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David Fickling and Ian KatzThe U.S. and Australia are set to sign an agreement on automatic sharing of bank information to battle tax evasion, amid plans for a global compact to prevent companies shifting income to low-tax countries.
The two countries have reached an agreement on the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act "in substance, and plan to sign it soon," U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew told a media event in Sydney today.
"Automatic exchange of information has quickly become the new global standard," said Lew, who's in the city to attend a meeting of finance ministers from Group-of-20 major economies. "The G-20 should continue to provide its full support and encourage all nations to adopt the standard."
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, passed by Congress in 2010, requires foreign financial institutions to report to the Internal Revenue Service information about financial accounts held by U.S. taxpayers. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is working on plans for global information exchanges to crack down on tax-avoidance strategies used by companies such as Google Inc., Apple Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. The grouping is due to present a report on its progress toward information exchange at the Sydney meeting.
Some companies reduce taxes by attributing profits to jurisdictions with low or non-existent corporate income taxes, including the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Ireland.
The G-20 meetings this weekend will focus on ways to "ensure that there is a greater transparency and better outcomes in the disclosure of tax liabilities and tax collections," Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey said in the briefing with Lew today.
The U.K. Parliament has held hearings since November 2012 on corporate tax dodging, examining tactics used by information-technology companies and others such as Starbucks Corp. In May, the U.S. Senate held a hearing on Apple's offshore tax policies. The companies all say they've complied with international tax laws.


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August 16, 2013
The phrase "There's no such thing as bad publicity" is widely attributed to Phineas T. Barnum, famed showman and founder of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
This presents a significant slice of irony as the strident controversy surrounding the elephant rides at the circus-themed 2013 Nevada County Fair not only failed to detract from attendance but served to enhance it, fair officials said Wednesday.
"It looks that way," Nevada County Fairgrounds CEO Sandy Woods said. "The whole issue put a spotlight on the Nevada County Fair."
While the attendance numbers are still in the finalization process, Woods said she is fairly certain that a new record for single-day attendance was set Sunday and that all-around attendance for the five-day event was robust.
Woods said several factors led to the large boost at the box office, including favorable weather (especially compared to last year, when temperatures broke 100 degrees during the fair) and a promotion that granted free entry to the grounds from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.
However, Woods said, it would be remiss to ignore the impact of the publicity generated by the contentious elephant ride issue, which featured a petition that drew worldwide attention and news stories that played on Capital Public Radio and other prominent media outlets throughout the region.
Critics of Have Trunk Will Travel, which provided two elephants for children to ride, said the exhibit represented an unethical exploitation of the pachyderms while alleging prolonged mistreatment of the animals.
During meetings of the fair board, in Internet chat rooms and during casual conversation, many people vowed to boycott the fair due to the presence of the exhibit.
On Wednesday evening — the opening day of the fair — about 70 people gathered outside the main entrance of the fair to protest the fair board's decision to retain the elephant rides despite the community outcry. About a dozen congregated around the Have Trunk Will Travel ride to voice their displeasure.
However, the protests and boycotts were counterbalanced by an influx of attendees interested in seeing the exhibit, Woods said.
"Many patrons coming from the Sacramento area and Bay Area expressed that they came specifically to see the elephant exhibit," Woods said in an email to The Union. "We have received significant feedback from patrons, thanking us for providing them the opportunity to learn more about elephants and interact more closely with the impressive pachyderms."
The influx in attendance helped other elements of the signature event as overall carnival revenue for the fair increased by 15 percent over last year, Woods said.
While the percentage jump may be slightly misleading due to low attendance numbers in 2012 because of the hot weather, Woods said the 2013 incarnation was one of the most successful she has helped engineer in her 18 years with the fair.
Gross sales at Treat Street were up about 20 percent, from about $568,000 in 2012 to about $686,000 in 2013. The junior livestock auction was strong with gross sales of about $394,000, also representing a 15 percent increase over 2012. The Ag Mechanics Auction grossed about $48,000, an increase of 24 percent over last year.
"On Sunday, the 2013 carnival ride 'on-site sales' increased 72 percent from the 2012 carnival ride 'on-site sales,'" Woods said. "It appeared that patrons drawn to the fairgrounds to see the elephant exhibit also catalyzed an increase in the carnival ride sales."
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When we last left the music business, it was desperately trying to get its groove back. Flashback to March 1997: Austin's annual industry hoedown, South by Southwest, a usually joyous affair, seems muted this time around due to recent layoffs and a sense that all is not well. CD sales are plummeting. There is, as it turns out, no 'next Nirvana.' All hopes attach to the Fugees, who pack an outdoor barbecuejoint with 1000 curiosity seekers despite a looming Texas thunderstorm.
But in spite of the buzz elicited from the lightning bolts and Lauryn Hill's star turn, the downward vicissitudes of the biz kept coming. Conventions like SXSW and New York's CMJ Music Marathon began to acquire the feel of a frivolous exercise: 1000 bands over four nights in 50 clubs, and so onbut no breakout artists. Then came this year's consolidation of two major record companies, Universal and PolyGram, and a wave of layoffs and roster trimmings. Sure, there's Britney, the Backstreet Boys, and Ricky, but history's painfully clear on the question of bubble-gum pop acts' longevity.
So what's a record industry in a funk to do? One option is to gaze into a crystal ball and hope for a clue. A potentially more attractive alternative: Connect the dot-coms.
On the Internet, the term "MP3" is the second most searched-for term after "sex," a statistical tidbit that's been trotted out glibly in tech publications. MP3 first began blinking on the music biz radar late last year after a convention of a different sorta gathering of about 500 music-loving techies in Los Angeles called Webnoizesent the message that the downloadable file format was all the rage among college students and software engineers.
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To record executives, this smelled like a positive bit of test marketing, but with a major flaw: MP3s were being copied from CDs, meaning that a certain cash cow was in danger of being tipped. The Recording Industry Association of America, the biz's trade group, sprung to action, shutting down illegal MP3 sites, bringing a suit against the maker of the first portable MP3 player, and leering down on the tech world's activities like an owl on his perch.
Then the attitude shifted. In July, the music industry sent an elite troop of visionary execs like BMG's Strauss Zelnick and Palm Pictures' Chris Blackwell to Times Square for Plug. In (catchy tag phrase: "The Future of Music") to suss out what the tech folk had up their digital sleeves. The two-day barrage of speeches and panels sent a message that the tech world had catalyzed an intriguing changeespecially where growing the multi-billion dollar market was concernedbut one the music industry still had reason to fear.
As the engines fired up for Webnoize '99 (catchy tag phrase: "The Future of Music is Here"), that fear had all but dissipated. In the days leading up to the three-day conference (held last week in L.A.), two of the industry's heaviest hittersteammates Doug Morris and Jimmy Iovine of Universal/Interscopeacknowledged that the digital music space is the next big thing. They announced that they're laying the groundwork for the first major-label-supported online A&R site to scout talent via download: Jimmy & Doug's Farm Club.
The notion that this is some sort of bush league became instantly laughable when Microsoft's Anthony Bay stood to deliver Webnoize's opening address to a ballroom packed with 1500 attendees (whose companies paid $900 a head to send them). "Digital music is clearly everywhere and going mainstream," Bay announced to the unified crowd.
A whir of deals and announcements timed to coincide with Webnoize lend credence to Bay's proclamation. MTV unveiled a snappy new Web site and interactive game show; Microsoft flaunted partnerships with EMI and Sony; Silicon Valley digital download site EMusic.com bought New York?based music site CDuctive.com; the online venture ChangeMusic.com merged with CMJ, throwing a lavish party complete with sushi chef and a live set by Built to Spill.
Why does everyone want in? Over 20 million computer users have downloaded software to play digital music on their desktops, be it RealNetworks' Real Jukebox or the MusicMatch Jukebox (which now comes bundled with the latest version of Microsoft's Windows 98). These applications can play near CD-quality music through speakers attached to the computer, and they're being designed for compatibility with portable players that reduce the size of the Walkman by half. The prospect of digital-jukebox car and home stereos isn't far off.
The software, hardware, and Internet companies have the personnel to mind the technical end of things, and a trend at Webnoize hints that they've hit on the other area that needed coveringthe artistic side. Music industry vets from executives to publicists to the artists themselves wandered the halls at Webnoize, many now happily and lucratively installed in jobs at dot-com companies.
Dave Allen of EMusic.com took a route to his job that would have seemed unfathomable a few years ago. The bassist for the influential British post-punk band Gang of Four in the '70s and '80s, Allen went on to start his own record label, World Domination, which folded last year. He parlayed his experience into a job in the new media department at the indie record company Koch, then jumped to EMusic a few months back. "Online music companies need people like me," he says. "I was at a point where I was ready."
For others, the thrill of working on a killer app doesn't quite match the ragged glory of strumming a guitar turned to full volume, though there's the obvious financial benefit. "There's no better thing in the world for me than to be a musician," admits Steve Mack, a RealNetworks executive producer who spent the late '80s and first half of the '90s playing in the bands That Petrol Emotion and Anodyne. "But it doesn't pay the rent."
Other musicians at Webnoize weren't so willing to make the leap from the right brain to the left, but they're equally concerned about getting paid. Amid all the talk of Internet radio, copyright protection, digital downloading, and business models, artists on one panel expressed concerns about the music industry's sudden willingness to spring ahead to Internet time.
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9 thoughts on "WaPo's Mike Wise Rips Into Blog Show"
Hey, King Douche, it's called "Blog Show," which would imply that they, you know, talk about blogs, you dipshit. Bringing up EA starting a blog of her own is not only relevant to the segment, it's a great fucking idea, as I think anyone who's evolved from print journalism to the scary world of online media would agree.
And what's w/ blasting Steinz for sitting w/ his legs open? He's a man, man. I'm sure Wise is always sure to cross his so as the sand doesn't pour out …
Wise is just jealous of all of Steinberg's hair.
Sounds like someone knows the due process of a restraining order…
You have to get a girl on your show to look at her pictures?
He's just jealous you boys got face time with EA. (He must not be familiar with the rule about hating the game and not the players.)
I'd be concerned if you were criticized by someone that wasn't trying to Single White Female Mr Tony's schtick.
Mike Wise is a friend to blogs big and small.
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Grahame's DykeThe Roman wall between the friths of the Clyde and Forth, so called from the first person who leaped over it after the Romans left Britain. "This wall defended the Britons for a time, but the Scots and Picts
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Getting open kitchen ideas are quick and easy. You need not do a whole lot of research and consultation to create open kitchen designs. The initial idea should ideally be yours and then professional help is required to give a structure to it. As the name suggests, an open kitchen indicates an open area in the house where all the kitchen work happens. Thus, a careful planning is all it takes to create amazing open kitchen designs.
It is very important to locate the right place in the house for an open kitchen. Make it in such a place where there is plenty of light and air. Also, it should be adjacent to the dining area or you ca plan and have the dining area inside your kitchen.
The open kitchen should ideally have enough space for work tops as well as for an island. The island is to be designed in a simple manner with a sink and place to chop vegetables or do other preparations for cooking. This sink should be small enough as it is meant only for washing the cooking ingredients.
The island should not be at a distance from the hob. You can make the preparation for cooking on the island and then quickly transfer them to the hob. Place another sink close to the hob where you can do all the dishes and the cleaning up.
As the open kitchen will be visible to everyone pay careful attention to store up the cutlery, crockery and groceries nicely. You can have open as well as close shelves for storage but they need to be cleaned regularly.
If possible have huge windows in your open kitchen. They make your kitchen look spacious and you can drape them with nice floral curtains.
Pay special attention to the dining area inside the kitchen. Have a table suitable enough for your kitchen and place nice cosy chairs around it. You can enjoy a nice warm cup of tea when you are tired from your kitchen work in this area.
An open kitchen gives you many ideas to decorate it. Place flowers and decorations and make it special.
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So, what exactly did he do? I know it was the 2008 Olympics and he dropped it in the Grab n Snatch. But did it dislocate, or did he tare something, or just wrong lifting?... |
because that joke is as played out as "****ting bricks" |
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5 bucks says dufus there slices the Bud off into the trees. |
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John Kerry Should 'Man Up' And Admit He's Wrong About Snowden
from the nothing-wrong-with-admitting-you-were-wrong dept
Then, in an interview with CBS he effectively said the same thing, including the ridiculous "man up" statement, which is perhaps even stronger than his silly "that's what a patriot would do" statement above:QUESTION: Well, Mr. Secretary, what about it? Does he have a point? He's basically saying but for the U.S. State Department revoking his passport, he wouldn't be in Russia at all.
SECRETARY KERRY: Well, for a supposedly smart guy, that's a pretty dumb answer, frankly. Look, I'm not going to get into the – who he was, what he was. Let me just say this: If Mr. Snowden wants to come back to the United States today, we'll have him on a flight today. We'd be delighted for him to come back. And he should come back, and that's what a patriot would do. A patriot would not run away and look for refuge in Russia or Cuba or some other country. A patriot would stand up in the United States and make his case to the American people. But he's refused to do that to this date, at least.
The fact is that he can come home, but he's a fugitive from justice, which is why he's not being permitted to fly around the world. It's that simple and he knows it.
QUESTION: Have you softened your stance at all with regard to his alleged conduct here? I noticed earlier this year you said that there were disclosures about the NSA made because of Snowden that you yourself were not aware of that constituted NSA overreach. Does that change the calculus at all for you?
SECRETARY KERRY: That's entirely up to the justice system. Let him come back and make his case. The fact is that he should – if he cares so much about America and he believes in America, he should trust in the American system of justice. But to be hiding in Russia, an authoritarian country, and to have just admitted that he was really trying to get to Cuba, I mean, what does that tell you, really? I think he's confused. I think it's very sad.
But this is a man who has done great damage to his country, violated his oath which he took when he became an employee, and yes, in fact, stole an enormous amount of information and released it to the public, to the detriment of his country.
I'm not even going to touch "what he was doing is computer stuff" quote, because that just kind of speaks for itself, doesn't it?QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, let me ask you about Edward Snowden. He has now given an interview in which he says he was trained by the United States as a spy. How damaging is this disclosure?
SECRETARY KERRY: Well, it's not – it's the same disclosure that everybody's known. He very cleverly wraps it into his language about: I was a technical person; I didn't go out there and work with humans, with other people; I wasn't working and interacting with human beings. Basically, what he was doing is computer stuff, and that's exactly what he says. So he wraps it into this larger language.
The bottom line is this is a man who has betrayed his country, who is sitting in Russia, an authoritarian country, where he has taken refuge. He should man up and come back to the United States if he has a complaint about what's the matter with American surveillance, come back here and stand in our system of justice and make his case. But instead he is just sitting there taking potshots at his country, violating his oath that he took when he took on the job he took, and betraying, I think, the fundamental agreement that he entered into when he became an employee. And the fact is he has damaged his country very significantly in many, many ways. He has hurt operational security. He has told terrorists what they can now do to be able to avoid detection. And I find it sad and disgraceful.
But of course, for all this "manly" (actually: sexist and misogynistic) talk, Secretary Kerry is being dishonest and disingenuous. As we've detailed a few times now, Snowden has been charged under the Espionage Act and, as such, he is not allowed to present a "public interest" or "whistleblowing" defense. His motive isn't even allowed to be used in the case at all. So all this talk about "making his case" is ridiculous. Snowden knows damn well that "our system of justice" on issues like this is inherently unfair and biased. Kevin Gosztola has highlighted examples of others who stayed and "made their case" under Espionage Act charges, showing how they were railroaded by a system that is not fair and does not allow them to actually present their case.
Similarly, as one of Snowden's legal advisors, Ben Wizner of the ACLU, points out, no matter what Kerry claims above, Snowden isn't dumb:
"He isn't blind," Wizner said. "Snowden saw what happened to other people who faced prosecution under the Espionage Act, and he saw the state of the law, which would not have allowed him to either to challenge the government's improper withholding of this information in the first place, or to hold up the enormous public value of these disclosures. All that would have been irrelevant."So if we're going to use ridiculous misogynistic phrases like "man up," can we at least ask if Secretary Kerry will "man up" and admit that his claims about what Snowden would face back home were not even close to accurate? Or do real "men" like Secretary Kerry think it's appropriate to aggressively lie and mislead the American public? If so, perhaps it's time for someone to "woman up" instead. Though, as Glenn Greenwald points out, Kerry appears to be arguing that a female whistleblower in Snowden's shoes "wouldn't have the same obligation to return home." Or, perhaps (just perhaps) none of this has anything to do with manliness, and folks in the government could stop the macho aggressive bullshit and actually deal with the reality: Snowden blew the whistle on a program that all three branches of government have now admitted were illegal (and potentially unconstitutional). If someone has to "face the music," shouldn't it be the US government?


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The Dabangg actor has replaced the RA.One actor in two projects
AS IT STANDS: Sonu Sood features in two big films — Happy Hew Year with Shah Rukh Khan and Entertainment with Akshay Kumar.
SO? Under different circumstances, these would be Arjun Rampal's roles.
WHY? Arjun was in both SRK's and Akshay's films before. And actors with comfort factor always want to repeat the experience of working together. He has worked with SRK in Om Shanti Om, RA.One, and Don. With Akshay, he did Housefull. But now the roles what would have ideally gone to Rampal in Akki's and Khan's next films now have Sonu.
WHY SONU, THOUGH? Sonu and Arjun are tall, good-looking and have fab bodies. They fit the same mould. But ultimately it is up to the lead actor and his comfort factor with the supporting cast. While Khan and Rampal seem to have had a fallout, as far as Entertainment goes, Akshay is quite fond of Sonu (they co-starred in Singh Is Kinng). So he found himself in the film. Now the Entertainment directors Sajid-Farhad have enjoyed working with Sonu, and are keen to repeat him in Housefull 3 (also an Akki starrer) as well." Sonu will also be a part of Singh Is Bling, which again stars Akshay.
WHO, ME? "I don't know about replacing Arjun," maintains Sonu, "This is the first I've heard of it."
I'D RATHER SAY… "As actors, we are always greedy and want to do the best. I can wait for a good project. If it's not substantial, I won't do it. That being said, I've got a lot of offers this year," he says.
THRILLED BECAUSE… "I have three big releases this year: Happy New Year, Entertainment and Aagadu (in Telugu) with Mahesh Babu," shares Sonu.
MY HAPPY YEAR: "Apart from Shah Rukh, I have Farah to thank for the role in Happy New Year, too. I had met her during Munni Badnaam Hui and I also did Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega with her. At the time I had told her if she has a great role for she should sign me. I was in Bangkok shooting for Entertainment, when I heard that the role [that I play now] had not been finalised. I immediately called her. I had given some dates to other films, like Prabhudheva's R…Rajkumar, which I adjusted in two days and was on for a month-long schedule in Dubai."
ON SHAH RUKH: "Shah Rukh is one of the most grounded actors I have ever met in my life. He's the guy who takes care of everyone and makes you feel special. It has been wonderful working with him. His film has given me a platform I have been waiting for, for years. I keep telling him that he has spoilt me after working with him, now it will be tough working somewhere else."
ON AKSHAY: "Akshay is a great co-star. Being a Punjabi like him, I feel I can relate to him. We hang out together and have lots of fun. We didn't any godfathers and so, have plenty in common."


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A $1m Netflix-style Challenge for DNA Sequencing
Life Technologies hopes crowdsourcing will improve its new sequencing technology.
Hoping to benefit from some of the same brain power as the computing and information technology industry, Life Technologies' has announced a $7 million dollar competition to improve its new sequencing technology. The novel device, which officially goes on sale today, reads DNA using semiconductor technology. At $50,000, it costs about a tenth of other sequencing machines (See 'Democratizing DNA Sequencing'.)
The technology comes from Ion Torrent, a start-up that Life Technologies bought earlier this year for $375 million. At its heart is a semiconductor chip manufactured in the same foundries as computer and cell-phone microprocessors.
According to a release from the company, there will be seven individual challenges, each with a $1 million prize. Only the first three challenges have been announced thus far, and all focus on Ion semiconductor sequencing.
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The late Johnny Maguire.
The late Johnny Maguire.
Former Kells Urban Council Chairman, Johnny Maguire, of Blackwater Heights, Kells died on Friday at Our Lady's Hospital Navan at the age of 88.
Huge crowds attended the removal of his remains from the hospital last night and the funeral to St Colmcille's Cemetery, Kells
takes place today, following mass at St Colmcille's Church at 3pm.
A member of Kells Urban Council from 1974 until 1999, he was also active in Kells Tidy Towns and Kells Handball Club, as well as many other local clubs and campaigns.
His wife Teresa died nine years ago and he is survived by his sons, Patrick, Donnacha and John, daughters, Geraldine, Catherine, Teresa and Maria, sisters, Kathleen, Betty and Anna and brother Patsy.
Among the huge crowds who attended the removal of his remains last night were representatives of the town of San Patricio in Italy, which was twinned with Kells in the 1980's, representative of the Meath Association of London, the Meath Association of Scotland and representatives of Derry City Council.
A meeting of Kells Town Council last night observed a minutes silence and was adjourned as a mark of respect.


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Wow, vacation sure does addle the mind a bit, no? Came back and saw that I had a few blog post drafts in the folder. Well, better late than never…
Here's an easy soup we had on a cold wintery night here in San Francisco. To be honest I barely soaked the beans at all, they cooked fairly fast. And if you've read the greatest cookbook ever written you'll know that the secret is a pressure cooker, which, um, I don't have. (Honey, you reading this? My birthday is coming up pretty soon…)
So I got some beans going in some stock. Yup, that's a block of chicken stock I pulled out of the freezer. What's that you say? You don't have the time or energy for that? Puh-leese. Get on it, my friend, there are few things in the kitchen that will make your food taste better than homemade stock, other than salt. And it's damn easy to make too, so go make some!
Then while the beans were cooking, in a separate pan, I got a mix of veggies from the box going. Spring garlic, carrots, turnips, I forget what else. Just pile it in, throw in whatever herbs you have in the garden (Huh? What's that? Do you really want another lecture from me!?) and more-salt-than-you-think-is-healthy.
I had some greens around. I think they were some erbette chard? Or maybe mustard greens? Can't remember. But really it doesn't matter.
When it cooked down a bit, and when the beans were almost cooked, I hucked it all together. Doesn't that look good?
Okay, credit where credit's due. I never used to make soup. Well, maybe the occasional roasted butternut squash soup, but that's really it. Melinda is the usual soup maker and is quite influential. She's the one usually throwing this all together, and dare I say damn well! She's my inspiration …
Nice looking box, eh?
Before I get started, I promised you some details about our NYC trip. Well, damn, isn't that a fabulous city? It really is the center of the known universe! We were there for Alexis' school choir (Carnegie Hall don't cha know), half staying with Yvette and The Gordo at their fabulous pad in Carroll Gardens. We did lots of touristy stuff, and walks through parks and museums and such, but we also ate well. Real well! People are forever comparing the restaurant scene in San Francisco with New York, but I'll tell you one thing they surpass San Franicsco at is with service. Every single place just had the best service – friendly, professional, not a hint of snobbery. And we ate at some hot places – Momofuko's Ma Peche, where a 4-top walk-in at 8pm was greeted with a smile and a we'll-make-it-work attitude. And when it jumped to 9 a half hour later, they again worked it out. And at the lounge at The Modern, our group of 6, plus an 8-year old was again greeted with smiles and they gladly and professionally dealt with getting us all sitting (er, lounging) together and eating and drinking. And at ultra trendy Frankie Sputino's and Prime Meats (we went to both – they're literally 20 feet from Yvette and The Gordo's apartment, lucky them!), it was totally professional - I mentioned that the wine by the glass was slightly corked and they were horribly embarrased, whisked it away, gave no attitude, and a new glass was back in less than two minutes. These places are packed, in all the magazines, are hot hot hot. They don't have to have this level of service, but they do, and that's what makes NYC different from San Francisco. The level of service in restaurants in San Francisco is definitely a step, or two, below.
Okay, so what about that glorious picture above? Here's what all the items are, and what I'm going to do with them:
Purple Kohlrabi – What makes this CSA box so much fun is that there is generally one item per week that makes you think "What in the world do I do with this?!" Gotta say I'm stumped. Recipe search time!
Lettuce – easy peasy. Might thinly slice some of the spring onions in with it too.
Green Garlic – garlic soup! A couple potatoes, some stock, a whizzer and away we go.
Spring Onions – some for the salads, some for the soups, the rest for something else.
Rapini – pasta! Some crumbled sausage browned up, throw in the rapini, toss into pasta.
Radishes – they'll be the victim of snacking by the kids before dinner
Erbette Chard – maybe in with the pasta? Maybe some in a soup? Hmm, lots of options
Fennel bulb – cold, thin sliced in a salad. Maybe caramelized on some grilled meat? Or maybe into a soup …
Strawberries – what was that awful movie called? Gone in 60 Seconds?
Now lets step it up a notch. Two people didn't pick up on Wednesday night, so now I've got 3 boxes to get through this week! I feel confident. We could always just make a bigger garlic soup batch and freeze some. The radishes are just snacked on before dinner. And the three boxes of strawberries were gone in 24 hours! Still though, don't know what I'm going to do with over a dozen kohlrabi though!
Just back from a weeks vacation in arguably the greatest city in the world - New York! More on that in a future post (Momofuko, the Modern, Shake Shack, just to tease you), but here's a post from a couple weeks back I failed to post before holiday.
Our house is a soccer house. Very much a soccer house. It permeates the air, and also the blood of my girls. See, Melinda was a star player in University. She played for McGill with a crazy competitiveness that got her lots of accolades from the league and press, and she's encouraged our girls to be real active and serious players too. So that means our evening time is often tight, with two practices a week for Alexis, one for Emma (soon two), plus games on weekends, and not to mention Spanish tutoring, homework, violin, etc etc. So I've been a little pressed for time on meals and until I get my act in gear and plan ahead a little better (like my friend Rachel in Brooklyn) I need fast meals. Real fast. Here's what I threw together recently for a post practice night.
I started with tipping and tailing the radishes and baby turnips from the box. Got them going in a pan with a fair hunk of butter and then pepper and more-salt-than-you-think-is-healthy. Once it was going I threw in some of the spring onions from the box …
… hucked it all in the oven and let it roast up while I cooked the rest.
I sliced up a couple bulbs of fennel, and got them going similarly in another pan with butter, salt and pepper. It's really so simple, you don't have to do much other than the occasional stir. Don't worry about super thin slicing, just get it sliced up and in the pan.
Then I had two different batches of Marin Sun Farms chicken drumsticks. One I just salted over night, destined for the girls…
And then a few that I had seasoned overnight with salt and ancho chile powder. Those were for me and Melinda. I just browned them all in two different pans and put them in the oven with the roasting veg. Couldn't be simpler.
I missed a picture of the cooked chicken legs, but here's a good shot of the roasted veg coming out of the oven.
And here's one of the nicely caramelized fennel. I just love cooking fennel this way. The anise flavour mellows out and the sugars in the bulb sweeten greatly.
So there you have it. A soccer practice night meal that maximized the produce in the box and was ready real quick. Most of the active time is chopping, so if you have decent knife skills I'll bet with good timing of the cooking, the start to finish cooking time could be about 30 minutes. Post practice soccer players are a hungry lot!
Ahh, the first box of the 2012 season arrived, and what a bounty it is! (It's actually last week's – I'm playing catch-up)
It hasn't been raining much this winter, really just sprinkles. But this box arrived just before a wave of at least two weeks of storms is due to hit us and the farm. I wonder if they harvested lots and lots knowing they might lose some of it to rain/flood.
Here's what we got:
Little Gem Lettuce
Soup Celery
Yellow Chantenay Carrots
Red Bearded Scallions
Red Chard
Orange Chantenay Carrots
Joe sauteed the fennel in butter at Sunday Suppers this week and it was smokin good, so I think I'll do the same.
The carrots might not survive dinner prep snack with the girls
The butter lettuce is so damn good. I was eating leaves just raw straight out of the bag. So they're going in a salad with the arugula. Or maybe the arugula will form the base of some grilled protein, like Sara does. Yumm!
Scallions are nice and fat so I may grill them.
Chard will go in some bean soup probably, especially if it's raining.
I have no idea what to do with the soup celery. I'll have to look that one up!
Ahh, a new season begins. Very happy household here in San Francisco!
When the idea for this blog got its genesis, a lot of my thinking was the surprise I got when I heard that other CSA members have a tough time eating through their CSA box in a week. We never had a problem, and often, as a result of extra boxes left at our site can cook through 2 or 3 boxes in a week. Why is this? What do we do differently? That's what I wanted to explore through pictures, words, and menus.
Case in point was last night. We cooked through the entire box in one meal. That's right, 2 adults and two kids piled through the whole box in one sitting. The box had the following:
Yellow Potatoes
Walla Walla Onions
Padron Peppers
Here's how we did it.
First off, the strawberries. They were eaten so fast I didn't even get a chance to take a picture! They are really tasting sweet and strawberry-like now after a long ramp up. Yumm.
Then the padrons. This was a fast (3 minute total working time) snack as we cooked the rest of the meal.
The spigariello got pan sauteed with one of the walla walla onions to serve as a base for …
The small pork tenderloins that I butchered out of the pig I bought for Pig Fest (more on that in future posts.)
Add in the potatoes, just simply gently boiled and tossed with butter, more-salt-than-you-think-is-healthy, and chopped taragon, and here's the main dish of the meal
But there were lots more veggies in the box. The romaine got washed by Alexis and turned into her favourite …
… creamy salad (aka Caesar Salad)!
The tomatoes were snacked on while cooking and what was left over got combined with a cucumber and an onion from the box. Some fresh goats cheese was added as was some basil, and it got quickly tossed with some balsamic and olive oil.
There you have it. What's left from this week's box? One onion and one cucumber. The cuc is going into the kids' lunch, and the onion will go whereever it is needed.
So how much active time did this meal take?
Padrons – 3 minutes
Spigiarello – 7 min to pull off stems and wash. 5 minute to cut up onion, garlic and cook it all. Total 12.
Pork – Excluding the butchering, which was an hour, it was about 7 minutes active time. Get a pan hot, throw in the pork, toss in some herbs and a few cloves of garlic, turn a couple times. Easy peasy.
Caesar – 5 min to tear and wash. Dressing takes a bit of time, maybe 10 min.
Potatoes – 1 minute to dump in pot, wash, cover with water and put on the stove.
Tomato and cuc salad – maybe 10 minutes to chop it all up?
Total? 48 minutes. And I had help from the family with some of this as we ate the padrons and tried to weasel info out of the kids (how was school? fine. what did you do? nothing.) So in the end, it was maybe 30 minutes.
And clean-up? The pork and the spigiarello was cooked in the same pan, in that sequence (the pork needed to rest). The potatoes in one pot. One serving platter, plus the salads served in the bowls they were tossed in.
Sure, we have had lots of practice in using up the CSA boxes, but with a little fore-thought I think you'll find it easy too.
Just back from vacation and the kids were ravenous. Between piling clothes in the laundry machine, and putting the shorts back in deep storage (man, is San Francisco ever damn cold in the "summer"!), I didn't have time for a large elaborate meal. So I took a look at the contents of the just-arrived Farm Box from Mariquita and threw together a big salad for dinner. In the end it took only about 10 minutes to make, was delicious, fresh, and actaully quite healthy! That's how long it would have taken to go through a drive-through for heaven's sake!
I started just by roughly cutting some pale green peppers into fattish strips, peeled and roughly chopped up some lemon cucumber, and chopped some medium sized yellow tomatoes into fair sized wedges. I didn't want the pieces too small – I wanted large chunks. Here's what it looked like so far.
There were some beautiful looking onions in the Farm Box, but putting them in raw tends to leave them too strong. So I macerated them in a sweet (cheap!) balsamic for a while to mellow them out.
Then I tossed it all in together, hit it with more balsamic and soem olive oil, more-salt-than-you-think-is-healthy, and topped it with a fresh light ricotta, which added a real nice creaminess.
What do you think? Not bad for 10 minutes, eh? And nutritionally it's pretty good by my reckoning – fiber in the peppers and cucs, fat in the olive oil and cheese, and even a little protein from the cheese. Not to high in carbs, which doesn't hurt either. And the most important thing – it was tasty!
We're very sad here at the Farm Box blog household. Yvette and The Gordo have ended the "California Experiment" and moved back to NYC. For a year they lived with us, and then for another 6 months they were in the (awesome neighborhood of) Hayes Valley. We loved having them around, and Alexis and Emma sure did too. But jobs land where jobs land and they had to do what they had to do. Though a part of me thinks that if they could have more readily found black clothes here in San Francisco, they might have stayed! Damn colourful Californians!
We had a few last meals with Yvette (The Gordo had already decamped to Brooklyn) and here's one of them.
One of the things I made with the Farm Box veggies was some roasted cauliflower. Ho-hum, you say? I make that all the time, you say? Well, this time I jazzed it up with an idea I stole from Sara. She had made a dressing/sauce for something or other and it was so damn good that I made it myself and drizzled it on top of these roasted cauliflower florets. Take a few anchovy fillets, some chopped garlic, and a handful of capers and throw them in the mortar. Pound away, slowly adding some lemon juice, and when it's all pounded up nice, start adding in some olive oil. Took all of about 4 minutes. And so tasty – come on, how can you go wrong with that ingredient list! And it went great on the cauliflower. Take a close look at the photo and you'll see some bits of the sauce on there.
Then we had a couple bunches of Andy's oh so aromatic basil, so that got whipped into a pesto to go with the …
… steamed carrots and the …
… roasted "happy" chicken (aka marin Sun Farms).
A great simple meal that took about 20-25 minutes of busy time, and about an hour total time, with the 35 non-busy minutes spent opening up wine and soaking up some of our last SF time with Yvette. We'll miss you guys! (But then again, we're really glad you got a two bedroom place in NYC! Let's book some tickets, Melinda!)
Except for maybe lasagna, I don't think I've ever seen such an online recipe battle than I have when researching how to make bagna cauda. For some people it's like their grandmother was attacked violently if someone suggested adding cream to it. To others, if the oil separated while making it, then it was like you stabbed them in the heart! Wow, such passion!
So what is bagna cauda. Well, it's a dip. A garlicy, fishy-salty, oily dip that you have with parboiled and grilled veggies. The kind of thing you can have ready to go for a party, and just plunk down on a table as a first course with some charcuterie, some bread, and a bottle (or three) of wine.
Here are the veggies I prepared, all from the Farm Box. Parboiled cauliflower and carrots, and some grilled little summer squash.
This was my first time making bagna cauda, and after much research online, I decided to just let common sense prevail. How wrong can you really go when the ingredients are garlic, anchovies, olive oil, and butter?! Com'on, you've got to be making some serious mis-steps for that not to turn out great!
So I roughly slice up about 8 cloves of garlic, and filleted about 8 salt packed anchovies. Put it all in a pan with more olive oil than you think is needed and proceeded to cook it very gently on low heat. Then I put in a half stick of butter. Again, com'on, this is gonna taste great. Once the anchovies had pretty much dissolved and the garlic was gaining some colour, I threw it in the blender with the remainig half stick of butter and turned it on. It was still a little thick, so I added a slow drizzle of olive oil until, yup, you guessed it, it separated! So sue me! Here's how it turned out, but the picture is hiding the fact that under that layer of oil is the most beautiful richly flavoured salty spicy garlicy goop. Heaven!
Along with the bagna cauda, I boiled up some potatoes from the Farm Box. My Danish mother will be so proud to see that I peeled them! Well, maybe she won't be proud – she'll just say "well, of course you peeled them! You *can't* eat potatoes like that with their skin on!"
I also brined up some chicken wings and some thigh/leg combos for the grill. And yup, again I wasn't perfect – look at that nice char!! Ugh. Thankfully, Melinda likes the skin burnt so she was happy!
For me, the best part of the meal was the bagna cauda. Does it get any better than bagna cauda! Wow. I'm going to be making that alot more often!
Nothing like an abundance of veggies from the Farm Box to get one thinking of preserving. This week we had an abundance of green beans and carrots. The carrots we actually had 5 shares worth! See, someone didn't pick up their box, so we inherited their carrots in addition to ours. Then there were three people, count 'em three(!), who decided they didn't like carrots and put them in the trade box. Wow, these folks don't know what they're missing.
I've pickled a fair bit in the past, but was a bit rusty, so I pick up my copy of the Joy of Pickling, which I picked up at Omnivore Books. A pretty good book, in a category with a large number of books, none of which I really like. A couple tips though from me to you dear reader. One, ignore anything the USDA says about preserving. Sure, it'll be safe enough to survive the armageddon, but it'll taste like crap! And two, when preserving fruit, ignore the sugar add recommendations from the package of pectin you buy – they assume you're buying tasteless commercially grown nasty fruit. The fruit from the Farm Box (or upicks, or bulk orders) are full of natural sugar. I seriously cut the sugar adds to about a 1/5th of what they say. So if the package says add ten cups, I add two.
So back to my surplus of carrots and beans. First I peeled, then cut either in half or in quarters lengthwise depending on original size.
And then tipped and tailed the beans.
The carrots were getting a fridge pickle treatment, meaning they were not going to be "processed" in boiling water in their jars with the lids on. So they needed to get cooked a little bit to soften up, then plunged in an ice water bath.
Then they got stuffed in freshly cleaned jars. The eagle eye will see that some of the carrot jars are different – in three of them I put in some fennel fronds from the fennel from the farm box, and also some sliced garlic. The other three jars were plain. In the beans I added some garlic, some mustard seed, and some hot chili flakes. I wanted the beans to be more reminiscent of the beans they put in bloody marys in New Orleans! Yumm!
The vinegar was basically the same. Half white wine vinegar (I ran out during this so I substituted in some rice wine vinegar, and when that ran out I used red wine vinegar!), half water, with some salt and pepper. The beans were processed in boiling water for what was supposed to be 5 minutes, but I forgot about them so they boiled for around 8 or 9. Hope they aren't too soggy.
The carrots are happily ensconced in the fridge and the beans are in a cool place. Now I just have to wait a while for the vinegar to do it's magic! I'll report back.
Our dear friend Mark stopped by the other night to pick up some wine, and we were lucky enough that he was able to stay for dinner. Pick up wine, you ask? Well, Mark has a big birthday coming up and is throwing himself a party! Getting catering, bartender, the works, and asked me to help select some wines. So that's what he was picking up that night – 5 cases of wine. I think he said he invited about 25-30 people – should be one hell of a party! Crazy Castro boys, I tell ya.
We were running around all evening, with soccer practice and the like, so I whipped together as low an impact dinner as possible.
First I boiled up some new potatoes, then made yet another mistake that has consistently proven to not be a mistake! See, once they were cooked I drained off the water, then put it back on the heat to dry them off completely. Then a couple pads of butter went on, a little shake, some salt and voila. Except I forgot to turn off the heat!! So I'm smelling browned butter and freak out, quickly pulling the potatoes out into a bowl. But look at that photo – they're brilliant! And topped with some chopped up chives from the Farm Box and they were perfect. Yumm
I had taken out a pound each of Marin Sun Farms beef and pork the night before, so decided to ship up some Danish meatballs (aka frikadeller). Chopped up onion, some thyme, oregano, an egg, pepper, and more-salt-than-you-think-is-healthy. The batch in the picture here isn't as brown as the second batch. The joy of a seasoned pan, I guess.
Then fried up some bacon and topped up some creamy salad (aka Caesar salad) for the girls, though we ate our fair share too!
For dessert, Emma got all creative in the kitchen and plated up 5 lovely looking plates for us all. Two strawberries from the Farm Box nestled along side a homemade chocolate chip cookie on top of a scoop of Ben and Jerry's. Thanks Emma!
For the wine, we started with a Beaujolais Blanc (made from 100% Chardonnay) from Dominique Cornin, but for the dinner we switched to red and had a 2007 Crozes Hermitages from the producert Albert Bouquin. A Crozes is a region in the Northern Rhone valley in southern france, and is usually made from 100% Syrah, though a little Marsanne or Rousanne (yes, white grapes!) can be added in to soften the Syrah and/or to add a perfumed character. This Crozes went will with the meatballs, as they were somewhat delicately flavoured, and the wine was a lighter style (at least compared to the US or Australia) so didn't overpower the food.
It was great to see Mark and we're so looking forward to his birthday party!


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Congrats on the win. As a suggestion - since we had anti-heroes this time, how about anti-villians - characters who are ultimately villainous but that we sympathize with in some way?
Good idea. I did finally come up with an theme ... but I'll save it to suggest when someone else is looking for help ... or a miracle happens and I win again some day, whichever comes first. New contest will be up in a couple of minutes.


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Angels start second half in a good mood
There is a key question to be answered as the Angels return from the All-Star break and it involves the identity crisis that defined their first 92 games.
It is safe to assert that the Angels are not as bad as the team they were through the first 67 games, struggling to score runs and undermining the best efforts of its excellent starting pitching.
But are they really as good as the team that reached the All-Star break by winning 19 of its final 25 games, hitting a home run per game and taking eight consecutive series for the first time since the 100-win season of 2008?
"Ha, I'm never going to say that," Angels veteran Torii Hunter said when asked if the pendulum might have over-corrected with that surge. "We're playing well. This is the team I thought we should be all along."
Teammate Vernon Wells will go one step farther than the eternally optimistic Hunter.
"I think we can still be better," Wells said. "I think we're still learning what we're capable of doing as a unit. Obviously, our pitching has been doing it all year. Now we're starting to figure out what we can do offensively.
"I can definitely agree we weren't as bad as we looked through those first couple months. Whether we're as good as we look right now — or maybe better — remains to be seen."
There was scant reason for optimism after the Angles' 9-0 loss to the Kansas City Royals on June 12. The Angels had just been shut out by Vin Mazzaro (he of the seriously inflated ERA), losing for the seventh time in eight games to fall five games under .500 (31-36) and into third place in the AL West.
They ranked near the bottom of the AL in most offensive statistics, scoring less than four runs per game, but near the top in strikeouts and double plays.
In 25 games after that, the Angels won 19, hit more than a home run per game (28 in 25) and reached the All-Star break with a new outlook on the second half.
"There's going to be rough patches even until the end of the year," right-hander Dan Haren said. "It happens to every team. Look at how the Red Sox started the season (losing 10 of their first 12). The key is going to be not letting them last as long as they did in May and the beginning of June.
"The starting pitching has been good pretty much the whole year. We're playing great defense. Now, the offense has come around, but it's not like we're scoring a ton of runs. I just think we're playing good baseball."
The starting pitching has been the one constant, and it has to stay that way if the Angels are going to continue their run in the second half and challenge the Texas Rangers for the division title.
"The thing we definitely want to be in place is how we are pitching," Manager Mike Scioscia said. "If anything is going to happen in the second half, that pitching is going to need to be as solid as it is."
If anything was learned from the first two months of the season, though, it is that teams can't survive by pitching alone.
The Angels scored more than a half-run per game more during their 25-game run (4.28) than they did in the first 67 games (3.70). And that half-run is critical. The Angels are 41-8 when they score at least four runs — 9-34 when they score fewer than four runs.
The jump was mainly attributable to improved clutch hitting and the rediscovery of power. Through those first 67 games, the Angels hit .229 with runners in scoring position. That jumped to .268 during their 25-game surge.
Home runs, meanwhile, went from being a rarity (once every 48.3 at-bats, roughly two every three games) to a frequent part of the offense (one every 29.8 at-bats).
"It could be cyclical," Scioscia said of the power burst. "Maybe guys who can drive the ball are starting to get comfortable in the batter's box. It's not like we're getting home runs from anyone you wouldn't expect them from."
Just before the Angels' revival started in mid-June, Scioscia took his trio of veteran hitters — Hunter, Wells and Bobby Abreu — into his office for a private pep talk. None of those three could carry the team single-handedly, he told them, but they would have to lead the way collectively.
Scioscia has continued to talk the trio up as the key to the Angels' surge, even though Abreu is 5 for 31 (.161) in July, Hunter is threatening to post career lows in many offensive categories and Wells' batting average remains on the wrong side of .225.
With a payroll that leaves little room for a significant midseason addition and a farm system that provides few chips to trade for one, the potential for offensive regression seems to loom over the Angels' second half like a dark cloud.
"We don't have a crystal ball," Scioscia said. "But I think if you look at someone like Mark Trumbo, who is far enough into the season now to show if he's for real, look at the track record of our veterans and see the upside that's still there. We're not talking about guys having to be Supermen.
"We're very confident we're going to see Vernon hit about his projected numbers combined with Torii and Bobby swinging up to their capabilities. ... Basically, we don't have a crystal ball. But we're very confident we're going to have a deep lineup."
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Drop in Durables Orders Points to Slow Investment: Economy
Michelle JamriskoOrders for durable goods dropped in October, pointing to a slowdown in U.S. business investment that will curb U.S. economic growth this quarter.
Bookings for goods meant to last at least three years decreased 2 percent after a 4.1 percent gain in September, the Commerce Department reported today in Washington. Other data, including a drop in jobless claims and unexpected increases in consumer sentiment and leading indicators, indicate any cooling in the expansion will be short-lived.
The federal shutdown last month and the prospect of more budget cuts have prompted companies such as Lockheed Martin Corp. to trim staff and close factories. At the same time, a rebound in household confidence heading into the holiday-shopping season combined with improving hiring prospects may brighten the outlook for retailers such as Macy's Inc., which are discounting merchandise to boost sales.
"We are getting off to a slow start in the fourth quarter," said Ryan Sweet, a senior economist at Moody's Analytics Inc. in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and the best forecaster of jobless claims over the past two years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The government shutdown "has kept policy uncertainty elevated, and uncertainty is a powerful disincentive to hire and invest."
Figures from the Labor Department today showed fewer Americans filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, a sign that the labor market is showing resilience.
Fewer Claims
The number of jobless claims in the week ended Nov. 23 unexpectedly declined by 10,000 to 316,000, the fewest in two months, according to figures from the Labor Department. The median forecast of 44 economists surveyed by Bloomberg projected an increase to 330,000. Applications reflect weekly firings and typically wane before employment growth accelerates.
The economy added a more-than-forecast 204,000 jobs in October, according to figures from the Labor Department issued Nov. 8.
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan final index of consumer sentiment in November rose to 75.1 from 73.2 a month earlier, the group reported today. The median forecast of 65 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for 73.1 after a preliminary reading of 72.
Stocks rose, extending a third monthly gain for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, as Hewlett-Packard Co. led a technology rally, while claims and confidence data boosted optimism in the economy. The S&P 500 advanced 0.3 percent to 1,807.23 at the close in New York.
U.K. Economy
While economists are optimistic U.S. growth will accelerate, the opposite is true in the U.K., where figures today showed the economy grew in the third quarter at the fastest pace in more than two years. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has said that weak growth in the euro area may weigh on the outlook for U.K. exports.
The decline in U.S. orders for durable goods last month matched the median forecast of 79 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Estimates ranged from a drop of 9.9 percent to a 1.2 percent advance.
Orders for aircraft, military gear and capital goods, such as machinery and computers declined last month, a sign the retreat was broad-based.
Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin, the largest U.S. government contractor, said this month it will cut 4,000 jobs and close some operations in response to decreased federal spending, even after third-quarter profit rose 16 percent.
The Defense Department faces budget reductions of about $500 billion over a decade under the automatic cuts known as sequestration, including about $52 billion in the current fiscal year.
Cutting Jobs
"In the face of government budget cuts and an increasingly complex global security landscape, these actions are necessary for the future of our business and will position Lockheed Martin to better serve our customers," Chief Executive Officer Marillyn Hewson said in a Nov. 14 statement.
Not all categories retreated last month as automobiles and electrical equipment and appliances showed gains.
The housing recovery has spurred demand for big-ticket goods such as appliances and furniture, benefiting companies including Benton Harbor, Michigan-based Whirlpool Corp.
"Every new home equates to about four new appliances and every existing-home sale equates to about two new appliances," Larry Venturelli, chief financial officer at Whirlpool, said at a retail conference in New York on Nov. 20. "We are really in the third inning of growth within housing and this is a big demand driver for us going forward."
Manufacturing Sentiment
The durable-goods report has been at odds with sentiment surveys among manufacturers. The MNI Chicago Report business barometer fell less than forecast in November, indicating factories continue to expand this month, other figures showed today. The group's index declined to 63 from 65.9 a month earlier, the strongest back-to-back readings in more than two years. Numbers greater than 50 signal expansion.
The median projection in a Bloomberg survey of 55 economists was 60. Estimates ranged from 53.3 to 65. The index averaged 54.6 in 2012 and 62.8 in 2011.
Also today, the index of leading indicators rose in October for a fourth straight month, reflecting gains in factory orders and applications to begin new-home construction. The Conference Board's gauge of the economic outlook for the next three to six months increased 0.2 percent after a 0.9 percent jump in September that was the biggest since March 2011, the New York-based group said today.
"Conditions for stronger growth are falling into place for early 2014," said Moody's Analytics' Sweet. "Housing will kick in" and spur faster growth, he said.
Regaining Confidence
The rebound in the Michigan sentiment reading was confirmed by the weekly Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index, which was also released today. The gauge increased to minus 33.7 in the period ended Nov. 24, the strongest in seven weeks, from minus 34.6.
Rising equity and home prices are bolstering household wealth and contributing to a pickup in attitudes just before the holiday-shopping season. The pace of wage and job growth will also influence whether consumers boost their spending, which accounts for almost 70 percent of the economy.
"I don't think anybody's going to be splurging, but you will see people out shopping and the season will be OK," said Michelle Girard, chief U.S. economist at RBS Securities Inc. in Stamford, Connecticut. "We're seeing employment growth of around 200,000 jobs a month. We're seeing enough income growth to support a 2 percent consumer spending pace. It's not great, but it's sufficient."
Retailer Discounting
Even with improved consumer fundamentals, retailers aren't taking any chances. Ross Stores Inc., a discount designer-wear merchant, last week joined companies from Gap Inc. to Macy's Inc. that have forecast a disappointing holiday-shopping quarter, citing heavy discounting and heightened competition.
The period between Thanksgiving and Christmas "will be the most intensely competitive and promotional selling period in recent years," Ross Chief Executive Officer Michael Balmuth said in a Nov. 21 statement.


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I take my 28K camping with us...that or my FW... I've said before that I'm not big on the great outdoors, so it suits me fine to stay at the camper and sew!
One day, you'll only be a memory for some people. Do your best to be a good one.
I got excited over a box of cams at SA today and bought a Montgomery Ward J1561 machine - probably from the late 70s. It doesn't have a bobbin case, but the second one I tried from other machines fits. I plugged in the machine and it won't sew. It has a switch for 'electronic' or 'normal'. Can I take the bottom off and take this machine apart myself or am I in over my head? It's a heavy well made machine - made in Japan by Juki - so far that's all I know.
Nancy my room is only about 75 feet from the house and his shop is about another 50 feet. Also have a chicken coop not too far and I can hear the rooster crow and the hens cackle. Or brag about laying an egg. So we are not too far apart during the day. I try to get what housework done in the mornings and sew in the afternoon now that I don't need a fire in the stove.
Quilting with a friend keeps me in stitches.
Ok Sweetpee, I was hoping Cathy or Candace would answer this, but it must have missed them. Miriam is right.
You need to remove the throat plate and put it back making sure that the position finger is in the notch of the position plate under the machine. Here is a copy of a 301 manual. Print out pages 12 through 15 - or better yet print out the whole manual! There are graphics that show you how the position finger needs to be, along with graphics of how the bobbin should be inserted and which way it needs to turn when inserted correctly.
Good luck, let us know if you get your 301 up and running as I am sure either Candace or Cathy could help you more than I can!
Oh and by the way, the needle has to be inserted correctly too with the flat side to the left! It then threads right to left!
Trish, I agree it does sound like a heavenly set up! I have a SIL who just had to have her 'own' craft shop so her hubby built her one in the back yard. She is a scrapbooker and wanted this shop so bad. Well, she never goes out there - it is either too cold - too hot - too many bugs - too far away from the house, etc.. I am glad you use yours, it sounds perfect!
Wow, a building just for sewing/crafting! I'd be in heaven. I am lucky enough to have nearly the entire upstairs. Now, if I could just get it arranged the way I want it. I keep moving things around, some day I'll get it done.