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I bought a Kindle and I love the device. However I am not buying anything that is DRMed to be read using it. It is just against my personal notion of what a book is.
Could you provide any reason to think that what is available in the public domain is, on average, worth less than what is copyrighted?
It is called p2p networks. It is distributed, free and voluntary. Not always legal, though :-)
@ I contributed something of value, namely a great deal of information about the realities of inventing as a business.
No, you did not. Opinions, assumptions and generalizations are not "information". You had your chance for a quality discussion but you decided to waste it from the very beginning. Good bye, Mr. Riley.
@ Technological progress would occur at a much slower rate.
This is only an assumption.
Mr. Riley, I will not waste my time on answering you anymore since there is nothing to learn from what you write and one risks being offended at the same time. Maybe you are right, maybe you are wrong but what is obvious is that you are unable to contribute something of value here.
@ No, the patent system does not take anything because without it most people will not invest in producing or teaching the invention.
[citation needed] indeed.
@ In order for inventors to have the freedom to invent they need income from their inventions. Otherwise they end up wage slaves.
Income is income. Not being a "wage slave" is earned by delivering to the market something it values, not by keeping others from doing so by suing them.
@ The beauty of our patent system is it allows inventors to become independent.
By bankrupting them because they happened to be unable to pay fees to license patents necessary for their own inventions or by being sued after they successfully market a product by a corporate patent troll with a patent granted for an obvious "invention", waiting for others to become efficient and then ready to get exploited?
@ It is always interesting how people twist history
I encourage you to provide your own version and counter cc's claims.
@ Even if this was true the term of patents is short enough that it really does not matter in the big picture.
15-20 years is enough for whole industries to rise or fall so what you say is simply not true. Conversely, if the term of patents do not matter "in the big picture", no harm could be done by slashing them drastically, right? "In the big picture", at least, whatever you mean by just another generalization lacking specifics.
@ Inventors publish because the government promises benefits in exchange for publishing.
Historically and factually this is not even close to the truth.
@ And when we follow the social code and seek redress in court the crooks then conduct massive propaganda campaigns demonizing us as "trolls" even as they are losing in court.
Yeah, poor little inventors like Eolas or Microsoft. Or Oracle, which just happens to be suing based on patents they simply bought as part of their competitor, Sun. It is worth noting that Sun's intention was not to enforce the same patents in this way.
Save your tales for yourself, I do not think anybody is buying the story of lone inventor vs. evil multinationals. Today's US patent law is a tool for blocking competition and for grabbing whole bundles of elementary ideas just in case. It is a dog eat dog system, benefiting only the most aggressive ones, not the ones who actually try to offer better value to their respective markets. A tool for strategic warfare between big players, exchanging hits with legal versions of nuclear weaponry.
BTW, do you have any evidence of this "massive propaganda campaigns"? Could you identify their sources? Not that I have any hope left of reading anything specific from you. Just asking.
@ No one makes you or anyone else license. You do not have to use the invention if you don't like the price.
It is the other way around. No one makes you or anyone else "invent". If you cannot find profitable market for your product, there are people who will.
@ If you want the invention to see the light of day you have to compensate the inventor.
For profitable delivery, not for inventing per se. Unmarketable invention is quite useless.
@ We have kept up our side of the deal
I do not know who is this "we" you keep mentioning but if you mean patent trolls and companies suing competition for infringements on patents that should have never been granted, then I do not know what "deal" you are talking about.
I find applying the property/theft rhetoric to nonrival goods strange but this is what we should expect after years of mistaking property rights to scarce goods and resources with monopolies granted by law. Nonetheless, I could use the same rhetoric to pillaging the space of ideas by privatizing what should have never been given an owner in the first place. That, my dear Mr. Riley, should definitely be called "stealing".
Nothing specific, again.
Why should I? Our culture values the ability of writing under a chosen name and it is quite easy to understand why. There is nothing "courageous" about self-promotion.
"You are making a massive assertion there."
Massive link spamming, rather.
@ Some copy, usually without giving attribution and that is all they can do
Everyone does it every day. It is called "culture". Nobody works in vacuum.
@ Others are creative. They invent new things, products, business methods, etc
False distinction. New products and business methods are always based on knowledge accumulated earlier, not only about what works but about what doesn't work.
Try harder next time, Mr. Riley, it takes more than feeling right to actually be right. You can start by coming up with a real argument instead of discussing straw men you yourself have set up. Add to the discussion, show that you really know what adding value is about.
@ With streaming, you wait a few seconds for buffering, then you're watching it.
No, you are not. Depending on the connection speed.
People are sometimes impatient so yes, they will pay more if they have to and if they want to see the show earlier. Of course there is the issue of unauthorized copies but the general premise that you don't annoy your customers is not always true.
"This bill protects artists.
By blocking access to the websites on which they are promoted only because somebody somewhere deemed an unrelated parts of them as being helpful to infringing activities?
"And you don't want to lose your free music lunch."
Well, I don't want to loose mine. And mine is perfectly legal and free at the same time. All you have are baseless accusations and lack of understanding of the problem. It's people like you who are real fear mongers.
Child pornography is already mentioned in this thread in the most ridiculous way possible. Stealing cars, too. Now to terrorism! I am really surprised nobody's talking about terrorism.
"Did you fools protest child porn sites being blocked too?"
Dunno, has there been articles on TD about child pornography?
"You're all a bunch of liars."
"You just want to be able to continue your taking of music and movies for free."
Funny thing, I am downloading gigabytes of music every week. For free. Legally. Yes, I would like to continue, why?
Well, if they are to determine what is civilized, I'd rather be regarded as savage.
"Senators who are supporting the bill have claimed that they've heard no objections to the bill"
Which means they have not a slightest idea about the way the medium they propose to regulate works. This is not unlike other politicians but being so blatant makes me wonder how foolish these guys can appear without feeling embarrassed.


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Lake Elsinore's birthday celebration begins
Lake Elsinore, Riverside County's second-oldest city, turns 125 on April 9, and civic leaders are ramping up a yearlong celebration of the milestone.
An "Essay of Elsinore" photo contest and the installation of mosaics decorating a section of the city's Riverwalk launch a series of birthday commemorations that will coincide with numerous events, from the annual Frontier Days festival in April to the yearly Winterfest in December.
"Every event that the city puts on this year is going to have some 125th theme in it," said city analyst Cathy Barrozo, who is organizing the schedule.
A birthday party will be held before the April 9 City Council meeting and, in addition to birthday cake, Craft Brewing Company is expected to unveil its 125th anniversary brew.
Meanwhile, efforts are being made to incorporate the anniversary into Frontier Days.
"Frontier Days is going to be a bigger and better event this year with a lot more going on, and it's going to be held at the new Laguna Resort and Boat Launch," Barrozo said.
Community activist John Larsen is working on organizing an extensive historical exhibition during the event, as well as other anniversary-related activities.
"I view it as a time for Lake Elsinore to take pride in itself and for people to say this is a great place to live," Larsen said. "There's going to be all kinds of things connecting the community and unifying it as much as possible."
Submissions are being accepted through Feb. 28 for the photo contest, which is sponsored by the Elsinore Valley Arts Network in conjunction with the city's Parks and Recreation Department.
In keeping with the contest's theme, "125 Years in the Making," participants can submit pictures in four categories -- historic photos from the 1880s to the 1960s; family, activity and group photos demonstrating life in Lake Elsinore, photos of historic buildings and locations in the city; and those illustrating celebrations and events.
Anyone can participate, with entries being judged in three age divisions -- 8 through 12, 13 through 17, and 18 and older. There is no charge for amateur entries and a $5 per entry charge for professionals, according to information on the arts network's website, www.elsinorevalleyartsnetwork.org.
Entry forms are available at Lake Community Center, 310 W. Graham Ave., and should be submitted there.
The contest culminates March 22 with an artist reception and awards, and a showcase of the art on March 23.
The latter event dovetails with a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the completion of the Riverwalk mosaic project, which includes the installation a 125th Lake Elsinore anniversary tile.
The mosaic project started several years ago in anticipation of the completion of Riverwalk. Some local artists conceived of the idea of having area children create decorative tiles that could be used to beautify features of the Riverwalk, a walking and biking path that stretches more than two miles from the lake to Riverside Drive.
While children at various venues created tiles for the project, it has been on hold since the opening of Riverwalk a couple of years ago.
An artists' cooperative formed last year, Studio 395, made it a mission to jump-start the stalled effort and it is working with the city and the arts network to get it done.
"We put the electric shocks back onto the monster so Frankenstein could walk," said Larsen, also a member of the artists' group. "It was sort of languishing there, but we had public art that was almost ready to do. It's kind of our mission to do something like that."
Volunteers and artists plan on installing the mosaics from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday on Riverwalk between Graham and Heald avenues.
In all, about 2,500 tiles will be installed on objects such as bollards and concrete trash receptacles on that block and another section by Riverside Drive.
"They got children to make these great tiles," said Studio 395 leader Grace Sandlin. "I mean some of these things will blow your mind, amazing little tiles made (to resemble) flora and fauna of the area."
If more mosaics can be installed next year, Sandlin envisions adding another tile with Lake Elsinore's anniversary logo to commemorate its 126th year as a city.
Only Riverside, which incorporated in 1883, is older than Lake Elsinore in Riverside County, and both became cities before the county was formed. Then called Elsinore, the town was among many in California that incorporated in the late 1880s.
Elsinore's birthdate preceded San Jacinto's incorporation by 11 days. Another 22 years went by before another Riverside County town -- Hemet -- became a city, followed by Perris in 1911.


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- fat15.7g
- saturates7.5g
- carbs50.5g
- sugars7g
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Take off the heat and stir in 320g-400g mixed fish, 1 tsp Dijon or English mustard, a small bunch of finely snipped chives, handful of sweetcorn and handful of petits pois. Spoon into an ovenproof dish or 6- 8 ramekins.
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Pop in the oven for 20 - 25 mins or until golden and bubbling at the edges. Alternatively, cover and freeze the pie or mini pies for another time.
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Appointing a Data Protection Officer (DPO) happens to be one such requirement. However, it is not an entirely fresh concept. Many organisations already have such a role in place either as a mandatory requirement in their country or to set the industry benchmark. But, for the first time, outsourcing a DPO has become a compulsory requirement for such a large pool of organisations.
Under GDPR, is it compulsory for every organisation to hire a data protection officer? What are their roles and responsibilities? Who do they report to?
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COLORADOSPRINGS, Colo.- Less than one month since competing on sports grandest stage at the Olympic Games, 16-year-old Margaux Isaksen (Fayetteville, Ark./Colorado Springs, Colo.) recorded the top performance of her career, winning the gold medal at the 2008 Youth A World Championships in Albena, Bulgaria. Coming off her 21st place performance at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, Isaksen's performance today puts the world on notice that she is on the road to the 2012 Olympic Games and that she will be a contender when she gets there.
Isaksen easily outdistanced the field of the international girls aged 18 years and under with a total score of 4,532 modern pentathlon points. Her closest competitor was Sarolta Kovacs of Hungary with 4,496 points. Only four disciplines are competed in Youth World Championships, shooting, fencing, swimming and running (riding is not contested).
Isaksen is the first U.S. modern pentathlete ever to win a Youth World Championship title.
Anna Olesinski, Emily Andrews, and Micah Brown also represented the U.S. finishing 30th, 50th and 51st respectively.
As a team, the U.S. finished eighth with 11,392 combined points.
Individual event scores for Team USA are listed below:
2008 Youth A World Championships - Albena, Bulgaria
Girl's Final
Margaux Isaksen - Gold Medal - 4,532 points
Shoot - 174 (1,024 points)
Fence - 35V and 15D (1,000 points)
Swim - 2:16.08 (1,288 points)
Run - 10:25.90 (1,220 points)
Anna Olesinski - 30th Place - 3,836 points
Shoot - 161 (868 points)
Fence - 17V and 33D (712 points)
Swim - 2:29.20 (1,132 points)
Run - 10:49.50 (1,124 points)
Emily Andrews - 50th Place - 3,172 points
Shoot - 164 (904 points)
Fence - 19V and 31D (744 points)
Swim - 2:49.29 (892 points)
Run - 12:52.60 (632 points)
Micah Brown - 51st Place - 3,024 points
Shoot - 159 (844 points)
Fence - 26V and 24D (856 points)
Swim - 2:43.99 (956 points)
Run - 13:58.10 (368 points)
For complete event results, please visit www.pentathlon.org.
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At the invitation of President Julius Maada Wonie Bio of the Republic of Sierra Leone, President Xi Jinping's Special Envoy and Minister of Science and Technology Wang Zhigang will travel to Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, to attend the inauguration ceremony of President Julius Maada Wonie Bio on May 12.
Sierra Leone is an important cooperative partner for China in Africa. During the past 47 years since the establishment of diplomatic ties, our two sides have long valued sincerity, friendship and equality and fruitful outcomes have been achieved in our mutually beneficial cooperation across the board. The friendship between our two sides serves the fundamental interests of our two countries and two peoples. China values its relations with Sierra Leone and we stand ready to join hands with Sierra Leone to add more dimensions to our comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and deliver greater benefits to our two countries and two peoples.
At the invitation of State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Yousef Bin Alawi Bin Abdullah, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman will visit China from May 12 to 16.
During Minister Alawi's visit to China, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will hold talks with him, during which the two sides will exchange views on China-Oman relations and international and regional issues of common interest.
China and Oman enjoy traditional friendship. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of our diplomatic ties. Recent years have witnessed the rapid growth of China-Oman relations. Our two countries always support and understand each other on issues related to each other's core interests and major concerns. China is willing to work with Oman to take the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties as an opportunity to further cement our traditional friendship, enhance political mutual trust, elevate cooperation in various areas and move forward China-Oman friendly cooperative relations.
At the invitation of French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Alfonso María Dastis Quecedo, Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva and Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship Jorge Marcelo Faurie, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will pay official visits to the aforementioned four countries and attend the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Argentina from May 16 to 24.
Q: You just announced State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi's upcoming visit to France. As we all know, the China-France relations have always been at the forefront of China's relations with Western countries, and there have been frequent high-level exchanges between the two countries. So what is the main purpose of State Councilor Wang Yi's visit? Who is he going to meet and hold talks with? Will they discuss the Iranian nuclear issue, the Syrian issue and other hot-spot issues?
A: France is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, a core state of the European Union and an important member of the G20. It is the first major Western country to establish official diplomatic ties with China. In recent years, the China-France relations have enjoyed sound and steady development with ever deepening across-the-board practical cooperation and close communication and coordination in international affairs, playing a positive role in promoting our respective development and world prosperity and stability. In January this year, French President Emmanuel Macron paid a successful state visit to China and the two heads of state reached important consensus on further elevating the China-France comprehensive strategic partnership.
During his visit to France, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet with President Emmanuel Macron and the President's diplomatic advisor Philippe Etienne respectively, and hold talks with Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. Our two sides will exchange in-depth views on implementing the consensus reached by the two heads of state, conducting high-level exchanges and advancing practical cooperation in various fields, as well as the China-Europe relations and major international and regional issues of common interest.
Q: You just announced that State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi is going to visit Argentina and attend the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting. There have been frequent high-level exchanges between China and Argentina in recent years, so how do you comment on the current bilateral relations? What topics will come up during State Councilor Wang Yi's visit? And what propositions will China take to the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting?
A: Argentina is a major Latin American country and an important emerging market, chair of the G20 in 2018 and a comprehensive strategic partner for China. Recent years have witnessed the rapid and comprehensive development of China-Argentina relations. President Xi Jinping has met with President Mauricio Macri for three times, reaching important consensus on stepping up across-the-board mutually beneficial and friendly cooperation and charting the course for the development of bilateral relations. During his visit to Argentina, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet with President Mauricio Macri and hold talks with Foreign Minister Jorge Marcelo Faurie. Our two sides will exchange in-depth views on the development of bilateral relations under the new circumstances, the practical cooperation in various fields, the preparations for the G20 summit and other international and regional issues of common interest.
When attending the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will expound China's position and propositions on such three issues as the nature and function of the G20 mechanism, multilateralism and global governance, and the actions to realize equitable and sustainable development. He will also hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts of relevant countries, and exchange views on bilateral relations and major international issues with them.
Q: It is reported that the DPRK-US summit will be held in Singapore on June 12. What is your comment? What are China's expectations for this summit?
A: China welcomes the positive progress achieved by the DPRK and the US in preparing the summit. We hope that the summit can achieve positive outcomes and an important step can be taken towards advancing the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, politically resolving the Peninsula issue and achieving the lasting peace and stability of the region.
Q: According to reports, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that China and Japan have reached new consensus on the co-production of films. Could you give us more details? Will the two sides sign any agreement in this regard? Does China have any tentative ideas for the co-production of movies with Japan?
A: During Premier Li Keqiang's official visit to Japan, our two sides inked the Agreement on the Co-production of Films between the Chinese Government and the Japanese Government. The signing of this agreement will provide policy guarantee for the shooting and making of co-productions and play a positive role in promoting the cooperation between the two countries' movie industries.
The art of film has always served as a special bridge between different countries, fostering a close bond and enhancing friendship between people. Since the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between China and Japan was signed 40 years ago, the film industries of the two countries have always maintained close communication and cooperation. Many Japanese films and TV series have been familiar to Chinese people and a growing number of Chinese movies and TV series have found their way to Japanese households. Moreover, in recent years, our two sides have co-produced some outstanding movies.
China and Japan are the world's second and third largest film markets. We hope that our two sides will continue to step up our exchanges and cooperation in film-making, build the cultural industry into a new highlight of our practical cooperation and bring closer the hearts of our two peoples so as to make new contributions to the sustained improvement and development of China-Japan relations.
Q: According to reports, the Catholic Archbishop of Taiwan has said that he would like to invite the Pope to visit Taiwan next year. If such a visit did take place, what impact might this have on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the Vatican?
A: I have not seen the report mentioned by you. There is only one China in the world. The one-China principle is a universal consensus shared by the international community. Accepting this principle conforms to the trend of the times and reflects the will of the people.
Q: With regard to the DPRK-US summit, will President Xi Jinping visit Singapore on June 12 or before or after that?
A: We hope that the DPRK-US summit can achieve positive outcomes.
Q: According to reports, on the evening of May 10, Mahathir Mohamad, chairman of the Pakatan Harapan and the former Prime Minister of Malaysia was sworn in as Prime Minister. What is your comment?
A: Just as I said yesterday, Mr. Mahathir is a senior politician and made positive and important contributions to the development of Malaysia and ASEAN, China-Malaysia relations and East Asian cooperation. China congratulates him on assuming the post of Prime Minister. We believe that under his leadership, Malaysia will score new achievements in its national development and the China-Malaysia comprehensive strategic partnership will move forward in a steady and sustained manner.
Q: Regarding State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to Spain, do you have more details?
A: Spain is an important member of the European Union and a permanent guest member of the G20. This year marks the 45th anniversary of the establishment of China-Spain diplomatic ties. Our bilateral relations have enjoyed a sound momentum of growth as evidenced by frequent high-level exchanges and ever stronger political mutual trust. Our two countries have reaped early harvests on the Belt and Road cooperation, created many highlights in our practical cooperation covering the economic, trade, cultural, police and judicial fields and maintained good communication and coordination in international organizations such as the United Nations.
During his visit to Spain, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet with King Felipe VI and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Brey on separate occasions, and hold talks with Foreign Minister Alfonso María Dastis Quecedo. Our two sides will have an in-depth exchange of views on further promoting the development of China-Spain relations and China-Europe relations under the new circumstances, forging closer high-level exchanges and seeking greater synergy between our strategies and deepening practical cooperation under the Belt and Road framework.
Q: According to reports, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Khonsari will arrive in Beijing on Sunday. Can you confirm it? If yes, do you have more details?
A: China and Iran have always maintained close communication and exchanges.
Q: According to reports, Israel hit Iranian military targets in Syria, saying that it was a reaction to Iran's attack on Israel. What is your comment?
A: We have noted relevant reports. We hope that the relevant parties can stay cool-headed and restrained to jointly uphold regional peace and stability.


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The Ozarks Christmas Dinner 1966 by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
Grandma DeLong and Uncle Richard's House
The Ozarks
Christmas Dinner
Grandma DeLong's Butter Mold
Grandma Martha Lou Marcum DeLong taught me "How To Milk A Cow,"when I was five years old. No fancy milking machine. I used my thumb and finger on the cow's udder. Most of the stream of the milk went on me and not in the bucket. I knew I would never be a dairy farmer. Grandma used the milk to churn butter. Once the butter was churned, she used this butter mold to imprint a design into the cake of butter. She used "Clabber Girl" baking powder to make her biscuits from scratch. Once you added the butter to the fresh biscuits out of the old wood cook stove, "It was good eatin' ! Every breakfast was like a Christmas Day Breakfast !" Photo by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
Home is where I kick my shoes off and feel, "This is where I belong."
In childhood, I felt at home in the big, white clapboard house in Houston. It had an extremely narrow driveway that ended at the garage in the backyard. The property was surrounded by a cyclone fence.
In Missouri, home was always Grandma and Uncle Richard's house. You turned off the state highway and rose up a wide gravel driveway to the top of the knoll. To the left was the traditional worn wood country barn with the hay loft. The driveway ended near the power pole.
Home To Grandma's House
To the right of the power pole sat a small house with a built on porch. The yard had three Tonka trees and a huge snowball bush. The yard tapered down into a ditch beside the highway.
Brief traces of white paint were visible on the porch, which sagged under the weight of age. A huge flat rock served as a step on to the porch. In autumn, ricks of wood occupied the porch. In spring and summer,
Grandma DeLong would sit on the porch and look up the road toward Abesville. If she wasn't peeling potatoes on the porch, then, she would be sitting outside with her fly swatter ready to swat flies.
There was always a string of hot red peppers that hung on the porch like a string of forgotten Christmas lights. Through the year, people would sit on the porch and "visit" with grandma or Uncle Richard.
Grandma had quite a few chickens that she shut up in the hen house at night. I would go with her to "gather up the eggs." She would put some of the eggs in cartons in the ice box and sell some of the eggs to people who wanted "farm fresh" eggs.
In the 1960s, grandma also raised rabbits. Every two or three weeks, "The Old Rabbit Man" would stop by to buy some of the rabbits that she had raised.
The Kitchen
As dusk began to settle, you would stroll across the creaking wooden porch into the kitchen. To your left was a long wooden table that held two white enamel buckets of water.
The bucket nearest the door usually had the dipper in it, in case you wanted a drink of water.
There was an old battered gray dishpan that sat on the table and it's function was that of a sink. You dipped water into the pan and washed your hands. Then, you tossed the dirty dish water out the door into the yard.
The white cupboard beside the door held the dishes. The huge white refrigerator sat next to the cupboard.
By the wood table was the wood box that held the wood for the cook stove. A white enamel dishpan hung on a nail by the cook stove. Grandma usually sat on her tall, wooden swivel stool by the cook stove. Her stool was at the end of the loud, gaudy, yellow art deco formica topped table, which was the kitchen table,
Living Room
When you got up from the table you stepped into the living room, which was also Grandma's bedroom. Her cast iron headboard and footboard were set up against the wall.
In the center of the room, in the autumn and winter was the pot bellied cast iron heating stove. A doorway beside the heating stove lead into Uncle Richard's bedroom.
The entire house had three rooms and in the early 1970s a laundry room was built on the back of the house. There was no indoor plumbing, The natural call of nature were answered by a trip down to the hillside.
Uncle Joe had built an outhouse behind the house. The house had a gable roof. Siding was a brown brick pattern of tar paper over black tar paper.
Momma once told me the entire house once sat in the head of a holler, across the road, where Uncle Richard later built a goat house and corral for his wool goats.
In the 1940s,daddy, Uncle Richard and Uncle Hobert moved the house from the holler to the location across the road.
The Charley Herman and Martha Lou Marcum DeLong Family had lived on this land since the early 1930s.
Rock Porch
The back of the house faced the state highway. The two screen doors, near the center, opened out on to a strange rock porch. The concrete foundation of the porch rose up about four feet and the top of the porch was a crude rock garden floor of rocks.
The rocks were, probably, used because they had been picked up out of the yard. There was nothing special about these rocks. They were just big,old,sharp, flint rocks of different sizes. Grandma had about six four o'clock plants planted around the porch.
Old Tree
One of the most amazing feature of the front yard was the ancient tree that set a few yards to the left of the house. It was wide and easy to crawl up into. Cousin Donna, I and our cousins, Bert and Ronnie could easily climb into the tree and sit or play on the branches.
Grandma's house was the center of family social functions. Birthdays, the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations everyone made the journey to grandma's house.
The house was small and the kitchen had limitations to timely food preparation. Momma was a good cook, but it took Thanksgiving and Christmas for her to reveal her cooking skills.
My childhood house I called the "Hen House" because of the backward slanted shed roof. It was like a badly designed house trailer. However, the house did have indoor plumbing and a working gas stove.
The Chores
Uncle Richard had his farm chores that involved checking on his 25 head of Black Angus cattle and feeding three sows. He had two Clydesdale work horses, Bob and Fred that he used to plow the corn field.
In the 1960s, Uncle Richard had between 50 and 100 head of wool goats. In the spring, they would pin up the goats and shear off the wool to put into sacks to take to Crane to sell to a wool buyer. It usually took two to five days to shear the goats because instead of electric clippers, the scissors were sharp metal.
I always felt sorry for the goats because they looked so funny afterwards. They had beautiful sets of regal looking horns, but without their wool they looked like they were wearing the type of pink thermal underwear that had the trap door in the back.
By the 1970s, Bob and Fred were gone and Kate the old white mule and Hazel the young brown mule inherited the plowing duties.
The John Deere Model A tractor had a side starter that was a nuisance to try to start, so it usually sat in the field, near the road, like a forgotten road sign.
Whenever some wood had to be sawed there was a long rubber belt that could be put around the starter to operate a saw device, which was another use for the neglected tractor that witnessed Kate and Hazel doing the serious plowing.
Momma had her farm chores to do everyday, which involved checking on her 50 head of Black Angus cattle and her growing herd of hogs.
Holiday Menu
Around the holidays, once her chores were done, then, Momma would start a day before the holiday to cook dinner.
Mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, green beans, honey glazed ham with the Dole pineapple rings were the food items on the Thanksgiving and Christmas menus. Black eyed peas were considered "Good Luck" in Texas, so Momma always added the black-eyed peas to the Missouri menu.
The DeLong Family all loved the orange sweet potatoes. Momma would always load up a long wide Pyrex dish with the candied yams. The yams are one of the foods that always seemed to disappear quickly.
Momma like fried okra, cooked cabbage,spinach and fried green tomatoes She usually found the time to add these dishes to the table.
Uncle Richard and I loved pinto beans, so Momma would always cook a big pot, Uncle Richard liked the soup and I liked the beans. Momma always cooked the beans until they just melted in your mouth.
Grandma DeLong always used Clabber Girl baking power to make her biscuits from scratch. Momma would begin cooking dishes on our gas stove and in the gas oven at home. Then, she would take the cooked food and more food to cook on the cook stove up to grandmas.
Aunt Mary DeLong would usually show up early in the morning of a holiday to help with the cooking.
The Cook Stove
Grandma DeLong used a cast iron "cook stove", which was a huge oblong piece of metal that look like an unfinished robot. It had an oblong head supported by a slender throat of metal over a flat cooking surface. In the stomach of the metal beast was a door to an oven. The whole contrapcion sit on four cast iron legs.
There were four circular lids that contained an indentation for a metal handle that would be inserted to raise any one of the lids. Once the lid was raised then a stick of wood about six to eight inches was inserted into the iron beast.
Kindling, the smaller pieces of wood, and paper were added and lit with a match or a cigarette lighter to get the fire started. One the flames were leaping up between the sticks of wood, then, you put the cover back over the opening.
A cast iron skillet was added to the flat surface. And,the metal coffee pot usually rested on the stove. Cooking wasn't fast on the old "cook stove." Preparing Thanksgiving Dinner or Christmas Dinner was an all day affair.
Frying bacon in the cast iron skillet on the flat surface was done to come up with bacon grease. In the 1960s, before cooking oil and vegetable oil became popular farm housewives used what they had, which was bacon grease to cook with.
The hot grease could be poured into a container to cool and it solidified, When you needed it, you would spoon out some into a hot skillet and the grease once again became liquid and like cooking oil.
The Stories
Grandma DeLong was the family storyteller, Whenever Cousin Donna or I got the chance to spend the day at grandma's we took the opportunity. She would sit at the end of the kitchen table on her swivel wooden stool and tell us stories about the early days of Stone County, She would relate her experiences in The Great Depression.
Thanksgiving and Christmas were usually the days that she got to sit in the kitchen and have people tell her stories about their lives. Grandma was a "good listener." And, Grandma DeLong was a curious person.
She would ask a question that would sometimes catch someone totally off guard. They would see the small woman with her silver hair in a French bun and think of her as a "sweet, little old lady." But. this sweet, little old lady was always curious and had a sense of humor and would ask her question.
The person being questioned might blush, but Grandma DeLong didn't get embarrassed.
Thanksgiving and Christmas Days were usually the days that grandma didn't have to cook. She sat at the end of the bright yellow art deco formica topped kitchen table"supervised" and "visited" with friends who stopped by and family members who sat down at the table.
One of the most comfortable features of being at Grandma's house was how people would get them a cup of coffee and sit down at the kitchen to talk, Everyone always seemed to feel at home. People were always at ease,
Friends, family and neighbors would sit down at the kitchen table and just casually speak about their day and the events that were going on in their lives.
The beauty of childhood is when you observe some actions, you are willing to allow your imagination to supply the rationale.I had a suspicion that the loud, gaudy, yellow kitchen table was actually a scientific, sophisticated gizmo that simply encouraged people to freely express their thoughts and views.
In 1960, Papa Warren, Mama Warren, Aunt Bill and Uncle Audrey came to Missouri to visit for a couple of weeks. When daddy would sit down at the table, grandma would have all kinds of questions to ask about the family in Texas and the job.
American Classic
1958 Chevrolet
This 1958 Chevrolet circles the square, during Stone County, Missouri's 160th Anniversary Celebration. My Uncle Audrey and Aunt Bill Warren Irwin owned a beautiful emerald green 1958 Chevrolet. Uncle Audrey was meticulous about the automobile. In 1960, Uncle Audrey, Aunt Bill, Papa Warren and Mama Warren came up to The Ozarks from Simpsonville, Texas for a couple of weeks in Uncle Audrey's '58 Chevy. As a child one of the factors that I always appreciated about the 1950s General Motors Corporation automobiles were how the designers used the grilles to create a facial expression for the vehicle. Every time I see a '58 Chevy, I smile because it always reminds me of Aunt Bill and Uncle Audrey, Photo by Samuel E. Warren Jr.
Home For The Holidays
Every two or three years, Aunt Reva DeLong and her husband, Uncle Dennis would arrive to celebrate Christmas.
Uncle Dennis served in the United States Marine Corps. They would bring their two sons, Bert and Ronnie. Bert grew up to serve in the United States Air Force. Ronnie grew up to serve in the United States Navy.
Of course, when family returned for the holiday, friends and neighbors would stop by to visit. While the adults would sit down to visit over a cup of coffee, we kids would go outside and go into the woods to play.
On Thanksgiving and Christmas Days we didn't stray that far from the kitchen, so we would go out and play on the old tree.
Every Christmas, daddy would bring Uncle Richard a fifth of Seagram's Seven. Uncle Richard would smile and then go hide it under his bed.
Uncle Richard knew Uncle Joe was suppose to be coming home for the holidays, then, Uncle Richard would take his fifth of Seagram's out to the barn to hide it.
Sometimes Uncle Joe would get time off from the Burlington Northern railroad and come home to celebrate Christmas.
Momma, Opal M. DeLong Warren, would of pulled out all the stops and been in her Christmas mode. Once Momma and Aunt Mary was done with the cooking the food would be sat on the table. Everyone would get them a plate and help themselves.
Once the dishes were cleared away into the dish pan on the corner of the cook stove, then, the adults would sit with there coffee at the kitchen table and talk.
Grandma Delong "went to bed with the chickens", which meant by 6 pm or 8 pm she would go to bed and the rest of the adults would sit in the kitchen and talk usually until midnight.
The family coming home for the holidays. The vast amount of food on the table. The conversations throughout the day until the evening. All of these observations on Thanksgiving and Christmas Days were what I understood to be the meaning of the family getting together for the holidays.
Throughout the year, Momma would remind me that, "Family is everything." Christmas Dinner at Grandma DeLong's always seem to bring family together from around the United States. There was always the feeling that everyone who walked through the door looked forward to the opportunity to come back "home for the holidays."
Merry Christmas !
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August 08, 2013
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As time goes by in my work as a Kiva Fellow, I realize more and more how important the social mission of an MFI is. At my first placement, I was greatly impressed by Kiva's partner in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I would like to share the story of this institution. Through Kiva, the relationship and the space for the borrower's voice is not established solely because of technology, but because of the real person-to-person communication that an MFI has with its clients. If the MFI atmosphere and staff are personable and human, the clients truly feel that they are not just borrowing money from a bank. This is where the borrower really has a space. This is where real healing and real help happen.
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—Zainab Salbi, President and CEO of Women for Women International
When I found out that Zainab Salbi was coming to Sarajevo and the regional managers of Zene za Zene were attending her talk, I decided to go on the 3-hour-long ride to the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina in hopes to find an inspiration. Zainab's talk proved to be eye-opening.
With a sensitivity and apparent interest in every person present, she talked about her story and what motivates her and asked each individual in the room, mostly women, to tell the others something about herself. The energy that ran through the colleagues as they stood up, in addition to their slight nervousness, was impressive.
The Bosnian branch of Women for Women International (WfWI) is the first one and the stepping stone of the larger organization. On June 12, 1993, with only 30 women, WfWI started because of war-time rape camps in BiH. Now the organization serves 53,000 women annually (including microcredit) and has served 207,000 women directly while mobilizing 250,000 women in 101 countries. This half a million is comprised of both people who donate and the ones who need help. All of these women are asking for justice.
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Just a quick note...I haven't been blogging since I had emergency surgery last Friday night for an ovarian cyst. I haven't been able to sit at the computer so I haven't been able to read any of the wonderful blogs that I love to visit so much...and I already miss you all. Hopefully in the next few days, it will be easier to be at the computer and I can start catching up with everyone.
But I have been able to stitch and that's always a step in the right direction! Hopefully next time I blog, I'll have some stitching pictures to show!
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Just a quick note...I haven't been blogging since I had emergency surgery last Friday night for an ovarian cyst. I haven't been able to sit at the computer so I haven't been able to read any of the wonderful blogs that I love to visit so much...and I already miss you all. Hopefully in the next few days, it will be easier to be at the computer and I can start catching up with everyone.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
I think my playing around recently with the knitted and crocheted blocks for the Cancer Quilts, has put the crochet bug into me! Look what I've been up to the last couple of days.
My niece is expecting a baby next month ~ her due date is February 29th ~ and I was at a lost as to what to make for her. I looked at so many baby samplers recently and nothing was appealing to me. So on a Saturday shopping trip with Carrie, she convinced me to make a baby blanket instead. I love the yarn, its called Baby Softee and its gorgeous and light feeling. I picked out the variegated colour first and then went with the blue and mauve. Although my strong feeling is that Sandra is having a boy...you can never until he/she arrives.
Its a dull day here and snowing quite a bit now. I guess winter has decided that its back again and no more comfy temp's for us. I don't mind the snow but its just so dark....
Of course fresh snow always makes the dogs a little frisky. I had a hard time getting Kelsey to stay still long enough to get a picture of her. I have about 8 blurry ones and only one where I was able to get a clear shot of her.
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Labels: Crochet
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Four's ~ I've been Tagged and so have you!
4 Jobs I've had:
Page (working in the public library)
Purchasing Assistant
Medical Secretary
4 Movies I watch over and over:
The Trouble with Angels
Gone with the Wind
Wizard of Oz
Its a Wonderful Life4 Places I have been:
Vancouver, B.C.
Quebec City
Cozumel, Mexico
East and West Berlin, Germany
4 Places I have lived:
Scarborough, Ontario
Stuttgart, Germany
Toronto, Ontario
Whitby, Ontario
4 TV Shows I watch:CSI
Gray's Anatomy
4 People Who e-mail me regularly
4 Favourite foods:Swiss Chalet chicken
Barbecue potato chips
Lindor chocolates
Chicken fajitas
4 Places I would rather be:On vacation just about anywhere in~
The U.K.
Our cottage
4 Things I'm looking forward to:Our trip to Las Vegas next month
Stitching Get-together next Saturday
Finishing off some of my WIP's
Arrival of spring
People to tag:
Anyone who wants to join in!
Whew, if you read through all this, you deserve a skein of gold thread!
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Labels: Tags
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
I is for Inn
I picked up my Carriage House Alphabet series the other night and started in on "Inn". I finished it up the next night and then outlined a couple more borders. I am really hoping to get one of these done a week and then I could see a finish....later this year LOL! I'm using a mixture of DMC and GAST for this design, GAST threads where I think the variegation will show up and DMC in the little bits, where its hardly worth threading a needle.
And on the weekend, I mostly hibernated after a flu bug hit me on Friday. But I got a lot accomplished on LHN's Home of a Needleworker once I started to feel better.
Thank you so much for your comments on the crocheted/knitted blocks from the Cancer Centre. I didn't work on any of the actual blocks, these are all done by the patients themselves with donated materials. My only effort was in putting them together. I had hoped to start on one of the knitted afghans last weekend, but I'm going to try the whipped stitch as suggested by Marg on one set, and the mattress stitch suggested by Glenna on another. Thanks so much for the suggestions and the cool web link too!
And for anyone in the Southern Ontario region, there is a new Cash for Cancer commercial airing on CTV which shows the Durham Regional Cancer Centre. If you happen to catch the commercial look for the therapist who you see full face in the segment ~ its my daughter Carrie! That 30 second spot took them 8 hours to film!
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Labels: Cancer afghans, CHS Alphabet
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Knitting and knitting and some crocheting too!
Two to three months ago, the Cancer Centre where Carrie works started a program with donated yarns, needles and crochet hooks in their waiting room, asking for patients and their families to knit/crochet blocks as a way to pass their time while waiting for their appointments. And who would have thought there were so many knitters/crocheters out there? The knitted and crocheted blocks have started pouring in....and I offered my help in assembling them for lap size blankets.
The lap blankets are going to be donated to the Oncology Floor of the hospital and to Hearth Place, which is a local support centre for cancer patients.
Carrie brought me the first 80 or so blocks before Christmas and they have started to come in slow but sure ever since. So over the Christmas break, I got my first blanket put together. I used just the crocheted blocks in these since I could put them together easily with a crocheted stitch. I used 40 blocks, 8x5, to make a nice sized blanket and then did a double crochet around the edge to make it look more finished.
It looks pretty, doesn't it. I wish I knew how many people had their hands involved in the making of these!
And look what she brought me last night! Most of the blocks I have now are knitted, and there are enough for about 3 more blankets. Any ideas....thoughts.... about a fairly easy, nice looking way of putting these together? I had thought to use the same single crochet as I put together the first blanket, but my hook is not going to go through these very easily and I don't want to ruin the look of the blocks. I need to get going on these lovely blocks before they take over my sewing room!
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Labels: Cancer afghans
Monday, January 07, 2008
Some more progress...and if you look really closely, you can see the outline of doors and windows in my little house. I didn't have much time to stitch over the past couple of days, as we still have more Christmas visits to get in with family, and friends, before one friends heads back to Edmonton for work for the next few months.
And more dull dreary weather, but with rain! Our weather has been so strange, we have hit a record high already today with temperatures that are going into the 10's C. With rain forecast for the next few days, they are predicting that all our snow will soon be gone. And this is January???
But I am happy dancing in spite of no finishes for me, because....the kids are back in school today! And they both got up without any prompting...I guess that warning last night did some good. But I wonder how long it will last.....
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Labels: LHN
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Home of a Needleworker
Here is my January 1st start - LHN's Home of a Needleworker. I switched out the DMC for GAST Cinnamon, not a lot of variegation but I love the colour. And not a bad start either!
I tried taking a picture first, and even though we are having a bright sunny day (YEAH) but cold -12 degrees C, my picture still came out dark and gloomy. Must be something on the settings that I haven't got quite right. Once I figure it out, I think I'll retake my WIP photos, they are awful and certainly aren't encouraging me to continue with them.
We went out for a wonderful New Year's Day brunch with Carrie and JF and some of their friends who were still recuperating from the celebrations of the night (and morning). But today its back to work and back to the drudgery for me, although the teenagers are still in bed of course. I don't expect to see them until past noon. Well they might as well enjoy their last few days of holiday.
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- Hot Diggity Damn! U.S. Economy Sits Atop World Economic Forum Competitiveness Survey - October 19, 2018
- Experiencing Hurricane Michael in Georgia - October 12, 2018
- Worthless Argument 97 Percent of Climate Scientists Believe Fossil Fuels Cause Global Warming - June 26, 2017
President Obama's Energy Speech at the University of Miami February 23 added more details to his energy thoughts as given by his State Of The Union Speech and 2013 Fiscal Year budget submitted to Congress. An advance copy of President Obama's Miami Energy Speech posted by Steve Milloy's Junkscience is giving by the following url: http://junkscience.com/2012/02/23/obamas-miami-energy-speech/
These ideas are based upon curtailing use of fossil fuels, in particular coal, due to fears carbon dioxide produced from combustion causes catastrophic global warming. This motivation will guide future energy policies for the next four years. Policies implemented and policies ignored lead to a dismal economic future for the United States.
The United States has the most abundant fossil fuel reserves in the world, the greatest agriculture system, and the most innovative population which should lead to prosperity for centuries. A few remarks about current energy policies follow:
President Obama decried high gasoline prices and said his opponents will shout the 30-year old solution—"drill, drill, drill"—that has not worked. He said, "anyone who tells you we can drill our way out of this problem doesn't know what they are talking about…The U. S. consumes more than a fifth of the world's oil. But we only have 2% of the world's oil reserves." President Obama could not be more wrong.
Our annual consumption of oil is about 7 billion barrels. Reserves in Alaska exceed 35 billion barrels of oil, reserves off-shore 29 billion barrels, and oil shale reserves in Texas, Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota exceed 1 trillion barrels. Another trillion barrels of oil are in Canada's Alberta province adjacent to Montana. TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline, for which President Obama refuses to allow construction, is to transport 700,000 barrels per day of Alberta's oil to Texas. Individuals with President Obama's thinking have stalled developing the more than 10 billion barrels of oil in the 2000 acre portion of the 19 million acre Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge for more than 30 years.
President Obama mentioned the United States produced more oil in 2011 than in the past eight years. This is true due to recent increased oil production on state and private lands in North Dakota, and natural gas wells in Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. This is in spite of millions of acres of Western land being declared out of bounds for exploration by the Department of Interior, delays in permitting exploratory drilling in Alaska, and delays in off shore drilling on the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. Has Shell Oil Company been given permits to do exploratory drilling off Alaska that it has been seeking for years? The year 2011 had a few glimpses of economic brightness due to increased private sector oil and natural gas production in spite of Obama Administration policies.
President Obama made a big issue of an agreement with Mexico to open 1.5 million acres (2350 square miles) of the Gulf of Mexico for exploration that could yield 172 million barrels of oil and 304 billion cubic feet of natural gas. These numbers may appear large; but they only amount to 9 days consumption of oil and 5 days consumption of natural gas by the United States. This amount of oil that would take decades for delivery to the United States, could be delivered in 250 days by the Keystone XL pipeline. Just one of the new 1100 Megawatt nuclear power plants being constructed near Augusta, GA could save this amount of natural gas in 3.7 years.
President Obama said we need to exploit "every available source of American energy—oil, gas, wind, solar, nuclear, biofuels, and more." He complains "four billion of your tax dollars subsidizes the oil industry every year." At the same we need "to double-down on a clean energy industry that's never been more promising."
Wind, solar, and nuclear provide electricity and we use very little oil in producing electricity. Thus, these sources provide no immediate relief from oil consumption. For years solar and wind has been provided subsidies of grants or government-guaranteed loans for plant construction, requirements for utilities to buy back electricity from these plants at costs way above conventional electricity costs (feed-in-tariffs), and mandates (renewable portfolio standards–RPS)to use their electricity regardless of cost. California has one of the most stringent mandates in the nation with an RPS of 20 percent renewable electricity by December 31, 2013 and 33 percent by 2020. As of May 2011, the all sector cost of electricity in California was 13.38 cents per kw-hr versus a national average of 9.87—36 percent higher than national average. A string of bankruptcies from solar energy plants show solar energy is not economical–winners are bankruptcy lawyers and losers are tax payers and electricity rate payers.
Biofuels consist mostly of ethanol produced from corn. In 2011, five billion bushels of corn was converted to twelve billion gallons of ethanol which caused the wholesale price of corn to rise to $7 per bushel against $2.50 a few years earlier. Much research show it requires more energy to make ethanol than is contained in the product. The situation will get worse in the future due to mandates from the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act to use 35 billion gallons of ethanol as fuel by 2022. Wikipedia states a 2010 study by the U. S. Congressional Budget Office found the cost to taxpayers to replace one gallon of gasoline with ethanol was $1.78. The whole country suffers because of food price inflation due to this program. Some policy experts speculated increased worldwide corn prices may have been a primary cause of Arab Spring uprisings that started in January 2011 due to starvation level food prices. Let our farmers export the five billion bushels or more of corn wasted on ethanol production, or its equivalent, to alleviate world hunger.
One of the "more" clean energy forms referred to by President Obama is battery-powered cars. Presently electric car purchasers are given $7500 by the federal and various other amounts by state governments to stimulate sales. In order to stimulate more sales from the dismal 16,000 in 2011, President Obama is proposing raising the "gift" to $10,000 in 2013. Because electric cars cost from $35,000 to over $100,000, these subsidies are clearly for the highest income people in the country. It is easy to show electric cars provide no energy savings because their energy use must be traced back to power plants from which electricity to charge batteries originated. These cars are compacts and their equivalent energy consumption is the order of 30 mpg versus 40 mpg from cars they compete against. About $5 billion has been given as subsidies to manufactures, buyers, and placement of charging stations in homes and elsewhere.
President Obama only mentioned nuclear power once in his speech; but it has promise for extending our fossil fuels hundreds of years in the future. Just one of the two 1100 Megawatt nuclear power plants under construction near Augusta, Georgia could save the consumption of 230 million tons of coal or 5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas during its 60-year lifetime. These numbers represent 23 percent current consumption of coal or natural gas in the United States.
The public may not be aware; but since 1983 all electricity produced by nuclear power paid a fee of 0.1 cents per kilowatt-hour to the federal government for future storage of nuclear waste. The annual fee today is $800 million and cumulative payments the past 28 years has to exceed $16 billion. Back in the 1980s a multi-year search was made all over the United States to find the best location to store nuclear wastes. After much study, it was decided the Nevada Yucca Mountain location was best and construction started to prepare the site. After $13 billion was spent on the project, President Obama decided to stop construction and revisit site selection. After all the work and money spent on Yucca Mountain, it seems inconceivable a better site could be found.
Only a few percent of materials in nuclear power plant spent fuel elements is considered waste. This is a small volume compared to fuel element volume. The majority of materials is uranium and plutonium that can be used as fuel for future power plants. These materials are reclaimed by a process called nuclear fuel reprocessing. To date the United States has not built a facility to reprocess fuel elements from our commercial nuclear power plants. As a result of this policy, spent fuel elements are stored on site at nuclear power plants for times exceeding forty years. One of the lessons learned from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident is the presence of spent fuel elements creates problems. It seems prudent for the United States government to reprocess nuclear fuels to remove spent fuels elements from plant sites. This dramatically reduces nuclear wastes volume and allows a site like Yucca Mountain to permanently store materials for thousands of years. Building these facilities will create jobs. Tax payers should not to pay for this project–use fees paid by customers of nuclear power generation.
President Obama's energy speech was long on words and solved no problems. He suggested expanding subsidies for renewable energy that are a total waste. Solar and wind power plants have lifetimes of 20 to 25 years. After this time there is nothing left to show for money spent. Biofuels are not needed at this time because of our vast fossil fuel reserves. Some projects to conserve oil can be achieved at no cost to taxpayers. Eliminate use of heating oil by extending natural gas pipelines to areas heating oil is used. Due to heating oil costing 6 or 7 times natural gas, customers can pay for pipelines by lowering their heating bills by a factor of two. Once pipelines are paid for, customers receive true cost benefits. Use liquefied natural gas for producing electricity in Hawaii instead of oil. This could substantially reduce electricity cost of 36 cents per kw-hr paid by Hawaiian customers.
President Obama mocked the four billion dollar subsidy given oil companies each year. Is it in the form of taxpayer grants to oil companies for explorations, build pipelines, build refineries, or build filling stations? Is there a mandate forcing citizens to buy gas from a particular company or pay a government selected price? Or is it a tax deduction for costs of doing business that all other forms of business are granted? Oil companies seem like a nice whipping boy in times of stress. That can divert attention away from terrible mistakes in energy policy. There are vast oil reserves across the world. It would not be prudent energy policy driving oil companies to other countries to search for oil as was done in 2010-11. Multi-million dollar rigs that left the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 for exploration in Brazil, Africa, and the Middle East may never come back.
Much attention is devoted to the United State's loss of employment in the manufacturing sector due to technology improvements and movement of jobs out of country for lower paid employees. Production of energy as coal, uranium, oil, and natural gas is manufacturing. Six hundred tons of coal, four hundred barrels of oil, or ten million cubic feet of natural gas has the same economic value of making a $30,000 car or harvesting 4000 bushels of corn. Millions of high paying jobs can be created to satisfy domestic energy use and an expanding export market. These jobs can't be outsourced because raw materials are domestic. The beauty of this activity is no government subsidies are required and government revenues increase by trillions of dollars through royalty payments, business and income taxes.
It is difficult to find reasons for energy policies we have today. In this Lenten season it may be wise to fall back on the words of Jesus two millennium ago when on the cross he said, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."
James H. Rust (BsChE Purdue 1958, SM Nuclear Engineering M.I.T. 1960, PhD Nuclear Engineering Purdue 1965) is a retired nuclear engineering professor from Georgia Tech. Presently, he is a policy adviser for the Heartland Institute, where he actively lectures on energy policy and on climate change.
Dr. Rust has more than fifty years of experience in areas related to energy technology and related public policy through his consulting and publishing firms in Atlanta. He is author of Nuclear Power Plant Engineering (Haralson Publishing Company, 1979); editor of Nuclear Power Safety with Lynn Weaver (Pergamon Press, 1976); and contributing author of Elements of Nuclear Reactor Design (Elsevier Scientific Company, 1977).He also has written or co-authored more than 50 scientific reports and publications.


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Directed by Lee Jang-soo (이장수), Lee Jin-seok (이진석)
Screenplay by Choi Wan-gyoo (최완규), Son Eun-hye (손은혜)SBS | Airing dates : 2004/11/22~2005/01/11
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Starring: Kim Rae-won, Kim Tae-hee, Lee Jung-jin , Kim Min The Harvard, full of everlasting love and passion Kim Hyun-woo (Kim Rae-won) A Harvard Law school freshman from Korea. He is very calm and composed in and out, warm-hearted who has enough to spare of money, honor and power. Lee Soo-in (Kim Tae-hee)
A Senior student at Harvard Medical School. She is a smart and intelligent, immigrated when little and while being brought up by her hard working father, she gained her independence and vitality. She is very honest with her feelings and knows what true love is, therefore she is ready to give up her chance of her lifetime for her love for Hyun-woo. Hong Jung-min (Lee Jung-jin) An American rationalist and man of principles.
Good mannered dresses neatly and has an aristocratic appearance. He has a rather cold and intellectual look, and is full of confidence. One may tend to think that he was brought up with no difficulty, however hes deeply hurt by the lost of his father. His father had passed away after his company went broke during a lawsuit lead by Hyun-woos fathers law firm. Yoo Jin-ah (Kim Min) A typical girl raised in America. She is tenacious and possessive girl, who has to get what she wants no matter what. She has a desire to simply possess Jung-min at first but she falls in love with him. To win his love, she comes up to the point where she sacrifices herself, but nevertheless she fails to win his heart.
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Kim Tae-hee / Lee Soo-in: Stairway to Heaven (SBS), Screen (SBS)
Lee Jung-jin / Hong Jung-min: The Trio (MBC),
Kim Min / Yoo Jin-ah : Guardian Angel (SBS), Invitation (KBS)
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By Rebecca Huval
If you're tired of mainstream Latin hip-hop — which, right now, is disproportionately made up of reggaeton beats, male MCs, and bitter lyrics — then Ana Tijoux is the lady rapper for you.
The French-Chilean artist upends the genre. Instead of bragging about her millions, she advocates for cultural pride. Instead of barking at her enemies, she weaves a soothing spool of words that remixes the Spanish language into silk. She has evolved from using samples to working with a live band in a textured, colorful sound all its own, incorporating brass, jazz inflections, and a smorgasbord of South American instruments such as Andean charangos and pan-flutes.
You might have heard Tijoux's origin-story track, "1977," on Breaking Bad, as Jesse and Mike make deliveries through a desolate Southwestern landscape. The song describes the year she was born in France to parents who were exiled during the military dictatorship in Chile. Her alternating flow and staccato make the mind-numbing road trip seem badass. Following that sophomore record, La Bala, Tijoux is releasing a mature album with lush orchestration March 18: Vengo. The following evening, Wed/19, she'll hit The Independent.
Calling to mind Erykah Badu, Tijoux is a poet with a low, creamy voice and a call for algre rebelde, or joyful rebellion. Her lyrics will make you feel like the top of your head was taken off, to paraphrase Emily Dickinson. "I come as a child who sought entrance to his/ home, the entrance to his origin, the return to/ his crusade, I come seeking silenced history/ the history of a land pillaged/ I come with the world and I come with the birds," Tijoux raps in the title track of Vengo. In the shadow of Pinochet's Chile, Tijoux is rebuilding dignity in her heritage with thoughtful, joyous rap.
Ahead of her show Wednesday night, we caught up with her by phone to talk about why it's better to protest with beauty, how it felt to move from France to Chile as a teenager, and what it was like to dance with a man in an octopus suit in a music video.
San Francisco Bay Guardian How did you start rapping, and what female rappers influenced you?
Ana Tijoux I think I began when I was 20, very naturally, out of necessity because I needed to communicate. The woman who inspired me first was Bahamadia. And then I began to rhyme and write, and then I began to learn about more female MCs: MC Lyte, and when I was younger, Queen Latifah.
SFBG I've read that you consider yourself to be shy. How do you find the strength to perform in front of so many audiences?
AT Because I'm an amazing actress. [Laughs] On stage, I'm singing, I'm communicating, so I forget about the audience. It's energy, and you begin a dialogue with people. That's one of the moments when I feel free. It doesn't matter what happens, I just do it.
SFBG Why did you move to Chile in 1993?
AT Because my parents were exiled in France, and I'm from there, and when refugees could come back I came with my parents. It was hard, very hard. I was a teenager and you're in the construction of a personality. You're fighting between a child and an adult in one personality, and then to change continents was hard. It was also one of the most amazing moments in my life. And it was a moment of a lot of lessons, but I understood about them more later, not immediately. I understood about friends, and about how the North robs so many things from the South. It was a political education.
SFBG Your 2007 video for "Eres Para Mi" with Julieta Venegas is goofy and delightful. It looks like you had a lot of fun making it. What was it like dancing with a man in an octopus suit and a nun?
AT The most hilarious moment in my life. When she made the video she didn't tell me an octopus would be there, so it was a surprise. And I'm shy, like I told you, so I tried to act the best that I could. I didn't know I would have an octopus near to me.
SFBG How did you write an album with your young children around?
AT It was an amazing moment, but very hard with time. I learned so much, like trying to be a mother with the [artistic] creation and no sleeping. At the same time, it was amazing. I learned time is a precious treasure and so valuable. I can't lose time anymore in stupidity. The time I have is for creation or friends and family. It was hard to be honest, but really amazing.
SFBG Why did you decide to work with a live band instead of using samples?
AT I work with the best musicians I could have imagined. The songs have different vision with drums because it can be longer, or if the bassist has a solo, each instrument sings and gives a different color. It feels so organic and every instrument can give one texture to a song, and different movement and weather in the songs.
SFBG In "Vengo," you say "Without fear you and I decolonize/what we were taught." How have you unlearned what you were taught about Chile's history?
AT I feel like everything I learned in school was with a colonized vision. You become interested in your roots, you understand that how you learned history is so different than what happened. In Chile, we live in a country with people with brown and black hair, and in publicity they have women with blond hair. All this publicity is about who we should be, and I'm saying we should be proud of who we are as a society and a community.
In America, they say it's been 500 years since they discovered the continent. They didn't discover it, people were here before the colonizers arrived. We're changing the vision and vocabulary.
SFBG I loved Somos Sur, and I think your lyric "alegre rebeldía" captures the spirit of your music. In your calls for social justice, I sense more beauty than anger. What inspires you to call for equality with your gorgeous lyrics instead of just shouting at a protest?
AT Protests in general are protests for life. When you see fights around the world, it's a fight for life. To have a fair life, it's about dignity. We're so used to protests with anger. We want a better future for us our kids and community. So that's what I'm saying, it's a fight for happiness.
SFBG How did it feel to hear "1977" on Breaking Bad?
AT Funny. I'm glad. It's an amazing series, and I'm glad that there is a mainstream series that's taking a risk. It's a good series with amazing characters.
SFBG In "1977," you say "Caminas en crucijadas/ Cada cual es su morada" ("You walk in crossroads/ each one is your home"). Where do you consider your home now?
AT Chile, totally Chile. It's where my family is, my parents, my kids, my garden, and my refugees.
SFBG What advice would you give to young female rappers out there?
AT Do not listen to advice at all. Everybody wants to give advice about how to make stuff. Don't listen to advice. Try to make music and be free.
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This talk will describe the best current understanding of the interior structure of astronomically realistic black holes.
A common misconception is that matter falling into a black hole simply falls to a central singularity, and that's that.
Reality is much more interesting. Rotating black holes have not only outer horizons, but also inner horizons. Penrose (1968) first pointed out that an infaller falling through the inner horizon would see the outside Universe infinitely blueshifted, and he speculated that this would destabilize the inner horizon.
The expectation was supported by linear perturbation theory, but it was not until 1990 that Poisson & Israel were able to clarify the nonlinear evolution of the instability at the inner horizon, which they called mass inflation. Inflation accelerates ingoing (positive energy) and outgoing (negative energy) streams to exponentially huge energies. The black hole thus behaves like a particle accelerator of extraordinary power, accelerating ingoing and outgoing particles to collide with each other at super-Planckian energies. The talk raises the fundamental question:
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Destination: Austin Familyhas this to say about Thomas:
"Thomas MacEntee is a genealogist specializing in the use of technology and social media to improve genealogical research and as a means of interacting with others in the family history community. Utilizing over 25 years of experience in the information technology field, Thomas writes and lectures on the many ways blogs, Facebook and Twitter can be leveraged to add new dimensions to the genealogy experience. As the creator of GeneaBloggers.com he has organized and engaged a community of over 600 bloggers to document their own journeys in the search for ancestors."
The blogsite lists 8 blogs that are Thomas' unique contributions:
Grandma Austin's Diaries
Bootcamp for Genea-Bloggers
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Lowville Long Ago
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Congratulations Thomas MacEntee on receiving the very first ever Genea-Speak Award!


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As Life Time Fitness announced 9.5 percent revenue growth in the first quarter, its CEO said the company may hit $1 billion in revenue this year as it ramps up plans for growth in number of clubs and related businesses and as it increases spending on marketing to improve retention.
"Our goal of $1 billion in 2011 is achievable," Bahram Akradi, chairman, president and CEO of the Chanhassen, MN-based company, said in a conference call with analysts announcing first quarter 2011 financial results. "We will do all we can do to achieve this milestone."
Life Time Fitness' first quarter 2011 revenue grew 9.5 percent to $240.6 million compared to $219.8 million from the same period last year. Net income for the quarter was $20.8 million compared to $17.8 million in first quarter 2011. Net income for the quarter was $20.8 million compared to net income of $17.8 million for first quarter 2010.
The company has 90 locations spread across 20 states, but Akradi said his primary area of interest for expansion is on the East Coast, where the company already has clubs in New York, New Jersey and Maryland.
"We have some incredible sites in the works," he said, although he wouldn't give exact timing. "We are excited about the places we are going and the opportunities we have."
Life Time opened a club in Syosset, NY, in the first quarter. In May, the company will open two clubs—one in Colorado Springs, CO, and the other in Summerlin, NV.
Life Time will expand much faster starting in the second half of this year and into 2012, Akradi says. The growth will be balanced between adding more locations and adding other businesses that support the healthy way of life approach that the Life Time clubs are targeting. Those businesses could be events (such as marathons), wellness services or chiropractic services.
Akradi, who said that the company reviews dues pricing at each club monthly, plans to increase dues and enrollment fees at some clubs. In particular, the company is increasing dues for members who were given discounts to attract them from lower-priced clubs that had gone out of business.
"My vision is every member in every club will pay the same rate," Akradi said. "And we wouldn't have special prices for anyone."
The company would be able to justify those higher prices by differentiating on services and programming.
"Our goal is to differentiate Life Time Fitness so we don't have to play in the price segment," he said, noting that Life Time's average member price compared to all other national chains is two to three times more. "So, we have focused ourselves on delivering programs—not just equipment—high-quality people and well-run facilities. We want to get to the point where price is not a factor. I feel we are 80 percent there from two years ago. I'm comfortable with the way we have strengthened our brand."
For the year, Akradi expects revenue to increase 7 percent to 9 percent or $980 million to $995 million, primarily due to growth in in-center revenue and corporate businesses, as well as membership growth in new and ramping centers. Net income is expected to increase 14 percent to 18 percent or $92 million to $95 million.
Memberships in the first quarter grew 6 percent to 650,784 from 613,882 at the end of first quarter 2010. Quarterly attrition in first quarter 2011 was 8.4 percent, down from 8.5 percent in the prior-year period. Attrition for the trailing 12-month period was 36.1 percent compared to trailing 12-month attrition of 39.3 percent at the end of first quarter 2010.