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If you close your eyes you can almost see the redtail circling high above and smell the campfire and whiskey amidst the pines. From an old airstream in the high desert of far West Texas and the ancient cliff dwellings of the Gila Wilderness to the south fork of the Yuba River, the American countryside has been his muse and true love for the last five years.
Though the heyday of the hard living troubadour has come and gone, Caleb Coy reminds us that the outlaw spirit is alive and well... and still on the run.
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On a hilltop, high above the Venezuelan capital, rises a 113-year-old structure called Cuartel de la Montaña or Mountain Barracks.
On top of the old red and white building that resembles a castle stands a giant sign showing the number 4 next to the letter F.
The reference is to February 4, the date in 1992 when then Lt. Col. Hugo Chávez helped lead a failed military coup against then President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
Chávez used the old fort, which overlooks the Miraflores presidential palace, to direct coup operations. And it was there that he delivered a now famous speech — broadcast live on national television — ordering his troops to surrender. The speech made Chávez famous in Venezuela and helped launch the movement that eventually brought him to power.
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Chávez's old hideout is in the news again.
It will be his final resting place, where Chávez's embalmed body eventually will be placed on public display inside a glass casket in a mausoleum that will be built inside the old Mountain Barracks.
Chávez's successor, acting President Nicolás Maduro, told the nation last week that after people finish filing past the late Venezuelan leader's casket at the Military Academy the embalming process will begin.
Once it's completed, and the mausoleum is ready, Chávez's body will be taken to the 4F barracks and displayed permanently.
"That is the perfect site to place the body because the barracks meant so much to commander Chávez," said Lidia Jiménez, a resident of the working class hillside barrio where the 4F fort is located. "This is where the rebellion he directed failed, but it helped launch his revolution that led to his becoming president. So it's only fitting that he comes here to be remembered forever."
Jiménez was interviewed Saturday as she awaited a bus near the entrance to the 4F barracks in the 23 de Enero barrio, one of many working class neighborhoods that cover hillsides around Caracas resembling the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
Her comments were echoed by several 23 de Enero residents.
"It's a great idea," said José Villegas, another 23 de Enero resident who also was waiting for the bus near where Jiménez stood. "This is where the Chávez movement took off and led him to the presidency."
Villegas and Jiménez stood a few feet away from the barracks entrance, a metal barricade arm that was raised to let vehicles or pedestrians inside the parking lot and courtyard in front of the old fort.
Soldiers standing guard at the entrance said they had orders not to allow any media representatives inside.
There was no visible evidence of any preparations for the transfer of Chávez's remains to the site.
It stands in a strategic place. From the fort you can see most of Caracas below in the valley. That's probably why Chávez chose it as his command post and hideout during the 1992 rebellion.
Another reason was the fact that 23 de Enero is one of the most militant barrios in Caracas, where leftist leaders and community activists had mustered the support of many residents. It eventually became one of the most pro-Chávez redoubts in the country.
The name of the barrio, 23 de Enero, commemorates the date on Jan. 23, 1958 when Venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez was overthrown. The area had once been called Dos de Diciembre, the Dec. 2, 1952 date when a military junta installed Pérez Jiménez as president.
While many of those interviewed near the old barracks expressed support for Maduro's plan to exhibit an embalmed Chávez there, a few did not.
"I do not agree with the decision to display Chávez," said Alfonso Alagare, a 23 de Enero resident interviewed while sipped coffee at a newsstand about a mile from the 4F barracks. "He should be buried so he can rest in peace, the peace he never had because he was always struggling."
Alagare did not say where Chávez should be buried. But many of Chávez's supporters have called for their leader to be buried in the National Pantheon, where Venezuelan independence hero Simon Bolivar is buried.
Whether to bury Chávez or display his embalmed body permanently appears to have caused a rift among Venezuelan government officials.
On Friday, the president of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, publicly insisted on burying Chávez at the National Pantheon, a statement that ran counter to Maduro's plan to display the embalmed body at the 4F barracks.
While soldiers did not allow media visits to the barracks, people who have toured the site say it's a military museum. The visitors recalled seeing weapons, uniforms and other military equipment from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Built under the government of President Cipriano Castro, the facility opened in 1910 serving initially as Venezuela's first military academy. In the 1940s, it became the defense ministry and in 1981, the site became a museum of military history.
After Chávez was first elected president in 1998, he turned the site into a revered shrine to recall the 1992 failed coup and the giant 4F sign was installed.
When the coup failed, Chávez was arrested and jailed but in 1994 he was freed. He then launched his political movement that culminated in his first election as president in 1998. He took office in January 1999.
Maduro said last week that the 4F Barracks will be known as the Museum of the Revolution to commemorate Chávez's 14 years in power.


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Netvations needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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I need a logo for the startup we are launching. The work we are doing is emerging technologies, mobile development (iphone/android) and cloud computing. We are Mac based developers and like the apple type motif in terms of look-n-feel. Not restricting the logo design to that, but think future tech in terms of colors and such. The logo on the temp site is a place holder (http://www.netvations.com) and so are the colors - we consider current look LOW grade. Winner will be given first option on designing new site layout as well in next contest.
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Romero's two HRs, seven RBIs crush Royals
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The Royals' streak is over.
Stefen Romero belted a grand slam and a three-run homer as a Mariners split squad snapped the Royals' 11-game winning streak, 12-2, on Thursday at Surprise Stadium. Romero had four hits to go with his seven RBIs.View Full Game Coverage
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The Royals' streak is over.
Stefen Romero belted a grand slam and a three-run homer as a Mariners split squad snapped the Royals' 11-game winning streak, 12-2, on Thursday at Surprise Stadium. Romero had four hits to go with his seven RBIs.View Full Game Coverage
Casper Wells belted a three-run homer and had four RBIs.
The previously unbeaten Royals' record slipped to 11-1-1.
"Unfortunately," Royals left fielder Alex Gordon said. "It means something to us but, in the long run, it really doesn't. We just try to get our work in."
The Mariners, 11-3, had their own 10-game winning streak in the Cactus League ended on Wednesday.
Felix Hernandez, making his first start since signing a seven-year, $175 million deal with the Mariners, pitched two innings. He gave up one run in the second inning on Lorenzo Cain's single and David Lough's double, a scorching liner off first baseman Justin Smoak's glove.
Those were the only baserunners against him. Hernandez struck out two and threw 33 pitches including 19 strikes.
"I threw more fastballs than anything else. And I felt pretty good," Hernandez said.
The Royals thought he looked pretty good, too.
"He's a fantastic pitcher," said Mike Moustakas, a first-inning strikeout victim. "He changed speeds well, moved the ball in and out and, for his first time out in spring, he looked really good."
Royals starter Ervin Santana worked three innings and was touched for a run in the third on Romero's single and Wells' double, a drive to the left-field wall.
Romero's slam came as the Mariners jumped ahead, 6-1, with a five-run fourth inning against Guillermo Moscoso. The bases were jammed on Kelly Shoppach's double, Julio Morban's walk and Carlos Triunfel's single.
Romero, a second-base prospect from Oregon State, drove a 2-0 pitch over the left-field wall. It ended a streak of 36 consecutive innings in which the Royals had not trailed.
The Mariners added a run on a walk and Smoak's double. Smoak came into the game with a .500 (8-for-16) average and this was his sixth RBI as he tries to rebound from his .217 mark last season.
Wells' homer came in the eighth inning against Michael Mariot following Romero's third hit, a double, and a walk.
Romero hit his three-run shot in the ninth against Minor League pitcher Anthony Ortega. It was the Mariners' 30th homer, most in Spring Training by any team and two more than they had all last year in the Cactus League.
Up next for Mariners: Right-hander Hector Noesi gets the start against the A's on Friday in a 12:05 p.m. PT game at Peoria Stadium. Noesi will be making his fourth Cactus League appearance and second start, having given up 11 hits and eight runs (six earned) in 3 2/3 innings. Noesi is a long shot for the rotation this spring after a difficult 2012 season. He's expected to throw two innings, followed by veteran right-hander Kameron Loe, who is competing for a bullpen role as a non-roster invite. Center fielder Franklin Gutierrez, second baseman Dustin Ackley and shortstop Brendan Ryan are expected back after getting Thursday's split-squad day off.


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Elementary Education Graduate
"I had had some (high school) teachers who were Siena grads. When I look back, those were the teachers I remembered the most. Those were the best ones I had. … There was this culture that said, 'this was the place you want to be a part of.' "
Tony Butler remembers the first time he heard the mission of Siena Heights.
"It was my first time on campus," Butler said of the freshman student orientation event he attended as a Deerfield High School senior. "Immediately the first presentation was about the mission. Every time there would be a large gathering of students, it would be the mission, the mission."
He said he and many of his classmates could recite the mission by the time they graduated, but he never really grasped its full significance until after he left Siena. Now, as the assistant director of Campus Ministry at St. Joseph's (Ind.) College, he is living the Siena Heights mission on an everyday basis.
"What does it mean to be more competent, purposeful and ethical?" he said. "It comes from the history of the Adrian Dominican Sisters."
He said that Dominican education has prepared him.
"The one thing I really found interesting about (the Adrian Dominican Sisters) was their commitment to social justice," Butler said. "How do we treat people fairly? Not only the poor and destitute, but folks who are right next door to us."
In fact, he said that philosophy was a factor in his decision to attend Siena Heights.
"I had worked on campus with the food service," Butler said of his high school job. "There were catering events at places like the president's house, with all the 'movers and shakers.' To me, they always treated me with a lot of respect. Just because I was a dish washer or some runner at some event, that didn't matter. They always treated me as a colleague, really, in a lot of ways. Not a subordinate. … That really stuck out."


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Jason Danieley, who appeared on Broadway in "Candide," "Curtains" and as a replacement cast member in "Next to Normal," will star in Gary Griffin's upcoming Chicago Shakespeare Theater production of "Sunday in the Park with George." His co-star will be Carmen Cusack, who has appeared as Elphaba in the touring production of "Wicked."
"Sunday in the Park" begins Sept. 26 on Navy Pier.
Meanwhile, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival favorites Ben Carlson and Deborah Hay (who are married) will star in Barbara Gaines' December production of "The School for Lies," a Moliere Adaptation by David Ives. Greg Vinkler, a longtime favorite at this theater, is also slated to be in the cast.
The Chicago-based actors Heidi Kettenring, Sean Fortunato and Kevin Gudahl will appear in both of these productions.
Others in the "Sunday" cast include Ora Jones, Linda Stephens, Rachel Cantor, McKinley Carter, Derek Hasenstab, Michael Aaron Lindner, William Travis Taylor, Elizabeth Lanza, Ben Magnuson and Madison Olszewski. Musical direction is by Brad Haak.


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Here's a profile of the climb, from Climb by Bike:
In the stage, Geox's Juan José Cobo climbed away from the group of favorites, including Team Sky's 1-2 in overall GC, Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome. Some argued that it was a sign Cobo was dipping into the special sauce, a result too good to be true.
While I realize VAM is subject to many sources of variability and is hardly a valid test of doping, I can't resist running the numbers here. Fortunately I managed to take time splits for each of the final 10 km for Cabo or the group containing Cabo, although I had to guess a bit at 6 km to go, where Cabo was trailing Anton. I guessed that Cabo was around 5 seconds behind here, although I didn't see this explicitly on the Eurosport coverage which I was watching on the web. These times are on the crude side and each of them probably has error bars of up to 3 seconds either way, not even counting the possibility of variable delay in the video on the web channel.
Then to calculate VAMs I needed altitude data. Unfortunately the altitude data provided by ClimbByBike.com or Altimetrias are provided only each km measured from a start to the climb, and since I was recording at points which were even kilometers from the race finish, I needed to interpolate. My first approach was then to tap into some data from Garmin Connect. However, the Angliru is a twisting climb, with plenty of temptation and opportunity to take wide lines through corners and even traverse (as Bradley Wiggins was seen to do). These moves result in a lengthening of the rider trajectory which causes a reduction in the apparent grade. The Vuelta distance markers are likely set under the assumption of the path a car would take. So I was back to ClimbByBike. Fortunately the Climb by bike profile seems to match up well with the Garmin data until the steep bit where, predictably, the rider chose a path to mitigate the brutal grade:
The 17.5% grade shown in the plot is only for the steepest kilometer. The climb pops over 20% on numerous occasions but only briefly. Digression: interesting comparing this to Mix Canyon Road, often considered the toughest climb within driving distance of San Francisco:
Needless to say Angliru is tougher... Anyway, back to the topic.
The Vuelta web site claimed the KOM marking the top of the climb was 600 meters from the finish. This makes sense from the timing, corresponding to Cabo riding 44 kph along this portion. It was a twisting gradual descent so 44 kph seems no more than 10% low. So I used this to align the ClimbByBike data with the course. I assumed the KOM was at what ClimbByBike considers the end of the climb. This was 550 meters after the previous km point there, so since this was 400 meters past the 1 km to go banner, I assumed an offset in even km points of 150 meters between the two data sets.
In 2008 Alberto Contador won the stage on this hill. Cozy Beehive assembled the videos of that stage, which show Contador climbed from 4 km to the finish in, to to second, the same 15:25 I calculated for Cobo this year.
Despite his amazing climbing this year, Cobo still used a 34×32 low gear, the smallest of the top riders on the climb. It's another nail in the coffin of the "tough it out" old school thinking on gearing for optimal speed on climbs.


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We were having a back-and-forth via Twitter this morning with a friend of this blog, a very smart reporter who had taken issue with our non-economist-trained view that Ben Bernanke was not saving the U.S. economy by suppressing interest rates at near-zero levels: he was, rather, pushing the U.S. into a depression by killing the interest-rate spread on which the very banks that circulate the life-blood of the system live.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Ben Bernanke and "The Costanza Effect"
We were having a back-and-forth via Twitter this morning with a friend of this blog, a very smart reporter who had taken issue with our non-economist-trained view that Ben Bernanke was not saving the U.S. economy by suppressing interest rates at near-zero levels: he was, rather, pushing the U.S. into a depression by killing the interest-rate spread on which the very banks that circulate the life-blood of the system live.
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- Mark said...
I was going to call this theory "intriguing," but honestly, it sounds more like one of the silly academic (i.e., non-real world) theories generated by Bernanke and his no-common-sense pals at the Princeton economics department.
The reason near-zero interest rates aren't helping any isn't exactly rocket science (and I know that because just as Jeff is no economist, I'm no rocket scientist): it's simply that there's still way too much household debt out there, and until more of it is paid off or defaulted on there won't be enough buying power to create the demand necessary to warrant additional capital investment.
Unable to simply acknowledge this fact (and thus face the unpleasant possibility that "time" is the only real cure for what ails us) politicians, economists and, yes, blogging hedge fund managers are instead coming up with all kinds of "pro-active" policies that solve nothing.
Yes, a flatter & broader tax structure and more common-sense regulation would definitely be helpful on the margins, but really just on the margins (although those changes should absolutely be made). But all this other crazy Fed tinkering reminds me of an old line (and I'm paraphrasing here) from the late, great George Peppard, who was a lifelong alcoholic:
"You have a problem so to make yourself feel better you start drinking. Now you have two problems."
- Anonymous said...
I am wondering if, in response to 0% interest and ongoing inflation, savers would not just go out and stock up on consumer goods that are rising in price; e.g., canned or packaged foods that are unperishable. Buy all the things now you know you'll need in future. Is there a canned goods ETF yet?
- Namazu said...
There are probably a half dozen plausible explanations, all valid to one degree or another. I propose an obvious one: lower income on savings requires a lower concentration of risk assets to achieve the same expected returns with the same level of risk. Less obviously, or at least more open to debate, the Fed is dampening animal spirits by signaling a negative outlook on the economy. Of course, George is right at the meta-level of how risk tolerance relates to social mood.
- Anonymous said...
@ Jeff,
Unfortunately, this is one of your dumber posts.
Try to get a loan these days -- if you're a consumer or small business? Nearly impossible. We have a lending crisis from banks who are too shell shocked from the bad loans still on the books, the uncertainty and risks in the global economy, etc., etc.
Gee wonder why everyone from consumers to F500 are sitting on cash. Sarcasm intended.
- Daniel M said...
Your thoughts may find some support in Daniel Kahane's "Prospect Theory".
- Colin P, Del Boca Vista, FL said...
Lloyd Braun or Jerry's cousin, Jeffrey, who works in the Parks Department would be better as Chairman than Kramer.
- Jeff Matthews said...
If Mark's notion that the reason near-zero rates isn't helping is that there's too much household debt out there is correct...then why wouldn't zero rates help those in debt?
Seems to us Bernanke has created "two problems" by lowering rates to zero while banks have stopped lending anyway.
As for the Anonymous who believes the issue relates to the impossibility of getting loans, we agree 100% that it is near-impossible to get loans--even to refinance a house with positive equity is very difficult now that the banks are insisting on documentation and minimum equity levels (10 years too late).
However that doesn't explain why the debt-free consumer has frozen his or her cash in bank deposits rather than shift those risk-free assets into risky assets, which is what Bernanke is trying to accomplish, mistakenly, with zero rates.
We believe the Costanza Effect explains the issue exactly.
And thank you Colin from Del Boca Vista. We love the idea of Lloyd Braun, or Jeffrey from the Parks Department, settling into Bernanke's seat at the Fed.
Or what about Crazy Joe Davola?
- Mark said...
>>If Mark's notion that the reason near-zero rates isn't helping is that there's too much household debt out there is correct...then why wouldn't zero rates help those in debt?<<
Sure they help a bit... But not with 14% credit card bills or a mortgage that's just too damn big (at ANY interest rate) relative to one's income.
- Colin P, Del Boca Vista, FL said...
Lloyd Braun and Jeffrey from the Parks Department have experience working in government. I think it goes without saying, they must know what they're doing.
Crazy Joe Davola? I could support that, provided, Bob Sachimano is named Chairman of the NY Fed.
Also, the Joe Davola episode was on TBS yesterday.
- Anonymous said...
Totally true Jeff. As a personal example, I have an above average financial education but I'm doing the reverse Costanza.
My only debt is a variable-rate mortgage and it's got 20 years left. I don't think about it.
If the economy was booming and banks were the only low payer, maybe I'd shift my cash into bonds or more stocks. Banks pay close to zero yet it's better than putting it into a stock right now and watching it drop another 10%. Savers aren't in it to take risk or to make "rational decisions" on statistics to "maximise expected future value" or overcome a money illusion bias. We're savers because we don't want to lose. The number in my account must not go down.
- Anonymous said...
A couple quick questions:
Does it matter that the money George wants to bet is truly found money? He wasn't watching his savings accrue at the bank he got himself an unexpected check in the mail. If we want a Constanza Bounce we need to mail checks. Still in favor?
Supposing that the underlying theory is correct if misnamed (per the above) how high should interest rates be so that folks accrue enough interest to get them interested in betting the interest? If we apply no break to the logic of your theory we must conclude that if we really want to get the animal spirits animated we should jack rates up 10-20-30-50%...etc.
- Anonymous said...
C'mon Jeff, THE DRAKE would be a great Fed Chairman.
Everyone loves THE DRAKE.
- Anonymous said...
"There are probably a half dozen plausible explanations, all valid to one degree or another. I propose an obvious one: lower income on savings requires a lower concentration of risk assets to achieve the same expected returns with the same level of risk"
I think Namazu got it exactly. I am soone going into retirement, and the few thousand (remember when a tresary payed 6% - ahh, the good old days)I earned in interest was "found money" that I spent. I am going into a situation where my financial options are much more limited. Reducing my income of course means less spending. No interest, no spendy.
- Citizen AllenM said...
anonymous said: We're savers because we don't want to lose. The number in my account must not go down.
Then you do lose, because we will have inflation again, whether you like it or not.
That kind of risk aversion is a trap, one of the best intentions, but a trap.
Jeff, you are missing the point, the loss of interest rate is to help the banks out period, by cutting their costs of funds to near zero, and anonymous is helping them out by parking his cash.
The real problem is banks are not doing the analysis that offering interest rate reductions to big and small debtors would be an effective way to recover more funds than pushing them into default faster.
The entire market for houses illustrates the point clearly. Look at the banks which run the servicers- they push foreclosures because they make money up front, and the debt holders (uh, not the banks btw- remember all of those loans that were wrapped up and sold?) take it in the shorts, and the banks run the trusts that are being destroyed, but won't write down principle and lower interest rates on those trust's paper.
Perfect spiral.
Now, common sense would dictate that getting 19% interest on a debt that defaults in a year is worth much less than 5% interest on a debt that doesn't default, but if the bank needs the cashflow, and the bottom has been securitized, the incentives give you today's markets.
And you don't think markets can fail, eh?
So now you think that zero interest rates are having the constanza effect because they discourage investment? The real question is what is worth investing in when you have a deflationary spiral with no wage growth, no asset growth, and no growth, but indeed contraction?
Look to the underlying health of the working folks, and the use of debt to substitute for income, and the loss of increasing income (which under miller modigliani makes sense if you have inflation and increasing incomes), and you enter a zero bound debt trap.
Simple if you get out of running a household and think in terms of a macroeconomy based microfoundations.
- Anonymous said...
I agree with Anonymous. The interest rate is meaningless if the banks won't lend. They blame it on the regulators that have swung the pendulum so far that not only are the credit departments spending all their time with the various regulators, but there isn't a credit on earth that isn't getting the evil eye.
While the bank's spreads are thin,it is sufficient to cover expenses with no risk or headaches.
- Jeff Matthews said...
Agree that the interest rate is meaningless to the borrower if the banks won't lend.
However, rates are meaningful to savers.
Therefore, all the rate cuts do is decimate savers, not help borrowers.
- Anonymous said...
You are exactly right. People are sitting on the sidelines and waiting.I'm one of them. The reason has less to do with the interest rate and more to do with a lack of confidence that the assest you would be buying with the "cheep" borrowed money or your cash will either not hold its value or will underperform any projected return expectations and you ,the buyer, will be stuck holding the bag. Confidence+cheep money=inflation...
uncertainty+cheep money=stagflation , disinflation and or deflation
- Anonymous said...
Hi AllenM,
My adviser says he needs a drink. It's 10am. And I should give him more? No way. Cash may eventually be a trap, but it isn't yet. And cash is liquid, I can move it out in the future. For now it stays in the bank because there's no other safe spot, no broad categories of safe investments, and stagflation hasn't kicked in. When it does, I'll think again.
To Anon#1, I live in a tiny place of a few hundred square feet. No space to buy and store stuff, even though I'd love to buy in bulk. Such is the urban life.
- Jason said...
I'm with Anon at 4:36 PM on 9/26. I'm taking the inflation risk/negative carry b/c I am worried that any asset I buy is inflated by the low rates/government effort to keep asset prices high. We are stuck. I'd feel much better about investing if the government were to stop interfering in the market. To road from here to less government support looks ugly to me, so I park money.
- Anonymous said...
"Savers would surely use underpriced credit to snap up inflating assets and goods. They're not."
In 2009 I borrowed $15,000 at 2% to buy 1,000 ounce of siver bullion. Probably not the wisest policy in the world, but I have no regrets.
- ShaunP said...
There is some solid merit to this theory. Michael Pettis referenced a study some time back about how high interest rates in China actually fuelled inflation because the savings rate decreased in anticipation of a higher rate of return on deposits. But, I do not think this is the case in America...at least not totally. Tight money is more of a feature of an ageing economy like ours. (Japan is a good example of an extreme outcome of this.) Anyways, this example only gives further credence to NGDP targeting proposed by Scott Sumner. Focusing on growth and less on inflation raises inflation and growth and therefore raises interest rates.
- Anonymous said...
If you look at the real world for a minute, you will see that banks are making bigger than ever spreads (profits) on mortgage issuance.
What they charge customers (rate) is so far above what they get in the secondary market (packaged mortgage backed securities) that they are making $ hand over fist. There is some debate about WHY they are making such a great spread, but the fact is, they're doing better than ever with low rates. Why speculate when you can look stuff up?


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I want my children to grow up confident.....to go into the kitchen without recipe and cook with the hearts and mouths. And I want them to think of me...as they stand and stir, shake and sift.......
I want them to remember me as the cook who knew no fear, who had tough love for eggs and dough and everything else.
This recipe is ALL me. It has the softness of fruit - my heart, the silkiness of cream, some crunch, and a hint of spice from the limes. This is a recipe were the whole is so, so much more than the sum of its parts. Like me....I like to think!
When I made it in 2010, I proclaimed it the tastiest thing I'd made then in terms of desserts. It was so good that I ate all 6 pots by myself. Thankfully, my husband was ill, craving Nigerian chicken soup so the floor was all mine, along with the calories! Though the recipe has a few steps, they are fairly easy and it can be made ahead.
I want my children to grow up confident.....to go into the kitchen without recipe and cook with the hearts and mouths. And I want them to think of me...as they stand and stir, shake and sift.......
Makes: 6 '125ml capacity' verrines
1 1/2 cups caster sugar
150g (frozen) blackberries
3 gelatine leaves (or 1 1/2 teaspoons gelatine powder)
1/3 cup mascarpone cheese, whisked a bit to loosen and break structure
1/2 cup single cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons raw, flaked almonds
2 tablespoons light brown sugar
zest of 1-2 limes and wedges to garnish
- Blackberry syrup: Place 1/2 cup of sugar and 1 cup water in a pan on medium heat, stirring till the sugar is dissolved. Add the blackberries and gently stir. Allow to cook till the blackberries are soft and can be squashed. Remove from heat and let cool. Blitz in a food processor or with a hand-held immersion blender. Now this next step is crucial - because the jelly will lose some of its sweetness when it cools down, taste the syrup now and add more sugar if necessary, stirring to make sure it dissolves well. Strain 160ml of the liquid mixture for the jelly. (Refrigerate the rest of liquid and strained out blackberry mass/puree for use later in the verrines)
- Blackberry jelly: if using gelatine leaves, soak them first in water for 4-5 minutes till the soften and swell, then add to 160ml warm blackcurrant syrup (if blackcurrant syrup is cold, gently reheat it till warm but not boiling), stirring till it dissolves. If using powder, sprinkle onto a few tablespoons of warm water and leave to stand for a few minutes, then combine with warm blackcurrant syrup and mix till dissolved. Note that I used gelatine leaves so my instructions for the powder are a guide. When the liquid is ready, gently pour equal portions into your 6 tumblers. Cover and leave to set for a couple of hours (or overnight).
- Cooled, whipped cream: By the time you're making the cream, the jelly should be set and ready to be topped. Cool your mixing bowl and whisking attachment in the freezer for a half hour before whipping the cream. When the utensils are cool, combine the cream, 1/2 cup of sugar and vanilla extract in the bowl and whip till light and soft. To this creamed mixture, add your mascaporne and gently fold in. You can use the cream as is or add a tablespoon of the set-aside blackberry puree (leftover from step 1) or do both.
- Set out the glasses with the set jelly and ladle into each glass a teaspoonful of the blackberry puree (leftover from step 1). Top/fill up with the whipped cream. Do this for all the verrines.
- When you're done, place in the fridge for at least an hour or overnight, covered to 'set'.
- Sugared Almonds: Pre-heat your top grill to the highest. In a baking tray, place the flaked almonds and gently sprinkle the light brown sugar on top of the almonds. Place the tray 6 inches down from the heat source and let brown for 3-4 minutes. Remove from oven, pour onto a bowl or unto a plate and let cool for a few minutes.
- When ready to serve verrines, (give your guests long handle spoons) sprinkle with sugared almonds and some lime zest. Serve with a lime wedge and have your guests squeeze some lime juice over the top - the fragrance is wow. If you have key limes which I've heard so much about but never used, go ahead and avail yourself!
- Enjoy
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mgc222 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 81 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
I recently started my own video and media production company operating in NYC. We are a technically savvy crew who can produce any project any client needs large or small. Everything from corporate to viral, tv, dvd, to the web. We are seeking to come across with a "clean" image that gives us a neutral appearance and can appeal to any client. I like the simplicity of the logo for the network AMC, but Im open to more design oriented ideas as well.
My target audience consists of business owners and/or administrators / decision makers. People who are seeking a production company such as mine who represents new media and the web as a venue in addition to traditional forms. Primarily, they are coming to me to make them look good, as I am coming to you. It must appeal to them that this is a professional company with subtle clean style.
I was thinking of doing something with the two C's. Colin Creative. (CC) Feel free to offer another direction if you think of something better. I think I would like to use something from this design as a bug on some videos. I attached some logos I found that I liked. I think I really like the NYC logo theme. Again, just deliver something along the lines of clean, and neat, (i know the nyc logo is less subtle with its style, but it doesnt target a particular audience, so something along that line is ok in my book). Just do what you do.
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Experience the custom look and feel of sculpted G-10 with your Endura! This purple G-10 replacement handle for the Spyderco Endura 4 is made by Allen Putman. Includes black G-10 back spacer. To view all the Spyderco Delica 4 knives in stock click HERE!
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In making plans to attend this year's Mid-South Farm and Gin Show, March 1-2 at the Memphis Cook Convention Center, Tim Price, show manager, offers this short list of to-dos:
1. Register online. Registration is now open for the 61st annual show and you can register online at www.farmandginshow.com. Click on the Attendee Registration button and follow the instructions for completing the form and printing your confirmation. Bring the confirmation to the show and staff will help you print your name badge and finalize your registration. By pre-registering online, you can check in at the pre-registration kiosk and print your name badge. Go online and complete the form today! Go to www.farmandginshow.com for details (click on the Attendee Registration button).
2. Download the 2013 Show App."We are launching our third version of the mobile app this year," Price says. "We were one of the first shows to introduce a mobile app for attendees. Who knew we would be on the cutting edge of this technology? We were surprised and thrilled with the number of attendees — more than 4,000 last year — who took advantage of the app. You can join those and others in 2013 when you download the new version."
In addition to schedules of educational seminars and other show events and activities, there's a map of the convention center with exhibitor booth information, and information on local restaurants and activities. Sign up for alerts to stay connected with the latest information. You can download the app at www.farmandginshow.com, by scanning the QR code on the posters at the show, or from iTunes and the Android app store.
3. Commodity outlookswill be center stage at the show's Ag Update Sessions. "Despite much of the nation experiencing some form of drought in 2012, record production was posted in parts of the Mid-South and South," Price says. "Make sure to attend the Ag Update seminars to get the latest information on what to expect in 2013." There will be updates on all Mid-South crops at the seminars set for Friday, March 1, and Saturday, March 2.
For the Friday session, Carl Brothers, Riceland Foods, will provide the outlook for rice and wheat, and Joe Nicosia, Allenberg Cotton, will give the cotton market outlook. Richard Brock, Brock Associates, will cover grains and politics in his session Saturday, March 2. Make plans to attend both sessions as 2013 promises to be another interesting year in agriculture production.
4. Expect a technology focus. "It's a digital world," Price says, "and hand-held devices (phones, tablets, etc.) are changing the way we do business — especially in agriculture. Farmers have been early adopters of technology, such as GPS, and we're discovering there are so many more uses for technology and applications that help us work smarter and improve our bottom line. It's hard to say what may be on the horizon, but it's safe to say it will be talked about at the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show."
5. Join in the celebration of American agriculture."This is the 61st year for the South's premier farm show," Price says, "and it has evolved into a premier show that is, every year, bigger and better than ever. We know farmers attend this show year in and year out because they can connect with other farmers they see only at this show. Take a moment to connect with someone you see here in Memphis each year, and celebrate American agriculture. It all comes together at the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show!"
The show is sponsored by the Southern Cotton Ginners Association, with Delta Farm Press as co-sponsor. There is no charge to attend the show, but registration is required to enter the exhibit areas. Show hours Friday are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.


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Special equipment: 12 (1/2-cup) muffin cups with paper liners
For the cupcakes: Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 300 degrees F. Set liners in muffin cups.
Put the chocolate and prune juice in a microwave safe bowl. Heat in the microwave on low power, stirring occasionally, until completely melted.
Whisk the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. In another bowl, beat the egg and yolk with an electric hand mixer at high speed until slightly thick and lemon colored, about 3 minutes. Slowly add buttermilk, oil, vanilla, and melted chocolate mixture to eggs, beating until thoroughly combined. Add the flour mixture and beat until just combined.
Divide the batter among muffin tins, filling them 1/2 of the way. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cupcakes comes out clean and the tops spring back when pressed gently, about 25 minutes. Cool the cupcakes in the tin on a rack for 10 minutes then remove from the tin and cool completely.
For the frosting: Beat the butter, peanut butter, and cream cheese in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Gradually add the confectioners' sugar and milk mixing until the frosting is smooth. Add food coloring as desired. Refrigerate the frosting until firm.
To decorate the cakes: For the witches hat, score a circle in the middle of a cupcake. Cut a deep cone-like shape with a knife held at an angle. Rotate the cupcake to complete the circle and remove the center. Repeat with all the cupcakes. Generously scoop or pipe enough frosting into the center of each cupcake to fill the hole and to come over the cake to make a face. Top with a chocolate wafer cookie. Put a dot of frosting in the middle of the wafer cookie and invert the cone shaped piece of cake on top to make a witches hat. Use skinny licorice, toasted coconut or cereal flakes for hair and candies for eyes and/or nose. Refrigerate for up to 30 minutes before serving.


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Longmont police say that a carjacking suspect pursued across multiple jurisdictions Wednesday had recently stolen the distinctive yellow-and-black jacket he was seen wearing in surveillance footage.
Longmont police believe Ryan Stone, who was arrested in Lone Tree on Wednesday after a pursuit from Longmont to south of Denver, stole the jacket Tuesday from a garage on the 900 block of Spencer Street and left a Ford F-150 stolen from Engelwood in the carport in a nearby alley, according to reports.
Stone's girlfriend, Julie Pawlak, of Aurora told police she rode to Longmont with him in the stolen vehicle after she was confronted about the theft on Tuesday evening, according to reports.
The homeowner called police at 5 p.m. Tuesday and reported the break-in and the abandoned truck. While police were on scene, a woman walking a dog stopped and asked for directions. She said she was from Aurora and was looking for Main Street. She gave officers a false name, according to reports.
After she walked away, police found photos of her, a purse, letters addressed to Julie Pawlak, and dog food in the vehicle. Officers investigating the scene called for assistance and police caught up with her as she walked along 11th Avenue west of Bross Street. She again gave police a false name, but "after questioning her further she provided correct information," police reported.
According to reports, she admitted to being a passenger in the stolen truck. Officers searched her and found marijuana, a pipe with marijuana residue, three glass pipes that appeared to have methamphetamine residue, three empty syringes, and a plastic container with a straw inside.
She was arrested on suspicion of felony theft of more that $20,000, attempt to influence a public servant, violation of a protection order, and possession of drug paraphernalia. She was booked at the Boulder County Jail.
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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.William Boyd
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Walter Arnold Kaufmann (1 July 1921 - 4 September 1980) was an American philosopher, translator, and poet.
- Of course, not everything old is beautiful, any more than everything black, or everything white, or everything young. But the notion that old means ugly is every bit as harmful as the prejudice that black is ugly. In one way it is even more pernicious.
The notion that only what is new and young is beautiful poisons our relationship to the past and to our own future. It keeps us from understanding our roots and the greatest works of our culture and other cultures. It also makes us dread what lies ahead of us and leads many to shirk reality.
- Time is an Artist (1978) Epilogue : Old is Beautiful
The Faith of a Heretic (1959)
- Essay published in Harper's Magazine (February 1959), using excerpts from his book of the same name.
- It is less than honest to give one's own religion the benefit of every possible doubt while imposing unsympathetic readings on other religions. Yet this is what practically all religious people do.
- Profound experiences stimulate thoughts; but such thoughts do not look very adequate on paper. Writing can be a way of rethinking again and again.
In the process of teaching and writing one must constantly consider the thoughts of men with different ideas. And prolonged and ever-new exposure to a wide variety of outlooks — together with the criticism many professors seek from both their students and their colleagues — is a more profound experience than most people realize. It is a long-drawn-out trial by fire, marked by frequent disillusionment, discoveries, and despair, and by a growing regard for honesty, which is surely one of the most difficult of all the virtues to attain. What one comes up with in the end owes quite as much to this continual encounter as it does to any other experience.
- We have no wish to indoctrinate; we want to teach our students to resist indoctrination and not accept as authoritative the beliefs of other men or even the ideas that come to us as in a flash of illumination. Even if one has experiences that some men would call mystical — and I have no doubt that I have had many — it is a matter of integrity to question such experiences and any thoughts that were associated with them as closely and as honestly as we should question the "revelations" of others. To be sure, it is easier to grant others their "revelations" as "true for them" while insisting on one's own as "true for oneself." Such intellectual sluggishness parades as sophistication. But true tolerance does not consist in saying, "You may be right, but let us not make hard demands on ourselves: if you will put your critical intelligence to sleep, I'll put mine to bed, too." True tolerance remains mindful of the humanity of those who make things easy for themselves and welcomes and even loves honest and thoughtful opposition above less thoughtful agreement.
- To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive interpretations. What is deeply objectionable about most of these interpretations is that they allow the believer to say Yes while evading any No.
- The central question about Christianity concerns Jesus Christ. If he was God in a sense in which no other man has been God, then Christianity is right in some important sense, however Christendom may have failed. To decide whether Jesus was God in some such unique sense, a philosopher cannot forbear to ask just what this claim might mean. If, for example, it does not mean that Jesus of Nazareth knew everything and was all-powerful, it is perplexing what is meant. But a large part of what most Christians mean is surely that Jesus was the best and wisest man of all time; and many Protestants mean no more than that.
- A great deal of theology is like a jigsaw puzzle: the verses of Scripture are the pieces, and the finished picture is prescribed by each denomination with a certain latitude allowed. What makes the game so pointless is that not all pieces have to be used, and any piece that does not fit may be reshaped, provided one says first, "this means." That is called exegesis.
- Although Jesus is widely considered mankind's greatest moral teacher, the greatest Christians, not to speak of scholars, have never been able to agree what his moral teachings were. Matthew, and he alone, reports that Jesus said: "Let your Yes be Yes, and your No, No." But the four Evangelists agree in ascribing to Jesus evasive and equivocal answers to plain questions, not only those of the high priest and Pilate; and quite generally the Jesus of the New Testament avoids straightforward statements, preferring parables and hyperboles. Some of the parables are so ambiguous that different Evangelists. Not to speak of later theologians, offer different interpretations. ... On concrete moral issues, Jesus can be, and has been, cited on almost all sides.
- The story of Christ remains uncomfortably similar to the saga of the boss's son who works very briefly in the shop, where he makes a great point of his home and is cruelly beaten by some of his fellow workers, before he joins his father as co-chairman of the board and wreaks horrible revenge. This "happy" end makes most of the Christian martyrs, too, untragic figures. These observations may strike believers as blasphemous, but they might do well to reflect on the manner in which they pass judgment on other religions, and there may be some point in considering how one's own religion must strike those who don't accept it.
- Why, then, do I not accept Judaism? In view of all the things I do not believe, I have no wish to observe the six-hundred-odd commandments and prohibitions that define the traditional Jewish way of life, or to participate in religious services. With most so-called orthodox Jews I have much less in common than with all kinds of other people, Jews and Gentiles. Reform Judaism seems to me to involve compromise, conformism, and the wish to be innocuous. To that extent, it, too, stands opposed to the ethos of the prophets.
- What remains if you give up the great religions? Many people think: only Communism, Nazism, and immorality. But the morality of Socrates, Spinoza, and Hume compares favorably with Augustine's, Luther's, and Calvin's. And the evil deeds of Communism and Nazism are not due to their lack of belief but to their false beliefs, even as the evil deeds of the Crusaders, Inquisitors, and witch hunters, and Luther's exhortation to burn synagogues and Calvin's decision to burn Servetus, were due to their false beliefs. Christianity, like Islam, has caused more wars than it has prevented; and the Middle Ages, when Europe was Christian, were not a period of peace and good will among men.
- Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium. Few things about the strategy of contemporary apologists are more repellent than their frequent recourse to spurious alternatives. The lesser lights inform us that the alternative to Christianity is materialism, thus showing how little they have read, while the greater fights talk as if the alternative were bound to be a shallow and inane optimism. I don't believe that man will turn this earth into a bed of roses either with the aid of God or without it. Nor does life among the roses strike me as a dream from which one would not care to wake up after a very short time.
Some evils and some kinds of suffering can be abolished, but not all suffering can be eliminated, and the beauty, goodness, and greatness that redeem life on earth are inseparable from suffering. Nietzsche once said: "If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good." If life hurts you, the manly thing is neither to whine nor to feel martyred, but to prove that it did you some good.
No one way is the best way of life for all.
- "The unexamined life is not worth living". . . . If you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him that is undisturbed even by dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain. Eternity is then only a single night.
It would be folly to wish to foist this outlook on everybody. Professors of philosophy discourage and fail a large percentage even of their graduate students and are assuredly not eager to turn all men into philosophers. In philosophy, as in religion, teaching usually involves a loss of dimension; and the Socratic fusion of philosophy and life, critical acumen and passion, laughter and tragic stature is almost unique.
- I am so far quite unable to justify one of my central convictions: that, even if it were possible to make all men happy by an operation or a drug that would stultify their development, this would somehow be an impious crime. This conviction is ultimately rooted in the Mosaic challenge: "You shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy."
- I do not believe in any afterlife any more than the prophets did, but I don't mind living in a world in which people have different beliefs. Diversity helps to prevent stagnation and smugness; and a teacher should acquaint his students with diversity and prize careful criticism far above agreement. His noblest duty is to lead others to think for themselves.
Oddly, millions believe that lack of belief in God, Christ, and Hell leads to inhumanity and cruelty, while those who have these beliefs have a monopoly on charity — and that people like myself will pay for their lack of belief by suffering in all eternity. I do not believe that anybody will suffer after death nor do I wish it.
- Man seems to play a very insignificant part in the universe, and my part is surely negligible. The question confronting me is not, except perhaps in idle moments, what part might be more amusing, but what I wish to make of my part. And what I want to do and would advise others to do is to make the most of it: put into it all you have got, and live and, if possible, die with some measure of nobility.
The Faith of a Heretic (1959)
- The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human being lovingly doing her duty to another human being despite all threats, and going to her death with pride and courage, not deterred by any hope — Antigone.
- "Death", p. 371, Excerpt online
- Hopelessness is despair. Yet life without hope is worth living. As Sartre's Orestes says: "Life begins on the other side of despair." But is hope perhaps resumed on the other side? It need not be. In honesty, what is there to hope for? Small hopes remain but do not truly matter. I may hope that the sunset will be clear, that the night will be cool and still, that my work will turn out well, and yet know that nine hopes out often are not even remembered a year later. How many are recalled a century hence? A billion years hence?
- "Death", p. 371
- There may be surprises in store for us, however improbable it seems and however little evidence suggests it. But I do not hope for that. Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life. If one lives intensely, the time comes when sleep seems bliss. If one loves intensely, the time comes when death seems bliss.
Those who loved with all their heart and mind and might have always thought of death, and those who knew the endless nights of harrowing concern for others have longed for it.
The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worthwhile and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die.
- "Death", p. 372
- If I ask myself who in history I might like to have been, I find that all the men I most admire were by most standards deeply unhappy. They knew despair. But their lives were worthwhile — I only wish mine equaled theirs in this respect and I have no doubt that they were glad to die.
As one deserves a good night's sleep, one also deserves to die, Why should I hope to wake again? To do what I have not done in the time I've had? All of us have so much more time than we use well. How many hours in a life are spent in a way of which one might be proud, looking back?
- "Death", p. 372
- Lives are spoiled and made rotten by the sense that death is distant and irrelevant. One lives better when one expects to die, say, at forty, when one says to oneself long before one is twenty: whatever I may be able to accomplish, I should be able to do by then; and what I have not done by then, I am not likely to do ever. One cannot count on living until one is forty or thirty but it makes for a better life if one has a rendezvous with death.
Not only can love be deepened and made more intense and impassioned by the expectation of impending death; all of life is enriched by it. Why deceive myself to the last moment, and hungrily devour sights, sounds, and smells only when it is almost too late? In our treatment of others, too, it is well to remember that they will die: it makes for greater humanity.
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Very busy and thriving town and port, with a beautiful bay and fine sands. Copper-smelting, tin-plate working, and other industrial activities. The ruins of a castle built about 1330 by the Bishop of St David's are in the midst of the town. The great docks of Swansea are continually being enlarged and improved.
Neath 8¼, Ammanford 19¼ miles.
London 212¼ miles. Population 160,000. Market Sat. Early Closing, Thurs
From The Dunlop Book 1920
The Registration district of Swansea has been in existence since 1837, and has changed remarkably little during that time. It includes 33 parishes beyond Swansea itself and like almost every other registration district is based on a Poor Law Union. Records for Swansea are held at the West Glamorgan Archives Service. Digitised and indexed parish registers for Swansea are online at Findmypast. Swansea is also the home of the National Waterfront Museum for Wales. There is more information about Swansea on Vision of Britain.


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Faculty Handbook
Policy Concerning Emergencies Requiring Evacuation of Buildings
This is a policy/procedure statement regarding the reporting of alarms and evacuation of University buildings during fire and/or other emergencies. This statement is being issued to ensure the life and safety of faculty, staff, students and visitors.
An emergency exists whenever:
Campus buildings shall be immediately and totally evacuated whenever a building evacuation alarm is sounding.
a. Sound an alarm. Activate the building fire alarm in buildings equipped with manual pull stations.
b. Shut off all machinery or equipment.
c. Contain all hazardous materials (laboratories)
d. Leave the building immediately, closing all windows and doors behind you.
e. Meet the University Police Department and direct them to the emergency.
f. All fires, even if extinguished or found extinguished, must be reported.
a. It shall be the responsibility of every person to immediately leave a University building whenever a fire alarm is activated or an emergency exists.
b. All students, faculty, and staff are required to leave the building, assemble a safe distance from the building, and remain outside until the emergency is over. No one shall restrict or impede the evacuation. Mobility impaired individuals should refer to specific procedures found in the WCSU Evacuation Procedure S-115.
a. All information regarding fires or emergencies at the University shall be released through University Relations in cooperation with Environmental and Facilities Services. No other University department or employee may release official statements regarding the cause, origin, or nature of University fire or emergency situations.
Assistance will be provided by the Environmental and Facilities Services to anyone or any department requiring help and advice on its implementation.
Approved by President James R. Roach
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It was a busy year in Eberopolis -- so busy, that I didn't find opportunities to blog. I'm planning to change that as we head into 2011-2012, however. More details a little later in this post...
Amidst my reading in the blogosphere last week, I learned about the 2000 Hours Project. This project aims to debunk the myth that teachers have cushy jobs because they only work part of the year and get the whole summer off. While things like spring break and summer vacation are definite perks to the job, the project aims to prove that teaching is such a time-intensive and demanding job, many of us still end up working 2,000 hours over the course of the year.
In an attempt to show my support for the project (and out of sheer curiosity), I've decided to document my time for the next year to see how it all adds up. I started on Monday of this week, and I've been keeping a log in Google Spreadsheets. (You can view my log here).
I'm breaking my time up into four categories.
1) Classroom - this will include any time that I'm working at school, regardless of the content of the work. It can include actual teaching during the school year, after school meetings with faculty, parents, or students, planning, grading, etc. The key factor for making it into this category is that I'm physically at my school building doing some sort of job-related task. (Stopping by over the summer just to chat with my school's fabulous office staff doesn't count...)
2) Lesson Planning - this is time spent outside of school planning lessons or activities for use in the classroom. It can include professional reading, searching for or writing new lesson plans, preparing materials, building my class website, previewing materials, or learning how to use different technologies I intend to use with my students. During the summer months, this is where I'm likely to spend most of my time.
3) Grading - this is time spent outside of school grading and assessing student work. I have a self-contained 4th grade classroom, and this category might be a little lighter than others since I tend to do a lot of grading and assessing throughout the school day. The exception to that tends to be at the end of a term when there are more projects and tests. I would expect this category to be lighter than someone who teaches high school English, for example, but then I might spend more time on lesson planning since I'm planning for all subject areas.
4) Professional Learning - this is the category for any classes, conferences, workshops, or seminars that I attend on behalf of my school outside of the job-embedded professional learning that I experience. This week, for example, I went to a 3 day workshop with some of my colleagues to learn about transdisciplinary planning in an International Baccalaureate Programme of Inquiry. We learned about and discussed a lot of the IB pedagogy, and then we applied it to create our curriculum map for the year. Later this month, I'll attend a conference about the IB Primary Years Program. Some of these may be job requirements and others may be voluntary, but they're all important to my performance as a teacher.
This year will be a little unusual for me hours-wise in that I won't have as many classroom hours as normal. I'm going to be on maternity leave at the end of August through mid-November, and that may definitely stop me from getting to 2,000 hours. Still, I suspect that I'll generate a number that's surprisingly large given 12 weeks of leave. If you consider that the average full-time job works 50 weeks of the year and 40 hours per week, that would amount to 2,000 hours. If I work 40 weeks (52 weeks minus 12 weeks since my 12 weeks of maternity leave isn't unique to teaching -- anyone in any profession could potentially qualify under FMLA), that would put me with an expected total of 1,600 hours for the school year.
I don't expect that target to be difficult to reach.
I will be updating my spreadsheet daily, and I'll try to post more about my progress and findings each week. That will be one way that I intend to write more in this blog this year (and no, I'm not counting blogging toward my 2,000 hours...).
The other news that you can expect to read about in future blog posts is how I'll be using iPads in my 4th grade classroom. My district is piloting the use of iPads in the place of textbooks in a couple of classrooms next year, and I learned this week that my class will be one of the two fourth grade classes involved in the pilot. There will be an iPad for every student in my class, and I couldn't be more excited. Honestly...I'm normally a pretty calm and collected gal, but I really did start jumping up and down when my media specialist told me the news. And keep in mind that I'm 7 months pregnant, so jumping is especially unlikely for me these days.
I know that having 1:1 iPads in the classroom is pretty rare -- especially at the elementary level, but I'm very excited about the project and its potential for student learning. I plan to blog about the process (apps we use, student reactions, discoveries, tips) in an effort to be more reflective as a teacher, but also to dialogue with others who may be considering this route or already using the technology.
While I already have an iPad of my own, the school is supposed to issue another one to me next week so I can see what apps have already been loaded on the student iPads. Once I get that, I should be able to share more about my vision for how they'll be used. Until then, I'll be racking up the lesson planning hours as I write sub plans for my maternity leave...


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Parasites as cause of mouth ulcers...7 messages in this subject.
|Just found like site and literally feeling the pain of all sufferers. Im 44 and had them for as long as I can remember. Ive had some luck with eating for my blood type but I recently when to a homeopath (in Sydney) whos is convinced that most ulcerations in the mucosal lining be they mouth, throat, stomach, intestine or rectum are the result of parasites in the gut. She claims to have cured countless patients of mouth ulcers by putting them on a rigorous regime of Wormwood and Black Walnut (to kill the little buggers) while taking a bunch of supplements that strengthen the immune system. Its kind of an herbal chemo treatment and very hard on the system. I did two rounds of the program for the last 4 months and only seen my ulcers come more frequently (but with less severity). The homeopath says this is a common healing crisis that occurs when the parasites die off with a temporarily increase in toxins in the body. Ive completed the treatment and still getting ulcers but they seem to be getting weaker and weaker as time goes on. Has anyone else had experience with this kind of treatment or am I just reaching for another whacky cure?
|theparasiteguy 21 January 07
|I have been taught that mouth ulcers are a result of low levels of Vit B6. This supplement can be found in most grocery/drug store
|PunkinPie63 16 December 12
|Hi , yes, your story sounds exactly like mine : I've been sick for the last 16 Years and have gotten worse with time. It has taken 16 Years to discover the problem - parasites :( I've had mouth ulcers most of my life plus numerous other symptoms. Some people seem to think (and suggest ) it's ok to take antibiotics to kill the parasites but how do you explain to someone that you've had them for over half your life, probably since birth, probably pre birth! I've had viral infections one after another and GPs have always prescribed antibiotics (wrecked my gut by taking these ..) now I'm trying to fix my gut (taking some advice from the GAPS diet and also seeing an 'alternative health ' practitioner who , after only one live blood test, told me I have parasites - they have made nests and colonies in my colon which suggests they have been here for a very long time.. So yes, wormwood it is for me ,plus supplements since the little suckers have left me anaemic, almost bald (lost most of my hair ), and completely depleted of energy to the point of not wanting to live life anymore. I have also had a flare up of all my nasty symptoms especially alopecia of scalp + dermatitis. Mouth ulcers, particularly inner lip ulcers are bothering me (so much so that I can't sleep and that's why I'm here now at 3 am writing this message!) Digestion is poor and regurgitation has become the norm after eating! Reducing food intake has helped however, as has blood cupping (a zillion toxins are removed through wet cupping. I highly recommend it. Increased intake of raw organic Apple cider vinegar diluted in a small amount of water half hour before meals also helps. Hope you are feeling better now. All the best.
|Shifa 5 January 17
|Plaque and tartar easily build up with OLP when you find it extremely difficulty to brush your teeth, as skin on gums with OLP can be as weak as wet tissue paper, and completely raw in places. Since having OLP for over 4 years now, my tongue turned completely white, swollen to twice it's normal size, grew 5mm long bright red mutated papillae on the upper rear tongue, which I simply cut off with a pair of scissors, and they have not returned, but have simply been replaced with normal papillae now, I lost all my taste buds eventually for some time (which have now grown back, but a LONG time since the whiteness and swelling went, with some scarring on the tongue). And I have lost 5-6 mm gum tissue around all premolars and molars where I had mercury fillings removed, but not around other teeth, so if you have mercury fillings, do it no more than one or two at a time, just in one year, don't bother about the lure of financial discounts if you have them all done at once, you may be glad you follow that advice, see if mercury is a trigger for this condition first, and if OLP does not commence within 6 months of having a filling removed, then do just one or two more next year, and so on. Have mercury based metal fillings removed in the summertime, as sunbathing speeds up removal of ALL toxins from the blood by 20 to 50 times faster, and use cilantro and other herbal stuff like cracked wall chlorella, to bind and chelate and flush mercury.
The ONLY toothbrush that is gentle enough I have found with OLP a single tuft brush with 6 mm bristles (tried to mention brand here but comment was instantly blocked I think as spam), as long headed 'soft' brushes will simply take your skin clean off and leave your gums bloody raw, the bristles on the brand I use, available in multiple colours, and cheap when you shop around, at just over 3 quid, though some charge vastly more, are extremely fine and more gentle than 'soft' bristles on normal or even other brand single tuft brushes that I have tried, and when your gums are so sensitive, there is no way you can effectively brush with a long headed brush, which is no good anyway for gum work. With the single tuft toothbrush, you can carefully clean very thoroughly around the gumline of all your teeth without injury, but they only last one month or less till the bristles splay out and start to dig in your gums, so use an ordinary big headed brush first to clean the upper surface of your teeth, and above the gum line on the backs and fronts, but you can avoid all growth of tartar using that strategy, but I also use electronic descaling every 3 months, and that has helped massively to stop gums swelling and exfoliating tissue, as once tartar gets under your gums and forms pockets, you get real problems, and then you start to lose teeth (I still have all mine). Electronic descaling very regularly, will help to remove pockets. I had pockets 4 mm deep in places, but now have none at all by using these brushes and simple olive oil soap, which is simple oil combined with sodium hydroxide to make a bar of green soap, with no other chemicals in at all, it really cleans very thoroughly, without burning sensations, and really really tightens the gums up like nothing else I have found, I wipe the brush head on a wet bar from side to side so as not to splay the bristles, and with that as toothpaste alone (I have a drawer full of commercial toothpastes that have been no use at all, along with hundreds of pounds worth of fancy electric toothbrushes, that did not work at all, as they ALL left masses of plaque around the gumline, and were extremely violent in some cases in their effects on delicate gums, the gumline being the most important place of all, despite all their crummy advertisements, and would have been useless even on normal gums and teeth). I am not using any steroids, but read that dox.c.cline tablets (missing letter y to void spam censor) used as a mouthwash can cause bone and gum tissue to grow back, but it is very toxic to the liver, so never swallow it, do not let it go down your throat (do not gargle especially with it, or you can burn your lungs and oesophagus, it is quite nasty stuff. but used once every couple of days it can be of some benefit to kill off any nasty bugs under the gumline, with a 2-5 minute swilling, but don't think more time than this is better, as it is caustic, and will actually start to damage your gums if used longer. I use 100 mg dispersible tablets, which I drop into 5mm deep water in the bottom of a glass. You may even achieve the desired effect in much less than 5 minutes. I mentioned that time, as that is what I sometimes hold it in for, wishing it to penetrate sufficiently to stimulate regrowth of gum and bone tissue, but that effect may be simply the result of killing off pathogenic organisms that cause tissue to die in the gums,, and that may in fact be achieved much more quickly than in 5 minutes, so just use it carefully, seeing how it affects you personally), though I used to hold it in for 10-15 minutes till I read how caustic it is, and you start to notice with any antiseptic stuff, like some mouthwashes, that skin tissue actually starts to peel off the gums because of them, like chlo.hexidine (missing r) washes such as co.sodyl (missing r) cause, I was on that for ages, and my gums were actually being eaten away with it, and my teeth turned completely black.
The green olive oil sap now is perfect for me, and my mouth has no infection either as my gums are nice and tight. Sadly, it is not lack of oral hygiene that is the main cause of gum pockets with OLP, as the gum ligaments that are attached to the teeth actually shrink and detach with OLP, allowing pockets to form, when then get infected. A few good electronic descalings are necessary to clean the gum line of the teeth and pocket areas sufficiently well to allow gum tissue to take root there again, but it does grow back. Once you get on top of it, your gums themselves will be vastly healthier and vastly less inflamed, and a electronic descaling every 3 months or so will keep things steady. Each electronic ultrasound cleaning session always misses a few bits here and there, so what you miss one time around you get the next time around.
|Dave 12 February 17
|Thanks for the massive post Dave, very informative. I hope you manage to keep the OLP under control.
|Dom Walton 14 February 17
|May I please ask how healing crisis and your journey to health is going for you all? Been battling pinworms and not sure if perhaps another parasite. I also suffer from facial herpes which I noticed I have been getting more frequent outbreaks as well as spreading to other areas of face, which leads me to believe my two recent treatments of vermox may not have been a success unless it's just healing crisis. I have a few vitamins as well as taking black walnut, oil of oregano, and wormwood in hopes I end their relations with my poor body! Will need to start an immediate diet change for the herpes too. What a drag. Good luck to you all!
|Hopeful still 1 August 17
|I purchased the NOW brand Fresh Green Black walnut Wormwood complex and took just half the dose in water and the far back of my tongue bubbled up and got severely sore. Felt burned. Must be allergic to something in the mix.
|Bon 7 February 18
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