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The Fiscal Cliff Approacheth
In an effort to make this thread sticky-worthy, I am going to update this OP to keep casual glancers informed.
This post is the official one-stop shopping of the key points/developments of the fiscal cliff negotiations.
Far as I understand, the fiscal cliff:
1. Gets rid of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.
2. Gets rid of the Bush tax cuts for everybody else.
3. Slashes defense spending by something like $500 billion.
4. Slashes domestic programs like the NIH, Head Start, and medicine/drug care for the poor by $500 billion.
The new idea is for Democrats to allow the cliff to hit, then immediately introduce a bill that would bring 2, 4, and some of 3 back. But not 1.
Here is a chart detailing exactly what the fiscal cliff is going to do, financially:
Obama's opening offer, essentially:
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If Obama loses, I don't think he goes through with the veto. It would forever brand him as a liberal partisan, and it would make him look like he was trying to sabotage Romney's first term as President.
I suppose it is possible for Obama to not take the high road on his way out of office, but one would hope he would have more respect for the Presidency and the nation than that.
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Jonathan Chait has a fascinating take: that the fiscal cliff can set up extremely manageable negotiations while slaughtering the deficit.
Bank CEOs Fear the Fiscal Cliff They Apparently Don't Understand
By Jonathan Chait
10/19/12 at 4:58 PM
My story in the magazine about Mitt Romney and Barack Obama's economic policy plans explains how the "fiscal cliff" has entered the broader political lexicon in a way that badly distorts everybody's thinking, and is often invoked to mean the exact opposite of what it really is. The fiscal cliff doesn't refer to the deficit spiking, it refers to the deficit going away really, really fast, beginning on January 1.
Republicans hate the fiscal cliff because it eliminates the deficit in ways they hate — mostly by ending all of the Bush tax cuts, along with some spending cuts that take a huge bite out of the Pentagon. But another group also hates the fiscal cliff for different reasons. The centrist anti-deficit groups funded by Pete Peterson hate the fiscal cliff because it creates an avenue for bringing revenue and outlays in line in a way that they don't want. It basically creates a situation where the deficit is solved in ways that are more left-wing than even Obama proposes, giving him leverage to craft a solution largely along his own preferred lines, rather than through the "grand bargain" they have been fruitlessly trying to craft since 2010. And so they are issuing dire warnings about the fiscal cliff that are either completely disingenuous or reveal a total failure to understand what they're complaining about.
So, for instance, a group of financial executives, including JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, warns in a letter, "interest rates could spike significantly if policymakers do not agree to stop the series of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts and replace them with a long-term plan to tame the federal debt." Uh, no, that is not how it works. Interest rates can spike when the deficit gets too high. The fiscal cliff involves the deficit getting very low very quickly. The problem is that it's too quickly, and if it stays that way for months and months on end, it could throw the economy back into recession. But interest rates would remain very low in that case.
This sets up an interesting game of chicken. Republicans are hoping to use the fear of these economic consequences to force Obama to come to heel and extend the Bush tax cuts before January. Obama says he won't do that. And if he doesn't do that, we get to January, the deficit disappears, and it becomes very easy for the two sides to make some accommodation. (Obama could agree to cut tax rates, cut entitlement spending, and raise defense spending, and still wind up to the left of his own proposal.)
The Peterson network appears determined to avoid that outcome. Dimon, a supporter of the Peterson backed "Fix the Debt," argues, "Just take the fiscal cliff off the table. Some of the potential outcomes are very bad, and we shouldn't take that chance."
But, of course, if the fiscal cliff is off the table, then Republicans have no incentive to cut a deal. Then we're back to the same position we've been in: deficit scolds pleading with both sides to make a deal; the deal failing because Republicans care more about low taxes for the rich than anything else; and then the fiscal scolds blaming both sides for failing to make a deal.
If they actually wanted a deal to reduce the deficit, they would want to put everything off until January. Instead they're saying a bunch of stuff that makes no sense. So either they just have no idea what is going on with the issue they're claiming to care about more than anything else in the world, or they're trying to give Republican anti-tax jihadists the leverage they will lose if Obama wins reelection.
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How the fiscal cliff affects the poorest Americans
Posted by Suzy Khimm
on October 28, 2012 at 5:07 pm
The fiscal cliff hits the richest Americans harder than the poorest ones: If all of the tax changes happen on Dec. 31, the top 20 percent of Americans would see their effective tax rate rise about 5.8 percentage points on average, while the bottom 20 percent of Americans would see their tax rate rise about 3.7 percentage points, according to the Tax Policy Center That's largely because of the Bush tax cuts to income, capital gains and the estate tax. But certain parts of the fiscal cliff have would have a much bigger impact on poor Americans than rich ones.
Both the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit were expanded under Obama's 2009 stimulus to help lower-income Americans—and despite being scheduled to expire on Dec. 31, these extensions have seen less attention than other elements of the fiscal cliff.
The EITC was originally created to encourage poor Americans to work, and it's been found to prove especially effective in increasing the employment of single mothers and decreasing welfare rolls. The 2009 stimulus raised the threshold of the credit phaseout from $3,000 to $5,000 and increased the wage subsidy from 40 percent to 45 percent for families with three or more children.
The Child Tax Credit was also expanded in 2009, building upon 2001 changes that doubled the tax credit to be as high as $1,000 per child under 17. Under the stimulus, if a family was eligible for a credit that was bigger than the taxes they owed, they received part of the balance for earnings above $3,000. (The threshold was previously $12,550.) As with the EITC, there's a lot of research linking the Child Tax Credit to higher achievement and lower poverty rates.
While the 2001 changes overwhelmingly helped middle-income families, the 2009 expansion was targeted to help the bottom 20 percent of Americans, as the Tax Policy Center's Elaine Maag explains in this chart:
Overall, if the tax breaks from the 2009 stimulus are allowed to expire—the EITC and Child Tax Credit expansions, along with American Opportunity Credit for college tuition—the poorest 20 percent of Americans would see their taxes go up by $209 on average, reducing their after-tax income by 1.9 percent, according to the Tax Policy Center. The top 40 percent of Americans, by contrast, would see see a mere 0.1 percent drop in after-tax income. And advocates for the poor are now worried that these provisions will fall by the wayside during the fight over the Bush tax cuts and their impact on the richest Americans.
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Middle class faces quick impact from fiscal cliff in form of alternative minimum tax
By Lori Montgomery
Nov 05, 2012 02:00 AM EST
The best hope for a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff may lie with the alternative minimum tax, an obscure provision of the tax code that is about to become alarmingly relevant to millions of middle-class taxpayers.
Unless Congress acts by the end of the year, more than 26 million households will for the first time face the AMT, which threatens to tack $3,700, on average, onto taxpayers bills for the current tax year. Because those people have never paid the AMT, they have no idea they are in its crosshairs put there by a broader stalemate over tax policy that has kept Congress from limiting the AMTs reach.
Forget about the much-publicized tax hikes set to take effect for 2013 if you have a couple of children and annual income over $75,000, chances are good that your taxes are on track to go up substantially for 2012.
Residents of high-cost urban areas, including Washington, would be hit hardest, with about 2 million households in Maryland, Virginia and the District in line to face the AMT for the first time, by official estimates.
Unlike most tax increases in the fiscal cliff, including the expiration of the George W. Bush-era income tax cuts, the AMT bill would come due almost immediately. And tax experts say it would be extremely disruptive to try to fix the AMT after the 2012 tax year closes Dec. 31.
Officials with the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department declined to comment on the impact of adjusting the AMT after December. But congressional tax aides said the IRS has advised Congress that trying to fix the AMT after the filing season begins in January would lead to processing delays of more than two months for nearly half of all returns significantly postponing the delivery of refunds.
That would be a disaster, an unmitigated disaster for the taxpayers of the United States. Its just not possible to do that, said Nina Olson, national taxpayer advocate at the IRS. Olson noted that many people count on their *refunds, which average around $3,000, to cover immediate needs. For example, she said, many utilities do not do shut-offs for nonpayment in January and February, because they know people will use their tax refunds to get caught up on their heating bills.
Lobbyists and aides in both parties say it is hard to imagine Congress letting the new year arrive without legislation to restrict the AMT. Optimists say the need to fix the problem could force Republicans and Democrats to come together on a plan to address the fiscal cliff, which comprises $500 billion in tax hikes and automatic spending cuts set to take effect in January, potentially snuffing out the countrys economic recovery.
The alternative minimum tax was created in 1969 to prevent the super-rich from using credits, deductions and other shelters to avoid taxes altogether. In simple terms, its a flat tax with two brackets, 26 percent and 28 percent. Breaks for dependents, medical expenses, and state and local taxes are all disallowed. Instead, taxpayers get a single big deduction, called the AMT exemption, which usually rises with inflation. Taxpayers who owe more under AMT rules than under normal tax rules must pay the higher amount.
Over the decades, the AMT has ceased to affect the extremely rich, because their tax bills are higher than the AMT rates. Instead, the inflation-adjusted AMT has come to target 4 million to 5 million taxpayers with annual incomes between $200,000 and $1 million.
This year, however, a gridlocked Congress has failed to approve the inflation patch that prevents millions of people from falling into the AMTs grasp. The last patch expired in December. If a new one is not enacted, the AMT will hit 31 million taxpayers this year, reaching deeply into the middle class.
In the District and Maryland, where about 6 percent of taxpayers have become accustomed to paying the AMT, the figure would jump to 41 percent in D.C. and 38 percent in Maryland, according to official estimates. In Virginia, where 4 percent of taxpayers have routinely paid the AMT, the figure would increase to 28 percent.
Residents in other high-cost areas would also get socked. In New Jersey, for instance, where people are still digging out from Hurricane Sandy, taxpayers would face a fresh burst of bad news when they break out the TurboTax early next year. More than half of all Garden State households would owe unexpectedly large tax bills, the highest percentage in the country.
Nationwide, nearly one in five taxpayers is in line to pay the AMT. And while the levy is causing bipartisan nightmares, urban states which tend to lean Democratic are by far the most vulnerable.
That poses a challenge for Democrats planning to use the fiscal cliff as leverage to force Republicans to raise taxes on the wealthy to help reduce the federal budget deficit. President Obama has threatened to veto legislation that extends the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 3 percent of households, a top GOP priority.
If Obama wins reelection Tuesday and Republicans refuse to give in, Democrats say they are prepared to sail over the cliff and let the Bush tax cuts expire for everyone for the 2013 tax year. That would put them in position to press legislation in January to restore the Bush tax cuts probably in a different form for taxpayers earning less than $250,000 a year.
But the AMT could throw a wrench into those plans, because there is no easy way to deal with the levy once the cliff is breached.
For the moment, party leaders are blaming each other for not addressing the problem. To Republicans, the AMT is another reason to extend all the expiring tax policy so we can overhaul the tax code to create jobs, spur economic growth and get rid of the AMT once and for all, said Antonia Ferrier, spokeswoman for Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (Utah), the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee.
Democrats, meanwhile, accuse Republicans of holding AMT payers hostage in the pursuit of tax advantages for millionaires. The fact that Republicans are willing to risk not doing an AMT patch which has always been bipartisan and relatively noncontroversial shows to what extreme theyre willing to go to protect the wealthy few, said Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.).
According to estimates by the Tax Policy Center, more than half of all married couples will owe an additional tax of around $4,000 unless Congress acts. And more than a third of families with children will fall subject to the AMT, with parents of three or more children facing an extra tax of $4,700.
Among married couples with at least two children and adjusted gross income between $75,000 and $100,000, the center estimates that 84 percent will face a significantly higher tax bill this year because of the AMT.
There is also the possibility that some people could face penalties for failing to withhold a sufficient amount throughout the year to cover a tax they did not know they would owe, said Leonard Burman, a tax expert at Syracuse University.
But politically, its inconceivable that Congress would let that happen, Burman said. Theyre all playing this dangerous game of chicken.
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With the House, Senate, and White House staying the same, looks like Wall Street today is factoring in the fiscal cliff.
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Study warns of another recession if 'fiscal cliff' not addressed, Obama re-enters debate
Published November 09, 2012
WASHINGTON – The double-whammy of spending cuts and tax hikes set to take effect in January would send the nation into another recession and drive up the jobless rate to 9.1 percent by next fall, congressional budget analysts said.
The startling new report by the Congressional Budget Office comes as Capitol Hill leaders and President Obama prepare for a lame-duck session of Congress where the so-called "fiscal cliff" will take center stage. Obama planned Friday to offer a framework for talks, speaking from the East Room of the White House in his first post-reelection address from Washington.
A lot is at stake. The new Congressional Budget Office report on Thursday predicted that the economy would fall into recession if there is a protracted impasse in Washington and the government falls off the fiscal cliff for the entire year. The CBO analysis says that the cliff -- a combination of automatic tax increases and spending cuts -- would cut the deficit by $503 billion through next September, but that the fiscal austerity would cause the economy to shrink by 0.5 percent next year and cost millions of jobs.
The potentially economy-crippling set of tax increases and automatic spending cuts is due to hit in January unless congressional leaders can overcome a key impasse. Democrats continue to demand that the Bush-era tax rates lapse for those making $250,000 and up. Republicans continue to insist on keeping tax rates stable for everyone.
House Speaker John Boehner, though, has said he's willing to accept "new revenue" -- perhaps by closing loopholes and other deductions -- as part of overall tax reform in exchange for serious entitlement cuts.
"Raising tax rates is unacceptable," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, declared Thursday on ABC. "Frankly, it couldn't even pass the House. I'm not sure it could pass the Senate."
Boehner has suggested a "bridge" bill to avoid the "cliff" in the short term and allow for a bigger deal in 2013.
Obama faces a tough, core decision: Does he pick a fight and risk a prolonged impasse with Republicans or does he rush to compromise and risk alienating Democrats still celebrating his victory?
Many of his Democratic allies hope Obama will take a hard line when he addresses the matter Friday. Republicans warn that a fight could poison efforts for a rapprochement in a bitterly divided Capitol and threaten his second-term agenda.
Some analysts believe that the fiscal cliff is more like a fiscal slope and that the economy could weather a short-term expiration of the Bush-era tax rate and that the government could manage a wave of automatic spending cuts for a few weeks. But at a minimum, going over the fiscal cliff would mean delays in filing taxes and obtaining refunds and would rattle financial markets as the economy struggles to recover.
The new study estimates that the nation's gross domestic product would grow by 2.2 percent next year if all Bush-era tax rates were extended and would expand by almost 3 percent if Obama's 2 percentage point payroll tax cut and current jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed were extended as well.
All sides say that they want a deal and that now that the election is over everyone can show more flexibility than in the heat of the campaign.
Obama is not expected to offer specifics immediately. His long-held position -- repeatedly rejected by Republicans -- is that tax rates on family income over $250,000 should jump back up to Clinton-era levels.
Republicans say they're willing to consider new tax revenue but only through drafting a new tax code that lowers rates and eliminates some deductions and wasteful tax breaks. And they're insisting on cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps, known as entitlement programs in Washington-speak.
The current assumption is that any agreement would be a multistep process that would begin this year with a down payment on the deficit and on action to stave off more than the tax increases and $109 billion in across-the-board cuts to the Pentagon budget and a variety of domestic programs next year.
The initial round is likely to set binding targets on revenue levels and spending cuts, but the details would probably be enacted next year.
While some of that heavy work would be left for next year, a raft of tough decisions would have to be made in the next six weeks. They could include the overall amount of deficit savings and achieving agreement on how much would come from revenue increases and how much would be cut from costly health care programs, the Pentagon and the day-to-day operating budgets of domestic Cabinet agencies.
Democrats are sure to press for a guarantee that tax reform doesn't end up hurting middle-income taxpayers at the expense of upper-bracket earners. Republicans want to press for corporate tax reform and a guarantee that the top rate paid by individuals and small businesses goes down along the way.
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Effective Business Advertising: Four Obsolete Marketing Methods in the Digital AgeSunday, February 24th, 2013
Welcome to 2013! The internet and mobile revolution has brought on many changes to business marketing strategies. Advertising that once worked splendidly has lost impact due to the changes in the way consumers communicate and seek out information. Many people, for example, forgo a home phone and every member of the household has a cell phone. With the advance of computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones in virtually every aspect of our lives, people are reading more of their information from online sources than any other. This changed reality has resulted in an array of new and inexpensive advertising opportunities that allow you to reach your target audience any time day or night, no matter where they are or what they are doing, and in more personal and meaningful ways.
Companies that are slow to embrace new technologies and continue to focus their advertising budgets on methods that worked decades ago are being quickly outpaced by more modern competitors. As a result, they are losing potential customers every day. A business with outdated advertising practices that wishes to remain competitive must modernize and optimize their advertising strategies to eliminate ineffective marketing methods. In most industries, increasing the effectiveness of marketing investments means embracing the digital era and moving their advertising efforts to the internet.
How can a business, currently entrenched in marketing methods that worked a decade ago, take advantage of the upgraded advertising opportunities available to them and get ahead digital era? This article is designed to detail four obsolete business marketing methods, why not to use them for your modern business, and how to replace them with more effective advertising technologies. Stop wasting your money on advertising that simply does not work. Abandoning these four obsolete methods of traditional business promotion can lead to an increased return on investment when they are switched to more cost-effective methods online.
Telemarketing, or cold calling, was a popular form of marketing for many years. The concept works similar to door-to-door sales, only over the phone. Simply obtain a list of potential clients, call them at their home or business, and read a professionally written script. Ideally, the phone calls are made quickly with minimal talk time, with an attempt to talk to as many people as possible while minimizing rejections.
Why not?
This may sound like a great marketing strategy, however, there is a major downside. People generally have become annoyed with these types of calls. When the concept was fresh, people happily answered their phones and many of them would listen to what you had to say. In today's world, people are used to communicating quickly and have access to a wealth of information digitally, eliminating the need to learn about products or services over a forced and disruptive telephone call.
In addition, call screening and gatekeepers have become common. Digital telephone systems exist that screen out calls from unwanted parties. With the increased use of smartphones, many people have downloaded apps specifically designed to identify and block telemarketing calls. Because of all these factors, it is unlikely that your target audience will be reachable by phone, making telemarketing obsolete.
What's better?
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Direct Mail
Direct mail is one of the oldest forms of promoting products or services. Businesses gather a mailing list of potential clients, usually tens of thousands, and put together a clever letter or post card. This method is most commonly used for coupons, store newsletters, or as a way to inform people about new products. The material is then mailed to the target client's home or business address. Often times a single ad from one company is combined with dozens of ads from multiple companies, resulting in a single mailer of ads sent via bulk mail to the advertiser's targeted list.
Why not?
Direct mail has another term associated with it: "junk mail." These mailings often go directly into the trash can and are often not read. This creates an inconvenience to the client and is a waste to businesses. It can become expensive to print and distribute high color advertisements via mail, so it is important to see a high return when using them. Unfortunately, "Junk mail" does not usually result in a high sales return.
In addition, the United States Postal Service has begun to limit its services, offering limited services on Saturday and no service on Sunday. In recent years, the mail industry has seen a seen a heavy decline is overall sales. Businesses are now limited to advertising via this method Monday through Friday, the busiest days of the week for most people and the days where they are least likely to have time to sift through disruptive advertisements. Plus, if addresses are written incorrectly or the client has moved, it is even less likely they will see the advisement. High cost, poor targeting availability, and low return on investment has made advertising by direct mail obsolete.
What's better?
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Yellow Pages
The yellow pages within a phone book are a listing of all the businesses in a particular area organized by category and name. Businesses can buy ad space for their respected categories, up to a full page, in hopes they will catch the eye of the person seeking the type of service or product the company offers. Phone books with yellow pages are often dropped off at a telephone customer's home or business address, usually in a bag on the ground near the door.
Why not?
People readily access most information online or on the go with a cell phone, making an advertisement in the phone book yellow pages rather ineffective. The printed copies of business directories often make their way into the trash bin immediately upon delivery. While many yellow page directory services have created online versions to go along with the printed book, these are equally as ineffective. No one uses business directories to locate information on products or services, preferring instead to directly search for information on a search engine such as Google or Bing, or via social search in Facebook. Due to the high cost of advertising in yellow page and directory services, and the dwindling number of people looking to them for answers, the Yellow Pages are obsolete when it comes to advertising your business.
What's better?
People go directly to search engines to search for service providers in their area, and use search engine relating mapping services provided by Google or Bing to locate products or services nearby. Creating search engine listings and having a modern website listed in online search is vastly superior to yellow page advertising. With search marketing, instead of a small, single advertisement on a piece of paper, you are able to drive interested customers to a website full of robust pages of information, contact forms, interactive media, videos, and integrated social media components unique to your business. As a bonus, search engines are available on the go, so potential clients can find you while on the road and away from home. In addition, these searches are conducted using keywords typed in to a search box, allowing you to laser focus your advertising to only those people who are most likely to need your products or services. Search engine marketing provides your business with a quick, accurate, round-the-clock advertising method, helping you drive interested clients straight to your location or website.
Newspaper and Magazine Ads
Newspapers and magazines are a common place for advertisements, especially for local products or services. Each newspaper or magazine is printed and distributed to thousands of client's doorsteps on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. The ads can be placed in a number of different sizes ranging from as little as one forty-eighth of a page to a two page ad, depending on the paper.
Why not?
Print newspapers and magazines are becoming less and less common. It's a dying industry with rapidly shrinking readership. This is due to the ease of finding information, including news, online. Many traditional newspapers are no longer existent or have moved their operations online in the form of dedicated blogs or E-newspapers. Most magazines have replaced printing in favor of digital copies that incorporate video as well as images.
Traditional newspaper ads can also get quite costly depending on the size of the ad and the following the newspaper has. While small ads are often available at a reduced cost, they may be overlooked by readers depending on the placement. The traditional paper size is 15 by 22 and a half inches, and one forty-eighth of that amounts to a tiny ad space, a little over an inch. The fact that readership of printed magazines and newspapers has declined, and your tiny ad often blends in with the page and is seldom seen, makes advertising in paper newspapers and magazines obsolete.
What's better?
Online display advertising allows you to publish high quality color advertising images and online videos to targeted websites at a fraction of the cost of a printed ad in a newspaper or magazine. Many of these websites are visited on a regular basis by your ideal customers, so a steady flow of potential clients will see your ad. In addition, online display ads can link those viewers directly to your website, putting them just a click away from a wealth of information about your products or services. Display advertising allows you to target readers with a particular focus, making it possible to specialize further and show your ad only to people who are likely interested in what you offer.
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- Advertisement Performance Tracking and Analytics: Internet advertising provides the ability to measure advertising effectiveness. You can quickly compare cost vs. performance via mechanisms that track the number of times your ads were viewed and the number of times they were acted upon. Detailed performance tracking makes it easy to determine if your advertising is working or needs to be adjusted.
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Happy Wednesday Morning to you all! On the road again...feels so good to be on the road again.....lalalala.....LOL! Yep, I am at the airport....waiting for my flight....to go....???? Well can't tell ya that but do know I will bee-boppin' my way across the US today and I'll be on Facebook letting you know what I see and do and find LOL! My first trip of 2012 and I'm praying for a smooth trip, no delays, weird weather, lost bags or fall-downs LOL--so please pray with me ok!? There is a storm system moving up the East Coast so I'm hoping to fly out before that affects any flights and less turbulence for me. I plan on sleeping on my 2nd flight and I have a prime-window seat with my name on it and I'm hoping NO WEIRDOs sit next to me...but you know I attract strange people like a darn magnet. I just checked and so far no one has purchased the seat next to me on my 2nd flight so I'm hoping that holds LOL..and nope I'm not flying Southwest out but I am flying it back home. No sing-a-longs this morning....too darn early for all that & I am NOT a morning kinda girl...I'm sucking down my Cherry Coke as fast as I can to get that caffeine into my system. If they could create an IV version for my Cherry Coke I just may buy it...I have a feeling that today is going to be a 4+ Coke kinda day hahahaha....so WATCH OUT!!
Here's a funny video for you...this guy Remi does a whole series of these videos...and yes they CRACK me & the teens up. He's crazy--a total loon but you just gotta laugh (if you like this one...then make sure to watch the Kangaroo Man & Urban Touchdown ones...omgosh I'm giggling right now)
I have a new group at the CMC Classroom and it debuted this past Monday with a fun chat & party on the site (if you were there, thanks for coming by, it was crazy, fun & fast)! It's called We R Smashin', Scrapbookin' & Journalin' -- so if you like to do any of those or want to get started come join our group!! I gave away a bunch of Smash Book goodies and gift certificates to those that came & played some travel trivia with us. Smash Books have gotten pretty popular & you can view some videos of them HERE. They are similar to scrapbooks except the idea is to kinda "smash everything" in there...you don't concentrate on layouts as much as you do in a traditional scrapbook. So you can glue in receipts, pictures, ticket stubs and write in there---they are meant to be put together quickly which is highly appealing to me LOL. I started scrapbooking (traditional) 15 years ago when there was just stickers & decorative scissors (heehee...remember those days) and I loved it...but darn it...I'd spend 2 weeks and $150 on a 2 page layout & be stressed. So I switched to mostly digital scrapbooking (although I am sooo far behind) and eventually moved into other paper crafts like card making. So I have 3 Smash Books I'm working on this year...yeah yeah when do I have the time....wellllll...that is why I created the group so that it would keep my "rear in gear" and get it done. So even if you don't use a Smash book but are a traditional scrapbooker or just want to use a notebook YOU ARE WELCOME at the group--its open to everyone. Each month we will have a theme/prompt/idea to get you started & then you can enter your projects that month for a chance at a great prize. The first 2 Smash Books I'm doing are a Random Suzanne Thoughts/Ideas and a Travel Book that I will carry with me to document all my travel goings-ons while I'm away. So below are my first couple of pages for you.
Alexa is also operating a Tween/Teen area on the group for those that want to join in...she's working alongside of me with her own Smash Book and will maintain a special area for teens to hang out, share ideas and projects.
PS--that great blinkie was made for me by Tiffany of Tiffany Doodles--she rocks!! And you can grab it for yourself if you'd like over at the CMC Classroom or email me for the html code ok!
So the theme/idea at the group for the month of January is Bucket Lists/2012 To-Do Lists/New Year's Resolutions. I created a kinda mental "2012 Goal List" for myself of things I want to try & maintain and do this year personally like to "BE PRESENT IN THE MOMENT"--really enjoy each moment without worrying or thinking about what comes next. "TO BREATHE even when the stress seems overwhelming"---like little mantras to myself I'll be chanting this year....yes crazy Suzanne talking to herself again LOL. My next page will be "Things I Want to Do/Accomplish Before I Turn 40" (that's 2 years folks...yikes) and that list may be VERY LONG so I'm working on that next week. I have always written my goals down since I was very young...I believe that seeing them in writing and reminding yourself regularly keeps you going down the path to doing them...I've always been goal oriented. Keep your eye on the ball kind of mentality :)
I typed my list up on Word and printed it out and then just added some embossed card stock, some Smash tape and a few embellies with supplies I had on hand. Remember that to do these books you don't need special supplies if you choose...use what you have, use an old book or notebook and any paper crafting supplies you already own. I got a few Smash Book items like the books, some smash pads and some of their decorative tape but for most of my book I will just use what I have. I also stamped a few fun images and doodled a bit on this page...I like to doodle...a lot...I forgot how much I liked to do it LOL!
Find a great selection of Smash Goodies at 7 Kids College Fund and Oh My Crafts!
The second page already had this great "I AM" prompt on it so I decided to run with it. I doodled and wrote all the things that I think describe me best and who I think I am. I just had fun with it and filled in areas with some doodles, smash tape & Stickles. I used my Copic Spica pens so that all my writing has a subtle glitter to it for fun. Just a fun page to look back on and for my kids & grandkids to read one day!
Well that is it for me today! I hope you will come on over & join us at the group and have some fun with us. Its a great place to chatter, share thoughts & ideas and your projects with everyone. And for someone like me....well its a great motivator to keep on smashing LOL! Hope you all have a wonderful week and I'll be back this week to post some pictures for ya too!


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Firm receives prestigious industry award for fourth consecutive year
London, 26th April 2011 – Jones Lang LaSalle, the leading global integrated financial and professional services firm specialising in real estate, received the General Motors (GM) 2010 Supplier of the Year award for its significant contributions to GM's global product and performance achievements. This marks the fourth consecutive year Jones Lang LaSalle has been presented with the distinction.
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"This honour from one of the world's leading companies recognizes that true value in today's marketplace emerges from companies committed to innovation and continuously improving partnerships," said Stuart Hicks, CEO of Corporate Solutions at Jones Lang LaSalle.
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Given two line segments $ab$ and $cd$, I want to draw a circle tangent to both line segments and passing through points $c$ and $b$.
Primitive operations available to me are:
- Draw a line between two points.
- Draw a perpendicular line passing through a point.
- Draw a line at a particular angle passing through a point.
- Construct a circle with a given line segment as the diameter.
- Construct a circle given 3 points on the boundary.
- Construct a circle given a center point and a point on the boundary.
- Find the midpoint of a line segment.
- Find center of an (already drawn) circle.
I can draw the circle passing through $c$ and $b$ and tangent to either $ab$ (or $cd$) by finding the intersection of a perpendicular bisector of $bc$ and a line from $b$ ($c$) perpendicular to $ab$ ($cd$).
However, I'm having trouble finding a circle passing through the points tangent to both line segments. Since I'm interested in actually drawing the such circles, obviously simpler constructions are better.
Update: Note that if there's a certain symmetry between the line segments, then the above construction works perfectly. Suppose we have a line segment $a'b$ instead of $ab$. Then we get the following:
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My mother-in-law is in town and she brought us tons of lemons from her lemon tree! I didn't want them to spoil before I could use them so I've been busy. This past week I've made lemon bars and candied lemons. Today I made lemon marmalade. I absolutely love marmalade but have never had a lemon version before. When I looked around for recipes most call for Meyer lemons which these are not. I finally found this recipe at About.com and went for it.
Prep time: 25 minutes
Cook time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Total time: 2 hours, 55 minutes
Yields: 3 pints
10 large lemons
4 cups water
4 cups sugar
Using a vegetable peeler, remove yellow part of peel in strips from lemons. Cut stripes into 1-by 1/8- inch strips. With knife, cut off all white membrane, or pith, from peeled lemons.
Cut peeled lemons crosswise into 1/4- inch thick slices. In heavy non-aluminum 5-quart kettle combine lemon peel, sliced fruit and water. Cover and refrigerate 3 to 4 hours.
Heat lemon mixture to boiling over high heat, stirring frequently.
Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, until lemon mixture is very soft, about 1 hour.
Add sugar to lemon mixture and increase heat to medium-high. Stir until sugar dissolves. Heat to boiling and reduce heat just so mixture boils gently. Boil uncovered, stirring frequently, until candy thermometer registers 220 degrees F., 45 to 60 minutes.
Meanwhile, prepare three 1-pint canning jars with their lids and bands for processing following manufacturer's directions. Spoon marmalade into hot jars, leaving 1/4- inch space at top of jars.
Wipe jar rims clean. Seal with lids and bands. Process jars in boiling water bath 15 minutes. Cool jars on wire rack. Store in cool, dry place. Refrigerate after opening.
Let me share some notes and observations I made while making this.
- 25 minute prep time my butt! Peeling and slicing all those lemons took at least an hour to do.
- I used 9 lemons and one orange. No reason, just because I felt like it.
- I didn't refrigerate my lemons in the water bath (no room!). Just used cold water and kept it on the counter for 3 hours.
- After I added the sugar, my marmalade never reached 220 degrees. It stayed at 210 for an hour. Around that time, the consistency was jelly-like so I called it good and ladled it into the jars regardless. Turns out it was fine. My marmalade is the perfect thickness.
- This yielded slightly more than 2 pints for me not 3.
- This is an awesome marmalade! My husband used the word 'rich' to describe it. It's definitely not a marmalade for the weak-hearted.


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'90210' Season 4 Scoop: Matt Lanter Teases 'Heartache' For Annie & 'A New Lady' For Liam!
These two can't catch a break! Do you hope Annie & Liam pull through, or is it time they split for good?
The fourth season of 90210 will bring some major changes for the recent West Bev grads, but Annie (Shenae Grimes) and Liam's (Matt Lanter) troubled relationship definitely isn't one of them. "Liam and Annie were kind of on the rocks [at the end of last season]," Matt told HollywoodLife.com on Aug. 14 at the 2011 VH1 Do Something Awards. "And we come back… but we may be on the rocks again."
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MCMICKING v. SCHIELDS(1915)
Mr. S. T. Ansell for appellant.
[238 U.S. 99, 101] No appearance for appellee.
Mr. Justice McReynolds delivered the opinion of the court:
The Philippine supreme court by final decree in a habeas corpus proceeding discharged charged appellee from custody [238 U.S. 99, 102] and the director of prisons has appealed. The controversy fairly involves the application of 5, organic act of the Islands (act of Congress, July 1, 1902, chap. 1369, 32 Stat. at L. 691, 692, 695, Comp. Stat. 1913, 3804, 3808, 3818); and under 10 of that statute we have jurisdiction of the appeal. Fisher v. Baker, 203 U.S. 174 , 51 L. ed. 142, 27 Sup. Ct. Rep. 135, 7 Ann. Cas. 1018; Paraiso v. United States, 207 U.S. 368 , 52 L. ed. 249, 28 Sup. Ct. Rep. 127.
Appellee, Schields, presented a petition to the supreme court January 4, 1911, wherein, after setting out his alleged wrongful imprisonment under a judgment entered in the court of first instance, city of Manila, he further alleged and prayed: 'That said imprisonment and deprivation of his liberty are illegal, because said court of first instance denied him the due process of law guaranteed by the Philippine Bill of Rights. The said illegalities are as follows: That on December 21st, 1910, the petitioner appealed from a judgment of the lower court sentencing him for the crime of theft. That on December 23d the petitioner, without having been asked to answer the complaint, was notified that the case would be heard at 10 A. M. on the 24th. When the case was called at 10 A. M. on December 24th, and while the petitioner was arraigned, he asked for time in which to answer the complaint, which request was denied by the court, who ordered the clerk to enter on the record that the petitioner pleaded 'Not guilty' to the complaint. Thereupon the petitioner's attorney also asked for time in which to prepare a defense, which petition was also denied by the same court, to which ruling the petitioner's attorney excepted and asked that the exceptions, together with the requests of the petitioner which had been denied, be entered on the record. Wherefore, the petitioner prays the Honorable supreme court to issue a writ of habeas corpus in his favor, reversing the judgment pronounced by the lower court as being contrary to law, and that the petitioner be set at liberty.'
Responding to a rule to show cause why the writ should [238 U.S. 99, 103] not issue, appellant answered that by virtue of an order of the court of first instance petitioner was in his custody in Bilibid prison to serve a sentence of four months and one day of arresto mayor imposed upon conviction of theft. Copies of the commitment and judgment were made parts of the return. In course of that judgment the judge said: 'At the beginning of the trial the defendant asked for further time to prepare, and invoked certain sections of general order 58, which, in our judgment, were not applicable to this case. The prosecution did not file a new complaint in this court. Defendant was tried on the identical complaint which was presented in the court below as long ago as December 1st. To that complaint, as the record shows, he pleaded not guilty, and having further brought this case here on appeal, the presumption is that such plea continued, and to allow delays for the reiteration of such a plea would be an empty formality. The law does not require a vain and useless thing, and the provision in question must be construed as applying to cases where a new complaint is filed in this court. But aside from this, we think that the time of trial caused no prejudice to the accused. As we have seen, the complaint was filed on December 1st, and the accused had more than three weeks to prepare before the trial in this court. During this period there were evidently one or more continuances, and finally, it seems, the defendant had to be called into the municipal court by a bench warrant. Upon bringing the case here it was incumbent upon him to follow it up and to be ready and waiting its disposition by this court. Notice of the trial was sent both to him and to his counsel the day before, and it was not claimed that defendant could have produced any further testimony if the case had been postponed. On the contrary, it appears that he called one witness who did not testify in the court below. After all, the question in the case is mainly one of law. The principal controversy as to the [238 U.S. 99, 104] facts relates to the question of the alleged permission to take articles, and this, as we have seen, would not have excused the defendant, even had it been proved, though he admits that himself and Frandon are the only witnesses on that point.'
General order No. 58, promulgated from the office of the United States military governor April 23, 1900, and now in effect, amended the Code of Criminal Procedure theretofore in force within the Islands. Kepner v. United States, 195 U.S. 100 , 111 49 L. ed. 114, 117, 24 Sup. Ct. Rep. 797, 1 Ann. Cas. 655. It provides: 'Sec. 19. If on the arraignment, the defendant requires it, he must be allowed a reasonable time, not less than one day, to answer the complaint or information. He may, in his answer to the arraignment, demur or plead to the complaint or information. . . .
Sec. 528 of the Code of Civil Procedure enacted by the Philippine Commission August 7, 1901, provides: 'If it appears that the person alleged to be restrained of his liberty is in custody of an officer under process issued by a court or magistrate, or by virtue of a judgment or order of a court of record, and that the court or magistrate had jurisdiction to issue the process, render the judgment, or make the order, the writ shall not be allowed; or if the jurisdiction appear after the writ is allowed, the person shall not be discharged by reason of any informality or defect in the process, judgment, or order.'
The pertinent part of 5 of the organic act, approved July 1, 1902, 'The Philippine Bill of Rights,' is as follows: 'That no law shall be enacted in said Islands which shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or deny to any person therein the equal protection of the laws. That in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to be heard by himself and counsel, to demand the nature and cause of [238 U.S. 99, 105] the accusation against him, to have a speedy and public trial, to meet the witnesses face to face, and to have compulsory process to compel the attendance of witnesses in his behalf. . . .' Kepner v. United States, 195 U.S. 117, 118 , 49 S. L. ed. 119, 120, 24 Sup. Ct. Rep. 797, 1 Ann. Cas. 655.
The supreme court having heard the cause upon petition and reply held- one judge dissenting-that the writ of habeas corpus should be allowed, and discharged the prisoner. Among other things it declared: 'The denial to the accused of the time, at least two days, to prepare for trial, expressly given to him by mandatory statute, there being absolutely no discretion lodged in the court concerning the matter, is in effect the deprivation of the constitutional right of due process of law, to a trial before condemnation, said statute being for the purpose of making practically effective in benefit of the accused said constitutional provision. . . . The denial to the accused of a constitutional right does one of two things,-it either ousts the court of jurisdiction to enter a judgment of conviction, or it deprives the record of all legal virtue, and a judgment of conviction entered thereon is a nullity, it having nothing to support it. . . . He applied for a writ of habeas corpus upon the ground that the judgment was void as a matter of law, as he had been convicted without due process of law. . . . The refusal of the time in which to prepare for trial, and the consequent forcing of the defendant to his defense on the instant, is, under the provisions of our law, equivalent, in our judgment, to a refusal of a legal hearing. It amounts in effect to a denial of a trial. It is an abrogation of that due process of law which is the country's embodied procedure, without which a defendant has, in law, no trial at law. . . . Nobody has denied the initial jurisdiction of the trial court. It has never been discussed or even questioned in this court. That jurisdiction has always been freely conceded. The decision of this court rested upon something which [238 U.S. 99, 106] occurred after the jurisdiction referred to had attached and after the trial had begun. It rested upon the proposition that, while the trial court had jurisdiction in the first place, it either lost that jurisdiction during the progress of the trial, or so transcended its powers as to render its judgment void.'
We are unable to agree with the conclusion of the supreme court that the judgment pronounced by the court of first instance was void and without effect. Under the circumstances disclosed denial of the request for time to answer and to prepare defense was at most matter of error which did not vitiate the entire proceedings. The cause-admitted to be within the jurisdiction of the court-stood for trial on appeal. The accused had known for weeks the nature of the charge against him. He had notice of the hearing, was present in person and represented by counsel, testified in his own behalf, introduced other evidence, and seems to have received an impartial hearing. There is nothing to show that he needed further time for any proper purpose, and there is no allegation that he desired to offer additional evidence or suffered substantial injury by being forced into trial. But for the sections in respect of procedure quoted from general order No. 58, it could not plausibly be contended that the conviction was without due process of law. The court of first instance placed no purely fanciful or arbitrary construction upon these sections and certainly they are not so peculiarly inviolable that a mere misunderstanding of their meaning or harmless departure from their exact terms would suffice to deprive the proceedings of lawful effect and enlarge the accused. Ex parte Harding, 120 U.S. 782, 784 , 30 S. L. ed. 824, 825, 7 Sup. Ct. Rep. 780; Re Wilson, 140 U.S. 575, 585 , 35 S. L. ed. 513, 517, 11 Sup. Ct. Rep. 870; Felts v. Murphy, 201 U.S. 123, 129 , 50 S. L. ed. 689, 692, 26 Sup. Ct. Rep. 366; Re Moran, 203 U.S. 96, 104 , 105 S., 51 L. ed. 105, 108, 109, 27 Sup. Ct. Rep. 25; Frank v. Mangum, 237 U.S. 309 , 59 L. ed. --, 35 Sup. Ct. Rep. 582.
The decree of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, granting the writ of habeas corpus, and discharging the prisoner, must be reversed and the cause remanded to that court for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.


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St. Pete-Clearwater International PIE
(PIE) is located on State Route 686 (Roosevelt Blvd.) 4 miles north of St. Petersburg. Our address is 14700 Terminal Blvd., Clearwater. For the GPS location, use 14501 Roosevelt Blvd.
Please note roadway construction may cause delays, please allow extra time for travel.
Use Interstate 275 North to reach the airport. Take Exit 30 (686/Largo). Get in the leftmost lane to use the overpass to Roosevelt Blvd. After the red light, get in the leftmost lane and take the overpass to Ulmerton West 688. After two red lights, get in the rightmost lane and take Roosevelt Blvd. West 686. The airport will be on the right.
Take State Route 60 East (Gulf to Bay Blvd.) to the Bayside Bridge (which provides the most direct route from Safety Harbor as well as via McMullen Booth Road). Take the first exit just south of the bridge and turn left to head east on SR 686 (Roosevelt Blvd.). The airport will be on the left.
Take Interstate 275 across the Howard Frankland Bridge. Take Exit 31 (688 West) onto Ulmerton Rd. Travel 2.5 miles west, and get in the rightmost lane, West 686 (Roosevelt Blvd.) The airport will be on the right.
Take U.S. 19 south and exit at SR 686 East (Roosevelt Blvd.). The airport will be on the left.
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) provides a free, bilingual Florida 511 traveler information system with real-time traffic information though phone and the Internet. Dial 511 or visit FL511.com.
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14700 Terminal Blvd.
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Road Trip 2012 - Downers Grove, ILby Tom Runge • July 12, 2012 Share:
The 2012 Road Trip continued tonight as Rudy and Frank, our student team, hosted the second evening in the Chicago area - this one in the western suburbs.
Ballydoyle's Irish Pub seemed to be the perfect spot as alumni, family, friends, and current students joined the gathering. Tonight's group included Steve Bowen '68, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and Joe Emmick '92, who served as Dean for Advancement at the College until last December.
The formula for the Road Trip is simple - low cost events that are informal, short on programming, and long on socializing and networking. An added bonus? A free t-shirt for every attendee!!!
Friday night the crew will be in Detroit.
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USA Today reports that groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council and the Cato Institute have had much success in discouraging states from creating Obamacare's health insurance "exchanges." Even the Heritage Foundation, which once counseled states to establish "defensive" Obamacare exchanges, now counsels states to refuse to create them and to send all exchange-related grants back to Washington.
In response, Obamacare contractor and self-described conservative Republican Cheryl Smith sniffs:
When you work at a think-tank, it's really easy to come up with these really high-risk plans.
Except, there is no risk to states. The only risks to this strategy are that health insurance companies won't get half a trillion dollars in taxpayer subsidies, and that certain Obamacare contractors won't get any more of those lucrative exchange contracts.


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The following is the 2000-2009 Kia Spectra wiring diagram, Kia Spectra IAT (Intake Air Temperature) Sensor Location and the Kia Spectra MAF (Mass Air Flow) Sensor Location, also included is a pinout of the sensor. You are likely installing a performance chip or a cold air intake kit for increased HP (Horsepower). You will want to be sure to disconnect the car battery before adding performance products.
Here is the Kia Spectra Iat sensor diagram:
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The information on the following pages is not in any specific order but there is a wealth of information if you are looking to locate your iat sensor, aka: intake air temperature sensor or you are looking for your MAF, aka:Mass Air Flow Sensor, I also have pinouts showing what part of the maf sensor contains the designated iat wiring. It's all here!
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2000-2009 Kia Spectra Iat sensor/maf sensor location & pinout wiring diagram
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Can you post a diagram of a 2006 kia spectra MAF/IAT sensor? This vehicle has a combination sensor with 5 wires and I need to know which 2 are the IAT and the IAT return wires. Thanks!
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Annual, perennial herb, sometimes aquatic
Leaves generally basal and cauline, generally alternate, simple or compound; petioles at base generally flat, sometimes sheathing or stipule-like
Inflorescence: cyme, raceme, panicle, or flowers solitary
Flower generally bisexual, radial; sepals generally 5, free, early deciduous or withering in fruit, generally green; petals 0many, free; stamens generally 10many; pistils 1many, ovary superior, chamber 1, style 1, generally ± persistent in fruit as beak, ovules 1many
Fruit: achene, follicle, berry, or utricle-like, 1many-seeded
Genera in family: ± 60 genera, 1700 species: worldwide, especially n temp, tropical mtns; many ornamental (Adonis, Aquilegia, Clematis, Consolida, Delphinium, Erianthis, Helleborus ),
some highly TOXIC (Aconitum, Actaea, Delphinium, Ranunculus )
Reference: [Duncan & Keener 1991 Phytologia 70:2427]
Annual, perennial herb, sometimes from stolons or caudices, terrestrial or aquatic; roots generally fibrous
Stem prostrate to erect
Leaves basal and generally cauline, generally reduced upwards, generally glabrous; petiole base flat, stipule-like or not; basal and lower cauline petioles generally long; blades simple to dissected or compound, entire to toothed
Inflorescence: cyme, axillary or terminal, 1few-flowered
Flower radial; sepals generally 5, generally early deciduous, generally glabrous, generally green to yellowish; petals generally 5, generally > sepals, generally white to yellow, shiny; nectar gland near petal base, pocket-like or with flap-like scale; anthers yellow; pistils generally many
Fruit: achene, generally compressed, beaked, generally glabrous; walls thick
Species in genus: ± 250 species: temp worldwide, tropical mtns; some ornamental
Etymology: (Latin: (Pliny) little frog, from generally wet habitats)
Perennial 1060 cm
Stem generally erect, few-branched, generally hairy
Leaves generally soft-hairy; basal and lower cauline petioles 211 cm, blades 1.56 cm, ovate to cordate, generally deeply 3-lobed, lobes toothed to deeply cut; upper cauline leaves smaller
Flower: receptacle glabrous; sepals 38 mm, hairs short; petals generally 56, 415 mm, 28 mm wide
Fruits 1022; cluster spheric; body 24 mm, sides 1.53.5 mm wide, smooth, sparsely puberulent or glabrous, back keeled; beak generally 1.52.5 mm, curved or ± straight
Ecology: Meadows, flats, open woodland or forest
Elevation: 1002200 m.
Bioregional distribution: California Floristic Province (except Great Central Valley, Southwestern California)
Distribution outside California: to Alaska
Synonyms: vars. dissectus L.F. Hend., eisenii (Kellogg) A. Gray, howellii Greene, rattanii A. Gray, ultramontanus Greene
Intergrades complexly with R. californicus
Horticultural information: DRN: 4, 5, 6, 17 &partSHD: 7, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24 &IRR: 2, 3, 8, 9, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21; dry in summer.


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Monday, 23 January 2012
Under a cloud
The police questioned Elizabeth Watkins of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, immediately after her son's death in 1987 but then released her without charge. That wasn't good enough for the locals, who were convinced she had killed her six-year-old son Nicholas.
Her other son and his father were also convinced of her guilt and broke off contact with her.
After 25 years of living under a cloud of suspicion, it must be a colossal relief to at last be free of it.
A new inquiry into her son's death has concluded that he wasn't murdered but was killed by a pack of dogs. How tragic that detectives didn't investigate more thoroughly at the time and discover the non-human cause of death while unhealthy suspicions could still be nipped in the bud.
But just imagine the festering feelings of injustice and rage and despair that must have addled her life and crushed the sort of enjoyable, freewheeling existence that most of us take for granted.
And the sick feelings of betrayal and humiliation as relatives, friends and acquaintances all refused to believe her declarations of innocence and continued to assume she was capable of slaughtering her child.
And the feelings of burning impotence as she could find no way of proving to the outside world that she had nothing to do with the death. Presumably she had no alibi for her movements at the time.
Now she has somehow to put all those miserable years behind her and try to recreate a more normal life in which she is once again an unblemished and respected member of the community. Without an awful lot of sincere regret and generosity on other people's part, that's going to be quite a struggle.
Pic: Elizabeth Watkins
27 comments:
- Jenny Woolf said...
There were a number of women convicted in the UK of shaking their kids to death weren't there, and it was all based on the evidence of some weirdo pathologist, as I recall. I don't choose to keep such details closely in my head, but I remember thinking that HE should have been put away for a very long time. Not that it would have helped them.
I don't know about this particular case, but it sounds awful.
- 23 January 2012 at 19:12
- John Gray said...
hummm the death penalty would have helped here a lot!
- 23 January 2012 at 19:42
Jenny - I think several pathologists have been guilty of presenting flawed evidence that has later been overturned. Utterly traumatic for the parents who know they're innocent but can't prove it.
- 23 January 2012 at 19:46
John - Sorry, I don't agree with the death penalty as there have been too many wrongful convictions and executions. But how do you silence people who insist on someone else's guilt with no evidence whatever? And couldn't the detectives have done a better job in the first place?
- 23 January 2012 at 19:52
I can't imagine the trauma of losing a young child. And then to have it compounded by such ugly suspicions. Her grief must have been overwhelming
- 23 January 2012 at 19:57
Myra - Indeed, I didn't mention the trauma of losing her son to begin with. Misery heaped on misery.
- 23 January 2012 at 20:11
- Jay at The Depp Effect said...
Good grief .. poor woman! It's tough enough to lose a child without being accused of their murder and having to live through the hideousness that would ensue. She will never, ever, recover, that's for certain.
This is exactly why the death penalty is not, and will never will be justifiable. Until we arrive at the day when we can prove someone's guilt or innocence absolutely (which is an impossibility) we will never be certain that an innocent person will not be unlawfully put to death in the name of justice.
Although Elizabeth Watkins, poor soul, might well have thought it preferable to what she has gone through.
- 23 January 2012 at 21:59
- secret agent woman said...
Wow, as if having your little boy killed wasn't hellish enough! And then to lose your other child. No - I can NOT imagine. It breaks my heart for her. There is no truly getting past all that. People can be absolutely brutal about assigning guilt without adequate evidence. So much for innocent until proven guilty, huh?
I'm at a loss about the earlier comment about the death penalty being helpful. Even assuming that state-supported murder should be an option (and I don't believe it ever should), how would that have helped in this case? I can't imagine Ms. Watkins would feel like she'd rather be murdered herself.
- 24 January 2012 at 01:22
Jay - Indeed, can you ever really recover from such a nightmare, even if you live to 100?
Agent - She's hopeful for a reconciliation with her other son, who's had all the evidence explained to him by the police. And hopefully the father too. But people can be very stubborn. And they don't like to admit they're wrong.
I don't understand John's comment about the death penalty, either (and he's very far from being a rabid hard-liner!) What WERE you getting at there, John?
- 24 January 2012 at 07:49
- Ursula said...
I don't know John Gray. In my view his comment is very clever.
He means one or both of two things: If they had hanged the mother it would have spared her a lot of grieving. As an aside: If I were her I'd probably jumped off the cliff anyway.
And if they had hanged her, only for her to be proven innocent later, what an argument AGAINST the death penality. Or maybe not: See above.
- 24 January 2012 at 09:59
Ursula - We're all so puzzled I think John needs to clarify his comment. I've asked him to do that.
- 24 January 2012 at 10:43
- John Gray said...
yes I need to clarify my comment
I was just being ironic
what worries me about the death penalty are cases like this one...
how many people, like this woman have been falsely jailed only to have their sentences cut short when the truth was known...
if she recieved a lethal injection, the electric chair or some other barbaric hand of"justice".......what then?
Thats why the death penalty should be scrapped PLAIN AND SIMPLE...
apologies for the irony... you cannot quite "hear" it in a written comment sometimes can you?
- 24 January 2012 at 12:50
John - Thanks for clarifying. You're right, sometimes things don't come across properly in a written comment.
Yes, an unjustified death penalty is bad enough, but as you say people can also be banged up in jail for many years on the basis of a false conviction. And despite the image some people have of cushy, pampered surroundings, the permanent loss of your liberty is no joke.
- 24 January 2012 at 13:11
- Rummuser said...
If I was in her shoes, I will never be able to forgive or forget all the people who would not believe her innocence. I would also sue the police for damages.
- 24 January 2012 at 14:45
Ramana - After 25 years of vilification, it will be incredibly hard to forgive her accusers, or to accept any apologies they care to make. The bitterness must go so deep.
- 24 January 2012 at 16:11
- Ursula said...
Hippo, Nick and John, what a gracious lot you are. I rarely go indignant but am now. I interpreted John, it appears correctly, and none of you had the grace to acknowledge it.
- 24 January 2012 at 16:48
Ursula - Actually I think you interpreted John in a rather peculiar (and mischievous) way. His explanation is a perfectly sensible one.
- 24 January 2012 at 17:41
- Wisewebwoman said...
I originally thought John ironic too. Perhaps there should be a sign( ~ ) for irony?
I can't imagine what this woman is suffering and continues to suffer, she will never regain the lost years with her other son. I am just stunned she hasn't taken the easy way out.
Awful awful awful.
- 24 January 2012 at 18:32
www - A sign for irony would be useful. Indeed, her suffering is nothing like over, perhaps reducing a little if she's lucky. Given such a lack of support from those around her, you do wonder if she considered suicide as one way out.
- 24 January 2012 at 19:28
- secret agent woman said...
Too me a while to get back here, but thanks to John for the clarification. That makes sense. I am whole-heartedly opposed to the death penalty.
And if I were the Mom, having one son remaining that I might eventually get to re-connect with would be the primary reason I'd have to keep living. I wouldn't want to leave that son with the legacy of a mother who committed suicide.
- 25 January 2012 at 22:23
- Eryl said...
Jesus fucking christ! Sorry, Nick, for my use of such obscenities on your fine blog, but fuck, I cannot imagine what that woman has gone through for the past twenty five years. To lose not just this son, and in such a horrible way, but also her other son and her husband; everything, in other words.
I agree totally with secret agent woman, the other son would certainly have been my primary aim for keeping myself alive. I do hope he returns to her now.
- 25 January 2012 at 22:57
Agent - I agree. Suicide would have been an awful legacy for her other son - and his father. And suppose her name had been cleared the very next week?
Eryl - It's unimaginable, isn't it, the sheer scale of her anguish? Especially, so it seems, with not a soul giving her the support she so desperately needed.
- 26 January 2012 at 05:16
Perhaps the society that this woman was/is a part of needs to look very closely at itself.
As for Johns comment: I found myself thinking:" Oh I wish I was that quick." The irony stuck out a mile.
And yes death could be some kind of out get from such a situation.
I hope I would have the courage to walk tall and spit the world right in the eye(to paraphrase The Man in Black)in such a situation. However, I might just be driven to murder.
As for the Horse and the Little Bear... I bet their contributions would have lightened a gloomy topic. But I'll never know now. :-(
- 26 January 2012 at 17:21
Magpie - Being English, I'm steeped in irony, but I managed to miss it on this occasion. You might be driven to murder? Murder whom exactly? The people who were vilifying you?
Ah, the Horse and the Little Bear. A sore point. Maybe I let my feelings get the better of me? Maybe I acted too hastily? Who can say? But what's done is done. For the time being anyway.
- 26 January 2012 at 18:19
- speccy said...
Oh, god, what an awful tale. It's remarkable that the poor woman has survived so far- she must have incredible strength.
- 30 January 2012 at 09:14
Speccy - It's remarkable indeed that she hasn't killed herself or gone completely mad with the sheer impossibility of the situation.
- 30 January 2012 at 15:30
Bikehikebabe - I did as you requested. And welcome to the very special world that is nickhereandnow....
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Each week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word:
Adam started us in the naming business, according to Genesis, and human beings have been keen to name objects, animals, other human beings, concepts, and themselves ever since. Many of us have, in addition to our formal birth names, one or more casual names, or nicknames. Nickname we have from the Middle English an eke name, eke meaning "additional."
We not only have multiple names, but also multiple names for naming. In addition to nickname, which is fairly neutral, we have moniker, which carries a little of the raffish tinge of its origin as a hobo or criminal term; pseudonym, disguised name, which is literary; and appellation which is formal.
One of the sweetest is sobriquet (pronounced SO-bruh-kay), from a French term meaning "to chuck under the chin." It has an affectionate tone and is often applied to performers.
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Salvation Army receives Food Lion gift
The Salvation Army has received $3,500 from the Food Lion Charitable Foundation. The Salvation Army will use the gift to provide food and snacks for children in the After School program, Summer Day Camp program and food assistance for families.
�Food Lion has been a wonderful partner with The Salvation Army in many communities, working together to help defeat hunger,� said Major Robin Starr with the Salvation Army. �Our community has been blessed by their generous support and we will be able to help provide thousands of meals and snacks due to their generosity.�
The Salvation Army�s After School program provides snacks each day to children (many of whom are on scholarship) before they are assisted with their homework. The Summer Day Camp program provides two meals and one snack a day during the summer months as a safe, fun, educational experience is provided for many local children. Also, the Social Service office provides thousands of food bags to many of the local families in an effort to defeat hunger.
Established in 2001, the Food Lion Charitable Foundation provides financial support for programs and organizations dedicated to feeding the hungry in the communities it serves. Since its inception, the foundation has awarded more than $9 million in grants.
Food Lion, based in Salisbury, is a company of Delhaize America, the U.S. division of Brussels-based Delhaize Group (NYSE: DEG) and operates more than 1,100 supermarkets. The company employs nearly 58,000 associates delivering quality products, low prices and service to customers in 10 Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic states.
For more information, visit foodlion.com.
Mullet Festival offers weekend of sun
SWANSBORO � For a sunny weekend at the coast, head to Swansboro for the Swansboro Mullet Festival.
The annual event pays tribute to the popular fall fish and features a parade and entertainment in downtown Swansboro along the water.
The event includes children�s activities as well as arts and craft vendors. Hours are 9 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. today and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
For more information, contact 910-326-7370 or swansborofestivals.org.
Final chance to buy �elegant� tickets
From 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. today, tickets for the �Simply Elegant� fall gala for the Community Council for the Arts will be available at the arts center, 410 N. Queen St. After that, they will be available at the door, but at a cost of $60, rather than $50.
The event�s title sponsor is Realo Discount Drugs Stores, Inc. It will begin at 7 p.m. at the Kinston Country Club, with live entertainment, a silent and live auction, and lots of good food.
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The 2011 Big 12 Indoor Track & Field Championships will take place Feb. 25-26 at the Devaney Center in Lincoln, Neb. This marks the ninth time Nebraska has hosted the event. The indoor facility features a hydraulic-banked track, one of just four in the nation and eight in the world.
The 200-meter track, which was manufactured 6,000 miles from Lincoln in Gallo d'Alba, Italy, has the largest radius (67 feet) of any indoor-banked track in the world.
The Devaney Center accommodates up to 5,000 spectators for all track and field events and holds the distinction of having hosted the final Big Eight Indoor Championships in 1996 and the first-ever Big 12 meet in 1997.
Last season, Oklahoma captured its first men's indoor conference final, while the Texas A&M women earned their fourth consecutive crown. Nebraska tops the conference in both the men's and women's titles, leading the league with nine men's championships (1997-98, 2000-05, '07). The Husker women (1997, 2000-01, 2004-05) are tied with the Longhorns (1998-99, 2002-03, '06) at five each.