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A very easy shrug
Added Sep 18, 2013
by liliv-1
Athens, Greece
Hi!! This is a little shug I made to make my cowl top appropriate for some more chilly days! It is as easy to sew as the top. The pattern is a simple rectangle, I have seen many shrugs like this in rtw stores. There are many tutorials on the web, one of them is "this": http://somethingtocraftabout.com/?p=555
I made 6 pleats at the bottom of the sleeves and added wide doubled bands, I think this way the shug looks a little more well finished. I have made loads of these shrugs and i have them always in my purse whenever the temprature is a little bit more low.
Material Notes
lycra jersey
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Sep 19, 2013, 03.34 PMby BeeZee
Really cute idea Liliv!
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Sep 20, 2013, 09.58 AMby liliv-1
Thank you BeeZee, it's cute and easy!
Sep 19, 2013, 05.59 AMby rita61
Nice shrug! I have made the one you linked to, but I really like the way you finished the bottom of the sleeves. :-)
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Sep 19, 2013, 09.32 AMby liliv-1
Thanks rita!
Sep 18, 2013, 04.40 PMby Oksana Starzhynska
Well, i don't have such a top with draping, I don't have such a shrug… I wonder what else I don't have but must… I'm sure I'll know it from your next post.:-)) I'm mostly in knitted or crocheted shrugs and wanted to ask if it's made of fabric, is it comfortable to wear because shrugs are not much fitted, do they stay on shoulders or must be fixed all the time?
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Sep 19, 2013, 09.32 AMby liliv-1
This particular shrug is a rectangle and doesn't stay in place:( So either you fix it all the time (attracting this way the attention of the men:P) or let it sit where it wants. I don't mind very much fixing it but if you are nervous about this then you can add a doubled band (like the ones at the sleeves but narrower) at the neckline opening: this band must be a little bit shorter than the opening and you must stretch while you are attaching it to the neckline. I have tried this and makes the fit nicer. Or maybe some elastic (I haven't tried this, but it could be a solution). But if you use a real pattern instead of rectangles then the shrug sits very nicely at the shoulders.
Sep 19, 2013, 02.45 PMby Oksana Starzhynska
Interesting and useful instructions, thank you very much.
And a good trick as for the men, by the way:-)
Sep 18, 2013, 03.31 PMby velvetribbon
I love it, Liliv! It looks like easy to sew, maybe I'll try to make it one day:-) You look chic on this shrug and I like the way you finished the sleeves. Well done!
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Sep 19, 2013, 09.21 AMby liliv-1
30 minutes is the time you need! Thank you!!
Sep 18, 2013, 03.12 PMby Zsuzso
Great . I like the way you finished the sleeves.
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Sep 19, 2013, 09.20 AMby liliv-1
Thank you! This finishing is a good solution when you don't have a serger and I prefer it many times:)
Sep 18, 2013, 12.56 PMby Mary Athey
I love shrugs liliv and this ones gorgeous. I see you used more of your fab brown jersey. The whole outfits so classy x
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Sep 19, 2013, 09.19 AMby liliv-1
Thanks so much!! I'm very glad you like the outfit. t's not a recent project, I made the top and the shrug 2-3 years before:) I wish I had more of this brown to make a winter top!
Sep 18, 2013, 12.10 PMby Anjovis
Great outfit! I love the colours and you look great :)
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Sep 19, 2013, 09.16 AMby liliv-1
Thank you very much! We both love brown, that's for sure;)
Sep 18, 2013, 10.27 AMby Ellen Hatteland
Nice! I like this very much! Young and beautiful as usual :-)
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Sep 18, 2013, 10.55 AMby liliv-1
Oh, thanks:)
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ADRIAN — When the Adrian Symphony Orchestra first released the information about the musical lineup for the 2012-13 season and who the guest artists were going to be, I was pleased if not downright astonished right from the first concert on down. My thought process started off something like this:
"Cecile Licad is coming back? To play the Rachmaninoff Second? Kurt Nikkanen is coming back? And how in the world did you land Anne Marie McDermott?"
Going back to the first two of those rhetorical questions, Licad first came to Adrian two seasons ago and played a Chopin concerto that was simply dazzling. Getting to hear her play the Rachmaninoff concerto — one of the great works, for piano or otherwise, in the repertoire, was going to be quite an experience, I was sure.
Happily, I was right and then some.
Licad joined the ASO Sunday afternoon for its season-opening concert, the program for which also included Smetana's "The Moldau" and Sibelius' Symphony No. 1. An interesting combination of music, to be sure, and all very different works but connected to each other through the sense of nationalism each composer brings to his respective piece.
And interesting, too, in the way ASO Music Director John Thomas Dodson put the concert together. Normally, something like "The Moldau" would have come first, followed by a concerto and with a symphony as the conclusion. But that wouldn't have worked nearly as well as what Dodson did: program the symphony before the intermission and the concerto afterward.
For one thing, the Sibelius work ends quite unlike any other symphony (it begins quite unlike any other one too, for that matter), and for people expecting a typical huge final symphonic chord of the sort that usually ends a concert, well, you're not going to get that from this composer in this symphony. And for another thing, by putting Licad's performance at the end of the program Dodson was saving the best for last.
Now, none of this is to say that the Adrian Symphony's playing in this concert was flawless, because it wasn't, exactly. But the mistakes were pretty minute compared to the whole artistic canvas of what was going on Sunday afternoon.
"The Moldau," which is one of those works you're likely to recognize at least part of even if you don't know what it's called, was a very pleasant way to begin the afternoon. It packs a lot of musical ideas into its 12 or so minute length, and the ASO gave a really nice, very expressive rendition of the piece.
Whereas "The Moldau" was something many people in the audience likely knew in some way, shape or form, the Sibelius First was probably exactly the opposite: most probably, almost no one in the hall Sunday had ever heard this work. And if not, they got a great introduction to it, because the orchestra played it tremendously well.
This may have been Sibelius' very first stab at writing a symphony, and he was still relatively young when he did so, but there's nothing at all immature or ill-constructed about it. He was a young man with a lot to say musically, and it's obvious that he wanted this work taken seriously. It's interestingly structured, as already noted, but it's also big and tuneful and dramatic, and the Adrian Symphony was absolutely fearless in its performance of it.
And then along came Licad and the Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto.
Hands down, this is one of classical music's masterpieces, with that beautiful main theme, its contrasting emotions, and such a perfect balance in the musical conversation that takes place between soloist and orchestra. And Licad's performance of it Sunday was one of the highlights of this or any other ASO season. Daring, imaginative, and impeccably played, this was quite simply a spectacular performance by a top-notch artist. And the orchestra, with Dodson keeping an especially watchful eye on what Licad was doing and with the musicians staying almost perfectly with him, held up its end of things more than well.
I have been known to say on a few previous occasions, "if you missed this concert, you really missed out on something." Well, this concert was one of those times. There are cities bigger than Adrian whose orchestras aren't going to get a soloist of the quality of Cecile Licad, or of the quality of, down the road, Kurt Nikkanen or Anne Marie McDermott. There are cities bigger than Adrian where you won't get to hear the Sibelius First Symphony. And that matters.
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Eliot Spitzer has had several acts to his career, which has not been without its share of controversy.
Lawyer. Prosecutor. Attorney general. Governor. Political commentator. And, now, real estate investor. Along the way he's had his highs—prosecuting the Gambino crime family when working in the New York County District Attorney's office and cracking down on financial excesses as attorney general. And lows—resigning as New York Governor just over a year into his term. Through it all he's retained a thirst for surveying the political and economic scene and speaking out where he sees rights and wrongs. He has emerged as a sharp-tongued commentator on politics and economics, first for CNN and now for Current TV. He also writes a blog for online magazine Slate.
After stepping down as governor, Spitzer joined the family business Spitzer Enterprises. He is the son of Bernard Spitzer—a long-time New York real estate mogul, who, as of 2008, had built an estimated net worth of $500 million.
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Eliot Spitzer now works in the Crown Building on Fifth Avenue—a property Spitzer Enterprises owns—with an office that overlooks Central Park.
Since he joined the firm, Spitzer Enterprises has made at least two high-profile commercial real estate acquisitions in the Washington, D.C., market. In 2009, it acquired 1615 L Street for $180 million. And in 2011 it bought 4800 Hampden Lane in Bethesda, Md., for $90.3 million.
The firm is looking to take advantage of distress. For 1615 L Street, a 412,000-sq.-ft. property, the firm paid $42 million in cash and assumed a $138 million mortgage. The overall price was about $30 million less than the property had traded for in 2006.
Spitzer remains deeply passionate about politics and about the direction of the financial sector. With a background in public service and a burgeoning career as a property investor, Spitzer is uniquely situated to comment on the political and financial scenes.
In a wide-ranging interview with NREI, Spitzer shared his thoughts about the upcoming presidential election, the state of Wall Street and his approach to real estate investment.
Spitzer remains a partisan Democrat and sharp critic of Republican policies. (For alternative thoughts on the upcoming election, check out our roundup of quotes from 16 industry pros.)
NREI: How does the political scene affect commercial real estate? We're sitting here shortly after the national conventions. What are your reactions to them?
Spitzer: I wear my politics on my sleeve. I don't wear them as a partisan. I was a Democrat while I was in office. I'm still a Democrat and part of that party. But it's not because I'm a Democrat as a partisan. It's because I happen to believe the principals articulated by the Democratic Party have made more economic sense.
Those two conventions really articulated two different economic worldviews. I would be worried if we were to return to what I hear the Republican Party propounding as its desired course, which is [taking] fiscal and regulatory approaches that did not generate meaningful growth during the periods that they were implemented as opposed to a more reasoned and balanced approach that President Obama has implemented. This approach would have been viewed many years back as an entirely bipartisan/centrist approach of fiscal stimulus, tax reform that is designed to keep government spending at a historically appropriate level, fund appropriate infrastructure, defense, education and entitlement programs while simultaneously reining in what needs to be reined in, which is the trajectory of long-term health costs. That's what Obama is talking about in trying to thread the needle in a tough political and economic environment.
This isn't high-level economics. It's simple arithmetic. The arithmetic of the Republican approach doesn't work. That's been proven for the last four years. How does that affect commercial real estate or residential real estate?
If you don't have long-term balanced growth, real estate is going to suffer. We went through the boom and bust of the residential crisis, the mortgage crisis. It was a consequence of the policies primarily of the Republican deregulatory worldview that permitted the bubble to be inflated. There are lots of villains. I'm not trying to put that in a partisan light. It's a more nuanced story. But if there is one worldview that led to the crisis, it was a deregulatory, laissez-faire perspective about debt and financing that had cataclysmic consequences. That's what the other side wants to go back to.
I had a fascinating interview with Richard Posner. He was the leading light, the father of the economic worldview that led us down that deregulatory path. And he said, "Hey, guys, that didn't work." He's an incredibly smart guy who was willing to look at the evidence and said, "You know what? We need to appreciate when deregulation fails. And he's also an avowed Keynesian. He makes no bones about that."
I'm looking forward to the debates because if they're done properly they will lead to an intellectual engagement that we haven't yet seen. When it comes to Romney I'd like to ask if him if he'd taken the oath of office in January 2009, with the economy in free fall as it was, what would he have proposed to do? I'm hard-pressed to believe he wouldn't have proposed a stimulus of some sort—an old-fashioned Keynesian stimulus. It did work. And for all his harrumphing that the stimulus was cronyism—they like to use Solyndra as the exclusive example of what the stimulus was about—I'd like to have him be forced to admit he would have proposed a stimulus and here's how he would have done it. And if he merely says he would have cut taxes, the answer is that one-third of the stimulus was a tax cut. Frankly, the part the economists think was the most effective was direct government spending. That's where you get the most immediate return. That's why on a macro level I think we'll be better off if the president wins and he's able to put in place larger economic policies that he's been pushing for.
NREI: For the past couple of years business leaders have talked a lot about uncertainty as holding back activity and that includes uncertainty stemming from Washington and not knowing what may happen with taxation and regulation. Do you think that argument holds water?
Spitzer: Can I tell you something? This whole argument about uncertainty is one of the greatest canards that's propagated out there. Uncertainty about what? There is always uncertainty about what's going to happen. Congress can always change tax rates. It could repeal the capital gains differential tomorrow. Ronald Reagan did that.
It's an excuse by people who want to blame somebody. There is uncertainty out there. Smart business folks love uncertainty. It creates opportunity. It creates diverging views about value, which creates the chance to buy and sell and make money. The uncertainty that people don't like is the uncertainty caused by the cataclysm that was caused by the Bush policies. That's the uncertainty we're dealing with.
The uncertainty of major investment banks going bust because they had lost all sense of risk management and were playing with other people's money—that's the uncertainty that was damaging. It's not regulatory uncertainty. If you commit fraud, you know you're committing fraud and you should be sanctioned. There is uncertainty that you may get caught. But that's not the type of uncertainty I'm going to sympathize with people for worrying about.
Smart writers have peered through this and said, "Guys, get over it. You're just looking for somebody to blame."
We don't know what they're going to do about the fiscal cliff? Yes, we don't know. That's because the Republicans are refusing to negotiate. We don't know what's going to happen with raising the debt ceiling because Paul Ryan didn't want to move on that. We don't know what's going to happen because when Bowles/Simpson was there, Paul Ryan said no.
So if there's uncertainty at a governmental level it's not because the president has hesitated to articulate what he wants to do. It's because the Republicans have failed over and over and over again to do anything other than block.
So I'm not at all sympathetic to, "Gee, blame the president for uncertainty." It's a canard. And frankly, I'm using a polite word for it.
NREI: In terms of taxation, the subject of carried interest and how that's treated has come up again and again in recent years. It's typically talked about in reference to private equity and hedge funds. But it also would have massive implications for real estate partnerships. Do you see this moving forward?
Spitzer: There is absolutely no economic rationale for dealing with carried interest as a capital gain. None whatsoever. It shouldn't be done. I'm in favor of getting rid of the capital gains differential altogether. I don't see any argument any longer, having looked at a lot of the economics and spoken to a lot of people.
Reagan did this. During President Reagan's era we eliminated the capital gains differential. Dealing with earned income and capital gains the same way is what we should do as a matter of policy and as a matter of equity. It's what I think we stand for as a nation. Would it have a negative impact on me? Sure. Nobody doubts that. Do I benefit from the differential? Sure. But I would vote to repeal it.
NREI: Do you think it's possible?
Spitzer: I think it's unlikely because of the raw politics.
I think there's an 80 percent likelihood that President Obama is elected. The last important number that will come out will be the September job numbers that come out in October. The October numbers that come out four days before the election will probably be too late to have a great impact. And then the three debates. Those are the moments when trajectory can shift, barring unforeseen stuff.
But I don't think the Democrats will take the House. And the Senate will end up in a rough equilibrium. Nobody can predict Virginia. Nobody can predict Massachusetts. Even Missouri. So you don't know if it will be 51 to 49 one way or the other. It will be close either way.
So how do you then see some sort of negotiation going forward? Probably they punt for a year and extend tax cuts for everybody. I don't see any way they move on capital gains, which would be too big a shock to the system when people will be looking for an easy way out. And then some sort of agreement will be reached on long-term entitlements in a year or so.
So on the capital gains piece, I would be very surprised if it altered in a fundamental way. The carried interest piece, maybe, depending on who has a stronger hand.
NREI: We're sitting here a couple years after Dodd-Frank has passed and there are still many regulations that have yet to be written, including for securitization. Do you have thoughts on how that may turn out?
Spitzer: It's too early to know.
One of the things I've never understood is objections to statutes because they are long. It's long and complicated because the world is big and complicated. You close a mortgage these days and the document is 10 times thicker than it used to be. That's the unfortunate reality of the world.
Glass-Steagall was 32 pages. Dodd-Frank is more than 2,000. We're dealing with a complex world. We're dealing with simple principles that are difficult to define.
Dodd-Frank was a good effort to forge some sensible compromises. It didn't go far enough. When you've now got Sandy Weill acknowledging that the megabank concept was wrong, those of us who opposed it from the beginning can say, "History hasn't supported your theory."
Putting that aside, Dodd-Frank was crafted and passed before what is now approaching a consensus that the big megabank theory should be dispensed with. But what Dodd-Frank did, through the Volcker Rule, which was the single most important piece of it, was to carve out some of the riskiest behavior and to create some sort of safety net under the "too big to fail" institutions.
How will it affect securitization? We just don't know yet. I can tell you from people that are on my side of this, securitized debt is a pain. It's awful. You try to do the simplest thing and you're dealing with servicers whose interests are ambiguous. You're dealing with complexity. Refinancing is tough. I've at various times sworn never again to get into a deal that involves securitized debt. It's just too complicated and I want to have one party on the other side that I know I can deal with.
People are still working through the consequences of what happened years back. Smart people are still leery of crazy values and crazy multiples and leverage ratios and people are going back to a simpler form and deal structure. And that makes sense.
NREI: Some people argue that commercial real estate is a trailing industry that is ultimately dependent on jobs. What do you think of what President Obama and Governor Romney have put forward in terms of stimulating employment?
Spitzer: I feel more comfortable with President Obama's long-term macro approach to where we are. I think his budget will build a more stable economy long term than Mitt Romney's budget.
But we also don't know what Mitt Romney will be once he wins. He is a chameleon. If we get the Romney who was the governor of Massachusetts and who was the somewhat mainstream liberal thinker and economist that supported healthcare reform and the individual mandate, that's one thing. And he'd be very much like Barack Obama.
If we get the Mitt Romney who's in enthralled with Paul Ryan because he needs to excite a base and he's held hostage figuratively by the Tea Party, that's a different Mitt Romney. If Romney wins and we have a Republican majority in the Senate and Mitch McConnell would be majority leader held in control by the Tea Party, that's not something I can look forward to.
Major urban centers would suddenly find their budgets out of whack because their Medicaid would be sharply cut. Infrastructure spending would go down dramatically. If you think about the long-term vitality of cities, we need the subways. Chris Christie canceled a tunnel project to get good headlines, not recognizing that what he was doing was hurting the central business district in New York and Northern New Jersey. So those are the sorts of things that will hurt long term. It would be as if 200 years ago somebody had said, "I don't want to build the Erie Canal." That's the metaphor. People who aren't building infrastructure aren't building central business districts that are vital.
I've never known if commercial real estate is a lagging or leading indicator. It's more jagged than residential. The residential side has more gradual ups and downs. That's the nature of big buildings with major tenants. It's also just been the nature of commercial real estate that you get overbuilding in central business districts and then everybody lurches to a halt in terms of big expansions. So you have big empty, hulking structures, whereas people still need a place to live. Even if the economy is not good, rents will go up more gradually on the residential side. So it's a less jagged market on the residential side. I think the larger issue for the commercial market is that some cities are going to continue to thrive and some are going to suffer. Which ones thrive and which cities become centers of intellectual creativity is the hardest question people should be thinking about.
The reason for that is some cities, like New York, will draw kids and creativity. … The reason New York thrives is every immigrant in the world wants to be here and every college kid in America wants to be here.
Is Austin, Texas, that? Maybe. People look at Austin and say it's doing stupendously. San Francisco has that. Chicago has that. Boston. There are other cities that people would say, "Eh. There's no compelling reason for that city to survive." That's more a question of what cities will become global cities and which won't.
NREI: How have the banks have been dealt with since the financial crisis?
Spitzer: There is a general sense in the public at large that "bad stuff happened." We don't know individually or institutionally who did it. But this was more than just a collective error of judgment. There was a sequence of misrepresentations of known falsehoods propagated to the public about value and securities that were sold and market mistakes. And people should be held accountable.
I think that is basically correct. There should and must be an accountability. There's not yet.
There was also a complete buy-in to a wrong understanding of the market. There is a defense made that everyone drank the same Kool-Aid, from Alan Greenspan to Ben Bernanke to Bob Rubin to Larry Summers. And everybody bought it and everybody acted on a set of presumptions on what credit default swaps were worth. And so none of this was fraud or criminal. It was just an intellectual era.
Many people bought into a worldview about deregulation and the way the world would operate that turned out to be wrong. But there also was a fair degree of fraud that has not yet been prosecuted, and I think that frustration remains. We're probably passing the point where cases could be brought because of statutes of limitations.
But I think the public is also frustrated by a lack of both remorse and acknowledgement of wrongdoing by the senior leadership of the banking industry. When you have senior people in the banking industry continuing to maintain that nothing improper happened, that just rubs people the wrong way. The banks have been the beneficiaries of so much tax support.
They say TARP has been repaid, that's not the point. The support they've gotten has come in so many shapes and forms to this day. With interest rates so low, savers are giving nothing to subsidize the balance sheets of banks. You can argue that this needs to be done. But nonetheless the banking sector has received an enormous bailout. And yet there's not a single moment where the leaders of the industry have collectively stood up and said, "We acknowledge something was wrong here. We need to restructure this industry and go back to our fundamental root purpose."
Banking should be simple. When banking is complicated, bad stuff happens. When the intermediary is making too much money based on the notion of complexity, somebody at the end of the day is going to suffer.
NREI: Where do you think the LIBOR scandal is headed?
Spitzer: I don't know how much money will be recovered at the end of the day. It will be hard to prove damages. I see some local government officials now saying they have a budget deficit that they will balance out of the LIBOR settlements. I don't think that will happen.
You're talking huge sums of money because we all know a couple basis points on an $800 trillion basis becomes a big number. On the other hand, for individual municipalities, I think probably proving huge damages is going to be difficult. I think it's a case that is more instructive on how the problematic behavior reached into so many different parts of the financial services sector.
There are at least two different strands to the LIBOR scandal.
One that is less invidious is where the banks, during the crisis, were told with a wink and a nod, "Don't overstate your borrowing costs because we don't want to signal to the market that you're weak." That was one piece of the Barclays storyline. Whether they misunderstood the wink and the nod, that's one piece of it.
The more brazen piece of it is people on the trading floor calling up to the LIBOR rates center and saying, "We have position X. It would help us if you moved LIBOR this way." That's outright criminal conduct. How long that was going on, how far that reaches, who knows?
NREI: Any last thoughts?
Spitzer: From a real estate perspective, I think the hardest decision is figuring out which cities will thrive and which will not. You drive through some cities and some downtowns and you say, "There's a problem here." You walk around New York City—any part of it—and you see this place is bursting with energy, even parts of the city that used to not be.
My dad grew up on Avenue B and Fifth Street, which back then was the Jewish ghetto. Then in the 70s it was the center of crack distribution. And now you can't afford to rent an apartment there! It is amazing. Part of it is that the life of cities is just incredible in terms of how they emerge again from bad moments. But in New York, Brooklyn is now a cool place to live. My kids don't go to parties in Manhattan anymore. They have to go to Brooklyn. And some people are saying Queens is next. This place is just bursting at the seams and there are some cities that are not. And figuring out which ones will and which ones won't is really the issue.


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NFL player says he wants kids to have pet
Michael Vick buys a dog
NFL player says he wants kids to have pet
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, who served 18 months in prison on dogfighting charges, has confirmed that he owns a dog.
A statement from Vick released Thursday does not identify the pet as a dog, but says that "this is an opportunity to break the cycle."
Vick says the animal "is well cared for and loved as a member of our family." He says it's his responsibility as a father to teach his children to develop a healthy relationship with animals.
Since his release, he has worked with The Humane Society of the United States to speak out against animal cruelty. Vick says that commitment will continue.
The Humane Society declined to comment.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, June 6 (UPI) -- Kevin Durant led a huge second-half rally Wednesday that vaulted the Oklahoma City Thunder into the NBA Finals with a 107-99 victory over San Antonio.
The Thunder eliminated the Spurs in six games, capturing the Western Conference title and setting up a fight for the championship against either Boston or Miami.
Boston will take a 3-2 advantage into its meeting with the Heat Thursday.
San Antonio appeared ready to force a seventh game in the Western Conference title series, jumping to as much as an 18-point lead during the second period and still owning a 17-point advantage at intermission.
Oklahoma City overcame that deficit by late in the third quarter, however, and pulled away down the stretch to bring the Spurs' season to a frustrating close.
San Antonio won its final 10 games of the regular season and then captured its first 10 playoff contests -- including the first two games of the conference finals -- before losing four in a row to the Thunder.
Durant made 9-of-17 from the field and 12-of-15 from the line. He produced 34 points, grabbed 14 rebounds and handed out five assists.
Russell Westbrook added 25 points along with eight rebounds and James Harden had 16 points off the bench. Oklahoma City shot 50 percent from the field and made 10-of-18 from 3-point range -- four of the long-range shots coming from Durant.
Tony Parker, Tim Duncan and Stephen Jackson did the vast majority of work in trying to keep San Antonio's season alive, combining for 77 points.
Parker had 29 points and 12 assists, Duncan scored 25 points with 14 rebounds and Jackson had 23 points.
San Antonio still had a chance to pull out the game heading into the final minute, trailing by four and having possession.
A Duncan layup attempt, however, was blocked by Kendrick Perkins and even though the Spurs came away with the offensive rebound they suffered missed 3-point attempts by Jackson and Kawhi Leonard.
Harden finally claimed an Oklahoma City rebound, leading to a dunk by Kendrick Perkins with 25 seconds to go that all but clinched the outcome.


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Courtney Love Authorizes Kurt Cobain Documentary
While rumors regarding a Broadway musical based on Kurt Cobain's early years appear to have been untrue, Courtney Love seems to be going forward with another project to honor her late husband. Apparently, she has given the go-ahead for a documentary with an expected release date of 2014.
The film will be helmed by Brett Morgen, who most recently directed 'Crossfire Hurricane,' the documentary about the Rolling Stones debuting on HBO tonight (Nov. 15).
"Courtney is the one that brought me into this," Morgen told the New York Post, even though they improperly spelled his last name as "Morgan." "We've been trying to find the right time to put this film together and the time is now . . . Kurt was not only an amazing songwriter and musician, he was an incredible artist and filmmaker. So we are going to do the movie sort of like a third-person autobiography — [as] if Kurt was around and making a film about his life."
Morgen also said that he and Love had been discussing the project since 2007. Neither Krist Novaselic nor Dave Grohl, Cobain's bandmates in Nirvana, have made any statements regarding the film.


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Making Stuff
Today (January 1st) is my birthday. I'll spend the rest of this day with beloved family and friends, smiling through their dull headaches. My birthday (like all of you with Christmas birthdays or July 4th birthdays) gets generally forgotten. It's a New Years Day party, a brunch this year.
So this year, I rose early, and made myself a present in the kitchen: Freshly ground coffee, prepared in a French press, and Cream Teas. Finding clotted cream isn't easy in the States but we found a jar of it in Wegmans grocery. Next problem is finding a decent scone. I made these this morning.
A decent scone (properly rhymes with "gone") is 50% ingredients and 50% technique and mine was lacking this morning. Still, a poorly made home made scone is still far superior to a factory made scone (sound familiar?).
For me this is just one more reminder of the importance of preserving craft through mastery. It also reminds me that making stuff is a life style choice. One year older, I'm still learning about who I am. This slightly over dense scone reminds me that I am like you: a person who makes stuff. Happy New Year. I'm happy to count myself among you.


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Mormonism? Freemasons? No, this movement is known as the "24/7 Prayer Movement" whose adherents are called "Forerunners." They are best known as the "International House of Prayer" (IHOP) and the leader is Mike Bickle.
The foundational document is something they call the "Blueprint Prophecy."
In Bickle's world it is a given that all prophesies must be tested and judged. However, Bickle to this day, has not released a complete, full version of the prophecy which was given to him in writing. Assuming that other leaders in the movement may have had access to the complete document, the parallels to Mormonism and Freemasonry are stunning. In movements such as these, certain elements of their teachings are revealed only to those who have earned trust.
Looking for the earliest extant version of the Blueprint Prophecy has been like looking for the Dead Sea Scrolls. Or the golden tablets. According to Mike Bickle, the original Blueprint prophecy was received on March 26, 1984. Bickle also states that the Blueprint was not made "public" until 2002, although portions have been withheld. This have been independantly confirmed by notes posted by IHOP staffer Greg Burnett, who states the decision to release an edited version was made November 7, 2002. Burnett also did a cut and paste from the 2002 version to his website in 2003(1).
The 2006 version of the Blueprint Prophecy(2) is identified as an edited version and is dated March 26, 1984. However, this version was created on MS Word (not available in 1984) by Jack Hill and the meta-data tag is August 15, 2006. The 2006 version varies little from the 2002 version.
The 2009 version(3) , which was posted on the IHOP website in support for a special 10 year anniversary celebration which featured talks on the history of the movement by Mike Bickle.(4) It was prepared by Stephen Jordan (on a Mac OS X 10) on September 28, 2009. The document states that it was edited on September 19, 2009 by Misty Edwards. Interestingly enough, some changes that were made in 2006 were reverted in 2009.
Judging Prophecy
Bickle has stated that this document is a "comprehensive prophetic word." The unidentified prophet stated "the Lord gave me the blueprints for your movement."(5) While Bickle has not ascribed to the blueprint the weight of scripture, it is clearly identified as a prophetic word from the Lord. A case could be made from Bickle's teachings that Bickle looks at all scripture though the lens of the Blueprint Prophecy. Nonetheless, Bickle's own movement teaches the importance of judging prophetic words.
Somehow, the Blueprint Prophecy gets a "free pass." Bickle has stated that portions were removed by him, things that, in his words fell into the category of "I don't know what that means,"(7) so he did not want them in print (circulation).
Mike Bickle, in 1982, received a prophetic word that said "I (the Lord) will change the understanding and expression of Christianity in one generation."(8) If Bickle's movement is indeed this significant in the history of the church then, like scripture, the dispensation of this message should not be left up to "private interpretation." (c.f. 2 Peter 1:20)
Shifting Sands
Even more disturbing is the changing nature of this pivotal document. In response to accusations of aberrant doctrine and practice, Bickle's organization released a statement of "Affirmations and Denials" in 2008.(9) The document addresses issues such as the "Latter Rain" and the "Joel's Army." Bickle says his prophetic movement is all about "standing boldly in faith for what the Spirit is saying."(10) Could it be the "spirit" keeps changing his mind? Or is the "spirit" saying things for which we cannot "boldly stand?"
Dozens of changes have been made and will no doubt be discussed by others. For the purpose of brevity, I would like to highlight just a few typical revisions. The first has to do with the "Latter Rain."
In Affirmations, Bickle attempts to distance himself from the label "Latter Rain," a doctrinal aberration espoused by the entire apostolic/prophetic movement. (11) In their most recent edit of the foundational document, supernaturally delivered and confirmed, Bickle conveniently removed the phrase Latter Rain. Is this one of those things which Bickle does not "know what it means?" Surely someone has explained this to him at some point in time.
Bickle, as with most large para-church organizations, has not been immune to criticism regarding money. Bickle's organization of "Treasure Bringers"(12) ("Ministers of Finance" in the blueprint) seeks men who will behave like an "unrighteous steward." One leader within his organization has stated "The Treasure Bringers are those with an anointing from God to facilitate this massive wealth-transfer." "They are spiritual 'Robin Hoods.' Their greatest joy is plundering the wealth of the world for their Lord."(13) Perhaps editing the prophecy could tone this down a bit.
Note that the phrase about "checks and money," although deleted in this portion of the 2009 word, reappears later on in the prophecy where the phrase "I will be your purse bearer" occurs again. The "purse bearer" phrase is seen twice in 2006, but only once in 2009. So here we see a shift in location and frequency of certain critical statements, perhaps changing the emphasis of those statements.
Just as the King James and the NIV bibles are translated in different manners, so it is with the Blueprint Prophecy. In the case of the Blueprint, we cannot go back to the original Greek. We can't even go back to the original English!
Here it appears that Bickle was either attempting to modernise some archaic language (archaic in 1983, too) or he wanted to avoid the implication that he would have both male and female mates, thus distancing him from Ted Haggard and many other fallen figures in the Charismatic movement. Personally, I think its a credible change, but this does not represent an edit, but rather a translation.
This however, is a distraction. Note the real purpose of this paragraph is to state that Bickle is the new Moses. Perhaps other portions of this prophecy are even more grandiose which could be another explanation as to why they remain secret. Bickle states that some secret things in the prophecy were "too big" for him to wrap his brain around. No problem with the Moses thing, though.
Bickle also corrects what could lead to blatant theological error in removing "You shall" from the phrase "You shall consecrate." This makes sense, but the question as to the original text, the "prophetic word," remains.
This section features a few simple edits which seem benign enough. The emphasis supplied in the 2009 version seems to be a justification of the cult-like atmosphere seen at the Kansas City compound ("City of Habitation").
More importantly is the tacit approval of the teachings of Mike Bickle seen in the statement "Your doctrine shall be my doctrine - by My Spirit." This is not unlike the standard charismatic validation of a prophetic word: "The Lord says - hear the word of my prophet, for I have given him my word." The use of the phrase "by My Spirit" in the 2006 version plausibly implies that God has a work to do in Mike Bickle, and that He is going to align Bickle's doctrine with His. The 2009 version implies that God will adopt Mike Bickle's doctrine.
And it is this sort of grandiose elevation of Mike Bickle above mere mortals that causes alarm. Simply put, if what was delivered in the original prophecy was so significant, should not the body of Christ know? Or is Mike Bickle the benevolent Pope whom God entrusts, but others cannot handle this divine revelation. Martin Luther, where are you now?
Indeed, in the Blueprint Prophecy (unabridged), Mike Bickle has been established as the one who will "anoint with the Holy Oil" the accepted ones in the last days church - the bride that prepares for the soon coming Lord. And as previously noted, Bickle is the one who "shall consecrate" this people.
If you would like to examine the several versions of the Blueprint Propehcy along with a complete parallel comparison of the 2006 and 2009 versions, please download this booklet which expands greatly on the work contained in the article. parallelblueprint.pdf
I don't think further commentary is necessary. I am nailing this article to the door of the internet. If you have followed Mike Bickle blindly, accepting everything he has said, and believing that he has kept things secret to protect you, or because you could not possibly understand it, I am calling you to repent. It is wrong to accept unjudged prophecy and let it govern your life.
By their own admission the Blueprint Prophecy is foundational. Mike Bickle has chosen to keep secret certain portions of that written word which was once delivered to him, and to revise other portions which seem offensive. Mike, it is time to show us your cards.
Please report any broken links below. Backup archive copies are available.
(1)Blueprint Prophecy 2002 Version pdf document Revision 2002 as per Greg Burnett
(2) Blueprint Prophecy 2006 Version pdf document Revision August 15, 2006, Jack Hill.
(3) Blueprint Prophecy 2009 Version pdf document Revision September 19, 2009, Misty Edwards.
(4) Tenth Year Anniversary of IHOP website.
(5) Prophetic History Session 8, Mike BickleVideo Time Stamp 06:43.
(6) Affirmations and Denials Web Article.
(7) Prophetic History Session 8, Mike BickleVideo Time Stamp 07:17.
(8) Session 1, the Early Days, Mike Bickle MS Word Revision September 1, 2004, Jack Hill. Page 2.
(9) Affirmations and Denials Web Article.
(10) Session 1, the Early Days, Mike Bickle MS Word Revision September 1, 2004, Jack Hill. Page 2.
(11) For information about the Latter Rain see: Anointing or Apostasy - The Latter Rain Heresy by Charles Graves pdf document
(12) Joseph Company Vision Statement web archive
(13) Six Kingdom Callings of Marketplace Christians by Bob Fraser web archive copy
"We believe that the subjectivity of the prophetic ministry
must be vigorously tested against the inspired and infallible Scriptures that
God gave for doctrine, reproof, correction and for instruction in
righteousness." Affirmations and Denials (6)
"Now these were more noble-minded than those in
Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the
Scriptures daily (to see) whether these things were so."
(NASB) Acts 17:11.
"Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should
weigh carefully what is said." (NASB) 1 Corinthians 14:29


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Many of you know me as the guy who nailed the turn of the 2007 bear market six months ahead of time. What I told many of you in April 2007 was an important time window was developing for September/October that had the potential to be the most important turn of the decade. I was wrong. It turned out to be the most important turn of our lifetime. Up to that time, our work had nailed just about every important market turn since 2001. I had good mentors. I learned a lot about market timing from Bob Prechter. I've been in this market timing game for over 14 years and rarely have we missed an important window on any important index. I'm not meaning to pound my chest; just trying to prove a point, so bear with me for a minute.
Let's face it. The star of the game is always Gann or Fibonacci. It's never me. The best any of us could hope to do is identify and recognize when the windows materialize.
Fast forward to October 2012 where we had the next great time window that was five years off the 2007 top and 10 years off the end of the Internet bear bottom. Certainly we got the reaction but in no way was it what bears hoped for. Were they capable of more? Who knows? They got marginalized so badly in 2011. But there was a correction and then a bottom when members of Congress got together for that photo opp at the beginning of the fiscal cliff negotiation.
We got that turn as the sneaky bull turned up again. A major window was marginalized. Then we had the next turn in March at the Gann master time window. We got that turn too, as Europe peaked, but that selling cycle didn't last either. What gives? A couple of weeks back we hit 233 days off the June low from a year ago. We are also beyond 233 weeks off the November 2008 bottom in the NDX.
The best I can come up with here is that market timing doesn't work anymore. To corroborate that view the VIX has been super low for almost a year and a half. That doesn't work anymore either. It seems that we've reached a new era where traders expect low volatility and are getting it. Markets continue higher so obviously we don't need to pay the VIX any attention.
In fact, because market timing and the VIX don't work anymore, we must come to admit the Random Walk crowd was right all along. Malkiel and his buddies were on the money all along. You know them. They are the guys who tell you to be invested all the time so you won't miss the six biggest days in the market because you can't time markets. In fact we can go so far as to say technical analysis doesn't work either. Perhaps we should just do what the fundamental crowd suggests and just buy good companies.
So because you know me as the ultimate market timing guy, if I'm coming here to tell you market timing doesn't work anymore you should consider using me as a contrary indicator, right? If I'm telling you all this, I must be losing my mind, right?
April Fools.
It's not even April.
Okay, now that I got your attention, let's get to brass tacks. There's a point to this discussion. The more this rally goes on, the more you are going to hear from folks that in fact, truly the VIX doesn't work anymore and we've reached a new era of low volatility. You might as well hear it from me first than from some talking head on television who couldn't tell a flag pole from a flag pattern.
First of all, the VIX does work, it's an iron law. When it gets low it will cause the market to turn eventually. We have good precedent for this. It bottomed at the end of 2006 and it took roughly 7 months (the Russell) to get the first important turn. So if you want to be lulled into complacency, be my guest. It's just going to take the patience of a saint to see this turn.
Here's the problem with the timing cycles right now. The SPX is in the path of least resistance up.
Those of you who follow my work know I got long term bullish probably before most people. Our take on the 2011 turn was it was likely to be of intermediate level damage but not likely to challenge the 09 Haines bottom. That's because we had numerous calculations that suggested the 09 bottom was a generational low. So far, that has worked. We are seeing the payoff to all of those calculations and symmetries right now. In fact, market timing does work because that wonderful photo opp we had in November with Boehner, Pelosi, Reid and Mitch McConnell happened within a day of the NASDAQ being down 386 points in about 39 days. See, the problem isn't that market timing doesn't work. The problem is its only validating on the bullish side.
But one of the problems we are having getting a turn is Andrews on this chart and I want you to think of Andrews the same way you would the Jetstream on The Weather Channel. Once it gets above the mid line, the stream is heading a certain way and it will take more than a few measly time windows to reverse a freight train. That's why all of nice symmetry we've seen since March has bit the dust.
Then we have another problem. I'm not going to comment here on the AP, Benghazi or the IRS scandal. All I'm going to tell you is the psychology has been so negative on the 24/7 news cycle you could cut it with a knife. That kind of sentiment acts as a crowding out effect for those of you who've take econ 101. People can't get euphoric when they are upset with the news. If they can't get euphoric they aren't going to top the market out.
But last week we finally did get a reaction to the 233 week window off the November 08 bottom. To this point it's been mild. I do think we can see a continuation of it and even get a shake of the trees but in no way do I think THIS is the one we've been looking for.
What about the answer to the bigger time windows? I'm looking at a few big ones again and I'm really concerned about them. By the end of August we'll be 161 months off the Internet bubble peak. At the same time we'll be 233 weeks off the March 09 bottom. These are the biggest windows of the year. Simply because they come around September one had to respect them. Since we have a freight train now, it's feasible we could be at the back end of a cycle that is completing and we all know when a cycle completes it becomes a one way market. It's hard to imagine the markets will stay up another 3 months but it's the end of May and these markets still have any number of upside targets.
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Major markets continue to flip-flop. Major earnings announcements are on the horizon. If we get some positive earnings surprises from some of the bigger companies who are announcing, the stock market could react favorable to that news. The European debt situation, as is the same every day recently, still hangs over the market and may be the main cause preventing the stock market from continuing rallies. Chinese growth numbers are also not looking that great, so global risk markets are feeling the effects of promising U.S. economic data combined with the less positive European debt situation plus a China slowdown. News today of the World Bank cutting China's growth forecast did not help perceptions of China's economic potential in the near term.
Many soft commodities have been seeing strong selling recently. Orange Juice is leading the way down today, in the red by -1.65% as of this writing. After its surprise strong rally with 1 "limit-up" day last August, OJ has not been able to sustain that rally and has actually turned back around. We see two important downward trend lines intact. OJ is also trading below our key pivot price of 1.18. We see the next important downside price target at the 1.07 level. Furthermore, we see potential for this market to keep the selling going until hitting our technical downside target of 1.01. With signs of higher output in Florida, we see the key psychological level of one dollar being an attractive force for the orange juice futures market.
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TRENTON, NJ — The American Heart Association is supporting a New Jersey assemblyman's proposal to eliminate the sales tax recently levied on health club memberships. Assemblyman Bill Baroni (R-Hamilton, NJ), who lost 130 pounds from a regular exercise regimen at the Robert Wood Johnson Center for Health and Wellness, introduced legislation to abolish the tax to make it easier for people to join a fitness center. The 7 percent sales tax is expected to raise $74 million.
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As usual, the show was very successful for Fernandes, who presented an array of current and upcoming guitar models, including the main atraction since last year, the SHIN Series. Upcoming models include the "stars of the show", the Revolver Classic Series -first production Japan-made Fernandes model in 10 years-, the Spalted Limited Series, the Revolver Elite JS, Vortex Deluxe Limited, Monterey Elite Limited, Ravelle and Monterey Elite Tremolo, and the first Deluxe series equipped with the Fernandes Sustainer system, the Ravelle and Monterey Deluxe Tremolo Sustainer models. Details about these upcoming models will be posted soon, so keep an eye for it!
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The Family Resource Network and the Self Advocacy Council VI will host "An Evening with Krisi Franzone: Her Road to Independence" from 6:30 to 8 p.m. March 26 at the San Joaquin County Office of Education, Wentworth Educational Center, Burwood 1, 2707 Transworld Drive, Stockton.
The Family Resource Network and the Self Advocacy Council VI will host "An Evening with Krisi Franzone: Her Road to Independence" from 6:30 to 8 p.m. March 26 at the San Joaquin County Office of Education, Wentworth Educational Center, Burwood 1, 2707 Transworld Drive, Stockton.
Franzone, an adult with a developmental disability, will speak about what services and agencies assisted her in her quest for independence. She will answer questions from the audience and information about local resources will be shared.
Franzone is a member of Self Advocacy Council VI and speaks to groups about issues related to the needs of people with disabilities.
There is no fee to attend but reservations are required, and space is limited. Registration is due by March 19.
Information: (209) 472-3674 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
English as a Second Language adult learners can practice English speaking skills from 4 to 5:45 p.m. every Wednesday, Stewart-Hazelton Room, Cesar Chavez Central Library, 605 N. El Dorado St., Stockton.
Students must be able to read English. Each session includes a topic of the day, shared reading, activities and conversation.
Information: (209) 937-8221 or (866) 805-7323.
ACT Spay/Neuter, a non-profit clinic at 327 E. Alpine Ave., Stockton, hosts "Caturday" on the second Saturday of each month.
Neutering for male cats are $36 and male kittens are $30. Female cat spaying costs $56, and female kitten spaying is $40. Rabies or FVRCP vaccinations can be added for $5. Space is limited.
Information and reservations: (209) 462-SPAY.
Parents by Choice is offering free weekly parenting classes. The Positive Parenting Program is about making small changes and seeing a big difference. It's designed to help reduce stress and enhance the knowledge, skills and confidence of parents.
Information: Parentsby Choice.net or (209) 478-4554.
A Better Breathers respiratory support group is offered from 10 to 11 a.m. the first Tuesday of every month at Lodi Memorial Hospital, 975 S. Fairmont Ave.
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As such, this summer brings "Grown Ups 2," in which Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade again reminisce about the old days and confront adulthood with all the down-to-earth honesty of a smug, rich movie star. Apparently the sequel contains a moose peeing in Sandler's face (shocking, a urine joke in a Sandler movie), Spade shouting to James after they skinny-dip, "I was inside you!" and Andy Samberg as a male cheerleader drooling to James, "Your car is filthy."
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Food52 Review: Lorinarlock's butternut squash galette may just be our go-to first course for autumn dinner parties from now on. Rustic yet full of nuance, it coaxes sweetness from the winter squash and roasted garlic, complementing them with the right blend of salty creamy cheese, fragrant thyme and a delicate, buttery crust we're sure to adapt to many other recipes. There's no excess here: a touch of semolina gives the crust a sandy crunch, and the modest layer of ricotta and roasted garlic serves as a subtle, creamy bed for the melting squash. - A&M —The Editors
Serves: 4 to 6
Prep time: 24 hrs 30 min
Cook time: 1 hrs
cup all-purpose flour
cup semolina flour
teaspoon kosher salt
tablespoons chilled unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
tablespoons ice water, up to 4 tablespoons
butternut squash
tablespoons olive oil
teaspoons fresh thyme leaves, chopped
clove garlic, chopped
teaspoon kosher salt
teaspoon freshly ground pepper
cloves, garlic whole and unpeeled
cup fresh ricotta
cup grated fontina
tablespoons grated parmesan
- To make the dough: Put the flour, semolina, and salt in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse to combine. Add the butter and pulse to form a mixture that looks like small peas. Add the ice water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the dough sticks together (to test, remove the top and gather the dough in your fingers. If it sticks together without crumbling, it's ready). Add the ice water while pulsing, until the dough comes together, being careful not to over mix. Transfer to a lightly floured board and shape the dough into a disk. Wrap tightly in plastic and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes and up to 24 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 400°F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- To make the filling: Cut the squash into two pieces to separate the rounder part from the narrower section. Peel the entire squash, cut both parts in half and remove any seeds. Cut all four pieces into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Put in a large bowl and add the olive oil, chopped garlic and thyme. Toss to coat evenly. Spread out on one of the prepared baking sheets. Set the bowl aside. Sprinkle the squash with the salt and pepper. Put the garlic on the baking sheet and bake until the squash and garlic are tender, about 25-30 minutes. Let cool.
- Remove the dough from the refrigerator and roll out the dough into a large circle about 1/4-inch thick. Transfer to parchment paper–lined baking sheet and refrigerate until ready to use.
- When the garlic is cool enough to handle, peel and put in the reserved bowl. Mash with the back of a wooden spoon until smooth. Stir in the ricotta.
- Remove the pastry from the fridge and spread the garlic-cheese mixture over the top, leaving a 1-inch border. Spread the squash over the garlic-cheese mixture and fold the edges toward the center of the galette. Sprinkle the fontina over the center of the galette. Sprinkle the edges of the crust with the parmesan and bake until the crust is crisp and golden brown, about 25-30 minutes. Let cool slightly before slicing and serving.
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Difference between revisions of "Talk:Bash/Prompt customization"
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== Return value visualization ==
== Return value visualization ==
Revision as of 20:18, 25 August 2013
Return in non interactive mode
# This file is sourced by all *interactive* bash shells on startup, # including some apparently interactive shells such as scp and rcp # that can't tolerate any output. So make sure this doesn't display # anything or bad things will happen ! # Test for an interactive shell. There is no need to set anything # past this point for scp and rcp, and it's important to refrain from # outputting anything in those cases. # If not running interactively, don't do anything! [[ $- != *i* ]] && return
Some Linux distributions like ArchLinux actually distribute a bashrc with a statement like
[[ $- != *i* ]] && return included (see above). The comments say the bashrc script has to exit (return) because tools like scp are running in interactive mode and don't support having some user customizations, this is the reason why we have to return. But the return code actually returns if the script isn't run in interactive mode (
!= *i*), which is the contrary of what we want to achieve. Can anyone explain me that? Either the comments are incorrect or it is unneeded to use that return statement. But on IRC, some people agreed with me regarding this problem. And on the
#bash channel, some said the statement is unneeded because all scripts (which are all running in non-interactive mode) do not source ANY configuration files like
/etc/profile and
bashrc file. Wget (talk) 20:18, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
Return value visualization
The return value visualization stuff didn't quite work right for me. The command history prints out funny (bits of old command prefixes stay displayed), and also long lines behaved oddly (wrapped back to start etc.).
I think the trouble maybe coming from echo'ing out color commands with one echo then putting out the characters to reset the font elsewhere. I asked on the bash list and ended up doing this:
# Make the prompt dark red when the previous command has succeeded, or # bright green when it has failed (in keeping with the slightly backwards # way exit codes work :). red=$(tput setaf 1) bright_green=$(tput bold; tput setaf 2) reset=$(tput sgr0) # Namespace'ed last user command exit status. We need this I think because # the tput commands in the subshells end up resetting $?. PROMPT_COMMAND='MYPROMPT_LUCES=$?' colors=("$red" "$bright_green") PS1='\[${colors[$? != 0]}\]$(if [ $MYPROMPT_LUCES != 0 ]; then \ echo "$MYPROMPT_LUCES "; \ fi)\$\[$reset\] '
which displays prompts following successful commands in dark red, and prompts following failing commands in bright green with the exit code shown.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Bkerin
There is another, very simple method to get it work without problems with breaking lines. Rename PS1 to _PS1 in .bashrc and add this lines after _PS1 variable:
RET_SUCC="\[\033[32;1m\]\342\234\223" RET_FAIL="\[\033[31;1m\]\342\234\227" PROMPT_COMMAND='RET=$?; if [[ $RET -eq 0 ]]; then export PS1="${RET_SUCC} ${_PS1}"; else export PS1="${RET_FAIL} ${_PS1}"; fi'
In this example RET_SUCC is ✓, and RET_FAIL is ✗. These symbols does not work with text terminal. To fix this, replace first 2 lines with this:
if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ] then RET_SUCC="\[\033[32;1m\]v" RET_FAIL="\[\033[31;1m\]x" else RET_SUCC="\[\033[32;1m\]\342\234\223" RET_FAIL="\[\033[31;1m\]\342\234\227" fi
This is only an example, it is possible to add anything that PS1 accepts using this method.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Noctivivans
This article cries out for examples. It is tough to tell if one would want to try any of these until one sees an example of what the outcome might be, should it be tried. I'll bet a lot of people are a little hesitant to try them. - KitchM 13:40, 12 April 2010 (EDT)
- I went ahead and added previews of some of the simpler prompts. As an Archer, you're encouraged to try random stuff just to see what happens. Don't be hesitant, just have fun! --DJPohly 02:11, 13 April 2010 (EDT)
- Very nice, indeed! Thank you very much. This will help immensely.
- This is one Archer that has learned that there is no difference between Arch and any other distro or OS when it comes to the ability to screw things up. I am very hesitant. There are so many problems, that I am surprised that people are not having more problems with their systems. On the other hand, I must assume that people don't use theirs as extensively as do I. In any case, the examples will clearly show a person what happens before they start changing things. I will dive right in. I love "zero defects" methods.
- Thanks again. Keep up the great work. - KitchM 16:26, 13 April 2010 (EDT)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Color_Bash_Prompt&diff=107296&oldid=prev I think that the previous one was better, IIRC you can put those things either in .bashrc or bash_profile. But I'm not sure so I post here and not revert it. Feel free to correct me. Karol 05:59, 26 May 2010 (EDT)
better delete "Advanced return value visualisation"
The promt in section "Advanced return value visualisation" cause only problems due wrong length calculation in bash.
$ echo $PS1 $(echo $RET) $(if [[ $RET = 0 ]]; then echo -ne "\[$GREEN\];)"; else echo -ne "\[$RED\];("; fi;) :
this will be expanded to
0 ;) :
But bash think promt is as long as string "$(echo $RET) $(if [[ $RET = 0 ]]; then echo -ne "\[$GREEN\];)"; else echo -ne "\[$RED\];("; fi;) :" and not as long as string " 0 ;) : ". This cause ugly corruption by multi line input.
Quote from here http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/:
...In addition to this change, we need to surround all non-printing characters with special bash escape sequences, "\[" and "\]". These sequences will tell bash that the enclosed characters don't take up any space on the line, which will allow word-wrapping to continue to work properly. Without them, you'll end up with a nice-looking prompt that will mess up the screen if you happen to type in a command that approaches the extreme right of the terminal. ...
--Nikel 18:31, 13 August 2010 (EDT)
Text entry color
I tested output redirection of several types (pipe, redirect, command substitution), and the output of the DEBUG trap was never included. So I simplified the instructions here and removed the hack warning. If you can give an example that breaks it, leave a comment here saying what it is (because I'm curious!) and go ahead and revert me. -- DJPohly 13:06, 6 November 2010 (EDT)
Using Bold and 256 -Color
- You can string multiple escape-codes together; This is the only way I could get bold 256-colors to show up on my machine using rxvt-unicode:
\[\e[(01);(38;5;114)m\]Hello, World
Hello, World
Where (01) is the escape for bold and (38;5;114) is the escape for 256-color #114, which is a slight avocado-green. --Darkhand 15:27, 7 March 2011 (EST)
Wrong cursorposition
After changing all colors from e.g.
my bash stopped missaligning the cursor, clobber old text, and so on.
--Eselfreund 10:17, 6 August 2011 (EDT)
Currently, it is referred from:
[ -r /etc/bash_completion ] && . /etc/bash_completion
but Arch seems to install the main script in /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion --Mloskot (talk) 20:39, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
Step by step
Hello everybody. I wrote the first chapter of this article. I think that the second one ("Step by step") should be improved and harmonized with the first one... I have already given my contribution ;-) --Martingala (talk) 17:59, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Copy-Paste Issues
While attempting to implement the bash.bashrc example on my Raspberry Pi using the Midori browser (running Arch), I ran into a strange problem.
When I copy and paste the text for bash.bashrc directly into a text file via nano and do a hexdump, I find the file is littered with strange "c2" and "a0" characters masquerading as spaces.
It caused bash to throw errors and it would not work. After manually replacing these "characters" with a regular 20 space, everything was fine.
I have not tested with any other browser. Hexdump here: http://fpaste.org/17386/. It is a hexdump -C | grep c2, and the same with grep a0. So, there's duplicates of problem lines, and the lines which contain a0 in the hex line number, apologies for that. Also see my relevant post on stackexchange: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/78658/etc-bash-bashrc-errors.
From a cursory review of the full hexdump, the problem generally occurs before "!=".


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TRIPOLI, Libya – A day of militia fighting over control of the international airport in Libya's capital killed 22 people, the country's interim government said Sunday, part of the worsening chaos gripping the country.
Libya is seeing its worst violence since the 2011 civil war that toppled dictator Muammar Qaddafi, as militias made up of the rebels who overthrew him largely run wild in the country, armed with heavy weaponry that outguns its poorly organized security forces.
Saturday's deaths bring the death toll after weeks of fighting for control of Tripoli's international airport, as well as Libya's second-largest city of Benghazi, to 236 people.
Islamist militias from the coastal city of Misrata have led the assault on the airport, seeking to seize it from militiamen from the mountain town of Zintan. Miltia shelling has set fire to at least eight huge oil depots, sending plumes of black smoke over Tripoli, Libya's state-run news agency reported Sunday.
The fighting came as as more than three-quarters of Libya's newly elected parliament met for the first time in Tobrouk, a city near the Egyptian border chosen by a prominent anti-Islamist politician, signaling a swing against Islamist parties and extremist militias.
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The meeting Saturday saw 152 lawmakers gather in Tobrouk, according to the official Facebook page of Libya's House of Representatives. Abu Bakr Baiera, the anti-Islamist lawmaker who presided over the session, decided to postpone the official opening of the meeting until more lawmakers arrive.
The presence of that many members of parliament -- all elected as independents -- suggests most lawmakers are not affiliated to the Islamist factions that dominated Libya's outgoing interim parliament. The last session suffered from political infighting, as well as violent attacks that saw lawmakers kidnapped and parliament itself besieged.
In reflection to the deep divisions among Libya's elected authorities, the government described militias attacking the airport as "assaulting" forces, while the outgoing head of the parliament, Nouri Abu-Sahmein, described them as mandated to "protect the Libyan state and the revolution gains."
The Islamist-leaning Abu-Sahmein, who enjoys presidential powers and holds the title of the general commander of the armed forces, urged the militias to "protect the revolution, defend it and curb remnants of the security brigades threatening the country and try to take-over power." He described Zintan militias as remnants of Qaddafi's old government.
The violence across Libya has prompted the closure of several foreign missions and the withdrawal of diplomats. On Saturday, a Greek naval frigate evacuated embassy staff and nearly 200 people from Greece, China and other countries. Thousands of others have fled to neighboring Tunisia.