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The Brookfield Historical Society, founded in 1968, is the only organization in town whose purpose is to preserve our town history. We believe that significant facts, documents and artifacts must be preserved, documented and made part of the town's permanent heritage. Thus the purpose of The Brookfield Historical Society is to collect the history of Brookfield and make it available, educational, and interesting to all.
In the year 1687, 20 families petitioned the General Court to become a town. Permission was granted and boundaries were laid out for the Town of Danbury. New Milford was settled in 1707 and Newtown in 1710. As the towns continued to grow and prosper, traveling to church from the northeast corner of Danbury, southwest part of New Milford and northwest part of Newtown became a hardship, especially in winter.
Settlers in our area petitioned the General Assembly in 1743 "to their being set off and made a district Ecclesiastical Society or having liberty for winter parish." "Winter privileges" were finally granted in 1752 and permission for the formation of Newbury Parish was granted in 1754. The name as taken from the three towns making up the area, and official bounds were given.
A meetinghouse site was selected and in 1755 building began in the area essentially occupied by the present Congregational Church. On September 28, 1757 Thomas Brooks was ordained and installed as permanent minister, the same day the meetinghouse was dedicated.
By resolution of the General Assembly in May 1788 the Parish of Newbury became the Town of Brookfield, the name given in honor of Rev. Brooks who had guided its destiny for 30 years. The first Town Meeting was held at the meetinghouse on Monday, June 9, 1788 at one o'clock in the afternoon to vote for Town officers for the ensuing year.
In the 1800's Brookfield was a thriving community with stage coach shops, 2 railroad stations and several taverns and hotels. Industry included saw mills, grist mills, shear shops, lime kilns, comb & button factories, iron works, and harness shops. There were once 8 public school houses, a private school for boys and an internationally aclaimed music school.
above: The present Congregational Church of Brookfield.
All town business was conducted there until 1875. In April of that year it was voted to build a new town hall. This building was completed in 1876 and cost $4,000. From town records "the first floor or upper room is to be used, according to a vote, for political and civic meetings, lectures, dramatic entertainment and so on." The basement contained a court room in which the Justice and Probate Courts were to be held.
above: Over the past century the building has served as Town Hall, a center for civic affairs and Joyce Memorial Library. The Brookfield Historical Society leased the building in 1975, as the result of a Town Meeting held August 25, 1975. The building was refurbished and officially dedicated and opened on July 4, 1976 as a highlight of the Nation's Bicentennial celebration. The Brookfield Historical Society uses it as a center for the preservation of our historical past.
above: The original Center School was built in 1762. It then served as the Town Hall and is now rented by the Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials.


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U.S. Rep. Rush Holt and Princeton faculty members Eric Wieschaus and Stephen Pacala will participate in a roundtable discussion on "Abuse of Science in Policymaking" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
The forum, sponsored by Princeton Environmental Action , is part of a nationwide series of discussions on college campuses by members of the Union of Concerned Scientists , an independent nonprofit alliance of more than 100,000 scientists and citizens.
Holt, a Democract from New Jersey, is a former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Wieschaus, the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology, won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1995. Pacala is the Frederick Petrie Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and co-director of Princeton's Carbon Mitigation Initiative . They will be joined in the discussion by Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Center for Policy Research for Women and Families in Washington, D.C.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — Jackson Shaver drove in two runs and William & Mary beat Ole Miss 4-1 Sunday, eliminating the Rebels from the Raleigh regional.
Ryan Lindemuth and Ryan Hissey each had RBIs for the third-seeded Tribe (39-23).
They beat second-seeded Ole Miss (38-24) for the second time in three days this weekend and advanced to play top-seeded North Carolina State. Brett Koehler (7-5) allowed seven hits with five strikeouts in his first win since May 10.
Shaver, the son of Tribe men's basketball coach Tony Shaver, gave William & Mary the lead for good when his two-run single off Sam Smith (3-1) in the fourth made it 3-1.
It came a half-inning after Ole Miss tied it at 1 when Austin Anderson scored on Preston Overbey's double play groundout.
Hissey drove in an insurance run in the sixth. Lindemuth's RBI double in the first gave the Tribe the early lead.
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S'well — the bottle whose name is an understatement
If Apple made water bottle it would look like the S'well bottle.
The S'well bottle is just what some people needed. People, that is, who want their water bottle to be practical and stylish. The intent of its makers was a design that would look as fitting in the boardroom as it would sticking out of a backpack.
The Swell bottle is vaguely shaped like a wine bottle, more like a riesling hock than a Burgundy bottle. The all-steel Swell is double-jacketed, using air as an insulator. In the shape of the Swell lies its more insidious suggestion that it be used as a wine smuggler. The bottle just seems to be worthy of wine and I fear it may entice some to smuggle wine into venues, such as the workplace, where people ought not to be drinking. This reminds me of high school, when certain females would smuggle Zima into the lunchroom in the Sprite bottle. What happened to Zima?
This makes the S'well an ideal vessel for more legitimate uses, transporting wine for a picnic, when a full bottle would be cumbersome. I have two plastic stemless wine glasses — "O" knock-offs – that would be perfect for the occasion. Or, Swell is a good way to get a beverage to an area where glass is prohibited, such as a pool area, beach, patio or theater. No one will be the wiser. Who will hassle you for having what appears to be a nice looking water bottle?
The S'well bottle seems good enough for wine. I have tried white and red wines from the Swell bottle (at home, not the workplace.) While drinking directly from the bottle mouth is not the preferred way to enjoy wine, the bottle itself did not seem to affect the flavor of the wine.
S'well isn't cheap, and the 500 ml bottle will cost more than $30. The 750 ml version will cost $10 or $15 more. But it is pretty much indestructible and seems like it will take a beating if it needs to and last the better part of a lifetime. Plus, a portion of the every bottle purchased goes to a clean water charity.
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I Army-Build, and I also buy for friends of mine: Tony, Dexter, James, & Darren, and now it seems Jose has decided he's back in the game. Mike Sullenger from Galactic Hunter used to be in our group but seems to have fallen off the face of the earth. But that means I'd buy 6 of some figure if need be, not to mention more if any of us are army-building with it.
That being said, I'll share with anyone who's physically there when I'm cleaning up the pegs - scalper or not, but it'll be an even split between who's ever going for the stuff. At my stores, there's hardly anyone anyway. Plus the other guys on my "team" hit their own local stores so we aren't double-covering anything. I usually cell phone or get cell phoned at 8:10 am anyway when stuff hits - but we all generally find stuff at the same time at our respective stores so we don't do much trading except when one of us needs to army build. There's this guy Rob that trades with Dexter outside of our group, and he covers the same stores as me sometimes, so I'd like to share with him if the opportunity presents itself if only because he's cool and not like one of these runners you'd described.
(We did have that guy no one's ever seen who showed up and then RAN for Dog Food though no one knew it and everyone chased him! Haha. He must have done that purposely as he knew he'd get that response, else he'd have been completely freaked as to why 5 guys would chase him through a store to buy dog food! "The Gravy Train" LOL)
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Good comments I usually try to get one to collect and one for my son to open other than that Im all for sharing with just about anyone. Ive been visiting the same stores for many years now as they are my way to work, in fact that is how I met funny money and he turned me on to this site and for that I thank him. Its hard sometimes when you role up to check whats on the pegs and there is a bunch of guys waiting at the door and no one talks, so you try to get to the pegs without looking like a fool. You see guys sprinting Ive even had guys reach over the top of me trying to grab figures , but I try to stay mellow because as a friend of mine used to say
" He with the most toys still dies".
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Thanks to Jango Speck for the ultra mint on card Concept Trooper!
Hey Toon, did you go to Burbank target today? Was there anything new?
Any time Commtech- thanks for the Appo. BTW, there are 3 Endor AT-ATs on the top shelf at Burbank TRU. They also have lots of Lego Clone Battlepacks in stock.
Hit a bunch of Targets & a Walmart and found some more Order 66 packs & TAC basic figures. No sign of V-wing or Infiltrator.
Found Neyo BP at Super WalMart in Valencia today. Also picked up 3 galactic marines. They still had about 3 more on the pegs along with some airbornes and lots of the other characters. No concept troopers, though, which is the only remaining one I need from this wave. Target had nothing (literally) on the pegs for Star Wars.
Went by Eagle Rock Target a little late 10.00am, nothing new only Obi Wan TAC on pegs.
Seems like most the area Targets have been cleaned out of Order 66 due to the DCPI gimmick. Still need an opener Mace/Galactic Marine and then I'm done with them.
Pacoima Target had one TAC Obi and 6 TAC Coin Albums today at 11AM, along with some clearanced Ilum BPs. Picked up an extra Coin Album (wanted the Vader coin).
Hit KB and picked up 2 more Appos. KB had TAC, but none of the army builders. Plenty of Spider-Man 3 figures everywhere.
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Average 25-35 days per season. Stopped early this year becasue of weather.
Average 25-35 days per season. Stopped early this year becasue of weather.
Never trust a dog to watch your food!
Hunting 1st and for most the test game does make them better
Hunters and can be addicting but I have yet to see a test come close
To real hunting situation, that being said live flyers all year long help
Enjoy the ride its all about the fun and being with ur bud !
SoCal; Niland area, or AZ Phoenix. Go hunting on Sat AM; Hit the HT or FT on Sun. Duck hunting Sun. morning is usually a bust; If you go out in the HT-FT, you go quail-dove hunting in the afternoon. There really is a science to all of this
Alas I bought a house and haven't been able to go out as often as I like, I've been duck hunting only ~ 4-5 times, and I haven't had time for quail, 2nd season dove and/or chukar. This time last year the dogs were practically hairless, haven't had time to run any HT-FTs either. I mean what fun is there really in running a test during hunting season if you can't at least scare the locals with the beat-up working condition of your hunting dog .
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"Hunting is a skill to be learned whether you do it early or late it still needs to be learned"
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GMHR HRCH Lakota MH (most importantly Upland/Duck Enthusiast)
MHR HR Storm SH (Beginning Upland & Waterfowl Enthusiast)
I hunt from sept 1 thru end of dec propably six days a week hunt two dogs.I run some tests but basically have dogs for hunting.The biggest problem I have is letting the dogs get over on me hunting and this does come back to get you in trouble running tests sometimes.
I am hunting from September to February for waterfowl, mostly geese. might try spring snows, Only very few hunts that my dog is not there. I used to keep track of my hunts but its about 50-60 days. January is the only month that I don't hunt as much. Testing for us usually starts in April and I end it in September but may run a few in the fall this year. Hunting dog first and tests for fun. I love to train my dog and meet people and that's whats cool about the tests for us.
HRC- Our season never ends
"Shoot fast or shoot last"
HR UH Nilsson's on a wing n a prayer MH WCX
Between guiding and hunting the majority got out 47 days this year. (7dogs at home) I am blessed with a great job/ ample vacation and an understanding wife! Plus we got to be grandparents this year and she went to see the grand babies... No Arkansas this year as the Mrs. says Mexico after this cold weather. AKC HT's, NAHRA and a few FT's in the warmer months, maybe HRC this year as well.
5 to 7 days a week Sept 1st through the first week of Dec in Wi and ND!
Mark, I think Trap needs a break. Drop him at my place and take Bridger and Garrett. They need the work.


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Schaewe appointed to Binghamton University Council
Catherine Schaewe, partner with Pearis, Kline, Barber & Schaewe, LLC, since 1997, has been appointed by Governor George E. Pataki to a seven-year term on the Bi nghamton University Council. Schaewe's term will end June 30, 2011.
Schaewe earned her law degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Miss. She worked for two years as a research attorney for the Missouri Court of Appeals researching and drafting opinions on topics including civil and criminal procedure, contracts, corporate law, property, torts and malpractice. Following that, she was an associate for Ball, McDonough & Artz, PC, responsible for commercial and residential real estate transactions.
Schaewe served as assistant corporation counsel for the City of Binghamton from 1994 to 1997, responsible for drafting ordinances and local laws for City Council and CSEA negotiations. She also handled litigation for the city.
As a partner with Pearis, Kline, Barber & Schaewe, she serves as town attorney for Dickinson, Nanticoke, Lisle and Sanford and as village attorney for Whitney Point, Deposit and Windsor. Schaewe is also deputy town attorney for the Town of Kirkwood and provides counsel and litigation services to the towns of Union and Sidney and the Village of Johnson City.
She is president of the Broome County Board of Ethics and a member of the Third Department Judicial Steering Committee, the New York State Bar Association, the Broome County Bar Association and the Harpur Forum.
The Binghamton University council reviews budget requests, makes regulations for student conduct and reviews plans for improving faculty, staff and the physical plant.


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Recently the Twitter Bootstrap documentation gave a name to something that I've been excited about for a pretty long time: Markup API.
Markup APIs give superpowers to HTML. Through the use of class attributes, anorexia data attributes, X-Tags, or other conventions they effectively extend the behavior of HTML, turning it into a kind of magic ink. Favorite examples of mine include Twitter Bootstrap, Wowhead Tooltips, and my own Instapoppin.
The advantages of a markup API over a JavaScript API are numerous:
- They mean that an author only needs to know HTML, whose syntax is very easy to learn, rather than JavaScript, whose syntax is comparatively difficult to learn.
- Because the API is in HTML rather than JavaScript, it's declarative rather than imperative. This makes it much easier for development tools to intuit what a user is trying to do—by virtue of a user specifying what they want rather than how to do it. And when a development tool has a clearer idea of what the user wants, it can offer more useful context-sensitive help or error messaging.
- Because of HTML's simple and declarative structure, it's easy for tools to modify hand-written HTML, especially with a library like Slowparse, which help ensure that whitespace and other formatting is preserved. Doing the same with JavaScript, while possible with libraries like esprima, can be difficult because the language is so complex and dynamic.
These advantages make it possible to create GUI affordances atop hand-coded HTML that make it much easier to write. As an example of this, I hacked up prototype slideshow demo and physics demo in July of last year. Dragging an element with the class
thimble-movable in the preview pane changes (or adds) CSS absolute positioning properties in the source code pane in real-time, and holding down the shift key modifies width and height. This allows users to size and position elements in a way that even a professional developer would find far more preferable to the usual "guess a number and see how it looks" method. Yet this mechanism still places primacy on the original source code; the GUI is simply a humane interface to change it.
This is the reverse of most authoring tools with an "export to HTML" feature, whereby an opaque internal data model is compiled into a blob of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that can't be re-imported into the authoring tool. Pedagogically, this is unfortunate because it means that there's a high cost to ever leaving the authoring tool—effectively making the authoring tool its own kind of "walled garden". Such applications could greatly facilitate the learning of HTML and CSS by defining a markup API for their content and allowing end-users to effortlessly switch between hand-coding HTML/CSS and using a graphical user interface that does it for them.


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World Diabetes Day 2011 marks the release of the International Diabetes Federation's 5th edition of the Diabetes Atlas. New figures indicate that the number of people living with diabetes is expected to rise from 366 million in 2011 to 552 million by 2030, if no urgent action is taken. This equates to approximately three new cases every ten seconds or almost ten million per year. IDF also estimates that as many as 183 million people are unaware that they have diabetes.
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"Many manufacturers are now realizing, after fifteen years of moving production overseas (China), that this was a mistake and are moving production back to the U.S. As products become more technically sophisticated, product cycles become shorter, proprietary technology more important to protect, U.S. production is becoming more attractive. "American workers are more skilled, on average, than their Chinese competitors. The alchemy among engineers, marketers, and factory workers is becoming all the more important."
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Vayama (www.vayama.com), a leading online travel agency uniquely focused on international travel, announced today the Vayama Go Somewhere Sweepstakes on Facebook. As a way to inspire people to think about where in the world they'd like to travel, Vayama is inviting Facebook users to participate in the sweepstakes for a chance to win an international trip valued at $5,500. A lucky winner will receive two roundtrip air tickets on Emirates Airline, plus US $2,000 spending money.
The Go Somewhere Sweepstakes is an extension of the Vayama Go Somewhere Tour, a 12-stop, U.S. mobile marketing campaign launched in early April. The centerpiece of the Go Somewhere Tour is an 18-foot custom-designed truck that serves as a hub for global discovery and travel inspiration at each event along the way.
"We have a highly engaged community on Facebook, and wanted to find a way to make them part of the Go Somewhere Tour experience," said Joan Ioannou, Brand Marketing Director for Vayama.com. "Whether they're able to join us along the tour route or not, people now can visit our Facebook page to dream about – and possibly win – a trip to one of the fascinating destinations where Emirates flies around the globe."
The Go Somewhere Tour is the next step in Vayama's brand evolution. In November 2012, the five-year-old online travel agency re-launched, introducing a logo redesign and the beta version of a new, highly visual website. Vayama.com inspires people to dream about international travel and greatly improves how travelers search and book international flights.
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The Alaskan village of Selawik is built on a wetland on the river near Selawik Lake. It is far removed from Kotzebue and the coast, and fuel for heating or generating electricity is very expensive here. Every gallon must be shipped in.
Here we see the windfarm that supplies some of Selawik's energy without the cost of burning fossil fuel. Wind is plentiful up here on the Arctic Circle, and these wind generators are usually moving, cranking out watts that came to town on the wind.
This panorama was photographed with a Nikon D80 and stitched with Autopano Pro.
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I think that the geocoding is fixed now. Thank you for letting me know.
Alas, I have become an administrator myself, and I don't get out on adventures with my camera as much as I would like to.
Sadly, Ella has not U/L a GigaPan since June, 2011. I fear that for whatever reason, she is not active anymore. She was one of my favorites when she was active during the time prior to the current administrators of this website.
The geocoding of this shot seems to have gone awry. Can you fix please?
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We all know what a bugbear to some even perfectly sincere minds is the conception of the possibility of Boer, Portuguese, German, or French occupation of African territories, and we all know what use is frequently made of this bugbear by those interested in annexations. But I think no practical man who carefully examines the question can really think that the Cape Colonists as such have anything to fear from the annexations page: 73 of other European Powers in Africa. And I would go further. I would say—If all English colonisation had been, or were in the future to be, carried out along the lines and according to the methods of the Chartered Company, that I cannot see wherein South Africa would gain by aiding and abetting such a form of colonisation over that inaugurated by other European nations. Colonisation by the British people is not the same thing as colonisation under the Chartered Company. The first is supposed to have as its object the development of the people it takes under its rule, and the page: 74 planting of a free and untrammelled branch of the Anglo-Saxon race upon the land; the aim of the Chartered Company is to make wealth out of land and people.
But last of all, it may be said (and this criticism appears to me profoundly just): "It is very well to blame the Monopolist, with his ready brains and his quick wit, for the uses which he is making of South Africa; it is very well to blame the Retrogressive Party for playing into his hands, and making possible his monopolies and increasing acquisitions, making him a permanent institution in the land, which the South page: 75 Africa of the future may hopelessly endeavour to rid herself of; it is very well to blame the Monopolist and Retrogressionist—but how did they gain, and how do they maintain, this absolute domination over the land? Do they comprise within themselves all the intelligence, all the determination of South Africa? Are they our only political units?"
I can but say in reply, I believe it is not just to throw the whole blame of our position either upon the Monopolist or the Retrogressionist. The Monopolist is simply the acute business man who has been enabled to carry out his plans page: 76 successfully and on a colossal scale, owing to the possession of tact and foresight, and, perhaps, unusual disregard of collateral issues. The high intellectual capacity shown by many of these men compels admiration and awakens our sympathy; and we can only regret that abilities which in some cases amount to genius should not be employed in a direction more productive of good to humanity. The Monopolist of genius is often like a great body of waters expending itself in causing inundations where it might produce fertility.
For the Retrogressionist there is yet more unlimited excuse. page: 77 He has been somewhat hardly dealt with in the past. That he should desire to make his influence felt when at last the opportunity offers itself, and that he should use his power without full consideration for the rights of others, is not unnatural. He alone among South Africans has, during the last years, shown a capacity for standing resolutely by his principles; and we can only feel regret that so much integrity and manly determination is not expended on our side, but against us.
But there are two other sections of our population upon whom it appears to me un- unlimited page: 78 limited blame rests, and for whom it is difficult to see an excuse.


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What its prominence suggest, and what all science confirms is that the dog is a creature of the nose- A. Horowitz.
Those damn Venezuelan engineers are everywhere. Now they are even infiltrting my pornography.
One cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift
Terry Britton, P.E.
Engineers believe that if it isn't broken, it doesn't have enough features yet.
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RIP HR Britton's Gold Ginger Spice JH 02/18/2002 to 11/07/2014
How about we look at 8 years ago? Clinton had just left office and Bushie was entering.
How lets look at Bushie's leaving and Obama's entering.
The picture changes does it not?
Just an aside, concerning your statement about adding to the deficit, Jeff,..."which at least makes sense during a recession/depression." Here's a 'slightly' differing view. I'm not sure who to believe???
*** The closer you look, the more you realize that government meddling in the economy is a fraud. Just look at Geithner's new hedge fund, for example. It's such a scam that a Nobel prize winning economist - Joseph Stiglitz - refers to it as "robbery of the American people." The fund is a public/private partnership' that buys toxic assets from the banks. Its goal is to help the banks...and give investors (and the government) a chance to make some money. But it doesn't help the banks if the fund buys assets for what they are worth; the banks merely exchange one asset for another of equal value.
The banks only benefit if the fund buys them for MORE than they are worth. On the other hand, the fund only benefits if it buys them for LESS than they are worth. In practice, the fund will pay more than it should...otherwise the banks won't participate. But the fund is structured so that the losses will not fall on investors and the government equally. Instead, the public will get the losses...while the investors get a profit.
What's a mother to do? It seems so tacky to go against the proposals of the devine administration, but then I have my doubts they hold the values expressed by the founding fathers in the same light as I do.
When the one you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
I'll take your post in pieces:
I said: None of which had much to do with our economic collapse. The mortgage crisis was not brought on by new home buyers -- qualified or not -- or by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
You replied: I love it when you get all Princetonian! Put your high-priced education to work explaining how Bush should have overcome your yahoos in the congress...or don't your see this as a "good enough" try?
My response:
There are several issues at play here:
In looking at each of these, it is important to keep timing in mind. Beginning in 2003/2004, and peaking in 2005 and 2006, almost every mortgage in America was refinanced because of interest rate reductions. Until about 2001, Fannie/Freddie had dominated the sub-prime market while private banks and investment banks looked on with envy at the large spreads between the cost of funds and the return on these mortgages despite default rates much higher than were experienced with customary mortgages. Between 2004 and 2006, Fannie/Freddie went from owning 48% of sub-prime mortgages to owning 24%, partly in reaction to the tighter regulatory controls placed on them following accounting problems in 2004-05. Who picked up the balance? Was it community banks responding to the requirements of the CRA? No.
- The political influence of Fannie/Freddie (which was bipartisan)
- The growth of the sub-prime market
- The role of Fannie/Freddie in the sub-prime market
- The actual role of the sub-prime market in the collapse.
Federal Reserve Board data show that:Fannie/Freddie played a role in the secondary market for low income loans. However, these were a tiny fraction of the overall mortgage market and have not played a significant part in the general financial collpase which has been associated more with the mortgage industry as a whole.
(source: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/53802.html)
- More than 84 percent of the subprime mortgages in 2006 were issued by private lending institutions.
- Private firms made nearly 83 percent of the subprime loans to low- and moderate-income borrowers that year.
- Only one of the top 25 subprime lenders in 2006 was directly subject to the housing law that's being lambasted by conservative critics.
I said:
Our current collapse started with the unfunded Bush tax cuts, combined with massive growth in spending, primarily for an unfunded war, and an economic boom that did little or nothing to help the majority of the population.
You replied:
I suspect you were railing against subduing Hussein, like your messiah was doing...and about as loudly eh? Have you told any of the families that were the real losers of 9/11, about your stand against fighting Hussein?
My response:
Not that this is particularly relevant to the discussion of the economy, but yes, I opposed the invasion of Iraq from the beginning because Iraq had nothing to do with the attack on the US, the war against Iraq was supplied by drawing resources away from the battle in Afghanistan against the Taliban, which had everything to do with the attacks, and the entire invasion appeared from the beginning to have been planned by crackheads. Happily, my father died two days before we invaded Iraq. However, in his honor and consistent with his desires, we served only French wine at his memorial service because the French were right about GWB and his insane plans of war. I spent much of my working career in the shadows of the WTC. I was there when they filmed King Kong. I watched the "Big Ships" sail into the harbor for the Bicentennial from the 56th floor. I had meetings there on a regular basis, and I knew many people working there including members of my own family. I am happy that none of my friends was killed even though several were in the buildings when they were hit. How many people did you know that were there?
The regulatory breakdown had nothing to do with CRA or, for that matter, mortgages issued prior to 2001. It had everything to do with high risk, unregulated investment instruments used to "spread" risks, unreasonably low interest rates, and a massive current accounts imbalance. In any event, the record on regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is pretty mixed and the Republicans only look good on conservative blogs which pick and choose the few facts they publish to reinvent history.
Hmmm, might be a revelation to Fox News that they are only a conservative 'blog'. Guess they were lying eh?
My response:
See before. Fox is doing what it normally does -- selectively report all the news that fits with their opinions. It is hard to tell the difference between the commentators on Fox and the conservative blog posts that you usually post here without even a pretense of fact checking. The places that needed greater regulation were the private investment banks and mortgage banks. That regulation was uniformly opposed by the administration, which took credit in 2004/2005 for the rapid growth in home ownership by lower income families.
I said:
I believe the regulatory failure belongs to both sides, but the massive growth in the deficit belonged to Bush.
Obama is now going to add to the deficit, which at least makes sense during a recession/depression.
You said:
YOU KNOW THAT TO BE A COMPLETE FALSEHOOD! That only extends the misery. But you and your socialistic believers will continue supporting that bad idea, until this nation goes completely under with no hope of ever getting back to a real America, as was envisioned by those that sacrificed their blood, sweat, and tears to keep this nation one of liberty, freedom, and following the Constitution.
My reply:
I'm not sure what you're talking about. There is no question that GWB and a Republican controlled Congress were primarily responsible for a doubling of our national debt from $5 trillion to $10 trillion. When the Democrats gained control of Congress, the rate of growth actually declined. However, the tax cits and an unfunded war were the causes of the deficit growth. I have posted graphs of the growth several times. The numbers actually came from the Heritage Foundation and the Bush White House. So no, I do not know that to be a complete falsehood. I know it to be a fact. With respect to the "value" of deficits in a period on economic contraction, that has been the argument used consistently by Republicans under Reagan and Bush for passing recurring tax cuts that resulted in massive increases in our deficits.
I said:
However, his current budget plans call for continuing large deficits even after the economy begins to grow at a hoped for 4%. That, if done, would be as stupid as what Bush did and lay the foundation for a further economic reversal a few years later. During times of growth, large deficits are insane. It makes no difference whether they result from tax cuts, spending, or both.
You replied (?):
And you, along with your minions, will no doubt explain that to him eh? You can do all the braying you want, but your leadership isn't interested in doing anything American. They are too invested in making this nation into a complete socialistic country, despite all the history that's so easily found to show it hasn't ever worked before. But that's not the point is it? You democrats think it wasn't the right people that were in charge that caused it to fail. Trust me, you are so far from having the right people in charge now, my guess is Christ Himself couldn't bail you out.
My reply(?):
I can't think of any appropriate response to hysterical whining with no basis in fact. If I have any minions, I am not aware of them. I express my reservations about Obama's budget proposals openly but have not yet been invited for a meeting in the white house. I am not a socialist (a fact that I've mentioned before), but I am definitely to the left of Attila the Hun, which in your eyes seems to be the same thing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/op...iglitz.html?em) that the only way for the banks to benefit from such a move is to purchase the assets at more than their market value.
As I understand it, the plan is actually to purchase the "toxic" assets at their market value. What the banks get in return is liquidity where now they have an asset that is unmarketable. Over time, the tax payer may profit since part of the low valuation placed on the assets now is tied to their illiquidity rather than to questions about whether or not they will be repaid over time.
In addition, given the manner in which the assets are structured currently, there is no one in a position to renegotiate loan terms even if those loan terms would provide a total value exceeding the current value of the mortgage. This is producing irrational foreclosures in some cases -- that is, foreclosures that will yield less money than holding onto the loan under revised terms simply because there is no way to handle the renegotiation.
Innovations are what broke the past major recessions. This administration is putting things in motion that will hinder Innovations for years much like Chavez has done down south.
Stalin had economists killed that showed that innovations were the best way to break these downward economic cycles.
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Last summer it looked as though governments would never agree on Global NCD Targets – or if they did, they would be minimalist and not what was needed to catalyse change. IDF has been working towards a global monitoring framework for diabetes and NCDs as part of a longer term strategy that started well before the UN Summit on NCDs last year – and last week we finally got what we've been asking for.
The UN Summit was a watershed event that signalled major progress for diabetes and NCDs. However, we felt let down that it ended without governments agreeing to targets on NCDs. We were fearful that the Political Declaration would remain only on paper – all bark and no bite – as you can't hold anyone to account for a commitment they have not made.
But things are changing. Governments are rising to the diabetes and NCD challenges placed before them and are beginning to turn political commitments into tangible actions. After nearly two years of consultations, negotiations and sustained advocacy, last week governments agreed the first set of global NCD targets and a global monitoring framework. Finally a bite to go with their bark.
We saw the first NCD target adopted at the World Health Assembly in May of this year to reduce mortality from NCDs 25% by 2025. And just last week governments agreed to a remarkable set of nine global NCD targets and 25 indicators [2]! This was a major breakthrough for diabetes and NCD advocacy, signalling a new era of action and accountability.
We went into the Member State consultation last week facing scepticism and reluctance to adopt a meaningful number of targets. Targets on salt, blood pressure, physical activity and tobacco had wide support, but targets critical for diabetes – such as access to essential medicines access and multidrug therapy – were not expected to survive the consultation.
But Member States surprised us with their enthusiasm in the process. Negotiations went long into the night, and when the chair wanted to call a halt because it was late, countries said 'we're not finished yet'. They came together constructively and agreed to a set of targets that addressed the full range of Member State concerns and priorities. There was a genuine sense that Governments have understood the urgency of diabetes and NCDs.
The targets adopted are game changers. Countries will report their progress against these targets as they already do so for HIV/AIDS – which will improve data collection and drive success. Targets address prevention and treatment for diabetes and NCDs, and will uphold basic human rights such as access to essential medicines and technologies.
IDF has worked hard to ensure diabetes did not get buried in NCDs and we have succeeded, as diabetes is now the only one of the four major NCD diseases that has its own global target. The target agreed to 'halt the rise in obesity and diabetes' was aptly described by the Canadian delegation as "a stretch target that will motivate and inspire us!"
We strongly support NCD prevention targets but we also advocated relentlessly to get targets on access to essential medicines and on multidrug therapy onto the negotiating table and then keep them there. We called for targets that would improve treatment for the millions of people currently living with diabetes and NCDs, and governments responded by agreeing a target for 80% availability of affordable basic technologies and essential medicines and that 50% of eligible people receive drug therapy and counselling (including glycaemic control) to prevent heart attacks and strokes. Given that IDF estimates 100 million people globally don't have access to the diabetes medicines they need, these were targets we could not compromise on, and we were thrilled to see them agreed.
During two days of challenging negotiations, IDF and NCD Alliance were on hand to provide guidance on what is really needed on the ground. I thank the Member States who championed our cause and insisted that NGOs be admitted as observers to the negotiations.
Now the pressure is on governments to take the agreed upon NCD targets and indicators and make progress happen. The targets must not remain disembodied – they need to be incorporated into a broader framework and driven by a partnership. The next major pieces of work in the WHO pipeline are the 2013-2020 Global Action Plan for NCDs, and the options for a Global NCD Partnership (presented by UN Secretary General in October) will be discussed by Member States on 28 November.
The NCD targets were part of a longer term IDF plan (the Diabetes Roadmap to the UN Summit) and supporting implementation of those targets is part of our second plan (the Diabetes Roadmap to the Future Development Agenda). We will mobilise the IDF network to provide expert technical support to governments to trim these targets into a real plan of action and we will mobilise our network to monitor results.
The NCD targets agreed this week won't change the world tomorrow – but they will change the world, and they demonstrate that the world has already changed for diabetes and NCDs.


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Never, and I mean NEVER, leave them alone together. As much as you may trust your new dog, and as calm as he may be around your step-son, you never know what may happen in a room where they are alone together. I say this from personal experience, and believe me, no one wants to deal with what happened to me.
Long story short, I had a well adjusted CLM who never showed any aggression. I hunted with him one morning and came home, dropped him off, and went in to my office. He apparently was asleep in my closet, where he normally slept, when something happened with the 6 year old friend of my son's when they were playing in my bedroom. Don't know to this day the specifics, but the result was several gashes in the boys face. I suspect that my dog was sound asleep and the boy jumped on him or otherwise surprised him. Thankfully, the gashes did not affect the boy's eyes and all wounds healed with no scarring at all. My wife ended up hating that dog, even tho he never showed any aggressive tendencies in his life again. Believe me, it was not easy having him around with my wife hating him.
I know you were looking for advice on enjoying your dog with your stepson, and that is totally possible with advice others have given you. Best of luck... but always keep this advice in mind. Young kids and dogs left alone do not mix.


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Last-minute shopping continues as 'cliff' nears
Lawmakers on holiday break with Dec. 31 deadline
MADISON, Wis. - Local shoppers continued to look for just the right gift at the last minute on Christmas Eve, even as the so-called "fiscal cliff" threatens to curtail consumer confidence in the new year.
Members of Congress, on holiday break, will return this week to continue negotiations over avoiding the cliff, which would mean automatic tax increases for everyone and across-the-board spending cuts.
"This uncertainty is a killer for the economy, just when we were bouncing back," said Moses Altsech, a marketing professor at Edgewood College. "If you think about how many years it took consumer confidence and business confidence to come back, now it could just disappear."
Shoppers continued to spend without fear of the cliff, even as newspaper USA Today called it "The Night Before Cliffmas."
Nick Haley came to Hilldale Shopping Center in Madison with plans to buy some gifts for his wife -- if only he could send her to a different part of the mall so he could buy in secret.
"It's been a good year and definitely with kids (ages) 3 and 1, you tend to want to do more for them at that age," said Haley, of Madison. "It's a really special time for us."
The mall's Santa said most kids are asking for Legos, Barbie dolls and other perennial gifts.
But the consumer comeback might face challenges in the new year, if taxes increase without a deal in Washington.
"Everybody's going to feel it," Altsech said. "Sooner or later, even the people who aren't paying attention right now, they're going pay attention because it's going hit them where it hurts."Last-minute shopping continues as 'cliff' nears
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On the heels of his previous paper finding that participating in political activities such as voting is influenced in part by genes, political scientist James Fowler and his graduate student Christopher Dawes announced that they've identified two genes that are associated with voting itself. In the current ...
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Eric Raymond's software bazaar is a fantasy.
The look into Tiobe index may give quite a surprising results if we pay attention into that is happening during the latest year. Java seems no longer declining, Python and C# are also kind of stable but we clearly observe the growth of C language popularity. It is even not C++ but a plain C.
I wonder it this is just some transient event or the reliable shift.
Want to find more technical conferences? Here's my hotlist.
Wikipedia recently posted a call for strategic proposals, and one subset of them looks quite interesting for me - it is a bunch of proposals to support some kind of the client side scripting. They have a choice between JavaScript, Flash, Java and Silverlight. After all that at the end happened with FOSS Java implementation, Java applets seem an interesting option so let's propose.
To be heard by needed people, this proposal have been uploaded to Wikipedia Strategic Projects space so it can also be viewed there. It is up to you where to make the comments.
There's a new article on my homepage titled "FOSS Licences Wars", which explains about the legal aspects, features and differences between various open-source licences and their categories, and then gives some recommendations for which licences to avoid using.
Good command line tools are more important than ever and not just a relict of ancient times in comparison to RIA or GUI applications. Experienced system administrators appreciate their power in sophisticated shell scripts and could probably not manage their environments without them. The question is how can we make command line tools smarter and more powerful than today? This article discusses some ideas and potential implementations always keeping in mind "Do not reinvent the wheel" and "keep it simple".
XULrunner, the technology behind projects such as Firefox, is both powerful and obscure. Even getting started with XULrunner is tricky, and even more so from dynamic languages such as python. pyxpcomext addresses these issues, and does so from the perspective where the developer creates a "bundle" which is registered with XULrunner. XULrunner is then started by the user, and the user opens a magic URL which triggers loading of the pyxpcomext-based application.
Thanks to the OLPC Sugar team, there is now another way, starting from the python prompt. "import hulahop" is where it begins. This article will show and explain the voodoo magic incantations necessary to bring up a window where you can begin to gain access to the DOM model of the XULrunner technology. In this way, you can begin to use technology which was designed for web browsers but has become something much much more powerful than originally intended by its designers.
Barelfish. Have anybody heard such a beast?
Not somewhere behind the steel walls - in the academic silence of ETH university Microsoft is building the next generation of its operating system. Maybe this single department is not the only place where it is trying – I am more toward thinking this is happening it at least ten places worldwide.
Those of us in the free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) community know the routine by now. Despite the fact that "free software" and "open source" refer to the same software and the same communities, supporters of "free software" like the FSF would have us advocate for FLOSS by talking about users' rights to use, modify, share, and cooperate; open source supporters like the Open Source Initiative would have us advocate for software by talking about how securing these rights produces software with "better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility [and] lower cost."
One reason I tend to stay away from "open source" claims in my own advocacy is that I'm worried by the way that these arguments rely on a set of often dubious empirical claims of superiority. Free software, on the other hand, can be seen as statement of principles. Regardless of whether we say "free software" or "open source," I've found that a focus on principled statements is both more robust against counter-arguments and does a better job of describing the motivations of most contributors.
Abstract: Because AI technology is so life-or-death valuable, not only for corporations but also for nations and for civilization itself, we must assume that the most advanced AI projects are being conducted in secret. In such an environment of presumed secrecy, an OpenSource AI project like MindForth may have special value in contrast with proprietary and secret AI.
Playing Tom Traubert's 'Waltzing Matilda with me'
Wasted and wounded And it ain't what the moon did I got what I paid for now See you tomorrow Hey Frank can I borrow A couple of bucks from you To go waltzing Matilda waltzing Matilda You'll go waltzing Matilda with me
Splendid! crowed the witch. "Here's your fortune."
Otchky-potchky, itchky-pitch pay attention to this witch a donkey takes you to a knight him you conquer in a fight then you wed a princess who is even unglier than you HAHAHA... cockadoodle the magic words are "apple strudel"
I recently had an opportunity to develop a project in Python. I have previously had a largely neutral opinion about this language. However after more serious development I would like to share some doubts.
I will not be talking about the implementation - related issues. Also, Python do has positive, advanced features that are worth noting. Python code for the same task is really shorter: you need more C or even Java code to write something like a = b[:3], and especially b[-1] looks nicer then b.get(b.size()-1). But when line number rolls over the first thousand, more things began to matter.
The Program to CodeCon 2009 is now up, and registration is at the early rate of $75 for all three days until April 1st, after which the cost goes up.
happened to surf on Chuck H. Moore's new company IntellaSys.
I am browsing these whitepapers. Eash one seems to be a rare pearl by the SEA.
Extreme Forth by Steven Pelc on Sept. 2008 Dr. Dobb
IMHO, Chuck has deviced a simple yet holistic way to see that the power of language and the power of circuit wouldn't cancel each other out in the process of solving complex machine-human problems.
The stick + the word + the floor plan
IntellaSys' 40C Processor Technology Creates Benchmark
ThinkingForth in Chinese
The British Broadcasting Company has made a request for contributions to an open standard to be made, for the distribution of audio and video, both offline and real-time broadcasting. Their plan is effectively to act as the mediator between box manufacturers and content producers, with themselves as one of the content producers, but definitely not as set-top box manufacturers.
Challenges faced include an assumption that it is reasonable to expect ISPs to insert cacheing boxes on their premises, and an assumption that "downloading" - especially at high speed - is "the way to go". Also, there is yet again the risk of some idiot content producers trying to DRM an open standard.
This article will provide some answers to these tricky issues, and they're not all "Technical" answers. For the most part, the solutions are psychological, and take comfort in the fact that most users are ordinary people not interested in blatant copyright theft, they just want to watch stuff. Ultimately, content producers are going to have to get used to the fact that they are simply going to have to trust people.
As part of a reorganisation of Pyjamas, best known as a python port of GWT, dynamic module loading using AJAX has been added. The deployment of dynamic module loading results in over a 60% reduction in the amount of javascript cache file sizes, as the modules can be shared across multiple platforms (GAE pyjamas users are hitting the app engine limit even with the simplest of apps, due to the old one-cache-file-per-platform design).
This article describes how the standard technique for dynamic loading of javascript scripts was used as a basis for bring python "import" semantics to a javascript compiler. The advantages of individual module loading - including third party javascript modules - should be clear.
The UK Government has made it clear that Open Source and Open Standards, with a focus on re-use of software development and deployment, is to clearly and unequivocably be part of the decision-making for UK Government I.T. procurement and contracting. Also part of the policy is a clear committment to engage with the Free Software community and to actively encourage the development of "Government-Class" Free Software products.
(tag keyword: #ukgovOSS at the cabinet office's request)
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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A note to fans of the liveblog: There have been some problems with the HIO site being a bit slow during games this season due to high traffic. The Gazette and our HIO technical staff are aware of the problem and we're working on a solution to fix it.
There were 38 seconds left in overtime when Andrei Markov scored on a Canadiens power-play to secure a hard-fought 4-3 win.
The Canadiuens had blown a 3-1 third-period lead.
It was Markov's fourth goal of the young season.
The Devils came into the Bell Centre as the only undefeated team in the Eastern Conference.
Martin Brodeur had given up only three goals through his first three starts.
BIG win.
What a difference a year makes:
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I swung by my local neighborhood Target today and managed to find a few more figures that I'd been looking for (Biggs, Luke, and Anakin seem to be peg warming pretty hard around here but I can't find a Padme to save my life!). Anyway, I was about to open my newest acquisitions at home when I noticed something interesting; both of the figures I bought had a clear piece of tape across the top of the bubble where it meets the card back. I'm not sure whether this is a precaution that Target is taking (I hadn't seen this anywhere else) or if this is being done on the Hasbro side of things but it seems to be a new chapter in the saga of the crappy glue/bubble/card backs. Frankly, the tape is pretty useless since it only holds the bubble to the card on one of the four sides so whoever's idea it was it's pretty half baked and is only going to make life even more difficult for those people who must have MOMC.
Have: CW Yularen, CW Clone, everything from CW Slave I set except Slave I, TFU Shadow Stormtrooper x2, Evo Trooper, Saga AT-AT Driver, K-Mart Jodo Kast || Want: Vintage Fordo
Thanks to TheDarthVader, Phantom-like Menace, TheRealDubya, Jediguy, Dark Marble, Umbra, Qui-Long Gone, CrunchyNug, GH_fan and jedikiss.
I have seen the tape thing done in several stores now. One side, two side, and/or top. I'm pretty sure the stores are doing this.
May the force be with you.
The store employees must understand harder-to-find toys: when I brought the only-one-on-the-pegs Padme I'd found (the very cheap glue variant) to the cash register, he asked if there were any left. I love the Rattling Blaster feature, as it wasn't attached to her hand and somehow didn't fall out of the loose blister. I left most of the rest of the first wave (minus Vader) there.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
The tape is smart, the top of the blister is where the most flex will be and where gravity will pull hardest, and yet it'll still allow access to the figure later without excess frustration. My guess is it's Hasbro's move.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Saw first hand the bubble coming unglued from the cardback at a WM recently. If there's anything positive to say about it, at least it was neat and clean.
Picked up Padme and Anakin at TRU using the 25% off coupon. Both figures had their bubbles taped at the top, Anakin needed it as his bubble wasn't glued at the lower right at all.
The Padme that I got has a wonky eye, it's not as bad in person as it looked in the store thankfully. It also has a manufacturing defect in the left hand, a void behind the thumb which is worrisome. The figure is pretty adequate from design and paint, minus the right elbow being white at its joint. The sculpt and paint on the face are decent, from either side it's a fairly good likeness and not bad from the front, which is where most falter. The scratches on the back are good. I don't love the mid-torso articulation, it's not a lot of range of movement, but it's well-integrated. The droid blaster fits only in her left hand, but it looks decent, and her right hand holds her Naboo pistol nicely. All in all, adequate, not worth $10 by any stretch of the imagination.
Anakin doesn't look like Hayden much, and his right arm can't be removed at the elbow. He can however replace his right hand with an included robot hand, and his outfit isn't soft goods so it stays on well and looks good. The likeness is slightly better from its left, but Hayden's features are very specific and seem to defy being turned into a toy, the head is short and the eyes sleepy-yet-dark in real life where on the figure even a millimeter causes a miss by a mile, the nose and brow on the figure come off too old. Articulation is decent, the lack of mid-torso jointing beyond the swivel waist is a disappointment but otherwise it holds up, although I still find the foot joint bizarre (it's the same one found on the 6" figures, lateral rotation on hinge integrated into the shoe's ankle). For $10, you get a lit lightsaber but not an unlit hilt to plug into the belt hole, nor the Geonosian arena sabers he wielded. All in all, the price pushes it to slightly below adequate, it's not as enticing as the Padme figure due to the lack of likeness recognizability.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
I've been photographing figures from this wave for long-overdue reviews. I'm still getting used to the new camera, and the setup is pretty simple, but I hope the photos will give a good idea of the figures and show how they fit in the collection. I prefer to set my figures up in dioramas, and since I have just about everything, I will be leaning away from clinical neutral poses and more towards showcasing what the figure can do and recreating scenes from the films and EU. Here are some raw shots for Padmé and Anakin.
Got a question for Hasbro? Ask it here!
My Photos and Reviews: SSG Toy Guide
My Star Wars Fan Film: The Lazy Jedi
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.


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Due to the reorganization of traffic in the City, conducted by the City of Córdoba from October 17th, 2010, the directions via GPS and GOOGLE MAPS, is wrong, so users could be confused by GPS.
To access the Hotel Don Paula, it is recommended to introduce in the GPS, the following address:
Paseo de la Victoria nº27, at this point, follow the direction you can see in the map.
Calle Concepción
Calle Duque de Fernán Núñez
Calle Pérez de Castro
Plaza Ramón y Cajal
Calle Valladares
Plaza Pineda - Hotel Don Paula
When you find a bollard (how you can see in the attached map), you have to ring the bell and say you go to Hotel Don Paula. Then, the bollard will be open and you will arrive hotel.
The video below shows how to arrive from the Paseo de la Victoria by car
How arrive from the bus and train station


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"He reflected how much, in the many years that had passed, he had defined himself by his difference from his friends, differences felt in that degree of detail which is obtained by continuous careful talking."
"Christianity spoils its believers as spoilt children are spoilt."
Iris Murdoch, The Book and the Brotherhood


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James W. Heer
James W. Heer, 91, of Platteville died on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at Manor Care Health Services, Platteville.
Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, March 30, 2013 at the Melby Funeral Home & Crematory, Platteville. Pastor Elizabeth Whitford will officiate. Burial will be at the Whig Cemetery, rural Platteville. Friends may call from 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. Friday at the Melby Funeral Home & Crematory, Platteville, or from 10:00 a.m. until the time of the service on Saturday at the funeral home. Online condolences can be made at www.melbyfh.com
Jim was born on July 25, 1921 in Harrison Twp., Grant County the son of Christian and Ella (Russell) Heer. He was united in marriage to Charlotte Keehner on June 10, 1944 at the Presbyterian Church, Lancaster. Jim was a lifelong farmer in Harrison Twp. he also drove bus for many years for Weisse & Enders Bus Service driving for the Twin Platte rural school. Jim was a member of the Whig United Methodist Church, where he also served on the Whig Cemetery Board for many years. He was a member of Farm Bureau, Southwest Wisconsin Auto Club, and he served on the Harrison Township board. Jim and Charlotte helped in the voting polls in Harrison Twp. for over 50 years. They belonged to the same card club for over 50 years where he enjoyed playing 500 and Euchre. Jim enjoyed playing baseball, softball, fishing, and later playing golf. Jim could always be seen at his kids and grandchildren sporting and school activities.
He is survived by his wife of over 68 years, Charlotte; four sons, James (Susan) Heer of Cumming, GA; Richard (Karen) Heer of Platteville; Michael (Cheryl) Heer of Cuba City; Larry (Patti) Heer of Platteville; nine grandchildren; four great-grandchildren with two more on the way; four sisters, Genevieve Olson and Marion Knutson both of Platteville; Marie Hahn of Denver, CO; Elizabeth (Doug) Davies of Lancaster; two sisters-in-law, Betty Heer of Monroe, WI; and Arlene Heer of Fennimore, WI; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, and aunt, Mary Heer, brothers, David, John and Ralph, sister, Ruth Nodolf, brothers-in-law, Kenneth Olson, Robert Knutson, LaVerne "Shorty" Nodolf, and Jim Hahn.


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Friday, December 16, 2011
Pitch to Entangled!
For more information about Entangled, wish lists, and other details, see this post.
Pitching will close at midnight PST, and editors will post their invitations to submit during the weekend. Be sure to check back! [Edited to fix the link above.]
17 comments:
- Juliana said...
Hello Five Scribes, and Hello Entangled Editors =)
Title: ATTITUDE
Genre: NA contemporary romance
Word count: 40,000
Two-line pitch:
Life is perfect, until Alicia looses the one thing she loves most—dance. With her new best friend, a wheelchair, she goes back to her parents' house. When everything seems lost, a "team" comes into action to rescue her from herself.
First 100 words:
The intense applauses and enthusiastic shouts broke into her concentration and filled her ego. She bowed, a proud smile adorning her lips.
"Bravo," people yelled, on their feet.
She knelt to pick up the flower bouquets thrown at her feet, but there were too many. Two members of the corps de ballet stepped out from behind her and collected the extra bouquets spread around the floor.
After a larger smile and another bow to the audience, she left the stage.
The artistic director of the company marched up to her, a pleased shine in his eyes. He opened his arms to embrace her, but, before she could greet him, another set of arms hooked her waist and pulled her to the side.
PS: I tried measuring two-lines for the pitch as best as I could but since the comment box is smaller when typing on it than when it's already posted, I'm not sure. Sorry if it was much longer than that!
Thanks for this awesome opportunity!
- December 16, 2011 at 4:37 AM
Thank you for this opportunity!
All Fall Down
25,000 words
Virologist Lara Quinn intends to discover the cure for a mysterious plague that has stricken the impoverished planet of Tellus, but no one dares risk the danger to bring her there—no one except smuggler Spencer O'Rourke, cynical captain of the starship Icarus, a man with a tarnished past, a man who doesn't believe in heroism, love, or self-sacrifice. But when an intergalactic health council slates the planet for quarantine and destruction, Lara races to discover a cure to the plague, only to discover that if she is to succeed, she must place her trust, and her life, in Spence's hands.
"I need you to take me to Tellus."
Lara Quinn gazed up at the scarred face of the man standing in front of her. His name was Spencer O'Rourke, and he was captain of the starship Icarus. When she had inquired down at the docks, she had been told that he would take you anywhere in the galaxy if you paid him enough: smugglers' dens, alien strongholds, uninhabited wastelands. It didn't matter. Show him your gold, and he'd let you climb aboard.
"I can't take you there," he said.
His voice was deep, and went through her like an electric beam.
To her surprise, she found herself shivering.
- December 16, 2011 at 11:09 AM
- Sue London said...
Title: Star Crossed
Genre: contemporary romance
Word count: 30,000
Sometimes the stars align and sometimes they cross. A Chicago business attorney discovers that the merger she's working on may have connections to organized crime, but the bigger danger could be a CEO who has managed to get too close for comfort.
First 100:
Vivian put down her reading glasses and pinched the bridge of her nose. One of the drawbacks in practicing law was the eyestrain. Her spacious office with polished honey-colored wood and soft, comfortable chairs was high above Lakeshore Drive. Framed silk prints of dragonflies decorated the walls alongside her degrees and awards, while a slender étagère in the corner held photographs of her parents framed in heavy silver. Throughout there were pictures of her with luminaries, both here in Chicago and back home in Boston. But as she rested her head on the soft leather back of her swivel chair she thought that if someone took her picture now it would be labeled Attorney, Exhausted.
- December 16, 2011 at 1:31 PM
- LS Murphy said...
Title: Neighbors
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Word Count: 11,000
Two-line pitch: Rena Woods' new neighbor, USMC Corporal C.J. Riker, is an obnoxious pain in her ass. After she loses her most important client, Riker stops her from making a complete fool of herself at a local bar and she realizes there may be more to the hot jerk across the hall.
First 100 Words:
The moving van blocked my car on the street outside my apartment building. And I was already running late for an appointment halfway across the city. Naturally. My mother pointed out my tardiness as often as she pointed out her lack of grandchildren. Never mind I had two older brothers with kids.
"You're not getting any younger, Rena," she chided the night before as he had our weekly phone conversation. "You'll be thirty in eight months. And it's all downhill from there."
Such a positive influence.
I hammered my palm into the door of the moving van. A guy with dark curly hair and wrap around mirrored sunglasses leaned out the window.
Thanks for the shot. :)
- December 16, 2011 at 2:08 PM
- Anne Francis said...
Title: HOME
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Word count: 10,000
Everyone deserves a second chance at love, including career woman EVA O'RILEY. When her mother's sudden death draws her back to her childhood home, she reconnects with a supernatural past and a magical being who helps her find love in her darkest hour.
FIRST 100 Words:
Eva O'Riley hovered on the sidewalk in front of her childhood home, butterflies tap dancing in her stomach. She wanted to avoid the reason for this visit. She wanted to turn around and walk away as fast as her four-inch designer heels would allow. Instead she made the Sign of the Cross, her right hand raising of its own volition, index finger touching her forehead, chest, left shoulder, right shoulder.
She hadn't crossed herself in seven years, not since her high school graduation at the Church of the Sacred Heart. She did it now… "For you, mama."
- December 16, 2011 at 2:43 PM
- Barbara Sheridan said...
Title: House of Delilah
Genre: Historical (older woman/younger man)
Word Count: 29,000
Pitch: Following a serious injury, Daniel Burke's only chance for employment is utilizing the sewing skills he gained from raising his younger sisters. Madam Addy Monroe is jaded far beyond her years, but the awkward innocence of her new dressmaker makes her wonder if a "respectable life" is more a possibility than a fleeting dream.
First 100 words
Daniel looked from the newspaper in his hand to the small brass plate affixed to the center of the door before him then back again. The advertisement said:
Wanted: Dressmaker. Creative, skilled, sense of humor, takes easily to change and surprises. Good salary. Room & board included. Serious inquiries only. Apply in person to House of Delilah, Littlemore, Colorado.
He fit the description perfectly. Still…
The door plate read:
HOUSE of DELILAH
Established 1880
Coitus by appointment only
Daniel squinted. He hadn't misread. No wonder the fellow at the train depot had grinned like a fool when asked for directions.
Contact info: Barbara(dot)Sheridan(at)yahoo.com
- December 16, 2011 at 3:06 PM
- Taryn Elliott said...
What a great opportunity. Thanks so much for the quick pitch contest!
TITLE: Distorted Views
Genre: Contemporary Romantic Thriller
After surviving a vicious relationship and brutal rape all Logan Porter wants to do is come back home and heal. Instead, she finds a new neighbor who makes her long to give love another chance and an enduring unease that someone doesn't want her to start over.
She clawed at his forearm.
"You're mine, Sunshine. I thought we went over this." He slammed her into the stucco wall again, lifting her onto her toes with ease. Years of battling fires and hauling equipment made him strong. Too strong. Blood and skin caked under her nails as she fought for oxygen.
Eyes, a fierce blue, iced over with rage. He tore at her shirt, the tiny straps of her tank snapped. Bruising fingers dented her breast.
"Michael, please," she rasped. She kicked out, raked her nails across his face, arched her back. No. Not this. Anything but this.
Whew, first 100 words only is tough! Thanks so much for the opportunity to pitch.
Taryn Elliott
- December 16, 2011 at 5:40 PM
- Leigh James said...
Thanks for this great opportunity!
Title: Geek's Guide to Survival
Genre: Contemporary Romance
28,000 words
Two-sentence pitch:
On a comic book convention cruise gone awry, adversaries Bryan Hook and Jessica Graham get left behind on a deserted island. Forced to put their differences aside and work together, they find they can survive even an oncoming hurricane.
First 100 words:
"Watch your step as you disembark the tender. Be sure you're back here by 5:00 or we'll leave without you. Have a wonderful day!"
Jessica Graham glanced at her fellow passengers as they gathered their beach bags and made their way to the gangway. Two elves, a couple orcs, one woman in — wait, was that a chain metal bikini? This was definitely not an ordinary cruise ship excursion.
As a journalist, Jess had traveled the world and thought she'd seen all it had to offer, but she'd never experienced anything quite like the ComicCruise.
- December 16, 2011 at 6:12 PM
Title: Shadow Self
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Word Count: 20,000
Magic has been banned due to a war between two groups: Onyx and Fuego. Half-Fuego Zoey King and Onyx member Rafe McIntyre must put their differences aside in order to fight against the anti-magic organization, the League.
First 100(or 103) words:
Zoey King was sixteen when she used magic to protect herself for the first time. Ten years later, not much had changed.
She stared at the shivering man curled up into a ball on the forest floor. His short black hair clung to his head wet from the light rainfall. Tiny leaves gathered on his tattered sweater. She knelt beside him and stroked his cool cheek with her warm hand, then pushed back his hair. Dark stubble covered his jaw and long lashes fell from his shut eyes.
"What are you waiting for?" Perry Shaw stood nearby, dressed in a black overcoat.
Nu Yang
scarletsky4 @ yahoo.com
- December 16, 2011 at 7:23 PM
- Missy Jane said...
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- December 16, 2011 at 9:03 PM
Title: To Cure What Ails
Genre: Western Fantasy/Historical
Two-line pitch: Unconventional doctor Eliza Parker knows better than to allow self-proclaimed demon hunter Luke Adams to break her heart again. But when Luke walks back into her life, pleading for medical assistance so he can continue his fight against the devil himself, old feelings are rekindled, forcing both Luke and Eliza to make a difficult decision: choose their careers or each other.
First 100 Words:
Just when Eliza Parker thought her day couldn't get any worse, he was waiting for her at the office.
Luke Adams hadn't changed much in the two years since she'd last seen him. Seated in her parlor chair, handsome as ever, he wore a lop-sided grin and had a twinkle in his hazel eyes, despite the gaping wound in his left leg.
Some things never changed.
Eliza placed her medical bag on the counter. "I'm not seeing patients right now."
"From the looks of it, you aren't seeing patients at all."
"You never fail to impress a lady, Mister Adams."
Contact Info: joannabecke[at]gmail[dot]com
- December 16, 2011 at 9:03 PM
- Missy Jane said...
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- December 16, 2011 at 9:04 PM
- Missy Jane said...
My apologies, trying again with all needed elements this time ;-)
Thank you for this opportunity!
Title (Tentative) Archangels: Zerach
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Word Count 34,000
Sexy businessman Zerach Maxwell longs for Isadora Duncan's touch but her dominating Godparents keep him at arm's length. Their plans to marry her off backfire and send her straight into his arms, but the secret he and his six brothers keep might be enough to drive her away.
First 100 words:
Zerach's gaze trailed down the elegant curve of her neck, across her exposed collar bone to the creamy white shoulders bared for all to admire. The thought of any other man, or male creature as his case may be, looking upon the object of his obsession boiled his blood, leaving him feeling restless and impotent. The laws of his kind as well as his survival instincts forbade him from approaching her, but much more primitive instincts cried out for her touch. A war of emotion rolled through him, boiling like a volcano about to erupt. He sank further into...
contact: missyjane01 AT gmail DOT com
- December 16, 2011 at 9:07 PM
- Melania Tolan said...
Thank you Five Scribes and Entangled for this awesome opportunity.
Title: Wish upon a Starfish
Genre: Fantasy
Word Count: 12k
Lady Adrianna's heart is shattered and frozen from losing her one true love. A mermaid's gift and the arrival of, Cory, the brother of her late beloved brings the promise of hope, but the presence of an evil traitor threatens to ruin them all.
First 100:
Cleansing salty air filled Lady Adrianna's lungs as she walked along large slippery square-hewn stones at the bottom of a cliff where land meets sea. The passing of a stormy night had thoroughly drenched the stony path causing the moistened rough terrain to glisten in the brilliant morning sun. She shielded her eyes as she treaded over the slick surface. These rocks had been cut into leveled surfaces by her father, Sir Adric De Angelo Sea Warden to Port of Lemuria, to provide a walkway for the soldiers protecting his fortress which stood at the top of the cliff. Today, however, no guards stood watch.
Thank you again,
Melania Tolan
- December 16, 2011 at 9:16 PM
- Elisabeth Roseland said...
Dear Five Scribes and Entangled Editors--Thanks for this opportunity!
Title--Of Color: Advertising for Love
Genre--Multicultural Contemporary Romance
Word Count--19,000
Two-sentence pitch:
Greg's intelligence, good looks, and skills both in the kitchen and the bedroom are enough to make Aisha forget that she is dating the escort she hired for her company's gala--until a former client asks her about one of Greg's signature sexual moves. After breaking up with him and swearing off men for good, Aisha refocuses on her career, but when she loses her expected promotion and quits in a blaze of f-bombs, she has to decide either to pick up the pieces of her life by herself or to renew her relationship with the escort who made her happy.
First 100 words:
Tanya slid the black business card across the table. The gold script lettering glistened enticingly in the sun--of color.
"Girl, you are out of your damn mind." Aisha crossed her arms over her chest and refused to touch it.
"Take it."
"Take it." Tanya taped the card with her manicured nail.
"No." Aisha shook her head. "Didn't your mama teach you anything?"
Tanya sat back in her chair and laughed. "She sure did. She taught me to go after what I want and to always help a friend in need." She took a sip of her latte.
Thanks again!
- December 16, 2011 at 10:30 PM
Whoops! Forgot my contact information in the post above:
elisabeth (dot) roseland (at) gmail (dot) com
Thanks again!
- December 16, 2011 at 10:55 PM
- Jean Paradis said...
Title: Night With Johnny
Genre: contemporary romance
Word Count: 10-12,000
Pitch: Stone learns more about love and passion from one night with Ava, than in his whole life up to now. He lets her relive a fantasy, and in return she offers him one as well, but all he wants is for Ava to love him as deeply as she loved his biological father.
First 100 words:
It looked to Ava Moore, as if her late husband were standing over his own grave, reading the tiny plaque.
Ava didn't believe in ghosts. She believed that in the majority of situations, the obvious conclusion is the correct one. The man looked the right age, twenty- eight. Afraid he would leave before she could talk to him, Ava stopped at her mother's grave just long enough to set down the daisies before continuing on to Johnny's.
This story is about 2/3 finished. If you're interested I can get it done in a week or two.
Tammy Jean Paradis
- December 17, 2011 at 12:01 AM


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What's not to like about this weather? Except when winter does hit later, most of us probably will not be psychologically ready to deal with it with spring on the brain.
1/8 & 9 I was out with the boat on the rivers checking up on things.
1/10 at sunrise heard the first gobble of 2012, this is the earliest ever. The high temp for the day was 59!
You have to enjoy it now because the averages always seem to work out in the end.
Anyone else taking advantage of nice days and getting out to see what is going on in your neck of the woods?


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No offense but this article doesnt even come close to revealing how genius this tweak is.
Awesome eldwin love this tweak will revolutionize the widget game!!
Here are a few
iWidgets For The People
Just so you know this tweak does support The retina display reviewer got it wrong smh
Also how in anyway is this a poor rip of dashboardx when it is essentially an updated version of perpagehtml+ which was around before dashboardx.
Please research before commenting almost as bad as the reviewer himself
Rip off of dashboardx? pffft
Great tweak. Been using this for months and personally made about 30 widgets
Hit the thread here and do some homework before commenting out your arse
This tweak deserves way more credit than what this article describes.
Awesome work by eldwin
And a 3.5/5??? You on crack my friend. 5/5
No Respring, change options, move around widgets, delete widgets.
Anytime you can have this much fun modding your springboard WITHOUT WINTERBOARD is a must have
Here's a cool vid of a slideshow iWidget with options! INCREDIBLE!
iWidget SS - YouTube
iWidgets and DashboardX are 2 different tweaks and cannot be really compared together because they both offer different things. With iWidgets, you can code your own tweaks in HTML, Java, then set a options menu per widget that the user can toggle to customize each widget to their own liking without coding.
If you like notification center style tweaks, then Dashboard X is for you. If you want to be able to code your own widgets, and have a multitude of options available to configure each widget unique to your tastes, then iWidgets is the way to go.
As mentioned above, the clock and calendar widget are not the only ones available, come check by the thread and see some of the wonderful work being produced to work with the iWidgets platform. You will be pleasantly surprised with where iWidgets has evolved.
A totally miss leading review.
The widgets are super crisp and clear. And the two stock ones that come with iWidgets do not do it justice at all.
Just head over to the iWidget thread if you don't believe me, there is some truly amazing work that has been done and they have only just got started. But don't take my word for it go read through the thread and make up your own mind.
To give this 3.5 out of 5 is quiet simply out of order and does not represent what it actually is. I would suggest that you go to the thread yourself and try some of the Widgets that are on there "not just the stock two" And then give it a real review.
Very very disappointed in this and feel you are being totally un fair.
All I can say is ignore the review and go to the thread to make up your own mind.
I wanted to post my current set up using 3 iWidgets
Status scroller
Animated weather
But we can't upload screen shots on here. So go check out the thread and then tell us it's not a cool tweak
I only use iwidgets on my springboard pages since eldwin came out with this great iwidget.
So many great modders who makes wonderful iwidgets, everything you can imagine.
Disappointing review of something so wonderful...
it's 5/5!
Been using iWidget for a couple of months now and it's a truly amazing tweak.
Can't imagine applying a weather widget in any other manner.
The conversion process is relatively simple too and new iwidgets are popping up daily on the thread link posted above by GUNNY29.
EDIT: My only criticism is that currently the majority of widgets are weather based, but no fault of the iWidget app and it's only a question of time before a more diverse range of widgets find their way to the forum.
There are a ton of iWidgets from weather to Slideshow to clocks, jeez instagram Slideshow feed, I even did an animated fish tank (rescripted a genius made CSS one for pc to ios)
Schnedi, Gunny, Max, Drifter, Chevy, myself and others have made probably over 100 widgets combined. I have 50+ at present in my folder to choose from.
I have included in the original post information regarding third party widgets...
It slipped past me that the tweak supported third party widgets as the Tweak description in Cydia is blatantly put: "HTML Widgets on SpringBoard."
My apologies for the confusion.


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If you are an avocado aficionado, you'll love these stuffed with a combination of tuna, cheese and olives.
Avocados are a New World food, discovered by Hernando Cortés in 1519 and long enjoyed by the Aztecs and Mayans throughout Latin America.
To seed an avocado, cut the avocado in half lengthwise around the seed; twist halves gently to separate. Hit the seed with the sharp edge of a knife. Grasp the fruit, then twist the knife to loosen and remove the seed.
© 2017 ®/TM General Mills All Rights Reserved


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Positive, fun and inspiring song for a good mood. Happy tune, clapping, ukulele, piano and bells. Perfect for background music for any type of presentation that needs to evoke fun and happiness!
01 Summer Sun – 2:23;
02 Basic Theme – 0:20;
03 Ukulele and Claps – 0:10;
Also you can buy my Acoustic and Motivation Collections (Each song for at half price!!!):