach the right team and are completed. Please, understand that all issues can't be corrected at this time, but many can. Plus, you may learn some new tips and tricks as you talk with the administrator to help you work more successfully in new FamilySearch.
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There is also no cost for attending the keynote addresses, visiting the exhibitor booths, or attending the three free classes on Saturday morning for family history consultants, stake directors and assistants, and priesthood leaders. We hope to see you there.
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On Sunday, as I waited in the Burbank Marriott lobby for the airport shuttle, I noticed a woman who had attended the session. Before we knew it, we were deep in conversation and missed two shuttles!
She began by saying that she had not intended to come to my IberianAshkenaz talk, but simply found herself there. I explained the meaning of the Hebrew word beshert, destiny or fate.
The San Diego resident shared that her grandmother wore a Jewish star, and so does she. When someone saw it and asked why, she said that it was because of her grandmother. The person said, "there's more to it than that."
Customs observed in her family included not eating pork, covering mirrors when someone died and other traditions. The family had no clue that the family was originally Jewish and thought the grandmother was Greek Orthodox. The family originally came from an area of Mexico I recognized immediately as a known Sephardic center.
The conversation was a moving experience for both of us. I gave her my card, told her about JGSLA 2010, July 11-16 in Los Angeles, which will have several sessions on Sephardim and Conversos, as well as the Sephardic Bnai Anousim conference, July 16-19, in El Paso, Texas.
The Hollywood (Florida) Sun-Sentinel offered a story a few days ago concerning the mysterious tug of Jewish heritage felt by some Hispanics. It includes quotes from Bennett Greenspan of FamilyTreeDNA.com and others.
Growing up in the Catholic faith, Trudi Berglin noticed her mother had a "compulsion" to buy a new set of dishes every spring. No one knew the origin of this family tradition — not even her mother.Many pretended to convert, athough continued secret observances and maintained contact with other similar families. Some traditions have survived until today, but the reasons why have been lost to many who still adhere to them out of respect for their elders.
Only after Berglin, 70, of Fort Lauderdale, became an adult did she learn about the Jewish custom of using a special set of dishes for Passover, which falls around Easter.
She also figured out her family fled from Spain to Italy at the time of the Spanish Inquisition in the 15th century. Under that royal Catholic tribunal for rooting out the unorthodox, Spanish Jews had three choices: leave, convert or die.
Tracing the Tribe was happy to see that the story mentioned the term conversos and also noted that another term - marrano - was pejorative.
The escaping Jews from Spain and Portugal went to Turkey, Holland and Bulgaria. They also settled in Brazil, France, Italy, Mexico and Peru. From around the world, many eventually came to America.
Now people like her are asking questions that spring from a lifetime of nagging feelings about their true background. Some are even turning to DNA testing to see if they have the markers that show they are, at the most basic genetic level, Jewish.A Catholic priest in Albuquerque NM - Rev. William Sanchez -was, as a child, warned away from eating pork and bacon.
"As an adult he took a test for the Jewish DNA marker, and it came back positive."That part of the newspaper article is not accurate. There is no Jewish DNA marker; there is a Cohen Modal Signature carried by those who today self-identify as Kohanim, or descendants of the High Priest Aaron, and share a specific marker signature. That is what Sanchez - and many other Hispanic men - carry. And many Jewish individuals are clustered in certain haplogroups.
Sanchez today runs the Sephardim-New Mexico Project (since 2002). It helps to identify of Jewish heritage in New Mexico. He estimates that 30% of the 210 men tested have Jewish ancestry.
But back to Berglin, mentioned in the story's first paragraph:
Purchasing new dishes at Pesach is a common Sephardic and Mizrahi custom. It was also observed by the Jews in Iran, when we lived there. Many families took the opportunity to purchase new sets of everyday china and pots and pans. Others kept Passover dishes separate from year to year as well as the large pots for rice. My late mother-in-law had all her huge copper pots re-tinned on the inside every year and used these for the week of Passover. Scholars have differing opinions as to how many Jews lived in Spain prior to 1492 and the Exile. Some estimate 100,000 of them decided to leave rather than convert, according to American Sephardi Federation's senior librarian and archivist Randall Belinfante.
In Fort Lauderdale, Berglin became so convinced of her heritage that she converted to Judaism in 1989. Her mother's reaction: "Oh, I wondered if anybody
would ever go back."
"I still get chills myself," Berglin said. "I said to her, 'Now I know why you bought all the damn dishes.' She said, 'Is that what they do?'
As far as tracing families back to Spain over the centuries is not so easy, but many families preserve certain Jewish customs and traditions.
"Now you are seeing the descendants of the descendants of the descendants keep some sort of tradition alive. So now, when we are free in the western world, they can creep out of the shadows and start asking questions," said Bennett Greenspan, the president of Family Tree DNA in Houston, which tests people for genetic markers.The story goes on to cover known conversos on Christopher Columbus's crew, and that among the settlers of Florida's oldest city, St. Augustine (founded 1565) are Jewish names.
He gets requests for Jewish testing from Hispanics "every single day ... from all over the country," Greenspan said. Although there is no "Jewish gene," there is a detectable pattern that can link an individual to a Jewish gene pool.
Clients tell him they "cannot rest" until they know the truth about their family's past.
There's also the story of native Peruvian Jeannina Torres, now living in Florida, and her hunch about her ancestry. Her Catholic family kept dishes separate for dairy and milk and she later learned that this was one of the tenets of kashrut. Both she and her sister have converted to Judaism. The family believes they went from Spain to Peru and that her mother's family name is Landa [TTT: Landa is also a known Eastern European Jewish name. Perhaps this is another candidate for our IberianAshkenaz DNA Project]. Her great-aunt mentioned, at the time of her sister's return to Judaism, that "somebody's going back to our roots."
Berglin is planning a visit to Northern Italy to interview older relatives, check records and also to visit Spain for more information.
Tracing the Tribe hears stories like these frequently. Those of us in a position to hear these stories must assist these individuals to learn more.
The map above, along with an excellent article on the Ladino language (in English and Ladino) may be seen at Lowands-Lnet.


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This is part of Blue Note Records "Rudy Van Gelder Editions" series.
During the spring and summer of 1956, trumpeter Kenny Dorham recorded two studio albums with his Jazz Prophets, a small hard bop band involving tenor saxophonist J.R. Monterose and a rhythm section of pianist Dick Katz, bassist Sam Jones and drummer Arthur Edgehill. On May 31 of that year, Dorham's group performed live at the Café Bohemia with Bobby Timmons at the piano and guitarist Kenny Burrell sitting in on all but the first of four sets. Originally engineered by Rudy Van Gelder and remastered by him in 2001, Blue Note's 2002 double-disc "Complete" Dorham Café Bohemia edition combines every usable track taped during this exceptionally fine evening of live jazz. The word "understated" has sometimes been used to describe the music played by Dorham's band on this night in 1956; this is only appropriate if Dorham is compared with intense individuals like Fats Navarro or Dizzy Gillespie. Dorham's jazz was perhaps more intimate and accessible precisely because his horn had an earthier tone, almost like that of a cornet. Sometimes compared with Ted Curson, Richard Williams or Freddie Hubbard, Dorham sounded a lot like the profoundly gifted and vastly underappreciated Johnny Coles, particularly during ballads like "Autumn in New York" and "Round Midnight." There are also intimations of Miles Davis, Nat Adderley and even young Don Cherry. This music is designed for relaxing and grooving out. It will greatly assist anyone who is traveling by night or trying to make it through to the end of another day. ~ arwulf arwulf
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines paid around $1.5 billion to retire U.S. dollar- and euro-denominated global bonds in a tender offer this week as it sought to lower its debt costs by issuing more local-currency bonds, the government said on Saturday.
The Philippines, one of the most prolific global bond issuers among emerging economies, will use funds held by the Bureau of the Treasury and proceeds from an offer earlier this month of 30.8 billion pesos ($750 million) worth of 10-year peso-denominated global bonds to finance the debt buyback, including interest.
About $3.8 billion worth of notes, comprised of 15 series of global bonds, were offered by investors during the 6-day tender offer that ended on Thursday.
"The exercise will also reduce interest costs for the Republic, avoid bunching up of maturities, and extend the duration profile of the Republic's outstanding debt portfolio," National Treasurer Rosalia De Leon said in a statement.
The Philippines has aggressively pursued debt management schemes, including becoming the sole issuer of local currency-denominated global bonds in Asia, to narrow its public debt as a percentage of gross domestic product.
Those moves have been commended by credit rating agencies. All three of the major credit rating firms rate Philippine sovereign debt at one notch below investment grade.
Before this month's peso global notes, the Philippines public debt to GDP stood at 42 percent, down sharply from 68 percent nearly a decade ago. Its interest payments now account for around a fifth of state spending from close to a third in 2005.
Manila is also selling $500 million in dollar bonds to the local market via a state auction on November 28 to help create dollar demand and dampen the rapid rise in the peso, currently hovering near 5-year highs to become Asia's best performing currency this year.
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The American election campaign is a guide to our own coming contest.
THE release of new official economic forecasts today could put us on the fast train to dullsville - not because the milestone is unimportant, but because we'll be back faux finger-pointing over the faux surplus.
You can hear the scratchy sound bites now. That $2.53 isn't a surplus, it's just slippery accounting trickery! Hang on, don't lecture us about black holes when you've got a $70 billion one! We'll always do better than you! Nah, you won't. A proxy battle so war-gamed and ritualised and scripted for the hourly news update that it has been stripped of meaning.
Meanwhile, the big question hovering before the nation - is government ready intellectually and fiscally for the economic and social policy challenges of the future - takes a back seat.
This question is not a partisan point: it has nothing to do with who is more deserving of occupying The Lodge at this moment in time. This is a structural issue, as big picture as it gets. Do we have the revenue we need to deliver the services people in Australia expect? Is our tax system geared to promote equality and economic efficiency in the 21st century? Can we afford our deep-etched sense of egalitarianism, and is it worth championing?
Politics around the world is currently attempting to define what government does in an era of globalisation and profound economic uncertainty. And despite all the sound-bite chaff here, our major parties are well aware that hard policy work looms to ensure Australia remains prosperous, cohesive and solvent.
Politics is working out how to neutralise the disaffection of the middle class. In the US presidential campaign, this dynamic is particularly stark. Republican Mitt Romney is struggling to overcome his tycoon typecasting and be the everyman. Democrat Barack Obama is pitching aggressively to the people Tony Abbott would call the forgotten families. Economic conditions in the US make the empathy offensive a necessity. Times have been really tough. People have lost their jobs and their homes, and the country is locked in an anxious debate with itself about its own tattered exceptionalism.
The candidates in a way are proxies for a fascinating debate in economics about whether there's ''good'' and ''bad'' inequality. (Is inequality something we have to have to spur entrepreneurship? Or is it a recipe for economic inefficiency and instability?)
Obama is pinning himself to the aspirations of the middle class - America does best when we all prosper. It's both a political and a philosophical pitch. He's asserting intervention can be positive; government is on your side on health care, or if you are a manufacturing worker in Detroit.
Whereas Romney is Mr Meritocracy and Mr Small Government.
The contrast in their world views is best summarised by jokes the candidates made at last week's Al Smith dinner. Romney of Obama: ''You have to wonder what he's thinking - so little time, so much to redistribute.'' Obama of Romney: ''Earlier today, I went shopping at some stores in Midtown. I understand Governor Romney went shopping for some stores in Midtown.''
Here in Australia, Wayne Swan talks a lot about the sanctity of the middle class and the risks associated with trends or policies perpetuating inequality. In his mind, this is the central preoccupation of the new progressivism.
Politics is working out how to neutralise the disaffection of the middle class. In the US presidential campaign, this dynamic is particularly stark.
Tony Abbott (like Romney in the US) has branded Swan's intervention old-fashioned class warfare. Swan's communication lacks light and shade, so it's easy to marginalise his contribution. But this is a worthwhile conversation, whatever your political stripe, because experts tell us there's a link between societal equality and sustained periods of economic growth.
Thinking ahead to our own election contest next year, who ''owns'' middle Australia, or more pertinently, who will claim they do, and on what terms?
The reflexive response is Tony Abbott. Suburban Dad. The daily cost-of-living offensive. Those forgotten families. ''I'll get that carbon tax monkey off your back.'' A centrist in Liberal Party terms, a person comfortable with activist government, and a populist,
not a hawk.
But then there are the blanks. If you were asked to outline Abbott's broad-ranging economic policy vision, what would you say exactly? Would you say he's anti-redistribution? No, not viscerally. But you wouldn't say he was for it either.
Then there's events. Current fiscal circumstances and Abbott's anti-carbon tax and mining tax stances boxes the Coalition in to making a virtue of austerity.
Labor is playing up Liberal budget cuts in the states, roping Abbott in. Does Abbott play his hand before the election - arguing this isn't shrinking government, it's big society? Or do voters get a shock afterwards?
And what of Labor? The government has to navigate difficult cross-currents. There's the gap between progressive vision and the money to pay for it, in the here and now at least - diminished political capital makes new taxes a hard sell. There's a gap between fighting equality rhetoric and measly government benefits for society's most vulnerable.
Swan is doubtless sincere in sign-posting this important issue, but the government will have to have the courage of the whole debate, not just the parts that are politically convenient.
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Fulton Hogan, the privately-held construction company, has slowed its growth aspirations across the Tasman after problems with a joint venture in New South Wales eroded earnings, leading to an 89 percent drop in annual profit.
Net profit sank to just $7.9 million in the 12 months ended June 30, from $73.9 million a year earlier, which departing chairman Ed Johnson described as a "disappointing and totally unacceptable group performance" in the company's annual review, mailed to shareholders. Revenue grew 12 percent to $2.73 billion, in line with budget.
"Absolutely we've had a tough year, but we are very confident between the board and myself we have the business back on track, back to a stable position, and our performance in the first quarter would underpin that," managing director Nick Miller told BusinessDesk. "We've had a very strong performance out of the business across the first quarter."
The Christchurch-based company's earnings plunged after it took a $27.4 million charge on associate companies and jointly controlled entities, including its Pacific Highway joint venture in NSW, which has been beset with wet weather. Fulton Hogan has taken a $55.6 million provision for future losses in its current liabilities on its joint venture.
The construction firm delayed its annual meeting until mid-December as it negotiated the details of the problematic Australian project, having already revoked a planned share buyback in October. Fulton Hogan expanded its footprint across the Tasman last year, buying out its partner in Victoria-based Pioneer Road Services.
Including a revaluation of land, and losses on cash flow hedge reserves and foreign exchange, Fulton Hogan posted a loss of $7.1 million, compared to a comprehensive profit of $99.7 million in 2011.
Miller said the company is slowing its growth aspirations in Australia after building its presence across all states and territories in the world's 12th biggest economy, which was "critical to our strategy." The company rejigged its Australian operations to attract more specialists in its two work streams - industries and construction.
"Part of it has been around reducing overhead structure, but also focusing on what's important. We're confident we now have that under control and the business is running well," he said.
The board declared a final dividend of 5 cents per share, taking the annual payout to 11.5 cents, down from 20 cents paid in 2011.
Fulton Hogan delayed the next two buyback instalments for Shell New Zealand to let it consider a potential acquisition of some resource-based assets in New Zealand.
Miller said the company is focusing on strengthening its balance sheet, through increasing its retained earnings and selling some non-core assets such as forestry and land. Those funds will be put towards repaying debt, he said.
Fulton Hogan had current liabilities of $532.3 million as at June 30 and non-current liabilities of $772.9 million.
Miller was upbeat about the coming year, with a forward-order book of $3.7 billion, saying "the underlying business is still very solid and is well-positioned for the future."
Fulton Hogan will continue to pursue a 'zero harm' health and safety policy after four workers died in the financial year in four separate incidents, and has introduced a number of new initiatives to improve the culture and behaviour around safety, Miller said.
"That rocked us to the core - Fulton Hogan has always had health and safety as a number one priority," he said.
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The Band Perry had a banner year in 2011, due in large part to the crossover success of 'If I Die Young.' They will soar into 2012 with another heralded appearance. The trio of siblings will perform the national anthem at the AT&T Cotton Bowl at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas on Jan. 6, reports CMT.
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|[Bangla Daily Star] A Shariatpur court yesterday sentenced two activists of the banned Islamist outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Mohammedan Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually went
kaboom!. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt.
to death for their involvement in the 2005 series kabooms in the district.
As part of its countrywide terror campaign, the JMB on August 17 that year simultaneously blasted several bombs at the office of Shariatpur deputy commissioner, court premises, in front of Dak Bungalow and in Palong Bazar area of the district.
That day, the Islamist outfit went
kaboom!bombs in 63 districts out of 64.
The two to die for the Shariatpur blasts are Kamruzzaman alias Swapan, 27, and Malek Bepari alias Malek Zehadi, 28.
The duo was present when the judge of the District and Sessions Judge's Court Mohammad Sajedul Karim pronounced the verdict around 1:00pm, said Public Prosecutor Mirza Hazrat Ali.
Following the blasts, Shariatpur Sadar Police Station Sub-inspector Badruzzaman filed a case against some unidentified people.
Later, investigation officer of the case Kamal Hossain submitted the charge sheet accusing the two along with the then JMB chief Sheikh Abdur Rahman and its operations commander Siddikul Islam Bangla Bhai.
The court accepted the charge sheet on January 2, 2006, and framed charges against them on January 18 the same year.
Abdur Rahman and Bangla Bhai were among the six bully boyz executed in March 2007 for killing two Jhalakathi judges.
Their executions marked the end of country's first overt militancy campaign that rattled the nation through its 2005 coordinated blasts and suicide kabooms.
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Dream Theater's 2019 is shaping up to be a busy one.
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Dream Theater's 14th studio album, Distance Over Time, is due out February 22, 2019.
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OCOEE, Fla. – Homeowners are up in arms after an Orange County homeowner's association said it may to cut down hundreds of trees lining the neighborhood's streets.
The HOA said the tree roots are damaging sidewalks and causing injuries at Westyn Bay, a gated subdivision in Ocoee. Since it's a gated community, the HOA is responsible for maintaining the sidewalks and not the city, meaning if someone trips and gets hurt, the HOA can face lawsuits.
"People trip and fall, they sue the association," said HOA attorney James Gustino.
Nearly 455 trees located between the streets and the sidewalks may be cut down because the roots are causes the sidewalks to pop up. Gustino said at least one person has already been hurt on the damaged sidewalks.
The HOA board spent more than $5,000 smoothing over the bumps and replacing entire sections of payment, an expense they say they believe will only grow.
Gustino said such large trees should have never been planted in small spaces.
"This is going to be a problem that is going to penetrate virtually every community that's been developed within the past 15 years in Central Florida," Gustino said.
Some homeowners tell Local 6 the HOA's plan to save money will hurt their property value.
"The reason we moved into Westyn Bay was because of the trees," said Myra Couzo, who has lived in the community for nearly 10 years. "I think they're important for shade, they're important for the birds, they're important to our earth."
If a homeowner wants to keep a tree on the parkway outside of their house, the HOA says they can, but the homeowner would responsible for maintaining the sidewalk if it breaks.
The homeowner would also be responsible for paying the liability insurance in case someone gets hurt.
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Long, hot summer for Romney
Long, hot summer for Romney
Long, hot summer for Romney
It's been a cruel summer for Mitt Romney on the Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM).
Polls show a tight race between Romney and President Barack Obama on the eve of the Republican National Convention, but the two are heading in opposite directions on the IEM. Romney's contract price on the IEM's Winner Take All market has dropped by 16 percent since reaching its peak of 47.6 cents on June 10. It was trading at 40 cents Friday morning after having gone as low as 36 cents earlier in the week.
That means the market believes Romney has a 40 percent probability of winning the popular vote in November.
And as Romney has trended down through the record hot summer, Barack Obama has trended up. The price of his contract on the Winner Take All market bottomed out at 53 cents on June 13, but was trading for 61 cents on Friday. That means traders believe he has a 15 percent higher probability of winning the popular vote than he did two months ago.
There's been significant movement as well on the IEM's Vote Share Market, which predicts the percentage of the popular vote that each candidate will receive, although traders give Obama an edge there, too. Obama's contract was trading at 57.8 cents Thursday morning, up from the 52 cents it was trading at on Aug. 8. That means traders believe that as of the most recent trading, Obama will receive 57.8 percent of the popular vote between the two candidates.
Meanwhile, Romney's price has fallen from a peak of 48.9 cents on Aug. 10 to 45.5 cents this morning, which means traders believe that as of the most recent trade, he will receive 45.5 percent of the popular vote between the two candidates.
The Vote Share market does not count votes of candidates outside the two major parties.
A real money futures market operated by the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business, the IEM gives traders the opportunity to buy and sell contracts based on what they think the outcome of a future event will be. Contracts for the correct outcome pay off at $1, all other contracts pay off at zero. As a result, the price of the contract at any given time is the probability that the traders believe that event will happen. Traders can invest up to $500 in the market.
The latest general election market prices are available at iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/quotes/Pres12_quotes.html. More information on the IEM—including information on opening a trading account—is available at tippie.uiowa.edu/iem/markets/.


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The guest barista gig was super fun. Two shifts, it's like riding a bicycle! Even my latte art hadn't atrophied that badly. Very cool. Most of the old regulars were in, which was nice. It was good to catch up to people. Plus, I got to check out the bottomless portafilter in a true production environment. I was impressed. While it does add a little time to each drink, and while I was finding that I was throwing out more shots, the drink quality was up (and was noticed by all) and the cleaning time every 45 minutes was down around 33%. Plus, the espresso is more flexible. For example - I was able to pull some shots of the Intelligentsia Oromo that were really nice. I was able to downplay the berry, and amp up the spice and chocolate. Made for a very nice espresso indeed!
I'm glad I did it - but I'm also glad I'm not working there full time anymore, much less managing.
And now I'm getting all worked up about NASCORE. It's going to be a ton of fun is my guess.
I'll be at the Stumptown Single Origin even on Saturday and Sunday morning.
I'll be at the BGA Townhall Meeting on Saturday at NASCORE.
I'll try to make it to as much of the WRBC as possible.
And I'll be at the BGA party Sunday night at Crema (of course).
I'm also going to try and squeeze in some time on the show floor as well.
I'll be going to as many tasty restaurants as I can fit in around these commitments - so if you're going to be at the show and walk to eat good food... let me know.
I'll take pictures of it all (of course).
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Ways of the Lord, Now Available as eBook for Kindle, iPad, and Nook
Ways of the Lord: Perspectives on Sharing the Gospel of Christ by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America and published by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America is now available in an ebook edition through all major online resellers including Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble as well as the Archdiocese's Orthodox Marketplace. This ebook edition of Ways of the Lord offers ease of access and reading using the latest features of Kindle, iPad, Nook, and Sony eBook Reader.
The Ways of the Lord ebook is available for $4.95 at www.orthodoxmarketplace.com as a download for iPad or Kindle. The ebook edition is also now available free of charge with the purchase of the print edition through the Orthodox Marketplace. The Kindle version of the book is available at www.amazon.com, and the Nook version at www.barnesandnoble.com.
Ways of the Lord represents the first publication from the Archdiocese's ebook publishing initiative. His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios has instructed that all Departments and ministries begin publishing their resources in ebook format so that the Archdiocese can continue to minister effectively to the ever-growing number users of ebook readers and tablet computers.
Dedicated to His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the book is a collection of major addresses given by Archbishop Demetrios. The publication includes the keynote addresses from the 2000-2008 Clergy-Laity Congresses along with speeches delivered at conferences and symposia in the United States, Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey. Titles of some of the addresses included in the book are:
- Offering our Orthodox Faith to Contemporary America
- Gather My People to My Home
- A Christian Spirituality of Peace and Justice in a Violent World
- A Free Society Founded on Truth: Truth Making People Free
- The Dynamics of the Orthodox Faith in Contemporary America
- The Ecumenical Patriarchate and its Ministry of Reconciliation
- Human Impasses and the Church Fathers
The title of the book, Ways of the Lord, emphasizes a major theme in all of the speeches. In the prologue Archbishop Demetrios writes, "The Gospel of Jesus Christ is by its very nature a living and dynamic reality to be shared by many, if not by all human beings. The permanent, absolute, and uncompromising condition of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the condition of transmitting it, of sharing it, of making it the precious property of more and more people."
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For the rest of November, five of my ebooks will be $.99 on Amazon, B&N, and Kobo (which includes WH Smith and Angus & Robertson). Amazon updates either instantly or takes all day, UK Nook will update later, and Kobo's new prices will be reflected tomorrow. All but Final Frontier is available in paperback.
Here's the ones on sale:
Out of Time, my time travel novel, is currently $.99 anyway, but I'm thinking of raising the price to $2.99 at the end of the year, which includes Apple & Sony.
Currently is rated 4 stars with 8 reviews on Amazon.
In the 2150's, a scientist discovers time is actually fluid; past, present, and future all exist at the same time. What he doesn't know, is if the current timeline can change when something is changed in the past. The US government wants him to find out. The theme being to make right what once went wrong.
The links
Amazon US, Amazon UK, B&N Nook, B&N Nook UK, Kobo, Apple, Sony
New Frontier, Book 1 in my New Frontier Series. Normally $3.99
In this alternate history novel, what-if Ronald Reagan became President in 1976 instead and the Space Race turned out differently? He pledges to support NASA with the moon landings, and declares that a moon base would be established by 1979, followed by a Mars Base by 1989. The Soviets decide to up the ante by building something bigger.
The rest of Earth follows the original timeline, so terrorism rears its ugly head, which will forever change American politics. Iran and its attempt at taking hostages is taken care of in 1979, but a new threat emerges because of it. The new President of the United States has to pursue these enemies of the U.S. to secure America's future. We follow America's progress from Moon to Mars, along with the Teacher in Space Program, to an eventual starship mission out of the solar system, which will continue in book two.
The links:
Amazon US, Amazon UK, B&N Nook, UK Nook, Kobo
Final Frontier is book 2 in my New Frontier series, and a new release. Normally $2.99
In this sequel to New Frontier, the USS Lewis & Clark begin their search for the Soviet starship Yuri Gagarin. They find the wormhole that the Gagarin went through twelve years earlier and decide to go through it. On the other side, the crew of the Lewis & Clark find a solar system that used to be populated by aliens known as Pictorians, but they're no longer there. Neither is the crew of the Gagarin. So, the Lewis & Clark is flown back through the wormhole to report back to Earth.
Unfortunately, something is wrong, they find themselves 30 years in the past. As they struggle to wait for their future to catch up, the crew of the Lewis & Clark make changes to certain events, but they cause unintended consequences; including making another alien species mad enough to forbid humans from traveling beyond the Sol System. Find out what happens in this conclusion of the New Frontier series.
Links: Amazon US, Amazon UK, B&N Nook, Nook UK, Kobo
Beyond the New Frontier, which is currently exclusive to Amazon, will be FREE the day after Thanksgiving, but is either free to borrow now for Prime Members or buy for $4.99. Also available in paperback currently on Amazon.
Times of Trouble, the 1st novel in my End Times Saga. Normally $3.99, 6 reviews 4 stars.
Thirty years in the future, the U.S. government has turned into a tyranny as the EPA and TSA grow with ever more power.
Brian, the main character, tells his story from first person point of view. His work with the FBI involves mostly cyber terrorism and actual cases of potential real world terrorism. Eventually, his wife gives birth to their third child, who has Down's Syndrome, which does not please the U.S. Health Administration because there are rules and regulations set-up in cases like these to prevent "genetic freaks" as they like to call them, from sucking up a lot of Health Admin money. Because the Atwoods are born again Christians, they never considered aborting the baby, so now the Health people have to take him away to deal with the problem later.
Meanwhile, the Secret Service decides to recruit Brian to be the personal agent of the President of the United States, David Collins, due to his great work stopping a terrorist plot that would've involved Offutt Air Force Base. Brian's faith is tested every day as he deals with a man that has no morals from what Brian can see, and is tested even more when his wife finds out that she's dying from a fast growing form of breast cancer. Trouble in the rest of the world pits the U.S. against Israel as that country attempts to defend itself from attack.
When the re-election of Collins doesn't turn out the way he wanted it, he and his people declare the election nullified because of supposed "irregularities" with the ballots. Collins claims that the new President-elect may take the seat sometime in the middle of next year, if everything looks to be sorted out. Collins purges his staff of what he considers unloyal people, including Brian. At the same time, Brian loses his wife, but regains the son he thought he had lost.
Brian moves back to his family home in Nebraska, where we follow what happens as the country slowly falls apart. Events play out as Brian and his family sees the End Times approach.
Links: Amazon US, Amazon UK, B&N Nook, Nook UK, Kobo
Times of Trial, the second novel in my End Times Saga. Normally $3.99
The Tyler's have a church that is dying in Tucson, Arizona. Even though the church is dying, they take care of the remaining senior members, including the ones in nursing homes and in hospice. The other family in the church, the White's, head to Wyoming to live in a community that was originally started by Doomsday Preppers back in the early 2000′s so they can attempt to escape the increasing persecution of Christians and are helped by a Navajo Nation Sheriff who became a Christian as a young man.
Greg Tyler, who is the oldest son, dreams about a girl, but has no idea who she is. During this time, he's kicked out of high school after getting into a fight with the bully who has constantly tortured him throughout their school years. Laura Hall lives in Phoenix and is her high school's Senior Class Treasurer. She dreams about a boy, but hasn't the slightest idea who he is, and neither one can see the faces of the one they're dreaming about. Eventually, the two come across each other in the Camp that President Collins orders Christians into, but only after Greg rescues Laura from some bullies who collaborate with the Camp Commander. They attempt to get to know each other before the Rapture.
President Collins orders the activation of Camps across the country that will house believers who he thinks are a threat to his rule. His patron, Michael Collins, manipulates events in the Middle East to stir up trouble between Iran and Israel. The Tyler's end up with others in a camp in Arizona, while the White's and the community they live in gets attacked by government troops. Evans continues to manipulate events as the Rapture takes the Christians, and he gains ultimate power.
Links: Amazon US, Amazon UK, B&N Nook, Nook UK, Kobo
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There isn't any water shortage — desalinate
Northern, Central and Southern California have plenty of water. We have the Pacific Ocean! It is salty, but we can build desalination plants and create drinking water, as Israel and other countries do.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is rolling out new plant technology with cheaper and stronger filtering membranes. Desalting plants are expensive, but tunnels cost even more. North, central and south state area can build plants. Stealing water from rivers and marshlands harms fisheries and habitats and deprives farmers of water for food crops. Remember the "Peripheral Canal?" We stopped it. Now we must stop the "Peripheral Tunnels."
The solution is obvious: get more water, don't just move what little we have around. Let's get busy before the next drought and be creative instead of destructive. Stop tunneling and start desalinating. Create and use portable water. We must call and write our representatives, senators and governor and keep pressure on against the stupid tunnels until the nonsense stops.
Rosemary Hartman
For what chief of hospital did, there's a word
I read the front page story about the $1 million-plus-salaried Washington Hospital CEO who wrote thousands of dollars in philanthropic checks to her own hospital organizations and others and then got reimbursed for thousands of those dollars. I read the story three times, looking for the word, which I think best describes what she has done. I was looking for the word "fraud." Fraud was pretty well described in the descriptions of her check writing and reimbursements.
Hospital board Director Dr. William Nicholson declared that checks written by CEO Nancy Farber and maybe others were needed to "jump-start more giving." He said that the board does not review or set limits on the CEO's expenses and that the CEO "would act appropriately in all matters." The reimbursements are "allowed under Farber's contract."
This all points to a highly paid hospital CEO who is not so philanthropic and a board that seems complicit in helping her, and I think deceptively, encourage others to donate money, money which is presumably given without expectations of reimbursement.
Ron Geren
Health talk at Christmas unreassuring
As instructed by the president, we discussed health care at the dinner table on Christmas.
A medical doctor at the table discussed his experience at the VA Hospital. Before patients in serious back pain can be seen by an M.D., they must first pass through the pain clinic and physical therapy. After finally being seen by an MD who recommends surgery, the wait continues. In total, 18 months passes while a patient at risk of long term nerve damage waits. The VA Hospital is government health care on a small scale. We can all expect this as the new normal as we are subjected to "universal health care."
Ray Devlin
Parking lots' lanes should be numbered
An old codger like me sometimes forgets where his car is parked! It would really help if the grocery stores, big box stores, hospitals, home improvement stores, malls and so forth numbered their parking lot lanes. They already do this at the stadiums and sports arenas.
Donald C. Wilfong
San Ramon
Lee fails to talk about welfare recipients' role
Far leftist representative Barbara Lee typically rails against Republicans for supposed insensitivity to the food stamp program (Dec. 1 Contra Costa Times).
But nowhere in her diatribe does she mention any responsibility or positive steps that recipients of the welfare handouts could take that would not only reduce the staggering amount of taxpayers' money doled out to them but would, more importantly, improve their own lot in life and give them a degree of respect and accountability.
Living a life virtually from cradle to grave at other people's (society's producers) expense not only strips welfare takers of dignity but also must be terribly damaging to their pride and sense of self worth, if they possess such qualities.
Citing the 50th anniversary of one of the biggest boondoggles in history, Lyndon Johnson's abominable "War on Poverty" which has cost untold billions (trillions?) of dollars with poverty more widespread now than its inception, Lee fatuously writes that we must continue to work toward eradicating poverty. Poverty will never be eradicated. Sadly, neither will Lee and her "progressive" brethren.
Lanny R. Middings
San Ramon
Liberals should go all-out with love for Reagan
So now the Left, in an attempt to defend Barack Obama's extremist expansion of federal government power, incredibly claim such overreaching would have been part of Ronald Reagan's agenda (Dec. 31 letters).
Reagan was a firm believer in limited government and was quoted as saying "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." He also famously said that liberals aren't ignorant; it's just that "they know so much that isn't so." It would be welcome news if the Left now wants to adopt Ronald Reagan's agenda and policies and reverse their big spending and dictatorial ways.
Carol Nowicki
Castro Valley


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Weak economy darkens Maine revenue picture to tune of $128 M in 2014-15
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � The stubbornly weak economy is darkening Maine's revenue prospects for the next two years by more than $160 million, and the gloomy new figures will likely force Gov. Paul LePage to issue a spending curtailment order in mid-December.
The state's Revenue Forecasting Committee on Wednesday prepared numbers to be formally presented to lawmakers on Thursday. They show revenues lagging by $35 million this fiscal year and by $128 million for the two-year budget cycle starting next July.
Maine Finance Commissioner Sawin Millett says the biggest contributors to the red ink are under-performance of sales and corporate taxes.
The LePage administration is getting ready for immediate action on the $35 million shortfall. The governor's curtailment order would cut back spending in select areas without affecting necessary services.


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Hewlett-Packard announced this week that they are finalizing plans to reorganize part of the company's printing division.
The as-yet-firmed plan would combine HP's printer and personal-computer businesses into one unit, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Long-known for their printers, Palo Alto-based HP dove head first into the PC business a few years ago after profits took a dip.
CEO Mark Hurd, who took over four years ago, has taken a clue from shoppers, shifting the company's focus from printers to PCs.
The shake-up would leave current printer chief Vyomesh Joshi without a job. But he's not likely to be collecting unemployment anytime soon. The electrical engineer has been a member of Yahoo's board of directors since 2005, and is highly qualified to run any number of other Silicon Valley firms.


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ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS that happens at a professional football camp for rookies is disabusing these star collegiate athletes of the notion that they know it all.
This is partially done by going back to the basics of football, like blocking, tackling and how not to fumble the ball. This helps them become better professional players by sharpening their skills and helping minimize rookie mistakes.
For similar reasons, this kind of "going back to basics" can be helpful to investors.
The first basic that many investors ignore is the requirement to decide on an asset allocation before any investments are made.
For example, an investor who selects an allocation of 90 percent stocks and 10 percent bonds is likely to see portfolio returns and volatility quite differently than one who selects 90 percent bonds and 10 percent stocks. As numerous studies have shown, asset allocation plays the dominant role in long-term returns. It's more influential than the actual securities selected or the timing of these selections.
The next basic that many investors ignore is that investing in anything but insured bank CDs, short-term U.S. Treasury securities or money market funds involves some type of risk. The reason other investments are expected to have a higher return than these is the "risk premium" that they must pay to persuade investors to choose them rather than a risk-free investment.
This risk is real, as investors in stocks, bonds and commodities have experienced over the last decade. This does not mean that investors should shun these, only that they should understand the risks involved and, when possible, consider partially mitigating them.
This leads to four specific questions: By investing in this security, what type of risks am I taking on? Is the risk premium that I expect large enough to compensate me for these risks? Should I partially mitigate the risks? How can I do that?
Dealing with these questions would require several columns, but it's worth briefly looking at the last two.
Aggressive stock investors might answer "no" to the mitigating risk question. More moderate investors might answer "yes." Then, for example, they might choose to hedge an investment in stocks with above average volatility by using stock options. Slightly fearful investors might choose to sell a call. More fearful investors might buy a put.
It's also basic to ask about the investor's investing style. Is she an aggressive investor looking for maximum capital gains? Is she a conservative investor looking to preserve capital? Is she an income investor looking to maximize the income from her portfolio?
This leads to the next basic questions: What role does this particular investment play in my portfolio? How is it going to help me meet my investing goals? A portfolio that is a hodgepodge of randomly selected securities without an overall strategy is unlikely to perform well or be effective at meeting the investor's goals.
Another basic question an investor should ask is: Do I understand my investment limitations?
It's critical that an investor not invest in strategies or securities that he doesn't fully understand. Investing beyond one's skill can result in disaster. For example, buying an individual "junk" bond when the investor doesn't have the ability to analyze its credit quality is asking for trouble. Similarly, following an option investing strategy without understanding the details of how options work or how to decide on their "fair" value is asking for trouble.
Another basic question an investor should ask is: Do I have realistic expectations of the returns available from different kinds of investments based on their historical returns and future economic possibilities? This knowledge can prevent investors from making foolish mistakes.
For example, if someone touts a stock as likely to return 50 percent a year and the investor knows that stocks have historically returned a bit less than 10 percent and the economy is looking uncertain, then they may scrutinize this investment very carefully and possibly avoid losing money.
For more, follow me on Twitter @logicalinvestor.
If you have a financial issue that you would like to see discussed in this column or has other comments or questions, Robert Stepleman can be reached c/o Business News, Herald-Tribune Media Group, 1741 Main St., Sarasota, FL 34236 or at rsstepl@ tampabay.rr.com
Going back to basics can yield better investing results
ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS that happens at a professional football camp for rookies is disabusing these star collegiate athletes of the notion that they know it all.