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Painting Forever: Tony Tuckson
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This exhibition had its beginning in 1981 when, as a curatorial assistant in the National Gallery's department of Australian art, I was asked by the Senior Curator, Daniel Thomas, to catalogue the Lucy Swanton Bequest. This gift from the late director of the Macquarie Galleries and doyen of Sydney dealers contained superb works by Ian Fairweather, Ralph Balson, John Passmore and Grace Crowley amongst others. To my untutored eye however one painting, Tony Tuckson's White sketch c.1973, stood out from all the others.
I knew nothing about Tuckson or his art, and White sketch hardly looked like a 'real' painting at all. Yet this single, long white brushstroke, on a man-sized piece of masonite, had a strong, almost physical effect on me. The grace of the brushstroke, despite the rudimentary materials, was far more beautiful than any other painted mark I had encountered. The abrupt slash of paint across the shoulders of the board and its long downward journey right to the bottom edge, also seemed sad somehow, like a perfect painterly rendering of an introspective moment. I did not need to know anything about the painting because it spoke to me inside; I felt as if I knew the person who had painted it.
Over time this singular abstract mark came to look like a self-portrait or perhaps a perceptive physical self-description of the painter – his size, balance and, remarkably, his state of mind. White sketch also came to feel strangely like a portrait of myself. Like many people I could imagine making this same gentle, self-descriptive brushstroke that looked so easy (... 'my kid could do that!'). I found it unsettling not only that Tuckson had been able to paint with such intuitive and abstract economy, but that his painting had also caused in me an unknowing and melancholic response. I knew what I was feeling but could not tell why.
While cataloguing White sketch I found a paragraph in Daniel Thomas's essay for the memorial exhibition Tony Tuckson 1921–1973 (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1976) that mirrored my thoughts exactly: 'Watteau's "Gilles" prompted the most lyrical dissertation Tuckson ever gave me [Thomas] on a single painting. It is a full-length, life size man in white satin, standing straight, his round face gazing directly at the spectator. Though not a self-portrait, Watteau clearly identified himself with this image. Tuckson had a similarly poignant sense of being present in his own work, as well as a Watteauesque tenderness with shimmering white surfaces.' The visual unity of graceful form and implied content in White sketch came to represent for me what painting could be – Painting Forever: Tony Tuckson is the result of this fascination with the humanity of Tuckson's painterly gestures.
Painting Forever: Tony Tuckson contains 59 paintings, 42 drawings and three sketchbooks. All have been selected for their pictorial resolution of surface, palette, gesture and painterly ideas. As a consequence I have been aware that a type of tough, miscoloured working quality in both Tuckson's paintings and drawings has been largely excised from the exhibition. Yet, as Tuckson himself wrote, 'meaning is not possible without the means', and I have taken him at his word, selecting only those works of art that show him at his clear, sensitive and decisive best.
The selection is purposefully weighted towards Tuckson's mature paintings and drawings – those made between 1958 and 1973. In the story of Australian painting Tuckson is more important for where he got to than where he came from. Like many of his generation who saw active service in the Second World War, Tuckson was a do'er. He was a decisive, ethical, hard painting, hard drinking, 'Craven A' smoking artist by inclination, and an innovative and conscientious Art Gallery of New South Wales Deputy Director by profession. As Daniel Thomas put it, 'he had been racing against death all his life', and it is a tragedy that he died at the peak of his painterly powers. This is not to say that his training, sources and influences are not worthy of interest, simply that the power and originality of his mature abstract paintings demand precedence.
Ultimately it was Tuckson's openness to what could be great painting that allowed him to make it himself. It was, however, openness gained through self-education, professional experience and dogged painterly practice, knowing himself as much as his subject matter. There can be little doubt for instance that Tuckson's extensive (and longstanding) interest in Aboriginal art aided his leap into pure abstraction between 1957 and 1960, though not through literal or formal quotation.
His delight in the delicate paint surfaces of Arnhem Land bark paintings, or the sculptural red and white ochre forms of New Guinean shields did not extend to his becoming what he derisively termed a 'Pseudo-Aboriginal'. Rather, Tuckson's interest lay in 'the underlying spirit of their imagery', and how he could interpret or reinvent this subjective and symbolic state through his own body and gestures. The changes to his art involved a subtle re-evaluation of the painted surface itself, principally the relationship between the mostly white ground and the graffiti like, abstract subject matter. His compositions moved from figure-based grid paintings, characteristically leaning towards the right, to unruly, exploratory, scribble paintings where delicate contrasting marks are struck into the white ground.
Tuckson's oeuvre consists of just over 10,000 drawings and around 450 paintings. His drawings in pencil, charcoal, ink, watercolour, gouache and mixed media, on whatever paper, newspaper, cartridge paper, cardboard or exhibition invitation the artist had to hand, form both a comprehensive repository of Tuckson's artistic life and a record of the exploratory role that drawing played in his art. Often, radical pictorial ideas are initiated and developed through the swift repetition of a series of drawings. These are not studies so much as spatial and textural primers, where the marks are like shadows around light, rising and falling, swelling into the paper space, engaging torn edges or retreating into a fugitive almost-legible writing. Some of the most beautiful, sparse and expressive abstract painted marks ever made in Australia are tried out and pushed to their limit on sheets of classified advertisements from the Sydney Morning Herald.
For most of his life Tuckson painted in his spare time, and on occasions (due to pressure of work or building projects) ceased painting altogether. It is obvious from the number of works on paper that drawing formed a vital continuum in his artistic life. Small biro drawings on lined paper, dashed off at work, or sustained series of powerful charcoal drawings, relentlessly stretching a pictorial idea – all were grist to the mill. For an expressive artist to draw well he or she must be acutely aware of their body, of posture and balance. In fact the development of a haptic and intuitive drawing style depends upon being able to call on physical movements without thinking, those that have become second nature.
Drawing allowed Tuckson the exploratory freedom of speed, nonprecious materials and an unconscious internal preparation, essential for the explosive act of painting. In a number of his 44 sketchbooks it is also plain that Tuckson accentuated the conceptual and spatial shift that occurs when moving from working flat on drawings to the verticality of painting. He created depth within paintings by drawing onto the painted surface. In many cases the drawing whispers a tangential answer to the emphatic statement of paint.
In Tuckson's studio, which remains largely as he left it in 1973, a carefully printed homily is pinned to the storage shelves: HAVE YOU STEPPED BACK FROM YOUR PAINTING LATELY? This first person admonition can give us an insight into Tuckson's painting technique that might not otherwise be apparent. During the preparation of this exhibition Margaret Tuckson saw me standing in the (6 metre by 4 metre) studio looking out of the floor-to-ceiling windows and into the wooded gully that is filled with giant blackbutt eucalypts and impossibly elongated angophora saplings: 'Tony used to do that all the time while he was painting', she remarked. 'He would stand and look at the reflection of his painting [leaning on the wall behind him] in the windows.'
Looking myself, both out at the bush and at the reflection of a small black and white Emily Kam Kngwarray painting that now hangs in the studio, I suddenly came to understand Tuckson's painterly perspective – that he saw himself within the painted surface, that the act of painting was at once the meaning of the painting, and that this metaphysical insinuation had come through a painterly practice, not through theory. Painted space, created intuitively within the confines of a roughly sawn piece of masonite actually extended outwards in an unbroken embrace of reflection, reversal, light becoming shadow, lines moving past one another and space opening and closing. Nothing is fixed or concealed in this shifting world; even the physical and emotional costs of painting so hard are open to scrutiny.
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Ian Fairweather, the Australian artist Tuckson admired most, was instrumental in making this porous, infinite painted surface seem possible. The Tucksons spent every penny of their savings (£16.6s) in 1953 to buy a ghostly Fairweather gouache, Pattern 1952, from the artist's first one-man show at the Macquarie Galleries. It still hangs just outside the studio, in pride of place. The see-through, interconnected figures in Pattern float above a heavily worked, soft coloured ground, seeming to speak of both the surface and the void. Perhaps at this vital stage in his painterly development, Fairweather was able to distil for Tuckson the pictorial ideal of physical (and emotional) sensation combined with abstract visual acuity. An artist's portal into the subconscious.
This innate sense of self-awareness, of balance between corporeal substance and emotional expression, became Tuckson's greatest gift. It was not borne from isolation, as has been suggested (although both he and Fairweather did paint for much of their lives in solitude), but through hard work, openness to a multitude of examples and a magical ability to somehow completely expose his inner self through hand and touch and brush. The power of Tuckson's art is contained in the image of the artist standing with a loaded brush as far back from the surface as possible, before darting forward to deliver paint, gesture and the cry of inspiration at a single blow.
Tuckson is an artist who grew out of unusual circumstances and sources. I am most indebted to Terence Maloon, Special Exhibitions Curator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, for his perceptive and accessible essay that follows. Terence has written with an economy and originality that Tuckson would have appreciated, adding a distinctive contemporary voice to the existing scholarship. I trust that both exhibition and text will elucidate, delight and perhaps sadden the viewer. As is appropriate for this extraordinary and original abstract artist.
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I agree, it's pretty obvious on this one. Unfortunately this was taken with the i-Contrast set to "Off", yet it still does it. Turning off the "Auto Lighting Optimizer" on my new T2i was one of the first things I did based on your advice on the forum (forum.gigapan.org/viewtopic.php?f=6 &t=736). Alas, it looks like this is just something I cannot fix on the SX10IS.
Ron, You can see the impact of Canon's Digic-4 chip's contrast optimizer around the buttes and clouds on your SX10. The control on the SX10 is called i-Contrast. It is on by default. On the T2i it has 4 levels and is called Auto Lighting Optimizer. I discovered this with my first outdoor test gigapan and have seen it on many uploaded pans. Dave
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Caso opines that the two things the stock needs are "improvement in margins, and a significant product cycle for iPhone, which would unleash an upgrade cycle and reverse recent share losses."
The rumored "iPhone 5S" is likely only "evolutionary," and therefore unlikely to help Apple's mix of iPhone sales get back to the higher-end of its portfolio after several quarters of lower mix with the iPhone 4 and 4S sales, Caso thinks. His "checks" posit the 5S beginning production in June and arriving sometime over the summer:
Our checks continue to point to a low-volume production start for iPhone 5 in June, with a stronger ramp in C3Q. We have confirmed this through several of AAPL's component suppliers, which have included a small volume of 5S components in their June quarter expectations. We think consensus has now begun to factor in a fall launch, based on speculation of delays and due to Tim Cook's comments on the earnings call. We think that a summer launch (which if true would likely be confirmed in advance of July earnings) could act as a short-term catalyst if there are no last minute delays.
Caso differs from some analysts who have suggested a lower-priced iPhone will be used by Apple to sell more goods to price-conscious buyers. He thinks such a device is coming, but it is mostly about cutting costs and improving margin:
Our checks suggest a low-cost iPhone to begin production in late July/early August, with more significant volume in September. We believe this production schedule will permit availability to consumers in the early fall. While some believe this phone is intended to allow AAPL to penetrate new markets, we don't agree. AAPL already offers the iPhone 4 as a value product for lower price points. The problem, however, is that the cost of the 4, 4S, and especially the 5 is too high to sell at lower price points, which has contributed to AAPL's margin issues. This is especially problematic with the lower end products growing as a percent of AAPL's total mix. We think the new lower cost phone will help to alleviate these margin pressures, and will eventually replace the legacy phones in AAPL's lineup. However, given our view with regard to the timing of the low cost phone launch, we don't expect much positive impact on margins until at least C4Q. We also think the low cost iPhone provides a low cost vehicle to eventually offer on the China Mobile network (the iPhone 4 is not compatible with China Mobile's network), but based on our estimates for initial production volumes we don't view a China Mobile launch as imminent.
A larger-screen iPhone is the "most significant" catalyst to look forward to, and he thinks that won't arrive until the first quarter of next calendar year:
The most significant catalyst that we are waiting for is a larger screen iPhone. Given the success that Samsung has enjoyed in this segment, we think it is obvious that AAPL is failing to address a significant portion of the market that desires a larger screen. Regardless of one's view of the medium term growth trajectory of the smartphone space, it is obvious to us that a larger screen size iPhone would begin a very significant upgrade cycle among current iPhone users, and likely arrest or reverse the share losses to Samsung – at least in the short term. Our checks in February left us hopeful that we could see such a phone before Christmas, but we no longer think that's likely until at least 1Q14. In short, this is the catalyst we're waiting for.
Caso thinks trends for the iPad are not as good as some suspect:
iPad is less material to AAPL earnings, but the trends in this area don't appear to be in AAPL's favor. Our C2Q iPad estimates are slightly below consensus at 16 mln versus consensus of 18.3 mln, and we believe the mix shifts slightly in favor of the 10" iPad, which helps margins. We also believe C3Q production is down significantly Q/Q. That reduction in production is likely ahead of new product launches in the fall, but it also suggests downside to consensus iPad expectations in C3Q.
Caso is modeling $170 billion in revenue this fiscal year ending in September, and $38.93 per share in profit, which is below the Street consensus for $171.4 billion and $39.77.
For 2014, he sees $194 billion and $47.30 per share, which is above consensus for $187.7 billion and $44.14 per share.


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|Gran Via de las Cortes Catalanas, 08013 Barcelona, スペイン
Communications: around my apartment are the Monumental Metro Station (nearest ) Marina metro St. and Las Glorias Metro St. and 4 blocks far it is Bus Station Terminal del Nord ... all very close.
When you arrive, I could be here or not (it depends of my work) but if we meet eachother you can count on my advice and experience in town for what you want , I'll wait for You!
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1) No children under 10 allowed and always sharing with 2 adults or 1 adult with 2 children older than 12
2) The Price inlcudes the renting of a private room inside of the house, not the entire department, renting a private room, you are entitled to use the common areas like the kitchen, bathrooms and living room and also the free Internet WI-FI, But remember that the Flat has more rooms for rent, So it could be possible to find other guest in your same dates renting another room with the same rigths than yours.
3) Smoking is prohibited both inside the room , as in other common areas of the house. Only allowded in the balcony
4 ) The house has a washing machine, but this service has an additional cost of € 4 per wash, not included in the room rate .
5 ) Upon arrival you will be given a set of keys for your exclusive use for which you are responsible during your stay, and you must refound them the day of your departure, once housed there are not come and goes schedules from the house, always keeping in account respecting the rest of the other guests at very early or late evening hours.
The check in time is from 15:00 hs ALWAYS (3pm ) onwards never before, and the day of your departure you must vacate the room maximum at 12:00 pm
VERY IMPORTANT! Due to my work I'm usually all day away from home so it is VERY IMPORTANT that before traveling you to send me an e -mail with information about your flight , train, bus or medium you use to get to Barcelona , what city Place arrive (airport, railway station , bus station, and so on ) If your flight , etc. . is delayed please email me before leaving , telling me of the change and the new scheduled time for your arrival , finally would be good as soon you get the airport , and so on. You to send me a wassap ( free cost ) or an SMS saying "We're already at the airport " to calculate exactly how long should I wait. Remember that not being a hotel there will be nobody available 24 hours to receive you when your check In. I don´t answer SMS before the scheduled check-in, answer only Wassaps. if you have any questions before you get my home, you can call me on my cell phone and will gladly clarify any doubts . I will appreciate this gesture of you to communicate with me before you arriving, allowding me to welcome you in the best possible way!
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Capacity of the room, at least 1 person, maximum 3
Accommodation 1 single bed + 1 queen bed (double)
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Me and my 2 friends were staying at Jose's place for 3 days and it was really superb! The place is very cosy, clean and close to a lot of sights. The metro station is reachable in a few minutes and there are a lot of good restaurants in the neighborhood if you want a quick bite. Jose is a very friendly host who offered a lot of information and help!
I had a great stay with my two children in José Luis. He was very considerate with us and very concerned about our well-being. We were housed in the very spacious and comfortable room for three persons with its pleasant flowery balcony.
A big thank you José Luis! Soon very certainly.
This apartment is in good location,very close to metro,grocery store and coffee bar?
The apartment itself has overvelming smell of air freshener and it's no very clean.
It was our first trip to Barcelona. Everything was very good. Jose was very kind, explained us everything we asked. We lived in a nice blue room with a balcony and we enjoyed watching Torre Agbar from it. Sagrada Família was very close. All famous "casas" were not far. Even though we were in Barcelona from 29.09 to 6.10 couple of days the weather was very warm - 27 C and we could swim in the sea and take sun baths.
It was a very nice stay in this appartement. José is very friendly and kind person.
He explain to us everything and what we should visit in the city. So really i recomend :)
Thank you José for the stay!
We stayed in José's apartment for 5 days and it has been a wonderful stay. It is a nice, cosy and clean apartment close to the city center, with great view from the terrace and very good access to public transport. In apartment everything you need is available. José is a great and very friendly host! He takes his time to inform you about the city and is helpful in any other way. We wish to return back one day!
The flat is near sagrada familia and only a few minutes to work through the Metro. So you can be in a short time in the middle of the city or at the beach, but you sleep in a quiet part of barcelona.
Jose is really nice and showed all the sightseeing points on the map and tell us how to come there.
The room is nice and clean with seaview from balcony.
We would host there again!!!
Thank you Jase.
Die Wohnung stimmt genau mit der Beschreibung überein, ist sauber und hat einen herrlichen Blick über Barcelona, besonders am Abend, wenn alles beleuchtet ist. José hat alles gut organisiert, alle Absprachen klappten zuverlässig. Vom Busbahnhof sind es wenige Minuten zu Fuß, wenn man den Shuttlebus vom Flughafen Girona nimmt. Auch unsere Touren haben wir größtenteils zu Fuß gemacht und sind abends mit der Metro zurückgefahren. Danke José Luis!
Wir haben uns sehr wohl gefühlt bei Jose.
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Falling hard for an "inland" Eden, historic Hampton Park
A revamped version of the bandstand built for the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition (December 1901 to May 1902) now presides over the east edge of sprawling Hampton Park.
They say familiarity breeds contempt, but in the case of Hampton Park, I found that the adage operated in reverse. Let me begin by saying that when I first moved to Charleston, I crashed at my mom's place on Church and Chalmers, where I got mighty accustomed to waking to clomping horses and creaking carriages. And later, when I rented between Colonial Lake and the Ashley River, I absolutely reveled in the water birds that glided overhead. Loving that I could be at the water in moments, I told a then-beau I could never live outside 29401.
That brings up another adage—the "never say never" one. When it came time to buy my own home, there was no way I could afford anything in my favorite zip code. So eating crow came next, and I was lucky enough to find a cottage north of the Crosstown and a little below The Citadel. As swell as the setup was, I missed looking out my windows to a sky zippered with chains of pelicans, and I sure couldn't make it to the water on a morning stroll.
So to bond with my rough-around-the-edges new turf, I'd pull on my running shoes and head to nearby Hampton Park. I'd long known the history of the park: from 1792 to 1882, it was a horse track; during the Civil War, Union soldiers were imprisoned—and buried—on site, and after the 54th Massachusetts liberated Charleston in 1865, they took part in a parade of thousands of freed slaves there for what's considered the country's first Memorial Day celebration. In 1901, the land was transformed into the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition (today, only the bandstand remains); soon after, John Charles Olmsted, son of famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, designed the bones of the park we know today. In the 1930s, a zoo opened and stayed until 1975.
More recently, the spot has been sculpted into a verdant gem hidden from tourists and 29401-ers alike, and yet acknowledged—by city officials, long-time Charleston residents, and green-thumbers—as the crown jewel of the City of Charleston's park system. The Noisette roses there have been the subject of DNA studies to determine just how antique the varieties are; walk-and-talk retirees hit the mile-long outer track while par course fans and stroller moms wander the meandering trails. And on some nights, Citadel cadets don fatigues and crawl around in training sessions that scare the mess out of neighborhood newcomers like me.
I learned all this during my morning treks. Because for all the spoiled disdain I showed the "everyday" songbirds at first, for all the contempt I felt for the pines ("inland specimens," I falsely scoffed), I fell hard for the place. On the north side, an allée of crepe myrtles hosts a ton of little spider webs; when the dew is heavy and the morning sun hits, the webs look like a million swaying fairy hammocks. The live oaks near the stables might as well form the walls of a cathedral the way shafts of light spill in. And when the tulip magnolias bloom with flowers that peek from a mantle of Spanish moss, it's pure glory. Bloom where you're planted, indeed.
Photographs by (2) Ruta Elvikyte & (1) Bridget Hinkebein & courtesy of (Cotton Palace and Lagoon at Night. South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition. 1901-1902. By George Johnson) The Gibbs Museum of Art & (2) Charleston Parks Conservancy</p>


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Chart of the Day: The Laffer Spike
posted at 10:11 am on June 11, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Arthur Laffer, who brought us the Laffer Curve in the 1980s, has another kind of geometric shape for us today in the Wall Street Journal. Let's call it the Laffer Spike, and unfortunately this one isn't hypothetical. It demonstrates the massive boost in monetary supply pushed by the Fed and the government, and its historical singularity (via QandO):
With the crisis, the ill-conceived government reactions, and the ensuing economic downturn, the unfunded liabilities of federal programs — such as Social Security, civil-service and military pensions, the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, Medicare and Medicaid — are over the $100 trillion mark. With U.S. GDP and federal tax receipts at about $14 trillion and $2.4 trillion respectively, such a debt all but guarantees higher interest rates, massive tax increases, and partial default on government promises.
But as bad as the fiscal picture is, panic-driven monetary policies portend to have even more dire consequences. We can expect rapidly rising prices and much, much higher interest rates over the next four or five years, and a concomitant deleterious impact on output and employment not unlike the late 1970s.
About eight months ago, starting in early September 2008, the Bernanke Fed did an abrupt about-face and radically increased the monetary base — which is comprised of currency in circulation, member bank reserves held at the Fed, and vault cash — by a little less than $1 trillion. The Fed controls the monetary base 100% and does so by purchasing and selling assets in the open market. By such a radical move, the Fed signaled a 180-degree shift in its focus from an anti-inflation position to an anti-deflation position.
The percentage increase in the monetary base is the largest increase in the past 50 years by a factor of 10 (see chart nearby). It is so far outside the realm of our prior experiential base that historical comparisons are rendered difficult if not meaningless. The currency-in-circulation component of the monetary base — which prior to the expansion had comprised 95% of the monetary base — has risen by a little less than 10%, while bank reserves have increased almost 20-fold. Now the currency-in-circulation component of the monetary base is a smidgen less than 50% of the monetary base. Yikes!
Laffer says we don't have a historical model for this kind of action, and cannot accurately predict its effects. That's not entirely true. While the US has never done this before, we do have at least one historical parallel from the 20th century: the Weimar Republic government of Germany that preceded the Nazis. In fact, they deliberately printed money and devalued their currency in order to pay off (in worthless currency, but at face value) the crushing national debt imposed on them by the Treaty of Versailles.
Some have suggested that the US will have to follow the same model to rid itself of the massive debt we're incurring now, which makes investors much less enthusiastic about Treasuries. We've already begun to see the effects of this policy on the bond markets, with investors demanding higher yields as a hedge against the runaway inflation of this model. The Financial Times reports that the US had to push yields up to 4% to get buyers this week, and they expect more trouble in today's auction:
US long-term interest rates rose to the highest level of the year on Wednesday, threatening the "green shoots" of recovery, after the latest sale of 10-year government debt met with a tepid response from inflation-wary investors.
Concerns about the growth of government borrowing forced the US Treasury to give investors in an auction of $19bn in 10-year notes a yield of 3.99 per cent – 4 basis points higher than the yield available before the auction. That constituted the biggest yield markup since a 10-year auction in May 2003, said Morgan Stanley. Yields on the 10-year note, the benchmark rate for US mortgages, hit a high of 4 per cent during the day, up from 3.6 per cent a week ago. …
The next test of the US Treasury's issuance program looms on Thursday with the sale of $11bn in 30-year bonds. An auction of 30-year bonds last month went badly as investors signalled their concerns about the budget deficit.
"That did not go well last time, so there is also some additional concern," said Dominic Konstam, head of interest rate strategy at Credit Suisse.
If we have to keep paying higher interest rates for the Treasuries, we're going to see much bigger deficits in the coming years than either the White House or the CBO projected earlier, as our debt service will skyrocket:
Unless we cut spending now, we'll be setting up an inflationary ride like nothing we've seen before.
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Trey Songz was out celebrating his birthday last night – celebrity style!
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Draya wore a black dress that showed off her curves paired with gold accessories, as Trigga Trey kept it casual in a black graphic tee, a chain and earrings that complimented his outfit.
Draya unknowingly, or maybe purposely, placed her hand on 28-year-old Trey's chest for the photo.
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Check out the two, and some more of Draya's cute pics, in the gallery below. Happy Birthday Trey!


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Zillow (Z) shares fell 24% after hours after the real estate information service posted in-line earnings but issued guidance that fell below Street estimates.
Zillow posted 7 cents of EPS, in line with expectations. But its revenue guidance proved disappointing: Zillow says it expects to post revenue of $30 million to $31 million in the fourth quarter, below expectations for $32.9 million. The midpoint of the range is still 53% higher than last year's revenue.
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Hey folks, just wanted to say hello and introduce my pup to you guys. Bodie is a 10 month old FT pup out of Ted Barker's kennel ( Willow Creek). He has great lines and is a firecracker to say the least. Bon Mallari was instrumental in helping get Bodie to me here in Texas and I give lots of thanks to him. I recognize plenty of other folks in here that I know from other forums. I am the central Texas dealer for Mud Buddy motors and Gator Trax boats and I guide for ducks during the season as well. Having said that, I may know a thing or two about a thing or two as far as mud rigs but I ain't anywhere near qualified to give anyone advice on dog training. But I may be asking you kind folks for a tip or 2 along the way with my travels with Bodie. Bodie first spent a week with Clint Avant just to size him up and see what we had. It was decided that Bodie needed some serious obedience training and Clint was about to leave for Minnesota so I needed to get Bodie to a local trainer that I felt could get his obedience/steadiness done as well as have him go thru a FF program and get CC'd. I picked up Bodie last week from Best Retrievers where he spent 3 months with Rody and his staff. I have to say that Rody, Kristin, Jake and Jennifer did a great job with Bodie getting him to a place where I had something to work with. No doubt he could get his JH title with ease. For the most part he is steady at the line but does flinch a bit . He marks very well and has an excellent delivery. We have moved to multiple marks and until this afternoon I had a problem with him picking up the Go bird as he wanted to run up to it and then break for the memory bird. Went back to basics with a 180 double drill suggested by Evan G after I pm'd him and by the end of the drill, and a little bit of attrition, he understood what I wanted. Anyway, we are on our path down the road to success and hope you kind folks don't mind iffin I bother y'all with a question from time to time. I trained my 13 yo lab, Bart, years ago with great success but this FT pup is way beyond my caliber of training and I may be needing some help ev'r now and then.
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Faye Niles Sykes, 88, passed from this world on Monday, June 10, 2013. She was a fourth-generation Conch and
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Some stories I've been following lately, or that just caught my eye:
Lower Mekong Archaeology Project (LoMAP) gets some more much-deserved attention from Bora Touch, whose original article, "The Mekong Delta Before Angkor: origins, landscapes and emergent complexity," was retitled in their classically nationalistic style here. Very much worth a read.
The Mirror, a Cambodian Newspaper translation blog online, run by Norbert Klein, has been doing its important work more frequently, and with more precision, sometimes lining of a sort of "We Said/They Said" set of quotes to attempt to set stories straight, among other crucial issues. Go check them out and subscribe to the feed. Some stories from the Mirror recently:
- Cambodian People's Party Officials were Accused to be behind the creation of reservoirs
- The arrest of journalists is worrying
- and an editorial, "Words can reveal, or obscure."
And just for fun, some local Christian group in California has received its 15 minutes of fame and made lots of self-aggrandizing comments about their work. Check it out here, in "Christians Fight Evils For Kids In Cambodia." Since I just accidentally ran across some particularly awful manuals for missionization of Sino-Khmer in Cambodia, this struck me as just dumb and rude, but perhaps I'm over-reacting.


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BOSTON - As winter approaches, Sen. Richard T. Moore, D-Uxbridge, is
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Moore reminds constituents to practice winter fire safety
BOSTON - As winter approaches, Sen. Richard T. Moore, D-Uxbridge, is
partnering with the Department of Fire Safety to remind individuals and
families of Southern Central Massachusetts to practice home fire safety.
"Heating is the second leading cause of home fires, and the first leading
cause of carbon monoxide poisoning in the Commonwealth," stated Sen. Moore.
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that the residents of our region are prepared to stay warm and safe during
the winter months."
Because of high fuel prices, many often seek alternative heating sources as
the weather gets colder. It is important to keep safety in mind when using
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The Department of Fire Services has again launched its "Keep Warm, Keep
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In the last few years, a lot of the vehicles have had pack-in figures, but in the upcoming OTC line, the TIE Fighter comes with no figure at all even though its previous incarnation in the Saga line (as a KB exclusive) had a pack-in TIE Pilot figure -- the upside to this is that the OTC TIE Fighter is $10 cheaper than its Saga counterpart.
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BINGHAMTON, NY -- The SUNY Business and Education Cooperative of the Southern Tier (SUNY BEST) will host a presentation, titled "Binghamton Global Business Alliance: Partnerships in an International Market," at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 7, in room LN 1324C of the Continuing Education and Outreach Department on the Binghamton University campus. This presentation is free and open to the public.
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Filkins covered the war in Afghanistan for the Times in 2001 and 2002, and served as a correspondent in the paper's Baghdad bureau from 2003 to 2006. "The Forever War" chronicles the extreme violence he witnessed in both countries and traces the chain of events that led to the wars, beginning with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s.
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I don't know if he's changed his policies
Kerry still does it. I have right now his two wt. 5 mock-ups : 9' and 9'5" , 4pc .
Both are medium-fast rods . 3 pc are more of a moderate action. However Kerry has near 60 taper in wt.5 class and can make the rod ( action, flex) for a specific application.
I like 9'5" wt. 5, 4pc; although it is med-fast action, I can feel near entire blank working during back and forward cast. This blank is mark as a 4/5/6. Personally I consider it as a 5/6. Works beautifully with WF 5 and 6 line. The blank's flex depend on amount of grain/line's length out of the tip and generates quite fast line seed. Interestingly works very well with faster and moderate hand motion.
The rod will be used on typical Alaskan Rainbow ( 18-25") and larger western waters.
Handles trout style small/medium bunny leaches quite well. No problem with 7-8' sink tip up to 35 gr. on line wt.6 ( Rio's Closer line).
If you need a rod for long 12-16' leader for a wary trout when dry fly fishing., he can adjust the flex to accommodate a long trout leader.
Keep in mind that when you talk with Kerry, you are dealing with very experience fly fisher, who was a guide for a long time and happens to be probably the best blank designer in the world.
Last year he sent me a mock-up of his SH rod which was a bit to strong/stiff in the lower 1/2 half of the rod. After a phone conversation 5 weeks later I got the rod I had exactly in my mind !!!!!!!!!!
Kerry can tuned up his double handed and salt water rods as well.
If anyone is interested in a list of Burkheimer's rods, I drop me an PM and can sent a near complete list his rods.
There is an UK site which has almost all rods listed
I can attached the table in form of pdf file with list of rods only.
However to do so I need Juro's OK
The 5 wt handled both the salmonfly nymphs and dries very handily. I also fish it sometimes on the main stem of the Delaware, although there are times I go to a 10' 6wt.
Also, do you remember if wt. 4 you had tested was fine for small flies and moderate winds ( up to 15 mph) ?
It's been 10 years, but it seemed to me that it would. I don't know if he's changed his policies, but every rod I've gotten from Kerry, we've talked about it first on the phone. And in the instance of the 5 wt, he was happy to ship me 2 (maybe 3) rods to try. If he still does that (and you're not in a rush) that might be the best.
I have a CH Burkhiemer 4 wt blank being built now. I have yet to cast one, but the folks that have say they are some kind of nice. I am excited about receiving it. It should be along soon.
I will use it here in New England, no big rivers really , but a 9 footer should make a nice nymph rod for most streams. Which is really what I want it for.
Does the wt.5 rod ( 3 pc.) rod have the power needed for a mid/large western windy rivers when fishing large flies?
Also, do you remember if wt. 4 you had tested was fine for small flies and moderate winds ( up to 15 mph) ?
I have heard that 4 pc , SH rodr from Burkhaimer are much faster and perfect for windy conditions.
|Ten years ago, Kerry built me a 3 pc 9' 5wt (it carries the wonderful serial # 1000). I needed a rod for a specific purpose . . . Kerry sent me 2 or 3 rods to try. I really liked the 4 wt (I can't remember if it was the 9' or the 8' 9", but I think it was the shorter one — probably 3 pc). A very smooth, lovely rod, but it just didn't have the power I needed for my specific need (a large western, windswept river fishing large flies — salmon fly hatch). I love my 5 wt, but I remember the 4 wt was a wonderful rod. I was tempted, but I couldn't justify the expense (he'd also built me 2 spey rods).
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Late Tuesday night, as the legislative session came to a close, the General Assembly passed a bill strengthening Rhode Island's deplorable public records law. Governor Chafee, though he has expressed some reservations about the bill, is expected to sign it.
Until now, the law has shut off access to all records "which are identifiable to an individual" — a sweeping exemption that has frustrated all manner of curious citizens and prying reporters.
The bill strips out that language and imposes a balancing test in line with federal law, deeming these sorts of records public unless release would constitute "a clearly unwarranted violation of personal privacy." There's still plenty of room for an overly protective city clerk to shut down access, but it's an improvement.
There were disappointments, though. An attempt to make correspondence between elected officials about public business — a la the Sarah Palin emails that made headlines last year — was squashed.
I caught up with WPRI-TV investigative reporter Tim White, a reform advocate who serves on the board of the New England First Amendment Center, for a Q&A a few hours before the bill passed.
He was pleased with the gains enshrined in the bill, but disappointed in the measure's shortcomings. The interview is edited and condensed.
I'M WONDERING IF YOU COULD PUT IN PERSPECTIVE JUST HOW AWFUL RHODE ISLAND'S PUBLIC RECORDS LAW IS AT PRESENT. I have worked in other markets and when I came here I was absolutely stunned to find how much was sealed from public inspection. And as I got more familiar with our public records law, I realized that Rhode Island is in the dark ages.
Rhode Island has a reputation [for] corruption — it's not always fair, but some of it is earned. And I think the public records law has a lot to do with it, honestly. I'm not being overdramatic here. I think that because public records law keeps so much sealed from inspection, it's created a petri dish for bad things to grow in the dark.
YOU DO A LOT OF INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING. GIVE ME A SENSE FOR HOW THE PUBLIC RECORDS LAW LIMITS YOUR WORK. Because our law is the way it is, it actually almost prevented many of our bigger investigations from seeing the light of day. There have been a couple of circumstances where getting records made the difference in a story and it took the courage of someone inside government to leak me that information. That isn't a good way to practice our trade. But it's a necessary way in this state. It takes someone with a lot of backbone, out there, who wants to see change, who wants to end government waste or corruption.
WHAT WAS IT LIKE FOR SOMEONE WHO REPORTS ON STATE GOVERNMENT TO LOBBY FOR A BILL ON SMITH HILL? This was an enormously uncomfortable experience and I had to have a real gut check, because I report on the General Assembly. And on a day-to-day basis, I have to be objective about my reporting. I was sticking my neck out in endorsing or not endorsing legislation that lawmakers were considering. So I had to, anytime I was doing a story on the public records law — or say I was interviewing a politician on Newsmakers — I had to disclose my involvement, which is not ideal. But it's something I decided I had to do, because we're getting killed out there.
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