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Anders Clausen at Hotel
Artist: Anders Clausen
Venue: Hotel, London
Date: February 10 – March 27th, 2010
Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.
Images courtesy of Hotel, London
Press Release:
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A recent unscientific survey in my head suggested that fewer and fewer people want to grow up to be art forgers or computer hackers. Why? Are we just too busy being vaguely fascinated by our so terribly nice-looking tools? Are there already new specific words for states like the numb distraction you feel when you can't find a file on your desk top in an instant? When you are so used to an interface that you don't think about it any more even though you look at it thousands of times a day? When you can't even tell the difference between it and you? When you sit at a screen all day long and it really does feel like your very own super-connected personal window on the world as you want to see it, or for what happens when the interface suddenly but inevitably changes? Art generally feels more comfortable with obsolescent media and conspiracy theories. For art wanting some kind of critical distance on progress, old out-dated technologies offer solace––handwriting, the typewriter, Super 8, handmade collages, screen-prints, photographs you printed yourself. It's easy to forget that some classic Pop art (before digital windows popped-up) once looked bitingly new––like ironic, ultra-cynical, visual feedback embracing the enemy and loving him hard. Mimicry and camp repetition thankfully remain both the cruellest and most effective strategies in social interactions involving encoded, oblique but omnipotent power relations. You are the consumer, the user and we have designed places for you to feel happy and to get things done. So what's wrong? A few years back a Singaporean artzine designed by a group of art graduates satirically suggested to its readers that they should put away their expensive laptops during studio visits in order to seem more authentic and less spoiled. In the last years I find it hard to think of a studio visit without one. That's not necessarily bad but maybe it's time to own up to our tools and our deeply ambivalent relationship to them. Don't question my production, my post-production, my continual interruptions, my worm-like digressions. We all face questions relating to formats and fitting nearly everything we care to do or imagine into one which rarely works whatever operating system or programs you happen to be using. Art history has many windows opened. I wonder what abstract artist Hans Hoffman would think of Anders Clausen's screenshot series? Some of which, by the way, are straight up replica lies or reconstructions of the eerily friendly, the overfamiliar and mega-strange, and others, which are both appropriations and confessions. Pushed and pulled this way and that by various kinds of subjective urgencies whether sexual, financial, professional, micro-social. Each formal scheme overlays others. Something else––let's admit that most collages don't look like collages any more they are much too sneaky, beyond doubt––that's what we want isn't it, not the past and not more realness but far, far less? Translucent, seamless, beckoning, rupture-less, untouchable and easy. Most images we know are pumped up. When you scroll down where are you going? When you scroll up again is everything still there?
Link: Anders Clausen at Hotel


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In one of his first interviews since being sworn into Congress earlier in the day, Cruz told CNN that he would not have voted in favor of the fiscal cliff compromise, calling it a "lousy deal."
"Look, it wasn't a perfect deal. Nobody was thrilled by it, but you got a deal with what's doable in a divided Congress like we have," Blitzer told him.
"The only reason this lousy deal happened is because President Obama and Harry Reid wanted to raise taxes on Americans," Cruz responded. "I think that's going to hurt growth and it's going to hurt the middle class and working class–"
Interrupting, Wolf said: "But, remember, the president was reelected. Harry Reid is the majority leader — you're in minority in the United States Senate. You got to deal with reality. You can't just be — you can't just be overly idealistic."


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When a catchy slogan as part of broad marketing campaign is pushed in a properly made TV commercial, a company can get a distinct edge on its competitors. There are many examples of the right turn of phrase giving financial firms an edge. Then there are those slogans that transcend the company itself and soar, or slink depending on your view of the slogan, into the public lexicon.
Of course, sometimes the glow is fleeting and later events make the words ring hollow. "When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen" certainly was all the rage in the 1970s. But, alas, the firm flamed out and the name has disappeared from the financial lexicon.
Other slogans seem to last, like Prudential's "get a piece of the rock." That ancient, solid rock is still there and so is the company.
Whether the firms have staying power or fall by the wayside, the slogans remain, forever remembered on the Internet. Here are AdvisorOne's favorite advertising slogans for financial firms:
1. E.F. Hutton: "When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen"
In the 1970s, no advertising slogan resonated more than E.F. Hutton's boastful claim. In TV commercials a group of people at a party or even in Yankee Stadium would go silent when a broker started to dispense advice.
The firm founded in 1904 by Edward Francis Hutton, seemed to be the face of Wall Street to the American public in the 1970s and '80s. Under the leadership of Robert M. Fomon, Hutton maintained its independence until trouble hit in the form of scandal. By employing a form of check kiting, the company inflated its cash flow. The scheme was uncovered and a fine of $2 million was paid. Then a second scandal, involving a Rhode Island office's dealings with the mob, ended the days when investors would listen. Soon enough the firm was bought and eventually ended up a part of Citigroup.
The ad exec who coined the iconic slogan, Mitchell J. Epstein, never heard the scandals coming.
2. Charles Schwab: "Talk to Chuck"
Maybe it shouldn't be surprising that the discount brokerage adopted a slogan that plays on its common-man roots. That's the route that Charles Schwab Corp. took in 2005. The ad campaign built around the slogan, developed with Euro RSCG Worldwide-New York, famously used real actors to film TV commercials that were then transformed into animation using a digital process.
Of course, catchy slogans can cause problems when trouble strikes a brokerage. In this case, news of Schwab paying $119 million in fines and restitution over misdeeds involving its YieldPlus Fund, spurred The Wall Street Journal in 2011 to wonder in a headline: "Talk to Chuck? Better Bring Your Galoshes." The story that accompanied the headline called Schwab's note to investors about the matter a "snow job."
Talk to Chuck indeed.
3. American Express: "Don't leave home without it"
American Express has a long and storied history, tracing its beginnings to an 1850 express mail business.
Known for its charge cards (often the first one a college grad carries), its traveler's checks and customer service, perhaps nothing sticks more in the mind than the iconic slogan AmEx employed in the 1970s-80s. Actor Karl Malden, who at the time played a cop in "Streets of San Francisco," gave an air of security to the catchphrase when it debuted in 1973.
After Malden left the campaign, a series of celebrities, including Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, intoned the famous words. Retired for a time, the slogan devised by ad man David Ogilvy was revived in the last decade to advertise the American Express Travelers Check Card.
4. AIG: "We know money"
Just for sheer irony this is one of our favorites. AIG, the financial giant that was deemed too big to fail, once vouched "we know money." And for years, who could doubt it? The company was the world's biggest insurer and its ads were hard to miss.
Somehow, though, the company got off track. A Google search finds ridicule as far back as 2006 when the company, deemed "the new Enron," paid $1.6 billion to settle fraud and claims abuse charges.
Of course, the big fall came in 2008 when AIG faced a liquidity crisis that required a government bailout to the tune of $85 billion. Maurice Greenberg, then the CEO of the insurer, was quoted as saying he was bewildered by how things got out of control.
He might have known money, but he was in the dark about managing it.
5. Prudential: "Get a Piece of the Rock"
Prudential started using a drawing of the Rock of Gibraltar in its logo as far back as the 1890s. The slogan was coined by ad men Ted Bates Worldwide in 1970.
The slogan has evidently assured investors of the company's solidity as it has evolved from a mutual insurance firm to one that offers mutual funds and pension and other retirement-related products. Prudential now counts hundreds of subsidiaries under its name and holds more than $2 trillion in life insurance policies.
6. Smith Barney: "Smith Barney makes money the old-fashioned way … we earn it"
This slogan was famously intoned by John Houseman, whose voice gave the pitch just the right combination of sophistication and arrogance. The New York Times says the actor uttered the phrase in 18 TV commercials from 1979-86.
The firm's slogan, despite a relatively brief life (it was formed by a merger of two brokerages in 1938) brought it enough attention that The Wall Street Journal felt compelled to write an obituary for the firm last March when parent company Morgan Stanley said it was considering dropping the name.
The obituary proved premature as the name survives, a reminder of a slogan that promised investors profits, the old-fashioned way.
7. Merrill Lynch: "Bullish on America"
The perfect combination of corporate rebranding with a nod to Wall Street nomenclature led ad man Bruce Silverman to create the slogan in the 1970s.
The slogan played off the firm's new logo that included a bull, and Merrill was nicknamed the "thundering herd." And it had staying power. When the market crashed in 1987, CEO William Schreyer famously told TV viewers "We're still bullish on America."
Of course, with the upheaval that started in 2008, Merrill Lynch fell apart and was snapped up by Bank of America. Still, it boasts of being the world's largest brokerage with 15,000 advisors and $2.2 trillion assets under management.
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- Best 5 Investment Picks for 2012
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The 2006 Mercedes-Benz E-Class features a more powerful standard engine, the one that comes on the most popular model. This new V6 is a welcome improvement, but it really does not change the basic character of what was already a fine automobile.
The E-Class in many ways epitomizes the Mercedes-Benz brand, at least in the eyes of many consumers. It's the company's best selling line worldwide and one of the best-selling Mercedes models in the United States.
The E-Class describes a full line of big, roomy sedans that are solid, safe, practical, comfortable, luxurious, and fast. Yet the cost of operating the popular E350, in terms of fuel consumption and maintenance, can be quite reasonable. The E-Class features some of the world's most advanced safety technology. And, what most people think of when they think of Mercedes, the E-Class expresses status in elegant, understated fashion.
Since a frame-up overhaul for model year 2003, the E-Class has expanded steadily, and now includes seven variants: sedans that seat five, wagons that seat seven, V6 engines, V8s or one of the finest diesels offered in the United States, optional weather-busting all-wheel drive and screaming super-performance models from supertuner AMG. Any of these seven models delivers a combination of attributes surpassed by few cars or trucks anywhere.
For 2006, there is a slight change in E-Class nomenclature, thanks to a change in engine size. The E350 sedan and wagon are powered by a new-generation 3.5-liter V6 that produces 20 percent more power than the previous 3.2-liter V6 (used in the E320) with no decrease in fuel mileage. The E350 is the Mercedes' first dual-overhead cam V6 and it generates 268 horsepower, compared to 221 from the 3.2-liter V6 it replaces. Yet, matched to Mercedes' high-tech, seven-speed automatic transmission, the E350 loses nothing in mileage to its less powerful predecessor.
Meanwhile, there is no better example of how far passenger car diesel technology has advanced than the E320 CDI with Mercedes' impressive common-rail direct injection turbodiesel engine.
Also new for 2006 is a supercharged E55 AMG wagon boasting 469 horsepower. Woe is the guy in the sports car who smirks at this stodgy station wagon. It is truly a wolf in sheep's clothing.
The Mercedes E-Class is an icon, a benchmark in its class. It competes in one of the most competitive market segments today as it goes toe-to-toe with outstanding luxury sedans such as the Audi A6, BMW 5 Series and Acura RL.
The E350 sedan ($50,050) is the standard model. The name change reflects its new 3.5-liter V6 engine. It comes standard with the new seven-speed automatic transmission. Standard features include fully automatic dual-zone climate control, 10-way power front seats with leather seating surfaces and position memory, real burl walnut trim, a power tilt and telescoping steering wheel, a nine-speaker stereo, power windows with one-touch express operation both up and down, auto-dimming mirrors and rain-sensing windshield wipers. 4Matic full-time variable all-wheel drive ($2,500) is available. Also available is an Appearance Package ($3,960) that adds sporty lower body cladding and Mercedes' Airmatic computer-controlled air suspension.
The E320 CDI ($51,050) is equipped identically to the E350, but features the common-rail direct injection turbodiesel engine.
The E500 ($58,400) is powered by a 302-hp V8, with more standard equipment than the E350. Upgrades include a four-zone climate control system with separate temperature adjustments for both sides of the cabin, front and rear, and the variable air suspension.
The E350 wagon ($52,300) and E500 wagon ($62,000) are equipped comparably to the respective sedans. The 4Matic all-wheel-drive system comes standard on E500 wagons. A power liftgate and cargo organizer are standard, and the E-Class wagons add something rare among their European counterparts: a folding third seat that increases passenger capacity by two.
Options let buyers equip an E350 with nearly all the upgraded equipment that comes on the E500. There are dozens more options offered on all E-Class models, including radar-controlled Distronic adaptive cruise control, which maintains a set distance from cars ahead; a credit card-sized transmitter called Keyless Go, which allows unlocking the doors and starting the car by touching the door handle and the gear selector; Parktronic obstacle warning, which helps with parking and enhances safety by alerting the driver to objects in front of and behind the car.
The E55 AMG ($81,800) is performance-tuned by Mercedes subsidiary AMG. It's equipped with a supercharged, intercooled V8 producing 469 horsepower, a manually controllable five-speed automatic transmission, bigger tires, wheels and brakes and an aggressively tuned suspension. This hotrod is distinguished by a unique body package, interior trim and AMG markings inside and out. For 2006, Mercedes offers an E55 AMG wagon ($82,600) for the first time.
Safety features on all models include active front head restraints, which are new for 2006. In the event of a rear collision exceeding the system's deployment threshold, the front head restraints move forward nearly two inches and upward by more than an inch, helping to support the head and reduce whiplash injuries. Every E-Class car comes standard with eight airbags: dual front airbags, side-impact airbags for front and rear passengers, and head-protection curtains that run the length of the cabin on both sides. The airbag management system employs multiple impact sensors designed to more precisely control the timing and rate of deployment. The system accounts for the weight of a front-seat passenger and controls seatbelt pretensioners according to the force of impact. Active safety features start with anti-skid stability electronics and the latest evolution of ABS.
The new V6 engine that comes on the 2006 Mercedes-Benz E350 addresses one of our primary gripes: disappointing performance from the standard engine. The new engine is slightly larger (3.5 liters vs. 3.2), and it's the first Mercedes V6 with dual overhead cams and four valves per cylinder. The 3.5 liter V6 generates 268 horsepower (20 percent more than the 3.2) and helps trim fully half a second from the E350's 0-60 mph times.
More important, matched with Mercedes' high-tech seven-speed automatic transmission, the new engine makes the E350 generally more responsive than the 2005 E320. The 3.5-liter V6 has fully variable valve timing, delivering an impressive amount of torque from idle all the way to the redline. The E350 responds much more immediately, with more obvious acceleration, than the old E320, no matter how fast it's already traveling when the driver dips the gas pedal. The new engine is also noticeably smoother, particularly at high rpm. And thanks to the seven-speed transmission, the improved performance comes without a corresponding decrease in fuel mileage.
The diesel-powered E320 CDI is impressive. Its turbocharged inline six-cylinder diesel features all the latest high-tech goodies, including CDI, the common-rail direct injection system, which delivers fuel to the engine at an incredible 23,000 psi, compared to 100-250 psi in a typical gasoline engine. Yet the technology matters far less than the results. Forget everything you know about diesel-powered cars built in the 1970s, '80s or '90s. Slow starting? Not anymore. Like all diesels, the E-Class version still needs electric glow-plugs to heat the combustion chambers before starting. Yet during our week-long evaluation, in early spring in the Midwest when mornings are more than cold enough to leave a coating of dew on the landscape, the E320 CDI never started more slowly than a gasoline engine.
Unpleasant odors? You'll still get that oily diesel smell when you fill the E320 CDI's tank, but once the filler cap is back on and the car is running, you'll notice no unpleasant fumes inside or out of this E-Class. Excessive engine noise? At idle, during warm-up, you'll hear the rapid tick-tick of diesel noise more loudly than anything coming from the gasoline-powered E350's engine. But once the diesel is warm, there's very little difference in the amount of engine noise reaching the cabin compared to other E-Class models. The diesel engine is also surprisingly smooth, and the extra bit of noise comes with some excellent benefits.
Start with outstanding fuel economy. According to the EPA, the E320 CDI beats its gasoline-powered counterpart by more than 10 miles per gallon for both city and highway driving, estimated at 27 and 37 mpg respectively. Our test suggests that a 10 mpg edge overall is easily achievable in the real word. With predominantly highway travel, the CDI has a range of 600-700 miles per tank, so owners won't have to tolerate the smell of diesel fuel very often. With gasoline topping $2 a gallon, and the mileage advantage of the E320 CDI, the paradigm for the typical American buyer may finally have shifted toward diesel engines.
Why? Because the E320 CDI performs just as well as the gasoline powered E350. Its 201 horsepower is impressive by diesel standards, but that's not the half. This engine produces a whopping 369 pound-feet of torque, more even than the E500 gasoline V8, and it's the twisting power of torque that generates acceleration. Dip the accelerator pedal on the E320 CDI and it jumps, quickly enough to spin the back tires just by jabbing the gas if you switch the traction control off. Before the introduction of the new 3.5-liter gasoline V6, the CDI would leave the standard gasoline-powered E-Class in the dust. Even now, it will run neck and neck with the E350, up to about 90 mph. Moreover, the CDI engine breathes freely enough that it keeps pulling strong up to the tr
The Mercedes-Benz E-Class offers a wider range of choices than ever before. All have the attributes that have long made the E-Class a benchmark among luxury cars. Every model delivers a combination of safety, luxury, practicality, performance, status, and cost of operation that's difficult match. This remains an iconic car in a market segment crowded with good cars.
NewCarTestDrive.com editor Mitch McCullough reported from Los Angeles, with J.P. Vettraino and Jim McCraw reporting from Detroit.


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Picture this. On August 22, 2013, a group of eleven friends will swim 5 kilometres across a lake from France to Switzerland. This not any ordinary swim, this is the IUCN Big Swim across lac Leman!
You can support the Big Swim by donating via the following link to the SOS project page: http://bit.ly/1epxCf3
Every little helps and is much appreciated.
The Big Swim is an annual fundraiser which this year is dedicated to raise money for an SOS – Save Our Species project working to save the largest viable population of dugongs in the Western Indian Ocean – the 200 dugongs of the Bazaruto Archipelago National Park, Mozambique.
Back on lac Leman the water is busy with boat traffic and a strong current could make the swim even longer – perhaps 6 kilometres. After the first hour the body chills in the glacial water, even with the aid of a wetsuit and the summer sun to warm their backs. After almost two more hours the swimmers should arrive at their destination, tired yet elated with an appetite for a celebration drink and photograph. In the water along the way, swimming slowly and gracefully – as dugongs also do - there is plenty of time for jokes and chat but also reflection on the plight of dugongs worldwide and why they're so special.
According to Dugong expert Dr Helen Marsh, Dugongs are special in so many ways, for example they are:
• one of only four surviving species of sea cows,
• the only herbivorous mammal that spends its whole life in the sea,
• seagrass community specialists,
• of the highest cultural value for many indigenous peoples including the Bazaruto community,
• but have a face only a mother could love!
Despite their huge range that extends from East Africa to Vanuatu, most dugong populations are under threat because of the overlap between the habitats of dugongs and coastal peoples. Recognised as Vulnerable by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the Dugong has suffered a population reduction of 30% over the last 3 generations. Specialists estimate it faces extinction within the next 40 years, if nothing is done to help it. Seagrass meadows are being destroyed, dugongs drown in fishing nets, and are hunted for food. For the Bazaruto population, before recovery there must be stabilisation and too many adult Dugongs of breeding age are still being caught in gillnets to allow numbers to grow.
The extra money raised by the Big Swim for Dugongs will go directly to the project to beef up law enforcement with extra aerial surveillance and patrol boats, confiscating and removing illegal nets found in the park while the conservation team also continue working with local communities to generate alternative livelihoods that cherish and value the Dugong for example through eco-tourism related initiatives.
A sustained and holistic effort along these lines will help secure the current population and, according to Karen Allen, Dugong project manager with SOS-grantee, EWT, every little contribution helps: "With $5,000 USD we can perform 3 month's worth of marine patrols and 55 hours of flight time which equates to four month's of aerial surveillance and monitoring.
To date the Big Swim has raised almost $20,000 USD through online donations sponsoring each of those nine intrepid swimmer-activists. What is more, the Big Swim's success as a fundraiser is a great example of the positive impact people can make when rallied to a cause: whether a Big Swim or any other fun event that inspires and motivates people to make a contribution.
SOS - Save Our Species is delighted to work with anyone and everyone who is interested to become citizen conservationists and activists. So please if you want to do something and would like to fundraise for SOS, get in touch to see if we can work together and help you help us.
Remember 100% of species can be saved if we choose to do something about it. By saving our threatened species we are really saving ourselves. Will you answer the call?


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In addition to stepping into leadership roles at family farms, more women are filling the ranks of agricultural researchers and agency managers.
Katy Coba, who was the first female wheat truck driver on the family farm near Pendleton, has been director of the Oregon Department of Agriculture for the past 10 years. Celia Gould holds that position in Idaho and Karen Ross is secretary of California's Department of Food and Agriculture.
Two of Coba's upper level staff members are women: Deputy Director Lisa Hanson and Stephanie Page, who is special assistant to the director.
Female researchers are deeply engaged in agricultural issues. At Oregon State University, weed scientist Carol Mallory-Smith ran the initial tests this spring that determined volunteer wheat plants found growing in an eastern Oregon field carried an unapproved "Roundup Ready" gene.
Also at OSU, entomologist Amy Dreves works to thwart the spotted wing drosophila, an invasive fruit fly that causes severe damage to ripening fruit and berries. Patty Skinkis, a viticulturist, is researching ways to increase wine grape yields without decreasing quality. Sujaya Rao, another entomologist, is involved in a project to learn more about the health of native pollinators by tracking bumblebees' movements using tiny sensors. Many more women hold teaching positions on campus or work at OSU's Food Innovation Center or other Extension Service programs.
Coba said women have always had strong roles in Oregon agriculture, but some changes may be at work.
"What's different now is that it's becoming more visible to those outside of farming," she said. In addition, "It may just be that women are more comfortable taking on that (leadership) role than they were a generation or two ago."
Another possible factor: Farm families have fewer children than in years past. If a farmer has two daughters and no sons, the succession question loses the gender edge.
Coba's family has that decision on the horizon. Her brother is running the family farm, but has only one child, a daughter. And Coba has two daughters.
Incidentally, Coba said her family fretted for some time before deciding to let her drive trucks during harvest. "After a year or two, dad and granddad hired more and more female wheat truck drivers," she said. "They said we were easier on the equipment."


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You will have to fulfil the wagering requirements attached to each bonus in order to release the bonus funds. Depending on the bonus offered, you might also release associated winnings or withdraw the deposit made towards a bonus only after fulfilling these wagering restrictions.
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Info about getting from the airport, public transportation and more.
Getting from the Airport
Montréal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL) is located in Dorval, about 30 to 45 minutes from downtown Montreal. Highways 20 and 520 are the main access roads to the city, but there are other services available if you don't have a car. For $10, the express bus 747 connects you from the airport to downtown Montreal 24 hours a day. Taxis charge a fixed rate of $41 from the airport to downtown Montreal.
Public Transportation
The Métro is the most convenient way to go between neighbourhoods. The yellow line connects you with the South Shore suburbs and Île Sainte-Hélène to access Parc Jean-Drapeau, where Expo 67 was held. One ticket costs $3.50.
See the city like a local (and save money) by hopping on a Bixi. The bike-share has over 600 stations and 7,430 bicycles navigating the city's numerous bike lanes. The system is set up for short trips; the base fee starts at $2.95 for a trip that lasts 30 minutes or less (longer trips cost extra). The season lasts from April to November.
If hailing one from the street doesn't work, you can easily find taxis waiting at the corners of major avenues in Montreal and near public attractions.
Atlas Taxi: 514-485-8585
Taxi Coop Montreal: 514-725-9885
Taxi Diamond: 514-273-6331
The Uber app is really easy to use in Montreal now that the ride-sharing company is fully legal in the city. If you don't have the app, you can download it in a matter of seconds.


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Is It the End for the 30-Year Mortgage?
The real housing debate boils down to this: Should all Americans continue to have relatively easy access to the pre-payable, 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage? Nick Timiraos reports. Photo: AP.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... but signs of Congress seeking to sell the government's stakes in the least giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ... which were taken of in the midst of the financial crisis five years ago ... but that's easier said than done ... the Timiraos joins us with a look at what this move would mean ... that most beloved of American suspicions ... the thirty year fixed mortgage ... good morning Nikkei might sign was posted to this isn't a good idea we going to come in and out of mortgages that this is not we have no business has opened a second one to do that this is the problem gratin and paste this and this is a little but like Guantanamo Bay in the sense that they're very unpopular ... every says that once up and down but it's very hard to that ... and the the issue of Fannie and Freddie is that the US is unique among most industrialized nations in between ... we have is the North Star of the mortgage market the thirty year fixed rate mortgage ... than you can pay off at any time without a pre payment penalty ... um that it it's it's not unheard of in the rest the world but it's rare for ... a country to have so much of its more than mortgages financed through this ... kind of ... Frankenstein product from the standpoint of thanks for they don't wanna take on ... the interest rate risk lot of times associated with a ... thirty year mortgage and we saw during the nineteen eighties with the ... SNL crises ... I just what can happen when ... you cross a fund's current price is above what your resume on those mortgages and and that's the type of greater concern now perhaps because insurers also assumed his current holdings are coming in a time when the use of the night ... in the out of whack absolutely and and just because I mean so what Fannie Freddie do was the kind of come and and that they dismantled up of middleman role in a new song the nineteen eighties is the first one away game for his role in the market became more through March of this summer ... as the ... they don't actually make loans for the purchase loans made the package them into bonds that are sold off to investors ... and they guarantee those investors ... against a full so they take on the credit risk ... and they sell the interest rate risk ... on to other investors to question here is that ... who would we want to have upholding that interest free risk we wanted to be with them while residents many European countries are in Canada ... with variable rate mortgage products ... or do we want to be in financial institutions financial system ... well ... that the government is taking on the credit risk area except for the Fed right now you don't have the government taking on the interest rate risk ... so the question is who's going to take on the dentistry risk if we're going to continue to fund thirty year fixed mortgages on top of of ... of the credit risk free and pretty soon cost a pretty had considered defective guarantee behind ... aam is there a sense that if the private eyes again that would soon be put back in place that so that there is zero reason they're there is almost zero support for returning to the kind of implied guarantee so the problems it is notable for Fannie Freddie ... they warn explicitly Corley government the world ... that investors believe the war ... and so they would buy their bonds ... on the faith that if anything ... if the company's control their capital got wiped out which it did ... the government backed them up which the government to to ... ALM so now what's been talked into something kind of FDIC like where we would make an explicit guarantee but only on the mortgage backed security on the bond ... not on the debt of the institution ... and you pay a fee for you and you'd have to capitalize for that and I'm that creates new problems to be this how do you get the government setting the ... appropriate fee so lots of tables ... that goes down ... thanks so much meaning ...


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Archive for Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Social media pool: Some districts dive in, some still treading water
Social media in area schools at a glance
Numbers as of Monday:
Baldwin City (about 1,450 students)
• Facebook page: 418 "likes"
• Bulldog Bulletin student newspaper: 932 "likes" on Facebook, 166 followers on Twitter
Basehor-Linwood (about 2,000 students)
• Facebook page: 1,057 "likes"
• Superintendent David Howard's Twitter feed: 79 followers
Bonner Springs-Edwardsville (about 2,500 students)
• Bonner Springs High School Alumni Association Facebook page: 375 "likes"
• No district Facebook or Twitter page
De Soto (about 7,000 students)
• USD 232 nutrition department Twitter feed: 146 followers
• No district Facebook or Twitter page
Shawnee Mission (about 27,800 students)
• Facebook page: 2,676 "likes"
• Twitter feed: 504 followers
Tonganoxie (about 1,900 students)
• Superintendent Randy Weseman says district Facebook presence and personal Twitter feed launching this year
• Tonganoxie High School Twitter feed: 102 followers
In less than three years, the Basehor-Linwood school district's Facebook page has amassed more than 1,000 "likes," one for every two students in its buildings. But a few miles away, in Bonner Springs, there is no district Facebook page to be found.
In De Soto schools, students and teachers can't access Facebook sites from school computers, but in Baldwin City, Facebook not only is freely accessible, but teachers use it to keep students posted on their assignments.
As some school districts dive head first into the social-media pool — adopting tools such as Facebook and Twitter to reach more parents, patrons and students — others have dipped only a toe into the water or stayed out completely. Facebook-friendly school officials say social media sites are a vital way to communicate with as many people as possible, while others say such tools present too big a risk and would require time and resources they don't have.
"I have a personal bias in that I see a lot of people who spend a whole lot of time on Facebook when they could probably be spending their time in ways that are more educationally sound," said Robert VanMaren, superintendent of the Bonner Springs-Edwardsville school district, which does not have a presence on Facebook or Twitter (although its high school alumni association does).
Basehor-Linwood Superintendent David Howard said some administrators had fears when the district created its Facebook page in early 2010, and he knows many districts haven't launched social-media presences because of those fears. But the positives outweigh the negatives, he said.
"They're kind of, in my mind, missing the boat on another valuable tool to communicate," Howard said.
The Shawnee Mission school district jumped on that boat by creating Facebook and Twitter accounts nearly three years ago. The pages share bits of news, alerts and photos from around the district with hundreds of people — about 2,700 have "liked" the Facebook page, and about 500 follow the Twitter site.
The accounts help spread information to a wider audience and, along with the district's website, allow it to cut down on print communications, said Leigh Anne Neal, the district's associate superintendent for communications.
When districts do take that jump, Neal said, they can't do it halfheartedly.
"You can have that site, but if you never update it or you never post anything, then it's not really a very useful tool," Neal said.
That was a reason cited by officials in the De Soto and Bonner Springs districts for not getting on Facebook or Twitter: They simply don't have the staff time to constantly update and monitor accounts.
"We'd probably have to hire a full-time person just to keep up," VanMaren said.
Alvie Cater, spokesman for the De Soto school district, said he was the only employee in the communications department for the district, which has nearly 7,000 students, and a social media presence would require constant attention.
He pointed to the Mansfield Independent School District in Texas, which in 2011 shut down its Facebook page, which had drawn about 7,000 "likes," because the district could not keep up with student comments, some of which had become abusive.
Howard, the Basehor-Linwood superintendent, said he'd found that Facebook users display more civility than users in other areas of the Internet, because they generally use their real names rather than anonymous handles.
He acknowledged, though, that monitoring the Facebook page can be a full-time job. He and the district's communications coordinator check the site constantly, he said. And that's in addition to the Twitter account he started last year, where he fires off messages about state education policy, Basehor-Linwood sports and other topics using 140 characters or fewer.
"Much to my wife's dismay, I tend to be on my phone a lot," Howard said.
Baldwin City Superintendent Paul Dorathy said his district's technology staff had little trouble keeping up with activity on the Facebook page, which was launched in July 2009 and has racked up 419 "likes." The district welcomes communication on the page, he said.
"Our feeling is if they're legitimate comments, then we probably ought to see them," Dorathy said. "But if they post something inappropriate, we can take it off immediately."
Although Shawnee Mission and Basehor-Linwood have active Facebook pages, they both limit access to social networking sites on school computers. That's not the case in Baldwin City, where some teachers even use Facebook pages in class.
One of those teachers is Kit Harris, who has invited students and parents to "like" the Facebook page for his English classes, where they can check reading assignments or find links to articles or resources. His newspaper and yearbook students also use Facebook and Twitter pages to link to their coverage (the Bulldog Bulletin's Facebook page boasts about 930 "likes"), post photos and provide alerts to students.
Use of the sites better reflects the world that today's students live in, Harris said.
"Like it or not, students are going to use social media," he said.
Dorathy said Baldwin school officials had decided it would be better to model appropriate social media use for students than to forbid it. Teachers who use the sites discuss appropriate online behavior with their students, he said.
"If nobody's showing them or being an example or role model for them, how do they learn what is good or what isn't?" Dorathy said.
In Tonganoxie, Superintendent Randy Weseman said this is the year that the district's schools will establish their presence on social media. He recently opened a Twitter account (although, he admits, he's still figuring out how to use it), and the district plans to launch a central Facebook page as well as a page for each of its three schools.
"I know it's a major form of how people communicate now, so I think that by default you have to get in the mix," Weseman said.
Weseman guessed that, eventually, all school districts will have a social media presence, but some districts may be slower than others, perhaps because of smaller staffs or unfamiliarity with the social media world. And in general, he said, districts like to plan carefully and have policies in place before trying something new.
De Soto and Bonner Springs officials both said they would consider adding social online presences in the future. And neither district has stayed away from that world completely — about 374 people have "liked" the Bonner Springs High School Alumni Association's Facebook page, and more than 140 followers get menu updates and other tidbits from the De Soto district's nutrition director.
Howard said he believed school leaders' attitudes toward social media are becoming more favorable, especially as more older people become familiar with Facebook. He noted that he has not yet been able to use a secret weapon that he's banking on to increase interest in his Twitter feed: Come winter, it will be the first place students and parents can find out if it's a snow day.
"If I start tweeting school is canceled," Howard said, "I think I'll probably get more followers."
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A group of government and industry organizations has completed certification of the first Bell 429 to conduct steep approaches using wide area augmentation system (WAAS) capability. Involved in the collaborative effort are Bell Helicopter, Air Methods, FAA (including its Global Navigation Satellite System Program Office and Flight Standards Organization), Hickock & Associates, and Des Moines, Iowa-based Mercy Medical Center. Mercy One, a Bell 429 that entered service with the hospital group in April, is approved for 9-degree localizer precision with vertical guidance (LPV) approaches at a minimum velocity for instrument procedures (Vmini) of 45 knots. According to Bell, this will allow Mercy One to employ LPV procedures for steep approaches to accident sites in urban areas, or in adverse weather conditions, improving safety in low-altitude flight.
"This was really a gift to us" from Bell, explained Dan Keough, Mercy's director of emergency transport, referring to Mercy One being the launch helicopter for the service.
The organizations have developed four fixed WAAS approaches—at Mercy's main heliport in Des Moines, which will feature a two-way departure, and three other heliports in Centreville, Albia and Osceola. Those four sites are expected to come online in November. A fifth point-in-space rendezvous location will be established early in 2011 above Interstate 80.
By picking Centreville, Albia and Osceola, Keough says, "probably 60 percent of my inter-facility volume is going to come from that triangle we've created. And it's going to allow [Mercy One] to get to those places—they're telling me that with the two-way departure at Mercy main, I'm going to get out of here at 500 feet [ceiling] and three-quarters of a mile [visibility]."
Keough notes that Mercy averages about 200 "misses" per year due to weather-related concerns, adding that Steve Hickock of Hickock & Associates estimates that the WAAS capability will allow the Bell 429 to recover 50-60 of those misses.
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Full Sails with normal wind
Using "Full Sails" is a way to speed up a ship when it is activated.
The ship under Full Sails gains +3 Movement Points (MPs).
Only ships with intact rigging (3 Masts = Rigging Condition 11-15) are allowed to perform Full Sails.
Due to the difficulties of rigging these extra sails, one must pay for each ship to gain this benefit.
- A Single Ship must discard two MC to perform "Full Sails"
- A Frigate, which is also a Single Ship, must discard only one MC to perform "Full Sails"
- A Ship that is part of a Squadron can only perform "Full Sails", if it uses the Captain's Order "Full Sails", which normally costs 2 Command Points (CP).
If activated, the ship under "Full Sails" must first roll two dice (2D6). (Frigates gain +2 on the dice value)
The result is then checked in the Full Sails Table.
The result can cause additional modifications to the number of Movement Points: +/- 1 or 2 MP
The overall number of Movement Points for a ship using "Full Sails" is thus calculated as follows:
6 MP for a Ship-of-the-Line or 7 MP for a Frigate
+3 MP for Full Sails
+/- 1, 2 MP depending on the result of the rolled dice.
So we have a range of 7 MP – 11 MP for Ships-of-the-Line and 8 MP – 12 MP for Frigates.
These Movement Points MUST be used and can not be reduced, even if this results in a potential collision.
Full Sails with strong wind
There are some scenarios with strong wind.
For these, a ship under "Full Sails" gains +4 MP and is also faster by default.
So we have:
9 MP for a Ship-of-the-Line or 10 MP for a Frigate
+4 MP for Full Sails
+/- 1, 2 MP depending on the result of the rolled dice
That is a range of 11 MP – 15 MP and 12 MP – 16 MP for Frigates
Rolling the dice is also modified with -2, if there s a strong wind.
Full Sails combined with Manoeuvre "More Sails"
A ship that performs "Full Sails" can not perform other manoeuvres such as "Bear Up" or "Bear Away" or "Backing Sails".
Typically the manoeuvre "More Sails" is the only manoeuvre that can be combined with "Full Sails".
"More Sails" cost an additional Manoeuvre Card for the activated ship, on top of the previously discarded MCs required to perform "Full Sails".
For a ship within a squadron sailing under Captain's Order "Full Sails", the MC "More Sails" must be played, in order to perform "More Sails".
For a Single Ship either the MC "More Sails" or a "Special Manoeuvre" must be played ("Special Manoeuvre"is played as a wildcard).
"More Sails" gains, as always, 1 to 3 additional MPs which are added to the previously determined MPs.
These 3 MPs are not obligatory like the one gained by "Full Sails". They can be added as desired by the player. This way "More Sails" provides the capability to adjust the speed.
A ship under Full Sails, combined with More Sails therefore has 7 MP – 14 MP and 8 MP – 15 MP for a Frigate with normal wind conditions.
Admiral's Order "Prepare for Full Sails"
For ships within a squadron, the Admiral's Order "Prepare for Full Sails" can be given.
Ships under Captain's Order "Full Sails" now gain additional benefits.
- The Captain's Order "Full Sails" is cheaper. It costs only 1 Command Point (CP)
- When the dice (2D6) to perform "Full Sails" are rolled, 1 is added to the resulting value.
- One "Leeway" or "Windward" Manoevre Card can be played to adjust the direction of the activated ship.
Restrictions to ships under "Full Sails"
As already mentioned, a ship performing "Full Sails" can only use the manoeuvre "More Sails" in addition to "Full Sails".
Within a squadron and under Admiral's Order "Prepare for Full Sails", also one "Leeway" / "Windward" manoeuvre can be used.
No other manoeuvres are allowed.
Most "Special Manoeuvres" are not allowed. Only "Chase Guns" can be fired, by playing a "Special Manoeuvre" Card.
Also the effectiveness of a broadside is reduced. Only one die is used when firing a broadside. Rake bonus, Chain Shot bonus and any national bonuses are ignored.
Damage due to "Full Sails"
When rolling the dice to determine the result of "Full Sails", not only the number of MPs can be affected, but also the Rigging may be damaged.
In this case reduce the Rigging Condition by 1 or 2 depending on the result in the Full Sails Table.
If, due to this damage, a mast must be removed, "Full Sails" can not be performed.
In this case a ship within a squadron must perform the Captain's Order "At the Ready" instead of the Captain's Order "Full Sails".
For a Single Ship this simply means that it can't perform "Full Sails". The two discarded MCs (or one discarded MC for a Frigate) are lost.
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Happy Friday, everyone! ?
Thought I'd take a break from recipes today and chime in with an update on life behind the scenes around here this spring.
First off, can I just take a second to shout from the rooftops how THRILLED I am that we've finally sprung forward?!? It's no secret here on the blog that I've never been a big fan of cold weather. But as I mentioned on my personal Instagram account recently, man, my body just seemed to have an especially rough time with winter this year, which was weird and disorienting and frustrating during a season that should have felt so happy and exciting and fun with being newly engaged and all that jazz. But — now that spring has arrived, and our city is warming back up, and the sun is shining later and longer each day — my little mind and heart are being seasonally affected for the better again. And those pesky winter clouds seem to be lifting. And life is starting to feel so wonderfully warm and good and exciting again.
And…I can't wait to get married in 42 days!!!
I also have some more exciting news about this coming year that I'll be sharing here very soon, so stay tuned for that. But suffice it to say, 2017 is shaping up to be a mega year to remember in my little corner of the world. Feeling so grateful for the wild adventure of it all today, and for this handsome man who's now by my side, and for all of you who've so wonderfully been there with me through it all. Your presence and support here in this little corner of the internet means the world to me, as always. And not a day goes by that I don't give thanks for you and this wild world wide web that brought us together.
I hope that you are all well, and enjoying a warm and lovely day wherever life may find you today. Here's the latest on life around here this Spring…
So, I've gotta say, one of my favorite things I'm actually loving the most this spring is…Instagram! Specifically, my little personal Instagram account about everyday life behind the scenes of the blog (with zero recipe photos) — @gimmesomeali.
Instagram used to be my favorite social media platform. But, like many bloggers, my @gimmesomeoven account morphed into a space for 100% food and recipe stuff awhile back — which is cool, but definitely turned it more into a work-related thing for me rather than feeling like it was just for fun. And lately, I've realized that I have totally missed the just for fun!
So this spring, I decided to resurrect my old personal account and start posting on it a little more regularly again. And it's been so fun! For the first time in years, Instagram has started to feel like a creative outlet again, and a place to document my IRL photos. Hoping to stay on the ball with it more regularly over the coming year, so feel free to follow along if you'd like. ??
(Oh, and also on the Instagram note, are you all loving Insta stories as much as I am? If so, be sure to check out this great tutorial I saw yesterday on Sugar & Cloth about cool IG story tips and tricks. Most all of these were new to me!)
Whenever our friends check in on how wedding planning is going lately, our answer is usually somewhere along the lines of — "wellllll, it'll all eventually get done, right?!" ?
We still have a pretty long list of small details to wrap up. But by this point, thankfully all of the big items are at least crossed off the list:
- ✔ venue (Union Station)
- ✔ catering (Brancato's + a surprise dessert)
- ✔ music (our talented friends)
- ✔ officiant (Barclay's dad)
- ✔ dress (sneak peek above)
- ✔ honeymoon (this dreamy spot in the land of mezcal)
Just about everything else — namely, decor — keeps getting simplified, simplified, simplified. Before we got engaged, I had imagined that I would Pinterest the heck out of this wedding with DIYs and cute decor touches galore. But this winter ended up getting b-u-s-y. And frankly, by time we're done with work each day, Barclay and I have just wanted to kick back and go on dates and hang out with our friends, rather than work on wedding stuff. So simplicity has become the name of the game for us. (Plus, it's looking like we're going to have an awesome — and very large — crowd of our favorite people together at this wedding. And thus, we've discovered that cute Pinterest-y place settings sound way less fun when you're cranking out 350 of them. ?)
That said, the one big wedding to-do that we are excited to work on more this next month is planning is the ceremony itself. As a former professional wedding singer (fun fact — I've probably sat through at least 200 wedding ceremonies), I'm really excited about creating a meaningful ceremony that feels really like "us". We've started working through the basics with Barclay's dad. And we're starting to think about vows (Barclay really wants us to write our own vows, and I want to say traditional vows…so we're compromising and doing both). But we still have yet to research readings and settle on scriptures and music. So if any of you have any great suggestions, would love to hear 'em!
We also have our second (of four!) wedding shower this weekend, which I'm really looking forward to. I'll report back more on those in a separate post later because — oh my goodness, guys — I was totally unprepared for how special and moving and they would be! Like, seriously, I still get teary thinking about the first shower, and we're not even halfway through them. ? Our friends and family = extraordinary.
I also decided around the new year that 2017 would be the year I got back into yoga. ??
For the past few years, I've been alternating my workouts mostly between my elliptical and walking outside and Barre3, which have all been great. But I've been wanting to work on my posture and flexibility lately. (<– Especially considering how much time I spend sitting at my computer, which seems to be the worst for your body in every way.) Also, I've become obsessed recently with how good my body feels after I spend a few minutes doing some deep-breathing, and I've looking for ways to incorporate more of that into my days. Also, one of my best friends is currently in yoga-teacher-school right now and has been sharing all sorts of compelling stuff she's learning, which has been an extra motivating kick in the yoga-pants to get back to practicing.
So…yoga it is!
I've started attending the weekly yoga class that Barclay organizes (and sometimes co-leads) at his office. And twice or so a week at home, I've been trying out new classes on YogaGlo.com (which has sooooo many options). And it's been great. And….pretty humbling, especially considering how much flexibility I've lost over the past few years. But it feels good to be making (very) slow and steady progress forward with that, and learning more about my body and how to give grace to it along the way. Feels like just the right thing for this season of life.
Oh, and I also mayyyyy have taken this new-habit-resolution as an excuse to go shopping for some new yoga swag this spring. Some of my favorites?
- Girlfriend Collective Leggings — Totally obsessed with these. I was one of the thousands who signed up for their Kickstarter with free leggings, and man, they nailed it and completely sold me on the design. The fabric is super-strong and smooth, they don't bunch or roll down, they sit in a flattering place above the hips, and I would happily wear them every day. Totally planning to purchase another pair or two once they go on sale this spring.
- Zella Twisty Tea — Love this simple top from Nordstrom. Super comfy and cozy.
- Sanuk Yoga Slings — I've had a pair of these for about a year now, but they get an honorable mention here because they are made from real yoga mats and are the comfiest shoes I own. I pad around in them all day while I'm working and running errands and walking the dog, and love 'em!
- Zum Yoga Mat Cleaner — Made by one of my favorite Kansas City companies, all-natural, and smells great. (Also, if you need a massage afterwards, this oil is a favorite amongst my friends in KC. Smells amazing!)
This Spring, everyone at my church has been celebrating the release of our latest worship album — Bright Hopes!
As I've mentioned on here before, I actually used to work as a musician and worship leader at a church in my previous job, and still get really excited when I hear about good new worship music being written. (<– Let's be honest, it can be hard to find.) So I feel especially lucky nowadays to be part of a church that sings mostly original music from our community that I love each Sunday. And love getting to play keys and sing as part of the band there once a month. And love when our favorite are recorded into a new album every few years…like this one!
If this isn't your kind of thing, no pressure at all here. But if you'd like to take a listen, you can check it our for free on Spotify, or support the musicians and buy it on iTunes. (And if you're a church musician and want chord charts to play any of these songs, you can find those here.) . Here are a few of my favorite tracks that I'd recommend:
Also, if you listen closely, you can hear Yours Truly singing harmonies on a few of the songs. ??
Finally…I can't talk about spring without mentioning all of this fresh green food growing in our city again!
First off, I'm thrilled that the City Market (see below ?) here in Kansas City has finally opened back up for the season. Soaking up every last second here in this neighborhood before I move.
Also, I just signed up again to be a part of the New Roots For Refugees CSA, which begins next month. (KC readers — I think there's still time to sign up if you're interested. It's the best!) My farmer friend, SiSi, grows the most amazing organic veggies and herbs in her garden with the program, and sent me home with a bag full of fresh spinach, kale and mint when I saw her last week. Made me all the more excited for weekly pick-ups to begin soon.
Otherwise, I've mostly been obsessed this spring with just eating as many greens as possible. Barclay and I have been obsessed with steaming lots of artichokes and grilling asparagus lately. But other favorite recipes have included:
- Arugula Salad with Parmesan, Lemon and Olive Oil
- Aguadito De Pollo (Peruvian Chicken Soup)
- Zesty Lentil Spinach Salad
- Asparagus Spinach Pesto with Blackened Shrimp
- Kale Caesar Salad
- Post-Workout Green Smoothie
- Dark Chocolate Avocado Mousse
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42 days, that's so soon! Hope all is going well with the preparations! :)
Charmaine Ng
Awwwww, I love that Barclay's dad is going to be your officiant! :) Can't wait to see all of the pictures of your big day. Enjoy these last few weeks of being engaged!
So excited for you and Barclay!
As for picking a Scripture reading, my advice would be to read it aloud first. It always looks shorter on paper. My husband likes to say, "Remember when Beth read half the book of Philippians at our wedding?" As a big brother, he conveniently forgets we assigned her that long passage, and assumes that she just wanted to be the center of attention with a mini-sermon. :)
As someone who also struggles with SAD, I'm right there with you celebrating the arrival of spring. It's amazing how much better things feel once we get past Daylight Savings time, right?! ?? I also didn't realize you were a singer. I will have to check out that album…..congratulations!
We had this quote at our ceremony and really loved it. :)
"But ultimately there comes a moment when a decision must be made. Ultimately two people who love each other must ask themselves how much they hope for as their love grows and deepens, and how much risk they are willing to take. It is indeed a fearful gamble. Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.
To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take. If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession, but participation. It takes a lifetime to learn another person. When love is not possession, but participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling, and which implies such risk that it is often rejected." – Madeline L'Engle
I didn't realize we were going to be wedding day twins! June 2nd is going to be a great day! ;) Congratulations, girl!
Yay for spring! BTW, the last photo is beautiful. I love your dress & shoes. Where ever did you get them??
Could you tell me where you got the shoes (the brown ones) in your engagement pics? LOVE them!
So exciting about all your wedding plans, it's coming up so fast, best of luck!!
Love reading your wedding plans as we prepare for our June 10th wedding! We decided to nix the DIY Pinterest stuff too and it has been such a stress relief to trade off simplicity for a shorter to-do list. As for scripture we decided on these 2 passages.
Ruth 1:16-17
1 John 4:13-19
I love the one from Ruth because it reads like marriage vows. And the 1 John sums up everything we believe about love :). Happy planning!
Such fun and exciting things happening Ali!!! Love the album! Well done!
If I can make a quick plug, I'm a yoga teacher and post prayer and yoga sequences you might enjoy. :) I just finished a whole series for Lent. PrayerandYoga.com Also, if you're looking for a great app, I love the Yoga Studio app. (Not mine or anything, just one I really like). Glad you're enjoying yoga! :)
I'm so happy for you, Ali! I always enjoy reading your lifestyle posts. Sending strength your way as you prepare for the big day (in 42 days!)
Also, I so much love the singer part of you. I once listened to you sing a song on YouTube encouraging bloggers and it really blessed me. When I feel overwhelmed, I remember that song. You are such an inspiration. All the best with your plans.
For the SAD stuff during winter- have you looked into light bulbs hat are the same wave length as sunlight? They come in something like a table lamp (my mom has one she sits beside for 30 minutes a morning in fall and winter) or as big as kitchen lights (I have them in my kitchen because I. Spend lots of time in there). They really help offset the winter blues quiet a bit.
Hi Ali,
42 days, it's so soon! How exciting for you both! I think it's great that you've nixed the Pinterest stuff. Neither you nor Barclay needs the stress.
When planning music, most couples don't give much thought to the processional and just go with Handel. But if you want to make it more romantic to set the tone for the day, pick something hopeful and dreamy, and a little less staccato. We chose an instrumental of Elvis Presley's arrangement of "Can't Help Falling In Love". Instantly recognizable, it drew an audible "awww" from the assembly. Friends of ours went with the equally dreamy "Whiter Shade of Pale". Instrumental, of course, because the lyrics would make everyone ask WTF? And the bride's grandmother would have had a coronary. But the instrumental was perfectly lovely.
We were just in Puerto Escondido in March. It was wonderful!!! That resort looks perfect!
You are just about the cutest thing ever! I have loved your blog for a long time and you just keep getting better and better. I'm sending you prayers and best wishes for a beautiful wedding and life filled with love! Go for it!!
Oh my gosh, I am missing have a garden right now to grow my own food. Unfortunately my little corner of Korea doesn't have a fresh veggie delivery service. :( Congratulations on getting married soon, that's so exciting!


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Recipe from Bill Pinault of IA
6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (grilled)
5 stalks celery (chopped)
1 bunch green onions (chopped)
1 tbsp shallot (minced)
11/2 cup raisins
1 ½ cup walnuts (English, chopped)
1 apple (cored, chopped)
¼ cup chopped parsley
1/8 tsp celery seed
6 tbsp mayonnaise (approx.)
Salt and pepper to taste
Season chicken breasts with your favorite grill seasoning, grill till done. Set aside to cool. Cut chicken into bite size pieces, mix with all other ingredients. Refrigerate overnight. ENJOY!!
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Leave it to Ann Coulter and the like to conquer the ever-vexing issue of race relations, unequivocally internalize the volcanic plight of blacks and other minorities everywhere, rather than simplistically merge theories relative to both to the point of irrefutable resolution— all in a matter of a less than a minute TV sound bite.
In the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting tragedy, the incorrigibly bombastic, right-wing activist took to the Fox News airwaves and the "Bill O'Reilly Show" recently to expound upon and defiantly reaffirm her dangerously hot-headed and shortsighted views regarding the one singular instrument that has truly proven to be a weapon of mass destruction in minority communities everywhere.
"We don't know all the facts yet," Coulter later wrote in a blog post chronicling the deadly encounter that left the 17-year-old Martin mortally wounded at the hands of volunteer neighborhood watchmen George Zimmerman. "But let's assume the conclusion MNSBC is leaping to is accurate: George Zimmerman stalked a small, black child and murdered him in cold blood, just because he was black.
"If that we're true," she continued, "every black person in America should get a gun and join the National Rifle Association, America's oldest and most august civil rights organization."
Alas, with allies like Ann Coulter and her Republican counterparts, who can afford to have enemies? Indeed, it's funny how those who know the least sometimes reveal the most. Coulter's words are a clear illustration to one and all of an approach and road best less traveled. They harken to a society and atmosphere that only further propagates a war among races in which no group can truly win.
What Coulter seems to remain blind about and oblivious to— conveniently so I might add— is the fact that an eye-for-eye way of being ultimately only comes to leave us all blind. And statistics speak to that darkness, with the free-flow of more handguns almost automatically leading to more deaths and shootings in each and every instance.
Beyond the mere numbers, one need look no further than my childhood hometown of Chicago— the South Side's Englewood neighborhood for an even more exact locale— to painfully bring those words to heart.
During the St. Patrick's Day weekend preceding the Martin shooting and only days before Coulter was making her rather reckless proclamation, 49 people were shot, at least 11 of them fatally, across the city. Overall, murders were up by more than 60 percent over the first three months of 2012 compared to the year before, with Englewood's 15 homicides nearly doubling those committed in any of the city's other enclaves.
In Englewood, since 1960 the community population has dipped from a high of 100,000 to just 30,000 and falling, with more and more families still desperately seeking to get out. More than 4,100 abandoned buildings now riddle the neighborhood, as the gang-laden, arms-packing residents grow more brazen and deadly in their dealings.
Harsh realities such as those are why Coulter's words aren't so easily dismissive. When has violence, or setting the course for it, ever led to anything other than more violence? Given all that, is there anyone among us, Ann Coulter included, that can truly advocate for such a society and rest in good conscious?
Count the Rev. Al Sharpton, the NAACP and the parents of Trayvon Martin among those who have come to an equally raised level of understanding. On the 20th anniversary of the deadly race riots that saw much of Los Angeles go up in flames following the Rodney King acquittal, it's why they all convened in the city Thursday night to plead for greater tolerance and an end to all the violence.
"There are Trayvons all over the country," boomed Sharpton. "What kind of world are we living in that we can put a black man in the White House, but a black can't walk through a gated community?"
Thing is, in the kind of world Ann Coulter is calling for, neither may truly have the chance to reach their destination. – blackamericaweb.com


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on OSX (10.9.3) and PHP (5.4.24) you need to use full local name including codeset
i.e. for German need to use de_DE.UTF-8 even setlocale returns success when used without .UTF-8 the lookups will not work.
gettext — Lookup a message in the current domain
) : string
Looks up a message in the current domain.
The message being translated.
Returns a translated string if one is found in the translation table, or the submitted message if not found.
Przykład #1 gettext()-check
// Set language to German
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE');
// Specify location of translation tables
bindtextdomain("myPHPApp", "./locale");
// Choose domain
// Translation is looking for in ./locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/myPHPApp.mo now
// Print a test message
echo gettext("Welcome to My PHP Application");
// Or use the alias _() for gettext()
echo _("Have a nice day");
You may use the underscore character '_' as an alias to this function.
Setting a language isn't enough for some systems and the putenv() should be used to define the current locale.
on OSX (10.9.3) and PHP (5.4.24) you need to use full local name including codeset
i.e. for German need to use de_DE.UTF-8 even setlocale returns success when used without .UTF-8 the lookups will not work.
As of php 5.3, you can use the following code to get the preferred locale of the http agent.
$locale = Locale::acceptFromHttp($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']);
Worth noting is that gettext honors environment variables while selecting the language to use: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Locale-Environment-Variables.html
"When a program looks up locale dependent values, it does this according to the following environment variables, in priority order:
LC_xxx, according to selected locale category: LC_CTYPE, LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_MESSAGES, ...
Variables whose value is set but is empty are ignored in this lookup. "
In short, if you have non-empty LANGUAGE, you may end up with unexpected localization strings. On the other hand, LANGUAGE can be used to define fallback language if some translation is missing.
Gettext translations are cached. If you change *.mo files your page may not be translated as expected. Here's simple workaround which does not require restarting webserver (I know, this is just a dirty hack):
function initialize_i18n($locale) {
$domains = glob($locales_root.'/'.$locale.'/LC_MESSAGES/messages-*.mo');
$current = basename($domains[0],'.mo');
$timestamp = preg_replace('{messages-}i','',$current);
to make this work you have to put your locale inside file messages-[unix_time].mo and use this name (without .mo) as your domain to fool caching mechanism (domain names differ)
msgfmt messages.po -o messages-`date +%s`.mo
for me this works fine (although this is not very elegant solution)
I just wanted to say that gettext won't work on WAMP Server 2.4 / 64 Bit, see the thread I posted here:
Title: Gettext doesn't work on WAMP 64 Bits
I haven't tested with only apache 64 Bit, so, I don't know if the issue is related to apache or WAMP. Anyway, to make it work with WAMP, install the 32 Bit version of WAMP and only do this:
define('LOCALE_DIR', '<root_dir_of_your_po_files>'); //ie: C:/wamp/www/your_app/locale
$locale = '<your_locale>'; //ie: es_CO
$domain = 'your_gettext_domain'; //ie: messages
putenv('LC_ALL=' . $locale);
bindtextdomain($domain, LOCALE_DIR);
echo _('<your_string>'; // ie: Hello world
"setlocale" nor setting the LANG, LANGUAGE, and LC_MESSAGES environment variables seems to be necessary under windows. I got it working by setting "LC_ALL" only.
Depending on the implementation of gettext used you might have to call the setlocale(LC_ALL, "") command.
So your example code would be
// Set language to German
putenv ("LANG=de");
// set the locale into the instance of gettext
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
// Specify location of translation tables
bindtextdomain ("myPHPApp", "./locale");
// Choose domain
textdomain ("myPHPApp");
// Print a test message
print (gettext ("Welcome to My PHP Application"));
NOTE: If setlocale returns NULL the LANG specified is invalid and "not supported".
The simplest way to by-pass gettext() cache, without restart apache nor change domain.
The fix is incredible simple, first create a dummy link to the locale folder where .mo files stored:
cd locale
ln -s . nocache
Then add one single line before bindtextdomain()
bindtextdomain('domain', './locale/nocache');
bindtextdomain('domain', './locale');
Now the cache is forced to flush every time.
If your PO/MO files make use of msgctxt (Context), you'll be frustrated to find that gettext(msgid) won't work as you might expect (even if msgid is unique).
In this case, you must use ASCII char 4 [EOT, End Of Text] glued between the msgctxt and msgid.
Example PO content:
msgctxt "Context"
msgid "Test string"
msgstr "Test translation"
msgid "Standard string"
msgstr "Standard translation"
The following will work:
gettext('Context' . "\004" . 'Test string');
gettext('Standard string');
The following will NOT work:
gettext('Test string');
putenv(...) can cause hidden problems when upgrading or moving between systems which are difficult to diagnose.
On one Linux server we had the following working perfectly with setlocale
We switched servers and found gettext wouldn't work despite having all the same locale files and settings
The recommendation to switch to
didn't fix the problem.
did. So if you have problems, check all three settings.
For me it is sufficient to call setlocale() with a string like "nl_BE" as the second parameter, to make gettext() work. Just plain "nl" was not enough.
Ditto when using an environment variable like LANG: "en", "fr", "nl", "de" are not enough: I have to specify the country, too.
Take care when extracting the strings from the source files : if your source files are not encoded in ascii, then xgettext must be used with the --from-code option, and the generated .po file is *always* UTF-8 (even if you used a different --from-code charset).
The usage of gettext will not work later on strings which include non ascii caracters. For make it working, you have to translate the .po file to your proper charset with msgconv.
Example :
my source files are encoded in iso-8859-1
$ xgettext --from-code=iso-8859-1 -n *.php -o myapp.po
==> myapp.po is in UTF-8 (and generated .mo files will not work with gettext).
I have to convert it to iso-8859-1 before translating :
$ msgconv --to-code=iso-8859-1 myapp.po -o myapp.po
...and now translate the file.
There's a good tutorial to the GetText tools used with PHP at http://zez.org/article/articleview/42
The only modification I needed to do was to use the correct ISO-language/country-codes (don't know the ISO number) and call setlocale.
putenv("LC_ALL=da_DK"); // For danish/Denmark
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
// ./locale/da/LC_MESSAGES holds the helloworld.mo file
bindtextdomain("helloworld", "./locale");
print(gettext("Hello world!"));
I had a lot of trouble getting this to work on Red Hat (Yellow Dog) Linux though.
gettext returns the headers from .mo files
if the message parameter is set to empty.
So if you are for example using Smarty blocks, make sure that the values given checks if the text has content or else your text will have a bunch of headers printing.
If you are putting a variable to the gettext, like so:
you are better of making another function like this:
function __($text){
if(empty($text)) return "";
else gettext($text);
If you 're experiencing problems like gettext() is not working and you're getting translated text only occassionaly use: unset LANG before starting apache.
Next thing is that you have to restart apache after you 've changed .mo files because they're treated something like shared libraries.
I've only tested this with Linux (Sourcemage Linux distro, Mandrake) but it might be true for others as well.
If like me, you are stuck with making a lot of code localizable, you have to go through all your php files and wrap all srings in _("string"). Here's an elisp function which can help you out.
This function enables you to highlight some text in an emacs buffer and make it a localizable string using the keyboard shortcut C-l (Ctrl and l). If the first character highlighted is " or ', then it assumes the text is in php-context and changes it to: _(HIGHLIGHTED_TEXT). Otherwise it assumes the text is in html-context and changes it to <?=_('HIGHLIGHTED_TEXT')?>
The shortcut C-k can be used for translating parts of php strings which contain html tabs. We dont want to translate the entire string including the tabs, so we highlight just the substring that needs to be translated and use C-k.
To use it, do either of:
Copy and paste the following code into your .emacs file. This would permanently associate the keyboard shortcut C-l with this function.
Save the code in a new file ending with the .el extension. Evaluate it using M-x eval-buffer. This makes the C-l keyboard shortcut only last for the current Emacs session.
;author: Vinay Kuruvila March 01 2006
;updated to handle php strings containing html tabs
;makes the text starting at left and ending at right in the
;current buffer a localizable string, assuming that the
;string is within php context
(defun make-localizable-string-in-php-context(left right)
(goto-char left)
(insert "_(")
(goto-char (+ right 2))
(insert ")")
;makes the text starting at left and ending at right in the
;current buffer a localizable string, assuming that the
;string is within html context
(defun make-localizable-string-in-html-context(left right)
(goto-char left)
(insert "<?= _('")
(goto-char (+ right 7))
(insert "')?>")
;makes the highlighted text a localizable string
;uses php-context localization if the first char highlighted
;is " or '
;otherwise uses html-context localization
(defun make-localizable-string()
;find the positions of the left and right ends of
;the highlighted text
(if (> (point) (mark))
(setq right (point))
(setq left (mark))
(setq right (mark))
(setq left (point))
;determine php-context or html-context and dispatch
(if (or (char-equal (char-after left) ?\") (char-equal (char-after left) ?'))
(make-localizable-string-in-php-context left right)
(make-localizable-string-in-html-context left right)
;to handle php strings which contain html tabs
;we dont want to translate the html tabs
(defun make-localizable-string-within-php-string ()
;find the positions of the left and right ends of
;the highlighted text
(if (> (point) (mark))
(setq right (point))
(setq left (mark))
(setq right (mark))
(setq left (point))
(goto-char left)
(insert "\". _(\"")
(goto-char (+ right 6))
(insert "\").\"")
;assigns a keyboard shortcut
(global-set-key "\C-l" 'make-localizable-string)
(global-set-key "\C-k" 'make-localizable-string-within-php-string)
Default behavior is name .mo file equally in every language version:
--- en_US
--------- lang.mo
--- sk_SK
--------- lang.mo
I think, better form is:
--- en_US
--------- en.mo
--- sk_SK
--------- sk.mo
Then the following code works very well (surprisingly on win32 too), and you don't need restart apache and do other confusing things:
$gettext_domain = 'sk'; // change by language
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'sk_SK.UTF-8'); // change by language, directory name sk_SK, not sk_SK.UTF-8
bindtextdomain($gettext_domain, "lang");
bind_textdomain_codeset($gettext_domain, 'UTF-8');
Have nice day :-)
I had a problem like "adino at adino dot sk" said, so I did the unsetting of LANG ($ unset LANG), but it was not sufficient, I had to unset the environment variable LANGUAGE too.
I tried to do this using "sudo", but it didn't works, so I had to change to root using "su"
If you need to know, I use Musix (a sub-distro of Devia).
I hope this will help you, Seeya! ^__^'
This function is not able to handle null values. It can return the complete translation file if you enter null as argument.


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Mister Rogers is making it a beautiful day in the neighborhood again.
Fred Rogers, the late host of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," is featured in a PBS Digital Studios video mashup that celebrates the power of imagination. The piece posted online Friday turns clips from Rogers' PBS show into a sweetly inspiring music video, "Garden of Your Mind."
"Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind? You can grow ideas in the garden of your mind," Rogers says, his autotuned voice given a gentle backbeat.
The salute to the treasured children's TV host drew reaction from the public and celebrities, with Neil Patrick Harris calling it a "groovy" tribute in a Twitter posting, and Alyssa Milano tweeting that the mashup will "make you cry tears of joy."
Rogers' widow, Joanne, is among the video's "biggest fans," said Kevin Morrison, COO of the Fred Rogers Company.
"It's a very creative piece and we think it gives appropriate recognition to the fact that Fred was ahead of his time in so many ways," Morrison said.
The PBS Digital Studios' video posted on YouTube and elsewhere is intended to get people talking about public television, and more such tribute mashups to PBS figures are planned, spokesman Kevin Dando said.
The video also encourages those who like it to "please support your local PBS station." PBS and its stations rely on viewer and corporate contributions.
John Boswell, an artist also known as Melodysheep, created the Rogers tribute. He's also done autotuned video pieces featuring prominent scientists including Neil DeGrasse Tyson and the late Carl Sagan.
Rogers became familiar to generations of viewers as the soft-spoken, cardigan-wearing guide of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," which he filmed from 1968 to 2001 and continues to air in reruns. Rogers died in 2003 at age 74.


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Ed Greer
Ed Greer is a seasoned staple of the Los Angeles comedy scene.
The much sought-after comedian performs at Hollywood's hottest venues including the Improv, The
Comedy Store, and the Laugh Factory.
He has been described as fearlessly dynamic, highly original, thought-provoking and completely hilarious.
CraveOnline describes his comedy as, "all at once intelligent and approachable, egalitarian and niche."
Adding, "Ed stands out in his delivery, which borrows equally from the college professor and the street
preacher." The USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism says that, "his presence is one
that captivates the room."
Greer hasn't met a crowd he didn't enjoy... or want to destroy.
Ed Greer's Upcoming Shows
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Ebey Soman on 25 Jan 09Quinlan's case continues to raise important questions in moral theology, bioethics, euthanasia, legal guardianship and civil rights. Her case has affected the practice of medicine and law around the world. Two significant outcomes of her case were the development of formal ethics committees in hospitals, nursing homes and hospices, and the development of advance health directives.


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Ricotta makes this tender, the cherries keep it moist a perfect combination!
|This cake is usually without fruit but adding it was a great idea! We loved it...
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup plus 1 teaspoon sugar or more as needed for sprinkling
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 tablespoon maraschino cherry juice
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 cup whole-milk ricotta cheese
1/4 cup milk
1 large egg
1 cup chopped fruit, rainier cherries, bing cherries or any kind of fruit that isn't full of juice, more of a dry fruit like blueberry, raspberry, blackberry, apple... these all work fine.
For the topping
1/2 cup sliced almonds
cinnamon and sugar mixture see below
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 8x8 square pan or rectangle. You can also make muffins if you prefer.
Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl to blend. Using an electric mixer, beat 1 cup sugar, butter, and flavorings in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in the ricotta. Beat in the egg, milk, almond extract and cherrie juice. Add the dry ingredients and stir just until blended (the batter will be thick and fluffy). Fold in cherries.
Pour into the prepared pan. Top the batter evenly with cinnamon sugar mixture below, sprinkle with sliced almonds and bake just to become pale golden on top, about 20 minutes. Cool. Great with coffee! (smile). The cake is tender but heavy with that good old fashioned flavor.
Topping :
•1/2 cup sugar
•1 tablespoon cinnamon
Mix together evenly and store in a plastic or glass container with a lid.
Use for many various toppings suggestions: toast, pancakes, muffins,
cereals, cakes, cookies.


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Are you ready to go back to space?
Months after Gravity became a box office smash and an Oscar-winner, CBS will continue to explore the furthest reaches of the universe with its new summer series, Extant.
Scoop on 39 must-watch finales
The drama stars Halle Berry as astronaut Molly Woods, who returns from a 13-month solo space trip and discovers that she is somehow pregnant. As seen in the preview below, Berry is well aware that she wasn't really all by her lonesome during her mission, but it's unclear how that's connected to a theory her son has about an upcoming world extinction.
Check out the first promo for Extant below:
Extant premieres on Wednesday, July 9 at 9/8c on CBS. Prepare yourself to return to space by watching videos from Gravity here.
(Full disclosure: TVGuide.com is owned by CBS.)