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For some time, microfinance has been a hot topic within the development community. Many researchers and practitioners see it as a way for people to smooth their consumption over time and thus avoid the effects of bad periods. Some also think it is a good way for existing businesses to acquire the cash they need to expand their businesses. Yet, with the exception of Field, et al. (2013), who offer a repayment grace period, recent experiments have failed to find a significant effect from microfinance on business profits (Banerjee et al. 2013, Fischer 2012, Augsburg et al. 2012, Gine and Mansuri 2011 and Angelucci, Karlan and Zinman 2013). Most studies though focus on female owned enterprises only (though Karlan and Zinman (2010) include a small number of men), and the experiments are done either at the group level or with marginal clients.
In my job market paper, I look at the relative effect of offering microfinance to both male and female business owners directly. The size of the cash grants and loans is small at $200 (500,000 USH), but common in the standard microfinance model: equal to approximately 1.5 times the monthly profits of the average business. I compare offering finance to cash grants and a control group and interact finance and grants with an ILO business training program, called Start Your Business (SYB), to see if including skills with capital can improve outcomes. I then follow the business owners to determine the effect of these interventions on both business and household outcomes over time.
I studied a total of 1,550 microenterprises representative of the types of microenterprises found across Uganda and Sub-Saharan Africa. Importantly, I selected these businesses after two baseline surveys in which the participants, both times, expressed interest in expanding their enterprises, receiving ILO trainings, and taking loans. Therefore, the businesses in this study can be directly compared to each other. They are also exactly the type of people governments and NGOs would most like to target: those motivated to expand their enterprises.
The results from the first and second follow-ups, conducted six and nine months after the interventions, are presented in Figure 1. I find that men who were offered both loans and training report 278,000 USH (54%) greater profits initially, with the effect increasing slightly over time. A heterogeneity test shows that these results are concentrated mostly among men with higher baseline profits and higher ability. I also find that men have an initial impact from the loans-only program (i.e. without being offered training) of 185,000 USH, but this effect is gone by the second follow-up. Interestingly, I find no effect from any of the grant interventions.
While the results suggest a positive (and for the literature, surprising) outcome for men, the results for women are not encouraging. I find no effects from any of the interventions during any data collection for female-owned enterprises. I also find that family pressure on women appears to have significant negative effects on business investment decisions: married women with family nearby perform worse than the control group in a number of the interventions. Women without family nearby, married or not, initially benefit from the programs, but these results are gone nine months after the programs ended.
In addition to looking at profit outcomes, I also look at other business outcomes, including effects on capital accumulation and employees. The results suggest that the effect of the loans and training for men is likely due to a combination of increased family employment and some capital accumulation. When I estimate the returns to these inputs, I find returns to capital that are similar to the larger literature on capital constraints, as well as large effects from employment, especially family employment.
Looking at broader household outcomes, I do not find effects on consumption or other household indicators, but I do find an increase in the incidence of children missing school for men with training and loans. This suggests that some family employment came at the expense of child schooling.
Some preliminary conclusions
Researchers and policy makers have struggled with how to push business to expand. This experiment presents some evidence on the value of microfinance for expanding businesses, at least for some.
The results for men are consistent with credit constraints as the loans led to large increases in business profits. That the grants did not have an effect is consistent with a control constraints problem: knowing that the loan had to be repaid appears to have led men to use the money more effectively in their businesses.
The results for women are significantly more pessimistic. None of the interventions helped the full sample of women in the short-run, and all appear to have led to a decrease in profits over time. This counter-intuitive result is due to family presence: family pressure in developing countries has long been a problem for women. Keeping cash in hand is difficult when there is pressure to spend money on school fees, health care and funerals. The evidence presented here suggests that these pressures matter for women who want to expand their businesses but have family members nearby. Men often do not face the same pressures, and, in fact, benefit from having family near to use as labor.
Counter to previous evidence on microfinance, loans have a dramatic and positive effect here, at least for men. Why might these results be so different than what has been found in the literature thus far? The most likely reason is the selection of businesses in this sample. These are business owners who have expressed an interest in growing their businesses further. Most have had loans in the past but are clearly looking for additional credit to expand their businesses. In addition, most studies have focused on women, who are the main group that microfinance organizations prefer to target due to their high repayment rates. This study includes men, and, in fact, finds that only men benefit from microfinance.
Clearly, more research is needed to better understand the constraints to business growth, especially when it comes to capital constraints and microfinance. The existing evidence from the literature suggests that female microenterprises do not grow from small interventions like the ones described here. For men, it looks like it is possible to encourage more growth, though it is unclear what the general welfare implications might be.
Nathan Fiala is a postdoctoral fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research.
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Hi Nathan,
thanks for your quick reply.
No doubt that the package of training and finance works better, but I wonder from where you take the certainty that training alone does not work. I would rather conclude that the results are very mixed. McKenzie and Woodruff 2012 find in their literature review very little evidence, but Mano et al 2011 find some very positive impact on business performance in their experiment testing SIYB in Ghana (unfortunately they did not go for labour market outcomes). The meta regression analysis of Cho/Honorati 2013 assessing some 35 impact evaluations on entrepreneurship development also highlights that training alone can work. Am I too biased?
With regard to charging a fee I think your argument of risking to exclude the ones who most need the training goes too short. Charging a fee is considered a best practice among practitioners as it helps to increase financial sustainability of local training providers and as it is meant to serve as a filter to select committed participants. But there is no solid evidence. Therefore, I think that future experiments should include a component testing and quantifying the willingness to pay in order to answer the question whether charging a price affects selection and impact.
Useful and thanks for the work in this area.
Wondering if there is any evidence on the following:
What happens if there was no grant or lending at all? Are the enterpreneurs significantly worse of?
Also, is all type of lending the same? or does it depend on the product? For example is there are interest rate bracket where men see the most benefit? Is subsidizing interest rates worth it? Or should the lending take place at market rate?
thanks for your thoughts
Raj Raina,
Thanks for your comment. In this study I follow businesses over time, so I can describe the dynamics of the control group. Those that did not receive any programs did in fact see their real profits increase steadily over time, which is not surprising for a dynamic economy such as Uganda.
As for the lending rate, we made sure to standardize it across everyone. The interest rate was reduced slightly to 20% (from 26%) for everyone, regardless of product or gender. In future work I hope to be able to address the issue of lending rate effects, but for this study I can't say how interest rates mattered for the outcomes.
Hi Nathan,
thanks for this very interesting piece of work. Three quick comments/questions:
1) In difference to other similar studies your sample included only businesses that indicated an interest to expand their activities. Should a conclusion of practitioners like me be that we need to invest more time and effort into selecting and screening participants rather than relying that charging a fee for training offers will be a good filter?
2) Do you have also results for the effects of "training only" which is still a widely spread practice?
3) I understand your findings definitely as a call to move away from stand alone interventions and to offer packages of finance and training or technical assistance.
Best regards, Markus
I definitely think that stand alone programs don't have much impact, as you say in point #3. In fact, evaluations that look at training alone find similar results for business profits to the normal microfinance literature: none. I did not want to include a training only arm here because the literature is pretty conclusive about the lack of effect for growing businesses from trainings. They do seem to have an effect though when paired with finance, which is consistent with other work I and others have done.
On filtering, its hard to say right now how to best target people, but I think charging for programs rarely brings those that need trainings the most, especially since the trainings take a significant amount of time for business owners, which is a major cost in itself.
The summary results sound interesting! I just had a very brief look and I wonder if this research will continue? Given that the time of observation is only 9 months, I think that lots is still to come to substantiate the actual effect.
Also, the finding (no/negative results) on women is interesting... Could be that the fact of men having had higher business income at baseline has to do with it. I haven't read in detail, but it is possible that businesses of male participants were older than the businesses of female participants... Surely worth reading more!
Patricia Richter,
I agree that it will be nice to follow these businesses up again, and I plan to do just that. Keep in mind though that these results are very real, at least for the short-run. They are large enough to suggest that microfinance has an important effect, for men, whether they last over time or not.
And yes, the female enterprises had about 2/3 the income of the male enterprises, but this is a fact about female enterprises in Africa in general. Also note that I did not find different results for the larger female businesses, so size alone can't be the explanation.


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An exhibition displaying a selection of the Bodleian Libraries' most magnificent items. It features rare and renowned items including Handel's Messiah, Shakespeare's First Folio, William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell and the venerated Shikshapatri.
The exhibition presents some of the best of the 12 million items in the Bodleian's collections and uniquely displays these treasures in 21 pairs. Familiar icons of the Libraries' extraordinary holdings are shown alongside the less familiar, opening new avenues into the wealth of the Bodleian's famous collections.
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text: Artigos // Dublin // Music GENERATOR DUBLIN GIG GUIDE - AUG/SEPT 2017 14 ago 2017 Looking for something to do in Dublin? If music is your thing then have a read of what gigs are upcoming. Ireland has worldwide recognition for producing top class musicians and the vibrancy of its live music scene. In the 1970's Dubliner Phil Lynott's Thin Lizzy became international rock icons whilst Belfast's Van Morrison was also in his prime. At the beginning of the following decade, another set of Dublin musicians were about to take over the world, U2. The Cranberries, Ash, The Corrs and Snow Patrol all followed and made their mark globally in the 1990's. Whilst quality has never been a problem, quantity has. In the beginning the Irish live music scene was a sparse collection of a small number of great bands and musicians, propped up by resident cover acts and traditional Irish music groups hired by pubs and venues to entertain their guests. This was mainly due to the cost associated with producing physical copies of their music and studio time. With the advent of the internet and digital streaming platforms, these costs were reduced significantly, allowing a far wider range of musicians to produce, record and share their music with a far greater audience. Indie-rock band Orchid Collective play The Workman's Club on the 19th of August Photo: Tremaine Gregg Photography At some point in the current decade everything changed. From roughly 2010 onwards there was a dramatic shift... the music scene in Ireland, with its focal point in the capital Dublin, was about to explode. Many music journalists/bloggers/musicians/venue owners acknowledge the fact that we are currently living in a Golden Era for Irish music, there is now a myriad of bands and solo acts playing a wide variety of genres from indie rock, electronica, hip-hop, folk, funk and too many more to name here. Venues and pubs across the country are now filled seven nights a week, and despite having to bear most of the cost themselves, musicians are tirelessly travelling across Ireland to play in the most remote locations, all of which has helped the music community flourish and grow at a rapid pace. Not only do we now have a large number of bands and solo musicians to choose from - the quality of the music is consistently excellent and has an instant impact on live audiences. Having attended live music gigs since the late-1990's, I can say with great ease that there has never been a better time to go and see some live music in Ireland than right now, and it's getting better every year. With your arrival at GENERATOR DUBLIN in the heart of the city, you will find yourself right at the apex of the live music scene, with almost all of the capital city's most iconic music venues within a short walk from your accommodation. Venues such as Sin É, The Workman's Club, The Sound House, The Grand Social to name but a few, all straddle the banks of the River Liffey. Another small distance will take you to Dublin's most famous and well-loved venue of all, Whelan's (Upstairs) on Wexford Street. In a regular feature for Parallel, I'll be providing a guide to the best acts to catch during your stay, and don't forget, if you don't feel like wandering far, there is plenty of high quality music to be caught at Generator Hostel too. For short stays, convenience is everything! First off, for those of you arriving to Generator Dublin in the middle of August you've struck gold, as the inaugural Dublin Quays Festival is on for 4 nights from Thursday 17th - Sunday 20th of August. The best thing is that entry to all venues involved is FREE! The festival will see the best of Irish talent located in one easily navigable part of the city, all within a short walk from Generator. The festival will feature popular hard-rock / punk acts Sub Motion and Vulpynes on the opening night at Sin É, the alternative and contemporary folk of Me & My Dog and Maria Kelly on the Friday night at The Sound House, and rising act, the critically acclaimed Orchid Collective on the Saturday night at The Workman's Club. All three shows come highly recommended. If you prefer to stay in the environs of the Hostel itself, there are numerous acts performing over the coming weeks, and one of particular interest is Niall Fahey, a very gifted vocalist and song-writer who will be performing at Generator on the 20th of August. If you're looking for some really fresh sounds, and a visit to Dublin's most iconic music venue Whelan's, then brand new Dublin indie band Future Stops' debut single release is the place to be. If electronic music is more your thing then check out Dreaming of Jupiter's headline show on the 29th August at The Workman's Club, or Alex Smyth in The Grand Social on the 8th of September. Finally, on Sat. 9th September, we recommend a great line-up of alt-pop five-piece Hatchlings and alternative folk act LemonCello, both from Co. Kildare at The Button Factory in Temple Bar (which is also free admission). Alternative folk act LemonCello play The Button Factory, Temple Bar, on the 9th of September Dublin Quays Festival: 17th August - Sin É, 15 Ormond Quay Upper, Dublin 1 - Sub Motion & Vulpynes (Free) 18th August - The Sound House, 28 Eden Quay, Dublin 1 - Me & My Dog & Maria Kelly (Free) 19th August - The Workman's Club, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2 - Orchid Collective & Little One (Free) 20th August - GENERATOR DUBLIN - Niall Fahey (Free) 24th August - Whelan's (Upstairs), 25 Wexford Street, Dublin 2 - Future Stops - Admission > €6 29th August - The Workman's Club, 10 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2 - Dreaming of Jupiter, Not Monsters & Soltree - Admission > €10 8th September - The Grand Social, 35 Liffey Street Lower, Dublin 1 - Alex Smyth (with SYLK and VLLNS) - Admission > €7 9th September - The Button Factory, Curved St., Temple Bar, Dublin 2 - Hatchlings & LemonCello - Admission > Free Want to listen to some of the acts before you decide who to go and see? We've made a handy Spotify Playlist for your convenience below. Generator Hostel (You are here) The Workman's Club (14 minute walk from Generator) The Sound House (22 minute walk from Generator) Whelan's (26 minute walk from Generator) The Grand Social (16 minute walk from Generator) Sin É (10 minute walk from Generator) The Button Factory (16 minute walk from Generator) Remy Connolly has been covering the Irish music scene since 2013 on his blog REMY and is also a partner and presenter at Irish Music video website The Sound Feed with whom he has interviewed countless established and up-and-coming Irish bands and acts. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. VERIFICAR DISPONIBILIDADE


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Several theories have emerged regarding the stunning 43-8 blowout of the Broncos in the Super Bowl. Some think the Denver offense couldn't match the physicality of the Seattle defense. Former Broncos defensive end Jeremy Mincey has said that the team was "lackadaisical" in the title game.
Tight end Julius Thomas has another explanation.
"I think a lot of talk has been made about how physical a defense is, and I know that can have an effect on the offense," Thomas said Wednesday, via the Denver Post. "But I don't think that their defense is so much more physical than some defenses we've played. We've played against good defenses. What we can't allow a team to do is keep us from executing. I think more so was what we didn't do, the things we left out there, than them being physical. In order to get hit, you usually have to have the ball. So if we can hold on to it, if we can make sure we limit our turnovers, be in the right spots, that'll help us. The physical nature, it's football. Everybody has been hit and is used to it at this point. I think what really got us is our lack of execution."
It's a matter of semantics. Physicality has far greater impact on the offense than the guy with the ball getting hit. Physicality manifests itself in blocking and the efforts to beat blocking, in aggressive coverage of receivers, and in the ensuing disruption of thought processes and dismantling of will that can occur once a guy has been hit harder in the mouth than he expected to be hit.
The Broncos' failure to execute didn't come from a sudden inability to remember how to execute. They didn't execute because they were facing a defense with the ability to derail the attempts to execute in ways that the Broncos hadn't seen.
While it's important for the Broncos to get past that experience, it's far better to embrace the butt-whipping and learn from it than to act like it was a fluke that occurred not because the Seahawks beat the crap out of the Broncos, but because the Broncos somehow beat the crap out of themselves.


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Newsday: Greg Logan's game recap has Josef Vasicek talking about how Kolzig came out to challenge Hunter which gave him an angle to shoot from behind the goal and bank in the tying goal, and how he felt the team did not panic as DiPietro held them in. Mike Comrie talked about his shootout winning goal while Ted Nolan agreed with a question about his club stealing two points but the coach felt Freddy Meyer and Radek Martinek did a great job on Ovechkin.
Newsday: Greg Logan reports during Caps game Ted Nolan likely will break up the Islanders' kid line with either Jeff Tambellini or Frans Nielsen returning to Bridgeport in favor of Simon's toughness because too many teams have been taking advantage of his club in the physical department. Simon comments on how he must do things differently and play within the rules.
Washington Times: Has the recap of Washington's shootout loss.
Leader-Post: Greg Harder has an article on Mike Sillinger with a lot of comments from the New York Times feature a few weeks ago here from 2/9 update.
Ct Post: Michael Fornabaio has comments from Jack Capuano on Matt Keith and his club's five game winning streak as they came back in this game with Kyle Okposo scoring on the powerplay in the third to tie the game. Ben Walter left after a shift with a right shoulder injury and is out for the weekend.
Strong turnout at Harbor Yard with 4,174 in attendance.
Ct Post: Michael Fornabaio has the Sound Tigers weekly with some items on the NHL trade deadline as well as Bridgeport's upcoming schedule and a bunch of items.
Virginian Pilot: Paul White has the recap of Norfolk's loss to Bridgeport.
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Extraction: Distilled from root or seed. Absolute. The root oil is stronger and slightly more expensive, and it smells earthy/herbal; the seed oil is spicy/peppery.
Medicinal Action: Angelica regulates menstruation, is a digestive tonic and stops coughing.
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Renea Randle's passion and dedication to teaching math made her an ideal choice for the Academic Faculty Member of the Year at the 2012 Chancellor's Awards Ceremony in Birmingham last week. The Chancellor's Awards were established to recognize individuals from each institution in the Alabama Community College Association who have consistently displayed professional growth and noteworthy service to the college and the community.
TUSCALOOSA | Renea Randle has always loved math.
"I'm not sure what draws me to it, but I don't remember a time in my life when I didn't love it," Randle said. "I have a passion for math. I see the beauty in it."
With a bachelor's and master's degree in mathematics and minor in mechanical engineering, Randle knew her life would involve math and engineering somehow. Teaching, however, was not where she pictured herself — until she started as a teaching assistant in graduate school.
"I realized when I walked into that classroom that I would get to talk about this subject that I was so passionate about," said the Tuscaloosa resident and Shelton State math instructor. "It was something I could enjoy doing every day."
Her passion and dedication to teaching made her an ideal choice for the Academic Faculty Member of the Year at the 2012 Chancellor's Awards Ceremony in Birmingham last week. The Chancellor's Awards, which are given annually, were established to recognize individuals from each institution in the Alabama Community College Association who have consistently displayed professional growth and noteworthy service to the college and the community.
Four employees from each institution, excluding presidents, may be nominated for the awards of Administrator of the Year, Technical Faculty Person of the Year, Academic Faculty Person of the Year and Support Staff Person of the Year.
"I was shocked and in awe that it was me," Randle said. "I'm so glad I could represent Shelton State."
Randle began her teaching career at Itawamba Community College in Fulton, Miss., where she taught for 25 years. Ready for a change, she and her husband moved to Tuscaloosa and she came on as a math instructor at Shelton State Community College in 2010. She has taught a variety of classes, from the lowest-level development course to the highest-level course, which definitely requires a different teaching style and focus, she said.
"For the lower levels, I want them to learn to embrace math, learn it's something they can do. I want it to be fun for them," Randle said. "On the other end, I'm working with future engineers and trying to instill in them how to use math correctly, follow through and see there are applications to this and they can use in it their engineering degree."
With nearly 30 years of teaching, Randle has numerous memories of students and experiences that help remind her why she went into teaching, but it is the "ah ha" moments that she cherishes.
"What makes this all worthwhile is when I see that light bulb come on for them. They struggle and struggle and struggle, but in that one moment, they get it," she said. "I've had students with learning disabilities, students with special needs, and to watch them learn and grow and appreciate it, to see their determination despite their disabilities, those are the things that have broken my heart and blessed my heart at the same time."
In her two years at Shelton, Randle has written two NASA grant proposals, which were funded, gained membership for the college into the Alabama Space Grant Consortium and organized and implemented the school's first Engineering Day. With plans to continue teaching for years to come, Randle is excited to see what her future holds.
"To me, community college is the place to be. You can make such a great impact," she said. "I wouldn't want to be anywhere else."
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Apparently Crystal Pepsi is back and has a release date: August 8th (unless you're Canadian, then you can get it as early as July 11th). What better way to advertise this even than by creating a super 90s browser version of Oregon Trail?
Someone go tell LA Beast that it's time to chug all the brand new Crystal Pepsi he can get his hands on.


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Immigrant Tuition Bill Advances
A bill that would help students in the U.S. illegally pay for their college educations has advanced.
The Assembly Budget Committee advanced the bill Thursday that would allow these students pay the cheaper in-state tuition rate to attend state colleges and universities.
Bill sponsor Gordon Johnson amended the bill so it matches the Senate version.
That version also allows qualified students who are not legal residents to receive financial aid.
Gov. Chris Christie has said he would not sign a bill that includes the financial aid provision.
The governor, who won re-election with 50 percent of the Hispanic vote, has said he supports the concept of in-state tuition for children brought to this country illegally as children and educated in New Jersey.
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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I wish it was 71 but this is almost as good, 76 asleep at WSBS.
Dont know why it was there but I am not complaining, this is the first time I have seen it since last years SLS Games in March/April.
BeanMe wrote:How come they dont put the all-over NightRider livery on the buses anymore?
panther998 wrote:But, this seems to especially afflict a Government instrumentality functioning under budget constraints - like Transperth - and striving to provide services to the general public (as distinct from a very tiny proportion of night club attendees, on two nights per week) by means of contracts with private sector enterprises which, unsurprisingly / expectedly / routinely, are motivated by profit.
Far be it from me to hint / suggest / point out that certain private bus companies around Perth might be averse to (figuratively speaking) 'occasionally dipping into their own pockets', rather than taxpayers' much abused pockets, when such action just might be appropriate in the interests of furthering their own business interests / prospects. Heck! - one need look no further than the 'Nightcruiser' operation of Adams (Redcliffe) or the similar activities of General Bus Fleet / Purple Party Buses (Embleton) to realize the sheer folly and futility of such an argument.
I imagine there might even be the odd private enterprise detractor who possesses the audacity (ie, balls) to assert that the 3 Transperth contract operators have been 'mollycoddled', or become too complacent, over recent years, or even - heaven forbid! - 'mere extensions of the public sector mindset' when it comes to entrepreneurial skills. Such detractors might (forgivably) think so - far be it from me to deign to comment!
mrobsessed wrote:...Just as scandalous as having Renaults in Mandurah unable to do route service.
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Miami-Dade County
Buying a home in South Florida trumps renting, new study finds
To rent or to buy is a perennial debate for those mulling their housing options.
It's still cheaper to buy a home than to rent in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, despite the double whammy of sharply rising home prices and mortgage rates, according to a new housing affordability study by RealtyTrac.
But the math advantage of buying is shrinking.
In Miami-Dade, the monthly house payment jumped 29 percent to $790 a month in the fourth quarter of 2013 from $614 a year earlier, according to the Irvine, Calif.-based data firm.
Those figures are based on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage, insurance, taxes and maintenance on a median-priced, three-bedroom house, after subtracting the income-tax benefit.
Renting a comparable three-bedroom house in Miami-Dade last year cost $1,539 a month, RealtyTrac said, using the average fair market rent for the area set by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
For Broward, the monthly payment on a median-priced house rose 31 percent to $912 in the fourth quarter of 2013 from $695 a year earlier. The big spike was due to an increase in the median home price coupled with higher mortgage rates.
Even so, that was well below the $1,763 a month cost of renting a similar house in Broward, RealtyTrac said.
The median home price rose 17 percent to $166,000 in Miami-Dade and 19 percent to $191,500 in Broward in the fourth quarter of 2013 from a year earlier, according to RealtyTrac.
The study underscores the divergence emerging in the housing recovery: Home-ownership costs, based on sales prices and interest rates, have risen far more than median household incomes.
"The monthly cost of owning a home is still less than renting in the majority of markets," Daren Blomquist, vice president of RealtyTrac, said in a statement. "But the cost of financed homeownership is becoming dangerously disconnected with still-stagnant median incomes, driven not by shoddy underwriting practices this time around but by investors and other cash buyers who are not tethered to the typical affordability constraints."
For Miami-Dade, the minimum qualifying income needed to buy a median-priced home in the fourth quarter of 2013 was $37,942, up from $29,478 a year earlier. For Broward, the minimum income needed jumped to $43,771 from $33,359. The study assumes no more than 25 percent of household income is used for a monthly house payment.
Buying came out cheaper than renting in 296 out of 325 U.S. counties analyzed in the study. Counties where renting was less expensive than buying included San Francisco, Orange, Santa Clara, Alameda and Ventura in California, and Suffolk and Westchester in the greater New York area.


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I have always loved vintage postcards and their very often beautiful depictions of places and people both near and far. Since the time when I was a young child I have collected postcards, especially ones with ornate and intricate stamps or unusual photographs. This was quite easy as my mother's family was disbursed on several continents and there was a constant stream of such correspondence from them.
In today's world, when the genealogical researcher looks for photographs or pictures of places in their ancestral shtetl or beyond, it often involves a protracted search to find something. Unless, that is, one searches through postcard collections which have safely preserved those hard to find images of the Jewish past.
The postcard phenomenon began in the so-called Postcard Era of the late 1800's and early 1900's. It was then that a mania to retain a vision of one's homeland and family emerged amongst emigrants and was matched by tourists' needs to retain an image of their travels and adventures. This encouraged the collecting of postcards by individuals as well as large institutions. The mania spread and it is now possible to find the residual residue of collecting in a number of diverse venues. A few of these that genealogical researchers should be aware of and make use of are:
There are academic centers which have permanent postcard collections such as the Joseph and Margit Hoffman Collection of the Folklore Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This collection has an amazing 7,000 plus postcards. Unfortunately, the collection is not online and has to be visited in person.
There are a number of museums which have permanent postcard collections. The Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam obtained a collection of 1,000 postcards from collector Jaap van Velzen that they have on exhibit. One of these postcards is of Chief Rabbi Tobias Tal.
A popular museum in America which has a large holding of postcards is the Judah L. Magnes Museum
In addition, there is the Curt Teich Postcard Archives at the Lake County Discovery Museum in Libertyville, IL, which bills itself as the largest public postcard collection. There are a total of 365,000 postcards that cover the period of 1898 to 1978. The cards are cataloged and include a subject heading specifically relating to Jews and Hebrews.
There are also museums which have temporary exhibitions of postcards. One such was the Jewish Museum in Prague, Czechoslovakia
There are many outstanding private collections and a number of them were created as the collector was interested in the philatelic value only. However, the following were created for their Jewish historical value.
The collection of Steven Lasky, the creator of the online Museum of Family History, contains more than 1,000 postcards which can be searched by either town or family name. This exhibition of family postcards and photographs can be found here.
Countries covered on the site include Azerbaijan, Belarus, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Towns covered, for instance, in Lithuania, are Alytus, Birzai, Druskieniki, Gruzdziai, Kalvarija, Krakes, Lozdzieje, Novy Dvor, Siauliai, Simnas, Ukmerge, Vilkaviskis, and Vilnius.
In Vilnius, the following photo of Yenta and Gerhson Radovsky was found on the site. It was taken by the well-known photographic studio of I. Chonovitz
The above postcard has been identified as the paternal great grandparents of Solly Radowsky. They came originally from Roduka near Merkine and lived in Eisiskis for some years as well as in Vilnius. They had nine children, the sixth of whom was Solly's grandfather Michel. Solly's father Gershon (named for his grandfather) married Ethel Sacks whose mother was Sheina Rochel Gordon, who came from my ancestral shtetl of Kupiskis, Lithuania. And that is how I came to find out about the Radovsky family! It is always amazing to make these kinds of matches.
An outstanding site for a private collection of postcards is that created by Stephanie Comfort to provide a home for her magnificent collection of 11,000 or more cards covering the period of 1898 to 1914. The site is located here, and includes a variety of ethnic Jewish cards and synagogues, many of which do not have specific names or dates. One for a synagogue in Lima, Peru, does not provide the name:
Another interesting photograph is that of a Jewish store featuring Singer Sewing Machines in Serbia:
The subject of Singer Sewing Machines was quite popular a topic as there was mass advertising regarding this product throughout Eastern Europe and beyond. Many times Jews were not only salesmen and trainers, but purchasers as well.
There were many, many cards from France of both places and people. Two of the postcards depicted "Juif Errant" or wandering Jews. They looked very much like threadbare peddlers or even beggers. The image was probably quite popular due to the ten volume book by that name published in 1844-1845 by Eugene Sue and the 1852 opera by that name written by Fromental Halevy which was performed by the Paris Opera.
Several postcards from the Ukraine were of interest including one from Czernowitz. The town of Czernowitz, the Austrian capital of the province of Bukovina, was a hotbed of Yiddish culture and language. It certainly provided a welcoming and nurturing place for the development of writers, actors and painters in great numbers.
It was there that the first Conference on the Yiddish Language was held on August 30, 1908 through September 3, 1908. In addition, it was there that Yiddish was declared the national language of the Jews. The Jewish National House was supposed to be the venue for the Conference, but, at the last minute, this was changed to other available sites.
Another postcard from the Ukraine depicts a Mud Bath in Pyatigorsk.
Of note is that Pyatigorsk is located in the Caucasus and was founded in 1780. It was one of the oldest spa resorts in Russia with curative sulphur springs and medicinal mud baths. Not only that, it is the birthplace of Joseph Trumpeldor (1880-1920), the founder of the Zion Mule Corps and early Zionist, whose father Wulf settled there after his service as a cantonist soldier.
A final postcard from this collection is one taken outside a shul in Vilnius, Lithuania, where the women are going in as well as congregating on the steps. There were over 250 synagogues in Vilnius at one time or another, but it appears that this synagogue is the Great Synagogue, built in 1663, which was bombed during World War II and then razed afterwards.
One can just see one of the women going into the shul who is dressed in modern attire with an umbrella and hat. Other women going in are dressed in a reasonably modern fashion, but still adhere to the kerchief on their head. The women on the steps appear terribly old and tired and are dressed in worn clothing with aprons and head scarves, perhaps indicating that they are probably poor and beggars.
Another large private collection is that of Frantisek Banyai
One of the special things about finding such photos is that miraculously sometimes one finds someone who is still alive and remembers those who are pictured in the postcard. In this case, one of the Holocaust survivors from Rokiskis recognized her own father Chona Samet (the third row, fifth from the right) and mother, as well as Sima Shmushkevich, the brother of the famous commander of the Russian Air Force, Yacov Shmuskevich, who was killed by Stalin (just below Chona Samet and leaning to the left). The person who is the seventh from the left is Chona's nephew Israel Samet and two boys in the second row are Yenoch Kur and Sleima Kagan.
There were a number of other people she remembered as well and this now helps others who are looking for members of their family from Rokiskis. This is why it is so important that these types of visual aides be made available online for identification.
From the town of Rivne, Ukraine, there is a postcard taken in 1933 of an ORT school group who are quite well-dressed and modern in appearance.
It was only eight years later, in 1941, that 28,000 of the Jewish residents of Rivne were liquidated by the Nazis. The people in the photo, so young and eager to start a new and exciting career for themselves; were gone forever, along with their hopes and dreams of a future. They are only to be remembered in postcards such as this one.
A further outstanding private collection is that of Willy Lindwer, who lives outside Amsterdam. His collection was gathered over twenty-five years and amounts to over 6,000 postcards of Jewish content from all over the world. It is not online, although he has published a book, "Classic Jewish Postcards for all Occasions", publisher: Schocken Books, NY, 1996, which contains information about his collection.
Another venue for locating postcards is a commercial postcard dealer. Many of these are now online and their wares can be seen in advance of sale. Of course, their wares change as they sell and get more items. Major sites such as E-bay and Amazon.com have postcards, but there are other smaller sites which are of interest too.
I have previously referred to Tomas Wisniewski and his Bagnowka site on this Blog
There are numerous commercial dealers, but several which I happened to view and found interesting are the following:
VintagePostcards.com – They have a remarkable selection on offer and many include Sephardic Jews from Tunisia, Morocco and Yemen. Quite a number of these were taken from photographs by German traveler and photographer Hermann Burchardt (1857-1909), who traveled in the Middle East and North Africa from 1893 to 1904. In 1911, his estate gave the Ethnology Museum in Berlin an unrivaled collection of approximately 2,000 negatives as well as glass and celluloid plates.
They also have a variety of synagogues from small places which would ordinarily be mainly unknown and from larger places where the synagogues may no longer exist such as the Park Synagogue in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was demolished in 1912.
Lotsofcards.com – They have a postcard from Czernowitz of the Jewish bank building on the Ringstrasse which was completed in 1899 and was built by "Developer and Master Builder Bochner" As the info on the site states, the Bochner family was one of the first documented Jewish families in Bukovina in which the town of Czernowitz is located. The street signage mentions Jacob Buchbinder, a Jewish banker.
Postcardman.net – This site has a few Sephardic-related postcards. One of which is from the town of Ouijda where a number of cards originated. The town was where many travelers came due to its position as the capital of eastern Morocco and the courts being located there.
Ouijda, Morocco
(Courtesy Postcardman.net)
This photo typified the focus on Oriental or exotic themes which permeated not only photography, but the written word and design as well at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Centuries. Fortunately, for the researcher, these images have endured into our era.
Oldpostcards.com – This site has a Judaica section which has many cards featuring individuals, synagogues and other items. One of interest is that of Polish Hebrew writer David Frischmann (1859-1922) who was born in Zgierz, Poland, which is north of Lodz.
Frischmann was a noted writer and publisher and was known for imposing standards on written Hebrew. He is one of many prominent Jewish leaders in various fields of endeavor who are documented through postcards on this site.
A final resource for Jewish postcards is books which have been written about various aspects of the cards or their production. One such is "Old Jewish Postcards from Marek Sosenko's collection: Dawna Pocztowka Zydowska" by Eugeniusz Duda and Marek Sosenko and published by the Museum of Cracow, Poland. Mr. Sosenko is a well-known Krakow antique dealer whose obsession with postcards is amply shown in this lovely book.
Another is "Past Perfect: The Jewish Experience In Early 20th Century Postcards" by the Jewish Theological Seminary. There are also articles in magazines and journals on the topic of postcards such as "Jewish Postcards" by Galit Hasan-Rokem in "Jewish Quarterly Review".
Many others abound and can be found by "Googling" the word "postcard" on the Internet.
It is clear that collectors of postcards can provide genealogists a vivid window into the world of their ancestors. Collecting has also produced a fascinating adjunct science to historical preservation and proven its mettle for those of us who find these small remnants so enticing and rewarding.


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Midwest Moonlight Scarves
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I don't know why I like this pattern so much but I keep coming back to it. If you haven't noticed, when I like a pattern, I knit it over and over until the amity wears out. Remember baby hoodies??
This is the baby tank dress that I started a few weeks ago. I've only made it up a few inches because I really wanted to finish those scarves. I'm not so keen on returning to it right now. It's weird – now that the baby is here, I no longer feel compelled to knit for her. Maybe because I went overboard and now worry that she'll never wear all the stuff I made. We'll see.
I also bought some Knit Picks Shine Worsted in Bachelor Button. It's a bit more purple than it appears n the photo. I have 7 skeins. I was going to make ANOTHER Midwest Moonlight scarf but that's kind of boring. The advantage is that it's also mindless, which is good since you can't do much with an infant. Any pattern suggestions? Scarf or otherwise.
In other news, I got my SP9 match yesterday and I'm really excited. My spoilee and I have similar interests and lots to talk about! I can't wait to get started. I hope to have more regular posts because I'm really missing daily knitting. I hope things calm down n the coming weeks. Everyone has told me that things get much easier at 12 weeks. Only 5 to go!


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The David Mahoney Neuroimaging Program: Investigators use physiological and structural, cellular and molecular imaging techniques to pilot-test novel clinical hypotheses on the brain or interactions between brain and immune cells. Requests for Proposals (RFPs) are sent annually to deans of U.S. Medical Schools and other invited biomedical research institutions.
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PHILADELPHIA — The mother of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl recovering from two double lung transplants says the girl will soon move out of intensive care.
Janet Murnaghan wrote on her Facebook page Tuesday that her daughter Sarah is being moved to a progressive care unit at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
The Newtown Square girl received the transplants after a federal judge intervened in her parents' lawsuit challenging national transplant rules.
Sarah's first set of adult lungs failed after a transplant June 12. A second set was transplanted three days later.
Janet Murnaghan did not return a call Thursday, and the family has not given the hospital permission to comment.


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Old Opportunity Mars rover makes rock discovery
Nasa's ageing Opportunity rover on Mars has just made what may be one of its most significant discoveries to date.
The nine-year-old robot has identified rock laden with what scientists believe to be clay minerals.
Their presence is an indication that the rock, dubbed Esperance, has been altered at some point in the past through prolonged contact with water.
Opportunity has seen a clay-bearing outcrop before but scientists say this is by far the best example to date.
"It's very rich," said Steve Squyres, the rover's principal investigator.
"We've been discovering evidence for water on Mars since we first landed back in 2004. What's different here?
"If you look at all of the water-related discoveries that have been made by Opportunity, the vast majority of them point to water that was a very low pH - it was acid.
"We run around talking about water on Mars. In fact, what Opportunity has mostly discovered, or found evidence for, was sulphuric acid.
"Clay minerals only tend to form at a more neutral pH. This is water you could drink. This is water that was much more favourable for things like pre-biotic chemistry - the kind of chemistry that could lead to the origin of life."
Prof Squyres, who is affiliated to Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, said he was inclined to put Esperance in his personal top five discoveries made on the Red Planet by Opportunity and her twin rover, Spirit, which stopped working in 2011.
The clays are aluminium-rich, possibly of the type montmorillonite. However, because Opportunity's X-ray spectrometer can only discern the atomic elements in a rock, and not their mineralogical arrangement, no-one can say for sure.
Nonetheless, the mere occurrence of clays is further proof that Mars was much warmer and wetter billions of years ago; a very different place to the cold, desiccated world it has become.
And these results complement nicely those of Nasa's newer rover Curiosity, which has also identified clays at its landing site almost half-way around the planet's equator.
The old robot made its find at a location called Cape York, which is sited on the rim of a 22km-wide crater known as Endeavour.
Mission managers have now commanded it to start moving along the ridge to a destination dubbed Solander Point.
There is an expectation that Opportunity will find a deeper stack of rocks at the new location to follow up the Esperance water story.
"Maybe [we can] try to reconstruct the actual depositional environment of these materials and whether they were lacustrine - that is, formed by a lake - or fluvial (river) or an alluvial fan (network of streams), or whatever," said deputy principal investigator Ray Arvidson, of Washington University, St Louis.
'Daily gift'
Opportunity is now operating well beyond its expected lifetime.
When it landed at Eagle Crater in January 2004, Nasa hoped to get at least 90 working Martian days (sols) from the machine. Remarkably, it continues to roll beyond 3,300 sols.
It has an "arthritic" robotic arm, its solar panels are losing efficiency, and it drives backwards to save wear on its locomotion system.
It is also now having to contend with glitchy flash memory. But the US space agency is determined to keep pushing the vehicle for as long as possible.
"Remember, the rover continues in a very hostile environment on Mars," said John Callas, Nasa's Opportunity project manager.
"The rover could have a catastrophic failure at any moment. So, each day is a gift."
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Qara-Xuan Zenith wrote:
Having just re-read Treasure Island, I don't quite buy it.
Above all else, Silver is a Manipulative Bastard who will double-cross ANYONE if it means a better deal for himself.
So I've taken a new tack with him. ...not quite sure what I'll suggest if he takes my bait, of course, but the ideas are forming. And if nothing else, I know where I can find a better Manipulative Bastard to throw at him. (not literally. that would be weird.)
Qara-Xuan Zenith wrote:Jim was NOT Silver's Morality Pet, and he even had an Epiphany Moment in the book where he realized that-- he realized that Silver was just very skilled at making a number of people THINK that various different people were his Morality Pets. Jim was well aware that Silver would have killed him in a heartbeat if it would have spelled greater profit that way.
And all of Silver's answers about Gulliver just point to the idea that he's playing us, and playing Gulliver. So maybe we should even the playing field a little, and play HIM. If we let him believe that there's more profit for him in leaving Gulliver to us (hey, it's even TRUE-- we could give him infinitely great profit in his refic, but only if he works with us), then he'll do so. (Of course, if the Cabal make him think there's more profit in selling us out, he'll also do so, and he'll probably make a deal with both us and them at the same time, keeping himself in a position where he could sell out any of us, the Cabal, and Gulliver at any moment. So we need to make sure that we're not the ones he's ultimately able to sell out.)
Victin wrote:So we must make a Gambit Pileup?
Qara-Xuan Zenith wrote:I'm getting on this, guys. Maybe if I can make Silver a... better offer, he'll let us get on with it.
Dryunya wrote:Qara-Xuan Zenith wrote:I'm getting on this, guys. Maybe if I can make Silver a... better offer, he'll let us get on with it.
It works! Nice move, Qara!
Also, thanks for the confirmation, Mr. A. I'll overlook the fact that I asked this question ages ago. г_г
Mister A wrote:@GlyphSun CONTACT US AGAIN WHEN IT IS RELEVANT TO A PARTICULAR SET OF CHARACTERS AND WE WILL REVEAL THE STATE OF OUR RESEARCH.
Scarab wrote:asked Mister A what the state of the research on reficcing characters together (as in crossovers) was. he said this.Mister A wrote:@GlyphSun CONTACT US AGAIN WHEN IT IS RELEVANT TO A PARTICULAR SET OF CHARACTERS AND WE WILL REVEAL THE STATE OF OUR RESEARCH.
So then... do we need to ask about Gulliver and Silver?
Qara-Xuan Zenith wrote:So it looks like they're headed off somewhere new.
I'm guessing North America, for meta reasons-- that's where all the other fictionals are, not to mention a higher concentration of Metaguards, which means any new echoes will presumably be more easily retrieved than the Portsmouth one.
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There are a number of whiskey sites and blogs that I frequent on a consistent basis. Two that I enjoy are Steve Ury's (he goes by Sku) Recent Eats and Tim Read's Scotch & Ice Cream. Both of these guys are entertaining writers and good people to boot. If you are a whiskey geek you will be right at home at their sites. If you are a novice or interested in learning more about whiskey – there's no shortage of knowledge either. Check them out on a regular basis, but particularly today, for reason's I am about to explain.
With the ass kissing out of the way, let me give some background on how this review came about…….
A few weeks ago Sku posted a piece on Whiskey Collectors. He went so far as to categorize the various types of collectors with a "which of these categories fits you best" field guid. While almost dead on, I noticed I didn't fit into any of Sku's categories. I sent at Tweet informing him of the same, and he responded (jokingly) that he forgot the "Blogger that spends too much money on whiskey to blog about it" category. Sku can sympathize with this behavior as well. He recounted a recent moment of weakness where he almost bought a bottle of Rebel Yell just to write a post, before finally thinking better of it ("what was I going to do with the rest of it?!?!").
I thought we were moving on, but Tim (who had seen these Tweets go back and forth) seized the opportunity to propose a simultaneous review of Rebel Yell on each of our sites. The only stipulation was no Billy Idol references, which was harder than I thought it would be. Rebel Yell was also a fitting suggestion since I had intended to review more entry level and lower price point whiskeys over the months of February and March. What a way to get started.
I invite you to take a look at my review below, then please go check out Sku's and Tim's websites for their thoughts. If it turns out they don't agree with me, just remember they are wrong. Cheers!
Rebel Yell Bourbon, 40% abv (80 Proof), $13
Background: Rebel Yell is actually a pretty storied name from the standpoint that it was one Stitzel-Weller Distillery's (S-W) primary brands (along with Old Fitzgerald, Cabin Still, and W.L. Weller). For more background on S-W, check out this post. After the S-W closed in the early nineties, these brands were all sold off to other distilleries and independent bottlers. Today, Rebel Yell is distilled, aged, and bottled by Heaven Hill (their Bernheim Distillery) for Luxco, a spirits company that owns Ezra Brooks Bourbon and a few other liquor and spirit brands. It's a similar wheated recipe bourbon that was made popular by Stitzel-Weller.
Color: Medium Gold, like over-oaked chardonnay
Nose: Heavy sweet corn, corn oil, vanilla, and honey are the predominant notes. Candied orange, hints of dry corn husk and light hickory are also faint but present. NOTE: A healthy splash of water and time actually improves the nose a great deal, bringing out a whole lot more fruit (ripe pear and soft golden delicious apple) and lessening the crude corn assault.
Palate: Think corn whiskey rounded by the wheat. No surprise the sweet corn and vanilla are still the major flavors. Some sweeter, golden dried fruits (golden raisin, apple, and apricots) do their best (unsuccessfully) to lift the insipid whiskey. The influence of the wood is negligible, except for a light dryness/toastiness and bitterness most of the way through the sip.
Finish: 3-2-1……done. The faint flavors of ripe orchard fruits, sweet corn, and a kiss of honey are all that's left. Some soapiness also.
Overall: What struck out to me the whole time I nosed and sipped this whiskey is the irony in the name. "Yankee Whisper" would be much more appropriate since there is little character or shape to this whiskey. Actually I take that back – I like yankees and mean no disrespect, but this whiskey is anything but a yell. It's also lacking so much in the flavor department that it makes it hard to even call it "bad". One thing is for sure – it's just not worth your time in the least. The price point is low, but at half the price it still wouldn't be worth it. There are so many other whiskeys (around this price) that offer more flavor, more character, and more value: Very Old Barton (80, 90, and 100 Bottled In Bond), George Dickel No. 8, Evan Williams Black Label, and Old Grand-Dad to name a few.
Sour Mash Manifesto Rating: 6.8 (Decent – Palatable only)
Thanks to Sku and Tim for the suggestion. Drink your Bourbon!


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Hour long documentary produced by Prairie Public Television, Fargo, North Dakota, Copyright 2008.
The prairie is dotted with unique and picturesque churches, many of which are in danger of being lost forever. Prairie Public's hour-long documentary, Prairie Churches, preserves images of this priceless heritage.
Often the first community structure to be built, these spiritual landmarks represent the hopes and dreams of settlers who sought to forge a new future for themselves and their children. Prairie Churches provides a fascinating, emotional, and informative look into these monuments of faith, exploring the role churches have in sustaining the history and culture of the vanishing rural landscape. The program, produced in high definition throughout the four seasons in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, North Dakota, and Minnesota, takes a breathtaking visual tour of 117 outstanding churches scattered across the prairies.
Bonus Feature:
Count Berthold Imhoff, Artist provides a fascinating look at the aristocratic artist who devoted his life to painting the churches of fellow immigrants throughout Saskatchewan and the Dakotas. This biography of the idealistic artist is adorned with images from 18 churches where many of his masterpieces survive intact today.
Kim Stenehjem
Bob Dambach
Dave Geck
Closed Captioning:
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Music Performances:
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Samantha Geck
Joel Rosenberger
Members of the Bismarck Mandan Civic Chorus
Cover Design:
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Production funding for Prairie Churches provided by the North Dakota Council on the Arts, J.M. Kaplan Fund, North Dakota Humanities Council, the Winnipeg Foundation, and by the members of Prairie Public.
Churches featured from Germans from Russia
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Riding in Nepal on a trail at four thousand meters (13,000 ft) elevation and looking over at a mountain that is eight thousand meters (26,000 ft) tall is a surreal experience. The fact that the trail below your bike has never seen tires on it makes it even more surreal. Anthill Films traveled to Nepal in the fall of 2011 to shoot a segment for Strength in Numbers – premiering April 2012. We went to Nepal with Rene Wildhaber and Andrew Shandro to tell the story of Nepal's young and growing mountain bike culture.
Most people have heard of Nepal. It is well known as the home to many of the tallest mountains in the world and its bustling capital city Kathmandu. Many have heard tales brought home from trekkers suggesting supposedly abundant forests of wild marijuana found growing all over the Nepalese hillsides. Unless you have been to this isolated nation, it is hard to separate fact from fiction. A trip to Nepal is an adventure of constant discovery – from the vast spread in climate from region to region, to the rules of the road when driving. As Mads Mathiasen a Danish expatriate who has lived in Nepal for 17 years and operates Kathmandu-based Unique Trails says, "Very few people realize how big a contrast there is in Nepal. From seventy meters above sea level, the lowest place in Nepal to 8850 meters the top of the world in Everest. You have every climate zone imaginable from sub-tropical to fully arctic. They think the Himalayas and they think cold."
There is a lot of trail to be explored in Nepal. It is a country with few roads and where walking is the primary form of transportation for the majority of the population. Trails connect the people. From the urban jungle of Kathmandu on up to the remote villages surrounding the peaks of the Himalaya. Kathmandu. Hetauda. Pokhara. Jomsom. Kagbeni. The Upper Mustang. These are places to experience. They will be forever locked in your mind, easily revisited in an instant with the slight stimulus of a photo or story from a fellow traveler.
Like the trails we experienced in Nepal, Strength In Numbers is about the threads that tie different communities of mountain bikers together. The bike is a tool of connections. Tire to ground. Foot to pedal. Hand to handlebar. Effort put out, in turn rewarded with full body happiness. Go to Nepal, meet the people and find singletrack that has never seen a mountain bike. It is the place to do it.
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Look forward to a feature story on Nepal coming in the May issue of Bike magazine.
Our trip was made possible by Ride Nepal , with assistance from Big Mountain Adventures.
Strength in Numbers is produced, written, directed and edited by Anthill Films in co-production with Red Bull Media House. Presented by Shimano and Trek in association with Contour HD, Clif Bar, Pinkbike.com and PRO Components. Additional support for the film is provided by the Whistler Mountain Bike Park, Kona, Toyota Trucks, Scion, Oakley, Easton, Evoc, Big Mountain Adventures, Verbier St. Bernard and Ride Nepal.


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i like the "nah" in the chorus and the tempo change makes him sound raw af tho, it already sounds raw in the original but yeah
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The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
Nothing can replace sleep but coffee can do it best.I love coffee.
I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.
Tante piccole gocce insieme possono creare un ruscello.
Personalmente, il Processo Organico Creativo mi ha aiutato a scoprire che tipo di attore desidero essere; ma questo è un processo che va oltre la recitazione, poiché mi ha messo nella condizione di capire quello che voglio fare della mia vita e di impegnarmi per concretizzarlo.
For me personally, The Organic Creative Process helped me to discover what kind of actor I want to be; but this is a process that goes beyond acting. It actually revealed to me what I want to do in my life and that I have to work hard to make it real.
The sound of the human voice is the best of nature but only if it comes out from the feelings.
Sometimes I wonder if it does exist such a thing called personality.
Follow your body because most of the time it knows where to go.
We know how we were born, but know not how we will die.
I would rather remember even if sometimes it can be very painful.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
You win the victory when you yield to your friends.
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.