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Sunday Gravy: Yankees spending freely, but not wisely
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The mind of a 6-year old is mystifying.
On one hand, they'll lecture you about whatever new information was absorbed that day. Like how flying bats use echolocation to find prey. Or how the Pilgrims were saved from starvation thanks to the cunning of Squanto. Or how laser technology could eliminate first-down controversy in the NFL.
Yet they'll happily accept as fact the notion that the Polar Express train they just rode really did make it to the North Pole and back in 60 minutes flat, even though the drive from home to the station in Essex was almost as long.
If you're in first grade, logic and that budding sense of understanding fly out the window when the topic shifts to Santa.
• It's been a busy offseason for the Yankees. With McCann, Ellsbury and Beltran in tow for the bargain basement sum of $283 million, now all they have to worry about is glaring holes at second and third base, the 40-year-old shortstop and the first baseman coming off horrific injuries, a rapidly declining (and expanding) ace, the back end of the rotation and the closer. Other than that, things are peachy. Yankees fans better pray Brian Cashman has five or six more aces up his sleeve.
• Amazed at all the radio blather about Robinson Cano signing a 10-year deal to play in that baseball purgatory of Seattle. Yeah, right. For $240 million, we'd relocate to the Great Pacific floating garbage patch.
• No more Robbie Cano Don'tcha Know or Grandyman home run calls on Yankees radio. I can only imagine John Sterling sitting in his living room, either silently stewing over lost material or racking his brain for Jacoby Ellsbury puns.
• Is there anything Shabazz Napier can't do on the basketball court? Get ready for four more months of Shabazz, Shazam!
• Writing this hours before the Florida State-Duke ACC football championship game, but it appears the only real issue for my Heisman ballot is who gets the second- and third-place votes. Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston, his name cleared and barring a meltdown against Duke, is the easy pick. Leaning toward completing the ballot with Boston College running back Andre Williams and Northern Illinois quarterback Jordan Lynch.
• As long as Warde Manuel is willing to open the checkbook in that $2 million neighborhood, UConn will remain a desirable stop for most any football coach.
• Somewhat lost in the shuffle of all the baseball maneuvering this week was the Red Sox's acquisition of Edward Mujica, who saved 37 games and walked five batters on the season for St. Louis before petering out due in part to a groin injury. Boston's bullpen has reached untouchable status.
• I get the feeling the "Anchorman 2" promotional tour will be far more entertaining than the actual movie.
• Say what you will about the NBA's miserable Atlantic Division, we're excited about the prospect of the Celtics' pace to finish 12 games under .500 and still win the crown. Sure beats watching the Pacers and Heat run away with titles in their own dreadful divisions.
• Tuned into NBC's "The Sound of Music Live!" out of curiosity — not ashamed to admit I like the original (though I probably should be.) It lasted all of 30 seconds. Carrie Underwood, you are no Julie Andrews.
• Maybe the contract is too long, perhaps it's too much money. But the injury-prone label seems unfair to Jacoby Ellsbury. Injury prone means guys with lingering hammy and groin pulls, bad backs or bad knees, broken down arms. Sure, Ellsbury has missed tons of time three of the past four seasons. Two collisions caused broken ribs and a shoulder subluxation that didn't require surgery; a foul ball caused a fractured foot. Sounds more misfortunate than chronic.
Now if he complained of a sore wrist after signing his $153 million deal, he might have entered Carl Pavano territory.
• Over the past four years Ellsbury has missed 264 games. Cano missed seven. The lesson: less hustle, fewer injuries. Don't think John Wooden ever muttered those words. But for a 162-game baseball season, it's sage advice.
• The NFL schedule in 2014 will include a Lions-Falcons game in London that will kick off at 9:30 a.m. on the East Coast. I've championed the cause for live breakfast-time sporting events in this space before, and I'd love to see a weekly 10 a.m. slot added to the permanent NFL schedule, whether the game is played in London or an Eastern Standard Time zone stadium. Mostly because it'll force the pregame shows to air while we're still in bed.
• In addition to a $100,000 fine, the NFL is reserving the right to strip or downgrade a draft pick as punishment for Steelers coach Mike Tomlin's Thanksgiving Day sideline stunt. The fine is justified. But this draft pick thing seems almost as intrusive as Tomlin nearly tripping the Baltimore player. So the NFL is waiting to see if the Steelers' pick is high enough — or low enough? — to suit their judgment? Just suspend the man and get it over with.
• Birthday wishes to Frank "Porky" Vieira, who, we're betting, at the age of 80 can surely still whip all challengers in a game of H-O-R-S-E.


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Brexit: 25 years of FTSE history and what happened in the years that followed the biggest one-day falls
Brexit: 25 years of FTSE history and what happened in the years that followed the biggest one-day falls
The result of the EU referendum initially sent stockmarkets tumbling. Share prices had recovered some of the losses by lunchtime as the Brexit verdict was fully digested but markets are likely to face a spell of volatility as the full implications are digested.
At such times, history offers food for thought. The returns that followed previous market sell-offs offer no firm guidance on future returns but for long-term investors considering the issue of investment decisions during times of uncertainty, it makes for interesting reading.
We have analysed the data and allow investors to draw conclusions. We have also included two other batches of data that support the notion of long-term investing.
The data: the 20 biggest one-day stockmarket falls
We looked at the FTSE All-Share, the broadest measure of the UK stockmarket, over a decent timeframe – the past 25 years. We then filtered the data to show the 20 greatest one-day falls and looked at what happened over the days and years that followed. On the worst day, during the depths of the global financial crisis on 10 October 2008, investors lost 8.3%.
However, one year later, the index had surged and returned 26%, including income paid through dividends, to investors. The returns continued: after three years the total return was 41% and after five years it was 87%.
The figures apply to those holding investments before the market fell. Those who bought at the lows on those days would have seen even greater returns.
Most of the worst days, as Figure 1 shows, were during the severe market turbulence of 2008. Look back to 11 September 2001, the day of the terrorist attacks on the US, and the fall was 5.2%, the eighth worst in the last quarter century. The market struggled in the years after that as the technology bubble continued to deflate, but after five years, it was 44% higher.
The most notable five-year gain following one of the top 20 worst days was 126% after a 5% fall on 28 February 2009, another episode in the financial crisis and shortly before the UK bank rate was cut to 0.5% and the Bank of England's programme of quantitative easing was announced.
It's worth noting the wild volatility that often follows a big one-day stockmarket fall. For example, in the 10 days after 27 September 2008, the sixth worst day, the FTSE All-Share lost 22%. Yet still, the total return was 61% after five years.
Figure 1: Greatest one-day FTSE All-Share falls in past 25 years and subsequent returns
Source: Financial Express, Schroders, June 2016.
Past performance is not a guide to future performance and may not be repeated.
The benefits of staying invested: 60% return vs 5% loss
Trying to move in and out of markets, to call the top and the bottom, is exceptionally difficult. And, if you get your timing wrong, this can have a damaging effect on returns.
Consider this example. If you had invested in a basket of global equities investments in global stock markets - the MSCI World index - between 2005 and 2015 you would have received a return of 60%.
But if you missed the 10 best days within that period then you would have lost 5%, according to Financial Express data compiled by Schroders. It's an extreme example but demonstrates the risks of trying to time markets.
The long-term view and the wisdom of 20-year investments
The lesson from history is to keep your nerve at times of turbulence. But data also highlights the merits of long-term investing.
The timeframe of five years is usually suggested as the minimum for stockmarket investment on the basis this allows investors to experience the ups and downs of a normal market cycle; though, as ever with investment, nothing is guaranteed.
To offer an illustration, analysis by Ritholtz Wealth Management of the S&P 500 between 1927 and 2014, shows the benchmark US index recording positive returns across 88% of all five-year periods. That figure rises to 94% for 10-year periods while there has yet to be a negative return over a 20-year timeframe.
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Tom Paine, A Professional Revolutionary
By LIONEL ROLFE
Alaine Lowell lived through the revolutionary '60s — a young woman born of the counterculture and intent on experiencing the time-honored odyssey of finding one's self.
Lowell was a product of those more free-thinking and open-minded times and still firmly held onto those values by the late 1970s, which made her budding friendship at that time with George Holtz, a Republican real estate entrepreneur more than 35 years her senior, somewhat uncommon.
The two met while Lowell was living in Castle Green and Holtz was a member of the historic structure's board of directors. Their relationship was "never romantic," Lowell explains. They were friends and business associates through the Old Pasadena landmark she lived in and he helped oversee.
What neither Lowell nor Holtz could have ever imagined at that time was the lifelong love affair both people — the ex-hippie and the Republican businessman — would develop with American Founding Father Thomas Paine.
Holtz was an old brand Republican, one not like today's fascist-tinged variety. He didn't like paying taxes. However, he also did not deny science or reason or intelligence or education or knowledge, as do those in the outer reaches of today's political right.
It turned out Holtz, a native of Paine's hometown of Philadelphia, and Lowell discovered they shared a deeper than average appreciation of this polemicist and pamphleteer who probably was the actual writer of the Declaration of Independence. Paine also penned "Common Sense" and "The Age of Reason," in which he railed against monarchs and tyrants and proclaimed the rights of man.
Anyone who ever took a typing class might remember Paine for the line, "These are times that try men's souls," written in "The American Crisis" in 1776. It was his writings that kept Washington's troops going against the much better equipped British army and its Hessian mercenary allies.
Paine was also a free thinker, which makes ex-FOX News blowhard Glenn Beck's supposed love of the man ironic, if not also misleading and a little insulting to those who know Paine's real life story.
It's hard to imagine that Beck somehow missed some of Paine's more famous remarks, such as, "It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine and murder; for the belief of a cruel God make a cruel man," and, "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and craft."
Paine also pointedly noted, "The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing: it is founded on nothing; it rests on nothing; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing and admits of no conclusion." And lastly, Paine observed, "No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith."
Paine was a bit like another great free thinker, Mark Twain, who came along some decades later. Neither could abide organized religion, with both men serving as preachers of Enlightenment against the forces of superstition and darkness.
Paine believed in a God, but it was a quiet and personal relationship. Like his friends Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, Paine was a deist. But if he openly worshipped anything, it was science and reason. Though he made it clear he was not an atheist, Paine found the Christian Bible absurd and indefensible. That, perhaps, explains why people either loved or hated him. He offended fundamentalist Christian sensibilities, and Paine, in turn, was condemned for his uncommon beliefs.
Progressive Pasadena
Although her parents were political progressives, Lowell had never heard of Paine until Holtz introduced her to his writings at the Castle. After that, Paine developed into their mutual obsession.
Holtz became intent on endowing a nonprofit Thomas Paine Society that would make its home in Castle Green. And as chairman of the Castle's board of directors, that was easily done. Holtz owned a significant number of units in the Old Pasadena landmark.
It was not a coincidence that Holtz started a Thomas Paine Society in Pasadena, a city founded by eastern millionaires as a refuge from humid summers and freezing winters. Many of these wealthy people gave the city a certain noblesse oblige that few other towns in Southern California possessed, attracting the great artists, thinkers and authors of their times.
One of those writers was Upton Sinclair, a muckraker cut from the Tom Paine mold. Sinclair had a Dickensian childhood of poverty, much as Paine did, although he also had a ruling-class side of his family, which no doubt formed his own particular ideas about social change. In 1909, Sinclair moved from New York to Pasadena and then spent most of the rest of his life here. He had written "The Jungle" three years previously and was invited to move here by Henry Gaylord Wilshire, the millionaire socialist and real estate developer who created Wilshire Boulevard.
One of the great moments in Sinclair's life was when he finally got to meet Wilshire, who had made and lost fortunes in LA real estate. Others in high society with whom Sinclair socialized included actor Charlie Chaplin, Kate Crane Gartz of the Crane plumbing fortune, Bobby Scripps of the newspaper chain, and land and oil heiress Aline Barnsdall.
Sinclair also edited "The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest — The Writings of Philosophers, Poets, Novelists, Social Reformers, and Others Who Have Voice in the Struggle Against Social Injustice." Of course, that book included a selection by Thomas Paine.
Sinclair owned several connected cottages in the 1500 block of Sunset Avenue (long since torn down) on the Rose Bowl side of town. He used to go walking with automaker Henry Ford in the San Gabriel Mountains behind Pasadena and discuss with him politics and economics.
Sinclair made thousands and spent thousands — usually on his crusades. He published his own books in California because New York publishers had proven fickle and unreliable. But Sinclair did not always run his publishing business like a business. He distributed thousands of copies of "The Flivver King" at no cost to auto workers organizing in Detroit.
Although the men were acquaintances, there was no mistaking Sinclair's feelings about the dehumanizing mechanization of labor Ford had pioneered, judging by the words appearing on the cover of the 1937 book:
"What is Henry Ford? What have the years done to him? What has his billion dollars made of him? Here is the man, and the story of his life. Here also are his workers, a family of them over a period of three generations. What has the billion dollars done to them? A dramatic labor struggle is under way. Will Ford recognize the union? Will there be a 'sit-down' in his plants? Here, in story form, are the facts needed to understand events."
In this and other ways, Sinclair was very similar to Paine. He wrote to convince people, not necessarily to make money. Sinclair was the carrier of the Tom Paine torch for the soul and conscience of the next American Revolution. Just as Paine had spoken in plain terms about the common man's right to be free of kings and plutocrats, Sinclair also rejected such types as parasites on working people.
But in as much as Sinclair was quite a bit like Paine, Paine was also much like Twain — a wandering newspaperman. Perhaps more than anything, however, Paine was a professional revolutionary and pamphleteer. He was committed to a vision of government by the people, not just for America, but the world. He gave America the name United States of America, but he also wanted a United States of Europe. After America's war was settled, he went off to France to fight in that country's revolution.
In some ways, Paine was a divine discontent. The American Revolution had not gone far enough in his view. He was angered by his old comrades, Presidents Washington and Jefferson, who did not attempt to end slavery. Although it took many decades until Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War resolved the issue, Paine was an abolitionist throughout his life.
American birthright
Holtz died in 2001 at the age of 87, Lowell recalls. He was one of the many military veterans who mustered out of World War II in the West and stayed, making his fortune in the post-war real estate boom. Although Holtz was a Republican, he grew up in Paine's hometown and was imbued with the great man's revolutionary spirit. Holtz was also fond of another infamous freethinker, Col. Robert Ingersoll, who inveighed against organized religion, very much in the spirit of Paine's "Age of Reason."
The Thomas Paine Society is loosely allied with an organization by the same name in Paine's native England, in the town where he grew up. There's also the Thomas Paine National Historical Association in New Rochelle, NY, near the site of Paine's farmhouse.
One would be quite right in saying that Thomas Paine was a great revolutionary on the left side of the political continuum. His quotes adorn the nation's official Social Security Web site, where he puts forth the notion that all the abundance of Earth — its air, water, plants, forests, deserts, coasts — really belong to everybody. Further, Paine believed human beings are entitled to financial support, in birth as well as old age, as a way to compensate those not born into property. He proposed an inheritance tax of 10 percent to finance his idea.
"To Paine, this was not charity; this was your birthright," Lowell explains. "He believed that the planet Earth belongs to everybody. It is everyone's birthright. You belong to this planet, and this planet belongs to you."
Lowell marvels at how Glenn Beck has tried to put Paine's mantle on, "Especially considering that Beck is such a Christian," she says.
The Thomas Paine Society's mission is to show how relevant its namesake is today. "Paine," Lowell says, "wasn't a politician. He just spoke the truth.
Paine, she said, "is the ideal that we have of a founder … he spoke the truth in spite of the consequences."
Beginning again
Holtz left an endowment consisting, in part, of his interests in Castle Green to develop a society that told the story of Paine. Along with a Web site, a newsletter, an executive director (Lowell) and a five-person board of directors, the society has about 400 supporters.
One of the things Lowell wants to do is sponsor an essay contest about Paine that includes prizes for winning students. Although Paine is possibly the most important intellectual figure of the American Revolution, most of his modern admirers must discover him on their own. Professional "educators" have avoided the subject because Paine remains controversial to this day.
Lowell said Paine's thoughts are for people with young minds, because "Paine is someone who opens the world up."
In 2010, the society constructed the Thomas Pain Research Library at the Castle to house books by and about Paine and people with alternative views on American history. Toward the end of August, Castle Green will become a theater when Ian Ruskin, an actor who specializes in recreating Paine, will perform "To Begin the World Over Again: The Life of Tom Paine."
The Society is also producing a series of YouTube videos called "Tom Talks," a takeoff on "Ted Talks," one of which features Lewis Lapham, the former editor of Harper's Magazine.
In addition, on Jan. 29, Paine's birthday, the Society holds the Headstrong Evening Club, recreating the debating society that Paine belonged to in England. One previous topic was the question, "Are Corporations the New Monarchy?"
What would Thomas Paine have said?
Visit thomaspainesociety.org.
Lionel Rolfe is the author of "Literary L.A.," "Fat Man on the Left," "The Uncommon Friendship of Yaltah Menuhin & Willa Cather," "The Menuhins: A Family Odyssey" and co-author of "Bread and Hyacinths," available on Amazon's Kindlestore.


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Happy Monday. Tonight I thought I would share an inexpensive and QUICK handmade Mother's Day Gift since Mother's Day is just around the corner. Scrapbook Bakery is selling THIS kit for only $9.99 and with the 20% off coupon going on until Wednesday, it's a GREAT value. :)I wanted to play with one and I made this in about an hour and the only thing I used that was not in the kit was green paint and binder rings...... (I put a piece of black paper behind this just for photographing) The second page has a letter I wrote to Alex along with a pic of us....and the last page has a little list of ten things alex loves about me. My heart was melting reading each one......the back.... You could even do other themes such as "Memories with Mom" or "Mom's Best Advice". The Bo-Bunny dot cardstock would go great with this. You can find it HERE.
And since I had LOTS of leftovers I made a quick, simple card..... That's all I got for tonight. Email me if you have any questions. Be back soon....
Monday, May 4, 2009
Mother's Day Gift...
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gorgeous album Heather!! Love all the details and the matching card is adorable!
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Love what you did! :)
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It looks like the beginning of the end for traditional watchmaking. Assuming that the technology makes it into the mainstream, the days of hand-tooling, or its production line equivalent, will be gone. Modern developments like the co-axial escapement will look like late-stage tinkering with the steam engine. It really does look that radical.
It will also have an effect on the drive to total in-house manufacture. Not everyone will have the capability for advanced silicon technology, or it will make no economic sense for them to have it. This is an LVMH watch rather than a Zenith. The movement comes from Tag Heuer, the case from Hublot, the assembly from Zenith. Something similar on a larger scale will no doubt happen in the industry at large - a few manufacturers supplying the rest.
True modernity rather than 'craftsman' romance. I might not live to see it but I like it.


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Devise your most creative caption for this picture of these two geocachers and they're unlikely companion. You could even win a 'barely coveted prize' in the 37th Geocaching.com Caption Contest. This picture was originally posted on the official Geocaching.com Facebook page. Share your pics there for achance to have your image used in a future caption contest.
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Klipsch RF-83 Home Theater Speaker System
Horns have several advantages: high efficiency, closely controlled directivity (the sound "spread"), and very even coverage within the speaker's zone. But they're tricky to design for smooth, coloration-free response and require a specialized type of transducer for best results in reproducing both treble and midrange. That said, Klipsch is among the oldest, most experienced makers of horn (or any) speakers still active - the late Paul Klipsch's first product some 60 years ago was a horn design, and the type has keystoned the line ever since. So the RF-83 and its fellows are simply the latest in a long and illustrious line.
SETUP The main challenge here was unboxing and placing an array weighing a grand total of nearly 400 pounds. The RC-64 center, essentially a moderate-size tower speaker on its side, went on my sturdy (fortunately!) stand just below my 50-inch Samsung DLP. The RS-62 surrounds went on high shelves astride the listening zone. The RT-12d subwoofer went in my standard spot just left and behind the left-front tower, a location known from long experience to deliver my room's smoothest bass.
Then there was the question of crossover settings. The RF-83s don't really need a sub for anything much above 40 Hz. On the other hand, set-up full-range with the sub contributing only LFE seemed kind of underkill for a $2,000 subwoofer. More significantly, the RF-83s unfiltered were a touch bass-heavy in my room, so I wound up with a slightly paradoxical 60-Hz crossover, which enabled the sub's variable level (and room-correcting EQ) to help even up the bottom octaves. (In a different room, I would probably try running the front left/right pair full-range, sending only center, surround, and LFE content to the RT-12d.)
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I haven't shared many photos of Elin outside of Instagram since she was born, sometimes between all of the feedings and crying I forget to take photos of her. Truly though, I never get tired of this view.
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See I'm the opposite Mama Paparazzi :)ReplyDelete
Completely mad about taking photos ...
However, the best is in our arms doesn't matter much photos or ot we have the best time !
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Who could! she is so cute. Enjoy.ReplyDelete
She's a cutie! I have a baby girl too. She is now 3 months and 2 weeks old and I know what you mean by never getting tired of staring at her - it's the best thing in the whole world!ReplyDelete
Ohh this girl is so cute!! I saw your picture on Instagram from your two cuties, soooo lovely!!ReplyDelete
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I had a baby girl Jan 15th and reveling at the awesomeness of this little life. You are terrific at capturing your little ones.
May I ask, what camera are you using? Your photos are superb :)
The prettiest picture. I'm a mom of 7 and with this last one I really made time to enjoy holding him. I haven't taken pictures of every little thing, but I'll have those precious memories of the time we spent together.ReplyDelete
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3-D printing companies are printing up returns for investors. Shares prices were firmly in the green after Citigroup initiated coverage of 3D Systems (DDD) and Stratasys (SSYS) with Buy ratings.
In a note published today, analyst Kenneth Wong argued that the industry is "ready to push beyond prototyping" and sits on the cusp of "much broader adoption across more upstream production applications and the consumer end market." He predicted the current $2 billion market for the technology could triple in size in the next five years.
Wong sees 3D Systems' stock price rising to $60 in the next 12 months and sees the company earnings 98 cents a share this year. He writes:
…We believe DDD's product line is best positioned to capitalize on all three potential market opportunities (Prototyping, Manufacturing, Consumer). We expect meaningful margin expansion from growing recurring revenue mix to drive earnings growth in excess of 30%. DDD's numbers already reflect years of investing in low-priced consumer market giving margins a clearer upward trajectory.
As for Stratasys, Wong sees the stock reaching $125 a share and expects the company to earn $1.89 a share this year. Wong writes:
…SSYS will drive better utilization/cross-sell into large user base — We expect SSYS to benefit from increase materials usage and cross-sell (Objet / Makerbot) into its huge install base. The Makerbot acquisition also positions SSYS for an outsized share of the growing consumer market. We see sustainable margin expansion and earnings growth with materials consumption driving recurring revenue mix. The recent Objet merger coupled with Makerbot adds some integration risks.
At $51.65, 3D Systems' share price gained $3.18, or 6.6% during afternoon market action, while Stratasys jumped $4.06, or 3.8% to $109.85.
Also, ExOne (XONE), which was not included in the Citigroup report, rose $3.40, or 5% to $71.20.


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Historiography: North America
[This article was written in the 1950s; check the catalogs of Mennonite Historical Libraries for more current listings.]
The writing of history by North American Mennonites, either of the history of the Mennonites in their own land, or of Europe, was a late development. The lack of trained men, whether ministers or scholars, the rural conservatism combined with traditionalism and preoccupation with pioneering problems, readily account for this. It was only at the end of the 19th century and especially in the first quarter of the 20th that substantial and worthy history writing began, with C. H. Wedel (1860-1910), John Horsch (1867-1941), and C. Henry Smith (1872-1948) as the first capable historians. Before that time the few volumes which appeared as history were chiefly apologetic or polemic and occasioned by schisms. These include: Christian Funk's Spiegel für alle Menschen (1813, 54 pp.), Jakob Stauffer's Eine Chronik oder Geschicht-Büchlein von der sogenannten Mennonisten Gemeinde (1859, 439 pp.), John Holdeman's A History of the Church of God (German 1875, English 1876, 303 pp.), Daniel Musser's The Reformed Mennonite Church, Its Rise and Progress (1873, pp. 608), and John F. Funk's reply to Musser's sharp attack on the "old" church in his The Mennonite Church and Her Accusers (1878, pp. 219). Of these only Holdeman and Funk contain a significant amount of information of historical value. Benjamin Eby's little Kurzgefasste Kirchen Geschichte und Glaubenslehre der Taufgesinnten Christen oder Mennoniten (Berlin, Canada, 1841, 16mo. historical part 164 pp.), though often reprinted, was only a frontier preacher-schoolteacher's attempt to assemble a modicum of information about Mennonites in various parts of the world. The very first bit of American Mennonite history written was that by Jacob Gottschalk in 1712 (see H. S. Bender, "The Founding of the Mennonite Church in America at Germantown, 1683-1708," Mennonite Quarterly Review VII, 1933, 227-250).
General Works
The first American Mennonite historian, D. K. Cassel of Germantown, self-taught writer, produced two books devoted to the Mennonites of America: History of the Mennonites (1888, 450 pp.) and Geschichte der Mennoniten (1890, 545 pp. but containing almost twice the information of the English book), containing much valuable undigested and unorganized information, gathered largely from primary sources. John Horsch's Kurzgefasste Geschichte der Mennoniten-Gemeinden (1890, pp. 146) is chiefly valuable for its remarkable Anabaptist bibliography. C. H. A. van Smissen's Kurzgefasste Geschichte und Glaubenslehre der Altevangelischen Taufgesinnten oder Mennoniten (1895, pp. 251) is avowedly based on secondary sources, chiefly the German Antje Brons (Ursprung, Entwickelung, etc., 1884, which contains only 34 pp. out of 444 on the American Mennonites) and has next to nothing on America. Johannes Bartsch's Geschichte der Gemeinde Jesu Christi, das heisst, der Altevangelischen und Mennoniten-Gemeinden (1898, 207 pp.) is little better. C. H. Wedel's training and scholarship was registered in his useful four-volume Abriss der Geschichte der Mennoniten (1900-1904, total 756 pp.), but only 80 pages of the last volume were devoted to America. C. Henry Smith's Ph.D. dissertation (he was then a professor of history at Goshen College) The Mennonites of America (1909, pp. 484) was the first and until 1955 the only scholarly general history of the American Mennonites. He reworked this material twice in combination with a general Mennonite history, once in his The Mennonites (1920, pp. 340), and again in his The Story of the Mennonites (1941, pp. 823, revised in 1950). His booklet Mennonites in America (1942, pp. 71) condensed this material for Civilian Public Service men. The only other extensive general history of the Mennonites of North America published to 1955 was Part II of Peter M. Friesen's monumental work on the Mennonites of Russia, Die Alt-Evangelisch Mennonitische Brüderschaft im Russland (Halbstadt, 1911), covering 154 large pages in three sections: A. Mennonite Brethren; B. The General Conference Mennonites; C. The "Old" Mennonites. The work is more descriptive than systematic. Friesen's source was largely Cassel's Geschichte der Mennoniten, with C. H. Wedel's Abriss, the Mennonitische Rundschau, and private correspondence with M. B. Fast and John Horsch. W. S. Gottshall's Mennonite History (1921, pp. 84) and Daniel Kauffman's booklet by the same title (1927, pp. 147) are minor popularizations. John C. Wenger's Glimpses of Mennonite History (1940, pp. 126) devotes pp. 38-54 to American Mennonites, while the revised edition of 1947 devotes pp. 101-136 to them. J. J. Friesen's An Outline of Mennonite History (1944, pp. 114) is very general. P. J. Schaefer's Woher? Wohin? Mennoniten (pp. 491), intended as a high-school text for (German) Mennonite schools in Canada, was published in four parts: I. Western Europe (1942, pp. 66); II. Russia and the United States (1942, pp. 82); III. Canada (1946, pp. 187); IV. Mexico and South America (1954, pp. 115). The third volume is the only general work on Canadian Mennonite history published as of 1954. Horst Penner's Weltweite Bruderschaft devotes 45 of its 224 pages to North and South America. H. S. Bender's Mennonites in America appeared in 1957.
Denominational Histories
The following histories of individual Mennonite groups have appeared: H. P. Krehbiel, History of the General Conference of Mennonites of North America I (1898, pp. 504), II (1938, pp. 682); Klaas Peters, Die Bergthaler Mennoniten (1924, pp. 45); J. S. Hartzler and Daniel Kauffman, Mennonite Church History (MC, 1905, pp. 422); J. A. Huffman, History of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church (1920, pp. 282); J. F. Harms, Geschichte der Mennoniten Brüder-Gemeinde (1924, pp. 342); W. B. Weaver, History of the Central Conference Mennonite Church (1926, pp. 254); J. H. Lohrenz, The Mennonite Brethren Church (1950, pp. 335); Walter Lugibihl and Jared Gerig, Missionary Church Association (1950, pp. 164); J. G. Rempel, Fünfzig Jahre Konferenzbestrebungen (1902-1952), Konferenz der Mennoniten in Canada (GCM 1952, pp. 491); J. J. Wiens, The Mennonite Brethren Churches of North America (1954, pp. 192), consists of pictures of meetinghouses with brief sketches of congregations.
Regional Histories
A series of regional or district conference histories of the Mennonite Church (MC) appeared in the second quarter of the 20th century, several of them outstanding in quality, including doctoral dissertations (marked herein with an asterisk *) at leading universities: M. G. Weaver, Mennonites of Lancaster Conference (1931, pp. 496); Harry F. Weber, Centennial History of the Mennonites of Illinois (*1931, pp. 680); L. J. Burkholder, A Brief History of Mennonites in Ontario (1935, pp. 358); J. C. Wenger, History of the Mennonites of Franconia Conference (*1937, pp. 523); E. J. Hirschler, Centenary History of the Swiss Mennonite Churches of Allen and Putnam Counties, Ohio (1937, pp. 150); Melvin Gingerich, The Mennonites in Iowa (*1939, pp. 419); John Umble, Ohio Mennonite Sunday Schools (1941, pp. 522). Several interesting county, local, or congregational histories should be mentioned, some quite brief; W. H. Grubb, History of the Mennonites of Butler County, Ohio (1916, pp. 49); Samuel Peachey, The Amish of Kishacoquillas Valley (1930, pp. 48); F. P. Schultz, The Settlement of German Mennonites from Russia at Mountain Lake, Minnesota (1938, pp. 123); Eva Sprunger, The First Hundred Years, A History of the Mennonite Church in Adams County, Indiana (Berne) (1938, pp. 344); C. Z. Mast and R. E. Simpson, Annals of the Conestoga Valley (1942, pp. 689); Edward Yoder, The Mennonites of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (1942, pp. 64); R. M. Yoder, Clinton Frame (Ind.) Sketches (1944, pp. 106); J. J. Gering, After Fifty Years, A Brief Discussion of the History and Activities of the Swiss-German Mennonites Who Settled in South Dakota in 1874 (1924, pp. 58); Jacob Rupp, Entstehung und Auflösung der Gemeinde zu Maxweiler bei Neuburg an der Donau in Deutschland, und erste Pionierjahre in Amerika (1924, pp. 24); C. E. Krehbiel, Historical Sketch of the First Mennonite Church, Halstead, Kansas (1925, pp. 53); P. B. Amstutz, Geschichtliche Ereignisse der Mennoniten-Ansiedlung in Allen and Putnam County, Ohio (1925, pp. 411); J. G. Rempel, Die Rosenorter Gemeinde in Saskatchewan (Rosthern, 1950, pp. 183). Numerous county histories contain valuable material on the history of early Mennonite settlements in America.
Immigration and Colonization History
Several excellent volumes have been devoted to immigration and colonization history: C. Henry Smith, The Coming of the Russian Mennonites (1927, pp. 296); C. Henry Smith, The Mennonite Immigration to Pennsylvania (1929, pp. 412); P. J. Kaufman, Unser Volk und seine Geschichte (1931, pp. 168, tells of Volhynian Mennonites settling in the United States); S. C. Yoder, For Conscience Sake: A Study of Mennonite Migrations Resulting from the World War (1945, pp. 300); Delbert Gratz, Bernese Anabaptists and Their American Descendants (1953, pp. 219); E. K. Francis, In Search of Utopia, The Mennonites in Manitoba (1955, pp. 294); J. Winfield Fretz, Mennonite Colonization (1944, pp. 80); J. Winfield Fretz, Mennonite Colonization in Mexico (1945, pp. 43); Cornelius Krahn, Editor, From the Steppes to the Prairies (1949, pp. 115); G. E. Reimer and G. R. Gaeddert, Exiled by the Czar, Cornelius Jansen and the Great Mennonite Migration, 1874 (1956, pp. 205); note also J. H. Langenwalter's earlier brief summary, The Immigration of Mennonites into North America (1914, pp. 100).
A considerable number of monographs have been published on special phases of Mennonite history, work, life, and thought in America, some of them outstanding in quality.
Building on the Rock (MC mission in India, 1926, pp. 200); Twenty-Five Years with God in India (General Conference Mennonite mission, 1929, pp. 250); Ed. G. Kaufman, The Development of the Missionary and Philanthropic Interest Among the Mennonites of North America (1937, pp. 224); Alta Erb, Studies in Mennonite City Missions (1937, pp. 224); Ira D. Landis, The Missionary Movement Among Lancaster Conference Mennonites (1937, pp. 119); The Gospel Under the Southern Cross (MC mission in Argentina, 1943, pp. 272); W. B. Weaver, Thirty-Five Years in the Congo (Congo Inland Mission, 1945, pp. 241); Everek R. Storms, What God Hath Wrought (Mennonite Brethren in Christ-United Missionary Church foreign mission work, 1948, pp. 164); The Love of Christ Hath Constrained Us (Mennonite Church mission in India, 1949, pp. 63); Emma Oyer, What God Hath Wrought (MC Home Mission in Chicago, 1949, pp. 186); G. W. Peters, The Growth of Foreign Missions in the Mennonite Brethren Church (1952, pp. 327); Mrs. H. T. Esau, First Sixty Years of Mennonite Brethren Missions (1954, pp. 552).
D. M. Hofer, Die Hungersnot in Russland (1924, pp. 575); P. C. Hiebert and Orie O. Miller, Feeding the Hungry (1928, pp. 450); M. C. Lehman, The History and Principles of Mennonite Relief Work (1945, pp. 48); Willard H. and Verna Smith, Paraguayan Interlude (1950, pp. 184); Irvin Horst, A Ministry of Goodwill, A Short Account of Mennonite Relief 1939-1949 (1950, pp. 119); J. G. Holsinger, Serving Rural Puerto Rico (1952, pp. 232); J. D. Unruh, In the Name of Christ, A History of the Mennonite Central Committee and Its Service 1920-1951 (1952, pp. 404).
Peace and Nonresistance
J. S. Hartzler, Mennonites in the World War (1921, pp. 145); John Horsch, The Principle of Nonresistance as Held by the Mennonite Church (1927, pp. 60); Guy F. Hershberger, War, Peace, and Nonresistance (1944, pp. 415, revised editions 1946 and 1953); Guy F. Hershberger, The Mennonite Church in the Second World War (1951, pp. 308); Melvin Gingerich, Service for Peace (1949, pp. 508); Willard Hunsberger, Franconia Mennonites and World War II (1951, pp. 30).
H. P. Peters, History and Development of Education Among the Mennonites in Kansas (1921, pp. 221); John E. Hartzler, Education Among the Mennonites of North America (1925, pp. 195); C. Henry Smith and E. J. Hirschler, Story of Bluffton College (1925, pp. 296); Bluffton College, An Adventure in Faith (1950, pp. 268); Marie Waldner, For Half a Century, The Story of Freeman Junior College (1951, pp. 103); P. J. Wedel, The Story of Bethel College (1954, pp. 632); John Umble, Goshen College 1894-1954 (1955, pp. 284).
Miscellaneous Topics
H. S. Bender, Mennonite Sunday School Centennial (1940, pp. 64); J. C. Wenger, Historical and Biblical Position of the Mennonite Church on Attire (1945, pp. 32); Ira D. Landis, The Faith of Our Fathers on Eschatology (1946, pp. 423); Robert Friedmann, Mennonite Piety Through the Centuries (contains several chapters on America, 1949, pp. 287); J. Winfield Fretz, Christian Mutual Aid (1947, pp. 88); Paul R. Shelley, Religious Education and Mennonite Piety Among the Mennonites of Southeastern Pennsylvania (1952, pp.193).
Menno S. Steiner, John S. Coffman, Mennonite Evangelist (1903, pp. 139); M. G. Brumbaugh, The Life and Works of Christopher Dock (1908, pp. 272); Memoirs of Peter Jansen, An Autobiography (1921, pp. 140); P. A. Wiebe, Kurze Biographie des Bruders Jacob A. Wiebe (1924, pp. 27); Harry A. Brunk, The Life of Peter S. Hartman (1937, pp. 73); John Umble, Mennonite Pioneers (collected Mennonite Church missionary biographies, 1940, pp. 211); J. W. Kliewer, Memoirs or From Herdboy to College President (1943, pp. 150); Paul Schaeffer, Heinrich H. Ewert (1945, pp. 161); M. G. Ramseyer, Joseph E. Ramseyer (1945, pp. 293, founder of the Missionary Church Association); Lambert Huffman, Not of This World, Biography of J. A. Huffman (1951, pp. 159); J. Paul Graybill, Noah H. Mack (1952, pp. 177); Alice K. Gingerich, Life and Times of Daniel Kauffman (1954, pp. 160); G. E. Reimer and G. R. Gaeddert, Exiled by the Czar, Cornelius Jansen and the Great Mennonite Migration, 1874 (1956, pp. 205).
Reference Works and Bibliographies
L. J. Heatwole, Mennonite Handbook of Information (1925, pp. 187); Daniel Kauffman, Mennonite Cyclopedic Dictionary (1937, pp. 443); H. S. Bender, Two Centuries of American Mennonite Literature 1727-1929 (1929, pp. 180); John A. Hostetler, Annotated Bibliography on the Amish (1951, pp. 100); A. Warkentin, Who's Who Among the Mennonites (1937, pp. 221); A. Warkentin and M. Gingerich, Who's Who Among the Mennonites (1943, pp. 428).
The only strictly historical American Mennonite periodical has been the Mennonite Quarterly Review (1927- ), published by the Mennonite Historical Society of Goshen College, which has carried a large number of scholarly articles on Anabaptist and Mennonite history, thought, and life.
Mennonite Life (1945- ), published by Bethel College, is an illustrated quarterly magazine featuring the Mennonites the world over. It has carried many briefer historical articles. In a way it is the continuation of the Monatsblätter aus Bethel College and Bethel College Monthly (1903-1918), in which C. H. Wedel and others published many historical articles. The several conference yearbooks and almanacs have often carried valuable historical material and shorter articles, such as the Mennonite (MC) Family Almanac (1870-1955), the Mennonite (MC) Yearbook and Directory (1905- ), Bundesbote Kalender (GCM, 1886- ), Mennonite (GCM) Yearbook and Almanac (1895-1930), Yearbook of the General Conference Mennonite Church (1930-46), and Mennonitisches (GCM) Jahrbuch (1948- ). The Proceedings of the Conference on Mennonite Educational and Cultural Problems (1942- ) frequently contains solid historical papers.
Latin America
The following books on the Mennonites in Mexico and South America should be noted: Walter Quiring, Deutsche erschliessen den Chaco (1936?, pp. 207); Walter Quiring, Russlanddeutsche suchen eine Heimat (1938, pp. 192); Walter Quiring, Im Schweisse deines Angesichts, largely a picture book (1953, pp. 150); A. E. Janzen, Glimpses of South America (1944, pp. 130); Walter Schmiedehaus, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott. Der Wanderweg eines christlichen Siedlervolkes (1948, pp. 307); S. C. Yoder, Down South America Way (1948, pp. 148); Gladys Widmer, We Enter Puerto Rico (MC Mission History in Puerto Rico 1946-1951; 1952, pp. 95); J. Winfield Fretz, Pilgrims in Paraguay, The Story of Mennonite Colonization in South America (1953, pp. 247).
In this historiographical report numerous and important periodical articles, as well as sections in books on the colonial history of Pennsylvania such as Seidensticker, Kuhns, and Pennypacker, have been omitted.
See also Historical Writing
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Clerk of Court auditors warned Monday the mismanagement that led to Medstar's shutdown created problems that now threaten to bring down all of Lee County's emergency medical services.
In a draft report Monday, auditors
faulted public safety management for the poorly executed policies, lack
of oversight, infighting and secrecy that led to the downfall of the
county's medical flight program, Medstar.
"All of Lee County EMS
is at risk of imploding, as the Medstar Program did, if the Public
Safety Department culture that has prevailed over the past several years
is not changed with the upcoming management changes," according to the
Lee County is looking for a new public safety director,
EMS chief and county manager, after the three posts were abruptly
abandoned in Medstar's fallout. County Manager Karen Hawes will finish
out today and resign to a pay out of more than $250,000, according to
the terms of her separation agreement and payroll records.
Lee County commission called on Clerk of Court Charlie Green to audit
Medstar, after The News-Press exposed that officials failed to meet
federal safety mandates and erroneously billed patients for about $3.3
million in the run up to its Aug. 21 shutdown.
County officials
have one week to respond to the draft report, Green said. Once that
happens, Green's office will issue a final report on the management
portion of the program.
Green's auditors are also working to
figure out the erroneous bills county officials sent to patients and
insurers, he said. The report on that aspect of the program is due out
in the coming weeks, he said.
The management lapses that
unraveled Medstar date back to 2004, when officials expanded the program
from just carrying county residents to flying patients from all over
Southwest Florida, according to the audit.
Under then Public
Safety Director John Willson's "hands off" approach, former Medstar
manager Rick O'Neal distanced the program from the rest of the public
safety department and its management hierarchy, according to the audit.
was infighting among the top managers within Public Safety, and the
Director or Deputy Directors would not intervene to entice the
participants to work toward a common mission," according to the report.
so-called "silo-mentality" emerged and blocked information-sharing at
all levels within the organization, including county management and the
commission, according to the audit.
The power struggle boiled
over after a helicopter crashed into the waters off North Captiva in
2009, according to the audit and former Medstar pilot Arnold McAllister.
the helicopter's crash, ex-EMS chief Kim Dickerson won what McAllister
called a "personal beef" with O'Neal, who stepped down as the program's
Dickerson oversaw the grounding of helicopters for a "safety stand-down" in 2011, McAllister said.
"They basically read us the riot act," McAllister said. "That 'we work for them; things are going to be different out there.'"
"The perception I think she had is because Rick O'Neal didn't like her, we were like a nest of traitors out there," he said.
problem the program faced was replacing the helicopter that crashed.
According to the audit, it was decided the county manager's office
wouldn't allow the program to purchase a new helicopter with the
insurance money.
Instead, officials bought a 10-year-old
helicopter for $2 million and spent an untold amount of money to upgrade
it, according to county documents.
Commissioners and county
management touted the purchase as a smart move that saved taxpayers
money in tough times, according to published reports and press releases.
today, three of the four companies vying to takeover Medstar for the
county won't fly the aging air ambulance. One of those companies,
Med-Trans, noted it would be "cost prohibitive" to fly either of the
county's helicopters, according to its offer to privatize Medstar.
fourth company, Keystone Med-Flight, states it will charge $1,200 an
hour to operate the helicopter – 60 percent more than the price quoted
to fly the county's 24-year-old helicopter.
While mismanagement
and its offshoots caused Medstar's collapse, "Ultimately the program
became dysfunctional because of federal (FAA) certification issues and
was shut down," according to the audit.
County officials flew the
10-year-old helicopter for close to a year without meeting federal
safety mandates. They also billed for about $3.3 million in flights — an
action that violated rules and prompted a probe by the Federal Aviation
Administration that continues.
According to the audit, before
commissioners decide whether they want to reinstate Medstar or contract
a private company to step in, they should answer these questions:
Can Lee County Government rebuild a core competency with managers that
will achieve and maintain the necessary certifications to run an
aviation program or is the best practice to outsource the aviation
portion of the program?
• Will the primary service area be Lee County or will Medstar be expanded to a regional program?
Will the taxpaying citizens of Lee County be required to subsidize the
program or will patients and insurers pay for it through fees?
Should Medstar continue operating under the Public Safety Department or
would the service be more better run as a hospital-based service?
Story and comments: http://www.news-press.com
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Audit shows Lee County Medstar in complete dysfunction: Squabbles, power grabs describe in report
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Bankruptcy hammered prudent fiscal principles into Stockton governance. Leaders reformed public employee compensation. They are tackling bond debt.
Bankruptcy hammered prudent fiscal principles into Stockton governance. Leaders reformed public employee compensation. They are tackling bond debt.
Next, they will turn to city growth.
Growth? There isn't any, you may rightly say. True. At the height of the boom, Stockton was building 3,000 homes a year. Last year, it built something like 100.
But Stockton is historically pro-growth (translation: developers ran city land-use policy). Its General Plan 2035 calls for doubling the city's size.
But the harrowing experience of insolvency, coupled with a lawsuit, brought city leaders back to earth. They are now planning to revise General Plan 2035.
Ending Stockton's Era of Sprawl may be the most fundamental reform to come out of the city's money woes.
"We have to be able to afford whatever growth we allow," Mayor Ann Johnston said.
The first game-changer is money. There is a "bankruptcy-sprawl connection," Ventura's former mayor, William Fulton, writes in the Los Angeles Times.
Public employees are taking the heat, but sprawl is a hidden financial burden, a "crushing" one, Fulton writes.
"It's easy to mistake a sprawling development for prosperity," he writes. New subdivisions rake in huge revenues: impact fees, developer fees, a bonanza of property tax revenues. Add jobs, and the picture looks rosy.
But police, fire, ambulances, school buses all have to travel farther; city staff must be increased; roads and other infrastructure ultimately must be replaced at taxpayer expense.
Meanwhile, sooner or later, real estate crashes. Assessed home valuations reset much lower. Property tax revenue nosedives. And Proposition 13 limits how fast they can rise.
"Over time," Fulton wrote, "the cost of serving such developments gradually bleeds taxpayers dry."
This reality - growth doesn't pay for itself - was understood by previous city leaders. But the culture in City Hall was to approve more development projects anyway.
The pro-growth policy pleased developers and other business interests. Long-term costs fobbed onto the public were a secondary consideration. The other game-changer is the 2008 General Plan Settlement Agreement.
The Sierra Club sued to stop Stockton's excessively sprawlish General Plan 2035. Then-Attorney General Jerry Brown threatened to join the lawsuit.
In an out-of-court settlement, the parties agreed Stockton must reduce growth, limit sprawl and balance it with infill projects.
Now, even the reduced growth targets recommended in the settlement look like wishful thinking. The city expects the new growth rate to be about 400 homes a year.
Other assumptions also have changed. According to a state housing study, older baby boomers will live longer and make a senior population unprecedented in size.
Gen Y members will need to rent far longer than they did in the past. Immigrants and their children will find suburban housing too costly, even with the drop in prices.
"These trends combined will likely result in a stronger demand for a variety of housing types located in denser, more urban settings, closer to services and amenities," the study concludes.
Urban settings like downtown.
"I think the City Council and certainly I am a great proponent of continuing the work that has begun on the waterfront," Johnston said. "The key element here is that now we need private investment in those areas."
"So tear up the model," said Steve Chase, Stockton's new community development director. "As a group of people that are looking at revitalizing communities, you've got to tear up the model that we've lived under."
The city must seek public-private partnerships. That means changing the haughty, no-can-do culture in City Hall, a work in progress. It means infill. It means new ideas.
Previous councils rubber-stamped so-called "entitlements" of large development projects on all four city corners and on islands west of the city.
The new reality may put them in the deep freeze.
"They might, quote, 'be entitled,' " Johnston said, "but the entitlement to moving in those directions may be so onerous it doesn't pencil out."
The acid test will be when the economy recovers and political pressure mounts anew to OK sprawl.
But Chase was firm: "If we can't provide the infrastructure, or the public services, development on the periphery of this town will not go forward."
Contact columnist Michael Fitzgerald at (209) 546-8270 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/fitzgeraldblog.


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regular readers may recall my recipe for no-bake gluten free energy bites which are a super tasty source of energy but aren't particularly packed with protein ( maybe about 3-4 grams of protein per 1 inch ball ).
what with all the running i've been doing, i'm always on the look-out for easy sources of protein so i was intrigued by a power ball recipe from bryan cranston while flipping through a hemispheres in-flight magazine. i've never seen breaking bad so i don't know if there are power balls on the show or what, but the recipe looked like it would have a lot more protein thanks to the addition of non-fat milk powder. sure enough when you run the numbers each ball has about 8 grams of protein which is almost the 10 grams you need to be able to claim to be an excellent source of protein. in the future i might look for ways to add 2 grams more of protein per ball, but this is a good start.
i modified the recipe and rolled each ball in bit of dry coconut flakes and cocoa powder because, well, why not. and you could use some other milk powder brand than organic valley non-fat dry milk but they probably won't turn out as good 🙂
ingredients and instructions
1C organic valley non-fat dry milk powder
3/4 C parts peanut butter
1/4 C honey
1/2 C dry coconut flakes
3T sweetened cocoa powder
sprinkle dry milk into peanut butter and mix thoroughly. add honey.
shape into balls and put into freezer for 15 minutes.
roll in mixture of coconut flakes and cocoa powder.
makes about twelve, 1-inch balls. each has around 160 calories and 8 grams of protein.


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** The Class of 2016 (the freshmen) have won the 78th annual Nykerk Cup. **
Hope College will host its 78th annual Nykerk Cup competition on Saturday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. at the Holland Civic Center, located at 150 W. Eighth St. The Event is sold out.
The event, one of a variety of activities scheduled during the college's Family Weekend, will feature more than 200 members of the freshman and sophomore classes competing in song, plays and oration. The participating classes this year are the freshman Class of '16 and the sophomore Class of '15.
The competition, first held on March 16, 1936, is named in honor of the originator of the program, John Nykerk, a professor, college dean and founder of the Hope College department of music. The event is continuously staged before a large audience.
The oration theme is "Reconciliation." The sophomore orator is Rachael Kabagabu of Okemos, whose coaches are Cara Green of Golden, Colo., and Zoann Wissner of Sebewaing. The freshman orator is Samantha Cole of Erie, Colo., whose coaches are Alyssa Drew of Portage and Jordan Ippolito of Ocean City, N.J.
The sophomore play is "A Greater Hope: The Campaign for Hope College." The coaches are Natalia Granzotto of Grand Rapids and Hannah Mielke of Canton. The morale coaches are Justin Makowski of Detroit; Sean Cratty of Rockford, Ill.; and Thomas Endean of Holland.
The freshman play is "Toy Story 4." The coaches are Ann Marie Paparelli of Grand Ledge and Erika Shima of Saline. The morale coaches are Daniel DeVinney of Grand Rapids; Dan Irvin of Macomb; and Aiden de Jong of Holland.
The freshman song is "How Will I Know," arranged by Sara Wielenga of Lansing. The coaches are Sara Wielenga, and Marcy Rudins of Glen Ellyn, Ill. The morale coaches are Nick Johnson of Whitehall; Alan Padilla of Rockford; and Kian Hashemi-Rad of Edina, Minn.
The sophomore song is "Tarzan," arranged by Mac Huff. The coaches are Alicia Curtis of West Bloomfield and Kathleen Tolentino of Pingree Grove, Ill. The morale coaches are Jamin Wieringa of Zeeland; Wesley Rieth of Three Oaks; and Tyler Rumsey of Zeeland.
During the event's intermission, the song sections will perform "Somebody to Love," arranged by Roger Emerson.
The members of the Nykerk executive board this year are: Michelle Koster of Hudsonville, general chair; Erin Drews of Elkhart, Ind., chair-elect; Casey Baxter of Saline, senior secretary; Sydney Timmer of Cochabamba, Bolivia, junior secretary; Madalyn Muncy of Warren, senior publicity; Gaylyn Foxworthy of Metamora, junior publicity; Erica Iceberg of Ortonville, senior production; Kate Pickford of Bloomington, Minn., junior production; Amy Gagliardi of Midland, senior treasurer; Rebecca Budde of Holland, junior treasurer; Melody Hughes of Carol Stream, Ill., senior spotlight; and Meghan Stagl of Deerfield, Ill., junior spotlight.
The weekend will feature a variety of other performances and presentations in addition to the Nykerk Cup competition.
The De Pree Art Center is featuring an exhibition of work by Hope alumni through Sunday, Nov. 18. The gallery is open Mondays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
Hope College musicians will perform through the monthly "Brown Bag Concert" series at the Holland Area Arts Council on Friday, Nov. 2, at noon. Admission is free.
The college's biology seminar series will feature the address "Genomic signatures of bacterial lifestyle in diverse ecosystems" by Dr. Stuart Jones of the Department of Biological Sciences of the University of Notre Dame on Friday, Nov. 2, at 3 p.m. in room 1019 of the A. Paul Schaap Science Center. Admission is free.
A concert featuring outstanding first-year recipients of merit-based music scholarships will take place on Friday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. Admission is free.
The three-day Family Weekend, running Friday-Sunday, Nov. 2-4, will also feature activities geared toward parents of current students specifically, including a variety of open classes and discussion sessions focused on various aspects of college life. Additional information about the weekend is available online at:
The De Pree Art Center is located at 160 E. 12th St., on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street. Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street. The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The Holland Area Arts Council is located west of Columbia Avenue at 150 E. Eighth St. The Holland Civic Center is located at 150 W. Eighth St., on Eighth St. west of Pine Avenue. The A. Paul Schaap Science Center is located at 35 E. 12th St., at 12th Street and College Avenue.