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In community affairs there are occasions when it is advisable, or even necessary, for a government unit or a civic organization to use the services of professional consultants. Many of the decision-making issues are quite complex. To understand and appreciate what is involved, specialized and technical knowledge may have to be made available. Professional consultants can serve as an important source of vital perceptions. At times, even in the same decision area, the counsel of several different types of experts is in order.
A particular kind of service available from many of the professions is consultation. For example, accountants, attorneys, engineers, management specialists and planners are among the types of experts who customarily offer consultative services as part of their professional practice.
Professional consultation involves asking a qualified specialist to study a situation related to his or her area of expertise; to provide advice and to render opinions concerning appropriate actions for handling the matter. Often, it involves joint deliberations and conferring between the consultant and those who have the responsibility to make and implement the decisions.
In other kinds of professional services, the expert may be expected to make the necessary decisions or to carry out completely a particular operation. In consultation, however, his role is as an adviser rather than an operative. These two roles, in practice, are difficult to separate, but in attempting to effectively use professional services, it is important to recognize the distinctions between them. The relationship between the professional and the client is considerably different when he or she is employed as an operative than when he or she is a consultant.
Thus, an engineer or an architect who is hired to supervise a construction project has the responsibility to make the decisions necessary during the construction to build the facility in accordance with the plans and specifications. Unless a significant change of plans is involved, he or she is expected to make the required decision and not to burden the client with constant decision requests. In contrast, when an architect or engineer is employed to provide advice and counsel, the basic decision making is not the professional's prerogative, but the client's.
Whether there is one or several professional consultants involved with the same decision-making group, the service provided by them is help to develop the basis for decisions and to provide considered suggestions. It is not to decide for those responsible to make the choices.
Since professionals in consultative relationships do not take on the responsibility of decision making for their clients, it is difficult for some people to recognize the advantage in using consultants. However, objective information and thoughtful advice of the kind consultants ought to supply is of real practical value. Effective and appropriate professional consultants can aid those attempting to make decisions in a number of ways. These include such helps as:
There is no doubt that proper consultative services from qualified professionals can pay real dividends by enhancing the quality of decisions. But, as some people would question this, there are those who expect too much of consultants. It is not so much that they overestimate the consultants' value, as they misunderstand their function.
They expect that once the consultants render their report and make their recommendations, decision making becomes a simple matter of putting the yea or the nay on the suggestions submitted. In effect, they think the consultants decide and their clients merely sit in judgment to formally accept or reject. The productive use of consultants is improbable when clients are not prepared to do their share and simply deter to advisers. Effective consultation depends on a mutual relationship between consultant and client, with each doing their part.
Experience indicates that when difficult and complicated matters are the subject, the input of consultants sometimes make the process of coming to a decision more formidable This should be expected, as it tends to bring the demands of decision making more in line with the demands of the actual situation. The fact is, quick and easy decisions are more likely when those making them are unaware of many of the factors actually involved.
Qualified consultants are likely to expose conditions, considerations and options previously left out. The effect of using an adviser in this case may not take away the hardship of reaching a decision. Rather, it provides added capacity to find and take into account all major features required for proper and effective decisions.
NoteThe use of consultants should be viewed as a means to better, but not necessarily easier, decision making
As long as professionals are functioning in the consultant role, they do not bear responsibility for final decisions. This does not relieve them of heavy responsibility to perform to the best of their ability. In many ways, serving in an advisory capacity is more difficult than exercising decision-making authority. Advisers have to take into account more than their own feelings, thoughts and orientation concerning the issue. They must engage in concerns with the position, predilections and points of view of the client in mind. While aware that they must support the client in the effort toward quality decisions, consultants know their best information and recommendations are likely to run counter to the client's initial preferences and expectations.
Professional advising is not a matter of simply agreeing with the client and lending the consultants professional status to predetermined conclusions. When consultants enter the relationship with the clients, they can never be sure whether eventually their findings and suggestions will reinforce or challenge the thinking of those who employed them. At one level, they must make independent judgments and at another they have to make sure their work serves the needs of their clients and can be integrated with other aspects of the decision-making process. Advisers are required to understand the predicament of their clients. They must know how to bring their special knowledge to bear for the benefit of those seeking their aid and how to productively communicate so their contribution is useful to the clients. Consultants must be responsive and flexible, while being completely honest and maintaining their professional integrity.
Consultants, then, have a demanding task. Some of the elements of their job that might be involved include:
Considerable controversy may surround the question of securing services of professional consultants. Anytime a government body or a civic group considers spending money, there are possibilities of conflict. When what they are attempting to buy is good advice and counsel, settling conflicts over it can be more trying. With items such as equipment, facilities and operational services, it is easier to see both the good and bad aspects of securing them. It is hard to judge, however, the exact value of advice beforehand when there is little indication of what that advice will be. Even so, as the complexity of issues on the public agenda increases and tends to involve larger technical components, specialized information and advice become more necessary.
At times, in the beginning stages of the development of an issue, it is even hard to see far enough ahead to know the various kinds of experts who should be sought out for counsel. The attempt to get competent advice is required for reasonable decision making in more and more cases. This is a condition of the present era that has to be faced.
Governments and civic bodies can no longer always get by without competent professional help. If their regular sources of technical assistance do not have the expertise to supply the required information and counsel in a particular matter, they have to seek it elsewhere. That use of outside consultants may be controversial and may complicate the decision-making process does not relieve officials and citizens of the duty to have available what is needed for making sensible decisions. Often the option, without paid professional consultation, is to make decisions without knowing very much about their consequences.
No relationship is going to work out perfectly right away. The adviser-client relationship will require learning on both sides.
Governments and civic organizations must learn how to use consultants to advantage.
Many professionals have to learn how to function as reliable and understanding advisers, rather than trying to completely take over decision making.
Officials and citizens are going to have to increase their respect for objective information and studied advice.
Consultants will have to improve their respect for the intelligence and capability of public bodies and citizens to deal with many-sided questions. Officials and citizens will have to get used to accepting realistic time requirements for making good decisions and reduce their expectation that experts should provide instant answers.
Consultants will have to do a better job in staging and pacing their work to more closely conform to the situation of their clients.
Officials and citizens have to learn not to insist consultants study issues and make authoritative recommendations beyond the scope of their specialty. Consultants will have to exercise increasing care not to present themselves as experts in things beyond their competence.
Selecting the consultant is extremely important. Professional consultation cannot be secured on a bid basis. There is a personal element in the talent of professionals demanded for a particular advising role with a particular decision-making group that cannot be reduced to standard specifications. The consultants technical expertises, their comprehension of the clients position, and their facility in performance as an adviser have to be taken into account. Unless the government unit or civic group has worked with the particular consultant before, they have to inquire before choosing. Even when they have had a rewarding experience with a particular consultant, care has to be taken not to use this adviser in a circumstance not appropriate to his or her professional proficiency and qualifications.
Selecting a consultant should be based on making judgments about:
Initially, help can be obtained from professional associations or other service agencies concerning the scope of expertise that can be expected from particular types of professionals. Often, help is available on how to go about the process of making a choice of consultants from specific professions. It is almost always advisable to interview several consultants, all of whom are qualified on the basis of professional credentials. The general rules that apply to most cases are:
NoteConsultation often is used to refer to any services performed by professional personnel who are not regular employees of an organization who work by contract or are on a retainer. In this guide, consultation is used in a more restricted meaning of serving as an adviser.
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No historic status for Strip District produce terminalJanuary 15, 2014 11:14 PM
City Council has rejected a historic designation for the produce terminal in a preliminary vote, but that does not mean any part of the Strip District landmark will be coming down soon.
Council on Wednesday could not muster the six votes needed to anoint the building as a city historic structure, a move that could have helped to protect it against a possible partial demolition. But the vote in large part was anti-climatic and absent the kind of tension that marked the debate over the terminal's future earlier this year.
That's because the Buncher Co. has agreed to put on hold its plan to demolish the western third of the structure to clear a path to extend 17th Street to the Allegheny River while it meets with Mayor Bill Peduto to explore options that could leave the building intact.
Although council's decision, barring a last-minute change of heart, makes it easier for Buncher to raze part of the building, Michael Kutzer, the company's vice president of real estate, stressed after Wednesday's vote that it has no intention of doing so right now.
He said Buncher is committed to working with the new mayor on possible alternatives. Those discussions could take three to six months.
"We've agreed that we're going to work with the new administration. We're going to pursue and look at these other alternatives. And until that is fleshed out, no, there will not be any demolition taking place or anything of that nature," he said.
He added that Buncher, which has an option to buy the terminal from the Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority for $1.8 million, still must get approval from council for the sale of the building before any demolition could take place.
Nonetheless, he described the vote against the designation as the "right decision for the produce terminal and for its potential renovation" adding that it gives a developer more flexibility. Buncher has been seeking to raze part of the building as part of the proposed $450 million Riverfront Landing residential and office project to be built around it.
Kevin Acklin, Mr. Peduto's chief of staff, said Buncher has committed in good faith to working with the administration. That's what's needed at this point, he said.
"I think today's vote doesn't get in the way of what we're trying to accomplish. What we're trying to accomplish, and what the mayor has charged me with, is bringing stakeholders together and see if we can find a way to do this in a manner that does not result in the demolition of one-third of the building," he said.
Mr. Peduto is scheduled to meet again with Buncher on Friday. He has said that he has spoken to developers from Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania with an interest in redeveloping the terminal, once the hub for produce wholesalers, without demolishing any of it. Local architect Rob Pfaffmann also is putting together a plan to save the building.
Peter Margittai, president of Preservation Pittsburgh, which sought the designation, called council's preliminary vote "disappointing." He noted the city Historic Review Commission had recommended the designation for the 1,533-foot-long structure.
On Wednesday, Councilwoman Deb Gross, whose district includes the terminal, urged her colleagues to vote for the designation, saying the structure "really makes the Strip District the Strip District." But Councilman Corey O'Connor said he saw no need for the designation since the URA, now under Mr. Peduto's control, could reapply for historic status if there's a need for it.
Voting no were Mr. O'Connor, Ricky Burgess, Theresa Kail-Smith and R. Daniel Lavelle. Ms. Gross, Natalia Rudiak and Bruce Kraus were in favor. Darlene Harris and Dan Gilman abstained.
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J.C. Penney's (JCP) stock is down just over 6% this afternoon, and has now tanked about 23% in the past week. A big part of that plunge came on Feb. 28 last week's earnings, after the retailer shocked the market the night before with its poor results and 32% drop in same-store sales.
That day I wrote a piece suggesting the stock had further to fall, with Steven Azarbad, portfolio manager at hedge fund firm Maglan Capital (who's short Penney) suggesting it should hit $15; he thought the stock was (perversely) being supported by some shorts covering.
Today's downward move doesn't have a clear news reason, though having the world's most famous investor suggest you have a "very tough game ahead" probably doesn't help confidence. Adding to Warren Buffett's barb was the fact that he'd prefaced his comments by saying "I've got a rooting interesting in J.C. Penney, I worked at J.C. Penney." As the saying goes, with friends like these…


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Don't Let Up Against Terrorists and Boko Haram
July 24, 2014
Terrorist group Boko Haram made headlines last April when its members kidnapped 276 female students from a government school in Northern Nigeria. The Islamic Jihadist and terrorist organization claimed the abduction, promising to enslave the missing girls.
It was not the first time that Boko Haram hit the Northern parts of Nigeria and Cameroon.
In fact, the group started its criminal operations on September 7, 2010, when 50 gunmen broke into a prison in the Nigerian city of Bauchi and freed 721 prisoners that later became terrorists.
And despite 31 terrorist attacks that killed or injured more than 18,000 people between 2010 and 2013, the Obama Administration remained skeptical about adding Boko Haram to the official list of terrorist organizations.
Even after Boko Haram bombed the U.N. headquarters in Abuja in 2011, the State Department still refused to place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations. This, despite pressure from some Justice Department officials (Lisa Monaco), who wrote to the State Department to urge a designation of Boko Haram as a terrorist organization. This designation would have enabled Washington to work faster on isolating Boko Haram and its affiliates.
It is only last November that the State Department finally decided to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization. But precious momentum had already been lost, and Boko Haram had already been allowed to strengthen significantly.
Washington must now avoid wasting even more time in the fight against terror. This White House and Congress should work together to design a strategy that will eradicate the Boko Haram threat in Africa. Failure to do so could yield significant consequences for America's National Security interests.
As Americans, we know more than any other nation, what Evil can do through terrorism. We have learned by experience that terrorist threats that are given the opportunity to harvest overseas usually grow with the goal to hit us, right here at home.
That's why we cannot let up.
That's why Congress and the President cannot let up.
Strong and reliable leaders like Chris Smith, Karen Bass, Tom Udall, Tom Marino or Chris Coons should be allowed to lead Congress, and work with the President to design a clear strategy for success in Africa.
However, any strategy from Congress or the White House, should necessarily be comprehensive, and involve Nigeria and Cameroon, two countries at the forefront of the fight against terrorism in Africa.
In Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan has re-organized effectively to address the threat of Boko Haram with limited means. In Cameroon, President Paul Biya has proven a resilient crusader against terrorism.
President Obama and Congress should design an effective strategy around these two key U.S. Allies in the region. The reasons are simple: these leaders fight Boko Haram on a daily basis. They have the intelligence needed to track the group down. They have skin in the game and they can be trusted.
Plus, Boko Haram is constantly moving between Nigeria and Cameroon. That's how they operate. Turning on the hit on Boko Haram in Nigeria without doing the same in Cameroon will simply allow terrorists to relocate, like they did in Pakistan when the U.S. turned on the pressure in Afghanistan. The situation is similar and the U.S. must learn from its mistakes.
But before anything, Congress members should start by directly meeting with officials from Nigeria and Cameroon to understand this threat of a new kind, in a region we don't always understand. That's the first step.
About the author
Ben Modo is the Managing Director of Prime Potomac Group, a government relations group that focuses on building and protecting relations between the U.S. and Africa. He is also Founder and President of the American Africa Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Africa lobbying group affiliated with Prime Potomac Group. The group seeks to encourage a new framework in the U.S.-Africa relationship.
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By Teresa Rivas
It's all fun and games until someone gets hit with unspecified asset-impairment charges.
Mattel (MAT) was recently falling more than 5% as its second-quarter earnings were impacted by the charges, although the company didn't provide details.
Before the bell, Mattel said it earned $73.3 million, or 21 cents a share, down from $96.2 million, or 28 cents, in the year-ago period. Revenue nudged ahead 0.9% to $1.17 billion.
Analysts were looking for per-share earnings of 32 cents on revenue of $1.22 billion.
The world's largest toymaker reported a 4% increase in international gross sales, although sales in North America slid 2%.
Sales at the firm's girls and boys brands unit, the largest of its divisions that includes Barbie and Hot Wheels, climbed 1.4% to $792.4 million, but not thanks to those iconic brands—Barbie and Wheels sales declined 12% and 6%, respectively.
American Girl brands logged a 14% jump in sales. Fisher-Price saw sales slip 2.6%.
The shares are up more than 35% in the past year, ahead of the broader market but behind the 41% gain seen by main rival Hasbro (HAS), which was also down in recent trading.


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- Matthew Pettis, born in December 1746, probably in Richmond, Rhode Island. He died 2 May 1827 and is buried in Old Baker Cemetery, Hudson Falls, New York. Matthew's wife was Alice Auchmuty. They were my fifth great-grandparents.
- William M. Pettis, born 21 February 1770 in Richmond, Rhode Island. He married Ruth Crandall before 1799. They had nine children. He died in November 1821 in Argyle Township, Washington County, New York. William and Ruth were my fourth great-grandparents.
- Micajah Petit Pettis, born 9 July 1806 in New York. He married first Tryphena Sedgwick on 11 November 1830 in Gainsville, Wyoming County, New York. They had four children. Tryphena died in 1842, and Micajah next married Mary Margaret Maxfield. The family later moved to Illinois. Micajah died 13 August 1881 in Winnebago. Micajah and Tryphena were my third great-grandparents.
- Darius J. Pettis, born about 17 September 1837 in Verona, Oneida County, New York. He married Kate Efner on 5 March 1860 in Lyndon, Wisconsin. They made their home in Winona, Minnesota, and had two daughters, one of whom died in childhood. Darius and Kate were my great-great grandparents.
- Katharine E. Pettis, born 2 October 1864 in Winona. She married Milton E. Kerr on 15 December 1889 in Omaha, Nebraska. They had two sons. Kate died 11 June 1937 in Detroit, Michigan. Kate and Milton were my great-grandparents.
- John Petty, born about 1635-1640. He died in Springfield, Massachusetts 8 March 1680. He was married at Boston 30 May 1662 to Ann Canning. John and Ann are thought to be my ninth great-grandparents.
- James Petty, born 25 March 1663 at Windsor, Connecticut. He died about 1713. He married Mary Lawton on 15 June 1683 at Springfield. James Petty and Mary Lawton are thought to be my eighth great-grandparents.
- William Petty, born 30 October 1691 at Springfield. He died about 1747 in Richmond, Rhode Island. In 1709, he married Mary Winter at Weymouth, Massachusetts. William Petty and Mary Winter are thought to be my seventh great-grandparents.
- William C. Pettis (Petty, Pettyes), born 24 June 1722. He married first Mary Kenyon at Bristol, Rhode Island on 14 July 1745; second, Thankful Coalgrove; third, Mary Johnson; fourth, Dorcas Braman. William C. Pettis and Mary Kenyon are thought to be my sixth great-grandparents.
- Matthew Pettis, above, my fifth great-grandfather.
Curfman, Robert Joseph. The Petty-Pettis Genealogy: Descendants of John Petty of Springfield, Massachusetts, 1668. Kansas City, Mo: R.J. Curfman, 1974.
Pettys, Norman W. Descendants of John Petty ( -1680) and Ann (Canning) Petty of Springfield, Massachusetts. 1978.
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By Bobby Harrison/NEMS Daily Journal
JACKSON – Roger Wicker of Tupelo, seeking his first full term in the United States Senate, may not be in full campaign mode, but he isn't far from it.
Wicker, a Republican, is considered a heavy favorite against retired United Methodist minister Albert N. Gore Jr. of Starkville in the Nov. 6 election. Still, Wicker has been traveling the state speaking to civic groups and campaigning.
Wicker's re-election advertising, what he described as a substantial buy, began running on television stations statewide last week.
Gore, 82, a retired U.S. Army chaplain who later pastored Methodist churches in Ripley and Caledonia, will not be running television advertising and is depending mostly on word of mouth and personal contacts.
Still, he is confident.
"It is going to be close race even though (political pundits) are giving Wicker a green light, but he may not have it," Gore said recently.
Republicans and Democrats are vying nationwide to gain control of the House and the Senate, as well as the presidency, in the Nov. 6 election. The Senate seat in Mississippi is viewed as solidly Republican and is not believed to be one of a handful of posts that will determine which party controls the Senate.
But Wicker, 61, is leaving nothing to chance.
"I am burning up the highway," he said last week.
As of Sept. 30, the Tupelo Republican had raised $3.1 million and had cash on hand of $2.7 million. Gore is spending his own funds to run a bare-bones campaign.
Also on the ballot for the Senate seat on Nov. 6 will be perennial candidate Shawn O'Hara of Hattiesburg for the Reform Party and Thomas Everett Cramer of Vancleave for the Constitution Party.
Wicker is campaigning on many of the same issues that his standard-bearer, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, touts on the national level. Like Romney, he cites a five-point plan centered around "a tax system that encourages jobs creation," more domestic energy production and a reduction in the federal debt.
Wicker, an attorney, was a member of the state Senate when he was elected to the U.S. House in 1994 to replace longtime Congressman Jamie Whitten of Charleston.
When veteran Sen. Trent Lott unexpectedly stepped down early in his new term in 2007, then-Gov. Haley Barbour appointed Wicker to the coveted post. Wicker defeated former Democratic Gov. Ronnie Musgrove in a special election in November 2008 to maintain the Senate seat.
This year he is running for a full six-year term.
Gore says he is running for public office for the first time because "We have so many problems in Mississippi that I think I can help with. … I want to go to represent the people – all the people. I intend to be the senator for Mississippi – not just a senator from Mississippi. I want to be a citizen legislator – not a career politician. I am not a career politician."
Both candidates have military backgrounds. Wicker served in the Air Force and then in the Air Force Reserve.
Gore served 28 years as an Army chaplain, including 10 years as a chaplain with the Green Berets where he was involved in their missions.
Gore is distantly related to former Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee. He says he has never met Gore, though they did serve at the same time in Vietnam.
"We need to fight to preserve Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid … and support our veterans benefits – not only for current generations, but for future generations," he said.
Gore said at 82 he is healthy. He routinely cuts his two-acre yard with a push mower.
Wicker said he will work to help Mississippi advance, "and stands ready to help local and state officials" with job creation efforts.
While the two have not crossed paths on the campaign trail, both are scheduled to speak Wednesday in Jackson at the Mississippi Economic Council's Hobnob.


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I've just thrown together a release of a little project I started during this year's LibrePlanet conference, an implementation of the Apache Thrift framework in R6RS Scheme: r6rs-thrift. I thought it would be a fun, quick hack -- my assumption was that I could lift a lot of the type system and code generation stuff from r6rs-protobuf, my Scheme Protocol Buffers implementation from last year -- but it turned out that Thrift's a bit more complicated. Which is not to say that it wasn't fun to work on. But Thrift includes pluggable wire protocols, parameterized types, and some interesting variations on Protocol Buffers' vanilla structs (unions and exceptions). And there's not a whole lot (read: any) documentation, so I had to pretty much reverse engineer the serialization and codegen semantics by picking through the
thriftc source code.
One interesting thing that came out Thrift's type system is that because you can effectively declare a type at the same time you're declaring a field of that type -- via, say, a container type as a field in a struct -- I had to add a layer of indirection to the type resolution system such that a descriptor for a user-defined type is declared (and registered) once and then used via an explicit "type reference" record everywhere else. Type references themselves can be parameterized to support Thrift's "generic" containers. I was initially worried about introducing that construct, but it ended up being reasonably discrete and quite powerful. I'm considering porting it back to
r6rs-protobuf, just for, you know, funsies.
I was able to port the builder pattern that Protocol Buffers uses over to this implementation, which I thought was a neat little coup. Thrift is, you know, fine, but the mutability of the data types generated by the official compiler has always irked me, in part because it means there's no validation applied until you're about to marshal something over the wire. I suppose you could mount a philosophical defense to the effect that you don't really need an object to be well-formed until that point, but that presumes an awful lot about how you're planning to use your generated data structures.
At any rate: I made it; go get it.


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According to the band, the name Vomit Fist came to young drummer Leo Didkovsky, then seventeen, over breakfast. He and his father, Nick, the guitarist, had been brainstorming ideas for what to call their blackened grindcore trio. When Leo suggested Vomit Fist, they knew they'd struck gold with a perfect non sequitur pairing that, once heard, cannot be forgotten. The Twitterverse offers proof. 0x000A@Kamnakr33p3r: "Not only is 'Vomit Fist' a band, but it's a father-son band. #familyvalues" @ProjectMonk: "I know band names are hard to come by, but what is a 'Vomit Fist'?" @BirdIsTheWorm: "I like seeing tweets about Vomit Fist in my timeline b/c: 1) Vomit Fist is a funny band name & 2) It reminds me there's only one M in vomit." Their lyrics have nothing to do with vomit, fists, or fisting, although the music is as violent as one might expect. Under such a winning moniker, it ought to sell itself. vomitfist.com
One of the greatest things about New York is that you could spend a hundred or so lifetimes here and never want for something to do. But finding new wonders to behold becomes more difficult the longer you live here, until you wind up caving in and spending your weekends at movie mega-chains and subsisting wholly on the Seamless "order again" option. Never fear, Obscura Society NYC is here. It has been here, actually, since 2009, an offshoot of Joshua Foer and Dylan Thuras's Atlas Obscura site, but it was never so active as it was this year, the first with Slate's David Plotz at the reins. Even the most jaded local will delight in the offbeat tours, talks, and parties these folks whip up. Did you know about the secret pinball arcade in the back of Greenpoint's Sunshine Laundromat? Or the Robotic Church in Red Hook? Or the entire series of abandoned asylum and quarantine islands that surround Manhattan? We didn't — until Obscura Society shed some light. Recent standout events include a five-part series called "After Hours: Inside the Rare Book Collection of the New York Academy of Medicine"; a swanky seminar on how to cheat at cards, held in a Chinatown gambling den; and, of course, the first-ever Obscura Day, a worldwide festival of happenings that featured nineteen tours in New York alone. atlasobscura.com
Out-of-towners are often appalled at how much walking we do in this town, but go ahead and march them to lower Broadway's Canyon of Heroes, where a raft of sidewalk markers offers a window into history that's sure to distract them from their blisters. Whether the inaugural 1886 Statue of Liberty dedication or a 1958 Cold War welcome for "Van Cliburn, First Winner of Moscow's International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition," each granite strip commemorates a ticker-tape parade. Honorees include tennis great Althea Gibson, pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart, and political giants Churchill, Eisenhower, Mandela, and Pope John Paul II. (Leaders from Ireland and Italy have had the financial industry's confetti rained down upon them numerous times.) After you've high-handed your guests with the Big Apple's sports dominance — the two-block stretch from Vesey to Park Place commemorates six World Series wins (one Mets, five [!] Yankees), a Rangers Stanley Cup victory, and two Giants Super Bowl triumphs — reveal Gotham's fulsome heart with a plaque from 1938: "Douglas 'Wrong-Way' Corrigan for his flight from New York to Ireland instead of his 'Intended' destination of California." Broadway, from the Battery to City Hall, Manhattan 10004, bit.ly/canyon-of-heroes
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Every city needs a Times Square, a holding pen for all the people in town who don't have any particular place they need to be. The Halal Guys cart at West 53rd Street and Sixth Avenue, a couple of blocks uptown, near the Museum of Modern Art, lures the most adventurous of those tourists — the ones who check Yelp and won't end up at Guy Fieri's joint, the ones who could show you a thing or two in their towns. In line, in sun or rain, folks eager for an authentic Manhattan experience jostle up against authentic Manhattanites just trying to get lunch. That tension is delicious, as office folks take calls, peck out emails, and attempt to power through a day that the tourists around them insist on documenting. Munching on that top-flight meat and rice, we've witnessed an Australian couple breaking up, a hardhat picking up a traffic cop, a white woman from down south telling her husband she wasn't sure about this "Muslim food," and a dude in a suit telling some East European teens who spoke no English that he was going to shove their selfie-stick up their asses. "They'd put those pictures on Facebook, too," a woman snapped, and the tourists in line laughed — and for once stopped snapping photos, actually living a New York moment rather than hoping to capture one. West 53rd Street and Sixth Avenue, Manhattan 10019
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When Paul Giamatti climbs aboard the Roosevelt Island Tram in the 2009 film Cold Souls, he's on his way to have his soul removed, bottled, and stored at a futuristic quasi-medical facility. Both the clinic and the movie are profoundly weird, and the tram acts as a kind of symbolic bridge between the real world of the city and the more fanciful world on the island, where soul removal is a thing. It's that strange break that makes riding the tram for no particular reason at all a good, cheap thrill. And cheap it is. The tram, which leaves Manhattan from a gleaming new station at Second Avenue and 59th Street, costs the same as a subway ride. Just swipe your MetroCard. Along with a unique vantage point on the baroque truss structure of the Queensboro (or 59th Street) Bridge, if you go at night you'll get a not-terrible view of city lights from inside the glass-walled car. Groovy. The ride only lasts about three minutes, but when you land on the island you can walk the nearly deserted streets, which have the feel of a bland suburban office park after the Rapture. Plus, there are great vistas of the city to be had from the island's shore. If you've got half an hour and a couple of swipes to spare, the tram's just the ticket. Second Avenue and 59th Street, Manhattan 10022, 212-832-4559, rioc.ny.gov/tramtransportation.htm
The edifice at 30 Rockefeller Plaza has had many names over the years. From 1937 to 1988 it was known as the RCA Building. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, it was the GE Building. And now, as of July 1, Comcast's bold-lettered logo officially sits atop the iconic skyscraper's 70-story façade. It matters little whose name is on the lease. As long as 30 Rock remains the headquarters of NBC and home to programs like Saturday Night Live, Today, Late Night, and The Tonight Show, the building will continue to reign at the premier location to spot ultra-famous musicians, actors, athletes, and politicians as they swing through the city. Rockefeller Plaza is a tourist destination in and of itself, but for many celebrities, 30 Rock is where they go to work. Strolling through the building's high-ceilinged art deco halls, a New Yorker on the lookout might run into anyone from Questlove to Kenan Thompson to Fred Armisen to Jimmy Fallon. You never know. 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Manhattan 10112, 212-632-3975, rockefellercenter.com


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News that the White House will propose a new cost-of-living index in the budget it releases this week has brought joy to deficit scolds and consternation to defenders of Social Security.
The measure, called the chained consumer price index, would lower the annual payment increases for Social Security beneficiaries, saving the government money as it lowers the future monthly income of retirees and disabled Americans. The change would also raise revenue over time because it would cause more taxpayers to wind up in higher marginal brackets.
What neither side seems to have noticed, however, is that the difference between the chained CPI and the standard CPI has been diminishing. That means the impact of switching indexes may not be as great as many assume. The change may still be a good idea, but it probably won't matter as much as expected.
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well Sequestration came and went...when what the country really needed was a little Castration...Glad to see Boehner didnt cave....cant wait to see how BOTH sides will spin this, especially on the Sunday talk shows
Both sides should be ashamed that it was allowed to happen at all. It was within the legislative branch's power to create and pass a budget. It still is. Spin, my ass!
There shouldn't be "sides" anyway.
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Congress offered the POTUS a bill that would have allowed him to make the necessary cuts "intelligently" ... but POTUS said he would veto such a bill. Essentially ... MY way or the HIGHway. But vetoing such a bill means, perhaps, he doesn't want to take responsibility for the cuts that would be made? Both parties are beginning to agree that there actually ARE programs that could be streamlined, combined, removed from the budget with little or no pain ... the POTUS was offered the chance to spare the worst pain, but refused to accept it.
The real crisis, however, happens at the end of the month when we reach the same fiscal cliff of raising the debt limit again, or govt shut-down. Geithner says that even then, there will be a couple of months "grace" while Treasury does some tapdancing with their credit line. It's like a re-run of what brought about sequestration in the first place!
The public believes this is all Congress' fault (and surely a lot of it IS), but isn't the POTUS supposed to bear some of the responsibility for being more of an enabler to bring Congress to the negotiating table?
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none ever happened." -Libby Fudim
I don't use the PM feature, so just email me direct at the address shown above.
Does ANYone in the administration check ANY facts before the POTUS makes some of these downright untrue statements?Carlos Elias, the Capitol Building superintendent, sent out a memo Friday reminding staffers that the current sequestration plan does not include "reductions in force or furloughs" and that "pay and benefit of each of our employees will not be impacted."Though not directly mentioning Obama by name, Elias also said in the memo that a "high-ranking official said employees that clean and maintain the U.S. Capitol will receive a cut in pay."
Hours before the memo was released, the president, in what appears to be the administration's attempt to maximize the potential impact of the cuts, said at a press conference: "Starting tomorrow everybody here, all the folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol. Now that Congress has left, somebody's going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage. They're going to have less pay. The janitors, the security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they've got to figure out how to manage that. That's real."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...#ixzz2MPbWdUpi
Arne Duncan backtracked on his doom-and-gloom about teachers. And the FAA admitted that the cuts in air traffic controllers would begin with smaller, low-traffic airports to minimize impact on the larger, high-traffic airports. I recall reading that $150K is spent on an airport in OK that gets almost NO flights at all.
Does this "backlash" against the exaggerations mean that some people are actually ready to speak out against "the madness" that Woodward's high profile statements have pointed out? And CNN's Gergen also supported. Will we soon hear that Woodward and Gergen are looking for new jobs? Along with the Capitol Building Superintendent? (maybe he's due to retire soon?)
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none ever happened." -Libby Fudim
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I have not seen anyone on this forum, aside from myself, lay any blame for sequestration on congress. The country does NOT believe it is Congresses' fault.
As I said; so what if he vetoes a piece of legislation? Grow a pair and send it thru a second time. They're too damn busy trying to "win", to do their job! They have, however, found the time and wherewithal to give themselves a pay raise and go out on recess. - Paul
there's no good reason to fatten up a retriever.
& you are praising a post from someone who has less financial clue than most of the congress critters .
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Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
But, somehow I doubt your ability. JD
I'll no longer engage BS, his patholgy makes it impossible. I will for a while continue to engage you, but believe me, your pathology is nearly as profound.
You have a good weekend as well...
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Our area covers primarily two counties; and parts of two others. We also are close to two additional counties that are suburbs of Philadelphia; and two other counties that include areas of the Poconos and "coal country".
I think some of the homes are probably "duplicates" of some of the foreclosures. Banks who have foreclosed will almost always be the ones to show up at the tax sales to pay the taxes before the home goes to tax sale. Government liens (like unpaid taxes) take precedence over mortgage liens. If the banks are overwhelmed with their short sales & foreclosures, some of the tax sales can slip through the cracks until the 11th hour. And some banks might actually lose the properties if they don't catch up in time.
If each of the two counties have 600 tax sales each, then that is the equivalent of 12 to 20 days of "new listings" on our local multi-list service.
A tax sale does not occur until the taxes have not been paid for two years ... hence the reason that these properties being auctioned now are the result of unpaid taxes in 2007.


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Air Force vs. Navy tomorrow morning 8:30 a.m. PT on CBS ... I'll be watching wearing my Air Force #7 jersey. Go Falcons!
And then at 5:00 p.m. PT on CBS Sports... Hawaii vs. San Diego. Off comes the Air Force jersey and on goes my Hawaii jersey. Go Warriors!
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein's blurt during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing last week forced the U.S. intelligence and military community to acknowledge on Thursday that the U.S. is targeting Al Qaeda and Taliban operatives using unmanned drones based in Pakistan.
The senator's slip sent reporters into overdrive and led to the discovery of a 2006 picture provided by Google Earth that appears to show Predator drones at Shamsi air base 200 miles southwest of Quetta.
A senior U.S. official confirmed to FOX News that Pakistani leaders -- despite their public protests and denials -- have been giving the U.S. some targets in the tribal areas of their own enemies, and have given the U.S. blanket permission to go after any "Arabs" in those areas because they are assumed to be Al Qaeda operatives.
The Pakistanis themselves are still officially denying the arrangement, a decision predicated on the weak federal government and extreme anti-Americanism in tribal communities, particularly the Federally Administered Tribal Area in the Northwest, where Taliban and Al Qaeda support is strongest.
Feinstein's remarks, which were characterized as "foolish" by U.S. officials, were unusual for the experienced chairwoman of the intelligence panel.
According to intelligence sources, Feinstein's statement, at a hearing on the threat assessment with new Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, appears to be the first time a member of the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged that Predator vehicles are operating from a base inside Pakistan.
"Mr. Holbrooke, in Pakistan, ran into considerable concern about the use of the Predator strikes in the FATA area of Pakistan," Feinstein said to Blair, referring to Richard Holbrooke, President Obama's special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan. "And yet, as I understand it, these are flown out of a Pakistani base."
Feinstein's spokesman suggested at the time that her comment was merely a reference to a March 2008 report in The Washington Post that discussed the use of Pakistani bases as part of the Predator campaign. The article did not attribute the information to U.S. officials.
The Predator campaign, considered the single greatest factor in degrading Al Qaeda's capabilities, is credited with the killing of eight members of the terrorist group's leadership since last summer.
The acknowledgement that the Pakistanis not only are turning a blind eye to U.S. operations in their territory, but also are lending a hand by supplying a staging area could create political problems for the fragile government of President Asif Ali Zardari. The U.S. was permitted to use Shamsi to launch attacks on Al Qaeda in Afghanistan shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the U.S.


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Helen A. Radtke, age 81, of Mineral Point, passed away on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at U.W. Hospital – Madison due to complications during surgery. The former Helen Benson was born December 30, 1931 at General Hospital of Iowa County to Charles and Jane (Fitzsimmons) Benson. Helen attended several Iowa County Schools and was a 1949 graduate of the Dodgeville High School. She married Lawrence F. Radtke on June 1, 1952 and the couple farmed their entire married life on the Radtke Family Farm in the Pleasant View area, rural Mineral Point. Lawrence preceded her in death on November 18, 1996. Helen was active in 4-H, being a General Leader of the Pleasant View 4-H Club for 10 years. She has been a helper at the Iowa County Fair in the Foods Department for many years. Helen was Chairperson of the Iowa County Farm Bureau Women for several years and served on the Board of Directors as Secretary –Treasurer and served as District 3 State Chairwoman for 24 years. Helen was active on the Iowa County Dairy Committee for several years and even hosted the June Dairy Breakfast on their farm. She also assisted with Home Health Care for several years and was later employed at Mineral Point Care Center and Lands' End. Helen was Past-President of the Iowa County Historical Society and served on the Advisory Board of the Mineral Point Care Center. She was also a member of the Governor Dodge Rebekah Lodge #74 where she served as Secretary for many years.
She was also preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Jane Benson; her stepfather, Jacob Hahs and a daughter-in-law, Brenda Radtke.
Helen is survived by her two sons, Tom (Anna) Radtke and Rod (Mary Sue) Radtke, both of rural Mineral Point; four grandchildren, Chris (Keri) Radtke; Carrie (John) Barker; Leah Radtke and Luke Radtke; four great grandchildren, Blake and Brady Radtke and Cash and Conrad Barker as well as other relatives and many friends.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, January 26, 2013 at the Lulloff-Peterson-Houck Funeral Home in Dodgeville. Pastor Thomas LeRoy Strutt will officiate with burial in Graceland Cemetery in Mineral Point. Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday from 4:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. and on Saturday after 10:00 A.M.
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...for the American sheeple. And another illustration of how far in the tank for BHO the press is. Anyone that believes the stories coming from the MSP or the major network news staffs aren't totally biased, must be as mentally weak as are today's generation of reporters.
At the top right hand corner of Page 17 of the New York Post of January 24th, 2009, was a short column entitled "Replacing Michelle" in the National Review"The Week" column. I found this interesting, so here it is, word for word, as it appeared:
Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama: The University of Chicago Medical center hired her in 2002 to run "programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity and minority contracting".
In 2005 the hospital raised her salary from $120,000 to $317,000 - nearly twice what her husband made as a Senator. Oh did we mention that her husband had just become a US Senator? He sure had. Requested a $1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in fact. Way to network Michelle!
But now that Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000? We can think of only one explanation: Senator Roland Burris's wife wasn't interested.
Let me add that Michelle's position was a half time, 20 hours a week job. And to think they were critical of Blagoyovich's wife for taking $100,000 in fuzzy real estate commission.
My thoughts: How did this bit of quid pro quo corruption escape the sharp reporters that dug through Sarah Palin's garbage and kindergarten files? Unbelievable!


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Family: Salmonidae, Trouts view all from this family
Description The brown trout (Salmo trutta morpha fario and S. trutta morpha lacustris) and the sea trout (S. trutta morpha trutta) are fish of the same species.
They are distinguished chiefly by the fact that the brown trout is largely a freshwater fish, while the sea trout shows anadromous reproduction, migrating to the oceans for much of its life and returning to freshwater only to spawn. Sea trout in the UK and Ireland have many regional names including sewin (Wales), finnock (Scotland), peal (West Country), mort (North West England) and white trout (Ireland).
The specific epithet trutta derives from the Latin trutta, meaning, literally, "trout".
The lacustrine morph of brown trout is most usually potamodromous, migrating from lakes into rivers or streams to spawn, although there is some evidence of stocks that spawn on wind-swept shorelines of lakes. S. trutta morpha fario form stream-resident populations, typically in alpine streams but sometimes in larger rivers. There is evidence that anadromous and non-anadromous morphs coexisting in the same river can be genetically identical. In common usage, the name "brown trout" is often applied indiscriminately to the various morphs.
Dimensions Up to 3'4" (1 m); 39 1/4 lbs (17.8 kg).
Habitat Estuaries, tidal flats & salt marshes, Lakes & ponds, Ocean or bay shallows, Rivers & streams.
Range Plains, Great Lakes, New England, Mid-Atlantic, Rocky Mountains, Southeast, Southwest, California, Northwest, Eastern Canada, Western Canada.


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I was wondering if any of y'all have a favorite fruit recipe for Juice drinks made with power juicers.
Please share if you do....I just mixed a fresh pineapple and mangos. YUM....
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I was wondering if any of y'all have a favorite fruit recipe for Juice drinks made with power juicers.
Please share if you do....I just mixed a fresh pineapple and mangos. YUM....
Lisa B in NC
Quilting is my Happy Thought!
I like 1 apple, 2 carrots and 2 celery stalks. It's sweet and good. My husband adds strawberries to his.
There is a yahoo group called vitamix enthausiasta and they have tons of recipes and tips.
Sorry enthusiasts couldn't spell today
What kind of juicer do you have? My husband broke mine today so now I need to find another one. I had a Jack LeLanne. He was putting a carrot through it and the plastic that houses the motor cracked. After reading the reviews apparentlky this happens quite a lot. I'm thinking about getting a Le Equip. It has a 10 year warranty.
Whatever you get look for one that has at least 700 for the motor strength. I got mine on ebay and love it. I take whatever fruit I have and add carrots to it. Grapes, apples, pineapple give a lot of juice. A little bit of fresh ginger gives a good flavor to it as well. Green vegatables like spinach, kale can be added if you don't like to eat them for the nutrients. Kiwi/apple gives them a good taste.
Is there a specific make I should look for. I've been comparing and LeQuip seems to have a good rating. It has a 10 year warranty. I have a Jack LeLanne now but the reviews aren't good on them.
Fifty years ago I would add juices or lemon sodas to the children's Kool-Aid drinks. As long as it was sweet they liked it....Goodness, the cookies and sweet drinks we fed our children without guilt, today's moms would cringe or have nightmares. I like my fresh fruit whole and therefore don't often make juice out of it. I do prefer fruit over chocolate any day....
Vitamix is a wonderful machine, expensive but can do hot soups to ice cream.....
A little bit of clean cinnamon gives a excellent taste to it as well, Natural vegatables like green spinach, him can be included if you don't like to eat them for the nutritional value....