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The U.S. economy has been slowly recovering, but economists warn it could plunge back into recession if Congress does not take action to avoid what's become known as the fiscal cliff.
That is the name that some clever communications specialist gave to the combination of expiring tax cuts - in other words, tax increases - and broad, mandatory spending cuts aimed at reducing the deficit. The two are set to go into effect at the end of the year.
MONTAGNE: To get a sense of the impact of that kind of financial belt-tightening, let's take a look at the experience in Great Britain. Two years ago, that country enacted tough austerity measures. We reached Zanny Minton Beddoes, economics editor of The Economist magazine, to offer a comparison between the U.S. and what's happened in the U.K.
ZANNY MINTON BEDDOES: I think there's no doubt that austerity has sapped the economy. That government capital spending - government investment - has shrunk very sharply, has had a clear input on the economies, has weakened it. Value added tax rose...
MONTAGNE: And that would be a national sales tax - the value of it.
BEDDOES: That would be like a national sales tax. And what I did was push up prices to consumers, thereby meaning that they had less real income. Their income went less far, and so they spent less. But it was not the only factor hitting the U.K. economy. The U.K.'s neighborhood - the eurozone - as you know, has had a really pretty terrible time over the last couple of years, and that's a huge export market for the U.K. So there's a furious argument going on in Britain about whether - what the role was of austerity versus what the role was of other factors, particularly the weakness of the eurozone.
But what seems clear to me is that given that the external environment wasn't, there was a case for slowing the pace of austerity, and that hasn't happened because there's a very, you know, powerful political incentive for the coalition government to keep going because it's become a somewhat theological issue in Britain.
MONTAGNE: When it comes to the U.S., is there any comparison with Great Britain in that Great Britain there was a very clear path. These were more or less unilateral cuts of just about everything.
BEDDOES: There are some interesting parallels. One is, actually, in the recognition that you needed to have something from tax revenues and something from spending cuts. And in the U.K. case, most of the adjustment over five years has come from spending cuts, but some of it's come from tax increases - the value added tax, the former sales tax was raised, top income tax went up - although it's now coming down again, the equivalent of payroll taxes also went up. So Britain did some tax increases but more spending cuts.
In the U.S. thus far, one problem has been that the debate is particularly caricatured. On one side there is a view that you don't need any new tax revenue; that you want to cut tax rates and maybe, you know, do some tax reform, but you certainly don't want any new tax revenue. And on the other side is a view that you really don't want to touch entitlement spending very much - Social Security and Medicare. And then there's also the fact that the underlying budget deficit is still too big and so you need to do something to get back down. And I think most reasonable people in the center - whether it's center left or center right - recognize that to do that you're going to have to have some entitlement reform and you're going to have to have some tax revenue, and the lesson from the U.K. would be that.
MONTAGNE: Let's get back to the fiscal cliff. And it's always spoken of with ominous overtones. Almost like a sort of economic Armageddon. Would it be all bad or are there any positives to it?
BEDDOES: You know, it depends on what happens. If these tax increases that are due to come in at the end of December, and the spending cuts from the sequester, the automatic spending cuts, both happen and stay in place, then that would have a very powerful effect on the economy. But I really don't think that's very likely. I think there are a number of alternatives scenarios. One is that there's some kind of agreement in the lame-duck session of Congress to...
MONTAGNE: So it never happens.
BEDDOES: So it never happens. Or the sequester side, which is the spending side, there's an agreement to put that off. You could see any number of combinations of things that will happen. But I think it's almost impossible for me to believe that either side of Congress and whoever is president will allow this country to be hit by a 5 percent of GDP fiscal wham and allow it to stay in place.
MONTAGNE: Thank you very much for joining us again.
BEDDOES: My pleasure, Renee.
MONTAGNE: Zanny Minton Beddoes is economics editor at The Economist magazine. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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With women's issues front and center again in the presidential campaign, a bus tour through several swing states kicked off Monday in opposition to President Obama's views on abortion.
At the same time, the Obama campaign launched a new TV ad — aimed at some of the same voters in some of the same key states — criticizing Republican Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, on the issue.
As you've probably heard by now, Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., told a St. Louis television station in an interview released Sunday that, from what he's heard, pregnancy in the case of rape is rare because, "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
Akin, who's running for Senate against incumbent Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, later said he "misspoke."
Presumed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney called the remarks "insulting, inexcusable, and, frankly, wrong."
But in a phone interview from the bus tour that kicked off in western Iowa Monday morning, former Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., now with the anti-abortion group the Susan B. Anthony List, defended Akin, calling him a "very honest man."
"He made a mistake, he's admitted it, he misspoke," she said. "Anyone that's a human being can understand that."
The tour, highlighting what organizers call "the extreme abortion record of President Obama," is visiting 30 cities in the battleground states of Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Virginia and Florida this week.
Musgrave criticized several Obama administration policies, such as requiring under the new national health care law that most health insurance plans cover contraceptives, including some of those offered by religiously affiliated employers (but not churches themselves).
In an interview with Iowa Public Radio, Musgrave said, "They want to talk about contraception, but this is really about abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization." The federal guidelines require most health plans to cover a variety of preventive and reproductive services, including birth control and sterilization options.
Meanwhile, a new Obama campaign TV ad released in Iowa Monday says Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., have "backed proposals to outlaw abortion, even in cases of rape and incest." The ad also is scheduled to air in Colorado, Nevada, Virginia, Ohio and Florida.
The fact-check site PolitiFact gave a "pants-on-fire" rating to an Obama campaign ad released last month — before Ryan was announced as Romney's running mate — for a similar statement about Romney's position on abortion in the case of rape and incest. It said the Obama campaign "twisted Romney's position to a ridiculous degree."
In a statement Sunday night, Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said: "Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan disagree with Mr. Akin's statement, and a Romney-Ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape."
Romney has stated his support for legalized abortion for rape and incest as recently as last year. But Ryan has supported restrictions on abortion in such cases.
In Iowa and other key states, both campaigns have initiatives focused specifically on wooing women voters.
Romney's "Women for Mitt" campaign, which officially launched last week, has a full-time staffer in Iowa.
The president's Women for Obama Steering Committee is organizing phone banks and other events, and plans training sessions for women over the next month in several of Iowa's larger cities.
Sarah McCammon reports for Iowa Public Radio.
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But the other night, two soon-to-be-outdated bags of organic spinach and a large bowl of rich, homemade chicken stock called out to me from behind the refrigerator door. It was 20°F outside, and there is only so much spinach salad even I can eat.
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So what's so super about this spinach soup? It's super fast and easy to make, super delicious, and super good for you. It's rich and satisfying and yet contains no milk or cream. The secret to its thickness is a little uncooked white rice tossed in. If you're following Alejandro Junger's Clean program, use 3/4 cup cooked brown rice instead. Note that the texture of your soup won't be quite as smooth.
As always, I urge you to seek out local and organic ingredients; they really do make a difference. I recently discovered Lundberg Farms organic white long grain rice and love it. Their brown rices are really good too.
1/4 cup uncooked organic white rice (or 3/4 cup cooked organic brown rice, see note above)
12 ounces fresh organic baby spinach (about 8 cups packed)
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DTP Ganymede Resolving Discouraged Access Warnings
As described in the DTP Ganymede Project Plan, a main goal of DTP Ganymede is to resolve as many Discouraged Access warnings in the DTP code line as possible. The reasoning and general process for doing this is outlined in the DTP Ganymede Development Guildlines. The purpose of this page is to collect specific information about how these Discouraged Access warnings will be resolved.
Current Status
A check of DTP HEAD at the beginning of August 2007 reveals a large number of Discouraged Access warnings. We will call a Discouraged Access warning internal if the reference is within DTP itself, and external otherwise. Using this distinction, we find:
- About 1800 internal warnings
- About 160 external warnings
Resolution of Warnings
While there are a large number of Discouraged Access warnings, fortunately the vast majority of these are internal. Since we have decided that DTP components can freely use code among themselves, this means that most of the Discouraged Access warnings are really not a problem. Hence, we only need to find a way of indicating, in project and/or plug-in meta-data, that no Discouraged Access warnings should be registered for org.eclipse.datatools.* classes using org.eclipse.datatools.* code.
Resolving Internal Discouraged Access Warnings
Ideally we'd like to make use of the x-friend directive for plug-in manifests. Rather than setting certain packages to "internal," we would specify the exceptions ("friends") to default internal visibilty. Since there are a large number of DTP plug-ins, and this number is changing over time, we would like to use a pattern here: something like x-friend=org.eclipse.datatools.* to indicate that any org.eclipse.datatools code can free use other org.eclipse.datatools code. Unfortunately, this is not possible: the x-friend directive requires listing each "friend" bundle, and hence is not a good solution for DTP.
We can, however, at least filter the Discouraged Access warnings at build time, giving us a clearer picture of warnings we should be addressing and allows us (if we wish) to choose error severity when reporting this class of warnings. Eclipse supports this type of build-time filtering, as described here.
- Action Item (All plug-in owners): Add the access rule exception filter to all plug-ins containing internal Discouraged Access warnings.
Granted, this does not solve the problem at run time: if the OSGI loader is in "strict" mode, then package access restrictions, as expressed in the plug-ins' manifest file, will be enforced. Yet this is the best solution we have at the present time, and at least allows us to control for internal vs. external Discouraged Access warnings at build time.
Resolving External Discouraged Access Warnings
External Discouraged Access warnings are seen as more serious that internal ones, since they represent DTP usage of Eclipse project code external to DTP that has not been exposed as API. As with any usage of non-API, DTP assumes technical debt and risk with each case. Simply stated, use of non-API exposes DTP, and all DTP adopters/users, to the risk of sudden (potentially serious) breakage at any time, since internal code is allowed to vary freely without public notification and review of changes.
As part of providing the most stable components possible to the Eclipse community, DTP must make an effort to resolve as many as possible external Discouraged Access warnings for the DTP Ganymede release. Since there are a number of factors, sometimes quite complex, that are involved in the motivation to use internal code and the process of removing its usage, we do not expect that every external Discouraged Access warning will be resolved before release. The procedure described below takes this practicality into account.
For all external Discouraged Access warnings in DTP, the plug-in owner responsible must:
- Attempt to refactor the code to use API if possible.
- If no equivalent API are found, then the plug-in owner must contact the relevant team (using whatever channel is appropriate: newsgroups, mailing lists, personal contacts, etc.) and seek advice.
- If an alternative is suggested by the target plug-in team, the plug-in owner must (of course) make every attempt to apply the change.
- If there is no alternative, or the suggested change is not acceptable, then the plug-in owner must:
- Open a bug for the target plug-in seeking (a better) API resolution
- Open a bug for the DTP plug-in involved, detailing the usage and setting a dependency on the bug opened for the target plug-in. The keyword "api" must be applied to the bug for the DTP plug-in.
All remaining cases (as documented in bug entries) will be reported to the community as part of the DTP release review presentation. This will give transparency to DTP adopters/users with respect to the API technical debt present in DTP.
- Action Item (All plug-in owners): Following the process above, resolve or document all external Discouraged Access warnings in DTP Ganymede.
Related Bugs
The following bugs have been opened to track resolution of Discouraged Access warnings.
- External: All have been marked with the "api" keyword
- Internal: As of early August 2007, internal Discouraged Access warnings appear only in Connectivity and SQL Dev, so aggregate bugs for each project have been opened. If internal warnings later appear in other DTP projects, then aggregate bugs for those cases will be opened as well.


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13. Chianti. This might be good for the couple wanting to give their child an edge in life. Or maybe just an edgy life. With overtones of Silence of the Lambs or The Godfather it's the perfect name for your future mobster. Christopher Walkin could use it for a daughter.
12. Dioxin. Who cares what it means, it sounds cool. For kicks you could spell it with a y or two. Dioxyn. Maybe Madonna could use it should she decide to adopt another foundling child.
11. Catalina. I've tried to stay away from place names because it's just too easy, but a vision of beaches and the uber-rich comes to mind whenever I slurp up this lovely red salad dressing. Catalina Clooney. Sounds wonderful, rich and tart.
10. Vinaigrette, the follow-up along the same salad-dressing theme. Who wouldn't love this continental masterpiece? If you've read Freakanomics and what Levitt and Dubner have to say about name trends, this one is the one to watch. Or maybe Roquefort. A Francophile like Johnny Depp is sure to snatch this one up.
9. Corvette. More than just a ship or a car, a strong name waiting for the perfect celebrity coupling to jump on it, maybe John Travolta could use it as a sequel to Jet.
8. Rhododendron. Her nickname could be Rhoda--kinda catchy, huh? If you've got a child named Apple, why not Rhododendron? Or Bougainvillea? That's a beauty. Forget the simple horticultural opportunities and go for the truly unique.
7. Viagra. Why more couples aren't using beautiful names like this is beyond me. It's lilting, it's too beautiful to let slip by. Maybe Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones should snatch it up for their next child. So many people make up baby names the same way they do prescription drugs anyway.
6. Apogee. A perfect name for the budding gansta rapper with overtones of greatness. Only I'd spell it Apa G. Pretty cool, huh? P. Diddy could have Apa G Diddy. Or maybe Rappa G Diddy.
5. And for that matter, why not Zenith? I'm sure if Frank Zappa had had more children, he would have used this one. I guess the t.v. guys kind of got to it first.
4. Floridian. A noun AND an adjective, but what the heck, how many celebrities out there know their English grammar? Say it, "Floridian." Sounds like Brad and Angelina have found their next stop on the adoption tour, complete with a name.
3. Syphilis. I know, I know, this one may be a little harder to swallow, but it's just too sweet for words. It sounds Greek, it sounds feminine, it's perfect for a future Hollywood starlet. I'm sure if Tom and Katie wanted to give another daughter a start in life, this would be the key. After the first ten or fifteen years of her life, no one would even think about what it meant before.
2. Flotilla. Flo for short, it's the new Annie. Understated, yet powerful. If only Demi and Bruce hadn't broken up. This is the only thing that would be fit to follow Tallulah.
1. Matrix. Only Matryx. Why hasn't someone jumped all over this one yet? Sounds like a name for one of Keanu Reeves' kids. He'd be born with sunglasses on.
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Rice recalled after skin reactions in children
WASHINGTON » The Food and Drug Administration is warning against eating Uncle Ben's rice products served at schools, restaurants, hospitals and other food service institutions after children in three states had skin reactions and other symptoms that were linked to the rice.
Mars Foodservices of Rancho Dominguez, Calif., is recalling 5- and 25-pound bags of the rice. The bags are mostly sold to food service establishments, but they are also available to consumers over the Internet and in some warehouse-type retailers.
Uncle Ben's ready-to-eat, boxed, bagged and cup products in grocery stores are not linked to the illnesses and have not been recalled.
The FDA said that 34 students and four teachers in Katy, Texas, had experienced burning, itching rashes, headaches and nausea for 30 to 90 minutes after eating the rice on Feb. 6. The symptoms eventually went away.
The agency said it is still investigating the Texas incident. But FDA officials said they found an excess of niacin, also known as vitamin B3, in Uncle Ben's food service rice linked to similar reactions in 25 Illinois school children in December. That incident also prompted a recall, but the Texas illnesses were not related to those previously recalled lots.
The FDA said overexposure to niacin can cause skin reactions, and very large doses can cause indigestion and nausea. Children may be most susceptible, but the agency said that the levels of niacin found in the Illinois rice samples probably were not high enough to cause serious health consequences.
The agency said it has not confirmed that the Texas incident was also caused by niacin, but the symptoms are similar. Another incident was reported in North Dakota in October, when three children in day care and one college student had skin reactions after eating an Uncle Ben's rice product.
The recalled products are the 5- and 25-pound bags of Uncle Ben's flavor-infused rice, including roasted chicken flavor, garlic and butter flavor, Mexican flavor, saffron flavor, cheese flavor, Spanish flavor and Uncle Ben's Rice Pilaf.
While Mars Foodservice has been working with the FDA and its buyers to get the rice out of lunch lines, agency officials said they are concerned that some consumers may be able to get the rice on the Internet or at warehouse-type retailers. As of Monday, several of the recalled products were still available on Amazon.com.
Mars Foodservices said the affected product was made in a plant in Greenville, Miss.


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Rays - 101 000 300 - 5 8 0An early burst of runs -- back-to-back home runs from David Ortiz and Adrian Beltre in the first and RBI hits from Victor Martinez and Ortiz in the second -- coupled with Ryan Kalish's grand slam in the fourth carried the Red Sox to victory.
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Lester (6-4-2-3-10, 94) allowed baserunners in only the first and third innings. He stranded two in the first and left the bases loaded in the third. The pen stumbled in the seventh -- Robert Coello (in his major league debut) issued two bases-loaded walks and Dustin Richardson added another -- but things settled down after that. Boston has walked in seven runs in the last two days.
In addition to the four-run homer, Kalish singled, walked, stole two bases, and scored three times. J.D. Drew singled twice and walked and Daniel Nava walked twice and singled. Lars Anderson went 0-for-4; all 12 pitches he saw were strikes.
Baltimore beat the Yankees 4-3 during the afternoon, so Boston gained a game on both teams. The Red Sox are 6.5 GB in the WC and 9 GB in the ALE.Jeff Neimann / Jon Lester
Lars Anderson makes his major league debut. Josh Reddick has also been called up. Pawtucket's season ended yesterday.Nava, LF
Drew, RF
Martinez, C
Ortiz, DH
Beltre, 3B
Lowrie, 2B
Kalish, CF
Anderson, 1B
Navarro, SS
Everyone knows Boston's post-season chances are thisclose to nil -- the projections at BP (2.1%, 0.9%, 1.7%) and Cool Standings (1.1%) reflect that. Plus, the White Sox's weekend sweep pushed the Red Sox into 3rd place for the wild card.
Back on September 1, YFSF looked at the rest of the season:
If I were a Sox fan who had not yet given up on this season, I would be hoping the Sox can get through next week's home series against the Rays and return home on September 16 from their 6-game stint in Oakland and Seattle no more than 6 back of the Yankees. The Yanks will be entering arguably their toughest stretch of the year ... Boston would be banking on making up the bulk of ground in those final two weeks.But ... what if the Red Sox swept the Rays? They would be 4.5 GB Tampa Bay with 22 games to play. Would that do anything for you?
Since that post last Wednesday, the Red Sox have not helped their cause at all, going 2-3 and losing another two games in the standings. ... Being 6 GB on September 16 wouldn't guarantee a damn thing, of course, plus it would involve picking up 4.5 games in 10 games (11 days) -- and continuing to steamroll. ... Yeah, a 1.3% shot seems about right. ... Just win one game, tonight's game, and all that, etc.
Anyway ... Neimann was on the DL (right shoulder strain) for most of August. He has made two starts since returning -- allowing 17 runs in 8.1 innings -- and seen his ERA rise by nearly a full run, to 3.97.
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10 Reasons Your Top Talent Will Leave You [Talent don't leave bad jobs,they leave bad bosses]
Author :Mike Myatt
Reference :www.forbes.com
Talent don't leave bad jobs,they leave bad bosses
Have you ever noticed leaders spend a lot of time talking about talent, only to make the same mistakes over and over again? Few things in business are as costly and disruptive as unexpected talent departures. With all the emphasis on leadership development, I always find it interesting so many companies seem to struggle with being able to retain their top talent. In today's column, I'll share some research, observations, and insights on how to stop the talent door from revolving.
Ask any CEO if they have a process for retaining and developing talent and they'll quickly answer in the affirmative. They immediately launch into a series of soundbites about the quality of their talent initiatives, the number of high-potentials in the nine box, blah, blah, blah. As with most things in the corporate world, there is too much process built upon theory and not nearly enough practice built on experience.
When examining the talent at any organization look at the culture, not the rhetoric - look at the results, not the commentary about potential. Despite some of the delusional perspective in the corner office, when we interview their employees, here's what they tell us:
More than 30% believe they'll be working someplace else inside of 12 months.
More than 40% don't respect the person they report to.
More than 50% say they have different values than their employer.
More than 60% don't feel their career goals are aligned with the plans their employers have for them.
More than 70% don't feel appreciated or valued by their employer.
So, for all those employers who have everything under control, you better start re-evaluating. There is an old saying that goes; "Employees don't quit working for companies, they quit working for their bosses." Regardless of tenure, position, title, etc., employees who voluntarily leave, generally do so out of some type of perceived disconnect with leadership.
Here's the thing – employees who are challenged, engaged, valued, and rewarded (emotionally, intellectually & financially) rarely leave, and more importantly, they perform at very high levels. However if you miss any of these critical areas, it's only a matter of time until they head for the elevator. Following are 10 reasons your talent will leave you – smart leaders don't make these mistakes:
1. You Failed To Unleash Their Passions: Smart companies align employee passions with corporate pursuits. Human nature makes it very difficult to walk away from areas of passion. Fail to understand this and you'll unknowingly be encouraging employees to seek their passions elsewhere.
2. You Failed To Challenge Their Intellect: Smart people don't like to live in a dimly lit world of boredom. If you don't challenge people's minds, they'll leave you for someone/someplace that will.
3. You Failed To Engage Their Creativity: Great talent is wired to improve, enhance, and add value. They are built to change and innovate. They NEED to contribute by putting their fingerprints on design. Smart leaders don't place people in boxes - they free them from boxes. What's the use in having a racehorse if you don't let them run?
4. You Failed To Develop Their Skills: Leadership isn't a destination - it's a continuum. No matter how smart or talented a person is, there's always room for growth, development, and continued maturation. If you place restrictions on a person's ability to grow, they'll leave you for someone who won't.
5. You Failed To Give Them A Voice: Talented people have good thoughts, ideas, insights, and observations. If you don't listen to them, I can guarantee you someone else will.
6. You Failed To Care: Sure, people come to work for a paycheck, but that's not the only reason. In fact, many studies show it's not even the most important reason. If you fail to care about people at a human level, at an emotional level, they'll eventually leave you regardless of how much you pay them.
7. You Failed to Lead: Businesses don't fail, products don't fail, projects don't fail, and teams don't fail – leaders fail. The best testament to the value of leadership is what happens in its absence – very little. If you fail to lead, your talent will seek leadership elsewhere.
8. You Failed To Recognize Their Contributions: The best leaders don't take credit – they give it. Failing to recognize the contributions of others is not only arrogant and disingenuous, but it's as also just as good as asking them to leave.
9. You Failed To Increase Their Responsibility: You cannot confine talent – try to do so and you'll either devolve into mediocrity, or force your talent seek more fertile ground. People will gladly accept a huge workload as long as an increase in responsibility comes along with the performance and execution of said workload.
10. You Failed To Keep Your Commitments: Promises made are worthless, but promises kept are invaluable. If you break trust with those you lead you will pay a very steep price. Leaders not accountable to their people, will eventually be held accountable by their people.
If these thoughts resonate with you, I'd encourage you to pick up a copy of my upcoming book Hacking Leadership (Wiley) as I unpack several more thoughts about talent, team building, leadership and culture.
Bottom line, if leaders spent less time trying to retain people, and more time trying to understand them, care for them, invest in them, and lead them well, the retention thing would take care of itself. Thoughts?
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Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. HOWARD BERMAN (D, CA-28): The drug crisis facing the US remains a top national security threat. This bill represents a new partnership with Mexico and Central American countries to face the immediate security threat of drug gangs, and help these neighbors build the capacity of their law enforcement agencies.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. MICHAEL McCAUL (R, TX-10): We need a strategy on this side of the border: a two-pronged Approach; a comprehensive strategy that deals not only with the Mexican side but with the US side. And for too long, our border sheriffs and our Border Patrol agents have been outmanned and outgunned. And if we are going to provide assistance to Mexico, it seems to me we ought to be providing assistance to our men and women on our side fighting this war every day.
Rep. TED POE (R, TX-2): I am concerned about drugs and violence on the border, but I am also concerned about corruption. In order to gain control of access corridors in the US, drug cartels are hiring hit men from an elite force in Mexico's military. This group is known as the "Zetas." Some of the Zetas are military deserters that may have been trained in the US. $1 billion in this bill would go to Mexico. And Mexico in its arrogance objects to any conditions we want to put on this money. The administration can offer us no assurance that our equipment and training won't be used against us and neither can Mexico.
OnTheIssues.org interprets the 2006 NORML scores as follows:
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Law's mission is to move public opinion sufficiently to achieve the repeal of marijuana prohibition so that the responsible use of cannabis by adults is no longer subject to penalty.
NORML is a nonprofit, public-interest lobby that for more than 30 years has provided a voice for those Americans who oppose marijuana prohibition. We represent the interests of the tens of millions of Americans who smoke marijuana responsibly and believe the recreational and medicinal use of marijuana should no longer be a crime.
NORML supports the removal of all criminal penalties for the private possession & responsible use of marijuana by adults, including the cultivation for personal use, and the casual nonprofit transfers of small amounts. This model is called "decriminalization."
NORML additionally supports the development of a legally controlled market for marijuana, where consumers could purchase it from a safe, legal and regulated source. This model is referred to as "legalization."
NORML believes that marijuana smoking is not for kids and should only be used responsibly by adults. As with alcohol consumption, it must never be an excuse for misconduct or other bad behavior. Driving or operating heavy equipment while impaired from marijuana should be prohibited.
NORML strongly supports the right of patients to use marijuana as a medicine when their physician recommends it to relieve pain and suffering.
Lastly, NORML supports the right of farmers to commercially cultivate hemp for industrial purposes, such as food and fiber production.


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Constantly inspired by the form and movement of runners, Saucony never lacks for creativity in pushing the envelope to offer the latest technology to their customers. Whether it's running shoes or running clothes, they strive to design the best products in the running industry. If they won't run in it, they won't sell it.
With popular lines like "SpeedLite", "Run Lux", "Ignite", and "Inferno" customers will never be short for options to meet their running needs. There are few companies that can match the level of commitment and dedication to the running community that Saucony has shown. Everything from the technical fabrics they use to the strategically placed reflectivity, no detail is too small. With Saucony it's not just a product because to them running isn't a hobby in life, it's a way of life.


text: Herbert Bayer's Untitled, 1963 May 30, 2018 Herbert Bayer (1900-1985) Untitled, 1963 Acrylic on canvas 80 x 60 inches Signed and dated lower right; signed and dated verso Provenance Private collection, Santa Fe / Aspen Exhibition History Charles Byron Gallery, New York, New York, 1963 Publication history Herbert Bayer | Painter – Designer – Architect Reinhold Publishing Company, New York, 1967 p. 193 Herbert Bayer was born in Austria, where he entered into an apprenticeship under the architect and designer, Georg Smidthammer, with whom Bayer learned drawing, painting, and architectural drafting, inspired by nature and without formal knowledge of art history. In 1920, Bayer discovered the theoretical writings of the artist Vassily Kandinsky, as well as Walter Gropius' 1919 Bauhaus manifesto, in which Gropius declared the necessity for a return to crafts, in which were found true creativity and inspiration. Bayer traveled to Weimar to meet Gropius in October of 1921 and was immediately accepted into the Bauhaus. There, he was deeply influenced by the instruction of Kandinsky, Johannes Itten and Paul Klee. In 1928 Bayer moved to Berlin together with several members of the Bauhaus staff including Gropius, Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Breuer. He found work as a freelance graphic designer, particularly with German Vogue, under its art director Agha. When the latter returned to Paris, Bayer joined the staff full time, and also worked increasingly with Dorland, the magazine's principle advertising agency. It was in the period from 1928 to his emigration to America in 1938 that he developed his unique vision as an artist, combining a strongly modernist aesthetic sense with a rare ability to convey meaning clearly and directly. This seamless combination of art, craft and design mark Bayer as true prophet of Bauhaus theories. Bayer followed Gropius to America in 1938, and set his breadth of skills to work later that year in designing the landmark Bauhaus 1918-1928 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Bayer flourished in New York as a designer and architect, but it was his meeting with the industrialist Walter Paepcke in 1946 that allowed him to harness his concepts of 'total design' to the postwar boom. Paepcke was developing Aspen as a cultural and intellectual destination, and found in Bayer the perfect collaborator. Bayer was designer, educator and indeed architect for Paepcke's Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies (later The Aspen Institute), which promulgated the very Bauhaus project to encourage cooperation between art and industry and the role of the arts in society. From 1965 he fulfilled a similar role in advising Robert O. Anderson, chairman of the Atlantic Richfield Company. Bayer's work is represented in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, Schubladen Museum, Bern, Switzerland, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City.


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Today's Hot Names: Verlander. Earnhardt. LeBron.
Spurs up 3-0 on Cavs: Here's how we all know, once and for all, there is no "conspiracy" in the NBA: There was no foul call against Bruce Bowen while LeBron was shooting what would have been a game-tying 3-pointer.
Instead, the ref swallowed his whistle: Did Bowen foul LeBron? Obviously. The Spurs had one to give. The question of the morning: Did Bowen foul LeBron in the act of shooting that 3?
Yes. On its face, it doesn't look like it. It looked like Bowen grabbed him before the shot. But in the NBA, where "continuation" is interpreted as liberally as possible, he did foul LeBron while LeBron was in "the act" of shooting.
Consider: The league's biggest star... On his home court... In the franchise's first-ever Finals game in
So save your conspiracy theories, because it delivered a worst-case scenario for the NBA:
Not only does the game end controversially, but – far worse – the series goes 3-0 to the Spurs, making
(By the way, if you thought things couldn't get worse for the NBA after Games 1 and 2, tying the record for the second-lowest scoring Finals game of all time doesn't help things at all.)
Verlander's No-Hitter: How about this: MLB Stud Single-Game Performance of the Year (So Far)... Justin Verlander, for his no-hitter against the Brewers last night (with 12 Ks, too). Hitting 100-plus on the gun in the 9th? That's sick.
I'm still saying that Dan Haren has been the best pitcher in the AL this season, but don't be surprised if AL All-Star manager Jim Leyland doesn't use JV's no-no to vault him as the AL All-Star starter.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. to sign with Hendrick Motorsports: As with Junior declaring his free agency, there really is no analogue in other sports. This is the most marketable name in the sport joining the most successful team in the sport.
(As drivers are universally associated with their numbers, Junior's switch from his iconic No. 8 to either No. 5 or No. 25 is a merchandise marketer's dream. If
ESPN.com has its new Editor in Chief: It's Rob King, who I don't know. It's a very interesting choice, because he doesn't have a dot-com background. However, as I've said for 10 years, EIC of ESPN.com is the most powerful editorial role in sports media, so congrats to Rob and all best. (Kudos to SportsByBrooks for breaking the story on blogs, via Sports Biz Daily.)
NCAA CFB: Was
MLB All-Star Voting: THE drama is whether fans will vote Bonds into the NL starting lineup. He dropped to fourth in the latest released vote totals. And NL All-Star manager Tony LaRussa isn't saying whether he'd name Bonds to the team as a reserve.
(Personally, I think Bonds should be in there. Come on, people. Don't you want some drama with your All-Star Game? Bonds is 42,000 behind Alfonso Soriano for the third spot in the outfield behind Carlos Beltran and Ken Griffey Jr.)
MLB Dud: AJ Burnett, who left last night's game with a shoulder injury. Cue ominous music.
More Cubs dugout drama involving Michael Barrett: This time, he mixed it up with pitcher Rich Hill. No punches were thrown, though, so that's obviously a big win for Barrett. Seriously: How many more incidents will there be before he loses the pitching staff entirely?
I love this story about White Sox players offending the sensibilities of Patti LaBelle at a restaurant on Sunday night, with Jim Thome needed to intercede on the team's behalf, because the players were so loud and offensive to the other diners.
NFL: Pacman Jones won't appeal his season-long suspension. If he was smart, he'd spend the season working out, doing community service and rehabilitating his image by being on TV and online. Does he want to keep a blog about the experience? I'm happy to ghost-blog it...
More NFL: Classic Deadspin "someone-sent-me-awesome-photos" post about Jeff Reed, who is no stranger to Deadspn "someone-sent-me-awesome-photos" posts.
NBA Rumors: Why are there legs to this idea Kobe can be traded to the Knicks? The already-crappy team will be gutted of its remaining talent and Kobe -- even in the weak East -- would have a tough time. Kobe needs to be traded to a team that won't lose all of its decent parts to get him. What was so wrong with my idea to trade him to the Bobcats for a re-signed Gerald Wallace and Adam Morrison, plus the Bobcats' No. 1 picks this year and next year? With that No. 8 pick, the Lakers could grab one of the talented big men to play alongside Andrew Bynum.
NBA Draft: Believe it or not, I don't like Joakim Noah as much as I like the other four players in
But you have to give him credit – not scorn – for playing the game the right way: At a minimum, with passion and hustle and with little regard for his own personal stats and entire regard for the concept of "team."
His recent criticism of players who won't go head-to-head against him in draft workouts (cough-Brandan Wright-cough) is totally consistent with his competitive attitude. And that will be an asset for any NBA team.
I was asked to write a preview of Noah for the Atlanta Hawks blog, and here's a link. Here's the takeaway: If a team wants him to be the first, second or even third option on offense, they will be disappointed. But if David Lee can average a double-double off the bench for the Knicks, Noah sure as hell can do the same thing for another team, with a fair number of blocks, steals and assists thrown in.
Cricket: Did
Karma: Duke LAX prosecutor Mike Nifong himself facing ethics charges.
Sports and Pop Culture: Watching Daily Shows the next night after they are originally on is terrible for my ability to pick out must-see clips. But John Hodgman's "Resident Expert" segment about MMA was totally amazing. Go to ComedyCentral.com to find it. It's worth it.
Blog Industry: Congrats to TVNewser's Brian Stelter, who has parlayed his blog into a bonafide job with the New York Times... and he's all of a few weeks out of college. I haven't seen this written elsewhere, but I'll say it: He is now officially, inarguably, the biggest success story of the blogosphere. And damn likeable too, damn him. You REALLY want to hate a guy like that...
Condolences to family, friends and fans of "Mr. Wizard," Don Herbert, who probably did more to advance an interest in science in this country than anyone else in history.


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The gulf between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it's been since the Roaring '20s.
The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country's household income last year – their biggest share since 1928, the year before the stock market crash. And the top 10 percent captured a record 48.2 percent of total earnings last year.
U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades. And it grew again last year, according to an analysis of Internal Revenue Service figures dating to 1913 by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.
One of them, Berkeley's Emmanuel Saez, said the incomes of the richest Americans surged last year in part because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that took effect in January.
In 2012, the incomes of the top 1 percent rose nearly 20 percent compared with a 1 percent increase for the remaining 99 percent.
The richest Americans were hit hard by the financial crisis. Their incomes fell more than 36 percent in the Great Recession of 2007-09 as stock prices plummeted. Incomes for the bottom 99 percent fell just 11.6 percent, according to the analysis.
But since the recession officially ended in June 2009, the top 1 percent have enjoyed the benefits of rising corporate profits and stock prices: 95 percent of the income gains reported since 2009 have gone to the top 1 percent.
That compares with a 45 percent share for the top 1 percent in the economic expansion of the 1990s and a 65 percent share from the expansion that followed the 2001 recession.
The top 1 percent of American households had pretax income above $394,000 last year. The top 10 percent had income exceeding $114,000.
The income figures include wages, pension payments, dividends and capital gains from the sale of stocks and other assets. They do not include so-called transfer payments from government programs such as unemployment benefits and Social Security.
The gap between rich and poor narrowed after World War II as unions negotiated better pay and benefits and as the government enacted a minimum wage and other policies to help the poor and middle class.
The top 1 percent's share of income bottomed out at 7.7 percent in 1973 and has risen steadily since the early 1980s, according to the analysis.
Economists point to several reasons for widening income inequality. In some industries, U.S. workers now compete with low-wage labor in China and other developing countries. Clerical and call-center jobs have been outsourced to countries such as India and the Philippines.
Increasingly, technology is replacing workers in performing routine tasks. And union power has dwindled. The percentage of American workers represented by unions has dropped from 23.3 percent in 1983 to 12.5 percent last year, according to the Labor Department.
The changes have reduced costs for many employers. That is one reason corporate profits hit a record this year as a share of U.S. economic output, even though economic growth is sluggish and unemployment remains at a high 7.2 percent.
America's top earners tend to be highly paid executives or entrepreneurs – the "working rich" – instead of elites who enjoy lives of leisure on inherited wealth, Saez wrote in a report that accompanied the new analysis.
Still, he added: "We need to decide as a society whether this increase in income inequality is efficient and acceptable."


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NeverNotKnitting Podcast : Episode 35 : Knitting Iceland
Episode 35
112 comments:
- Karen (lindse) said...
Very interesting podcast! I have sent a link to your blog for an icelandic girl I know, who lives in Denmark and loves to knit :) I think she will find it very interesting!
I love the purple haze colorway :) - May 2, 2010 at 6:43 AM
- Jessica said...
What a great interview! It must be a knitter's heaven to live in Iceland :0)!! Wish I could go on one of those knitting tours!! I love the purple haze colorway! (jpeled on ravelry)
- May 2, 2010 at 8:22 AM
- Sheri said...
I thought this interview was so intersting. Thank you for doing it. I hope I win Nammi in Yup it's Yellow.
Sheri from Ky - May 2, 2010 at 8:50 AM
This was FASCINATING. I wish I was adventurous enough to travel to Iceland to knit in the wilderness with Ysolda! :)
- May 2, 2010 at 11:25 AM
- Stacy said...
I really enjoyed the interview and learning more about Iceland and the history of knitting there. All of the colors are beautiful, but my favorite is purple haze.
Stacy in NC - May 2, 2010 at 12:00 PM
- Virtuella aka. Margot Viste said...
Hi, interesting podcast.
I love the purple haze colorway! - May 2, 2010 at 1:10 PM
- Karen in Maine said...
Thank you to you and Ragga for the interview. And her Yup, it's Yellow is stunning.
- May 2, 2010 at 2:05 PM
- Jenn said...
I loved getting to hear more about Iceland and their knitting! I love the purple haze colorway.
And I'm looking forward to hearing about your moving with your yarn stash. - May 2, 2010 at 4:28 PM
- penelope10 said...
I really like the Purple Haze! Very interesting podcast!
- May 2, 2010 at 4:48 PM
- Jen Price said...
A giveaway? YES!!!
- May 2, 2010 at 6:50 PM
- Donita Porter said...
OOh so Blue I'll be if I don't win this one!
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- alligator said...
Hi, great podcast!
My favorite color of the Nummi is the blue! - May 2, 2010 at 7:02 PM
- Handcrafted Accents said...
This was a wonderful interview! I am inspired to learn more. My favorite color is purple haze.
- May 2, 2010 at 7:31 PM
- Unknown said...
Hahahah. Thank you for this giveaway. I think it´s funny that I won this during this episode because I am Icelandic and learned to knit with Icelandic lopi. Oh and if I can enter this give away I love the color Oooh so blue. But I don´t want to be greedy.
- May 2, 2010 at 9:11 PM
- Erin said...
What a great episode! I lived in Iceland with my family from 2004 - 2006. We miss is oh so much! It is a wonderful place to raise children. I learned to knit while living there from a wonderful Danish friend, so knitting and Iceland go hand in hand for me. I am in the Iceland group on Ravelry. I have too much lopi to count - all bought at the Alafoss factory store in Mosfellsbaer (10 minutes from the captial city). Love Nammi in oh so blue; have had the traditional icelandic three cornered shawl for girls and the girl's Runa cardigan both by Ragga in my que for a while - think I'll need to cast on for that shawl - perfect for cool New Hampshire summers. Thanks again for a great podcast - really loved your theme this episode :-)
- May 3, 2010 at 5:05 AM
- joyceetta said...
Alana....thanks for this episode. Very interesting. I'd love to go to Iceland! Purple Haze is my favorite of the colors shown.
- May 3, 2010 at 7:24 AM
- JodyH said...
Thanks for such an interesting interview. I love how the Internet allows us to be so much more connected! My favorite color of Nummi is the Oooh so blue!
- May 3, 2010 at 9:36 AM
- skinouye said...
Love the color "Red on the Fence" with the Icelandic Ragga etsy site. The Podcast was very interesting...I enjoyed hearing about the lopi, the knitting education, and tours!!!
- May 3, 2010 at 10:01 AM
- Jennifer said...
This episode really takes me back ... my very first sweater was in Lopi, over 20 years ago! I made it for my father, and he wore it constantly. And, amazingly, he STILL wears it. : )
Nammi is aptly named -- the colors look delicious! I love them all, but am especially taken with Red on the Fence. The variation is so very pretty.
Thanks, Alana, for another fascinating podcast! (shadystroll on ravelry) - May 3, 2010 at 10:44 AM
- LisaK said...
What an interesting interview. Thanks. I really love the Purple Haze.
- May 3, 2010 at 11:15 AM
- Acipenser said...
I visited Iceland 6 years ago, but found only one yarn shop. So I'm thrilled to hear that there are more and a lovely new company. I'll have to go back soon ;-) I love the blue colourway.
I'm Acipenser on Ravelry - May 3, 2010 at 11:28 AM
- J said...
I am with you! I would LOVE to go on one of those knitting tours! Iceland Knitting tour is being added to the never ending list of places I'd like to travel. And as with all knitting/fiber related travel ideas... it is being added towards the top! ;) Great Show as always! This is my favorite podcast... and I listen to a lot of them!
Oh... and I like the OOh so Blue colorway! - May 3, 2010 at 12:20 PM
- Elise said...
Your podcasts are always so fun and interesting.
- May 3, 2010 at 12:36 PM
- Casey F. said...
I adore the My goodness green! All the colors are gorgeous though. :)
One of these days I'm going to have to see if I can do one of the knitting tours. The culture sounds incredible! - May 3, 2010 at 12:59 PM
- Dana said...
i would love to visit Iceland.
and winning the give away of course. - May 3, 2010 at 1:13 PM
- Jen said...
I am a fan of Red on the Fence. The trip to knit a sweater with Ysolda sounds AMAZING!
- May 3, 2010 at 2:01 PM
Love your interview.
Favorite color is Purple Haze.
Mary Ann Pastene - May 3, 2010 at 2:04 PM
- Jenny T. said...
I really enjoyed this interview. Would love to go on the tour one day! Sounds like so much fun! I too love the purple haze colorway :) Jenny (jrt35 on Ravelry)
- May 3, 2010 at 2:46 PM
- Fernie said...
I loved this episode and "meeting" Raga. If I'm lucky enough to win, I'd love the Oooh so blue! As soon as I finished listening I went to the web site and looked at the knitting tours and now I want to go to Iceland so much I can't stop thinking about it. Thanks for the great podcast.
Fernie (on Ravelry) - May 3, 2010 at 5:26 PM
Awesome interview! I love learning about other cultures and enjoyed Raggas accent a lot. Would love to go on one of those tours! That would be so awesome!
My favorite color is Purple Haze. - May 3, 2010 at 5:59 PM
- Emily said...
Wow... I so want to go on one of Raga's knitting tours. Sounds heavenly.. I adore her lime green colorway, the purple haze is a close second.
- May 3, 2010 at 5:59 PM
- Debbie said...
Always look for your newest podcast. I have always been interested in the Icelantic knits. I like the purple haze colorway - May 3, 2010 at 6:53 PM
- k2ntrish said...
It was fascinating to learn about the Icelandic knitting culture - so different from America.
I love the ooh so blue Nammi color. - May 3, 2010 at 7:10 PM
- alpacababe said...
I love your podcast! I look forward to each one. I had a hard time choosing but I think its oh so blue.
- May 3, 2010 at 9:18 PM
- Poynter said...
I was thinking knitting has a deeply embedded place in Scottish culture too, similar to Iceland. I am a Scottish/Australian and I know so many Scottish knitter - my dad and my brother can knit.
I would love Purple Haze!
Jude - May 4, 2010 at 4:42 AM
- StaceyKnitsIt said...
My Goodness Green if my favorite colorway.
- May 4, 2010 at 5:56 AM
- The Litter Box House said...
I am dying to go to Iceland! I even went so far as to check flight costs. Maybe I'll be able to save enough to go in 2012 when I turn 40... Either that or go in to a chunk of debt to go sooner!
That purple haze is beautiful...
Selkie on Ravelry - May 4, 2010 at 7:09 AM
The pinky red colorway on Raga's Etsy store is very cheery and reminds me of spring tulips. But I really like the soft pastel-ish green colorway on her Knitting Iceland website. All the colors are quite lovely. Thanks for a terrific and very interesting podcast. I look forward to following Raga's blog to learn more about her and Iceland.
- May 4, 2010 at 9:13 AM
- Jen said...
I want to go on one of those tours now!! Sound so cool! Very interesting interview! I love the Purple Haze Nammi
jendada on Ravelry - May 4, 2010 at 10:07 AM
- Kigeliakitten said...
The tours sound cool. All the colors are pretty, I really like Oooh so blue.
- May 4, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- Rachel said...
I think it would be really neat to learn this knitting technique! I would love to see on the "Red on the Fence" yarn knitted up.
- May 4, 2010 at 2:49 PM
- Ana said...
Great podcast! I love the Purple Haze...and wish Ragga well in the business...
Ana - May 4, 2010 at 4:25 PM
- Bronwyn said...
Great interview! I agree with the other posters that Iceland must be a wonderful place to live. To go everywhere and be able to talk about knitting (and to knit without being looked at oddly) is so much different than the US where people don't even know the difference between knit and crochet.
I love the purple haze. And what a perfect name since the yarn has that nice fluffy halo. :) I also love the name of Red on the Fence and that it's an indecisive red. Very witty. - May 4, 2010 at 5:42 PM
- Juliaknit said...
I would love to win Nammi in Purple haze. I think visiting Ireland would be wonderful.
- May 4, 2010 at 8:48 PM
- LB070 said...
I would love to go on all of those tours! Knitting with Ooh So Blue would be some solace.
- May 5, 2010 at 8:14 AM
- AnneLena said...
Great podcast and interview. Thanks so much for keeping them coming :-)
- May 5, 2010 at 9:08 AM
- Unknown said...
I love the information on Icelandic Knitting. I have always wanted to go to Iceland. The tours sound wonderful. The Purple Haze colorway is my favorite.
- May 5, 2010 at 9:14 AM
- knitterlydesigns said...
I love learning about different cultures, and how knitting plays a part of it. 'OOOh so blue' or 'Purple Haze' are my favorites, but any of her colors are beautiful. THey are so bright and cheery.
Angie S.-Aurora, CO - May 5, 2010 at 10:17 AM
"Ooh So Blue" is my favorite colorway! Thanks to your podcast, I want to learn more about Iceland and Icelandic knitting. And, of course, I want to visit Iceland someday.
- May 5, 2010 at 10:18 AM
- Helga said...
Hi, interesting podcast
I love the OOh so Blue - May 5, 2010 at 2:01 PM
- Sally said...
Thanks for a delightful podcast and for such a special drawing...if my name is chosen I would love the purple haze colorway.
- May 5, 2010 at 3:05 PM
- Moknita said...
Interesting and informative podcast. Would love to take a tour. I love the purple haze.
- May 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM
- Whisp3rd said...
Usually I'm not one for interviews but this was great! Thanks so much Ragga for the interview! It was thoroughly interesting.
I'd would so love to go on those tours, especially with Jared Flood.
Ragga has such amazing colors but Ooooh so blue and Purple Haze are gorgeous! - May 5, 2010 at 11:49 PM
- Julianne said...
Really loved the interview! Wish I had the money to go to Iceland!! I really like the Nammi in purple haze. Fingers crossed!!
- May 6, 2010 at 4:11 AM
- Kathy Rasmussen said...
Enjoyed the interview and I want to go to Iceland too! Love Ragga's yarns--pinky red is my favorite!
- May 6, 2010 at 6:44 AM
- Stephanie said...
I loved the interview! I'm dreaming of wild tour...
I love the purple haze color yarn! (pastvast on ravelry) - May 6, 2010 at 7:51 AM
- Francie said...
Now I want to try knitting with some true Icelandic yarn. My favorite colorway is the Oooh so blue.
Francie - May 6, 2010 at 1:12 PM
- katerina said...
ohh I want to go on an icelandic tour *sigh* or cruise or trip...
Yarn wise - the purple haze is so very pretty or mygodness green yummy!!!
lovely to look at and thanks for the podcast :) - May 6, 2010 at 9:01 PM
- Toja said...
I loved learning about Icelandic knitting traditions. And I'd love to experiment with Icelandic wool! I'm into the Ooh So Blue.
Toja - May 7, 2010 at 9:52 AM
- Kristin said...
I love the Oh so Blue!! Gorgeous :)
- May 7, 2010 at 12:40 PM
- Kelly-ann said...
All of those colors are stunning...as of today, I think I like the Purple Haze best!
- May 7, 2010 at 1:42 PM
- Bonnie said...
I enjoyed the podcast and the information about knitting in Iceland. We will be in Iceland in August but only for a few days. I do hope to visit a few shops. I love Ragga's purple haze colorway and her patterns.
(bfgoodstitch on ravelry) - May 7, 2010 at 3:14 PM
- Camille said...
What a great episode! I loved the interview, and now have an irrestible urge to visit Iceland. I'm not usually drawn to purple, but that purple haze colorway is so beautiful!
- May 7, 2010 at 4:22 PM
- fnorizny said...
Hi Alana! I've been listening to the episodes of your podcast for a few weeks - I work at home, online, and have found that listening to podcasts makes it SO much easier to focus and makes my work go much faster. So thanks for putting up this great podcast!
About this episode... Very interesting interview! I've never been to Iceland, but my mom has, and she brought back a beautiful sweater which I inherited. At any rate, I'd love to be entered in the drawing. :) - May 7, 2010 at 4:59 PM
- drMolly, the BeanQueen said...
I loved this podcast - makes one wish to be in Iceland right now! I would love the natural elements, too. My favorite color was purple haze.
docM - May 7, 2010 at 5:59 PM
- Jennifer said...
I want to go to Iceland. Those tours look amazing!
- May 7, 2010 at 7:45 PM
- deedalee said...
I would have never thought that Iceland would be a place that I would like to visit! I'm usually more of a beach person. But after hearing this interview, I would love to go there.
- May 7, 2010 at 8:39 PM
- tryste said...
Hi there!
Thanks so much to both of you for this episode - it was extremely interesting, and I'm so excited now about Knitting Iceland!! I'm going to try my absolute best to get on one of the outdoorsy tours :-) Thanks for expanding my awareness, and best of luck to Ragga and Helene in their new business venture.
Swung by the Etsy shop, and pinky-red colorway caught my fancy. :-) - May 8, 2010 at 9:17 AM
- Robin V said...
Fascinating interview!
Hard to pick a favorite color, though... I'm leaning towards "yup, it's yellow." - May 8, 2010 at 10:00 AM
- PJM said...
Great podcast - I so want to go to Iceland now! I love the yup it's yellow colorway, makes me smile :)
- May 8, 2010 at 10:15 AM
- laurieP said...
I want to go on that tour too. What fabulous fun that would be!! I wonder if my timeshare has anything in Iceland? hmmm?
- May 8, 2010 at 6:36 PM
- Alaska Denise said...
Purple Haze....
- May 9, 2010 at 9:44 AM
Another brilliant interview thank you. I would love to go on an Icelandic knitting tour - maybe next summer. I love Pinky Red.
- May 9, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- Melissa said...
Very interesting info on Icelandic knitting and I think I will have to do some more research! Loving all the Nammi colors, but I think Oooh so blue is calling my name louder.
- May 9, 2010 at 11:12 AM
- Melina said...
Very interesing interview. I like the purple haze colorway.
- May 9, 2010 at 11:51 AM
- RubyC said...
I loved the podcast about Icelandic knitting and really enjoyed hearing Ragga. I love the mygoodness green yarn. Just a bright yarn for a bright day.
Thanks for such interesting podcasts each and every issue.
Ruby - May 9, 2010 at 12:59 PM
- tru said...
Loved the interview, very educational and interesting. All of her wools are so pretty they just glow. I am partial to the Purple Haze though!
- May 9, 2010 at 1:40 PM
- Unknown said...
Really interesting podcast. I'm a sucker for blues so I'd have to pick oooh so blue.
- May 9, 2010 at 2:54 PM
- Unknown said...
Great interview! I'm really interested in how Iceland has such a rich knitting history. That's awesome.
My favorite color is the Ooh so Blue! - May 9, 2010 at 5:19 PM
- Helene said...
The podcast was wonderful - your interview with Ragga was so interesting.
I love the pinky pink colorway. - May 9, 2010 at 7:16 PM
- Lauren said...
As always love the podcast and your interviews are great! This time I finally listened in time to actually enter, woo hoo!!! My fav color is oh so blue. Thanks Alana!
- May 9, 2010 at 7:37 PM
- Rowlesgirl said...
Loved the podcast. I love learning about knitting in other countries. I also checked out the website and it seems to have some great stuff on it. I would love to win the video and the yarn in the purple haze colorway!
- May 9, 2010 at 7:55 PM
- Steven said...
Great show! I've fallen in love with ooh so blue.
- May 9, 2010 at 9:40 PM
- Marisa said...
Ooh So Blue is so pretty. Thanks a mil for your podcast, I can tell you put a lot of effort into it.
- May 9, 2010 at 10:58 PM
- Elly said...
I really liked this podcast. It's very interesting how most people knit there, unlike here, where most people look at me weird if I'm knitting. I'd love to be in an environment where everyone is interested in eachother's knits and encourages one another. Maybe I need to move to Iceland soon :)
I love the colorway: Pinky Red.
Thanks for this great giveaway :)
~Eliana~ - May 9, 2010 at 11:30 PM
- cindymen said...
I learned so much listeing to this podcase. Iceland sounds amazing. I love the Oooh so blue colorway (although it was hard to choose).
- May 10, 2010 at 8:09 AM
- ***Megz*** said...
Great podcasts! Perfect for listening too while working on my current projects. Thanks!
I love Mygoodness green colorway! - May 10, 2010 at 11:38 AM
- Kaylee said...
I learned a lot from your podcast. I love to learn knitting history of different countries. I also love the Purple Haze yarn.
- May 10, 2010 at 12:26 PM
- joan blondina said...
Wow, this makes me want to go on one of those knitting tours in island! I think I will go crunch some numbers....
ps. I also love the purple haze!
JoanBlondina on Rav - May 10, 2010 at 1:16 PM
- Eileen said...
It's hard to pick a favorite color! I'm going to go with Oooh So Blue (the green is a close second!). Thanks for a chance to win!
Eileen (WiscKnitter on Ravelry) - May 10, 2010 at 2:25 PM
- Sydney said...
Great podcast! I love the purple haze. :)
- May 11, 2010 at 9:53 PM
- jjphotoFTW said...
I'm such a sucker for I'm soo Blue, although I don't know how anyone could be down wearing that color! And those tours Ragga spoke about sound so amazing! Ah, to live in Iceland...
(jjphotoftw on Rav) - May 12, 2010 at 9:34 AM
- Mary Jo said...
Great interview! How fun to be in a place where knitting is not uncommon! Love the purple haze colorway.
- May 12, 2010 at 11:36 AM
- Beth said...
I really enjoyed your interview with Ragga. I knew very little about Iceland, and now I want to learn more!
The Nammi yarn is gorgeous, the Purple Haze colorway is my favorite. - May 12, 2010 at 1:02 PM
- Unknown said...
Thanks so much for bringing more culture to us. I loved learning about Iceland and its knitting tradition.
If I win, I would like the My goodness green. - May 12, 2010 at 1:46 PM
- MiniMuppet said...
My family and I have been thinking about a trip to Iceland for vacation...now, I know just one more reason to go...Maybe I'll get to go wearing my Pinky Red Nammi socks, mitts, whatever! I'm Minimuppet on Ravelry...
- May 13, 2010 at 8:25 AM
- terip said...
i loved the interview, i have knit an icelandic sweater before, but i am sure the dvd would be awesome for information on traditional techniques. i can't wait for it to come out in english. the tours sound amazing.........i love the nammi.......the colors are so fun. i love the purple haze teri
- May 13, 2010 at 8:57 AM
- Wendy said...
I'm pretty sure I want to move to Iceland now...or at least have a very long vacation there! Great podcast and interview!
- May 13, 2010 at 1:26 PM
- Wendy said...
This is the first of your podcasts I listened to and I loved it! It makes me want to visit Iceland for sure. The tours sound awesome--maybe some day I can participate in one! All of the Nammi colorways are gorgeous but I think my favorite is the Oooh so Blue followed closely by Purple Haze!
- May 13, 2010 at 6:27 PM
Great interview. So nice to learn more about this country and its knitting culture. I love the purple haze colourway. (knitterlynina on rav)
- May 14, 2010 at 1:39 AM
- Tinna said...
great interview! i´m a new listener, and will have to check out your other podcasts and website now! i´m from iceland and i learned some new stuff also! for me knitting the cardigans as a whole and then cutting them up is the normal way to do it - so i now finally understand why alot of foreign cardigan recipies have you knitting back and forth, which is such a nuance to me! for me knitting in a circle is so much faster, and once you´ve cut it once, it´s not so scary anymore :)
i love the ooh so blue nammi yarn.
best regards,
Tinna (email@example.com) - May 14, 2010 at 7:34 AM
- Alexis W said...
This interview put Iceland on my "Like to visit" list - now I just have to convince my husband that it's a great summer vacation trip! The "oooh so blue" shade is lovely!
- May 14, 2010 at 7:53 AM
- Made by Hand on Planet Earth said...
Hello! I love the Ooh So Blue colorway. But My Goodness Green is a close second. I usually choose greens over blues (I'm sure you can relate!), but there is something so snow-coney, icy, cool about that blue, it just blows me away!
Thanks! - May 14, 2010 at 9:10 AM
- bethanie said...
Purple Haze! For numerous reasons: Purple is great AND my little one loves purple too! Can't beat that!
- May 14, 2010 at 3:33 PM
- KatieB said...
Ooh so blue Nammi: perfect for a Pisces girl (like me!) to knit with while out on her kayak on the lakes nearby! I can just see working on a cowl while floating under a lovely summer sky...
- May 14, 2010 at 4:15 PM
- NancyW said...
Loved, loved, loved the interview with Ragga...I'm with you...moving to Iceland sounds lovely.... my color? Purple Haze.
- May 14, 2010 at 6:36 PM
- Kingston said...
I just found your podcast and really enjoyed the interview with Ragga. My daughter is going to Iceland in June. Maybe she can bring me back some authentic Iceland wool! Your theme song is so funny I laughed out loud the first time I heard it. You can count me among your regular listeners from now on.
Kingston on Ravelry
I like the pinky-red colorway. - May 14, 2010 at 9:23 PM
- pinkarwensocks said...
Hi thanks for the interview. This ep was really interesting. :)
- May 15, 2010 at 6:28 AM
- Jan said...
What more can be said than BEAUTIFUL!!!!
janlyn on Ravelry - May 15, 2010 at 10:47 AM
- Crafty Scorp said...
Just found myself a new podcast to knit to :)
Great episode, loved hearing about the knitting tours. My favorite is the pinky red colorway. - May 15, 2010 at 12:12 PM
- Denise/CT said...
Loved the podcast interview. My son was in Iceland last year. I'd wish I'd asked him to bring back even more yarn. Knitting Icelands' yarns are beautiful...I love the Pinky/Red
- May 15, 2010 at 4:49 PM
- Natalie Servant said...
Thanks for the interesting interview, which sent me to Knitting Iceland - which included an interview with local-to-me designer Anna Dalvi. Small world!
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