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When General Electric (NYSE:GE) CEO John Flannery presented the company's investor update on Nov. 13, the stock market didn't take it well. It sent GE shares below $19, lower than they'd been since 2012. As part of the update, Flannery officially announced that he was looking to sell $20 billion in assets, including the company's transportation and consumer lighting units.
While this may sound pretty dire -- perhaps even a little like a breakup of the conglomerate -- it's actually unlikely to matter much to investors. Here's why.
The lighting's on the wall
The decision to rid GE of its famous consumer lighting unit should come as no surprise to anyone. Back in 2015, GE separated its consumer and industrial lighting units into two new units it called "GE Lighting" and "GE Current," respectively. After the company's 2016 sale of its consumer appliance unit to Chinese manufacturer Haier, GE Lighting was the sole consumer business in GE's immense portfolio.
As if that weren't enough, a leaked internal email from June -- which was later verified by GE -- informed GE Lighting employees that "GE is formally beginning discussions with buyers around a proposed sale of our GE Lighting business."
GE is actually a bit late to the party on this: Its rival Siemens already spun off its consumer lighting business -- which makes Sylvania brand bulbs -- as Osram Licht back in 2013. Dutch company Royal Philips NV followed suit in 2016, spinning off its Philips brand consumer lighting business.
So it's almost a guarantee that GE Lighting's pending departure was already priced into the stock, even if that of the GE Current industrial lighting business might not have been. Regardless, it probably won't matter for investors for another big reason.
Small potatoes
Despite bringing in $15.1 billion in revenue for GE in 2016, GE's "Energy Connections and Lighting" business unit -- which includes GE Current, GE Lighting, and the already-sold GE Industrial Solutions -- has a profit margin that is laughably small. As in, bringing in just $311 million in profits on its $15.1 billion in revenue, for a profit margin of just over 2%. Compare that to the overall profit margin of the company's industrial segments -- 15.6% -- and you can see just how little these businesses contribute to the company's bottom line.
Or, put another way, Energy Connections and Lighting contributed 13.4% of the company's 2016 industrial revenue and just 1.8% of the company's industrial profits. The corporate benefits of spinning off or selling these businesses almost certainly outweigh the drawbacks, because they will almost certainly help GE lower its overall administrative costs.
Transportation, on the other hand, has a comparatively high profit margin. At 22.6%, the unit had the second-highest profit margin of GE's industrial divisions in 2016, trailing only Aviation. That said, it's also by far GE's smallest unit, generating just $4.7 billion in revenue in 2016. Arguably, such a high-margin business could be sold for an attractive price, allowing GE to cut some expenses while only losing about $1 billion in annual profits. That has to look like a winning proposition to Flannery.
Where to go from here
When looking at how little an impact these asset divestitures would have on the company, a certain analogy regarding deck chairs and the RMS Titanic comes to mind.
Now, obviously, GE is making other changes to its operations in addition to ditching its Transportation, Lighting, and Industrial Solutions units. The company has already merged its oil and gas division with oilfield services company Baker Hughes to form independent entity Baker Hughes, a GE Company, which is 62.5% owned by GE. According to Flannery in his recent investor presentation, the company is weighing its options, but would like to reduce its commodities exposure.
Then there's the slimming of the board from 18 positions to 12, promised corporate cost reductions, and of course, the halving of the dividend. The thing is, none of these changes seem particularly transformative. They largely leave GE's existing structure -- and, apparently, strategy -- in place. If investors were looking for a bold new vision from Flannery, they came up empty-handed after this presentation.
Investor takeaway
Certainly, a series of incremental changes -- or "baby steps," if you prefer -- can lead to outperformance in the long run. And these moves by Flannery will certainly free up some cash that could be used to make major changes like big acquisitions or bold new initiatives... down the road.
For investors, though, the stock price isn't going to rise significantly until the company either makes major changes to its operations -- which these aren't -- or starts to significantly improve its fundamentals -- which these moves may help with, but don't do immediately.
It looks like investors are in for a rough ride over the next year or so with GE.
John Bromels owns shares of General Electric. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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In growing as a young writer, I've decided to refine my craft through the use of different forms of writing. As such, I will also be releasing short stories on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of every month. Enjoy.
The Thursday night is quiet, not unusual as the clock only struck 6pm. On the prowl you notice women in their short skirts looking for a mistake to add to their collection, men watching sports on TV while consuming an unhealthy amount of beer and the background music is just loud enough to get you through the awkward silences but not loud enough to make communication awkward. In the darkened corners of the room are the men running scripts on unsuspecting young girls no older than 25. With each giggle the men are validated and continues their methodical series of questions, push-pull, amused mastery techniques. In the more lit areas near the sports spectators are the men with their girlfriends, laughing at their stale jokes just to get by while their eyes occasionally wander to the younger, more beautiful women in the clothes of fornicators. One particular man is all alone, though he has had many invitations to be occupied but none met his standard. He's calm but his aura is one of dominance, drawing every fresh poon nearby. He sips his whisky cocktail, thinking that tonight would not give him the release he's yearning for. In the corner of his eyes however, the door opens slowly and he becomes aware of a delicate specimen.
She enters the room with a meek confidence that draws men's eyes in her vicinity. Not uncommon to her, she reacts with a bright smile that doesn't do too much but is very inviting. Moments pass and she figures out her path – slowly strutting her petite body to the bar. She glimpses at the man, analyzing his exterior which screamed manly; the leather jacket, dark denim jeans and tall boots that only a powerful man can feel comfortable in. The bartender quickly notices her waiting and gets her drink order. In the distance, the man looks at her, pondering for another moment until he finally decides to make his move. He walks over with slowly, with an aura of purpose. He introduces himself with a touch on her elbows, notifying her of his intent and asks her name. She turns to him with a calm but surprised expression as though this has never happened to her before. As she tries to read him, his gaze pierces through her which doesn't scare but reveals the type of man he is. Unconsciously, her hands roam, touching her hair and giving off a shy smile while he replies with a slight smirk that oozes confidence. She introduces herself, the man instantly noticing the tone of her voice elevating higher as she continues to speak, giving away her nervousness. His years of gaming women made this an easy task; he chats her up a bit, making her giggle without talking much and leaving an air of mystery to cloak himself. Without a missed beat, he calmly goes to her ear and whispers something that makes her teeth and lips come together. He then holds her hand, leading her outdoors while those onlookers' eyes become fixated at what just transpired.
While leaving the room, her mind races as she thinks of something to ask, something to say, but in his presence she simply enjoys the bubble he has created. As they both get outdoors, he reaches into his pockets for a cigarette, lights it and inhales deeply while gazing onto the horizon. The orange sunset reminds him of the African jungle where predators roam in search of food before sundown. He smirks at the thought, with images of fornication flashing in his mind while the tobacco provides him with a mild high. She looks at him with an expression of wanting but doesn't follow through in saying what is on her mind. Exhaling the thick fog of smoke from his lungs, he turns to her and wraps his arm around her waist, making concrete his intentions for the night. Though she isn't used to this, the subtle dominance he exercises over her through his mannerisms immediately puts her at ease, almost as if she knew him her entire life. He looks down into her radiating eyes, knowing this is what he wants, and goes in for the kiss. She hesitates for just a moment but finally gives in to her newfound vice, passing her hand on his stomach letting him know she wants more. He pulls back slowly and looks back at her but she's not able to sustain eye contact. He looks to his watch, pensively considers his options for an extended second. Carrying her by the waist, he leads her to the car while she rests her head on his broad shoulders. A few moments of driving and he stops at the top of a secluded precipice. He exits the vehicle, leans on the front of his car overlooking the final moments of the beautiful sunset while he lits another cigarette. She comes out of the car and walks to him, but this time not with the meek confidence of earlier but with an attitude that screams sensuality and femininity. The scent of tobacco draws her in and she realizes that as the sun goes down for the day, so to will her guard.

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Why You Must Walk Through A Firestorm Of Pain To Discover Yourself
A guest post by Diana Baur
Several years back, I went through a spiritual, emotional and physical crisis of a proportion I had never experienced.
There were moments during that time, many of them, when I thought I might not make it through. So severe was the pain and suffering.
Events and timing in my life had precipitated a fall so deep that getting up again seemed unlikely. I wasn't sure if I really wanted to get up again, or could. I languished in pain for a good long time, not knowing when or how it would resolve itself.
I couldn't see clear of the fear and anxiety; it came on like a tidal wave, scaring me to intimidation and submission. I didn't have the skill set to defend my soul from it.
Around about this time, an important event was taking place.
I had to make a decision not to go to something that I and many others wanted me to attend, as I was physically and emotionally too weak to meet the challenge.
By making this decision, a person I love judged me harshly.
The situation that presented itself between myself and this person set us on a direct psychic collision course.
In a twist that I never could have imagined, she judged and repudiated me, casting me as self-centered and worked to convince others of this as well.
The fear of rejection
I was scared out of my mind that I would lose this person and all the people who she could in any way influence during a time when I was weak and injured.
I was too sick to defend myself; being cast as something other than I actually was terrified me beyond belief and shoved me further and further into a state of depression and anxiety.
I ended up relenting and doing the thing everyone wanted me to do. It was something that I would have, under normal circumstances, loved to do but was not in any condition to do as it required my traveling thousands of miles while I was still too scared, weak and sick to travel alone.
Interestingly enough, doing the thing every one expected of me didn't change the anger or hostility. It almost made it worse.
This person accused me of wanting to bring attention to myself by actually attending the event. My anxiety and terror at failing this person grew ever stronger, but at the same time I realized at a deep level something was bizarre and wrong.
The real problem, I sensed, was with me.
I felt emotionally blackmailed. I was morbidly worried that I would lose this individual, that she would cut me out of her life.
I wondered, for months, what it was about me that so needed the approval of others so desperately that I would allow myself to be forced into an emotional vice and ignore my own best interests, health, and well-being.
I cried about this for years.
Every single day.
I woke up crying, went to sleep crying.
About how I had failed people, and how they had judged me, and about how unfair that had all felt, how completely powerless I was.
A firestorm of pain
What I didn't realize was that during those years of crying every day, something else was happening. A shift. A full-blown, top-to-bottom shift. I was actually healing by going through a firestorm of pain.
The hurt was happening for a reason. It started to move me out of the position of the victim. Little by little, I was getting fed up with feeling powerless. I was tired of being scared of someone who I had no reason to fear.
In between the hurt and frustration and confusion, I started to stand up for myself in situations where I would have just shut up before.
I wasn't always successful or good at it, but I started to say things like, "I am equal to you. I won't automatically subjugate to you on matters that are important to me. I won't accept feeling bad or wrong or inconsiderate simply because I disagree with you."
This was a huge step forward because I was the person who wanted to keep the peace at any cost.
The relationship with this person became tenuous and tense, the kind where you spend a lot of time walking around on egg shells because you know that the shit could hit the fan over the smallest thing.
I had spent a lot of time not saying what I thought to her. Like the entire time. A lifetime. Which should have been completely uncomfortable for me but wasn't.
It was what I seemed to do best – swallowing down my own opinion instead of owning it.
But whose fault was that? Mine? Hers? Both of ours? Neither of ours?
Maybe there was something else at play here. Something bigger, deeper, more meaningful. Something that I would need to dive into and come out the other side of.
I began to think. Maybe there was something else at play here. Something bigger, deeper, more meaningful. Something that I would need to dive into and come out the other side of.
A big, sumptuous pool of love that would carry me to a place of understanding. Maybe that's what what I needed to dive into.
- To get another perspective.
- To understand the hurt and the rejection and make it right.
- To move forward.
- To stop being scared.
- To be able to laugh again and to stop crying every day.
- And to be able to do my work, the work I was put on earth to do — my passion.
Maybe, just maybe, this person was put in my path from the very beginning to hold a mirror to me so I could finally see what was real in my life. And to stop cowering around about it.
The events that precipitated the insights I've gained through this person whom I truly love could not have gone any differently than they did.
I see that now.
I see that I set her up as much as she set me up.
I had been a doormat for a very long time and that was not her problem. It was my problem.
She had gotten used to a certain behavior where she could take the lead and I'd more or less agree. Even when I didn't. I'd stew afterwards and get angry and resentful but not say anything to her. That was not her problem. It was mine.
I made myself small around this person because I was afraid that if I overshadowed her, she'd pull away from me. That was not her problem. That was mine.
The fact that she got hurtful when I tried to be honest with her was not my problem. It was hers.
The fact that she judged me harshly was not my problem. It was hers.
That she couldn't or wouldn't empathize or show compassion for me when the chips were down was not my problem. It was hers.
I see this entire situation as pretty much balanced. The way I see it, we both need to take responsibility if we want to move forward with a loving relationship that doesn't involve eggshells.
What pain teaches us
I will tell you the life lessons I learned from this person.
The first thing that I feel most passionate about was that I never, ever, EVER, want to make anyone feel the way I felt as a result of the psychic collision I experienced with this person. I vowed, completely and with all my heart, to never judge anyone to the best of my human ability.
The second thing that I feel most passionate about was that I want to experience and feel compassion for every living thing, every day for the rest of my life.
- I want to understand the hearts of others.
- I want to give them space to be who they really are.
- And I want to help people. Make them happy. Open their hearts to see the good inside of them.
- I want to love them unconditionally, and I want, more than anything, for people to feel safe with me.
- I want to create beauty for people and give it to them with my art.
- I want to let my healing words mend their struggling souls through coaching and mentoring.
- I want them to sit on the veranda at my inn in the Italian countryside and come back to themselves as though they were truly coming home.
- I want to help people work out their struggles and come to a place where they understand what their work is and how they can embrace it fully.
These things, I found, are my work, and it means more to me now to do these things than ever before.
The third thing I felt most passionate about was that none of us EVER really know what's going on in the lives of others, or what other people are on here on earth to work on or work out for themselves.
We must have empathy for the positions and situations others find themselves in.
There is no "normal."
There is no "right."
I want to give people the freedom to be honest with me, and I want to empathize with and honor what they are going through, even if I don't completely and totally understand it.
I relearned all of these things from the pain I experienced in a very heightened way. I "knew" them before, but I had not completely internalized them and called them forward in my life until I experienced what it was like to be on the flip side of judgment, compassion and empathy.
I don't know if there could be a more powerful lesson that one person could teach another than this. I mean that with all sincerity. Maybe it was part of her work here on earth to help me work these things out for myself. I know that I would not go back and change any of these painful events because the outcome is so rich and textured.
The most valuable wisdom that this person imparted in me is this: there is a method in the madness. There's a plan and that plan is that you are love, and it doesn't matter if you get hurt and obliterated in the process of getting there.
There is a plan and that plan is going to take you to a higher place.
And that higher place is where you will transition from on the day you leave this earth and reunite with your higher Self. The more love you learn here, the more you take with you, the higher your vibration, and the more joyous your future.
The challenges that are put in front of us are there for a reason. They are to help us understand who we really are and what's most important to us.
Seriously. I mean that. Don't step away from trials and difficulties. They are there to ultimately heighten your humanity.
There is nothing like push-back to crystallize how you feel about things.
For awhile, you languish and don't understand.
You get mad. Hurt. Pissed off. Furious. You feel scarred and damaged.
Maybe you get that way for a good long while.
But then you could get so completely and utterly disgusted that you tear down the towers of anger you've built up and fall completely apart.
And while you're down there on the ground and the air is very still, you'll notice you're breathing, all by yourself, trying to make some sense of all of these things.
And you start piecing together your soul puzzle. The things that are important enough to you that you start to think about standing up again.
And maybe this time, when you stand up, you'll realize a little more who you are.
That you're love.
That you're compassion.
That you're empathic.
That you don't have to live in an angry place just because you've had to struggle.
You can live in a wise, beautiful, safe place with your struggle. A loving place. A place from which you can do your work with passion and joy.
And that every part of your struggle, every single blessed part of it, helps make you beautiful and whole and alive.
Your struggle makes you you.
Diana Strinati Baur, a recovering marketing executive, has found peace as an author, innkeeper, artist and creative coach. She lives with her husband Michael and dog Max in the wine country of Piedmont, Northwestern Italy. You can find her writing, ceramics and bed & breakfast at www.dianabaur.com. Her debut novel, True Vines, was published in October 2012 by Gemelli Press.
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- Rashi stone for Mesha rasi: Coral, Ruby and Topaz
- Rishaba rasi stone: Diamond, Emerald and Sapphire
- Stone for mithuna rasi: Emerald,
- Lucky Stone for mithuna rasi: Diamond
- Lucky stone for kataka rasi: Pearl, coarl and tipaz
- Lucky stone for simha rasi: Ruby, topax and coral
- Stone for Kanni rasi: Emerald, Sapphire and diamond
- Stone for Tula rashi: Diamond, Sapphire and diamond
- Viruchigam rasi stone: coral, topaz, pearl
- Stone for dhanu rashi: Topaz, coral, and ruby
- Lucky stone for makara rasi: Diamond and birth stone is Sapphire
- Stone for kumbha rasi: Sapphire and lucky stone for kumbha rasi is emerald and diamond
- Lucky stone for meena rasi: pearl and birth stone for meena rasi is topaz and coral
Rasipalan Tamil Jothidam Panchangam blog 2016 gives the predictions of today, week and month. Tamil language rasi palan for all the 12 rasi starting from Mesham, Rishaba rasi, Mithuna rasi, Kataka rasi, Simha rasi, Kanni rasi, Thula rasi , Viruchigam rasi, Thanusu rasi, Makara rasi, Kumba rasi and Meena rasi with sani peyarchi, guru peyarchi and raghu kethu peyarchi. The horoscope is predicted by following Tamil panchangam 2016.
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Its been a pretty difficuly year for me, overall, in many ways, including ongoing sinus and throat problems which have cut my vocal range by lots - and my voice wasnt all that to start with!!
Anyway, my doctors told me this morning that my throat problem needs further investigation - which is a bit worrying - and that I should consider resting my voice for a while.
But hey...lifes too short to let things get you down, so I thought Id suck on a Vocalzone Throat Pastille and have a first bash at the next Beatles song I want to learn. I havent sorted out the middle lead yet so do my usual dee dah dum bit for a few bars. lol
I never really looked at doing much Beatles stuff before, but Im finding it really good fun...this is the 5th one Ive played about with recently. Lets hope Paul and Ringo dont sue me for criminal damage...


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Out of the Great Dark Whale
Eric Hobsbawm
- A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
Cape, 923 pp, £20.00, August 1996, ISBN 0 224 04162 2
The great revolutions of the modern world never cease to be controversial, inside or outside their countries, as the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution recently demonstrated. In France the anniversary produced a massive attack on the Revolution and its legacy from neo-liberal historians and ideologues; outside France it produced Simon Schama's passionate manifesto against violence in the form of a history of the Revolution as a catalogue of horrors. And historians today are a good deal nearer to the Russian Revolution than to the French, especially when we take into account the fact that the Soviet regime to which, for the whole of its 84 years, no human being was indifferent, has been dead for barely five years.
Until they are a few mental light-years away from them, the major temptation of historians confronted with such events is either to denounce or to defend them, to deprive them of historical options or to wish them away. Much of the historiography of the great revolutions is a choice between 'like it or not, nothing else could have happened' and 'but for avoidable errors or accidents none of this need have happened.' As the title of Orlando Figes's history of the Russian Revolution indicates, he sees it as a tragedy; and from time to time – particularly in the course of the year 1917 itself – he is tempted into 'if only' speculations. But he is far too good a historian, not least of Russia and of revolutions, to construct dreams about tsarist Russia or for Schama-like denunciations of revolutions as such. The Russian Revolution, with all its brutality and excess, will not be wished away by retrospective (or prospective) denunciation. It must be understood.
In this very impressive piece of history-writing Figes has tried to make us understand it by re-creating, but also explaining, the experience of Russia from the famine of 1891, which he regards as the effective beginning of the final crisis of tsarism, to the death of Lenin. A People's Tragedy combines analysis, narrative and exploration of the lives of those who experienced the eruption of the volcano and were for the most part consumed by it. Perhaps Figes's most successful narrative device is to have chosen five such careers and followed them through to the end: those of the liberal nobleman Prince Lvov, first prime minister after the February Revolution of 1917; General Brusilov, the Tsar's finest general, who joined the Red Army out of patriotism; Dmitri Oskin, one of his peasant soldiers from Tula who became a Bolshevik cadre; the revolutionary writer Maxim Gorky; and the peasant Sergei Semenov, a Tolstoyan activist in a village not too far from Moscow. The photographs of these five, together with Lenin, Trotsky and Alexandra Kollontai, make up the section of Figes's extremely well-chosen illustrations headed 'Dramatis Personae'. Unlike Schama's Citizens, however, A People's Tragedy asks to be judged not only as dramatic narrative, but as historical analysis.
Figes demonstrates that, whatever the speculations of counterfactual history, in practice the tsarist system was doomed by its defects – among them, a tsar spectacularly unqualified to rule. The failure of the 1905 Revolution did not gain tsarism much time, and in any case Nicholas II sabotaged his most capable minister, Stolypin; and even his reforms, in Figes's view, were not 'capable of stabilising Russia's social system after the crisis of 1905'. By 1912, urban Russia, he argues (following Leo Haimson's pioneering work), was 'on the brink of a new and potentially more violent revolution'. The 1914 war may initially have postponed such a revolution, but thereafter accelerated it. The idea that tsarist Russia was on the road to a flourishing liberal capitalism, and was diverted only by the war, is a fantasy; as is the post-1991 idealisation of tsarism and its institutions, including the Orthodox Church – Figes has absolutely no doubt of that. As he points out, 'it is telling ... that none of the White leaders in the Civil War embraced monarchism as a cause, despite the efforts of the many monarchists in their ranks. The White leaders all realised that politically it would be suicide for them to do so.'
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- William Oden Jr., a man with controversial views, wants to celebrate the bicentennial. Grab your chairs and hold tight.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- William Oden Jr., a man with controversial views, wants to celebrate the bicentennial.
Grab your chairs and hold tight.
He's not talking of Greensboro's 200th birthday. He wants to hail a person who wandered Greensboro a defeated man in April 1865 � Confederacy President Jefferson Davis. Davis was born in Kentucky in 1808 the same year Guilford commissioners peeled off $98 to buy land to start Greensboro.
Oden, with gray eyebrows and hair, believes that those who vent outrage about Davis and the Confederacy haven't done their homework.
He says before the Civil War, Davis served the United States in many ways and was wounded in the Mexican War. The Civil War would have been avoided, Oden says, if Davis had run for president in 1860 as some friends urged. The war would kill 680,000 Northern and Southern soldiers.
The News & Record of Greensboro reported that like many with views equal to dynamite sticks, Oden isn't one-dimensional. Although he loves conservative columnist Thomas Sowell, he also likes liberal Maureen Dowd for how she beats up on President Bush.
Liberals, and some conservatives, would shout hooray when Oden declares, "Bush is the worst president," but many would cringe when he adds, "since Lincoln."
Oden says Bush's war in Iraq doesn't match what he calls the Civil War debacle � which he blames on Abraham Lincoln � "but it comes pretty dang close."
Oden seems not too distant from the pacifism that once defined the Society of Friends, the Quakers. He graduated from Quaker-founded Guilford College, near his present home.
"I think the only war we fought that was justified," he says, "was against the Japanese because they attacked us."
Oden's clinging to the Southern cause is based on Jeffersonian democracy, meaning the federal government has limited powers, with all others left to the states. Oden argues that the states had the right to decide slavery before the Civil War. Most scholars agree the founding fathers wanted a nation based on Jeffersonian democracy.
Oden's interest in the Civil War, Davis and the Confederacy began at Duke law school where he studied old books and documents in the university library.
The South and slavery seem inseparable. But Oden is convinced slavery was becoming obsolete and would have ended without the Civil War and without the postwar bitterness Southerners felt for decades. If not for the war and Reconstruction � Northern control of the South � black people would have achieved freedom, education and eventually equality, in Oden's opinion.
"Slavery was not a good idea to begin with," he says. "It was becoming burdensome to slave owners. Few people could afford to own slaves. Slavery could have ended in a more civilized way."
He belongs to various post-Confederate organizations and has received the United Daughters of the Confederacy's Stonewall Jackson Award. He occasionally hoists a faded Confederate battle flag at his house on a hill in the woods behind New Garden Friends Cemetery.
A former Navy officer, he belongs to patriotic veterans groups, including the Black Caps. He has long been active at West Market United Methodist Church.
In this era when politicians urge youth to enter public service, Oden says Davis always responded when the nation summoned, even though he was reclusive by nature and often grieving.
His first wife, Sarah, daughter of future President Zachary Taylor, died of malaria three months after they married. Four sons from a later marriage died young.
After graduating from West Point, Davis spent seven hated years on the frontier fighting American Indians. Oden says unlike some big-name American soldiers doing the same duty, Davis sympathized with the Indians.
Davis left the Army after marrying Sarah Taylor, whom he met on the frontier when Zack Taylor was Davis's commanding officer. Her death turned Davis into a near hermit for eight years on his wealthy brother's Mississippi plantation. Davis was then elected to Congress, but resigned after a few months to rejoin Taylor in the Mexican War. Davis was wounded in the Battle of Buena Vista.
Later, appointed to the U.S. Senate, Davis became recognized for his oratory and defense of states' rights. From 1853 to 1857, Davis served as President Franklin Pierce's secretary of war (now secretary of defense).
"Davis did more for the U.S. Army than anyone," Oden says, explaining Davis sent generals to observe and learn from the German and French armies.
"Ironically," Oden says, "that same army that he improved would destroy him a few years later."
Returning to the Senate in 1857, Davis argued for saving the Union. With secession apparent, Davis resigned in a tearful speech in 1861.
Oden was born in 1929, 64 years after Davis' lowest point. In spring 1865, Davis walked South Elm Street between Cabinet meetings in a rail car beside what's now Natty Greene's restaurant at Elm and McGee streets. Davis had fled Richmond, Va., as Yankees closed in.
History doesn't say where Davis slept here, but it was surely near 401 Blandwood Ave., where Oden would grow up and play across the street on the grounds of antebellum Blandwood Mansion. Blandwood's most famous owner, former Gov. John Motley Morehead, offered Davis shelter. Davis refused, fearing Union Gen. William T. Sherman, then in Durham, would torch anyplace Davis had lodged.
It was here, history says, Davis signed articles surrendering to Sherman the Confederacy's huge Army of Tennessee under Gen. Joe Johnston. Oden and others, however, believe Johnston betrayed Davis by surrendering instead of traveling south with him to renew the war. The Yankees eventually captured Davis.
One might think Oden's dry-cleaning bill reflects cocktails thrown at him, but he laughs and says, "No, the people I deal with all feel like I do."
He does get occasional flak for editorial page pieces he sometimes writes in the News & Record. He exchanges differences with a neighbor, a Guilford professor. Oden likes the man and believes the feeling is mutual.
Oden works at home at a roll-top desk that was his grandfather's. Two great-grandfathers fought for the South, another for the North. Chuckling, Oden says he doesn't discuss the Yankee kin.
Don't get Oden started on the present. He cares for none of the 2008 presidential candidates.
"If I were a young man, I think I would take my family and move to New Zealand," he says of a nation tough on immigration, a big issue with Oden. "That's how discouraged I am about this country."
He realized just how discouraged when he bought a cuckoo clock with a picture of Davis' top general, Robert E. Lee, and his horse, Traveler. Instead of a bird, a cannon appeared on the hour and fired a shot.
The clock kept breaking. Oden checked the label: "Made in China."
He sent it back.


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Just as the stronger El Niños tend to favor wetter winters in California, the mirror-image La Niña is sometimes a harbinger of drought. Strength is measured by how much ocean waters deviate from their normal temperatures. Warmer waters provide more moisture to brewing Pacific storms, while colder waters tend to dry things out.
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Curiously, though this event has not packed nearly the precipitation punch as the "Godzilla" El Niño of 97-'98, when San Francisco doubled it's normal rainfall. The complex reasons for that will be part of the ongoing scientific debate, but so far this winter, many California locations are still at or below their long-term averages for rainfall. San Francisco, Sacramento and San Jose remain below normal, as does Santa Rosa, a perennial Bay Area wet spot. Fresno, by contrast, has seen 40 percent more than its usual rainfall at this point in the season.
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When I first started to get interested in testing a quick search took me to SQA Forums and TestingReflections. I lurked at these sites for a long time, trying to soak up the knowledge and finally found the courage to join in with a discussion and add a comment to a post.
A while later and I actually started a discussion and the world didn't end and in fact I got a very friendly welcome.
Then it was time to start blogging and it was with a gulp that I first pressed the Publish button to unleash my views on the world. The rational viewpoint should have been that no-one knew I had a blog so even if I wrote rubbish no-one would read it. And even if they did read it and found it was rubbish they didn't know me so what was the big deal ? Still didnt stop me feeling nervous.
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USDA's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) released its latest effort to gauge the competitive situation in U.S. livestock and meat markets this week. The report, entitled GIPSA Livestock and Meat Marketing Study, can be found at www.gipsa.usda.gov/GIPSA/webapp?area=home&subject=lmp&topic=ir-mms.
The study was the result of a 2003 Congressional allocation of about $5 million to investigate the effects of "alternative marketing arrangements" (AMAs) on markets for cattle, hogs, sheep, beef, pork and lamb. An interim report was released in 2005 that provided descriptive information for each species, its marketing system and the AMAs commonly used in those systems. This most recent publication includes economic analysis that attempts to measure the impacts, both positive and negative, that AMAs have on these markets.
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There is some important history that should be considered here. It mainly impacts the selection of the investigators on this report. Congress funded a similar study of the livestock sectors in 1993. The reason was a suspicion on the part of some farm state legislators that packer consolidation was causing high levels of market power that, in turn, was driving producer prices down and, possibly, consumer prices up.
The Packers and Stockyards Administration (PSA, back before it was merged with the Grains Inspection Service) assembled a team of primarily land-grant university economists who had worked for many years in these industries. PSA separated the project along species and product lines and placed each part in the hands of economists who knew those industries. I know virtually all of the people who worked on the 1993 project, and I believe them to all be very objective researchers who easily set aside their personal biases if data and results indicate those biases are wrong. In addition, many of these economists shared Congress' suspicions about market power and, I think, expected the project to confirm those suspicions.
It did not. There was very little evidence of economically significant impacts on producer or consumer prices. Needless to say, the Senators and Congressmen were not happy that the research did not arrive at the "right" answers and they discredited the results even before they were officially published in 1996.
Fast-forward to 2003. GIPSA decided that they must use researchers this time who weren't "biased" by packer influences. Many of the land-grant university economists who have worked in livestock marketing were basically disqualified from this project. To GIPSA's credit, it chose Research Triangle Institute International (RTI) of North Carolina to manage the project. RTI did include some knowledgeable agricultural economists on each species team, but their roles were smaller than they were in the 1993 project. The lead economists on the beef section were from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania: definitely not a land-grant university and not agricultural economists.
None of that means this is a bad piece of research. It does illustrate, though, that there are some serious political influences when government agencies do these kinds of projects and that economics and politics are still strange bedfellows.
Pork Sector Highlights
Regardless of the history, the results for the hogs and pork section contain something confirming about every viewpoint of the pork market. A few highlights:
- AMAs are an integral part of selling and buying systems and current patterns and trends of AMAs lead the researchers to not believe that the hog industry will emulate the industrialization of the poultry sector.
- Plants that use a combination of marketing arrangements pay lower prices for their hogs relative to plants that use the cash/spot market only. My thought: Contracts involve less risk for both packers and producers.
- A 1% increase in packer ownership or contracted supplies will reduce spot market prices by 0.28% and 0.88%. My thought: I haven't closely studied the methodology yet, but these findings are logical in their direction but much larger than I would have expected.
- The researchers found statistically significant market power (i.e. the ability of a packer to push purchase prices down) in the hog procurement market, but could not say with any certainty that AMAs were the source of this power. My thought: The 1993 study found statistically significant market power in cattle markets, but also found that it did not change prices by much at all. The reason is that large numbers of data observations (which both studies have) virtually always lead to statistical significance.
- Pork packers apparently operate at throughput levels that are higher than the optimal, least-costs levels. (My thought: That is a very curious result.) However, all combinations of AMAs improved the efficient scale of production for packers relative to using only the spot market.
- Higher proportions of hogs purchased using AMAs were associated with higher quality hogs and higher quality pork products.
- Different types of marketing arrangements exhibit different price volatilities and, thus, different levels of risk. This allows producers with differing risk preferences to find marketing arrangements that match their preferences. So, " . . . the utility (i.e. well-being) losses associated with forcing producers to market their hogs through channels different from their risk-aversion-preferred marketing arrangement choice are substantial." My thought: Producers aren't idiots. They do what makes sense to them and they will be worse off if someone forces them to do something different.
- Restrictions on the use of AMAs would cause hog producers and consumers to lose because of the efficiency losses (primarily at the packer level) from reducing the proportion of hogs sold through contracts or packer-owned channels. The loss in efficiency more than offsets the gain due to reduced market power of packers. Wholesale and retail pork prices increase. Packers would neither gain nor lose in the long run.
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With pilgrims and tourists stranded in flash floods in Uttarakahand hailing from all parts of the country, several state govts have rushed teams to the hill state to help bring back the affected persons and also announced aid. Uttarakhand helpline numbers: 0135-2710334, 0135-2710335, 0135-2710233 | Army helpline no. in Uttarakhand: 1800 419 0282 | It was an unbelievable experience: Harbhajanindia Updated: Jun 20, 2013 21:21 IST
With pilgrims and tourists stranded in flash floods in Uttarakahand hailing from all parts of the country, several state governments have rushed teams to the hill state to help bring back the affected persons and also announced aid.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced Rs 1,000 crore for disaster relief measures in flood-devastated parts of Uttarakhand where 102 persons have
been killed and thousands left stranded at tourist spots and pilgrim centres.
Singh, who undertook an aerial survey of rain-ravaged Uttarakhand alongwith UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday, said what they saw was "most distressing" and the priority for the authorities was to rescue the stranded and provide succour to those most in need of it.
Over 10,000 personnel of the armed forces, 18 helicopters and a transport plane of the Air Force have been deployed for relief and rescue operations in the state where thousands have been stranded at tourist spots and pilgrim centres.
Intensifying relief and rescue operations, the government has pressed into service 22 helicopters to airlift those stranded by flash floods in Uttarakhand where the death toll has mounted to 182.
With the weather improving on Thursday, the government has agreed to the demand for the supply of additional food grains in the flood-hit areas.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
As the magnitude of tragedy caused in Uttarakhand continues to unfold, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh issued an appeal to the public for generous donations to support the victims who have suffered "extensive devastation".
In his appeal, Singh said the central government is extending all cooperation and assistance to the state government in rescue and relief operations.
He said "extensive devastation" has been caused due to cloudbursts and floods in the state and a large number of people have died and property worth crores of rupees has been damaged.
"At this moment, affected people need our help to tide over the calamity that has fallen upon them, to survive and to rebuild their lives. I request all citizens of India to stand with our distressed fellow countrymen, and actively participate in the national effort to support them at this difficult time," the Prime Minister said.
"I appeal to all citizens to donate generously to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund," he said.
Uttar Pradesh
Condoling the death of those killed in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has announced financial help of Rs 25 crore to the neighbouring state.
"The CM has announced Rs 25 crore financial help to natural calamity-hit Uttarakhand state and asked people to provide help to the state in any way," an official release said in Lucknow.
Yadav assured that the state government would provide all help for relief and rescue operation in Uttarakhand.
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday contributed Rs five crore for relief work among the victims of the Uttarakhand flash flood.
A state government officer has gone to Dehradun with the cheque of Rs five crore on the instruction of the chief minister, Anjani Kumar Singh, Principal Secretary to the CM, said.
Kumar has made this contribution from the Chief Minister Relief fund, he said adding the chief minister has expressed his deep condolence for the victims of the natural calamity in the mountain state.
The Haryana government has announced a Rs. 10-crore assistance to calamity-hit Uttarakhand."Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced to give Rs. 10 crore to Uttarakhand to help the state as a rescue and relief operation has been launched there following floods triggered by heavy rain," a state government spokesman said in Chandigarh.
Madhya Pradesh
A seven-member special team from Madhya Pradesh reached Dehradun to coordinate with Uttarakhand officials for relief and rescue operation for nearly 3,000 pilgrims of this state stranded in the rain ravaged hill state.
The decision to dispatch the special team, led by public relations minister Laxmikant Sharma, was taken by state chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday after visiting Haridwar and having a word with his Uttarakhand counterpart Vijay Bahuguna, official sources said.
The team comprising officials and doctors will set up a control room for people from MP at Haridwar and extend all possible assistance to them for retuning home.
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced an assistance of Rs five crore to the monsoon-ravaged Uttarakhand state where heavy rains and landslides have created havoc.
Chouhan's secretary, Hariranjan Rao will work in coordination with the State's Resident Commissioner in New Delhi, Shailendra Singh for relief measures, sources said.
Besides, the state disaster management body has also started an Emergency Control Room headed by District Commandant, Santosh Jat (Mob No. 09926769808 and Landline No 0755-2556422) for providing relief to the stranded persons.
About 300 Sikh pilgrims trapped around the famous pilgrimage Sri Hemkunt Sahib in Uttarakhand have been rescued even as efforts are underway to evacuate over 3,000 people of the community stranded in the hill state.
A special team of Punjab government is coordinating the ongoing rescue operation in the calamity-hit areas of Uttarakhand and ensuring the safe return of Sikh pilgrims, an official spokesman said on Thursday.
300 pilgrims were airlifted from Govind Dham on Wednesday, he said.
With hundreds of pilgrims from Punjab stranded near the Sikh shrine of Hemkund Sahib in the calamity-hit Uttarakhand, the Punjab government has hired a private helicopter to airlift them, a spokesman of the chief minister's Office said in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
He said the helicopter has been hired by the state government on the directions of chief minister Parkash Singh Badal.The helicopter will be pressed into service in coordination with authorities in Uttarakhand to rescue the stuck pilgrims from Punjab, said the spokesman.
Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah announced a contribution of Rs five crore to the Uttarakhand government to provide relief to the flood affected victims in the state.
"It is our duty to help the pilgrims and people of Uttarakhand on humanitarian basis and hence my government has decided to donate Rs five crore..." Siddaramaiah said.
Siddaramaiah, in a statement here, also said the government would spend Rs 50 lakh to bring back the stranded pilgrims belonging to the state from Uttarakhand.
Karnataka government has sent a three-member team to Uttarakhand to ensure safety of people from the state stranded there due to floods.
"We are in constant touch with the Centre and Uttarakhand government to get information on safety of our people stranded in Uttarakhand," chief minister Siddaramaiah told reporters.The government has also set up helplines to get information on Kannadigas going on pilgrimage and their whereabouts, Siddaramaiah said.
Moved by the plight of the people from Maharashtra stranded in flood-hit Uttarakhand, the state government Wednesday announced allocation of Rs.10 crore for their relief.
This amount would be utilized to arrange for helicopters, food, medicines and clothes and to bring them back to their home state, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said in Mumbai.According to information available, at least 1,353 pilgrims and tourists from all over Maharashtra have been stranded in different parts of Uttarakhand and surrounding areas hit by the massive floods in the past couple of days.
Gujarat government has offered a financial assistance of Rs 2 crore to rain-ravaged Uttarakhand for relief and rescue operations.
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi spoke to his Uttarakhand counterpart Vijay Bahuguna and offered assistance and help in rescue and relief operations to overcome the situation.
Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit has announced a financial assistance of Rs 10 crore for flood-affected people of Uttarakhand."We have decided to provide a financial aid of Rs 10 crore to Uttarakhand to help the flood-affected people," Dikshit said.
Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh today announced an assistance of Rs 5 crore to the flood ravaged Uttarakhand, where heavy rains and landslides have created havoc.
"Chief minister Raman Singh has announced to release Rs 5 crore from the CM's relief fund to Uttrakhand government for the relief and rehabilitation of victims of the disaster," an official said in Raipur.
Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday announced an assistance of Rs 5 crore for the victims of flood and rain in Uttarakand.
The state government said it was also taking all steps to bring back the tourists from Odisha who have been stranded in different pilgrim centres of water ravaged Uttarakhand.
"The resident commissioner of Odisha government in New Delhi is in touch with the Uttarakhand government enquiring about the safety of the pilgrim from our state," state home secretary UN Behera said.
Mahindra & Mahindra Group
Mahindra & Mahindra Group announced a contribution of Rs 1 crore to the Uttarakhand chief minister's Relief Fund to provide relief to flood affected victims in the state.
"We are shocked and grieved to learn of the unprecedented calamity and havoc created in Uttarakhand in the wake of the recent flash floods," Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra said in a statement.
Other relief works
Jairam Ramesh
Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh announced a separate Rs 340 crore special package for Uttarakhand for constructing village roads in the flood-ravaged hill state.
In view of the calamity, the rural development ministry is also working for giving special assistance to Uttarakhand for constructing village houses under its ambitious Indira Awas Yojana (IAY).
The minister's decision came a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced a Rs 1,000 crore special flood relief package to the state.
"Ministry of Rural Development is working on special road and housing package for Uttarkhand in view of calamity. Next week we are going to consider 82 roads and 27 bridges -- total 664 kms -- at a total cost of about Rs 340 crores. This we will sanction next week," Ramesh said here.
This programme will be implemented in 18 months, he said.
Supreme Court
The Supreme Court directed the Centre and Uttarakhand government to make all out efforts to rescue thousands of people stranded in the state due to flash floods and provide them food and drinking water.
A bench of justices A K Patnaik and Ranjan Gogoi directed the governemnts to deploy sufficient number of helicopters to rescue flood-affected people in the area.
"We direct as an interim measure that all stranded people be provided immediate relief by the state and district authorities by giving them food, medicines and other essential things including fuel," the bench said.
It asked the Centre and National Disaster Management Authority to provide all required resources to the state governemnt.
Different political parties in Uttarakhand including the ruling Congress and BJP, have asked their workers to offer help to the district administration in supplying relief material to people affected by the natural calamity triggered by incessant rains in the state.
The Army and the Air Force have stepped up relief operations in flood-and landslide-affected areas of Uttrakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
An official release said the relief and rescue operation in the two states were the largest such operations undertaken in several decades.
The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has also deployed 3,000 of its personnel to clear roads in these states.The release said Indian Air Forces's C-130 J aircraft was launched for reconnaissance as a part of "Operation Rahat" and 20 aircraft and helicopters were deployed for relief work.
Railways has decided to press services of special trains to rescue people stranded due to the flash floods at Haridwar, Rishikesh and other areas.
Railway minister Mallikarjun Kharge has instructed the Railway Board to do whatever possible to rescue people from the flood affected areas, said a senior railway ministry official.
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Busted! Mother Jones Caught Lying – Airport Spitting Incident Was a Hoax
Jennifer Longdon – Anti-Gun Activist and Smear Merchant
Caren Teves (right), whose son was killed in the Aurora, Colo., mass shooting, speaks Friday as she holds up a handwritten letter to her from Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., as Jennifer Longdon (left), a shooting victim who was left paralyzed, holds up a protest sign as they join more than 50 anti-gun activists rallying outside Flake's office in Phoenix. (The Courier)
Dana Loesch pointed to this story today at Mother Jones about a spitting incident in the Indianapolis Airport that reportedly occurred on April 25, 2014.
Check this story from a website that that I personally consider to be the Internet version of bathroom scrawl in a dive bar unisex bathroom. The difference is that I think bathroom scrawlists vet their graffiti.
As Longdon sat waiting for her flight, a screen in the concourse showed footage of the press conference. A tall, thin man standing nearby stared at Longdon, then back at the screen. Then he walked up to Longdon and spat in her face. No one else blinked.
Longdon was shocked and embarrassed, she told me, but she didn't falter. "Wow, aren't you a big man," she said as he turned and walked away. Instead of calling for security, she wheeled herself to a restroom to clean herself off. She was tired—she lives with constant physical pain—and didn't want to miss her flight.
We are to believe that people who think kids should be suspended for wearing NRA shirts and eating Pop Tarts into the shape of a gun would just brush this aside? Sure, if it happened, that's horrible, but you mean to tell me that there are no witnesses, no one to corroborate the story, no security footage? Haven't we heard this before?
Hmm. So this incident reportedly occurred on April 25 at the Indianapolis airport after the concourse television aired a report on the Every Town for Gun Safety protest outside the NRA convention?
Dana was right. It's not true. It was a lie.
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Well, it was a really busy week for me, but hope you enjoyed your valentines day. I always find time to visit a few a crafting blogs even if i am busy. And once i do, its hard for me close it unless i've gone through all the pictures of those perfect cards and tags. I am kind of obsessed with my hobby, crafting. I see a card and all of a sudden thousands of ideas pop up in my mind. I imagine a whole new world where there is just crafting stuff, beautiful cards, embellishments, colorful inks, designer papers, sentiments.
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June 30 2011
(SPOILER) Patrick Gilmore on The Cabin in the Woods. Light on spoilers, as it's mainly just his role that's revealed. But some interesting background on the process of making the film, including the detail that most of the (non-starring) actors only got their own script pages.
He's generally very good at, and very respectful of, keeping to the secrecy. He also walks back some of the overhype generated by (ironically) sites like FEARnet.
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So we can we see it?! And, for the record, I prefer it not to be converted to 3D. How does that add to the enjoyment of the story, anyways?
The last anyone heard was that the 3D conversion never happened, although it was tested. Then there was a recent Deadline story that Lionsgate had picked it up for distribution. That's still not been confirmed/announced by Lionsgate itself, and news about the film is a giant black hole right now.
The October date got filled by Lionsgate with a Statham action flick, so I'm guessing it will be all quiet into 2012 now. But it looks like 2012 shall be the year.
Well, they do release more than one movie a month sometimes. No reason* they can't still release Cabin this October. (Definitely won't be delayed until next October, as that's just been filled with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D, so at least no one's making us wait that long.)
* Unless we've now passed the amount of lead time necessary to have a film slated for release at that time.
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* Unless we've now passed the amount of lead time necessary to have a film slated for release at that time.
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Whats the longest a film has ever been delayed? This is pure torture. I wish they'd just release it on DVD so I could watch it.
Whats the longest a film has ever been delayed?
There's quite an interesting discussion about that topic at a DVD Talk forum.
The average film apparently takes around 7 years from script to release, so if Cabin comes out next year it will technically be quite quick for Hollywood.
Wow! I just clicked on Simon's link and apparently the administrator at DVD talk forum has banned my IP address... which is weird considering I've never been to that site before
So ... in my foolhardy attempt to avoid spoilers, I opted to visit Patrick Gilmore's wikipedia page rather than clicking on the link to find out who he was, only to see the nature of the role described in his filmography.
After Gun's Chinese Democracy and Duke Nuken Forever releases I believe Cabin will premiere before the end of the (Maia) world.
If it *is* released in 2012, that'll be quite a year for movies: Cabin, The Avengers, AND The Dark Knight Rises. (squee)
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6. I&E project (SCAMPER and video)
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1T oil
1 onion chopped
500g lean beef mince
2T plain flour
2T tomato sauce
1T chutney or relish (I used 'No Shortcuts' tamarillo chutney)
3/4C beef stock
3 potatoes chopped
1T butter
1T finely chopped onion
1/2C grated tasty cheese
salt and pepper to taste
Heat oil in a large frying pan. Add onion and cook until clear. Add mince and cook until well browned, stirring constantly. Stir in flour and cook for 1 minute. Add tomato, chutney and stock. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 5 mins. Set aside.
Cook potatoes in boiling salted water until tender. Drain and heat for a few minutes to dry off excess moisture. Shake pan frequently during this time. Mash potato. Add butter, onion and half the cheese, mixing until smooth and creamy. Season with salt and pepper. Put mince into pie dish. Top with potato mixture and sprinkle with remaining cheese. Bake at 190C for 20 min or until golden and heated through.
I found the flavour a little too fruity, therefore added about 1T of marmite (vegemite).
ELLA-ometre Ate it all up without complaint. I didn't actually like the flavour that much myself, so was surprised that she ate it.
ZACH-ometre Zach ate about 8 bites (even had some of the potato, and he typically doesn't like mashed potato.
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I love to cook and try new dishes, and more often than not I am asked for the recipe, so I decided to start Little Miss Cookalot as a way of sharing my successes, and failures in the kitchen. The recipes that you find on LMC are what you would find if you came to my house. As a mother of two, there is a focus on food for fussy eaters and you may also notice I like to bake... Most recipes here are amended from well known chefs/cookbook authors, and you will find the source at the bottom of each recipe unless its entirely my own creation. Check back regularly as I hope to add at least 2 new recipes every week.
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Shepherds Pie
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