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ATB: Happy in Happy ValleyPosted by rtmsf on March 6th, 2009
Game of the Night. Penn St. 64, Illinois 63. It was nice to see a team turn the tables on Illinois after they had pulled off a furious comeback win in the last five minutes against Northwestern. PSU was down ten pts with five minutes remaining, but the Lions stormed back and when Talor Battle's feathery soft leaner dropped through with 0.3 remaining on the clock, the "white house" of fans went wild and quickly RTC'd the court. Now, THAT is how you RTC, friends! Quick, no hesitation, straight to the middle of the floor. Immediate bedlam. We have two clips here – the first will show the tv version of the winning shot by Battle (scroll ahead to the 6:00 mark); the second is a user-generated clip of the RTC. Enjoy. (btw, PSU is IN if they win at Iowa this weekend)
The Rest of Tonight's Key Games.
- UCLA 79, Oregon St. 54. The Bruins kept their Pac-10 title hopes alive with a blowout win over Oregon St. tonight. If they beat Oregon this weekend and Washington loses to Wazzu, then they'll both be tied at 12-6, where the Bruins would presumably win the tiebreaker. What's up with Josh Shipp's line tonight? 27 pts, 0 rebounds, 0 assists, 0 blocks, 0 steals, 0 turnovers, 0 fouls, 1 block. He really didn't do anything other than shoot tonight, did he?
- Villanova 97, Providence 80. Villanova picked up its second strong win of the week as it continues to make its case for the coveted double-bye in the Big East Tournament. Scottie Reynolds had 23/4/4 stls as Nova finished off a perfect home slate. Providence has a #69 RPI but finished at 10-8 in the Big East – what to do with the Friars?
- USC 80, Oregon 66. USC shot 59% behind Demar DeRozan's 19 pts and Taj Gibson's 18 pts as the long nightmare continues for Ernie Kent's Oregon team. USC is a classic bubble team, sporting a mid-40s RPI and what will likely be a 9-9 Pac-10 record come Saturday night.
- California 83, Arizona 77. Arizona really didn't need to lose another home game, but they've fallen apart the last two weeks. Tonight's loss to Cal was their fourth in a row, and they absolutely need to get the game against Stanford this weekend to turn this around. Cal's Jerome Randle had eight threes on his way to 31 pts.
- Temple 68, St. Joseph's 59. This Big Five matchup had A10 ramifications as Temple moved into a two-way tie for the #3 seed in the conference (tied with Dayton), as well as kept their bubble chances alive.
- Tennessee 86, South Carolina 70. Tough home loss for SC, while Tennessee captured the top seed in the East Divison of the SEC behind Tyler Smith's 22/6/7 assts. The Vols are coming on lately, having won at Florida and SC in their last two games.
- Stanford 74, Arizona St. 64. ASU is slumping lately, having lost their last three games. James Harden had 22, but was only 2-10 from three, and it doesn't appear if either of the Arizona teams have much interest in playing deep into March at this point.
QnD Conf Tourney Update. Tomorrow the America East, CAA, MAAC, SoCon and WCC begin. Here's what happened tonight.
A-Sun. The two higher seeds, #3 Belmont and #4 Lipscomb advanced, meaning the top four seeds will be in the semis starting tomorrow.
Big South. VMI will play Radford (the top two seeds) on Saturday for possibly the first NCAA automatic bid this year.
MVC. Indiana St. and Wichita St. advanced to the quarters.
NEC. The top three seeds (Robt. Morris, Mt. St. Mary's, Sacred Heart) + Quinnipiac advanced to the semis on Sunday.


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One girl's obsession with hunting down the most delish foods and coolest eating spots in and around Indianapolis.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Gray Brothers Cafeteria
The Place
I guess you probably caught by the name that this is a cafeteria-style restaurant. I have to admit, I haven't been to one of those since undergrad at a mall in Wilson, NC where people still smoked inside. Yeah, it was a little while ago. I was up for it though, we took a family trip out there and stood in the SUPER long line. I never mind that either, more time for chatting and checking out other people's food :)
Check it out though! This photo doesn't really do it justice either, that thing went through the doors and just kept wrapping around, I thought maybe I was at Disney! At least they didn't charge people $15 to go to the front of the line...that's a win in my book.
We waited in line, maybe for 45 minutes. We checked out the food and gasped at the sights, the portions the smells and the craziness of it all. By the time we were ready to order, I was ready to eat, which I guess is a good thing because I think they were ready to feed us, and maybe the entire continent of Africa for a couple of days.
The very large portions of Food
As you are waiting in line, it is your time to decide what you want. I thought I had it all in my head, but when I got up there with my tray, I kind of drew a blank. I stared at the food and the ladies with tongs to serve it to me and had to make some rash decisions. This is mostly because the food they have is displayed a la carte style on a board, but it's not anywhere on the food when you are looking at it. I forgot what things were!!! So, I just kind of winged it and started grabbing stuff and asking for stuff.
The wrap
This place was a good place to get some home cooked food. I will not make the mistake of passing up the homemade pies next time...I'll share my entree if I have to, but I HAVE to get some of those pies in my belly. The only complaint I have is I wish that it was a little more clear what foods are in front of your face when you are ordering. Obviously I know what mac & cheese looks like, but there were a couple things I just didn't know what they were while I was standing in front of them...and that place is busy, you gotta keep than line movin'! It's a very good place for a family outing, unless your kids don't like standing in line for too long...make sure to bring some toys to entertain them. I think we'll be back...after I do 200 crunches. :)
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Love this post! I think bill will really dig this place!!!!;)ReplyDelete
I dont know if you are familiar with MCL but it's very similar and a lot of people consider their food better than Gray Bros. There are locations around the city. I know there's one on 86th and Allisonville and there may be one in broadripple on 62nd.ReplyDelete
Gray Bros Cafeteria is part of my family's holiday tradition. I can't remember the last time I've gone a full year without dining in or doing carry out. Although, the lines are pretty common, the food is worth the wait. I love their chicken and noodles, fried okra, mac n cheese, green beans, cherry pie. Gosh, I've probably tried it all at least once. Not the liver, though. I haven't mustered the courage.ReplyDelete


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All this month in honor of March being National Craft Month, we will be bringing you a cool craft idea on this blog to inspire you! This week, all are projects are Awesome Accessories! Enjoy!
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1. Cut out patterns. Place leather pieces right side down on work surface and lay pattern pieces on leather pieces. Use marker pen to trace around pattern pieces then cut out.
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3.Referring to photo, position tops of black stem pieces under red flower pieces and glue in place. Let dry.
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4.Double over length of chain twice to create two loops, each about 4" in length, and let the remainder of chain hang to the side. Run thin wire through tops of loops to hold together and twist wire to secure. Cut bottoms of loops to create four hanging strands and cut off excess length from chain on side to length desired.
5.Cut a 1½" square from black fabric and apply Fabric Fusion on one side. Flip floral piece right side down on work surface and position top wired part of chain arrangement on back center of floral piece. Lay black fabric square glue side down on top of wire to secure. Lay tape across to hold until set then remove tape.
6.Referring to photo, stick PDA black crystals down centers of black stems and around black circle. Add additional black crystals extending from black circle halfway up each red petal, then add red crystals onto the remaining halves of petals. Stick a clear crystal in middle of button.
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Jersey Shore's Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino Arrested After Tanning Salon Altercation With Brother
Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino was arrested after reportedly getting into a physical altercation with his brother Frank at the Boca Tanning Salon on Tuesday (June 17) in Middletown, New Jersey.
"On Tuesday afternoon we responded to a 911 call at Boca in reference to a fight in progress. Upon arrival, our officers arrested Mike Sorrentino for simple assault," Detective Lieutenant Steve Dollinger shared to People about the former Jersey Shore star. "He is in the process of posting $500 bail and the matter will be set for a court date."
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(By Thomas Gazis)
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(By Thomas Gazis)
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We tend to believe that the show-biz superstars are some lucky beggars whose life is a never ending party! Well, it might be an ever ending inferno too, as in Britney Spears case. Most of us know the ordeal she has been through. Although young, rich and famous she does not seem to be very happy, going through continuous stages of psychological breakdowns, addictive behaviour etc. Allegedly she suffers from Bipolar Disorder, which is a major mental disorder, sending the patient to extremes ranging from (depressive) immobility and mutism to (manic) over-mobility and garrulity. Apparently Britney is having difficulty in getting a grip on life and finding herself. She got married twice and divorced, she gave birth to 2 children but lost the custody of both, plus she lost - by a juridical decision - the control of her assets!
A fundamental astrological axiom claims that the chart should reflect its owner's reality. So, with all these heavy conditions that Britney Spears is facing in her life it would be natural to presume that she has a "heavy" chart. We might speculate i.e. discordant aspects on her Luminaries (Sun, Moon), a pivotal Neptune, an 8th or 12th House emphasis etc. Nope, not at all! Britney Spears chart is one of the less "heavy", one of the "smoothest" I have ever encountered! You can see it for yourself (born 2 December 1981, 1:30 am, McComb Mississipi):
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Her Sun is in "lucky" Sagittarius and receives no major hard aspects at all. Her Moon in Aquarius not only does not receive any hard aspects but even forms an harmonic aspect to Saturn. In addition, her Sun and Moon are in Sextile (60 degrees apart, a positive in astrology angle). Not to mention that her Moon is in the warm, vivacious, "solid" and powerfully self-asserting Fifth House. This chart seems to belong to a happy person, having a rather easy life. But it does not reflect Britney Spears' tormented life. Apparently we are missing something!
Astrology cannot be wrong, of course. The way we approach it might be, though! Because all we have to do is pay attention to certain elements - which we usually overlook as details - and apply the right branch of Astrology, in this case the Psychological Astrology! So, if we pay enough attention to details we will realize that Britney's chart is not that "merry-go-around" after all. And this because in her chart we can indeed spot some hard aspects. First of all, she has a Libra Ascendant (which apparently makes part of the "easy going" scheme). The planet ruling her Ascendant is Venus. And as we Astrologers know, the planet ruling our Ascendant is ruling our whole chart too! So, if we pay some attention we will see her chart's ruler (Venus, in 25 degrees Capricorn) forming a perfect square aspect to Pluto (in 25 degrees Libra). Pluto is well known in Astrology for causing huge existential crises, frequent psychological breakdowns, extreme events in life, loss of assets and any kind of ordeals. And in Britney's case Pluto is pivotal, both because it is in her First House (conjuncting the neighboring Saturn) and because it forms an aspect to her Sun.
And there are other configurations which we did not notice from the beginning, because they are considered "secondary" ones (not to mention difficult to spot by the eye). We are talking about her two characteristic semi-square aspects (a semi-square is a 45 degrees angle formed between 2 planets in the chart). Actually, Britney's Sun stands in the very middle of her Venus - Pluto aforementioned square (right on her Venus/Pluto midpoint - to use the proper astrological term). In plain English, her Sun forms a perfect semi-square aspect to her Pluto, while at the same time forms a perfect semi-square to her Venus. There is some strange geometry going on here, as all these planets (Pluto, Sun, Venus) are positioned in perfect angular distances in the zodiac cycle. That is why - although the semi-square aspect is considered a secondary one - we have to pay particular attention to it here. Because semi-squares are considered difficult ascpects, bringing conflict and stress to people.
So, this rare delineation partially explains Britney's ordeal in life. Add to it her 12th House Mars in square to her Neptune. As Mars is the ruler of her Seventh house, we can see her dismal relations clearly depicted in this "double whammy" aspect (Mars in the 12th House and at the same time in square to her Neptune, the ruler of the 12th House). Pile up too the crucial transits going on in the last years of the planet Neptune upon Britney's natal Aquarius Moon and of Saturn in her Twelfth House - in square to her Sagittarius Sun. But still something is missing here! If we thoroughly study any given person's chart we might find similar or even heavier planetary configurations. But the average person seems to cope far better with such an aspects than Britney Spears does, not getting immersed in such a gloomy and unhappy situation, not leading such a precariously balanced life style. Definitely there must be some other element in her chart bringing forth major personility disorders. And indeed there is one!
I have been teaching Psychological Astrology for the last 20 years. I am not a psychologer though (I just took a psychology course in the University) and thus I am not entitled to diagnose psychological problems in people (and I apologise if I somehow did). But I have thorouhly studied the books and notices of the clinic psychologer - astrologer Liz Greene's, as well as the ones of Karen Hamaker-Zondag, Dane Rudhyar's "An Astrological Study of Psychological Complexes", Noel Tyl's psychological approach to the horoscope and others. Plus, I think I acquired much knowledge on the subject through every single client's chart I studied in the last 25 years (my 12th House Moon is very sensitive to psychological issues).
One of the first things I have been telling my Psychological Astrology class students is to look for a predominant configuration in a chart which I call the "polarization effect"! The term might sound intimidating, but actually describes a very simple condition: a planet in a given sign being simultaneously in the "opposite" House. Of course there isn't such a thing as a House opposite to a sign. For the sake of simplicity though, by the term "a House opposite to a sign" we mean here "the House that corresponds to the diametrically opposite sign of the one we are referring to"! To give you an example, if somebody has his/her Sun in Aries and simultaneously in his/her Seventh House (the Seventh House corresponds to Libra, the sign diametrically opposite to Aries in the zodiac cycle), then in his/her case we get a "polarized" Sun!
There is a particular Ascendant that causes the strongest "polarization effect" in a chart: Libra! Mysteriously, the sign of balancies causes - when it is the Ascendant of the individual - the strongest imbalancies. Chances are that an Aries with a Libra Ascendant will have his/her Sun in the Seventh House, a Taurus will have his/her Sun in the Eight House, a Gemini in the Ninth and so on! The Sun would be then in a House "opposite" to the sign it is in. This I call "polarization". And when somebody has a Libra Ascendant not only his/her Sun but most of his/her planets probably will be "polarized".
The fact is that we might have an Aries individual with a Libra Ascendant whose Sun lies in the Sixth House instead of the Seventh and this of course does not make his/her Sun polarized. On the other hand, an Aries with a Virgo Ascendant might have his/her Sun in his Seventh House. Thus, not ALL Libra Ascendants produce a strong "polarization effect" while some Virgo Ascendants might produce one. It always depends on the interaction between the House cusps and the specific degrees each planet is in.
All these years I have been studying people's charts I realized that this "polarization effect" is CRUCIAL and it can actually produce huge tensions, inner conflicts, imbalances, confusion and mental disorders to individuals otherwise having strong and balanced charts, eventually leading them to some sort of existential "paralysis".
I remember that it all started some 20 years ago, with a client I was about to receive. All his personal planets were forming a stellium in Leo and his Moon was in Aries, so I was anticipating a person with a brilliant, strong, self asserting personality. When the door bell rang, I was expecting to see a sort of "Alexander the Great" stepping into my office! And in fact he had the "Al Pacino" type of face (distinct, with "angles"). To my utter amazement though, I realized as the consultation was going on that he was rather insecure and fragile! Surely he was receiving by then some hard planetary aspects, but by no means were these aspects that disruptive to justify his actual state. His case puzzled me profoundly and when he left I immediately started analyzing his chart again, trying to figure out where I was wrong - as the reality of my coustomer did not match his chart. When it suddenly hit me! All his Leo planets were in his Eleventh House and his Aries Lunar energy in his Seventh House! His strong Leonian energies were struggling to cope with the absolutely opposite Aquarian - Eleventh House ones (and his Aries energies the ones of his Seventh House). His everyday reality is somehow contrasting the very Universal archetypes in him! Thus, a huge amount of his abundant fiery energies is consumed and "dissipated", as this person is constantly struggling to bridge in himself two very different, opposed worlds!
If we now apply the same method to Britney's case we will be astonished of the many "polarization effects" we will get in her chart! Her Sun is in Sagittarius but in the "opposite" Third House! Her Moon is in Aquarius but in the "opposite" Fifth House. Her Mercury is in Sagittarius but in the Third House. Her Venus is in Capricorn but in the "opposite" Fourth House. Her Mars is in Virgo but in the "opposite" Twelfth House. And the same goes for her Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto! In fact the whole chart of Britney Spears is "polarized". This amazingly rare configuration produces a huge split in her personality and explains very satisfactorily Britney's behavior, life style and general ordeal. And it does that so effectively that no other method comes even close to it!
To study another case now, the "Nirvana" suicidal (and allegedly bipolar) singer Kurt Cobain has a largely polarized chart too (his Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars and Pluto are all polarized):
There is a certain "gradation" to this polarization effect. The strongest polarization occurs when both the Luminaries and and a certain number of planets are polarized. If only one Luminary and some planets are polarized then we have a relatively minor polarization - but still we are worried about the polarized Luminary. When none of the Luminaries is polarized then the individual might not suffer a total "disruption" in his life but only in certain areas of his life. And the trully minor polarization occurs when only a couple of planets (and no Luminary) are polarized.
In an interesting article entitled "Astrological research on Schizophrenia", the Italian astrologer Ciro Discepolo shows us what he considers to be a typical chart of a person suffering from a schizophrenic disorder. Although Discepolo describes accurately all the significant aspects on the chart of this patient apparently he misses the "Polarization pattern" which is rather evident in it! You can read his article - in English - here:
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The chart of the schizophrenic patient:
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We have a strong polarization effect here as both his Luminaries and all the other planets (except Mercury and Jupiter) are polarized. In addition, his Sun is "double-whammy" polarized, being in Taurus but at the same time in the "opposite" to Taurus Eight House and in a partile conjunction to Uranus, a planet totally alien to Taurus and related (by the Argentinian school of Psychological Astrology) to schizophrenia!
IMPORTANT: If you - or someone you know - has a strong "Polarization Effect" in his/her chart it does not necessarily mean that s/he is going to get suicidal or schizophrenic. It rather means that s/he has to skillfuly bridge two opposite forces in himself/herself. And this process in the end might transform him totally and enrich him/her enormously!
Keeping now in mind this "polarization effect" it gets easier to explain charts that do not make sense otherwise. Take the case of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco for example. We couldn't otherwise understand why a benevolent Sagittarius with an incospicuous Moon in Gemini and a Virgo Ascendant became such a cruel dictator (Pluto is aspecting his "Lights" alright but that's not an element good enough). As soon as we realize though that his chart is highly polarized everything becomes much clearer to us.
From my experience, I can tell you that we encounter rather often this "polarization effect" in the charts of people with mental disorders. It seems that when someone is bounded in his/her life by many aggravating factors then this configuration somehow takes a hold on him/her. Then the task of "transmuting" this configuration might get beyond the individual's means. In such a cases the polarization effect manifests its most corrosive to the personality and disintegrating aspects.
Sometimes I encounter this "effect" under a slightly different form. In Hitler's case i.e. I noticed that his Capricorn Moon is tightly conjuncting his natal Jupiter. But this Saturnian - Jupiterian "coniunctio" is a polarization too (Jupiter's and Saturn's energies are considered opposite). Thus, while almost everybody else saw Hitler as an utterly cruel person he probably perceived himself as a rather "nice guy"! This is the weird effect of a "polarization"). And in general, the "polarization effect" acts in a very powerful and disruptive ways in a chart. After studying it for many years I came to the conclusion that it matches the other known "personality disrupting agent", the Sun - Moon tight square. Such a square we encounter i.e. in Amy's Winehouse chart. Pop idol Winehouse is somehow considered Britney's twin case, as the lives of the two bear striking similarities. But while Amy's ordeal was rather easily identifiable in her chart, Britney's chart seemed to be pretty much ordinary. But if we apply the "polarization effect" method to Britney's chart it immediately becomes extra-ordinary! Thus, I firmly believe that we Astrologers should place this "polarization effect" method among our main interpretation tools!
Thomas Gazis
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text: On Tuesday, Bill and I received the call that we'd soon be the proud owners of a 1978 Honda Hobbit. We already bought a 1967 P50 but we wanted to get another so we could take mini moped trips together. After buying this second one, we've found ourselves growing quite obsessed and are thinking we might start collecting as a hobby. We drove up to Louisville that day in quite a hurry [I had to be back for Lady Gaga that night] to meet with the sweet owner, Bert Van Arsdale. Bert bought this little creampuff brand new in 1978 and kept it in pristine condition. He still had the owners manual and both sets of keys. We named the hobbit "Bert" in his honor. Can't wait to go riding.


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Partnership Is CDT's First Acquisition With a Nonprofit; Will Provide Social Services and Rehabilitation to Homes for Seniors and Low-Income Families
Partnership Is CDT's First Acquisition With a Nonprofit; Will Provide Social Services and Rehabilitation to Homes for Seniors and Low-Income Families
FRESNO, CA--(Marketwire - Jul 11, 2012) - The Community Development Trust (CDT), the country's only private real estate investment trust (REIT) with a focus on providing capital for the preservation of affordable housing, and LINC Housing Corporation (LINC), a Long Beach-based nonprofit builder of affordable housing for low-income families, seniors, and people with special needs, today announced that they have partnered to purchase Pleasant View Apartments in Fresno, Calif. The property is a 60-unit, 100 percent affordable development serving both seniors and low-income families living in homes that range in size from one- to four-bedrooms. The deal represents CDT's first acquisition with a nonprofit partner.
The partnership will allow CDT and LINC to provide new benefits for the residents of Pleasant View Apartments in the form of social services. LINC's resident services affiliate, LINC Cares, will be providing service coordination and on-site activities such as tutoring, health and wellness clinics, and special events for the first time at the property. In addition, the partnership will facilitate a rehabilitation of Pleasant View Apartments, including full kitchen renovations to each unit, roof and window replacements, and a new community center and playground for residents.
"As CDT's first equity purchase with a nonprofit partner, our investment with LINC, a well-established developer of affordable housing, is an important milestone for our organization," said Joseph Reilly, CDT's president and CEO.
"The quality affordable housing stock in Fresno is very limited, but Pleasant View Apartments presents an opportunity to help address the City's need by improving existing homes for a large number of low-income residents," added Brian Dowling, CDT's vice president of community investments. "Seniors and large families of five or more people currently occupy more than half of the homes at the property. We're looking forward to enhancing LINC's outstanding work in California and continuing CDT's mission to invest in affordable housing in underserved communities around the country."
"This is a milestone for LINC Housing as well," said Hunter L. Johnson, president and CEO of LINC. "We have traditionally relied on tax credits to fund our work, but as a result of the recession, we've had to find new ways to generate financing. Thanks to CDT's capital investment, together we're able to preserve and improve these affordable apartments for the seniors and families who call it home."
CDT partially financed the acquisition of Pleasant View Apartments with an acquisition loan from the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF), which has previously worked with LINC on several other transactions. The LIIF loan will enable CDT and LINC to meet the needs of the seller to close quickly, but also provides an opportunity to work with HUD to pursue long-term financing through the FHA 223(f) program. LINC is providing additional funding for the purchase and planning through generous support from The California Endowment and JPMorgan Chase Foundation. Both have identified Fresno as a focus area for affordable housing.
About CDT
CDT is the country's only private real estate investment trust with a focus on providing capital for the preservation of affordable housing. Working with local and national partners, our organization makes long term equity investments in affordable housing and also serves as a secondary market provider for long-term debt which supports the development and preservation of affordable housing. After more than twelve years of operations, CDT has provided over $847 million in debt and equity capital to properties in 42 states -- helping to preserve and create more than 32,000 units of affordable housing.
About LINC Housing Corporation
LINC Housing, one of California's most productive nonprofit developers of affordable housing, has helped create more than 7,000 homes in 63 communities throughout the state. The organization's properties are known for excellent design, outstanding management and life-enhancing services for its residents. LINC has 28 years of service to families, seniors, and local governments helping to create sustainable communities via new construction, acquisition and rehabilitation, and historic preservation.
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If ever she hopes to lead conservatives, the Republican Party and America, then Sarah Palin needs to become more serious-minded and substantive like Henry Kissinger.
Critics of my recent Sarah Palin post miss my point. My point is not that Sarah Palin should have refrained from endorsing California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina. My point, instead, is that Palin's endorsement of Fiorina confirms that she (Palin) is not all that conservative.
Fiorina, however, may well be a great conservative; I don't know. I'm undecided in the California Senate race, though decidedly against the more liberal and dovish Tom Campbell.
Moreover, as some commenters have observed, prudential political concerns may well have shaped Palin's endorsement. She might view DeVore as a political loser and Fiorina as the only viable candidate able to unseat the far-left incumbent senator, Barbara Boxer, in November.
So I certainly can understand why Palin has endorsed Fiorina. Again, my argument is not with Fiorina; it is with Palin. People like FrumForum's Tim Mak blithely assume that Palin is a conservative. However, Palin's public-policy pronouncements, and her record as governor of Alaska, show that's not yet really the case.
In my post, I cited specific positions that Palin has taken, a specific high-profile senate candidate whom she has endorsed, and specific public utterances of hers to lay bare the myth that Palin is a political conservative.
For example, I noted, Palin has heartily endorsed John McCain, even though McCain has taken very liberal positions on taxes, amnesty, free speech, and the defense budget—and even though a more conservative candidate, former Arizona congressman J.D. Hayworth, is running against McCain for the GOP senate nomination.
What's more, Palin has appropriated left-wing populist rhetoric to bash so-called predatory lenders and oil companies. She has championed "windfall profits" taxes and more money for the education bureaucracy. Her interest in military and defense issues doesn't appear to be very deep or profound.
Palin's problem, I think, is that unlike say, Ronald Reagan, she's not a philosophically grounded conservative. She's not well read and doesn't appear to have thought very deeply about the great and pressing issues of our time.
This is a problem because unless a politician is philosophically grounded in conservative political thought, he is likely to move or "grow" leftward while in office. The political and cultural zeitgeist, after all, leans in a decidedly strong left-wing direction.
I say all this with regret, because at one time I was Sarah Palin's greatest fan and strongest advocate. I criticize her now only because Sarah Palin has it within her the ability to change and to become a more serious-minded and credible political leader. I for one am rooting for her: Because America needs the Sarah Palin that can be, not the Sarah Palin that now is.
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Monday, September 1, 2008
Some Cool Tins
It occurred to me the other day that I don't have any images of tins before I tear them apart. It's a real oversight on my part because some of them are pretty cool. I've even gotten to the point lately where I don't want to cut some of them up because they are too interesting as-is. Some are a little vintage-y and some right off the shelves of Wal-Mart--well after a stay at someone's house and then a trip to a local thrift store. Here are a few to start with. I'm also going to try to remember to take before and after shots to give people a better idea of how the pieces start out.
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Should impact evaluation be justified by clinical equipoise or policy equipoise?
Yet before I get to my main point on the ethics of a control group in policy evaluation research, first are two asides on other aspects of the "The Unprincipled Randomization Principle":
- Ziliak and Teather-Posada (henceforth ZTP) make great hay of the randomista meme. A randomista is apparently defined as someone who only accepts evidence derived from randomized trials and rejects all other evidentiary sources – balanced observational studies, historical analysis, etc. As I have yet to encounter one, please tell me on which continent or planet does the genus randomista reside. Here I echo Berk's previous call [5]: "could someone please point out their [randomistas] identities, provide a quote from one of these scapegoats?"
- ZTP reviews the formative debate around inferential reasoning with statistics held between Fisher and Student in the1920s. They contrast Fisher's randomized experimental design with Student's stratified observational design and they criticize randomized studies as often subject to the confounding imbalance of key characteristics (with practitioners simultaneously unaware of such confounding). This is a bizarre characterization given contemporary practice. Many, if not most, randomized designs are stratified random designs; some take Student's adviso to the extreme with pair-matched randomization. The overriding motivation for randomized evaluations is to control for imbalance of influential unobserved characteristics. Hence RCTs are typically very concerned with the balance of possibly correlated observable characteristics. Standard balance tables may now be occasionally excluded from the final published version of selected studies but that does not mean these checks aren't conducted.
OK to the main point. According to ZTP, the "Unprincipled Randomization Principle" is unprincipled due to the existence of a leave-out observational control group, while the treated group receives a benefit. [Note: a leave-out control is not unique to RCTs, but… hmmm… randomistas and all.]
ZTP's example of this unethical practice is the 2012 paper by Glewwe, Park, and Zhao [8], which measures the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of providing corrective lenses to rural Chinese students. Behind ZTP's stance is the sentiment that – here I'm paraphrasing –"students in need of corrective lenses will obviously benefit from their provision, so why on earth do we need a study to demonstrate this?" This sentiment engages the principle of clinical equipoise [9] – the principle that justifies a leave out control only when there is uncertainty over the benefit of a treatment. ZTP's stated belief is that the eyeglass study does not meet the standard.
But as both David [10] and I have previously written [11], it is far from clear that clinical equipoise should constitute the guiding ethical principle in the design of social policy research. From the standpoint of policy, the salient question is not whether an intervention produces any benefit, but how much benefit and delivered at what cost. While clinical medicine is chiefly concerned with the improvement of health, the motivation for all economic inquiry comes down to the founding observation that resources are finite. The question is not "does it work" but rather "should public resources be utilized in this way at the expense of alternative uses"? Perhaps we need a parallel principle, call it "policy equipoise", to guide the ethical assessment of socio-economic field trials.
Let's leave aside the particular question of whether you or I believe the eyeglass study is ethical or not – maybe there are ways to assess the cost-effectiveness of this program without a leave-out control group. Although let's be clear: this other, non-existent, study would have to explicitly consider or model the behavioral responses and investments that vision-challenged students and their families undertake in the absence of freely provided glasses (so this non-existent observational study would face rather severe challenges).
Rather let's focus on the existing ethical governance of field research – after all, such a force does exist in the world, namely the Independent Review Board (IRB). I presume the eyeglass study underwent independent ethical review, as is the norm.
One main task of an IRB is to consider precisely these questions of equipoise. As the Ethical Guidelines for Medical Research as published by the Indian Council of Medical Research [12] phrases, the IRB must determine whether the proposed research is "Essential" as well as ensure the "Non-Exploitation of Study Subjects". So the decision to conduct the study comes down to whether the research question has been deemed essential by at least one accredited peer group. A critic may feel that the requirements of equipoise have not been met in the eyeglass study, but clearly the body tasked with this assessment did feel this threshold was met.
Framing the discussion in this fashion shifts the point of contention in a productive direction. Let's no longer deal with the inert question of the ethical validity of one particular method. Let's review the existing governance structure that is meant to ensure the ethical conduct of research. This would entail considering the following (non-exhaustive) questions:
- Is the current IRB accreditation system sufficient to provide proper guidance for researchers?
- If not, how should IRBs be accredited and governed?
- How should IRBs be financed? (Note that some IRBs are paid fees directly by the projects reviewed, thus raising the possibility of conflict of interest.)
- Does social science need to develop guidelines on "policy equipoise" as opposed to adopting the principle of "clinical equipoise"?
- Are too many studies that a professional consensus might deem unethical being allowed to go forward?
- Should "professional consensus" even constitute the proper threshold to assess ethicality? What about professional unanimity? Or majoritarian view?
- Should the IRB system be centralized, i.e. do we want something like a global clearinghouse for ethical review?
- Or should we maintain the decentralized system we have now?
I have opinions on some of these questions, but I can't answer many of them with full certainty at the moment. In my mind though, these are the critical questions of practice, not those taken up by ZTP.
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As you start establishing your credit history, keep in mind that you should only apply for credit that you can afford to pay back. Your payment history accounts for 35 percent of your Equifax credit score, and late payments can have a negative impact. Collins says that part of her financial security resulted from some excellent advice she received at a young age: "Don't borrow money that you don't have."
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"Whiskerfish" are a species of fish found at the bottom of the Greenblood river in Dorne. The one eaten during the feast for Balon Swann in Sunspear is so big it takes four men to carry it[1].
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If i open program files folder in My computer/local disc (c:) the folders in there are in alphabetical order.
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There is a lot going on in my life right now.
We found out that we need more for closing than the original estimate. Since I don't want to tap into my savings too much, that means I'll be at work every day this week but Thanksgiving.
My Daddy was in a car accident on Saturday night. He was disoriented trying to find his way home, and got side swiped by a tracker trailer. The police officer called my mother to come get him. She took him to the hospital the next morning because he had numbness in his hands, he was still disoriented and his blood sugar was well above normal. The Dr sent him home in the same state because all of his lab tests were "normal". Being disoriented with a blood sugar of 350 is NOT normal.
I managed to clean most of the house, but was up until about 1 am in preparation for my mother in law to come visit. Then, I coughed for a few hours, unable to sleep.
Pookah woke me up at 3 am to tell me he had peed in the bed. I spent 30 minutes telling him it was OK, and washing bed sheets, and changing clothes.
CDub noticed then that it was cold and fiddled around with the furnace for the next two hours.
My alarm went off just as I was about to drift off.
The furnace was broken. I could barely stop shivering as I got dressed for work.
I managed to get to Starbucks by the grace of God. My eyes felt like they had sand in them, and I know I was drifting.
I got to work, and got asked a lot of stupid questions by folks who have advanced degrees.
I came home, got a text from my mother that my Dad had a follow up dr's appointment at 130.
I waited for hours and got no updates.
My brain is now on overload. I have an overactive imagination.
My mother is not answering her phone.
I cooked dinner for Cdub, my mother in law and Pookah. They got tired of waiting and ate sandwiches.
No one is answering my parent's house phone.
My brother is telling me to be patient.
While he is packing to go down there.
I can't,
I feel like I'm about to hyperventilate.
All day long, I have had this feeling in the pit of my stomach. I've talked of everything else today but what I'm really worried about.
I'm worried about my Daddy.
I need my mother to call me
I need her to answer the phone.
Daddy had a stroke. Worse than the last one.
I listen to my mother talk about all of the technical terms and explain them all to her in plain English In my head, I'm hearing the reasons behind the tests that the Dr ordered, what he thinks and what he is looking for. And it's not good. I know this. My training has taught me too well. But I didn't tell her.
I'm trying to hold it together over here. I don't need Pookah to see me cry.
If I can just hold on and get him to bed, I can curl up in a ball and try to hold myself together. I feel like I'm falling apart in little itty bitty pieces.
It's funny, I've always said that when my mother died, I would be a hot mess. But I'm finding that the thought of my Daddy being this sick. As sick as the Dr thinks he is, is devastating me. Just.the.thought.
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Yes. There are multicast addresses and broadcast addresses. Let's look at multicast first.
Multicast (point-to-multipoint) is a communication pattern in which a source host sends a message to a group of destination hosts. Multicasting can be best compared to a television broadcast. Imagine your local PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) station. It broadcasts one copy of its programming on a certain frequency that can be picked up by any device that is tuned to that channel.
While a network interface must accept traffic destined for its own unicast address and the broadcast address, accepting multicast traffic is an individual decision. Its possible that some networked systems' users may choose to participate in more than one multicast group.
Multicast addresses can be recognized by an odd value in their most significant byte. That occurs when the low value bit in the first byte of the Ethernet address field is set to 01 as shown above.
Some ways to use multicast include:
An investment firm might run real-time stock quotes on the desktops of all the brokers. If the ticker was run as a unicast application, it would eat up a serious chunk of the available bandwidth. A broadcast version on the other hand would create hardware interrupts on every computer on that subnet, not just the machines used by the brokers. However, by using multicasting, the stock quotes are delivered to the right users with a minimum of network overhead. Decrease of the network load is one big advantage of multicasting.
There are many other applications for this type of data transmission including audio and video teleconferencing, distance learning, and data transfer to a large number of hosts.
The set of hosts listening on a specific IP multicast address is called a host group. Members can receive traffic to their unicast address and to their group address. Host group membership is dynamic, and hosts can join and leave the group at any time. There are no limitations to the size or location of a host group.
RFC#1700 contains a list of multicast Ethernet addresses. An updated version of the same list is also available at http://www.iana.org/assignments/ethernet-numbers.
Broadcast packets go to every device on the local media segment. The broadcast addresses contain all binary 1s, which protocol analyzers display as hexadecimal FF FF FF FF FF FF.
Broadcast packets should be used sparingly. By definition, they must be received and processed by every device on the local network segment, which causes each device to stop what is was doing, pass the packet up to the higher level protocols, examine the contents of the packet to see if a response is needed, then resume it's prior processing. While processing a single broadcast may not degrade performance of an individual device, high volumes of broadcast traffic significantly impact performance. By default, routers block these broadcasts rather than forwarding them, which keeps MAC broadcasts local.
In defense of the broadcast, it provides a good way to search a local network for a particular device even though the system has only recently joined the network, or to advertise available resources.
As a reminder, when you look at a frame header in a protocol analyzer, you will see the target or destination MAC address first, followed by the source MAC address. While the destination may be Unicast, Multicast, or Broadcast, the source should only be Unicast. If it's other than Unicast, it has probably been artificially created.
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'MALENY IMAGE 8 : between the lines' - Take two! Last month we - COMA (Collaborative of Maleny Artists) members we were asked to create an artwork inspired by a book we had recently read on the theme 'between the lines', and exhibited at Rosetta's bookshop. We've now been given another opportunity to re-exhibit on the same theme, this time in the Maleny library starting on Monday11th July and continuing until Monday 25th July.
Seeing both artworks "Peace Within" and "Rest, Live, Seek" sold in the first showing, I was given the ok to make another piece. This time though, it is hanging space only and still set within the size of 120mm x 120mm. Being a 3D artist I had to reconsider my angle! Fortunately I've been entertaining the idea of two dimensional assemblages, so what a great opportunity to try my hand at it.
Focusing on the same book I chose for the first exhibit, a small booklet I came across, a chance find really, on Australian sculptor Ian McKay , some of his works are large scale, rusted, welded steel and found objects. After learning a little on Ian, it is his philosophy that I resonate with most. He is not necessarily driven by the need for prizes or accolades and likes to work with a piece rather than using control to dictate the final outcome. It has been said, "He sculptures are neither what you would describe as appealing, for McKay a sculpture has to have the right amount of bad taste."
With all this in mind, once again I gathered some steel (small scale) to see what evolved. This time I added another element to the mix, perspex. Another thing I have been contemplating... the centre is mirrored perspex and surrounding is clear (although it is hard to see in the photograph).
While making this piece, I kept hearing the song "Diamonds on the inside"by Ben Harper, just those four words - on repeat, over and over and over and over and over ..... With my assemblages there always seems to be an underling message within them if I listen close enough. This one however was quiet loud and clear, with the repetitive tune. If you were to look at this piece in the flesh, close up, you would see your reflection looking back at you. What I see, is, that this precious diamond is you!


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The website says they're a martini bar/restaurant, however their menu seems to be limited to mostly app's and pizzas. Typical bar fare or no? Atmosphere? Service?
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Want to impress someone? Make this.
And I also threw in some supremed blood oranges. Ohhh, fancy town.
I think your Valentine would really appreciate your effort. And, you know, you would benefit from your effort as well. There's enough for two, and then some. Yum!
Here's our recipe:
Panna Cotta with Blood Orange Conserve
Panna Cotta:
1 C milk
1 scant T unflavored gelatin powder
2 C heavy cream
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/3 C granulated sugar
pinch of salt
In a sauce pan, pour in milk and dust milk with gelatin powder. Let stand 5 minutes. Next, turn on heat to medium and stir mixture until all the gelatin dissolves. Don't allow mixture to come to a boil.
Once gelatin is dissolved, add the cream, vanilla, sugar and salt. Stir to incorporate. Allow this mixture to warm over medium heat for 5-7 minutes, stirring often. Do not boil.
Remove pan from heat and allow mixture to cool slightly. Ladle mixture into individual serving dishes (depending on size of dish, makes 5-7 servings). Cover with plastic wrap and allow to set in the refrigerator for a minimum of 5 hours or more.
Blood Orange Syrup:
1/2 C fresh blood orange juice (about 2 large blood oranges)
2 T granulated sugar
1/2 t corn starch
In a small sauce pan over low to medium-low heat, combine your blood orange juice and sugar. Once warmed, almost to bubbling, remove about 1 T of juice and place into a small bowl with the corn starch. Stir to dissolve corn starch completely. Once dissolved, pour the corn starch mixture into the juice/sugar mixture. Stir and continue to warm mixture over low to medium-low heat until it thickens to a syrup consistency. Remove from heat and allow syrup to cool for 3-5 minutes before spooning over your panna cotta.
To supreme blood oranges (or any citrus, for that matter), start by slicing about a half inch off the ends of the fruit. This creates a flat, stable bottom. Now, with a sharp knife, slice the peel off of the orange, ensuring that you are taking off all the white pith, as well. Once the peel is removed, you should be able to see the white membrane between each orange section. Take your knife and place it as close to the membrane as possible and cut to the center. Do this on the other side of the orange section and you should have a lovely fruit segment. Continue around the orange until all segments are out.
To serve, spoon Blood Orange Syrup and supremed blood orange slices onto panna cotta and enjoy.


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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
The state of, um, stuff.
For me, joking about depression is like spitting in the eye of a bully. I'm sort of on a crusade to de-stigmatize several things, depression included. (Also chronic illness, RANT FOR ANOTHER DAY.) No, it's not to be ignored. Yes, it should be talked about openly. Yes, a lot of people need whopped in the head about the idea that a brain chemistry fuckup needs treatment as much as a broken arm would. Many people have names for their depression, I've heard some refer to it in variations of a black dog. For me, it's the Pit of Despair because it reminds me of that bridge scene in "Holy Grail" and anything that's even mildly amusing is a win.
So there.
ANYWAY. What I've been doing. Sadly, we're lacking photo documentation of the summer; I dropped my phone right before Samhain and Broke It Good. All data lost. Bugger. Doesn't matter much, all I really did was sit on the back porch, spin, and watch movies on my net book.
At the Goober's school, they do 'dress up like a book character' instead of full on Halloween. Which they call a harvest festival. The Goob and I got together and dressed her up as Agatha Heterodyne.
Nobody at the school knew who she was. I mean, okay, not EVERYBODY reads web comics, but in a whole school full of adults who are hopefully at least a bit computer literate, NOBODY?? Seriously. I let the Goob take one of the on-paper books of Girl Genius with her. It didn't help much. She came home disgusted.
Next year, she wants to be Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls. I can work this.
Then came Thanksgiving, and having to make the kid a pilgrim outfit. I sewed the hat and apron, the rest is just black clothes. This led to something of a rant, in which I called the pilgrims a bunch of fascist zealots, which sadly, the Goob did not repeat at school. (I continue to be horrified by the misinformation these kids are getting as "history".)
Honu's doing well. Getting the hang of the lap cat thing.
Although, unfortunately, she seems to have that catly thing for yarn and string, which can be something of a problem:
My local yarn store, Natural Stitches, started selling gradient fiber for spinning. Unfortunately I lost all the pictures I took while spinning it, but I still have the scarf.
A couple years ago, my physical therapist told me to start wearing scarves to keep my neck warm. It makes sense, all the pissed off nerves from the RSD run down my neck and into my arm. This winter I started taking it seriously, and you know, I think it works. Not like a morphine lollipop works, but on the other hand, the only side effect is looking dashing.
With that in mind, I lost my head on the scarves knitting, and started Lucy Neatby's "Bubbles" scarf.
Really all I've done is huddle in and knit. I spent a lot of time thinking, both of what to do with the blog, and what to do in general. One of the reasons I haven't blogged is, I feel like I've said everything already. I've joked about getting a tee shirt that says "I wrote a blog post about that". But then I read all my usual geeky stuff and want to post about El Dorado (since we don't know their true name), or political history, or different fibers, and I guess there's still more to say.
If not I can babble something or other.
That's about it from here. The current spin is taking forever:
For Christmas, the husbeast got me a beer stein I haven't even been able to use because I've been on antibiotics forever:
New goals? Well, during my 'dig in and knit' brooding, I realized most of my regrets in life are about missed opportunities. I need to take advantage of them more, and I'm working toward that. Short term, I'd be really happy to finish this spin and have some beer in my Art Deco steinie.
18 comments:
- Sarah said...
I know you posted the fashion of the awards show post and that is technically your first back into the blogsphere. But I say welcome back on this one because this is the update that I was hoping to read. I'll stop babbling now.
Welcome back. I missed you.
- January 15, 2014 at 5:01 PM
- Sarah said...
Ooo forgot to say great Hetrodyne costume and awesome! beer stein, that is bad ass awesome.
you should totally paint the mermaid's hair!
- January 15, 2014 at 5:02 PM
- Anonymous said...
Coming out from my lurking to say--I didn't realize until this post that I'm now living in the same city as you! How cool!
- January 15, 2014 at 5:11 PM
- Alwen said...
ha ha
- January 15, 2014 at 5:36 PM
- Amy said...
So great to see you back! I've been reading you on twitter, but hooray for blog posts too!
- January 15, 2014 at 7:49 PM
- luneray said...
welcome back!
- January 15, 2014 at 9:58 PM
- Whistlingwriter said...
Hi! I have RSD too....am a mom of 4, a beginning knitter....glad to find a fun & enjoyable to read blog w/ someone I can relate to!
- January 15, 2014 at 10:23 PM
- Anonymous said...
Um…you should realize that what you say is so entertaining and educational that we really don't care if you blogged about it two years ago!
I am not smart enough for a smart phone..so no twitter stuff. I have SO missed you!
And yeah, I've had fibromyalgia for 20 yrs and depression problems for 40 or 50 yrs.
- January 15, 2014 at 10:26 PM
- CraftyGryphon said...
I fell off the face of the blogisphere last April, myself, so here's to 2014, may it be full of not-angst and Less Bother all around!
- January 15, 2014 at 10:49 PM
- Sweet Camden Lass said...
Oooh, I think I want to knit both those scarfs (Bubble I do have the pattern...)
Yay stein!
Yay returning to the blog!
Yay Goober!
- January 16, 2014 at 7:35 AM
- Donna Lee said...
The stein is gorgeous. I am not a beer drinker but I would drink my decaf Coke in it....
The Goober is such a lovely young woman. The things my kids came home from school spouting as TRUTH boggled my mind. I tried to set them on the correct path without confusing them too much or setting off a storm of protest from the teacher.
- January 16, 2014 at 8:33 AM
- Jen Anderson said...
It's good to have you back.
- January 16, 2014 at 9:59 AM
- Emily again said...
Omigod I am SO GLAD you're back. You've managed to stay busy through your struggle, which is better than I do. I dive into books & stay there.
I enjoyed your take on the awards dresses. I'm constantly amazed at the bad fitting; isn't that sort of...basic? Not to mention horrible seaming. Those poor women: they have to be models on top of acting, of all things.
At least the Goob alerted others to the existence of Agatha Heterodyne! Maybe they'll check it out. The school can afford to learn from you, as we lucky blog-readers do!
- January 16, 2014 at 11:19 AM
- =Tamar said...
Awesome costumes! I hope somebody at the school will check out Girl Genius now. The spinning amazes me as always (I don't spin), and the gradient scarf is nifty. Welcome back!
- January 16, 2014 at 5:37 PM
- Galad said...
Glad you are back!
- January 17, 2014 at 10:08 AM
- Roxie said...
The Goob as Agatha Hetrodyne? Too cool for school! I totally love it! When no one recognizes MY Halloween costume, I count it at a win for me. (The year I wore a t-shirt with the word "Exon" scrawled across it, and an eye patch, I was a really scary pirate.)
You could put tea in the beer stein. Just saying'.
And I don't mind if you repeat yourself. I'm so old, I can't remember it anyway.
Awesome spinning and scarves!
- January 17, 2014 at 12:41 PM
- PinkSkatingGirl said...
RSDs suck. Just sayin'.
Hope to hear from you more often. Say what ya wanna say. How you say stuff makes me laugh, which makes me less blue. See, it's all good when you are blogging.
- January 18, 2014 at 9:48 AM
- Shelley said...
Welcome back - you have been missed.
Love the b33r stein, and the Hetrodyne costume was just perfect.
I know about that PoD. I'm still battling through mine. Love the reference though.
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Predictors of Vocational Outcome in MS Rehabilitation.
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|Fraser RT, Clemmons DC, Koepnick D, Getter A, Johnson E, Gibbons LE
|International Journal of MS Care
This study describes profile data for 145 consecutive individuals with MS, coming to the University of Washington MS Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for vocational services over a four-year period. The sample is 69% female, mean age = 43.5 years, approximating 15 years of education, and about 10 years from diagnosis. Comprehensive psychosocial measures were administered at intake, to include the Multidimensional Assessment of Fatigue, the ADL Self-care Scale for MS, the Employment Readiness Scale, the Herth Hope Scale, and other measures relating to depression, anxiety, and coping. An abbreviated neuropsychological battery tailored to MS cognitive concerns (Clemmons , et.al., in press) was also administered. Vocational outcome was established for 90 of the 140 clients both dichotomously (unemployed/employed) at study end and number of months worked half time or more, divided by months available for employment (viz. a monthly employment ratio). Initial analysis involved Spearman correlations of demographic, psychosocial measures, and neuropsychological variables with the monthly employment ratio outcome variable. Initial correlation significant at p=.05 includes years of education, ADL Self-care Scale, and several neuropsychological measures (Stroop measures of attention, Trails B, right tactual errors). At p=.01, the Personal Capacities Questionnaire, Trails A (errors), left tactual errors, and a measure of verbal fluency were significant. Further analysis will be presented as to discriminators of consistent employment versus no employment and best predictors of outcome using multivariate analysis. Implications for service delivery are discussed.


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More Medicine for Ill Housing Market
- Oct 20, 2009
By: Dees Stribling, Contributing Editor
The U.S. housing market might not be quite as deathly ill as it was a year ago, but no one is suggesting–to stretch the health metaphor–that it will get up and run a marathon any time soon. In fact, the industry is wheezing and gasping a little at the thought of the looming expiration of the $8,000 first-timer tax credit, so plans have been hatched in Congress to keep the credit in place.
Thus far, about 1.8 million homebuyers have taken advantage of the credit, according estimates by the National Association of Realtors. Of that total, about 355,000 would not have otherwise bought a house this year, the NAR believes.
There are also moves to give the housing industry other kinds of medicine as well. On Monday, the Obama administration unveiled a plan to aid state and local housing finance agencies. "This initiative is critical to help working families maintain access to affordable rental housing and homeownership in tough economic times," said Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. He further promised that the latest efforts would be revenue neutral, but didn't give specifics.
CRE Indices Down in August
The Moody's/REAL Commercial Property Price Indices fell 3 percent in August compared with July, thus making the fall since the bubble peak (October 2007) clock in at 41 percent. Slack demand for office space, retail and apartments all contributed to the continued slide.
Moreover, the slide isn't over yet. Separately, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in a report at the end of September that commercial real estate prices are forecast to fall additional 17 percent by the end of 2010.
The valuation contraction is taking its toll. In yet another recent report suffused with gloom, it was noted that payments on roughly $22 billion worth of commercial mortgages were at least two months late, according to Credit Suisse. Commercial delinquencies were 0.54 percent a year ago; now they're 3.64 percent, with a bullet.
Green Retrofitting
Commercial real estate is well known as a lagging indicator, and lag is just about the best way to describe it at the moment. What's an industrious real estate services company to do? Whatever it can, wherever it can.
Recently Atlanta-based Servidyne Systems L.L.C. started work on a lighting retrofit project at the U.S. Navy base on the remote Pacific island territory of Guam. The company is upgrading about 3 million square feet of the base's facilities with new interior and exterior lighting systems as part of a comprehensive energy savings performance contract awarded to Johnson Controls Inc.
Servidyne will be upgrading the interior lighting systems at the base with energy efficient T-8 fixtures, among other things. So not only is there still work to be found in the current market, green retrofitting isn't dead either. "Despite the challenging economic environment, we're also seeing demand within the nongovernment sector from commercial real estate property owners and managers looking to cut energy and operating costs," Todd Jarvis, president of Servidyne, told CPE.
"State and federal incentives, as well as significant utility rebates to employ energy saving measures, are only going to increase in the future," he added. "Forward-thinking companies are employing the services of building performance efficiency companies to seek out these incentives and fulfill the requirements for them."
Wall Street was back in a peppy mood on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ending up 96.28 points, or 0.96 percent. The S&P 500 gained 0.94 percent and Nasdaq advanced 0.91 percent.


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11/6 at 6 p.m. Stacey Stinson, 38, of Riverside Drive, Auburn, was arrested by Sgt. Nathan Gould on Water Street on an outstanding warrant from another agency.
11/7 at 1:30 a.m. Gregory Snyder, 32, of High Street, was arrested by Sgt. Mike Lever at Middle and Bath streets on an outstanding warrant.
11/7 at 2:10 p.m. Jean Rivera, 31, of Gerald Street, was arrested by Cpl. Michelle Small on Dummer Street on charges of reckless conduct, driving to endanger, operating with a suspended or revoked license and failure to stop for a police officer.
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Supplies: Stamps: Gina K Daisy Delight Ink: Memento tuxedo black Paper: Gina K black and white cardstock Accessories: Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle die cuts, copic markers
It is time for another Featured Stamper challenge on SCS. This week the Featured Stamper is Shirley N. She has a wonderful gallery! I selected this card to case from her gallery. I was drawn to this card because of the simplicity, and the way she framed her focal image. I kept the overall layout the same, and I changed the floral image.
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India Jobs Program Scam Pays Wages to Dead Workers• Bloomber.com
The corpse of Indian farmer Bengali Singh burned to ash atop a blazing funeral pyre on the banks of the river Ganges in 2006.
Five years later, the dead man was recorded as being paid by India's $33 billion rural jobs program to dig an irrigation canal in Jharkhand state. Officials in his village and the surrounding region used at least 500 identities, including those of Singh, a disabled child of eight and a blind 94-year-old man, to fake work logs and steal wages, according to police reports.
"It's an insult to a man who lived a life of dignity," Rajendar Singh said, sitting next to the parched canal his father supposedly excavated in their village, Bishanpur, about six hours' drive northwest of Kolkata. "He's been wronged."
District administrators and village heads have used tactics such as ghost workers, fake projects and over-billing to embezzle about $10 billion from the world's largest workfare initiative, an investigation by Bloomberg News shows. The fraud in the seven-year-old program underscores the challenge of reducing poverty in India as graft permeates everything from food aid for children to the distribution of public grain stockpiles and debt relief for struggling farmers.


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I am going to continue the state by state theme until back to Oregon. It will be mostly in order of appearance. I may stop at a city or unusual site and showcase it. However since Phothogs 100th blog is rapidly approaching I am going to do something different to celebrate.
After the states I have a few great waterfalls to post. In fact as of late August I have visited and photographed every major waterfall along the North Umpqua highway! No small feat I assure you.
Anyhow enough notes.