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UPDATED: Together, we're changing the lives of a group of wolf dogs for the better
An update on the wolves and wolf-dogs from their home at the Lockwood Animal Rescue Center (LARC):
UPDATE 3.30.12 - An update on the wolves and wolf-dogs from their home at the Lockwood Animal Rescue Center (LARC):
"The wolfdogs rescued from Palmer, Alaska in December 2011 have had a wonderful transition in our Center. The day they arrived it was snowing lightly helping in their adjustment and now three months later the recent snowstorm has them leaping with delight. Having overcome some foot sorenesss from the newfound freedom of walking up and down various terrains, the wolfdogs are digging snow dens and running through the snow drifts playing like puppies. It is so pleasing to see them finally touching each other after being kept chained sometimes only a few feet from outstretched nose to outstreched nose while in Alaska. Now they are settled into their own packs, mostly one male and one female (the ones who were chained closest to each other) and some three member packs with two males and a female (usually a senior and juvenile male with an alpha female). Most surprisingly, and impressive, is that these animals have been so forgiving of humans and have opened up their hearts to all of us here at LARC. It is so gratifying to get their wolf love, and when they roll over for belly rubs we know we have gained their trust and are part of their pack. We have so much to learn from their undying love for their families and we hope that as ambassadors some of these wolfdogs will help towards ending the practice of breeding wolf-dogs for their use as pets and ending the hunting of wolves in the wild forever." Dr. Lorin Lindner, LARC President and Co-founder.
UPDATE: 12.12.11 - The wolves and wolf dogs have made it to their new home around 2:30am this morning. The trip went well and they have been released into their new enclosures. They have been fed and watered are adapting well already!
Lockwood Animal Rescue Center is located on 20 acres in the Los Padres National Forest at an elevation of around 5,000 feet so there are no worries that they will have to acclimate to a different climate. As a matter of fact, the wolves arrived home amidst a new snowfall which probably helped them to feel right at home.
I have a correction concerning my last blog: Alaska Airlines did not donate their services for the move but worked cooperatively with Pacific Pet Transport to ensure the animals had a smooth ride home.
Stay tuned for photos of the animals in their brand new enclosures!
ORIGINAL POST: 12.10.11 - Snow is falling here in Alaska. The morning is quiet as we pull into Wolf Dog USA, a roadside exhibit about an hour outside of Anchorage. In the back of the building are 29 wolves and wolf dogs that must be rescued before January 1st or face euthanasia.
Nobody is barking as we approach; wolves don't bark to alert or to get attention like dogs do. Instead they are circling around and around on their 8 foot chains watching us with that wolf-like intensity. If only we could somehow let them know they were on their way to a wonderful new home.
In Alaska, owning wolves and wolf dogs is not allowed without special permits, which the owner didn't possess. Lockwood Animal Rescue Center (LARC) in California worked with the Alaska State Special Prosecutor to take possession of the animals living with inadequate veterinary care, food, water and socialization.
But before the rescue could take place, enclosures had to be built and finding the money to build these proved difficult. The International Fund for Animal Welfare stepped in and provided the funds to build 28 "super-sized" enclosures so the animals would have plenty of space to run and play.
And so here we are today.
It's heartbreaking to see these beautiful animals separated from each other on short chains and no food or water in sight. There's nothing for them to do all day but circle around the posts the chains are attached to.
Each wolf or wolf dog's area looks like a lunar landscape with holes they'd dug from boredom. It is time to get to work. Special reinforced crates are unloaded, along with various equipment and drugs to tranquilize if necessary.
Wolves are shy by nature and will try to get away rather than aggressively come at you, although a couple of the males give us a few tense moments. The handlers are excellent and none of the animals have to be "darted" with a tranquilizer to get them into crates.
Finally all are loaded into the truck – on their way to the Alaska SPCA to be examined and sterilized. All the wolf dogs will be spayed or neutered by volunteer vets before they leave on a cargo plane tomorrow.
When they are finally in their new home at LARC they will be evaluated and slowly introduced to each other. It will be wonderful for them to have friends to play with and to do wolf-like normal behaviors and a large area to do that in.
I'm tired, hungry, wet and cold after this long day, but also very satisfied with the worthwhile work we accomplished. I love it when everyone comes together to make a rescue work and this is a great example of collaboration.
LARC staff, volunteers and vets traveled a couple thousand miles to rescue and then provide the animals with lifetime proper care. The International Fund for Animal Welfare provided them with large enclosures to live in. Alaskan SPCA donated their spay/neuter clinic and medical/surgical supplies and the vets worked well into the night to treat and sterilize these animals.
Alaska Airlines graciously provided the cargo plane, fuel and pilots free of charge to get these animals to Seattle where a LARC truck will meet them for their last leg home. And best of all, our donors want these gorgeous wolf dogs out of the terrible conditions they were forced to live in. They provide us with the means to do so. Thank you all so much. Together we can and do truly make change.


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The domain that connects people.
There are dozens of different ways to contact someone today. Between social networks, phones, addresses and websites, it's hard to know which is the right way to reach out. And if you can't get ahold of someone on one channel, will you know how to find them on an alternative? Fortunately, there's .tel, the domain that puts your contact information front and center. As of March 13, 2017, owners of a .tel domain can now use any kind of hosting, opening up the possibilities for creative ideas. Today it's an anything-you-want-it-to-be domain, just like .com, but focused on contact information. Originally, dot tel domains were designed to instantly identify your website as a place to find all the ways to connect with a person or organization. Any website registered with .tel was hosted by Telnic on their TelHosting platform. Typically, these one-page websites would contain:
- Phone number (work and/or personal)
- Website address
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- Facebook link
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- Home address
- Work address
- Associations
Your domain, your style.
Now, dot tel is the domain for everyone. If you want a virtual business card on the web (with as many details as you like), or want a space where people can reach out to your company, this is for you. It works equally well for personal branding purposes and corporate contact info. All those things make it a great destination for your ideas, as well as all your contact information.
Keep in touch.
It's important to have a presence on the web, be it for yourself or your business. Owning a dedicated location where visitors can contact you on any platform is great for SEO value, excellent for visibility and a good way to protect and legitimize your brand. In short, .tel is your way to tell the world who you are and how to connect with you in one centralized location. And in a world where making connections is becoming more and more difficult, this is an easy solution.

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Dear Ms. Callahan,
Thank you for your comments on my open letter to Senators Murkowski and Collins.
Note: This letter is in response to a Sept. 17 letter by Dr. Paul N. Seward.
Dr. Seward,
I am, by any contemporary definition, a political liberal. No other approach seems to me both practical and morally justifiable.
But I've got enough journalistic skepticism to know that not all the liberal truths are really true. And not seeing the truth, in all its nuances, can be dangerous for any political philosophy. (See pre-World War II isolationism; or "We can bring democracy to the Mideast by invading Iraq.")
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I have seen an ad for a "medical supervisor" for Planned Parenthood to work in several clinics, including Middlebury. The new location is still conveniently located on our excellent bus system, from the middle and high schools, not to mention the college.
In response to Ms. Jennie Anne Foster's essay on abortion recently, I would like to point out some ironies in her philosophy. Her view is quite cut and dried. She picks Bible passages to support her view of abortion as murder, but the Bible is full of contradictions.
The uproar over Congressman Todd Akin's, R-Missouri, statement on abortion has morphed into a serious concern for the Republican Party and its prospects to retake the presidency and U.S. Senate for one simple reason: his comments are reflective of the Republican Party and the belief of a majority of its congressional members. And that is a problem that gets too little attention.
The GOP's drift to the extreme political right on social issues, and increasingly on fiscal ones, has been as dramatic as it is nonsensical.
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At the final Obama state dinner, Versace's glamour shimmersSubmitted by admin on Wed, 10/19/2016 - 06:42
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcome Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Mrs. Landini to the White House for a state dinner.
Hosted by President Obama, the final state dinner in honor of Italy's prime minister, first lady Michelle Obama wore a custom rose-gold chain-mail gown from Atelier Versace. It was a slinky gown with an asymmetrical neckline that slithered like liquid metal down her torso and around her hips. It was pure Hollywood glamour.


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Centre for Global Eco-Innovation supports green economy in the northwest
NORTH WEST centre is driving forward eco-innovation in the region by helping SMEs access nearly a million pounds worth of funding and linking them with the best university talent.
The Centre for Global Eco-Innovation (CGE) – a collaboration between Lancaster University, the University of Liverpool and international management consultancy Inventya – is a virtual centre part financed by the European Regional Development Fund. CGE supports North West SMEs in commercialising eco-innovative products or services and has helped ten manufacturing businesses apply for a total of £973,131 Technology Strategy Board (TSB) Materials and Manufacturing Launchpad funding.
The competition centred around high tech manufacturing SMEs based at Sci-Tech Daresbury, the science and innovation campus and the Runcorn Heath Business and Technical Park. Winners now have six months to court other investors to gain matching funding to enable them to conduct R&D projects.
One of the winning bids was South Warrington-based Trametox which has developed unique radiation detectors to reveal any nuclear materials being smuggled into a country on shipping containers. Jeff Boardman, chief technology officer at Trametox, said: "Coming from a science and engineering background myself, the help from CGE and Inventya was incredibly valuable and included assisting us through two in depth stages of a video presentation and then a detailed submission. The Launchpad will now act as a springboard to help us raise the rest of the money required for the successful completition of the project."
CGE is now calling for eco-innovative SMEs in the region to come forward to link up with university students on collaborative R&D projects lasting between three and six months. The centre is tasked with finding live project opportunities for 50 graduate students from the two world-ranking universities with SMEs in sectors spanning pharmaceuticals, bioscience, agriculture, environmental engineering and transport.
The projects are typically between 300 and 600 hours and are fully academically supervised and funded by the University of Liverpool and Lancaster University. Tom Wright, project manager at the Centre for Global Eco-Innovation, said: "Our aim at the centre is to help drive forward improvements in green technology and services throughout the North West as part of the government's overall bid to reduce carbon emissions. "We want to make SMEs aware of the support that is out there to help them develop eco-innovative products. Depending on the needs of the individual businesses, this could take the form of funding or university-business collaboration."
Businesses interested in taking on an graduate student to help them develop their eco-innovative business should contact project manager at CGE, Tom Wright on 01925 607190 or email firstname.lastname@example.com


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Men's soccer ready for Spring Collegiate Soccer Showcase
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb men's soccer team is getting set to host the Spring Collegiate Soccer Showcase and has released the schedule for all games.
The Bisons will host the six-team field on April 5.
Teams participating in the showcase are Belmont, Kentucky, Memphis, UAB and Lindsey Wilson.
Lipscomb will start the action against Kentucky at 9 a.m. at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex.
With multiple games going on at the same time, a couple of matches will take place at the Lipscomb practice facility.


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My latest post on violence against homeless people took off from a remark by Eric Sheptock, a leading "homeless homeless advocate" in our adoptive hometown. Commenting on a recent attack, he'd tweeted, "Our society has learned to hate the homeless." I begged to differ.
I invited Eric to respond. Here, lightly edited, is what he has to say.
Friend and fellow homeless advocate Kathryn Baer calls my analysis into question. She quotes Neil Donovan, the Executive Director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, whose Speakers' Bureau I'm part of: "Only a disturbed mind … [acts out] such an intense passion of dislike."
Their shared analysis flies in the face of my broad indictment of society by narrowing it down to a small group of delinquent youths and suggesting that they might not be fully responsible for their bad choices, due to mental deficiencies.
Their points are well-taken. However, my own unprofessional psychoanalysis of society has shown me that society's core values are most easily detected by watching the behaviors of its least intelligent, most disturbed and youngest citizens.
Consider the six-year-old boy who killed a female classmate or the fact that some of the least intelligent members of society understand the importance of money and will do anything to get it.
It would seem that the smallest minds learn the biggest truths and then, in some cases, lack the capacity to balance them with other important concerns or any critical thinking. This points the blame right back at society and its leaders.
To say that violent crimes against the homeless are encouraged by laws that criminalize homelessness implies that the perpetrators of such crimes know these laws, assessed their implications and determined that the disregard for homeless people which has been codified into law gives them license to hurt or kill them.
It's hard for me to imagine them taking the time to learn such laws and even harder to imagine a group which is not known for its consideration of consequences even caring whether or not their actions are legal or supported by law in any way.
It's true that when the perps are caught, they are prosecuted. However, it's not hard for a cynic (which I don't claim to be) to make the case that, on some level, public officials are indifferent to violence against the homeless.
After all, it rids society of homeless people who are dependent on social services and gives police a reason to lock up the killers so that they don't hurt the productive members of society. Politically speaking, it's a win-win situation.
That said, my statement that "our society has learned to hate the homeless" was in response to much more than just violent crime.
I know of several concerted efforts to have the homeless removed, even when they are not causing a problem.
We know with certainty that hospitals have dumped many homeless patients on the streets.
And let's not forget about the NIMBY-ism that manifests itself every time that even the best homeless services program (or housing for the homeless) is located in their neighborhood.
The homeless are an easy group to hate. They are seen by public officials and the general public as being lazy and shiftless. Many of them use up more tax revenues than they contribute.
The homeless are seen as "getting in the way of business." They are often mentally ill. Those who are not often lack the drive or ability to stand up against public policies and attitudes that adversely affect them. Boy, do I know that!
All of this enables the people and policies to take various actions (legal and illegal) against the homeless virtually unopposed.
It also makes the few prosecutions of teens who hurt or kill the homeless look like nothing more than a token effort which policymakers can point to when accused of ignoring the homeless.
Let's hold them to a higher standard by demanding real solutions. After all, we all want to get rid of the homeless. The most practical way would be by reversing the societal conditions and social ills that create them.


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Security-As-A-Feature And The Economics of Abundance
from the a-feature-not-a-product dept
The always insightful Bruce Schneier has a new piece out arguing that the stand-alone security industry is doomed, as security increasingly becomes a feature of other products, rather than a product in its own right. He points out that hardly anybody wants to buy a "security product." They want to buy useful products -- operating systems, databases, web servers, whatever -- and take for granted that the developers of those products have designed it to be secure out of the box. Schneier points out that consolidation in the security industry has not taken the form of large security firms buying small security firms, but of non-security-focused software firms buying security firms to help bolster the security and reputation of their products. This may indicate that developers of other software products are recognizing that better security is one of the key features customers are demanding in their products.
If you'll excuse me for jumping on a Techdirt hobby-horse here, this is another example of the economics of abundance at work. Security products are increasingly becoming commodities. Obviously the software ones -- anti-virus tools, software firewalls, intrusion detection systems -- have a marginal cost of zero, and even many of the hardware devices are built on commodity parts that get cheaper every month. What hasn't gotten cheaper is the expertise required to put the bewildering array of security tools together into a coherent system that's customized for a firm's particular business. Indeed, as security products have gotten more numerous and more complex, it has actually gotten harder to keep track of them all and know which security tools are the best ones to use in any given situation.
And crucially, this isn't something you can outsource to a third party. I've written before (in the context of e-voting) that encryption isn't magic pixie dust that automatically makes a system more secure. The same point applies to security more generally. Having the best firewall in the world won't do you any good if it's not configured properly, or if your network hasn't been designed with security in mind. And because every large organization has different security needs, every organization needs a slightly different security setup.
This creates a huge opening for companies who understand that customers are not looking to buy a security software product, but a suite of software that they can count on to be secure without worrying about the details. We've pointed out that this is essentially the business Red Hat is in: not selling software but selling the expertise of its employees with respect to the software. Security is a big part of that. "Security software" is an infinite good, and the market for it will get increasingly crowded in the future. On the other hand, the expertise needed to build complex software systems securely is as scarce as ever, and such expertise is one of the key ways that software companies can distinguish themselves from the competition.
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During the 1980s, game company Namco started making awesome robots. Robots! But Namco was not alone.
Space Invaders developer Taito also took the know-how it attained from the arcade business and funneled that into building its own bots. In 1983, Taito created a walking, talking bot named "Yumemaru" as well as a guitar-playing robot.
Yumemaru was controlled by a remote-controlled joystick and moved about on wheels (however, his legs appeared to be walking). It could even apparently hold a basic conversation!
Since Taito has become a part of Square Enix, the company seems to have left is robot-building days behind it.
TAITO's Retro Promo Robos (1983) [Plastic Pals]


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Spirit of Melcannia
Julia moves from the city to live on an outback sheep station, when she marries. But her peaceful existence is ruined by the presence of the ghost of a stockman who died 100 years ago. The ghost becomes obsessed with Julia, causing her husband to become jealous. Julia knows he must move on, and enlists the help of the local Aboriginals to do so....


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With the quick turnaround to the Browns on Thursday night, this was a victory needed for numerous reasons.
Tomlin's post-game comments did not rule out Wood for Thursday saying it was just a tweak. Also, Ramon Foster appeared to have a pretty good ankle sprain. I'll be surprised to see him play.
Either way, this is a positive way to go into the Brownies this week. Not the grueling game it could have been.


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Hot British Celebs Join The "Cock In A Sock" Campaign
You can crowd a lot in a sock, which is why the British hunks and celebrities continue to stuff themselves into the "Cock In A Sock" testicular cancer awareness campaign. Our first round-up of activists came Monday, but the men are still arriving on social media thick and strong in what's become our favorite cancer-fighting technique to come from science yet.
A few U.K. celebrities have jumped into a sock, too, including:
X-Factor finalist Lloyd Daniels
Reality TV personality/former model Calum Best (left)
And a few more notable civilians that caught our eye have joined since Monday, too:
By your standards, men are "meant" to have facial hair, but it's very common for men to shave their faces. If you are built in such a way that body hair is the only thing that keeps you from "looking like a child from the waist down," then maybe don't shave it. Nude models for artists usually shave body hair, and they can do so without "looking like children" because bodies mature in other ways as well. If you don't want to feel pressured to shave, don't. Just like facial hair and head hair, trends exist in the world of body hair grooming, and people always have their own preferences.


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Jamie Roche necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 481 diseños de 147 diseñadores freelance.
Sub2 is a blog run by Jamie Roche, founder of Boltnet Inc. The Sub2 blog is a way for Boltnet to communicate information related to creating more effective landing pages. The blog design will be very clean and spare. The logo needs to read well at small scale (100px x 100px).
Our readers will be online marketers. They will include men and women, they have an average age of 28, they are very social and very comfortable with the casual, social trends in business.
They are not open to impersonal, corporate design but prefer a more friendly, open style.
We plan to present a logo that looks at once a little retro, and futuristic. Take a look at the attached sketch for guidance.
Sub2 refers to the speed that a landing page should take to fully show up on an end user's screen (less than 2 seconds). The implications of a sub 2 second target is that landing pages need to be simpler, contain less content and rely less on heavy images or media content.
We also know that for landing pages to work well, they need to be targeted. Different audiences will see different versions of a page. Delivering a targeted landing page in less than 2 seconds is even more difficult.
This blog will talk about tools and strategies for delivering great, targeted landing pages in less than 2 seconds: sub2.
We are looking for a logo, and a color palate for the blog. Take a look at http://www.vostok.es/blog/ for an example of the Wordpress Theme that we plan to use. The logo will appear in small form at the top of the page. It can be monochrome like the vostok example or it can have color, 3 dimensionality ...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Progress report
9 comments:
- Wendy said...
This is a beautiful quilt.....I love the hand quilting you have done.....your partner is very lucky!
- July 27, 2011 at 8:59 PM
- Lynz said...
I LOVE that wee quilt. LOVELOVELOVE!!! I did my first hand quilting with perle cotton last night, it was most enjoyable!!
- July 28, 2011 at 2:21 AM
- crazyhorse said...
I'm loving that doll quilt!
- July 29, 2011 at 6:53 PM
- Jeanne said...
I LOVE LOVE LOVE how you are stitching that doll quilt. I would love more information about your pattern and to see the whole thing
- September 15, 2011 at 2:27 PM
- Ima said...
Jeanne has already said exactly what I wanted to say. I'm not so much of a quilter myself, but this one I love.
- September 29, 2011 at 12:17 AM
- Cynthia said...
This the cutesy zig-zag quilt I have ever seen! Love it!
- October 5, 2011 at 7:37 AM
- Cynthia said...
Oops! I meant "cutest"--sometimes I hate predictive text!
- October 5, 2011 at 7:39 AM
- Loretta said...
Is the bottom picture your own pattern? Or is there a place to get the pattern online?
Thanks in advance
- February 19, 2014 at 8:48 AM
Hello, I was wondering if I could get the instructions for how you did the doll quilt. I am very intrigued by this beautiful design. Please email me firstname.lastname@example.com
- July 4, 2014 at 5:00 AM


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Despite five defeats, Steyn optimistic of DC's chances
Star pacer Dale Steyn feels he is fortunate to be part of a strong South African side, which has enabled him to produce his best in the past few years.
"I'm lucky to be part of the South African set up. They have great work ethics with some outstanding players. Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, coach Gary Kirsten... They are the legends of the game in South Africa.
"There are also very talented players like Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers. I'm just fortunate to be play alongside the great cricketers," the 28-year-old speedster said."I'm part of a great side so you develop a learning attitude. They are all inspirational cricketers."
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'I don't think I'm the best player ever yet'
The 28-year-old who is instrumental for South Africa's rise to the second spot in the Test rankings said there is no shortcut to success.
"It took a lot of hardwork to reach here. All cliche stuff... But that's the reality. It does not happen overnight.
"It took me about nine years to reach here. I've played two county seasons (for Essex and Warwickshire) in between. It does not happen fast."
The world's top bowler for last three years, Steyn, however, sees the ranking as just a number."I don't think I'm the best player ever yet. There maybe somebody else who is superior to me. It is just a number, after all. It does not change much on the field if you are the no 1 or no 100 bowler. It's just a recognition," Steyn, a big fan of Allan Donald, said.
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'We are very hopeful of making IPL semis'
South Africa will be eyeing the No 1 Test ranking when they tour England for a three-match series this July and Steyn insisted there is as no additional pressure of the series.
"It will be no different from any other series, whether we tour Zimbabwe or England. My job is to win the match for the side. Rankings come later. I will be looking forward to it as any other series," he said.
Talking about the ongoing IPL, where his team, Deccan Chargers, have a tough ask to make the cut from the league stage after five straight losses, Steyn said they are still hopeful."There is nothing we can do about it. There may be different logics and a lot of if and buts. But the fact is we have to lift ourselves from here on. There are no two ways about it. That's the reality. We are positive and the atmosphere is good enough for the team to make a winning comeback. We are very hopeful of making the last four," Steyn said.
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The top Test speedster further said it's no different in Twenty20 and the bowlers now have become smart enough to contain the batsmen.
"It's cricket after all. The approach here (in a Twenty20) game may vary. But the bowlers are doing a very good job in the game dominated by the batters. They are smart enough now," he said, on the eve of their IPL return leg match against Kolkata Knight Riders in Kolkata.
The team is struggling to notch a victory, and Steyn said it is missing the services of India pacer Ishant Sharma, who is in the Bangalore-based NCA for rehab after ankle surgery.
"He is a quality bowler, but we have some good guys coming into the side to replace him. We wish him (Ishant) speedy recovery. We do not know how long he will be away. Therefore, we are focusing on the players we have in the team," he said.Does Ishant's absence mean extra work for him? "Not extra load, but it means more expectations."
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I'm going to be using the term "social network spam" rather loosely here. Wikipedia defines it one way, but I've seen others talk about different phenomena that also deserve the term. First I'm going to cover my own varied experience with it, then branch out into other descriptions.
One of my earliest experiences with online social networking can't really be called spam, for all that it was unexpected and unsolicited. A freelance writer who had submitted some articles occasionally to our company invited me to join LinkedIn. I did. It was a painless experience, but I haven't really done much with it since. If I did more business networking, it would have been more useful to me. As it happens, I do expect to do more business networking over the next year, so I'm glad to have a place to start.
Sometime in the past month, I received an email from a friend inviting me to join Tagged.com. Like the LinkedIn invitation, this message appeared to have been automatically generated by the network; unlike the LinkedIn message (here I'm operating from memory), it looked as if it was sent directly from my friend's email account. That meant no risk of triggering the spam filters. Also, it went to my personal rather than my work account; this made sense, since my friend had no reason to have my work email address in his online address book.
By this time I'd reviewed several social networking sites, and knew of the existence of more. I currently have accounts, or at least sign-ins, with Live Journal, Searchles, Zude, Yahoo 360, LinkedIn, Spock, Orkut, and probably a few about which I've utterly forgotten. I've heard of Fark, Digg, Reddit, Facebook, MySpace, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Powerset…I could name more, and I know how to Google for even more than that. The point is, I'd never heard of Tagged.com, and I thought that was a little unusual. So I decided to do a little investigating before clicking that link.
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It was the work of a moment to Google Tagged.com. I learned from an eWeek article that Tagged has been "harvesting teenagers." I apologize if I'm a little behind the times; the article dates to April 2007. Anyway, author Larry Seltzer reported getting about six emails from a friend of his inviting him to join Tagged.com, saying "Please respond or [friend's name] will think you said no. 🙁 ." Like the ones I received, these emails looked auto-generated. Like me, Seltzer passed up the invitation, but he did more research.
Seltzer found a blog entry from Symantec that explained how Tagged works. In part, it said that "…when a user signs up for Tagged, they're practically forced to put in their Webmail credentials. Tagged then logs into your Webmail account as you, accesses your address book and prompts you to e-mail your contacts using your Webmail address as the reply-to." Can you say "invasion of privacy"? I knew you could. Here I bow to Seltzer, because at this point he put in the work with multiple Gmail accounts to prove that Tagged actually did engage in this practice; I recommend reading the article to anyone who's curious about the technology.
Seltzer went on to talk about Tagged's Terms of Service, which are a little scary. Basically, they can share your email address and assorted other information – even your eye color, it says so right in the ToS – with third parties for marketing purposes. Users may opt out, but Tagged targets teenagers; how many of them are going to read the Terms of Service to find out how they can opt out of marketing? Tagged also specifically lies in its terms of service; it says that "Users have the option, within their Internet browsers, to disable cookies and continue to access the Tagged website." When Seltzer tried it, he found out that "If you disable cookies it won't let you log in and says that you have to enable cookies."
Needless to say, I didn't sign up for Tagged.com. I don't want to inconvenience my friends with invitations to try out new social networks. I definitely don't want to see my friends involved in a social network that's that grabby about personal information. What's even worse is that the site doesn't actually SAY they're going to use your email to send out all these invitations to all your friends to join the network.
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Now I'm sure you've received invitations from dating networks with dozens of gorgeous women who want to date you; I've received that spam myself. And certainly you've received spam messages where someone you've never heard of claims to be your friend and is inviting you to join some online social network you've never heard of; I've also received a few of those. But recently I received an offer that surprised me into writing this article in the first place.
It was from StumbleUpon. Since I'd heard of them, I assumed that they would be engaging in ethical practices. And it's quite possible that they are. Their users, on the other hand, might not be. You see, I had never even heard of the person who sent me the invitation! And the auto-generated message did not include any kind of personal note explaining why he'd sent the invitation or introducing himself; just the auto-generated part about wanting to share favorites. He appeared to be real enough; I was able to confirm that via Google. But for the life of me I couldn't remember him, or figure out where he knew me from that he would send me an invitation to join an online social network.
The invitation came to my work address; I sent an email directly to him in response, asking where he knew me from. My work email address isn't hard to find or figure out. Anyway, I haven't heard back from him. I did discover that one of the people he is a fan of is named seogurl. If that indicates an interest in SEO, he may know me through the articles I write. Still, it was more than a bit…disconcerting. Then again, maybe I'm being something of a stick in the mud about this. Heavens, hadn't Emily Post or Miss Manners covered the proper etiquette for inviting someone to join your online social network?
No, I suppose not. When I Googled the phrase "social network spam" (without quotes), I received nearly 46 million hits. One interesting link led to a very recent post on LibraryThing's blog, castigating Shelfari for doing basically the same thing as Tagged.com. Among other things, it quotes Jesse Wegman of the New York Observer as saying that Shelfari spammed "every single person with whom I have exchanged an e-mail in the past three years, in addition to every single person who has ever been on the same cc list as I have, regardless of whether we have ever met, in addition to every single listserv I have ever joined and every single Web site from which I have ever ordered anything." Ouch! On top of that, the post includes links to 51 bloggers and journalists who are upset over Shelfari's practices.
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As I mentioned earlier Wikipedia defines social network spam a little differently from the way I've described it above. Social network spammers utilize a social network's search tools to "target a certain demographic segment of users, and send notes to them from an account disguised as that of a real person. Such notes typically include embedded links to pornographic or other product sites designed to sell something. As of 2006, spamming software such as FriendBot is available to automate the process."
Let's change the context a little bit. Google recently unveiled its OpenSocial initiative. It will allow third party developers to build applications that can work with data from a wide variety of online social networks. By and large this is a good thing, but it's easy to see how an unscrupulous developer might secretly turn one of these applications into an information harvester for himself. It could be something that happens in the background…and the user wouldn't even realize that the information is being shared with someone else. What that someone else does with it could range from unwanted marketing to identity theft if the user wasn't sufficiently careful.
Let's also look at Facebook's new advertising efforts in this light. The new initiative has three parts. The first part lets companies build their own pages on Facebook to connect with their target audience. The second part is a system through which the marketing message will be spread virally via Facebook Social Ads. The third part lets companies gather insight into the users' activities on Facebook. The way the system works, however, is like this: when you "friend" a company or a product, your name and picture are used in an ad for that product. And this ad is sent to your friends. It hardly seems as if you're consenting to this when you agree to "friend" the site – and the system might actually be illegal in New York.
Other activities that online social networks engage in raise all sorts of privacy issues. In a September blog entry, Ross Mayfield, co-founder of Socialtext, puts the problem plainly. "The fundamental privacy problem is that social networks grow virally by adding you to a graph without asking you to opt in. Once you are in the graph, it may be hard for you to know you are in, let alone opt out…You are modeled without your control over social context, and identity and relationship data can be layered on top of you as a node…Providers come in all stripes and you not only have to concern yourself with their ethical business practices, but the basic of security. Opening the graph to third party developers based on open standards is a laudable effort to solve one social graph problem. But the privacy concern of governance and oversight over those third party developers who have access to more data than users is uncharted." It looks as if we'll be traveling into a lot of uncharted territory in the months and years ahead.


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Currently lots of people participate in the Fedora Project. Some of them devote an incredible amount of their personal time to it. But although they are known amongst people related to their area of interest, some of them might feel lack of urge to push forward and improve over time. We would like to motivate them continuously, increase their satisfaction from their work and reward them. We believe that one of the pieces of this puzzle could be a Hall of Fame, that is further described by this proposal.
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Hall of Fame should be a collection of ladders that display top Fedora contributors in certain areas over a certain period of time and give them credit. The suggested areas of tracked participation may include (just ideas, not everything must be implememted):
- Fedora Wiki - # of edits, # of new pages created
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- Fedora Forum - # of replies, # of new threads, new ranks achieved
- Red Hat Bugzilla - # of comments, # of new bugs reported, # of bugs triaged, # of bugs fixed
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- Fedora Planet - # of blogposts
These statistics should be probably displayed in the form of ladders and graphs on a separate web page, that would encompass the whole Hall of Fame. This page could be part of Fedora Community website and the UI could be similar to reports present there. Basically it could look similar to the graphs currently available on Fedora Community website, but we would like to have many many more of them and prettier :-)
The statistics should be updated regularly. It doesn't have to be real-time, but at least once a day would serve the purpose well.
We foresee that the "top contributors list" and a link to Hall of Fame would be included in the Fedora Weekly News or other magazines and that could be a big motivator and a reward for some people to be listed there.
Possible future enhancements
- A nice feature would be support for certain time snapshots (e.g. "wiki edits for the end of May") that could be linked from other sources. That way hyperlinks in newsletters/blogpost would link to the same content even after several months.
- Although the first task is to have this working for general metrics (e.g. all wiki edits regardless of user memberships or wiki sections), an optional feature in some later stage of this project could be tailoring the statistics for different teams/audiences. For example QA team would love to restrict the graph of wiki edits only to people with qa group membership, or just to wiki pages with QA: and Test_Results: namespaces.
Implementation details
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- Jan Hutař
- Jan Tluka
- Marián Ganisin
- Time scope: start of June 2010 - end of August 2010
Implementation status
Project Management
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TODO list
- ALL: Think out the proposal thoroughly, raise questions and concerns, post them here (use Discussion page)
- jtluka: Sort out with your managers how much time you can spend on this task
- jtluka: Try out EKG and see how it works
- kparal: Consult this idea with Fedora Community authors. Those are probably the same people as standing behind Statistics 2.0 project.
- kparal: Find public machine suitable for development
- kparal: Find out where the documentation (photos, etc) is stored for our past project management training, it wasn't provided to us
- jhutar: Write "Hello World" page for Fedora Community portal, inspect the code standing behind it
- mganisin: Set wiki to watch this page for you and inform you on every change
- mganisin: Find out how hard it is to extract data from different web portals and development tools (as listed in the proposal). Provide some summary which portals are easy to work with and which are not.
- Consult idea for watching fedoraforum with Fedora Forum Community - from a quick search, it looks like they are not using CMS which have some RPC and it looks like there is no such plug-in on the CMS webpages
Interesting things that could help
- EKG - project for monitoring mailing lists, in Perl
- Repositioning myself within the Fedora Project - blogpost about Fedora statistics
- Statistics 2.0 - very similar project to ours, blogpost about it
- FAS scraper - simple tool for inspiration, ticket for inclusion into python-fedora


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PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - The chief executives of advertising companies Publicis (PUBP.PA) and Omnicom Group (OMC.N) are working together to resolve a seven-month-old struggle over who will be chief financial officer of their combined group if the $35 billion merger is completed, three people close to the deal said on Sunday.
John Wren, the head of New York-based Omnicom, and Maurice Levy, his opposite number at Paris-based Publicis, are in regular contact to try to settle the CFO choice, which has fuelled tensions between the two sides since September as they seek to secure regulatory approvals for the blockbuster deal, the people said.
Both remain committed to the tie-up, which would create the world's biggest ad agency ahead of current leader WPP (WPP.L), added the sources.
The infighting over the CFO shows the pitfalls of trying to engineer a "merger of equals" as the deal was billed when it was announced to much fanfare in July.
Some analysts, investors and rivals have expressed doubts over whether executives and staff in the two companies, especially their veteran CEOs, will be able to effectively work together if the deal is completed. Other mergers with similar profiles, including a 2006 Franco-American tie-up between telecom equipment makers Alcatel ALUA.PA and Lucent Technologies, have foundered over culture clashes.
The CEO of rival WPP, Martin Sorrell, said on Friday that most people he was speaking to said there was now a third to a half chance that the deal would not be completed.
The tensions between the top executives of the two companies were first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Friday.
The merger calls for a 50-50 ownership split of the equity in the new company, Publicis Omnicom Group, with Wren and Levy serving as co-CEOs for 30 months from the closing.
The two companies initially aimed to close the deal in the first quarter of this year, but an ongoing China antitrust review and tax jurisdiction issues that were disclosed by Omnicom last Tuesday have delayed completion. Publicis said last week that the deal would close in the third quarter, but Omnicom's Wren now declines to predict timing.
Omnicom wants its CFO, Randall Weisenburger, to get the top finance job, while Publicis wants its CFO, Jean-Michel Etienne, the people said.
Behind the spat over the group's finance chief is a deeper question about how the new operation should be run, said two of the people.
To boost profits, Publicis has long centralized many purchasing and support functions for the roughly dozen advertising agencies it owns, such as Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett and Razorfish. Analysts say the approach has helped Publicis achieve higher operating profit margins than its rivals; its margin stood at 15.9 percent last year, compared with 12.5 percent for Omnicom and 15.1 percent for WPP.
The choice of the CFO could determine whether the new company adopts the Publicis approach or the more decentralized model favored by Omnicom in which individual agencies have more leeway in everything from technology systems to supplies, the people said.
"There are ongoing talks on the leadership issue," said one of the people on Sunday. "Wren and Levy are determined to find a solution because it is simply in the interests of both companies. The best guarantee of success is the two CEOs determination to complete the deal."
The companies also continue to work on resolving tax issues that have slowed down the deal. Wren spooked investors on Tuesday when he disclosed that the companies had not yet been able to get approval for their plan to have a tax residency in Britain, while being legally headquartered in the Netherlands.
Although the British tax authorities sent a positive signal in meetings with the companies over the new entity being tax resident in Britain, the Dutch authorities were not supportive, two of the people said. The Dutch rejected the idea that the new company could be legally based in that country but not be subject to local tax rules.
"The Dutch authorities expressed a desire not to lose their tax sovereignty over the new company to the English," said one of the people.
One option to solve the problem might be to seek double residency for tax purposes in both Britain and the Netherlands, which is rare but may be workable, the person added.
Publicis and Omnicom continue to work on the issue. The Dutch and the British would have to agree for Omnicom and Publicis' original British tax residency plan to become a reality.
Another approval needed from France's tax authority is on track and not expected to pose a problem, the sources said.
Besides the tussle to name the finance chief, there are other signs that relations between the two companies are fraying.
They have not been able to agree on which company will be listed as the "accounting acquirer", or the buyer from an accounting standpoint, on official filings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. While the issue is a technicality, it has gotten tangled up in the CFO fight, one of the people said.
Usually in an acquisition, the accounting acquirer is the party receiving the bigger share of the equity and voting rights in the new company. In the Omnicom-Publicis deal both sides are due to receive an equal stake and voting rights in the new company, so a series of criteria must be analyzed to determine which side is the accounting acquirer.
Robert Willens, a corporate tax and accounting analyst based in New York, said the dispute over accounting acquirer pointed to a disagreement over management control.
"That could be symptomatic of other, more deep-seated conflicts between the companies," he said.
WPP's Sorrell said he would prefer the deal go ahead because in his view mergers of equals don't work. "I think the best result for us, frankly, would be for the deal to go ahead with joint CEOs, fighting with one another about who's running the company," he said in a Reuters Insider interview.
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Sorrell said the results conference calls from Publicis and Omnicom last week "sounded like two ships passing in the night."
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The human soul is "the innermost aspect of man, that which is of greatest value in him, that by which he is most especially in God's image: 'soul' signifies the spiritual principal in man" (Catechism, No. 263). The word "spirit" points to the fact that we are created for "a supernatural end" (No. 367). The two terms are complementary.
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3 tablespoons apricot jam
What an interesting idea - having a baked jammy cream cheese layer. Sounds lovely!
I am sure (well, almost sure) that there might be a nice fat free sponge out there - but I don't believe for a second that any Austrian cake shop would make one.
Looks yummmmm.
I'm with susie, this is both interesting and lovely! Plums and dessert go superbly well together x
Ooh err Mrs indeed! This sounds fascinating. I was really surprised to see the cream cheese layer going into the oven, but I guess it's no different to cheesecake. It sounds delicious and I really want to try it.
I've never heard of this recipe before, but from the pictures it looks like the combination of ingredients have really worked out well. A lovely treat x
whoop whoop!! I was about to make a crumble for tomorrow night with the ruck of plums I seem to have accumulated, this looks so lovely and much more interesting. Furthermore, I have all the ingredients in my cupboard and fridge. Thank you CC x
Oooh, I love the idea of combining cake, cream cheese and delicious melting fruit - I can see why this is one of your favourite cakes ever.
What delicious ingredients! It looks lovely too
An interesting recipe. I wonder whether this is the same cafe at which, many years ago, I ate "Salzburgergermknodeln". (Salzburg yeast dumplings). This dish likewise included a lovely cooked plum mix, and I tried to recreate it at home. Unfortunately I lack your skill and finesse. The outcome was described by my then flatmate as "Rat Rissoles". That person is no longer in my circle of acquaintances!
I enjoy your blog so much. You always have such interesting recipes, classy and elegant. Where do you find them? Matters not as long as you continue to share them with us. Thanks!
Hi Debs
Aw, thanks! I have far too many cookbooks (well over 1000, probably nearing 2,000) but this recipe is actually my own invention!
Happy baking
Yummo - I love me a plum cake. Cream cheese topping sounds decadent.
Yum...these look really tasty! I love the cream cheese topping too. I've also been baking with plums this week...such a great ingredient! :-)
Yum...these look really tasty! I love the cream cheese topping too. I've also been baking with plums this week...such a great ingredient! :-)
This sounds delicious especially the cream cheese topping. I'm not a fan of fat free sponges either but have made them a few times out of necessity!
My kind of cake/dessert - great invention. Looks temptingly delicious too.
This cake made it to the top of my baking list (right after the ginger almond slice), even though it contains no spices and no almonds. The secret? I love plums and I adore cheesecake, but I've never, I mean NEVER seen those two ingredients appear together in one cake. Plum cheesecake?! Sign me up!
I decided to use your suggestion about "matching the jam to the fruit", so I used prune butter instead of apricot jam. This affected the cake's looks a bit - instead of dark plums against a pristine white background, I got dark plums on something a bit less dark and vaguely chocolate-y in appearance. Also, the prune butter wasn't sweetened, so I ended up adding a tablespoon of honey - it'd probably be best to just use sweet jam. My plums didn't really submerge in the topping either, but I don't think they could - the layer was about 0,5 cm thick. And the topping didn't set in the oven like cheesecakes do - it was more like a cream cheese frosting.
And another thing about the cake? It completely demolished my self-restraint. I've already had two slices (very modest ones, but two nevertheless). and I'm still contemplating some more. The fruity cream cheese layer, the plum syrup and the sweet sponge work together like charm. You can be really proud of a concoction like that: for me, it's probably one of the best on the blog.
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U.S. manufacturers are enjoying a 21st-century renaissance that is riveting stock investors to industrial companies, and many analysts predict this "Made in the U.S.A." theme could be a winner in 2014.
The U.S. economy is recovering slowly but steadily. While productivity and earnings growth aren't expected to soar next year, some surprising recent developments have shifted U.S. industry into higher gear — especially in the factories and oil fields of America's heartland.
"Middle America," says Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab & Co., "is our favorite emerging market."
To explain the stunning economic tailwind behind U.S. industrial companies, and build a solid investment case for the sector, analysts and researchers point to three crucial catalysts.
The Chinese connection
First, the Made in America revival, ironically, was largely made in China. The Chinese economic boom over the past two decades has boosted wages and production costs there, meaning Chinese factory workers' pay, for example, is no longer far below factory pay in the U.S.
'Middle America is our favorite emerging market.'
As a result, the U.S. now is considered a low-cost, high-quality manufacturing base, according to Boston Consulting Group. U.S. companies operating in China are rethinking offshore manufacturing, with its unpredictable shipping, supply-chain and other bottom-line risks, and increasingly finding that "reshoring" jobs in the U.S. is more economical and stable, BCG says.
Direct beneficiaries of this game-changer include U.S.-based makers of computers, electronics, electrical equipment, appliances, furniture and plastics, BCG notes. Meanwhile, U.S. spending on domestically made goods is growing faster than imports for the first time in two decades, other than during recessions, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch research. Tellingly, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT, +1.49% has pledged to buy $50 billion in additional U.S.-made products over the coming decade.
Second, U.S. energy independence is a boon for industrial companies. U.S. oil production in October exceeded imports for the first time in 18 years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. U.S. oil output is expected to top Saudi Arabia's by 2016, the International Energy Agency says.
Cheaper energy gives U.S. industry a substantial competitive advantage over Europe, Japan and emerging markets. Exporters in key areas including chemicals, machinery and transportation equipment are benefiting from this trimmer cost structure, BCG says.
Third, the U.S. offers a high level of talented labor, technological know-how and innovation, while wage inflation is low. This combination enhances America's appeal for domestic manufacturers and makes the U.S. a preferred locale for European and Asian companies to "outsource" production and jobs.
"The U.S. has become much more competitive," says Savita Subramanian, equity and quantitative strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. "It's bullish for the U.S. and even more bullish for companies outside of the U.S. that can come here and improve their own margins."
Industrial-sector ETFs
Several exchange-traded funds offer broad, inexpensive exposure to the S&P 500 index's SPX, +1.09% industrials sector, which is concentrated in large-cap aerospace and defense, industrial conglomerates and machinery stocks. The biggest and most briskly traded is Industrial Select Sector SPDR XLI, +1.34% . The ETF recently held shares of 65 companies, with more than 25% of the portfolio in General Electric Co. GE, +0.50% , Boeing Co. BA, +1.99% , United Technologies Corp. UTX, +2.92% and 3M Co. MMM, +1.92%
Vanguard Industrials ETF VIS, +1.39% counts those same four stocks as its top holdings, but the fund is spread across 345 issues.
Two other ETFs, iShares U.S. Industrials IYJ, +1.31% and PowerShares Dynamic Industrials PRN, +0.94% , cost more but provide a different perspective on the sector.
The iShares ETF holds around 220 stocks, including "support services" names such as management consultant Accenture PLC ACN, +0.87% and payroll-services giant Automatic Data Processing Inc. ADP, +1.03% that aren't typical of the sector.
'We are in the early innings of this.'
PowerShares, meanwhile, divides its industrials ETF among 60 large-, mid- and small-cap U.S. and global stocks — but with a twist. Instead of traditional stalwarts GE, United Technologies, Caterpillar Inc. CAT, +2.70% and 3M, top holdings include Delta Air Lines Inc. DAL, +1.19% , Southwest Airlines Co. LUV, -0.52% and Honeywell International Inc. HON, +1.86% The ETF's unique portfolio tracks a proprietary index that PowerShares says rates stocks according to 25 factors, including company fundamentals, stock value, timeliness and risk.
The Made in the U.S.A. revival isn't a new investment idea. Industrial-sector stocks outperformed the S&P 500 this year through November, gaining 34% versus 29% for the index, including dividends. But industrials and other cyclical areas of the economy have room to run,. Subramanian says. In part, this is because economically sensitive stocks typically lead the market when growth picks up and interest rates rise. Many market strategists expect rates to move higher next year, once the Federal Reserve scales back its stimulus program.
"We are in the early innings of this," Subramanian predicts. She recalls a recent business trip through the Midwest, where new factories and heavy truck traffic got her attention.
Says Subramanian: "You have to see it to believe it."
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