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Cheddar Beef Enchiladas Recipe
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- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 envelope taco seasoning
- 1 cup water
- 2 cups cooked rice
- 1 can (16 ounces) refried beans
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese, divided
- 12 flour tortillas (8 inches), warmed
- 1 jar (16 ounces) salsa
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of chicken soup, undiluted
- In a large skillet, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in taco seasoning and water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Stir in rice. Cook and stir until liquid is evaporated.
- Spread about 2 tablespoons refried beans, 1/4 cup beef mixture and 1 tablespoon cheese down the center of each tortilla; roll up. Place seam side down in two greased 13x9-in. baking dishes.
- Combine salsa and soup; pour down the center of enchiladas. Sprinkle with remaining cheese.
- Bake one casserole, uncovered, at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until heated through and cheese is melted. Cover and freeze remaining casserole for up to 3 months.
- To use frozen casserole: Thaw in the refrigerator overnight. Cover and bake at 350° for 30 minutes. Uncover; bake 5-10 minutes longer or until heated through and cheese is melted. Yield: 2 casseroles.
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"I used picante sauce instead of salsa because that is what I had at home. Very good recipe!"
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"This was definitely a hit, the only thing I changed was to add some canned green Chile's for more spice and less "taco" flavor to the meat mixture. I didn't measure, go according to your taste, they were awesome."
"My family loves this! I love that it makes enough to freeze."
"Thanks for sharing the recipe. We loved it. I ran out of beans for the last one (just shy by 1 Tbls). I added onion to the beef while it was cooking too. Also we used more cheese, can you ever have enough cheese? (We don't think so.) Turned out wonderful and nice to have the 2nd pan in the freezer ready for another night when I don't feel like cooking. Since there are only 2 of us, we should have made several smaller 8x8 pans instead of 9x13, but I always follow the recipe exactly as possible the first time through and make changes the next time if needed. I think that will be the only other change we'll make next time. Thanks again for sharing such an "easy" recipe that makes enough for two suppers! Love it!!"


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New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton's political base, and two cities in presidential battleground Ohio are among the six cities under consideration for the 2016 Democratic National Convention, officials announced Saturday.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida congresswoman who leads the DNC, said it had received proposals from Birmingham, Alabama; Columbus, Ohio; Cleveland; New York; Philadelphia and Phoenix. Wasserman Schultz said the committee had "fantastic options" and a group of DNC officials will evaluate the cities and make site visits as the committee considers its options.
The contenders include large cities familiar with holding major conventions and potential out-of-the-box picks.
New York's proposal would stage the convention in Brooklyn, the home of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and a liberal stronghold. The New York bid creates the possibility that Clinton, the former secretary of state and the leading Democratic contender for president, could claim the party's nomination in the state she once represented in the Senate.
New York officials have said they would hold the convention at the Barclays Center, the new home of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets.
With two cities in the mix, Ohio Democratic officials have pushed to hold the convention in their state, which remains among the nation's most pre-eminent presidential battleground states.
Phoenix would give Democrats a way to connect with voters in Arizona, long eyed by the party as a potential swing state. Bill Clinton was the last Democrat to carry Arizona in a presidential election in 1996 but before that, Democrats had lost every presidential race in that state since Harry Truman in 1948.
Philadelphia was the site of the 2000 Republican convention, where George W. Bush was first nominated, and would allow Democrats to hold its event in the city where the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution was adopted.
Birmingham represented a surprise bid and would bring Democrats into a reliably Republican state. The last Democratic presidential candidate to carry Alabama was Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Fifteen cities were invited to submit bids but several deciding not to seek the convention, including Atlanta, Las Vegas, Miami, Orlando, Florida, and Chicago, the home of President Barack Obama.
Many factors determine the selection, most notably whether the city has the facilities to stage the pageantry and whether there are enough hotels to house the delegates and media descending on the region.
Republicans are considering four cities for its 2016 convention: Dallas, Denver, Cleveland and Kansas City, Missouri.

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Maybe the author of TFA could also analyze who makes th eprofits off the many counterfeit [economist.com] iPhones mfg'd in China:
"Illicit phones comprise a staggering 40% of Chinese firms' production, and 13% of the world's, according to iSuppli, a research firm. It reckons China will produce 145m of them this year, up by almost half since 2008. This has hit sales of legal phones."
I refuse to believe that imaginary property is an acceptable replacement for real manufacturing capacity.
How many of those "counterfeit" iPhones are really counterfeit iPhones?
Devices like iPhones, BlackBerries, and WM or Android devices have similar hardware capabilities - it's the onboard software that differentiates them the most. When I think of a "counterfeit" iPhone, I'd expect something that runs a cracked/modified version of the iPhone software, not just something that has a similar case and similar home screen.
This is the same with most cloned CE products. Knock-off Zunes use a custom firmware, knock-off iPods have their own OS, and so on. The hardware may be the same, but the firmware is usually a custom version, and it's almost always optimized for the Chinese market (being Mandarin with English or other languages a typically-poorly implemented afterthought).
I refuse to believe that imaginary property is an acceptable replacement for real manufacturing capacity.
That is an odd way of putting it. It sounds like you find the concept immoral in some way, rather than impossible.
That. Plus "intellectual property" is a very vague concept:
- aren't we here at slashdot opposed to some/most copyrights/patents...
- the US congressmen keep expanding IP scope + duration to please their paymasters Disney and co. Should the rest of the world automatically accept that and follow suit ?
- didn't the US gladly turn a blind eye to infringers when it was to their benefit ?
didn't the US gladly turn a blind eye to infringers when it was to their benefit ?
In fact historically we basically stole British manufacturing and business capabilities from them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater [wikipedia.org]
He's just one guy who did something amazing, but there was a trend behind him, and plenty of other examples. Ultimately it was in our best interests to stop being Britain's hunter/gatherers. By this point Britain was long past being able to stop us. China already realizes being our contract manufacturer isn't good for them, and already makes deals requiring we transfer some amount of our R&D work along with manufacturing. I daresay we can't really stop them either.
IP doesn't historically have a lot of strength behind it. It's easy to steal, it "doesn't hurt anyone" when it's stolen (sure it hurts some guy we don't know or care about!), and it's hard to put a price on it. The military might of planet earth isn't going to get raised in arms because someone stole the plans for the iPhone 4G, or even a semiconductor fab. Too abstract, why do I care, let them eat cake? Blah blah blah.
More to the point, are we willing to wage war on countries who "steal" our IP, and unbalance our trade/cause economic strife for us? If China decides to stop playing the "IP" game, what are we going to do about it, send over some lawyers and subpoena the hell out of them? IP exists by fiat, and without manufacturing and scientific R&D behind that fiat, it's an academic concept.
I'd rather we based our economy around manufacturing AND IP, not just one or the other. Vertical integration seems like a much b
I do find it immoral. The fact that a large percentage of IP is held by Americans doesn't change the immorality one whit. The evolution of copyright/patent law over the last 75 years has been just so freaking wrong. No patent, no copyright should last as much as 50 years. It was far more reasonable when 20 years was the maximum.
We did away with royalty, and the feudal system. We will eventually replace that with IP holders and a new feudal system.
I refuse to believe that imaginary property is an acceptable replacement for real manufacturing capacity.
It sounds like you find the concept immoral in some way, rather than impossible.
I don't find intellectual property so much immoral as it holds back progress. Even the father of the Free Market Adam Smith didn't like patents. He called them a necessary evil. That may of been true in his tyme but I don't believe is still true. Take the case with the iPhone. Apple probably has an exclusive contract with Foxconn and other manufactures to assemble iPhones and other contractors to manufacture the parts. If someone else has those parts somewhere along the lines someone is violating one or more contracts. And the Chinese government cares a lot about that.
As for progress, I believe today patents hold back progress. If someone makes an improvement in an item that is protected by a patent yet they don't hold the patent themself they can not make and market it. Without that patent though in order to continue making money from an invention a business has to provide something others are willing to pay for. A better quality product can be offered, the product can be sold at a lower price, and or improvements (ie progress) need to be made.
Now there are cases where I find IP immoral such as with biopiracy, for instance company X gets a patent for some rice Y or another one gets a patent on the use of a plant as a drug or pesticide even though others have used it in those ways for centuries.
And what about low technology good such as clothes, furniture, steel, glass, toys, and widgets? Where does the money flow there?
The article is a complete piece of crap. Because it never dives INTO the money flows. It doesn't show what that 150 dollars the chinese get MEANS. For instance the idiot who wrote this never touches on the most basic point. That 150 dollars to china is a LOT more then 150 dollars to the US. The average wages are completly different, based on a quick google it seems to be about 100 dollar vs 2000 dollars. So 1 iPod sales generates enough money to pay for 1 months work in china but only a
This is to say nothing about the effect on the workforce, in China, the jobs are spread out. You both need directors to run the factories and janitors to clean the toilets. In the US, far fewer people are involved. Especially in that section of the economy were the most people fit, the blue-color laborers, the factory workers. So a few designers and Steve Jobs are swimming in it, doesn't help the millions of unemployed, doesn't breath live into ghosts towns were the only jobs are handing out unemployment stamps. And where do these people who longer can find a job get the money to buy an iPod? They don't, they buy a cheapo MP3 designed in China, build in China.
Thank you Mr Idiot from the guardian, we KNOW how the economy works, the exact same idiotic posts were made about Japan. Don't worry, Japan will only take a tiny bit of cash at the bottom, all the real money will be earned by the west. Yeah, this worked SO well, that Japan is now conveniently lumped with the west. He happily lists that core components with lots of IP come from Japan so that those pesky chinese won't make a penny of it. Eheh, so what is China to stop from doing to Japan what Japan has done to the west? If his theory about IP holds up, then those IP could never have become possible in Japan.
If the iPhone was made in the US, the US economy would be richer by 150 dollars as well.
If you want to see the effect of the global economy, look around. I life in Utrecht, and that has an industrial park called "Lage weide". There is a LOT of distrubution activity, lots of shifting around of good but almost no production. One produces big metal thingies and the building looks ready to collapse and that is about it. Everything else is warehouses, with the contents, "produced in China". And warehouses are easy to automate. Hema (dutch retailer) has opened one of the most advanced warehouses in the world recently, yet fewer people working and the work there requires no skill (and therefor no pay and no security).
Look around, why do you think the economy is in the crapper? Because nothing is being produced anymore. The factory towns may not be glamorous but it is where the core of a country makes its living. Not the rich who rule the country, not the super poor, but the average worker who pays the taxes that allow the government to function, who deliver the soldiers for the army.
Empires collapsed before, the western empire will get a rude suprise sooner or later when China changes its tune. And no, I don't mean in an evil plot kinda way, I mean when China does what Japan did ages ago. Become an economic power with its own IP. Quick check, how many high-tech gadgets in your house are produced in cheap labor country Japan? PS3, Wii, Sony-Ericson phone and countless others where you might not even think they came from Japan? Ask your daddy what the China of their day was (or maybe your granddad if you aren't as old as me).
So extracting the core of your argument from the long pointless rant that you've wrapped it in:
It's wrong to trade with poor countries, because they derive more advantage from it, and become rich countries.
Err, how is this a bad thing? Using your example of Japan, what the value of bilateral trade between the US and Japan immediately after the second world war, and what has that value risen to after decades of investment in their economy.
The best kind of world for rich industrialised countries to be in, is one in which their competitors are rich industrialised countries with similar production costs.
Offshoring labour is a consequence of the different standards of living in China and the US. If the current trade situation does result in the enrichment of China then that barrier will disappear and suddenly American employees will become more attractive in the global manufacturing market.
The main issue with the trade imbalance at the moment is that the Chinese are holding down their currency by recycling their profits in the dollar market. Once that imbalance is corrected (probably by a massive devaluation of the dollar scaring the Chinese into withdrawing their assets) there will suddenly be an extra billion consumers in the world with disposable income.
Rather than answering my point you seem to have missed its most important consequence; China's main competitive advantage over the US is poverty. That is what has decimated US manufacturing, and that advantage is removed if China becomes rich. Lifting your rivals out of poverty is the best way to end your own destructive spiral.
Err, how is this a bad thing?
Playing Devil's advocate here...
First of all, do we want places like China and North Korea to be rich countries? China's government structure is not one that encourages freedom of thought. Not only that, but they *support* North Korea. I have no doubt in my mind that if China become the big kid on the playground, they'll start trying to conquer whoever they can. Already, they're hard at work taking what they can.
Secondly, it is the job of OUR nation to run OUR nation. Even if the destruction of America makes 1 billion people richer in India and China, it is our responsibility to not let that happen. Ideally, we run our nation in a way that benefits everyone, but right now, both blue collar AND white collar jobs are being outsourced. If we get India to design our crap and pay China to build it, where are we supposed to earn money? As a nation we have to create more wealth than we spend. It's as simple as that. There's no magic money equations that our nation keeps being told exist. If you don't create wealth, sooner or later the rest of the world devalues your currency and you're left with nothing.
China is already the big kid in their playground. If they had an interest in military expansion I don't see anything that could stop them at the moment. I think their government is smarter than that.
Beat me to it. You'd think that enlightened progressives would be thrilled at the prospect of a billion people substantially improving their living conditions. But it exposes one of the uglier sides of the zero-sum economic thinking that pervades the left: one party's gain is another's loss, so we should keep other countries poor so they can't take our wealth.
But it exposes one of the uglier sides of the zero-sum economic thinking that pervades the left: one party's gain is another's loss, so we should keep other countries poor so they can't take our wealth.
What the hell does this have to do with "the left"? If you look at the whining about the Chinese "taking our jobs" it comes just as much, if not more, from the right. But left/right is just a smokescreen here. It's a populist thing, not a particularly ideological one.
I'd wager that you're just a partisan who treats "the left" as some sort of bogeyman without understanding the dynamics, or what it really means.
I used to think like you. Still do, to some extent. But reality is a whole lot more complicated than your postcard analysis.
In particular, it's hard to ignore the fact that the major economic trend of the late 20th, early 21st century is the commodification of labor. Specifically, reducing the amount of labor we need to do all of the things we did before. To some extent it's China and India, to another extent it's automation. All of these are good things, and may have positive effects (and some terribl
Thank you Mr Idiot from the guardian
Interesting rant, but the idiot was from the Telegraph.
Xenophobic claptrap
if the iPod was made in the usa it would cost $750 and break within days. Just like the cars, which are rubbish.
Trade is not a war - it is a way for us all to get wealthier, healthier and sustainably so. Read what you write with an equal value on each human life - I'd far rather pay a bunch of peasants in China to uplift from inefficient farming than one person in the usa to have a low wage manufacturing job.
I'd far rather pay a bunch of peasants in China to uplift from inefficient farming
you won't when the price of food doubles, said peasants can no longer buy enough to feed themselves, meaning they have to work all hours for even less money leading to mass immigration to 'rich' countries where wages are driven down by immigrant peasants working for far less than the standard rates, leading in turn to mass unemployment, bubbles in shoddy real-estate development, and more tax being raised to support benefits.
> Xenophobic claptrap
> if the iPod was made in the usa it would cost $750 and break within days. Just like the cars, which are rubbish.
How clever, you arranged for your first sentence to describe your second sentence.
If the iPhone was made in the US, the US economy would be richer by 150 dollars as well.
If iPhone were made in the US it would cost $1000 or more, few people would buy it and both China and US would lose..
I think it is more likely that if it were made in the U.S., it would be made at an automated factory with two or three people overseeing the entire production line except when something breaks. China would lose thousands of jobs. The U.S. would gain single-digit jobs. The product would cost about the same, though the margins might be a bit slimmer. On the flip side, the side effect would be short-term additional jobs at the companies that made the automation equipment, which might be in the U.S., China,
so i read many of the comments and thought most were unexpectly fine. so i read the TFA and many of the comments and many of the comments were fine. so i will try to ask a relevant scientific question.
What is wealth?
A good answer tends to explain much, but i have never gotten a response in previous attempts. I suspect it makes people uncomfortable. Yet many of the comments here touch on the question. even TFA touches.
The people who would normally make their living in these manufacturing jobs are still stuffed.
OK, think about this a bit. The i(x) or any small electronic device really doesn't consist of much. PCBs with chips can be fabbed anywhere. Nobody is even using hard drives. Plastic cases? Same thing.
So it's not surprising that much of the money is not tied up in manufacturing the product. Nobody is getting rich actually making the thing. Even if you paid the factory floor worker a decent wage, it would
Each element that you speak of, right down to the packaging and external box labels, are manufactured.
The problem is that most of these pieces don't happen in the USA, they're individually made mostly in China and the ASEAN countries. We've exported the labor component, as have many US companies.
The 'shareholder' value is corporate speak for being enslaved to Wall Street for the task of producing excellent quarter after excellent quarter. No regard is made for US labor at all, and the fact that the labor is
The rich get richer
The poor get poorer
How long has this been going on?
The rich get richer
The poor get poorer
How long has this been going on?
Since the last time a batch of rich people were rounded up and shot by the poor people. In the case of China, this means only a few decades.
The people who would normally make their living in these manufacturing jobs are still stuffed.
No amount of sugarcoating can make up for the hard fact that manufacturing jobs are outright lost, leaving the American economy with mostly service jobs. The problem is that the US economy is saturated with service jobs.
But even service jobs are being exported (IT and Medical diagnostics) now. If the job is not bolted down to the floor of a fast food restaurant, companies will try to export that job.
Really, I wonder who even buys the "trickle down" nonsense anymore.
Really, I wonder who even buys the "trickle down" nonsense anymore.
Rich people. The same ones who are driving this imbalance in trade and work.
I agree... and read the comments following TFA; they're much more on point. Once we export all our knowledge, what do we have left? manufacturing is long gone, and food production is going overseas too. What happens when we are purely a nation of consumers?
Tho sometimes one thinks that most businesses are already mainly selling marketing to each other, rather than selling an actual product.
Doesn't work if you don't have the world's reserve currency.
Each iPod, sold in the US for $299, provides China with an export value of about $150, but as it turns out, Chinese producers really only 'earned' around $4 on each unit.
The differences in salary relative to cost of living ought to be taken into account. The average daily salary of a Chinese person is was around USD14.1 [china.org.cn] last year..
Secondly, it's not just about revenue but longer term industrial dependency. Were China to suddenly refuse (due to political embargo, for instance) to produce such items Apple would suffer a considerable economic loss, if only while they secured an alternative manufacturer. Chinese and Taiwanese companies are in a good position to steer the market in their favour, eventually producing (if not already) competing products for their own market - the world's biggest in many sectors - and others abroad.
Actually, balance of trade calculations have historically ignored payments for intellectual property and services and have only counted raw materials and manufactured goods. This has been pointed out numerous times in the past as people bemoan the balance of trade deficit the the U.S. historically runs. The so called "U.S. balance of trade deficit" really isn't as bad as or doesn't even exist due to all if the money that flows into the U.S. due to IP and services.
Note: this post is based on something I re
Copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets are only meaningful if governments are willing to enforce them.
Tangible property is no different. Your "property rights" are meaningless unless the government enforces them - someone could just come and take your land by force.
The mistake any article like this makes is it assumes that the people providing the cheap manufacturing labour are content to continue doing so indefinitely - even when the factory owners can easily find out precisely how much their product is making in the country it's sold in and compare it with the amount they get to see.
History has shown that this is frequently not the case - I refer you to the UK's former motor industry.
That is the problem of the western economic journalism and generally also the western economists they have forgotten to think in long terms usually their memory lasts and foresight lasts only for the next 2 years without taking history into acocount.
IP is vaporware, production is also assembling of knowledge, and in the long run no producer needs any middleman once he has earned enough money he can provide the goods himself, also IP is fading if you do not produce it steadily enough. If you produce you have to do also do some research which means you build up your own ip in the long run and then you can cash in from the others (within the bounds of the system) so if you dont keep some core industries in the country as well as to try to build knowledge upon it you soon will be paying only without getting anything back.
The chines pretty much know that, but our western economits dream of clouds (jobless recovery, IP based economy etc... all of those constructs did not work out in the past, why should they now, the rule of the game does not change unless humanity changes)
The funny thing is, the stronger we try to build up our ip laws on a worldwide scale now, the more problem we will have in about 20-30 years to get out of the misery we are building currently for the sake of the quick buck.
So in summary, we'd be better off if Silicon Valley were replaced with textile factories.
Innovation usually follows production in the long run, since the west things we can survive on IP alone we will have a bad wakeup call in about 20-30 years timeframe, no production, no invention period, the patents usually are the last to follow due to the grace period but they are slowly moving towards asia as well.
No matter how much money is made in America from items assembled in China, everyone can't work at Wal-Mart and Burger King and be able to afford said items. Don't get me wrong, those are real jobs and I even worked at a Wal-Mart many years ago, but in the past, service jobs were not the base of the economy. If everybody is making minimum wage with no benefits whatsoever, who can afford services? Thus a service-based economy isn't sustainable in the long run. Yeah, we will survive and life goes on, but we shouldn't just count the beans and proclaim everything is alright. We need to take into account several things:
How citizens are treated by the governments of our trading partners, for instance.
What happens to our economy when nothing left but service jobs is another one.
When the trading partners are using the profit from us to build up armies to come back over here and kill us, should make the list as well.
If everybody is making minimum wage with no benefits whatsoever, who can afford services? Thus a service-based economy isn't sustainable in the long run.
This is a point I bring up all the time. You see these talking heads, economists (usually, but not limited to, right leaning, business friendly) and such on television talking about how 2/3rds of the US economy is consumer spending (most recently propped up by cheap money), while at the same time saying that the manufacturing jobs that were the backbone of the middle class dream are "gone forever". All it takes is stopping to think that if those stable good-paying jobs are "gone forever" and the days of che
And somewhere between then and now, then banks went bankrupt.
Good job, business community.
I have doubts about the article's numbers. If that was true, how could China have a huge trade surplus? If the article was correct, all of the export gains would be spent on IP fees to non-Chinese companies, and would reduce their trade surplus. That's not what we observe.
So, while it's important to have a sound R&D and to have plenty of licenses ready to sell for lots of product, this does not replace a good manufacturing basis.
"....with predominantly American employees and stockholders.."
Seriously, I would say that 70-80% of the employees I have seen at various tech companies...at least on the west coast are foreign nationals.
Well, I came for some insight, and instead there are eleven posts above me trashing the United States. So here's some actual thinking instead of the usual Two Minutes Hate.
China does indeed make very little from its manufacturing. The Chinese bemoan the fact that they're making so much for the world and getting so little in return. The reason is lack of brands - Chinese people just don't see brands as being important. They don't trust anything that they can't hold in their hands, and you wouldn't either if you had just emerged from fifty years of enforced poverty under a radical leftist government. Another problem is the rampant theft of IP and cutthroat domestic competition. Foreign brands have much of the high end, and Chinese companies are forced to viciously compete on price at the low end. And hey, if you do invest in R&D, Chinese IP laws are so weak that you'll get ripped off - why make money for someone else?
Suppose there was a phone that did everything the iPhone did, but didn't have the Apple logo on the outside. It wouldn't be nearly as popular, because there are plenty of people willing to pay $$$ for anything with that logo on it. Indeed, American companies come to China to make money, and make it they do. Apple is making money hand over fist with the iPhone. The Chinese get the scraps. Companies like KFC and Nike are kicking ass in China's domestic market.
The part about innovation is spot-on: the Chinese simply don't have that culture of "fixin' things" like we do. The usual attitude is to wait around for the government to do something. I've had my product copied so many times when it would have just been easier (and more educational) for the company to make its own damn product. Who knows, they might have made a better one instead of an inferior copy. But they'll never know because they just can't see past the end of their noses.
Here's an interesting link on branding [allroadsleadtochina.com] if you want further reading, and here is another [chinalawblog.com].
Suppose there was a phone that did everything the iPhone did, but didn't have the Apple logo on the outside. It wouldn't be nearly as popular, because there are plenty of people willing to pay $$$ for anything with that logo on it.
I have to call BS on this part of your argument. Sure, the Apple logo is enough to get the product some initial recognition in the marketplace. However, the iPhone's popularity is mostly down to its innovative interface. Now that we're starting to see devices appear that are capable of everything the iPhone is, and quite a bit more besides, they're beginning to cut into the iPhone's market share. Unless Uncle Steve pulls something special out of the hat next year (which, to be fair, he may well do) the iPho
I, personally, doubt the iPhone will "nosedive" as you say. While I agree that their market share will decrease, I think they will remain a leader in their market. Why does Nike stay so popular now that there are many brands that make comparable goods? They have built themselves a reputation that people can recognize and correlate to their expectations. So has Apple with the iWhateverTheyMake. (I think they should make iBoxers. You could listen to your favorite tunes while getting it on.)
Just my two cents
True, 'nosedive' might be too strong a word. The fact remains that Apple will have to continue innovating to retain their market share. Any sign of complacency will result in a loss of that market share, whether rapid or gradual.
The iPhone is beginning to look somewhat dated compared to recent smart phones. I'm sure we'll see a significant refresh next year, but if we don't I can't imagine many iPhones being sold 12 months from now.
Isn't this comment:
The reason is lack of brands - Chinese people just don't see brands as being important
Directly contradicted by the following comment?
Apple is making money hand over fist with the iPhone. The Chinese get the scraps. Companies like KFC and Nike are kicking ass in China's domestic market.
... and also by the fact that they are making knock-offs and imitating the branding of Western products? Or are you saying the West itself is "the brand" they are imitating?
Suppose there was a phone that did everything the iPhone did, but didn't have the Apple logo on the outside. It wouldn't be nearly as popular
There already are phones that do everything the Iphone does! I'm confused by your statement - are you seriously unaware of this? And yes, they're more popular (Apple are a few per cent of the market - Nokia are about 40%, Samsung are second IIRC, with lots more in between them and Apple).
If you meant the Ipod, as the article was talking about, you might be right. But t
The author is quite blissful! He completely forget that what he is saying is true, but only half of the truth. In the end, we still need $4.00 of exports TO china to make it all balance out.
When we import any thing, some number of dollars leave this nation. If a corresponding number of exports be it in commodities such as grain or coal, or brain share such as banking services or designs (or legal fees), is not made, we end up owing the nation from which we imported the good from.
In other words, if we import $200,000,000 in a year and only export $150,000,000, we end up owing $50,000,000. Sooner or later those dollars WILL have to make it back to us, whether it is from the other nation buying buildings, gold or politicians (us: china please be kind to your people. china: mind your own business or we will collect on your debt!).
Of course the numbers I quoted are quite small compared to reality. Scale them accordingly.
To summarize, the author's contention is that it's not the gross dollar flow that matters, but the retained earnings - the profit - that matters. And in that case, the vast bulk of the money stays right inside the US.
And that is where the bliss comes in. Lets aqll BLISSFULY IGNORE(ance) the fact that we keep buying goods from other nations and don't sell them as much back. Just like any good electrical system, once the differential between the poles is high enough, there will be an arc when the dollars WILL come back. the question will be is what will it do to us then? I guessing rampant inflation OR a total loss of our country, I hope for the latter, though it won't be pretty either!
To me the whole problem is the retail model; towit how about that $199 to $299 markup
to have these darned things sitting on a shelf? It would be so much more efficient
to cut out the middle men and supply iPOD's on demand...the fact is the blue collar
tweekers got completely screwed by THE MAN. Their jobs were off-shored in favor
of store clerks. Also this article doesn't focus on things like brooms and clothing and
such. No such profits find their way back here due to intellectual property windfall.
The fact is
It does not, however, get into the U.S. economy at large. There are the local retail sales people and the like, but the big money goes into the people with big pockets and pretty much stays there. One only has to look at the current figures for distribution of wealth to show that there is nearly no middle class left in the U.S. Further, all the money is being made through imaginary property ownership. Some say the roman empire fell because their economy shifted to an economy based economy... the same with the british empire. The global empire is in trouble for similar reasons.
We need our manufacturing back. We need our agriculture back in the hands of individual farmers. Some things are just better when people are working.
One only has to look at the current figures for distribution of wealth to show that there is nearly no middle class left in the U.S.
That's just silly. Go to an Apple store sometime.
No a developed country can't run a trade deficit forever - thus it does in fact need a trade surplus (well dead even is fine too) to survive.
The US gets away with it simply because the US dollar is used as the reserve currency and trade currency for most commodities. Other nations get away with it due to China's games with the US dollar knocking on to their currencies.
What should happen is that the relative value of the currency of the country running a deficit will fall until it is no longer running a deficit. It's simple mathematics.
The rest of the world keeps printing money and buying US treasuries to stop this inevitable re-balancing, but it will happen at some point - it gets more and more unstable the longer the current situation is propped up. Of course humans can keep unstable situation balancing for much much longer than it seems possible (witness US real estate prices - a bubble that "should" have popped in 2003 but lasted much longer, and staill hasn't fully deflated)...
1. Eye contact and conversation with people nearby are becoming too frightening for people.
2. Most of the music being produced formally is crap.
3. The Musical Idolatry Complex is no longer capable of concealing Point 2.
4. Cocaine use is dropping because of Point 3.
5. Wall Street has not been affected by Point 4.
6. DRM is dead.
7. Most people think "more bass" is a substitute for a crappy bitrate, but Point 2 makes this fact moot.
8. "Zune" is a crappy name for a product.
9. Consumers and sheep are not disturbed by the suffering of others.
10. Point 9 is as true for international relations and the slaughterhouse as it is for my ears on the bus in the morning.
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COLUMBIA — An ocean terminal on the banks of the Savannah River, a new Exit 3 for Interstate 95 and the 1,400-acre RiverPort Business Park top the list of priorities for Jasper County business leaders, who spent Wednesday of last week mixing with state lawmakers under a tent on the capitol grounds.
The Jasper County Chamber of Commerce, which hosted the Jasper County State House Day, included area officials and school groups who traveled to the S.C. Statehouse.
"The event is basically to showcase Jasper County and keep it on the forefront of the minds of the House and Senate," said Kendall Malphrus, executive director of the Jasper County Chamber of Commerce.
The luncheon drew about 400 legislators, staffers, lobbyists and other Capitol regulars, with Be Green Packaging providing the paper products, and others volunteering time and supplies.
This month Be Green announced that it will open a new manufacturing and distribution facility in Ridgeland, investing $7.3 million into the area and creating 175 jobs.
"This is a more casual visit," said Ridgeland town administrator Jason Taylor.
"It's about visibility for the county."
As for issues, he said highlighting the benefits of the proposed Jasper Ocean Terminal is the primary focus but added that the town's mayor, Gary Hodges, would also be raising the merits of the photo-radar enforcement system stationed in the town's seven miles of I-95.
The other two topics on the Chamber's list Wednesday were to bring natural gas line extensions to industrial parks and to increase sewer treatment capacity.
"This project is an extremely important element for expansion of economic development efforts in the town of Ridgelad which has grown from 1 square mile to 45 square miles," states the Chamber priority list.
But Wednesday's luncheon wasn't just a meeting of the well-connected. Plenty of young people from Jasper County made the two-hour trip, too.
"It's very nice. We got to meet the governor," said Heidi Wade, who is Miss Jasper County and an early-childhood education student at the Technical College of the Lowcountry.
Jerel Lee, a 2011 Gates Millennium Scholarship winner and Ridgeland High School senior, also enjoyed the visit.
"I love mingling with the representatives, hearing their stories and how they got the positions they're in now," he said.
Would he like to run for public office someday?
"It's not a goal but certainly an option," said Lee.
Senator for a Day Bre'Anna Orr, whose speech as part of the selection process was about teens and domestic violence, also paid a visit Wednesday. She was accompanied by her mother Monique Beacher.
"Being up here has been interesting," said Orr, who when asked, said she might consider running for office someday.
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Evy Hambro and Catherine Raw, the duo at the helm of BlackRock World Mining Trust, have stepped up their drive for income by snapping up $40 million worth of Banro Corporation preference shares.
The purchase follows the team's decision to strike a royalties deal with London Mining last year, part of a bid to boost the income credentials of the £1.1 billion trust.
Hambro (pictured), who is also chief investment officer of the BlackRock natural resources team, said: 'Following the agreement in July to acquire a 2% revenue related royalty from iron ore from London Mining's Marampa mine in Sierra Leone, this new investment again demonstrates the trust's commitment to generate income for investors whilst maintaining exposure to changes in the price of gold and other commodities.'
Banro, a Canadian gold producer, is at a pivotal point in its history and is hoping to use 2013 to make the transition from a smiler scale operation into a mid-tier low cost producer.
It agreed the deal with Hambro and Raw in tandem with a $30 million credit facility with two African banks.
Hambro said the trust's latest investment reflects his view on gold over the longer term, even if investors are currently divided on bullion after its move into a death cross last week.
He said: 'We remain positive on the long-term outlook for gold.
'This investment demonstrates the trust's ability to assess risk and deploy capital using innovate structures to obtain potentially attractive returns from a well-established mining company operating mines in a key gold production area.'
Broadly, resources firms have been struggling to come by performance, with the HSBC World Mining Index shedding some 4.3% over the 12 months to date.
Hambro and Raw have outperformed this and growth their trust's share price by 11.5% and its net asset value by 1.3%.
Moreover, since seeking out income generative opportunities the trust has seen its discount tighten significantly.
At the end of trade of Friday, BlackRock World Mining Trust shares traded at a 10% discount, a far cry from the 16% discount it has drifted to in recent years.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Colin Kaepernick was running. He was running fast. He was running so fast Saturday night that on his 56-yard touchdown sprint in the third quarter, one of his tattoos fell off at the 5-yard line. Seemed like it, anyway.
Colin Kaepernick was throwing. He was throwing the ball with such zip and accuracy, his receivers merely had to stick out their hands and -- thwap! -- the passes would hit their mitts and stick as if they were flies to flypaper.
The 49ers are advancing. They are advancing in the playoffs. Impressively. In fact, after their 45-31 victory over Green Bay at Candlestick Park, even the most skeptical pessimist/hater/naysayer must begin to think seriously about a Super Bowl trip.
And yes, the facts in those last three paragraphs are all interconnected.
There were other 49ers players who mattered Saturday night. But the one who mattered most was Kaepernick, the second-year quarterback from Turlock and the University of Nevada. Starting his first NFL playoff game -- and just his eighth NFL game, period -- Kaepernick blew the doors off Candlestick.
He rushed for 181 yards, more than any NFL quarterback has accumulated on foot in any game, ever. He also threw for two touchdowns. And he left his own teammates with slack jaws.
"You never really see him open up like that in practice," linebacker Patrick Willis said of Kaepernick's performance. "You see him do the offense and whatnot. But to see him do this in a game ... it amazes me. It wows me. I'm just saying, 'Wow, did he just do that?' "
Yes. He did just do that. And now he gets the chance to do it again. Saturday's victory sends the 49ers to next Sunday's NFC championship game, to be played either at Atlanta (if the Falcons win their home playoff game today) or back at Candlestick Park against the Seattle Seahawks.
Wherever the game is played, kickoff will be at noon PST. And if the 49ers win that one, the next kickoff would be in New Orleans with the Vince Lombardi Trophy at stake.
First things first, though: If the question before Saturday night's game was whether second-year quarterback Kaepernick was ready to face postseason pressure and adversity, the answer is a big, fat yes.
Maybe the most remarkable thing, however, was how his evening began in the worst way possible for any quarterback: Kaepernick's second pass of the night was picked off by Green Bay cornerback Sam Shields and returned 52 yards for a touchdown to give the Packers a 7-0 lead less than three minutes into the game.
Didn't make him happy.
"You're always going to be mad about a bad play," Kaepernick said.
After he got mad, he got even. Kaepernick was not technically 100 perfect the rest of the way -- at one point, he was even flagged for taunting -- but he unfurled as impressive a postseason performance as any 49ers player at any position has ever unfurled. As his team pulled away in the second half, Kaepernick led the charge.
"We didn't really have a whole lot of answers for him," said Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers, paying the ultimate competitor's compliment.
Greg Roman, the 49ers offensive coordinator, was not surprised that Kaepernick could shake off the shaky start. Roman said Kaepernick's personality is built to do so.
"We didn't say anything about it, actually," Roman said. "We moved on to the next play."
And the next play. And the next play. Many were new plays, taken out of the quiver just for the Packers and designed to showcase Kaepernick's speed. Roman admitted that the coaches had been "holding our ace card and waiting for the right time to pull it out."
Vernon Davis, the 49ers tight end, just shook his head and smiled when asked to describe Kaepernick's style.
"He has long legs," Davis said. "Really. Long. Legs. I remember looking at him coming out of college and thinking, 'This kid can really run.' "
Kaepernick's legs may have been his best weapon. He finished with 16 carries and an average of 11.3 yards per carry. Yet while passing for 263 yards, he also occasionally undressed the Packers secondary in a fashion unseen at Candlestick since the days of (dare we say it?) Steve Young and Joe Montana.
Obviously, there is a lot of career ahead for Kaepernick. You can't draw too many conclusions. But his first playoff victory was quite the achievement for a 25-year-old man who before the 2012 season began was expected to serve as a backup to starter Alex Smith, who took the 49ers to the NFC title game a year ago.
Instead, Smith sustained a concussion in mid-November and Kaepernick took over. And he kept the job, even after Smith recovered. Jim Harbaugh, the 49ers head coach, decided to go younger and faster in making Kaepernick his new No. 1 quarterback. It was a big gamble. But there's no doubt now it was the right choice.
We saw exactly why Saturday night. With Kaepernick running the option-read around the edge, the Packers defense could not concentrate on clogging up the middle for runs by Frank Gore, or commit too many defensive backs to the 49ers receivers. This also allowed the offensive line to be more aggressive.
"This offense creates a lot of confusion," said Joe Staley, the 49ers offensive tackle. "When you get guys that are confused, it's a little easier to block them."
Kaepernick's reticent nature, combined with his distinctive swagger, have left fans wondering what's going on inside his head.
We still don't know, really. But during a pregame interview Saturday with the NFL Network, he was about as candid as he's ever been about what might motivate him.
Kaepernick was asked to name the biggest misperception about his game and said: "That I'm just a running quarterback that is kind of raw. I think there is a huge difference between being a running quarterback and a quarterback that can run. I see that as something a little disrespectful. And I take that to heart."
Apparently so. After the game, when asked how he wanted to be categorized, he responded: "I don't want to be categorized."
Fair enough. Just know that Kaepernick's 56-yard touchdown dash settled all doubts about his role. He is the offensive proprietor of this team.
And he will to be open for business again next week.
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How Japanese Scientists Are Monitoring Fukushima Babies For Radiation Exposure 95
KentuckyFC writes "Parents in the Fukushima region of Japan are intensely worried that their children may be consuming food and water contaminated with radiation. But whole body scanners used to monitor the internal radiation levels of adults don't work for children who cannot stand up inside them. What's more, the machines are not sensitive enough to detect problematic radiation levels in children. That's because children metabolize substances faster than adults and have a lower mass to start with, so the levels of radiation in their bodies tend to be lower. For example, if each adult ingests 3 Becquerels of cesium-137 every day, the internal levels would reach an equilibrium of about 400 Bq/adult body. But a similar intake for a 1-year old child would result in an equilibrium level of about 60 Bq/body, well below the 250 Bq/body sensitivity of adult scanners. Now a team of engineers has built a whole body scanner that is sensitive enough for the job and that children can play inside for the 4 minutes necessary to scan them. And they say the results of the first 100 scans of Fukushima children (average age 4.2 years) are reassuring--none show any evidence of cesium-137. So far."


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Game 15
No. 20 UC San Diego (7-7, 2-1 WWPA) at Sonoma State (4-10, 2-3 WWPA)
Friday, March 2 - 1:00 p.m.
Dr. G Edward Rudloff Pool - Rohnert Park, Calif.
Games 16 & 17
Aggie Shootout
No. 20 UC San Diego (7-7) vs. Pacific (8-4)
Saturday, March 3 - 10:00 a.m.
No. 20 UC San Diego (7-7) at No. 16 UC Davis (5-12)
Saturday, March 3 - 2:00 p.m.
Schaal Aquatics Center - Davis, Calif.
UCSD came up empty in four games at the UC Irvine Invitational last weekend, falling 14-3 to No. 1 Stanford, 15-11 to No. 9 San Jose State, 14-6 to No. 13 UC Davis and 8-7 to No. 20 Long Beach State. UCSD took 16th place at the tournament. The Tritons are now 2-5 against ranked teams and 5-6 against non-conference opponents. Sophomore Sarah Lizotte led the Tritons with seven goals over four games, while Kirsten Bates finished with six goals. Lizotte and Bates also placed one-two in the steals column, finishing with nine and six, respectively. Jessica Tran added five assists. The four-game skid is the Tritons' longest of the season.
The Tritons head to Rohnert Park on Friday afternoon to face Sonoma State in Western Water Polo Association play at Dr. G Edward Rudloff Pool. UCSD is 10-1 all-time against SSU, its only loss coming on April 24, 2009 at the WWPA championships. Since then, the Tritons have won five consecutive games over the Seawolves including a 14-10 victory in 2011 at the UCSB Winter Invite. Bates tallied three goals and five steals in the game, while Leah Gonzales pitched-in a pair of scores. Bridgette Souza leads SSU with 27 goals, more than double any other Seawolf this season.
UCSD is 7-3 all-time against Pacific, who the Tritons face in the first game of the Aggie Shootout on Saturday. The Tigers came from behind to down the Tritons 9-6 at last season's Aztec Invitational on March 12, 2011. Tran scored twice in the game and Bates added two steals, but UOP was able to overpower the Tritons, who had played a double-overtime contest against Princeton in the morning session. Prior to that match, UCSD had won the previous three matches against UOP, twice on the road.
The Aggies and Tritons will clash for the second time in a week when the teams meet on Saturday afternoon for the Aggie Shootout finale. UCD's Hannah Curran and Alicia Began completed hat tricks in Sunday's 14-6 win by the Aggies. Tran was the only Triton to score multiple goals in the contest for UCSD. The Aggie victory was the widest margin of victory in the rivalry between the teams, either way, dating back to when both teams competed in the WWPA. 20 of the previous 30 meetings had been settled by a single goal. UCSD is 19-27 all-time against UCD.
A trio of Triton players registered their first goals of the season at the UCI Invite. Lindsay Holbrook, a junior transfer, scored the first goal of her career in the opening game against Stanford and followed with a goal against San Jose State. Colette Gulick, a freshman, also tallied the first goal of her career in the fourth quarter of Sunday's game with UC Davis. Hannah Guthman matched her season total from 2011 with two goals in the second quarter against SJSU.
Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Tala Majaj received the first significant playing time of her career at the UCI Invite, as usual starter Allie Taylor was rested on the first day due to a minor injury. She played three quarters in each game against Stanford and San Jose State, stopping 10 shots while making three steals. She limited UC Davis to just a pair of goals in the fourth quarter of UCSD's third game of the Invite.
With seven more shots, Bates will move into seventh place all-time for career attempts in UCSD history ... Bates has 145 career steals and needs just a pair more to move into the Top 10 for steals in school annals ... Tran is averaging two assists per game with 28 over her team's first 14 contests ... With at least 21 matches remaining, if Tran keeps up that pace, she will finish with 70 assists to set UCSD's single-season record, held by current Athletics Program Coordinator Danielle Boyle (60, 2003) ... Lizotte recorded four steals in UCSD's loss to LBSU, a season high for the Tritons ... UCSD's last losing streak of more than three games was six games between March 12-25, 2011 ... The Tritons rattled off three consecutive victories following that skid.
You've heard UCSD head coach Brad Kreutzkamp on the pool deck, but now you can follow his own perspective on the team through Twitter. Follow @UCSDcoachK all season for an in-depth look inside the Triton women's water polo program. In addition, you can always keep in touch with UCSD Athletics through @UCSDtritons and facebook.com/UCSDtritons.
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The Dolphins have signed guard Danny Watkins, a former first-round pick of the Eagles. To room on the roster for Watkins the team waived guard Josh Samuda.
For Watkins this is a chance to redeem himself after a tough couple of years in Philadelphia. For Samuda, who had a poor preseason moving from center to guard, his time with the Dolphins is in jeapardy as he is not practice squad eligible.
The 6-3, 310 pound Watkins joins Miami after spending the last two seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles (2011-12). He was selected with the 23rd overall pick by the Eagles in the 2011 NFL Draft. In his career, Watkins has started 18 of the 23 games in which he appeared for the Eagles.
Watkins was a two-year letter winner and started all 25 games played at Baylor after beginning his collegiate career at Butte College. As a member of the Bears he earned first-team All-Big 12 Conference honors as a senior. Born November 6, 1984, Watkins played rugby and hockey at Mt. Boucherie Secondary School in West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
Watkins is a reclamation project to be sure. He fell out of favor under new head coach Chip Kelly. But even before then, there were questions about his desire and love for the game.
The Dolphins have had success with reclamation projects at guard before with Richie Incognito. Of course, that was under a different head coach and staff.
We'll see.
Watkins signed a one-year contract.
Watkins played 126 snaps in the preseason at right guard and ProFootballFocus.com rated him the 39th best offensive guard in the league. He committed one penalty, gave up one sack, and had a minus-1.2 run blocking grade during those games.
Last year Watkins was ranked the NFL's 54th best offensive guard based on the seven games and 461 snaps he played. He had a minus-4.7 overall grade, allowing just one sack, nine quarterback hurries and committing two penalties.
Watkins was considered a bust in Philadelphia. Bottom line is he is better off in Miami where he comes in as a backup with a chance to prove himself. He has no draft pedigree he needs to live up to here.
If he's only good enough to be a backup, no one will complain. He was, after all, signed to a low-budget deal. If he's good enough to push John Jerry at right guard or eventually succeed Richie Incognito, who is in the final year of his contract, he'll be considered a huge success.
If he isn't very good at all, he'll be another bottom of the roster player that eventually is churned out on waivers.
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Ashlee Barrow's second season in Spartanburg has yet to officially begin, but the honors continue to roll in for the Fishkill, N.Y., native. Barrow was ranked 16th in the list of 20 players to watch in the Atlantic Sun Conference during the 2010 season.
"She certainly deserves this honor," said head coach Renee Lopez. "She has an amazing work ethic on the field and in the classroom. Most importantly, she has a magnetic personality to be a leader."
During the preseason, Barrow has tallied a goal and an assist in each exhibition match. During the 2009 season, she became the first freshman since Catherine Nolff to start every game in a season. Barrow scored her first collegiate goal against Gardner-Webb.
She became the first Spartan player to earn all-conference honors since the move to Division I, as she earned A-Sun All-Freshman Team accolades. The communications major also earned A-Sun All-Academic honors for her hard work in the classroom.
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This may not be a popular opinion, but - typically, if you are hosting, you either serve alcohol or you don't. Cash bars are a no-no. Now, a memorial is a different thing from a wedding or cocktail party, but you may want to consider one of the two following options. Either a) serve only soft, with no bar in the room - anyone who wants to wander over to the hotel bar may do so - or b) pony up for softs, beer and wine. I wouldn't have a full bar in the room if guests are expected to buy drinks - I wouldn't expect to pay for anything at a memorial service (valet service is an exception - that's out of your control).
I think that as long as you have beverages available - soda, punch, water, etc. - there is no need to even mention the bar. People will figure it out, if they want a drink.I wouldn't even worry about mentioning that the hors d'oevres will be vegetarian/pescatarian. Again, people will figure it out and eat those items that appeal to them, avoid those that don't.I would mention the valet parking, though, since some may want to avail themselves of that option.I'll give it a go:Please join us from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at X location for a celebration of Mom's life. Light refreshments will be served. Valet parking is available, if you wish, at a cost of $6.I'm sorry for your loss.
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The president of the Blue Ridge Apple Growers Association said apples are in good condition despite an unusually wet season.
"I have no need to complain," Jerred Nix said. "It makes for a bigger apple."
Frequent showers have caused aggravation working in the fields, he said, and the moist conditions have infected some of the apples with scabs.
But overall, "Everything is looking good just as long as we don't get hail. If we don't get hail, we will have a great year," Nix said.
Scab on apples is a fungus that gets on the leaves and apples and is caused by wet weather, said Marvin Owings, Henderson County Cooperative Extension Service director.
"Bottom line is, we need dry weather," Owings said.
Through June, the National Weather Service had recorded more than 32.33 inches of rain for Hendersonville this year. The normal amount is 27.44 inches.
Showers and thunderstorms have been prevalent, making it difficult to keep chemicals on the trees that battle apple scabs.
"Most orchards have some scab," Owings said. "Some more than others."
Vegetable grower Theron Maybin has seen enough rain this season. He has had to replant some of his crop because seeds won't grow in the cold and wet soil. Maybin also had to delay planting some of his crops, including yellow squash by more than a month.
"You've just got to take it day by day," he said.
Maybin hopes for drier weather in the fall, but isn't looking forward to the short-term forecast.
It's "one of those things we don't have control over," he said. "We are hoping for the best, expecting the worst."
Officials are calling for crop damage across the state as a result of the weather system. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch Tuesday that is in effect until tonight.
Experts say growing and harvesting will be at least three weeks later than normal, The Associated Press reported.
The forecast released Tuesday afternoon indicates 2.75 inches to 4.75 inches of rain for the area through Thursday evening.
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OT: Donald Trump (On Miss USA, And Living Every Teen's Fantasy)
I considered posting this under numerous other threads ("OT: Bachelor Party" almost got it), but in the end, it just needed its own special treatment.
I'm prepared to make a bold statement: Donald Trump may have saved America. Or at least USA. Or US Americans. Or whatever, but. . .wow. Thank you, Donald.
The Miss USA pageant has been something of an afterthought for years. . .aside from a handful of notable distractions (Carrie Prejean, Shanna Moakler, Ali Landry, and the wonderful Tara Conner), it was an event that many of us remember most fondly as one we watched with our dads when we were kids, in one of our first "guys vs. mom and sisters" bonding rituals. We really didn' t know what we were doing, we just knew it was something Dad liked, and Mom. . .didn't. Mom liked the Miss America pageant, because they sang, danced, and demonstrated wholesome qualities. Dad? He was one of us, before we was "us".
Miss USA was the Penthouse of beauty pageants. None of this "talent" stuff; Miss USA was founded when some Miss America winner decided she didn't want to pose for photos in a bathing suit. So the sponsor dumped Miss America, and created a whole new contest that got right to it: no more plate spinning, juggling, or bird-training, this contest was about looks (evening gown), looks (bathing suit), and looks (better not distract me from your looks during the interview). Miss America was for the girl next door; Miss USA was for her naughty cousin who came into town from time-to-time, and who you still remember with a smile.
I could go on and on, and maybe should in my first diary--plenty to say, looking back on pageants' role in the whole father-son relationship (like "watching Wonder Woman with Dad makes more sense when you know she was Miss World USA first", or "what the hell happened to Delta Burke?"). However, how about we end it now and open this up for comments with the following 3 points:
1) Donald Trump is a genius, as hard as that is to admit;
2) I'll be watching the Miss USA pageant next weekend, likely chatting with my brother and Dad over the phone, wholly because Trump has decided that there wasn't enough "glam" (yes, their word) in pageant-world;
3) http://missuniverse.com/missusa/members/contestants
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Threet Intends For USC, Intercepted by ASU/irony
With a title that made most of you go "Wait what? Ohhhh... I get it," Steven "Roundtrip ticket" Threet will be likely holding a clipboard in the desert. ESPN reports that former University of Michigan quarterback Threet, not to be confused with current walk-on University of Michigan quarterback Nick Sheridan, will go not to Nebraska... or Oklahoma... or Texas... or USC... but to the Arizona Sun Devils and wait out a mandated one year via NCAA rules. While this transfer makes no sense to many, rumor has it he will earn a 1.0 credit of Independent Study coursework for his paper "Reliving Manifest Destiny Through Football"
This leaves many speculating Threet may again fail in 2010 to get the starting position and instead play backup to this guy:
a walk-on who has spent time on the sidelines learning the offensive set apparently better than a scholarship athlete. Note, however, that the fire indicates he may in fact be fiery and fast...
Read more here or, well, here:
Quarterback Steven Threet, a redshirt freshman who started eight games for Michigan last season, has decided to transfer to Arizona State, a source close to Threet said Monday.
Threet also considered Oregon State but developed a relationship with the Arizona State coaching staff and had an excellent visit over the weekend.
Threet wanted to fit into a pro-style offense after having been previously enrolled at both Georgia Tech and Michigan.
The move remains confusing as John Effing Elway's son left ASU saying there was too much competition at the position, most likely the exact reason he left Michigan when RR's 'chosen one' came to campus. SO basically one can presume Threet is transferring more for this:
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Right-hander Esmerling Vasquez makes his sixth attempt at a first win of 2012 on Monday when the Minnesota Twins open a three-game series with the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.
A 28-year-old, Vasquez had five wins in 15 major-league decisions in 141 appearances with the Arizona Diamondbacks between 2009 and 2011.
He was claimed off waivers by the Twins in September 2011 and spent the initial part of 2012 in the minors at Triple-A Rochester, going 9-6 with a 2.78 earned run average while starting eight times in 31 appearances.
He was called up last month and went 0-2 in five starts, dropping decisions to Kansas City and the Chicago White Sox while combining to allow 26 hits and 17 runs in 26 innings.
Vasquez has one career relief outing against Toronto and was credited with a hold after retiring one batter and allowing no hits or runs.
He'll face 27-year-old lefty Aaron Laffey, who starts for the 16th time this season for Toronto in his 22nd appearance.
Laffey was a 4-0 winner in his last outing - a start at Baltimore on Sept. 25 - after scattering five hits in 5 2/3 innings while dropping his season earned run average from 4.80 to 4.52.
The win ended an eight-appearance drought in which he'd gone 0-4 since winning at Oakland on Aug. 5.
Laffey is 5-2 in 17 career meetings with the Twins with a 4.57 ERA in 63 innings.
On Sunday in Minnesota, Prince Fielder blasted a two-run homer in the eighth inning as the Detroit Tigers moved closer to clinching the American League Central Division title with a 2-1 win over the Twins in the rubber match of a three-game series at Target Field.
Fielder's 30th home run of the season, an opposite-field shot to left, was given up by Minnesota reliever Jared Burton (3-2) with two outs. Burton, who replaced starter Liam Hendriks prior to the inning, had retired two batters in a row after allowing a leadoff single to Austin Jackson.
Octavio Dotel pitched out of a jam in the bottom of the eighth, getting Pedro Florimon to fly out to left field with men on the corners. Jose Valverde then pitched the ninth for his 34th save.
Florimon singled home the Twins' lone run in the seventh. Minnesota loaded the bases later in the inning, but Justin Morneau grounded out to second.
"It is a tough loss, but it was a good game and Prince had a big hit for them," Twins shortstop Jamey Carroll said.
In Toronto, the New York Yankees scored eight runs over the final four innings to earn a 9-6 victory over the Blue Jays.
The Blue Jays opened a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Rajai Davis singled with one out and Edwin Encarnacion walked before Escobar drilled an RBI double off the wall in right field. Lind followed with a sacrifice fly.
Toronto stranded a pair in the second and the Yankees got one back in the third when Eric Chavez led off the inning with his 16th homer of the season.
The Jays extended their lead with three runs in the fifth. Anthony Gose led off with a single and Brett Lawrie blasted his 11th home run into the second deck in left field. Yunel Escobar kept the inning alive with a two-out single, raced to third on a base hit by Adam Lind and scored on single to left by Moises Sierra.
"I would have liked to have a win rather than getting three hits, but obviously that didn't happen," Lawrie said.
The teams split a four-game series in May in Minnesota, their only previous meeting of the 2012 season. The Blue Jays won five of six games between the teams in 2011 and haven't lost the season series since 2005.


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If someone is really obsessing about things that don't mean much we say, 'Stop Davening over it'.'Davening' is a Jewish term. Many people won't recognize the term but most who have studied hard for a test have 'davened' whether they know it or not. When you're studying hard you may start to rock slightly back and forth. That's Davening. It's a very precise term for someone who is worrying about tiny little things that no one will notice.
I'm in the midwest, I putter about the house completely aimlessly. Cars putter along the road.Dithering to me is a mental thing. You dither about whether to wear the red shirt with the black pumps or the black dress with the ballet flats when you go out at night.Futzing, to me, is unnecessarily messing with. For example, if I'm puttering about, I might fold a few towels, go to wash a few dishes, just basically wander around aimlessly doing random things for a tiny bit before moving on to something else. If I was futzing about the towels, I'd unfold all of the towels in the house just to get them right.
US, Colorado. I have seen pottering about in books, but have only ever heard puttering (or futzing, as someone else mentioned).
Do any other brits know the term putter about as driving in a tiny car? (the type where the engine goes putputput instead of vroom)That's how I heard the term - maybe thats a lancashire thing
Quote from: Another Sarah on October 29, 2013, 12:45:17 PMDo any other brits know the term putter about as driving in a tiny car? (the type where the engine goes putputput instead of vroom)That's how I heard the term - maybe thats a lancashire thingI am in California, but I know it that way too. You can also putter around in a golf cart or something similar.
Putter, also futzing doesn't exist here, the term used won't pass censors. Dithering is personal and davening would be obsessing. All of these though are terms mothers and grandmothers use to scold/chide so I seldom use them.
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Digital Color Upgrade for Dickinson College
The Dickinson College Print Center still had a year left on the lease of its Xerox iGen3 digital color press when the Carlisle, Pa., in-plant decided to replace it in July. Kenneth Ball, director of User Services, had two very good reasons for upgrading to an iGen4 Diamond Edition.
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The latter is thanks to a time-saving feature on the iGen4 Diamond Edition called Auto Carrier Dispense. Dry ink and carrier are now combined, yielding more consistent color uniformity and ending the need to stop the machine to change developer.
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"We close at 5:00, so we would send jobs to run on the iGen3, and the color would be looking great when we're leaving," he says. In the morning, though, things wouldn't look as good. "Halfway through the stack of the output something went wrong," he says. The color at the end of the run didn't match the initial pages. With the iGen4, that's no longer the case.
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High School Performances: School record holder in the discus with a distance of 137' 8" as well as the conference record holder for both the shot put (41' 1.5") and the discus (134'5) ... In 2007 she took 8th place in the discus at the Division 1 State Meet and in 2008 she placed 2nd in the discus and 5th in the shot put.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker won a tough fight to strip most public-sector unions of their collective bargaining rights. He now faces a recall effort. In Indiana, politicians want to exempt nonunion employees from paying dues when working alongside union workers. Host Michel Martin speaks with journalists from the two states.
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So it's all in your head if you think the Clintons are doing anything to use race to beat Barack Obama.
Here's Dick Morris taking the strong position that they absolutely know what they are doing and mean to do it:
If Hillary loses South Carolina and the defeat serves to demonstrate Obama's ability to attract a bloc vote among black Democrats, the message will go out loud and clear to white voters that this is a racial fight. It's one thing for polls to show, as they now do, that Obama beats Hillary among African-Americans by better than 4-to-1 and Hillary carries whites by almost 2-to-1. But most people don't read the fine print on the polls. But if blacks deliver South Carolina to Obama, everybody will know that they are bloc-voting. That will trigger a massive white backlash against Obama and will drive white voters to Hillary Clinton.Here's Mickey Kaus proposing what he thinks is a clever tactic:
Obama has done everything he possibly could to keep race out of this election. And the Clintons attracted national scorn when they tried to bring it back in by attempting to minimize the role Martin Luther King Jr. played in the civil rights movement. But here they have a way of appearing to seek the black vote, losing it, and getting their white backlash, all without any fingerprints showing. The more President Clinton begs black voters to back his wife, and the more they spurn her, the more the election becomes about race -- and Obama ultimately loses
He could try to make Hillary the pet candidate of Latinos the way he's being cast as the pet candidate of blacks--but that would require a shift to the right on immigrant legalization that he doesn't seem willing to make.)...Centralize affirmative action as an issue in the campaign? How would that play out? It seems to me that the candidates would like to get race back into the background — but Hillary first must use it to defeat Obama.
The more obvious move is to find a Sister Souljah--after Saturday--to stiff arm. The most promising candidate is not a person, but an idea: race-based affirmative action. Obama has already made noises about shifting to a class-based, race-blind system of preferences. What if he made that explicit? Wouldn't that shock hostile white voters into taking a second look at his candidacy? He'd renew his image as trans-race leader (and healer). The howls of criticism from the conventional civil-rights establishment--they'd flood the cable shows--would provide him with an army of Souljahs to hold off. If anyone noticed Hillary in the ensuing fuss, it would be to put her on the spot--she'd be the one defending mend-it-don't-end-it civil rights orthodoxy.
IN THE COMMENTS: Our ghostly reader from the distant past, Sir Archy, has favored us with another visit!
To Professor Althouse.
As a Ghost of a former Scotch Elector, dead these 250 years and more, I have seen many an Election, and voted in not a Few. My unfortunate Death put an end to my climbing the Polling Booth steps, as the Franchise was not extended in Scotland in my Day to the Dead. That my Ghostly Condition entitles me to especial Consideration in certain American Constituencies is a piece of welcome Intelligence; I shall endeavor to inform your Readers of the Progress of my Efforts to claim my Place, after these many Years, as an American Elector.
But enough of my Fortunes—let us think on those of Mrs. Clinton: That Mrs. Clinton will be elect'd President, can admit of no Doubt. Consider the Clintons' Past-Mast'ry of arousing Passion & exciting Fear. Consider Mrs. Clinton's prospective Opponents: A Gentleman of good Fortune & Family, but insipid and uninspiring Mien; a half-pay Officer gone into Politicks, who, despite his heroick Past, has anger'd Half his Party; and a former Lord Mayor, who would play Dick Whittington, had he either the Sagacity of the Original, or the Cat of the Character. Are any of these Gentlemen a serious Obstacle to the Clinton Ferocity?
Consider her principal Opponent within her own Party: He should be the only Force that could halt Mrs. Clinton's inexorable Advance upon the White House. He is a fine and accomplish'd Gentleman of African descent, yet his Armour provides the Clintons two Chinks into which to insert the Rapier: The First is that he is a fine Gentleman, and not used to such vengeful Blows; the Second is that he is African, which in America opens him to a variety of Trips beyond the Dreams of any Stiletto-wielding Assassin. The Clintons have him down and are now engag'd in trying the Joints of his Breastplate. We only await Blood upon the Ground as Confirmation of his Demise.
That Mrs. Clinton should be elect'd President ought to occasion sombre Reflection among the American Electorate. The Maxims of a Democratick Nation imply the continual Rotation of Power, and that a Man (or now, a Woman) may answer Ambition with Effort, and rise by way of Politicks. That Power be always the Provinance of one Family or the Other, is a Situation fitter to Spain in my Day, where Hapsburgs & Bourbons contended to oppress an Empire, rather than for a manly Nation, founded on the Principles of British Liberty.
Giving careful consideration to the Qualities of the various Candidates for whom I should vote,
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Best of 2011: Blake "faps" and Ben's black eye
This is what started it all...
At the beginning of June, photos were leaked online alleged to be of Blake Lively, allegedly stolen from her cell phone, allegedly sent to a mystery recipient. The leaker was a punk, promising more compromising shots, and thanking her for the "faps". Click here for a refresher and access to all those old links.
Her reps weakly tried to insist that the images were photoshopped, that it was an imposter. Nobody bought it. (We will discuss how brilliantly she balled her way out of the leak another time. The Best of 2011 is FULL of Lively's game.)
The next day, like LITERALLY THE NEXT DAY, after more Blake naked shots were disseminated online, Ben Affleck was papped with his wife Jennifer Garner walking around with a black eye. I'm sure the incidents are unrelated...
But sometimes, sometimes timing is a gift. Good Gossip is often about good timing. Think about Blake and how much well timed great gossip she provided this year and be thankful. For the laughs you had picturing Jennifer Garner saying "faps". Be thankful and get ready for more.


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I actually had that daunting feeling sitting on the couch watching the cricket tonight - How the **** am I gonna put up with these guys all summer?
I actually had that daunting feeling sitting on the couch watching the cricket tonight - How the **** am I gonna put up with these guys all summer?
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Yeah, will have to investigate this sofa thing, because the 9 guys were terrible tonight. They seem to have been getting worse every year for a while now. So overdue for a cleanout. Fire the current lot as a job lot, apart from Richie and Chappelli who should be kept as the "special comments" guys who don't do the ball-by-ball, but chime in with an observation. People mentioned Bruce Macaveney and bagged him in this thread, but he'd be a massive improvement, even if he doesn't have a cricket background, he at least is professional and meticulous in his preparation - he has his commentating foibles, but he is always across all the details of the people he's commentating on.
EDIT: Taylor might be tolerable as a special comments guy as well.
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GOOD OLD COLLINGWOOD - PREMIERS IN 2010Originally Posted by Irfan
Is Cam White, Is Good.
Apart from anything else, 9 needs to get over this "you have to be have been a good Australian player to get a guernsey in the commentary team" fixation - Mark Nicholas aside. ****, throw some money at Gideon Haigh - again, not to do ball-by-ball, but to do some stories and interviews for the coverage.
And the obvious problems are: they're not good commentators.
Tbf, Nasser and Atherton have had no problems laying into England when necessary.
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
Regarding Atherton though, I don't think I recall him ever coming out and saying he doesn't think a player is good enough. I'm sure he's thought that at times too, but he normally just ends up listing their strengths and what they need to work on. He's an excellent analyst and probably my favourite commentator, but he too is a bit too nice at times IMO.
Do you mean Nasser is a **** as in he's ruthless and doesn't care what his old mates think and says it like it is, or that he's not a good commentator?
Nasser and Atherton are both awesome analysts.
Dravid, Punter and most particularly Sanga should become commentators after they retire. Sanga's articles on his favourite cricketers are fantastic.
Ganguly should do ball-by-ball for Neo, IMO.
Yeah I really hope Sangakkara becomes a commentator. Aakash Chopra's articles have always impressed me as well - I'm not sure what his spoken English is like but his written stuff is excellent so I get the feeling he could make a good commentator too.
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