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It is now December 2012 and the world is quickly approaching the end. At least according to the Mayans. Now that we are all cautiously sitting around and praying in the hopes that the sky isn't going to fall on our heads, let's read about one man's crazy prediction of the future. We've got plenty of time til the winter solstice ends.
This time we have John Byrne's crazy prediction for what the future could possibly look like if it survives this apocalypse. So why don't you put on your head phones and plug in some Rush as we travel 100 years in to the future with a glimpse at the year 2112.
John Byrne's 2112
Why I Bought It
John Byrne is one of those names that has floated around the industry for years. He has worked on almost everything and has been the guy behind some of the best, worst and weirdest stories in the industry. The best however could truly be called that. John Byrne is the man who worked on the X-men during it's heyday, Superman when he needed a new face, and the Fantastic Four when they needed someone to turn them in to something fantastic again. So obviously, when I see a book plastered with his name on it, I get a bit curious.
I mean the cover is interesting alone looking like he got bored and decided to mash up Jurassic Park and Blade Runner while hiding Iron Man in the background. It kinda screams at you to pick it up. Maybe that's just because I think dinosaurs are awesome.
I also have this unspoken rule that any comic book that costs a quarter and has a spine to it deserves a look.
The History
In the mid-1980s, John was working at DC doing Superman when he began pitching his own series known as Freaks to the company. DC never picked up John's idea, but they did promote it in a portfolio with many other famous artists at the time called the History of the DC Universe. This book was a showcase of the talent DC had in its arsenal and inside was a splash of Freaks nestled in between iconic DC characters.
While Freaks never did come out, John would be able to retool the idea in to a number of projects he had. One of which would be an idea Stan Lee pushed on him in 1990. Stan was looking to create a future version of the Marvel Universe and he would ask John to take the helm. John would plot and draw 64 pages for Stan to come back in and fill in with the script. This would be the pitch for Marvel's 2099 story lines.
Since the book didn't have many ties to much of the current day Marvel universe, Stan asked for more and John had to put in an additional 12 pages of Marvel references and art in to his pitch. John had purposely kept the original 64 pages clean and when Marvel didn't take it, he ripped the dozen pages Stan wanted out of it and re-purposed it once again in to the original concept he had made. He then met up with Dark Horse after talking with Roger Stern and they loved his ideas. He would then rework that futuristic concept in to the prequel to another pitch of his. The Next Men would now be promoted as a tie in to John Byrne's 2112.
In late 1991, Dark Horse would publish a Next Men prototype in their monthly anthology called Dark Horse Presents. These shorts would lead in to 2112 which again would jump start the main series of John Byrne's Next Men a few months later.
With five years or so of planning, John finally had his own series and he made damn sure to plaster his name all over it. John Byrne's Next Men would run for 30 issues with Dark Horse before finally ending on a shocking cliffhanger that wouldn't be answered until he continued the series with IDW in late 2010.
What John Byrne's 2112 Is All About
In 2112 the world is radically different. For starters, they have mini dinosaurs. Which they put in arenas and have them cock fight. What an awesome future this is. The future however wouldn't be the future without the flying cars, androids and virtual reality internet sex. This is the pinnacle of what society could possibly become, but let's be realistic. The brighter society shines, the worse the darkest parts become.
Safeguard, Inc. is the cause of all this prosperity and they are responsible for maintaining the prosperity of society. In charge of the most dangerous tasks are the prime agents. The prime agents are 6 rainbow colored policemen that are both enforcers and mentors of the upcoming talent coming from the academy. This is where we meet Thomas Kirkland. Kirkland had the fortune of being assigned to the most respected agent there is. Tannen is the equivalent of a wrecking machine. He kicks ass, takes names and he throws Thomas in to the shark tank by taking down a massive mutant and torturing him for information on his boss.
This is where Sathanas comes in. Sathanas, who is a cross breed between Iron Man and Black Hand, is the main villain of the Next Men series. How he's gotten 100 or so years in to the future isn't really elaborated upon inside this book, but he's currently the leader of a massive mutant militia hell bent on taking down the beautiful people in their shiny city. Tannen leads a small handful of Kirkland's school buddies in to the lion's den to take Sathanas on direct. They do as good as you would think 5 or so people would against an army of mutant powered monsters.
The recruits are all captured after Tannen gets blown up. He miraculously survives rescues them and then has an amazing standoff with Sathanas which doesn't end up well for Tannen. Knowing that Tannen is the only one who can strike fear in the mutant race, Kirkland assumes his identity and uses it to bolster strength among the agents coming to rescue them. They capture Sathanas and instead of returning his people back to the hole they crawled out of. So he blows them all up and Kirkland decides to keep Tannen's identity for himself.
Is It Good?
John Byrne's 2112 is a great reminder of the early 1990s. It had color coded super agents reminiscent of the Power Rangers yet the book predated it so that naturally makes it cooler. It had a super crazy cop in Tannen and his young cop apprentice really screams of the Lethal Weapon series. The world itself is like Krypton before it exploded all over itself.
It is like the craziest mash up of ideas all thrown in to a 66 page comic book that's honestly not all that good.
It suffers where all great mash up ideas tend to. It's too chaotic with too many ideas to become something truly interesting. This quite possibly has a lot to do with the chaotic history the title had in prototype stage between publishers, but the script is a bit forced.
What works however does work well. Sathanas, despite having a really bad name for a villain, is a legitimate dictator. Society functions quite well and it does subtly hint at the chaos that will kick start the Next Men, so it is good that way. It's just a bit on the nose with everything.
Maybe if the book were longer, then I think many of the great ideas Byrne has brought to many other books could have come out. There is some legitimately interesting things with the Kirkland/Tannen relationship. Tannen really gets under Kirkland's clean interior and there seems like a legitimate old cop, young cop dynamic here. If this were a four issue miniseries, maybe something could be here. Unfortunately at 66 pages, everything gets thrown together and blammo Kirkland's now Tannen. There just isn't enough here to really build up this apprentice becomes the master situation.
The art itself is very John Byrne and looks quite nice. The coloring is all digital coloring in a time that digital coloring wasn't all that great. For Byrne's lines, the colors tend to be all over the place in quality and overall, it's just too heavy and dark. If you compare the cover to the interior splash which is the exact same image, you can really see the difference in effect.
This book was just a precursor to John Byrne's Next Men and it fills the role. It presents the villain in an interesting way and has some interesting things going about it. The biggest of which was the fact that this was actually drawn as the jump start to Marvel's interesting 2099 experiment. Not sure if I would have paid $10 in 1992 for this, but for a quarter, it was an interesting look at the future. I don't know if my kids will have flying cars or androids, but I could only hope that they would have cock fighting mini dinosaurs.
I mean honestly, that is the only pioneering science I could truly want for the future of civilization.
Where Can I Find John Byrne's 2112 Today
IDW has collected 2112 and 12 issues of John Byrne's Next Men series in a 432 page hardcover edition called The Compleat Next Men. Odd spelling of complete is apparently intentional. This trade is a black and white collection, but seeing as how uninteresting the coloring is in 2112, that can only be a good thing. If giant trades at bargain pricing aren't what you are looking for then there is always the original for a bit cheaper.
The Compleat Next Men [Amazon] [IDW]
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Nottingham Staphylococcus aureus population study: prevalence of MRSA among elderly people in the communityBMJ 2002; 324 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.324.7350.1365 (Published 08 June 2002) Cite this as: BMJ 2002;324:1365
- Hajo Grundmann, consultant for clinical microbiology and infectious diseasesa (hajo.grundmann{at}nottingham.ac.uk),
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- Satoshi Hori, visiting scientista,
- Muhammad Halwani, PhD studenta,
- Richard Slack, consultant for communicable diseases controlc
- a Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Queen's Medical Centre, University Hospital Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH
- b Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT
- c University of Nottingham and Nottingham Health Authority
- Correspondence to: H Grundmann
- Accepted 3 December 2001
The spread of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has caused problems in most hospitals in the United Kingdom in the past decade.1 The extent to which the community serves as a reservoir for MRSA is unknown despite the growing recognition of MRSA as a community pathogen in various countries.2 We investigated the prevalence of nasal carriage of MRSA in a sample of people aged 65 and over who live in their own homes and represent the elderly population in the Greater Nottingham Health District, where MRSA is endemic in hospitals.3
Participants, methods, and results
We used electoral ward level statistics from 1991 to combine the catchment areas of seven large general practices and provide a study population of which the demographic composition (age, sex, social class, ethnicity, and proportion of elderly people living alone) was representative of the Nottingham Health District, which in most respects is similar to England as a whole.4 With the general practitioners' cooperation, we invited 1615 randomly selected people aged 65 or over to take part in the study, excluding those whose permanent address was a residential or nursing home. We carried out the study at the time of administration of influenza vaccinations on the premises of the participating surgeries. Of those invited, 1047 (64.8%) elderly people presented for the investigation, and we enrolled 962 into the study. Samples consisted of swabs taken from both anterior nares. We used standard laboratory protocols to enrich and identify methicillin susceptible S aureus and MRSA and used SmaI macrorestriction to type them genetically. We collected data on baseline demographic variables as well as specific risk factors. We used the χ2 test for univariate analysis of categorical variables, multivariate logistic regression to identify independent risk factors, and ward based Jarman deprivation scores to stratify data by socioeconomic characteristics.5
The sample comprised 1% of the population of the Nottingham Health District aged 65 and over. We found nasal carriage of methicillin susceptible S aureus in 257 people (26.7%, 95% confidence interval 24.1% to 29.8%). We isolated MRSA from eight people. The population prevalence of MRSA was 8 (3 to 14) per 1000 population. We identified no risk factors for carriage of methicillin susceptible S aureus. Carriage of MRSA was associated with several risk factors in univariate analysis (table), and two of these remained independently associated after logistic regression—hospital admission in the six months before the investigation (adjusted odds ratio 13.0, 2.5 to 68.2) and diabetes (6.8, 1.33 to 34.3). The presence of chronic skin ulcers was strongly associated, as a confounder, with both carriage of MRSA and previous hospital admission. Carriage of MRSA was independent of deprivation scores, indicating no association with lower living standards. All MRSA isolates were indistinguishable from the epidemic MRSA type 15 by genetic typing. This clone has become widely prevalent in English hospitals and was also the most common MRSA strain in the two major hospitals in Nottingham at the time of investigation.3
In contrast to its continuous occurrence as the major nosocomial pathogen in England, MRSA has not encroached into the community to a large extent, and the likelihood of finding healthy elderly people colonised with MRSA is relatively small. Carriage of MRSA can, however, be expected in patients who have chronic conditions or who have had recent admissions to hospital. MRSA in the community seems to be a consequence of a "spill over" of an uncontrolled hospital epidemic, and the few isolates found in the community are classic hospital strains. It continues to be safe to treat community acquired S aureus infections in England with conventional antistaphylococcal agents effective against methicillin sensitive strains, and third line antibiotics should be considered only when typical risk factors can be ascertained.
Contributors: HG designed and coordinated the study. AT took part in every aspect of the study and carried out the statistical analysis. SH and MH carried out the bacteriological investigations and the genetic typing. All authors were involved in collecting samples and recording data. RS coordinated the general practitioner and community participation. HG wrote the manuscript and was supported by AT and RS in the final draft. HG and RS are the guarantors.
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Machine control technology plays an increasingly important role in construction. The pace of development has been fast, with new systems offering major gains in both productivity and quality across a range of applications. At the recent CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017 exhibition in Las Vegas, key advances were unveiled in machine control technologies suited to markets such as earthmoving, concrete paving and piling, as well as other duties. One of the notable demonstrations was of a Caterpillar D8T bulldozer, being operated remotely despite the machine being 2,700km away. The CAT Command remote control system offers a choice of two operator interfaces - a portable operator console designed for line-of-sight use and an ergonomically-designed operator station that can be located remotely. When the dozer is equipped with the Command Vision System and wireless connectivity it enables the operator to work from a remote location, boosting safety. According to Brad Van De Weer, CAT market professional, heavy equipment, the system feels as though you are actually operating from the cab. "We have full controllability of the machine," he said. "If I turn the throttle up and release the park brake I can raise the blade up and down, turn it right and left, I can raise and lower the ripper and control the travel controls on the left hand side of the controls." "It's as if you were in the machine itself, very little time delay with operation, it's very controllable, smooth and productive. The camera systems are placed in areas to simulate the operator's view from the cab, but you actually gain in terms of perspective. The features and benefits are focused on safety - we don't want operators putting themselves in danger." "The system was initially developed for mining applications being installed on our D10s and D11s. Now that it's been made available on our construction line, there's a lot of demand for it on our D8T. We are focused on dozers for now but we're looking to implement this technology in wheeled loaders and excavators soon." Also suited to earthmoving applications is the new Earthworks package from Trimble. This is a major development for the firm, as Jeff Drake, business area manager for machine control systems explained, "We're bringing out our new machine control platform." This is bringing a significant innovation for the earthmoving market, he added. "We're delivering excavator automation. For example, our system will control the bucket and the boom will go up or down to stay in profile." Although the system is limited to controlling the bucket, boom and dipper functions, this ensures that digging can be made precisely to grade. And he explained that the system is well suited to excavating slopes or cleaning up trench bottoms, for example. Trimble believes that the system will deliver a substantial gain in output and Drake said, "What we're seeing is a 30° increase in production. It's a lot more ergonomic and we find operators can take their hands off the controls on this new architecture." The system is based on commonly-available technology, which benefits the user. Drake said, "It's an Android-based platform. We leverage the usability of the Android functionality." He said that the operator is likely to be familiar with the Android format and can use the tablet to swipe, pick and zoom. Drake also said that using this format offers the option of adding further capabilities: "Because we're on Android we can offer additional functionality." And he said that contractors will be able to add in their own apps as required.
Because the four sensors respond rapidly, the readings are fed back immediately so there is no risk of digging out too much before the system has time to respond. The new inertial measurement units (IMUs) are designed to be rugged and durable and can be used on excavators as well as dozers and graders. The IMU system is also connected to the internet, so that a contractor can view machine progress remotely - and this also allows for real-time data flow on production rates to give an accurate picture of site progress. Further developments are planned and Drake said that the architecture will also give plenty of scope for additional functionality in the future, with links to systems from other divisions within Trimble to boost overall capabilities. Meanwhile Topcon Positioning has developed a new package for the concrete paving sector. Its ZPS system now utilises the new Z-Robot and Z-Stack sensor. Using improved Topcon Millimeter GPS technology, the ZPS system is designed to boost accuracy in concrete paving with a fraction of the hardware required for traditional LPS (local positioning system). The new Z-Robot is an advanced robotic total station with integrated Z-beam laser technology. The Z-Robot is designed to provide a hybrid function of high-precision, optically-based vertical accuracy control and the convenience of Z-beam laser positioning to maintain that accuracy across the paver. "The ZPS system's self-levelling Z-Robot cuts set-up time in half compared with previous concrete paving methods," said Murray Lodge, senior vice president and general manager of Topcon's Construction Business Unit. "With traditional systems, you need multiple, expensive robotic total stations to control the paver at any given time and at least another complete set of instruments for downrange transition. With the ZPS system, only one Z-Robot controls the paver - increasing productivity and profitability, and dramatically lowering the cost of the solution compared to LPS." On board the paver, the ZPS system uses the new Topcon Z-Stack modular-designed system that seamlessly integrates GPS, optical targeting and Z-beam reception into one unit by interlocking the required sensing technologies in one rugged 'stack'. "The Z-Stack sensor is revolutionary," said Lodge. "It combines time-proven Topcon positioning technologies into one multi-functional, consolidated and complete system that provides better accuracies and more efficient paving than ever before. The system requires no separate base station and only one cable needed for power and connectivity. "The system also offers a wider working area, with a range of up to 150 more feet than with traditional methods — minimising instrument transitions," said Lodge. At the same time, Leica Geosystems is now offering a new machine control package for the piling sector, which is being fitted to the latest Liebherr rigs. The Leica iCON rig solution for drilling and piling machines will be directly implemented into LIPOS factory-mounted add-on kit, which includes a fixture for the easy and quick installation of hardware without the need to change the machine structure. The solution will now be part of the process for data recording and reporting in Liebherr's deep foundation machinery.
The Leica iRD3/iRP3 solutions are said to deliver a 30% time and cost saving with every drilling/piling job. The systems drastically reduce the need for stakeout work. Among other features, they also offer wireless update of project files and remote support via telematics. Users can document work as the project progresses and avoid drilling in old and failed holes. The Leica iCON rig solution is integrated into the Liebherr control system for efficient positioning of machines and their working tools. The LIPOS data interface combines Liebherr machine-based sensor data with the GPS navigation system from Leica Geosystems. From Hemisphere GNSS come solutions that allow OEMs to develop their own machine control systems in-house. The GradeMetrix software means that OEMs can build their own branded software and hardware for high-precision GNSS-based machine control and guidance systems. The GradeMetrix package means that heavy equipment firms can tailor their own machine control solutions to the needs and working applications of their own products. The GradeMetrix application software is also offered with an array of compatible GNSS hardware components. These include IronOne Rugged Display & Computer and C321 RTK Base & Rover. In addition the firm is offering new systems, designed specifically for harsh machine control environments. Its multi-frequency, multi-GNSS smart antenna offers precise heading, RTK positioning, and easy installation. VR500 adds another system component and empowers heavy equipment manufacturers to deliver their own machine control and guidance solutions to their customers. VR500 is said to suit tough machine control environments, meeting IP ingress and MILSTD202G shock and vibration requirements. A fully scalable solution, the VR500 tracks GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, and IRNSS, and is also Atlas L-band and SBAS capable. And newly developed receivers from the Topcon Positioning Group also offer accurate location for the OEM market. The two new B111 and B125 boards are full constellation GNSS receivers designed for use with a broad range of positioning applications. The boards can use the GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou and Galileo constellations with the B111 tracking signals in the L1 and L2 frequency band, while the B125 adds signals in the L5 band. Both boards are designed to provide scalable positioning from sub-metre DGPS positioning to sub-centimetre RTK positioning. Both boards include 226-channel Vanguard Technology with Universal Tracking Channels. According to Topcon, the addition of BeiDou and Galileo constellation tracking along with GPS, GLONASS, SBAS and QZSS functionality ensures the boards offer optimum performance. Meanwhile, the dual frequency B111 board has a low power consumption and a versatile communication interface, making it easier for OEMs to integrate the compact board into any precise positioning application. The board also includes an SD card interface designed to provide quick and easy support for data logging in addition to Quartz Lock Loop technology for GNSS tracking in high-vibration environments.


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How to Choose Your Perfect Wedding Garter Color
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Are you trying to decide on the color for your wedding garter? Maybe you want to go classic and choose a cream or ivory. But, if you really want to add a pop of color and infuse a bit of your personality under your dress - here's some inspiration to help you choose your perfect wedding garter color.
PS: These featured wedding garters are from Julianne of The Garter Girl
How to Choose Your Perfect Wedding Garter Color
When it comes to choosing the perfect color for your wedding garter - consider your personality and what the color says about you. This color may or may not be a color in your wedding. Since the garter is worn under the wedding dress, you can have lots of fun with it and infuse your own favorite color and style into the garter color of your choice.
Red is for those that are action oriented, outgoing and impulsive. Red stands for strength, health, passion and energy.
Orange is for those that live for being around others and you're a bit adventurous - loving the outdoors and being full of life. Orange stands for strength, artistic, curious and restless.
Yellow is for those that have strong sense of humor with a vivid imagination. You often enjoy learning and sharing that knowledge with others. Yellow stands for happiness, energy, adventure and warmth.
Green is for those that can feel the need to belong, love and be loved. You're loyal and down to earth. Green stands for balance, hope, renewal and peace.
Blue is for those that are compassionate, caring and faithful and you often have a need for inner peace and truth. Blue stands for soft, soothing, duty and conservatism.
Purple is for those that have high ambitions and pay attention to the smallest of details. Purple stands for royalty, romance, creativity and harmony.
Pink is for those that often take care of others before worrying about themselves. Others find you warm and approachable. Pink stands for kind, maternal, gentle and delicate.
Brown is for those that prefer a simple lifestyle and you're hardworking and frugal. Brown stands for safety, comfort, steadiness and kindness.
Black is for those that are natural born leaders yet are careful with sharing details of their life. Black stands for power, mystery, control and being collected.
Grey is for those that prefer to not be the center of attention - rather they prefer to be independent. You like to be in control of your emotions and this results in being indecisive and lacking confidence at times. Grey stands for coolness, conservative, composure, sophisticated.
White is for those that desire simplicity and order - can often be called a perfectionist. You view the world in a positive and optimistic way. White stands for purity, innocence, freshness and youth.
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Friday, August 24th, 2018
Raise your very own dragon and run a café.
Friday, April 6th, 2018
Little Dragons Café just got its first big trailer!
Monday, April 2nd, 2018
I got an opportunity to try out legendary Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada's latest creation: Little Dragon's Café!
Wednesday, March 21st, 2018
3 more reasons to dust off your Vita
Friday, November 3rd, 2017
Bite sized horror is rarely so satisfying.
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
Show off how good you are at this tournament.
Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
Freebies, yay!
Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
And this series was going so well...
Sunday, July 3rd, 2016
Writers confession: I am so happy to hear this news.
Sunday, July 3rd, 2016
The Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters are back!!!
Sunday, July 3rd, 2016
Prepare your wallets for this cool looking limited edition set.
Friday, May 27th, 2016
Time to get our fight on once more!
Monday, March 21st, 2016
The writer and director of the Zero Escape series talked to us about the third and final installment of the franchise and hinted at some oth
Thursday, March 17th, 2016
We have everything you need to know about what happened behind closed doors at Aksys Games' Zero Time Dilemma presentation.
Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Despair is coming next month!
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
Hot anime guys and superpowers, what's not to like?
Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
You don't have to worry about crossing the streams here.
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Enjoy this bounty of Aksys games
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The world's favorite boy band from our teenage years continues to prove that best friends are for life.
While we saw NSYNC reunite at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, these days, it's rare to get a glimpse of them all together.
It might leave you wondering how they stay so close after all these years on hiatus. (And when we might get some new music from the band.)
Luckily for us, they seem to be just as close as ever. On Monday night, Justin Timberlake posted a photo of the members celebrating JC Chasez's 40th birthday.
Timberlake even captured the photo, "If you don't know, now you know," referencing Notorious B.I.G.'s famous line from "Juicy," but also confirming that still can kick back and enjoy time with each other.


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Not even her most sleuth-happy fans can figure this one out.
Duchess of Cambridge sightings are typically accompanied by lively fan fashion commentary, with social accounts perking up to ID her oft-repeated sartorial stunners with swift and accurate prowess.
That all changed on Friday, though, when the media phenomenon formerly known as Kate Middleton stepped out in this lovely collared peplum dress with a black fascinator and matching black pumps.
The palace hasn't said what designer is responsible for the dress. After a fan guessed it may be either Alexander McQueen or Orla Kiely, WhatKateWore.com, one of the top fan accounts, was quick to commend the guess -- but could not confirm.
That is, until another fan and fashion editor chimed in to say it isn't McQueen. They went on to say isn't Temperley and it isn't Erdem, either.
So what is it?
The U.K.'s Daily Mail could only say the dress "appeared to be... bespoke."
Kate and her mystery frock were joined by Prince William and Prince Harry at the World War I monument in Thiepval, France. They and other world leaders and government officials have spent two days commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, one of WWI's bloodiest events.
The day prior, Kate was spotted looking lovely in a very identifiable Missoni coat.
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'What's been going on while I've been gone': Obama is back
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New York [U.S.], Apr. 25 (ANI): A visibly relaxed and casual Barack Obama made his first public appearance after bidding farewell as the 44th U.S. President, and addressed a group of university students saying that he plans to focus on encouraging young people to engage in local politics in Chicago- the city from which he launched his political career. Smoothly steering clear of current President Donald Trump, who is nearing his 100th day in office, Obama appeared on the University of Chicago panel. The former president went on to say that his time as an organizer taught him that "Ordinary people, when working together, can do extraordinary things," adding that, "This experience taught me that beneath the surface differences of people, that there were common hopes and common dreams, and common aspirations and common values that stitched us together as Americans." Talking about the direction his life was going to take after the White House, Obama said, "although there are all kinds of issues that I care about, and all kinds of issues that I intend to work on, the single most important thing I can do is to help in any way I can prepare the next generation of leadership to take up the baton and to take their own crack at changing the world." The only time Obama made a direct reference to his successor was when an undergraduate spoke about the difficulty he had getting day laborers involved in a research project he was conducting, saying they feared becoming victims of Trump's crackdown on undocumented immigrants. To which Obama gave sound advice and called on the student to find someone who was stood by the immigrant community so they would be more open to answering his questions. The event was peppered with Obama's classic humor as the former president displayed his trademark wit and managed to keep the students in splits, while doling out pearls of wisdom at the same time. (ANI)


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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Vintage Thingies Thursday
Here's a whimsical non-quilty twist that I came across on the Apron Queen's blog & it appealed to the old fashioned side of me. I do enjoy vintage stuff, not that I want it all in my home but it's a delightful trip down Nostalgia Lane.
My decorating tastes are somewhat eclectic-traditional- but with a twist! Every room needs something just plain fun in it I think otherwise it's a bit too perfect & uh..... boring? IMHO!
So, here's my vintage offering for this week-suitcases, or "portmanteaux" or luggage or whatever you call them. I love these quaint reminders of a more gracious & slower paced time. Aren't they adorable? Ah, maybe it's just me!
I use them for end tables, & if I still had the third one [my sister got off with it] I could stack them, so one day I'll find another in a thrift shop or someone's garbage pile!
One of these was $3, the other free!
Today at guild I made continuous bias binding for the applique baby quilt-guess I miscalculated because I ended up with about 12 yds. & I think I only need around half of that! I figured it out first using the square root of the total area needed [calculated by multiplying perimeter of the quilt by the width of binding] & then refigured with another method to double check my numbers & decided to use the second total which was higher than the first- just didn't want to have to make another lot if I came up a wee bit short. For any of you who have made bias binding you know it is a little more work than straight grain binding but when using a stripe it is a much more effective result don't you think? I used a 42" square of the fabric.
Oh well, next time I make a baby quilt with this same colorway I will already have the binding prepared.
Tomorrow I will attach the binding to the quilt then I only need to hand sew it down to the back of the quilt & make & attach the label.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Old Tobacco Road "flimsie" & African fabrics
Tada, it is ready for quilting, & even with all those little pieces & biases it is very square & flat. I was so pleased when I measured for the borders that there was less than half an inch difference any which way!
I sewed on the small framing border & it looked unfinished, on further inspection I realised that I had failed to check Bonnie's border suggestions after completing the FG so I missed the first framing border- oh well it's unique! I went digging in my autumn toned stash & came up with only this one piece that was really large enough for 5" borders. It is a bit lighter in tone than I would have liked & it has quite a bit of green but I am working from stash so there is some compromise necessary - I am hoping too that I will have something in my backing stash to go with it. Otherwise I will need to shop the 50% off shelves at a couple of my Phx. quilt shops!
The flimsie measures about 80 x 102, is that big enough f0r a QS bed? I can never remember all the mattress dimensions but I think QS is 60 x 80 so it would just barely do for a normal mattress, one without a fat pillow top. I should have thought about that & made the outside borders 6" or more, but it's hindsight now. This quilt is too large for a QOV & so it will remain with me until the right person comes along. With that in mind I would like to make it to fit a QS bed & I might just make a wide binding that would add another couple of inches, I have enough fabric for that. At this point I have no idea how I will quilt it, some kind of all-over design maybe a leafy thing. It feels great to have it done to this point-I am less uncomfortable with UFO tops than those in pieces still though this does add another quilting project to the expanding list of tops awaiting their turn on the LA. I am expecting several tops in the mail from out of state & I have quite a few already lined up so I will be a busy LA'er once I get to Phx.
I discovered a "forgotten" stash of African theme fabrics, I am guessing upwards of 20 yards & I would love to use it up, anyone have ideas for it? I bought most of them [on sale no doubt] but just when & where I am not sure. I suspect I acquired them the summer of 2006 right before our son died when everything fell through a hole in my brain - these fabrics have been "aging" ever since in a bottom drawer downstairs in the CO. house.
The first collection I think I bought when the Montrose QS was closing, the second Kris brought back from Rwanda & I have a vague memory of purchasing the two motifs at MQS. The plan was to make quilts to raise money for our sister church in Taba, Rwanda so it would be really good if I could get to work on that this winter- I would love to have those fabrics out of my stash, they were purchased with a specific agenda & it's time I followed up.
I designed & made this African quilt & pillow for my friend Kris who makes almost annual ministry visits to Africa & to date this has been my only attempt at showcasing African style fabrics.
Last Friday we turned in our election ballots at the city hall in Ouray. Filling out the ballots was quite a chore there are so many props here in CO. this year & as I was chatting with my friend S we decided that the nefarious plan is to make it so confusing we will simply give up & pass on any decision at all! DH & I both studied all the info. on each prop but I think we were more confused after reading the "facts" than before! Then when we were actually filling in the ballots each of us had to go back & re-read every prop over again to try to figure out what we had decided! Whew, glad that is done & boy I can hardly wait till this time next week when all the political ads will go away!
They will won't they, please tell me they will!
I know that everyone is sick & tired of it so we can all at least say hurrah for Nov.4th, even though some of us will inevitably be disappointed in the end result at least we should be spared any more of those annoying ads.
Last night as I was blogging around I discovered a few new blogs, new to me anyway, & what a diversity there is of people who make quilts-some work in construction, some drive the big rigs, some ride around mostly in campers of various styles, some love cats, others raise goats & so on, it is quite fascinating the variety of talents, occupations & interests in the quilting world!
Saturday, October 25, 2008
OTR & Baby farm quilt
OK, well I do like my OTR much better now that the flying geese border is on, & I have cut another 2" border to frame out the geese that I think will finish it off nicely- that's a job for tomorrow after church.
I obviously cannot count though because here is the pile of little blocks left over after I had counted & recounted & recounted ad nauseum!
On the other hand my calculations for the FG border were more accurate & I think I have only three FG's left over that will add to my growing collection of orphan blocks. I do wish that I could finally use up all the old odds & ends of scraps but they seem to multiply like rabbits in the drawers!
The applique baby quilt is ready for binding but I have discovered that I do not have sufficient of any one of the quilt fabrics for my preferred double fold binding but I do have a perfect matching stripe that will make a great binding cut on the bias- I think that is the way to go!
It never fails that the moment I lay out a quilt on the floor Miss Button has to come over & stretch out on it-I have heard other quilters/animal lovers say that they have the same experience with their pets so anyone want to hazard a guess as to why our animals do this?
Of course the quilts will be laundered before gifting so I didn't worry about it.
The quilt is from a design by Kookaburra Cottage but as usual I had to make my own revisions- in my opinion recipes & patterns are merely suggestions [unlike the Ten Commandments!] & my imagination is inevitably drawn to additions, subtractions & embellishments! All the fabrics for the top were from my stash, the backing I purchased from thousandsofbolts . When completed the farmer girl will have lace on her coveralls & perhaps a flower on her hat? Hmmmm.....
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Old Tobacco Road
Just finished pressing the OTR, all those seams & I noticed a few I had going the wrong way but I'm not about to frog anything! So far this very scrappy quilt is not exciting me, the scrappiness is not pleasing to my eyes I think the autumn colors aren't strong enough so I'll try to emphasize those more in the border. Maybe it's the lights in the pinwheels & 4 patches, they may be too light..........? I'm hoping that once it has borders I will like it better, one hates to put so much time into a project to find the finished product less than pleasing.
No matter though I'm thinking that someone will love it, probably a wounded warrior as it will most likely be a QOV.
Tomorrow at guild I plan to work on the flying geese for the border.
The new water system is under construction in our development & our vehicle is parked about a quarter mile away at the neighbour's out of the way of all the excavators etc, so I have to run the gamut in the morning to get to the car. My DSM & projects are already loaded up this evening so at least I don't have to haul those along too.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Guild retreat
I made a major gaffe when I forgot to take essential supplies to the retreat, namely the Easy Angle ruler [which makes HST's, Half Square Triangles, really fast & easy] for my Old Tobacco Road quilt & some freezer paper for the paper pieced BOM "Singing His Praises" which is definitely an Un-Finished Object[UFO]! Fortunately for me Gale had tossed in a whimsical appliqued wall hanging pattern that occupied my time for the rest of the two days we were there. The wording on it said something lame like "proud to be a quilter" but you can see I made up my own legend which I think is way less lame! I'm thinking I will quilt the background with a McTavishing sort of fill, not sure about the border yet. I wish that applique were not so fiddly & time consuming because the results are very effective. Most of the fabrics I used were cast offs that no one else wanted so it was a very "green" project.
My OTR[Old Tobacco Road] is ready for construction now that I have all of the 388 HST's sewn into 96 pinwheels, along with about 184 Four patches & 108 "bricks" etc, & it is partially laid out on the floor downstairs so I hope that Button doesn't decide to make a bed on it before I can get that much sewn together! OTR is as you can see up close, a scrap quilt with everything but the kitchen sink in the four patches & HST's, no matter, because it all sort of blends in when pulled together with the preponderance of autumnal colored fabrics. However to my dismay I didn't bust nearly as much stash as I had hoped so there is still at least one or two-or maybe more autumn themed quilts on my list of WHIMM's[Works Hidden In My Mind] which list is, I confess, endless! I still have to make a heap of flying geese for the border, I won't have an idea just how many until the main body of the quilt is pieced & I can measure the outside edges.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
More color & more quilting
I had been down the mountain for 2 days over the weekend & returned to see such a difference in intensity of color, I am adding a couple of pics. It rained all weekend in Montrose area but the Cimmarons & Sneffels ranges got a lot of snow.
I was house-sitting on my friend's farm-just the house animals only, cats & dogs, they have someone else come to feed the horses, cattle & donkeys. The first night I "lost" the new kitten-well she began the night on my bed but was nowhere to be found in the morning. She did re-appear when I returned from Guild meeting later in the day. The second day the big dog, JR, jumped the fence 3 times, the third time somehow he managed to take the short legged ,stocky little corgi with him! She can't jump so how did she get out? Hmmmm, it's a mystery! Little miss corgi then got into more mischief-absolutely destroyed one of the TV remotes while I was I was out in the quilting studio, all in all quite the weekend & some house sitter I am!
Using Gale's Prodigy, I quilted two more laptop bags & a baby quilt & another HOB. Two more HOB quilts went out the past week to the families of Fallen Heroes, but I'm running out of ways to find these families & it's very discouraging.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Scrap Strip Twist & BQ!
I received 4 great completed HOB quilts from the Longmont CO. guild & mailed one off today to the parents of a brave young fallen hero . 'Nuff said, you can check out his story, I simply cannot say more here.
Our weather is nice & "Fallish", temps are down & colors are up! One of my friends said "looks as if God is busy with His paint brush up there", I think He's always busy with His paint brush, just sometimes more vividly than others.
A couple more pics, the one with the mountains is from our house the other of a stand of Aspen down the road. The color changes daily, some of the Aspen are a deep rich gold now while others are still quite green. It is an artist's paradise especially right now & the traffic up our dusty county road is busy with all the sightseeing folks on their annual pilgrimmage. This morning on my way down the mountain there was a crowd of vehicles parked outside the entrance to Elk Meadows & more streaming up the county road. There was even a lady playing parking cop there-maybe they were on a Fall safari!
I love the rich carpet affect of the area below the "Unnamed" mountain, called Corbett Peak by the locals. It is "only" 13,072 ft. high, flat-top Whitehouse mountain next to it is 13,492 ft. & Mt. Sneffels just out of sight to the right is one of Colorados "fourteeners". We have already had at least 4 or 5 snowfalls on the Sneffels & Cimmaron Ranges. Fall is indeed here!


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The study throws light on the role of mobile in a consumer's purchase journey - how the devices get used in different stages, key drivers and barriers to the final purchase decision, consumers' preferences of how to buy and where to buy, top selling categories on mobile, and cities that see the most mobile transactions. The study aims to equip marketers with insights on India, to sharpen their digital and mobile commerce initiatives and build a strong mobile strategy.
Commenting on the findings, M A Parthasarathy, chief product officer, Mindshare - South Asia, said, "The e-commerce landscape in India is perhaps the most dynamic in the world, largely due to the rapidly evolving mobile ecosystem. This research highlights the role of mobile from the top of funnel to the bottom and how it varies across product categories. It will help us develop sharper, more connected communication strategies for brands."
Francis Che, head of insights, APAC, Yahoo, added, "The study shows that the consumer path-to-purchase is turning more complex and nonlinear, with mobile at the center of this evolution. As mobile devices become more important in the consumer's last mile of purchase decision, brands need to build targeted, more seamless shopping experience across all channels to strengthen sales and acquire new customers."
Key findings from the study:
1) Drivers and barriers of online transactions:
a) 31% of online shoppers cite saving time or effort as their main reason for shopping online.
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The barriers that keep them away from shopping online include - non-authentic goods, unreliable delivery and lack of quality control.
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3) Mobile 'browse' tends to convert to mobile 'buy'
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b) Clearly, brands have a big window of opportunity - from creating awareness to final purchase decision - to connect and engage with their target audiences on mobile devices.
4) Distinctive consumer journeys by category: Online shoppers are more likely to use their mobile device to make regular or impulse purchases rather than expensive, high-consideration purchases.
a) Over 90% of the consumers use mobile devices for quick and frequent purchases of travel, music and movies. b) 36% consumers prefer buying high-consideration products like insurance on their PC/ Laptop. 24% consumers prefer buying health supplements on PC/ laptop. c) Categories with significant in-store purchases include personal hygiene (30%) and luxury accessories (27%).
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I had a fantastic time at the Wilson College Humanities Conference this weekend. As artists and academics, work never seems like work when we are pursuing those things that engage our spirits and intellects, and getting together with a group of hungry minds at a successful conference is definitely like play time.
The conference theme was Prophetic Fragments: Humanities Past, Present, and Future—a meditation drawn from Cornel West's book Prophetic Fragments: Illuminations of the Crisis in American Religion and Culture. Central to both the conference and West's book is the idea that, "….prophets—ancient and modern, religious and secular—tend to engage in an imaginative critique of the status quo." I presented a paper on Katherine Dunham's work as a case study of/model for successful interdisciplinarity. In that framework, I was able to discuss ways in which she presaged the civil right movement, and how her approach to ethnography prophesied the advent of postmodern anthropology forty years later.
It was interesting being the only dance person presenting in a group that encompassed diverse scholars specializing in literature, women's studies, education, philosophy, and bioethics among other disciplines. Because prophecy was central to everyone's presentation, it was easy for us all to find connections to each others work that sparked many robust discussions. My mind is reeling from the sharing of ideas and feedback with this diverse group—it was a source of ideas for both new artistic and scholarly work. I am definitely looking forward to future conferences outside of dance.


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So my wife's friend recently found out that Elevation Burger uses Halal meat via this link which was an interview with the owner discussing expanding the business in Kuwait:
Ansam: Tell me about the "Halal" meat you serve at Elevation Burger in Kuwait? How did you manage to make this possible?
Hans: Well, we're very fortunate because when we first started the slaughter houses we happen to be working with were Halal. So basically what happen was we kept working with them (because in the United States it doesn't really matter how the cow meat is prepared) because we liked how those slaughter houses did business, and they're very clean – basically really good slaughter houses and we kept on with that and it's been Halal ever since and it stayed that way. When Ali approached us few years ago… I dont know how long it's been?
Ali: Yeah… that was one of the concerns
Hans: When we first went into business together I was able to say to him that it is not an issue, its Halal!
A few things jumped out at me when reading this. They've been doing business with Halal meat for a while. It's not advertised on their site nor is it on Zabihah.com (the most popular website that displays Halal restaurants). The owner, Hans, mentions that the Halal meat slaughter house is clean.
What's even more interesting is that Elevation Burger uses organic, free-range, grass fed meat. It's not just Halal, but "tayyib" (wholesome, healthy, clean, pure, organic, etc.) meat.
I had to verify this, so I messaged the Elevation Burger Facebook page and they replied with this:
Looks like I'll be checking this place out, inshaAllah!
The twitter account for EB Hyattsville, MD retweeted this post. I guess that means they confirm? 🙂
RT @ItsHibs: attention DMV!! RT @ibnpercy Is Elevation Burger Halal? Yes it is! http://t.co/bqDRYHAI …— Elevation Burger (@EBHYATTSVILLE) July 10, 2012
Someone else asked on Facebook about all US locations if it was halal and the answer was yes:
More updates:
Yep! All of our locations serve Halal meat! RT @ibnabeeomar: @EBHYATTSVILLE @ItsHibs @ibnpercy any word on if all locations are halal?— Elevation Burger (@EBHYATTSVILLE) July 10, 2012
It's machine slaughtered not hand slaughtered:
CORRECTION: They use hand slaughtered meat. An Elevation Burger representative emailed me and said:
I would like to let you know that that was a misstatement on our part and that error is being corrected. Our meat is hand slaughtered.
I apologize for this miscommunication of information.
Our meat production centers are certified by local Muslim organizations. Our meat is slaughtered by Muslims according to Islamic law, teaching and protocol. The meat of the animals is therefore certified halal and suitable for consumption by Muslims in any part of the world. All necessary precautions have been taken to prevent mixing with non-Halal meat. Our meat is sourced from more than 30 family farms from all over who slaughter their cattle according to Muslim law in accordance with halal practices.
Could I ask that you update your post so that the correct information is now available?
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Yesterday I wore that sweater, the one that when I first laid eyes on it I thought it was so hideous, I knew I had to have it. The sweater was at the bottom of a pile of clothes at Mrs. Bolton's house , a little bit moth eaten and a little bit musty, it practically begged me to take it home. The tag on the sweater claims that it is "Angelon by Darlene" which means, from what I figure, this sweater is from the 1950s. The sweater is angora/wool with darling pearl buttons and a yellow, green, pink and brown floral pattern to it.Yesterday, for an outing to see Alice in Wonderland, I paired the sweater with brown tweed wide leg trousers from Newport News, little black boots and a green pearl necklace. Simplicity is nice on a Sunday.


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Hi jjchd,
There's a direct train from Sion to Venice, that takes 5.5 hours. If you have a Swiss Travel Pass, its validity indeed ends in Domodossola (see the map). There is no pass that combines Italy and Switzerland. So you need a ticket from Domodossola to Venice and back. Or from Brig to Venice and back, if the booking system can't find tickets from Domodossola. You can best check the prices of these tickets, and you may find that a 3-day Interrail Pass for Italy is a bit cheaper (but note that tickets include seat reservations, whereas with a pass you need to get these separately). I noticed you live in the UK; in that case you can get the Swiss Travel Pass, the Interrail Italy Pass and the seat reservations through www.acprail.com, and pay in GBP. The Interrail Italy Pass currently costs GBP 98. You need to click a bit further into the booking process to see that price. They initially show a higher price.
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Many Thanks Arno, for your invaluable information. As you quite rightly point out the booking system couldn't display Domodossola but accepted Brig as a destination! We are toying with the idea although we would be staying for a couple of nights we had thought of Milan, also having the benefit of being closer, and less travelling time more sightseeing time. We were concerned though as it is quite a bit more cosmopolitan than Venice, which is not really to our interest, we tend to like more traditional places, are there any other places that you would suggest seeing buy train?
Again many thanks for your help.
I can't tell you much about Italian towns. I've been to Milan once and it's a huge busy town. That doesn't seem to fit with your interests. There are many, many options in Switzerland but it really depends on what you like. Basel has an historical town center, but it's not in the mountains. Lucerne is really nice, not that big but plenty to do. Chur is the oldest town in Switzerland, if that interests you. And there are many "traditional, small typical Swiss villages" all over the country. Those don't qualify as a city trip, you'd better combine them with exploring the region. You can start exploring here.
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It's been amusing to look through various predictions which political pundits are making about the new year.
The most incoherent and inconsistent set of predictions is made by James Mackintyre at The New Statesman and can be read here.
Mr Mackintyre is not optimistic about the UK or US economies and writes that
"The economies of both the US and the UK will, as Barack Obama has warned, get worse before they get better, with the house-price crash continuing and unemployment in the UK passing the totemic three million mark."
He adds that
"The UK recession will deepen with a series of industrial crises, particularly for the car industry as General Motors goes bust and Vauxhall and Honda pull out of the UK. The construction and retail sectors will continue to suffer declines in demand."
James Mackintyre thinks it likely that the Labour party will be punished in the opinion polls and local & European elections in the first half of the year as a result, but he somehow manages to combine this view with the belief that
"By the end of the year, the two main parties will have switched positions in the polls, with the Conservatives heading into 2010 languishing below 30 per cent."
"The Liberal Democrats will continue to drift downwards in the polls"
In other words, he thinks that while the economy is in a dire mess the Labour government on whose watch it has happened will have a huge opinion poll lead.
Now I'm not taking anything for granted: I don't think any party can afford to be complacent about the next election. But it's not that common for a government to build up a big polling lead during a recession, especially if they've spent the previous few years boasting about how their supposedly brilliant economic management has ensured "no more boom and bust"
If Mackintyre produced the least intelligent set of predictions for 2009, the most interesting and probably the most intelligent, came from Robin Lustig at the BBC which you can read here.
I particularly appreciated the start of his piece, which was the following quote from Financial Times columnist Michael Skapinker:,
"What happens next? I do not know. Nor do you. Desperate though we are to find out, we should be grown-up enough to admit there is no one to tell us. It makes life hard, but what would we be otherwise? Curiosity about what happens next is an essential part of the joy and anguish of being human."
And taking the mickey out of himself, Lustig followed this quote by saying "very wise words they are too. Nevertheless, fool that I am, I shall ignore them."
A third set of predictions came from Iain Dale here:
1. There won't be an election.
2. Unemployment will top 3 million by the end of the year.
3. Damian Green will not face charges.
4. Ed Balls will be Chancellor by the end of the year.
5. Ken Clarke will join the Shadow Cabinet. David Davis won't.
6. The Independent will go out of business.
7. There will be a second massive recapitalisation of the banks.
8. Lynne Featherstone will be promoted to a major job on the LibDem front bench.
9. Jonathan Ross will leave the BBC.
10. The economic growth rate will be three times worse than the Treasury has predicted.
I suspect he has most of these right. The last of the four sets of predictions comes from Adam Boulton at Sky News here, although he's called them "Ten provocations" and I'm going to make a few comments (not exactly fisking as I agree with some).
1/ There will be no UK General Election in 2009.
All four of the commentators whose predictions I have quoted agree on this one: but if Gordon Brown thinks he can win an election he will call one. What he won't do is repeat the mistake he made in 2007 of allowing a head of steam to build up for an election and then looking like a coward when he didn't call it. He will be looking for an opportunity to catch the Conservatives by surprise, and we must not - and won't - give him that opportunity.
I would not be in the least surprised if the briefings Gordon Brown has given the press that there will be no Spring election is disingenuous and that he might call an election with the vote as early as the end of February if the polls in January look promising.
Whether the election is in February, March, June, Autumn, or in 2010, the Conservatives have to be ready, and we will be.
2/ Jacqui Smith will be replaced as Home Secretary.
On the basis of her competence, or lack of it, she certainly deserves to be, but that has not usually been the criteria in this government.
3/ George Osborne will be replaced as Shadow Chancellor.
No. He's had a huge part in the strategy which took the Tories off the "flatline" of around 30% we'd been on for nearly a decade before David Cameron's election. That's why Labour and their friends in the media want his scalp, and we'd be mad to let them have it. And note that Ken Clarke - the strongest alternative candidate for the job of shadow chancellor - has publicly stated that David Cameron would be making a mistake to move George Osborne, even to give the job to himself, for precisely that reason.
4/ The Obama Administration will give priority to the Israel-Palestine Peace Process.
After the economic crisis, yes. Wouldn't you?
5/ The Irish will vote "Yes" on the EU treaty.
There will certainly be a huge attempt to bully or bribe them into doing so, but I wouldn't bet your shirt on this succeeding. People don't like being manipulated.
6/ The Pound will be worth more than the Euro next Christmas.
Probably. But I have a slightly different prediction on this one, and it applies over more than one year. There will be periods when the Euro looks strong, as it does now, and economically illiterate supporters of British entry to the Euro will argue that means we should go in. There will also be periods when the Euro drops, and economically illiterate opponents of entry will argue that this means the Euro has failed.
But the real economic argument for or against scrapping the pound and adopting the Euro has nothing to do with whether the Euro is high or low at any given point in time. It's about two main things
* Whether the benefits of a more stable exchange rate with the Euro-zone, and lower transactions costs for trade with the Euro area, are offset by the costs of less stable interest rates and less stable exchange rates with the dollar zone, and
* How likely it is that the interest rate policy required for the EU will be wrong for Britain because, as the saying goes, "one size does not fit all," especially because of differences in our housing and financial markets and if Britain is at a different stage of the economic cycle to the rest of Europe.
I am inclined to agree with William Hague: it looks most unlikely that a dispassionate analysis of these questions will make it look to be in Britain's interests to join.
7/ Labour will be further behind the Conservatives in the opinion polls next Christmas.
Probably, but we can't afford to be complacent.
8/ The Liberal Democrats will win a parliamentary by election.
Don't know - but I'll bet Labour will lose one.
9/ Either Tony Blair or George W Bush will start studying for holy orders.
10/ President Sarkozy and Carla Bruni will have a child (perhaps by adoption).
No comment - but would you want to confess your sins to any of them ?
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So, yesterday New Yorkers proved once again that they are cynical, brilliant and tough by voting in droves for a bloviating, nasty old lying con man and a corrupt, vicious old political hack. This demonstrates that New Yorkers are thick-skinned and culturally aware. Or something.
Truthfully, however, last night's vote doesn't even hit the top 10 in terms of bad New York city and state votes and movements. Here are 12 other doozies:
1. New York Abstains From The Declaration Of Independence. The Lee Resolution, which Congress adopted to announce its independence from Great Britain, had to be adopted without any dissenters. New York abstained. Of course.
2. New York Goes Copperhead. In the middle of the Civil War, New York voted in Governor Horatio Seymour, a Democrat. Remember, the Democrats were on the wrong side of the Civil War. In February 1861, Seymour sided with the Southerners openly. As the Governor, Seymour pledged to fight the Lincoln Administration's efforts to prosecute the war. He also opposed emancipation and conscription. When rioters took to the streets to protest the draft, Seymour promptly justified them by stating that the Conscription Act was unconstitutional.
3. New York Spawns Progressivism. New York elected Teddy Roosevelt governor on the basis of his progressive, big government politics. Roosevelt may have been a Republican, but he was a progressive first and foremost; he believed in using government to crack down on industry (he said commercialism was "mean and sordid") and laid the groundwork for the massive administrative state. Teddy would go on to hand the White House to the execrable Woodrow Wilson. Thanks, New York!
4. New York Creates The FDR Era. As if one Roosevelt wasn't enough, New York put FDR into power – the man who would soon put in place policies exacerbating the Great Depression into a decade-long malaise. As governor of New York, he had no real agenda program, but did create models for his national policies in the form of emergency relief funds and extensions of unemployment benefits. He labeled the Constitution "the most elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
5. New York Elects Robert F. Kennedy. Robert F. Kennedy was from Massachusetts. New York elected him senator anyway. As Tom Lehrer put it, this made Massachusetts "the only state with three senators." This opened up a can of worms for New York in which celebrities carpetbag over to the state in order to run. What was Nixon's "home state" in 1968? New York. Hillary Clinton? New York. But don't worry – New Yorkers insist that they really believe in the quality of other New Yorkers.
6. New York Supports Robert F. Wagner. Senator Robert F. Wagner helped usher in the destruction of New York City with the National Labor Relations Act, which created unionization of the public sector. This ended up essentially bankrupting New York City, as unions elected their politicians and raided the taxpayer bank accounts.
7. New York Backs Fiorello La Guardia. La Guardia was mayor from 1934 to 1945. Instead of allowing New York City to build on the back of its own industry and labor and tax base, La Guardia made a habit of looking to FDR and the federal government for funding for both building and jobs, ushering in an era of federal dependency New York has never been able to overcome. By building up a dependency class, LaGuardia hitched New York's future to big government. And New Yorkers loved him for it.
8. New York Backs John Lindsey. New York City elected Mayor John Lindsay. Twice. This despite the fact that Lindsay was so anti-cop that cops booed him at the funeral of Officer Rocco Laurie. This despite the fact that Lindsay actively utilized city resources to attempt to enroll people in welfare and hire them to empty government jobs in order to appease potential rioters. Lindsay bred a culture in which one mother actually shouted at him, "I've got six kids, and each one of them as a different daddy. It's my job to have kids, and your job, Mr. Mayor, to take care of them." Great job, New York.
9. New York Backs David Dinkins. David Dinkins, a Democratic hack, helped exacerbate racial divisions in New York City; both welfare and crime soared (although crime rates dropped in the latter half of Dinkins' tenure – but they almost had to given that the murder rate rose to an all-time high under Dinkins). Steven Malangaa writes that Dinkins "wholly embraced the War on Poverty's core belief that the problems of the urban poor sprang from vast external forces over which neither they nor the politicians had much control....Accordingly, Dinkins wanted to turn the police into social workers. His police commissioner, Lee Brown, believed that cops should stop reacting to crime and become neighborhood 'problem solvers.'" New Yorkers corrected their mistake by electing Rudy Giuliani after four years of Dinkins.
10. New York Backs The Cuomos. Mario Cuomo was governor of New York from 1983 to 1994, a period in which New York City became known as a crime center and a disaster area. He expanded welfare policies and pushed leftist social policies. There's a reason that more black babies are aborted in New York City than born. New Yorkers then elected Cuomo's son, Andrew, who has spent his tenure grandstanding on race and anti-gun legislation while allowing crime rates to grow and the economy to stagnate.
11. New York Backs Elliot Spitzer For Governor and Anthony Weiner For Congress. Elliot Spitzer spent a year as Governor of New York before being ousted over a prostitution scandal. Weiner spent years in Congress before sexting over Twitter.
12. New York Backs Bill De Blasio. Bill De Blasio is a communist who has singlehandedly restored New York to its pre-Giuliani cesspool status. He has undercut the cops, destroyed quality of life, and driven business out of the city.
So, well done, New York. Trump and Hillary are right in your wheelhouse.
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Jesse Vida, the bar manager at New York City's BlackTail, makes this original gin cocktail at the World Trade Center's transportation hub, the Oculus.
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