text: Submitted by loriday2005 on Sun, 2019-09-22 14:35 Tualatin Valley - 633 Vote Up Down +47 + Golden Stoneedit.jpg THE TROUT LINE September 16, 2019 Welcome to The Trout Line Newsletter! This is our Tualatin Valley Trout Unlimited Chapter newsletter that will be coming out twice a month on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month. Fly of the Month - Golden Stone Written by Mike Gentry Almost anyone who has fished in the West salivates over the coming of the Salmonfly hatch, typically in late May or early June in our area. But this anticipation very often turns to agonizing frustration, due to the army of equally motivated fishermen descending on the waters and the difficulty of hitting the small window of truly worthwhile surface action during the hatch. Quite often, the fish are glutted from gorging on these monsters, and are not cooperating. However, all is not lost - before, during and following the Salmonfly feeding frenzy, or overlapping hatches of Gold Stones seem to draw attention, and the "windows" on these hatches are longlived. The following recipe provides a realistic and sturdy adult pattern with good floatablility.Hook: Tiemco 200R or 2302, Size 8Thread: Tan 8/0Tail and Wing: Dyed Ginger Deer HairBody and Thorax: Golden Stone DubbingHackle: Ginger1. Tie in a tail of deer hair, about half the length of the body and thorax.2. At the base of the tail, tie in by the tail a small ginger hackle with splines slightly shorter than the hook gap.3. Make a dubbing loop of thread at the base of the tail and wind in golden stone dubbing, then dub the body by winding the dubbing "yarn" forward to about 1/3 from the hook eye.4. Palmer the ginger hackle by counterwinding the hackle forward with six or seven winds to the front of the body.5. Tie in a wing of deer hair in the thorax area. The wing should extend to about the back bend of the hook.6. Tie in a ginger hackle by the butt at the front of the wing. The splines should be about the length of the hook gap.7. Make another small dubbing loop at the front of the wing, wind in golden stone dubbing and dub the thorax by winding the "yarn" forward to just behind the eye. The thorax width should be slightly larger than the body width.8. Palmer the hackle over the thorax by winding or counterwinding (here it doesn't matter) the hackle four or five times to just behind the eye.9. Finish and cement the head. Meetings Location and Dates Regular chapter meetings are held at the Lucky Labrador Public House 7675 SW Capitol Hwy. Portland, OR 97219 (503) 244-2537. Food and beverage available. Social get together starts at 6:30 pm and formal meeting starts at 7:00 pm unless otherwise noted in the newsletter or website.October Meeting - Oct. 9, 2019 - Brian Marz from the Orvis Portland Shop - Topic: Oregon's Fly Fishing MeccaThe area will be Oakridge, Oregon and the presentation will cover locations ranging from the rivers, creeks, lakes, and reservoirs. Rivers may include the North Fork of the Middle Fork of the Willamette and the McKenzie. The fish species that live in these waters will be covered.Access along with fishing tactics that work best for each area will be mentioned. The timing of when these areas fish best will be covered as well. Fly patterns for fishing this area will be part of the presentation.Possible accommodations for staying overnight or multiple days will be mentioned during the presentation. November Meeting - Nov. 13, 2019 - Curt Mykut - Chicken Creek Restoration More Information: TVTU Website: https://tualatinvalley.tu.org/ TVTU Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/tualatinvalleyTU/ C4C Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/christmasforcoho/


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no knitting content for a while as I seem to have broken my elbow.
A kitten knits, and crochets, and embroiders, and quilts, and tats and ... well you get the idea.
no knitting content for a while as I seem to have broken my elbow.
Posted by Abigail at 12:37 PM 6 stitch(es)
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I've been spinning almost constantly lately. (Except for short intervals of sock knitting in the car)
I just can't help it... the BLF roving from Squoosh is just delicious!
And it's going so quick.
From this:
Plus this:
To this:
Then a quick chain ply plus a quick wash and I have this:
You can really see how long the colour repeats are here:
This skein is actually about two cops full.
It comes out to 2.5 oz, 232 yards, and 22 wpi after washing (it was 26 before)
It is so pretty and so soft, I'm really happy with how it's turning out, although It's a bit thinner than I was hoping for (I really wanted sock weight, but this is several wpi thinner than I'm used to knitting with) so I'm not sure what I'm going to make with it.
I still have a little under half the roving to work through, but it's coming along swimmingly.
Posted by Abigail at 7:16 PM 3 stitch(es)
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Bill just got a new camera and has been playing with it a lot recently, this is a picture he took of my Golding tsunami in action.
I've been spinning a lot lately, mostly samples, here's what I got:
a three ply from the same crappy roving I was using in the beginning, this is what was on my old spindle when I got the new Golding, I wanted to practice Navajo/chain playing so I stopped where I was, wound if off and went to town. I really like the finished yarn. (Well, as much as I can, considering the crappy roving it was made from) I over spun while plying and then had to wash and set the twist. I think it may be a little to over spun, but it's still quite nice. And I finally found a good use for my old heavy spindle; its extra weight was perfect for keeping the kinks out of the singles during all the maneuvering required for the plying.
this little gem is a small sample I spun up of Cayenne's fur.
It's sooo soft.
I had been trying on and off to spin her fur for a while now, but I had no way to card or process it, and nothing but a big heavy spindle to use, so the results were far from satisfactory. While out last week I finally picked up some dog brushes (how pithy!) to try carding the fur before spinning, and then using the new lighter spindle. The results were much more satisfactory, but if I want to do more, I will need a lit more practice, the fiber is very light and wispy and liked to drift apart and float away if you look at it wrong. I was thinking maybe blending it with some merino may help keep things together without sacrificing too much softness. Spun on the Golding 2" .8oz tsunami, then chain plied on my old heavy spindle.
And now for the yummiest part:
my better roving finally arrived!
This is BFL roving in the "thicket" colorway from Squoosh it is sooo dreamy!
Look at that! It's like spinning a cloud! I can't keep from cuddling it whenever I pick up my spindle, the colours are amazing, and the BFL drafts like buttah! I should have gotten good roving a long time ago, and Squoosh's colours are so pretty, I can't keep my self away! It's fascinating to sit there and look a the roving, pre draft it and watch the colours meld and then to spin it all up and watch as they transform into shiny happy beautifulness as I wind it on the cop. The last three days at work all I could think about was coming home and spinning. I think I'm addicted!
I got another roving from Squoosh (I just love that name!) too, it's a merino called "fun" and it does look fun! I can't wait to spin that up too.
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Relationships aren't all bad but 80% of them will never work out long term, and most of us will never have one that lasts forever. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't try for one but maybe you should run through this list if you're thinking of committing. Because a lot goes up in smoke. Relationships only look great when you're not in them.
10. Your female friends.One of my friends recently got into a verbal tussle with his girlfriend over how often he texts his female friends. There's no doubt that issues do occur in your friendships when you get a girlfriend — especially female friendships. You won't be able to spend as much time with or text girls like you used to, because those friendships tend to get nudged down a few steps of the ladder. Why? Your girlfriend is in the No. 1 spot now. Any other women have to understand that she gets most of you, and they have to be satisfied with the leftovers. IF THAT.
9. Your weekends.
Free time you'd enjoy by kicking back and cracking open a beer used to be completely yours, but now that you're in a serious relationship, it's highly likely that quality time with your significant other will be squeezing into the time you'd been meaning to set aside for yourself. After all, with both of you working during the week, there's not much chance to spend time together. That's why the prestigious weekend is often filled with relationship quality time.
8. Your casual fun.Flirting is the first thing to die when it comes to casual fun and relationships. In fact, those two concepts often get along as badly as Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield in a boxing ring. When you're in a serious relationship, there are boundaries for interaction with other women. Flirting has to be contained, otherwise it could explode into something inappropriate. As for casual fun with your partner, a full-fledged, committed relationship calls to mind things like responsibilities, obligations and routine. It's very easy to lose the easygoing fun in the process.
7. Your self-indulgence.You used to be able to do whatever you pleased. If that included excessive smoking, drinking and staying out till dawn, there was nobody you had to answer to. But now when you stumble back home after a raucous night with the boys, you're likely to find your girlfriend standing at the door with "Where the hell were you?" kinds of questions. If you're committed to your girlfriend, you have to realize that you can't be partying excessively the way you would when you were single. It might sound hectic, but being in a serious setup means you have to account for your actions — because if she was getting home at 3 a.m. totally wasted, you'd start asking yourself the same questions. So if you want wild time with the boys, you'll probably have to run it past her and schedule it in.
6. Your exit.When things were less serious with your woman, it was much easier to find the exits than it is now. If things went pear-shaped fast, you could evacuate the building without much fuss because you weren't too tied to each other yet. But now with all the emotional bindings, it makes clean breakups a bit more difficult.
5. Your financial independence.Often relationships don't end only with emotional ties; they can also incorporate financial ones. It's common to lapse into a "What's mine is yours, what's yours is mine" line of thinking when you're in a serious affair. Basically, if you're committed, then you share each other's financial situations. Considering men still out-earn women, a good portion of your hard-earned cash is likely to head in your girlfriend's direction.
4. Your options.They say a man is as faithful as his options. It's not necessarily true that you'll stay loyal to your girlfriend only until you meet someone better, but let's be honest: It's a boost to the ego to know that you still have pulling power, even if you don't intend to use it. But with an exclusive relationship, you're much more limited to this one relationship. Even window-shopping can prove boring. What's the point of looking when you know it can't go anywhere?
3. Your own plansIt's not selfish to want to safeguard your future plans and have your own dreams. In fact, it's necessary to have those, even when you're in a relationship. But once things become more serious with your girl, there is no room for secret gambits; you'll have to let her in all your ideas for the future, whether that means vacation plans, career moves or what you're doing for the holidays. Speaking of which, whose folks are you spending them with? Your parents or hers? Now might be a good time to figure that out.
2. Your space.Every king needs a castle, but if you bring a queen into the situation, then things can become a tad complicated. Often commitment is closely linked to cohabitation, which can drastically reduce your privacy. Soon you'll find feminine products in the bathroom cabinets, the arrival of kitchen utensils that you can't even name and her votes counting more in castle decisions. Yep, it might feel like she's making a play for your throne — but we wager that would happen no matter who you move in with. And living with your girlfriend is probably going to bring certain benefits to the table that a boring old roommate never would. (Can you say back rubs?)
1. Your identityWhen you first got together, you and your partner shared interests, values and some hobbies. The similarities thankfully ended there. But now it seems you're merging identities. Though it can be a good feeling to be in sync with your partner on various levels (but stick to your own closets unless you want to become Brangelina), it can also mean losing your individualism a little bit. Say no to the relationship clones, and don't be afraid to retain your own sense of self — even if it means that you guys have rules about not sharing the same toothbrush (sensible) or sleeping in separate rooms (maybe less so).
Hey, it's not all bad. If you met the right person maybe she changed your heart and all your goals. I wouldn't be so certain that's particularly a good thing but go for it. Personally, I have my bills in check, my own house and car paid off, single with no kids. It's going to take a hell of a lot more than a cute face and tight behind to change my ways. I've got Dos Equis in the fridge, and a poster of Charlie Sheen in my closet. Stay thirsty my friends.


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Which Plant Diseases Cause Small White & Black Dots on Leaves?
A common symptom of plant disease is the appearance of small black or white spots on a plant's leaves. These spots can appear overnight or they may lurk undetected for weeks. Left untreated, the diseases will weaken and eventually kill your plants. Understanding which disease your plants have can help you in the treatment and management of the problem.
Sooty Mold
Sooty mold is a fungus that grows on the sugary substance left behind by aphids and other insects that feed of the juices of a plant. The mold presents initially as small black dots that can spread across the entire upper leaf surface. Although the mold doesn't directly harm the plant, the black covering blocks out light and prevents the plant from being able to photosynthesize. Sooty mold can be controlled by spraying the problematic insects off your plants with a stream from the garden hose.
Powdery Mildew
Powdery mildew infects a wide range of plants. The fungus starts as white and gray spots on the upper side of leaves and then spreads to cover the entire leaf. Although plants can live with the disease, the fungus stunts growth and, in the case of fruit and vegetables, reduces crop yields. To control the spread of powdery mildew to other plants, trim off and destroy any affected leaves you find. If your garden is prone to powdery mildew, choose resistant species of plants, provide good air flow around your plants and avoid wetting the leaves of susceptible plants.
Black Spot
Black spot is a common fungal problem seen on rose bushes (Rosa spp.), especially miniature roses. The upper sides of the plant's leaves develop round, black spots that vary in size. The fungus takes hold and spreads when the leaves of the rose bush are left wet for several hours. When you see affected leaves, trim them off and destroy them. To prevent black spot, keep your rose leaves dry by watering early in the day so the leaves have time to dry.
Leaf Spot
Leaf spot is a generic term for many plant disease that cause black or gray spots on leaves. In the garden, the disease is typically caused by a fungus, but houseplants are more often infected by bacteria. In both cases, black spots appear on the upper sides of leaves. Lawn grasses can also succumb to leaf spot, but the disease presents as small bleached spots surrounded by a dark ring. Prevent leaf spot from spreading by keeping your plants' leaves dry, keeping your plants in their optimal growing conditions, removing affected leaves and, in the case of grass, avoid over-fertilizing.
- The New Sunset Western Garden Book; Kathleen Norris Brenzel
- California Integrated Pest Management: Sooty Mold
- California Integrated Pest Management: Powdery Mildew on Ornamentals
- California Integrated Pest Management: Roses - Diseases and Abiotic Disorders
- California Integrated Pest Management: Lawn Diseases
- Missouri Botanical Garden: Leaf Spot Diseases of Shade Trees and Ornamentals
- University of Minnesota Extension: Bacterial Leaf Diseases of Foliage Plants
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Causes and Treatment of Leg Pain After Prolonged Standing or Sitting
Any new or persistent leg pain summons a visit to your Cartersville, GA, doctor for an examination. Leg pain may have many causes, but leg pain after prolonged sitting or standing commonly results from a condition called venous insufficiency. If fluid buildups in the leg veins, blood pools in your feet and legs, causing swelling and pain. The pain can feel like burning or cramping, particularly in your calf.
Venous insufficiency, or venous congestion, presents itself when your leg vein valves don't work correctly to keep your blood moving effectively from your legs to your heart. In healthy veins, there is a constant flow of blood from your legs to your heart, but in unhealthy veins the blood flow is impaired. Varicose veins, which are distended veins viewable just under the skin, can be a source of venous congestion. In other cases, past inflammation of a vein such as what happens with phlebitis, can damage the valve, leading to venous insufficiency. Lack of activity and obesity also contribute to this condition.
Upon a physical examination and review of your medical history, your doctor may diagnose you with venous congestion. Typically, the first course of treatment in reducing leg pain due to venous insufficiency is to increase physical activity, wear compression stockings, and elevate achy legs above heart level for a period of 15 to 30 minutes. If these treatment methods do not reduce your leg pain satisfactorily, your Carterville, GA doctor may recommend alternative treatments.


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Mars shines at its brilliant best in early March, when it lines up opposite the Sun in Earth's sky. The planet looks like a bright orange star, in the constellation Leo. (The diagram shows not only the lion's classic outline, but the formal constellation boundaries established by the International Astronomical Union in the 1930s.) Mars is closest to Earth at opposition, which is why it shines so brightly. It rises around sunset (this view is about 90 minutes later) and remains in view all night.


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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Obama's Speech
Not too long ago, I just finished a beer after a long day of work. Feeling exhausted, I glance over the web, but my mind was looking forward to lying down on my soft comfortable bed and passing out.
When I was about to call it a night (around 9pm...i was tired), I get a call to do this last-minute assignment, due the next morning! I had work the next day at 9am, but I still accepted the great opportunity with gratitude. After the call, I go over to the kitchen counter to make coffee. I send two roughs within hours; get a sketch approved and chosen; finished the final; emailed the piece at 7am; had breakfast; and left my apt for work by 8am. Actually, I was so tired, I dozed off standing up in the subway! ha! I had many cups of coffee that day...many.
Unfortunately, the project got cancelled, and didn't get published. They decided to go a different direction. but I really liked the piece and the whole experience, so I will post it here.
The piece is about Obama's speech designed to fit the appropriate audience perfectly, and effortlessly. whether its for 6th grader or senators, he adjusts accordingly.
They went with the second direction of Obama "measuring" the ears of the people.
The director pointed out that there shouldn't be a pencil on a caliper. I look at it, and agree! I was thinking of a compass, cuz of the whole "designing" the speech aspect. That's what happens when you're sleep deprived. Well, I'm glad to have an art director to catch those things. So I made the appropriate changes and got it finished.
thanks for looking
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Afghan Leader
After reading an OP-ED article from the Times, I was inspired to illustrate this piece based on it. How can the US maintain stability in Afghan, without increasing US troops? According to Mark Moyar, until the indigenous leaders are capable, have the US commanders lead the Afghan Army.
NYTimes: Can the U.S. Lead Afghans?
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Turtle Pond (Central Park)
A day in the life of "Rocky" (as this old man called him) on a Sunday afternoon.
pencil and watercolor.
pencil and watercolor.
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From The Mississippi Link Newswire
JACKSON – On Tuesday, May 28, the newest marker on the Mississippi Freedom Trail was unveiled on East Capitol Street in downtown Jackson. The marker was erected at the site of the 1963 Woolworth's store, where a historic sit-in by civil rights activists occurred.
Led by Tougaloo College students and faculty, the Woolworth's sit-in on May 28, 1963, became one of the iconic moments of the Civil Rights movement.
A white mob threatened and attacked the activists and doused them with condiments over the course of several hours. Jackson Daily News photographer Fred Blackwell took images that, to this day, are synonymous with the movement and white resistance to it.
Tougaloo College partnered with the Mississippi Freedom 50th Foundation, Jackson State University, the Margaret Walker Center and Jackson Convention and Visitors Bureau to bring the participants and supporters of the Woolworth's sit-in, other activists and their family members to Jackson for the unveiling of the Freedom Trail Marker in order to honor the veterans of that historic action in the civil rights struggle.
A luncheon and a public reception followed with a showing of the film, An Ordinary Hero: The True Story of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, at the Jackson State Student Center Theater.
Mulholland is a Freedom Rider and is well known for her participation in civil rights. She became one of the first white students to integrate Tougaloo College and participated in the May 1963 sit-in at the Woolworth's lunch counter.
On Wednesday, May 29, at 10 a.m. Tougaloo College will host, "A Conversation with Joan Trumpauer Mulholland – Coming Full Circle."
Mulholland, along with friends from the movement, will provide reflections and discuss how lessons learned can be applied to address today's civil and human rights issues.


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Friday, March 6, 2009
We're Late, We're Late, To a Very Important Date!
Back in my high school days I had a chronic tardiness problem. And I do mean CHRONIC. I just had a really hard time getting up in the mornings, and the fact that I walked to school didn't help. The detention aides knew me by name, one even went ahead and brought crossword puzzles to detention with him because he knew that I liked them, and that I would, without a shadow of a doubt, be in Saturday morning detention. By the end of my junior year I had racked up so many tardies that the Dean called my Mom to tell her that unless I served my time throughout the summer, I would not be allowed to graduate. Needless to say, I spent several days that summer at the high school helping the guidance counselor reorganize her files.
As the years have progressed I have begun to feel as though I had "chronically tardy" stamped on my chest like the scarlet letter. I forever feel the need to make up for my wanton ways in high school by being a few minutes early to everything. My husband does not agree. In general, he doesn't mind being late, and thinks that everything is merely five or tens minutes away.
Don't worry, he says. We can make it, he says. All the while I am digging my fingernails into my palms as memories of after school detention come rushing back to me.
Last Saturday was one such event. We had been invited to a wedding that was scheduled for noon. The previous day we realized that neither of us had remember to pick up a card, so we planned to stop and get one before the wedding. C'mon Matt, I whined, we are gonna be sooo late!
Here are a few pictures I snapped on the way.
This was our only option as to where to stop that was on the way...
...because it was already this time...
Hurry Honey!!!
By this point my voice had reached a fervored pitch that set all the neighborhood dogs to barking.
Can't you just see the stress in his jaw?
We ran into the church just as the best man began walking the bride's mother down the aisle. As you might imagine, by this point I was near to tears. We waited for the ceremony to end, then shamefully made our way over to my dad.
"That's my Bekah, always late." he joked. I fear I will never lose this stigma. But on the plus side, we made it in time for the send-off!
Are you always late? Always on time? 15 minutes early?
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I think 'lateness/earliness' comes in waves. I'm usually on time now, but we did miss the wedding ceremony of a friend of ours: we arrived at the church just as they were exiting it!ReplyDelete
Oh, I hate to be late. I am always early UNLESS the husband is involved. Then he usually holds me up.ReplyDelete
I always leave early enough to be very, very early, then end up being late because I inevitably got lost along the way!ReplyDelete
I am one of those chronic early birds, actually embarrased to be so early.ReplyDelete
I hate to be late. So does Gar.
This is so me. Eric and I are working on it--it's a perpetual problem.ReplyDelete
I try so hard to be on time all the time, but it doesn't always end up that way. It bothers my husband to be late and he's never late, unless it's my fault of course!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 6, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Oh man, I can feel your stress from the post. I'm chronically about 2-5 minutes late. But I too feel that same pain from the past. Although mine was my parents nagging in my face at how vain I was because I was always fiddling with my hair before we went anywhere. Hey, a girls gotta look good right?ReplyDelete
I'm totally running like Tom Cruise in "the firm."ReplyDelete
I am always early...I can not stand to be late, if I think I am going to be late for work, I go home and call in sick. I just can not stand it at all.ReplyDelete
I have a friend who is late to EVERYTHING and acts like she has all the time in the world when she is already 30 minutes late for something...I can not stand that...it drives me crazy.
My husband's family is late to everything! Thankfully he is never as late as them, but when we dated we where always 5 minutes late which I despise. I have been working on him these last 2 years since we got married and are we are now normally 5 minutes early. Yay!ReplyDelete
I was too always late for everything. I try so hard to be on time now. I can't be early- I have the phobia if I am first and no one is there that I am in the wrong place or something was cancelled. I stress until someone else shows up.ReplyDelete
But being on time, drives my hubby insane because he likes to be early.
- AnonymousMarch 7, 2009 at 6:06 AM
I think it's so disrespectful to be late! After all, being late usually affects the people waiting for you, and their time is precious too... I try to be on time or even a tad early - although it is quite OK for people to be 10-15 minutes late in my opinion... unless it's a work meeting and then it's not Ok because I always have deadlines hanging over my head...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 7, 2009 at 10:57 AM
Mr. C HATES to be late and would rather be 30 minutes early. I, on the other hand, like to arrive just on time- which usually ends up being a little late due to traffic or whatnot. I've gotten better since Mr. C and I started dating though, b/c he pouts the whole way there if he even THINKS we're going to be late!ReplyDelete
The hubby and I are generally on time or pretty close to it but my dear, sweet, precious mother whom I love dearly and wouldn't trade for anyone in the world is never (and by "never," I mean NEVER) on time to anything. I went with her to a wedding for a highschool friend and we ended up getting locked out of the building and sitting in the rocking chairs on the porch during the ceremony (in the middle of a Louisiana summer, no less!). If my friend and I ever get on the subject of her wedding, I tremble in fear that she will ask me what I thought about a particular detail of her ceremony. So I do feel your pain.ReplyDelete
You know, I couldn't imagine having a job that I had to be at "at this time" every morning. I have had mostly flexible schedules all my life while my hubs had a "if you are 3 min late you are yelled at" job. Never got that.ReplyDelete
Anyway, to answer your question, I always assume I am going to be late, so I add 30 min onto "Ok, we have to leave by THIS TIME" so by the time all the unexpected things come up, we're still on schedule.


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Enjoy a stopover in Iceland en route to Copenhagen. Combine the classic "Big Three" attractions of Iceland - Gullfoss Waterfall, the geothermal phenomena at Geysir and the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Thingvellir National Park. Add to this a relaxing day in the Blue Lagoon natural geothermal spa in the middle of a beautiful lava field.
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Depart for a Panoramic Reykjavik City Tour of the landmarks of the city, including the Pearl, Hallgrímskirkja church and Höfði House. Following a relaxing time at the Blue Lagoon natural geothermal spa located in the middle of a beautiful lava field. Drive through Reykjavik's suburbs before entering into the surreal lava landscape of the Reykjanes peninsula. The water of the lagoon is 37-39 degrees centigrade (98 - 102 Fahrenheit) mineral rich and reputed for its healing properties. The blue colour and the high lava wall surrounding the Lagoon create quite a unique atmosphere. Dressing rooms and showers are provided for men and women separately. For hygienic purposes, it is expected (in line with local customs) to take a shower without swimwear before entering the Lagoon.
Following your visit to the lagoon you will return to your hotel in Reykjavik for an evening at your leisure. Dinner is on your own.
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After breakfast at the hotel this morning depart for the approximate 30 mile drive to beautiful Thingvellir National Park - a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Your visit to the Park allows you to experience one of Iceland's most outstanding sceneries. The area is surrounded by mountains and encompasses a vast lava plain of green moss and wild flowers.
Leaving Thingvellir you continue to the Geysir hot spring area. Here you will be surrounded by hissing springs and other geothermal phenomena. Lunch will be served at a local restaurant. After lunch continue your drive to Gullfoss Waterfall. The "Golden Waterfall" is the most famous of the country's many waterfalls where the river Hvita drops 96 feet into two falls, creating an awesome spectacle.
Continue on to the Kerid Crater. Iceland is dotted with volcanic craters; Kerid is one of the more dramatic ones. Created by an explosion followed by implosion of its cone, it now has a lake at its bottom.
Return to Reykjavik and enjoy the evening at your leisure. Dinner will be on your own.
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Is it June already? How did this happen?! It can't be half way through the year but the calendar does not lie. Time swirls past me more and more quickly. I began to think on how my word choice for this year has manifested itself thus far. My one word 365 for 2014 is BOLDNESS. This is a movement where instead of a list of resolutions, a word is chosen to live and grow into for that year.
According to the Merriam- Webster Dictionary it is defined as /adj/ 1.Courageous Intrepid. 2. Impudent. 3.Steep 4.Adventurous, Free ( i.e. thinker) /syn/ dauntless, brave, valiant- boldly /adv/ boldness.
As I sifted through the past six months I began to wonder just how closely my life has resembled this definition. Had I been courageous? Yes, I put myself out there in a way that I had not before. After getting the anticipated answer, I felt free. I simply I had to hear what I already suspected.
Have I been Intrepid? Defined as resolute fearlessness, fortitude and endurance. I can also say yes to this as well. I keep going forward no matter what life throws at me. I have strength only because God gives me the strength to do so. From dealing with tough situations with the ones I love to a double health scare with my parents. Yes I have been intrepid.
Now have I been Steep? Defined as a verb it means to saturate. To learn. I am in the midst of learning all I can about becoming a professional writer. Checking out books from the library, joining up with classes and webinars as I can afford. Asking my friends who have their own businsees advice on the steps I need to take as a freelance writer.
Adventurous is the next definition. Have I taken risks? Yes, in starting my writing career that is a risk. By moving my blog to wordpress and figuring out how to grow this blog. I took a risk running my first half marathon. Taking risks means that the reward is not always in the results. It is in the trying. In the attempt. And in the next and next and yes the next. I need more of this in this my life. I need to take more risk.
Am I free? Yes I am free. I am free not because of my hope in my plan. I am free because of who I am in Christ. It is through Him that I have become so bold in the ways that I am.
Am I dauntless, brave and valiant? I hope so. I hope I am dauntless in my acts of love. Have I been brave? Yes I can be far braver than I have in my life so far. Have I been valiant? Yes in being brave and courageous in small ways.
Being BOLD does not always mean large, out loud acts. Often it means small acts of bravery that add over time. It means being willing to take risks that can lead to failure or disappointment. Being bold means letting go of things that can hold me back and asking the hard questions.
These six months of living boldly has shown me a lot. Embracing boldness as my word for this year builds upon my words from past years. They are more like building blocks than simply a word. My first word was YES and the next years was LOVE. Those words have helped me grow in my faith and therefore in my life. That is where I am for my six month check in for my year of BOLDNESS.


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On the surface, the year 2011 was one of ramped-up securities regulation and scary times for financial scammers, with enforcement cases soaring at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and coverage galore about the humbling of inside traders and municipal-bond riggers.
Along with the sexy headlines about felled lawbreakers, though, there were also troubling free passes and favors granted to the accused and the privileged.
Laws that were set up to punish bad guys got waived within days of the press releases announcing that the offenders had been brought down. Well-connected lawyers in the employ of investment firms got express-lane access to regulatory brass. Among the C-suite set, there was even one big name who left the securities industry for a few years and returned to face the humiliation of retaking the licensing tests. Of course, as it should be for the privileged, he got a waiver from the requirements that lesser mortals on Wall Street must meet.
In November, the said big-shot wound up resigning from his gig at MF Global Holdings Ltd. after the firm filed for bankruptcy, but we'll get to that later.
The good news is that the most compromising free pass of all, the ability of alleged financial cheats to dispose of SEC lawsuits by saying they "neither admit nor deny" what they've been accused of, is under fire and inspiring calls for congressional hearings. Just how odious these deals have become was exemplified in a spat late last month between U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff and settlement partners Citigroup Inc. and the SEC.
Rakoff said in November that he wouldn't sign off on the SEC's $285 million settlement with Citigroup, which had been accused of misleading investors in a $1 billion financial product tied to risky mortgages. Dissatisfied with Rakoff's decision, Citi and the SEC went to the appeals court on Dec. 27 seeking a stay, even talking on the phone with Rakoff later in the day about procedural matters without mentioning a word about their new motion. "Misleading," Rakoff said in a Dec. 29 order.
Rakoff, who in 2009 nixed a similar deal between the SEC and Bank of America Corp., seems to have broken the spell of courts that rubber-stamp these ultimate regulatory cop-outs.
Paying fines and walking away from liability, though, isn't the only break that the accused have been catching. It has become routine that, on the heels of a settlement with the SEC, big banks and other defendants request and receive waivers from punishments designed to kick in as a result of their settlement orders. My personal favorites are the series of agreements between the SEC and the investment firms it accused of rigging prices of municipal bonds. Five firms have agreed to pay $743 million in bid-rigging cases since December 2010 — all reaping the benefits of those "neither admit nor deny" clauses along the way, of course.
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If we are to believe the SEC, some of those firms that didn't have to say they did anything wrong really did break laws and hurt the public. Read this quote from a May 4 SEC press release: "Our complaint against UBS reads like a 'how-to' primer for bid-rigging and securities fraud," said Elaine C. Greenberg, chief of the SEC's Municipal Securities and Public Pensions Unit. "They used secret arrangements and multiple roles to win business and defraud municipalities through the repeated use of illegal courtesy bids, last looks for favored bidders, and money to bidding agents disguised as swap payments."
I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty bad to me. Fraud. Secret arrangements. Disguises.
Bad, perhaps, but not bad enough to stop UBS AG's lawyers at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP from writing to the SEC five days later on May 9 to ask a favor. Through its lawyers, UBS asked the SEC not to enforce a rule that would have disqualified it from participating in securities offerings that are exempt from registration requirements. To help make the case for UBS, the letter cited nine examples of times the SEC had granted waivers for "similar reasons" since 2002, including another action against UBS. On the very same day, the SEC wrote back to say the waiver was granted.
In case you are having trouble keeping track, what we're talking about here is an exemption from a ban from an exemption. Regulators do have the ability to bring administrative proceedings if a firm abuses the privileges it gets from a waiver. But if we need to go to this much trouble to undo the rules when somebody gets caught — but doesn't admit it anyway – - why have rules at all? UBS didn't respond to a request for comment.
While all the settling and waiving and exempting is going on, the banks paying the most for legal juice benefit from remarkable access. Thanks to research by the Project on Government Oversight, the public got hard data back in May showing just how easy it was for SEC professionals to leave their posts for the private sector and, on behalf of their new financial-industry clients, to get rapid entree to sitting securities regulators.
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The group got five years' worth of information about SEC employees who left their jobs and, within two years of their going-away parties, wound up representing financial firms before the agency. In all, 219 former SEC employees filed 789 of the required statements ("Hey guys, we're back, and wearing nicer suits") from 2006 to 2010.
To give you a flavor of how these things really work, I'll mention one of several gems among the 789.
Margaret E. "Mitzi" Moore, former senior counsel in the SEC's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, resigned Jan. 13, 2006, and within two months disclosed that she and other colleagues at her new job at the Financial Services Roundtable would be meeting March 17 with then-SEC Chairman Christopher Cox. The Project on Government Oversight got its hands on the meeting agenda that Moore submitted, and the first item on the list was a shout-out for the "good start" and "positive mood change at SEC." The question "positive for whom?" comes to mind. Equally depressing was her memo notation that the SEC had made "good staff appointments."
Much as we would all love to know exactly which regulators were warming the hearts of Wall Street lobbyists, the names were deleted from the agenda. In July last year, the Government Accountability Office released a study on similar revolving-door issues, but did give the SEC credit for a new policy of collecting post-employment information from departing workers.
Perhaps I am being too tough on the financial cops who pride themselves on being vigilant enforcers of rules that keep financial markets safe and fair. At the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Wall Street-financed self-regulator that is overseen by the SEC, decision makers have been known to be uncompromising in ensuring that members don't skirt the rules.
With some exceptions, Finra expects members to re-take licensing exams if they have been out of the business for more than two years. It has fought and won battles against some former brokers, invariably small fries, who look for waivers.
Playing Rough
Some brokers who challenged Finra's tough decisions have appealed to the SEC, only to have the agency back Finra with arguments that are hard to criticize. In one case, the SEC said the re-exams can be a safeguard to the public interest. In another, the agency argued that a broker who had been out of the business for more than two years should be denied an exam waiver because "in that time, there have been changes to the securities laws and regulations" with which she should be familiar. And who could argue that understanding the rules is important if you're entrusted with other people's money?
Which is why the exam waivers granted to Jon Corzine, the former MF Global chief executive officer who resigned from the bankrupt company last year, make you wonder. Corzine took his Series 7 broker exam in 1975, and took the test for brokerage principals in 1982, yet he landed a waiver of both of those exams when he took over at MF Global in 2010. By then, he had been out of the business since 1999, having served as the Democratic governor of New Jersey and senator of that state. Finra has said it showed no favoritism in granting the waivers.
But as history continues to get written in the MF Global story, regulators might take some lessons from their own tough talk about the importance of keeping up with regulations and safeguarding the public. Sometimes digging in your heels to enforce the rules isn't such a bad idea.


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Red carpet moments don't yield many moments of candid humor. Camera guys tuck themselves inside of smiles and insider stories about their best and worst shots, writers peg themselves as the anxious ones itching for a quote when it's really the other way around, and handlers attempt to make sure everything is square.
So when you overhear, "What does the CEO of Twitter look like?" you then scramble to your smartphone and try to Google Dick Costolo, unaware that his son played a vital role in someone's winning the Slam Dunk Contest. He appears normal, a crowd guys remark with quips about him being a "CEO type" before their eyes jerk back to the door... and LeBron James steps in.
The instantly recognizable guy always wins out.
Sprite's 2Kings dinner, a joint production between the NBA's reigning MVP LeBron James and Jay-Z, who has ascended far beyond just being a rapper was held in the swanky RDG+Bar Annie near Uptown Park, and it brought out the stars including NFL MVP Adrian Peterson, NBA legend Scottie Pippen, NFL star Dwight Freeney, record exec Irv Gotti and James' Miami Heat teammate Chris Bosh, who while nullifying all slander thrown his way for his aloofness in the public eye thanks to a bombshell of a wife, was gracious enough to give an interview.
"I'll take Houston's All-Star Weekend over Dallas'," he noted. "Its much, much better here." Fun to note here that Bosh is from Dallas, so any point in life where you can throw shots at Jerry World, you have to take it.
The guests had started piling in but not before everything slowed to a complete stop. There, Beyoncé, shining light walked in with her husband trailing not far beyond. The photographers snap a few pictures of the couple, ironically some equipment breaking in the process.
That's what Beyoncé does on the night she has a documentary premiere across the globe, she breaks cameras based on sheer aura alone.
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Preheat the oven to 180ºC/Gas 4, and heat the grill as well if you have an oven grill function.
Place a frying pan over a medium heat and add a glug of olive oil. Add the onion, chilli and garlic with a pinch of salt and pepper and sauté until tender and dark golden, about 6 minutes.
Add the cumin and cook until aromatic. Stir in the tomatoes and gently simmer for 5 minutes. Add the beans, heat through for 2 minutes, then set aside.
Grease a baking dish with a little oil and sprinkle some seasoning in the bottom of it. Line the dish with the tortillas, overlapping them and raising them slightly above the edge of the dish. Pour in the tomato mixture, then make little wells in each tomato mound.
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text: Show Hide image Culture 14 February 2013 Yo ho ho and a bottle of finest, oak-aged kill-devill Nina Caplan's drink column. Sign-up Is there any drink more befuddling than rum? Even the etymology is weird. It began as rumbullion, which may come from saccharum, Latin for sugar (since it is, after all, made from sugar cane) and bulioen, Dutch for a precious metal in mass – although what this "hott, hellish and terrible liquor" has to do with metal of any kind beats me. I have also heard that rumbullion is Devonshire slang for a "great tumult", which surprises me: I wasn't aware they had great tumults in Devon. Or the name may descend from rum the adjective, which now means "odd or strange" but originally signified "excellent or fine", surely as peculiar a transmutation as that from sugar-cane run-off into strong drink. Even more confusingly, it has become a generic term for booze, especially among disapprovers: "fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers," as Ambrose Bierce spikily put it. In 17th-century Barbados, which is where both rum and that first quotation originate, it was known as kill-devill, yet was used to pacify slaves and sailors. Presumably those doing the pacifying didn't stop to think about which devills a drunken seaman or bonded African might wish to kill. Only one thing is certain: rum is a hot-weather tipple. When I've the good fortune to be overheated, I like a daiquiri or a mojito: lime juice (and in the latter, mint) seems a perfectly sensible addition to a sweet liquor, even if the stipulated gomme syrup can too easily turn a refreshing, tangy concoction into the adult equivalent of a lollipop. But most rum cocktails confound me. Fruit juice, coconut milk, cola, sweet liqueurs: what are these tooth-rotting substances doing in a drink that is already a dentist's delight? The caipirinha (made of cachaca, a Brazilian version of fermented sugar-cane juice) actually has caster sugar in it. And don't get me started on Bacardi Breezers (actually, you couldn't get me started on alcopops, unless the only alternative you presented me with was individual tooth removal without anaesthetic). If you tell me you prefer your coffee pepped with hazelnut syrup, I will learn two things about you: your tooth is sweet and you probably don't like the taste of coffee. This is Julie Andrews territory: a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine, be it caffeine or alcohol, go down. (Andrews, in that film, was herself a saccharine version of the astringent Mary Poppins that P L Travers actually wrote. If Travers's vain, tyrannical, sugar-free crosspatch were a cocktail, she'd be a Martini.) Hemingway, always cited as a rum connoisseur, apparently liked his daiquiris with maraschino liqueur, which indicates to me that he didn't really like rum. Then again, Hemingway's reputation for discernment has been a mystery to me ever since reading A Moveable Feast, in which he drinks F Scott Fitzgerald into the ground while disparaging his friend's weak head. If you outdrink a drunk, there's a name for you and it's not connoisseur. It is a pity to make rums taste like kids' drinks and not just because a fussy cocktail is, as Marlene Dietrich pointed out, "Bad for you, and trouble for the bartender." Yet manufacturers can't seem to help themselves. To some white rums, caramel is added, for colour and extra sweetness. (There's nothing wrong with white rum. Bacardi mixes well, depending, of course, on what you mix it with.) Sometimes spices are included, which can work: Elements 8 contains cinnamon, ginger and is delicious. Yet a good rum, aged in oak, needs no addition other than a dash of water or a lump of ice, so why are we compelled to complicate things? Perhaps it's historical: after all, rum was invented during a process of spectacular meddling by footloose Europeans. They couldn't leave a good thing alone and nor, it seems, can their descendants. Nina Caplan is the 2018 and 2014 Fortnum & Mason Drink Writer of the Year and the 2014 Louis Roederer International Wine Columnist of the Year for her columns on drink in the New Statesman, and the author of The Wandering Vine: Wine, The Romans and Me, published by Bloomsbury. She tweets as @NinaCaplan. Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! This article first appeared in the 11 February 2013 issue of the New Statesman, Assange Alone SUBSCRIBE More


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Eight times a year, the august members of the Federal Reserve Board gather in a room to pore over economic data and debate where to set interest rates and how much credit to make available to the banking system.
The Fed's decisions on these two questions affect practically every aspect of your financial life, from your job market opportunities to the rates you pay on mortgages and car and consumer loans. They also affect the investment returns you receive from certificates of deposit, savings accounts and even equity holdings.
"The Federal Reserve has its hand on the controls of the economy more directly than anybody else," says Greg McBride, senior financial analyst for Bankrate.com. "In terms of pocketbook issues, the Federal Reserve is arguably more influential than the president. Unemployment, inflation, the pace of economic growth — these are really the measuring sticks."
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Exactly how does the Fed carry out its two-pronged mission to spur economic growth while keeping inflation in check? A look inside the Fed's monetary policy toolbox reveals four primary levers of influence: interest rate targets, the level of liquidity, the buying and selling of securities and its public statements. Each one impacts either interest rates or credit availability or both, and is closely watched by investors and economists.
Interest rate targets
The most traditional Fed role is to set the federal funds rate, which banks pay to one another for overnight loans and which many consumer interest rates follow as a benchmark. The Fed can reach the desired federal funds rate in three ways: open market operations, the discount window and reserve requirements.
The phrase "open market operations" refers to the Fed practice of buying and selling Treasury securities to influence the supply of government debt and the cost of money. When the Fed wants to stimulate the economy, it buys bonds, thereby increasing the price and bringing down the interest rate on the securities. When the Fed wants to put the brakes on the economy, it sells Treasuries into the market to increase the supply, lower the price and raise interest rates, McBride says.
The Fed makes these transactions with primary dealers, the handful of securities firms authorized to trade in U.S. government securities with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Those dealers in turn transact with other banks and financial institutions so the Fed's actions ripple through the markets.
Open market operations
|When the Fed eases
|When the Fed tightens
|Fed buys government securities from a firm that deals in them.
|Fed sells government securities to a firm that deals in them.
|It pays by crediting the account that the dealer's bank has at the Fed.
|It takes payment by debiting the account that the dealer's bank has at the Fed.
|The bank in turn credits the dealer's account.
|The bank in turn debits the dealer's bank.
|The banking system has more funds to lend.
|The banking system has fewer funds to lend.
|Downward pressure on the federal funds rate — the interest rate banks charge each other for overnight loans.
|Upward pressure on the federal funds rate.
|Influences other interest rates in the economy — which also go down.
|Other interest rates in the economy also rise as a result.
|Gives the economy a boost.
|Slows the economy and curbs inflation.
Similarly, the Fed sets the discount rate, which moves up and down in tandem with the federal funds rate. Banks pay the discount rate when they borrow from the regional Federal Reserve banks. When the discount rate rises, banks pay more to borrow and tend to lend less, which boosts interest rates and reduces the available credit. When the discount rate falls, banks lend more freely, flooding the market with credit and causing consumer interest rates to fall, McBride says.
Discount window lending
|Discount Rate
|Impact on Economic Activity
|Monetary Policy
|Raising the discount rate
|Slows economic activity. The Fed is concerned about inflation.
|The Fed's goal is to check inflation.
|Lowering the discount rate
|Stimulates economic activity. The Fed is concerned about economic weakness.
|The Fed's goal is to spur economic growth.
Finally, the Fed can influence interest rates through reserve requirements, which refer to the amount of capital that banks must hold as security for their deposits. If the Fed increases the amount required as reserves, banks will be discouraged from lending, which tightens credit availability and increases rates. If the Fed lowers reserve requirements, the reverse occurs. Typically, the Fed refrains from changing reserve requirements to influence monetary policy, unless it has no other option available, because of the uncertainty it can introduce for banks.
A prolonged period of near-zero interest rates, such as the time of the 2008 financial crisis through the present, severely limits the Fed's ability to conduct monetary policy through interest rate targets, McBride says. As a result, the board turns to other tools in its arsenal.
Providing liquidity
The Fed is often referred to as the lender of last resort. During the 2008 financial crisis, that was certainly true. When the financial market climate seems so uncertain that no other institution will make loans, the Federal Reserve steps in to fill the gap. This is known as providing liquidity because the availability of credit is what keeps financial markets from creaking to a halt like a set of rusty gears.
The Fed can provide liquidity directly through loans to primary dealers, whether overnight or for a month or more. Other Fed loan programs are open to any U.S. bank or holding company, each aimed at a slightly different market segment. This allows the Fed to strategically inject liquidity to a specific market, whether it's the market for commercial paper, money market funds or asset-backed securities.
"Those are things that you'd only roll out at a time when the financial market is headed for collapse," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics and author of "Paying the Price: Ending the Great Recession and Beginning a New American Century," a book on the policy response to the financial crisis.
While the Fed doesn't actually print money — that power is exclusive to the U.S. Treasury — people often refer to the Fed as "printing money" when it lends to banks because it essentially is pushing additional money into the economy. The Fed uses this tool sparingly because even though it gooses the economy, it also can lead to runaway inflation.
"Long term, the consequence is inflation," McBride says. "It's like eating too many cheeseburgers. Eventually it catches up with you."
Buying and selling securities
Because of the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve developed some new tools for managing monetary policy. Prime among these is making direct purchases of bonds, known as quantitative easing. This technique helps in a number of ways. First, it calms markets because it provides a buyer when other investors are panicked or simply reluctant. Simply by announcing plans to purchase bonds, the Fed has an impact, Zandi says.
Second, buying bonds will increase the demand for these securities and increase their price, which brings down interest rates. So when investors were scared about the future of the financial markets in 2008, the Fed purchased long-term Treasury bonds and brought down long-term interest rates in a targeted way. Those long-term rates are important because they govern mortgages and the rates that impact the housing market, which were at the center of the financial crisis.
You can see the importance of the Fed's ongoing bond purchase program by looking at how interest rates spiked when the Fed hinted this past summer that it might begin tapering its purchases. "Our experience over the last few months shows it has a lot of impact," Zandi says.
The Fed used a variant of this tool in "Operation Twist," announced in September 2011 and continued through December 2012, by simultaneously selling short-term securities while buying long-term ones. This just reduced long-term rates at a time when short-term rates couldn't physically go any lower.
"Short-term interest rates were at near-zero, but the rate on your mortgage was a long-term rate over which the Fed had virtually no control," McBride says. "Operation Twist was designed to influence longer-term rates in an effort to rehabilitate the economy, but to do so without flooding the system with money."
Since the Fed debuted quantitative easing, there's now the possibility of quantitative tightening. The Fed could either sell bonds into the market or simply let securities that it holds mature without replacing them, which reduces the money supply.
Public statements
When the Federal Reserve governors meet to discuss monetary policy, they convene the Federal Open Market Committee. McBride says that it's sometimes called the "Federal Open Mouth Committee" because the pronouncements that come out of this meeting can influence both debt and equity markets. This is another tool in the Fed's toolbox: jawboning.
A couple of decades ago, the Fed didn't even announce when it changed the federal funds rate target. But then an interest rate change in 1994 took the financial markets by surprise, drove up the cost of borrowing and sent some big municipal governments into bankruptcy, McBride says. With trillions of dollars of investments swinging in value based on the Fed's decisions and pronouncements, the Fed created ways to signal to the market any change in policy well in advance.
"Over time, they've developed a better strategy of communicating or foreshadowing what's coming," McBride says. "Because financial markets are so big and so much money hinges on every move that the Federal Reserve makes, the consequences of surprising financial markets can be pretty significant."
While former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan was sometimes called an oracle because of the convoluted and opaque statements he made about the economy, outgoing Chairman Ben Bernanke has been more direct. In 2011, Bernanke even introduced a press conference that followed some FOMC meetings, at which he answers questions from reporters and explains the Fed's thinking about the economy and interest rates. The Fed also began announcing explicit "forward guidance," saying how long it expects to hold short-term rates steady — another move toward greater transparency and fewer unpleasant surprises.
"If they tell investors it will be a long time before they're going to increase short-term rates, that keeps long-term rates down," Zandi says. "They've been using that tool for quite some time to great effect."


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2.Subir Sinha (School of Oriental and African Studies, London, subirwa at hotmail.com), received by e-mail on April 6 2006 Part 1, Part 2.
3. Peter Waterman (firstname.lastname@example.com) on WSFDiscuss, April 15 2006
4. Dorothea Haerlin (ATTAC Germany, dorotheaherlin at gmx.de) on WSFDiscuss, April 28 2006 resulting from an initial, quite controversial debate about the "Bamako Appeal" in the reading circle of the ATTAC Cafe Berlin.
5. Peter Marcuse (Columbia University, New York, pm35 at columbia.edu) on WSFDiscuss, May 4 2006
6. Michael Albert (Z Net / Z Magazine, sysop at ZMAG.ORG), Some Comments on the Bamako Appeal, received on e-mail, May 4 2006
7. Network Insitute for Global Democratisation (NIGD), Bamako Appeal Spikes Controversy, February 7-25 2006 on NIGD and Debate list exchanges
8. Francine Mestrum, PhD?, (NIGD), Some Comments on The Bamako Appeal, February 20 2006
9. The World Social Forum and the Bamako Appeal: Yes, but no …, Minutes of the workshop at the Dutch Social Forum, Nijmegen, 20 May 2006, posted on WSF Discuss by Francine Mestrum, (ATTAC Vlaanderen, mestrum at skynet.be), June 10 2006
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China and Russia this week opened a $50bn gas pipeline through Heihe, a notoriously cold part of China.
It was unusually warm in Heihe. For a few hours, overnight, the temperature got as high as minus three.
What would usually fall as snow fell as rain.
And that caused big problems.
Because when the rainwater hit the ground, it froze instantly. And then the temperature dropped to minus 10.
The water stayed frozen.
Heihe became an ice-rink; every street a hazard.
We'd been in town filming a piece about a new gas pipeline connecting Russia – on the other side of the Amur River – and China.
The pipeline opens this week, and will bring millions of cubic metres of Siberian gas to cities across China. It has cost more than $50bn to build and there's a lot of scepticism that Russia's Gazprom will ever be able to charge enough to make it worthwhile.
But for both countries, the project is one that is as much about politics as it is about economics. China and Russia are strategic allies. Both want to show commitment to the other. A pipeline does that.
People in the countryside around Heihe – most of whom still burn coal inside their homes for heating and cooking – will see little direct benefit. Some have had jobs helping to build the pipeline, others will help monitor its operation.
But, for most, the pipeline is simply a project that passes near their homes – delivering gas not to them but to China's large cities to the south.
Not that many even wanted to talk about that while our team was there. All most wanted to talk about was the weather.
Because these conditions were unusual, and the city was not ready for them. I had naively assumed that in a notoriously cold part of China, authorities would be prepared for icy conditions.
Not at all.
We were supposed to be flying out of Heihe's airport, 14 kilometres from our hotel in the centre of town. We had a car booked and had left an hour – given the conditions – for the drive. In fact, it took us three.
For much of that time, we were outside the car pushing. Not that pushing – minus 10 and, fool that I am, I'd forgotten gloves – helped much.
It was near impossible to get any grip beneath our shoes so pushing the car 'forwards' more often meant sliding backwards and down.
Marginally more successful was using metal poles to scratch and break the ice directly in front of each wheel. Once the car had a little traction and motion, momentum kept it going.
Sometimes it kept it going too much – more than once the car slid into the highway's central reservation. We saw at least a dozen cars that had slid and dropped into ditches on either side of the road.
We did reach the airport, eventually. But there it quickly became clear no flights could possibly land, so none would take off. The runway, like the roads, was under ice. Three hours back to town; more pushing, more aching, then numb, hands.
We eventually left Heihe that night by train.
The journey to Harbin took eleven hours; overnight in a carriage styled like a barracks – rows of three beds stacked one on top the other. As the only way out of town, it was packed – with people, bags and cigarette smoke.
On the top bunk, squeezed almost up against the train's ceiling, it was hot. Having been frozen all day, all night I sweated. The train rumbled south, following the route of the gas pipeline we'd been filming.
And as I dozed, it struck me. For all the modernity, speed and ambition of its grand projects, China sometimes misses the basics.
For headlines, a few gritting trucks and a bit of salt don't match a billion-dollar pipeline.
But, for the people of Heihe, they'd have a lot more practical impact.