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Michael S. Coffman, Ph.D. and Kristie Pelletier
May 7, 2011
Economics for Dummies 101
We are on the verge of a major economic catastrophe. It's not a matter of if, but when it will come; and just how bad will it be. It's about time you learned the truth. Your future depends on it.
[Author's note: America is in the mess it is in because most American's eye's glaze over when trying to understand the complexity of economics. Because of that, we have allowed our economic system to become incredibly corrupted by those who profit politically or financially from our ignorance. Hence, we have broken our research into four parts, starting with an easy-to-read overview of what has happened to make the whole thing more comprehendible in Parts 1 & 2. By the time you get to Part III and IV you will learn of the century-old agenda to deliberately create this kind of crisis as a means of creating a world government.]
Washington has been up to mischief and we haven't been paying attention. Most of us just work and pay our taxes. Then we work more to pay the increases in taxes that inevitably come. That is why we are in the state we are in. At the beginning of 2008 most of us said "Fannie and Freddie who? Do I know them?"
America got a wakeup call three years ago. We cannot afford to go back to sleep. It doesn't take a degree in economics to see that. All it takes is the ability to read, and listen to what is being said. We are witnessing major economic history in the making globally and right here at home.
For the vast majority of us, our eyes glaze over with the complexities of it all; Budget, Deficit, Debt, Credit Ratings, Unfunded Liabilities, T-bills, Notes, The Fed, and the IMF. So many words, philosophies, and methods are bandied about with regard to finances that it can become very difficult to sort it all out. Yet, America is on the brink of utter financial catastrophe and we must take the time to understand what is happening, who is doing it, and how we can fix it. We won't get a second chance.
First, we need to define some key terms you'll hear used in the news. If you already know them, good for you. You're ahead of most Americans. You might want to skip ahead to Part III. A very simplified definition for Budget is a plan for spending money for a specific time frame. Deficit is the gap that occurs between the budget, or plan for spending, and the actual income received during that time frame. Debt basically consists of the accumulation of deficits over time.
Inflation is the increase in the cost of goods and services. You already know that. However, inflation is normally caused by an increase in the supply of money which in turn devalues the dollar; i.e. the value of each dollar falls. Real inflation has been 20 percent the past ten years. That means that the dollar is only worth $.80 today compared to ten years ago. Looking at historical inflation, what cost $1 in 1950 would cost $9 today. Conversely, what costs $1 today would only cost $0.11 in 1950.
There is no good definition for hyperinflation. It occurs when inflation goes out of control and reaches very high levels; say greater than 25 percent/year. An example is the Weimar Republic (Germany) following World War I. The harsh reparation payments imposed on Germany following the war, in combination with promised increased wages, reduced hours, expanded education and a slew of new social programs (sound familiar?) created the conditions for hyperinflation.
In 1919 the German mark was worth about 3 marks per dollar. In 1921 the German mark had slid to 75 marks per U.S. dollar. By 1922 it was worth 400 marks to the dollar and in 1923 it plunged to 7000 marks per dollar. As bad as that was, it was the "good 'ol days." By November of 1923 it took about 4 billion marks per dollar.[1]
Got it? Sure, you say. It's clear as mud. Ponder on it because it is about to destroy you. In fact, there are many in the world and in our government who hope you never figure it out because they are robbing you blind and blaming your misery on the rich.
Now, the very small percentage of our population who truly understands the intricacies of the global economy will see these simple definitions as Economics for Dummies 101. They will groan and find something else to read. Start with Part III. But if you are the average American who has simply been working and paying your taxes without taking the time and effort it requires to understand and then change what is happening in Washington, you many want to keep reading.
We are in for an economic tsunami unlike anything we have ever experienced in this country before. As the government continues to spend astronomical amounts of money it doesn't have, purportedly to fix the gargantuan financial crisis the nation faces, they have to finance these expenditures by borrowing money. To do this, the government sells Treasury Securities in four forms; Treasury bills, Treasury notes, Treasury bonds, and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS). These all have varying lengths of time to maturity and levels of interest paid to the holder.
Historically, budget deficits have been relatively small and the national debt has grown slowly. For decades the deficits and borrowing was constrained by the fact America was on the gold standard. However, when President Nixon took the United States off of the gold standard in the 1970s, politicians saw a bonanza and deficits increased dramatically. When our deficits increased, so did our national debt. There was a brief reprieve in the 1990s to the growing debt as a Republican Congress and President Clinton brought deficits down. However, following 911 and the initiation of the War on Terror, deficits skyrocketed.
Here's where most people's eyes glaze over. Force your eyes to focus and your mind to be engaged for a few more moments. The spending policies of Presidents G.W. Bush and Obama have more than doubled the U.S. national debt from $5.7 trillion in 2000 to $14.3 trillion in mid-2011. The deficit is projected to be a whopping $1.65 trillion for 2011 alone. Interest on the National Debt is expected to top $430 billion for 2011.
the debt has
risen to an incomprehensible $14.29 trillion dollars. Your share of
it is $46,030. Your spouse and child also owe $46,030 each. For a family
of four it's $184,000. Uncle Sam will demand you, your children
and your children's children repay the debt they created. The
interest alone is $4 billion a day or $2.8 million per minute!
But that's not the worst of it. Social Security, Medicare and Prescription Drug unfunded liabilities total $113.6 trillion! Liabilities include those legal debts that must be paid in the future. Unfunded liabilities are legal debts in which promised payments are not budgeted and exceed all defined ability to pay them. The U.S. unfunded liabilities equal one million dollars per taxpayer! That money has to be somehow raised in future undefined revenues. It is the single biggest problem we are facing as a nation.
There's more. State unfunded liabilities for public sector pension plans could reach $3 trillion. Unlike the federal government, these states can't print more money. They must balance the books or go bankrupt.
But wait, it gets much worse. In the two and a half years he has been in office, President Obama has racked up a deficit that nearly equals the combined debt created by all the presidents up to G.W. Bush. His initial 2012 budget continued piling up debt at rates that will double the debt to $26 trillion in 10 years.
Are you ready to pull your hair out? You should be. But there is still more. Along with this incomprehensible debt, the Federal Reserve (Fed) is printing money out of thin air. It's called Quantitative Easing 1 and 2 (QE1 & QE2). The U.S. dollar is deliberately being made worthless. High inflation, perhaps even hyperinflation, is inevitable unless drastic actions are taken now. Four years ago economist and business consultant John Williams estimated hyperinflation and the total collapse of the dollar was likely by 2018. However, two and a half years of Obama's reckless spending along with QE1 and QE2 have pushed that estimate to 2012, or even earlier.
Inflation is already happening. Food and energy prices are soaring. At least part of the soaring gasoline prices is due to the devaluation of the dollar so it takes more dollars to buy a gallon of foreign oil. Yet, the Obama administration is telling Americans the debt is manageable and there is no inflation.
Incredibly, the government now leaves food and commodities (like gas) out of its inflation calculation, drastically lowering reported inflation. By doing so, it gives a completely false picture of inflation that has real world consequences. Because reported inflation is half of what it actually is, increases in Social Security (SS) cost of living adjustments have also been cut in half. Likewise, SS recipients should have received large increases in benefits the past two years. Instead, they received no increase at all. In the same way, those things that hit you in the pocketbook are also left out of the inflation index. You see prices skyrocket every time you go to the supermarket or gas station, but are told inflation is only 2.5 percent. The reason it doesn't compute is that the government is inflating its way out of its debt and not telling you! If inflation was calculated as it was before 1980, it would be over 10 percent!
When the numbers start to get that big and complicated something just switches off in the mind of the average person, and it feels kind of like we are dealing with fake money, like a monopoly game. That is exactly what Congress is doing. They are running our country's finances like they think it is a game of monopoly and they are working with "play" money. The numbers aren't really real and they don't really mean anything. It's not their money anyway so they don't really care. They are right about one thing, it isn't their money. It's ours, our children's, their children's, their children's...
Take a deep breath and let's break down the numbers to something perhaps more understandable. Take just the $4 trillion owed to foreign nations; that's $4,706,310,000,000. We are still a young nation, 235 years old. Let's use that number to break it down. The resulting number is 20,026,851,064. That's still over 20 billion per year, every year for 235 years. That number is still too big to really wrap your mind around. How about almost 55 million a day, every day, since the Declaration of Independence; Still pretty big; it is over 2.2 Million dollars every hour since John Hancock, signed, well, his John Hancock. The total debt is rapidly approaching FOUR times that amount.
Congress develops its budgets with PLANNED deficits. They actually plan to spend more than they have coming in. Why not? It's just monopoly money to them and there is so much need they want to fix (including lining their own pockets for many). The deficits planned for this year and next are 1.6 and 1.5 trillion dollars respectively. All of that will pile onto our debt.
The United States government has a legislated debt ceiling, a maximum amount that it is allowed to owe. That number is currently at $14.294 trillion, the nation's actual debt is rapidly approaching that amount. More than half of that has accumulated in the last decade. There will be a concerted effort in the next several weeks to raise that debt limit. President Obama is leading the charge demanding a hike in the limit with no strings attached. On April 15 he declared, "We will raise the debt limit. We always have. We will do it again."
As usual, Obama is talking out of both sides of his mouth. The last stand-alone vote on raising the debt limit on which President Obama voted as a Senator was in 2006. Then Senator Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling, saying,
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can't pay its own bills... Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren... I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit.
In this same diatribe, he rails against big indebtedness run up by President Bush all the while President Obama himself presides over an increase that added almost as much to the National Debt in his first 19 months than all of the presidents from Washington to Reagan combined. Obama's criticism of Bush was right, the debt did rise exponentially under President Bush starting at $5.727 trillion and ending with $10.6 trillion in 8 years. The U.S. Treasury Department reported in October, only a year and nine months after he was inaugurated, Obama himself had already added over 3 trillion dollars to the National Debt.
The party a candidate belongs to isn't nearly as important as the beliefs and actions of that candidate. We need to elect people who will stop mortgaging our futures.
Unsustainable is just not a strong enough word to describe the economic situation we are facing. Disaster is a better word. While the debt continues to soar upwards, Washington likes to make a lot of noise about reducing deficits, while doing nothing of any real substance to actually solve the problem. For the two weeks Congress was at each other's throats to come up with a measly $38.5 billion cut, $85 billion in deficits were added to our national debt!!! The cuts are a farce. In March alone, deficit spending was $188 billion. That's $6 billion a day! The total for 2011 is already at $829.4 billion (6 months' worth). At this rate, the total for 2011 could hit $1.66 trillion.
Even with the optimistic prognosticators claiming that the current recession will end soon, the Obama Administration forecasts federal deficits that average more than $1 trillion annually for the next ten years, amounting to 7 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).[3] America's GDP in April 2011 is $14.6 trillion. In other words, we owe in debt almost as much as we produce each year. The debt crisis is worsening so fast that economists have trouble keeping up with it. It is now forecast that the debt will exceed the GDP of the U.S. this year! Just last year economists thought it wouldn't happen until 2020!
In concluding Part 1 of this series on the economy, it is obvious America is in deep trouble, regardless of what the Obama administration or media claim. In Part II the global implications will be explored and what it means to America. Part III the effort to find solutions is actually politics as usual—demagoguery. Part IV will define who is ruining our economy and why they are doing it. In conclusion, there is growing concern that we might see hyperinflation. A real-world example of what this would mean occurred in the Weimar Republic discussed earlier in this article.
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This is what happened to one family;
Karl Bonhoeffer, the father of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the humble Christian pastor who stood up to Hitler and died by firing squad for it, had a life insurance policy that paid 100,000 marks at maturity; about $1.2 million in today's dollars. He faithfully paid his premiums for 50 years. When the policy matured towards the end of 1923and Bonhoeffer cashed it in, the 100,000 marks could buy a bottle of wine and strawberries. By the time he received the money, it would only buy the strawberries.[2]
If we don't stop the insanity in Washington, this could be our future. It doesn't have to be. Every American has a responsibility to tell their Representative and Senators in Washington to make deep and meaningful cuts to the 2012 budget. If your Representative or Senator does not make those cuts, he or she must not be reelected in 2012 if they are up for reelection.
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Eric Metaxas. Bonhoeffer, Pastor Martyr, Prophet, Spy. (Thomas Nelson,
New York) 2010. Pp. 43-44.
2. Ibid. p 44.
3. The GDP is the total market value of all final goods and services produced in a country in a given year, equal to total consumer, investment and government spending, plus the value of exports, minus the value of imports. It might be easier to understand the GDP as the total net value of all economic activity in a country. The Per Capita GDP is the GDP divided by the population of a nation. It is a very powerful tool to compare year to year and nation to nation.
Michael Coffman. Rescuing a Broken America, (Morgan James Publishing, New York), 2010. P 67
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The details the White House released over the weekend are eye-opening. In Ohio, Mr. Boehner's home state, the cuts could cost 30,000 jobs. An 8 percent cut in federal research grants "would probably bring us to our knees," said Dr. Thomas Boat, dean of the University of Cincinnati's College of Medicine, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer.
New York would lose $42.7 million in education aid, according to the White House, putting at risk nearly 600 jobs for teachers and their aides. About 12,000 civilian defense workers would be furloughed, and there would be big cuts to grants for law enforcement, job training, child care, public health and environmental protection.
The White House should have released these kinds of details months ago, when there was more time to make a strong case to the public against these cuts. Instead, administration officials failed to discuss the consequences, fearing political blame while confidently predicting the Republicans would cave. The result of that miscalculation — and of the Republican disdain for the health of the economy and those who depend on government services — will become clearer in just a few days….NYT
The "sensible" media feel honor-bound (that's the way they'd put it, not me!) to find ways to blame both sides of the debate. The Times editors fall into this trap. Let's not forget, "the White House" was in campaign mode "months ago." But leave aside that "White-House-shoulda" comment and they're right.
As one astute reader of this blog noted yesterday, the effect of the White House's efforts are being felt on the Hill.
The administration made a sharp play today, releasing a list of how the upcoming Sequester Plague is going to affect each individual state. (You will note the predominance of red states with Republican governors in the Top 20. Here's Kansas, the most enthusiastic lab rat in the Republican experiment, and it will lose $5.5 million in school funding and have around 8000 defense-related employees furloughed. When will someone take these moochers and looters in hand?) There's some not unexpected bleating coming from John Boehner's office, as they duck phone calls from the district and hide behind …the curtains… Charles Pierce, Esquire
Dana Milbank, writing in the Washington Post today, nails the Republican attitude.
A meat cleaver hangs over the federal government, but the unflappable men and women of the House majority remain cool and poised.
With just four days left to stop automatic spending cuts from affecting everything from air travel to food inspections, House Republicans had but one item on their agenda Monday: renaming a NASA facility in California.
H.R. 667, as this urgently needed legislation is known, would "redesignate the Dryden Flight Research Center as the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center."
You'd have to be on another planet to think that renaming NASA operations is Congress's most pressing order of business this week. But for Republicans, using this moment to honor the first man to walk on the moon is not lunar lunacy. The naming proposal, sponsored by Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), was taken up at a time when House Republicans are pursuing a considered strategy of deliberate idleness. …Milbank,WaPo
A Democratic representative speaks up.
The lone Democrat to speak, Rep. Donna Edwards (Md.), noted the irony in the vote. "We will do our renaming today," she said, and then "we will take an ax hammer to NASA's budget on March 1, at the end of this week, taking out $894 million from an already strapped budget. I dare say future generations will not be inspired by what this Congress will do."
The speaker declared another recess. ...Milbank,WaPo
Another recess.
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Those kids! The roots of 20-something inter-generational anger
People in their mid-to-late-20s seem to have a bigger problem with today's teenagers and college students than any other detractor of youth culture. Baby Boomers, Generation X-ers, Republicans– they all routinely lament the disintegration of American values at the hands of the young. None of these, however, is as consistently or bitterly vocal as today's grad students and young professionals.
For proof, one merely needs to witness the inevitable tantrum that is provoked any time a 20-something spots a teenager on her cell phone. Whether sending a text message, updating her Facebook status or just having an old-fashioned conversation, there is something inexplicably maddening to the 20-something about this seemingly innocuous sight.
Asking one of these bitter observers why he cares so much will likely provoke a patronizing rant about vapid youth culture in the Information Age. Doncha see, kids today live inside their smart phones, cut off from the real world.
Unlike the wizened mid-20s set, who remember the simple times before the Internet took over our lives, teenagers today don't know any better. Their ability to communicate has been weakened by Tweets and their relationships cheapened by Facebook. Society as we know it is crumbling before our eyes. Or something like that.
This is, of course, total malarkey.
The generational distinction between teenagers and late-20-somethings is noteven officially recognized. The MBA student born in 1982 and the prom queen born in 1994 all fall under the same Millennial umbrella. Though the 20-something is loath to admit it, he also uses his smart phone just as frequently and is as likely to watch Jersey Shore or see a Michael Bay film on opening weekend.
We must, however, cut the 20-something some slack, for his ravings are nothing more than a defense mechanism. For the first time in his life, he realizes that the phrase "youth culture" no longer refers to him.
This is more difficult for the 20-something to grasp than you may think. His generation may not have invented narcissism, but they certainly mastered it. For their entire adult lives, they have treated youth as an accomplishment that made them worthy of admiration.
Then, without warning, the 20-something suddenly finds himself unwelcome in college bars, begins to notice the first signs of hair loss and sees his once boundless ambition tempered by real world frustrations. Cut off from daddy's payroll and forced to navigate a dismal job market, the 20-something is saddled with burdens he never expected to carry.
This was supposed to be a time of corner offices and international travel, not cubicle jockeying and tightly budgeted stay-cations.
With thirty becoming an increasingly less abstract reality, he is forced to contemplate the momentum of time. This is a painful process for a generation in which everyone has fantasized that he would be the one special person who did not age. While not old yet, the 20-something now understands that one day he will be old.
Realizations like this are hard enough without having to be confronted daily by hordes of college students walking around in bookstores and Best Buys on their cell phones, talking about sex and drinking with no regard for the children and grandparents in their wake. It was only a few short years ago that the 20-something enjoyed the same arrogance of youth that these kids now take for granted.
Every empty-headed conversation overheard between high school girls ("I know, right?... I know!), every bro-tastic display of machismo ("I drank, like, twelve shots of jager, dude."), every moron who texts while crossing the street– all are reminders of a blissful ignorance he will never again possess.
This pits the 20-something in the midst of a complicated vortex of emotions. He resents youth culture for the same reasons as everyone else (because they are unspeakably obnoxious) but longs to behave like a college student again without the self-awareness that was recently forced on him by the real world.
So the next time you engage in Youth Culture-bashing with a 20-something, don't remind him that he is part of the same generation as the frat boys he is criticizing. Simply mention that the canyon between he and the younger Millennials is not filled with technology and pop-culture. It is filled with hard-earned humility. And that is a good thing.
Turner Hay's last essay for the Hook was 2009 plea for well-wishers to stop asking him what he was doing after college graduation. Now he's just another embittered 20-something and cubicle jockey.Read more on: facebooktextingyouth culture
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this is not news. this is rubbish.
What is the point of this article? Is this a joke?
Wow....Hook writers must be bored. Yes we all "20 somethings" hate everyone younger then us. It's not like we are going into a world where there is not a job in sight and we worry non stop about playing off our debt. I think we have some right to be bitter. Take time to write some real news!
Da reason dem UVA kidz cant evn cross da skreet right cuz dey neva playd Frogger growin up. Dats a damn shame, mane
"Baby Boomers, Generation X-ers, Republicans-- they all routinely lament the disintegration of American values at the hands of the young."
I'm so thankful that Democrats have it all figured out. Did Nancy Pelosi edit this article before it was published?
Decent observational piece, except for the misuse of "inter" in the title. It should be "intra-generational" because you referred to conflict among members of the same generation. "Inter-generational" would refer to conflict among members of different generations.
So much for that U.Va. education.
This is an essay, not a news item. Chill people. Nice read.
Actually, the worst is the 30-50 year olds who lurk online, anonymously bashing younger folks who have social lives. (Generally Republicans)
"...Cut off from daddy's payroll and forced to navigate a dismal job market..." = yuppie, UVA entitled upbringing. gag.
Guess Kid doesn't think the older generation should be online at all. Should only be for the younger generation. Too bad....some of us still have the drive and desire to learn.
This is a really fun article and gives me hope that today's young people will learn humility and overcome their sense of entitlement. It's an essential part of growing up and one that seems very hard for many young people to grasp. Nicely done!
This is a riot, and very true!
No @Joyce, if you are not an older person who "lurks online, anonymously bashing younger folks who have social lives. (Generally Republicans)": I welcome you to the internets.
I loved this essay; it was hilarious. As a young teacher, I was going through a mini-crisis of "What's WRONG with kids these days?" and "What's wrong with me! I loved kids!" This article is accurate to my feelings as a twenty-something who is annoyed with the teen set--but was unable to put a finger on why. I'm getting olddddddddd--yikes!!


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The Power of H
The concept of adjusting soil pH has a rich history. Marcus Varro, one of the most prolific writers of Roman history, wrote in a book around 116 B.C., "They manured their fields with white chalk which they dug out of the ground." More than 2,000 years later we are still concerned with soil pH when considering plant nutrition. Soil pH directly influences the solubility of plant nutrients, activity of microorganisms and pesticide interactions. Indirectly, soil pH influences microbial and chemical reactions that influence plant growth. In addition to typical fertility influences, low soil pH has been linked to several devastating disease outbreaks.
WHAT IS pH?
Before discussing ways to alter pH, it is important to understand the meaning of soil pH. The term pH is always written with a lowercase "p" and a capital "H." Some early references indicate that the "p" likely originated from the word "power" as shorthand for negative logarithmic power. The "H" represents the activity of hydrogen ions. The entire pH scale is from zero to 14. It is on a logarithmic scale; therefore a pH of 5 is 10 times more acidic than a pH of 6 and 100 times more acidic than a pH of 7. All pH numbers above 7 indicate alkalinity and below 7 they indicate acidity. The common range for soils is pH 4 to 10.2.
|Current pH
|Pounds of lime required per 1,000 square feet
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WHAT CONTROLS pH?
In natural systems, a number of factors influence soil pH. These include soil mineralogy (parent soil components), climate and weathering. Soils in some areas contain limestone or seashells resulting in elevated calcium carbonate levels. These materials can result in pH levels between 7 and 8.2. In other areas, base-forming cations such as calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium accumulate because of lack of rainfall, resulting in elevated pH. If an area receives high yearly rainfall, the base forming cations may be leached from the soil, resulting in a low pH. How the soil is managed may also alter the natural pH. For example, the heavy use of acid-forming fertilizers such as ammonium sulfate or ammonium phosphates can drive down pH. The soil's cation exchange capacity helps buffer pH change. The higher the cation exchange capacity, the greater the buffering capacity, thus the more resistant the soil is to pH changes.
HOW IS pH MEASURED?
While measuring pH is relatively easy with a pocket pH meter, to determine the quantity of material required to raise or lower pH requires more sophisticated laboratory procedures. This is because the buffer capacity of the soil must be measured. The buffering capacity of a soil is usually measured by slowly adding an acid to alkaline soils or a base to acidic soils, while measuring the change in pH. The amount of material required to change pH from the initial value to a target value can then be applied to field conditions. Labs typically report the liming requirement as pounds of calcium carbonate (CaCO
PLANT RESPONSE TO pH
Before changing pH, carefully consider your turfgrass, environmental conditions and the soil test. There is probably as much damage to plants by lime and sulfur applied where they are not needed, as there is damage by not applying them where they are needed.
It is good to know the soil pH that specific plants grow best in even though the vast majority of plants are tolerant of a wide range of soil pHs. Grasses are generally among the most tolerant plants to a wide range of soil pH. Most of the warm-season grasses such as bahiagrass, centipedegrass and bermudagrass do better at soil pH around 5 than 7. Most of the cool-season turfgrasses — bentgrass, ryegrass and bluegrass — perform best at pHs in the 6 to 7 range. Direct effects from pH usually do not occur unless the pH is below 5 or above 8.5. With a pH below 5, turfgrass root systems may become short, thickened and brown due to damage from aluminum and/or hydrogen. Nutrient uptake is reduced and the plant becomes more susceptible to environmental stresses. Greater thatch accumulation and algae problems are often associated with low soil pH. Soil pH above 8.5 often results in deficiencies of several micronutrients. The plant becomes chlorotic with the appearance of severe nitrogen deficiency.
Woody plants also vary in their tolerance to acidic soils. For example ligustrum, hibiscus and oleander do as well at 5 as 7. Others, like azalea, holly and ixora, actually prefer more acidic conditions. Trees such as oaks, pines and palms do well over a wide range of soil pHs. This may be due to their extensive root systems occupying large volumes of soil that may contain several pH levels.
HOW IS SOIL pH MODIFIED?
Maintaining soil pH within the desired range with liming materials or acidifying agents is a continual process. Soil reactions from surface-applied products are generally slow, so it is best to incorporate the materials into the soil before establishment when possible. With existing turf cover, the process can be hastened by incorporation after core aerification.
INCREASING SOIL pH
Liming is the most common method to increase the pH. A liming product contains calcium (Ca) to neutralize acidity. In some cases the liming product may also contain magnesium (Mg). These two elements displace the acid, causing ions in the soil resulting in an increase in pH. There are a number of liming materials that can be used, but calcium carbonate (aglime) and dolomitic limestone (dolomite) are the most commonly used products. These limestone products are usually in a ground powder form or pelletized. The finer the limestone is ground, the faster the reaction. Ground limestone is the most inexpensive source but is dusty and not easily spread. Finely ground limestone may be pelletized for ease of application. The pelletized limestone disintegrates quickly when wet and has about the same reaction time as the pre-pelletized ingredients. The reaction rate for limestone increases when soil temperatures are warm and soil moisture is high.
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Alternative liming products may have increased local availability. The relative purity or neutralizing value should be considered before these are applied. A liming material is rated for purity based on its calcium carbonate equivalent (CCE), which is a reference of neutralizing potential. Lime recommendations made by most labs are based on the neutralizing potential of pure calcium carbonate. Pure calcium carbonate will have a CCE of 100. The application rate of a product with a CCE less than or greater than 100 should be adjusted so that an appropriate amount of liming material is applied. A good liming source should have a CCE value of 70 or higher. Products with CCE values over 120 have a high potential to injure plants; because of this they generally aren't used for routine surface application.
For moderate acidity (pH>5), total lime requirements are often between 25 and 75 pounds of calcium carbonate per 1,000 square feet. Because of this large amount, the total amount is usually best split into several applications over a season to reach the total lime requirement. Deficiencies of Mg, K, Ca, P and slower availability of N can generally be easily handled through the fertilization program.
Excessive acidity (pH<5) causes plant problems because aluminum and manganese can be toxic to roots and nutrient deficiencies can be more widespread. For established turfgrasses, several surface applications of lime at 25 to 50 pounds of calcium carbonate per 1,000 square feet with three to six months between applications may be necessary to achieve the total lime requirement. It can take years for the liming material to penetrate deeper into the profile, therefore incorporation with aerification is beneficial.
DECREASING SOIL pH
Reducing soil alkalinity is more problematic than increasing the pH of an acidic soil. The problem is often exacerbated by the use of high pH water that continually replenishes base-forming cations. Elemental sulfur is usually the most efficient and practical amendment for lowering soil pH. Soil bacteria transform elemental sulfur to sulfuric acid, reducing soil pH. However, the acid can only neutralize so much and then soil pH will return to its original value. It is best to use small amounts frequently rather than putting on high rates, because high rates can easily cause tissue burn. A general suggestion is to not apply more than 5 pounds elemental sulfur per 1,000 square feet per application on taller maintained grasses and 1 pound or less on putting greens. Total annual elemental sulfur should be 10 pounds per 1,000 square feet or less. To increase sulfur's effectiveness, it is suggested that elemental sulfur applications are made in conjunction with turf coring or aerification.
Calcareous soils have a high content of calcium carbonate. Acids can dissolve the carbonates and lower the soil pH. If the calcium carbonate percentage is more than 5 percent then it is very difficult to influence the soil pH for any period of time because the soil is so buffered from pH change. Phosphorus, iron, manganese and zinc deficiencies may be apparent. Applications of these nutrients are commonly more efficient than trying to lower pH. Sulfur-injection systems may be beneficial if irrigation water is contributing to the high soil pH. These systems should be professionally designed and installed because sulfuric acid is dangerous to handle and is corrosive to most metals and concrete.
Neither a liming agent nor elemental sulfur should be applied to a soil or turfgrass without prior soil testing. Soils with high cation exchange capacities may require up to double the amount needed for soils of low cation exchange capacities. While most lime materials are relatively inexpensive, the quantity needed can be significant when compared to fertilizer application rates. For this reason, soil samples should be taken annually to determine nutrient and pH status. It is best to get on a maintenance program if soil pH needs to be altered so that small amounts of materials can be added to allow for slow reaction times and prevent excessive layering of soil pH.
Grady Miller is an associate turfgrass professor at the University of Florida (Gainesville, Fla.).
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Ref's fatal assault points to youth sportsmanship decline
Parents urged not to put pressure on winning at young ages
New charges are expected against a Utah teenager accused of punching a referee during a soccer game, a blow that resulted in the referee's death.
Ricardo Portillo died over the weekend after slipping into a coma.
Some Kansas City-area residents involved in youth sports said it's another indication of the decline in sportsmanship. They said too many parents and youths take sports too seriously, especially at lower levels.
They said too many parents try to press their children to win at sports, no matter the cost. Other parents may hope their children can qualify for college scholarships or simply want their children to be better than the rest.
Many leagues train officials, players, coaches and fans how to keep the game in control. There are even sportsmanship classes being held for players and parents.
"Believe it or not, the smaller the kids, the worse the parents, the worse the coaches, the worse the players, quite frankly," said Dewayne Lewis of the Mo-Kan Referee Association. "Only because they're watching the NBA, and those antics are getting pushed down."
Professional football, baseball and soccer games can also offer poor role sportsmanship role models.
Lewis said parents don't need to worry about their children winning or excelling at sports until at least the high school level.


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The bride was snapped by WWD photographers outside Vera Wang wearing a not-so-perfect disguise -- a big floppy hat, essentially -- before stepping into the iconic wedding dress maker's showroom Tuesday afternoon. Wang has been a front-runner in the debate over what Clinton would wear, though separate reports seemed to confirm that the bride would be wearing custom Oscar de la Renta.
Oscar de la Renta, as it happens, is a close family friend of the Clintons, so it would make sense that Chelsea might break with what's become the American bride's choice (Vera Wang) and go with an Oscar creation.
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Thus, it seems the Clintons have a clever trick up their sleeves: Dueling appointments at both Oscar de la Renta and Vera Wang might indicate that the bride's keeping the dress guessing-game going for a few more days.


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To trap or enclose one in a particular space or area. Be sure to close the gate and cage the dog up in the back yard.
cage someone or something up (in something)
to enclose or confine someone or something in something or someplace. They caged the lions up in strong containers for the trip across country. How long did it take to cage up the lions securely?


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Chapter 14 -- Part 2
On March 13, 1947, the Union produced probably its largest headline when it greeted readers: "Local Group Fights Toll Road." Readers were told that 80 percent of out-of-state business would be lost to Route 1 businesses and that the State would lose $80,000 annually in gasoline taxes. Union editor Edward Seavey was named president of the Rockingham County Civic Committee, and speakers at a large local meeting included Judge John Perkins and James Tucker. The latter was among the many people who believed that Lafayette Road could and should be widened to four or six lanes. Opponents objected to the limited number of exits off the proposed superhighway, and to the State's method of taking land, and they were concerned with a prediction by State Highway Commissioner Frederic Everett that fully 80 percent of the traffic on Route 1 would be needed to pay off the bond issue. Of 100 businesses surveyed, 63 owners said they would have to close if the road was built, and the opponents predicted a local loss of $484,000 in wages.
Despite vocal opposition at various legislative hearings, oppnents had little chance of stopping the road project. The toll-road bill, then asking for $7.5 million, was passed on the last day of the 1947 session. The governor and the council formally approved the plans in the spring of 1948, and in July a number of houses and other buildings were sold at auction; one nine-room North Hampton house went for $137. Construction actually began in November 1948 and was scheduled to be ompleted in July 1950. One year before that date, the Union delighted in telling its readers that the "$7,500,000 Dream Highway" ended in the woods near Folly Mill Road in Seabrook because there was no Massachusetts highway to connect to the New Hampshire road. In fact, it was some years before the Bay State did build a connecting road, so the New Hampshire highway exited to Route 1 in Salisbury. The north end of the superhighway connected to the Route 1 bypass, which had been built 10 years earlier as part of the Maine-New Hampshire Interstate Bridge. The connection was a large traffic rotary, one that still raises the blood pressure of timid motorists.
In August 1949, both Commissioner Everett and chief engineer Daniel Dickenson resigned after a governor's investigation revealed that the State had paid $103,000 more than the actual cost of designs to Charles H. Morse, a former business partner of Dickenson's. The road construction continued, however, and the Legislature even voted an additional $300,000 to complete the project. Ironically, when the road was dedicated on Saturday, June 24, 1950, the State announced that more than $400,000 in unneeded funds was being turned back. Traffic used the road at no charge the first day, but at 6 A.M. on Sunday, the 10- to 15-cent tolls went into effect, and cars began passing through the toll gates at the rate of 2,500 an hour. On the Fourth of July weekend, 75,000 motorists used the new road, and shops along Route 1 reported up to a 40 percent decline in business. A group of local people formed the Route 1 Associates, planning to determine ways to offset the loss of business. Little could be accomplished, and for a number of years, abandoned gas stations were common along Route 1 from Seabrook to Portsmouth.
The success of the new highway soon became apparent. In 1952, the Union told its readers that the actual traffic count on Lafayette Road had dropped from 7,500 cars daily to 5,000, but at the same time, the superhighway was averaging 7,000 cars daily. "Whether the Toll Road has 'made' the 60 per cent increase in traffic hereabouts as Mr. [Chief Engineer John] Morton suggests, we do not know of one thing we are sure; if the same increase had come about without the Toll Road, it would have been impossible for the Lafayette Road to have accommodated it." By 1954, traffic volume had exceeded the engineers' predictions for the year 1960, and in 1959, five times the forecast number of vehicles used the highway, an average of 12,000 daily. In its first 10 years, some 43.6 million vehicles traveled the 15 miles. In 1962, traffic on Route 1 was up to 7,300 vehicles daily, nearly the pre-toll-road level, while the turnpike was handling 12,700 vehicles daily. By 1963, the Seacoast Regional Development Association was complaining to the State that the traffic situation on Route 1 was endangering the local economy. The Route 1 situation continues to the present. State highway engineers and local officials are discussing ways to ease the heavy traffic, which, ironically, has increased due to local population and commercial growth and the establishment of dozens of new businesses along Route 1. In 1988, 23,000 vehicles were passing through Hampton on Lafayette Road; by 2000, the traffic count is expected to exceed 30,000 vehicles daily.
When the superhighway originally opened, the section adjacent to the Massachusetts border was labeled a Blue Star Memorial Highway in honor of World War II dead. In 1953, several bridges were named as memorials: Kensington Road, Hampton Falls, named for Robert G. Lord; Exeter Road, Hampton Falls, for Lincoln Akerman; Towle Farm Road, Hampton, as Pacific Memorial Bridge; and Exeter Road, Hampton, as Atlantic Memorial Bridge. The highway received its designation as Interstate 95 in 1960.
The State determined in 1971 that increasing traffic on the superhighway required its expansion from four to eight lanes. The average daily 1970 traffic count was 23,000 vehicles, and, on a single August Sunday, 57,000 vehicles used the road. On the Monday of the 1973 Memorial Day weekend, the two southbound lanes were backed up from the toll booths some 14 miles by vacationers returning from Maine and New Hampshire holidays. The widened highway has reduced this bottleneck, but on peak weekends, motorists can be slowed by two or three miles of stop-and-go traffic. As part of a 1970s expansion project, 271 properties along the route were taken by the State, the bridges were rebuilt, and the toll interchange at Hampton was rebuilt. The toll interchange was remodeled again after 1975, and the tolls were increased from 25 cents to 40 cents. As an experiment, the tolls on the Hampton exits were eliminated from 1979 through 1981 in an effort to get traffic onto the highway and off busy Route 101 from Exeter to Portsmouth. Tolls were increased to 50 cents in 1979; through motorists are now charged 75 cents. In March 1989, the one-billionth auto to pass through New Hampshire Turnpike toll booths was recorded at Hampton, 39 years after the first toll was paid. Traffic has increased so much in recent years that state officials predicted that it would take only nine years for the next billion cars to be counted.


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Before I start, this is different from the File, Export feature or that was discussed here:
This new feature is different. To Quote from the Help menu:
To export a branchThe Family Tree Maker Export function lets you easily export the entire project you are working with in a number of different formats. If you want to export a portion of the project, you can do that by creating a filter to select the individuals you want to include. However, if you want a quick way to export a branch of your tree, you have the option of exporting those people from the Pedigree View.
Note: The branch of a tree includes the selected person's spouse, descendants and their spouses, and all of the person's ancestors and their spouses, descendants, and ancestors, not including the ancestors and descendents of spouses.Below is that process.
- From the Generations panel in the People Workspace, right-click the person you want to be at the base of the branch and select Export Branch. The Export Branch wizard opens.
- Make sure that the correct person is selected in the list.
If the person you want as the root of the branch from is not selected, you can use the Name field to search for and locate the correct individual. Export Branch will include only the ancestors of the selected person.
- Click Next.
- Click the Output format you want to export to. You can select from a previous Family Tree Maker format or the GEDCOM format. See Export Branch: File Details.
- Type a name for the exported file.
- Select the options you want to include in the export file.
- Click Next. The export process begins and a status screen opens.
- When the export has completed, click Next. The final screen lets you specify what action you want to take with the exported file. See Export Branch: File Action.
- Select any actions you want to run when you close the Export Branch wizard. You can select any number or none of the actions to perform.
- Click Finish.
Lets say that you have just come in contact with a "new cousin" and you want to Share the information of that BRANCH to this new cousin. You DON'T want to share everyone in your file, and this new cousin is also using FTM2014.
Since this is a collaboration project with this new cousin, this new feature will show my connection to our common ancestor, Capt John Worthington. The File, Export feature would only go from John Worthington Jr and his descendants.
From the People Workspace TREE View, you select the top person in that branch that you want to share. For my example, I am descended from the Youngest son of John and Sarah Howard Worthington (Capt. John). I select John Worthington Jr, and RIGHT CLICK on his name.
In this case, I note that John Worthington Jr has two wives. Want to make sure that is in the new file. That is what I want to do, Create a NEW file with everyone and all of the information related to the descendants of John Jr.
Selecting Branch, I am asked to Select the Name of the Person who is at the root (top) of that branch. Note, that I can change that choice here.
I am now asked a series of Options.
- Privatize living people (includes only names of living people)
- Include private facts
- Include private notes
- Include media files
- Include private media
- Include tasks
I could rename the file here, but I'll leave the default, as it is clear.
The export begins:
And it concludes. Note the "proposed" filename. That's what I want. I'll have a chance to change it later, if I want.
More choices.
Open new branch in Family Tree Maker
Open branch file location
Attach branch file to an email message (with a file size warning)
Here is where I could change the filename IF I want. I'll leave it as it is. I have my file naming settings, but I'll make the file name as clear as possible for sharing.
And, FTM2014 opens with the new file.
The new file is good, and I verified that both of John Worthington Jr's wives were included as well as 281 Tasks (To Do List) that I am working on.
Perhaps this new cousin will help with that.
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He'll start at Amicalola Falls State Park, in Georgia, on March 15 and head north, ending up at Mount Katahdin in Maine by the end of September. The first of four entries in his trail journal is here.


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WASHINGTON — Some conservative groups expressed dismay Tuesday over President Bush's tolerance of state-sanctioned civil unions between gay people — laws that would grant same-sex partners most or all the rights available to married couples.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
"I don't think we should deny people rights to a civil union, a legal arrangement, if that's what a state chooses to do so," Bush said in an interview aired Tuesday on ABC. Bush acknowledged that his position put him at odds with the Republican platform, which opposes civil unions.
"I view the definition of marriage different from legal arrangements that enable people to have rights," said Bush, who has pressed for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. "States ought to be able to have the right to pass laws that enable people to be able to have rights like others."
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry backs civil unions for gay couples, too. He opposes gay marriage but also opposes the idea of a constitutional ban.
Some conservative organizations sharply disagreed with Bush and pressed him to seek a constitutional amendment that would ban both gay marriage and civil unions.
"Civil unions are a government endorsement of homosexuality," said Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute, an affiliate of Concerned Women For America. "But I don't think President Bush has thought about it in that way. He seems to be striving for neutrality while defending marriage itself."
Knight said "counterfeits" of marriage, such as civil unions, "hurt the real thing."
The head of another group, the Campaign for California Families, said it, too, wants a sweeping constitutional amendment that bars civil unions and same-sex marriage.
"Here's the truth, civil unions are homosexual marriage by another name," said Randy Thomasson, the group's executive director. "Civil unions rob marriage of its uniqueness and award homosexuals all the rights of marriage available under state law."
"Bush needs to understand what's going on and resist counterfeit marriages with all his might no matter what they're called," Thomasson said.
But Matt Daniel, the leader of a coalition that successfully pressed for legislation that would create the constitutional ban on gay marriage, said Bush had staked out just the right position.
A federal ban on gay marriage, not on civil unions, "is the way for America to resolve this in the fairest way, the best way," said Daniel, president of the Alliance for Marriage. "We do indeed support the president's position."
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Last week, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that American officials are again pressing Congress to open up the U.S. aid pipeline to the Palestinian Authority. And then on March 19, as Reuters reported on March 19, Washington agreed to transfer $150 million in budgetary support to the PA to help Mahmoud Abbas's government, out of $550 million pledged at a donors' conference last year.
If the plea sounds familiar, it ought to. Since the 1993 Oslo Accords, Americans have been subsidizing the activities of the P.A. to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
Today, as in the past, the arguments in favor of this policy are urgent. We are told by both administration officials who are friends of Israel and by some Israelis that unless we help fund the training and the payment of Palestinian security forces, the P.A. will have no way to cope with terrorists who want to sink any chance of a two-state solution which would enable Israel to live side-by-side with a peaceful Palestinian partner.
The Only Option?
With Hamas in control of Gaza, the P.A., under the current leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, is, we are informed, the only address for creating a moderate force that will work for peace. Given the alternative of the Iranian-backed Hamas or the equally unpalatable choices of either Israel reoccupying the territories or an international peacekeeping force doing so, reinforcing the P.A. seems to make sense. But does it really?
Doubts about the wisdom of the policy have led Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida.) — respectively, the chair and the ranking minority member of the House Foreign Operations Subcommittee — to place a hold on a request of another $150 million in direct assistance to the P.A. It now seems to have gotten around that and has even asked the committee to okay an additional $25 million in indirect funding for the military training program.
Support by the P.A. media for attacks against Israelis, such as the slaughter of eight students at a Jerusalem yeshiva, is also reason to doubt the P.A.'s sincerity.
Both Lowey and Ros-Lehtinen rightly worry about the commitment of Abbas and his Fatah Party to peace. They cite recent statements by Abbas in which he would not rule out a return to "armed resistance" against Israel. The support by the P.A. media for attacks against Israelis, such as the slaughter of eight students at a Jerusalem yeshiva this month, as well as the ongoing blitz of southern Israel by Hamas missiles, is also reason to doubt the P.A.'s sincerity.
The P.A. also continues to honor the memory of slain terrorists as "martyrs" and, as The Jerusalem Post reported this week, plans to celebrate Israel's 60th birthday by having Arab refugees to rush Israel's borders to promote a "right of return," which is synonymous with the destruction of the Jewish State.
Supporters of aid respond that these statements do not reflect Abbas' real goals. Yet, they ignore the fact that what the P.A. has done for the past 15 years is to legitimize a Palestinian culture in which political plaudits are won only by killing Jews. Indeed, via its control of broadcast outlets, newspapers and the schools, the P.A. has solidified a mindset of hate.
Just as bad is the history of attempts to create a P.A. security force. The Oslo agreements called for the creation of a Palestinian police force that would combat terrorists. But Arafat had other ideas.
While most of the billions that came his way via aid from the European Union and the United States went into the pockets or Swiss bank accounts of Fatah officials, some of it was used to create a byzantine web of Palestinian "security" agencies whose purposes were anything but peaceful. When push came to shove as Arafat blew up the peace after the Camp David summit in 2000, it was these P.A. forces (including some who'd been trained by the Philadelphia Police Department) who committed terrorist acts against Israelis.
Adding to that sorry tale was the fiasco in Gaza in 2006 when Fatah thugs, aided and equipped by foreign sources at the specific instigation of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, sought to maintain Abbas' control of the area, even after the Hamas election victory.
As detailed in an investigative report published in the April issue of Vanity Fair magazine, the concerns voiced by some Israelis and skeptical members of Congress over that particular venture in bolstering Abbas were prophetic.
While Fatah goons tortured and kidnapped some of their rivals, neither they nor their leader Abbas had the stomach to face down Hamas, despite promises to do so. In the end, Abbas' men wouldn't fight, and the more popular Hamas seized control of Gaza. As David Rose writes in Vanity Fair, "The exact thing both Israel and the U.S. Congress warned against came to pass when Hamas captured most of Fatah's arms and ammunition — including the Egyptian guns supplied under the covert U.S.-Arab aid program."
For 15 years, critics of such expenditures have been labeled as "anti-peace," but that tag just served as an excuse for whitewashes of misbehavior by first Arafat and now Abbas.
An anonymous U.S. official told JTA that the 1,100 P.A. gunmen currently in Jordan, at American expense and with Israeli permission, are being schooled in such things as "training in riot control, human rights, and effective arrests and defensive shooting." But so were their predecessors. Left unanswered in this account is why reasonable people should think this group will behave any differently.
Painted Into a Corner
The alternatives to Abbas are frightful. He is both weak and probably not much less ill-intentioned than Hamas, but he and his loyalists are seen as a counterforce to Iran's allies.
Should American supporters of Israel therefore feel obligated to support the continued flow of funds to P.A. sources?
Propping up Fatah has not undermined Hamas, nor promoted peace.
The problem is, the peace processors have painted themselves into a corner. Having coronated first Arafat and now Abbas, they are forced to ignore or suppress the truth about them in order to maintain American support for a two-state solution.
At the same time, Israel's government takes the position that it needs a Palestinian partner who at least pays lip service to peace, as Abbas does. And no one here wants to do anything that would help create a greater "Hamasistan."
Yet experience shows that the realpolitik strategy of propping up Fatah has not undermined Hamas, nor promoted peace. Perhaps the beginning of wisdom is the recognition that it's time to stop reinforcing failure.
America's attempts to create a Palestinian peace partner have failed. No amount of money will buy us a moderate state that will accept peace with Israel if the Palestinians don't want one. If the president and the secretary of state aren't honest enough to admit this, then perhaps it's appropriate to ask Congress to turn off the spigot that sends more of our tax dollars down a Palestinian drain.


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Port Isaac is sometimes home to the cast and crew of the hit British television comedy, Doc Martin and as I discovered yesterday, will be again this summer.
Whenever John and I walk in on the coast path from Port Quinn, we can usually see people posing in front of the cottage below which is used for both Doc Martin's home and office or doctor's surgery, as they call it here.
Doc Martin's Cottage
This is the flyer I spotted in my doctor's waiting room when I went for an appointment yesterday.
A copy of my last headshot, a memento from my acting days.
When I was working as an actor, which really means when I was auditioning for work because that's what most actors do the bulk of the time, I used to get sent out on auditions for a variety of roles such as Police Woman, Firefighters, Moms, and Waitresses. Once I went to an audition dressed fairly provocatively under a long overcoat for the role of a " New York City Street-walker " and ended up being cast as a " Butch Lesbian " instead.
Cast as a Butch Lesbian
I think it was the military training listed on my headshot that actually got me the callback for the " Butch Lesbian " part as they assumed the army had taught me hand to hand combat and the role called for my character to get into a physical fight in a jail cell. The director saw me during the callback and thought I might be " too little " to pull it off, but my tough girl swagger convinced him that size in this case, might not matter.
Getting an agent
Getting an agent was a necessary step to finding work as an actor and you can read more about how I did it in the post, " Picking Up Steps " on my first blog if you're interested.
When you first get an agent you generally will have to work a few times as an extra before being sent out on a proper audition. It's a good way to become more comfortable on a set where there's no time to waste with the untrained. I did it a few times before Joan felt I was ready to represent her agency in front of a casting director.
Extra work and Kevin Kline
Because I had been working as a principal for a while, I was surprised one day to receive a call asking if I was interested in doing extra work on a movie being filmed in Atlanta. Just as I was saying, " Joan, you know I don't do extra work anymore … " she cut me off with the words, " Kevin Kline is in it."
" Kevin Kline," I said, with the next words being, " Will he be on set while we're shooting? " Now, I'm not usually one to go starstruck, but having loved Kevin Kline since his brilliant role in Sophie's Choice, I said, " Yes," immediately after hearing her answer.
Never mind that it also had Kevin Spacey and Forest Whitaker in it, I was totally focused on the possibility that I might get to see Kevin Kline at work. And see him I did, as I stood next to him in a scene where he and Forest Whitaker were seated at a table in a bar. There's more to that story, but that's all I'll say here. It's nothing shocking, so put down the phone number for The National Enquirer or The Daily Mail. It does involve Kevin Kline and it adds to the story, but I'll save it for another day.
You can see me clearly in two shots in Consenting Adults, ironically the extra work I initially didn't want gave me the most visibility on the big screen.
I actually worked a good bit for a part-time actor who also had a busy day job in the pharmaceutical industry, but much of what I did as an actor was not very exciting and was often an industrial training film like a two-day shoot I did for UPS.
Doc Martin
Next week, I'm going to take a ride over to Port Isaac to see if I can do a little work on the next season of Doc Martin, a quirky comedy about a London surgeon who develops a blood phobia and ends up working in a small fishing village in Cornwall.
Martin Clunes character has no bedside manner and isn't as charming as Hugh Laurie's character in House, M.D., but I find him screamingly funny and I hope they'll find my American face " Cornish " enough to spend a bit of time on the set.
Do have a look at the video below if only to see more of Port Isaac. It's about ten miles from where we live and interestingly where the main office or Doctor's Surgery is located for the doctors I see when I need one.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Tennessee State football team will host Southeast Missouri on Saturday, riding a four-game winning streak and fresh off of a record-setting performance in last Saturday's, 73-6, victory in St. Louis, Mo. against Central State.
The Tigers piled up a season-high 539 yards in the rout over CSU, and TSU had 438 total yards and 41 points in a victory at Tennessee Tech two weeks ago. Big Blue has averaged 488.5 yards and 57 points over the past two games, after totaling just 310.7 yards and 20.7 points in the three contests prior.
One big reason for the offense's turnaround has been the play of redshirt junior quarterback Michael German, who appears to be hitting his stride after missing the first two games of the season. In the past two games, German has completed 16-of-22 passes for 363 yards, six touchdowns and zero interceptions.
Another key has been an improved and more consistent running attack. TSU (4-1, 1-0 OVC) got 4.4 yards per carry in weeks one through three, but has averaged 5.5 since then. Senior Tim Broughton has shouldered the load in the running department this season, tallying a conference-best 454 rushing yards on 91 carries. The Mobile, Ala. native has also scored four touchdowns this season with three of them coming in the last two weeks.
While the offense has found itself the past two contests, the TSU defense has been solid all year long and is ranked third in the nation in total defense (252.8 yards per game). The unit also ranks in the top ten in the FCS in passing defense (4th), passing efficiency defense (2nd), scoring defense (4th) and takeaways (7th).
Tennessee State recovered a pair of fumbles against Central State and the team now has recorded at least one turnover in the past 18 contests dating back to 2010.
The special teams has helped the Tiger cause this season as well, blocking five kicks in TSU's first five games.
Tennessee State will hope to have all three units clicking for the squad's second Ohio Valley Conference game against Southeast Missouri (0-4, 0-1 OVC).
The Redhawks are coming into the game desperate for a win, having just lost last weekend to UT Martin, 17-7. SEMO held the Skyhawks to zero points, only three first downs and 86 yards offensively in the final two quarters, but could not overcome the 17-point halftime deficit.
Offensively, Southeast Missouri ranks near the bottom of the conference in most categories. However, the Redhawks have the second-best pass defense (behind TSU) and surrender the least amount of penalty yards per game in the OVC (43.2).
SEMO's offense is led by quarterback Kyle Snyder who averages 131.7 passing yards per contest. The junior also has a 3-to-1 touchdown to interception ratio.
Ben Kargbo anchors the Redhawk defense, averaging nine tackles per contest.
TSU will go for its fifth straight win of the season and third consecutive victory in the series when the Tigers meet the Redhawks at 6 p.m. at LP Field.


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"Our new Fujitsu ETERNUS High-End systems have enabled us to increase our storage capacities by more than 40% whilst reducing energy costs by 45%. Ultimately, this will allow us to save more than €500,000 over the next five years"
Carsten Meyer-Rühen, Chief Technology Officer, PwC Germany
From tax optimization, to liquidity planning and process optimization, right through to stock market flotation: PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) provides advice to consolidated companies and family businesses, industrial and service-based enterprises, global players and local heroes, public authorities, associations and NGOs. In Germany, PwC is the market leader in auditing and consulting services. As an independent member of the global PwC network, PwC Germany can count on the support of 169,000 people in 158 countries around the world.
"Knowledge is our most valuable commodity," explains Carsten Meyer-Rühen, CTO at PricewaterhouseCoopers Germany. "Our customers trust us to handle huge quantities of sensitive information." After all, more than 9,000 employees at PwC's 28 locations throughout Germany spend their days dealing with tax documents and information about their clients' strategies and processes. "And just as our customers trust us, so we sought out a partner whom we could rely upon to increase our IT capacities and optimize efficiency," Carsten Meyer-Rühen continues. The hunt for a new storage infrastructure was also expressly focused at achieving an even higher level of security.
PwC Germany also needed a new storage infrastructure due to a rise in its data volume. Fujitsu was able to respond to this requirement quickly, saving PwC from having to upgrade its legacy systems: "The ETERNUS product family allowed us to quickly install a practical interim storage solution to cover initial requirements," explains Marcus Eppmann, Account Manager at Fujitsu. "Working on the basis of the smaller ETERNUS DX440 systems with a storage capacity of 100 terabytes, we were able to quickly assist PwC for the transitional period leading up to the delivery of the High End systems." All disks and shelves from the temporary solution were later transferred to the ETERNUS DX8700 S2. One part of the migration was therefore complete before the 'real' systems even arrived at the PwC data centers.
All data from the PwC German sites converges in Frankfurt am Main so that it can be stored under extremely secure conditions. The new ETERNUS DX8700 S2 systems – two per data center – allowed PwC to expand its overall storage capacity from 1.0 to 1.4 petabytes whilst also reducing the space required. Now, CTO Carsten Meyer-Rühen can take a more relaxed view of future data growth – after all, the scalability of these High-End systems is more than satisfactory. Ultimately, the storage infrastructure at PwC Germany can be extended to as much as 4.6 petabytes – and that's per individual storage system.
Simply mirroring the ETERNUS DX8700 S2 systems provides a high degree of system stability. If necessary, the automated failover runs via the FalconStor NSS storage virtualization solution with no manual intervention required. "Thanks to FalconStor, the data migration took much less time than expected," states Marcus Eppmann. "A traditional migration process would have taken up to half a year, but we were able to transfer PwC's data to the new systems in just a few weeks."
ETERNUS SF software is used to simplify the monitoring of the entire SAN infrastructure, allowing all storage capacities (and their connections to physical servers) to be managed and monitored via one interface. This also gives PwC's IT team an overview of the various disk types. Whilst a smaller share of the capacity is implemented using high-quality SSD disks, data that is accessed less often is stored on less expensive near-line SAS disks. In a nod to the significant role played by
In a nod to the significant role played by the data in the commercial success of PwC Germany, the backup has also been integrated via the ETERNUS CS High End with high availability. While the appliance has been physically divided between the two data centers in a 'split-site configuration', the ETERNUS CS High End is still a single system from a logical perspective. This means that the backup data is always available at both locations and, in the event of a disaster, one site can always take over the duties of the other – without the need for a manual or even less reliable failover.
PwC Germany had the chance to examine the Fujitsu ETERNUS DX systems in its Paderborn demo center and run performance tests in advance. Later on, the demo center also hosted training sessions for the IT staff. Overall, PwC now has a high-performance, extremely fail-safe big data solution. Friedrich Esser, the Project Manager responsible at PwC Germany, draws a positive conclusion:
"In Fujitsu, we have found a partner who listens and has responded with an ETERNUS enterprise big data solution that is tailored to our needs and runs some four times faster than our previous solution. We were very impressed by the great flexibility and efficiency demonstrated by the experts at Fujitsu. Our storage infrastructure is well-positioned for the future."
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The piece is of interest in regard to, at the very least, the personal recollections of how an investigation comes to be and is conducted.
I thought his piece would be of interest to HC Renewal readers. It is at the site of the American Association of Healthcare Journalists and entitled "Race to electronic health records may come with a price."
(The result of the investigation is the series entitled "Cracking the Codes.)
|Fred Schulte
This work contributed substantially and materially to a reluctant HHS and ONC deciding it was time to actually investigate the issue.
(Perhaps sometime soon HHS and ONC may also seriously investigate health IT safety, and take more than Milquetoast action.)


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Queering the Quotidian: Differential and Contested Spaces Within Neoliberalism
The Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life invites submissions for our annual symposium to be held March 07, 2014 at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. This year's theme is "Queering the Quotidian: Differential and Contested Spaces Within Neoliberalism," and our keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Jen Jack Gieseking of the Digital and Computational Studies Initiative at Bowdoin College. Gieseking's work examines the everyday co-productions of space and identity that support or inhibit social, spatial, and economic justice in urban and digital environments, with a special focus on sexuality and gender.
While many critical interrogations of neoliberalism understandably consider it ubiquitous in its ability to permeate and restructure individual experience and everyday life, this symposium seeks to highlight its moments of instability, incongruence, and unexpected contradiction. This year's symposium invites research that rethinks theories of the everyday; of particular interest is work that engages queer possibility and impossibility in the production of space and everyday practice within neoliberalism.
In addition to our theme, we will gladly consider abstracts that are more broadly concerned with the following areas of inquiry:
Spatial practices/everyday life
Feminist and queer geographies
Heterotopias, subtopias, and differential space
Phenomenology and sensory experiences of space
Non-places and/or abject space
Geological intersections with geography
Ecologies of space
The right to the city
We are open to receiving proposals for non-traditional presentations and from individuals at various stages in their research. All participants will be allotted the same amount of time to use however they see fit. Participants may choose to present a conference paper, a project overview, or even a set of research questions tailored to stimulate dialogue between the presenter and attendees. This symposium is committed to producing sustained conversations and a collaborative environment for scholars whose work engages our society's specific interests in radical geography, spatial theory, and everyday life.
Those interested may submit proposals of no more than 500 words to symposium co-organizers Tahereh Aghdasifar and Andrea Miller at email@example.com by November 01, 2013. Presenters will be notified of their acceptance by December 01, 2013. For more information on the symposium and the Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life, see our website at http://radicalspacesblog.wordpress.com/ and like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/radicalspaces.


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My latest and greatest, this is my 2nd entry for my Knicks video archive.
This video is a few minutes lengthier then my first flick and I again put painstaking effort and creativity into this piece.
This video is so raw, after you watch it it's going to make you grab some popcorn and watch it again, it's that dang good!
I'll let you judge for yourself, just make sure to WATCH IT IN HD!, go to youtube and watch it in it's original quality, trust me the low quality won't do this justice!
Nate The Grrrrreat Robinson!:
Nasty Nate > Du-what?
If you missed my first entry:
New York Knicks - Want Out:
[Pending Projects: NBA - Knicks]
(1_/) -Al Harrington (A mixture of ideas for this, might make it real short)
(2_/) - Knicks History - Past to Present "Requiem" (A large project I won't do for a while)
...I still gotta create a Giants video...that championship year was amazing.


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Spanish dancing sensation Joaquin Cortes plays his first major dramatic role in this story about a musician who is struggling to put personal misfortune behind him. Andres (Cortes) is a flamenco singer who has just gotten out of prison after being falsely convicted of the murder of Romero (Antonio Carmona), a member of his band. As Andres tries to reacclimate himself to freedom, he discovers things have not been going his way while he was up the river; his wife Lucia (Laetitia Casta) is having an affair with another man, while his bullying father Isidoro (Manuel de Blas) is obsessed with getting revenge against Don Manuel, who rules a local crime syndicate known as the Junco Family. Word on the street has it that members of the Junco Family killed Romero while he was defending Andres in a fight; Don Manuel is also the father of Lucia, as well as Lola (Marta Belaustegui), the wife of another of Andres' bandmates, El Peque (Gines Garcia Millan), who wants Andres to put his problems behind him and get back on the road. Andres is eager to get his career going again, but he discovers Chino (Jose Manuel Lorenzo), a cop on the take, has been following him, with record company bigwig Manfredi (Juan Fernandez) paying him to dig up dirt on the flamenco. As well as introducing Joaquin Cortes, Gitano features French supermodel Laetitia Casta in her second acting role; her voice was dubbed into Spanish by actress Ana Fernandez.
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2013 Tour DatesTalk about concerts promoting the Rock Dust Light Star album in 2010 and beyond...
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So it looks like Jamiroquai are touring Mexico!
Mexico City and Monterrey, and Monterrey is not far from me!
Tickets I believe are on sale -ranging from $30 upper bowl to $90
I really want to go!
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Please provide some insight why the idea of a North American tour, especially the east coast, is barely a topic of discussion! Why no US tour dates? This is killing me! Thanks.
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gpriolo, we bang our heads against the American soil daily, wondering the same thing.
btw...welcome to the forum.
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it's almost sour grapes here.
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Jamiroquai, could we please get a sign of the possibility of a U.S. tour?
Or is Mexico the closest it's gonna get?
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in Slovakia "Space Cowboy" and Jay dances around
"White Knuckle Ride"
"Little L"
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Jamiroquai is also coming to Guadalajara (Mexico), I got so excited and obviously I got my tickets rightaway
Does someone knows the setlist of Jamiroquai 2013 tour?? I would like him to play Virtual Insanity but I review setlists from last year and it is not included at least not in the last 3 concerts
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@sinda-cowgirl --I would consider Guadalajara! How safe is the city?
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hi there!
i'm from brazil and i'm ready for the concert over here in florianópolis on feb 10th!
i have a set list that i'd like to suggest to the band, if i may:
Seven Days in Sunny June
Canned Heat
Virtual Insanity
Time wont wait
When You Gonna Learn?
king for a day
(Don't) Give Hate A Chance
Picture of my Life
World That He Wants
i know that is not very polite suggest a set list to the band, but i need to try it.
if this is not the place to do that, i'd like some help please!
thank you!
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That setlist sounds awesome!
I think this isn't gonna be a Rock Dust Light Star tour anymore!
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you are totally right!
is just because in brazil, foreign bands usually plays some famous songs to warm up the crowd!
with my set list, they can choose some to play.
that's my real intention!
i hope you can help me out with that!
thank you very much for your reply.
see ya!
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I don't think I can be any help!
but posting your wishes can't hurt!
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I think suggesting a set list is a great idea!! Not sure how far it will go here...but a great idea!!
I like your set list, too!! If it were my list, I would definitely add "Travelling Without Moving"...
Welcome to the forum!!
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my bad erin!
love this song too!
thank you for your attention.
see ya!
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Hey glaucio & sinda-cowgirl! Here is a recent set list from the Slovakia show:
So, what do you think? Works for me...it has "Travelling..."
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really happy to see " hot tequila brown" back on the setlist..I know it´s not everybody´s favourite, but I really enjoyed this track back at london lovebox weekender
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I cant wait for the Uk show actually, i really need to go to that festival just for the sake of jamiroquai
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Hello all - i'll be at the Barolo, Italy show on July 5 and magic summer in UK July 13. Anyone else??
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Hi jeaniejellie -there are a bunch of people going to magic!
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The gig in Barolo was AMAZING. <3 Really.
I've enjoyed it soo much. One of the best concert EVER.
Matt have seen my buffalo man necklace. I was going crazy when he made signs with his hands "nice necklace. I like it". First I haven't realize he was "talking" to me. Wow :')
And Jay have seen me in the concert. I've smiled to him and he smiled, because he has say a thing, like "guys pay attention to the ladies" or something like that. I don't understand his english very well, too perfect ahah.
But it was amazing, really. Jay was happy, he has dance, laugh, talk. The band have do a very good performance.
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Amazing gig yesterday at Magic Summer Live... Jay was so cool. Thank you all for a great performance... More festivals please x
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Yes! And I'm ready to see them again! They really should consider New York or Chicago.
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Older Fillies and Mares
Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic 2011 hopefuls Blind Luck and Havre de Grace hooked up for the sixth time on July 16 and once again they put on a show in the Delaware Handicap.
Havre De Grace was racing over her home track and got a jump on her nemesis but none of that mattered as Blind Luck got her nose down on the line to take a 4-2 lead in the ongoing head-to-head rivalry.
Blind Luck is looking at the Aug 28 Personal Ensign at the Spa. Havre de Grace could also show up in that spot but might take on males in Saratoga's G1 Woodward on Sept 3 instead.
In other filly and mare news, Awesome Maria is out for the year with a non-displaced condylar fracture of her left foreleg.
Three-Year-Old Fillies
Saratoga's G1 Coaching Club American Oaks featured graded winners Buster's Ready, Plum Pretty, Joyful Victory, Royal Delta, and It's Tricky, and the latter proved her G1 Acorn tally in the mud was no fluke.
It's Tricky intently tracked G1 Ky Oaks winner Plum Pretty and it was those two dominating throughout with the former wearing down her more fancied rival.
Royal Delta was a distant 3rd in a race she obviously needed and can go much better in the Aug 20 Alabama.
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The aforementioned G1 Alabama is shaping up as a strong renewal. In addition to the top three CCA Oaks finishers, the ten furlong Spa event is expected to attract Queen's Plate winner Inglorious and Ky Oaks runner-up and G2 Delaware Oaks winner St. John's River.
Inglorious breezed 5f in 1:00 at Woodbine on 7-22, and St. John's River worked 5f in 1:00.67 at Saratoga on 7-27. Robby Albarado will ride the latter in the Alabama.
Also pointing to the Alabama is recent G2 Hollywood Oaks winner Zazu. John Sadler's multiple graded winner worked 6f in 1:14.80 at Del Mar on 7-23.


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Girls in La Fortuna, Costa Rica can be SO BOLD!
I saw the text messages the girl in the video below sent to the guy, although paraphrased and not the EXACT message, it's pretty damn close:
"If you can't get the $100. to me by Monday, then it will be $150. on Wednesday. Understand?"WTF? This girl is 17-years old, blackmailing like she's a pro. WOW!
Like I say in the video, I don't know what this guy didn't or didn't do, I just know the girl didn't go to the proper authorities if she did in fact believe he had done something inappropriate.
My personal opinion but TOTALLY speculative- I would say he flirted with her, made suggestive comments and she probably encouraged him to some degree, maybe even instigated it, who's to say, and then when things went south for whatever reason, she decided to try and make some easy money by threatening him. But again- I don't know shit. After all, he could be a BIG perv, she could be an underage skank, or a combination of both, or none of the above, who knows.
Anyway, I don't want to make too much of this, but here's how it all went down one afternoon in our tiny little tourist town of La Fortuna, Costa Rica. Oh, the drama.
*Just in case you're not sure, the guy went to the FBI himself and that's how this sting came about in the first place.
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