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Wisconsin-we can do better than this-Bring this dog home!
This story from Milwaukee needs more coverage so I have decided to post it on my blog. Please, share this with anyone you know that has anything to do with Milwaukee...We can bring this dog back to its family. How sad. Here's the story (as told by the owner-Sarah-on her Facebook page)
An open letter to whomever took my puppy MacGyver from me:
My name is Sarah, though you didn't know that, nor did you care when you interrupted not only my life, but my family's as well, but I hope my message will reach you.
On Christmas Eve, as I was taking my four month old pit bull mix puppy MacGyver on his evening walk near Buffum and Hadley, you and a friend attacked me. One of you picked me up and threw me to the ground, while the other unclipped MacGyver from his leash. You and your friend ran to a car and drove off.
You didn't search my pockets – though you wouldn't have found anything – but you took something that meant more to me than money or credit cards. You took MacGyver. Even though he had only been a part of my and my husband's life for about two months, we loved him and the three of us had become a family.
My husband and I adopted MacGyver from Wisconsin Humane Society in early November. It was love at first sight for us. For that matter, everyone who meets him falls in love with his wrinkly face, the white socks on his feet, his friendly personality and his soulful eyes.
MacGyver was taking puppy obedience classes at the Wisconsin Humane society – in fact, he was going to graduate the day after Christmas. He knows how to sit, lay down, shake and give high-fives. He was very close to being completely house-trained.
In the two months we had MacGyver, we took him everywhere. He went to work with my husband and was becoming friends with his boss' dog. He loved going to the dog park and taking long walks down the bike trails. We visited the Estabrook Beer Garden before it closed for the season and he came with us on a road trip to Indiana to visit my husband's family.
MacGyver loved snuggling with us on the couch when we watched TV and we let him sleep with us in bed at night. Letting him sleep in bed is probably a sign that we spoil him, but we couldn't help it. MacGver was turning into a very good dog.
We were so excited to celebrate Christmas with MacGyver. In fact, we'd bought him several treats and toys as gifts. My family was excited to meet him; they even bought him a few Christmas gifts. The toys and treats are all wrapped and waiting for him when he gets back to us.
What happened in less than one minute changed my and my husband's life forever. Our house is empty and quiet. No more walks, which was something I absolutely loved to do. No more play time. No more snuggling on the couch. We miss MacGyver's excitement when we would walk through the front door, whether we'd be coming home from work or had only been gone a short time on an errand. He was always happy to see his "mom" and "dad." He loved us unconditionally and we loved him in return.
I haven't been able to sleep because I am so worried about my little furry friend. What happened on Christmas Eve looms in the back of my mind night and day. I have a sick feeling pit of my stomach and an ache in my heart.
I am not sure why you did what you did. People have asked whether we were targeted because of MacGyver's breed – whether you wanted him for fighting or breeding (he's neutered, by the way), or if there was some other reason.
The reason why you took MacGyver doesn't matter to me any more. I forgive you for throwing me to the ground and taking MacGyver. However, I beg you to do the right thing and give MacGyver back to us.
Please know, that the attack happened so quickly and I cannot identify you. I have no idea what your faces look like or the kind of car you drove.
What this means is that you can return MacGyver to us and claim the very generous reward, no questions asked. You can say you found him running around in the street – we will never know. All we want is to have him home, safe and unharmed.You can call or text us at 414-617-9137 any time. You can call the Milwaukee Police Department. You can drop him off at the Wisconsin Humane Society or MADACC.
If you're reading this and you know where MacGyver might be or have seen him, please contact us. We're offering a generous reward for tips that lead to MacGyver's safe return. You can call or text us at 414-617-9137 with any tips you might have at any time.
Until we have MacGyver back in our arms, we aren't giving up hope. We're doing everything we can to spread the word. We've had complete strangers who have heard our story reach out and offer to contribute to the reward fund, put up posters, contact radio stations or just be on the lookout for MacGyver. Strangers have offered prayers, kind words, advice and moral support – whatever they could think of to help reunite me and my husband with our puppy. They want to see him back where he belongs as much as we do. My husband and I are so grateful to everyone who is helping.
I know there must be some goodness in your heart. Please, give MacGyver back to us. We love him and we miss him very much and won't give up hope that one day very soon, he'll be able to open all of those Christmas presents that are waiting for him.
Sarah Malchow.
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Topcon Precision Agriculture (TPA) has released a new Real Time Kinematic (RTK) module for the Topcon AGI-3 receiver that includes the capability of receiving data from a radio base station or cell modem connected to GSM networks. The new AGA3928 module replaces the current AGA3677 module.
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Lubbock Electric Enters Into Strategic Alliance
With N. American Electric North American Electric, Inc., has entered into a strategic alliance with Lubbock Electric Company to market its Vertical Hollow Shaft Irrigation Motors as the first step in a larger relationship.
Lubbock Electric has been appointed as the Master Distributor, Distribution Center and Sales Agent for North American Electric products. Per the agreement, Lubbock Electric will maintain a dedicated warehouse operation of North American motors in Lubbock, Texas.
According to David Hackman, vice president of North American Electric, Inc., "aligning ourselves with the right partner is absolutely critical in order for us to enter the Lubbock market."
Preparations Continue For Ga. Cotton Conference
Plans are underway for the Georgia Cotton Commission's 3rd Annual Meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at the University of Georgia's Tifton Campus Conference Center. The meeting will be held in conjunction with the Commission's Georgia Cotton Prod-uction Workshop.
These two programs will provide a full day of learning for Georgia's cotton producers, as well as a chance to learn how their checkoff dollars work for them. Reports will be given by researchers and industry leadership.
Co-sponsors of the conference are: Bayer CropScience, Case IH, Crop Production Services, Delta & Pine Land, DuPont Crop Protection, PhytoGen, Southeast AgNet, Triangle Chemical and Valent.
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Monsanto Breaks Ground On Texas Research Facility
Cotton farmers on the High Plains are always looking for ways to improve their farm's profit potential, and two of the biggest opportunities for farmers to do that are to increase yield potential and produce better quality fiber.
Those are the goals of Monsanto Company's $10.5 million research "megasite" in Lubbock, where the company broke ground.
The megasite will provide a central point for the company's breeding and testing programs in the High Plains region.
The Monsanto Texas Cotton Research Center is being developed on a 12.2-acre site within the Lubbock Economic Development Alliance Business Park.
Texas Tech To Host Textile Conference In India
The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) at Texas Tech University will host the 6th annual international conference on Advances in Textiles, Machinery, Nonwovens and Technical Textiles, (ATNT) 2009.
The event, held in collaboration with Bannari Amman Institute of Technology in India (BIT), will run Dec. 7-9 at the institute's campus in Sathyamangalam, state of Tamilnadu, South India.
The conference, which will feature papers from natural fibers to fashion design, is expected to attract an international audience of more than 250 people from several countries. For more information, interested parties can visit http://bit-atnt09.com.
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The Hiram College Tuition Guarantee
The Hiram College Tuition Guarantee ensures that the annual cost for tuition will not increase between the first year a student is enrolled at Hiram and the student's senior year. While students at other institutes of higher education are never certain what type of annual tuition increase they will encounter, Hiram students will know: there will be no increase.
We're taking our commitment to low costs a step further.
For the second straight year, we've frozen our tuition. Students who enter for the 2014-2015 will pay the same tuition as students who entered in 2012.
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Last year, tuition at private colleges increased an average of 6%. Public universities averaged an increase of 11%. For the ten year period from 1993 to 2003, the increase at private colleges was 79%. Students and their families are struggling to pay for a high quality undergraduate education. That's why Hiram College is taking a leadership position to guarantee those costs.
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If a student takes a leave of absence from Hiram for one semester, that student can return to campus and still be locked in to the same rate for tuition. If a student takes more than a semester-long leave of absence, he or she will enroll at a new, higher rate for tuition. Most Hiram students graduate within four years of enrolling, and this policy is designed as an additional incentive to meet that four year goal. That is an important goal for many reasons, one being that it is an essential way for families to minimize the cost of higher education.
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Tuition accounts for approximately 80% of college costs for a residential student. At Hiram College, those charges will remain constant for students, beginning with the entering class of 2004. The largest segment of the remaining costs are room and meal options. Students may see a change to these costs during their four years on campus.
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In News History: Good Grief, Doonesbury
Two long-running, popular comic strips celebrate anniversaries this month.
"Peanuts," which debuted Oct. 2, 1950, features iconic characters created by Charles Schulz and is beloved by a worldwide audience. Garry Trudeau's "Doonesbury" is no stranger to controversy. Introduced Oct. 26, 1970, it notoriously satirizes the political right.
For decades, "Peanuts" and "Doonesbury" have done what the best newspaper comic strips do — connect with readers through humor.
Schulz called comic strips "poor man's poetry." His "Peanuts" followed the childhood adventures of the bumbling Charlie Brown and his dreamy beagle, Snoopy. The strip's original cast of characters included Charlie Brown's sister, Sally; Lucy van Pelt and her brother, Linus; and the piano playing Schroeder. Peppermint Patty and Snoopy's friend, Woodstock, appeared later.
Schulz's deft balance between humor and melancholy had universal appeal. After the success of the animated TV special "A Charlie Brown Christmas" in 1965, the popularity of "Peanuts" soared. In 1984, the strip was featured in "The Guinness Book of World Records" after it appeared in a record 2,000 newspapers.
Declining health forced Schulz to retire in 1999, and the last daily "Peanuts" comic strip ran Jan. 3, 2000. That day, Trudeau paid tribute to Schultz in The Washington Post, calling the strip the "gold standard for work that is both illuminating and aesthetically sublime" for cartoonists. The last Sunday "Peanuts" was published Feb. 13, 2000, a day after Schultz's death. Reprints still appear in more than 2,200 newspapers in 75 countries and 21 languages.
While "Peanuts" featured topical storylines about school dress codes, the "new math" and the Vietnam War, "Doonesbury" — now syndicated in more than 1,500 newspapers worldwide — blurred the line between editorial and humorous cartoons by exposing the political and social issues of the day.
The antics of Walden College students Mike Doonesbury, Zonker Harris and Mark Slackmeyer quickly became part of the political discourse. In 1975, Trudeau became the first cartoonist to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. That year, President Gerald Ford acknowledged the strip's influence.
"There are only three major vehicles to keep us informed as to what is going on in Washington: the electronic media, the print media and "Doonesbury," and not necessarily in that order," he said.
Through the years, newspapers have dropped some "Doonesbury" strips because of their controversial content. In 1976 when Trudeau introduced Andy Lippincott, the first gay character to appear in a widely distributed comic strip, dozens of newspapers refused to run it. Lippincott's HIV diagnosis in 1989 and AIDS-related death two years later was the first representation of the disease in the comics.
"Peanuts" and "Doonesbury" have captivated readers for a combined total of 100 years. More than just "the funnies," these and other comic strips offer social and political commentary, stir controversy, and provide a daily dose of humor, adventure and drama.
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On October 17th, 2012, Eric Cheek heard a story that would instantly build a path he felt compelled to walk down. Despite having never met him, a boy called Ty Louis Campbell would change Eric's life forever.
Ty had been diagnosed with a rhabdoid tumor – a very rare and aggressive cancer specific to children. Despite having battled it for more than half of his short life, he ultimately passed from this terrible disease. Eric explains, "He endured procedures most grown men wouldn't be able to handle. He went through rounds of chemotherapy and radiation. The affect of these treatments were severe on his little body. He eventually lost his ability to walk or stand on his own and was paralyzed from his neck down."
But despite the crippling pain and various procedures Ty went through, his beaming trademark smile never left his lips.
Eric continues, "As I followed his mother Cindy's blog on www.superty.org , I prayed, at times begged, for a miracle. You see, this little boy was able to reach into my very being and leave a mark on my soul that will remain forever. I have learned so much from this little boy that I cannot accurately express, except to say that he has changed me for the better. When he earned his wings, I remember sitting on my couch in my living room and crying. I remember praying for his family and for his soul. I never got a chance to meet this little miracle. I was never really able to pay him the respect he was due or to honor him."
There was another personal connection, "Ty's father, Lou, is a native of Mahopac, NY, as am I and actually graduated with my older brother. And from where we come from, when someone needs help, you help."
Eric decided to do what was natural for him. His giving nature, coupled with his passion for running made it a shoe-in for what he would do. The runner who jogs anywhere between 10 and 20 miles a week and regularly attends three bootcamps a week is now driven by a purpose.
He says, "My initial fundraiser on Crowdrise.com has a goal of $2500.00. However, I do not intend to do one fundraiser and call it quits. I will be actively involved in the Foundation for as long as they will have me. I will run as many events as I can possibly run if it will help get Ty's story in front of more people."
An excerpt from Cindy's – Ty's mother – blog written about the day Ty passed summed up what they were all feeling, "Ty Louis Campbell is gone, but his story continues. This is our promise to him. His impact on the world around him gives his short but inspirational life such meaning. His soaring spirit will continue to fuel a fire in our hearts, and strangers around the world will continue to fall in love with the little boy who fought so valiantly. The little boy who hurt so much, but maintained a bigger, brighter smile than the healthiest of children."
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FAIRVIEW, W.Va. (AP) -- Federal mine regulators say they're working with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to decide who has jurisdiction over a fatal accident involving a gas-drilling rig at a coal mine prep plant.
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It makes it so hard to look him in the eyes,like I'll give away exactly how I'm feeling with just one look.
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I just started a new joband am in my early 20's. The guy that is training the other new "recruits" is twice my age (at least, but doesn't look it) and a foot shorter than me, if not more. I have NEVER been attracted to anyone who was more than 10 years older than me, yet I am with this man. Why am I...
Bellarosa7 22-25, F 1 Response 6 Aug 26
I Still DoI still dream about you. I still daydream about you. I still Facebook stalk you. (How was Ibiza btw?) I still download pictures of you. Yeah, I'm crazy. See, it's just like the song says: A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes.
DancingFox 31-35, F 5 Responses 4 Oct 9, 2012
I could give up drinking in a heartbeat.......but I'd still want to get drunk off you.
Babydoll42 41-45, F 5 Responses 11 Mar 10
It was rather beautiful: The way he put herinsecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and starved all the fears and tasted all the dreams she kept coiled beneath her bones. -Christopher Poindexter
yesenia25 26-30, F 5 Jun 16
I Know This Is BadI met this sweet and beautiful girl at work recently. I noticed that she had a wedding ring on, so I immediately backed off. I believe it is wrong to mess with a married woman. Come to find out, her husband beats her. He is a psycho and has threatened her...
GuyWhite 26-30, M 8 Responses 5 Oct 23, 2007
I like the red sox i have a crush on a yankeesfan who hates me but i still think shes hot
nickoroni 13-15, M 0 Jul 14
My private tutor.. ahh how messed up.He's married so its like double messed up and I actually kissed him. I'm not someone who does things like that because i'm shy but as soon as his wife went up stairs i had to. evil? uh i know. they are in the middle of divorce right now tho, ive been called, got paragraphs of...
MissLorii 18-21, F 8 Responses 9 Feb 21
This guy right here, we get on each other'snerves, but at the end of the day we are fine. I have told you things that I haven't even told my best friend. I like you a lot but I know that you would never date me. And that's okay. I know that you have said you liked me, but I doubt you would ever date me. And that's okay...
hearmecryandwatchmedie 16-17, F 1 Response 1 Jun 19
oh my goodness.He is the most charming,sexy, smart , admirable man I have ever met. Like seriously I don't think I have ever met anyone as sweet and nice as him. Woah he makes me drool like you know how in cartoons they show those two heart shaped eyes popping out. I feel that way when I see him/meet him.LOL but I...
Angelina1992 18-21, F 1 Response 0 5 days ago
He is married. I am too.I see him looking at me. Usually he is very shy when I say hi. He turns red and just smiles and goes away. When I started working here 7 years ago I had the biggest crush on him. I was told he was married and he was expecting his second child. So I completely kicked him out...
yesenia25 26-30, F 4 Responses 7 Dec 18, 2013
Fox T-shirt!!!OK... this is a sign, surely.
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I am a 17 year old girl hopelessly in need toget over my next door neighbor. ( which is in his mid-late 20s) Story Time: About 2 months ago I got new neighbors across from me.. Just 3 weeks ago I really started to notice a man that lived in the house, Oh My, whenever I saw him I would just fantasize about us being...
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I have a crush on my best friend.Is it orthodox to be so close to someone and spend countless hours with them sharing everything between jokes and heartaches? I used to think so. I used to think I could bare the what would become the heavy burden of an affection that I had, and still have for my best friend. I...
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Intern: There's an intern in the officethat reached out to me because my job was fascinating to her and she wanted to learn more. Heck, that was an ego boost right there, someone actually interested in the work I do. She came by to see me and I spent two hours talking with her, she hung on my every word. It was...
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I have a crush on one of my friends,but they are in a relationship with someone already. I respect that they are in the relationship, but I wish I could tell them that I like them without feeling like I will be rejected.
MssBiPolar 13-15, F 1 Response 0 Jul 11
My highschool teachers!college professors! Ahhhh what is wrong with me?
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I think I may be fallingfor my french teacher. she's 24, and I'm almost 18 😶
cassiecloud9 16-17, F 1 Response 0 Jun 23
What Makes The Heart Skip A Beat??? I think I may have ruined a great friendship because of a crush. There is a lot of background here, so please bear with me. As most of my friends know, my primary reason for coming to EP a year ago, the reason I found it accidentally that day, the thing that drove me to read...
SaraBee1995 18-21, F 10 Responses 10 Mar 22, 2013
There is this guy named Tyrusand we both like eachother but just idk. There's a lot that had happened. One day he tries to kiss me and I rejected him and said he has a gf and the next he's changin his mind an sayin he's not gonna dump his gf for me even though he said he would. He says he still likes me and...
StargirlWarrior 13-15, F 1 Response 0 Jul 27
Well i really like this guywho has a girlfriend but they really havent even been dating for long and when we were texting i thought we were really going somewhere but no. But im pretty sure he dosent even know i have feelings for him idk its just a big mess tbh :/
PeaceAndLove1 18-21, F 1 Response 1 Aug 24
I have a crush with a friend!! But the problem is i dont want to say because i dont want to loose her friendship!! Help me please!! ;)
Puppy92 18-21, F 1 Response 1 Jun 25
I really like my friends ex my friend saidthat it's ok I think she's cute but she lives two hours away also I know there's like a code no dating your friends ex but this girl is amazing
Samg1998 16-17 2 Responses 0 Jul 22
I liked you. I honestly really did.But we stopped talking. Why? I don't know. Why would you ignore me like that? Did I do something wrong? But it's whatever it's cool. ✌✌
TParrish 16-17, F 1 Response 5 May 8
I want him.... I know I shouldn'tbut I can't help it. I don't know why but he intrigues me so. I am a serial crusher but there is something about him leaves me in awe. I look forward to those couple of minutes each week that I get to be near him. I know that he likes me. I can tell by how differently he talks...
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lyricblue 16-17, F 3 Responses 5 Apr 22
Just A FriendThis woman this woman intimidates me, she's shy and refined.. all that intrigues me. I make her giggle and laugh and my spirit is set free She looks me in my eyes And I feel butterflies She makes me stumble on my words I know it sounds so absurd I watch her movements so graceful...
whisperingsunshine 31-35, F 18 Responses 5 Feb 27, 2011
I think my best friend's dad is really cute!She and him fight all the time but when He and I hang out we just have the most random, fun, and interesting conversations! He's handsome and smart and cracks me up! Her parents are married but they don't act like it, if that makes sense. I just have an innocent little thing for...
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Dantescircle 36-40, M 3 Responses 2 Aug 27
All of the fookyn time.Dang cleavage. Dang buttocks-hugging pants. Dang friendly owners of each.
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Have a Crush On Someone I Shouldn'tWe go to the same school, same ccf. I found out the other day that he has liked me for ages, since around the time i started liking him funnily enough. I should have said something ealier, now he has a girlfriend
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Chance of market havoc just went up
In the past 72 hours, Europe got worse and debt-ceiling talks in the US deteriorated.
Stunned at how bad it looks Monday. Stunned that nothing good ever seems to happen in Europe at all. Nothing.
The stress tests just seem like total shams. I would have thought that, given the tremendous sovereign bond holdings these banks have, it would have been prudent just to issue statements that said, "If the banks we know have X level of debt don't raise capital, we will seize them and nationalize them." Something with real teeth.
Without that, we are facing the absurdity of this slow death that grinds and grinds. We have a 1980s-style Latin American debt crisis here. The sophisticated people around the globe know this, so there is no exit until the capital is raised and the bullet is bitten on the bogus sovereign bonds.
I was hoping for Geithner-like stress tests, ones that found every major bank issuing a ton of equity, something that makes our banks solvent -- although that does not make them investible.
In our country? As the debt talks stall, the chance of a lot more havoc grows higher. I had thought we could contain the losses to 3%-5% as we build up to a deal, and I was keeping odds of a deal at about 85%-15%, which meant it wasn't worth selling the market.
Now it's looking like more of a 5%-7% lead-up, as the contentious nature of things just makes it seem less likely that a deal will be reached. Less likely means 75%-25% in favor of a deal.
The problem is that the deals being discussed don't seem all that credible. Where was that $4 trillion-dollar deal? That had new highs written all over it.
So you get a situation in which we have a 5%-7% drop that won't be rescued by a big deal, because the deal is perceived as nothing significant, which means you don't make back the 5%-7%.
That's where we are now -- in a moment when the risk seems to outweigh the potential reward a couple of weeks from now, which is why it is natural to say that there's some pain here.
I am still in the camp that says most can't be nimble enough to get out and then get in again. The only thing that has changed is the need to get back in. That's what's on the table, and without some positive movement in spirit on a deal, the risk of missing out becomes less worrisome.
In other words, things changed in the past 72 hours. Europe got worse. And the talks seem to have really gone south.
New, negative info. Have to react accordingly.
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When the first European stress test came out last year, most of the banks passed it with flying colors.
Then they decided that they need a second more stringent stress test. Most passed.
Now they decide they need another more stringent test, which hopefully the banks will now fail so the Gov't can take them over.
The Gov't in England required Lloyds and RBS to sell all their profitable assets mainly in overseas markets where the most growth is. They said it was to ensure free competition for other European banks.
In America the Gov't bailed out the banks. The banks left the money in the Federal Reserve where it is gaining a small amount of interest. Weren't they suppose to loan it out for the American Homeowner at reduced rates to create a better housing market?
The American people are being took again with the latest in the Debt ceiling debate. For some reason, the Gov't wants more debt. I would think we would want to cut spending by 20%, balance the budget and cut the red tape our companies have to go through to create jobs.
There is something rotten in the state of Denmark. Goes for the rest of Europe and America too.
Maybe we should have the Canadians run our Gov't for us. They cut taxes, cut welfare, cut unemployment benefits, cut the national spending, cut the red tape for the use of natural resources, their banks require a 20% down payment on a home and now only have a 5% unemployment rate and one of the best economies in the world. Seems we are not taking advantage of the good and bad around the world to better ourselves.
The for the rich, by the rich crowd shot themselves in the butt, it just takes longer to bleed to death from that kind of wound. The stupid part is they are still so greedy they refuse to have the wound closed and take their medicine. The worst part is that every working American and citizen of world is being forced to drown in their stupidity.
I don't understand the criticisms. Cramer is a trader, so he has a short term outlook which changes as rapidly as the circumstances. He's also an optimist and almost always bullish. So, if he's expressing caution, I think it's a very good time to be cautious.
I agree that the real economy has been in horrible shape for quite a long time, and I expect it to become worse before it becomes better. However, the asset markets have not yet reflected the real economy, and who knows if, when, or to what degree they will. The players who actually move the markets, swimming in cheap money created by the central banks, have been discounting all the news that they don't care to hear. I keep telling myself that it can't continue, and I am proven wrong again, and again, and again ...
Cramer likes to speak in intellectual sound bites that I guess impress him as .... well... intellectual. It comes across as blah blah blah meaning nothing to a working stiff trying to invest.
We've separated church and state....!!!??? have you listened to a republican tea party evangelist these days???? Its turned me away from being republican after 30 years.
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UNDATED (WSAU) The world's Catholic cardinals have reportedly narrowed their list of possibilities for the new pope – and former Milwaukee Archbishop Tim Dolan is one of those names. But unlike some candidates, Dolan does not have Vatican experience. He admits having weak language skills in Italian – and that could be a big disadvantage, since the day-to-day administration of the Vatican is done in Italian.
Still, the A-P says Dolan and Sean O'Malley of Boston are among the focus of the voting cardinals.
Cardinals Odilo Scherer of Brazil and Angelo Scola of Milan Italy are also on the rumor list. Scola heads the Archdiocese of Milan – and he used to serve in Venice, where several previous popes have come from.
Over 100 cardinals, including Dolan and Wisconsin natives James Harvey and Raymond Burke, are in the final day of talks before the voting begins tomorrow. The new pope needs 77 votes. And if the leading candidates don't get them, the A-P says a host of surprise names could come forward to replace the retiring Pope Benedict.
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Energy forum set for Bennington on March 21By Patrick McArdle
STAFF WRITER | March 14,2013BENNINGTON — The Bennington County Regional Commission is hosting a public forum on Thursday in Bennington to discuss the possibilities for different energy sources in Southern Vermont including wind, solar and hydro-electric.
The forum, for which there is no cost, will include presentations by William Scully, of Carbon Zero, who developed a hydro-electric project in Bennington, and John Guerin, from EOS Ventures, a company that developed a solar project in Pownal. Also making presentations will be Tom Evslin, co-founder of NG Advantage, a Milton company that delivers natural gas, and Adam Sherman from the Biomass Energy Resource Center in Montpelier.
James Sullivan, executive director of the Bennington County Regional Commission, or BCRC, said the forum will look at some emerging energy sources for Bennington County, some of them already in use and others with increasing potential.
"There's certainly been a lot of interest in (energy). Our regional energy plan (for the BCRC) suggests that looking down the road, 20, 30 years in the future that almost inevitably we're going to have to rely to a greater extent on local resources and local generation for energy," Sullivan said.
Some recent developments have increased the interest in some of the energy sources to be discussed at the forum.
For instance, Scully's hydro-electric generation project, located at the former Vermont Tissue mill is very close to getting its final permits while the solar project in Pownal, which is owned by Gestamp Renewables and located at the Southern Vermont Energy Park, is online and another solar project is expected soon near the Bennington transfer station. Biomass heating projects are already in use at Bennington College and Mount Anthony Union middle and high schools.
Sullivan said NG Advantage is not delivering natural gas to Bennington County yet but considering proposals that would extend their deliveries to this area.
Sullivan said he thought it would be useful that some of the presenters will have local experience.
While the forum will look at what's available in the area and the potential they represent for future energy needs, Sullivan said he also expects it will spark some general conversation and interest in energy from renewable or alternative sources.
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Pima County sheriff's spokesman Jason Ogan says Fuller has been arrested on disorderly conduct and threat charges. Ogan says while
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The Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP), which supports clinical trials of agents that may help prevent cancer from developing, also manages the extramural Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP) - a network that enables patients and physicians to participate in prevention, treatment, and supportive care clinical trials in their local communities. NCI even sponsors clinical trials in foreign countries, such as a phase III HPV vaccine trial in Costa Rica that is testing the ability of virus-like particle vaccines, originally developed by CCR investigators, as a means of preventing cervical cancer.
Indeed, the intramural program is a testing ground for strategies that can improve clinical testing overall. One of the latest is phase 0 trials. Conducted mostly at the NIH Clinical Center and a few select cancer centers, "Phase 0 allows you to answer very important questions rather than relying on the answers that you've received from animals, which don't always predict what happens in humans," says Dr. Doroshow. These trials, therefore, give a good estimate of whether a drug is worth advancing into phase I and phase II trials, which require a much greater supply of investigational agent, more patients, and more clinical resources.
A common measure of action for conventional chemotherapy has been whether or not a drug kills cancer cells and, therefore, shrinks tumors. Using these criteria, however, many of today's targeted agents would appear not to work. And yet the clinical trials show that they do. For this reason, some researchers are beginning to think about progression-free survival as a worthy endpoint for targeted agents. The monoclonal antibody bevacizumab was recently approved for use in breast cancer based on this endpoint.
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Why These Companies Appear To Be Dangerous
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People can shop at a lot of places, and often times can find better deals by shopping around. Any outlet mall has clothing lines that offer a variety of clothes, but many times these don't offer the most bang for your buck. More times than not, it pays to shop around, especially with your investment capital.
The Bad...
In the area I am from, Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) is often viewed as the clothing store with the most value. Yes, there are several other options available, but Kohl's provides the same clothes for a cheaper price most of the time. With assets decreasing, and liabilities increasing, Kohl's equity has taken a substantial hit. Meanwhile, their revenues increased approximately 2% this year as well. Capital expenditures also increased by 22% in 2012. Interestingly, Kohl's stock holders have seen more than an 8% loss in 2012, and 16% in the last quarter. Maybe we should shop around and find a better deal.
JC Penney (NYSE: JCP) seems to be focused more on the future than Kohl's or The Gap as it dumped money into capital expenditures, 28% more than in 2011. Retail stores seem to all have done horrible in the last quarter of the year, as Penney's stock is down 22%, and over 45% for the year as a whole. Interestingly, JC Penney might be a company to watch, as its free cash flow (FCF) doubled over the period of the year. Impressively, they were able to do this despite losing 3% of revenues over the year. However, even with doubling their FCF, its FCF yield is still less than 1%. Like Kohl's, JC Penney's net worth remained level. Though it may not be wise to buy this stock now, investors might want to keep an eye on it.
The Better...
These retail stores don't seem to be doing very well, but maybe the most popular of all will distort the trend. Wal-Mart's (NYSE: WMT) stock has performed better short term than any of these companies as it has only lost 10% in the past quarter. This is still not a glowing report. Wal-Mart posted a 5% increase in revenues (more than any of the other companies discussed) which means they brought in over $471 billion in sales. With a 6% increase in capital expenditures, Wal-Mart did show a slight decline in FCF. This could be the best retail company to invest in yet.
The Gap (NYSE: GPS) is another store that most people trust while shopping at. At first glance, Gap doesn't seem to be doing much better than Kohl's. In the last quarter, Gap's stock price has also fallen 15% and its 2012 revenues have fallen by 1% as well. Gap has not lost value to its net worth however, as it has remained level. Although Gap's capital expenditures have decreased by nearly 2%, over the period of the year, its stock increased by a remarkable 72%. Gap seems to be in a better position than Kohl's at this point.
The Best...
With increases in most of the major areas, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) shows why E-commerce companies are performing well. It's hard to compete with a company that provides convenience, quality, variety, and competitive prices. With its revenues increasing over 31%, it becomes the only company we have discussed to post a stock increase in the last quarter. Amazon's stock increased over 7% last quarter and 47% over the past year. With its capital expenditures nearly doubling, its FCF declined by 20%. Below is a chart showing how these companies have performed in the past three months.
The Foolish Conclusion...
When looking at the facts and reviewing the charts, it doesn't look promising for investors buying into the retail industry. Amazon and Wal-Mart are the only two companies that might be worth looking into. JC Penney shows that it might be turning around, though probably not for some time. Amazon does appear to be in the best position, as it continues to hold a durable competitive advantage that none of these other companies have. With the ability to market all the same products, at a competitive price, from the convenience of your own home, it's hard to beat. Regardless of what happens with any of these companies, always remember, it's worth shopping around.
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The Apple Maps disaster: Can Nokia save the day?
The Finnish phonemaker's free mapping software makes its debut in the App Store.
Many iPhone owners were furious when iOS 6 was unveiled in September without a long-beloved application: Google Maps. In its place was a rudimentary new Maps app from Apple (AAPL), which critics pilloried as a poorly thought-out power-grab.
With a lack of transit directions, buggy landmarks, and turns leading to nowhere, Apple Maps quickly became a punchline, and CEO Tim Cook was forced to offer a rare apology, saying the company was "extremely sorry for the frustration [Apple Maps] has caused our customers," and even offered third-party alternatives to use until Apple worked the kinks out.
Tuesday, Nokia (NOK) is introducing itself as one of those third-party alternatives. The company's Here, a free iOS map client available in the App Store starting today, is holding itself up as the premiere alternative to Apple Maps.
Does it live up to the hype?
"Here has a few things going for it that Apple Maps don't," says Erica Ogg at GigaOm. First off, users can download portions of a map for offline availability. Nokia's application also helpfully offers voice-guided turn-by-turn directions for walking. Unlike Apple Maps, Here even offers in-app public transit directions. However, the user interface is nowhere near as "crisp and clean as Apple Maps."
The information offered by Here, like live traffic updates, is "very rich in comparison" to Apple Maps, says Aaron Souppouris at The Verge. But after spending some time with it, we were left "a little disappointed by the current experience." Public transit directions were often "nonsensical," with transfers to certain buses and trains missing altogether, at least in London. There were other bugs as well -- the cancel button in the search box was sometimes completely ineffective. In many ways, Here is "more functional than Apple's native Map's client, but for now, many of the additional features don't work as well as they ought to."
Some good news is on the way, though, says Josh Lowensohn at CNET. Google (GOOG) is reportedly putting the "finishing touches" on its own Maps application for iOS, which it will then submit to Apple for review. There's still no timetable for an official release in the App Store, but we may be getting closer.
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Home to one of Tucson's ice manufacturing plants until it closed permanently in 2002, the Ice House Lofts are 51 distinctive residences located in the 1923 Arizona Ice and Cold Storage Company building. The design preserves the authentic industrial character of the existing building's exterior shell while simultaneously infusing it with new life in the provision of 48 modern residential units. An additional three units are provided in the form of a new triangular-shaped building along with a pool house and a storage building for tenants.
Adaptive re-use of an abandoned building for housing fosters a 'smart growth' model of development that meets the needs of those with a desire to live in the city while saving an old building and neighborhood from neglect. Materials reclaimed from the interior of the old building gain new life as courtyard and pool fencing while equipment used in the ice making process are sandblasted and re-displayed as entry markers for the project. New exterior architectural elements such as balconies and shading devices are detailed in a manner which purposely contrasts the old with the new. In doing this, the scale normally associated with industrial architecture is broken down and is made both humane and usable for its occupants.
The project required close collaboration with city officials, consultants and contractors. From the re-zoning of the property to assistance with marketing potential we worked hand in hand with and as part of the Development Team to create a successful award winning project. The success of the project has given other developers courage to take on other inner city development projects as Tucson seeks to re-define and re-build its downtown.
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Happy Go Round Quilt
Hi, Moda Bake Shop readers! It's Lisa Calle from Vintage Modern Quilts, sharing a project I love to pieces. You may have already seen a sneak peek of this quilt if you were at QuiltCon in February. I'm happy to share the finished product here today. I love this quilt! Happy Go Lucky from Bonnie and Camille is on the way to becoming one of my all-time favorite lines. The colors, the happy florals, the vintage look, the perfect tiny dots...it's got everything.
This is an improv style quilt so you may use more or less fabric than I did...It all depends on your cutting and piecing. I used Bella Solids layer cakes in my quilt top but I've given an option below for using yardage instead. Just know that you will have more cutting involved if you opt for yardage.
1 Layer Cake (Happy Go Lucky by Bonnie and Camille)
3 coordinating solids layer cakes (I used Robin's Egg, Blue, and White. NOTE: You will only use a fraction of these layer cakes so you'll have plenty left for a second quilt or another project. I used 16 Blue, 20 Robin's Egg, and 12 White.)
3.5 yards of coordinating solids
1/2 yard binding (Happy Go Lucky 55067 11)
4 1/8 yards backing (mine is pieced using Happy Go Lucky 55063 22 and 55061 17)
Curve Master 1/4" Presser Foot (This foot is great for all curved piecing.)
All seams are 1/4". Read instructions before beginning. I recommend practicing on some scrap fabric before you cut into your layer cake. Unfinished block size is 9".
1. If you are working with yardage for your solids, cut into 10" squares. You will need a total of 48 ten-inch squares from your solids.
2. Select four layer cake squares - a mix of prints from the collection and some solids. I went by the general rule of two solids, two prints.
3. Layer your four layer cake squares into a neat pile, making sure the edges are lined up on all sides.
4. Using a rotary cutter with a fresh blade, cut a freehand arc across your stack of layer cake squares. Go slowly and use firm and even pressure Try to make a wide curve. The tighter angles are going to be harder to sew. For a video tutorial showing exactly how to cut and piece these improv curves, click {here}.
5. Mix and match your inner and outer curves. Line your inner curve edge up with the outer curve edge, right sides together.
*A note about pinning* You do not need to pin these curved seams. Starch your edges to keep the bias seams in check and/or use the curve master foot.*
Sew a 1/4' seam along the curve, gently guiding the fabrics together under the foot of your sewing machine. The key is to guide the fabric. No tugging or pulling as that will distort your seam.
5. Press light to dark. Repeat sewing and pressing process for your other fabrics in the stack.
6. Once you've sewn all four sets, check them for size. Set aside any blocks that don't quite measure 9" square. These are your A blocks. Trim your other blocks to 9" square and set into your finished pile. These are your B blocks.
Note: These blocks do have a right and a wrong way. It's easy to tell if you're working with prints, but solids can be trickier. If your block ends up like this, you've sewn it the wrong way. Just seam rip (gently), flip the inner curve, and sew again.
I made this block just to show you guys. I would so never make a block like that. Never. Ever. ;)
7. Repeat this process until you have 64 blocks total: A and B blocks.
8. Take your stack of A (not quite 9" blocks) and repeat the curve step from above, but this time just choose one layer cake. Set it underneath your pieced block and shift it to enlarge the block. Cut a curve just like before. Sew your two pieces together and press light to dark. Square up to 9".
Alternatively, if you are a master curve piecer and didn't have any blocks that didn't make it to 9" (go, you!), take half of your perfect blocks and add a second curve to them using the process outlined above. This quilt will look nice with just one curve per block, but the second curve adds a lot of movement throughout the quilt. I made several blocks that have up to four curve in them.
9. Assemble your quilt top in a 8x8 block layout. I sewed mine in sets of 4 blocks at a time so I could take extra care matching the points where the four blocks meet in the center of the broken circles. Don't worry too much about fabric placement. Just have fun with it! There are lots of options for setting the blocks in this quilt. I made another version using Aspen Frost by Basic Grey:
{Note: the Aspen Frost version is smaller}
10. Baste, quilt, and bind as desired.
One happy and fun 68" x 68" quilt.
If you make one, please add it to the Moda Bake Shop {Flickr} group. Don't forget to stop by my blog and say hi.
Lisa Calle
7 comments:
- Valerie said...
Just a tip! Tracey Jacobsen did a quilt called "I Dance in Circles" a couple years ago on MBS and referenced a different YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlwVGoL4zV0) for help in sewing curves without pinning. I thought it was a neat tute, and the audio is a bit easier to hear.
Love the free-form look of this quilt --- and that print-wise it only takes a layer cake. {grin}
- April 18, 2013 at 8:01 AM
- Quilting In The Rain said...
Wow, i love this. So original! Great job Lisa!
- April 18, 2013 at 10:28 AM
- sara oudayet said...
very nice ...
- April 18, 2013 at 10:34 AM
- Unknown said...
I like this modern quilt a lot- also the quilting design is very appealing!
- April 18, 2013 at 10:48 AM
- Melissa Corry said...
So cute Lisa!!! Love the quilting too :)
- April 18, 2013 at 3:42 PM
- MaterialGirlQuilts said...
Love this Lisa and the blues in that line are gorgeous!!
- April 18, 2013 at 4:18 PM
- Darlene Barnes Rosner said...
oh my goodness!! I just LOVE this scrappy quilt. Thank you thank you for posting this! can't wait to give it a try!
- April 17, 2014 at 7:53 PM


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The list of the largest ski resorts in Norway is based on figures from the Norwegian Alpine Resorts Association.
Trysil is Norway's largest ski resort, with 39 lifts and 44 miles of runs connecting three sides of the mountain into a varied alpine facility. Popular with families, Trysil has a good ski school.
One of Norway's largest ski areas and considered by many the best, Hemsedal is versatile with 24 lifts, 52 slopes and activities for all ages.
As the site for the giant slalom and slalom events during the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, Hafjell, located 10 miles from Lillehammer, offers cool skiing. Take the gondola to the top and choose between many long cruisers - the resort has 27 miles of slopes divided over 31 runs.
With 18 slopes and 11 lifts, Oslo Winter Park is smaller than some other Norwegian ski resorts, but nevertheless offers good skiing only 20 minutes from Oslo city center. The World Snowboarding Championships (WSC) were held here in February 2012.
One of Norway's oldest ski resorts, with 39 slopes and four terrain parks, Geilo is recognised as a world-class area for skikiting. It is also a family-friendly resort, with designated slopes and plenty of activities on offer for children.
Good vertical runs and a convenient location only 62 miles from Oslo make Norefjell a popular ski resort. Norefjell was the site for the alpine skiing events during the 1952 Oslo Olympics.
This relatively small ski resort just north of Lillehammer features the magnificent Olympic Downhill Run used for the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics. By the way, the last pitch of the run is much steeper than it appears on TV. You will also find a large children's area at Kvitfjell.
The largest ski resort in southern Norway, located in the Setesdal Valley, Hovden boasts 34 slopes, 10 lifts and over 21 miles of groomed descent.
Situated 15 miles from Voss, Myrkdalen is a large ski resort with 25 lifts and a plethora of activities for children and adults alike. There is a ski bus service in weekends and during holidays, bringing you from the center of Voss and right to the resort's doorstep. If you don't ski, there are other activities available, or you can learn to ski with the resort's own ski school. Guided tours and cross-country skiing is also available.
Just over an hour's drive from Oslo, Kongsberg is a modern ski resort with a mixture of easy, medium and more challenging slopes. These are not among the longest you will find in Norway, but they nevertheless offer good skiing. Kongsberg also has a slalom hill for competition, a terrain park and a separate slope and lift for children.
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Not only do I lack any particular talent for playing the piano, but I didn't even start taking lessons until early middle age — far too late to develop the neural pathways I'd need to play well. As a result I'm not very good, and I never will be. But I go to my lessons, I practice as much as I can (I've gotten good at squeezing my daily one-hour practice session into as little as 10 minutes on some days), and, unexpectedly, I find a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction in my incompetent playing. It also turns out that taking piano lessons has benefits that go well beyond personal satisfaction — it's a great form of cross-training.
With any exercise regimen, months of repetition can make your body extremely efficient at performing certain movements — but only those movements. Someone can be in good enough shape to complete a three-hour marathon, for instance, but still be sore all over the day after playing a 30-minute game of pickup basketball. Doing only one kind of training limits your overall fitness and in fact reduces your overall training benefit. Rather than continuing to improve, you just stay at a certain level. This is where cross-training comes in — one reason that, for instance, sprinters spend a fair amount of time in the weight room working on upper-body strength.
Learning to play the piano is terrific cross-training for running a business. Following are some of the lessons my infinitely wise (and even more patient) piano teacher, Guy Urban, has taught me.
I once started playing through a piece for my teacher and hit a wrong note about halfway through. I halted, said something to the effect of "Darn it, I always make that mistake," and then continued on.
My teacher stopped me, saying, "Why do you practice it that way, then?" And he was right: Through thoughtless repetition, that particular mistake had become to feel completely natural — almost part of the music.
There used to be a key moment in every sales meeting where I would always make the same mistake, a particularly dangerous one: I'd set too-low expectations regarding what the project would cost. My client empathy — or high need for approval, or whatever you want to call it — would kick in, and I'd tell the homeowners their kitchen might be about $60,000 when I knew in my bones it was not going to be a penny under $80,000.
My piano teacher told me how to stop practicing my mistakes: I should play right up to the note just before the one I kept missing and then stop short. I shouldn't play a single note until I knew it was the one I wanted to play. After a few times through this exercise, my fingers would be retrained, the pause would get shorter and shorter, and eventually the mistake would be permanently fixed. Similarly, when it came time at a sales meeting to discuss budget, I learned to pause, take a breath, and not say a word until I knew it was the right one.
People listening to someone play music hear momentum and phrasing more than individual mistakes. If you stop short when you make a mistake (usually with a grimace), go back a few measures, and start the passage over, everyone will focus on the mistake. If instead you move right on past the problem with confidence and renewed accuracy, listeners will quickly forget the flaw. It's like an inadvertent insult: You can apologize profusely and at agonizing length, at which point the victim of the insult starts wondering whether it really was so inadvertent after all, or you can apologize quickly and just move on.
A few years ago we were planning a large project and the client kept adding features. The cost kept going up, and I did not do a good job of keeping them informed about the cost increases. Inevitably, it came time for a reckoning. I presented the revised budget, and they balked. I could have groveled in apology and backed off, and maybe thrown some money at the problem in a vain attempt to make what had already happened appear not to have happened after all.
Instead I said that I regretted the situation and we could build the project for the budget as presented, cut the cost by removing some aspects of the project that had been added in, or agree to part ways. We agreed to part ways. Within a month, they had called me back and asked to get back on our schedule. This was a particularly lucky resolution (and most such stories do not have such happy endings, in reality). But even if they had not called back, I was better off moving on to the next step than I would have been if I'd tried to change current reality by backing up and starting over.
Most Bach keyboard works are pretty hard for me, so I have to learn them at a painfully slow tempo to get the fingering right. Playing slowly, I really hear how many dissonances there are in the music. (To understand what I'm talking about, play two adjacent keys on a piano. You're hearing a minor second, the most dissonant sound in tonal music.) Move through these dissonances slowly and it can sound like you're doing something seriously wrong in places. But get the piece up to tempo and you don't think twice about the dissonances — they fit right into the music. And, in fact, if you removed the dissonances, the music would become a lot less interesting — there'd be no sense of movement, no real interest or progress.
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