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2. Gin and tonic. Just one.
3. Roast chicken. Two if you have teenage boys.
4. Bread and butter pudding.
Here it's sunshine, flowers, perry, spring lamb (for the non veggies among us), home made chocolate ice cream, and a difficult choice as we're English but we live in the land of the red dragon!ReplyDelete
I'll forgive you the comment about scotland... mmmhhhh
What do you mean two roast chickens??? is that my future?
England won, but close. I wish you wouldn't post photographs of drool worthy bread and butter pudding when I have just resolved to be serious about cutting back on the carbs and sugar.......ReplyDelete
Was it close? Seemed like Wales got a thumping to me.Delete
I misheard! Thought it was 20 -18, not 29 (or there a bouts) 15! I was listening from my sewing room. Funnily enough I never mind England being beaten by Wales, Ireland or Italy (Gotta love their national anthem!) but if they are playing Scotland or France - I can't watch!Delete
Those ingredients, plus a bike ride, make a superb Sunday; well done England.ReplyDelete
there is no blossom here - perils of the frozen north..... and no gin and tonic (yet) but there is a chicken casserole bubbling on the hob, and the teenage boy is repeatedly asking when it will be ready.ReplyDelete
Your forsythia is earlier than mine. And I am waiting on the Roast Pork for dinner (there is no pud). We can call it celebration pork now the rugby is over. Is it too early for a G&T I wonder...ReplyDelete
Sue - wow, beautiful BEAUTIFUL images of the blossom. Spring is so much earlier this year and it's wonderful. I really hope it doesn't get dramatically cold again, that would be so depressing! We had snow at the end of March last year, fingers crossed this year is milder. xReplyDelete
I am so jealous of your beautiful blossoms. We have nothing yet (US east coast), and still piles of snow about from a miserable winter. I have been going out every day shoveling snow onto the dry and clear driveway to help it melt, hoping the sun will warm the spring bulbs still huddling underground. Last year this time we looked as colorful as you. I am enjoying your Spring vicariously, wishing there was a chicken in my oven and some of that bread and butter pudding. Thanks for a peek at your Spring.ReplyDelete
Bliss - so nice to see blue sky, flowers, the beginning of spring and sunshine.ReplyDelete
Well, that sure is the antithesis of a perfect english Sunday from start to finish! Such jolly pictures, spring does seem to have sprung, hooray!
One gin sounds very restrained for a beautiful spring Sunday. All in all a very good day I think though. I could happily eat a big bowl of that bread and butter pudding right now. I haven't quite got into the swing of Lent yet. It takes a while for me to stop craving sweet things.ReplyDelete
I love this first plant, but i have not yet been able to find out its name... Spring is early too, but not that much here...ReplyDelete
I wandered lonely as a cloud, we had to learn it for our diminished high school exams and I loved every word of it, but Milne's is also very beautiful and would have be welcomed by the majority of my schoolmates, that to yesterday's post. Winter is hopefully dead, because over here in the Netherlands we had temps of 20C, above zero I mean, could have been below too, but not this year. I am going to plant 4 varieties of strawberry in an open cold frame, sheltered from cold and harrasing winds, one variety is honey, the other pineapple, two plants each, because I have not much garden, we call it stampsize. Avbut the teenage boys and chickens, if your oven is large enough, get two! Römertopf pots or chickenbricks, I think they are also called,. You can leave the skin and fatty parts on, it will cook fat out totally, the skin getting easy to pull off and can be grilled for the extra crispy lovers. I put the pots small part down, lid reversed in a BUCKET each of lukewarm water for 10 minutes, then put the prepared (seasoned , stuffed) chicken in, set the oven and when the cooking time is complete less 5 minutes, take off the lids. Chicken ready for consuming and tender. Immediately after taking out of the oven put pots on trays to protect the table from heat and use thick potholders take out the chicken/meat, because otherrwise the juices leak out into the cooked out fat and the meat will be less tender. Often I take out chicken number two from the pot, only to see two legs of chicken disappear from the plate, the first one is then already legless. Boys will be boys, don't matter their age. There are many recipes on the net and the pots (claypots? in America?) are here appearing in numbers in thriftshops, spic and span and new, maybe in long lost times given as a present and never used. It makes sense to reserve one (or two) for meat and chicken and another one for sweet meals, like bread pudding etc. I know where a small quince tree is in a garden and I am watching out for the flowers to come. Never mind gin and tonic, I go for a small glass (ginsized, about 50 cc) of quince liquer and in daytimes from the start of february, for a large glass of elderflowerlimonade, to accustome my body to pollen. If it does not help, it surely tastes good. Come winter i will change to elderberry limonade, see, eldertrees are usefull too, they protect from lightning and witches (wish it were true) and they protect from mosquito like insects and that is true, they were over here (Netherlands) always planted in front of milkcellar windows which would be barred with iron stalks but open in summer, surely kept flies and the likes away, they do not like the smell of the wood. i will keep reading your blog, between you, gardeners world and country file I will keep upn to date with what happens gardenwise on the other side of the water. ReinaReplyDelete
So lovely to see your forsythia, ours has produced only one flower this year, which was the beginning of the end last year for our other one, one flower and then it upped and died, so I fear that the other is following suit this year. It is great to see your flowers as I am really missing them! xxReplyDelete
Gin is about the only alcohol I can do without. Good on you for being so stoical in the face of it.ReplyDelete


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Destiny Blog: House of Wolves
House of Wolves is better than The Dark Below. There's no doubt House of Wolves' content and replayability are an vast over that of its predecessor. There's something hollow about mowing down the Hive's monstrous hordes and this was compounded by the numbing grind of Eris Morn's low-reward bounties. The Fallen are teeming with comparative personality and the DLC's story missions, bounties and patrol additions are generally more enjoyable than those of The Dark Below.
The weekly bounties given by the Queen's emissary, Petra Venj, are assassination missions spanning the available planets with the 'wanted' versions yielding higher reputation gains and better rewards, including the chance to obtain keys that unlock treasure chests found elsewhere in the DLC. There is no new raid this time, but in its place are the new Trials of Osiris and The Prison of Elders modes.
Trials of Osiris is a new, non-matchmade, PvP mode that pits two teams of three guardians against each other in a fight to annihilation. Revives are enabled but, similarly to the Iron Banner, all your gear's advantages count against the opposition, which means level 34 guardians are absolute beasts. I've only had a quick three matches in this mode and was mostly bested by merciless higher level players. Emerging victorious will require communication, strategy and a fair share of good fortune.
The Prison of Elders is Destiny's 'horde' mode and pits teams of three guardians against five rounds of enemies in an arena-like setting. The first, match-making friendly, challenge at level 28 is unlocked upon completing the story missions whilst the others (32,34,35) will require players to assemble teams from their own contacts list. I've had a massive amount of fun with this mode and it's a quality foundation for Bungie to build on. Plundering the treasure room that unlocks upon completion is rewarding although you'll need a treasure key to unlock the largest of the three chests (yielding legendary/exotic gear).
Many of Destiny's more frustrating mechanics, such as upgrading and loot-drops, have now been streamlined. Gone is the focus on acquiring rare ascendant energy/shards in order to painstakingly upgrade your weaponry and armour. You now upgrade eight slots to unlock all the item's perks and then use the new ultra rare item, etheric light, to fully max it out to level 42 light for armour and 365 damage for weapons. Exotic items can be maxed out to 'year one maximum' via exotic shards. Thankfully, this process can be used to bring your older gear (if you've not already dismantled it all) to bring it back into use. Although there's still an argument to be made for all modes to offer match-making – this is an area that requires deeper attention as there are many aspects to consider and potential pitfalls to being matched alongside relative strangers.

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About Kay Croot
Croots Farm Shop is based at Farnah House Farm, Duffield, Derbyshire – the farm that Kay grew up on. Kay and husband Steve launched the farm shop ten years ago and it has gone from strength to strength, with an award-winning butchery, extensive deli, popular café and shelves stacked with quality local produce, as well as items from further afield. They are proud to be supporting local suppliers and offer locally produced beef, poultry and free range pork, with the added bonus of their home-produced lamb…along with our homemade sausages, pies, quiches and more! Croots have won more than 100 awards, including many Great Taste Awards
Kay joined the farm shop full-time in 2015 after spending more than 25 years in the retail sector, working with brands like Boots, ASDA and Aldi. She has been a buyer for Aldi, a central merchandising director as ASDA, and more recently held several senior roles at Boots including commercial director for various departments.
Running a farm shop in today's marketplace can be a big challenge. Long standing FARMA/FRA member Kay Croot who together with husband Steve runs the award-winning Croots farm Shop & café and will share her top tips for running a successful farm shop.


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Let's Break Free From Plastic
About 15 years ago I was on a remote beach in Oregon, surfing. Accessing this beach requires about a two-mile hike through primeval, old growth forest. Once I arrived, I emerged onto a vast and open spit of sand colonized by sea lions, crabs and birds. The view was serene and timeless.
While playing fetch that day with my dog, Porkchop, I spotted a mass of something out of place, strange looking flotsam crashing ashore with the waves. Porkchop and I walked over to investigate and found a miniature gyre of plastic from all over the world—plastic bottles with Chinese characters, packaging that had come down the river from Portland, abandoned fishing gear, and disintegrating Styrofoam.
At first, it wasn't the environmental concern that got me, it was the aesthetic incongruence that this trash represented. The colors and shapes were all wrong against the backdrop of this beautiful place. Truthfully, it was a gut-punch.
At the time I was a journalist and, being curious by nature, I started Googling 'ocean plastic' and reading everything I could about the subject. What I didn't know at the time was that this curiosity would change the course of my life, give me a new purpose, and ultimately lead me to journey around the world studying and bearing witness to one of the most pervasive forms of pollution the planet had ever seen.
Quite soon after that trip to the beach, I started volunteering and quickly became a leader in my Surfrider Foundation chapter. Our small team of volunteers set out to ban plastic bags in Portland, Oregon and after four years of work, we succeeded.
Later, I took a break from my day job and joined up with a couple of visionaries mounting 'The 5 Gyres Project' to sail the world's oceans and conduct research to determine how much plastic was out there. Multiple expeditions to each of the five ocean gyres over several years enabled us to estimate that the oceans contain 5.25 trillion particles of plastic with a weight of over 270,000 metric tons.
It was on one of those 5Gyres expeditions, on America's Great Lakes, that we discovered tiny bits of plastic by the millions suspended in the water, what we later learned were plastic microbeads from personal care products like facial scrubs and toothpaste. Soon after, I joined the team at The Story of Stuff Project, where I helped to lead a successful campaign to eliminate microbeads from personal care products in the U.S. With the Story of Stuff Community's enthusiastic support—and with partners all over the world, including 5Gyres—we removed an entire class of plastics from commerce.
I'm very proud of that victory. But despite our best efforts to document and chip away at the plastic pollution problem over the last decade, it is still growing. Indeed, it's now estimated that plastic in the ocean will outweigh fish by 2050 if we don't dramatically change course.
In North America alone, the average person uses more than 300 pounds of plastic per year—almost one pound of plastic consumed per day. Western Europeans are close behind in their consumption, and plastic usage is growing in developing countries as well. If industry projections hold true, we'll see this footprint doubled inside of twenty years. This simply cannot happen.
At the end of last year, with a microbeads ban in the U.S. secured, our team at The Story of Stuff Project took a step back and to think about what we had achieved, what lessons we'd learned and how we could build on those efforts globally to turn the tide once and for all.
What we decided was that the problem of marine plastic pollution was well established—and that people care—but that the problem was degrees of scale larger than the present effort to address it. Environmental groups like ours had successfully highlighted the problem, particularly in coastal regions in the global North like our home state of California, but the solutions proposed have typically been local or regional in scale and have focused largely on recycling and, to some extent, incrementally reducing the consumption of single-use, disposable plastics.
For its part, the plastics industry has publicly promoted recycling as the optimal solution, but has resisted taking financial responsibility for the associated costs. Privately, these companies have increasingly advocated for incineration to combat the leakage of plastics into the ocean, particularly in Asia. It is not hard to see why.
Lax environmental standards and the availability of cheap labor have put the developing world, particularly the nations of South East Asia, on the receiving end of global plastic waste exports, with China importing nearly 80% of the world's plastic waste. As with climate change and many other environmental threats, the plastic consumption of rich nations is having an adverse and asymmetrical affect on poorer nations. But 'out of sight, out of mind' is no more a solution today than it has ever been.
About a year ago, staff from The Story of Stuff Project were invited to meet with a representative of Oak Foundation, a European environmental philanthropy, along with our friends at Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), a network of zero waste advocates with a strong presence in Asia. Our goal was to think through what it would take to both coordinate and grow the existing global effort to address the plastic pollution problem.
As we analyzed the efforts of groups all over the world, several things became clear. First, ocean-focused groups, particularly those in the U.S. and Europe, weren't in league with the grassroots activists working far upstream of the ocean on waste issues, and that that had to change. We also recognized that many of the fast-moving consumer brands that push plastic (and create waste) were located in the global North, but that those products were having a disproportionate effect on communities in the global South, whose groups rarely had a seat at the table when ocean pollution was being discussed.
So with Oak Foundation support we built a committee of Europeans, North Americans, and Asians to start developing a global strategy to combat plastic pollution that was inclusive, collaborative, and just for all people and the planet. Earlier this year, we invited representatives of 60 organizations from around the world to a working meeting in Tagaytay, Philippines to inform and help build on this draft strategic framework.
The result was a collective vision and set of principles that we're calling The Tagaytay Accord, as well as a series of proposed collaborative projects we plan to launch in 2017. This fall, we announced this movement effort and asked other groups to join us. Within days, more than 500 organizations signed on, and agreed to build this movement together.
We're calling this movement #BreakFreeFromPlastic.
At the core of our work is a major investment in community-based zero waste experiments in areas of Southeast Asia where the most plastic is 'leaking' into the ocean due to under-resourced (or non-existent) waste infrastructure. GAIA members and others in the region have developed scalable, city-based solutions that create jobs with good wages, divert the lion's share of waste from landfill, stop the leakage of plastics into the environment, improve the livability of communities, and perhaps most importantly, save an enormous amount of money.
But plastic isn't just a management challenge. Any successful strategy to solve the problem also requires us to reduce the amount of plastic in the system—a maxim that the plastic and consumer goods industries certainly don't want to hear.
And so we'll complement investments in zero waste efforts in Asia with upstream work to reduce the production and sale of problematic, low-value plastics, including the roughly half of plastic that is disposed of after one use.
For more than four decades, Big Plastic has been telling us it's 'our fault' that pollution happens as a result of plastic use. But we in the #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement know that it's the fault of the companies who make it, market it, and distribute it throughout the world, often in places with no infrastructure to deal with it. And we've set out to change that.
In 2017, we'll launch dozens of high impact, coordinated projects, with a focus on getting resources into the hands of the brilliant but unsung zero waste heroes in Southeast Asia. We'll also identify the worst offending products globally, especially ones with no value at their end of life, and deploy targeted corporate campaigns to eliminate them from the system. And together with groups around the world, we'll work to change the 'better living through chemistry' narrative that's been shoved down our throats by industry for decades, using a series of films, media interventions, and coordinated messaging to help people understand the plastics system and lift up true solutions.
While we'll be playing a role in a variety of these initiatives, The Story of Stuff Project will focus initially on our strong suit: storytelling. Later this year, we'll start developing one of our most ambitious film projects since the original Story of Stuff movie. 'The Story of Plastic,' as we're calling it, will help break down misconceptions, lift up solutions and move viewers from concern to action. In the coming year, you'll see that story, as well as many shorter stories on the issues I've already mentioned, highlighting the positive solutions our movement offers and the innovative individuals and groups getting the job done.
I'm confident that the #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement we're building is the beginning of something big, elevating the world we want and charting a path to get there, rather than just another attempt to manage the world we have.
For my part, as a part of this movement, I'm fighting for beauty; and the opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it's indifference. That's the biggest battle. Whether you care more about the effects of this plastic Stuff on people or on the planet, there is room in this movement for you to join us. And make no mistake, we need you.
Are you ready for action?
- Learn more: The microbeads movie that blew the lid off microplastics.
- Join us: Our global Community is ready to take on plastics. Are you in?
- Support: What you can do to help our research for The Story of Plastic.


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Finally Out of Hospital
Posted by Bluebirdy at 00:25
Sheila--I'm so happy you had a positive hospital experience--it sounds like a miracle!
Don't worry about the emails--take your time, you need a break...
Sending you prayers and love, and may you have many more miracles in the coming year!
P.S. The word verification said "Misti"--how about that!
firebird said... Fri Dec 26, 07:21:00 pm GMT-7
wow firebird!! lol! misti indeed!
bluebirdy, i wish you and mom better days. know that God knows and allows what's happening, so both of you are really very strong soldiers of His and living His Will!
mistipurple said... Sat Dec 27, 11:01:00 am GMT-7
I'm so glad you were able to check out of the hospital and that you and your mother's health are improving. Praise the Lord for that. I wish and pray for your total healing my friend. God bless you always.
Mel Avila Alarilla said... Sat Dec 27, 03:04:00 pm GMT-7
Thanks Misti and firebird. Thanks Mel, but actually we are not getting better. We are getting worse. Mom needed to be admitted to the hospital the same time I was, but the E.R. doc didn't know how to treat her condition so sent her home, and she can't get treatment until after the Christmas season, so she is suffering a lot and we are researching how to treat her and praying a lot. I was only released so that I would not be abused by the Dr. who will be on call for my Dr. while she is on holidays. Now that I have been released, I am not getting the treatment I need, so my infection and kidney stones are getting worse, and on top of that, I pushed and grunted so hard during the very painful kidney stone attacks that I now have a hernia/rupture, so I can't stand straight or sit up straight or even care for myself or my mother. Things are getting worse by the day. My brotheris going through some scary psychological condition so bad that he should be in the mental ward of the hospital, and it abusing Mom and I verbally very badly. We are praying constantly to cast out Satan and any negative forces, and for us to get strong enough to help ourselves or to be led to help. We are all overwhelmed more than our limit. I no longer believe the scripture that says "He will not give you more than you can handle". I looked it up, and it says "You will not be TEMPTED more than you can bear." That is quite different. I apologize for my negative reply but I have reached my limits...and we are not able to help each other and we suffer as we feel each other suffering. It's just one weight after another after another being placed on us, and there is a limit to how much weight a person can handle. I have not even mentioned 4 other crisises we have right now. We are praying, and feeling spiritually comforted, but still suffering physically...as Paul did.
Thanks earth-angel Mel.
Bluebirdy said... Sat Dec 27, 08:18:00 pm GMT-7
really, how much can a person take. i am so sorry life is so hard on your end. i hope your dr will come back soon and sort things out slowly and you'll both, now including your brother, will have less pain.
our hospitals look like heaven compared to what i've been reading around. the medical people and system out there have forgotten their mission.
mistipurple said... Sat Dec 27, 10:07:00 pm GMT-7
you and your family are very much in my prayers.
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So I found out one (the main one! - you know the one with the systems issues, yes them - IdiotBuiltSystem-StuffedTheLeadtimes!) of the Christian book wholesalers over here are going to be chainging their name soon it would appear!
(Thanks to Fellow Twitter @notbovvered Fuller info can now be found on his excellent blog - Christianbookshopsblog.org.uk)
But also they are doing things like looking to lay off staff and then seemingly doing a recruitment drive and asking for volunteers, in what seems to me to be to in effect fill those paid staffers positions, and then claiming to be 100% Charity!
Well sorry to me that's playing a foul semantics card.
100% charity does not involve looking for ways to make your life/business better at the expense of people you are meant to have a duty to care for!!
Add to that given it is a commercial business (albeit a registered charity!) it's trickery to try to convince the customers that through supporting them 100% goes to charity - actaully it doesn't as most of it goes on admin, stock, overheads etc - very little of the customers spend makes it to the charity component - I should know I spent 14 years working for the same sort of retail/publishing/worldwide charity as these folks - and believe me the final sum going to the missions was less than 5% ! So again it's misleading and unfair to make these sorts of claims and do this sort of thing.
Heck my business isn't a charity - it provides for me, my family and staff with not much left over - and then most of that goes to the taxman as I render unto ceasar, but I give willingly to charity from that money because yes it is the right thing to do - and yes I have a nominated charity for my shop, and this year even though times are tough I am still giving - and last year I gave too, twice in fact! This is not to brag, but it's to point out that saying 100% charity is not saying anything if it isn't backed up by real action, (Mark 12:42) if you have thousands and give little, or have little and give as much as you can - well draw your own conclusions.
Again this issue is the unfairness and biasedness of the situation, the misuse of words and ethics to deliberately report something in a way not absolutely honestly truthful, but rather its propoganda marketing and spin if you ask me and if that makes sense! Seems to me some Christian Bookshop Chains & Charities seem to be loosing the concept somewhere, as this one seems to using the same secular and what to me seem to be somewhat ethically dubious activities such as we last saw demonstrated by SSG (SPCK/SSG as they were when they first tried the volunteer trick!). Shame that really.
So the question I ask all of you - and please do comment! - is:
Is it fair for charities running commercial & retail businesses to compete claiming 100% charity?
Oh and let me clearly state that in this I refer to businesses other than pure 'charity shops' that sell on only donated secondhand goods for the most part!
I mean businesses that really are full on retail and commercial businesses operating exactly the same as their secular counterparts - except of course for their registered charitable status.
ok, last thing, I am now truly a twit!
that is to say i am now on twitter.com, so if any of you are also on there and want to chat/follow or be followed then you can find me at: @unicorntreebks
Anyway that's it for now - see you in the shop tomorrow and if you inhabit cybersphere only then don't forget you can shop through our A-shop and support us that way too - and feel free to donate to our nominated charity at any time!


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Just before xmas I got ahold of the bundle for DEFCON, Darwinia, Multiwinia, and Uplink!
I've gotten demos of all of these and they are extremely fun.
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British-Israeli Composer Whose 'Gonna Keep America Singing' Was Performed at Presidential Inauguration Parade Set to Meet Trump Family in the Spring
by Shiryn Ghermezian
A British-Israeli composer is set to meet the Trump family in the spring, and learn how it came to be that the US president sent her a text message in January, requesting permission to use one of her songs at his inauguration parade, the innovation news site Israel21c reported.
Ra'anana resident Loretta Weinberger, originally from London, told the publication that because she was unable to attend the January 20 event — at which the United States Marine Band performed "Gonna Keep America Singing" — she will have to wait to ask the president in person how he came to hear of her composition.
The composer, whose pen name is Loretta Kay-Feld, told Israel21c that when she received the message from then-President-elect Donald Trump while on her way home from a music festival in Eilat, she initially thought it was a joke.
"It was rather a surprise," said Weinberger, who composed many songs for "Sesame Street" and other children's television shows when she lived in the US during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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The impetus for "Gonna Keep America Singing," she said, was that she "really just wanted to unite the country with song. I've written hymns for Israel, too. My purpose in life is to make people smile with music, whether children or adults."
This is not the first time Weinberger has communicated with a president about this particular song. After "Gonna Keep America Singing" was performed at the 2013 Fourth of July party at the US ambassador's residence in Israel, which Weinberger attended, the United States Marine Band asked her for the song's copyrighted music sheet.
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In my first blog about the FER paper I asked the rhetorical question, How can we talk about elevating the standards of analysis and raising the accountability of SROs when we do not enable our MBAs to understand and follow the paradigm shifts etc. A guest commenter asked if I were implying that the FER were not qualified to comment (since the theory of securitization is not taught in any of the universities with which they are affiliated). Another guest commenter asked me to clarify whether I agreed or disagreed with the FER recommendations.
I would say that in the domain of the blog, anyone with internet access is entitled to comment on anything (including non-economists specializing in structured finance, like me) but what is difficult to establish in the blogosphere is not the backgrounds or motivations of bloggers but the factuality of their assertions. In intellectual matters factuality counts too, not just credentials. Members of the FER having risen to positions of prominence and academic leadership in finance or economics are eminently well-qualified to comment on matters related to the capital markets. But my recognizing their qualification to comment does not obligate me to agree with everything they say.
Moreover, it cannot be denied that over the past twenty-five years, non-mainstream financial ideas have been filtered out of the university curriculum, including mainstream financial practices like securitization. How else to explain that credit derivatives are a curricular item, led by experts in market risk analysis, but securitization (the spot market) is scarcely taught? My first blog on this topic was simply an attempt to calibrate the FER recommendations to market realities and try to stimulate discussion. In this blog, my purpose is to point out comments about SROs which the FER has offered as factual that, regrettably, are not facts but dangerous myths. Dangerous, because their perpetuation perpetuates the corruption of the financial system.
First myth: the assertion that SROs stopped evaluating the collateral they securitized, and that this was a causal factor in the market meltdown.[1]
The notion that SROs ever evaluated collateral is a myth. Even the SROs have made no secret about accepting data provided by sellers and financial arrangers at face value without investigation. From the beginning of structured finance ratings in 1983, this had always been true. The data was reviewed by the seller and additionally, sometimes, by accounting firms or special servicers. The special servicer is a relatively new market institution, one whose primary mission has been to ensure the integrity of the data collected on the collateral. Anecdotally, SROs did not want to formalize the role of special servicer in their rating process because they perceived the special servicer as a competitive threat. Whether or not this is true, the reason offered by SROs as to why they never second-guessed the quality of data provided to them was their belief in the integrity of the banking system and its processes. This is a preservation of reputational capital argument—the same rationale that was (and still is) offered in defense of the SRO business model. Alas, the flaw in the argument is only becoming clear now. When fraud and misrepresentation are believed to have no adverse consequences, the value of reputational capital is $0.
Second myth: the notion that SROs played a central role in creating and marketing tranches of graded claims. I call this assertion a myth, but perhaps a better word is "half-truth." It is true that the target rating—without which the market cannot establish a price—determines tranche size. But what is missing is the explicit recognition that rating and structure are non-linearly interdependent. The size of a tranche determines its rating; the rating determines its cost of capital and hence the weighted average cost of capital in the transaction; the WA cost of capital in turn determines the quantity of residual cash flow (excess spread or XS) available to the support tranches; and XS is another source of credit enhancement that drives the rating. To ignore the nonlinear relationship between structure, rating and price or interest cost, is to build in a loophole in the system for one party, usually the seller, to exploit at the expense of the other, usually the buyer.
The sensitivity of value to default risk and structure, credit convexity, is an intermediate to advanced level problem in fixed income mathematics that, as far as we know, is not taught in any academic finance program other than ours (at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; the University of California at Irvine, KAIST program; and Baruch at CUNY). The dearth of learning opportunities appears to be related to the lack of exposure to issues of structural design within academic finance, and seemingly also a deep reluctance within the academy to cultivate a critical perspective on the core concepts of academic finance.
Because one picture is worth a thousand words, I present figures at the end of this blog that are taken from a simple cash flow model of a structured deal. It is the same cash flow model that my students typically build after about 20 hours of instruction. The pictures show graphically the impact of nonlinearity (and credit convexity) on value. Usually when my students (who typically have five to ten years of deal experience) make these diagrams, they gasp in astonishment at the clarity and stark simplicity of what they have never seen before.
The basis of the figures is a simple analysis of a two-class, senior-subordinated (A/B) tranche transaction with the following collateral assumptions:
· the loan being securitized is a fixed-rate, level pay instrument
· defaults are 10% cumulatively in a logistical pattern
· recoveries are a constant 50% of defaults
· prepayments are cumulatively 20%
A sensitivity analysis on credit quality in the A and B tranches is run with defaults rising from 10% to 80% and subordination decreasing from 20% to 1%. Repayment in this scenario is sequential, meaning that the Class A has 100% of principal allocated to it before the Class B is entitled to any return of principal. The output in this analysis is the "reductions of yield" on each class—that is to say, the yield to maturity (expressed in basis points) in each scenario[2], with the scenario jointly defined by default rate and subordination level. The average reduction of yield serves as a rating-equivalent in Moody's structured analysis. So, to aid the viewer in discerning the credit meaning, I have superimposed the credit grades AAA/Aaa, BBB/Baa and CCC/Caa.
Inspection of the A tranche output scenarios via Figure 1 matches a linear intuition of structured credit quality. Each line represents the –IRR of a default isocurve (x-axis) on the sub-domain of subordination (12% – 1%) or, alternatively, leverage (6.5x – 99x). These outcomes form beautiful parallel lines. As you move away from the upper RH corner (low-default scenarios) the security holder's absolute likelihood of loss rises, and as you move from left (less leverage/more subordination) to right (more leverage/less subordination) the security holder's relative likelihood of loss rises, in well-spaced, parallel lines.
The analysis in Figure 1 is offered more from the seller's perspective, who may have a better idea of the collateral risk and creates a structure around that information. Changing the axis in Figure 2, offers more the perspective of a buyer who knows the structure and watches the impact of unfolding collateral quality on his or her slice of risk over time. Here the –IRR of a subordination isocurve (domain: 1% – 12%) is mapped to default ranges (10%-80%). The picture is still very linear, but note how A tranches supported by thick B tranches in the upper RH corner enjoy slight positive convexity with respect to a small increases in default rates and highly levered A tranches high have slight negative convexity. "Convexity" here refers to credit convexity, defined above.
By contrast, inspection of the B tranche dynamics leads to a few surprises:
Figure 3 for Class B is analogous to Figure 1 for Class A. As mentioned above, the picture of the nonlinear relationship between risk and credit protection in the Class B inevitably astonishes people and still has that effect on me. It reveals the clear separation between securities that will repay in full and those that will default—in other words, the default boundary which, without doing a cash flow analysis and knowing how to scale the results, can only be discovered after it is too late. However, knowledge of structuring and rating permits those possibilities to be mapped out and their ex ante probabilities to be assigned.
This picture shows how it is possible for sellers to originate securities that they know to be under-collateralized, up to two or three years before the evidence of fraud becomes clear. They are able to exploit the chasm in analytics and financial knowledge through plausible deniability. "How could we know?! Everything seemed fine."
Note that in this graph, the credit enhancement variable is referred to as "leverage" (because the Class B does not have subordination) and leverage does not change by 1% increments. It changes much faster because as the denominator goes down by 1%, the numerator goes up by 1%. To move from the left to the right (X axis, above) is to increase leverage. Risk in structured deals arises because credit enhancement is levered, which is to say, shared by all the classes in claims-paying priority. To move from the right to the left is to de-lever. A reasonably well structured deal, one in which the risk is contained in the envelope of credit enhancement, will naturally move from the right to the left as the senior classes pay off and credit enhancement becomes dedicated to the remaining classes.
Figure 4 for the Class B is analogous to Figure 2 for the Class A. By reversing the axes and looking at the problem the other way, leverage can be seen to actually help the Class B because it lowers the total financing cost of the structure. Call this the Alan Greenspan strategy.
Lowering the funding cost frees up additional excess spread (XS) for both classes, but the marginal utility of that incremental XS for the Class B will be much higher than for the Class A, and over some scenarios (up to 33% defaults) the highly levered Class B generates very high returns. But at some point the benefit from high XS and leverage reaches its maximum. After the maximum comes a cliff, beyond which value plummets as the risk continues to rise. That dynamic explains the first "twist" around the 33% default level in Figure 4. The second twist, above the 70% default level, comes about because the Class B receives interest before the Class A receives principal. Because the Class B receives interest ahead of Class A, and because the Class B rate of interest is higher, and because (in this case) sequential repayment of the Class A means that the Class B is not being repaid, so that the absolute amount of yield is higher—because of all these factors, the curves in the picture "twist" again.
These graphs show the dynamics of all basic structured finance transactions with a pay-through waterfall. All senior securities exhibit similar risk/return dynamics to those shown in Figures 1-2, and all subordinated securities exhibit similar risk/return dynamics to those shown in Figures 3-4. Transactions where the cash is not allocated in a pay-through manner (i.e., those with triggers) will have securities with a target pattern of returns that may deviate from these norms. Such securities will typically siphon cash away from the other tranches in stressed scenarios.
In fraudulently structured transactions – those in which the collateral is known to be worse than stated – the senior securities with high ratings ultimately turn out to be under-collateralized (illustrated in the ranges moving down and to the left on Figures 1-2) while the subordinated tranches, which typically bear low investment grade ratings, will be virtually wiped out with the passage of time. Most likely, they were not structured for immediate sale but rather held in portfolio by the arranging banks for repackaging in future CDOs (collateralized debt obligations), ABCP (asset-backed commercial paper) or SIVs (structured investment vehicles), where the inflated rating could be re-used to prop up the nominal value of the collateral.
An overhang of this low-value debt had existed on the books of the banks for several years when, in August of 2007, the most conservative segment of the U.S. capital markets suddenly awakened to the presence of subprime mortgages in ABCP collateral. Banks arranging RMBS transactions on behalf of themselves and their clients had believed they could hide behind the illusion of solvency for many years to come by selling the illusion of safety and soundness to a naïve and complacent public, a strategy that has become much more familiar after the Madoff revelations.
Our banks today still hope for forbearance. Thus far, the government seems to be letting them have their way. The accounting system is badly damaged. The financial system still clings to the illusion that ratings mean something. The truth of ratings and the structured finance market is still muddled in emotion, ignorance and confusion. So far, the solutions have all been political. But, any political solution is a zero sum game. If we do not want to go on being manipulated by the same institutions who had profited illicitly from a perversion of securitization and ought now to earn back the trust of the public or face resolution, our only choice is to begin to insist on factual analysis.
In my next blog, I consider two more myths about SROs raised in the FER statement:
· Building a reputation for accuracy is critical to the success of any SRO.
· Ratings firms prospered to the extent that their predictions of the probability of default proved reliable after the fact.


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The film has an R-rating but not due to nudity or gore, which usually garner such a rating. In fact, there is no nudity in the film and gore is at a minimum as well. But it is scary in the creepy ways that make you look twice before going around a corner in the dark. The rating is appropriate, based on age restriction, you really might want to keep the young ones away from this one, they might keep you up at night. Just Saying!
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Brussels apart from being the capital of Belgium is also the capital of the European Union, due mainly to its geographical location. It is a thriving metropolis offering both historical and contemporary attractions. Gastronomically, Brussels has an outstanding reputation for excellent cuisine. Some of its specialities are mussels, waffles and French fries par excellence.
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After breakfast at the hotel, you will be picked up by your private English speaking guide to start your visit of Brussels. During this 3 hour tour you will see the main attractions of the historical centre of Brussels. Beginning at the majestic Grand Place, wander the small streets to discover the most beautiful corners and a city that is full of history at every turn. Visit the famous Manneken Pis, the murals of Tintin, the Royal Palace, stroll through the elegant Sablon, admire the majestic courthouse and much more. This tour of Brussels is the best way to really discover and enjoy the city that's home to the most important institutions of the European Union. Private transfer from hotel to airport.
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Today may be National Doughnut Day, but there's another date lovers of fluffy, sweet indulgences might want to mark on the calendar: July 2. That's when Taco Bell plans to take its Cap'n Crunch-coated donuts (or doughnuts, whatever) to the masses. [More]
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If you've been considering starting your morning with the cream-filled Cinnabon Delights at Taco Bell but decided they weren't sugary enough, the fast food chain is now testing a similarly cream-filled, deep-fried treat that is coated in Cap'n Crunch and has a mysterious pink dough. [More]
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What's a cartoon Cap'n to do when his title is up for debate? Hold a press conference, of course. Cap'n Crunch neither confirms nor denies he's a commander in this YouTube clip, but he does mention a few other inconsistencies about his general appearance, along with those three hotly-debated stripes on his uniform. We're ready to just call a Cap'n a Cap'n. No Ts necessary. [More]
U.S. Navy Weighs In On Cap'n Crunch Scandal: Oddly, He's Not In Our Personnel Records
Let's be clear, shall we? By raising the question of whether Cap'n Crunch is indeed a captain, or as some have suggested, a commander, our intent was never to lay the beloved cereal sailor low. Nay, we only seek the truth, so as to be undistracted by such trappings when it comes time to break our fast. We want to get to the bottom of this man of mystery, and the U.S. Navy appears to have the same goal. [More]
We Don't Know How To Handle The Fact That Cap'n Crunch Has Been Living A Lie
On the one hand, this could all be a little misunderstanding and there's nothing to freak out about. On the other? Our entire cereal-eating lives could be based on a lie because of one little yellow stripe. If Internet speculation is to be believed, the so-called "Captain" of Cap'n Crunch cereal might really be a commander. Not a captain. So not Cap'n Crunch. [More]
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Matthew was shopping for cereal at Aldi when he noticed something interesting. The boxes of Kid's Krunch cereal had recently been redesigned, and both versions were on the shelf, side-by-side. That's a nice opportunity to do some comparisons. Unfortunately for Aldi, what he noticed while comparing the old and new boxes was that the cereal just happened to have lost a few ounces in the process. Oh no––the dreaded Grocery Shrink Ray has come to Aldi! [More]
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A seafaring high commander of morning goodness for decades, Cap'n Crunch may now be walking the plank, because PepsiCo apparently hasn't so much as put out a press release about the cereal since 2007. [More]
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Late last month, a U.S. District Court judge dismissed a complaint filed by a woman who said she'd been buying Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries cereal for four years under the assumption that crunchberries are a real berry. "The plaintiff, Janine Sugawara, alleged that she had only recently learned to her dismay that said 'berries' were in fact simply brightly-colored cereal balls."


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James Hanson foiled former Brighouse Sports player Chris Mordue to win the Yorkshire Merit crown for a second time at soggy Almondbury Libs yesterday.
County player Hanson supplemented his 2011 win, having won the junior title in 2007, with a 21-18 victory in the final.
Mordue, who now plays for Hanging Heaton, was a 7-2 favourite when the final 32 did battle and he made smooth progress through the top half of the draw.
None of his first four opponents scored more than 14, Mordue reaching the final with a 21-13 success against Danny Towning from Middleton Community BC.
Hanson, a 12-1 shot beforehand, beat Mordue's son Josh 21-14 in his first match and his second victim was Akroydon Victoria's Gareth Coates, beaten 21-15.
He booked his final place with a 21-15 success over Josh Brown of Kirkheaton Cons.
The other players to emerge from Saturday's Halifax area qualifiers were Elland WMC's Robert Holmes, Hill Crest's Philip Holroyd and Siddal's Mark Regan.
Holmes beat Dave Cowsill of Alverthorpe 21-17 and Ashley Tattersley of Lower Hopton 21-13 before losing 21-8 to Towning.
Holroyd lost 21-18 to Neil Slattery of Lower Hopton in his first game yesterday while Regan beat John Webster of Crosland Moor 21-11 before losing 21-16 to Brown.


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I Hope everyone is enjoying the summer. With all the hoopla from the World Cup, a new war in Israel, International Pride week… Its hard to imagine that this is about to happen:
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The farming industry must embrace the Internet of Things (IoT) if it is to feed the 9.6 billion global population expected by 2050, according to research.
Therese Cory, an analyst at Beecham Research, and one of the authors of a new report, Towards Smart Farming, said: "The demand for more food has to be set against the challenges of rising climate change and more extreme weather conditions, along with the environmental impact resulting from intensive farming practices."
In the immediate term, the Beecham Research report says that smart farming will allow farmers and growers to improve productivity and reduce waste, ranging from the quantity of fertiliser used to the number of journeys made by farm vehicles.
For crop farming, smart farming means preparing the soil, planting and harvesting at precisely the best time; while for livestock farming it includes monitoring the condition of animals to providing the right type of intervention at the right time.
In the longer term, smart farming will allow farmers and other stakeholders to better understand the wider conditions that lead to variables. Embedding intelligence into the design and operation of machines will allow sensor information to be combined with other data and the knowledge of the farmer.
"The ecosystem of suppliers and stakeholders is very complex," said Cory. "It ranges from large manufacturers of heavy agricultural vehicles to suppliers of M2M technologies and IT based decision support systems, along with providers of expertise in all areas of farming. Partnerships are key to forging a successful supply chain," Cory said.
While the use of M2M technology in farming is still in its infancy, the notion of a 'connected farm' is coming closer, says the report, connecting real time farming processes with a raft of historical data such as weather events, climate, economics, product information and machine settings, for instance.
Cory said: "We also anticipate that the use of smart farming will spread to adjunct areas, such as environmental monitoring, land management and food traceability. This is a consequence of the greater public focus on issues such as food safety, wildlife preservation and rural areas development."
Fellow Beecham Research analyst Saverio Romeo said: "In Europe, the move towards smart farming is being encouraged through various projects and programmes funded by public and private money.
"These include EU initiatives and projects at a national level."
Romeo added: "While the M2M agricultural sector is still emerging, M2M and IoT technologies will be key enablers for transforming the agricultural sector and creating the smart farming vision."
The report says the interest in IoT is already "strong" from agricultural machinery vendors such as John Deere, Claas and CNH Global, while there is also "considerable attention" on data and farm management systems from a variety of players, including agri-food giants like Monsanto.
Romeo said: "The US market is leading the way in smart farming, particularly in areas such as arable farming. Europe is increasingly looking into small-sized field farming, precision livestock farming and smart fish farming, and this trend will soon expand into other important agricultural economies."
In terms of time scale, the next two years will be "exploratory" for smart farming, says the report, but the pace of change will "intensify" from 2017 to 2020.


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While most enterprise applications are object-oriented, the data upon which they depend is not. Come see how you can effectively bind these two worlds together by leveraging the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework. In this session, we'll, Explore the Entity Framework 4, its components and see how it all works, Learn about the benefits and drawbacks of the 3 different approaches to using the tool, Generate a business object model with database mappings, Walk through a variety of code examples that show how to interact with the model, Show how the Entity Framework automatically tracks data changes and generates updates, Deep-dive into the code-only features of the recent 4.1 release You'll walk-away with a clear understanding of the different approaches to implementing Entity Framework in your project.
Rob Vettor is a C# MVP, INETA Regional Speaker and senior .NET Technologist for Oz Systems. Rob has built systems for a number of corporations, including Avanade, Raytheon, American Express and Jack Henry and Associates. Rob lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife, twin sons and three dogs, and is the founder of Hands-On-Coding (http://www.hands-on-coding.net/), a user group in which attendees bring their laptops and learn .NET coding by doing. You can contact Rob at [email protected]
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22 January 2019: HSCB & HSAB Joint Conference. The Whole Family Strengths-Based Approach: Working Together to Achieve Better Outcomes
Information on the above will follow one the conference has been held.
6 December 2017: Criminal Exploitation of Children & Vulnerable Young People across 'County Lines': A Partnership Approach
On 6th December 2017, the 4LSCBs covering Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton & Isle of Wight held a conference entitled: Criminal Exploitation of Children & Vulnerable Young People across 'County Lines': A Partnership Approach.
The purpose of the conference was to raise awareness of the criminal exploitation of children and young people across 'County Lines' and set out the national risk for 'County Lines' exploitation. It was attended by 300 front-line professionals from a range of organisations including social care, health, criminal justice, education, voluntary sector and other partner agencies.
Speakers included representatives from Children's Services within each Local Authority; Hampshire Constabulary; the Home Office; The International Centre: Researching Child Sexual Exploitation, Violence and Trafficking; Crying Sons LTD; Safer London, St Giles Trust and Barnardo's.
The conference was delivered at no cost to delegates and feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.
Speaker interviews were recorded with the following professionals and will be available in due course:
- Craig Dibdin, Chief Superintendent, Hampshire Constabulary
- Fiona Visser, Tackling Crime Unit, The Home Office
- Gwenton Sloley, Director of Crying Sons LTD
- Jenny Lloyd, Research Fellow, The International Centre: Researching Child Sexual Exploitation, Violence and Trafficking
- Neil Connolly, Willow Team Manager, Children's Services
For further information about County Lines exploitation please click here.
12 September 2016: Adopting a Family Approach to Domestic Abuse
The Hampshire Safeguarding Children and Adults Boards held a joint conference on Tuesday 12th September 2017 entitled: Adopting a Family Approach to Domestic Abuse.
The Conference Learning Outcomes were:
- To understand what is meant by 'adopting a family approach' to working with both children and adults and their families
- To understand the types and forms of domestic abuse, including coercive control, adolescent relationship abuse, and adolescent on parent abuse
- To understand the impact of domestic abuse on the family as a whole
- To understand what support and interventions are available to both perpetrators and victims of domestic abuse, and their families in Hampshire
- To be confident in the application of legal frameworks and national / local learning in frontline practice


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In the world of web site marketing it is imperative to figure out how customers have found your services or products online. Did a customer click on an ad, enter a keyword, search specifically for your business or come upon your company through a series of links. Let's look at the basics of Landing Pages and how you can track where potential customers found your company.
What is a Landing Page? Hub Spot defines a Landing Page as any page on the web on which one might land that 1) has a form and 2) exists solely to capture a visitor's information through that form. There are 2 basic types of landing page, Click Through and Lead Generation (also referred to as Lead Gen or Lead Capture pages). Click through landing pages (as the name implies) have the goal of persuading the visitor to click through to another page. Lead gen pages are used to capture user data, such as a name and email address.
Tracking your Landing Page – There are several ways to track the information coming in through your Landing Page. Phone number tracking, web forms and email lists are just a few ways to find out where customers are learning about your company and finding your site. Google offers Analytics that track your Landing Page. Google Analytics has quickly become the most popular website and web traffic analytics tool, and is used by 55% of the top 10,000 websites. Google can also help you track specific information about your customers such as: demographics, the return behavior of customers, mobile stats, and of course the source of your traffic.
Here are some resources to investigate how to track and handle the information on your Landing Page-
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OMG: Lab analyst pranked with pneumatic cannon
(CBS) - Scientists are pretty smart folks, which is why whenever they take a break from their research they seem to come up with hilarious pranks. Look at the case of this lab analyst, who starts his day with a pneumatic cannon to the face! The actual prank happens at about 43 seconds into the clip - but as always, the build-up adds to the joke.
The scientist appears to be very groggy in the beginning of the video, but is definitely awake by the end! Who needs caffeine when you have a pneumatic cannon to blast you to the other side of the room as a wake-up call?
NOTE: No actual researchers were harmed in the making of this video.


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By Jim Meyers |
Tuesday, 27 January 2009 11:38 AM
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell has condemned President Barack Obama's comment about talk show host Rush Limbaugh, saying the "attack on conservative talk radio" has begun.
At a meeting with Republican leaders on Friday, Obama told the lawmakers they shouldn't be listening to Limbaugh if they plan on getting along with him.
"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," he told the GOP leaders during a discussion about his planned stimulus package.
One White House official sought to downplay the remark, claiming Obama was simply pointing to the fact that "there are big things that unify Republicans and Democrats."
Bozell countered in a statement: "Now we know what Barack Obama means by 'unity' and a nation working 'as one.'
"It means it's his far left way and no other way. If he had his way, the president would have us all reading the New York Times and listening to left-wing Air America. He knows his only opposition to enacting a radical left-wing agenda is conservative talk radio.
"Further, there's something eerie, Big Brother-like in Obama's actions. He will deny it, of course, but this is an attack on Limbaugh's and all conservatives' right to free speech. He wants to set the stage for the Fairness Doctrine. And he's doing it through character assassination."
Originally instituted in 1949 by the FCC, the Fairness Doctrine required broadcasters over the public airwaves to give equal time to opposing political views.
Since talk radio is overwhelmingly dominated by conservative hosts, and liberal talk radio draws few listeners, the "equal time" provision would likely force many radio stations to pull popular conservative hosts from the air rather than air low-rated liberal hosts.
The doctrine was repealed during the Reagan administration.
Bozell declared: "I said the day after the election that Rush Limbaugh would become public enemy number one if the Obama administration had its way. The attack on him personally and on all of conservative talk radio generally has officially begun."
Limbaugh himself also attacked Obama's remark, saying in an e-mail to the Palm Beach Post's "Page 2 Live" columnist Jose Lambiet that Obama is trying to shift the focus of the public debate from his stimulus plan to the radio talker.
Rush wrote: "If I can be made to serve as a distraction, then there is that much less time debating the merits of the trillion-dollar debacle."
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To make a business plan template usually begins with the name and the details of the owners of the plan. This is followed by a table of contents that constitutes an executive summary, a general description of the company, the products and services the company offers, the marketing plan, the operational plan, and the management and organizational structures. These elements complete the narrative part of the business template. The financial part of the template should contain a financial statement, startup expenses and capitalization details, and a complete financial plan that encompasses the goals of the company.
First of all we need to determine what constitutes a good business plan template. Firstly it should provide information and guidelines about all the important aspects of business. If it lacks information or is not detailed enough then your company will face the consequences. Secondly, the business plan template should be completely realistic and the profit estimates should be prudent. Lastly it should teach you how to conduct research to fill in the blanks and come up with a more detailed plan.
Business plan templates assist individuals in comprehending start up costs, cash flow forecasts, and personal budgets too. They also help produce full sets of financial statements including cash flows and ratio analyses even without accountancy expertise. They are actually the backbones of planning. Additionally, they give total direction to the company, inspire intense researches, and establish goals. Nevertheless, it is also imperative to obtain the right business plan template to avoid mistakes. So, when looking for one, an individual should try out samples before making a purchase.


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USN-3438-1: Git vulnerability
5 October 2017
git vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 17.04
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Git be made to run programs if it processed a specially crafted file.
Software Description
- git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
It was discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain subcommands such as cvsserver. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue via shell metacharacters in modules names to execute arbitrary code.
This update also removes the cvsserver subcommand from git-shell by default.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 17.04
- git - 1:2.11.0-2ubuntu0.3
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- git - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.3
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- git - 1:1.9.1-1ubuntu0.7
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.


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Colorado Trail 2016 – Ptarmigan
A hen and her chicks, probably one of the best moments on the trail.
July 16, 2016
A Ptarmigan and Chicks
I got to see ptarmigan and their chicks multiple times. It was always a joy.
From my through-hike of the Colorado Trail in the summer of 2016.


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October 11, 1977
Dear Fred:
In reading the minutes of the Operating Committee I noted
a reference under Item 4 which read, "Portage again fell
below, due to the very low volume of Intra-company sales
of supplies."
Would you care to provide me, on a confidential basis,
the story of Portage's progress or the lack of It.
I have the uneasy feeling that Portage has become the
orphan of our organization, and for reasons that I do
not fully understand. I have not discussed this situation
with Landon.
John S. Knight
Mr. Frederick Chait
Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Inc.
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The mastermind of the November 2015 Paris attacks told an acquaintance that he was the commander of 90 "kamikazes-in-waiting" who infiltrated Europe to carry out terrorist attacks, according to information contained in a 55-page report compiled by French anti-terrorism officials.
The report was leaked to the New York Times, which published the startling details on Saturday. The report is newly relevant in light of the Islamic State's Tuesday terror attacks in Brussels that killed at least 31 people and wounded at least 270 others.
The French report included details of a meeting between the Paris mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaaoud; his first cousin, 26-year-old Hasna Aitboulahcen; and a friend of Aitboulahcen's.


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What do callers talk about when they call me for young teen phone sex? All kinds of naughty fantasies, like this one.
Daddy's bookie must really like young teen girls, because he told daddy that little girls are as good as cash. So now daddy has a new way to pay off when he loses big.
Daddy makes me dress up with makeup, sexy lingerie, and really high heels. Then he sends me to his bookie's house and tells me to be daddy's good little girl and do what the nice man tells me. Do you think daddy has any idea what the so-called nice man has his little girl doing?
He likes girls taking their cloths off while he sits back and watches. He tells me how much he likes young preteen girls posing nude.
Don't tell daddy, but I like being a teen model for his old bookie. It's fun being one of those naughty girls prancing around like a teen slut. Sometimes he calls me for teen phone sex and tells me to get daddy to place some bets just so he can see me. He says he'll even invite some of his friends over next time. What fun! *giggle*
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We were tasked with this Midlothian Architectural Design project in Eskbank on the outskirts of Dalkeith, which involved the
extension of an existing dwelling to provide an enlarged kitchen & dining space, whilst maximizing the use of natural light. The extension was designed to be in keeping with the original
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- Obtaining competitive quotations from Structural Engineers
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- Principal Designer role to statutory consent stage in compliance with CDM2015.
This Midlothian Architectural Design project presented some challenges in that it was identified as being in an area of known previous mine workings and a coal authority report was required, which identified potential shallow mine workings. The Structural Engineer had to design a concrete raft foundation to allow for this, which had to be factored into the Architectural details too. The Radon risk assessment also identified potential issues so a gas membrane had to be specified and the volume of glazed areas necessitated additional insulation.
The images to the right have been extracted from our CAD drawings and show the proposed plans, elevations and sections, which were required for the statutory consent applications.


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