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Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh said of comprehensive immigration reform, "I don't know that there's any stopping this; it's up to me and Fox News, and I don't think Fox News is that invested in this." After Limbaugh's interview today with Marco Rubio, I wonder how invested Limbaugh is in stopping the comprehensive immigration reform express.
Rubio has been designated by the Senate's immigration leftists — Schumer, Durbin, McCain, and Graham — as the man who will sell to conservatives their agenda of amnesty and a path to citizenship for illegal aliens. Rubio appears to have done a good sale's job on Limbaugh.
Rush started out by asking a great question:
The first question I have for you is, why are we doing this? It seems like Washington has a pattern, and that is, when the Democrats want to do something, the media gets behind it, the Democrats get behind it, and it becomes something that has to be done and therefore the Democrats set the stage, they start the ball in motion. The Republicans then react to it, say, "Okay, that's what you want to do, we'll do it, but here's our way of doing it." Why are we doing this now?
Rubio answered:
The president clearly outlined that he was gonna push on this, the media was gonna focus on this, the Senate Democrats were gonna push on this issue, and I thought it was critically important that we outline the principles of what reform is about. . . .In the absence of stepping forward with our own principles, the left and the president will tell people what we stand for, and it's not necessarily gonna be true.
This is fine as far as it goes — Republicans should define their position rather than having it defined for them. However, this begs the question of what the Republican position on immigration should be. In Rubio's mind, as in the mind of Schumer, Durbin, McCain, and Graham, reform should include, among other things, a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
But, as Rush asked, Why? Of course, the Democrats were always going to push for citizenship for illegals — it's a vital element of their plan to obtain permanent political supremacy. But Republicans need not capitulate. The House can block whatever the Senate Democrats push; even Senate Republicans could do so if they were united. With Rubio on board with the Dems, however, it will be politically difficult for even the House to avoid the amnesty/path to citizenship steamroller.
Thus, Rush's question stands: Why capitulate on amnesty and the path to citizenship?
Unfortunately, Rush didn't press the point. Instead, he raised the separate concern of how to make sure that the border enforcement component of the deal Rubio is pushing — amnesty and a path for citizenship once the border is secure — will be fulfilled. The question is an important one to be sure, but it assumes that amnesty and a path to citizenship would be meritorious outcomes if the border were secured. But why? Rubio didn't say and Rush didn't ask.
Instead, Rubio touted his supposed powers of persuasion:
I am confident, I really am, maybe people don't share this confidence, I am confident that, given a fair chance, I can convince most Americans, including Americans of Hispanic descent, that limited government and free enterprise is better for them and better for their upward mobility than Big Government is. Because that's the reason why they came here. You look at people that come from Latin America. They come to get away from stale stagnant economies where the rich keep winning and everybody else keeps working for them because Big Government dominates those economies.
Rush was skeptical:
Well, is that the reason that a majority of immigrants come to this country today? I know it used to be. They wanted to be Americans. They wanted to escape oppression. They wanted to become citizens of the greatest country on earth. I've seen a number of research, scholarly research data, which says that a vast majority of arriving immigrants today come here because they believe that government is the source of prosperity, and that's what they support. It's not about conservative principles and so forth, not the way it used to be. Are the Republicans stuck in the past in misjudging why the country is attractive to immigrants today?
Rush might have added that even the immigrants of the past supported a leftist, big government agenda for many decades after arriving in America. But Rush was certainly spot-on in refusing to romanticize today's immigrants.
Rubio responded by resorting to anecdote. Even he didn't seem convinced by his response:
I haven't done a scholarly study on the makeup. I can only tell you about the people I interact with, and I can tell you the folks I interact with, once they get into this country and they start to work and they open up their own business, they start to understand the cost of Big Government. I see it every day firsthand from people that have been here about eight to ten years. All of a sudden, they have their own business, they have a bunch of permits that they have to comply with, a bunch of complicated laws. Their taxes just went up a couple of weeks ago even though President Obama has been saying it's only gonna go up on the rich, and the light bulb is going off that, in fact, Big Government, you know, rich means them even though they're middle class and Big Government means less opportunity for them. So we have work to do, there's no doubt about it.
Rubio's personal observations do not trump the data. Hispanic immigrants vote overwhelmingly for the party of big government. The Republican position on immigration reform probably contributes to this phenomenon at the margin, but it can't explain it. The waves of immigrants who preceded the Hispanics also voted overwhelmingly for big government liberalism, and for the same reason — they were a resentful underclass.
Rush switched the focus to President Obama. He argued that the president has no real interest in achieving border security.
This enabled Rubio to tout the Gang of Eight, whose blueprint for reform includes improving border security. Rush countered that this will not prevent the Democrats from calling the Republicans anti-Hispanic if they block reform on the grounds that it won't bring about real border security.
Here, I think Rush misses the game the game of "good cop, bad cop" the Democrats are playing. Obama is the bad cop — the pro-immigration extremist. Schumer and Durbin are the good cops, insisting on (faux) border security. Obama will gladly take what the good cops are offering because it's also what he craves — the path to a permanent Democrat political majority. Meanwhile, out of fear of the bad cop, Rubio and company probably will ultimately agree to what the good cops are insisting upon — that, by hook or by crook, the border is certified as secure so that millions of illegal immigrants can become citizens.
In any event, Rubio seemed to win Rush over:
Well, what you are doing is admirable and noteworthy. You are recognizing reality. You're trumpeting it, you're shouting it. My concern is the president wants to change the reality. My concern is the president wants people to believe something that isn't true is, and that is that you guys are not being truthful of what you say, that you really don't want an improved life for Hispanics, that you really are still racist. He's not gonna give that up. Look how far he's gotten with this so far. You know, it's an enviable task that you've got.
Rush seems to be suggesting that Republicans should support legislation that includes amnesty and a path to citizenship in order to rebut Obama's claims that Republicans are racist. In my view, Republicans shouldn't be cowed into supporting bad ideas in order to avoid charges that the Democrats will always level, based on one pretense or another, against them.
Rush's next-to-last question was: "What do you think the result will be if this effort fails?" For me, the more pertinent question is: What will be result be if Rubio's effort to bring about amnesty and a path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants succeeds?
One result, I believe, will be the inability, for decades, of the Republican party to win more than the odd election as a conservative entity.


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Terrorist schemes have a starring role in the season's action movies, triggering an assortment of mayhem — collapsing skyscrapers, spaceships flying into densely populated cities and bombers run amok.
"Star Trek Into Darkness" features two attacks on crowded offices. The apparent villain in "Iron Man 3" bears a preternatural resemblance to Osama bin Laden. The survivors of collapsing high-rises in "Man of Steel" look just like New Yorkers covered in the gray ashes of the fallen World Trade Center towers. Critics have pointed out several terror analogies in the zombie drama "World War Z."
Coming out Friday, "White House Down" follows a violent Washington takeover in which the U.S. Capitol is blown up and the head of Homeland Security taken hostage by domestic fanatics. And in Aug. 28's conspiracy thriller "Closed Circuit," a bomb placed by a Muslim cell is detonated in a British market, prompting memorials similar to those after 9/11.
Twelve years after the Sept. 11 attacks made such plots commercially unthinkable, Hollywood is no longer shying away from story lines involving terrorists bent on harming civilians and destroying landmarks. Filmmakers say the trend reflects their attempt to give fantasy films some real-world relevance. And now, with the terror attacks more than a decade in the past, they say they no longer have to worry about alienating audiences.
"The way I process things is that I write about them, and you write about the times you live in," said James Vanderbilt, the screenwriter of "White House Down," which stars Channing Tatum as an aspiring Secret Service officer trying to rescue his daughter and the president when the White House is taken over by domestic terrorists.
"I was always fascinated with the idea of how you could take over the country — who would be able to do that," said Vanderbilt, who previously developed (but was unable to make) a movie based on Richard Clarke's memoir "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror."
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The crop of movies represents a 180-degree turn from the immediate wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, when the film business put a freeze on movies that had the vaguest connection to terrorism and even shelved projects that had negative depictions of emergency personnel.
Some movies considered too topical — like Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Collateral Damage," about a terrorist bombing of a Los Angeles skyscraper, and Tim Allen's comedy "Big Trouble," which included a nuclear bomb on an airplane — were released months later than planned, and advertising images, including a "Spider-Man" image using the World Trade Center, were pulled.
Just as Hollywood didn't start examining the Vietnam War in depth until several years after the fall of Saigon — with movies such as "Platoon" and "Coming Home" — it's taken an equal amount of time for Hollywood to feel comfortable addressing terrorism. The industry's self-imposed suppression didn't vanish overnight. Rather, the change was gradual, starting several years ago with films about Middle East conflict.
"People have very short memories, and what was verboten 10 years ago no longer is today," said Michael Taylor, a veteran movie producer and the chair of film and television production at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. "Hollywood will always use what's in the zeitgeist to entertain people, and terror is in the zeitgeist."
Indeed, audiences seem entranced by the terrorist ties.
"Iron Man 3" is the year's biggest blockbuster, with a worldwide gross in excess of $1.2 billion. The latest "Star Trek" sequel has sold more than $400 million in global tickets, and the new Superman movie, "Man of Steel" opened June 14 and has surpassed $400 million worldwide.
"Man of Steel" has perhaps the starkest visual ties to the 9/11 attacks, with its images of countless metropolitan buildings tumbling down, coating the people and streets below in ghostly residue.
Director Zack Snyder said he was trying to evoke one of America's darkest days in a mythological rather than literal sense, using Superman as something like a therapist.
"They're helping us understand the weird psychological and big horrible events that happen all the time. These guys deal with them in a dream-like way that makes it OK," the filmmaker said. "A modern problem — a city getting destroyed — a superhero can help you understand that."
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In the latest "Star Trek" sequel, the action may unfold in the future but its terror elements — including a spaceship taking out a major city — are intended to remind audiences of the present.
"The film is about earthbound terror," said Chris Pine, who plays Capt. Kirk. "It's about terrorism, about issues we as human beings in 2013 deal with every day, about the exploitation of fear to take advantage of a population, about physical violence and destruction but also psychological manipulation."
Shane Black, the director and co-writer of "Iron Man 3," said the character of the Mandarin, played by Ben Kingsley and filmed by Black as if he were in a video leaked to Al Jazeera, is intended to represent "the ultimate terrorist" — even if the character is ultimately a proxy for another criminal mastermind.
"He's one of these guys who's become a warrior-philosopher, who sees the game of terrorism as this grand philosophical construct and has probably gone a little insane and has probably been witness to in his time a great many atrocities over which he may have presided," Black said. "But now he's sociopathic but at the same time has this driving hatred for America which fuels his rhetoric with which he recruits these legions of followers."
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While terrorism may work well as a plot device, USC's Taylor says he wishes filmmakers would go a little deeper — using their platforms to explore how the root causes of terrorism and its consequences might be addressed.
"Maybe there is a missed opportunity — where they can include an issue of positive social change in the narrative," said Taylor, who founded USC's Media Institute for Social Change. "What can we be doing about terrorism, and how do we feel about it?"
That audiences are flocking to these movies represents a turnaround from just a few years ago, when moviegoers showed little interest in watching films that referenced any real conflict.
Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center," the true tale of two first responders who survived the attack, was a modest commercial and critical success in 2006, but a slew of other recent movies about the Middle East largely fizzled, including "The Green Zone," "Stop-Loss," and "The Lucky Ones."
Director Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" won the 2009 best picture Oscar but grossed just $17 million in domestic release. Her "Zero Dark Thirty," about the killing of Bin Laden, was more popular last year, taking in more than $100 million globally.
Roland Emmerich, who directed "White House Down," balances the hostility of his radicals with comic moments. All the same, he didn't want to shy away from graphic scenes, including the downing of a jumbo jet filled with people and the shooting down of military helicopters.
"I always try," the director said, "to make provocative images."
Times staff writers Chris Lee, Rebecca Keegan and Gina McIntyre contributed to this report.
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Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 11:33 am
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Read an interesting op ed piece by Robert Reich yesterday. He gave figures from the Congressional Budget Office on charitable tax deductions for last year, at a total of $39 billion, with $33 billion of that coming from the top 20% income brackets. He incorrectly said that this amounted to $40 billion in Federal expenditures--in fact only about 30% of total charitable deductions are direct reductions in Federal income tax. But he put it in perspective by saying that $40 billion is more than all Federal government spending for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (welfare), school lunches for poor kids, and Head Start combined.
He made a second point, that much of the charitable deductions of the upper crust go to social organizations that enhance the status of the rich (opera membership, endowing seats at Harvard, etc.), with as little as 1/3 actually going to the poor. So let's take that figure, and see how much good charity does. There are 46.5 million people in poverty in this country, $13 billion amounts to about $280/person.
This relates directly to the right wing meme that we don't need government to care for the poor, charities and religions will take care of it--and assistance from the government creates a culture of dependency. The second aspect of this meme is that the rich are truly generous, and give directly so the government does not take most of it with their legendary inefficiency.
The facts seem to belie this legend. I hardly think that $280 per person is enough to keep the wolf from the door of my poor school kids, much less create a culture of dependency. And looking at all of the Federal programs identified by Reich, you only get another $1000 or so per person. Hardly enough to relax in the lap of luxury.
Let's look at the second part of the meme--the vaunted generosity of the rich, touted here by many right wingers. Stay with me for a minute. $33 billion in charitable giving comes from the upper 20% in income. (For consistency I am ignoring total wealth, which would slant things even more strongly to the stinginess of the wealthy.) There are 115 million households in the country, thus the top 20% account for 23 million households. The mean annual income for such households is $226,000 (both household number and income are 2010 census data), which means that the total income of those households is $5.2 trillion, and their generosity is less than 1%.
Now I understand that for those in the bubble, who ignore facts--especially if they come from a newspaper that has an editor that
fact checking--the scale of these numbers makes their eyes glaze over. So I'll give you just one more fact to illustrate the point.
Hurricane Katrina was one of the largest disasters in history, and if climate change delivers more such storms, we will see even greater damage (Superstorm Sandy was about the same level of damage). Estimates of the direct damage range from $96 to 125 billion, with more than half uninsured. Total economic costs are greater, perhaps $250 billion.
According to Charity Navigator, $4.25 billion was donated by private individuals in response to Hurricane Katrina. That's right, about 3% of the actual damage.
So as you in the upper 50% of income bracket approach the end of the year, and are besieged by requests for donations, keep these facts in mind. Charitable donations are great, and support elements of our culture that support the arts, religion, education, and the environment. But consider giving generously, and particularly to true charities. Your richer brethren are not going to be making up the difference, either with taxes or with their own generous contributions.
Merry Christmas!
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Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 12:07 pm
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I think most charity is not included in those numbers.
Many good things are done through churches and others without putting them on your tax return.
Oue entire third world school is paid by contributions which are not deductible.
Grocery store contributions, invites for food to poor folks in your area on holidays.
The stores give everyone on Maui a turkey for Thanksgiving if you cant pay.
If you bring a can for the Food Bank at my favorite restaurant you get one meal free. Many folks bring a case.
It makes money for them because the locals stsrt being regulars, they dont need tourists as much.
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Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 1:20 pm
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I have told many charities face to face, over the phone, and on paper that the public's obligation to private charity ended when Obama and the Democratic Party went insane with giving unlimited charity to buy votes using money taken by force from taxpayers. Free phones, food stamps, SS disability, corporate and mortgage and school loan bailouts, school lunches for EVERYONE, Ocare exemptions for millions of his supporters, and at least 50 more astounding examples of abusive, often illegal, blatant gifts never dreamed of by honest people from 1775 through 2008.
I now give to two charities: Wounded Warriors and animal rescue services. Everything else got crossed off my list when Obama lost his mind.
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KC--I have no doubt that there is charity that does not get recorded as a tax deduction. But I think it is small in scale compared to the overall wealth of the country, the wealth of the upper 20%, and the overall needs. I also think that at the scale you are talking about--church collections, food, meals, etc,--it is largely coming from the middle class. Even if you double the contributions from the upper 20% it is a pittance compared to the reduction in taxes associated with the Bush tax cuts, the needs, and the rhetoric.
Mike Fick illustrates ample the kinds of rationalization that is involved in selfishness. I guess we are going to have to contribute for him as well as the mega-rich.
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What a drag it must be to be you Mike. Merry Fucking Christmas
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I don't think I would underestimate those types of giving too much. Based on your numbers no one could exist on that. Last week I witnessed that first hand. Everything and I mean everything at this homeless shelter was done with donations of time and / or money. This shelter was a prime peice of real estate in downtown Toronto sold for $1 to this charity. This is not that isolated an incident in my experience. I can think of a dozen similar just off the top of my head.
This place had three people on pay rolled staff. They fed 300 plus people that night and feed 200 average lunch and dinner everyday. You do the math.
I do agree with the observation of growing selfishness when it comes to charity though.
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RR--that's the point of the post--I did the math. While it may be imperfect, what it shows is that the scale of the donations is about 1/10th of the need. That meme is at the heart of conservative rationale. In this country there simply isn't much in the way of large scale donations that don't show up as tax deductions. People who make too little to fill out a long form do sometimes give until it hurts, and give in the family. But since they make so little, and the need is so great, it doesn't really budget the dial.
All of us, myself included, are deluding ourselves more than a little, when we rationalize how generous we are.
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Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 5:31 pm
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Is it not part of people's selfishness and greed that they do not give? Why is attached to their politics. Both parties are not exempt of those lovely attributes. I would agree that there is a more self centered message coming from the right, it doesn't mean they are the only ones guilty of this.
Hey, I just dropped $2600 for a future trip to Punta San Carlos.....guilty as charged. Think of what or who I could have helped with that chunk of change.
It would be interesting to see who actually gave more....conservatives or liberals?
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It would be interesting to see who actually gave more....conservatives or liberals?
The official numbers have been consistent for many years and posted here before. Conservatives earn 6% less than liberals but give 43% more.
As for my own giving, to whom I give is my own business. But percentage-wise, I give FAR more than the Gores, Obamas, or Bidens did before their stinginess made the world news cycle.
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RR--but it is politics when the right argues that we don't need government because charity will suffice. The rich don't give very much. Far more of the rich are Republicans. It is not a coincidence that most of the benefits of the Bush tax cuts went to the rich. How is that not political, and how is the impact of cutting services to the poor--with nonsense about their unwillingness to work--not politics?
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Form And Function - 4WordPosted in News on May 23, 2014
Off-roading is one of the few automotive hobbies where you can have a completely beat or unrecognizable vehicle and it's perfectly acceptable. Can you imagine if a Ford Mustang drove onto a drag strip with no fenders or doors? In any other realm, the modifications we do to our 4x4 rigs would be downright absurd. Fortunately, the 'wheeling community has always embraced the ugly, odd, and awesome.
In this issue, we're highlighting some of the most practical modifications you can do to your 4x4, along with some of the most extreme examples of custom-built 'wheeling machines. I suppose that's what has always drawn me to the off-road hobby. You don't have to be a brand loyalist (although many are) or know everything there is to know about this history of the 4x4. You just need to be enthusiastic about going off-road.
I often think back to my early days of 'wheeling. I had a '87 Isuzu Trooper II. It was fitted with a four-cylinder diesel engine, five-speed manual transmission, and lots and lots of rust. Everything was stock. For the most part, it was a below-average 'wheeler, but I didn't care. I simply enjoyed going off-road with my friends. The lessons I learned piloting that pile off-road are still with me today.
Over the years, I've owned and wrenched on a variety of rigs. Some I'm extremely proud of, others I try to forget. With each vehicle, I always take away some new nugget of information. Sometimes it's a build trick, other times it's a hard lesson in what not to do.
Ultimately, I enjoy modifying 4x4 rigs nearly as much as I cherish using them on the trail. For me, it's not always about how capable a rig is, but if it works for the owner's needs. It doesn't matter if it's a converted ambulance or late-model buggy disguised as a '66 Ford Bronco. So long as the vehicle serves a purpose to you, custom 4x4 creations, no matter how odd, will always have a home in the off-road hobby.


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Friday, August 04, 2006
I've have been working on this luxury tweed slipover for a bit. It's going to be a birthday present for my flatmate (who taught me to knit - so it has to be neat!). I've done the back, which is just plain red/ navy st st which didn't make for any interesting photos, which is which is why I've not blogged about it before. Now I'm on the colour-work.
The yarn is lovely, and the pattern's ok but I'm never the biggest fan of intarsia. Especially as said-flatmate has taken my bobbins to Italy with her for a month, so I'm doing my best with small centre-pull balls. That patten book was hiding quite a mess.
But this is going slowly for reasons other than messy colour-work. I've got a huge deadline at the moment and my only knitting-time is on the bus to and from libraries. Intarsia on buses = silly, so I've got the second dna illusion sock on the go. If I manage to finish the document I'm working on, I'll be going to Fruitstock on Sunday - see you in the HipKnits section.
Till then, the content of these books are the only strands I'll be working on untangling. The initials "SSK" denote two things to me. "Slip, slip, knit" and "Sociology of Scientific Knowledge", its the latter I'm preoccupied with at present.
13 comments:
- ysolda said...
the only way I can do intarsia without getting tangled is to knit backwards across the row instead of turning and purling, I think it makes the intarsia neater too. Have you tried that?
Good luck with the other ssk.
- Friday, August 04, 2006
- Lolly said...
Alice, it is beautiful! What a generous gift too! Good luck with all of the work, and I hope you have some respite soon ;)
Best wishes~
- Friday, August 04, 2006
Its looking good, I'm sure she'll love it!
I love luxury tweed, shame its discontinued. Cucumberpatch have/ had a great deal on it though!
- Friday, August 04, 2006
- gleek said...
my husband really loves argyle socks and i've been tempted to make them but don't like intarsia. someday though i'll have to give it a shot!
- Friday, August 04, 2006
- Susan said...
I love the yarn! The vest looks fantastic. And there's a good tutorial on knitting backwards on knitty.com right now. Looks like a useful technique.
- Friday, August 04, 2006
- carolyn said...
wow, that is going to look amazing when it's done, she will really love it
- Saturday, August 05, 2006
- Specs said...
The vest looks great, and I love the colors.
Also: good luck with your project. It'll be done soon and then you can get back to the fun stuff! (After big projects, I always spend a celebratory day just knitting and doing housework I hadn't been doing the weeks before.)
- Saturday, August 05, 2006
- Elizabeth said...
I love that intarsia vest - really gorgeous. I've gotta learn how to do intarsia one of these days!
- Sunday, August 06, 2006
- Philippa said...
In Simply Fabulous Knitting, my Montse Stanley for beginners, she recommends dividing a shoe box into compartments by pushing strips of card into slits at the sides or by placing small boxes or little jars inside, making a hole in the lid above each one and threading the yarn through, then tying the box closed and turning it every time you turn your work. Not the most portable solution I realise, and probably too late for you to embark on now, but it seems like a good idea.
Hope you made it to Fruitstock and that it was great, and that work on your books is going well too. I would really have liked to have gone. Some day my meeting with real life knitters will come... :)
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The House My Ancestors Bought at SearsBy: Nephi Henry
As I imagine a lot of people do, I used to think of genealogy as one of the blandest, most tedious things a person could do. The endless list of names and dates to be memorized, the stale pedigree charts, the distant places with names I couldn't pronounce—genealogy was too much for my busy 21st-century brain to keep track of, the kind of thing I'd have to store away in spreadsheets and could never really find a way to sink my teeth into.
Then, one day, that very same 21st-century brain gave me my breakthrough into how personal and real genealogy can be. I called my dad, who lives on the other side of the country, and due to my habitual multitasking I was also browsing the Web on my laptop. Dad started talking about his grandparents, my great-grandparents, whom I don't remember ever meeting or even seeing pictures of. They lived in a little white farmhouse near Canton, Illinois, and Dad reminisced at length about the idyllic summers he spent there as a boy, walking the fields and drinking fresh milk straight from the dairy cows. He tried to describe the house for me, but his memories were vague and sparse.
Dad then mentioned casually that his grandparents had bought their house—or rather, the kit for their house—from the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog. Frankly, I was astonished: I knew Sears had essentially revolutionized American consumerism with its mail-order catalog, but I had no idea that the company had ever dealt in anything as big as houses. So on a hunch, I opened a Web browser and searched for "Sears houses."
Lo and behold, there were entire websites dedicated to these houses, complete with scans of original catalog pages featuring the kits, their exteriors, and their floor plans. It turns out that like my great-grandparents' old farmhouse, many of these decades-old kit homes are still standing today. As landmarks of an American sociocultural phenomenon, they create quite a niche community online.
Soon Dad booted up his home computer and we were looking together through page after page of the houses. Within a few short minutes we found the very one my great-grandparents had built on the Illinois plains—the Starlight. And as we looked at the floor plan and the pictures, it was as though a dam broke. Memory after memory came back to him; he hardly had time to share one with me before the next came rushing into his mind.
About a week later, I got an email from Dad and found that he'd attached a dozen photographs of faces I'd never seen, but I could tell almost at once they were relatives: the great-grandparents I'd never known, along with my grandmother and her siblings. And there behind them was the house Dad had struggled to recreate in his mind. I'm not sure where he found the pictures, but I'm pretty certain he went looking because we'd found that old farmhouse using some very 21st-century technology.
How have you mixed the old and the new in genealogy? Has technology unexpectedly opened doors to your own family history?


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NEW YORK — Stocks are closing higher on Wall Street at the beginning of a slow holiday week.
Apple led technology stocks higher with a gain of 4 percent after striking a deal to bring the iPhone to China Mobile, the world's largest cell phone carrier.
Darden, which runs Red Lobster and Olive Garden, rose 6 percent after activist investor Starboard Value took a stake in the company.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 73 points, or 0.5 percent, to 16,294 Monday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 rose nine points, or 0.5 percent, to 1,828. The Nasdaq composite rose 44 points, 1.1 percent, to 4,148.
Trading volume was very light ahead of the holidays.
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Your controller script should assign necessary variables to the view before it hands over control to the view script. Normally, you can do assignments one at a time by assigning to property names of the view instance:
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<?php $view = new Zend_View(); // assign an array of key-value pairs, where the // key is the variable name, and the value is // the assigned value. $array = array( 'a' => "Hay", 'b' => "Bee", 'c' => "Sea", ); $view->assign($array); // do the same with an object's public properties; // note how we cast it to an array when assigning. $obj = new StdClass; $obj->a = "Hay"; $obj->b = "Bee"; $obj->c = "Sea"; $view->assign((array) $obj); ?>
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Since 1984 C-Lovers Fish & Chips has been serving fish & chips and other seafood produced in their open concept kitchens. Only the best quality, freshest ingredients are used like hand selected Alaskan halibut or our locally grown farm fresh kennebec potatoes.
Discovered this company initially at English Bay during the fireworks with a take out order (very good!) and when hubby had a hankering for fish and chip again, we looked them up again. We found the Coquitlam location was on our errands path and stopped in for lunch a couple of weeks ago. A small location from the storefront but spacious once you get inside with not too many tables squished together. Lots of room. It was clean and airy as well, without the heavy odor of grease hanging in the air. Nothing fancy but definitely clean and very pleasant
We opted for the $11.99 all you can eat option which comes with bottom-less pop. Quick service with a smile, even though she seemed to be the only server on at lunch time that day but you'd never know if she was stressed. She was friendly, had an easy smile on her face and didn't rush us at all. Beverages were refreshed when there was maybe 1/4 glass left and offers of more fish (and fries) when there was 1 piece left on our plates ensuring our plates and cups were never empty. We went a second time last light with a friend and even this we got there a half hour before their closing time (didn't realize they closed at 8pm), we had the same friendly service from the same server.
The fish was fresh and served piping hot,.. same with the fries, done as they're ordered. Crispy without being burnt and not dripping with oil or tasting heavy. Tartar sauce that I believe is made in-house and just yummy! The guys tore though a lot of tartar sauce with their fish and we all left with full tummies but not feeling weighted down.
Would we go again? Absolutely and I'm sure in the very near future!
Greasy spoons type setting with good old fashioned fish n' chips. The batter is on the heavier side. Fish quality as well as portion size, are consistent. Fries are perfectly done. As for taste, I do find it bland compared to Go Fish, but better than Pajo's. Value is quite good as you can get a 2 piece halibut, chips, coleslaw and a bun for about $11. We normally see the same staff and the female servers are quite friendly, in a familiar welcoming kind of way. The nice lady with the Irish accent must recognize us by now. The ambiance is a bit dated. they've recently given the place a minor facelift with a fresh coat of paint, changed lighting fixtures, and added stone tiling to the front counter. I guess it looks better, however, not noticeably different. Ample parking since they're in the corner of a plaza mall.
We both ordered the all you can eat. After we got the drinks, the waitress came back with only 1 plate of fish n chips. The waitress said she'd get my plate soon.. I waited over 10 minutes for it. Then my partner said he'd have 3 more fish. He waited a long time for it. Then she asked me if I wanted more, I said 1 more fish with chips, she came back with 2 fish and forgot about the chips. Although it was busy, maybe it would help if she wrote down the orders...
we came here for a late dinner and seated ourselves. The service was fast and the waitress was quite friendly. We both had the all you can eat cod fish n chip dinner. There was about 5 pieces of fish with lots of fries. The fries were good and the fish was very fresh. After eating that we had another 2 more pieces of fish then couldn't eat anymore. The only thing we didn't like was having to ask for lemon. They brought us about 4 lemon SLICES, not wedges. We thought that was a bit odd. We will still return as the fish was very fresh, not dry or overcooked.
We have enjoyed the 'all-you-can-eat' cod fish and chips at C-Lovers for several years now. Always very fresh-tasting fish, and served up nice and hot.
Very crowded over lunch -- we like to get there when it first opens -- that not guarantees getting a table, but getting some of the first "piping hot & fresh" fish & chips from the kitchen!!
Fattening, deep-fried stuff, but once in a while, great lunch fare!!
Well I was absolutely starving after the Save-on-Foods Christmas baking ingredients marathon so I went to C which is conveniently almost next door. I was alone and had a lot of fun chatting up the people around me who I suspected thought I had been let out for the weekend. I asked them what they recommended, how often they came here etc. It was well worth the interviews. I ordered the North Van platter for $15.00 which came with gorgeous prawns and halibut. In spite of my relatively small size ( I am a runner ) I do eat a lot. I could Not finish this. It was delicious and predictable. Crispy fish and hot Not- soggy fries. This is Not where you come to count your calories unless you opt out for the salad and fish. ( That looked good too.) I was there at about 6:30 0n a Sat. night and the place was buzzing. If you are in the neighbourhood eat here.
I used to like this place. Last trip there found the fish and chips good as usual but the chips portion was down significantly. The coleslaw dressing had been so watered down that it was tasteless. The restaurant had a lot of ants which the owner addressed right away but come on guys pull out a vacuum once in awhile.
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(CNN) — Sir Elton John is now the proud dad of two.
He and David Furnish welcomed a baby boy on January 11, the legendary musician confirmed on his website.
Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John arrived in Los Angeles via surrogate that Friday evening, weighing in at 8 pounds, 4 ounces.
The couple, who wed in 2005, are also parents to two-year-old Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, and they told Hello! magazine that they've always wanted Zachary to have a sibling.
"Both of us have longed to have children, but the reality that we now have two sons is almost unbelievable," John, 65, and Furnish, 50, said in a joint statement to Hello!. "The birth of our second son completes our family in a most precious and perfect way. It is difficult to fully express how we are feeling at this time; we are just overwhelmed with happiness and excitement."
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The Linux Community: Wear Your Hearts On Your Sleeves
Facing Realities
"The problem, Paul, is that you wear your heart on your sleeve." It was one of my bosses who first brought it to my attention, long ago. I had heard the phrase many times, sometimes in reference to my expressions and emotions--but it never sunk in that the people were telling me something key to my existence as a human being.
And then one day I realized the awful truth--I did, in fact, wear my heart on my sleeve. It's a condition whereby all emotions and feelings are expressed in public--I cannot, or rather, not without great effort, hide exactly how I'm feeling from anybody who knows me. Imagine wearing a sign: "Paul is happy," "Paul is angry," "Paul is sad," or "Paul is having a bad day."
That's me.
For a bit after this discovery, I viewed this as a character flaw of some kind. People around me seemed to drift blissfully through their lives, not having to worry about their emotions at all. It seemed a big advantage.
I almost felt sorry for myself--almost. After a while I found that having people know how you truly feel all the time can be a very good thing in the long run. They learn to trust in you and what you say a lot more. They learn that you aren't faking it, or giving them some kind of false direction.
Of course, not everyone is so keen on the truth, but that's a different story altogether.
The friends that I picked up, they were real friends--people who knew that yes, I was having a bad day. They learned that I was really listening when they had problems. They learned that they could truly trust me, because what they saw, it was literally what they got, emotionally and otherwise.
I'm not trying to imply that everyone is phony, or that most people are running around hiding their true feelings. It's just that the particular condition is, besides being a royal pain to live with in a lot of regards, actually a blessing in disguise in the long run.
And I think the community pretty much suffers the same condition, but in a global sense, not a personal one.
Take the current action centered around the GNOME and KDE .
If this were a corporation where there were internal struggles centered around some technical decisions, not only would no one outside of a small group of folks on the earth know--there would be public relations people on the outside dressing up the delays or events as positive things.
With the Linux and Open Source community, not only do people see the exchanges, they have the source code to the work both parties are referencing. There are no mysteries involved. What we see is literally what we're getting. It would be as if your family feuds were broadcast live over cable television, along with a diagram of the house and where all the weapons were located. It would be as if a small nation itself wore its heart on its sleeve.
It makes for great editorials and pundit-like predictions.
That's us, right now, folks. Some people are looking in from the outside and saying it ain't pretty. My advice to these same people is that if they don't want to watch then don't watch.
If you don't want a group of people that are attempting progress and have their hearts in their work, then look the other way at the alternatives. It's a lot more boring to watch, near as I can tell, and the products being offered have much higher costs in every direction.
You see, without all of this digital democracy, without all of this public debate, struggle and even rock-throwing at times--without that, there is no Open Source. You don't get one without the other.
The GNOME and KDE people, they're in this for a lot of reasons. Some of them are selfish, some of them are passionate--but all of them are ultimately very creative.
The digital domain of the Open Source community brings on many strengths. It brings together large amounts of people that truly know how to harness the power of the Internet. These people can collaborate on massive projects at higher speeds than traditional development models.
But it's also bringing a level of trust to that model that is missing from people offering proprietary alternatives. I predict that the long term effect will that a market taken by Open Source software will stay taken. The products are designed for the long haul, not to be technically obsoleted or financially priced out of a market. Open Source software does not become obsolete for political reasons, such as planned obsolescence with an underhanded goal of killing off the competition.
The Open Source communities don't play by the same rules as a singular corporation. As a matter of fact, there is no play--period. The people do their work to create and enjoy. They're not that interested in "war," except to fend off the stupidity of making things that obfuscate, don't interoperate, and in the long run cost sanity, pride, and most importantly--the ability to be creative and innovative.
Any hidden agendas found will be shouted from the rooftops. If it's a broken protocol it gets fixed. If it's not fixable, programs get created that work with it anyway (think of SAMBA, for example). This isn't about breaking things, or ruining anyone's business--it's about creating and using the best tools on the planet.
That power is one that no amount of bad PR can change in the long run. As more people use and come to depend upon open source software like Linux, their attitudes toward it changes dramatically. They begin to use it for everything eventually. Eventually, the people who were duped by the bad PR learn the truth--and they learn whom to trust and whom not to trust.
They learn that the community that wears its heart on its sleeve is something they can place way more trust in than any singular corporate entity with World Domination as a goal. Dig through Linux Today, and you will find that the Linux community often faces the facts of a situation head-on. There are wins and losses. It can be painful. It can be ugly. It can hurt.
Ultimately, and most importantly, the "It" will be the truth. The facts. This is a strength. The ability to face realities--even harsh ones--and continue on regardless. Without this strength, Linux and a lot of Open Source initiatives would not even be here today.
The media can throw its rocks. It can print the lies, the FUD, and make fun of us all it wants. We will win the trust of the people who were duped this time, tomorrow, next week or next year. It's inevitable because there's a lot of us, we're not going anywhere anytime soon--and we wear our hearts on our sleeves.
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WINNIPEG - Playoff fever has struck twice in the Lowry household.
While first-year Calgary Hitmen head coach Dave Lowry has his team in the Western Hockey League's Eastern Conference championship, his son Joel is competing in the Telus Cup national triple-A midget hockey championship April 20-26 with the Calgary Buffaloes.
"Its been pretty exciting," Joel, 17, said before heading to Selkirk, Man., for the tournament's Monday start. "Both of our teams have been doing pretty well so it's good to see."
The Buffaloes are making their third Cup appearance in four years. They lost the bronze-medal game last year and won silver in 2006.
Dave was the Hitmen's assistant head coach last season and was able to watch Joel play a couple games after the Hitmen lost four straight to Lethbridge in the conference final.
This time around the Hitmen are playing the Brandon Wheat Kings and he just might be able to take in one of Joel's games.
Games 3 and 4 of the Hitmen's best-of-seven series are Tuesday and Wednesday in Brandon, about a two-and-a half-hour drive from the Cup site in Selkirk.
"What we're hoping is that we get into (Winnipeg) at a decent time on Monday and it will allow me to slide up (to Selkirk a half hour away) and maybe catch Monday's game," Dave said.
"I was hoping the schedule would work out that we'd have a day off in between, but no such luck."
Joel and his Pacific Region champion Buffaloes open the six-team championship with a 4 p.m. game against the West Region reps, the Notre Dame Hounds from Saskatchewan.
Hamilton got in out of the ever-tough Central Region, the Rousseau Sports de Laval-Bourassa won the Quebec Region, the Moncton Flyers are the Atlantic Region reps and the Winnipeg Thrashers are hosts.
While it's considered a pretty level playing field, early predictions have Notre Dame and Hamilton as the favourites.
The Hamilton Reps haven't been at the Cup since 1991. Their record this season of 28-6-2 topped the Minor Hockey Alliance of Ontario. They also led in goals for with 193. The team's top scorer is Andrew Radjenovic (26 goals, 24 assists) of Hamilton.
Notre Dame is making its first Cup appearance since 1990. The Hounds had nine players tally more than 30 points each, with Drew George of Regina posting 73 points (27 goals, 46 assists) for third in the Saskatchewan league. During the league playoffs, the Hounds scored 31 goals in three games.
Calgary has also made some noise this season. The Buffaloes won the prestigious mid-season Mac's midget tournament final 6-5 in double-overtime over Vancouver NW. During round-robin play, the Buffaloes beat Notre Dame 5-3 after being down 3-0 in the first period.
Calgary is returning three players from last year's team - including Joel, a forward - and are guided by goalie Sam Brittain, who topped the Alberta league with a .925 save percentage.
"I think we're better suited for the Telus Cup this year," Calgary head coach James Poole said. "Last year, we lost our captain in the regional going into the Telus Cup, which was a big blow. This year, we're a little more skilled, a little bit faster, which I think is better suited for the tournament."
The host Thrashers also can't be overlooked after suffering a crushing loss at last year's Cup. Winnipeg went into that championship with a 51-1 record - including a 49-0 streak - and lost the gold-medal game 6-4 to Sudbury.
The Thrashers are returning eight players from last season's team. Five players have tallied more than 40 points, including leading scorer Michael Hay (61) and defenceman Nolan Zajac (49), the brother of New Jersey Devils Travis Zajac.
"A lot of guys weren't a part of that pretty exceptional team so it's not really an unfinished-business kind of thing," Winnipeg head coach Kevin Benson said.
This season has been marred by injuries and it's the first time since November that all 20 players are healthy, he said.
"It's an opportunity for us to kind of make a good thing out of a season that has had a lot of ups and downs," Benson said.


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Yes, I am another one of those. Long time lurker, just registered. To my credit though, I became a fan of football in general and the Seahawks in particular in the miserable 2008 season within a year I could name all 53 players on the roster!
What a win yesterday!
I thought as a way to introduce myself, I would go through the Seahawks games I have been to at the Seahawks stadium.
1. Preseason: vs. Raiders (23-16) – all I remember is Seneca Wallace. But I was hooked!
2. Vs. Jaguars (41-0) – Mea Culpa. I actually thought Jim Mora was going to take us places. My bad.
3. Vs. Lions (32-20) – We started down 17-0, didn't have a first down forever, and then won the game. Stafford had like 5 INTs in that game.
1. Vs. 49ers (31-6) – Matt Hasselbeck's first pass of the day was intercepted. We still dominated 49ers. This was the game where my undying hatred of the 49ers started.
2. Vs. Cardinals (22-10) – First game with my 6 year (at that time) son. Downpour, Max Hall (was that his name?)—Loved it!
3. Vs. Giants (7-41) – Another My bad. I really wanted Charlie to be our long term starter. Instead, I was thinking of starting a chant for Zac Robinson by the fourth quarter.
4. Playoff: vs. Saints (41-36) – The most surreal sports experience of my life. From Walter Jones raising the 12th man flag to BeastQuake. No words necessary.
1. Preseason: vs. Raiders (20-3) – Went because someone had free tickets and because I wanted to see Tarvaris Jackson.
2. Vs. Cardinals (13-10) – don't remember much from this game actually. Kevin Kolb threw the INT to Kam at the end.
3. Vs. Ravens (22-17) – Fun game. The last 6 min drive was as good a finish as I have ever seen. Ray Lewis' ankles still hurt!
4. Vs. Eagles (31-14) – Hawthorne's pick-6 was fun, mostly because how slow he ran Fun game. Also the one where Golden Tate almost missed the first snap because he was busy watching the 12th man flag from the sidelines.
5. Vs. 49ers (17-19) – The best game I have ever seen in person. Tension was palpable. That memorable fourth down toss out of bounds was when I decided I wanted a new QB.
1. Vs. Patriots (24-23) – Went to the game with a Brady fan. What a game! This was the game where my man-crush started with DangeRuss.
2. Vs. Vikings (30-20) – AP ran for 77 yards (on the second play of the game), but the result was never really in doubt. AP and Fitz and Brees – the only non-Seahawks players I could respect.
3. Vs. Cardinals (58-0) – Went with my (now 8 years old) son. What fun! I asked him if he wanted to leave in the fourth quarter and he said "Nopes, we are staying till the end". I am raising him right!
Basically the conclusion is that 1. When I am in attendance, and 2. When Seahawks' starting QB is playing, Seahawks don't lose the game! Of the 15 games I have been to, the only two losses I were at were the ones started by Charlie someone and Tarvaris Jackson (who never started another game for Seahawks at home again).
Go 'HAWKS!
Red17Hawk—the Red refers to Redmond and the 17 refers to a certain playcall that resulted in a little 67 yards run.


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Those hacking hoodlums at iPhoneSIMfree are teasing us with the promise of a soon to be released unlock solution, no later than Friday. In the meantime they are wetting our appetites with a nice little FAQ answering many of our gripping questions, like...is it future-proof (yes)...if I do a backup restore will it still work (yes)...will it work on any GSM network (yes)...can the iPhone be unlocked prior to AT&T activation (yes)...Will it help me get laid? (yes, wait..what?)
Now before any of you moisten your trousers, this unlock software will not be released freely. According the FAQ an undetermined cover charge will be imposed for this service, eventually. But hey, if you can afford an iPhone, you're already in the hole for $600 - what's another $20 or so?
So read the FAQ and wait for the hack. Coming!
Note This kid shops at The GAP...I have a shirt just like that.


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The XGPS150 Bluetooth GPS receiver gives you full GPS on your Wi-Fi only iPad or iPod touch. Since no cellular radio means no GPS in Apple's product line, this is a way to use your iPad Wi-Fi or iPod touch for ap
If you have a WiFi only iPad or iPod touch, which does not have GPS and you want to use it for navigation; with this little accessory you can. It is basically a Bluetooth GPS receiver that can be paired with your device of choice and it then sends accurate GPS location data to any app that can use it.
One of the big decisions when buying an iPad is always should you pay the extra for a 3G model with GPS. If you only need the GPS there is now another option. Of course, the GPS receiver will only work with apps that store the map data on your device; such as TomTom, Navigon, Co-Pilot Live etc. Other apps like Google Maps would still require a data connection as they stream the maps over a data connection.
The receiver comes with a rechargeable battery that lasts up top 8.5 hours, a 12v car charger, non slip car mounting mat and strap to attach to a bag or armband. The XGPS150 costs $99 and has a free app which allows you to see detailed information on your location, number of satellites and signal strength of each.
Would you consider using an accessory like this? Let us know in the comments!
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Easy money in doesn't necessarily mean easy money out. So says a top Federal Reserve official who's been critical of the central bank's massive bond-buying stimulus campaign to keep U.S. interest rates ultra low.
Kansas City Fed President Esther George says the longer interest rates remain low, the greater the risk for the central bank once it begins to revert to a more normal monetary policy. The Fed "is going to be challenged with its timing," she said Wednesday after a speech in Washington.
George is not a voting member this year on the bank's interest-rate setting panel known as the Federal Open Market Committee. Yet she is among several hawks at the Fed who's been pushing the bank to start winding down its bond-buying program. In 2013, she dissented in her very first vote as a member of the FOMC – the first time that's ever happened in Fed history.
George is worried that low rates have spurred investors to pile money into riskier investments in search of a higher returns. Her district covering the states of Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Missouri offers evidence.
"In my part of the country farmland values have shown extraordinary increases over the last five years," she said.
A quarterly Kansas City Fed survey, for instance, shows that the average price of cropland has soared as much as 112% since the beginning of 2009, a period that coincides with the U.S. central bank's unprecedented stimulus strategy. Ranch land values have risen by about two-thirds in the same span.
Of course, land value can fluctuate sharply for a variety of reasons, and the rise in prices has not been uniform. Part of what's driven land values higher is the economic recovery. Faster growth along with the massive Fed stimulus also boosted commodity prices such as corn and soybeans and further caused the price of land to appreciate.
Yet low interest rates have played a role too, George says.
"When I see money flowing in, not from Nebraska farmers necessarily, but from other parts of the country and the world, it is to me a demonstration of this desire to look for yield and to look for return on money, which today globally is searching for its most productive use."
The distortions to the economy caused by extremely low interest rates could pose a big challenge to the Fed as it continues to wind down its bond-buying program and consider when to raise interest rates for the first time in years.
"Now we are in a process where getting into this unconventional policy was uncharted waters, and I can assure you that getting out of it will be equally experimental for us in trying to figure out what the right balance is," George said.
– Jeffry Bartash
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U-20 MNT April Camp Quote Sheet: Tab Ramos
U.S. Under-20 Men's National Team head coach Tab Ramos named his 24-player roster for a weeklong camp (April 22-29) in preparation for the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup later this year in Turkey. Ramos spoke with ussoccer.com about the roster and getting back into the fold following a second-place showing at the 2013 CONCACAF U-20 Championship in Mexico:
On getting back into camp for the first time since the CONCACAF U-20 Championship:
Tab Ramos: "This is a very important camp for us and is a segue toward selecting our final group for the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup," Ramos said. "Because it is a domestic camp, we get to have 24 players on hand. We have some players who haven't been seen and others who were part of the tournament, so we're really looking forward to seeing how they perform."
On previously injured players getting back into the U-20 MNT mix:
TR: "We had Victor Pineda, Omar Salgado and Alfred Koroma who we certainly would have counted on going into the qualifiers, but unfortunately they were injured and not available. The same is the case with Sean Cunningham. But all of these guys are here this week and we're looking forward to seeing where they are in their recovery stage. We know they are all playing, but we want to see what level they're at with this team and heading into the World Cup."
On the leadership returning from qualifying:
TR: "In terms of the guys who played in that tournament and in that final against Mexico who were major contributors during the qualifying run, they are extremely important players for us. It's great that they have that experience under their belt. For guys like Benji Joya, he was a quiet leader but someone who brought a lot to the table and continues to bring a lot to the table to make our team stronger."
On selecting forward Jordan Morris and midfielder Marlon Hairston to their first Youth National Team camps:
TR: "Many of these players we have been following all along. We have somewhere between 75 and 90 on our depth chart, and we call around, speak with teams and keep track of how they are doing. In Jordan's case, [Seattle Sounders head coach] Sigi Schmid thinks very highly of him, and we value his opinion and look at Jordan's track record. When he's scoring one or two goals in every Academy game, that is something you seriously have to look at. They both are showing good form at this time to try and compete for a World Cup spot. They're both very good players."
On the major goals of this weeklong camp:
TR: "We want to continue to build off of the qualifiers. We want to come into training playing hard, playing fast and continuing to do all of the things that made us grow as a team over the past few months. We are in a great place now. Obviously when you win, it validates the work that the team has been doing and gives them the confidence to continue putting in the hard work."


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LinkedIn says it now has more than 300 million members, most of them based outside the U.S., the company said Friday.
LinkedIn, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., said it had roughly 277 million members when it reported fourth-quarter results in February.
The company said more than half of its members are now based outside the U.S., where LinkedIn as about 100 million members.
The social network's international expansion was underscored recently when LinkedIn unveiled a new site in 'simplified Chinese.'
China is, not surprisingly, considered a major market for Internet companies, although some tech giants, such as Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., have had to struggle with censorship and other restrictions in the Asian nation.
In fact, in rolling out its China site, LinkedIn Chief Executive Jeff Weiner said the move "presents a challenge that our company must address directly, clearly and in a manner consistent with our core values."
Mobile is another challenge for LinkedIn.
In announcing that it now has more than 300 million members, LinkedIn also said in a blog post: "We know mobile is critical. Later this year, we are going to hit our mobile moment, where mobile accounts for more than 50 percent of all global traffic."
In October last year, LinkedIn held a "Mobile Day" in San Francisco to tout what it described as a multi-mobile-app strategy.
LinkedIn has rolled out different apps to address the different needs of its membership, including recruiters, marketers and professionals.
– Ben Pimentel
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Microsoft's shares took a beating Thursday on reports that Ford Chief Executive Alan Mulally will probably not be the company's next CEO, based on recent statements by Ford executives, including Mulally.
But Nomura analyst Rick Sherlund still thinks the car manufacturer\'s leader will likely be the tech powerhouse\'s new boss.
Mulally, speaking on CNBC, said he was happy at Ford but would not comment on the speculation about him joining Microsoft. Then, in an interview with Bloomberg, Ford director Edsel Ford also appeared to downplay the speculation, saying Mulally "told us his plan is to stay with Ford until the end of 2014."
Sherlund doesn't buy it.
"We view these as non-denial denials," he told clients in a note. If Mulally was really not a contender, he argued, "it would be easy to say I am not interested and will not go, as some other candidates have said. He does not say this."
He also argued that Ford's statement could mean Mulally "is not going until the end of 2014.\"
"Alternatively, it can be viewed as he has not changed his plans because he does not yet have the offer to go," he continued. "Of course, we think his plan is unchanged at this point in time."
Bottom line, Sherlund said, "We view these comments as non-answers to the question and appear to us to be consistent with our view that he is in discussions with Microsoft's board for the CEO slot at Microsoft."
Also reportedly in contention is former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop.
Microsoft shares shed 2.4% to close at $38 on Thursday.
– Benjamin Pimentel
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For the last few weeks I've been working with and evaluating the Chip Art tools by Melody Ross for GCD Studios, and having a great time with them. They are unlike anything else in the scrapbooking market, and they are a lot of fun. However, I think it only fair to warn you – they are also noisy and they are not fast to use if you include the chipboard drying time.
I don't think these tools are for everyone, but I do think that they are very cool and I encourage you to take a look at what I've done with them so you can decide for yourself if they are something that will work for you. First, let me explain the tools themselves:
There are both alphabets and decorative images available in this line, all sold separately. They are metal and you use a mallet to create an indentation into damp chipboard. The images come in a dense blue foam, the alphabets are in that same foam, but the foam sits inside a beautifully decorated tin. If purchasing some you will also need the tool handle. This (shown below) is the piece that you fit into the back of the image so that you can use them. There are two sizes – 1/2″ for the larger images, and 1/4″ for the smaller ones. The alphabet shown above has the 1/4″ tool included.
The product line also includes a mallet, spray bottle (for wetting chipboard), and a block (hard plastic) to use as a work surface. I found that while very nice to have, I would consider those items optional. I tried the tools out while working on a hard wood surface, with a small hammer, and using a sponge to apply water to the chipboard. That said, using them with the GCD tools was nice, especially the work surface that is slick and easy to wipe excess moisture off from.
To use the tools on chipboard, first you need to wet the chipboard and let it set for a minute so the water soaks in. It doesn't need to be dripping wet, just damp enough to soften. Then select your image (or letter), attach it to the tool handle, and place where you want to have the image. Take the mallet and bang the top of the tool handle a few times. I usually found two-three times worked well. The noise level is similar to traditional eyelet setting tools, and I wouldn't advise doing this while others are trying to sleep in your house.
This worked on both plain chipboard and chipboard that had been painted with acrylic paint (dry) and then moistened with water. To get more images, simply keep selecting more, and wet the chipboard again and again as needed. A word of caution: you don't want to soak the chipboard or pound too hard.
Above is an example of a soaked piece of chipboard. It took me three tries to show you what I mean – but if you pound too many times, especially on soaked chipboard it will fall apart as my "M" has on the far right. Below you can see some butterflies I stamped into white acrylic painted chipboard.
To add contrast I rubbed (with my finger) purple acrylic paint into the butterflies and surrounding area.
Then I gently sanded off (once dry) the excess purple paint to achieve the distressed look shown below.
In my experimenting I found that the tools worked well on any standard chipboard pieces, so long as they weren't treated with a finish that prevented water from soaking into them to soften them. I also found that other thick products that could be softened with water but that would harden and hold the shape once dry worked well. I had success with pulp paper, and I have yet to test it, but I believe leather would work well too.
Above is a name stamped into thick pulp paper I took from my mother's papermaking stash. The key is really something that will soften with moisture, but really harden and hold once dry.
Here is a ChipArt mini book cover that I created for an inspiration book meant to hold images and thoughts that I want to use at future dates. I should mention that I am very happy with both the quality and designs of the chipboard books and shapes available in this line.
I really like that I can keep adding more images as I feel like it, and I will tell you I have a lot of fun banging the images into chipboard. It is artsy play at its most fun.
Of course, I have to keep testing and trying different things! I took a random butterfly from my chipboard stash (no idea who made it) and sprayed it heavily with glimmer mist instead of using water to wet the chipboard. Then I used a letter to monogram my pretty butterfly.
I could see both putting a few letters on chipboard pieces to customize my layouts, and putting some images on chipboard letters being things I do often in my scrapbooking. It doesn't take much time, and I love the personal effect it gives.
In the above layout I used the Homespun Chic and Artsy Urban lines by Melody Ross for GCD Studios, as well as Cosmo Cricket chipboard stickers (brackets), a Pink Paislee number (5), and mom's typewriter font.
I have had a lot of fun testing out these new tools, and I see myself using them a lot in future projects. It's true I either have to take them outside to use (due to children sleeping) or work quickly with them during times when the girls are awake, but they are worth it. One thing I discovered during quiet time is that you can stamp with them.
I like the soft look from the Ranger Distress Ink Pads (wild honey and tumbled glass used above). They aren't designed to be like rubber stamps, so don't expect perfection. I just loved the little images I could add into my projects – adding tiny details here and there. This is a great way to (silently) use these products.
I have not been this excited about a new tool in a long time. I feel like I am just scratching the surface of the possibilities of these tools, and I am hoping to add more alphabets and a few more shapes to my collection. While the noise might be a deterrent to some crafters, I see possibility here for mixed media, wall art, scrapbooking, and so much more – I'm looking forward to my next project.
All of the products used are now available in stores. All of the ChipArt can be found at www.artsyfindings.com, a new site that Melody Ross has created where all her products will be available. The shop at Stampington is also carrying a selection of the ChipArt tools.
If you have any questions about the tools please feel free to leave a comment here or e-mail me at email@example.com.


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Two events at Fresh Pond in Amagansett — one on land, one on the water — coincided Sunday, and in terms of numbers the paddleboarders, who raced three and six-mile triangular courses in Gardiner's Bay that morning, outnumbered those who ran in the Old Montauk Athletic Club's 5K on the roads nearby.
Competitors came from near and far to vie in the stand-up paddleboard races put on by Lars Svanberg's Main Beach Surf & Sport and Paddlers 4 Humanity as a benefit for the Retreat, a nonprofit organization that has provided shelter, counseling, and supportive services for victims of domestic violence here since 1987.
Jeffrey Friedman, the Retreat's executive director, said, as the racers, some from as far away as Martha's Vineyard and Gloucester, Mass., prepared to launch their boards into the bay, that "our phones have been ringing off the hook since the economic downturn began. . . . Lars came to us, and we, of course, were pleased he did. Events like this — we're also going to be one of the beneficiaries of the Artists-Writers Softball Game this year — help us to meet the rising demand for our services."
Just before racetime the weather on the bay looked a bit daunting, with a stiff wind out of the northeast, cloudy skies, and a strong chop. Tom O'Donoghue, who has been training for a year with Ed Cashin, was a first-timer, but willing, though he thought the conditions would "stretch the field a bit."
"We'll see how [the six-miler] goes," he said. "I'll have to put all this training to use."
It had been an interesting year for him, O'Donoghue, a self-confessed former couch potato, continued. "I did the Hyner Challenge [a brutal mountain race in Pennsylvania, near Lycoming College, Cashin's alma mater] and I'm going to do two marathons. . . ."
"Today?" said Jonathan Shlafer, who was listening in and who hadn't far to travel, living, as he does, about 50 yards from the Fresh Pond road-end, "in a tiny, shitty little house with a hell of a backyard."
One of the farthest-flung competitors, if not the farthest-flung, was the six-mile winner-to-be, Patrick Broemmel, who removed himself 20 years ago from California's San Joaquin Valley to Oak Bluffs on the Vineyard, where he works as a carpenter and contractor and builds his own carbon fiber paddleboards.
"I love The Vineyard Gazette," he said in answer to a question. "I love its great big wide pages and the fact that it's still black and white. If I want color, I can get it on the Internet."
As for stand-up paddleboarding, he had been doing it "since 2003," said Broemmel, adding that racing has come just recently to New England — lagging well behind Florida, California, and Hawaii in that respect. Asked how he'd been doing, he said, "I win some and lose some. . . . I raced in Maine yesterday, though I didn't do very well."
After finishing in the van of the six-mile fleet, just ahead of one of his traveling companions, Will Rich of Gloucester, he said, "It was challenging . . . all on the right going down toward that chimney, and the waves were coming across the beam, which puts you in the hardest position. On the second leg we went into the wind, which stabilizes the board, though it's much more work, and coming in we had the wind at our backs."
Svanberg, who placed third, said he wasn't all that bothered by having been bettered by two ringers from Massachusetts. "They're probably half my age," said the 51-year-old triathlete and paddler, adding that "over all, it was a perfect day after the wind laid down."
Sean T. Kellershon, 25, of Northport won the three-miler, even though, as he said, he put his knee through his board after the fin caught on the bottom at the start.
Several people fell as the six-milers got under way, among them Roxane Robinson, a SUP teacher, who, when the accident happened, was projecting herself for third place. "It's the first time I've fallen since last summer . . . well, there's another race in two weeks."
Robinson was referring to the Paddle for Pink races on North Haven that are to benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation Aug. 11.
A co-chair of that event, Maria Baum, the owner of the Tutto il Giorno restaurants in Sag Harbor and Southampton, who was among the three-mile competitors that day, said stand-up paddling had played a significant part in helping her get through breast-cancer chemotherapy last summer.
Paddling, she said, wasn't a spin class. "You're out on the most beautiful bays and inlets in the entire world — it's overwhelming. You're exhausted at the end, but you've done something so good for your body, and for your mind. You haven't given a thought to how hard you've been working. . . . It's overwhelming."
The sport, said Svanberg, "is the fastest growing water sport in the world. People have come here today from Maine, New Jersey, Massachusetts. . . ." Not to mention Northport (Kellershon), Bellport (Meaghan Shannon), and Mastic Beach, from which the 55-year-old Steven Hat hails. "I'm looking to paddle until I'm 80," he said. "I do it five to six days a week. You know, they call us 'the Gusu people.' Gusu," he added, "stands for Get Up, Stand Up."
Asked what was next for him, Broemmel said, "A long drive back to Cape Cod."


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What would happen if a million consumers--- maybe 2 million consumers, didn't buy any beef, pork, veal, bacon, or mutton (no meat) for the entire month of August, 2013? Would the ranchers feel our power as consumers? Would the ranchers finally pay attention to our outrage about the continued exaggerations regarding wolf depredation on livestock (when in reality wolves are only responsible for LESS than 1% of livestock losses per year)? Would ranchers then pay attention to our outrage about them grazing their 'cash cows' on our public lands---wolf territory!? Grazing on public lands ruins the environment of those lands and tempts wolves with literal 'room service' as cows are dumped off into these areas to graze---most times unguarded. What if the national press picked up our protest and boycott --- wouldn't it be an opportunity to gather publicity for the plight of the wolves and all they are enduring?
Wild horses and burros are also exploited by the ranching industry. Flushed out with helicopters, rounded up and sold to animal dealers who then sell the horses and burros to meat packing plants in Canada and Mexico! Join in for The Great American Meat-out for Wolves & Wild Horses! --- link -https://www.facebook.com/events/496713390377593/?notif_t=plan_user_joined
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The Bisons beat the Camels of Campbell University 6-3 on Monday morning in their last home game of the season.
Ryan Mitchell blasted a two-run homer in the first inning to get the Bisons offense rolling. Preston Embrey then knocked a solo homer in the third inning to add to the Bisons lead.
The Bisons jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead after Mitchell crushed a two-run homer to right center field. The Bisons added another run in the third inning after Embrey slapped a solo homer to right field. The Bisons would stretch their lead out after a three-run fourth inning.
With Larry Salefsky on the mound for Campbell in the fourth Patrick O'Rourke singled up the middle. Two batters later David Becker was hit by a pitch. Nick Cleckler reached based on a fielder's choice, scoring O'Rourke. Clecker stole second and advanced to third on a throwing error by the catcher. Embrey reached first on a throwing error by the third baseman which allowed Cleckler to score. Tadd Brewer then singled to bring Embrey home.
The Camels scored one run in the seventh to make it 6-1 and two more runs in the ninth inning to keep the game close.
Starting right-handed pitcher Brett McCullough threw a solid 6 1/3 innings of work as he scattered five hits and gave up one earned run. McCullough pitched out of a couple of jams by getting some timely double plays turned. McCullough was credited the victory and is now 2-6 on the season and lowered his earned run average to 7.65.
Logan Powell relieved McCullough and threw two innings of work, and gave up zero hits and one run while striking out one. Powell lowered his earned run average to 6.23.
Senior Seth Kuwik closed out the game as he threw 2/3s of an inning and gave up two hits and one earned run and struck out one batter.
Mitchell led the way offensively for the Bisons as he went 2-for-4 at the plate and scored one run and drove in two. Mitchell hit his eighth home run of the season and leads the team in home runs. Mitchell improved his batting average to .301.
Embrey went 2-for-3 at the plate and recorded his first homerun as a Bison. Embrey also scored three runs and drove in one. Embrey is now batting .258 on the season.
The Bisons improved their record to 22-30, and 7-20 in the A-Sun. The Camels fell to 23-27, and 11-16 in the A-Sun. The Bisons left six runners on base, the Camels left seven runners on base.
The Bisons scored six runs off of eight hits and committed one error. The Camels scored three runs on seven hits and committed two errors.
The Bisons will travel to Knoxville, TN tomorrow night as they play the University of Tennessee of the Southeastern Conference at 7:00 p.m.