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Obama Nominates Julian Castro As Housing Secretary
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has nominated up-and-coming Democrat Julian Castro as the nation's housing secretary.
The move is part of a broader shuffle of Obama's Cabinet that includes nominating current housing chief Shaun Donovan to run the Office of Management and Budget.
During a State Dining Room ceremony, Obama praised Donovan's efforts to help the U.S. housing market recover from the recession. He says he is nominating Donovan as budget director because "when you're good at your job, people always want you to do even more."
Castro is the mayor of San Antonio and is seen as a possible Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2016. Obama says Castro has helped revitalize San Antonio, experience he will draw on as head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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What's Riding on Jony Ive's iOS Redesign
May 30, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Jonathan Ive, the famed knight and industrial designer of the world's most admired Apple gadgets, has his work cut out for him. On the surface, he's the guy at Apple who's going to get rid of the hideous green felt that is our Game Center iOS app and the yellow lined notebook paper in the Notes app, along with other silly skeuomorphic designs in iOS.
Basically, Ive is the guy who's going to save us from the goofy tropes of physicality represented in a digital world.
This is a big deal -- but not because the built-in apps need a refresh. No, it's a big deal because iOS itself needs a refresh. Now is not the time for a stumble, but Apple has to take a step -- and not just a little one. Apple needs to gather itself and take a leap.
Cool or Cold?
All the rumors are pointing toward a modern digital design that doesn't try so hard to make things appear like real objects with three-dimensional shading. In addition to getting rid of things like the old-school microphone metaphor for Apple's Voice Memos recording app, Apple could be giving other app interfaces a refresh, too.
Remember when Apple updated the buttons on the phone app? Seemed wicked flat and light, didn't it? I'm used to it now, but odds are, we'll see a bunch of little tweaks here and there. I'm guessing the new iOS look and feel will seem as if someone placed a sheet of waxed paper over our screen before taking a heavy rolling pin to it.
How Flat?
Don't worry too much -- I doubt we'll get anything quite as flat as Windows Phone Live Tiles -- but the difference could be stark -- and that's the rub. iOS 7 needs to go from cheeky and campy to cool -- not cold.
Apple fans don't do cold. In fact, I believe that Apple fans would react badly to a design that felt cold and lifeless. Here's why: customization.
Apple is really bad at letting users customize their experience. In my mind, moving a stack of app icons around is not customization. A background photo is a start, but it's not enough. We've moved into a new age of the smartphone, and it's one of intimacy.
A person's connection to their smartphone is now intensely personal. Don't believe me? Ask around. How do people act when they -- gasp -- forget their iPhone at home or leave it in the car? What's the last thing they touch at night? The first thing that wakes them up? What do they hold and tap on while ignoring the living around them?
I'm Looking at Androids
Apple has pawned off customization on a big ecosystem of case manufacturers, and if that is still cutting it today, man alive -- just think of another year of stacked icons as your only interface to your iPhone. Don't tell me you're not disappointed by that vision.
Heck, even a Windows Phone can get an interface that matches the physical color of the hardware! Red and red, yellow and yellow. And both are damn fine rich colors, even if you don't like the weird blue-purple option. That's it, you have options. Who knew that Apple could get slapped by Microsoft and Nokia? Sheesh.
As the differentiating features and ecosystems collapse into a state of relative parity, personality can rise above the competition. The cool factor. The engagement factor. Right now, Apple is still riding high with great engagement, but for how long?
Android, particularly with some of the large and bright screens from Samsung, is starting to be worth some second looks. Why? First impressions -- and the first impression when you visit your favorite cellular service store isn't all bad. In fact, some of the new basic home screens are far more inviting than anything you can do without jailbreaking your iPhone.
Rumbling in the Distance
I think this is dangerous. Where's the tipping point? I don't know, but I know I'm hopelessly embedded with Apple technology -- MacBook Pro, Apple TV, iPad, iPods, iPhones, Magic Mouse, and on and on over the years. And I'm getting restless. Me -- restless.
It's not so hard, really. All Apple has to do is give us a nicely designed home screen app -- we can choose to use it or use the default view. If Ive takes a pass on this -- if we don't gain customization capabilities with his iOS refresh -- it'll put a lot more pressure on the refresh itself. I'd hate to find something cold and lifeless. I'd rather live with fake leather than lifelessness.
Of course, there are the pages that virtually turn in the iBooks app. Can Ive get rid of that feature without messing with the feeling of the iBooks experience? Makes me wonder.


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Investors push Yahoo CEO for growth plan
Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer, scheduled to report the company's first annual sales gain in four years Monday, is being urged by investors to explain how she'll add to that growth by luring users and advertisers.
Yahoo shares have risen 30 percent since Mayer was named CEO in July, reflecting confidence in her ability to engineer a turnaround after market-share losses slammed momentum at the Sunnyvale Web company.
Mayer, the fifth CEO in four years, is trying to catch up to Google and Facebook in display advertising and racing to improve a search partnership with Microsoft that hasn't met revenue expectations. Her changes so far - an e-mail redesign and an overhaul of the Flickr photo-sharing service - don't offer a strategy for expansions in search or mobile technology, the company's biggest growth opportunities, said Brian Wieser, an analyst at Pivotal Research Group.
"Some of the rise has occurred because there are people who have bought into Marissa Mayer driving growth potential - just on her alone," said Wieser, who has a hold rating on the shares. "I'm not clear on what it is she wants to do."
After Monday's markets close, Yahoo will probably report a 6 percent gain in fourth-quarter net income, to $324.7 million, according to the average of analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Sales, minus revenue passed on to partner sites, are predicted to increase 3 percent to $1.21 billion in the quarter. A projected annual sales rise of 2 percent to $4.46 billion would be the first increase since 2008.
Mobile technology
In a sign that some investors are turning more bearish, Yahoo is trading at a 17 percent discount to Google on a price-to-earnings basis, wider than the 6 percent when Mayer took the helm July 17.
Yahoo is working on technology that will personalize content from the Web and feed it to people on their mobile devices, Mayer said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week. User data will make it possible to create an interest graph to show connections among people and create a personalized Internet experience, she said.
Mayer still needs to explain how she plans to profit from the growing number of users who access Yahoo on tablets and smartphones, Colin Gillis, an analyst at BCG Partners, said in an interview.
"They have a lackluster mobile presence," Gillis said. "She is going to try to deliver a better experience for Yahoo users. Just make sure that experience is better tailored to mobile."
Since Mayer arrived, Yahoo has continued to cede share in its core business, display advertising. Yahoo's portion of the U.S. market was 9.3 percent last year, down from 11 percent in 2011, according to researcher eMarketer. Google's stake rose about two percentage points to 15 percent, while Facebook commanded 14 percent.
Google will retain its lead in the display-advertising market this year with an 18 percent share, while Facebook will have 15 percent and Yahoo will slip to 8 percent, eMarketer estimates.
To some extent, Yahoo's fortunes are waning in tandem with the personal-computer industry. Yahoo, once the dominant choice for e-mail and search tools when people surfed the Web on desktops, has failed to adapt to a new era where users rely exclusively on smartphones and tablets.
Working with partners
Amid questions about how Mayer will win consumers and advertisers, she helped build support among investors with plans to return $3 billion - most of the proceeds from selling half of Yahoo's stake in Chinese partner Alibaba Group Holding - to shareholders through buybacks. Yahoo had about $8.5 billion in cash and short-term investments as of Sept. 30, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
While investors and analysts grow impatient with Mayer for not specifying possible areas of growth, the CEO has helped rule out some businesses where she does not think Yahoo can compete. During the interview last week in Davos, Mayer said she prefers to work with large companies like Apple than build expensive new products such as phones and social networks.
Douglas MacMillan is a Bloomberg writer. E-mail: email@example.com


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|Triumph of the Brew Kodo earned on one of my alts
More generally, the changes to game systems, like talents and glyphs, are confusing and at least temporarily disruptive for someone who comes into them mid-patch (i.e. basically everyone who played the game prior to Tuesday). For example, Arcane Blast applying slow automagically is now a glyph and one that I happen not to have because that glyph was previously useless. That said, I am already liking the system better - there are some legitimately interesting choices amongst the talents and glyphs, and it's not like the overwhelming majority of your talent points under most previous incarnations of the system weren't obvious. I suppose they should have taken last expansion's revamp this far rather than revamping dramatically twice in a row, but at least they've done the job properly this time.
In the short term, my plan is still to use the period before the launch to complete some unfinished business from the Cataclysm era. I can't entirely rule out working on an alt, especially if one or more classes have changed in interesting ways, but ironically all the changes make it hard for me to tell which alt to work on. That said, the bigger question is whether Pandaria will be the first WoW expansion that I don't bother to purchase on launch day.
This is not purely a referendum on Pandaria - I haven't paid full price for an MMO box/expansion since probably Wrath, and I have many other things I am working on. Basically, the only reason why I'd even consider fitting Pandaria into my schedule next month would be because I would have a month of time remaining on my annual pass. Then again, I can use that time to mess around with pet battles and even roll a baby Pandaren alt through the newbie areas (which will supposedly not require the expansion) and call it even. Blizzard's decision to forgo a launch event in favor of a one-week level 85 preview of a level 90 scenario is pretty lackluster in terms of competing for my interest in a busy period of MMO's. Guess we'll see how I'm feeling on this in late September.


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One item you might notice that is now for sale are my Hallows OR Horcruxes Harry Potter T-Shirts. A few images of the shirts are below.
As I tweeted about last week, my son Jack and I have been decorating our mantle with Harry Potter stuff, and of course, he is NOT allowed to play with any of these toys. They are for DISPLAY ONLY!


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Hollywood Movies From Talkies to Texties
From Gordon Gekko and his brick phone to "You've Got Mail," the first Hollywood movie to tackle internet romance, filmmakers have tried to show people communicating in modern ways without boring the audience. Rachel Dodes discusses.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Snausbaum necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 153 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
IF MyHome (Note the "IF" must be our existing IF button logo - although can be a different colour).
We are a national personal finance business - Instant Finance (www.if.co.nz )
We operate in 18 locations throughout New Zealand and have been established in the market for 40 years. Instant Finance is a very strong brand in our market.
We are launching a new part of our business that will sell homeware including fridges, freezers, washing machines, dryers, TV's, computers and furniture. These items will be brands e.g. (Sony, Toshiba) as well as entry level Chinese goods. These goods will be marketed to our existing customers as well as to new customers who will come from a wider demographic than our existing customer base (demographic of existing database is below).
We are looking for a new logo, which will leverage our existing IF logo (IF tone logo attached).
The new logo MUST use our existing IF button Logo (see page 3 of the brand manual). Designs that do not incorporate the IF button logo will be eliminated.
I have attached two files - IF Tone logo. Please use one of these or an alternative from page 3 of the Brand Manual i.e solid/line version or line version.
We would like the logo to include the byline/slogan "Affordable Homeware for Everyone". (see attached file "Demo. for an example of leveraging the IF logo and use of the by-line)
The products will mostly be purchased via hire purchase finance (i.e. the customer will receive the good and pay a weekly amount over several years). We will also offer a layby option to customers, who do not qualify for finance, (e.g. they will pay a weekly amount for 15 weeks before receiving the goods. Cash prices will also be available but this is not our target market.
Goods will be competitively priced, which is a little different from the more traditional rent to own market that operates around the world.
Target Audience
Our target market are customers who are unable to pay cash for goods, and are excluded from mainstream lenders (banks) due to credit/employment stability issues.
Their requirements are ability to get the goods i.e. they are confident they will be approved for finance and will see the proposition as easy.
The new business will reflect our core values – flexibility, respect and relationships.
Demographics for our audience are:
What is your age? Respondents %
18-25 128 12%
26-35 288 27%
36-50 422 40%
51-65 191 18%
Over 65 32 3%
Sample size 1061 100%
What is your ethnicity? respondents %
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NZ European 273 27%
Pacific Islander 397 40%
Asian 33 3%
Other 12 1%
I prefer not to answer 19 2%
Sample size 1008 100%
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Part time 126 12%
Beneficiary 351 33%
Retired 5 1%
Sample size 1048 100%
What is your income? Respondents %
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$20,000 - $30,000 269 26%
$30,001 - $40,000 207 20%
$40,001 - $50,000 137 13%
Over $50,000 159 16%
Sample size 1027 100%
What is your household income? Respondents %
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$30,001 - $50,000 255 26%
$50,001 - $70,000 188 19%
$70,001 - $100,000 151 15%
Over $100,000 92 9%
Sample size 989 100%
How many people aged 18 or over live in your home? Respondents %
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2 363 40%
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Dallas defensive end Anthony Spencer is likely to play a second straight season under a one-year contract after talks with the Cowboys failed to produce a long-term deal.
Spencer's agent, Jordan Woy, said Tuesday that both sides are happy even without a deal. Spencer said earlier this month he wasn't worried about his contract situation. He can't sign a multiyear deal after July 15.
The 29-year-old Spencer signed a $10.6 million tender in March after Dallas put the franchise tag on him for the second year in a row. Spencer made $8.8 million in 2012, when he led the Cowboys with a career-high 106 tackles and had his first double-digit sack season with 11.
Spencer is moving from linebacker to defensive end with the Cowboys switching to the 4-3.
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Älä pakota lapsia hengittämään savua.
Låt inte barn andas rök.
This, I gather, translates as Don't force children to inhale smoke in Finnish and Don't let children inhale smoke in Swedish.
Does this mean that Swedish speakers are more strict -- they must prevent all children from inhaling smoke -- whereas Finnish-speaking children may only smoke of their own free will?
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Church-State Watchdog Group Calls On Tax Agency To Investigate Fairview Baptist Church For Illegal Electioneering
WASHINGTON - The
Internal Revenue Service should investigate an Edmond, Okla., church whose
pastor endorsed a gubernatorial candidate from the pulpit, says Americans
United for Separation of Church and State.
Paul Blair of Fairview Baptist Church endorsed Republican hopeful Mary Fallin
from the pulpit during services Sept. 26.
law prohibits all 501(c)(3) non-profit groups, which includes houses of
worship, from intervening in elections by endorsing or opposing candidates for
public office.
churches become cogs in any candidate's political machine, they ought to lose
their tax exemption," said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of
Americans United. "I urge the IRS to investigate this matter and apply the
a complaint
filed with the IRS today, Lynn said the facts are clear.
is a top official and paid staff member of Fairview Baptist Church," wrote Lynn
in the letter. "He was speaking to the congregation in his official capacity
and during a church meeting. As such, his candidate endorsement from the pulpit
constitutes an official endorsement by the nonprofit religious organization
noted that this is the second time Blair has flouted federal law. In 2008,
Blair endorsed U.S. Sen. John McCain for president from the pulpit.
issued the endorsements as part of "Pulpit Freedom Sunday," an annual event
sponsored by the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF). The ADF, a Religious Right legal
group founded by TV preachers, prods pastors to openly defy the law by
endorsing or opposing candidates from the pulpit.
To counter the ADF's church electioneering
scheme, Americans United maintains a Web site called Project Fair Play (www.projectfairplay.org) that
educates religious leaders and the American public about what houses of worship
may and may not do in the political arena. As part of the project, Americans
United reports pastors who violate the law to the
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Urban Tipping Points - Important New Research on Roots of Violence
Cities are often violent places – a social, ethnic and religious tinderbox of people piled up together with competing needs for space, housing or cash. Mostly the tension is contained, but not always - when and why does it spill over into bloody mayhem? That's the question at the heart of a fascinating research project run by Caroline Moser, one of my development heroes, and Dennis Rodgers. The research team fed back on its findings in Geneva last week. They have a draft overview paper here and welcome any comments by the end of June (as comments on this post, or if you want to get really stuck in, emailed to [email protected]). Here's a summary of the discussion in Geneva.
The Urban Tipping Point scanned the literature and identified four 'conventional wisdoms' on the causes, not always based on much evidence: they are poverty; 'youth bulges' (demographic, rather than waistlines); political exclusion and gender-based insecurity. It decided to test these with empirical research in four very dissimilar cities - Nairobi (Kenya), Dili (Timor-Leste), Santiago (Chile) and Patna (India).


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KILLSPENCER work/shop
- Location: Los Angeles, CA and online
- Specialty: Men's Travel Accessories
- Price range: $-$$$
- Website: killspencer.com
Store History
- Founded: 2009
- Founded by: Spencer Nikosey
- Headquarters: Silver Lake
KILLSPENCER is taking on the task of upgrading Los Angeles, one handcrafted accessory at a time. The newly unveiled Silver Lake workshop/showroom offers customers an opportunity to observe goods being constructed, open kitchen style: laundry bags constructed from repurposed U.S. Air Force issue Pilot BA-22 parachutes, meticulously hand constructed military styled leather luggage for overnight stays or weekend expeditions, and a collection of sleeves, pouches, and cases for a variety of mobile devices...
Name/Title: Spencer Nikosey - owner of KILLSPENCER work/shop
Launch date: 2013
Inspiration for opening: In 2010, we opened our first Workshop in the Downtown LA Arts District and operated out of there for the last 3 years. We worked really hard to be able to build out an optimal environment for handcrafting the highest quality leather goods possible (we additionally offer a Custom Shop experience where people can add custom monogram sewn onto their bags and select custom colors/materials for an extra fee). We exclusively design, develop, manufacture, ship, and now sell our products out of our Silver Lake Workshop and online at KILLSPENCER.com.
Merchandise source: We make every product by hand in our Silverlake Workshop by a small team of master craftsmen.
Best selling item: Weekender 3.0, Overnight Duffle, Special Ops Backpack.
Your favorite item: Our new Black Leather Hardshell Briefcase.
Favorite store (other than your own): The Well in downtown LA.
(Images: Gregory Han)


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Monday, July 25, 2011
When life gives you lemons... quit because lemons are sour.
I also went down hard again yesterday on Walker Ranch. The fall 'freshened up' almost every sore spot I already had and I (of course) also landed on the elbow that I tore the skin away from the bone. Physically I'm feeling pretty rough... but at least my mental state sucks!
13 comments:
- Dave said...
It's not a ride until there's blood! When it rains it pours, literally. Like you said, it was probably your guardian angel doing some work to keep you safe. No matter what though, I'm sure you're fit enough to make the best of what time you have left. I'll bet you're body appreciated the extra rest it got today!
- July 25, 2011
- Lucho said...
Thanks Dave. It seems when I ride it turns in to a Daniel Day Lewis movie though... There WILL be blood. I'm going to put Stans jizz in to ALL of my bike tubes tonight... if he's OK with that.
I feel my fitness is OK up to ~5:00 hours, not so confident beyond that which is where I need to go.
- July 25, 2011
I really think ya need to take some time off. You're beat up pretty badly from the 50 at Leadville and I think it's a real concern. I think right now you're taking too many risks and ya have a family to be there for an all. Some times we're all so close to a situation that we lack perspective and can't see what's really happening. From my view I see a guy who is in great shape and whose commitment is off the charts but who is taking risks he shouldn't. You likely have broken ribs and a broken rib can puncture a lung. Take time off and get better. We would all hate to see something bad happen.
- July 25, 2011
- Wassdoc said...
Have you given any thought to taking up knitting:)?
- July 25, 2011
- Dave said...
I have a feeling Stan won't mind at all:) The Dude abides...
- July 25, 2011
- Lucho said...
Mike- Knitting on the bike?
Dave- Actually, Stan was all for it!?
- July 25, 2011
- Fred (aka ace) said...
Yeah, I have to agree with the guardian angel angle. When that much stuff starts to stack up it is time to pack it in. Besides "rest" is training (up to a point). Heal fast!
- July 25, 2011
- Lucho said...
Thanks Ace. And I haven't trashed your e-mail, I'll get back to you!
- July 25, 2011
- GZ said...
Sometimes I slumber on a bed of roses
Sometimes I crash in the weeds
One day a bowl full of cherries
One night I'm suckin' on lemons and spittin' out the seeds
- July 25, 2011
- P. said...
this is that moment where you have to dig deep and answer very honestly: "have i been drunk enough lately to really be making large, over-arching statements regarding my training?"
or, maybe what i mean to say/type is: "am i still having fun?"
obviously, true fun involves a certain level of discomfort (any of my past girlfriends can attest (or protest, depending on where they fall S v. M in the ongoing S&M struggle))
...at some point, however, you've got to double check yourself. Or not. Probably not.
You're already fit. You're already sharp. You need to re-prioritize...you can't make the most of the fitness you if you're all fucked up and gushing blood.
-Señor Agujero de Culo de Santa Maria.
- July 25, 2011
- Lucho said...
Anon- I appreciate the concern! You're one of a few people to have told me something along those lines. Not sure what I'm going to do yet but thank you again.
Thanks P. Sage words.
G- so true.
- July 26, 2011
- Wyatt Hornsby said...
Lucho: Glad you're OK! I kind of aggree with the anonymous poster but not quite. I think your fitness is definitely there and I'm wondering what would happen if you kind of coast into the 100-mile mountain bike race, taking the time between now and then to heal. But, that's easy for me to say. I've been known to refuse time off regardless of how I felt. I'm of the mindset that it's good to push through the bad patches so long as doing so doesn't worsen the problem.
- July 26, 2011
- Lucho said...
Ya Wyatt... I agree also with the anonymous poster. They're pretty much correct. But that's not what makes most of us tick. I agree that training with out exacerbating the injuries is acceptable and also key. To do that I simply have to keep the rubber on the trail! I'm definitely not going to push any trail speed from now to Pb and stick more to roads. Then on race day take the descents SUPER chill and hammer the climbs which is my strength.
Thanks again for the input!
- July 26, 2011


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More Americans are dying in hospice, but the comfort care is too late and too short, according to a major new national study.
In the past decade, hospice use has risen, but so has time spent in hospitals' high-cost intensive care units, the Brown University analysis found.
The paradoxical finding comes with this explanation: Patients are increasingly admitted to hospice only after aggressive ICU care has failed — and they arrive desperately ill with too little time to benefit fully from pain control and other measures, reported Dr. Joan Teno and her team.
"For many patients, hospice is an 'add-on' to a very aggressive pattern of care during the last days of life," said lead author Teno, professor of health services policy and practice in the Public Health Program at Brown University.
"The findings reveal that the goals of many Americans — to avoid end-of-life heroics and die at home, in relative comfort — still remain out of reach," she said. The study is published in Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The phenomenon was the subject of the Bay Area News Group's yearlong Cost of Dying series.
A national expert on end-of-life care said the report supported concerns that hospice is too short for too many patients.
"When a hospice patient is under care for only a couple of days, it's unlikely that the patient or the family caregivers are able to fully benefit from the many specialized services" hospice offers, said Jon Radulovic of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in Alexandria, Va.
The team studied the medical records of nearly 850,000 Medicare beneficiaries who died in 2000, 2005 and 2009, comparing where they died and their medical treatments.
While the proportion of dying seniors using hospice care increased to 42.2 percent in 2009 from 21.6 percent in 2000, the proportion who were in intensive care in the last month of life also increased to 29.2 percent in 2009 from 24.3 percent in 2000.
Of those referred to hospice, 28.4 percent died within three days of care. And 40 percent of those late referrals came after a hospitalization with an intensive care stay.
"The increased availability of palliative and hospice care services does not appear to have changed the focus on aggressive, curative care," according to an accompanying editorial by geriatricians Dr. Grace Jenq and Dr. Mary E. Tinetti of the Yale School of Medicine. "Hospice services appeared to be tagged on to the last days of life," they wrote.
Factors driving the trend include physician attitudes, the financial incentives of fee-for-service care and too few timely conversations with patients and their family, according to Teno.
"We need to transform our health care system … to one where people are not paid for just one more ICU day," Teno said.
Contact Lisa M. Krieger at 650-492-4098.


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The Courting of
Sister Wisby by Sara Orne Jewett
There is no use in trying to tell another person about that
afternoon unless he distinctly remembers weather exactly like it. No
number of details concerning an Arctic ice-blockade will give a single
shiver to a child of the tropics. This was one of those perfect New
England days in late summer, when the spirit of autumn takes a first
stealthy flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and,
with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her
cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.
Every living thing grows suddenly cheerful and strong; it is only when
you catch sight of a horror-stricken little maple in swampy soil, a
little maple that has second sight and foreknowledge of coming disaster
to her race, only then does a distrust of autumn's friendliness dim
your joyful satisfaction.
In midwinter there is always a day when one has the first foretaste
of spring; in late August there is a morning when the air is for the
first time autumn like. Perhaps it is a hint to the squirrels to get in
their first supplies for the winter hoards, or a reminder that summer
will soon end, and everybody had better make the most of it. We are
always looking forward to the passing and ending of winter, but when
summer is here it seems as if summer must always last. As I went across
the fields that day, I found myself half lamenting that the world must
fade again, even that the best of her budding and bloom was only a
preparation for another spring-time, for an awakening beyond the coming
winter's sleep.
The sun was slightly veiled; there was a chattering group of birds,
which had gathered for a conference about their early migration. Yet,
oddly enough, I heard the voice of a belated bobolink, and presently
saw him rise from the grass and hover leisurely, while he sang a brief
tune. He was much behind time if he were still a housekeeper; but as
for the other birds, who listened, they cared only for their own notes.
An old crow went sagging by, and gave a croak at his despised neighbor,
just as a black reviewer croaked at Keats: so hard it is to be just to
one's contemporaries. The bobolink was indeed singing out of season,
and it was impossible to say whether he really belonged most to this
summer or to the next. He might have been delayed on his northward
journey; at any rate, he had a light heart now, to judge from his song,
and I wished that I could ask him a few questions, how he liked
being the last man among the bobolinks, and where he had taken singing
lessons in the South.
Presently I left the lower fields, and took a path that led higher,
where I could look beyond the village to the northern country
mountainward. Here the sweet fern grew, thick and fragrant, and I also
found myself heedlessly treading on pennyroyal. Near by, in a field
corner, I long ago made a most comfortable seat by putting a stray
piece of board and bit of rail across the angle of the fences. I have
spent many a delightful hour there, in the shade and shelter of a young
pitch-pine and a wild-cherry tree, with a lovely outlook toward the
village, just far enough away beyond the green slopes and tall elms of
the lower meadows. But that day I still had the feeling of being
outward bound, and did not turn aside nor linger. The high pasture land
grew more and more enticing.
I stopped to pick some blackberries that twinkled at me like beads
among their dry vines, and two or three yellow-birds fluttered up from
the leaves of a thistle, and then came back again, as if they had
complacently discovered that I was only an overgrown yellow-bird, in
strange disguise but perfectly harmless. They made me feel as if I were
an intruder, though they did not offer to peck at me, and we parted
company very soon. It was good to stand at last on the great shoulder
of the hill. The wind was coming in from the sea, there was a fine
fragrance from the pines, and the air grew sweeter every moment. I took
new pleasure in the thought that in a piece of wild pasture land like
this one may get closest to Nature, and subsist upon what she gives of
her own free will. There have been no drudging, heavy-shod ploughmen to
overturn the soil, and vex it into yielding artificial crops. Here one
has to take just what Nature is pleased to give, whether one is a
yellow-bird or a human being. It is very good entertainment for a
summer wayfarer, and I am asking my reader now to share the winter
provision which I harvested that day. Let us hope that the small birds
are also faring well after their fashion, but I give them an anxious
thought while the snow goes hurrying in long waves across the buried
fields, this windy winter night.
I next went farther down the hill, and got a drink of fresh cool
water from the brook, and pulled a tender sheaf of sweet flag beside
it. The mossy old fence just beyond was the last barrier between me and
the pasture which had sent an invisible messenger earlier in the day,
but I saw that somebody else had come first to the rendezvous: there
was a brown gingham cape-bonnet and a sprigged shoulder-shawl bobbing
up and down, a little way off among the junipers. I had taken such
uncommon pleasure in being alone that I instantly felt a sense of
disappointment; then a warm glow of pleasant satisfaction rebuked my
selfishness. This could be no one but dear old Mrs. Goodsoe, the friend
of my childhood and fond dependence of my maturer years. I had not seen
her for many weeks, but here she was, out on one of her famous
campaigns for herbs, or perhaps just returning from a blueberrying
expedition. I approached with care, so as not to startle the gingham
bonnet; but she heard the rustle of the bushes against my dress, and
looked up quickly, as she knelt, bending over the turf. In that
position she was hardly taller than the luxuriant junipers themselves.
"I'm a-gittin' in my mulleins," she said briskly, "an' I've been
thinking o' you these twenty times since I come out o' the house. I
begun to believe you must ha' forgot me at last."
"I have been away from home," I explained. "Why don't you get in
your pennyroyal too? There's a great plantation of it beyond the next
fence but one."
"Pennyr'yal!" repeated the dear little old woman, with an air of
compassion for inferior knowledge; "'t ain't the right time, darlin'.
Pennyr'yal's too rank now. But for mulleins this day is prime. I've got
a dreadful graspin' fit for 'em this year; seems if I must be goin' to
need 'em extry. I feel like the squirrels must when they know a hard
winter's comin'." And Mrs. Goodsoe bent over her work again, while I
stood by and watched her carefully cut the best full-grown leaves with
a clumsy pair of scissors, which might have served through at least
half a century of herb-gathering. They were fastened to her
apron-strings by a long piece of list.
"I'm going to take my jack-knife and help you," I suggested, with
some fear of refusal. "I just passed a flourishing family of six or
seven heads that must have been growing on purpose for you."
"Now be keerful, dear heart," was the anxious response; "choose 'em
well. There's odds in mulleins same 's there is in angels. Take a plant
that's all run up to stalk, and there ain't but little goodness in the
leaves. This one I'm at now must ha' been stepped on by some creatur'
and blighted of its bloom, and the leaves is han'some! When I was small
I used to have a notion that Adam an' Eve must a took mulleins fer
their winter wear. Ain't they just like flannel, for all the world?
I've had experience, and I know there's plenty of sickness might be
saved to folks if they'd quit horse-radish and such fiery, exasperating
things, and use mullein drarves in proper season. Now I shall spread
these an' dry 'em nice on my spare floor in the garrit, an' come to
steam 'em for use along in the winter there'll be the vally of the
whole summer's goodness in 'em, sartin." And she snipped away with the
dull scissors, while I listened respectfully, and took great pains to
have my part of the harvest present a good appearance.
"This is most too dry a head," she added presently, a little out of
breath. "There! I can tell you there's win'rows o' young doctors,
bilin' over with book-larnin', that is truly ignorant of what to do for
the sick, or how to p'int out those paths that well people foller
toward sickness. Book-fools I call 'em them young men, an' some on 'em
never'll live to know much better, if they git to be Methuselahs. In my
time every middle-aged woman, who had brought up a family, had some
proper ideas o' dealin' with complaints. I won't say but there was some
fools amongst them, but I'd rather take my chances, unless they'd
forsook herbs and gone to dealin' with patent stuff. Now my mother
really did sense the use of herbs and roots. I never see anybody that
come up to her. She was a meek-looking woman, but very understandin',
mother was."
"Then that's where you learned so much yourself, Mrs. Goodsoe," I
ventured to say.
"Bless you heart, I don't hold a candle to her; 't is but little I
can recall of what she used to say. No, her l'arnin' died with her,"
said my friend, in a self-deprecating tone. "Why, there was as many as
twenty kinds of roots alone that she used to keep by her, that I forget
the use of; an' I'm sure I shouldn't know where to find the most of
'em, any. There was an herb" airb she called it "an herb called
masterwort, that she used to get way from Pennsylvany; and she used to
think everything of the noble-liverwort, but I never could seem to get
the right effects from it as she could. Though I don't know as she ever
really did use masterwort where somethin' else wouldn't a served. She
had a cousin married out in Pennsylvany that used to take pains to get
it to her every year or two, and so she felt 't was important to have
it. Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I
rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be
doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em; 't was sufficient,
an' so ordered. That was before the whole population took to livin' on
wheels, the way they do now. 'T was never my idee that we was meant to
know what's goin' on all over the world to once. There's goin' to be
some sort of a set-back one o' these days, with these telegraphs an'
things, an' letters comin' every hand's turn, and folks leavin' their
proper work to answer 'em. I may not live to see it. 'T was allowed to
be difficult for folks to git about in old times, or to git word across
the country, and they stood in their lot an' place, and weren't all
just alike, either, same as pine-spills."
We were kneeling side by side now, as if in penitence for the march
of progress, but we laughed as we turned to look at each other.
"Do you think it did much good when everybody brewed a cracked
quart mug of herb-tea?" I asked, walking away on my knees to a new
"I've always lifted my voice against the practice, far 's I could,"
declared Mrs. Goodsoe; "an' I won't deal out none o' the herbs I save
for no such nonsense. There was three houses along our road, I call
no names, where you couldn't go into the livin' room without findin'
a mess o' herb-tea drorin' on the stove or side o' the fireplace,
winter or summer, sick or well. One was thoroughwut, one would be
camomile, and the other, like as not, yellow dock; but they all used to
put in a little new rum to git out the goodness, or keep it from
spilin'." (Mrs. Goodsoe favored me with a knowing smile.) "Land, how
mother used to laugh! But, poor creaturs, they had to work hard, and I
guess it never done 'em a mite o' harm; they was all good herbs. I wish
you could hear the quawkin' there used to be when they was indulged
with a real case o' sickness. Everybody would collect from far an'
near; you'd see 'em coming along the road and across the pastures then;
everybody clamorin' that nothin' wouldn't do no kind o' good but her
choice o' teas or drarves to the feet. I wonder there was a babe lived
to grow up in the whole lower part o' the town; an' if nothin' else
'peared to ail 'em, word was passed about that 't was likely Mis'
So-and-So's last young one was goin' to be foolish. Land, how they'd
gather! I know one day the doctor come to Widder Peck's and the house
was crammed so 't he could scercely git inside the door; and he says,
just as polite, 'do send for some of the neighbors!' as if there wa'n't
a soul to turn to, right or left. You'd ought to seen 'em begin to
"But don't you think the cars and telegraphs have given people more
to interest them, Mrs. Goodsoe? Don't you believe people's lives were
narrower then, and more taken up with little things?" I asked unwisely,
being a product of modern times.
"Not one mite, dear," said my companion stoutly. "There was as big
thoughts then as there is now; these times was born o' them. The
difference is in folks themselves; but now, instead o' doin' their own
housekeepin' and watchin' their own neighbors, though that was
carried to excess, they git word that a niece's child is ailin' the
other side o' Massachusetts, and they drop everything and git on their
best clothes, and off they jiggit in the cars. 'T is a bad sign when
folks wears out their best clothes faster 'n they do their every-day
ones. The other side o' Massachusetts has got to look after itself by
rights. An' besides that, Sunday-keepin' 's all gone out o' fashion.
Some lays it to one thing an' some another, but some o' them old
ministers that folks are all a-sighin' for did preach a lot o' stuff
that wa'n't nothin' but chaff; 't wa'n't the word o' God out o' either
Old Testament or New. But everybody went to meetin' and heard it, and
come home, and was set to fightin' with their next door neighbor over
it. Now I'm a believer, and I try to live a Christian life, but I'd as
soon hear a surveyor's book read out, figgers an' all, as try to get
any simple truth out o' most sermons. It's them as is most to blame."
"What was the matter that day at Widow Peck's?" I hastened to ask,
for I knew by experience that the good, clear-minded soul beside me was
apt to grow unduly vexed and distressed when she contemplated the state
of religious teaching.
"Why, there wa'n't nothin' the matter, only a gal o' Miss Peck's
had met with a dis'pintment and had gone into screechin' fits. 'T was a
rovin' creatur' that had come along hayin' time, and he'd gone off an'
forsook her betwixt two days; nobody ever knew what become of him. Them
Pecks was 'Good Lord, anybody!' kind o' gals, and took up with whoever
they could get. One of 'em married Heron, the Irishman; they lived in
that little house that was burnt this summer, over on the edge o' the
plains. He was a good-hearted creatur', with a laughin' eye and a
clever word for everybody. He was the first Irishman that ever came
this way, and we was all for gettin' a look at him, when he first used
to go by. Mother's folks was what they call Scotch-Irish, though; there
was an old race of 'em settled about here. They could foretell events,
some on 'em, and had the second sight. I know folks used to say
mother's grandmother had them gifts, but mother was never free to speak
about it to us. She remembered her well, too."
"I suppose that you mean old Jim Heron, who was such a famous
fiddler?" I asked with great interest, for I am always delighted to
know more about that rustic hero, parochial Orpheus that he must have
"Now, dear heart, I suppose you don't remember him, do you?"
replied Mrs. Goodsoe, earnestly. "Fiddle! He'd about break your heart
with them tunes of his, or else set your heels flying up the floor in a
jig, though you was a minister o' the First Parish and all wound up for
a funeral prayer. I tell ye there ain't no tunes sounds like them used
to. It used to seem to me summer nights when I was comin' along the
plains road, and he set by the window playin', as if there was a
bewitched human creatur' in that old red fiddle o' his. He could make
it sound just like a woman's voice tellin' somethin' over and over, as
if folks could help her out o' her sorrows if she could only make 'em
understand. I've set by the stone-wall and cried as if my heart was
broke, and dear knows it wa'n't in them days. How he would twirl off
them jigs and dance tunes! He used to make somethin' han'some out of
'em in fall an' winter, playin' at huskins and dancin' parties; but he
was unstiddy by spells, as he got along in years, and never knew what
it was to be forehanded. Everybody felt bad when he died; you couldn't
help likin' the creatur'. He'd got the gift that's all you could say
about it.
"There was a Mis' Jerry Foss, that lived over by the brook bridge,
on the plains road, that had lost her husband early, and was left with
three child'n. She set the world by 'em, and was a real pleasant,
ambitious little woman, and was workin' on as best she could with that
little farm, when there come a rage o' scarlet fever, and her boy and
two girls was swept off and laid dead within the same week. Every one
o' the neighbors did what they could, but she'd had no sleep since they
was taken sick, and after the funeral she set there just like a piece
o' marble, and would only shake her head when you spoke to her. They
all thought her reason would go; and 't would certain, if she couldn't
have shed tears. An' one o' the neighbors 't was like mother's
sense, but it might have been somebody else spoke of o' Jim Heron.
Mother an' one or two o' the women that knew her best was in the house
with her. 'T was right in the edge o' the woods and some of us younger
ones was over by the wall on the other side of the road where there was
a couple of old willows, I remember just how the brook damp felt;
and we kept quiet 's we could, and some other folks come along down the
road, and stood waitin' on the little bridge, hopin' somebody'd come
out, I suppose, and they'd git news. Everybody was wrought up, and felt
a good deal for her, you know. By an' by Jim Heron come stealin' right
out o' the shadows an' set down on the doorstep, an' 't was a good
while before we heard a sound; then, oh, dear me! 't was what the whole
neighborhood felt for that mother all spoke in the notes, an' they told
me afterwards that Mis' Foss's face changed in a minute, and she come
right over an' got into my mother's lap, she was a little woman,
an' laid her head down, and there she cried herself into a blessed
sleep. After awhile one o' the other women stole out an' told the
folks, and we all went home. He only played that one tune.
"But there!" resumed Mrs. Goodsoe, after a silence, during which my
eyes were filled with tears. "His wife always complained that the
fiddle made her nervous. She never 'peared to think nothin' o' poor
Heron after she'd once got him."
"That's often the way," said I, with harsh cynicism, though I had
no guilty person in my mind at the moment; and we went straying off,
not very far apart, up through the pasture. Mrs. Goodsoe cautioned me
that we must not get so far off that we could not get back the same
day. The sunshine began to feel very hot on our backs, and we both
turned toward the shade. We had already collected a large bundle of
mullein leaves, which were carefully laid into a clean, calico apron,
held together by the four corners, and proudly carried by me, though my
companion regarded them with anxious eyes. We sat down together at the
edge of the pine woods, and Mrs. Goodsoe proceeded to fan herself with
her limp cape-bonnet.
"I declare, how hot it is! The east wind's all gone again," she
said. "It felt so cool this forenoon that I overburdened myself with as
thick a petticoat as any I've got. I'm despri't afeared of having a
chill, now that I ain't so young as once. I hate to be housed up."
"It's only August, after all," I assured her unnecessarily,
confirming my statement by taking two peaches out of my pocket, and
laying them side by side on the brown pine needles between us.
"Dear sakes alive!" exclaimed the old lady, with evident pleasure.
"Where did you get them, now? Doesn't anything taste twice better
out-o'-doors? I ain't had such a peach for years. Do le's keep the
stones, an' I'll plant 'em; it only takes four year for a peach pit to
come to bearing, an' I guess I'm good for four year, 'thout I meet with
some accident."
I could not help agreeing, or taking a fond look at the thin little
figure, and her wrinkled brown face and kind, twinkling eyes. She
looked as if she had properly dried herself, by mistake, with some of
her mullein leaves, and was likely to keep her goodness, and to last
the longer in consequence. There never was a truer, simple-hearted soul
made out of the old-fashioned country dust than Mrs. Goodsoe. I
thought, as I looked away from her across the wide country, that nobody
was left in any of the farm-houses so original, so full of rural wisdom
and reminiscence, so really able and dependable, as she. And nobody had
made better use of her time in a world foolish enough to sometimes
under-value medicinal herbs.
When we had eaten our peaches we still sat under the pines, and I
was not without pride when I had poked about in the ground with a
little twig, and displayed to my crony a long fine root, bright yellow
to the eye, and a wholesome bitter to the taste.
"Yis, dear, goldthread," she assented indulgently. "Seems to me
there's more of it than anything except grass an' hardhack. Good for
canker, but no better than two or three other things I can call to
mind; but I always lay in a good wisp of it, for old times' sake. Now,
I want to know why you should a bit it, and took away all the taste o'
your nice peach? I was just thinkin' what a han'some entertainment
we've had. I've got so I 'sociate certain things with certain folks,
and goldthread was somethin' Lizy Wisby couldn't keep house without, no
ways whatever. I believe she took so much it kind o' puckered her
"Lizy Wisby?" I repeated inquiringly.
"You knew her, if ever by the name of Mis' Deacon Brimblecom,"
answered my friend, as if this were only a brief preface to further
information, so I waited with respectful expectation. Mrs. Goodsoe had
grown tired out in the sun, and a good story would be an excuse for
sufficient rest. It was a most lovely place where we sat, halfway up
the long hillside; for my part, I was perfectly contented and happy.
"You've often heard of Deacon Brimblecom?" she asked, as if a great
deal depended upon his being properly introduced.
"I remember him," said I. "They called him Deacon Brimfull, you
know, and he used to go about with a witch-hazel branch to show people
where to dig wells."
"That's the one," said Mis. Goodsoe, laughing. "I didn't know 's
you could go so far back. I'm always divided between whether you can
remember everything I can, or are only a babe in arms."
"I have a dim recollection of there being something strange about
their marriage," I suggested, after a pause, which began to appear
dangerous. I was so much afraid the subject would be changed.
"I can tell you all about it," I was quickly answered. "Deacon
Brimblecom was very pious accordin' to his lights in his early years.
He lived way back in the country then, and there come a rovin' preacher
along, and set everybody up that way all by the ears. I've heard the
old folks talk it over, but I forget most of his doctrine, except some
of his followers was persuaded they could dwell among the angels while
yet on airth, and this Deacon Brimfull, as you call him, felt sure he
was called by the voice of a spirit bride. So he left a good, deservin'
wife he had, an' four children, and built him a new house over to the
other side of the land he'd had from his father. They didn't take much
pains with the buildin', because they expected to be translated before
long, and then the spirit brides and them folks was goin' to appear and
divide up the airth amongst 'em, and the world's folks and onbelievers
was goin' to serve 'em or be sent to torments. They had meetins about
in the school-houses, an' all sorts o' goins on; some on 'em went
crazy, but the deacon held on to what wits he had, an' by an' by the
spirit bride didn't turn out to be much of a housekeeper, an' he had
always been used to good livin', so he sneaked home ag'in. One o'
mother's sisters married up to Ash Hill, where it all took place;
that's how I come to have the particulars."
"Then how did he come to find his Eliza Wisby?" I inquired. "Do
tell me the whole story; you've got mullein leaves enough."
"There's all yisterday's at home, if I haven't," replied Mrs.
Goodsoe. "The way he come a-courtin' o' Sister Wisby was this: she went
a-courtin' o' him.
"There was a spell he lived to home, and then his poor wife died,
and he had a spirit bride in good earnest, an' the child'n was placed
about with his folks and hers, for they was both out o' good families;
and I don't know what come over him, but he had another pious fit that
looked for all the world like the real thing. He hadn't no family
cares, and he lived with his brother's folks, and turned his land in
with theirs. He used to travel to every meetin' an' conference that was
within reach of his old sorrel hoss's feeble legs; he j'ined the
Christian Baptists that was just in their early prime, and he was a
great exhorter, and got to be called deacon, though I guess he wa'n't
deacon, 'less it was for a spare hand when deacon timber was scercer 'n
usual. An' one time there was a four days' protracted meetin' to the
church in the lower part of the town. 'Twas a real solemn time;
something more 'n usual was goin' forward, an' they collected from the
whole country round. Women folks liked it, an' the men too; it give 'em
a change, an' they was quartered round free, same as conference folks
now. Some on 'em, for a joke, sent Silas Brimblecom up to Lizy Wisby's,
though she'd give out she couldn't accommodate nobody, because of
expectin' her cousin's folks. Everybody knew 't was a lie; she was
amazin' close considerin' she had plenty to do with. There was a streak
that wa'n't just right somewheres in Lizy's wits, I always thought. She
was very kind in case o' sickness, I'll say that for her.
"You know where the house is, over there on what they call Windy
Hill? There the deacon went, all unsuspectin', and 'stead o' Lizy's
resentin' of him she put in her own hoss, and they come back together
to evenin' meetin'. She was prominent among the sect herself, an' he
bawled and talked, and she bawled and talked, an' took up more 'n the
time allotted in the exercises, just as if they was showin' off to each
other what they was able to do at expoundin'. Everybody was laughin' at
'em after the meetin' broke up, and that next day an' the next, an' all
through, they was constant, and seemed to be havin' a beautiful
occasion. Lizy had always give out she scorned the men, but when she
got a chance at a particular one 't was altogether different, and the
deacon seemed to please her somehow or 'nother, and There! you don't
want to listen to this old stuff that's past an' gone?"
"Oh yes, I do," said I.
"I run on like a clock that's onset her striking hand," said Mrs.
Goodsoe mildly. "Sometimes my kitchen timepiece goes on half the
forenoon, and I says to myself the day before yisterday I would let it
be a warnin', and keep it in mind for a check on my own speech. The
next news that was heard was that the deacon an' Lizy well, opinions
differed which of 'em had spoke first, but them fools settled it before
the protracted meetin' was over, and give away their hearts before he
started for home. They considered 't would be wise, though, considerin'
their short acquaintance, to take one another on trial a spell; 't was
Lizy's notion, and she asked him why he wouldn't come over and stop
with her till spring, and then, if they both continued to like, they
could git married any time 't was convenient. Lizy, she come and talked
it over with mother, and mother disliked to offend her, but she spoke
pretty plain; and Lizy felt hurt, an' thought they was showin'
excellent judgment, so much harm come from hasty unions and folks
comin' to a realizin' sense of each other's failin's when 't was too
"So one day our folks saw Deacon Brimfull a-ridin' by with a gre't
coopful of hens in the back o' his wagon, and bundles o' stuff tied on
top and hitched to the exes underneath; and he riz a hymn just as he
passed the house, and was speedin' the old sorrel with a willer switch.
'T was most Thanksgivin' time, an' sooner 'n she expected him. New
Year's was the time she set; but he thought he'd better come while the
roads was fit for wheels. They was out to meetin' together Thanksgivin'
Day, an' that used to be a gre't season for marryin'; so the young
folks nudged each other, and some on' 'em ventured to speak to the
couple as they come down the aisle. Lizy carried it off real well; she
wa'n't afraid o' what nobody said or thought, and so home they went.
They'd got out her yaller sleigh and her hoss; she never would ride
after the deacon's poor old creatur', and I believe it died long o' the
winter from stiffenin' up.
"Yes," said Mrs. Goodsoe emphatically, after we had silently
considered the situation for a short space of time, "yes, there was
consider'ble talk, now I tell you! The raskil boys pestered 'em just
about to death for a while. They used to collect up there an' rap on
the winders, and they'd turn out all the deacon's hens 'long at nine
o'clock o' night, and chase 'em all over the dingle; an' one night they
even lugged the pig right out o' the sty, and shoved it into the back
entry, an' run for their lives. They'd stuffed its mouth full o'
somethin', so it couldn't squeal till it got there. There wa'n't a sign
o' nobody to be seen when Lizy hasted out with the light, and she an'
the deacon had to persuade the creatur' back as best they could; 't was
a cold night, and they said it took 'em till towards mornin'. You see
the deacon was just the kind of a man that a hog wouldn't budge for; it
takes a masterful man to deal with a hog. Well, there was no end to the
works nor the talk, but Lizy left 'em pretty much alone. She did 'pear
kind of dignified about it, I must say!"
"And then, were theymarried in the spring?"
"I was tryin' to remember whether it was just before Fast Day or
just after," responded my friend, with a careful look at the sun, which
was nearer the west than either of us had noticed. "I think likely 't
was along in the last o' April, any way some of us looked out o' the
window one Monday mornin' early, and says, 'for goodness' sake! Lizy's
sent the deacon home again!' His old sorrel havin' passed away, he was
ridin' in Ezry Welsh's hoss-cart, with his hen-coop and more bundles
than he had when he come, and he looked as meechin' as ever you see.
Ezry was drivin', and he let a glance fly swiftly round to see if any
of us was lookin' out; an' then I declare if he didn't have the malice
to turn right in towards the barn, where he see my oldest brother,
Joshuay, an' says he real natural, 'Joshuay, just step out with your
wrench. I believe I hear my kingbolt rattlin' kind o' loose.' Brother,
he went out an' took in the sitooation, an' the deacon bowed kind of
stiff. Joshuay was so full o' laugh, and Ezry Welsh, that they couldn't
look one another in the face. There wa'n't nothing ailed the kingbolt,
you know, an' when Josh riz up he says, 'Goin' up country for a spell,
Mr. Brimblecom?'
"'I be,' says the deacon, lookin' dreadful mortified and cast down.
"'Ain't things turned out well with you an' Sister Wisby?' says
Joshuay. 'You had ought to remember that the woman is the weaker
"'Hang her, let her carry less sail, then!' the deacon bu'st out,
and he stood right up an' shook his fist there by the hen-coop, he was
so mad; an' Ezry's hoss was a young creatur', an' started up an set the
deacon right over backwards into the chips. We didn't know but he'd
broke his neck; but when he see the women folks runnin' out, he jumped
up quick as a cat, an' clim' into the cart, an' off they went. Ezry
said he told him that he couldn't git along with Lizy, she was so
fractious in thundery weather; if there was a rumble in the day-time
she must go right to bed an' screech, and if 't was night she must git
right up an' go an' call him out of a sound sleep. But everybody knew
he'd never a gone home unless she'd a sent him.
"Somehow they made it up agin right away, him an' Lizy, and she had
him back. She'd been countin' all along on not havin' to hire nobody to
work about the gardin an' so on, an' she said she wa'n't goin' to let
him have a whole winter's board for nothin'. So the old hens was moved
back, and they was married right off fair an' square, an' I don't know
but they got along well as most folks. He brought his youngest girl
down to live with 'em after a while, an' she was a real treasure to
Lizy; everybody spoke well o' Phebe Brimblecom. The deacon got over his
pious fit, and there was consider'ble work in him if you kept right
after him. He was an amazin' cider-drinker, and he airnt the name you
know him by in his latter days. Lizy never trusted him with nothin',
but she kep' him well. She left everything she owned to Phebe, when she
died, 'cept somethin' to satisfy the law. There, they're all gone now:
seems to me sometimes, when I get thinkin', as if I'd lived a
thousand years!"
I laughed, but I found that Mrs. Goodsoe's thoughts had taken a
serious turn.
"There, I come by some old graves down here in the lower edge of
the pasture," she said as we rose to go. "I couldn't help thinking how
I should like to be laid right out in the pasture ground, when my time
comes; it looked sort o' comfortable, and I have ranged these slopes so
many summers. Seems as if I could see right up through the turf and
tell when the weather was pleasant, and get the goodness o' the sweet
fern. Now, dear, just hand me my apernful o' mulleins out o' the shade.
I hope you won't come to need none this winter, but I'll dry some
special for you."
"I'm going home by the road," said I, "or else by the path across
the meadows, so I will walk as far as the house with you. Aren't you
pleased with my company?" for she demurred at my going the least bit
out of the way.
So we strolled toward the little gray house, with our plunder of
mullein leaves slung on a stick which we carried between us. Of course
I went in to make a call, as if I had not seen my hostess before; she
is the last maker of muster-gingerbread, and before I came away I was
kindly measured for a pair of mittens.
"You'll be sure to come an' see them two peach-trees after I get
'em well growin'?" Mrs Goodsoe called after me when I had said good-by,
and was almost out of hearing down the road.
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It seems Paul Jones and the Solar crew forgot to mention something with their latest release of the framework - a new authentication adapter for using Typekey in your code
As astute observers will have realized, the most-recent release of Solar had a new authentication adapter in it: Solar_Auth_Adapter_Typekey.
In this article, I'm going to talk a bit about Solar authentication in general, and then TypeKey authentication in specific.
Paul talks first about authentication in general using Solar, giving a simple code example of using the Solar_Auth class. With that base in place, he moves on to the TypeKey authentication, a more unified method for user validation than just using a seperate login at each site.
He explains what's needed to get the ball rolling and demonstrates a TypeKey login link and the setup for the adapter to validate the user.


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Dems use Ryan's mug in ads
Democrats are trying to figure out how to make Paul Ryan the down-ballot game-changer they thought he'd be when Mitt Romney picked him as his No. 2.
Their latest tack: using Ryan's mug.
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( Also on POLITICO: Ryan gets hero's welcome in House)
In their most aggressive effort yet to turn the vice presidential nominee into a central character of the race for the House, Democrats are for the first time using Ryan's image in TV ads as a means of tarnishing their GOP opponents.
The ads are aimed at sharpening their depiction of Republicans as steadfast supporters of Ryan's controversial budget plan and Medicare overhaul. Party strategists say the commercials go further than many of the previous ads they ran, which merely mentioned the budget but did not include the Wisconsin congressman's picture.
The latest offensive will come Friday, when the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee releases a commercial casting New York Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle as a Ryan pawn.
"Only in Washington would this happen. Ann Marie Buerkle voted to increase taxes on middle-class families by $1,400. And where does the money go? To give millionaires a $265,000 tax cut," the ad says as a picture of Ryan flashes on screen. "It's Paul Ryan's plan — and Anne Marie Buerkle voted for it."
The ad was the House Democratic campaign arm's second to feature Ryan – late last week it came out with another which showed a stick-figure-like New York Rep. Chris Gibson standing alongside Ryan.
"Chris Gibson voted for Paul Ryan's budget that leaves seniors at the mercy of the insurance industry," it says.
And on Thursday House Majority PAC, a group that supports congressional Democrats, released its first TV ad that features Ryan.
"Rick Snuffer? He's taken over $100,000 from his friends in Congress who support slashing Medicare by turning it into a voucher program," says the spot, which shows Ryan's face next to Snuffer, a Republican candidate in West Virginia.
The ads are designed to capitalize on Ryan's newfound prominence in the 2012 campaign. With the public growing increasingly aware of Ryan and his plan after his time on the campaign trail, Democrats strategists tasked with finding a path back to the House majority say they are seizing an opportunity to attach Republican candidates to a budget plan that many voters don't like.
( Also on POLITICO: House GOP worries about November surprises)
"Ryan being appointed as the vice presidential nominee was really a key development for us because it brought a national spotlight on the Ryan budget, it branded it," said Robby Mook, executive director of the DCCC. "While his name recognition isn't 100 percent today, there's much more consciousness of him and that he had a budget that cut Medicare."
"We wouldn't be doing this if we didn't think we had real, hard, scientific evidence that this was making a real difference," he added.


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AssemblyPoint needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 118 designs submitted by 34 freelance designers.
HrLocker, hrlocker, hrLocker - you decide. The url is hrlocker.com.
HrLocker is a Web app for managing HR documents. Don't yawn - it just makes life more challenging working in HR. We already run assemblypoint.com which is used for time and annual leave (PTO) tracking. I got the logo for assemblypoint here, and a couple of other too.
Our target audience is global early adopters in a business leadership role. Many of them will be working in HR. Typical audience member might be English-speaking, female, university educated and "white collar". They'll be familiar with Web 2.0 technology and although won't have 1,000+ twitter followers they will use facebook and linkedin.
We're a web business. We need a web logo. That's number 1. The logo will be used on a white background. We're going to be using the page design already on our existing application. You can log in and see it for yourself at assemblypoint.com/signup.
I know I don't want: Corel Draw type clipart, gradients, musical instruments, rip offs of other logos, or crudely obvious locker references.
Ideally we want to convey a slick, online service that is secure, reliable yet innovative. Remember the service is for managing HR documents - especially staff handbooks/policies and procedure documents.
If you're still interested here's how it works - a manager signs up his/her company, creates the staff handbook, uploads it, and adds staff members. Staff then get an email directing them to the handbook where they digitally sign it and confirm they've read it. If you're interested in using the service it will be online in about two weeks. We have the programming done. We just need the logo now. That's where you come in....
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Survey of the Work of Claude Monet Opens at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid
A woman walks past Claude Monet's "Marine, effet de nuit" (R) and Mark Rothko's "Untitled" during the media inauguration of the exhibit "Monet and the Abstraction" at Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum. REUTERS/Andrea Comas.
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and Fundación Caja Madrid are presenting the exhibition Monet and Abstraction. It offers a survey of the work of the great French Impressionist painter from an innovative perspective and one never previously employed in the context of a temporary exhibition of this scale and importance, namely the artist's relationship with the development of abstraction in the second half of the 20th century.
From his ethereal London landscapes to the monumental depictions of his garden at Giverny where he spent the last forty years of his life, the exhibition looks at how Claude Monet's permanent obsession with capturing the instantaneous led him to break down pictorial representation to the point of reaching the threshold of abstraction. It also analyses how, around the middle of the 20th century, the young generation of European and American abstract artists rediscovered his art and elevated the figure of Monet to the status of undisputed prophet of the material-based trends within abstraction. Monet thus came to occupy the fundamental role within the history of art that he still maintains today.
Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis, Joan Mitchell, Adolph Gottlieb, André Masson, Philip Guston and Gerhard Richter were among the young artists who turned back to Monet. The present exhibition now offers the chance to see their work in the context of a fascinating dialogue with that of the Impressionist master, revealing numerous connections. Exhibiting Monet's painting in this new way allows for an analysis of the important influence that he exerted on the development of certain aspects of abstraction in the second half of the 20th century and hence his key role in the development of modern art.
More than 100 works have been assembled for this new project, jointly organized by the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid. It has benefited from the fundamental collaboration of the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, where the exhibition will be seen in the summer of 2010 after its Madrid showing. The French museum has lent a magnificent group of works from the major legacy of works by Monet that it houses. Also important are the numerous loans from museums and private collections around the world, particularly Europe and the USA.
Monet was undoubtedly the most celebrated and prolific of the French Impressionists, but he was also the most independent and innovative. His obsession with capturing a sense of the instantaneous, his interest in issues such as the perception of nature and his need to express his personal experience solely through pictorial means led him to break down pictorial representation into an almost abstract atmosphere. Monet's death in December 1926 passed almost unnoticed within the art world of the day. His Grandes Décorations comprising the Water Lilies series, donated to the French State by the artist himself in 1918 and placed on display in 1927, one year after his death, were largely ignored for decades in the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris.
In the early decades of the 20th century the norms of the new avant-garde movements prevailed, primarily based on the concept of "construction". As a result, Monet's work, like that of most of the Impressionist painters other than Cézanne, was considered out of date and was consequently forgotten. The rediscovery of Monet did not come about until the mid-20th century when young artists of the triumphant Abstract Expressionism movement in the United States began to look at his works with a fresh eye. The emphasis on paint and its application in his work, his "allover" technique, his loose brushstroke and sketchy forms were nothing less than a revelation both for the young generation of Abstract Expressionists in the States and for the followers of European Informalism.
As is habitually the case, the exhibition is divided between the galleries of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and those of Fundación Caja Madrid.
1. Mists and variations
The exhibition opens with a room devoted to the impact that the work of Turner had on Claude Monet during the trips to London that Monet made between 1899 and 1901. A comparison of Turner's work with Monet's paintings of the Thames allows us to appreciate how the play of light across Turner's sparkling pictorial surfaces and his loose, free brushwork influenced Monet's subtle effects in his urban landscapes bathed in the London fog. In addition, the presence in this room of the work of Gerhard Richter, who also executed a series inspired by London, establishes a connection with contemporary abstraction.
2. Effects of light
Monet's sunsets reveal his interest in depicting the changing and ephemeral effects of evening light on the picture surface. The way in which he transformed the rhythms of nature into the expression of his own emotions through a loose, free technique in which the study of colour became the true protagonist, anticipates the chromatic abstractions of later artists such as Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb.
3. Reflections and transparencies
In the rooms devoted to the subject of Water lilies - one of the most important chapters within the artist's late output - Monet reveals a growing interest in reconciling a representative type of art, which he never fully abandoned, and a defence of the material aspects of the paint surface. These works mark a shift in his art from narration to abstraction, a process that is related in the present exhibition to the subtle abstraction of the American painter Helen Frankenthaler.
4. Contrasts of forms
The variations of light, time and atmosphere and the contrasts of forms that arise from the reflection of vegetation on tranquil water captured by Monet in a number of his series were crucial for later artists such as Clyfford Still and Barnett Newman. Their brilliantly coloured shapes with strong effects of backlighting must inevitably be related to the work of Monet.
5. Brushstroke and gesture
The innovative technique used by Monet in the last years of his life paved the way for the abstract idioms of the 20th century. In the final rooms of this first part of the exhibition, paintings from Monet's last period establish a dialogue with abstract works by Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Mark Tobey, Philip Guston, Esteban Vicente, Willem de Kooning and Cy Twombly.
6. In the garden at Giverny
Along with the water lilies, the flowers, trees and Japanese bridge in his garden at Giverny were Monet's preferred subjects during the last years of his life. The loose handling of these paintings, in which the paint sometimes runs across the surface of the canvas, anticipates the style and technique of the Abstract Expressionists many years later. During the 1950s various young artists such as Joan Mitchell, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Sam Francis, Zao Wou-Ki and Ellsworth Kelly made Monet's house and garden at Giverny a place of pilgrimage. As can be seen in this section of the exhibition, the discovery of works that remained in Monet's studio provided a crucial stimulus for many key figures of abstraction.
7. In the wake of Monet
Monet's influence can be traced in the work of numerous abstract artists of the second half of the 20th century for a wide variety of reasons. This room presents some of the clear affinities between the work of the French Impressionist painter and artists such as Jean Bazaine, Maria Elena Vieira da Silva, Robert Ryman and Gerhard Richter.
8- Documentation area
This room displays a selection of photographs of Monet and his garden at Giverny (both from the artist's own time and those taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson in the 1950s). It also includes a projection of part of Ceux chez nous, the film made in 1915 by Sacha Guitry in which Monet himself appears alongside other artists including Renoir, Rodin and Edgar Degas.
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