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Reading the Founders' Minds
Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution
American Taxation, American Slavery
It is a truism that history writing tends to reflect the times in which it is written. All history is "contemporary history," wrote the Italian historian Benedetto Croce, by which he meant that history is seen mainly through the eyes of the present and in relation to its problems. The distinguished American historian Bernard Bailyn agrees that history writing is not mere antiquarianism; he is keenly aware of the present's need to relate to the past and the power of that need in stimulating historical inquiry and writing. "There is always," he writes, "a need to extract from the past some kind of bearing on contemporary problems, some message, commentary, or instruction to the writer's age, and to see reflected in the past familiar aspects of the present." But without "critical control," this need, says Bailyn, "generates an obvious kind of presentism, which at its worst becomes indoctrination by historical example."1
Thus at the beginning of the twentieth century when class conflict was rife—poor versus rich, western farmers versus eastern merchants, soft money versus hard money—it was not surprising that history writing about the American Revolution and the formation of the Constitution tended to express these turbulent social circumstances. Historians like Carl Becker and Arthur Schlesinger Sr. wrote about class conflict in the Revolution and Charles Beard attempted to show that the Constitution grew out of a struggle between different kinds of property interests.
Since our greatest domestic issue over the past half-century has been race relations, it was inevitable that historians would look back at the sources of our race problem and write the fullest and richest accounts of slavery in America that we have ever seen. It was inevitable too that our recent accounts of the Revolution and the founding of the nation would reflect our increased understanding of the importance of slavery to the history of America. Indeed, there is hardly a book now written about the founding of the nation that does not place the problem of slavery at its center. So in recent years we have had Leonard L. Richards's The Slave Power (2000); Don E. Fehrenbacher's The Slaveholding Republic (2001); Paul Finkelman's Slavery and the Founders (2001); Garry Wills's "Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power (2003); Alfred W. Blumrosen's and Ruth G. Blumrosen's Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution (2005); and Gary Nash's Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution (2006). Now we have these additional two books under review to help satisfy the seemingly insatiable desire of many historians today to place slavery at the heart of America's origins.
Thanks to the works of these historians and many others, we now know more about slavery and the founding of the nation than previous generations of historians ever thought possible. But is all this new historical knowledge true to the reality of the past? Have the…
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New Orleans is a fantastic city to spend Christmas in, whether or not you have family in town. The city is alight with Christmas-themed things to do, many of which are common in other cities but have a unique local twist. From light displays to caroling in Jackson Square, you'll find plenty of Christmas celebrations this holiday season.
New Orleans Christmas in the District is one such celebration, and it lasts from now until Jan 5th. Sponsored by the New Orleans Convention Center, the event features Concerts at the Plaza every Wednesday at 5:30pm, including the National WWII Museum Victory Bells and more this Wed., Dec. 18th. There are also brand new holiday-themed light displays synchronized to music going on every day of the week. The music is provided by 93.9 FM so that drivers can tune in on their car radios, and they run each night from 5:00pm to 11:00pm.
City Park's Celebration in the Oaks lights up City Park each year with one of the best holiday light festivals in the country draped among the park's magnificent oak trees and gardens. 13 gated acres of the park, including the Botanical Garden, Storyland and Carousel Gardens all take part in the lights display. The park's attractions and Storyland area are also open for adults and children alike to take part in the fun and fantasy land. The Cajun night before Christmas display is one of the most popular spots in addition to our iconic snowman, Mr. Bingle.
This Sunday, Dec. 22nd, you can partake in the 58th annual Caroling in Jackson Square, which is a beloved and moving tradition in the city. A candlelit crowd sings spirit-lifting carols in front of the beautiful St. Louis Cathedral. The gates open at 6:30pm, and caroling begins promptly at 7pm. Candles and sheet music are provided.
Held on most days until Dec. 23rd, the St. Louis Cathedral plays host to Christmas concerts that feature Christmas carols and gospel favorites in the lovely backdrop of this historic cathedral. The concerts are free and begin at 8pm. Jeremy Davenport will play on the 18th, Thomas Kientz on the 19th, and the final concert will feature the St. Louis Cathedral Choir at 5:30pm on Dec. 22nd.
These are a few of the biggest events held throughout the city, but you can find plenty more hosted by different churches and social groups if you know where to look. Even just driving around the city looking at the lights on homes in different neighborhoods is a wonderful way to spend a holiday evening.


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Vitamin D's Crucial Role in Cardiovascular ProtectionSeptember 2007
By William Davis, MD
Health-conscious adults regularly monitor their cardiovascular risk factors—such as cholesterol, glucose, and homocysteine—in order to reduce their risk of debilitating cardiovascular disease. Now, intriguing new research suggests that vitamin D may play an essential yet overlooked role in staving off heart disease. Vitamin D deficiency may eventually be added to the list of causative factors that contribute to cardiovascular disorders.
A growing body of research indicates that vitamin D deficiency contributes to a broad spectrum of conditions such as high blood pressure, poor insulin sensitivity, inflammation, and other fundamental processes that underlie heart disease.
Alarmingly, vitamin D deficiency is extremely common throughout the population—affecting more than half of adults and the majority of the elderly.1
In this article, we'll explore the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency, its detrimental effects on cardiovascular and whole-body health, and how you can protect yourself by maintaining healthy blood levels of vitamin D.
If you look up "coronary risk factor" in any standard medical textbook, you'll find a list that includes high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, and hypertension. However, vitamin D status is not listed. Perhaps you'll find vitamin D in the list of risks for childhood rickets and osteoporosis in females. But a coronary risk factor? You'll not see it.
New data, however, are suggesting a whole new panel of health effects previously unsuspected for this underappreciated vitamin. It may, in fact, be a crucial nutrient that plays a central role in coronary heart disease prevention.
"Vitamin D deficiency and its consequences are extremely subtle, but have enormous implicationsfor human health and disease. It is for this reason that vitamin D deficiency continues to go unrecognized by a majority of health care professionals."
—Dr. Michael Holick, University of Boston
Vitamin D Deficiency: A Modern Epidemic
Poor diet, sedentary lifestyles, and stressful schedules have contributed to today's epidemic of cardiovascular disease. Interestingly, dietary and lifestyle factors are also linked with another potentially dangerous and possibly related epidemic—that of vitamin D deficiency.
Human skin is rich with latent pre-vitamin D, which is activated by sunlight. Humans are meant to obtain vitamin D through sunlight exposure. Vitamin D is not contained to any significant degree in food, nor was it meant to be obtained through oral intake. But over the centuries, people have migrated to colder, sun-deprived climates, work indoors in offices or factories, travel by car, exercise in gyms rather than outdoors, and wear clothes that cover all but 5% of body surface area. In fact, even adults living in sunny Miami are likely to be deficient in vitamin D for at least part of the year.2 Oral intake of vitamin D has become necessary as humans developed lifestyles involving less and less sun exposure. Add to this the sun phobia fostered by dermatologists advising us that sun exposure causes skin cancer, and most of us are terribly sun-deprived and thereby unable to activate vitamin D.
There are few dietary sources of vitamin D. An eight ounce glass of milk contains 100 IU, although this is often inconsistent.3,4 Other dairy products, like cheese and yogurt, tend to have little or no vitamin D added. Oily fish like salmon, mackerel, and sardines contain 200–360 IU vitamin D per 3.5 ounce serving. Many breakfast cereals contain 40–100 IU per serving.1 Despite this, many people fail to obtain even the modest "adequate" intake every day. Strict vegetarians and lactose intolerant individuals are especially likely to be substantially vitamin D deficient.5 Other people at high risk for vitamin D deficiency include: the elderly, who convert less vitamin D with sunlight exposure compared to younger people; the obese; and dark-skinned individuals, due to high melanin skin content.4,6
Vitamin D Recommendations Based on Fiction, Not Facts
In 1963, when the Institute of Medicine drafted the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for vitamin D, there were literally no scientific data available to help determine requirements for optimal health. It was clear, however, that vitamin D was a necessary ingredient for health, since children who failed to receive at least 300–400 IU per day, usually supplemented as cod liver oil, developed "bow legs," or rickets, due to abnormal bone maturation in the legs. But the vitamin D dose recommended for adults was purely—and admittedly—fabrication. It was based on a disease model—that is, the amount thought to prevent rickets, rather than the amount needed to promote optimal health, which may be far greater.
"The basis for adult vitamin D recommendations [was] arbitrary. Thirty-six years ago, an expert committee on vitamin D could provide only anecdotal support for what it referred to as 'the hypothesis of a small requirement' for vitamin D in adults and it recommended one-half the infant dose, just to ensure that adults obtain some from the diet."
—Dr. Reinhold Vieth University of Toronto
In the 1960s, the only known consequence of vitamin D deficiency in adults was osteomalacia, a form of bone softening. Administration of 200 IU per day of vitamin D was just enough to prevent osteomalacia. More recent vitamin D research, however, has uncovered the fact that exposure to just 10–20 minutes of sunlight yielded the blood-level equivalent of 10,000 units of vitamin D taken orally.7 Why would the naturally-intended source of vitamin D yield levels far beyond that specified by the RDA?
Speculation grew that the true vitamin D requirement for health was far more than the RDA in the absence of substantial sunlight exposure. A study conducted during the winter months in Omaha, Nebraska, in healthy adult men showed that the participants utilized 3000–5000 international units of vitamin D per day to maintain a steady vitamin D blood level. The researchers concluded that the current RDA was inadequate to meet these requirements.8 Low government-issued vitamin D intake recommendations, along with deprivation of sunlight, has therefore resulted in a nation that is frightfully deficient in a crucial nutrient.
Further investigation using blood levels of vitamin D have uncovered the extraordinary prevalence of deficiency. A study of 1500 women receiving treatment for osteoporosis showed that 52% of participants were deficient (<30 ng/mL 25-hydroxyvitamin D); and 18% were severely deficient (<20 ng/mL 25-hydroxyvitamin D).9 The likelihood of vitamin D deficiency ranges from a low of 36% in healthy adults 18–29 years old, to 57% of a general adult population in the US, to as much as 100% in the elderly.1 North of 37 degrees latitude (approximately a line drawn horizontally connecting Norfolk, Virginia, to San Francisco, California), sunlight is insufficient to trigger vitamin D conversion in the winter months.10 Living in a southern climate is no guarantee that deficiency won't occur. A study conducted in Miami, Florida showed that approximately 40% of 212 adults were deficient in winter, with a modest improvement in summer.2
Sunlight, Vitamin D, and Heart Attack
The farther north you live, the more likely you will suffer a heart attack.11 That curious observation led to the suspicion that vitamin D may somehow be related to the development of heart disease. It suggests that sunlight exposure may somehow provide a protective effect, perhaps through vitamin D. The notable exception to this pattern is the Eskimos, who eat large quantities of oily fish, a rich source of vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids.
An early hint that deficiency of vitamin D might be behind heart disease came from a New Zealand study of 179 people presenting with heart attacks. Heart attack sufferers proved to have lower vitamin D blood levels (25-hydroxyvitamin D) compared to people without heart attacks.12
A corroborating observation emerged from analysis of the enormous database of 259,891 heart attacks maintained by the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction. In this nationwide tabulation, heart attacks surged by 53% during sun-deprived winter months compared to summer.13 Further corroboration came from observations in sub-tropical climates, where intense sun shines year-round and seasonal variation in heart attack rates doesn't occur.14 Unlike the large ranges in cold or hot weather found in temperate regions, the warm climate of a subtropical region does not affect the frequency of heart attacks.
If vitamin D is indeed related to heart disease risk, then we would also expect to see fewer heart attacks in sunny climates and more heart attacks in cooler climates. Indeed, an exhaustive study performed by Dr. David Grimes and colleagues at the Blackburn Royal Infirmary in England demonstrated a consistent worldwide relationship between sunlight exposure and heart disease: the farther north in latitude, the more heart attacks occurred.11 Dr. Grimes and others have suggested that the vitamin D activated by sunlight is behind the reduced risk of heart disease.
Vitamin D: Essential for Heart Health
Abundant evidence now points to the numerous cardioprotective functions of vitamin D. Restoring vitamin D to normal levels has been found to help reduce inflammation, normalize blood pressure, and improve insulin sensitivity—all factors that reduce heart disease risk.15-18
Vitamin D deficiency has been shown to diminish contractile function of heart muscle cells, contribute to endothelial dysfunction, distort heart muscle structure (triggering hypertrophy, or abnormal heart muscle growth), and increase smooth muscle growth in the coronary artery wall—a process that leads to atherosclerotic plaque formation.19,20 Low levels of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D have been linked with congestive heart failure, a condition in which the heart is unable to keep up with the body's demands for blood and oxygen.21 A recent analysis showed that individuals with low serum levels of vitamin D had higher rates of high blood pressure, diabetes, and elevated triglycerides than those with higher vitamin D levels.22
Longstanding vitamin D deficiency is a major contributor to osteoporosis, and scientists have long known that women with osteoporosis are more likely to have coronary heart disease. The correlation between osteoporosis and heart disease may reflect common risk factors and mechanisms, such as estrogen and vitamin D.23 A study in 2,500 postmenopausal women showed a four-fold greater risk of heart attack in women with osteoporosis.24 A University of Illinois study showed that the computed tomography (CT) heart scan score (a measure of coronary atherosclerotic plaque) in women with osteoporosis averaged 222 (optimal is zero), while women with normal bone density had far lower average scores of 42.25 Similar findings have shown that higher levels of coronary calcification are found in those with lower levels of vitamin D.26,27
Vitamin D deficiency may extend to vascular disease beyond the coronary arteries. A recent Italian study determined that the greater the vitamin D deficiency, the more carotid atherosclerotic plaque was present, as assessed by carotid ultrasound. The authors concluded that low vitamin D blood levels were an independent and strong predictor of atherosclerosis. Diabetics were also twice as likely as non-diabetics to be severely vitamin D deficient.28
Some authorities have proposed that inadequate vitamin D is part of the reason for the extremely high incidence of cardiovascular disease in people with abnormal kidney function.29 People with little or no kidney function often have very low levels of vitamin D, since the kidney is required for its activation.30 A Japanese study in 240 people on dialysis for severe kidney disease suggested that treatment to correct vitamin D deficiency resulted in a dramatic reduction in heart attack and death from heart disease.31 Emerging science argues strongly in favor of vitamin D as an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Optimizing vitamin D status holds tremendous potential to safely, inexpensively, and dramatically reduce cardiovascular risk.
"… there is a striking similarity between the benefits of vitamin D and the benefits of statin therapy. I believe that the unexpected and unexplained beneficial effects of statin therapy might be mediated by activation of vitamin D receptors by this group of drugs."
—Dr. David S. Grimes Blackburn Royal Infirmary, Lancashire, UK


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Filmmakers, It's 2013. Do You Know Where Your Jobs Act Is? Part 3/
Written by Michael R. Barnard
The Internet enlarged the playing field for securities offerings, whether valid or not, and for potential investors, whether knowledgeable or not.
How do you legally and ethically access that hoarded cash and encourage its investment in your well-developed movie project so you can hire people and make your movie?
Easier access to that cash is the promise of the JOBS Act, which was the biggest bi-partisan effort of the past several years of hyper-partisanship. Support for the JOBS Act spanned both parties.
America needs good jobs, and some of those jobs need to come from the independent film industry. Joblessness and low-wage jobs have crippled the survival and prosperity of millions of Americans, and are a drag on our entire economy.
For you, the significance of the JOBS Act is not only the production of your movie, but also its potential to rebuild the infrastructure of the American independent film industry by structuring movie projects to show business as well as artistic realities.
The ability to reach out to investors means you will have to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of your movie project, plan its production and distribution, and calculate reasonable possible returns. Your stronger, compelling plans and successful investor strategy will allow you to pay better wages, attract superior cast and crew, rent and purchase proper equipment, engage legal counsel and insurance, and make stronger efforts to engage audiences and deliver your movie to them. By opening access to that hoarded cash and other cash from investors, the JOBS Act can provide filmmakers with increased production quality and increased likelihood of a return on investment, which can increase the stability of the independent film industry in America. The process can increase the potential to deliver higher-quality movies to larger audiences.
There are two parts of the JOBS Act specifically attractive to independent filmmakers. They are Title II—ACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR JOB CREATORS, commonly referred to as "the General Solicitation Rule," and Title III—CROWDFUND. These offer the promise to improve filmmakers' ability to raise money for development, production, marketing, and distribution of their movies.
Some filmmakers are lucky enough to raise money for their movies through family and friends, angel investors, venture capitalists, or other ways of private funding. Most filmmakers are not so fortunate.
Many filmmakers turn to crowdfunding, whether perks-based donor crowdfunding or the forthcoming Equity Crowdfunding. That's a good path for filmmakers whose social circle is pretty normal, and you will benefit from Title III—CROWDFUND of the JOBS Act.
Are you fortunate enough to have millionaires in your social circle? The change to the fundraising process, opening it up for general solicitation, will be the benefit for you from TITLE II—ACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR JOB CREATORS of the JOBS Act.
TITLE II is popularly referred to as the "General Solicitation" rule. It will change some of the exemptions from the most strenuous rules; these exemptions, which are still very strict, are commonly referred to by investment professionals as "Sec. 506, Reg. D". The rules that allow exemptions from some of the harshest regulations still include prohibitions against you, or any person acting on your behalf, offering or selling securities through any form of "general solicitation or general advertising."
Most of those posts long ago on Friendster and MySpace and those ads printed in magazines and newspapers by filmmakers telling people to invest in their films and promising the investors profits have always been illegal. Examples of general solicitation include advertisements published in newspapers and magazines, communications broadcast over television and radio, and seminars whose attendees have been invited by general solicitation, as well as other uses of publicly available media, such as unrestricted websites and social media.
The big news is that TITLE II is going to let you promote your movie project to everybody you can reach. The only restrictions will be, simply, that you can only sell your securities to Accredited Investors – but you can now find those Accredited Investors by publicly announcing your movie project.
The JOBS Act instructs the SEC to make rules to stop the prohibition against general solicitation and to give you reasonable steps to verify that those who invest in your movie are truly Accredited Investors as defined by law.
You will not be able accept investment money from anyone who can't prove they are Accredited Investors. The Act says you will not be subject to requirements to be a registered broker or dealer because of maintaining and advertising online or on other platforms your offer, sale, or negotiation of an investment in your movie. Under the general solicitation rules for your Sec. 506 of Reg. D offering, there might be no other reporting requirements other than, probably, the basic Form D now required by such offerings (see http://www.sec.gov/answers/formd.htm). It is likely the SEC will modify the Form D only to acknowledge that your offering is being made under TITLE II of the JOBS Act.
The JOBS Act established a deadline of Wednesday, July 4, 2012, for the SEC to promulgate rules and regulations for the implementation of TITLE II—ACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR JOB CREATORS. The SEC missed that deadline. The agency did publish proposed rules for TITLE II on August 29, 2012 (see http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2012/2012-170.htm) but has not implemented them. Although the SEC has missed the deadline required by the Act, and used a process a little bit out of the ordinary regarding its usual schedule of receiving public comments and publishing proposals, the SEC believes they are working prudently within the complex requirements of implementing the JOBS Act. There is not yet an anticipated date for finalizing the rules for Title II of the JOBS Act. It continues to accept public comments regarding TITLE II.
Title III—CROWDFUND of the JOBS Act, twisted into an acronym of that tortured construct, "Capital Raising Online While Deterring Fraud and Unethical Non-Disclosure," relieves filmmakers of many of the burdens of raising equity investment for movie projects. The goals of the Act appear to allow a filmmaker (or any entrepreneur) to offer securities to any American for up to a maximum of $1 million in any 12-month period for all of the entities controlled by the filmmaker using the process similar to perks-based donor crowdfunding
It appears the filmmaker's offering of securities must be made only through a registered securities broker or through a newly-described "Funding Portal" registered with the SEC. Funding Portals are intermediaries that might be similar to the existing crowdfunding sites, and will be responsible for educating the public about investing, protecting the public from fraud, vetting the people offering the securities, distributing to the SEC and potential investors any information about the securities, and holding in escrow all proceeds prior to reaching the offering amount. Funding Portals will also protect the privacy of investors and cannot purchase from any finders or brokers any personal information about potential investors. Filmmakers will not be allowed to be officers, partners, or directors in the Funding Portal servicing their projects.
In order to offer equity shares in their project, it appears filmmakers will need to provide some form of a Business Plan and Financial Projection, which was common before the collapse of the independent film industry, that includes the purpose for the offering and the target offering amount and its deadline, as well as the description of the ownership and capital structure of the issuer. The Business Plan and Financial Projection will likely include the name, legal status, physical address, and website address of the issuer; the names of the directors and officers and anyone with more than 20 percent of the shares of the issuer. A description of the financial condition of the issuer including all other offerings of the issuer within the preceding 12-month period is also required. The filmmaker will need to make regular updates about progress meeting the target offering amount. There will be rules about describing the price, value, terms and class of the securities offered. Annual reports will be required.
Once the new SEC regulations are in place, you likely will be allowed to approach anyone via any method of communication, describing your well-developed movie project, as long as you only send them to the Funding Portal or broker handling your movie project. If you pay someone to bring people to your project at your broker or Funding Portal, you will be required to declare publicly that you pay the person to do so.
It appears there will be no limit to the Americans you can approach, but their participation will have limits. Expect that those potential investors whose annual income or net worth is less than $100,000 will be allowed to invest up to 5 percent of their annual income or net worth, capped at a maximum of $2,000. Anyone with an annual income or net worth of more than $100,000 will be allowed to invest up to 10 percent of their annual income or net worth, capped at a maximum of $100,000. These maximums will apply to all of the investments made by the individual to all issuers – not just you – in any 12-month period.
It is attractive to filmmakers to be able to raise up to $1 million per year in equity investment. This fits into a common timetable for making movies; the first year's fundraising could support development, production, and post-production, and the second year's fundraising could support marketing and distribution, effectively allowing filmmakers to raise up to $2 million for your movie.
The investment securities in your movie will be barely, if at all, liquid. Your investors will likely not be allowed to resell their securities for a period of 12 months except to people such as accredited investors and family members, or through a complex registered public offering in the unlikely case that you were to develop one.
The issue of Funding Portals has become very complex. It originally appeared that the JOBS Act would allow a proliferation of new businesses to serve as Funding Portals. However, complex and contradictory parts of the Act now appear to make it illegal for Funding Portals to earn a profit unless they are functions of registered Broker-Dealers. The possibility of non-profit organizations setting up Funding Portals has not yet been addressed by the SEC. The process of becoming a registered Broker-Dealer could take probably more than six months and cost probably more than $25,000. For the SEC's information about the process, see http://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/bdguide.htm
"You're dealing with other people's money, there is an obligation of financial and fiduciary duty to the investors," says Bob Thibodeau of Crowdfund Capital Markets (see www.linkedin.com/pub/bob-thibodeau/3/849/b4a), a service company providing backend and clearinghouse functions for equity crowdfunding operations.
"Orderly, transparent, liquid markets are good for everybody," continues Thibodeau. "The processes, the technology, the understanding of regulatory environments is much more conducive to orderly markets than everybody learning something all at once, which is chaos, which is where crowdfunding is right now."
The SEC is working with The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) (see http://finra.org), the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States, on rules for funding portals, and FINRA has a voluntary Interim Form for prospective Funding Portals. Once the SEC and FINRA have adopted funding portal rules, they then need to promulgate the rules that will apply to those who need to use Equity Crowdfunding to fund their businesses.
"Investors soon can expect to be inundated with crowdfunding pitches, legitimate or otherwise," said Heath Abshure, President of North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) (see http://www.nasaa.org/about-us/nasaa-board-of-directors/), the oldest international organization devoted to investor protection.
An analysis of Internet domain names found nearly 8,800 domains with "crowdfunding" in their name at the end of the year, up from less than 900 at the beginning of the year.
Fraud concerns run high in certain circles of the professional investment community. However, the openness and transparency of the Internet, according to crowdfunding experts, serves to thwart fraud.
Slava Rubin of popular perks-based donor crowdfunding site Indiegogo (see www.linkedin.com/in/indieslava/), and very active in the process of crafting the Equity Crowdfunding part of the JOBS ACT, says "Indiegogo's 5,000 campaigns are proven case studies to predict that there is no significant worry about fraud. The fraud rate in our case studies has been about 1 percent." He notes that when e-commerce was new on the Internet, people also predicted huge increases in fraud. However, eBay and Amazon proved that online fraud risk is no greater than every other risk we face every day.
According to the report "How the Crowd Detects Fraud" (see http://www.crowdfundcapitaladvisors.com/resources/26-resources/120-crowd-detects-fraud.html ), "This is the new crowdsourced diligence paradigm." The crowd itself effectively polices against fraud.
Perks-based donor crowdfunding and Equity Crowdfunding each has its own process and participants. It is likely perks-based donor crowdfunding will be more focused on funding for personal, artistic movies, while Equity Crowdfunding will be focused on movies with commercial appeal.
Kickstarter is not going to get involved in Equity Crowdfunding because its mission was never profit-oriented over artist-oriented. It launched in 2009 after an original idea in 2001 to fund creative projects that would probably not be profitable, but that were good ideas that people want to see come to life.
For instance, last year Charlie Kaufman, Dan Harmon, Ira Sachs, David Fincher, Bret Easton Ellis and Paul Schrader all turned to Kickstarter to invite fans to participate in their personal creations.
Equity Crowdfunding will be a different experience, and for different backers, than perks-based donor crowdfunding.
The JOBS Act established a deadline of Monday, December 31, 2012 for the SEC to promulgate rules and regulations for the implementation of TITLE III—CROWDFUND. The SEC missed the deadline, and has no anticipated date for the rulemaking to implement TITLE III. The SEC has not published any proposed rules for TITLE III and continues to accept public comments regarding TITLE III.
When the SEC is engaged in rulemaking, they typically want to hear from the public and will say very little beyond what is proposed.
Part of the reason for delays in rulemaking may be the change in leadership at the SEC. On December 14, 2012, Chairman Mary Schapiro left the agency, and President Obama appointed Elisse Walter as her successor. See http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2012/2012-240.htm and http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/11/26/statement-president-obama-departure-sec-chairman-mary-schapiro
Although the SEC has made few announcements about the JOBS Act and its rulemaking, former Chairman Schapiro spoke about it in her opening remarks at the SEC Open Meeting on August 29,2012 (see http://www.sec.gov/news/speech/2012/spch082912mls.htm) and current Chairman Walter gave her "Opening Remarks Regarding the Proposal of Rules Eliminating the Prohibition against General Solicitation and General Advertising in Rule 506 and Rule 144A Offerings" at that same meeting (see http://www.sec.gov/news/speech/2012/spch082912ebw.htm)
When it wends its way through the SEC rulemaking processes, the JOBS Act will be a powerful tool that will give filmmakers something they have desired for decades: easier access to investors for their movies.
You face the opportunity to have a significant impact on the future of America's independent film industry.
Michael R. Barnard is a writer and filmmaker who has been researching the American JOBS Act since it was first proposed. Barnard is currently working on creating an independent feature film, A FATHER AND SON (http://AFatherAndSon.wordpress.com). Barnard lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of the historical novel NATE AND KELLY. You can reach Barnard on Twitter at @mrbarnard1 and on Facebook at michael.barnard.
This article is an overview and observation, not legal advice.


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Barry Bonds Honored As Member Of College World Series Legends Team
May 7, 2010: It may not help get him into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, but Barry Bonds has received a prestigious honor by being named to the official College World Series Legends Team.
The NCAA and College World Series, Inc., unveiled the 28 members of the Legends Team as part of the commemoration of the 2010 Men's College World Series June 19-30. The series will be the final such event held at Omaha's Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium, where the Men's College World Series has been played since 1950.
Beginning in 2011, the Men's College World Series will be held at TD Ameritrade Park, located in downtown Omaha, which is scheduled to open in Spring 2011.
Bonds played in the CWS for Arizona State in 1983-84, compiling an all-time top ten CWS batting average of .438 and setting a record with eight consecutive hits. He ranks as the all-time MLB leader with 762 home runs, including a single-seson record 73 in 2001, and won seven MVP awards, but his career has been tarnished by allegations of steroid use.
Voting for the team was based solely on the former student-athletes' performance when they were competing in the NCAA College World Series, and not for any regular season or post-collegiate performances, according to the NCAA.
Among other players on the Legends Team who went on to outstanding MLB careers are Dave Winfield, Nomar Garciaparra, Fred Lynn, Robin Ventura, Burt Hooton, J.D. Drew, Sal Bando, Bob Horner and Will Clark. (Complete roster below.)
Also on the team is Dustin Ackley, who led North Carolina to the CWS 2007-08-09 and holds the all-time record with 28 hits. Ackley was taken No. 2 overall in the 2009 draft by the Seattle Mariners behind Stephen Strasburg, taken No. 1 by the Washington Nationals.
The members of the Legends Team are former student-athletes and coaches who had the best CWS performances throughout the 60 years the event has been played at Rosenblatt Stadium. The NCAA and College World Series said the honorees were chosen from an original list of 95 nominees after more than 100,000 votes were cast by college baseball fans, college baseball writers and Division I head baseball coaches.
Clark was the leading vote-getter with more than 3,000 votes; Winfield, who went on to play 23 seasons in the majors and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001, was second with just under 3,000 votes.
The 28 CWS Legends Team members will be invited to attend the final College World Series at Rosenblatt Stadium as guests of the NCAA. The members will be formally honored on the field during the CWS opening ceremonies June 18 and invited to attend the first day of CWS competition June 19.
A complete 28-card NCAA Legends Team set featuring the players and coaches in their college uniforms with college stats on the reverse can be downloaded at http://www.NCAA.com/cws.
"With the history of the College World Series and all the great players to have been involved in the event, it's an honor to be named to the Legends Team," said Ventura, who led his Oklahoma State team to consecutive College World Series appearances in 1986 and 1987 before embarking on a 16-year MLB career, ten of those seasons with the Chicago White Sox.
According to Garciaparra, former Georgia Tech shortstop who played 14 MLB seasons before retiring prior to the 2010 campaign, "It's a great honor. I've always believed that one of my favorite experiences in baseball was the College World Series."


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A lot of successful American businesses were started in a garage, including: Amazon, Apple, Disney, Google, Harley Davidson, Hewlett-Packard, Mattel, and Yankee Candle. But I've heard of only two American companies that were started in a dorm room: Dell and Squarespace. Anthony Casalena, the Founder and CEO of Squarespace, started his business from his dorm room in 2004. During the company's early years, Anthony acted as the sole engineer, designer, and support representative for the all-in-one website publishing platform.
So, many internet marketers and video content producers were surprised when Squarespace announced a month ago that it would debut a new ad creative during FOX's broadcast of Super Bowl XLVIII on Sunday, February 2. This marked the first time in the company's 10-year history that it had advertised during the Super Bowl.
The national 30-second spot, entitled "A Better Web Awaits", was set in an alternate universe that personified what people have come to love and hate about the Internet. As the hero is overwhelmed by a wild cast of characters, most viewers (including the ones in my family room on Super Bowl Sunday) recognized countless Internet archetypes and memes throughout the sequence of events. The ad was designed to convey what Squarespace stands against, and stresses the company's belief in creating a better web.
"Our goal was to create a spot that was appropriate for the Super Bowl while also communicating our values," Casalena said in a press release at the time. "The ad clearly establishes our mission as a company: Squarespace helps sets your website apart from the clutter we commonly find all over the web." The campaign was spearheaded by Squarespace's Chief Creative Officer David Lee. The creative concept was developed by Squarespace's in-house creative team and directed by Malcolm Venville. Lee said of the release:
We love the Internet, but I think we all agree that it can be a better a place. Our purpose is to make the web a bit more thoughtful and considered, one website at a time – that's what we wanted to communicate with this spot.
After the Super Bowl, the campaign was continued nationwide and included TV, digital, social, and out-of-home components. The commercial was extended into a 60-second version.
Late last week, Squarespace reached out to gauge ReelSEO's interest in speaking with Caselena. I immediately jumped at the opportunity. After a successful first-time Super Bowl ad buy which increased the company's brand awareness by 50%, I was informed under embargo that Squarespace was unveiling its next ad creative. It started appearing at Daytona yesterday, February 23, on Hulu, social channels, taxicabs and movie theaters. Its TV debut will be on Shark Tank on February 28.
The new year-long campaign, "Details", is a continuation of "A Better Web Awaits." During the Super Bowl spot, Squarespace showed what the web looked like. The new creative focuses on Squarespace's vision for what brands' online presence should look like. Here's the 30-second version.
And here's the 60-second version of "Details".
Both campaigns were spearheaded by Lee. The creative concept was developed by Squarespace's in-house creative team and directed by Malcolm Venville. I also got to interview Casalena about his new $40 million marketing campaign — which includes online video, advertising, paid search, event sponsorships, etc.
Greg Jarboe: How did your Super Bowl ad perform for Squarespace?
Anthony Casalena: Very well. This year, Squarespace debuted its first-ever Super Bowl campaign, joining a very small list of tech companies that have ever advertised at this level. We were #1 on Oracle's Brand Tracker Index, as well as #10 in TiVo's Top Ten Commercials during the game. We've seen a great boost in awareness, fantastic press, and a general lift in our business.
Greg Jarboe: Tell us about you new ad which debuted at Daytona.
Anthony Casalena: The ad we're launching is called "Details", and the creative is a continuation of the theme "A Better Web Awaits". While our Super Bowl spot drew a distinction between the noise on the web we encounter today, and the world that Squarespace lets you create for website, "Details" focuses more on what Squarespace can do when it comes to truly illuminating the details behind what you do on your website.
Greg Jarboe: Can you tell us more about your year-long campaign, "Details"?
Anthony Casalena: "Details" will be a multifaceted campaign with TV, print, online, social, and outdoor components.
Greg Jarboe: How much do you plan to spend on this campaign in the coming year?
Anthony Casalena: Our marketing budget for the year is $40 million. I can only say that we will be spending a portion of that on "Details". We adjust our spends dynamically throughout the year depending on channel performance.
Greg Jarboe: How will you measure the success of this campaign?
Anthony Casalena: Our campaigns are measured across two key dimensions. One is direct impact — do we see a boost in subscribers or trials that we can directly attribute to the campaign? We use our internal data platforms to track this sort of thing. The other is brand awareness — did we see a boost in brand awareness across our consumer surveys after running the campaigns. Both factors are tracked in different ways, and both are important.


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|- In the beginning, there was "init". If you had a Unix system, you had "init" and it was almost certainly process id 1. -
|Unix and Linux startup scripts, Part 2
|2009/12/11 TonyLawrence
|- The rc.d system is used on NetBSD, FreeBSD and DragonFly (and possibly a few other systems) to launch daemon processes when the system goes multiuser. -
|Unix and Linux startup scripts, Part 3
|- We have looked at both System V and BSD methods; until fairly recently that would hav e been the end of the discussion. -
|Creating pretty graphs with RRDTOOL
|2014/09/03 Varun
|- The open source rrdtool project helps you create a graphical view of any statistic collected at regular intervals. -
|VMware Networks, Bridged vs. Nat vs. Host
|2011/05/19 Firedancerx
|- Understanding VMware networking options. By default, VMware works in "bridged" mode - you use the 192.168.1.4 card by attaching a virtual network device to it. -
|Symbols and Apes
|- We are masters of abstraction and indirection. Programmers know that perhaps even more than other people; our world is almost all symbols. But all of us, programmers or not, use symbols every day of our lives. We also often use ritual, and rituals often involve symbols - Wikipedia even defines ritual as "a set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value..". -
|Google Earth Street View
|2011/10/14 bchopper
|- I'm sorry. The ACLU will probably want their card back, but I just don't see cameras as a privacy problem. -
|Cron is not working
|2012/08/17 TonyLawrence
|- Let's just get this out of the way first: when someone says cron is not working, it almost always is, and they have just misunderstood something basic. -
|Finding large files
|2010/10/02 wilson
|- Where has the space gone? Although it is getting harder and harder to run out of disk space, some of us still manage to do it. -
|Office on Terminal Server
|2013/03/15 anonymous
|- Installing Microsoft Office on terminal server - licensing issues -
|OS X file encryption
|- File encryption for Mac OS X. I'm going to look at two methods for encrypting files on Mac OS X. The first is built in, and uses DisK Utilty to create an encrypted disk image. -
|mount --bind
|2012/01/03 Daniel
|- Using Linux 'mount --bind' instead of symbolic links. If the thing you want to link to is a mounted file system, you can use the "--bind" option of mount to create an unbreakable link. -
|Recursive chown
|2014/02/07 Joe
|- 'chown -R' is smarter than you think. I had email this morning from someone using "chown" to fix up permissions on a directory. He had discovered "-R" in the man page but had run into a small problem... That succesfully changed the ownership of the "dot" files, but had an unexpected (to him) side effect: /usr was also changed. -
|Enabling Linux telnet
|2012/09/05 TonyLawrence
|- If you can't use ssh (as you should!), you'll need to find and install a telnet daemon for your Linux distro. -
|Backing up Windows machines using rsync and ssh
|- Rsync and SSh aren't just for Unix and Linux: Windows and Mac can use these to backup data. -
|Bash in-process regular expressions
|2015/02/21 TonyLawrence
|- Bash acquired in-process regular expressions in version 3.0, but I never noticed, probably because most of the machines I'm using are Bash 2.05b. -
|Understanding PAM
|2014/12/09 TonyLawrence
|- PAM is the Pluggable Authentication Module, invented by Sun. It's a beautiful concept, but it can be confusing and even intimidating at first. -
|Controlling core files (Linux)
|2011/11/06 TonyLawrence
|- Control Linux core files with ulimit and /proc templates. -
|Map network drive, connect as different user to same Server
|2011/11/02 anonymous
|- How to map an XP network drive more than once even though XP doesn't want you to do that. -
|Writing and Compiling C programs on Linux
|2012/02/10 TonyLawrence
|- Writing and compiling c programs on Linux, common errors for beginners. Most Linux and Unix programs are written in C. When you download source for a project, it will often be C or C++ source code. You don't necessarily need to know a darn thing about C or anything else to compile the source if you aren't changing it. It may be helpful for you to understand a bit if you are having problems with the compile, but even that isn't really necessary. -
|Terminal server, Remote Desktop, thin clients and all that
|- No wonder people get confused. Lots of similar or related things, no end of licensing confusion, no end of general confusion. -
|Rebuilding failed Linux software RAID
|2011/10/26 kuntergunt
|- Rebuild crashed Linux raid. Recently I had a hard drive fail. It was part of a Linux software RAID 1 (mirrored drives), so we lost no data, and just needed to replace hardware. However, the raid does requires rebuilding. A hardware array would usually automatically rebuild upon drive replacement, but this needed some help. -
|Basic DNS: PTR records and why you care
|2015/04/11 TonyLawrence
|- A PTR record (sometimes called a "host PTR record") is what lets someone do a "reverse" DNS lookup - that is, they have your IP address and want to know what your host/domain is. -
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|2014/06/19 anonymous
|- In the UNIX or Linux environment, it is possible to asynchronously execute tasks at any desired time of the day, a feature made possible by the cron clock daemon. -
|The Gimp: Making Colors in a GIF Transparent
|- Sometimes when working with an image you want to make a certain color transparent. When working with a gif file this would make a round circle look round on any color background. This is actually very simple once you do it once. Finding the information for this took me a while so I thought I would pass it on to anyone that was interested. -
|Lost root password (Linux)
|2014/12/22 TonyLawrence
|- Let's try to fix your lost root password the easy way first. The first thing to try is to boot to single user mode. -
|Monitoring file or directory changes
|2013/02/01 anonymous
|- Many modern systems provide a way to watch a directory for events but sometimes brute force or trickery is still needed. -
|Perl Input
|2011/04/08 TonyLawrence
|- Perl has wonderful I/O capabilities. I'm only going to cover input here: reading from files or standard input. There are two ways to do that (actually a lot more than two, but this is supposed to be introductory material): you can open a specific file, or you can pass files on the command line and either open them individually or just ignore the whole thing and pretend everything is coming from STDIN. -
|Tightvnc, Chicken of the VNC
|- Reviews of TightVNC and Chicken of the VNC. VNC is "Virtual Network Computing" and is a crossplatform method of allowing remote access to desktops. -
|Getopt and getopts
|2013/06/29 TonyLawrence
|- Both "getopt" and getopts are tools to use for processing and validating shell script arguments. They are similar, but not identical. -
|Perl Getopt and GetOptions
|2013/02/26 TonyLawrence
|- Two Perl modules (Getopt and Getoptions::Long) work to extract program flags and arguments much like Getopt and Getopts do for shell programming. The Perl modules, especially GetOptions::Long, are much more powerful and flexible. -
|Perl Net::FTP
|2013/09/26 TonyLawrence
|- Before the wide spread availability of Perl, I would script ftp transfers with .netrc, ksh scripts and other clumsy ways. None of those methods are fun, flexible or easy. On the other hand, Perl's Net::FTP module is all of that. -
|Virtual PC for Mac OS X
|- This is a review of an ancient Virtual PC product and is only left here for historical purposes. -
|Operating System Concepts
|- Basic OS concepts. The CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the heart of any computer, but the operating system is the brain. Unfortunately, understanding exactly how these things really work can be difficult, because it's fairly hard to "play" with the operating system that you are actually using. You can do quite a bit with sophisticated debuggers, but eventually you run into confusion and difficulty. And, as you try more complex tasks, you run the risk of interfering with the real machine's operating system. Finally, modern CPU's are very complex, and that complexity can make it more difficult to understand basic concepts. -
|Apt-get for RedHat Linux
|2011/11/08 TonyLawrence
|- RedHat 7.3 and 8.0 do not have tools like Mandrakes urpmi for installing/updating rpms. After researching on Google groups for a similiar Redhat tool . APT seemed to be the best. I think its a tool from Debian linux. -
|Linux|Unix Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on Software RAID
|2011/01/07 TonyLawrence
|- Logical Volume Manager is now included with most Linux distributions. The RedHat 8.0 installer even allows you to create LVM volumes during initial install. LVM offers capabilities previously only found in expensive products like Veritas. If you plan on using LVM, I really recommend doing so on a RAID system, either hardware or software -
|Using sudo
|2015/02/02 TonyLawrence
|- I'm sure that there are more poorly written man pages, but "man sudoers" (which is how you find out about "sudo") is among my all time favorites for poor explanation. Let's clear that up. -
|GPG/PGP Basics
|2014/10/29 anonymous
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|Automating Program Startup
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|How can I recursively grep through sub-directories?
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|How can I automate an ftp transfer?
|2011/02/03 Bagbot
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|(SCO Unix)How can I send email attachments from the command line?
|2011/02/01 anonymous
|- Sending attachments from the command line with mutt, uuencode and other methods. If it's just arbitrary text or a file you want to send, and don't care about it looking like a real attachment, you can use ordinary "mail" ("mailx" on some Unixes) at the command line. However, that's NOT a mime attachment - it's just your file mixed in to the mail message. However, some mail clients will see it and treat it as a real attachment, so this may be "good enough": -
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|(SCO Unix)How do I clear log files?
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|(SCO Unix)How do I add a default route?
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In excess of 1,700 delegates to attend the fourteenth UBS Greater China Conference (GCC) in Shanghai
Close to 1,000 domestic and international investors are included among the 1,700 delegates to have registered to attend the five-day conference in Shanghai which, this year, has the theme of "New reforms, new era, new opportunities". Timothy GEITHNER, 75th US Secretary of The Treasury, and LI Yang, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, are keynote speakers at the conference which takes place between 13 and 17 January 2014. UBS Group CEO, Sergio ERMOTTI, will deliver the opening address with international NBA star and the founder of The Yao Ming Foundation, Yao Ming, a special guest at the event.
"The theme this year focuses on the delicate balance China must make between policy reform and economic growth. The conference is particularly timely given its proximity to the recent 3rd plenum of the Party Congress," noted Chi Won YOON, CEO of UBS for Asia Pacific.
The GCC features themed tracks, panel discussions and presentations delivered by leading economists and academics, award-winning UBS research analysts, policy makers, and senior executives of leading corporations. Topics this year encompass global issues, such as economic headwinds and uncertainty and asset allocation in a volatile monetary world, to more China-focused themes including: financial sector reform; the Shanghai Free Trade Zone; the challenges and opportunities for multinational companies operating in China; prospects for the country's capital markets; as well as 'conventional' and 'unconventional' sectors.
The GCC is UBS's flagship conference globally and has established itself as the leading China forum with an audience comprising leading international investors as well as the top institutional fund managers based in China. This year, in excess of 160 companies will gain access to the crème de la crème of China-focused institutional investors. Delegates will also have the opportunity to take part in a range of company, property, and sector tours.
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I guess I'm done with the zombies for the day, now I will shift you all away from the mildly complex lessons and move you over to two fun and easy submissions that I think you will all love. Here is "how to draw a train for kids", step by step. I figured all that was missing in the 'for kids' section was a train. I already made a car, truck, helicopter, and tank and they are all very cool looking. At first I doubted my ability to make a train in a very simple manner. I find that sometimes drawing hard objects is a whole lot easier than making easy one. I think it's because I have to actually think of a way to break down a person, place, or thing in a very easy form. Taking away all the detailing and definition can be hard to turn it into a simplified version. I think I did a good job because it actually looks like a caboose that kids would want to draw. Now that I explained what you will be learning, how about you actually get started on drawing a train for kids. I will return with some more drawing fun so since it's still early I guess you can stick around a little while longer. Peace people and good luck on your artistic adventure.
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A version of this article appears in the March/April 2014 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
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Knit Notes
Many sewers are intimidated by the thought of sewing and embroidering knit fabrics. But a few simple adjustments are all you need to make sewing knits a stress-free experience.
Preshrink the knit fabric before cutting, using the same method you'll use to launder the finished garment.
Follow the with-nap layout for pattern placement. Knits can catch light differently if cut with the grainlines running in different directions, which results in irregular shading.
Don't allow the fabric to hang off the cutting surface; the knit will stretch and distort. Fold any excess fabric and support it on the table or a chair. Unfold as needed to continue cutting.
Use a new ballpoint, universal or stretch needle. Use a size 60/8 or 75/11 needle for light- to mediumweight knits or a size 80/12 or 90/14 needle for heavyweight knits.
Set the machine at 8 to 10 stitches per inch (3mm to 3.5mm). Looser knits may require a longer stitch. Stitches that are too short cause the fabric to ripple.
Use polyester or nylon thread, which will stretch with the fabric.
If serging the seams, use a 3-thread overlock stitch for the most stretch.
Follow the pattern guidesheet to cut each pattern piece according to your measurements. Knits are more forgiving than woven fabrics, so a precise fit isn't necessary. Cut a larger size to have more room for layering garments under the cardigan, if desired.
Set the machine for an overlock stitch, if applicable, and finish each fabric piece raw edge before construction. Or serge-finish each raw edge using wooly nylon serger thread, slightly stretching the fabric in front of and behind the presser foot.
If the cardigan doesn't have a facing for the front edge, create one to hide the embroidery wrong side.
Outline each front pattern piece center-front edge onto a piece of pattern tissue. Draw a parallel line 3" away from the pattern outline, and then draw a line to connect each short end (1). Cut out each front facing pattern.
Trace the pattern back neckline seam onto a piece of pattern tissue. Draw a parallel line 3" away from the pattern outline, and then draw a line to connect each short end. Cut out the neckline facing pattern.
From the fabric, cut out each front facing piece and the neckline facing. If using a lightweight knit, fuse lightweight knit interfacing to each facing piece wrong side, following the manufacturer's instructions.
Stitch each front facing piece to the neckline facing along the shoulders. Set aside the facing.
Choose a border embroidery design that's no wider than 2". Or use embroidery software to resize the design width as needed. Choose a less dense design that contains little to no fill stitches. Or remove dense design elements from the design using software, and reduce the design density. (The chosen design was manipulated in software to remove the dense floral motifs along each swirl.)
Print several templates of the design. Audition the templates on the right-front fabric piece right side, leaving 1/2" free beyond the fabric piece side and lower edges and 1 3/4" free from the shoulder. Once satisfied with the border arrangement, tape the templates in place (2). Repeat to tape templates to the opposite front fabric piece right side, mirror-imaging the templates, if desired.
Using temporary spray adhesive, adhere a rectangle of cut-away stabilizer to the fabric wrong side, centering one design cross mark on the stabilizer rectangle. Hoop the fabric, making sure to not stretch it.
TIP: Use a black stabilizer for dark colored knits and a white stabilizer for light colored knits.
With the hoop on the machine, check the needle placement against the template center. Adjust the design position on the embroidery screen if necessary to align the needle tip with the template cross mark (3). Remove the template.
Embroider the design, using a new ballpoint embroidery needle and rayon embroidery thread. Clip the jump threads after each thread change, if applicable.
Remove the hoop from the machine and the fabric from the hoop. Trim the stabilizer just beyond the design edges.
Repeat to embroider each border design for the right and left front fabric pieces.
Construct the cardigan according to the pattern guidesheet.
Attach the facing before hemming the garment. Pin the facing to the cardigan front edges and neckline edge with right sides together, matching the seams. Stitch, using a narrow stretch stitch. Finish the facing raw edges with an overlock stitch or a 3-thread serger stitch. Fold the facing toward the garment wrong side, concealing the stabilizer; press. Secure the facing with a small stitch at each seam.
Fold the cardigan lower edge 1/4" toward the wrong side. Stitch a blind hem by hand or machine.
Border embroidery design: Husqvarna Viking, Mega Swirls collection, Swirl Design 214409; myembroideries.com.
Creative Drawings provided the embroidery software: creative-drawings.com.
Hilos Iris provided the embroidery thread: hilosiris.com.
Husqvarna Viking provided the inspira black cut-away stabilizer: husqvarnaviking.com.
Sulky provided the KK2000 temporary spray adhesive: sulky.com.
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The Center for State Policy and Leadership has been honored with the Grey Warrner Friend of Community Action Award from the Illinois Association of Community Action Agencies (IACAA). UIS has worked in partnership with IACAA for more than 30 years.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - After years of shooting big-budget movies in mainland China, actors Aaron Kwok and Tony Leung Ka Fai returned to their native Hong Kong to make a police thriller that they say captures the flavor of home.
Leung and Kwok, in Taipei Monday to promote their new film, said they hope "Cold War" re-creates the success of 2002's "Infernal Affairs," the highly praised model for Martin Scorsese's "The Departed," which won four Academy Awards.
"Some viewers compare `Cold War' to Hollywood productions," said Leung, who plays a senior police officer involved in a conflict with a colleague during their joint effort to resolve a crisis sparked by the hijacking of a police van.
"It was an invigorating experience shooting the film," the 54-year-old Leung told The Associated Press during a joint appearance with 47-year-old Kwok, his cool-headed police colleague in the production.
Leung describes "Cold War" as "a movie full of Hong Kong flavor" that he says has not been seen since "Infernal Affairs."
Since then, Leung said, "Hong Kong talent has left for the mainland to engage in co-productions, and our subjects have been limited because of the audiences' uncertain tastes."
"Cold War" tackles the politics and power struggles within the police force, unlike the typical police versus gangster films, he said. Leung added that its release reflects the freedoms enjoyed by Hong Kong movie makers, particularly in comparison to those of their mainland counterparts.
Kwok says the two police characters are dream roles for veteran actors like him and Leung.
"We plunged into the roles," Kwok said. "We were not acting but rather actually engaged in a real battle."
He said the film "depicts a high-level power struggle, but at the end their purpose is to protect the citizens and enhance public security, a theme unexplored before" in Hong Kong, he said.
Kwok has starred in several China-produced big budget films, including "The Silver Valley" and "Bodyguards and Assassins."
Leung was in China last year shooting martial arts epic "Taiji" when he was contacted by Sunny Luk and Leung Lok Man, who co-wrote the script of "Cold War" and also directed the film.
"I was enchanted by the role, a senior police officer whose son is among five policemen who disappear when their van is hijacked," he said.
"He sees the van's seizure as a challenge, an insult to the police, and hence conceives of the police action not because of a specific concern for his son but because he considers every one of the policemen as his own son or daughter," he said.
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General Banter / Re: 10th Annual Disc Golf Day is May 31, 2014 at Swope Park« on: June 02, 2014, 10:01:56 PM »
Hey all what an amazing day and wow not too bad for my 1st event. I could not have done without all the help I had thank you all.
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Fun back nine guys. Threw with Mike P, Pat, Joel and Pops. Two discs lost in the water on #14 by the group otherwise a successful round. I hope you have fun up in Marshall.We all had a great time thanks for being our guide and of course a huge thank you to the best spotter she really helped us save some money tracking down our discs
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Robert De Niro allegedly picked a fight with Jay-Z last weekend. Whaddayagonnadoabou'dit?
The Godfather II actor "called the rap mogul out" for being disrespectful in front of a collection of A-list guests including Martin Scorsese and Cameron Diaz at Leonardo DiCaprio's 38th birthday party, accusing Jay-Z of never returning his calls.
A source told the New York Post: "Bob was sitting at a table, and when Jay-Z went over to say hello, De Niro told Jay that he never called him back. Bob wasn't in any mood to make polite conversation. He told Jay that if somebody calls you six times, you call them back. It doesn't matter who you are, that is just rude."
Before you start thinking Bob was just having a bit of a larf; the argument was over a song Jay-Z had agreed to record for the Tribeca Film Festival, but the rapper never got back to fellow Tribeca resident Robert with details about the track.
Apparently Beyonce attempted to diffuse the situation (we're not sure how, let's imagine it involved booty popping in hot pants), but onlookers were amazed to see "scary" Robert put the rap star in his place: "When Jay-Z tried to make a joke of it, saying he is terrible on the phone, De Niro kept telling him that he thinks he's the man, but that he was disrespectful. Beyonce came over, but that didn't calm Bob down. It was the talk of the party. Everyone was saying there's only one star in New York bigger and badder than Jay-Z, and that's Robert De Niro. He can be quite scary when he's angry."
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Superstorm Sandy surged inland late Monday, hitting the New Jersey shore and New York Harbor with incredible force, killing at least 10 people, plunging more than 7 million others into darkness and crippling transportation with historic flooding across a huge swath of the East Coast.
The mammoth storm began breaking up as it hit the New Jersey shore Monday evening with maximum sustained winds of 90mph, later dropping to 75 mph, but Sandy continued to punch a destructive path across 11 states and the District of Columbia even after having been downgraded from hurricane status.
"You have to stay wherever you are," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said late Monday, telling New Yorkers they threatened their own and other people's lives by going out in the storm.
"DO NOT DRIVE. Call 9-1-1 for emergencies only," the city's Office of Emergency Preparedness said in blast alerts to mobile devices across the city.
New York University Medical Center was moving about 215 patients to other hospitals because its backup generator was out, the hospital said. Critical adult and pediatric patients and infants in neonatal intensive care and obstetrics were being taken by ambulance to Mount Sinai Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering and New York Presbyterian Hospital.
From hurricane to nor'easter
The National Hurricane Center re-designated Sandy as a "post-tropical cyclone," saying it was rapidly losing its tropical characteristics as it merged into an enormous nor'easter.
The National Weather Service predicted "historic and life-threatening coastal flooding" through Tuesday morning, with the greatest danger coming at high tide.
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Contributing to this report were Chris Clackum, Bill Dedman, Jay Gray, Ian Johnston, Justin Kirschner, Shawna Thomas and Brittany Tom of NBC News; The Weather Channel; Telemundo Puerto Rico; and NBC stations NBC 4 in New York, NBC 10 in Philadelphia, NBC Connecticut in Hartford, WBIR of Knoxville, Tenn., WBOY of Clarksburg, W.Va., WCMH of Columbus, Ohio, and WVIR of Charlottesville, Va. Follow M. Alex Johnson on Twitter and Facebook.
The powerful storm flooded sections of Atlantic City and other areas of the New Jersey shore, while New York Harbor surged into lower Manhattan and areas of Brooklyn, submerging entire streets and parks.
Dawn Zimmer, mayor of Hoboken, N.J., told MSNBC TV that half the city was flooded and that emergency crews could reach few areas of the city.
"We want people to be aware that it's a very dangerous situation," she said.
At least 10 people were killed Monday:
- Two men were killed in separate incidents in New York — one in Queens and one on Long Island — when trees fell on them, authorities told NBC New York, and a woman was electrocuted in Queens when she stepped into water that concealed a live wire.
- Two boys were killed in Westchester County, N.Y., when a tree crashed into the home they were in in North Salem.
- Two people died when a tree fell on their car in northern New Jersey, authorities told NBC Philadelphia.
- One person was killed when a car hydroplaned over high water in Montgomery County, Md., in the suburbs of Washington, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley told MSNBC TV.
- One person died after a tree fell in Mansfield, Conn., NBC Connecticut reported.
- A woman died in an accident on snow-covered roads in Tucker County in northeastern West Virginia, NBC station WSAZ of Huntington reported.
- One person was killed when the crew abandoned a replica of the HMS Bounty 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C. Fourteen others were rescued, but the captain was missing. The ship later sank in 18-foot seas.
Sandy made landfall at Atlantic City about 6:45 p.m. ET, NBC New York reported. By 11 p.m. ET, its center was about 10 miles southwest of Philadelphia.
Storm water poured into the Brooklyn-Battery and Queens Midtown tunnels, bursting into a subway station and even cascading into the construction site at Ground Zero. At 9:24 p.m., the water level at Battery Park, on the southern tip of Manhattan, had reached 13.88 feet, surpassing the previous record of 11.2 feet in 1821.
Nearly 7.1 million customers had already lost power across the eastern half of the country. About half were in New York and New Jersey.
About a quarter-million were in Lower Manhattan, Bob McGee, a spokesman for Con Ed, told NBC News on Monday night. The utility pre-emptively began shutting off power to part of Lower Manhattan to protect its equipment and to allow for faster restoration after the storm had passed.
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"Pretty much everyone" is out of power south of 39th Street to the Battery, McGee told NBC News.
The Nassau County Department advised residents in Long Beach and Mill Neck Estates water districts to not drink or use water for personal use. In a statement, the department said boiling the water would not make it safe for consumption. All residents of the county were advised to conserve water to maintain water pressure for emergency and fire responders.
Schools, offices, roads and transit systems shut down across an area of 50 million people.
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The fact that the storm made landfall "does not mean this is the end of the event," said Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center. It means, Knabb said, that "for many folks, it is just beginning".
- More than 13,000 flights were canceled across the U.S. on Monday, and more than 3,500 were called off Tuesday. Rail traffic was heavily affected, with Amtrak canceling all of its Northeast Corridor service, in addition to some other lines. Workers began shutting down New York City's subway, bus and commuter railroads Sunday night. The city's Holland and Brooklyn-Battery tunnels were shut down at 2 p.m. ET Monday.
- Surrounding buildings were evacuated after the front of a multidwelling structure collapsed on 8th Avenue in New York, NBC New York reported. No one was believed to have been in the two-building, four-story structure, the interiors of which were visible from the street.
- Despite a mandatory evacuation order for 375,000 people living in low-lying areas Monday, many New Yorkers stayed put, hunkering down in in their homes.
- Business experts feared long-term, potentially catastrophic economic damage because of Sandy's tidal surge carries, which produces more damage than wind because water is heavier. U.S. stock exchanges didn't trade Monday and will be closed Tuesday. In Washington, federal offices closed Monday and Tuesday, and federal courts in affected areas announced that they would be shuttered.
- In New York, a crane atop a high-rise building under construction toppled over and was dangling over the side. Nearby offices and streets were evacuated.
Before it made its way north, Sandy was blamed for the deaths of 65 people in the Caribbean.
As Sandy's winds howled and rain poured over Atlantic City — where part of the fabled boardwalk was washed away — Gov. Chris Christie sharply criticized Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford, whom he blamed for having "advised people to stay in shelters in the city."
"Despite my admonition to evacuate, he gave them comfort, for some reason, to stay," Christie said, NBCPhiladelphia.com reported.
Later on, Sandy is expected to collide with arctic air and a storm moving in from the west to create windy, wet, even snowy conditions far inland.
BreakingNews.com's coverage of Sandy
Winter storm warnings were issued through Wednesday morning for southwest Virginia and the East Tennessee mountains, where snow had already started falling. More than 30 inches of snow was expected in the higher elevations of West Virginia, and a foot was forecast in the North Carolina mountains.
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Power failures, meanwhile, affecting millions of residences and businesses could continue through the presidential election, NBC meteorologist Bill Karins said.
"After the storm hits, expect the cleanup and power outage restoration to continue right up through Election Day," he said.
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MARTINSBURG, BLAIR COUNTY - Dash cameras in police cars catch some of the most bizarre and dangerous situations officers deal with on a daily basis.
"You see it on TV all the time, and we're a small community, and it's a luxury it's not something we can just afford," Candy Hoover of Martinsburg said.
Those luxuries could be coming to Blair County thanks to the Leah Hoover Memorial Fund.
"I was really happy when the Hoovers approached us and asked us if we were interested in them donating some systems to us," Martinsburg Police Chief Kerry Hoover said.
Martinsburg Borough and Roaring Spring Police would get one camera for each department. They'll run around $4,000 a piece. Candy and her husband Don are planning to donate money from their daughter, Leah's, memorial fundraisers to pay for the cameras. Leah died on February 13, 2005 from smoke inhalation during a house fire. The Hoovers wanted to check out how the cameras work before they write the check.
These cameras can zoom in to focus on license plates during traffic stops. Chief Hoover said that's going to be a big help. He said they'll see the biggest benefit in court.
"Dealing with prosecution, everything is on camera. You know the saying a picture tells a thousand words, it will really benefit us with prosecution," Chief Hoover said.
"You can manually reach up and hit the record button here and now we've activated record and it gave us the last 30 to 60 seconds before we hit record," Digital Ally salesman Jim Coleman said. Digital Ally is the business the Hoovers are working with to buy the cameras.
The Hoovers have donated money from the fund for thermal imaging cameras, smoke detectors, and other protective devices. They say this is what Leah would have wanted.
"It keeps her name out there. It's basically making something good come out of a horrible situation," Candy said with tears in her eyes.
The Hoovers are planning the annual Leah Hoover Memorial Ride to raise funds. It's scheduled for Sunday, July 26, 2009 at the Morrisons Cove Memorial Park in Martinsburg. You can register and find more information by clicking here. The Hoovers are also looking for sponsors.
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