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FOR TWO LONG September days, I cruised the Los Angeles freeways with the "home stager" Meridith Baer and her two top deputies, looking at very expensive houses. Given the location, the dollar figures being tossed around and the fact that there were four of us in a gas-guzzling tank, I couldn't help feeling like one of Vince Chase's boys in "Entourage," the HBO show that revolves around four buds driving in an S.U.V. from one breathtaking L.A. setting to another. But instead of looking at women, we were looking at houses.
Most were either on the beach or in exclusive enclaves like Brentwood and Beverly Hills and were on the market for more than $10 million. Although new and uninhabited, they were all furnished with Baer's signature mix of antiques and custom-made furniture, her light palette and eccentric touches (she puts a cast-stone pig in every kitchen). They truly were the real estate versions of Vince Chase's women — hot in a rather cold, untouchable way — and I only saw one that I actually wanted to marry, as it were.
I wanted it so badly that I now look at the photographs on the Realtor's Web site and wonder how I can find millions of dollars and a reason to move West. It's a penthouse condominium in the rehabbed National Biscuit Company building in scruffy downtown Los Angeles. The condo rises over three levels, with landings on the stairs between each one; it has exposed brick, walls of a pristine, tooth-whitened white, an interior elevator in case you're too tipsy for the vertiginous stairs and more than 3,600 square feet of terrace space. From the rooftop deck, you can turn around slowly and catch views of the mountains, the famous Hollywood sign, LAX, the Los Angeles Times building, the American Apparel factory and, when I was there, the residual forest-fire smoke still lingering over Pasadena.
But what makes National Biscuit Company No. 703 especially desirable are the furniture and personal effects — although they belong to no person — that Meridith Baer & Associates put inside. Hand-selected from the firm's inventory, which takes up 135,000 square feet of warehouse space, they are exactly the objets that I would own in the urban-bohemian-plutocrat-Angeleno version of my life. There in the dining room are the Louis XV chairs and settee, the Aubusson carpet and the slightly kitschy hand-carved wooden candelabras, all set off by the stone urn covered in moss — which I surely picked up somewhere in my travels — and the ersatz Giacometti sculpture. There is the 30-foot port-colored velvet curtain that falls the height of the entire loft. But to show that I am not mired in the distant European past, there are the off-white Philippe Starck chairs and, in the bathroom, his Louis Ghost chairs. To show I am not a culture snob, there are the Stephen Verona black-and-white prints of populist heroes like Leonard Bernstein and Henry Winkler. And to show that I am not some prissy collector, there is the mountain bike, hanging by hooks from the ceiling.
Someday soon, at its current $2.9 million asking price or something lower, somebody, my West Coast fantasy version of me, will buy Biscuit 703, and when that happens Meridith Baer's trucks will back up to the freight elevator and cart all her furniture and effects — the curtain and the settee, the Aubusson and the Starcks, the piano and even the copy of Thomas Keller's "French Laundry Cookbook," which now sits on the kitchen countertop, helpfully opened to Page 27 — back to the warehouse, which is in an industrial area southeast of Los Angeles. Each item will be reshelved, awaiting the moment Baer or one of her 12 designers takes it down for use in another house. This is the fate of Baer's art. It not only lacks the obvious permanence of a movie or book; it lacks even the place in our memory accorded a great concert or play. For once the house sells, her pieces leave, to be replaced by whatever the owner or his decorator fancies.
Barb Schwarz, a real estate broker from Seattle, claims she was the first home stager, in the 1970s. (She founded the International Association of Home Staging Professionals and the online Staging University.) Since then, thousands of stagers have offered their services to sellers and their brokers, promising that their touches will help a house move, even in the worst markets. Some stagers charge mere hundreds of dollars and offer helpful hints, like "take down that picture" or "reposition that sofa." Others will, for thousands of dollars, prescribe a full makeover with advice on what color to repaint your walls, what shrubs to uproot and what to plant and what new bathroom fixtures will appeal to today's discerning buyer; they will even subcontract the work for you, hiring painters and gardeners, renting tables and beds.
Then there are the grandes dames, of whom Meridith Baer is perhaps the grandest. She began just before the late, great real estate bubble, in a region where developers, building fast and big, often needed enough furniture to make 9,000 empty square feet seem cozy and lived in. She will provide that furniture as well as art, books, silverware and touches of ready-made character. What she doesn't have, her staff of 70, including decorators, movers, carpenters and upholsterers, will make or find. She will then bill you $20,000, $30,000, even $50,000, plus a monthly rental fee if the house sits on the market. And you — if you have developed a house on spec, and it's sitting there calmly ignorant of the real estate crash while you panic about your mounting bills — will pay that fee. You'll pay it because you believe that a good home stager moves houses, and because, as much as you needed her when times were good, you fear that you need her now more than ever.
Meridith Baer has no training in real estate, interior design, construction, art, architecture, fabrics, carpentry or urban planning. She often doesn't know what designer is responsible for a chair she owns or what period an antique comes from. But she has brains, energy and a rather startling degree of luck.
Baer was born in 1947 and spent her early years living in a house on the grounds of San Quentin State Prison, north of San Francisco, where her father was a warden. When she was 13, her father moved the family to Des Moines, where he had been hired to oversee Iowa's prisons. Baer's mother was "a wild collector of everything beautiful," who dragged Baer and her two brothers to every roadside flea market or tag sale they passed. In Des Moines, she also began buying and selling houses. "I was thinking one of the reasons I'm compelled to do what I do is because I moved 15 times before I was 15 years old," Baer says, with perhaps a little bit of exaggeration. "We kept moving from house to house in Des Moines, because she was flipping."
Baer's first bit of luck came when she was attending the University of Colorado. She was approached by the producer Jerry Bruckheimer, still years away from "American Gigolo" or "Top Gun," who asked if she would like to be in a Pepsi commercial that he was producing nearby. She was flattered and figured, Why not? "I started getting these checks in the mail," she says. "I thought that was kind of cool." Baer moved to New York and kept modeling. She helped sell a lot of cigarettes: she was a Winston girl, a Kent girl and a Benson & Hedges girl.
Her every-girl quality — "I'm little, I'm not glamorous," she says — worked for television too. When she moved to Los Angeles, she found small acting parts. She was in one episode of "CHiPs" and the last episode of "Happy Days." She began writing and selling screenplays. A script based on her childhood at San Quentin was made into a forgettable 1981 movie with Tatum O'Neal. Meanwhile, Baer dated the author Michael Crichton, married and divorced a photographer and found herself, in 1991, on a blind date with the English actor Patrick Stewart. "I fell in love with his voice," Baer says. "He showed up at my door and here was this bald guy. I had no idea who he was. But he had this beautiful voice."
Baer stopped acting and writing; her new full-time job was being with Stewart. After they broke up two years later, she moved into "a little house in Brentwood, 1,100 square feet." Having "lived in a very cool house with Patrick," she was depressed by her new digs. "But I woke up the next morning bound to make it beautiful. I bought a fountain to keep the noise out. I planted roses." For four years, she poured her own money into the house. "Next thing you knew it was the most beautiful place you'd ever seen," she said. "Then the owner came to town and said, 'Oh, my God, I could make a lot of money on this.' And he kicked me out." The owner put the house on the market, and it sold right away.
This experience did not make Baer think she wanted to be a stager. For one thing, there were no stagers, at least as far as Baer knew. For another, there seemed to be renewed life in her writing career: Barbra Streisand's production company asked Baer to write an adaptation of a novel that Baer had optioned. But the Streisand people weren't offering much money, and meanwhile the broker who sold the house she redecorated came to Baer with a proposal for other houses he was listing: "The broker was saying, 'Can you do this for me?' " And Baer decided that she could.
THAT WAS IN 1998, and since then her business has, she says, doubled every year except for the current one. Baer estimates that about 90 percent of her staging is in new houses, either built on spec or extensively rehabilitated by an investor. Her furniture currently sits in about 130 houses, and her dozen designers will stage more than 300 houses in 2009. Baer rarely stages the houses herself anymore, but she keeps buying — hitting flea markets and estate sales and antique stores; she is responsible for the warehouse's 2,000 antique French lemonade bottles, its five-foot-tall pepper-mill lamp, its sculptured metal monkey holding a broom ("I don't know why I bought that, but it will sell a house someday") and its antique proctological probes. She says she has staged houses being sold by Halle Berry, Bob Dylan and Harrison Ford, and houses she staged were purchased by Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon and Sean Combs. She recently staged 40 Beverly Park, a mansion in Beverly Hills that she says was the most expensive house purchased in America this year (the original asking price was $45 million, although it was reportedly reduced to $31.5 million before it sold).
She hired her nephew, Brett Baer, in 2004, a few years after he got his M.B.A.; he grew up in Michigan, where his father teaches at a Christian college, and had never lived in California before. He seems well acclimated, very comfortable in his Venice Beach loft and on his cellphone, which he freely put to use even in a restaurant whose menu was printed with the command "No cellphones in the dining room." He declined to give an official title, saying only, "I do the business development; I do sales; I sign-up work." Baer's other aide-de-camp is Heide Ziecker, who has answered phones, kept the books and, Baer says, "been one of our top designers." Like Brett, Heide has a very un-Hollywood background: her father is Hal Lindsey, the apocalyptic Christian Zionist who co-wrote "The Late, Great Planet Earth," the best-selling nonfiction book of the 1970s.
Los Angeles is the land of reinvention, where names change, noses change, lives change. And Baer's business is making people comfortable with that reinvention. Many of the people buying staged houses in the pricey neighborhoods where Baer does most of her work are from other countries; still more are new to the West Coast. "They have always heard 'Beverly Hills,' and they want 'Beverly Hills,' " she says. But they don't know what that's supposed to look like. Baer gives them the luxury they expect, with just enough eccentric accouterments that they don't expect. The Baer effect, according to the Los Angeles power real estate agent Mary Lu Tuthill, who has worked with her, is that the buyers "feel comfortable thinking, I'd love to live in this house — look how these people live in this house!"
As Brett nails down another deal on his forbidden phone during lunch, Ziecker tells me: "There's a signature look that runs through our houses. And that's . . . a look that someone lives in it, and they're well traveled and sophisticated. But they live there." Baer says that for living rooms she likes her designers to begin with a white sofa, then go from there. "You can change the pillows, you can change the throws, you can make it Chinese," she says. The designers can accessorize however they like, "but they are stuck with the stuff I buy." And they are stuck with her sense of the theatrical. She likes to imagine one bedroom as the married couple's, another as the little boy's or girl's, still another as the mother-in-law's, where the décor is more formal and "the mattress isn't too comfortable."
"I always have a character in my head," Baer says. "After 20 years of screenwriting, I got to see only two movies made, and neither of those movies represented what I had in mind. I get to make up for that missing thing when I go around to the houses." She tries to avoid stuff that's "matchy-matchy," to use her term of derision, like furniture ensembles that look as if they were moved en masse from a showroom floor.
But Paul Morrow, a developer and general contractor who has twice hired Baer, says that she's willing to bend according to the character of the house. "In an Italian-villa-style house, she can't use her white linen with dark-wood furniture," he says, and one of her strengths is that "she'll redo it until it's right."
A stager's vision is always subordinate to the owner's need to sell, hence the extreme tactics that Baer is willing to use. She sprinkled 1083 Hillcrest Road, the Beverly Hills house where Groucho Marx lived until his death, with Groucho-themed art, including a replica of an Andy Warhol portrait of Groucho himself, then had her workers fabricate a weathered, autographed script for "Monkey Business," which she mounted on the wall under plexiglass. Prospective buyers can thus partake of the house's history while imagining that they've added to it. The buyer can imagine herself part of old Hollywood; and rich enough to own a Warhol; and quirky enough to have found the script at an auction.
The girl from the Benson & Hedges billboard, her nephew from the Midwest, her assistant born of evangelical royalty — they seem to have clear heads and share a sense of humor about what they do. They help new money fall in love with new houses. Even the unfurnished houses themselves are acts of aspiration: built on a leveraged prayer, often on the remains of an old tear-down that some investor thought could be improved upon. There may be no history to the land, but Meridith Baer can fix that.
"We're not finding the cure to cancer," Baer says. "But we are helping people see how they'll live in the house — where they'll hang art, where they'll eat. The kind of thing they're not good at because they are finding the cure to cancer."
Brett looks at his aunt skeptically.
"Or acting," he says, then makes another phone call.


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Announcements and Events
I will keep this page updated with global-health related events.
I am convinced that social change comes about when people of different backgrounds with varied talents unite for a common cause, that "who you know is more important than what you know." So, I'd like to get to know people, communicate, and collaborate. One way is through this blog. Here are a few other ideas for those of you that live close to Provo, Utah: (If you live elsewhere, perhaps you can organize get-togethers for people interested in global health!)
-Every 3 months or so, the Utah Valley Global Health Group will sponsor an informal, ethnic dinner, as well as discussion about global health. Our first meeting was on April 7, and the theme was be "microcredit and health." See here for details. Our next one will be on October 19, and the theme will be "leprosy." I will give a brief overview of the global burden of leprosy, and Sylvia Finlayson, the Director of Program Development for Rising Star Outreach, will share her experiences. As always, the dinner is very informal (come and go as you like), and plan on bringing a side dish. Please RSVP to this email: unacceptableglobalhealth at gmail dot com, and I will send directions.
-As noted here, our RESULTS group meets the second Saturday of the month at 12 noon, at 2198 JFSB on BYU campus. We hope you'll stop by!
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November 16, 2007 at 11:52 am
Hello there,
While doing research for an article on micro-credit financing and health-care provision I've written, I came across your blog. I agree wholeheartedly with your comments above that "who you know is more important than what you know", and my intuition suggested I leave this message. Perhaps there are linkages between the blogs members that can be explored and utilized.
My interests are in micro finance and health care specifically, and for-profit social enterprises in general. While traveling in Argentina this past March, I visited several MFIs, and had the privilege to meet their staff and clients. From this experience, I have written several articles on the topic of micro finance.
An article on MFIs and health I wrote will be published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization in January 2008. If of interest to you and the blog (I am new to blogs, and I'm not sure of the modes of conduct), I will submit the URL link here when the article is published.
I have bookmarked this blog, and will definitely come back to visit!
All the best,

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A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Juliete Harpur, who runs Ashford's Sing & Sign classes
Juliete first got into Sing & Sign about 5 years ago, when her eldest was just 3 months old. She was interested in getting involved with learning something useful and something that challenged her mind.
She originally set up her business in Belfast, and had a large client base, however due to personal circumstances, she relocated to Ashford with her family, and had to start from scratch. It's been a tough journey, filled with lots of challenges. I really admire her persistence and determination, and hope to be able to help her build up her client base once again!
Q: Tell me more about Sing & Sign!
J: Sing & Sign is part of a franchise, and we have groups all over the country. We use sign language to help adults and children (0-2 years old) start their signing journey. We teach signs as well as the associated verbals, and find that this helps babies to develop speech even quicker.
We find that babies can also recognise facial expressions – they can tell when Mummy or Daddy is sad, angry, or happy. For them to be able to connect a facial expression to a sign or a verbal, helps them connect with the world and understand it a bit more.
The important thing, as well, is to get them learning things that are relevant to their age. Our younger babies (up to 6 months) mainly learn signs for nappy change, milk, tickle, body parts.
Most 0-6 month old babies' worlds is all to do with Mum, Dad, the family unit; then they progress to the outside world.
Q: Some families don't really get into baby signing until their second or third child – do your classes cater for older children as well, so they can learn to sign with their younger siblings?
J: Absolutely! We usually welcome siblings 3-4 and older, so that Mums aren't too distracted during class. We find that families learn best together, as a unit, and there are always members that are new to signing (grandparents, siblings, etc.). A lot signs are learnt in class, but then they are practised at home too, and that's where a lot of it is picked up by the other siblings.
We find that kids learn from kids a lot quicker, because they've got a connection in terms of similar interests. So if an older sibling signs, the baby will copy their big sister or brother.
We also find that if a child learnt to sign as a baby, but then stopped signing as their communication developed, they're still able to remember the signs that have been 'banked' in their minds when a younger sibling comes along. All the information they once knew comes to the forefront of their mind quickly and easily, especially the 'No!' sign!
Q: How long are the workshops?
J: Each term is 10 weeks, and depending on the needs of the baby, most families attend 1-2 terms per age category.
Q: What's your funniest/most embarrassing moment?
J: I think the most common is when I accidentally do the wrong sign, and one of my babies corrects me! I think 'Oh well, at least I'm doing something right! They know the signs well enough to spot a mistake!"
Q: Any other memorable moments?
J: The most heartbreaking bit is watching your babies grow up and move on. The Mums in my classes are pretty good at keeping in touch and keep me updated on their baby's progress!
One of my proudest moments involved a family that had been involved in a terrible car accident. Their little one girl was only 2, and ended up in hospital, but was able to sign to her parents even though she wasn't quite sure what was going on.
The classes are fantastic for children with special needs as well. One of my babies started out terrified of the class and other babies, and by the end of term, he was the one holding the basket giving out musical instruments to all the other children!
Juliet's classes are very popular, and fill up incredibly quickly!
If you are interested in trying it out, get in touch with Juliet and she'll be able to sign you up for a class!


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My name is Craftsman Thomas Mortimore and I am currently on Phase 2 training at 10 Training Battalion, Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers (REME).Learn more about Thomas's background here
Common Foundation Course
February for me this year is all about the Common Foundation course. This involves Technical Drawing, Maths, Science, Engineering Materials, Bench fitting and Health and Safety. The pass mark for the Common Foundation Course exams is 60% which may seems easy, especially as all the exams have multiple choice answers, but best advice really (and anyone will tell you this) is to revise thoroughly. The revision classes are 6-7pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays (it's not optional to go) and you usually just answer questions from an exercise book on the topics you have covered up until that point and there is always a Sergeant there to help you if you are stuck or don't understand something.
One hundred per cent
Technical drawing took four days during which you will submit three pieces of work, all of which are dictated by the instructor so there really is no way to fail unless you don't listen to them. Maths, Science and Engineering Materials overlap each other, but Maths and Science is a couple of weeks whereas Engineering is four days. Anyone who did Resistant Materials/Design and Technology at school will understand a lot of what is done. I passed Engineering with 75%. Maths covers a lot of GCSE grade modules like Algebra, Conversions, Area, Circles, Diameter, Trigonometry and Graphs. I passed Maths with 95% which I was really happy with. Science focuses on the Physics side and includes conversion from one unit to another, force, mass, work, power, temperature, friction and pressure. If anyone remembers drawing the "equation triangles" at school then they are extremely useful. I passed Science with 100%
Health and safety was two days long and consisted of a day and a half going through computer lessons and questions covering all the topics. The main purpose of bench fitting is to teach you the basics of engineering. The practical project will be a strap spanner which will be built in approximately three days worth of work. You start with a practice piece and learn all about drilling, taps and dies, sawing and most of all, filing.
Clay Pigeon
I do not wish to give the impression that it is all classroom work though. There is plenty of time set aside for sports and physical training. There are a huge variety of sports you can choose to do every Wednesday afternoon and various clubs have extra hours after work. I had done swimming in the past, but after realising the full range of sports available to me (and the fact the swimming pool is 100m down the road and free to use) I chose something I never thought I would get the chance to do; Clay Pigeon. February had started off very cold and as a result when I spent my first time clay pigeon shooting I could barely use the shotgun, let alone hit the target. Later on I also took part in the target shooting with the rifle club.
Most of the PT during this period is all about building up strength, and there seems to be no better way to do this than an hour of squats every Tuesday and Friday. Whether you're throwing 10, 15 or 20kg bags into the air, squatting with weight on your back/shoulders, or lifting up weights and trying to look like an Olympic weightlifter, you'll know whether you have worked hard because your legs will be like jelly and you will barely be able to get down the stairs. All this however is extremely useful because it builds up your muscles in your legs allowing you to gain a better run time and carry heavy items for longer distances e.g. your back pack on exercise.
So hopefully by the time I write next month's blog I should have a quicker run time and have completed foundation training. The next chunk of my training is the real meat where I learn my trade as an Armourer.


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This report was sent to subscribers on 9/13/10 4:55 p.m. Chicago time to be used for trading on 9/14/10. Everything is done by Howard Tyllas, no program or black box.
November Soybeans
After the close recap on 9/14/10: My resistance was 10.40 3/4, .01 1/2 from the actual high, and my pivot acted as support and was 10.22 3/4, .02 1/4 from the actual low.
Results for 9/14/10 were:
Soybeans: My resistance was .01 1/2 from the actual high; my support was .02 1/4 from the actual low.
Corn: My resistance was .03 3/4 from the actual high; my support was .01 1/4 from the actual low.
Crude Oil: My resistance was .03 from the actual high; my support was .17 from the actual low.
S&P: My resistance was 2.00 from the actual high; my support was 2.25 from the actual low.
Gold: My resistance was $5.90 from the actual high; my support was $3.80 from the actual low.
Euro: My resistance was .46 from the actual high; my support was .29 from the actual low.
Bonds: My resistance was 14 from the actual high; my support was 12 from the actual low.
Cattle: My resistance was the EXACT actual high; my support was .10 from the actual low.
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10.40 3/4 Resistance --------------10.31 3/4 Pivot 10.22 3/4 Support Trend 5 day chart....Sideways from last week same day Daily chart .... Up Weekly chart ... Sideways Monthly chart Sideways $9.61 is the 200 DMA ATR 18 Balanced 60%
10.40 3/4 Resistance
--------------10.31 3/4 Pivot
10.22 3/4 Support
5 day chart....Sideways from last week same day
Daily chart .... Up
Weekly chart ... Sideways
Monthly chart Sideways $9.61 is the 200 DMA
ATR 18 Balanced 60%
I continue to say "Bracket Line from 12/1/09 high is resistance, uptrend line acts as support going forward".
November Soybeans for 9/14/10:
I said "New high for the run with a lower close bodes well for another down day to follow". Indeed that was the case on Thursday.
In my daily soybean numbers on Monday; my resistance was .12 1/4 from the actual high; my pivot acted as support and was .08 ¼ from the actual low (but was the exact low in open outcry).
Grains: Accurate corn numbers, not helpful soybean numbers except in open outcry where my pivot support held three 5 minute bars at mid day to post the exact low of the day. Corn market did test the gap at $4.88 ½ the entire day but for now held tough. Funds were reported to have bought 13,000 contracts on Monday, so their appetite for corn might not be over. I guess they know the crop is getting smaller and so is the carryover, and they certainly are putting money where their thoughts are. Funds bought 2,000 soybean contracts, but the market closed well off their high today. It looked like bean bears wanted to take them lower today, but corn, crude oil, and wheat were supportive.
Crop progress for corn slipped 1% to 68% G/E but last year we were at 69% at this time. Soybeans fell 1% to 63% G/E compared to last year at 68%, and the first slip backwards in 3 weeks.
For now the funds are in total control because of their willingness to add to their positions. Now you see again when I write "things do what they do until they do not do it anymore" applies to the corn market now. To say they are not worth this price or we will get a big crop is one thing, but managing time to see if in fact that is true is another. No good being right if you go broke first. Now no matter bull or bear, you should have a risk reward to what you do, and plan for anything no matter up or down.
I want to continue to be in day trading mode with the same risk and thoughts as on Monday.
Producers: When the unimaginable happens and you can make much more money than thought, this is a good thing and I consider it a winning lottery ticket. For most of my producers it is more like a gift because of their bumper crops. High prices and above average for their farm yields at the same time is a rare occurrence. It is not often that I have seen this and the US production even if less than thought is a great crop for most farmers. What some of my producers are experiencing is a basis not keeping up with the speculative futures market, and the divergence is either hurting them or forcing them into storing and selling later.
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November Soybeans for 9/13/10:
Grains: Spot on soybean numbers, corn numbers were helpful at best. The feature of this report was the corn estimate of 162.5 bushels per acre (BPA) from last month's forecast of 165 BPA. This knocked off 205 million bushels (MB), 40 more than the average trade guesses. Next year's corn carryover was lowered 196 MB to 1.116 MB. If yields continue to disappoint and come in at 160, that would drop carryout to about 950 MB. Bulls must be looking at even lower yields and larger exports which would drop stocks even more. They do have the fact that export sales are sizzling and at a record pace. On Friday though China cancelled 2.4 MB of their 11.4 MB commitments to import corn, but the market either overlooked this negative news or it tempered an even stronger day than was posted.
On the other hand soybeans added 50 MB from the August forecast and were 80 MB more than the average trade guesses. If the USDA yield estimate of 44.7 is realized, this would be a record crop for the 2nd year in a row. August guess was the same as last year's actual record of 44 BPA. If the hotter/drier August weather has reduced corn yields, I wonder if this will show up in soybeans. We might be seeing more pods now, but the bulls might be thinking that the pods will not fill as expected. USDA raised exports 50 MB for 2010/11 to 1.485 compared to 2009/10 estimated exports of 1.495. With the way China has been buying soybeans, I must allow for the possibility for even greater sales. But their cancelation of some corn commitments on Friday concerns me, which makes one more thing I am uncertain about. USDA lowered carryover only 10 MB to 350 MB but the trade was looking for a number of 300 MB or less.
Funds must have liked what they read and bought 18,000 more contracts on Friday, and this might be a clue that this rally is not "buy the rumor sell the fact". It looks like buy the corn sell the soybeans type of action. Charts back that with corn closing above the bracket line and targeting the physiological $5 benchmark, and soybeans failing to hurdle their bracket line is negative price action. The fact that they made a new high for the run and closed lower on Wednesday, set up another down day on Thursday. Friday's report was no help for the soybean bulls so technically and fundamentally there was nowhere to go but down. Corn chart though is ready to take out highs posted 1/5/10 on the weekly continuation chart of $4.80 3/4, and then attempt to fill the gap left from the week of 9/29/08 at $4.88 1/2.
I keep in mind that the market is pricing in lower yields, and the final verdict is unknown and can be more or less than expected. The fact a record long position held by fund managers and not end users is a risk at all times to the bulls because of profit taking or liquidation due to a change of outlook. For the week ending 9/7/10 the funds added 23,000 contracts to 402,000 contracts. For now they are in control and the only thing I can see for this week that could slow the price rise is increased farmer selling at these price levels. As I have said before, uncertainty is in the bulls favor until combines bring in crops that verify what is out there. Just keep in mind that by late November they will be forced to liquidate or "pay up" to roll to the March contract which is $.13 more than the December.
Am I the only one who thinks that 402,000 contracts are equal to over 2 billion bushels of corn? If they are not going to use it, then at some point in time no matter when, they will need to liquidate some of that position, and who do you think is going to buy that much corn from them? The shorts that have the other side of the trade will buy back, except for the true hedgers who sold their crop that will not be buying back. Their share of the shorts will need to be bought back buy new speculative longs instead, or the longs will need to keep selling at lower prices until they discover what prices the buyers show up. Selling 2 billion bushels and even a portion thereof is not easy to do, unlike a 100 contract position that can be filled at 1 price on 1 trade. Their advantage of big money works in the short run and can squeeze shorts that might be right in the long run, but the funds will try to force them out now at a higher level by selling to the shorts who cannot tolerate losses past a certain amount. Nothing is certain at any time, because a meltdown in global equities would cause demand destruction that would greatly affect grains and risk taking in general.
I cannot predict more than I already have told you as far as the fundamentals and charts are concerned. My bias when prices are relatively high is to trade from the short side, but if fundamentals were more certain and warranted higher prices, I will want to be on board that plane, but to get on when I do not know if we have enough fuel to get where I want to go (higher), then I rather stay on the ground and wait to catch the next one.
With that being said, I want to continue to day trade with a bearish bias using the numbers but willing to take the buy signals when not in overbought conditions, and risk the same as I have been using on a stop. My long term known risk strategies selling soybeans and corn would be kept for now. The soybeans are a winner, and the corn is a loser right now.
Results for 9/10/10 were:
Soybeans: My resistance was .02 3/4 from the actual high; my support was .02 from the actual low.
Corn: My resistance was .07 3/4 from the actual high; my support was .04 3/4 from the actual low.
Crude Oil: My resistance was .30 from the actual high; my support was .30 from the actual low.
S&P: My resistance was .50 from the actual high; my support was the EXACT actual low.
Gold: My resistance was $3.20 from the actual high; my support was $1.30 from the actual low.
Euro: My resistance was .25 from the actual high; my support was .19 from the actual low.
Bonds: My resistance was 1 from the actual high; my support was 7 from the actual low.
Nat. Gas: My resistance was .025 from the actual high; my support was .015 from the actual low.
Cattle: My resistance was .20 from the actual high; my support was .25 from the actual low.
November Soybeans for 9/10/10:
Grains: Spot on corn numbers, accurate soybean numbers. I was really impressed with the way corn closed above the bracket line high. Confirmation will be if they close above it again today. I would have thought they would have backed off a little before the report as was the case in the overnight trade, but instead the funds bought 15,000 contracts in open outcry pushing them above key resistance levels. Playing chess, I would look at the board set up as this, they bought whatever was needed in the closing minutes to allow time to run out and give no chance to the bears to pull back. This also would accomplish setting off "stop close only orders" and take profits on some longs at the highs in doing so. It really does not matter, what matters is that it did close above resistance.
No matter what the report says today, I am more interested in the way the market reacts rather than the content of the report, especially at these price levels. I have seen a bullish report open limit up but by the end of the day they were limit down. I will say for the 100th time, markets can and will do anything, being right still has the task of managing profits, but when wrong you must have a plan and the ability to execute it.
Funds and analysts know that 11 out of the last 12 years the September USDA production figures forecast has exceeded the average trade estimates by an average of near 140 million bushels. They are looking for that number to go to 11 out of the last 13 years with their huge position at stake. It does not matter what the fundamentals are, if there are more buyers than sellers the market will go higher and more sellers than buyers will push them lower, and that is the reason I trade price not fundamentals.
With that being said I really cannot wait to see what the market does, and what the report had to say. I want to see a strong rally for my producers to be able to add money to their original hedges. If the market goes down I think December corn (CZ) will be well support at $4.45 1/2 and November soybeans (SX) at $10.
I will be sending my comments around 9am (30 minutes before open outcry begins) and will go into more detail tonight on the weekend edition for Monday's trade.
Lastly, it is not often where I have no clue as to what the report will show, and even no clue to how they will react to it. If I was playing chess against a new opponent it would be similar to not knowing what to expect on a report or the reaction to it, but after playing that person 50 games I would pretty much know almost everything, and knowing what to expect your opponent will do in reaction to what move you make is a major part of being successful in chess. Trading is similar to chess; you need to have a plan and strategy and the ability to carry it out, and the ability to make change in order to accomplish the goal of success.
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"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do." Helen Keller said that. There's a bit of humor in that because I didn't recall having seen that quote from Miss Keller and yet, it is one of the most appropriate happenstances that I should see it today.
Yesterday, I was speaking with my friend, Juli, and complaining about how terrible this past Congress has been; about how vicious this Republican candidate campaigning has been; about how badly the Supreme Court screwed up when it gave permission for corporations to donate as much money as they wished to form "superpacs" or gigantic-sized political actions committees on behalf of one or another or all of the candidates. There were several other things that I lambasted while I was at it, but of course, Juli merely stood there and listened. I finished by lamenting that "there's really not one goddamn thing I can do about it."
"That's right," she said and turned around and walked away.
Then, this morning, the Keller quote came in by e-mail. It started me thinking, "What is the one thing that I can do about this political process?" The only thing that I can do is writing. I can write and hope that there are enough people out there who will read and believe what I write that they, too, will look for the one thing they can do to help get their candidate elected to town council, school committee, Congressman, Senator, or President of the United States of America.
Let me begin by saying that I agree one hundred percent with Boston Bruins goalie, Tim Thomas. Our country is in a lot of trouble. We have too many people who have to choose between medicine or meals; rent or paying the oil company. In other words, there are too many Americans who are in a thoroughly untenable situation. On top of that, there are too many politicians in Washington who really don't give a damn about those people. And "those people" don't feel as though they are empowered to do one damned thing about it…and they're right.
Big money is running our country. Big money couldn't care less about you or me unless we're making over $200,000 per year. At that rate, they might give us a minute or so on the telephone in their busy schedules, but not a hell of a lot more. If we're earning a bit over a million, hell, they even take a half hour meeting with us every so often…as long as they know we're supporting their candidate for whatever office he or she may be competing for. As for you and me, well…we're screwed! Our only choice is to find out who among those candidates has one bloody clue about what's really going on in this country and will try to do something about it.
At a recent speech at the University of Michigan, the President stated, "I don't need a tax break. I'm not the one who's hurting. I'm willing to pay my fair share, but Congress won't pass legislation that will allow me to do that." He didn't say why Congress wouldn't pass that legislation but you and I both know, don't we? We know that there are two reasons why Congress won't pass any kind of tax reform that would put "big money" on a somewhat more equal footing with thee and me. First, and foremost, the bulk of our members of Congress are already millionaires, and they don't want to pay more taxes. As one member put it, "It's tough just to live on $400,000 per year." Yea, life's a real bitch when you have to live on 400K. Anybody out there willing to try to live on that paltry amount, Careful, you might get run over in the stampede! The second reason that Congress won't pass any kind of tax reform to equalize the burden is that if they even think about it, "big money" will step in and find ways to "help" them. As I say, "big money is running our country."
I really believed that when President Obama was campaigning, he was a good man and the right person for the job. I happen to be one who still believes that. Bill Clinton tried to balance the budget after Reagan had spent like a kid in a candy store. He did a fair job, but the national debt still increased. George W. Bush came in and like every Republican President before him, he spent money like it was going out of style tomorrow, and up, up, up when the national debt. After eight years in the White House, he left a disaster behind. Now, in just over three years, Mr. Obama seems to be doing some things to help the country. He managed to get an imperfect health care bill passed. It still needs a lot of rewrite, but it's a huge start. He managed to get our troops out of Iraq – a few more than 200 service men and women died while he was trying to do it – but he got them out. I'm certainly hoping he'll do the same thing with Afghanistan. I believe he knows as well as the rest of us that once we leave any of those countries in the Middle East, they'll just fall back into their old tribal warfare ways. Democracy's a great idea, but if you've been doing business one way for over 2,500 years, it's really kind of tough to change your practices.
Now, after the Republican presidents spent money like drunken sailors through a period that encompassed 16 years with a brief pause in between, the members of the Republican Party want the President to reduce the national date by an impossible level within an impossible time frame. Because he understands that it can't be done while keeping the country running, they want him out…out, do you hear me, out! And in his place, they want to put another one of their millionaire buddies who neither know the problems of the average American, but worse, who don't give a damn about our problems.
I can write, and I will continue to write about this upcoming election. Hopefully, I can intersperse a few funny stories along the way – oh, wait, a colony on the moon is pretty funny – and other essays that may be of interest. Until the next time, what's the one thing you can do?


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For the cabbage to ferment rather than rot, air needs to be excluded under brine. Microbes are already present on the cabbage. The brine is created by massaging, pounding or letting the salt extract the juice. Other vegetables, fruits, herbs and spices can be added for flavour and colour.
• 1/2 a green cabbage
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2. Wash and clean the fennel and onion, then slice them.
3. Peel and chop the garlic.
4. Combine ingredients – except the carrot – in a large mixing bowl.
5. Salt to taste.
6. Massage together until you can wring/squeeze a handful, and it drips like a sponge.
7. Pack the mix firmly into the jar, to remove air pockets and raise the juices. Fill up to the shoulder, leaving two to three centimetres for the mix to rise during fermentation.
8. Place a clean folded cabbage leaf and a piece of carrot on top as a plug to hold the mixture under the juices/brine. If there is insufficient juice to cover the mixture, add additional brine.
9. Seal the jar and label it, including the date.
10.Place the jar out of direct light for one to two weeks before transferring it to the fridge where it will continue to ferment at a slower rate.


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5 Responses to "Flowers, slugs, dirt"
Mr. Bluehaunt Says:
April 3rd, 2010 at 5:37 am
Beautiful photo of skunk cabbage. It reminds me of my childhood. Now if you just add "smell-o-vision" to the photo!
kate Says:
April 3rd, 2010 at 8:39 am
Now, if it would stop raining in Portland long enough so I could work on my garden: http://www.flickr.com/photos/k_ate/sets/72157607290192916/
Can't wait to smell like dirt.
LB Says:
April 3rd, 2010 at 9:57 am
Bluehaunt, I think I got a large enough dose of that smell for all of us! Kate, I love your beautiful garden, and it's really time for the rain to stop.
coozledad Says:
April 3rd, 2010 at 2:31 pm
I was out your way briefly in the early seventies. You folks have monster slugs. My chickens would love them.
LB Says:
April 4th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Your chickens are welcome to them!


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One hundred forty-two golfers participated in this year's event. Many local and regional companies stepped forward to sponsor the tournament, including several owned and managed by TGC members. "This is a team effort," said Gwen Errhalt, TGC for the Troops Tournament Director. "Our members support this event every year with their time as volunteers and resources. Our sponsors recognize that everyone who participates in TGC for the Troops have their hearts in the right place and are loyal customers. Every year their generosity exceeds our expectations." A year's membership at TGC, a Toyota, and a trip to Bermuda were among the hole-in-one prize offerings. Live and silent auction items included a trip to Las Vegas; Red Sox, Celtics and Patriots tickets; and top-of-the-line golf equipment.
The tournament began on an emotional note as colors were raised by members of the Color Guard of the 102nd Intelligence Wing, Otis AFB, and a moment of silence was observed in honor of U.S. Army corporal Matthew Gallagher of Falmouth who was killed June 26 in Northern Iraq. Gallagher, who would have turned 23 on July 5, was serving his second tour of duty.
In addition, the group was addressed by Brigadier General Thomas J. Sellars, Commander of the Massachusetts Army National Guard who provided sobering statistics regarding the financial needs of families of deployed servicemen and women.
The money brought in by the tournament is managed by The TGC Fund, a donor-advised fund overseen by the Cape Cod Foundation, and is distributed through 501(c)(3) organizations to veterans and local military families and individuals for food and fuel assistance as well as job training through a simple grant application process. In addition, the TGC Fund supported MA Otis's Pantry, an on-base emergency food pantry for military families and veterans at Otis AFB.
Courtesy of the Golf Club of Cape Cod.
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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: installing rockbox on the sansa e280
Re: installing rockbox on the sansa e280
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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:41:13 -0800 (PST)
its possible to do without visual assistance. Here's what I wrote about it earlier on this list.
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Thiruvananthapuram: The allotment list for admission through the single-window system to merit seats in new higher secondary schools in Thirussur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kannur and Kasaragod districts has been published.
According to an official statement here, admissions will be held on August 10 and 11 from the list. Students who have got allotment should pay the fee and ensure their admission since there will be no more opportunity to maintain the higher options. However, students will get an opportunity to change their school after the admission. There will be one more allotment on August 16 to fill up seats for those who do not get admission even after getting the allotment, the statement said. Details are available on www.hscap.kerala.gov.in.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Plus One allotment list published
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Zio Ziegler is an amazing artist, and I happened to walk past one of his murals today in downtown Oakland.
Zio Ziegler (born February 18, 1988) is an American artist, known for his intricately patterned paintings and his large-scale murals that can be seen in major cities in the U.S., Europe and Asia. His work reflects the diverse influences of late medieval and quattrocento painting, aboriginal, African and naive art, and the European graffiti movement. Driven by intuition and depicted with a playful use of space and materials, his subject matter reflects the human condition, with reference to allegorical, mythical and artistic lineage. He paints in the belief that his paintings complete themselves by triggering self-discovery in their viewers. You can read more about Zio, and see more of his work at zioziegler.com and artsy.net/artist/zio-ziegler
Bonus; a picture of me taking pictures. Good for scale right? Courtesy of Alex Fossoey.


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PYO Tulips – Open Sat 11th April
Our Pick Your Own Tulips will be ready to pick from this Saturday 11th April.
Over 50,000 bulbs of all colours were planted in the winter so you're in for a treat! From yellow and pinks to deep purple and reds, come and get your pick of the bunch!
Bring the family and enjoy a fresh spring experience!
Admission is free through Cowtastic Farm Park. Cost to pick £3 for 10 tulips & £12 for 50.


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I read an article in the New York Times recently about Dana Rohrabacher that reminded me, in a huge way, of the Feb. 11, 1990 heavyweight title fight between James (Buster) Douglas and Mike Tyson.
The piece, written by Dave Weigel, detailed Rohrabacher's confidence as he heads into next year's election. He's hardly lacking in self-belief.
Take a gander …
Way back 27 years ago, Tyson was in Rohrabacher's shoes. He was the heavyweight champion of the world; the holder of the WBC, WBA and IBF titles; seemingly invincible and indestructible. He had won his first 37 professional fights, including a recent first-round TKO of Carl Williams and a 91-second destruction of Michael Spinks. There were good boxers, there were great boxers and there was Mike Tyson—the terrifying boxer.
But then, on that February night, something happened. The Mike Tyson who entered the ring in Tokyo got soft and complacent. He didn't work quite as hard; he confused victories for verifications; he soaked in the adulation and lost the intensity. His rival, the obscure Douglas, was a nobody whose 29-4-1 record seemed downright pedestrian. Hell, he was listed in Las Vegas as a 42-to-1 underdog.
Here's what happened …
I don't know if Harley Rouda or Laura Oatman will win this election. I truly don't. But when I watch Dana Rohrabacher, and I hear him talk, and I watch him hide from constituents, and I see him try and put forth the ol' happy surf guy persona, I can't help but recall Tyson, all cocky and macho, step into a ring unprepared for what was about to hit him.
He knew no better.
But he was about to fall.


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All these playlists, all these podcasts…they are nothing so much as an invitation to YOU to join in the exploration of new music. Let us know what artists you've discovered (either on this podcast or elsewhere). Let us know what you thought of the opinions expressed on the show. Tell us we're awesome or tell us we got it dead wrong.
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If you're around my age (20 or so) and heavily into park skiing, there's a big chance that Tom Wallisch was your favorite skier growing up, and still is. If not, he's right up there. If you follow him on social media, you may have noticed that he's been posting quite a few throwback clips on Facebook and Instagram recently. Earlier today, he posted his So Far So Hood segment from 2009, which made me want to compile some of Tom's best Internet content.
Superunknown V
For a lot of people, this was their first introduction to Tom Wallisch. Yes, he's always been that good, and that technical on rails. Front 360 swap back to switch in 2007 (1:51) ? I think so.
All Eight
Tom inspired every kid that has a backyard setup to learn all 8 switch ups 270s out with that video, where he shows us just how f****** consistent he is.
So Far So Hood Bonus
I prefer this one over his actual segment from So Far So Hood. Probably because I've seen it first. Or just because everything in this edit is perfect: the song, the tricks, Wallisch being a G; if you grew up in that era of freeskiing, you still watch that edit in 2015.
The Windells Shredcast – Episode 7
I re-watched this edit of Wallisch murdering Windells not too long after I came back from Mount Hood last summer, and I came to this conclusion : '09 Wallisch was better at park rails than any pro I've seen at Windells in 2014.
New Era #5
This re-edit of Wallisch's footage from Refresh by Kyle Decker is insane. The stuff he did in the streets back then was way ahead of its time.
Jiberish Winter 2010 - Do Werk
This edit is a classic. I'd recommend re-watching the whole 8 minutes. But if you strickly want to see Wallisch, his part starts at 3:18. This right here is probably my favorite park footage from him. The front swap front 630 out on the down-flat at 4:25 is out of this world.
Wednesdays With Wallisch – Episode 1 Season 2
Wednesdays With Wallisch were sick. Especially season 2. I remember this one popping up everywhere on my Facebook when it came out. The opening line at 1:47, the 630 on the down rail at 4:09, the front swap front 810 out of the S rail at 4:37, those still blow my mind to this day.
Insane Urban Skiing ft. Tom | Begging for Change (4Bi9 Media)
I guess Tom is a victim of YouTube here and wanted people to click on his video with a title like that. Anyway, you all remember that last rail, which he slid unnatural by the way.
A Walk in the Park
I remember watching this edit with Newschoolers' favorite member, -emile-, and we were both laughing 'cause Wallisch was making it look a bit too easy.
Wednesdays With Wallisch – Episode 6 Season 2
I've watched the Mount Hood part (starts at 3:13) too many times. That last line...
Tom Wallisch - Open season at Park City Mountain Resort
If you're running out of time 'cause you've watched every single footage of Tom in this article, just go straight to 5:04. And make sure you have a box of Kleenex.
The Wallisch Project
And last but not least, the Wallisch Project. While his Refresh and Eye Trip segments are my favorites, putting out a 7 minute part of this caliber in only a season is something.


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Camels, Sheep Forced Back to Qatar Amid Crisis
The blockade was announced shortly after Trump last month made Saudi Arabia the first stop on his first overseas trip. But if the diplomatic crisis lasts another three or four months, and Saudi Arabian and United Arab Emirates banks pull their deposits out of Qatar, local banks might need official help, the banker said .
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Pakistan progress to sixth position in ICC Rankings after Champions Trophy successThe South Asians arrived in Britain for the eight-team, one-day worldwide tournament as the lowest-ranked side, packed with players still trying to find their feet at the highest level and given little hope of emerging victorious. Hasan Ali drew inspiration from his fellow fast bowler to take three wickets and, supported by tigerish fielding which has not always been a feature of Pakistan cricket teams, they bowled out India for 158 to win the trophy for the first time .
Macron says door still open for Britain to remain in EUBrexit talks remain on course to start next week, Theresa May has said following talks with French President Emmanuel Macron. Mr Macron threw out the olive branch as the prime minister travelled to Paris yesterday for talks ahead of next week's European Union exit talks.
Thousands join India's Modi, hit the mat for International Yoga DayFrom the deck of an aircraft carrier to the sub-zero temperatures of a Himalayan military outpost, tens of thousands of Indians joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday to celebrate the third International Yoga Day . She said over the last two years, Indian missions and posts all over the world have "channelised great enthusiasm and interest" for yoga in their host countries.
The night the lights went out in Georgia (for Democrats)Handel's victory allowed Republicans to hold onto a closely contested seat and deny the Democratic Party a chance to chip away at the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. A Parnell loss in the low double digits, by contrast, would be consistent with a national shift big enough for Democrats to win the House. Pelosi has donated a large sum of money to Ossoff, along with the Democratic National Committee which has given more than $2 million to Ossoff's race.
What happened to Otto Warmbier? Ex-detainee believes torture possibleTrump has been counting on China to use its economic leverage with the government of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as American concern grows over the North's acceleration toward having a nuclear missile that can strike the USA mainland.
MP mum demands autism apology from HansonDisabled and autistic children should be taught in special classrooms where they can be looked after and given special attention, she said. If it were one of my children I would love all the time given to them to give them those opportunities.
Nitish Kumar's JD-U to support Ram Nath Kovind in Presidential electionsHe said the Sena was not opposed to the candidacy of Kovind whom he dubbed a "good choice". In 2012 too, the then chief minister J Jayalalithaa supported NDA presidential candidate P A Sangma who lost to the present President Pranab Mukherjee.
Tory grammar school proposals dropped in Queen's SpeechThis includes pushing through a bill to tackle unfair fees on tenants, a crackdown on the "rampant compensation culture" that pushes up insurance premiums and a domestic violence bill which aims to establish a victims' commissioner. Lord Mancroft, the chair of the Council of Hunting Associations, described the 8 June vote as "the chance we have been waiting for" to overturn the ban.
Qatar buys F-15 fighter planes in billion-dollar U.S. dealThe Pentagon said in a statement that the deal "will give Qatar a state-of-the-art capability and increase security cooperation and interoperability between the United States and Qatar ". Saudi Arabia, another key U.S. ally, has led moves to isolate the gas-rich emirate since earlier this month. "The nation of Qatar has unfortunately been a funder of terrorism, and at a very high level", Trump also declared later in a rose garden press conference.
US pushing China to rein in companies that deal with NKoreaNorth Korea topped the agenda at the newly established Diplomatic and Security Dialogue, which paired Tillerson and Mattis with Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and General Fang Fenghui , chief of joint staff of the People's Liberation Army .
UAE's Gargash says Qatar isolation could last for yearsHe said that matters which relate to the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council are subject to negotiation, referring to the body comprising Qatar, Saudi Arabia , the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ), Bahrain , Kuwait , and Oman. While plausible, Turkey's one-sided support to Qatar could damage the chances of success of its mediation efforts, experts said. " Qatar will realize that this is a new state of affairs and isolation can last years ", Anwar Gargash told reporters in Paris , as ...


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Bicycle Safety
Click here for the Guide to North Carolina Bicycle and Pedestrian Laws
Safe Riding Tips
- Wear a Properly Fitted Bicycle Helmet. Protect your brain, save your life.
- Adjust Your Bicycle to Fit. Stand over your bicycle. There should be 1 to 2 inches between you and the top tube (bar) if using a road bike and 3 to 4 inches if a mountain bicycle. The seat should be level front to back. The seat height should be adjusted to allow a slight bend at the knee when the leg is fully extended. The handlebar height should be at the same level with the seat.
- Check Your Equipment. Before riding, inflate tires properly and check that your brakes work.
- See and Be Seen. Whether daytime, dawn, dusk, foul weather, or at night, you need to be seen by others. Wearing white has not been shown to make you more visible. Always wear neon, fluorescent, or other bright colors when riding day or night. Also wear something that reflects light, such as reflective tape or markings, or flashing lights. Remember, just because you can see a driver doesn't mean the driver can see you.
- Control Your Bicycle. Always ride with at least one hand on the handlebars. Carry books and other items in a bicycle carrier or backpack.
- Watch for and Avoid Road Hazards. Be on the lookout for hazards such as potholes, broken glass, gravel, puddles, leaves, and dogs. All these hazards can cause a crash. If you are riding with friends and you are in the lead, yell out and point to the hazard to alert the riders behind you.
- Avoid Riding at Night. It is far more dangerous to ride at night than during the day because you are harder for others to see. If you have to ride at night, wear something that makes you more easily seen by others. Make sure you have reflectors on the front and rear of your bicycle (white lights on the front and red rear reflectors are required by law in many States).
Rules of the Road – Bicycling on the Road
Bicycles in many States are considered vehicles, and cyclists have the same rights and the same responsibilities to follow the rules of the road as motorists. When riding, always:
- Go With the Traffic Flow. Ride on the right in the same direction as other vehicles. Go with the flow – not against it.
- Obey All Traffic Laws. A bicycle is a vehicle and you're a driver. When you ride in the street, obey all traffic signs, signals, and lane markings.
- Yield to Traffic When Appropriate. Almost always, drivers on a smaller road must yield (wait) for traffic on a major or larger road. If there is no stop sign or traffic signal and you are coming from a smaller roadway (out of a driveway, from a sidewalk, a bike path, etc.), you must slow down and look to see if the way is clear before proceeding. This also means yielding to pedestrians who have already entered a crosswalk.
- Be Predictable. Ride in a straight line, not in and out of cars. Signal your moves to others.
- Stay Alert at All Times. Use your eyes AND ears. Watch out for potholes, cracks, wet leaves, storm grates, railroad tracks, or anything that could make you lose control of your bike. You need your ears to hear traffic and avoid dangerous situations; don't wear a headset when you ride.
- Look Before Turning. When turning left or right, always look behind you for a break in traffic, then signal before making the turn. Watch for left- or right-turning traffic.
- Watch for Parked Cars. Ride far enough out from the curb to avoid the unexpected from parked cars (like doors opening, or cars pulling out).
Sidewalk versus Street Riding
The safest place for bicycle riding is on the street, where bicycles are expected to follow the same rules of the road as motorists and ride in the same direction.
- Children less than 10 years old, however, are not mature enough to make the decisions necessary to safely ride in the street.
- Children less than 10 years old are better off riding on the sidewalk.
- For anyone riding on a sidewalk:
- Check the law in your State or jurisdiction to make sure sidewalk riding is allowed.
- Watch for vehicles coming out of or turning into driveways.
- Stop at corners of sidewalks and streets to look for cars and to make sure the drivers see you before crossing.
- Enter a street at a corner and not between parked cards.
To select and properly fit a bicycle helmet, follow the helmet fitting instructions below.
Step 1 - Size:
Measure your head for approximate size. Try the helmet on to ensure it fits snuggly. While it is sitting flat on top of your head, make sure the helmet doesn't rock side to side.
Step 2 - Position:
The helmet should sit level on your head and low on your forehead—one or two finger-widths above your eyebrow.
Step 3 - Buckles:
Center the left buckle under the chin. On most helmets, the straps can be pulled from the back of the helmet to lengthen or shorten the chin straps. This task is easier if you take the helmet off to make these adjustments.
Step 4 - Side Straps:
Adjust the slider on both straps to form a "V" shape under, and slightly in front of, the ears. Lock the slider if possible.
Step 5 - Chin Strap:
Buckle your chin strap. Tighten the strap until it is snug, so that no more than one or two fingers fit under the strap.
Step 6 - Final Fitting:
- Does your helmet fit right? Open your mouth wide…big yawn! The helmet should pull down on the head. If not, refer back to step 5 and tighten the chin strap.
- Does your helmet rock back more than two fingers above the eyebrows? If so, unbuckle, shorten the front strap by moving the slider forward. Buckle, retighten the chin strap, and test again.
- Does your helmet rock forward into your eyes? If so, unbuckle, tighten the back strap by moving the slider back toward the ear. Buckle, retighten the chin strap, and test again.
- Roll the rubber band down to the buckle. All four straps must go through the rubber band and be close to the buckle to prevent the buckle from slipping.
For additional information please visit the National Highway Transportation Security Administration.


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Optimisation of financial accounting: Purchase-to-pay
The automated optimization of the entire purchase-to-pay process ultimately forms the "supreme discipline" of ensuring sequentially coordinated company activities. Within this the finance department can also play a significant role in bringing about company success. Learn more!Read More
Optimisation of financial accounting: automatic validation
Once invoice receipt, digitization and data acquisition are assured to the same quality and at very attractive unit costs, the next issue in the process can then be addressed. Find out more!Read More
Optimisation of financial accounting: incoming documents
For a large number of affected companies a first, particularly rewarding step for optimizing financial processes is the improvement of the process that governs the receipt of invoices and other documents. Learn more!Read More
Optimisation of financial accounting: 3 important steps
Let us consider the most common problems, then illustrate the initial potential for optimization, and provide tips as to how to improve the efficiency of your accounts payable markedly with the minimum of effort and in the shortest of time by improving the invoice receipt processes.Read More
Optimisation of financial accounting: the problem
Even though the processes and procedures of financial accounting do not number amongst the main business activities for most companies, they are nevertheless appearing more and more amongst the core areas of interest for internal and external process optimisers. Upon closer inspection the reason for this becomes obvious…Read More
Paperless e-billing – on-boarding prime rule, negotiate patiently!
In the on-Boarding process there is work to be conducted in conjunction with the client (like preparation and monitoring, for example) and with the supplier (contact, NetMeetings, and implementation). Here are the main steps of the on-boarding process…Read More
Repository management (Master data)
Repository management (Master data) is key to all vendor invoice dematerialisation projects. It is one of the levers of the implementation methodology and it optimizes the overall processing. Hereafter a few key steps…Read More
Paperless vendor invoice – Which solution in a complex world?
The dematerialization of the supplier invoice allows companies to optimize and automate their inbound supplier invoice processing (or e-invoicing). It is part of a broader accounting process, the "Purchase to Pay" or "P2P"(as opposed to the process "Order to Cash" – "O2C" for outbound billing or "e-billing"). Thanks to the latest European directives, we are seeing the democratization of electronic invoicing. An approach that makes use of technical solutions that however remains quite complex. This is why, despite the legal pressure, namely the obligation to send electronic invoices to the public sector by 2020 for all businesses, they are struggling to switch to electronic invoices on a large scale.
Companies can reap many benefits from outsourcing vendor invoice dematerialization and from the optimization of its processes. The first benefits are obviously financial, but this varies across organizations.Read More
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Optimising cross-channel dissemination processes
If the communication campaign is ready and can be rolled out across multiple channels, the approved documents must be made accessible to the appropriate addressees – and if possible via all channels and in every presentation format simultaneously.
Find out why the uniform omni-channel approach more than pays for itself at this point, if not earlier!Read More