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However, it's one that is warmly embraced by Gretchen Small, historian and tour guide at the Butterworth Center, 1105 8th St., and Deere-Wiman House, 817 11th Ave.
``Even though I've been giving tours for 11 years, I still really enjoy doing them,'' Ms. Small said. ``It's really fun when you have just two or three people come through and they're just fascinated. They ask such good questions.
``What's interesting is they are so different,'' she said of the homes. Deere-Wiman was ``definitely a family home,'' with six children growing up there over the years, whereas the Butterworths didn't have children, Ms. Small said. Deere-Wiman also represents the late 1800s and the Victorian era more clearly, she noted.
Butterworth was dramatically enlarged by the family, and taken in a ``completely different direction,'' Ms. Small said. ``It became a home for business entertaining. It's much more formal and in some ways, more ornate.''
Among Butterworth's additions were a library, kitchen, bedroom, and half the living room and dining room, as well as two-thirds of the basement level.
``People always ask which house I like better and I say, I like them both because they're both so different,'' she said.
John Deere's son, Charles, built the Deere-Wiman House -- then known as Overlook, for its striking views -- in 1872. Charles Deere's granddaughter, Patti Deere-Wiman, lived in the home until 1976.
The former Hillcrest, Butterworth was built in 1892 as a wedding gift for Charles Deere's youngest daughter, Katherine, and her husband, William Butterworth, Deere & Co.'s third chief executive.
Mrs. Butterworth died in 1953 and, in her will, created the William Butterworth Memorial Trust. Her home opened to the public in 1955 and Deere-Wiman was left to the trust and opened in 1979, Ms. Small said.
While it's not unusual for historic homes to be open to the public for meetings and other events, Butterworth and Deere-Wiman are unique because they are offered free of charge and only to nonprofit organizations.
Many preservation groups that maintain older houses charge fees for meetings and tours, as a way to meet costs. The Butterworth trust does neither, Ms. Small said.
``We provide just an incredible benefit to the community,'' she said. ``Mrs. Butterworth was very active in the community and saw a need for there to be a facility for these groups to meet in.''
The trust does not allow purely social functions or political fundraising to be held in the homes. Alcohol also is prohibited.
Sue Staack, director for the homes, said she gets lots of requests from people wanting to host personal parties or receptions at Butterworth, but they are politely declined.
``It's a beautiful setting. It has an elegant atmosphere, with lace tablecloths and we always have flowers on the table,'' Mrs. Staack said. ``It's much more gracious setting than they get anywhere else.
``The people are always so happy,'' she said of those attending events. ``We love to hear the laughter at meetings. They really do enjoy this.''
Butterworth also is used often for recitals, since there is an organ and grand piano in the home.
``I'd like to think there's interest in some dignity and elegance that everyone has pushed aside,'' Mrs. Staack said of the homes' appeal. ``The whole world dresses in tennis shoes nowadays.''
``The biggest misconception I have to deal with is people assume that we're owned by Deere & Co. or funded by the city,'' Ms. Small said. ``We're totally self-supporting.'' She would not reveal the trust fund's value.
Two years ago, in order to cut costs, the trust closed Deere-Wiman to virtually all meetings, limiting them to art and history-oriented affairs, she said. Any other meetings on the property are encouraged to use the Deere-Wiman carriage house.
Butterworth was home to about 1,200 meetings and functions last year, while Deere-Wiman hosted 500, Mrs. Staack said. More than 5,000 people tour the houses each year, Ms. Small said.
``People come here because they like old buildings, they like history, the furnishings, the woodwork,'' she said. ``Another area we've expanded in the past year is the gardens. We're stressing the history of the gardens during tours.''
If people have time to see only one house (since tours take about 45 minutes), Ms. Small brings them to Deere-Wiman, in part because it's older and gives a better reflection of Deere & Co.'s early history, and also since Butterworth is more heavily used.
The homes attract many school groups and Ms. Small has trunks filled with Victoriana and lesson plans for teachers. Selected grade-school students are invited annually for workshops on local history, produced in conjunction with the county historical society, Ms. Small said.
Although the homes are not on the National Register of Historic Places, the trust is a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is included in a newly published book by the trust, called ``Meeting Planner's Guide to Historic Houses.''
There are 11 other Illinois sites in the guide, and none in the Quad-Cities. Ms. Small noted that Illinois tourism officials are giving a big push to history-related tourism.
``The buzzword today is heritage tourism,'' she said. ``We live in such a throwaway society. People like to make connections with the past and see things that have stayed consistent over the years.''
-- By Jonathan Turner (January 22, 1998)
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Collectively, it was hardly the best of seasons for Kershaw County's three public high school football programs which combined to win seven (see accompanying note) games in 2011.
ways and byways --- not to mention the parking lots --- on Friday to kick off the holiday shopping season, there will be those cars which will take to the dirt and the air while weaving their way around traffic.
The $100,000 TD Bank Marion duPont Scott Colonial Cup feature highlighted Saturday's six-race card, which included five steeplechases races and one on the flat and brought the curtain down on the 2011 National Steeplechase Association campaign.
With three fences left to be jumped, Xavier Aizpuru was done with trying to hold back Tax Ruling.
(Editor's note: Don Clippinger is the media consultant for the National Steeplechase Associaton. Here, he gives Colonial Cup fans an outlook of the 12 entries into Saturday's $100,000 feature chase. He also included odds, if pari-mutuel wagering were allowed in South Carolina.)
It took a cold/sinus infection to do what no horse on this side of the Atlantic could do last month.
Arch Kingsley might feel as if he is a stranger in his own house.
It's cold and flu season for horses, too.
Following a season in which all three Kershaw County high school volleyball teams finished in the top two of their respective regions --- with Camden and North Central capturing conference titles --- it should come as no surprise that when it came time for post-season honors to be handed out, players from these teams earned state and league laurels.
wo springs ago, Lugoff-Elgin baseball coach Randy Stokes decided to put then-sophomore Devin Walker behind the plate to handle a veteran group of hard-throwing pitchers, three of whom signed to pitch at the collegiate level including current USC closer Forrest Koumas.
The $100,000 Marion duPont Scott Colonial Cup has attracted 13 accomplished nominees, promising a large and talented field for the year's final major steeplechase race on Saturday, Nov. 19.
You only have one chance to make a first impression and Fidel Wise took full advantage of his this past season.
Without hesitation, Scott Jones decided to go for the two-point conversion and the possible win after Lugoff-Elgin closed to within 20-19 with 66 seconds left to play in Friday's season finale against Sumter.
C-I (Camden, S.C.) sports editor
Being a social studies teacher, Stephen Sutusky has a keen appreciation for history.
After the heartbreak of a 34-28 loss to the Carolina Wildcats one week earlier, the Camden Military Academy football team righted the ship on Saturday with a 20-12 win over the visiting New Covenant Knights.
After four-plus days of rumors, hearsay and innuendo, the Camden High School football team is still waiting to hear from the South Carolina High School League (HSL) as to any penalties stemming from last Friday night's post-game fight involving the Bulldogs and visiting Dreher at Zemp Stadium.
Camden native and former Camden High School baseball standout Michael Kohn has signed a one-year Major League contract with the Tampa Bay Rays.
It should have been the perfect ending to a festive Friday night at Zemp Stadium. A Camden High School (CHS) Bulldog football victory over once-beaten Dreher, which put them in a four-way tie atop the Region 4-AAA standings, came after a pre-game and halftime tribute to the school's 1964 AAA state championship team.
As his team boarded the bus for Friday's game with Indian Land, North Central head football coach Louis Clyburn just about had enough healthy bodies to form a hockey line, never mind an offensive line.
COLUMBIA --- Spring Valley made a late surge in the first half and never looked back defeating visiting Lugoff-Elgin, 40-14, in a Region 4-4A game played Friday night at Harry Parone Stadium.
It should have been a night in which the Camden High football locker room was hopping. Instead, the silence coming from the south corner of Zemp Stadium was deafening.
It was not going to happen on their watch.
Long snappers are a lot like plumbers. You never realize how much you need one until there is an inch of standing water in your kitchen.
It was business as usual for the football program at Lugoff-Elgin in the early part of the spring and summer.
For almost as long as North Central fans can remember, schools such as Andrew Jackson, Indian Land, Buford and Chesterfield have been the region rivals of the Knights' athletic teams.
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Correctly Modelling Reserves, Cost of Funding and Collateral in Monetary Circuit Theory
This post clarifies the treatment of bank reserves and 'excess reserves' in the MCT banking model in response to feedback from Steve Keen. Hopefully this approach will be persusive in understanding the interbank role of reserves in transmitting economic expansion, contraction and risk.
1) Where the Power to Lend Comes From
The past series of posts, especially here and here, have looked to develop the double entry monetary circuit approach to endogenous money by extending it to consider equity and other factors such as 'excess reserves'. The aim was to explain how banks can create money from a starting position of a blank balance sheet. Banks can create money but not from an empty balance sheet. The solution was to introduce equity and use that to feedstock 'lending power' a term I am trying to revive from early 20th century banking theory which refers to the 'intangible asset' of the ability to create profits from money creation – an issue highlighted by Neil Wilson and now adopted by Steve Keen,
Fig 1 How Equity Contributes to Lending Power in Start Up Bank
|Lending Power Value
|Bank Working Capital
|Grant Equity for Lending
|Grant Lending Power
I expected the treatment of reserves to be controversial although I had only one serious challenge in a new model and the comment below appear to refer to my proposed approach
[One] way to involve reserves and try to make them part of the system is to argue that banks lend from liabilities rather than assets, and that one of its liabilities is a working capital reserve–the banking sector's own liabilities to itself. Then you can derive a system which appears to show that banks lend from reserves …the bottom line here is that eliminating "Fractional Reserve Banking" does nothing to eliminate the capacity for banks to create money: that will exist in a purely free market system just as much as it does today.
I agree but that is not the issue, the point being made is that fractional reserve banking increases lending power, but that power exists as my model shows when a bank starts up has no deposited reserves, only equity. . Private correspondence from Steve Keen on the basis that all endogenous money creation must come from the liability side – I agree – and my preliminary response was published here. This approach was inadequate though, reserves and excess reserves pop up from the model emerging from the black box within. This revised model explicitly models fractional reserves banking as a series of double entries between liabilities and from my enquiries mirror real world bank operations.
2) Fractional Reserve Banking
In modern form fractional reserve banking arose in renaissance Italy (the earliest recorded example is from Venice) when banks realised that they had more reserves on hand then their day to day demand for reserves from depositors required, and hence they could lend it out at interest. This was greatly aided by the 'venice system' the discovery of double entry bookkeeping. We know however that Roman banking (preserved in Byzantine and transmitted to Venice) operated on a fractional reserve basis.
The earliest monetary circuit theory double entry models have assumed that all deposits are held as a liability under working capital and therefore 100% of the reserves are added to lending power. This is unrealistic a bank must keep a reserve amount to deal with anticipated daily withdrawl levels and to meet any regulatory demands. Lets model this for simplicity as before only modelling firms which are also equity holders in the bank. What the model does is to split liabilities through internal transfers between required reserves and working capital.
Fig 2 How Required Reserves Contribute to Lending Power
|Lending Power Value
|Loan Ledger
|Bank Working Capital
|Firm Deposits
|Grant Equity for Lending
|Grant Lending Power
|Deposit & maintain required reserves
|Transfer Excess Reserves
|+Deposits *(1-reserve ratio)
|-Deposits *(1-reserve ratio)
|Increase lending power from
Excess Reserves
|+Deposits *(1-reserve ratio)
|-Deposits *(1-reserve ratio)
|Lend Money
|-Lend Money
|+Lend Money
|Record Loan
|-Lend Money
|+Lend Money
|Charge Interest
|+Interest Charge
|-Interest Charge
|Record Interest
|-Interest Charge
|+Interest Charge
|Repay Interest and Loan
|-Loan Repayment
-Interest Charge
|-Loan Repayment
-Interest Charge
|Record Interest and Loan
|+Loan Repayment +Interest Charge
|-Loan Repayment -Interest Charge
|Pay Dividends
|Transfer Dividends to Deposits
|Increased Deposits From Dividends Used for Asset Purchase
|+Dividends-Asset Purchase*(1-reserve ratio)
|-Dividends-Asset Purchase
|Increased Deposits from Loan Used for Asset Purchase
|+(Lend Money-Asset Purchase)*(1/reserve ratio)
|-Lend Money-Asset Purchase
|Increased Working Capital from Excess Reserves
|+(Lend Money-Asset Purchase)*(1/reserve ratio)
+Dividends-Asset Purchase*(1-reserve ratio)
|-(Lend Money-Asset Purchase)*(1/reserve ratio)
-Dividends-Asset Purchase*(1-reserve ratio)
|Transfer Working Capital to Lending Power
|+(Lend Money-Asset Purchase)*(1/reserve ratio)
+Dividends-Asset Purchase*(1-reserve ratio)
|-(Lend Money-Asset Purchase)*(1/reserve ratio)
-Dividends-Asset Purchase*(1-reserve ratio)
The formulas and approach is the same as in the previous model with the model taking into account the geometrical reduction of excess reserves through multiples banks only with the explicit modelling of required reserves and the correction for the topping up of lending power via working capital.
If all lent money is used to purchase assets there is no net creation of excess reserves. There will be from dividends.
3) Modelling The Cost of Funding
The above model assumes a business model of banking. That is the profit of a bank is the cost of the loan minus the revenue from the loan at net present value. What if a bank has lent up to its lending power but still finds that there are additional profitable loans to be made? If the cost of funding the additional lending power still maintains an acceptable level of profit the bank will if it can borrow short to extend its lending power for long term loans. Before long any positive profits will restore lending power meaning short term funding will be the principle requirement. This is the underlying dynamics behind the nostrum that banks make money through borrowing short and lending long. This is known as the reserve window. Lets model this.
Fig 3 Inclusion of the Cost of Funding
|Lending Power Value
|Bank Working Capital
|Firm Deposits
|Grant Equity for Lending
|Grant Lending Power
|Cover Reserve Window
|-Short Term Funding
|+Short Term Funding
It would be a great mistake to assume that from the viewpoint of the system as a whole as opposed to a single bank the funding costs of one bank are the income of another and this cancels. This would be to make a classic 'loans=deposits' mistake. Correct yes in terms of anticipated capitalisation of future income but that income is radically uncertain. In terms of very short terms loans yes for all intents and purposes they will cancel but we also have to consider the impact of collateral.
4) Modelling Collateral
Those who lend without collateral are making a risk that the loan will default. This may add to the cost of the loan by adding an interest premium. If the cost is high then collateral may be required.
Collateral acts as insurance. Lets say there is a 5% risk of a loan then this sum, discounted to NPV is the additional insurance required at the granting of the loan. This is typically taken as cash. Lets model this from the perspective of the banking system as a whole.
|Lending Power Value
|Loan Ledger
|Bank Working Capital
|Firm Deposits
|Deposit Collateral
|+Lend Money*Default Risk
|-Lend Money*Default Risk
|Add Collateral
|+Lend Money*Default Risk
|-Lend Money*Default Risk
|Record Collateral
|-Lend Money*Default Risk
|+Lend Money*Default Risk
|Adjust Required Reserves
|- (Lend Money*Default Risk)*Reserve Ratio
|- (Lend Money*Default Risk)*Reserve Ratio
|Reduce Lending Power
|- (Lend Money*Default Risk)*Reserve Ratio
|+ (Lend Money*Default Risk)*Reserve Ratio
So we can see from the perspective of the system as a whole collaterals effect in increasing lending power is offset to a very large degree by the reduction in excess deposits in the system. What this means is changes to collateral requirement effect the change in debt – a well observed phenomenon noted by Minsky. As collateral requirements increase so the change in debt reduces.
We may modify our formula as follows
Where C=Collateral
Interesting extensions to this approach would be to model recollaterolisation and collateral chains
Posted on July 22, 2012, in political economy. Bookmark the permalink. 25 Comments.
Where collateral is re-used (rehypothecated), its value declines on each re-use – this is represented by the "haircut", or amount of extra collateral required to achieve the same risk reduction. Therefore the "flow" of rehypothecated collateral behaves much like the recycling of deposits in the traditional money multiplier – the amount of debt that can be supported reduces with each rehypothecation. Is that helpful?
Accounting's definition of working capital is different than the definition used above. Please consider looking it up.
Working capital = current assets – current liabilities
So, one should also look up current assets and liabilities. Basically, the "current" part means an assets or liabilities that have a duration of less than a year. { If the asset or liability lasts more than a year it would be called "long term asset" or "long term liability."}
Examples of current assets and liabilities can be found on balance sheets. Please see a balance sheet. Assets and Liabilities are both divided into accounts that are "current" and accounts that are "long term". The current assets are above "Total Current Assets" on the balance sheet. Like wise for the current liabilities. They like to put the more liquid or current assets at the top and the less liquid long term assets afterword.
Working capital is calculation netting short term assets and liabilities. It's not usually a single account on a balance sheet.
Double entry bookkeeping and accounting are easy enough to be learned by one self. It is so valuable and ubiquitous I don't understand why it isn't an educational requirement. The beginning upward slope on the learning curve is "debit" and "credit" and T-accounts. T accounts are a modern simplification of the ledger accounts. Once the initial learning curve hump is passed with a little practice the rest is much easier.
It might be a good idea to leave existing accounting definitions in tact. If one wants to make up your own definitions or accounts please consider using different terms and give the your definition of the term or account. One is always free to set up their own chart of accounts or make up their own accounts.
I think if one really wants to begin to understand basic banking is to learn the beginning fundamentals of double entry bookkeeping and then learn about notes and bills (a bill is a form of note.) Actually, the old bookkeeping books have lots of info on notes and bills of exchange. I think notes and bills are the essentials of how a bank work. Then the "Ah hah!" moment comes.
But, people don't need banks to use notes and bills of exchange and the old pedagogical literature examples could lead you conclude that they were in very common use. In fact foreign trade can be done this way reducing the magnitude of specie that has to crisscross the world. My father told me that people went to the grocery store and the store saved up the chits and presented them with a bill after a time (he mentioned methods that indicated how efficient the bookkeeping method was.)
Historians say that the accepting and giving bills of exchange and notes can actually increase the amount of trade.
It may come from my ignorance of accounting but trying to understand your model, there's a few things which seems illogical to me.
First, I don't see how a bank could start with no reserves. In order to obtain a banking licence, there's an initial capital requirement (I know it's the case in Canada so I assume it's the same everywhere, maybe not?). For exemple, if I want to start a bank, say Bank A, I'm gonna have to provide the required capital from my own savings. As I see it, I'm gonna have to make a transfert from my deposit account at Bank B to the equity account of Bank A. This transfert gonna have to be matched by an equivalent transfert of reserves from Bank B to Bank A accounts at the central bank. Now, considering reserves as a liability doesn't make sense to me. Banks are borrowing reserves from each other and it doesn't make sense to borrow a liability because both the loan and the reserves would add to liabilities. In the landmower example you gave above, the landmower is an asset to it's owner and it won't become a liability because it's lent out. If I borrow a landmower from you, I borrow an asset and "I owe you" a landmower, which is the corresponding liability.
Now, the first line of your table starts with – equity in the equity account and + equity in the working capital account. It's weird because the bank starts with no assets and to match the increase in equity, working capital needs to be a "negative" liability. If instead you consider reserves as an asset and the transfert of reserves, you would have – equity in the equity account and + equity in the reserve account on the asset side of the balance sheet, which makes much more sense to me. The bank could then lend directly from equity ( + loan in equity account and – loan firm deposit account) and recording the loan would restore equity (+ loan in loan ledger and – loan in equity account). This wouldn't require lending power or working capital… It would make things more straightforward and easy to follow and I think more logical.
It's hard for me to judge since I don't know accounting and I never saw what a real bank balance sheet look like. Does it make sense to you?
Huge problem with using the term 'reserves' as a liability side entry in banking. And that's because 'Central bank reserves' are private bank assets.
You are right that it is an accounting equity reserve, but you need to come up with another name for it or you will lose your readers.
And banks are not restricted in their lending capacity unless regulated. And that requires a 'police force', and a police force that is able to shut the bank down.
This is to you and your readers.
Please consider leaning more about double entry bookkeeping for a bit, before learning of more confusing economics.
Bookkeeping is simpler than economics because it works! It's not perfect, but it works!
In the word accounting, is the word "count". Accountants and bookkeepers know how to count. Economists, well…, do they they know how to count? I'm not so sure, they keep getting it wrong… Accountants are not constantly assuming every thing out of consideration, because they don't know how to treat those things. Many economists have turned away from accounting or have never had enough exposure to it. We both agree economics delivered to the public and undergraduate level is lacking so much?
******** Have you gotten any books or courses on double entry bookkeeping and or accounting? Please consider learning some more, double entry bookkeeping, DEB. The bookkeeping books tend to be shorter and have basic examples. I like them both and began with the simplest.
Bookkeeping is simpler than economics because it works!
Bookkeeping doesn't come with the confusion of the failure of economics. It is the language of business. It is known in depth by more people than economics is. It has real utility. The vocabulary is more precise and understood by more people. It can save you money. It has more educational content. It handles both stocks and flows. You could use it in business. Accountants have a code of ethics. Economics has no code of ethics.
You use some of it for economics because it shows promise of improving dismal economics. You could easily be much better at it. Why not go in the bookkeeping direction a little while and learn some more of it? It might be more interesting to you than the economics without accounting. It would only take a few days study to start. And you would be able to run circles around most economists. And you would be more aware of them assuming important things away. You may be able to spot more of the ridiculousness of more assumptions and ideas purported.
Accounting can be self taught. Reading the first few chapters of some books with pencil and paper to do the examples, is a good start. Unless you are blessed with that genius of learning math stuff with out practice you have got to practice it in the beginning because every thing is based on the basics.
The basics of accounting are the system of using debit and credit. I like the idea of "Normal Account Balances" for explaining debits and credits. So, books with that in the index might be good. I think a few introductory books would work. Also, the concept of Revenue and Expense being sub accounts of Equity (belonging to equity) or them being nominal (or temporary) accounts that are transferred or cleared to equity is good. They are temporary accounts because those accounts are filled for the period to measure the flow of income over that period. Then they are cleared for the next period by transferring the balances to profit & loss, income, or retained earrings (a sub account of equity).
I have a note to keep in mind when learning accounting. Income statements and balance statements are value based, not cash based. In accounting things are recorded at the value that was paid for them, but are not currency. One could have income but run out of currency. That is why the banks have reserves ready for the demands of depositors' withdraws. Thus the cash flow statement is actuality is very important. But cash flow statements are treated as a very advanced subject in accounting books. (A cash book is also a good way to keep a tab on cash.) A entity always has to have enough cash, but can be making an accounting profit but run out of cash. Why? If they make all there sales by giving credit that counts as income but they have not gotten the cash yet there could be a problem.
Here are some videos of the basics done by one of the best teachers I have seen on the web. Each are about 8 minutes. He uses the "Normal Account Balance" concept. I hope you like them too.
Use pencil and paper to practice to understand faster
lecture 1: Balance sheets part 1
lecture 2: Balance sheets part 2
lecture 3: debits and credits
lecture 4: recording transactions
lecture 5: T-accounts
lecture 6: The accounting cycle
Some one elses idea:
Here is a course offered by a lady who seems experienced. I haven't bought her course but have looked at her free presentations. I thought her treatment of bank reconciliation was very good. She offers a 60 day money back warranty. Real classes might be better because students can learn from each otters.
Sorry I don't have a book recommendation of you.
Do you know of accounting is widely ignored in economics in the West? If that is so, why would accounting be ignored? Is there any good reasons for economist to ignore accounting?
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It is suggested that you read this post first: http://vividrandomexistence.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/zoosexuality-should-it-be-considered-acceptable-or-not
Dolphins are intelligent mammals (just like humans). Dolphins are one of the few creatures on Earth that have sex for pleasure. It is no surprise then that dolphins have been documented enjoying sex with humans.
Here is a quote regarding delphinic zoosexuality:
"Zoophilia is best described as a love of animals so intimate that the person (and the animal) involved have no objections to expressing their affection for each other in the sexual fashion. This does not include forcefully mating with an animal, without their consent, or with no mutual feelings whatsoever. This is something that I would never do to a dolphin, since I love them dearly, and treat them with the same respect that an honest husband would have for his wife and children.
Dolphins are very intelligent, highly emotional and expressive creatures.They enjoy the company of humans, and if a relationship develops between a human and a dolphin, as has happened with me, they will, on occasion, wish to express their trust and affection for you in the most direct way; through mating, or sex-play. You see, dolphins do not use sex purely for procreative reasons. They use it as a way of strengthening the bonds between pod mates (mothers and calves included), and also for fun. Dolphins and humans share this common trait with very few other animals, so sometimes it makes me wonder when people continue to ask me 'How DO you mate with a dolphin?'. Easy. Let the dolphin tell you! [...]
You should love a dolphin, not because of the sexual relief they can provide, but because they are a unique animal, one of the few wild animals that seek the company of man by their own initiative. This is special Do not abuse it."– http://www.zoophile.net/dolphins.php
The above website also says the following:
"There are 2 ways of determining the sex of a dolphin. The most obvious way is to take a peek under the peduncle (the long part of the body connected to the tailflukes). On the dolphin's belly, directly opposite the dorsal fin, will be the umbilicus, or the navel of the dolphin. Looking further down towards the tail, you start to see the differences. Male dolphins have two separate slits for the penis (the urogenital opening) and the anus. These are separated by a bridge of skin. The male's urogenital opening is generally located further up the belly, towards the navel.
Females, on the other fin, have one continuous larger slit, the anus located at the end of it. On either side of the genital slit, you will find two smaller slits; these are the mammary slits, where the nipples of the dolphin are kept for feeding the calves. The slit is also located closer to the tail stock of the dolphin. The other way to determine the sex of a dolphin, if you can't reach their belly, is to look at their mellon ,or head. The males tend to have a fatter, rounder mellon, while the females are more sleek and streamlined[...]
There are various ways a dolphin has of showing that she or he is interested in sex. Males are probably the easiest to detect. They will swim around, sporting an erection (anywhere between 10 to 14 inches longfor a Bottle-nose), and will have no bones about swimming up to you and placing their member within reach of your hand. If you are in the water, they may rub it along any part of your body, or wrap it around your wrist or ankle. (Dolphin males have a prehensile penis. They can wrap it around objects, and carry them as such.) Their belly will also be pinkish in colour, which also denotes sexual excitement. Females can be a little harder. The most obvious way a female dolphin has of displaying her sexual interest is the pink-belly effect. Their genitals become very pink and swollen, making the genital region very prominent.They may be restless, or they may be acting as normal. If you are out of the water, they may swim up to you and roll belly up, exposing themselves to you, coupled with pelvic thrusts. If you are in the water, they may press their genitals up against yours, nibble your fingers, nuzzle your crotch, or do pelvic thrusts against you. Each dolphins way of expressing sexual readiness varies, so the longer you know the dolphin, the better you will detect when they are sexually active[...] [if a dolphin wants to have sex with you], accept, if possible!" — http://www.zoophile.net/dolphins.php
Here is video showing a dolphin showing an apparent sexual interest or "sex-play" as described in the above quote:
Here is another video showing a dolphin with apparent interest in having sex with a human, and engaging in "sex-play":
Although the above videos could've been staged, they still strongly suggest that dolphins are at least somewhat willing to have sex with humans. Since the "sex-play" seen in the videos above occurred at two different times in two different aquariums to two different people, it makes the notion that dolphins are willing to have sex with humans more credible. Also, although the above videos could be interpreted as being humorous, remember that the human sexual attraction to dolphins is not something to laugh about — it is a real sexual desire that many people feel, but few people reveal.
As Delphigirl pointed out, there is the strong possibility that the above videos involved training; she provided another video in which dolphins appear to be sexually attracted to humans in open water:
One of the main problems for those who are sexually attracted to dolphins is that finding a dolphin "partner" is a bit of a logistical nightmare, especially if one lives in an area far from the ocean. Firstly, in the United States people are not allowed to own dolphins as pets, because of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (this does not apply to the open ocean and some foreign countries). Secondly, it will be difficult for people to have sex with dolphins in aquariums because those are public places, and zoosexuality is taboo. Thirdly, it is not easy to have sex with a dolphin in the wild, not only because dolphins are often on the move, but because (just as with aquariums) the wild is not private, allowing bigots to aim their prejudicial zoosexual discrimination towards the dolphin lover (see also: Anti-zoosexual (zoophobic) bullying). A person who attempted to have sex with a dolphin near a beach might be seen by an anti-zoo bigot, but if a person took a boat out into the open ocean and attempted to have sex with a dolphin far from a shoreline, the odds are high that no one would see them. But even this scenario is difficult to accomplish, since dolphins are often on the move and difficult to locate.
The logistical problems associated with the creation of a real life dolphin-human relationship are discussed in the quote below:
"The sad truth is that most delphinic zoos [dolphin-oriented zoosexual people] will never be able to have a relationship for obvious reasons. There is very limited access to captive cetacea and only a small number of animals in such facilities; all of whom can be easily identified, so contact with them is extremely unlikely for most, and very risky for those who work with them. As for wild dolphins, one faces a difficult situation due to the Marine Mammal Protection Act here in the U.S., similar laws in other coastal places in the world, and other issues prohibiting interaction with these animals. Despite these obstacles, though, some people have had relationships with wild dolphins" — http://delphigirlwrites.blogspot.com
Based on Internet evidence, the best place to have sex with a dolphin is at night, in a secluded (remote) bay or cove:
"Aquariums are a bad choice, for many reasons. Too public, the dolphins are not in their natural habitat, night visits are impossible, etc etc…some may have external enclosures, which may be accessible, but that is no guarantee. Best thing sometimes is to find a beach or a cove that the dolphins frequent. It takes time to develop a relationship with a dolphin to the point where they will let you mate with them (although some have been as quick as 3 days to acclimatize). Gaining their trust takes time,and you need to visit frequently. This is impossible for some people, I understand, but it is the best way. Sometimes you just need to be in the right place at the right time. I have been extremely lucky on two occasions with wild dolphins, and my current mate is a dolphin who lives in the harbour of my resident city. Well, I hope this is of use to whoever is interested."– http://www.zoophile.net/dolphins.php
It is quite possible that in the future, if zoosexuality ever become accepted by society, the first laws to officially allow sex with animals will have to do with dolphins. Chances are that future technology will be able to prove that dolphins enjoy having sex with humans, thus bringing people to the conclusion that there is nothing wrong with having sex with dolphins (and thus resulting in a law protecting the rights of delphinic zoophiles). But this hypothetical reality is far from occurring — right now, zoosexuality, even delphinic zoosexuality, is still irrationally reviled by society, just as black people were irrationally reviled by people in the U.S. South in the early 1800s.
There is nothing wrong with having sex with dolphins, so long as the dolphin consents to sex. As discussed in other posts, animals can consent to sex by using body language; they do not need to speak a human language to communicate what they want and don't want. In addition, it is very clear when a dolphin does and does not want to have sex. And according to Internet sources, people have personally experienced dolphins becoming aroused at the sight of a human:
"I was quite happily swimming around with the dolphins when she suddenly decided to grab my foot with her genital slit. Dolphins have very muscular vaginal orifices, and can use these muscles to manipulate objects and carry them. I stayed still for a while, to see if she was just playing, but she continued to masturbate against my foot, and in the light of the torch I sometimes carry, I could see that her slit had become very pink and had swelled as well. She was aroused!
So, I started to back-paddle with my hands towards a small beached area, partially submerged in the water. A couple of times she pulled me forward into the deeper water, but eventually I got my self to the shallows. I dislodged my foot (Being careful not to pull too hard), and took her gently by a pectoral fin and rubbed her belly just to aclimatize her, I guess. She immediately rolled belly up and started doing pelvic thrusts against the palm of my hand. It was unmistakeably erotic, and by now I was fully aroused.
I stripped off my shorts, and gently pulled her into the shallows until she was lying on her side, her belly facing towards me, half submerged in the water. I nestled myself belly to belly against her, and pressed my member against her genital slit. She immediately arched her body against mine, and took me inside her body, initiating a quick series of muscular contractions with her vaginal muscles. I wrapped my left arm around her body and just held her close while she manipulated me inside her body, until I climaxed barely 2 minutes later. Surprisingly, her body also shuddered against mine, and we spent the next 5 or so minutes just lying together in the shallows, holding each other, enjoying our company and reveling in the fact that we had shared something special together, something very few people can claim to have done.
I do not brag about this though. It is not something you can brag about, since it not only is demeaning to the act, but it destroys the purpose of the act as well; to express affection, and trust. I only consent to those dolphins who ask. As a result, I have mated only three times. Each time was memorable and special, because each time it was something we both wanted to share with each other. Sex, for me, is just another, albeit powerful, expression of affection and trust. I wouldn't engage any other animal, though; it is not my attraction. But there is little I wouldn't do for a dolphin." — http://www.sexwork.com/family/dolphins1.html
As the above quote shows, people have had sex with dolphins, and from what these people described, both participants (the human and the dolphin) were satisfied by their mutually-enjoyable interactions.
Dolphins are also one of the few animals that humans have married. For example, on my post about human-animal marriage, I discussed a human-dolphin marriage; here is a photo of that marriage:
The marriage took place in Israel, between and a woman and a dolphin who were in love with each other. What is interesting is that the dolphin apparently understood the marriage, at least partially, because dolphins are so smart.
Delphinic zoosexuality is very widespread, but most delphinic zoosexuals are in the "zoosexual closet". Like other zoosexual variations on the zoosexual orientation wheel, delphinic zoosexuals play an important part in defining the zoosexual community. Also, on my post about what it's like to be eaten, I briefly discussed the above issues.
If an alien from another planet watched all of our TV shows and observed our pop-culture, that alien would leave the Earth thinking that people did not like having sex with dolphins, and were not sexually attracted to them. However, besides websites such as zoophile.net, there are tools that would make the widespread (closeted) delphinic zoosexuality easier to detect.
For example, take Google Trends. It is a website which determines how much a term is search for by people on the Earth, and then categorizes those searches by country and city. For example, when "sex with animal" is typed in, one will discover that the countries where this term is searched for the most are Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia. However, when "dolphin sex" is typed in, one will discover that the term "dolphin sex" is searched for frequently in New Zealand, the United States, and Australia. Also, the city where "dolphin sex" is searched for the most is Tampa, Florida.
Additionally, there is more evidence that delphinic zoosexuality is widespread. For example, read this quote:
"I have learned an important lesson – people want dolphin sex, and lots of it! The proof is in the dolphin flavored pudding [search terms for dolphin sex][...] Now, what I want to know is: why is dolphin sex so popular? Put your penis where your porpoise is and comment" — http://thejamminjabber.com/2007/08/07/dolphin-fckers-of-the-world-unite/
The above quote could have less to do with people being attracted to dolphins, and more to do with the fact that they (the delphinic zoosexuals) cannot express themselves in public, so their expression comes out on the Internet instead, resulting in a huge number of searches for dolphin sex. If dolphin sexuality (delphinic zoosexuality) were actually accepted by society like it should be, perhaps people wouldn't be relying on the Internet so much.
Nonetheless, there is plenty of evidence on the Internet that people want to have sex with dolphins:
"I wanna f*ck a female dolphin" — man
"I would like to have a sexual relation with a female dolphin. It looks comfortable and the dolphin's vagina is very muscled." — Anonymous
"I want to have sex with dolphins; they are sexy" — a guy
"Dolphins are amazing creatures and I think they would be the best animals to have sex with because they are the only other mammal that I know of
that has sex for pleasure" — Vampirevivic
–source: http://www.thejamminjabber.com/2007/03/22/dolphin-sex
"The thought of having sex with a dolphin had never occurred to me, but it sounds wonderful." — Dogmeat19, http://www.beastforum.com/showtopic-23156.html
"For me, I think the passion for dolphins is a mix of their grace, beauty, strength, intelligence, and personalities. And perhaps to some extent the sheer exoticness of their being, they're unlike any other mammal." — Cetacean
"I just have an inexplicable attraction to them [dolphins]. Their appearance, behavior and lifestyle are all huge turn-ons. It's an obsession and a love." — Delphinidae
"I love dolphins because of their intelligence, personality, because they enjoy humans, [and because] I love every part of the dolphin body too. I think that they are maybe the most beautiful creatures on the planet. The shape of the dolphin body is so great, and for me they are a symbol of freedom." — dolphlove
"Being able to find a horny [dolphin] in the wild sounds real hot…does that come with any Florida vacations? hehe" — German07
"I would love to make love to a dolphin." — Sasquasher
"I hear that sex with [dolphins] is incredible, especially if you are a human male." — shadowtalons
"I wish I could be making sweet passionate love to a female dolphin in a secluded cove away from civilization so we can enjoy each other in peace. I would be in the shallows embracing her, and she would do her best to wrap both of her fins around my body. I would hear her loving moans fill the air and mix with mine, I would cooe her and rub her body as we make love. She will give me heavenly pleasure unlike any being on Earth by rhythmically thrusting against me, and at the same time clenching, rubbing, and rippling her vaginal muscles along the full length of my member. I would feel her beautiful, sleek, smooth body as we both shudder and shriek and as she thrusts faster and clenches harder to an inevitable climax as our souls intertwine. And we will become soulmates for as long as time will let us." — Dolphin Zoo
Sources of the 7 quotes above: http://beastforum.com/showtopic-105394-15.html, http://www.beastforum.com/index.php?s=f79e54601f473bebd60183b9a1ad9f9e&showtopic=105394&st=45
Obviously, as the above quotes demonstrate, there are many people out there who are sexually attracted to dolphins. It is not an abnormality.
There have been a few books written about human-dolphin sexual interactions. For example, the book Wet Goddess: Recollections of a dolphin lover is an auto-biographical book by a man named Malcolm Brenner, who had a sexual relationship with a dolphin for 9 years. He discusses the book he wrote on this website: http://wetgoddess.net. Here is a photo of him when he was with his lover:
According to Malcolm Brenner, the dolphin he regularly had sex with was the love of his life (source)
Here is a quote about Brenner's euphoric experience:
"Brenner described how in the 1970s he fell madly in love with a dolphin he was photographing at a local amusement park. After the usual teasing and flirting that comes with mammalian courtship, the two consummated their love affair. The most common reaction New Times heard from readers: 'I didn't know that was even possible." —
Probably the reason why people didn't know that having sex with a dolphin is possible is because of a lack of zoosexual awareness; and this lack of zoosexual awareness is created by the stupid taboo that society has irrationally placed on zoosexuality.
Also, here is another quote about Malcolm Brenner:
[Malcolm Brenner said] 'She [the dolphin] would take my leg very lightly in her jaws and run her teeth up and down my leg. It's an incredible sensation. I don't know if other people would find it erotic, but I certainly did.'
[Commenter says the following:] "What are your thoughts on this? I personally think it's a step in the right direction for the bestiality civil rights movement. Organisms should have the liberty to love and have sex with whatever they want (as long as it's consensual). Love is a right, not a privilege. Wet Goddess is the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the 21st century."– http://totse2.com/showthread.php?448-Man-Writes-About-Sex-with-a-Dolphin
There are a lot of bigots out there who think zoosexuality is a "sin" (which is complete bullsh*t), and think sex with animals is immoral. By default, zoosexuality is not immoral. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with zoosexuality. Just as heterosexual sex can be abused (i.e. a man raping a woman), zoosexuality can also be abused (i.e. the human forcing the animal to have sex). Think of it this way: heterosexual sex isn't bad because it can be abused, and similarly zoosexual sex isn't bad because it can be abused. When zoosexuality is done in an abusive way, then it is immoral, but if both the human and animal consent to sex, then it is not immoral. Most zoosexual people would never do anything abusive to their animal lovers. As discussed in other posts, most zoosexual activity is cruelty-free, and many zoosexual people are also vegetarians and animal rights activists.
Unfortunately, some people have criticized human-dolphin sexual interactions for the same reason they condemn all interspecies sex involving humans: their irrational prejudices and anti-zoosexual biases. They are also speciesist (meaning they have a prejudicial and irrational bias in favor of humans over other species — they arrogantly and fallaciously believe that humans are "superior" to all other species and "separate" from them; speciesists are delusional and incorrect because humans ARE animals). Humans are NOT "special" — humans are part of the Animal Kingdom and are not separate from it. On a cosmic scale, the Earth is equivalent to a grain of sand on a beach — humans and all other animal species are interconnected on that grain of sand we call the Earth (see Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot for more information on this perspective).
For more information about speciesism, see this post: Fighting speciesism and anthropocentrism
Here is a quote by a person with an anti-zoosexual, speciesist attitude:
"Glorifying human sexual interactions with other species is inappropriate for the health and well being of any animal. It puts the dolphin's own health and social behavioral settings at risk. — Denise Herzing
The above quote is bulls**t because it is based on irrational opinion and not based on reasoning or scientific evidence. The notion that interspecies sex is "inappropriate" is a close-minded and bigoted prejudice. The main problem with the above quote is that it is based on confirmation bias. "Confirmation bias" is "the tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses". In other words, no matter how many compelling arguments are made in favor of zoosexuality, Herzing will ignore those arguments and focus only on her pre-conceieved anti-zoosexual bias. The above quote is also speciesist because it only takes into account dolphin's interactions with humans and not other species.
It is not "inappropriate" for a human to have sex with a non-human animal because interspecies sex is natural (it occurs in the wild) and there is nothing intrinsically wrong with it. The health and well-being of an animal is not harmed by interspecies sex — in fact, interspecies sex has the potential to improve the well-being of those involved. And as a National Geographic article stated, interspecies sex has been shown to be beneficial to animals. The only health problem associated with interspecies sex might be the potential transmission of diseases, but that risk exists with ANY sexual activity (whether intra-species or inter-species).
Also, it is arrogant to say that a dolphin's "social behavioral settings" should not include sex with humans. Dolphins by their nature are willing to have sex for pleasure and fun — that is within the scope of their "social behavioral settings". And also, dolphins have been observed being sexually attracted to members of other species, including humans. Remember that humans are part of nature and are not "separate" from it. Just because interspecies sex with a human is out-of-the-ordinary doesn't mean it is bad for a dolphin's behavior — that is just an anti-zoosexual prejudice. In addition, dolphins are intelligent and are capable of using body language to express consent, so Herzing's quote essentially belittles and disparages the intelligence of dolphins by assuming that dolphins are incapable of making their own decisions.
Basically, people like Herzing have an ignorant anti-zoosexual prejudice and bias based on their own irrational knee-jerk beliefs and intolerance. Many of these people are also arrogantly speciesist.
Now, don't get me wrong: Denise Herzing is a good person who has a lot of good philosophies and perspectives. I even quoted some of the things she said (from a book called "Dolphin Diaries") because I liked them so much. But unfortunately, when it comes to zoosexuality, she holds the "conventional" irrational view that zoosexual activity is "wrong" (as I discuss in this post, it is not intrinsically wrong). I am not criticizing Herzing, but I am criticizing her prejudicial non-scientific opinion that interspecies sex is "wrong".
Just because the majority of people think something is "right" or "wrong" does not necessarily make it so. For example, the majority of people in the U.S. South in the early 1800s thought that slavery was not wrong — and of course, now we look back at these people and think "what were they thinking". In the future, people will look back at our time and be critical of the fact that everyone ate meat (see arguments for vegetarianism), and they will also criticize the fact that everyone was so hostile towards zoosexuality.
With regard to the issue of "consent", remember that there are unethical practices (such as slaughtering animals for meat, hunting, spaying and neutering, experimentation, dissection, etc) which do not involve the consent of the animal. Non-consensual acts such as slaughter and hunting (which really harm animals) should be banned, and acts which do not harm animals (such as ethical forms of interspecies sex) should not be banned. Because slaughtering animals is unethical and non-consensual, people should stop eating meat and become vegetarian, just as Albert Einstein did.
Remember that non-human animals CAN consent to sex with humans (or members of other species) non-verbally and with body language — an exception should not be made for humans (those who exclude humans from the rest of the Animal Kingdom are arrogantly speciesist and delusional). Non-human animals have sex with each other all the time without ever saying a human word. Therefore, human language should not be a prerequisite to interspecies sex (even if that interspecies sex happens to involve a human). The human concept of "consent" is something which is only applicable in human-to-human sexual relations and is not applicable to interspecies sex. Sex is not meaningful and is not a "big deal" for non-human animals the way it is for humans.
Luckily, there are people out there who are willing to defend zoosexuals (delphinic or not), even though they themselves are not zoosexual. For example, read this quote:
"I may not agree with your desire to have sex with dolphins, but I shall fight to the death to defend your right to have sex with dolphins" — Dr. Zoidberg, http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=312283
Hopefully, as time goes by, more and more people will think like the person in the quote above: This is the way people should be thinking if they do not agree with zoosexuality. Zoosexual rights is an important issue. It may take time, but in the end, delphinic zoosexuals will triumph, and people will look back at society in the early 21st century and wonder why people were so against zoosexuality. One of the most important things that people seek is the truth — and it is true that there is nothing wrong with having sex with a dolphin.
Additionally, remember that dolphins themselves are often sexually attracted to humans, in a phenomenon known as "reverse bestiality". They have been known to demonstrate their attraction by making their bodies turn a pinkish color, and through certain behaviors. Of course, due to the taboo associated with bestiality and zoophilia, the "reverse bestiality" dolphin fact will probably never be discussed by the mainstream media.
Remember that humans have a right to have sex with non-human animals (including dolphins), and dolphins have a right to have sex with humans and other animal species. (In other words: humans have a right to have sex with dolphins, and dolphins have a right to have sex with humans).
Here are some blogs which are specifically about dolphin-oriented zoosexuality:
People must ensure that zoosexual's rights are protected — and that means repealing anti-zoosexual laws and decriminalizing interspecies sex between humans and other animals, whether those animals are humans, dolphins, dogs, elephants, etc. It also means making sure that new anti-zoosexual legislation doesn't pass.
See also:
"More about dolphin-oriented zoosexuality"
Zoosexuality: should it be considered acceptable?
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your graphics card is an ATI Radeon 7000 series, which would be adequate for aero effects, except that nobody bothered to make a driver for vista or windows 7.
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so it wouldn't work with Aero even if there was a driver for it. At best for that old card is to use the last XP driver for it,
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installed using compatibility mode,
Compatibility Mode
A new card just for Aero isn't the best of ideas either. For starters the age of the computer in general, and not only is that old 7000 not supported neither is the Intel 865 chipset,
That and the cost of a new card (AGP or PCI, depend on what is actually on the motherboard) is pretty much more than the whole computer is worth, This is one of those situations where it is better to either make do with what you have or stay with XP, and go with 7 when a new computer is bought that is up to spec for it.
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I found 3 AGP cards for less than $50 on newegg that are at least DX 9 compliant
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Still not really worth it. Don't forget that if and when paddy gets a new computer, a new card for the old won't be able to be used in it.
Another thing to remember is the headache that goes along with an AGP card in a system with an unsupported chipset (Intel 865 in this case), the graphics card forum is full of threads about this issue. Not sure how well the 865 works with whatever default AGP driver gets installed with 7, but if it doesn't work properly neither will any AGP card installed.
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I should be packed and ready to drive down to DE in a few hours for the big Spo Weekend Blogger Palozzer but i won't be going. Mom has been in the hospital now for 13 days, 9 in ICU. Today she was able to breath on her own for almost 2 hours. Pretty good for being on a ventilator for so long (a ventilator assists the lungs and is very different from a respirator).
Mom continues to exceed the doctors' expectations and has had no setbacks BUT each day her ability to recover enough to come completely off the ventilator and to leave the hospital becomes less and less. We have had the discussion of what will happen if and when the doctors determin she is unable to breath on her own.
I'm okay. More than most people, I know what it's like to be so close to dying (twice) and what it takes to recover. I will continue to be a source of strength and comfort for mom and my family and will do everything I can to make sure mom feels safe. We have many friends and family helping her and us.
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The Knicks turned a horrendous performance against the Miami Heat into a solid job against a strong Clippers team without their first round pick, Tim Hardaway Jr.
Lets get into the biggest award of the night. The Knicks MVP of the game. There were many strong performances but the person who deserves it the most is Jeremy Tyler (once again). Tyler scored 20 points (8-12 shooting), with 3 rebounds, 1 assist, and 2 blocks. He was great on both the offensive and defensive end of the game ending the game with a +5 PER. WIth Tyler's strong performances so far in the summer league, he has earned an invite to training camp and there is no doubt in my mind that he shows up there to, impressing many coaches and I don't see a reason why he won't make the regular season roster for the Knicks as a backup big.
Some other notable performances came from Toure Murry, C.J Leslie, Terrence Jennings, and Tony Mitchell.
Murry had to leave the game early because of a bruised toe but he only needed 18 minutes to show what he could do. Murry was a stat sheet stuffer as he racked up 2 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists, and 2 steals. He had a highlight play in this game as he did a behind the back pass on a fast break to Jeremy Tyler for an emphatic dunk. Whatever happens to him the rest of the summer league, Murry should be guaranteed a spot on the training camp roster no matter what.
C.J Leslie has been inconsistent throughout the whole summer league but he turned it on in this game as he went off for 11 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist, and 2 steals while shooting a solid 5-8 from the field. Leslie will definitely provide depth at the three for the Knicks when the season starts and judging by his past performances to, he will be a good defender who can score when required come opening night.
Terrence Jennings had another great game as he went off for 14 points, 9 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals, and 1 block while maintaining lockdown defense throughout the whole game. Its hard to tell how good a player will be from their summer league performances but Jennings has proven that his game could translate to the next level and with this performance all doubt should be cleared from doubters minds.
Our final standout is Tony Mitchell. Mitchell went off for 15 points (6-13), 4 rebounds, and 1 block. He was great on the break and he defended quite well. He showed the skills he showed off in the D-League and has an outside chance of making the training camp roster.
The only bad performance was once again from Chris Smith. He has improved over the course of the summer league but that doesn't make him good. He went off for 3 points (1-6), 3 rebounds, and 1 steal. Hardly great numbers for someone who got 20 minutes of action.


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The Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) administers the federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program in all of Iowa's incorporated cities and counties, except those designated as HUD entitlement areas.Authorized under the Housing and Community Development Act, the main goal of the program is to "develop viable communities by providing decent housing and suitable living environments and expanding economic opportunities, principally for persons of low and moderate incomes."
In Iowa, the CDBG program can be used to fund eligible activities, including public facilities such as water and sewer facilities and community buildings; housing rehabilitation; and economic development and job training. All projects must meet the National Objectives as defined by HUD.
2014 CDBG Application Workshop held in conjunction with the Water & Wastewater Infrastructure Funding Summit.
Please save Tuesday, August 26, 2014 on your calendar for an important session on how to fund water and wastewater projects. The event will be held at the Courtyard by Marriott in Ankeny, Iowa from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The major funding agencies for water and wastewater infrastructure are the sponsors, including:
The focus of the day's presentations will be on how funding programs interact through the water and wastewater construction permitting processes, tips for packaging multiple funding sources, and state and federal program requirements.
The funding summit is an expansion of the regular CDBG applicant workshop and is targeted to engineering consultants, councils of government and other grant administrators, and potential funding applicants. The afternoon will include application instructions for all CDBG funds including water/wastewater, housing, community facilities, and downtown revitalization.
The following documents are available for download:
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"Kenny & Ziggy's Deli: The Big Ruebowski - NY Prime-Aged Pat LaFrieda Burger with House-Cured Corned Beef, Aged Swiss Cheese, & Sauerkraut topped with House-Made Russian Dressing on a Challah Bun
This monster was interesting and enjoyable in ways I wasn't expecting. Besides the the burger quality, loosely formed and quite juicy at medium, I may have enjoyed the sauerkraut the most! Can't say I'd ever had sauerkraut on a burger but this really worked.
The Russian dressing was great but I found myself alternating bites with spicy brown mustard, which of course is the perfect pairing for sauerkraut.
This is the most I've ever dropped on a burger, $17. Not sure how I feel about that. Being a Jewish deli, I subbed the fries for potato salad, and boy am I ever glad I did — yummy.


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The Future Of D.C.'s Relationship With The Horn Of Africa
Official Washington has strategic relationships in East Africa -- relationships built on economic and security interests. But many people who live in the D.C. area are tied to countries like Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia by something more personal. They're part of the large diaspora communities that now call the Washington area home. We explore how these personal and political relationships are evolving and how they shape the face of the Washington.
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It's that time of year again. With the Dallas Cowboys sitting out of the post-season, we look ahead to the upcoming 2014 NFL Draft. The Landry Hat will now begin providing a new mock draft of the first round every week all the way up until the event in May. Obviously, the final two picks could swap depending on the outcome of this weekend's Super Bowl.
Since I'm certainly not an expert on every team in the league, I decided to visit our other FanSided NFL sites and see who they thought their respective teams would choose in the upcoming NFL Draft. Note: My analysis and explanation of the Cowboys picks is also included. Here are those first round results:
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Born: August 25, 1988
Jens Persson is a alto sax player and composer from Malmö Sweden.
Jens is involved in many different musical contexts, he plays traditional big band music, free jazz and everything in between.
He is the bandleader and creative mind behind Perssons Sexa (perssonssexa.com), a sextet playing his original music and also 1/4 responsible for the Malmö based quartet Makross. (makross.se)
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NJ Needs Our OWN Board
With the recent explosion of "culinary destinations" in suburban New Jersey, both North, Central and even South Jersey, does it not seem like time for OUR OWN BOARD ??
Moderators? Is there a way to combine the fragmented Tri-State Region and Mid-Atlantic region into a "New Jersey" board ?
It seems confusing to read about, say, Ossining New York and then about a place in Montclair, both on the Tristate region, or a restaurant in Maryland next to a restaurant in Princeton NJ.
Just a suggestion.
100% agreed!!! Please...I wish I knew where Rebooth DE was! I always see posts on it!!
Thank you..
I'll add my vote for this as well. It would be nice to have a board where I could respond to the majority of posts.
I haunted them about this on 6/23.
Their "one step at a time" reply seemed to indicate that they might do this in the future.
Good call! Jersey is a unique and very dense state--so I think it deserves its own board. As it is, I feel torn between three boards (TriState, MidAtlantic, Manhattan).
I agree. At a minimum, the definitions for TriState and MidAtlantic should be tightened up so that it isn't ok to post in either place.
I'll eighth the motion.
Or at least specify that NJ posts should go on the Tri-State board and not the Mid-Atlantic board.
The problem at the heart of all the confusion is that New Jersey is one of three states in what is known locally as the Tri-State area, *and* it is also considered to be located in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
No matter that the admins have decided that Northern NJ restaurants belong on the Tri-State Board, while Central and Southern restaurants must be on the Mid-Atlantic Board. There are bound to be questions about exactly where some restaurants really belong. The problem becomes particularly acute when it comes to deciding which towns are in Central NJ. Also, since the new format took effect, I have noticed that there have been very sparse NJ-related posts on the Tri-State Board, but lots of action on the Mid-Atlantic board, including discussion of restaurants that probably don't belong there under the current guidelines.
I've always felt that this split is ridiculous. As far as I can tell, no other state on this site is split between two boards. To my mind, that makes New Jersey the "Rodney Dangerfield" of Chowhound.
I agree with those who say that New Jersey deserves to have its own board.
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Actually the problem is more that New Jersey is such a long state north to south, and there is a big difference between north Jersey and south Jersey in terms of where restaurants in those respective areas draw diners from and to where residents in those areas will travel to eat.
North Jersey is part of the tri-state area and posts about anything in Newark (if not a bit further south) and north should go on the Tristate board. Posts about places, for arguments sake, south of exit 10 on the Turnpike, should go on the Mid-Atlantic board, except for Camden and the immediately surrounding area. Those posts should go on the Pennsylvania board. It occurs to me that it might be easier to divide NJ into three parts and allocate them to different states, reducing the Union to 49 states, than it would be to satisfy everyone that any post about New Jersey is in the right place.
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I don't agree that New Jersey should be split between two boards because restaurants draw their customers from different areas. No other food forum on which I participate splits New Jersey in this or any other way. And your final sentence actually ends up doing a great job of making the case for why New Jersey should have its own board on Chowhound.
re: RGR
I strongly agree with you, RGR. The splitting of New Jersey among several boards is diluting the content and compromising its usefulness. And neither do I see New Jersey divided in any way on any other food forum.
It is the most densely populated state and I feel convinced that, with its own distinct board, the fabric of discussion and exchange of information would be improved. The Outer Boroughs board has developed in an enviable way, for example, and I would like to think that we would have livelier discussion if we were not so bisected.