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Almost everyone has memories of tuna casseroles and tuna sandwiches when they were little. For example, consider the sandwiches your mom may have made on whole-wheat bread. They were very simple but full of flavor. These recipes start with canned tuna.
Do you know what the words mean on the tuna cans that you buy? Tuna comes in three forms: solid pack or fancy, chunk, and flaked or grated. The solid pack is the most expensive and contains large chunks of meat. Chunk tuna has smaller pieces and is less expensive. And we don't recommend flaked or grated at all; the tuna is very mushy, from less desirable cuts. There are also different varieties of tuna to consider.
This is the most expensive tuna. Canned tuna made from albacore is labeled 'white'. It has the mildest flavor and is easily substituted for canned chicken in most recipes.
Yellowfin Tuna
This type of tuna and other varieties are labeled 'light' on cans. It has a slightly stronger flavor than albacore. 'Light' tuna can contain several different varieties of tuna.
Bonita Tuna
This tuna has the strongest flavor and highest fat content. This tuna is usually sold canned. If the can you're purchasing doesn't say 'white' or 'light', it's probably bonita or skipjack tuna.
Buying Tips
There are some brand new varieties of 'canned' tuna. Sealed, shelf-stable pouches of tuna are a recent addition to the market. The flesh is packed with no water or oil and is processed for a shorter period of time, resulting in a fresher flavor. There are several different flavors of this tuna to choose from, accented with herbs and spices.
Tuna is packed in water or oil. Tuna packed in olive oil has a fabulous flavor, and when well-drained, doesn't have that many more calories than tuna packed in water. It's difficult to find, though, and tuna packed in water is just fine in these recipes. Tuna packed in vegetable oil really has no additional flavor, and in our opinion isn't worth the extra calories.
Finally, make sure that the tuna you purchase is labeled 'dolphin-safe'. Several organizations, along with the U.S. government, have instituted monitoring programs to help protect these mammals. Some companies have pledged to continue 'dolphin-safe' fishing practices even if U.S. standards are weakened, which they may be.
Read the labels, and also keep an eye out for canned or vacuum-packed tuna on sale. Canned tuna, properly stored, will last for a year in your pantry. And you'll always have ingredients for an easy meal on hand.
Nutrition and Warnings
Tuna is considered a heart-healthy food since it is rich in omega-3 fatty acids. It is low in fat and carbohydrates and high in protein.
Recently there have been media reports about mercury content in fatty fish, like tuna and especially salmon. Some governments recommend that you limit your tuna consumption to two cans a week. One study found that 'light' tuna has less mercury than 'white'. Think about all of these things when you purchase tuna for your family.
Canned tuna combines beautifully with most flavors, from capers and onions to honeydew melon. Best of all, most kids like tuna. Solid pack or chunk tuna are best for these recipes (except for those calling for sliced smoked tuna).
- Grilled tuna melts: This George Foreman Grill recipe is simple and classic; a tuna sandwich at its best.
- Parmesan tuna sandwiches: There's something about the combination of tuna with Parmesan cheese, mayonnaise, and red bell pepper. If you like your food spicy, think about adding chopped jalapeno to this easy sandwich spread.
- Tuna risotto: Risotto is such a wonderful dish. The creamy rice, when combined with savory tuna, lemon, and fresh spinach, makes a great easy dinner.
- Tuna alfredo casserole: This five-ingredient recipe is super fast. You can add frozen vegetables, thawed and drained, to this basic recipe for more flavor and nutrition.
- Tuna waldorf salad: This simple salad plays off the classic Waldorf Salad, but uses tuna instead of chicken so it's less expensive. You'll love this fresh and light salad.
- Tuna croquettes: Talk about back to the future. Tuna croquettes is a 1950s throwback that we believe everyone should eat at least once in their lives.
- Tuna carbonara: Carbonara is a combination of spaghetti, eggs, and olive oil. This easy recipe adds tuna and some chopped vegetables for a great main dish.
- Freeze ahead tuna sandwiches: Have sandwiches ready in an instant with this easy and tasty recipe.
- Tuna, cheese, and rice casserole: This cheesy and delicious tuna and rice bake is the answer to mealtime blahs, and the whole family will be happy.


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We went out for a little drive yesterday. Well, when I say a little drive, it started as a quick trip to deliver a bicycle to my great granddaughter and then to get some chicken food and do some shopping for food for us.
|An awful lot of Welsh mountains in that water
|The E"R trees
|The Skirrid from Pandy.
When we got to Monmouth we drove over the Wye Bridge and turned right - Mr M prefers right turns. and headed up the A48.
"Shall we have lunch at Jo's?" I asked, feeling my tummy rumble. "That was my intention" came the reply. I like it when we think the same way. I managed to get a quick snap of the E"R trees on the end of the hill. They were planted in coronation year and will probably be felled when our good queen dies.... poignant.
After a lovely lunch of Cod and chips for me and liver and bacon for him we headed towards Hereford. We stayed on main roads because there was such a lot of snow and side roads and lanes are not important for clearing are they?
at hereford we did a sharp left and headed down the Abergavenny road. I managed a quick snap of the Skirrid as we slowed down to drive through Pandy. Oh that's something to remember in all this snapping. My photography is done at an average speed of 40mph. Mr M will slow down sometimes but he rarely stops. I am quite adept at taking pictures of hedges and fences and continually, as in the first picture on here, of getting the wing mirror as the only thing in focus. Just occasionally I manage to get something good, not often but enough for me to keep on trying.
Where was I? oh yes. We decided that we would do our shopping in the new Morrison's that has opened in Cwmbran. This was a bit of an error on our part. We had forgotten it was Saturday and Cwmbran is horrendously busy on a Saturday because the town centre has free parking so everyone for miles around goes there. It is a new Morrisons so everyone was going there for a look and this is Cwmbran.
It took 20 minutes to get into the carpark and find a space. There were people in the store who don't know how to shop - no etiquette, they left their darned trolleys just anywhere, without thought of people coming along the aisles. the stood against the shelves and chatted to people so that they blocked it for everyone else. I was continually saying "Excuse me, could I just get....." or "Sorry to interrupt but could you just pass...." By the time we got back to the car I was grumpy and fed-up! Then it took about 20 minutes to get out of the place!
The chickens love their new food - they weren't keen on the old stuff and only ate it because there was nothing else and they were on the dregs from the bottom of the food bin. We also got a huge sack of corn so they are ok for their evening treat for a long time to come.
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Rad ripper little Taylor Vernon took a tumble at Crankworx yesterday, he had to be airlifted from the mountain side because of the where he was on the hill, because the paramedics were struggling to reach him with the medical kits.
He was taken straight to Grenoble hospital where he had a full body scan, earlier today which revealed that he's damaged three vertebrae in his back, (some rumours that the three vertebrae are broken) which will need to be operated on. We'll keep you up to date with how Tay is doing.
Full body scan revealed some damage to Tay's vertebrae so he'll be getting some surgery later today @TaylorVernon67 #healupbutt
— Atherton Racing (@AthertonRacing) July 11, 2013
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From all of us here at Dirt we wish you a speedy recovery Tay! Take it easy buddy.


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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has thrown $350,000 behind an effort to fight the recall of two Colorado Democratic legislators for their votes in favor of sweeping new gun control laws.
Campaign finance paperwork filed Tuesday and obtained by KDVR.com showed that Bloomberg wrote a personal check to Taxpayers for Responsible Democracy, the group fighting the recalls targeting Colorado Springs Senate President John Morse and Sen. Angela Giron, of Pueblo.
The National Rifle Association has contributed more than $108,600 to try to unseat the Democratic incumbents. Most of the money has gone toward radio, Internet, and cable ads, as well as billboard advertising.
But backers of Morse and Giron have given bigger donations, most notably Bloomberg's contribution.
Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns group has pushed for more restrictions on firearms in states nationwide, including Colorado. Billionaire Philanthropist Eli Broad also contributed $250,000 to the Democrats' campaigns.
"We want to thank every single one of those supporters, from Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the people who gave 5 or 10 dollars," Jennie Peek-Dunstone of Pueblo United for Angela told KDVR.com. "They all play a role in fighting back against the 'wave of fear' that the recall proponents want to send across the country."
Meanwhile, the state Supreme Court said Tuesday that voters in the two recall elections don't have to first vote "yes" or "no" on the recall to have their votes for a successor validated.
A state constitutional requirement saying voters must first vote on the recall before voting for a candidate violates rights to voting and expression under the U.S. Constitution, the Colorado high court said. The court's brief statement came in response to a question from Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper.
Hickenlooper said in a filing through the state attorney general that the question is important because the Sept. 10 elections could require a recount or even be invalidated if someone raises a legal challenge afterward.
The legal filing from Hickenlooper noted that a "virtually identical provision" of California election law that required a vote on the recall before voting for a candidate was declared unconstitutional in 2003, during the recall of former Gov. Gray Davis.
Election ballots were expected to be printed Tuesday, but the decision from the state Supreme Court won't present an issue, the Colorado secretary of state's office said.
"It means that the wording will have to be changed to get rid of the requirement," said spokesman Andrew Cole, referring to the state provision that voters decide whether to approve the recall before selecting a successor candidate. "But from an operations standpoint, this is pretty simple."
The Colorado Supreme Court said it would issue a detailed written opinion later.
Both Morse and Giron supported new gun restrictions this year, including limits on the size of ammunition magazines and expanding background checks to include private and online firearm sales. No Republicans voted for the proposals.
Retired police officer George Rivera is challenging Giron, and Bernie Herpin, a former Colorado Springs councilman, is running against Morse.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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As Washed Out's Ernest Greene offers sincere thoughts about his new album, Paracosm, a pair of comedians are performing in FYF Fest's comedy tent behind us. They are making dirty jokes about One Direction, which is a strange juxtaposition to the Georgia musician's conversation about how he takes apart music to create new sounds. Paracosm, released on August 13, is Greene's second album under the Washed Out moniker and represents a real shift from his 2011 debut Within and Without.
Paracosm is more organic and less based on electronic samples, although it still has the same dreamy feel. For Greene, the reasoning behind this shift is not a reaction to everyone lumping him into the "chillwave" trend two years ago, but more about where he is in his life both musically and personally. The amiable musician, whose voice is tinged with a Southern twang, talked about these inspirations and why he likes pop music so much.
Have you played FYF Fest before?
Yeah, it was either two or three years ago. I was performing by myself at the time just because I was starting out. I remember showing up here and I had two suitcases, and that was it. I was talking to the festival staff and they said, "Where's your crew at?" I pointed at myself and was like, "Here it is! This is it." It's strange coming back here with full production and a full band and everything. It's much different.
When you started writing your new album did you consider that you would perform these songs on stage with other musicians?
Definitely. For my last record, Within and Without, we toured for a couple of years pretty strong. It was tough turning some of those bedroom, computer-based songs into an interesting live show. I definitely learned a lot playing a ton of live shows in those two years. I had that in the back of my mind—even just thinking about the visual side of performance. Writing parts that would work in that way for a big festival crowd. It's hard to do. I can understand why as bands grow into their second or third records it seems like there's a move to more anthemic kind of stuff. And it's because you have 8,000 people watching you outside.
How long ago did you start writing your new album?
We finished touring at the end of October, and I took a week off and started in November. I had most of it done by the middle of January. I finished mixing in the studio a month later. I hadn't been writing on tour. It's great playing shows, but I love making new songs, and it didn't leave a lot of time for that. So when I finally made it home, I had so many ideas and that creative energy was completely built up. I just jumped straight in, and it was really easy with the songs.
Was it so quick because all your creative energy was all built up?
Yeah, I think so. And I knew the record was an optimistic and very summery sounding record. I really wanted to have it out in time for the summer. I really would have liked to have it out a month earlier.
Is there something that connects your last album to this one?"
The vocal sound and melodies have always been the same with everything else always shifting subtly around that. This new record is a lot more acoustic sounding, as opposed to the electronic leaning. The early stuff was much more electronic and more sample based. There's very much a Washed Out sound. I've played around with more pop-leaning stuff on this record and was experimenting quite a bit with the vocals. Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it. I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song it's verse-chorus-verse. It's just finding that balance.
Who are some pop musicians you're into?
I love listening to pop radio. My wife loves Katy Perry, and I was a big fan of her last record. I'm on the fence about her new single. I love Drake. His new single is our tour jam. I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it—I'll probably like it.
Do you take inspiration from anything that's non-musical?
With this record in particular a lot of visual ideas were dictating some decisions for the music or the lyrics. I was living in Atlanta, and after finishing tour moved to a more rural area. For the first time, I had a real workspace that wasn't a bedroom set up, and I had this big window in front of my desk. It was this beautiful, natural garden vibe outside. It was this cool, positive influence where I was writing music to fit this vibe. The record definitely has a pastoral vibe to it, and that's entirely about being in that space. The artwork followed from that idea. Our live show tonight, too. It's an overload of flowers and greenery and these festooned flowers that are hanging everywhere and light up. It's very A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Now that you know you are so easily inspired by what you look at while writing music, are you going to set yourself up to do something similar on your next album?
I hope so! At the moment I'm not sure what direction it's going to take. I've been wanting to make a record like this new one for a while.


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Advice & Memorable Experiences From Career Training USA Participants
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Career Training USA participants in Staten Island, before attending a Staten Island Yankees baseball game.
Coming to the USA for an internship is an exciting opportunity filled with new challenges and rewarding experiences. You can pursue your professional career with a U.S. host employer, and also explore America and its culture. In our 2013 final evaluations, we asked participants what advice they would give to future interns and trainees and to share a memorable experience from their time in the States. We hope the following information from our past participants will help you prepare for your trip to the U.S. and for the experience of a lifetime!
What advice would you give to future interns and trainees?
Before the program:
- Start early with everything, make sure you have enough time to arrange everything, like going to the Embassy.
- Don't hesitate to contact InterExchange if you have any questions, and enjoy your experience as much as you can. It's a great opportunity.
- Go through the InterExchange materials before coming to the U.S., as they are very useful.
- Contact InterExchange with any questions, this great team will do their best to help every intern in the U.S.
- Prepare yourself for culture shock, the handbook is very well thought out, follow their advice. Do not hesitate to speak English as much as you can.
- Do not wait too long to do the visa process, and do not hesitate to ask questions if you are not sure about something.
- Be patient. Applying for a visa is a long journey.
During the program:
- Be open-minded and social. Explore being more outgoing.
- Be brave to embrace another culture and you will love where you work and live during the internship.
- Enjoy, work hard and especially watch and listen to the people around you. Learn from it.
- Go out and explore. Take in all the sights and sounds. The training itself is very important, but what you'll remember when looking back on everything is the experience of just living in the U.S.
- Enjoy your experience and don't be shy, be who you are in the U.S. That is what matters in this country- be yourself.
- Work hard and make sure you learn something while in America, if not from your internship, than within the surrounding area that you live in, language, culture, sports, foods, interact with people, ask them questions, find differences with your own culture, teach an American something from your own culture.
- Keep a positive and open mind. Keep connected with people at InterExchange. Make the most of every learning opportunity. Meet new friends and go out and explore!
- Enjoy every moment, try to speak English as much as you can, discover the country, and make U.S. friends. Do not hesitate to ask for help, Americans will be more than pleased to give you advice.
- Always be curious and open towards new situations. Travel and do as many cultural activities as possible. Then you get out the mo
st of your program and benefit for your future career.
- Be open minded and go out. You will find great people and lots of opportunities. Do not be scared of the language barrier. It can only get better and it definitely will.
- Go for it. Chase your dream and make it come true.
Participants share memorable experiences they had while in the U.S.:
"While in the U.S., I did things I never dreamed I would have done before like: swimming with dolphins, going out with people from 5 different countries and realizing who and what kind of person I was meant to become. I am grateful for the time I spent here and the knowledge I attained."
"My colleagues brought me out to Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Dodgers Stadium, Universal Studios, and Malibu all in one day. Having seen all of these on television and movies but now in real life was quite mind-blowing."
"We organized a weekend trip to Yosemite National Park, which was attended by 11 interns and friends. The group consisted of two cars and two motorcycles traveling different routes to get to the proximity of the park, where we stayed in a large cabin, secured through AirBnB. During the days we explored Yosemite through driving and hiking, and during the nights we made food and soaked in a communal hot tub. It was one of very many great road trip memories."
"Beach volleyball. Started with 4 of us every Sunday. Ended up with a group of 25 playing every Saturday and Sunday. Made life long friends."
"A friend of mine invited me to go on a boat trip with him and his family. I didn't really know what to expect at first but it ended up being a tremendous experience. The lake was absolutely beautiful and the boat had so many perks. We ended up knee boarding, BBQ'ing, sight seeing, etc."
"I went to eat lunch and I met an African man with whom I spoke in French to. Then, at work, I accompanied a girl who came from Venezuela, speaking in Spanish. Afterwards, that same evening, I wanted to finish my book calmly so I sat in a Japanese restaurant, eating sushi at the bar, and met a Greek woman (her cousin had worked for my mother 10 years back!). Late at night, two friends from work came: one from the Philippines, the other from England. We went to listen to a concert; it was American music (country) and I drank a Washington Carver (a chocolate-peanut butter shake). It was an incredible day, filled with an intense mix of culture and realities. "
"I'll say Thanksgiving dinner... it was an excellent time with my friends that became my family in this year. To share the values between both cultures was very nice, and of course the food was delicious and totally different than what I use to having at my country."
"When the SF Giants won, the following day Market Street was crowded like I never saw a street crowded before. It took me roughly 45 minutes to cross that street. It usually takes 10 seconds. Everyone was smiling, singing, the atmosphere was really cheerful. That was a great way to start the day, although a bit late."
"I arrived in New York on the 4th of July, I met my roommates for the first time that day and we went on our rooftop to see the fireworks and we met our American neighbors there and we had a barbecue. It was one of my best memories."
"Knicks game in Brooklyn. Knicks won in the last second by three points. I was sitting on the first row, next to a well-known singer and we all jumped to the sky. Best moment ever."
"Tough Mudder! On May 19th, I participated in the Tough Mudder race in Chicago! That was incredibly harder than I thought, but it's a great challenge for the mind and the body! I loved it.
"A month after I arrived, I attended the 43rd annual Pride Festival on Peachtree Street. The atmosphere was just amazing and that's when I met my first and best American friend. Just after the festival, he led me to Krispy Kreme to eat my first American donut! A hot original glazed donut. This day will forever stay in my mind!"
"I went to see a movie just by Pier 61, it was such a beautiful night, wandering around seeing boats go past and the lights of Brooklyn shining across the bay, it was just gorgeous. I remember walking home feeling completely elated and blessed to be in such a beautiful, lively city."
You can read about more advice and memorable experiences from our 2012 program participants here.
InterExchange Career Training USA is a top J-1 Visa sponsor for university students and young professionals who have already secured internships or training programs with companies in the U.S. If you still need to find an internship or training program in the U.S., check out our resources and start the J-1 Visa sponsorship process early.
Signe Knutson worked as an InterExchange Career Training USA Participant Services Coordinator from 2013 until 2016, after spending a year teaching English in China's Hunan province. She has a BA in Asian Studies and Political Science form St. Olaf College in Minnesota.
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Extreme Couponing is in the eye of the beholder. I read a good article this week on the subject. It expressed how because of the program people aren't happy with saving $10- $20 they want to get a thousand dollars of food for a nickel.
Okay, that is not realistic. Did you see it on tv? Yes. Is everything we see on tv real kids? no.
As I posted in a previous post coupon decoding is used WAAAAAY to often on the program to make their brand of savings reproducible.
I had not watched the show until I had been running the coupons myself for a few months. After watching it a couple times I knew it was not coming off as honest. For one thing, why are they so nervous in the line? I'm excited in the line, but not nervous. The women often look panicked as if they are doing something wrong. No one ever checks products with coupons, they only make sure the register beeps. beep = coupon accepted. Cheating is a big deal on that show. If they ever checked the products the women would get busted.
For me extreme coupling means on really great days I get free stuff. It means I stock up on great deals. I get lots of papers, lots of coupons to make that happen. I organize and sort. I try to buy only products for which I have coupons. I check all the local ads but I do almost 90% of my shopping at Shop n' Save. I also get some items at Wal-mart and Walgreens or CVS. My goal is to save around 60- 70% on my grocery bill all the time.
So, don't get too wound up trying to leave the store with 400 bottles of hand sanitizer and 4 carts of pretzels for $3.00. Turn off that show. I like Jill Cataldo her blog is awesome and honest - she can help you save big and keep your integrity in check.


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Giving up — Not an Option
By the time we find Judah in the book of EZRA, after being prisoners of confusion in Babylon, they are tired of looking for change and seeing only sameness. As soon as they came from captivity, they set up an altar for sacrifice and laid the foundations of a temple. However, in Ezra 4, it tells us their neighbors discouraged them and frightened them away from building. They'd hired counselors against them to frustrate them. They wrote accusations against Judah and Jerusalem saying they would become traitors. The government then stopped them by force and work on the temple ceased until the second year of Darius king of Persia.
By then however, the storms of life had layered grit and grime on their "windows" making it difficult to see anything encouraging. They couldn't see the need to keep on trying! They had no spirit nor courage to try again. They said, "Not NOW, we haven't even recovered from captivity. We can't deal with one more thing right now!"
Hag 1:1-4, "In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai. This is what the LORD Almighty says: "These people say, 'The time has not yet come for the LORD's house to be built.'" Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai: "Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?" (NIV) Giving up because we are weary is not an option.
(This is the second excerpt from Kathy's article "Rebuilding Our Temple" which was published in SEEC Magazine [Marty and Kathy's ministry magazine]. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Previous excerpts may be read by scrolling down this page.)
Washed Not Conformed
When the foundationally soiled values of human reasoning foul the hearts and minds of church-goers (and former church-goers who have supposedly been taught the Word of God), and it becomes evident in lifestyle choices that do not glorify God Almighty, it is high time for people to avail themselves so that their hearts and minds may be washed with the Word of God all over again (Eph.5:26). It was not actually a legalistic preacher who said, "Be not conformed to this world" but Apostle Paul in the Bible who shared it for those who would overcome and be victorious.
"So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you." (Rom.12:1-2, Msg)
Marty & Kathy Gabler invite you to read their
articles in the latest issue of SEEC Magazine.
SEEC Magazine Volume 19 Issue 4
Are You Gummin' It?
Do you ever have a day when you think, "If faith were teeth . . . right now I'd be gummin' it"? I don't know about you, but I don't wake up every day looking for new battles and greater challenges. In fact, many mornings I wake up tired, tired of waiting on promises that still haven't manifested; tired of praying for healing, but seeing only a little; tired of believing for miracles, but only feeling the heat get hotter; tired of looking for change, but seeing sameness; tired of watching people go two steps forward and three steps back; tired of asking for a refreshing rain, but ending up in a puddle of disappointment. When the storms of life wear your faith down to the gums and contrary winds layer grit and grime on your windows, it can change the way you see things. But don't give up. We are on the threshold of seeing more of the presence and plan of God manifest in our lives than ever before.
(This is the first excerpt from Kathy's article "Rebuilding Our Temple" which was published in SEEC Magazine [Marty and Kathy's ministry magazine]. More excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.)
Wise Counsel
As the people of God assemble today, may they hear wise
counsel taught from the Word of God and from interacting
with the people God and may that counsel save them from
hurt and loss and bring them to resolve of issues.
"Where there is no counsel, the people fall; But in the multitude
of counselors there is safety." (Prov.11:14, NKJV)
Safety in Counselors
Safety is not in the multitude of prophesies and visions and revelations. Safety is in the multitude of counselors (Prov.11:14). There are "sheep" who don't believe they need the flock and certainly don't need a shepherd because they have a multitude of visions and prophecies. We call those sheep "wolf food".
Kathy Speaking DVP2015
Kathy speaking tonight at DVP2015. NO FEE
Melissa Gabler and the Grace International Worship Team
Information: https://martygabler.com/dreams-visions-prophecy/
September 25-27, 2015 *** DVP2015 *** NO FEE
Sunday morning Pastor Joe Bogue will be interviewing
Marty, Kathy and Barbara about dreams, visions and prophecy.
The Soul Can Initiate Dreams
The soul can initiate dreams, pulling from the senses, emotions, imagination, stresses, thoughts and experiences. God has given us the dream tool, not only as a direct line to hear from Him but also as a means of revealing our own issues to help us resolve them. When dealing with soul dreams, it can be easy to miss the point and dismiss an uncomfortable dream rather than benefit from it and get to godly resolve! We have all had strange dreams where we went to the breakfast table feeling guilty. Have you ever awakened with a load of guilt left by a dream? For example, a common soul dream is dreaming you are back in school and can't find your class or your homework. It could be that your current situations or activities are reminding your soul of the same feelings of those embarrassing, immature, insecure years. Or you could be glimpsing something in your soul that was never resolved from back there in that stage of maturing and training. Or you could be feeling unequipped or fearing failure in your future plans. In any case, there is no benefit to carrying that guilt around the rest of the day.
(This is an excerpt from Chapter Three of Kathy's book "The Heart of Dreams". This is the third edition with more content and more symbols.)
Kathy Gabler will be speaking at DREAMS VISIONS PROPHECY Sept.14-16, 2018.


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Short Sales
What are short sales?
When the owner of a property owes more to the lender than the property is worth, called being 'upside down,' this is how short sales are defined, or potential short sales. Short sales can be caused by numerous factors.
A drop in the U.S. real estate market like what happened in 2008, when the sub prime lending crisis caused many properties to lose as much as 70% of their value. Also, several other factors like lack of upkeep on the property, an increase in crime in the area, an economic slowdown, or the discovery of something negative in the area can cause a property to lose some or most of it's market value.
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So, as a result, a borrower may find himself making large payments on a home that may never recover the lost value.
In order for the borrower to get out from under this loan, they may approach the lender and ask them if they are willing to accept a short sale.
This means that the borrower/homeowner is asking the bank, or lender to accept less money than what the loan was originally granted for, and what is owed on it.
Many times a realtor will assist the homeowner with the communication with the lender, and help set up the short sale for the homeowner.
There are two types of short sales: approved short sales, and unapproved short sales. An unapproved short sale is where a homeowner will attempt to sell the home for what he can get without the lender giving it's blessing for the sale. More back and forth is needed for the bank to approve the short sale.
An unapproved short sale can go on for many months, as the lender may or may not accept the offers that are generated. It is the lender's decision wholly to participate or not.
They may wait to see how many offers come in, and for what price before they accept any. Or they may do nothing at all.
I have seen unapproved short sales drag on for what seemed like an eternity. Some took well over a year to come to fruition.
It is possible to find a great deal as a buyer of this type short sale, but is not ideal for someone with a timeline for making a home purchase. An investor that doesn't need the home to live in, is best suited for pursuing an unapproved short sale.
Once an offer has been accepted by the lender, it is then considered an approved short sale. If this sale falls through for whatever reason, usually financing, the property will go back up on the market as an approved short sale.
An approved short sale, on the other hand, has the lender's approval or blessing, if you will, for the sale. These approved short sales normally go through the sales process in a much smoother fashion.
Mortgage holders or lenders normally do not approve short sales unless the homeowner shows that he is unable to live up to the mortgage obligation.
The bank is saying that it wants to sell the property, and is in agreement with the realtor, and the homeowner regarding the sale, and that any other lien holders on the property have also given their approval.
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If a buyer moves quickly with an approved short sale, it is possible to get a great deal, but the approved short sale can sell quickly, as the price is normally low, and the lender is willing to close within a reasonable amount of time.
Short sales are listed on the Mulitple Listing Service, or the MLS. All Realtors have access to this information, and by hiring one, you will be given this information.
A Realtor can also give you information regarding other bargain properties, such as government foreclosures, and bank foreclosures – REO's, as well as, other listed homes on the market.
From a buyer's or investor's perspective, before you decide to buy a short sale, do your homework on the property, and the situation. You may be able to find a great deal in a short sale, or you may take on a long, nightmare scenario. I have seen both.
As an investor, I suggest becoming an expert in short sales before taking the plunge in buying them, or at the very least hire a real estate agent or broker that is experienced with them, and can guide you through the potential pit falls.
The main thing to keep in mind is, if the short sale is approved, it should be smooth sailing. If a short sale is unapproved, it could be a long, difficult process.
A short sale is not the same as a pre foreclosure.
A short sale is not the same as buying a foreclosure at the courthouse steps.
Feel free to leave your comments, questions, or tips below. Also, feel free to like and share on your favorite social media. Thanks for reading. Tom
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The most incisive guide to issues facing the American family today . . . An invaluable resource for anyone wishing to stay on the cutting edge of research on family trends.
-W. Bradford Wilcox
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
What more sacred, what more strongly guarded by every
holy feeling, than a man's own home? —Cicero
America's founding fathers inherited from English common law the doctrine that "a man's house is his castle."[1] Property ownership and political autonomy are two sides of the same coin. John Locke regarded the right to private property as a quintessential natural right, a right that gave citizens ground for demanding representative government.[2] Thomas Jefferson understood private property to be foundational for "the pursuit of happiness" broadly considered, and guided by that understanding, the Second Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence, which stated, "to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." In the aftermath of the Revolution, the states in 1791 ratified the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, an amendment that protects American homes against "unreasonable searches and seizures."
To secure their homes, American families long have expected government protection. Starting with the New Deal reforms of the 1930s, growing numbers of people also have sought government provision for housing. Like any government policy, federal housing programs have resulted from compromises occasioned by conflicting political passions and forged by opportunistic policymakers. As the United States today struggles to recover from the worst housing crisis of a generation, prudence calls for an examination of the longer history of federal housing policy in order to determine what sustains, and what suffocates, the American dream of homeownership and, perhaps more importantly, home entrepreneurship.
Why Ownership Matters, and Why It Doesn't
Two objectives have competed for preeminence in federal housing policy since the 1920s, when Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover launched Better Homes for America, an initiative providing affordable housing for all Americans and stimulating growth for the broader economy.[3] Neither of these objectives necessarily calls for homeownership as a desirable end, and neither requires homeownership as a means. Affordable rental housing could, at least in principle, satisfy the first objective; policies aimed at stimulating other sectors of the economy could, in principle, satisfy the second objective. But the ideal of homeownership carries symbolic weight in policy evaluations, and symbolism matters a great deal for both policymakers and their constituents. The symbolic value of homeownership derives from the tradition of civic republicanism that America's founders drew from the writings of Locke and Jefferson: landholders are relatively self-sufficient, and therefore are not beholden to others, and therefore can uniquely exercise personal liberty while also making virtuous decisions on behalf of the nation that protects their property.[4] But in the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries, are homeowners any more credible than renters as heirs of the civic republicanism of eighteenth-century agrarian property holders? Or is the mystique of homeownership merely an empty hope for national prosperity?
Homeownership indeed correlates positively with numerous measures of social capital and civic engagement, which, arguably, are essential for establishing and maintaining a civilized social order. "Each June during National Homeownership Month," proclaims the website of the National Association of Home Builders, "Americans have the opportunity to reflect on how homeownership has enhanced our lives and contributed to the thriving communities we call home."[5] Homeowners stay in the neighborhood four times longer than renters and are more likely to join community organizations and contribute to political campaigns. Their children fare better, too, as indicated by lower rates of unwed teen pregnancy and higher rates of college enrollment. Owners also have greater accumulated wealth than renters by middle age, primarily in the form of home equity.[6] Although empirically confirmed advantages to homeownership tend to be modest,[7] every president since Herbert Hoover has boldly extolled the value of homeownership. In recent memory, George W. Bush called for an "ownership society," one-upping Bill Clinton's encouragement for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to expand mortgage lending for minority and moderate-income households.[8] In response to the foreclosure crisis, President Barack Obama launched his "Making Homeownership Affordable" plan. Homeownership and national prosperity appear to be kissing cousins, indeed.
But correlations—as is widely known but often forgotten—do not prove causation. Scholars debate whether homeownership leads to the positive externalities described above, or whether other characteristics that make persons eligible for homeownership lead to both the purchasing of a home and to subsequent engagement in civil life and investment in social capital for the rising generation. If transforming a person into a homeowner also makes that person a more responsible citizen whose children will thereby acquire greater social capital, then public policies that stimulate homeownership would appear to serve the state's interest in fostering a stable and prosperous society. If, on the other hand, people remain ill-equipped to own a home until they demonstrate certain personal traits, then policies aimed too directly at homeownership will not help—and might even hinder—community development. The sobering fact is that the record-setting rate of homeownership achieved nationwide in the 1990s correlates with a decline in overall civic engagement and a sharper stratification in the distribution of social capital. As sociologist Robert Putnam quantified, more Americans are "bowling alone," despite the fact that more of them nominally own their own home than ever before.[9]
One reason that the higher rates of homeownership have meant worse rather than better community well-being is that many Americans have acquired their homes only through reckless borrowing. However, Putnam himself pointed in other directions, seeing in the sprawling suburban neighborhoods new homeowners addicted to television and to other isolation-inducing distractions. Then again, Putnam completed his book when the national median price-to-income ratio for single-family homes was still hovering at its historic average of about 3.4 percent. But from 2000 to 2005, it rose to nearly 4.75 percent, indicating that homeownership was slipping out of the financial reach of an increasing number of Americans.[10] Nevertheless, homeownership rates continued rising, leveling at a record high of 69 percent from 2004 to 2006.[11] That last year, 43 percent of first-time buyers and 19 percent of repeat buyers—by weighted average, 30 percent of all buyers nationwide—paid zero money down. Another 10 percent of buyers put down 3 percent or less.[12]
How was this possible? For one thing, U.S. Bank's "Home Possible 100" underwriting guidelines—for mortgages with a 100-percent loan-to-value ratio—were requiring of the borrower a merely nominal contribution of $500, notably less than the insurance deposits for some rental units.[13] Of course, a renter low on funds might acquire the deposit money from a generous friend or relative, and thanks to Freddie Mac, a prospective homebuyer in 2008 could have done the same thing ("no borrower contribution required"), even with a total loan-to-value ratio of 105 percent—yes, that meant borrowing 5 percent more than the appraised value of the home.[14]
One might suppose that would-be homeowners would balk at taking on such staggering levels of debt, but a persistent perception of homes as assets apparently mitigated that fear. Buying your own home, so goes conventional wisdom, is the safest investment you can ever make. Yet, financial guru Robert Kiyosaki, of Rich Dad, Poor Dad fame, warns that many supposed assets are really "doodads."[15] An asset is something that generates income for its owner; a liability entails expenses for its owner. A property rented out to tenants is an asset, but an owner-occupied house is a doodad—but probably a liability, at best a pseudo-asset that gives the middle class a false sense of wealth. True, mortgage payments for one's home may be less than the cost of renting a comparable residence, but transaction expenses and ongoing maintenance responsibilities often reduce that benefit beyond the break-even point. Ownership also ties up cash that could accumulate in liquid savings for a renter.[16] Owners furthermore incur opportunity costs for time spent maintaining a home rather than running a home-based business. Owners also are at a disadvantage in times of unemployment, since renters have greater mobility to relocate into more promising job markets.[17] And although property appreciation may mean that selling a home gives a homeowner a nominal return on his investment, that homeowner is then likely to discover how small that return is worth when he tries to buy a replacement home. After all, the same monetary tide that raised the price of his first home has also raised the price of all homes that he might consider as a replacement. Moreover, a decline in property values—when the proverbial tide falls—can leave owners at a loss when they sell or refinance.
The wealth-building potential of homeownership comes, then, not from living in one's own home but from putting that ownership to work: owning a house that is rented out to others, telecommuting from home, or leveraging home equity to finance a business. Economic historian Hernando de Soto has traced the bulk of wealth production in the modern world to the economic dynamics of societies in which clear claims to title enable real estate to serve as collateral for loans that start or expand entrepreneurial pursuits. In America, the home-equity loan has provided a stepping-stone from the lower-middle class into the upper-middle and upper classes for twentieth-century Americans.[18] This strategy may prove less viable in the early twenty-first century, as claims to title become less secure due to confusion resulting from sloppy securitization and erroneous electronic filing. Putative loan holders have been surprised by court rulings denying their claims to securitized property amid the murky performance of the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS), which has processed more than 60 million mortgages since its inception in 1995, including about two-thirds of the nation's home mortgages during the peak years of the "housing bubble."[19]
For the near term, low-capital entrepreneurial efforts may be the best bet. Rather than saving for a down payment, the self-employed—writers, consultants, and a diverse bunch of e-commerce entrepreneurs—can be content to rent while investing modestly in home-office expenses in order to build a cottage industry that shields them from the risks of underemployment. Unfortunately, the past century of housing policy has done little to encourage industriousness within the cottage, and in fact has done much to discourage productivity at the home.
From Cottage Industries to Suburban Dormitories
The social value of real estate, no less than its economic value, depends largely upon three factors: location, location, and location. Homeowners—both in small rural towns and in large central cities—tend to invest themselves in the community by building social capital through parent-teacher associations, churches, and other civic organizations. The same held true, during the 1950s and 1960s, in suburbs, but in the latter decades of the twentieth century, the nation's fast-growth communities—built further and further away from central cities—suffered from the social disintegration known as "suburban sprawl." Commuters are now habituated to sitting solo in traffic jams, only to return home to gated communities that forbid Girl Scouts from selling cookies door-to-door. Suburbanites lack the opportunity, and perhaps even the desire, to form tight-knit communities or volunteer for local nonprofit organizations. Putnam calculated that "each additional ten minutes in daily commuting time cuts involvement in community affairs by 10 percent."[20] The consequences of suburbanization—isolation within longer commutes, social segregation into homogeneous communities, and dissociation between one's neighbors and one's business relations—impose a "'sprawl civic penalty' of roughly 20 percent on most measures of community involvement."[21] The fact that nearly three out of four suburbanites own rather than rent does nothing to bring them closer to neighbors who are gone all day at the office anyway.
The sharp separation of productive labor from the family home is, historically speaking, a departure from the previously universal human practice of working simultaneously for and near one's family. As men left family farms and cottage industries in the nineteenth century for city jobs, a social code of "separate spheres" became characteristic of Victorian morality: commerce occasions vice, and so the home must be kept free of market activities in order to remain a safe haven for children. As women left the home for outside employment in the twentieth century, feminists sought to purge the separate-spheres doctrine of its gendered language—a "woman's place" no longer would be "in the home"—but the separation between work and family remained; indeed, the separation intensified, as women exchanged homespun clothing for occupations in textile industries and gave up renting out a room to boarders to pursue employment distant from the family dwelling.[22]
The adoption of uniform zoning laws in the 1920s reinforced "the idea that 'home' and 'work' are incompatible, that the 'home' should be carefully segregated into exclusively residential, commerce-free zones."[23] Although state and municipal legislatures are ostensibly the government bodies responsible for enacting zoning regulations, it has actually been the federal government which has promoted these regulations through the promulgation of "A Standard State Enabling Act Under Which Municipalities May Adopt Zoning Regulations," prepared by the U.S. Department of Commerce under Secretary Herbert Hoover in 1924. Within a year, eleven states had passed enabling acts, and by January 1926, Hoover could boast that more than four hundred municipalities had implemented zoning regulations, impacting "more than half the urban population of the country."[24] Local authorities took their cue from explanatory footnotes urging them to adopt the model legislation with little to no amendment, since the federal government already had researched constitutional provisions and case law precedents state by state. The result was a Progressive Era tour de force for "promoting health, safety, morals, or the general welfare of the community" by regulating "the density of population, and the location and use of buildings, structures, and land for trade, industry, residence, or other purposes."[25]
The Supreme Court upheld municipal zoning in Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty (1926), with Justice George Sutherland opining, "A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place—like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard." Henceforth, local legislative debate would focus on the proper means for determining the most prudent regulations for eliminating "the evils of over-crowding, and the like, and excluding from residential sections offensive trades, industries and structures likely to create nuisances."[26] State courts routinely emphasized the importance of preserving "the very foundation of good citizenship" by "the fostering of home life" through zoning.[27] As Justice William Douglas, who had served as secretary of the Securities and Exchange Commission under President Franklin Roosevelt, opined in 1974, toward the end of his record-setting thirty-six year tenure in the Supreme Court:
The regimes of boarding houses, fraternity houses, and the like present urban problems. More people occupy a given space; more cars rather continuously pass by; more cars are parked; noise travels with crowds.
A quiet place where yards are wide, people few, and motor vehicles restricted are legitimate guidelines in a land use project addressed to family needs. . . . The police power is not confined to elimination of filth, stench, and unhealthy places. It is ample to lay out zones where family values, youth values, and the blessings of quiet seclusion and clean air make the area a sanctuary for people.[28]
The resulting patchwork of local zoning restrictions has not only fostered residential cul-de-sacs where children may safely play ball or ride their bikes, but also created neighborhoods in which entrepreneurial pursuits are prohibited, thereby forcing parents to commute to jobs or else operate clandestine home-based businesses. When the family wage disappeared from American economic life in the 1970s, it became increasingly difficult for a single earner to support a family.[29] A labyrinth of zoning ordinances has also made it difficult for the second earner to work at home where she can remain close to her children. (Let it be remembered that "two-thirds of full-time home-based workers are women."[30]) Some cities permit psychologists, but not psychiatrists, to work from home; other cities allow artists' studios, but forbid photographers' studios. Often residential zones prohibit the storage of sales inventory in one's garage or basement.[31] Zoning ordinances have not kept pace with the dot-com revolution, relegating e-Bay moonlighters, telecommuters, and self-published authors to the outdated Victorian category of commercial vice as they operate in the home-based black-market economy.
Ironically, women and children, whose safety and purity the Victorians ostensibly had in mind, may suffer the most from the consequences of the zoning laws that Victorian-minded policymakers first pioneered. Rather than spending their days together, they become estranged through the forced separation of family and work. Unwed mothers have it especially tough. Linda Fisher, a single mom struggling to support her son, incurred a fine in Westminster, Maryland, for selling homemade muffins to her neighbors in 1997.[32] Reader, beware: before hosting another Mary Kay, Tupperware, or Amway party, you might want to check with the local zoning authority. Be sure to also ask a lawyer about other state and federal regulations of home-based enterprises. For example, Wisconsin child-labor law prohibits a minor under the age of twelve from working in a parent's home business.[33] Even adults must be careful about what they produce at home. Starting in 1942, federal law prohibited homespun production of seven classes of apparel; when the Department of Labor rescinded the ban in 1981, textile producers and trade associations took the issue to court.
At the center of the controversy, several New England women had dared to knit sweaters at home rather than commute to minimum-wage textile-factory jobs. Union supporters warned that unregulated homespun put women in jeopardy of harsh conditions and low wages, but the New England knitters disagreed, complaining that factories were noisy, work days were long, commutes were expensive, and—worst of all—"mothers and fathers . . . only see their babies when they are asleep in their cribs. Believe me, 'minimum wage' doesn't begin to cover it."[34] Nevertheless, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the textile industry, finding Ronald Reagan's laissez-faire labor secretary "arbitrary and capricious" for suspending protective labor laws.[35]
Not all home-work violates the law, but federal housing policy has done little to encourage family productivity while doing much to discourage home-based enterprises. The Housing Act of 1949 promised "a decent home . . . for every American family," but after forty years of ascendant individualism, the history books truncated that slogan to "a decent home for every American." In the intervening years, mortgage guidelines drafted by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) restricted homebuyers from investing in properties designed to accommodate productive space (a shop or office) in addition to consumptive space (a family dwelling). As the FHA increased its market share, builders were less willing to pursue cottage-industry architecture that subsidized buyers would not be able to purchase.[36] Fannie Mae historian Gertrude Sipperly Fish acknowledged that "the family was no longer the basic economic as well as the social unit," so homes constructed for the late twentieth century would have smaller kitchens stocked with processed food and fewer work spaces for anything productive.[37] Ironically, it is precisely when people were doing less and less at home that the government became more and more concerned that people could afford housing.
What, then, has been the combined impact of zoning ordinances, labor regulations, and federal housing guidelines over the past half century? Nothing short of government-subsidized suburban dormitories. As law professor Nicole Stelle Garnett has observed:
The legal segregation of commercial and residential uses of property contributes to this isolation not merely by depriving residents of places to gather within their neighborhoods, but also by virtually guaranteeing that they rarely will be in their neighborhoods. . . .
[S]uburban neighborhoods are empty during the day. Moms and dads go to work; kids go to school or childcare centers.[38]
The Moral Hazard of Meddling with Housing
Alex F. Schwartz, chair of Urban Policy Analysis at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy, finds that "the United States has the world's largest and most complex system of housing finance." In such an environment, it is hardly surprising that "housing policy is seldom just about housing."[39] Proposals often explicitly identify goals as diverse as modern plumbing, building family wealth, integrating various racial groups, and managing metropolitan growth, but the real significance of housing policy lies in unstated goals and unforeseen effects.
As President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his second term in 1937, he spoke of "one-third of the nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished." This was classic FDR rhetoric—rousing words that would ultimately unfold his vision of national progress. "I paint it for you in hope," he said, calling upon "those who have much" to "provide enough for those who have too little."[40] Congress delivered, enacting the Housing Act of 1937 to establish public housing programs that would continue where the first wave of New Deal reforms had left off. The Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 sought to rescue people from the Great Depression's foreclosure crisis. The National Housing Act of 1934 established the FHA to spur on housing construction and provide government insurance for private mortgage lenders. Other programs played less obvious roles in changing the housing market.
For example, the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 included a provision for aiding low-cost housing initiatives. The first beneficiary, to the tune of $1,039,000, was the American Federation of Hosiery Workers, a Philadelphia-based union that in the 1920s had already been seeking to provide housing benefits to its members. The Hosiery Workers had clear objectives for broader social reform, hoping to forge an industrial order in which workers were so united economically and socially that they could curtail the influence of capitalism over their lives. Oskar Stonorov, the architect for their Mackley Houses apartment complex, shared their ideology, calling owner-occupied, single-family homes "fortresses of individualism" that must be replaced by the erection of cooperative living spaces that could unite workers' families into a communal lifestyle. Stonorov and his union clients further hoped that such architecture would foster political support for public pensions that would replace the family-owned home as the chief security against insolvency or old-age dependency.[41] Housing policy thereby solidified the New Deal coalition.
The New Deal, meanwhile, did not assist all Americans equally. FHA appraisals reinforced racial stereotypes, fostering discriminatory lending and establishing de facto residential segregation that relegated minorities to public-housing projects. The federal government subsequently sought to address the racial disparities through enactment of the Fair Housing (1968), Equal Credit Opportunity (1974), and Community Reinvestment (1977) acts. Meanwhile, a plethora of government programs developed, intertwining federal, state, and local authorities with the private sector in economic arrangements that subsidized both rented and owner-occupied properties.[42] All in all, "housing is a mainstay of the U.S. economy, consistently accounting for more than one fifth of the gross domestic product,"[43] and one of the greatest investors is Uncle Sam.
The largest housing expenditures by the federal government are, however, kept off the books, in the only two American corporations that have federal charters: the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae") and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ("Freddie Mac"). Fannie Mae, initially chartered in 1938 and converted into a publicly traded private corporation in 1968, expanded lending opportunities by buying FHA-insured residential mortgages from the originating banks. The Government National Mortgage Association ("Ginnie Mae") took over Fannie Mae's on-the-books activities within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) after Fannie became privatized. Freddie Mac, created in 1970 and converted into a publicly traded corporation in 1989, initially securitized mortgages originated by savings and loans associations, but in time the activities of Freddie and Fannie have blended together. Since 1980, Fannie's and Freddie's asset holdings have grown nearly twenty-fold, outpacing the residential mortgage market as a whole and accumulating, by 2000, a 71-percent market share of eligible single-family, fixed-rate mortgages. By December 2003, Fannie and Freddie were the second- and third-largest U.S. corporations, with combined assets of nearly $2 trillion, forming a formidable duopoly in the mortgage industry.[44]
Traders on the New York Stock Exchange long considered both Fannie and Freddie to be safe investments. Not only were their debts securitized by real estate, but their solvency was also implicitly guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury Department. The two corporations thus played a "double game" of leading investors to believe the government would back them, while assuring Congress that Fannie's and Freddie's finances were not part of the federal ledger. The two corporations proved very profitable through the turn of the century, multiplying their return on investment through a highly leveraged capital-to-asset ratio of less than 4 percent. (FDIC-insured depositors, by contrast, must maintain a capital-to-asset ratio of 9.2 percent.) Lurking underneath the profit margin, however, was the moral hazard created when creditors relaxed their gaze because they thought their money was safe with these government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs).[45] The implicit federal guarantee became explicit when Congress brought the GSEs under federal conservatorship in 2008. Meanwhile, the foreclosure rate had already soared between 2006 and 2007, up 79 percent nationwide, and leaping some 300 percent in California, where one in fifty houses went into foreclosure proceedings, evaporating the benefits—especially for first-time home buyers and racial minorities—that Freddie and Fannie worked so aggressively to deliver.[46]
Another crack in the foundation of federal housing policy may be discovered in tax incentives. Libertarian diehards and social-welfare advocates both agree that federal tax incentives favoring mortgaged homeownership have inflated the housing bubble with a lot of hot air, some of which may still need to leak out before housing prices stabilize again. In terms of tax benefits, buying beats renting, and borrowing beats buying outright. The home-mortgage interest deduction is, for many families, the largest single tax-saving vehicle, outperforming deductions for IRA contributions and employee-paid health insurance premiums, for example. On the government's side of the ledger, the mortgage deduction exceeds all other federal tax expenditures for housing combined. Moreover, homeowners also can deduct property taxes and exclude capital gains upon selling their home (up to $500,000 per married couple, once every two years), as well as avoid the 10 percent early-withdrawal penalty if they apply a premature IRA distribution toward the purchase or improvement of a home. Tax incentives for rental-housing developers—such as accelerated depreciation and the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit—barely amass to one-tenth the value of personal tax savings imputed to homeowners.[47]
The IRS Form 1040 is a buyer's market, "channeling more artificial demand into the housing sector," in the estimation of free-marketeer Thomas E. Woods Jr.[48] The analysts who share this perspective include Federal Reserve Board economist Hui Shan. When the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 excluded capital gains from the sale of any home that had been owner-occupied for two of the preceding five years, he notes that ownership turnover escalated, with sales rates for homes characterized by capital gains beneath the $500,000 exemption limit rising 19 to 24 percent. Shan further finds that turnover for homes with gains above that limit also increased, encouraged by a reduction in the long-term capital gains tax from 28 percent to 20 percent in the 1997 legislation, by further reduction in 2001 to 18 percent (for assets held at least five years), and finally, in 2003, to 15 percent (for assets held at least one year).[49]
In the wake of the Taxpayer Relief Act, home prices began rising not merely because demand increased after transaction taxes had been reduced or eliminated, but also because many Americans regarded a home purchase not just as a consumer expense (analogous to paying rent) but also as an investment to hedge against inflation ("the nest has become the nest egg"[50]). Whereas rising prices in consumer goods discourage further consumption, rising prices in assets encourage buyers who hope to ride the wave of investment gains. Once jump-started by the 1997 act (and further fueled by the Federal Reserve Board's inflationary monetary policy), the process became self-perpetuating—until, of course, the bubble burst.[51] Shan predicts that the bubble will deflate still further, now that the long-term capital gains rate for 2012 has returned to 20 percent, the highest rate in twelve years.[52]
As Americans entered the twenty-first century with a government-induced homeowner craze, they had not yet recognized the sarcasm in humorist Dave Barry's analysis: "It's easy to get rich in real estate. You don't have to take any risk, or work hard, or even have a central nervous system."[53] Apparently lenders did not need a central nervous system any more than buyers did. At the peak of the bubble, an $8-per-hour clerk was named "vice president" of five different banks simultaneously and cranked out 4,000 signatures per day as a "robo-signer" on mortgage loan documents. But at least this VP was not forging someone else's signature, as happened 250 times in a case brought before a New Jersey bankruptcy judge in 2006.[54]
Already in 2002, MERS had been registering itself as the owner of 21,000 loans per day. And as volume swelled, the information-technology proverb "garbage in, garbage out" gained an ugly relevance. Not only did banks find themselves unable to foreclose on delinquent home buyers, but diligent homeowners who paid every month on time discovered that MERS had assigned their mortgage somewhere else; they had been paying "rent" to the wrong bank, while failing to fulfill their mortgage obligations to the bank on record with MERS.[55] Courts have struggled to find a consistent response to the mess occasioned by computers that think faster than people. A five-minute loan origination one day may well lead to a five-minute foreclosure processing another day. But ultimately the foreclosing bank is no more secure than the evicted homeowner. "You are acting as a robot for a plaintiff who is not even giving you the information you need to file a proper foreclosure," said one judge, chastising a mortgage bank's "robo-lawyer."[56] Perhaps it is time for the children of the electronic age to reconsider some old-fashioned ideas.
Rebuilding Home(ownership) Economics from the Family Up
Now that the national median price-to-income ratio has returned to its historic average of about 3.4 percent,[57] Americans are beginning to put the housing bubble behind them. For potential buyers, a drop in home values is a welcome opportunity. For sellers, it is confirmation of the old adage that what goes up must come down—especially if it never belonged up in the first place. Important lessons seldom come easy for the learner, but a lesson learned well once will not have to be learned again. So what are the morals of this story?
First, the nation must realize that giving people what they have not earned and cannot maintain destroys the very social capital that homeownership purportedly fosters. As the dust settles from the recent housing crisis, it now is clear that "loans that were developed and actively marketed to lower- and middle-income borrowers to help them achieve their homeownership dream have placed them at risk of losing both their housing investment and any reasonable chance to permanently change their social status from renter to homeowner."[58] Mandatory financial education for borrowers might help, particularly if such education includes a fair assessment of the advantages that renting sometimes holds over buying. Public policy should reflect a nuanced understanding of homeownership: costs, benefits, responsibilities, and alternatives. For a promising path forward, consider innovative Neighborhood Stabilization Plan programs, such as the American Equity Foundation's "Continue Home" initiative. This program strives to keep families in their original homes after foreclosure by enrolling them in a rent-to-own rehabilitation service complete with credit enhancement and financial education.[59]
Second, subsidized homebuilding is a poor tool for fostering economic development. What seems good for Levitt and Sons, or Home Depot, may not always be good for America. Rather, the free market can determine what is best for America more efficiently than the majority of 535 part-time residents of Washington, D.C., and the tenant with a four-year lease at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When government allocations, whether directly through HUD or indirectly through the GSEs, send more dollars chasing after homes, and when tax breaks make the net costs gapingly lower than the nominal costs, then demand within the housing sector increases faster than the market would spontaneously allow. The initial result of this artificial demand for housing is inflation, but inflation does not impact all parties equally: owners feel richer while nominal home values rise, but buyers feel increasingly pinched by the changing market. As the eighteenth-century British political economist Richard Cantillon discovered, those first-in-line in an inflationary economy receive the benefits, while those last-in-line bear the costs, since the dollars they are holding can no longer purchase as much as they could in the recent past.[60] In practical terms, this means that housing developers and homeowners initially fare better, on average, than homebuyers. Subsequent injections of housing credit can briefly empower another generation of buyers, but only by disadvantaging those who follow them (as well as those who choose to purchase something other than housing). When artificial credit dries up, the bubble bursts and owners find themselves under water in a foreclosure market that rewards a new kind of bottom-feeding buyer.
At a minimum, policies intended to assist those who cannot afford a particular level of housing must be crafted carefully to deliver the intended benefits to the intended people. A refundable tax credit for housing expenses—whether rented or owned—would in this regard do more than the current mortgage-interest deduction for households with income below the standard-deduction threshold; as it currently stands, the mortgage-interest deduction aids families struggling to afford a second home, not necessarily a first one. To reach the working- and lower-middle classes, a housing-related tax break "must allow households to claim a benefit beyond the standard deduction, and it must be refundable."[61] Of course, this strategy for assisting the working and lower-middle class also carries its own Cantillon risks.
So long as policymakers concern themselves with getting people into homes, they may as well think about what people might do at home. Public policy should permit and encourage, rather than penalize or intimidate, home-based businesses by following a few common-sense suggestions:
Before suggestions like these can be taken seriously, lawmakers will have to jettison their twentieth-century housing policy paradigms and revert to a more traditional set of expectations. Only then can the American dream be once again seen as an opportunity for home-based businesses, not merely homeownership.
Dr. MacPherson, who teaches American history at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minnesota, is author of Rediscovering the American Republic: Biographies, Primary Texts, Charts, and Study Questions—Exploring a People's Quest for Ordered Liberty, 1492–1877 (2012).


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The ACA Sheffield Shield All*Star Team of the Year was announced today, after the playing group voted on who they considered to be the most valuable across the Sheffield Shield season.
The ACA All-Star Sheffield Shield Team of the Year
Joe Burns
Ed Cowan
Hilton Cartwright
George Bailey (c)
Moises Henriques
Ashton Turner
Chris Hartley (WK)
Chris Tremain
Chad Sayers
Jon Holland
Jason Behrendorff
Simon Mackin (12th)
Retiring Queensland wicket-keeper Chris Hartley was included after a typically stoic year, where he amassed 535 runs and broke the Sheffield Shield dismissals record.
Hartley was delighted to be included in the team, after players were given the opportunity to vote on who they felt had the biggest impact upon the competition.
"One of the best things about the cricket careers we enjoy is those great contests with your teammates, and the thing that I most enjoyed was the battles with quality opposition.
"It doesn't matter which team you are playing against there is always a hard-fought battle.
"To then be recognised by those same players that you're pitted against week in, week out, is a very special thing, so I am very honoured."
Hartley will retire with 564 dismissals and 6138 runs, but dismissed claims that he perhaps retired too early, saying that 'it is always better to be a year too soon, than a year too late'.
He affirmed that it was a clear mind frame, and a desire to enjoy his last year of cricket, that led to him being selected by the playing group.
"One of the things I wanted to do towards the back end of my career was to just really enjoy my cricket and find a way to make a major contribution in every game I play for Queensland," Hartley said.
"Those two things were the real motivators for me and I think when you're relaxed like that and you play with a bit of freedom you inevitably play your best cricket.
"I very much enjoyed my cricket this year so it's no surprise that I was able to play some of the better cricket of my career.
Signing off from first-class cricket, Hartley feels that Shield cricket is in a strong place in Australia, and needs to remain that way in order to continue to keep developing the next generation of Australian players.
"Sheffield Shield when I started was the toughest breeding ground you could have; in my eyes it still is and needs to remain that way, if we are to have the Australian team at the top of the tree, which is what everyone wants" Hartley said.
Tasmanian captain George Bailey was selected as captain in the ACA Team of the Year, and to bat at no.4, after 839 runs this campaign.
Joe Burns (724 runs) and Ed Cowan (959 runs) were selected to open, with Hilton Cartwright (861 runs), Moises Henriques (775 runs) and Ashton Turner (742 runs) rounding out the batsman.
Chad Sayers was an obvious inclusion in the team, after sensational 62 wicket year with South Australia.
Jason Behrendorff (37 wickets), Chris Tremain (42 wickets) and Jon Holland (42 wickets) were the remainder of the bowling attack picked by players.
Western Australian Simon Mackin was selected as 12th man, after 35 wickets in the 2016-17 campaign.
ACA Male Operations Manager Brendan Drew congratulated all included in the team.
"To be selected in this team, alongside the most valuable players in the Sheffield Shield, is a huge achievement of which the players should be proud," Drew said.
"Any award that a player receives is special, but an award selected by your peers is the greatest honour."


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My code seems to skip an if statement. The function code is here:
It basically checks 2 char arrays and if they are the same breaks the while loop.Code:while(flag == 0) { if(strcmp(current_plane_fuel->name, temp_fuel->name)==0) { flag == 1; } temp_fuel = temp_fuel->next_fuel; if(temp_fuel == NULL && flag == 0) { flag = 1; check_result = 4; } }
temp_fuel being a linked list of structs that hold a name.
It's just checking if the fuel exists.
If they are different it breaks the loop and sets the int "check_result" to 4.
Even when I give it words that are the same it gives me the result of 4. And when I debug it, I check both values and they are the same. As I step through I see it skip over the whole if statement.
It doesn't even place the debuggers current line on the "if(strcmp...etc" line.
I can post the function in more detail if it helps, but I can't see why it won't even check the first if statement.


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Sep 8, 2016
I bought our White Mountain 6 qt. July 2016. It makes beautiful firm ice cream but takes an hour to freeze. Everything I read says it freezes in 20-25 mins. This one takes a full hour & yes, I am following the operating directions.
Jun 9, 2015
I am very very happy with my White Mountain 6 Qt. Electric ice cream freezer. And even more happy with the service from Lehman's store. After having a problem with the original motor they shipped me a Brand New one and I received it SUPER FAST. I would like to thank them and highly recommend them for all your needs. Very Good People.
Apr 18, 2015
White Mountain had been a product since grand mother made ice for me as a boy some 50 years ago. It is no longer the company they use to be. After more than two motors where the gears tear apart I have given up on this company and its foreign made parts. These are sad days of a long lost past.
Feb 17, 2015
Oh I so want to own a new one of these! I was raised with a White Mountain crank maker. I remember when my parents upgraded to electric. The crank gave much firmer ice cream by far. The crank one finally died. My husband and I got my parents and used it. It finally died. If I had the money I would have one of each. I want my kids to have the memories of sitting in the freezer and getting old enough to get to crank it. Only to graduate to the relief of the electric freezer. Maybe someday! Thanks for sweet memories!!
May 20, 2014
I grew up using a White Mountain freezer. Our family made ice cream in it regularly for 10 years until we lost it in a move. When I got married, my parents gave me a White Mountain electric as a wedding gift. My wife and I have been using it ever since(30+ years).
May 15, 2014
Motor and gears scream like a banshee. You have to hear to believe. Sent the first one back. Second one is the same. Must be used outside or in closed room with now one around. I'm sure that it could damage hearing in a short time. Bucket leaks and this prevents the super cold brine solution from surrounding the ice cream container (and thus freeze the ice cream). I've owned several ice cream freezers and never had to pre-soak the bucket to make them work.
Sep 28, 2012
This makes very good ice-cream. Great power. But the bucket has a tendency to leak. Ours rusted and loosened where the motor casing meets the two brackets that attach it to the bucket. I have heard that lately they have corrected these two problems. If you bucket does leak, you can soak it in water outside for a few house before you make ice-cream. Then the wood swells, and it will not leak.