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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Bebo Embraces Facebook Apps With Its "Open Applications Platform" — When Google developed OpenSocial, it was intended to obviate the need for developers to reprogram the same social networking applications for separate platforms. Several social networks without their own proprietary developer platforms …
Discussion: Search Engine Land, Damien Mulley, broadstuff and Bits
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: Facebook Opens Platform, Bebo Adopts It
Alan Patrick / broadstuff: BEBO DELUXE OR REDUX ?
Saul Hansell / Bits: Bebo Copies Facebook, Which Invites Others to Do the Same
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Yahoo! Gets More Social with Applications for Bebo — Socializing isn't quite what it used to be. For many people, it's no longer just about catching up with your pals at an evening happy hour; it's also about staying connected to a wider group by using the web as a networking tool.
Discussion: WebProNews, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and SMS Text News
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Yahoo UK Socializes Applications With Bebo
Jordan McCollum / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: Et Tu, Bebo? Part Tu Two
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Bebo to announce developer platform — SAN FRANCISCO—Right now I'm in a theater at San Francisco's Metreon complex, awaiting the official launch of social-networking site Bebo's "Open Application Platform." The announcement has not yet been made, but from what I gather, this will be exactly what we think it is.
Christina Warren / Download Squad: Facebook API to open up to other social networks
Dave McClure / Master of 500 Hats: Facebook Opens Up, Licenses Platform: Social Graph Platform Wars are ON!
Terrence Russell / Epicenter: Bebo's New Platform Follows in Facebook's Footsteps
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook: Live: Bebo Launching Platform Tonight, Adopts Facebook Platform APIs …
Umair / Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab: How to Crash and Burn in the Edgeconomy, Bebo Mini Case Study
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy: Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Dec 12, 2007
Liz Gannes / GigaOM: Bebo Launches Platform, Aligns with Facebook
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com: FRIENDSTER DEVELOPER PLATFORM GOES LIVE WITH OVER 180 APPS
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Breaking: Facebook to Compete With OpenSocial
Breaking: Facebook to Compete With OpenSocial
Discussion: ParisLemon, Alec Saunders .LOG and The Praized Blog
MG Siegler / ParisLemon: The Escalation of the Social Networking Proxy War
Sebastien Provencher / The Praized Blog: Facebook to OpenSocial: "Of Course You Realize This Means War"
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Analysis: Bebo Snubs Google With Facebook Platform Clone
Analysis: Bebo Snubs Google With Facebook Platform Clone
Discussion: VentureBeat and paidContent.org
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org: Facebook Counters OpenSocial; Bebo Playing Both Sides
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Bebo unveils new application platform, touts Facebook compatibility
Bebo unveils new application platform, touts Facebook compatibility
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com: FACEBOOK TO LET OTHER SITES ACCESS PLATFORM CODE
Jordan McCollum / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: Et Tu, Bebo?
Joey Seiler / Virtual Worlds News: Bunchball Launches Cross-Network Games and Avatars with Bebo and Facebook
John Cook / John Cook's Venture Blog: iLike and Atomic Moguls on Bebo
Hooman Radfar / Widgify: Facebook Developers Rejoice
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Second-gen iPhone in final phase; Apple TV update planned - report — After meeting with key component suppliers and manufacturers in Asia, researchers for investment bank Goldman Sachs said this week they believe Apple will introduce two revisions to the iPhone in 2008 — one minor …
Daniel Langendorf / last100: Life is good for Apple's iPhone
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com: Goldman Sachs: New iPhones, Apple TV for 2008
Don Reisinger / The Digital Home: Apple should not release a subnotebook
Matt Hickey / CrunchGear: Breaking: iPhone, Apple TV to receive updates in 2008
Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog: Analysts say 3G iPhone due late '08
Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage: Rumor: Goldman Sachs States iPhone, Apple TV Revisions on the Horizon
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Scoble To Leave PodTech, Heading For Fast Company — Famous blogger Robert Scoble will be leaving his current job at PodTech in mid January, he says. He will likely be joining Fast Company to start Fast Company TV. — Scoble was with PodTech for just a year and a half.
Jason Lee Miller / WebProNews: Blogpile On Scoble: He's Leaving PodTech
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: Leaving PodTech, Scoble finally finds a real job [Confirmed]
Marc Fiszman / Odelbee: Scoble heading for TechCrunch
Brian Solis / bub.blicio.us: Robert Scoble is Leaving Podtech
Alan Patrick / broadstuff: CONTINUAL PARTIAL TRANSPARENCY AND OTHER BLOGOMENONS
Stowe Boyd / /Message: Scoble Headed For Fast Company
Marshall Sponder / WebMetricsGuru: Television Reborn and Robert Scoble leaving PodTech
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Microsoft rebrands PlaysForSure to Certified For Windows Vista, confuses world — Microsoft's PlaysForSure DRM just took another step closer to the grave with the help of some rebranding. Those of you with players from SanDisk, Nokia, and Creative among others, looking for compatible music from Napster …
Discussion: paidContent.org, Gizmodo, Electronista, TechSpot News, Blackfriars' Marketing and Venture Chronicles
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org: Microsoft Rebrands PlaysForSure To 'Certified For Windows Vista'—Seriously
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo: PlaysForSure DRM Mutates Into "Certified for Windows Vista" [Drm]
Jose Vilches / TechSpot News: Microsoft rebrands PlaysForSure
Carl Howe / Blackfriars' Marketing: A really bad marketing idea: redefining PlaysForSure as Certified For Windows Vista
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
PlayForSure becomes "Certified for Windows Vista"
PlayForSure becomes "Certified for Windows Vista"
Discussion: mocoNews.net
James Quintana Pearce / mocoNews.net: PlaysForSure Rebranded To "Certified For Windows Vista"
Times of London:
Microsoft swoop hands Multimap founder $25m — The deal, understood to be worth about $50 million, expands Microsoft's fast-growing footprint in web and mobile advertising — Microsoft has agreed to buy Multimap, the privately-owned British company that is snapping at the heels of Google's dominance in online mapping services.
Discussion: paidContent.org, PR Newswire, Mashable!, Digital Daily, paidContent, TechCrunch, The Register, Screenwerk, WebProNews and GigaOM
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: U.K. Map Firm Locates Microsoft Acquisition Fund
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Microsoft Buys Multimap for a Reported $50 Million
Lewis Page / The Register: Microsoft folds-in Multimap for '$50m'
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk: Microsoft Buys the UK's Multimap
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews: Microsoft Buys Online Map Company
Mark Hachman / AppScout:
Microsoft Buys Multimap, Sadly
Microsoft Buys Multimap, Sadly
Discussion: Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Search Engine Journal, O'Reilly Radar and Reuters
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog: Microsoft's latest buy: Multimap
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar: Live Maps Buys MultiMap; Launches in China
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
House Republican targets Google on privacy grounds — A top Republican in the House of Representatives is demanding that Google answer a barrage of questions about privacy, some of which are related to the company's proposed purchase of the DoubleClick advertising firm.
Discussion: Bits, WebProNews, eWEEK.com, Computerworld and Mashable!
Louise Story / Bits: Privacy Groups Question F.T.C. Chairwoman's DoubleClick Ties
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Google Gets A GOP Griefer
Linda Rosencrance / Computerworld: House panel miffed by Google's alleged rebuff
Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable!: Representative Joe Barton: Pro-Privacy or Anti-Google?
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Windows 7 to get more touchy-feely — For those wondering when touch features such as those found on the Surface PC or iPhone would make it into mainstream PCs, the answer appears to be "whenever Microsoft gets around to releasing Windows 7." — A Microsoft blogger said this week …
Discussion: The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Windows 7 to get new touch features
Windows 7 to get new touch features
Discussion: Gizmodo
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Cheatsheet: Online Ad Spending to Slow — If you have been following this space, here is a conclusion that's not going to surprise you: Online advertising will grow, but it will do so more slowly over the next few years. — That's the headline on a handy chart sent over by eMarketer this morning.
Discussion: Valleywag
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: Online advertising growth to slow next year [The Chart]
Mobile Jones:
Sam Sethi Shuts Down Blognation — Sam Sethi has thrown in the towel. There's no place to take Blognation given the reality of zero funding and mounting debt. No bills were paid and the train wreck has run over Sethi. He announced today that he will not continue and steps down from Blognation.
Aseem Sood / Official Google Blog:
Google Toolbar: Take your tools with you — I've started to notice something peculiar about the Toolbar team, and that's this: we literally can't seem to stop carrying the Toolbar around with us. When we moved to a new space in our Mountain View campus, we brought along a hallway-sized printout of it.
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped, AppScout, Mobility Site, TECH.BLORGE.com, Googlified and Google Watch
Brian Heater / AppScout: Google Launches Toolbar 5
Matt Jansen / TECH.BLORGE.com: New Google Toolbar saves settings online
Haochi / Googlified: Google Toolbar 5 for IE Released
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Orb opens up iPhone — Exclusive Orb is expected to announce that it's supporting Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch in the next few days. Orb provides access to your playlists and songs on your home PC (as well as photos, videos and TV) from anywhere. It's Sling without the hardware …
Discussion: Download Squad, Electronista, Compiler, Engadget, Gizmodo and CrunchGear
Michael Calore / Compiler: Rumor: Orb Place-Shifting App Coming to the iPhone
Donald Melanson / Engadget: Orb reportedly set to announce support for iPhone, iPod touch
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear: Orb interface coming to iPhone, iPod Touch soon?
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Why do Apple customers care so much? — The question inevitably comes up when I meet people and they learn I write about Apple for a living: "So, what's that like?" — I usually answer, "It's crazy." There perhaps has never been a more interesting time to write about Apple and its growing impact …
Discussion: Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, MacDailyNews, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Dan Blank
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: Does Apple Really Want the Crazed Few Defending its Reputation?
Penthouse Seduces AdultFriendfinder With $500M Buyout — A few years back we worked out of a non-descript Palo Alto office. Our neighbor tenants went by Various Inc. and were a suspicious looking bunch. Word spread that they were making huge coin operating hook-up sites like AdultFriendfinder.
Discussion: Techland, mathewingram.com/work, AppScout, Ryan Naraine's Zero Day, Epicenter and Digital Daily
Josh Quittner / Techland: Penthouse finds a friend
Chloe Albanesius / AppScout: Penthouse Tackles the Web, Swingers
Larry Dignan / Ryan Naraine's Zero Day: Adware, shady marketing pays: Penthouse buys AdultFriendFinder and sister sites
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter: Penthouse Buys AdultFriendFinder for $500M — Cheap!
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Dear Penthouse Letters: I Never Thought It Could Happen to Me ...
Movable Type Open Source — As of today, and forever forward, Movable Type is open source. This means you can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose you choose. — Just want the details and downloads? Skip to the bottom. But you might like the story of how we got here.
Discussion: TechCrunch, Read/WriteWeb, Compiler, Jeremy Zawodny's blog, The Social Times, Podcasting News, VoIP & Gadgets Blog and Mashable!
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Movable Type Finally Goes Open-Source
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb: Movable Type Goes Open Source Today
Scott Gilbertson / Compiler: Six Apart Reinvigorates Movable Type with New Open-Source Release
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog: Congrats to Six Apart on Movable Type going Open Source
Nick O'Neill / The Social Times: Movable Type Open Source Goes Live
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Movable Type Now Open Source; Too Little, Too Late?


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Reading the Tea Leaves: How the Senate Could Look
The next few months will be stressful for Senate strategists.
With less than four months to go, the fate of the Senate majority is maddeningly unknown — and likely to stay that way through Election Day. With multiple outcomes possible on Nov. 6, three scenarios appear most realistic: Democrats hold the Senate with a small majority, Republicans flip the chamber and win a narrow majority, or the parties split the Senate with 50 seats apiece and control is decided by the winner of the White House and his vice president's tie-breaking vote.
With their current 53-47 majority, Democrats can withstand a net loss of only two seats if they are to retain control of the chamber, regardless of whether President Barack Obama or presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney emerges victorious in the presidential race.
"The outcome of the presidency is part of the overall fabric of keeping the Senate," said J.B. Poersch, a veteran Democratic Senate strategist. "But I wouldn't go as far as saying it's the most critical factor."
The battle for the Senate will play out over a cross-section of states, some highly competitive at the presidential level and others that will likely see very little of Obama or Romney. While the top of the ticket undoubtedly affects them, Senate races are largely individualized contests swayed by the quality of the candidates and their campaigns and the metrics of the state.
The Democratic majority is remarkably less tenuous than it was entering this cycle, which followed a net gain of seven seats for Republicans in 2010. Neither party can confidently put more than a couple of competitive seats in their column just yet. Democrats are defending 23 seats to just 10 for Republicans, but the competitive landscape at this point is limited to a maximum of 15 states, including a few that are likely out of reach for the challenging party.
The playing field will mature by summer's end, when contests could move down the competitive scale as they are more clearly defined and spending picks up. Republican nominees still haven't been picked in Wisconsin or Missouri, two states critical to the majority.
Scenario 1: Democrats Hold
Democrats don't need everything to go their way over the next few months to hold the Senate majority, although it would help.
The party faces a potentially daunting task. But it also begins with a 53-47 edge and therefore breathing room for a few losses, some of which are expected. In fact, the Democrats' pickup opportunities have increased over the course of the cycle, with Sen. Olympia Snowe's (R-Maine) surprising decision to retire altering a conventional wisdom that had previously given them a slim chance of holding their majority.
Although Senate contests are influenced less by the top of the ticket than House races are, under a scenario where the Democrats hold a majority of one to three seats, a victory by President Barack Obama would go a long way, especially in some of the open-seat races the party must defend. Obama's success against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney could prove particularly crucial in Florida, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Those holds, plus flipping seats in Maine and Massachusetts, would allow for the possibility of losses in Nebraska, North Dakota and Missouri. The party is still optimistic in North Dakota and hopeful in Missouri, but Nebraska is likely out of reach. Still, by losing only three seats and picking up two, Democrats would have a 52-48 majority, a net loss of only one seat.
That scenario would require Montana Sen. Jon Tester's (D) fundraising and advertising strategy to keep pace with the outside spending assisting Rep. Denny Rehberg (R). Tester has received outside help of his own, but he's also running in a state Obama has no chance of winning.
This outcome would also require former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine (D) to win what will no doubt be a tight race with George Allen (R), a former governor and Senator, and necessitate Wisconsin Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D) to win a state in political upheaval after the failed recall of Republican Gov. Scott Walker. Baldwin won't know her opponent until the Aug. 14 GOP primary.
Thus far, Democratic Sens. Sherrod Brown (Ohio) and Bill Nelson (Fla.) are favored in their respective presidential tossup states. To keep that edge, they'll need to withstand heavy outside spending that will flood the airwaves in both states. Nelson's $10.8 million gives him a big advantage in prohibitively expensive Florida over his likely opponent, Rep. Connie Mack IV (R), whose fundraising has so far been dwarfed in comparison.
In the Maine contest, the widely held assumption is that former Gov. Angus King (I) will ultimately caucus with Democrats. King, the favorite in the race to succeed Snowe, told Roll Call over the weekend that he has not spoken with anyone in Democratic leadership.
Assuming Maine is in their column, Democrats also need Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren (D) to defeat Sen. Scott Brown, perhaps the only Republican who could win Massachusetts with Obama on the ticket. Both candidates are raising huge sums of money and, should she win, Warren will have translated that into winning over enough of the working-class Democrats capable of voting for Brown.
Among the Democrats' top three pickup opportunities, Nevada is probably the most difficult. It will be far more competitive for Rep. Shelley Berkley (D) if Obama's margin doesn't fall too far from his 12-point win in 2008. But Democrats could hold the Senate under this scenario even with a victory for Sen. Dean Heller (R).
Democrats are expected to hold Obama's native Hawaii and come up short in Indiana and Arizona, but those contests are unlikely to affect their ability to hold the Senate majority.
Scenario 2: Republicans Gain
Republicans entered this election cycle as favorites to win the Senate, and their chances grew in the opening months of the 112th Congress as Democrats in swing states opted for retirement.
If Republicans win the majority Nov. 6, that victory is likely to be narrow — in the realm of one to three seats. There are multiple scenarios for such an outcome, but most would probably include defeating Democratic Sens. Claire McCaskill (Mo.) and Jon Tester (Mont.) while winning the Republican open seats in Nebraska and North Dakota. Those are the party's top four opportunities to play offense.
Under this particular scenario — which assumes that Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) loses and former Gov. Angus King (I) wins the open Maine seat and caucuses with the Democrats — the Republicans would need to capitalize on a couple of other existing pickup opportunities.
One way to do this would be to win two out of four Democratic-held seats in Virginia, New Mexico, Wisconsin and Ohio. If Republicans did this, they would achieve a
51-49 majority.
All four are winnable, but under the scenario envisioned here, Republicans pick up the open seats in Virginia and Wisconsin, with New Mexico Rep. Martin Heinrich (D) able to hold on in a tough race with former Rep. Heather Wilson (R) and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) winning in a tossup presidential state against Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel (R).
Virginia might be the state most closely tied to the presidential election, especially with former Gov. Tim Kaine's most recent post as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. As well-known as both former governors are, it's likely a George Allen (R) win means presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney also prevailed in the Old Dominion.
A Republican win in Wisconsin, meanwhile, would mean that the GOP nominee chosen in the upcoming
Aug. 14 primary was successful in branding Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D) as too liberal. Wisconsin voted out three-term Democrat Russ Feingold in 2010 and refused to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R) in June.
This GOP takeover scenario also assumes that the Republicans are able to hold Nevada, currently a tossup race between appointed Sen. Dean Heller (R) and Rep. Shelley Berkley (D), as well as the less competitive seats in Indiana and Arizona.
If the Republicans do win Montana, it probably means that Rep. Denny Rehberg (R) was able to tie Tester to President Barack Obama and the Democratic agenda Tester supported over the past six years.
It would also mean that Tester's multitude of ads featuring him working on his farm and the ads tying Rehberg to national Republicans were not enough to withstand the barrage of outside spending in this relatively inexpensive state.
In North Dakota, a GOP victory would probably mean that former state Attorney General Heidi Heitkamp (D) was competitive but unable to overcome the state's Republican lean. Gravy for the Republicans would be a win by former Gov. Linda Lingle (R) in Obama's native Hawaii, but her loss doesn't affect Republicans' ability to win the Senate.
Scenario 3: Tied Senate
It is completely within the realm of possibility that each party will end election night with 50 Senate seats.
This scenario would add even more intrigue and consequence to the presidential contest, with Vice President Joseph Biden or presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney's vice president providing the tie-breaking vote in the Senate possibly for the next two years.
Here is one of a number of ways split Senate control could happen.
With Democrats currently holding a 53-47 majority, the Republicans would cut into that by picking up the Democratic-held seats in Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska and Montana, while Democrats would win the seat of retiring Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). This pickup assumes that former Maine Gov. Angus King (I) caucuses with the Democrats, which he is widely expected to do despite being publicly noncommittal.
Republican Sens. Dean Heller (Nev.) and Scott Brown (Mass.) would hold on in close contests, while Democrats would hold competitive open seats in Virginia, New Mexico and Wisconsin. Democratic Sens. Sherrod Brown (Ohio) and Bill Nelson (Fla.) would also keep their seats under this scenario.
Arizona and Indiana would stay in Republican hands, while Democrats would hold on in Hawaii.
This scenario would most likely be coupled by an excruciatingly tight presidential contest between Romney and President Barack Obama. With the economy slow to recover but with Obama still seen as a likable figure, that's not hard to imagine. National polling has the two candidates within the margin of error, and the list of competitive states remains lengthy.
Among the other plausible ways the Senate could end Nov. 6 split: Democrats pick up Massachusetts but lose Virginia, where the Senate results could end up following the top of the ticket.
Nevada Rep. Shelley Berkley (D) could defeat Sen. Dean Heller (R), while her colleague Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D) falls short against a still-undetermined Republican nominee in Wisconsin.
However, it's more difficult to see how the parties split the Senate if Democrats are able to hold on in Montana, a difficult state for Democrats where Sen. Jon Tester (D) is running a strong campaign but facing a tough challenger in Rep. Denny Rehberg (R).
While the presidential race has more of an effect on House races in general, a Tester win in Montana — where Obama is not competing — could portend Democratic success with Senate seats in more competitive presidential states such as Wisconsin and Virginia. Of course, being open seats, the dynamics of those contests could differ from a state such as Montana.
Nothing is certain, anything can happen, and Senate strategists will likely be entertaining many of these scenarios until Election Day.

subset: commoncrawl


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The construction industry shed 2.2 million workers between January 2007 and last year. So now there's an overabundance of them eager for jobs, right?
Wrong. Contractors are struggling with shortages of workers as the home-building market comes to life and some commercial sectors strengthen. The crunch is affecting a handful of states, including Texas, Arizona, Iowa and Florida. But it's expected to worsen and spread across the USA over the next few years, building officials say. The shortages are already prompting builders to raid each other's job sites for workers.
"It has been a shock for us," says Milton Chicas, who heads recruiting for Wayne Brothers, a Kannapolis, N.C.-based commercial builder in the Southeast. "There are so many folks out of work right now, we thought we were going to have a large amount of individuals coming through the door."
During the downturn, hundreds of thousands of laid-off construction workers left the field, retired or moved to other states to find work, leaving some markets without an adequate supply for even the current moderate upswing in activity. After scrounging for odd jobs and hoping for an upturn, many workers retooled to become truck drivers, factory workers or roughnecks in the nation's booming oil and natural gas fields.
Meanwhile, Baby Boomers are retiring and fewer high school graduates are entering the field as parents and school officials promote a college education or training in high-tech fields such as computers.
The result is a widening gap between construction labor demand and supply in some areas.
Nationally, building-permit applications for homes and apartments this year are up 31% over 2011, though they're still well below average and the mid-2000s peak, according to the Census Bureau. Builders are finally responding to record low new-home inventories, historically low interest rates and a modestly improving job market. All construction spending, including commercial and government, in September was up 14% from the market bottom in February 2011.
Yet construction payrolls are virtually unchanged from two years ago at 5.5 million. Contractors are coping with the added workload in part by paying employees more overtime, says Ken Simonson, chief economist of Associated General Contractors of America. Some companies are being cautious following a brutal slump, but others simply can't find workers. Despite the industry's static employment, its jobless rate has dropped from 17.3% to 11.4% the past two years as 320,000 construction laborers stopped working or looking for work, Labor Department figures show.
Twenty-nine percent of home builders surveyed by the National Association of Home Builders in June reported some shortage of framing workers and 6% said there was a serious deficit — only slightly less than in 2006 at the height of the home construction frenzy. By 2017, there could be a shortage of 2 million commercial construction workers, according to the Construction Users Roundtable, a trade group.
The shortfalls are slowing the recovery in some states hit hardest by the housing crash. In Florida, permits to build single-family homes this year are up 25% from last year but remain less than a quarter of the 2005 peak. In Tampa, crews that install drywall in new homes are especially scarce after many headed north when projects and wages plummeted in the recession, says Angela Phillian, owner of Angela Drywall. Walls can typically be installed in a house in a week, but it's now taking up to two weeks or more, she says, because she often has to wait at least several days for a crew to free up from another job.
She routinely contends with managers of rival companies who sidle up to a job site and poach her workers by offering them an extra dollar per drywall board, a tactic Phillian says she's forced to deploy as well. "We're in a labor crisis right now," she says.
Recently, she says, the builders that subcontract drywall services have agreed to pay more. That has allowed Phillian and her competitors to return their pay rates to pre-recession levels of $5 per board after they fell to less than half that. And it's helping Phillian gradually lure drywall crews back to Tampa from Northern states such as New York.
But it's squeezing Tampa builders such as John Fowke, who says he's been hit recently with a 10% increase in both labor and material costs, forcing him to raise the sales prices of his houses. He worries that home appraisers won't increase their valuations in a still-distressed market, preventing buyers from obtaining a loan.
In Arizona, which is also seeing a moderate turnaround after being battered by the housing crash, a labor shortage is exacerbated by the new law that lets police check people's immigration status. Most white laborers won't work in Arizona's brutal heat and many Hispanic construction workers have left the state because of the law, says Buddy Satterfield, president of Shea Homes in Scottsdale. He says he's tried to coax Hispanic workers from Texas, Colorado and New Mexico, but "those guys won't come to Phoenix."
Satterfield says he's building about 450 homes this year instead of the 750 he should be putting up based on demand. "It just takes so much effort," he says. "A trade (crew) doesn't show up because they're on another job site and we have to reschedule."
Although the housing bust wasn't nearly as severe in Texas, many construction workers left the industry to toil in the state's thriving oil and natural gas drilling fields for higher pay and greater stability. With limited crews putting up frames, Tilson Homes is building houses in six to eight months, two months longer than normal, says President Eddie Martin.
Commercial contractors are also struggling in some areas. Scott Norvell, head of Master Builders of Iowa, a trade group, worries there won't be enough workers in the state to handle billions of dollars in projects over the next few years to rebuild structures damaged by the 2011 floods.
Redstone Painting & Finishes, which is turning a historical 12-story building in Des Moines into a complex of offices, stores and condos, has been unable to add 14 workers to the 41 now on site, says company President Rob Knudsen. Instead, he says, existing employees are running up overtime, increasing his costs by 50% and reducing his profits by 25%.
"That's less money for more new equipment and increasing marketing and growing," Knudsen says, adding that he could double his revenue if he could find enough workers.
At North Carolina's Wayne Bros., which builds concrete walls and foundations for power plants and other commercial buildings, positions stay open three to six months, forcing the company to accept about 25% fewer jobs than it can handle, Chicas says. The contractor offers apprenticeships, but it takes one to three years for an apprentice to be productive, he says.
Such training is less prevalent than it used to be. Many commercial contractors offer apprenticeships and courses in-house or through local trade groups and unions, says Don Whyte, president of the National Center for Construction Education and Research. But a declining number of residential builders provides training, says John Courson, head of the Home Builders Institute. There were 5,453 construction apprenticeship programs overseen by the federal government in fiscal 2012, down from 6,076 in fiscal 2007, Labor Department figures show. Home builders "want workers that can hit the job site and go to work the first day," Courson says.
Meanwhile, some laid-off construction workers are trickling back as activity picks up, but others are entrenched in more stable fields. James Bewley of Omaha, a 36-year mason who was laid off in 2008, worked sporadically at reduced hours for several years. After his income dwindled so dramatically that he almost lost his house, he took a $4,000, four-week class at JTL Truck Driver Training in August 2011. "It was time to do something else," says Bewley, 52, adding that driving was physically easier but far more stressful than construction work. His first job kept him away from home 11 days at a time and paid half the roughly $50,000 salary he earned in construction. But he recently took a $34,000 job with a petroleum company that lets him make deliveries to area stores and sleep at home nightly. His company also offers a 401(k) plan and paid holidays and vacation — perks he never had in construction.
He sometimes misses his old job, noting, "You take pride in your work." But, he adds, "Then I remember how hard it was." "I can always go back to bricklaying," he says, but "I'm not going to if I don't have to. I could see (a major downturn) happening again." Others are open to returning to construction. Steelworker Ryan Espinoza of Reno saw his work slow down in 2008, forcing him to eventually take a job as a bill collector for a cable company and file for bankruptcy. This year, he took a 16-week class to learn to operate computer-controlled factory machines.
He quickly found work at an area factory earning $12 an hour, far below his $30-an-hour construction salary. He also misses working outside and at an endless variety of locations. Espinoza says he'll stay in manufacturing if he can learn to program factory machines, allowing him to approach his former pay.
"Otherwise, if construction comes back and shows it's steady, I would probably go back," he says.
Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 10:14PM EST November 28. 2012
The construction industry shed 2.2 million workers between January 2007 and last year. So now there's an overabundance of them eager for jobs, right?


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A special thanks to Chef BigFatPanda for sharing his recent kitchen adventures with us! Follow along as he (and Chef Mickey!) take us right into the kitchen with them as they create Mom's Meatloaf (whose name has oddly been changed to Dad's Meatloaf recently) from 50's Prime Time Cafe Restaurant in Disney's Hollywood Studios. Take it away, Chef!
Hello! Chef BigFatPanda here, embarking on duplicating Mom's Meat Loaf as served in 50's Prime Time Cafe. I chose this recipe because I love meatloaf — when it's done right — and because it's a cost effective meal for the family. This recipe calls for a hearty 3 pounds of meat. That's a lot of meatloaf, but unused portions can be refrigerated or frozen for another day, or for a sandwich lunch. This recipe has us making 2 loaves, so, theoretically, you can halve the ingredients and make one.
My Italian heritage takes over when I make meatloaf, and it becomes a giant meatball with Pecorino Romano cheese, etc. I am resisting that urge and am going to follow Disney's recipe to the "T," then give you my honest feelings on it. I feel like Julie & Julia 🙂
To make this easier to follow, I have bolded all the official instructions. This is especially useful if you want to save this recipe for future use and skip my ramblings. I will be hurt, but I'll recover 😉
This is straight from a Disney Cookbook — let's begin with what ingredients we need:
2 Pounds of Ground Beef
1 Pound of Ground Pork
4 Large eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup seasoned breadcrumbs
½ cup finely chopped onion
¼ cup finely chopped green bell pepper
¼ cup finely chopped red bell pepper
2 Tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
(another) ½ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce (to be used separately)
½ teaspoon of coarsely ground black peppercorn
½ teaspoon coarse salt
½ cup Ketchup
1 Tablespoon Brown Sugar
1 Teaspoon Dijon Mustard
First of all, don't let any of the ingredients scare you; for example, you can certainly substitute regular salt for coarse salt if you need to. There will be a slight variation in flavor, but nothing earth shattering. I say this because some people (me included) can look at an ingredient list and abandon trying the recipe because some of the ingredients are just funky or not too common. I personally try to be authentic to the recipe whenever possible, but improvise when necessary.
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F – Lightly oil or spray 2 loaf pans (even lasagna type trays)
2. In a large bowl, combine the beef, pork, eggs, bread crumbs, onion, green pepper, red pepper, 2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce, cracked peppercorn, and salt until well mixed.
Pork tends to contain more fat than beef. I would bet a reason they ask for pork is to make sure the meatloaf remains moist. That being said, you could certainly omit the pork and go with all beef. It would be healthier to use a Sirloin-type beef as I did, but the higher the fat content (e.g.: Chuck), the moister the meatloaf will be.
Okay, so we are going to get our hands dirty! Don't be shy! Dump those ingredients in and start churning. Smoosh it! Yes, I said SMOOSH it! Churn it upside down, left, right –- get your groove on, and make sure everything has touched everything.
Now that I am looking at my mixture, I probably could have chopped my peppers more finely, but there's no going back now. I use a handy little inexpensive food chopper for the onions. It gets them finely chopped in no time. It is not, however, good for chopping peppers. You wind up with skins and juice only. So, you're going to have to cut the peppers as finely as you can on your own. It's Fun!
3. Divide the meat mixture in half, shape into 2 loaves. Place them into your pan or tray. Bake for 50-60 minutes. Temperature should reach 155 degrees. If you're unsure, leave them for 60 minutes.
There is a sense of accomplishment when those halves go into the oven. They are transforming from ugly to delicious. It just happens! 🙂
We are not done yet. This next step sounded gross to me until I tasted it!
4. In a small bowl, stir together the ketchup, brown sugar, mustard and 1 Tsp of Worcestershire sauce. After your meatloaf cooks it's initial 50-60 minutes, brush the tops of them with this sauce and bake an additional 10 minutes.
I know –- I thought we were done too, but we are going back into the oven. So, listen: This ketchup mustard worcestesherry thing is really not bad. I promised to follow this recipe to the "T," but I kinda "slipped" with the Worcestershire sauce and it tastes much better than I anticipated.
I am tasting it now! Wow! I have to tell you: I am surprised. I really like it. I like the peppers in there. I was worried that there wouldn't be enough flavor without an onion soup mix packet, but I was mistaken. I might add a bit more salt (even though I am not a heavy salt user). I am pleasantly surprised by how much I am enjoying this meatloaf!
What would I change if I made it again? I love cooking, learning, and then making my own variations. With this recipe, I really wouldn't change too much. If I did it again, I would add more onion than they ask for, and triple the amount of Worcestershire sauce.
Thank you so much for allowing me into your kitchen! And keep wishing upon those stars! I'd love to get your opinions and comments about this recipe. Did you order it at 50's Prime Time Cafe? Would you try it at home? And if you have, did you like it? Let us know in the comments below.
Again, thanks to Chef BigFatPanda for this awesome trip into the kitchen! You can also find him at DisneyBoy.com Hopefully he'll join us again with some more fantastic Disney recipes! For more information about 50's Prime Time Cafe Restaurant, including well-known dishes and links to menus and online reservations, click here: 50's Prime Time Cafe.


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Rhinestone jewelry is all the rage. At the Rhinestone Shop we stock both flat back and pointed back European stones which are used to make rhinestone costume jewelry. We also carry different settings in a variety of colors and styles. If you have creativity at your fingertips then you can make your own European crystal jewelry.
All the celebrities are wearing rhinestone costume jewelry and we all want it too. Even though rhinestones aren't precious stones it is still expensive to buy rhinestone jewelry. BUT, if you make your own European crystal jewelry, not only will friends and strangers want to know where you got that gorgeous dazzler but you will have saved yourself some cash…. In this economy, who doesn't want to save some hard earned dough?!
We all remember our grandma's vintage rhinestone jewelry and we wish we would've kept it all because it is back in style, big time! But, since we all weren't smart enough to hold onto all those beautiful pieces we have to start buying new ones or make our own rhinestone jewelry sets! For those who may have a little pack rat in them (you know who you are) and saved broken broaches and mismatched earrings you are in luck, because they make awesome embellishment to add to your new creation! Vintage rhinestone jewelry is such an inspiration for today's jewelry trends.
The Rhinestone Shop also carries buttons and slides which are commonly used in rhinestone jewelry. Many fashion forward designers use the premade shapes and build around the existing design to make something unique and extravagant.
Now don't forget special occasion jewelry. We would all love to wear big diamonds and pearls for that wedding, ball or holiday party but who can afford to spend thousands on fine jewelry only to be worn a handful of times??? Rhinestone jewelry sets allow you to get the look you want at the price you can afford.


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Black River Riparian Forest
Handsprings and cartwheels, I just learned of a wonderful bird hangout that is a mere TWELVE minutes from my house. We visited the Riparian last year but just as a pleasant place to stretch our legs. Little did we know that this special refuge is the chosen spot of an interesting subspecies of the Great Blue Heron, known as the Fannini's. These herons do their own thing and do not migrate, as do the Big Blues. They have lived in the Riparian for 22 years. And there is a nesting pair of Bald Eagles living here too. Today I saw not a single heron, but over the next few weeks they are expected to arrive and begin their yearly nesting. Who do you suppose will be eagerly waiting for them?!! The eagles were active this weekend, as well as many species of ducks. I sat by the bank of the river for a time and was startled by a rabbit streaking at lightning pace through the underbrush of an embankment at one point. This interesting place is relaxing and peaceful to visit. For more information go to this excellent site dedicated to the Riparian Forest: http://www.heronsforever.org/Read More
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Just over a year ago, I don't think I could have created this map… but here's the current list of hackerspaces/makerspaces (that I know of) in Wisconsin. Some are well established, and some are just getting started. Either way, if you're looking for a group of people and/or a space to hack/make things, here's a guide.
I'll start in Milwaukee, where we have both Milwaukee Makerspace and Bucketworks…
Bucketworks has been around (in various locations) since 2002 and besides being the venue for BarCampMilwaukee for the past 6 years, it's also a great place for co-working, meetups, hackathons or other creativity-related activities.
The Milwaukee Makerspace as a group has been around for about two years, but just got their space less than a year ago. In that time they've managed to build up membership and acquire quite a list of impressive equipment. If you're into physical making of things in the areas of electronics, robotics, woodworking, metalworking, 3D printing, electric vehicles or any sort of building/making, it's an awesome place filled with smart people.
Over in Madison we've got Sector67, which is more of a "community workshop" where pretty much anyone can come in off the street and work on a project. If you want to be a member, you'll help keep the place alive, and gain other privileges, but if you just need help on a project, show up and see what happens. They've also got some private space set aside as a small-business incubator.
Up in Appleton we've got a group known as The DHMN (which stands for "Distributed Hacker/Maker Network") The DHMN doesn't have an actual space yet, but they've got some dedicated and enthusiastic members who meet regularly and are slowing building up members so they can someday have a permanent space.
MakeBit is just a bit south of Appleton in Fond du Lac. I don't know a whole lot about MakeBit, but Tim Bertram is the guy behind it, and hopefully he can make it happen get a space at some point. (Right now it seems they are just gathering interest, which is definitely the right way to do it.)
A bit north of Milwaukee and Madison (and about the same distance from each) is the Beaver Dam Makerspace. Hacker/Maker Jason Gullickson is the guy behind this space. I say "space" because it appears they do have a space thanks to some solid connections in the city, but they're still finding people interested in being members. I'm hoping we see some action here in 2012.
The newest group/space I've heard about is the Wausau Collaboration Center. The folks behind it seem pretty focused on making it happen, and seem to be following along the lines of Sector67's "community workshop" idea. This isn't surprising, as many of the people involved in these groups/spaces have met each other, know each other, or someone influence each other. (That's probably a good thing!)
Oh, there's a few more spaces mentioned on hackerspaces.org but the domains seem to be gone and I've never heard of them.
And if I missed any, let me know! I'd like to eventually visit them all, meet the people behind them, and maybe even get stamped.


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Mr. A. D. Gash for plaintiff in error. [218 U.S. 124, 125] Messrs. Alexander M. Garber
[218 U.S. 124, 126] and Thomas W. Martin for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:
The plaintiff in error was convicted and sentenced to a fine on a complaint for breach of an Alabama statute of [218 U.S. 124, 127] March 7, 1907. By 17 of that act a license tax was imposed on persons who did not have a permanent place of business in the state, and also keep picture frames as a part of their stock in trade, if they solicited orders for the enlargement of photographs or pictures of any character, or for picture frames, whether they made charge for such frames or not, or if they sold or disposed of picture frames. The Chicago Crayon Company, having its only place of business in Chicago, and being engaged in the business of making and enlarging portraits from photographs, and in the manufacturing of picture frames, solicited orders in Alabama without paying the license tax. These orders were given in writing for a portrait of the size and kind wanted, specified the price, cash on delivery, and continued: 'I understand that my portrait is to be delivered in an appropriate frame, which this contract entitles me to accept at factory price.' The agent of the company gave back a written acceptance, repeating the other terms of the bargain, and adding: 'All portraits are delivered in appropriate frames, which this contract entitled the purchaser to accept at factory prices,' with particulars purporting to show that these prices were from one third to one half the retail or usual ones. The plaintiff in error, who also had no permanent place of business in Alabama and had paid no license tax, was an agent of the company, who delivered pictures and frames, and collected for them, in pursuance of the agreed plan. The pictures and frames were sent to the agent, and remained the property of the company until paid for and delivered. On these facts the supreme court of Alabama, while admitting that the dealings concerning the pictures were commerce among the states, sustined the conviction, on the ground that the sale of the frames was a wholly local matter. 154 Ala. 83, 129 Am. St. Rep. 51, 46 So. 9.
No doubt it is true that the customer was not bound to take the frame unless he saw fit, and that the sale of it [218 U.S. 124, 128] took place wholly within the state of Alabama, if a sale was made. But, as was hinted in Rearick v. Pennsylvania, 203 U.S. 507, 512 , 51 S. L. ed. 295, 297, 27 Sup. Ct. Rep. 159, what is commerce among the states is a question depending upon broader considerations than the existence of a technically binding contract, or the time and place where the title passed. It was agreed that the frame should be offered along with the picture. The offer was a part of the interstate bargain, and as it was agreed that the frame should be offered 'at factory prices,' and the company and factory were in Chicago, obviously it was contemplated, if not agreed, that the frame should come on with the picture. In fact, the frames were sent on with the pictures from Chicago, and were offered when the pictures were tendered, as part of a transaction commercially continuous, and one at prices generically fixed by the contract for the pictures, and by that contract represented to be less than retail or usual prices, in consideration, it is implied, of the purchase already agreed to be made. We are of opinion that the sale of the frames cannot be so separated from the rest of the dealing between the Chicago company and the Alabama purchaser as to sustain the license tax upon it. Under the decisions, the statute, as applied to this case, is a regulation of commerce among the states, and void under the Constitution of the United States. Art. 1, 8. Robbins v. Taxing Dist. 120 U.S. 489 , 30 L. ed. 694, 1 Inters. Com. Rep. 45, 7 Sup. Ct. Rep. 592; Caldwell v. North Carolina, 187 U.S. 622 , 47 L. ed. 336, 23 Sup. Ct. Rep. 229; Rearick v. Rennsylvania, 203 U.S. 507 , 51 L. ed. 295, 27 Sup. Ct. Rep. 159.
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No Need to Keep This Blasphemous Ten
- Annabelle Robertson Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
- 2007 17 Aug
DVD Release Date: January 15, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: August 3, 2007
Rating: R (for pervasive strong crude sexual content including dialogue and nudity and foul language and some drug material)
Genre: Comedy
Run Time: 95 min.
Director: David Wain
Actors: Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba, Famke Janssen, Liv Schreiber, Winona Ryder, Adam Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Robb Corrdry
Walking onstage, as if in a theatrical production, Jeff (Paul Rudd) stands in front of two "Moses"-like tablets of the Ten Commandments and introduces the concept of The Ten, which is a series of short films, or stories, designed to illustrate the Ten Commandments.
In between each short, however, Jeff unwittingly plays out some of those commandments through various scenarios in his life. This all takes place onstage, with theatrical props such as tables, chairs, and a door that opens and closes. He fights with his wife (Famke Janssen). He has an affair with Liz (Jessica Alba). He leaves his wife. And so on.
In the meantime, however, there are the stories. One after the other.
A guy falls from an airplane without a parachute and survives, only to learn that he can't be moved from the hole he's now embedded in. He becomes the star of a sitcom filmed around him—and a worldwide idol (commandment #1). A woman (Winona Ryder) leaves her new husband during their honeymoon, after falling for a ventriloquist's dummy—with whom she has passionate sex (commandment #2).
While visiting Mexico, an American woman falls in love with a long-haired carpenter, only to learn that he is actually Jesus. Being Jesus and all, he should call for the rapture, but he's having way too much fun sleeping with this sexy tourist. Later, in bed with her husband, she shouts out, "Jesus!" (commandment #3).
A married father cheats on his wife with other men every Sunday, while his wife is in church. Soon, this has turned into weekly Sunday orgies with all the neighborhood husbands and fathers. They rationalize that it's a "godly" way to celebrate the Sabbath and all break into a musical song-and-dance number about this (commandment #4).
A married Caucasian housewife gives birth to twin African-American boys. Later, she admits that the father is a black celebrity. When she can't track him down, she hires an impersonator to play dad to the grown boys, who agree to accept him in lieu of their biological father (commandment #5).
A surgeon intentionally drops scissors into a patient and is confused (but unrepentant) when she dies, because it was all a gag (commandment #6). Two male inmates meet and can't wait to rape one another on a regular basis (not sure which commandment). And so on.
Essentially, the film is one big excuse for a series of Saturday Night Live style skits. Except that I'd usually give SNL skits 5 out of 10, on a scale of 1 to 10. These skits are more like a 1, on a scale of 1 to 100. Unless zero is an option, because truly, there are no words to describe how bad it really is.
The film is blasphemous in the extreme. (It even boasts about this on the DVD jacket.) Jesus is portrayed as a lust-filled Mexican who beds woman after woman. A young mother who attends church is mocked for her legalism. Honoring our parents means having the mindset of a toddler. And that's just a sampling.
In addition to the nonexistent narrative and religious mockery, the R rating ("for pervasive strong crude sexual content including dialogue and nudity and foul language and some drug material") tells you everything you need to know about the rest of this film's content. Frankly, it's the most bizarre portrayal of sexuality I have ever seen. Most of the scenarios—not to mention the mere thought of the mind that created them—are incredibly disturbing to watch, and thoroughly warped.
It's not funny to watch one male prisoner raping another, much less talking about it as if it's a love affair. Neither am I amused by neighborhood husbands and fathers cavorting in the nude, singing about why they believe it's appropriate to "celebrate the Sabbath" by having sex with one another. It's also not funny to watch a woman passionately kissing and having sex with a wooden dummy. Again, just a sampling of the scenarios we're subjected to.
Even if you can get past all the blasphemy and disturbing sexual themes that form the bedrock of these skits, there's simply nothing here. It doesn't go anywhere at all, from a narrative standpoint, and it doesn't convey any message—save that anyone who believes in the Ten Commandments is an idiot.
I honestly have no idea what director David Wain (who also directed Wet, Hot, American Summer) was thinking. If there is anything redemptive at all about this film, it's the fact that it only lasts 95 minutes. And, that I had to drive to five video stores before finding it.
- Alternate-Take and Deleted-Scene Vignettes
- Audio Commentary with David Wain, Ken Marino and Paul Rudd
- Special interview with David Wain, Ken Marino and Paul Rudd
- 'Exclusive Episode' of "Wainy Days"
- "The Making of the Ten" featurette
- Ringtones and Wallpaper
- Other unrated features
- Drugs/Alcohol: Moderate
- Language/Profanity: Strong, including dozens of f-words and crude, disturbing references.
- Sexual Content/Nudity: Very strong, very crude and extremely disturbing.
- Violence: Moderate but disturbing, due to circumstances that are both bizarre and cruel—such as fathers repeatedly slapping their sons and a man who falls out of an airplane and must live the rest of his life partially embedded in the ground, while staring at his twisted, useless leg.


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It's something I've noticed. I've noticed it in the US, and I've noticed it among Westerners who visit Japan. After breaking apart chopsticks, they begin rubbing them together.
There might be reasons why Westerners do this with chopsticks: maybe they are worried about splinters or maybe it's something else. Maybe it's Blade Runner's fault.
Early in the film, Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard sits down at the White Dragon noodle bar and orders. Before Deckard is whisked away by Edward James Olmos' character, he has an exchange with the bar's Sushi Master, who speaks to him in Japanese. While waiting for his food, Deckard takes his chopsticks, breaks them apart, and begins rubbing them together.
It might not be Blade Runner's most iconic scene, but it could be one the film's most impressionable. Deckard seems comfortable ordering at a Japanese restaurant, so he must know something, right?
Blade Runner has become a cultural mainstay, and if you are vaguely interested in Japan, you've probably seen it. This scene in particular has influenced many Westerners who have either visited Japan or dined at Japanese restaurants and who think the "correct" way to use chopsticks in Japan is to break them apart and then rub them together. It isn't.
Look around at any restaurant in Japan, and you'll very rarely see people rubbing chopsticks together. The only time I've ever seen Japanese people rubbing chopsticks was once while camping with my son's Boy Scout troop: we made chopsticks from pieces of bamboo and used sandpaper—not chopsticks—to smooth them out.
When Japanese people use disposable chopsticks ("waribashi" or "割り箸"), they simply break them in half and then start eating. Not only is rubbing them together considered somewhat gauche, it is also completely unnecessary most of the time. Even the cheapest disposable chopsticks have been processed and are made to be split apart. If you break them correctly, you should be fine.
That doesn't mean you cannot get splinters from them and sometimes you'll see people rub them together a little, especially if a small child is going to use them. According to good Japanese table manners, your chopsticks should not touch the inside of your mouth, such as your tongue or lips. This is obviously difficult for small children, but should be manageable for well-mannered adults.
And as fussy as Japanese table manners can get, there are far worse things you can do with chopsticks, such as breaking them apart with your teeth. Sticking chopsticks upright in a bowl of rice, which echoes a funeral ritual, is even more of a faux pas.
So, if you do rub chopsticks together, it's best to do it somewhat discretely and only to remove splinters, and not as some pre-meal ritual in which you whittle two sticks together into silky smooth utensils. But unless you are in some sort of super formal setting, Japanese people will probably overlook your Rick Deckard style chopstick rubbing.
This story originally appeared on July 9, 2012.
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- AnonymousMarch 4, 2013 at 8:16 AM
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Hehe. In Denmark it's the complete opposite - if you try to speak in Danish and aren't doing that well people will automatically respond in English. Makes the language hard to learn since you never get to practice it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 19, 2014 at 8:04 AM
Or sometimes, if you just speak English from the start, knowing they'll switch anyway, they act annoyed and inconvenienced as if you're demanding that they speak English. You can't win!ReplyDelete
This happens to me in Quebec on a frequent basis. To be fair, I can't say it's always the case though. I'm personally not confident enough in French to try to speak it in public situations, but sometimes I watch other non-Francophones really struggle to, say, order food in French - and the Francophone kindly obliges and doesn't switch to English.Replies
I'm getting to the point with my German now where if I start in German, they know I'm not a native speaker, but they don't switch automatically because they're not sure if I speak English or not! So I guess that's a win.Delete
- AnonymousMay 25, 2014 at 1:50 AM
Well, I think it's just good manners to ask if someone somewhere speaks a different language than the official one in somewhere.Delete
If I hadn't had the little English flag on my nametag where I used to work, I would have gone "Ich spreche kein Englisch" with everyone NOT asking first. And anyone who asked nevertheless got a "thanks for asking" and an extra smile - although I actually consider this act of interaction as being a basic thing.
As funny as this strip is, there's not many people who are jesters like that in real life. So, Anonymous, you actually CAN win.
And now imagine you being in your obviously anglophonic country and me coming up to you just going: "Entschuldigung, wo ist der nächste Geldautomat?" - How would you react?


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