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stfnfhrmnn wrote:Feature request:
When I drag images into the group browser, then start detection on a group, I would like the default folder of the resulting project to be that of the images. It always defaults to the Desktop (on windows), but this is never where I want it. When I then save the project for the first time, I always have to slowly navigate to the folder that I just had open anyway. Very tedious.
stfnfhrmnn wrote:Thanks for your reply, that's quite helpful, much faster than before as I only have to enter %i now. It would still be good if I good set %i as a default for every group though. As soon as I add another group or close/reopen APG, I have to manually enter %i for every new group.
Now, having said that, I did investigate a bit more while writing this reply. It turns out, if you manually change a registry setting, you can do just that. In this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Kolor\Autopano Giga 3.0\pano
there is a value 'project_folderTpl' which you can just change to %i. Restart APG and it should default to %i every time now.
foundation wrote:A couple things, you have to restart after changing the global parameter,
and already created groups/panos save the settings from when they were created, not the current setting
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Grains finished the day lower along with sharply lower outside markets. December corn closed 15 ½ cents lower at $6.93, November soybeans 20 ¾ cents lower at $15.05 ¾, and December wheat 25 ¼ cents lower at $8.21 ¾. Despite the lower daily closes we still finished with strong gains on the weekly charts. December corn finished the week 58 ¼ cents higher, November soybeans up 78 cents, and December wheat up 45 cents.
Weekly December Corn
Weekly November Soybeans
Weekly December Wheat
This morning's weekly export sales were all in line with expectations and weren't a market mover. Informa released their production estimates dropping their national corn yield estimate to 153.5 and soybean yield to 42.0. Informa's estimates didn't seem to spark a reaction out of the market either way. Grains had already started their double digit losses. The weakness in grains was attributed to pre-weekend profit taking as well as extremely weak outside markets. The stock market fell sharply today after the jobs data came in disappointing and crude oil fell by over $3 a barrel. In 2008, the agricultural bull market was ultimately over after the economy started to slow. We have to be mindful of similar responses to the fiscal problems the economy is facing right now.
Weather is still the most important fundamental to watch for direction. We have now had three weeks of sharp gains in grain futures all based on weather and declining crop conditions. We are expected to have a few more days of hot and dry conditions before we see relief in parts of the Midwest Sunday – Monday. The latest midday forecast has added more rains to the driest parts of the Southern Midwest. As of right now our forecasters are still not expecting the rain to be enough to replenish soil moisture levels and crop stress is expected to continue in many areas of the Midwest.
Sunday night forecast changes have been major market movers resulting in large rallies for corn and soybeans. The market will surely be watching any changes to the forecast over the weekend. Monday we will have crop conditions in the afternoon as well as the CFTC's Commitment of Traders report which was delayed due to the holiday week.
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2011 (Senior):
Team captain ... Named an ACWPC and CWPA "Excellent" Scholar-Athlete ... Led the team in assists (25) and was tied for second in steals (28) ... Netted 25 scores ... Named to the CWPA Northern Division Player of the Week Honor Roll Oct. 31 and Nov. 7 ... Scored two goals and had four steals in season opening win over MIT Sept. 3 ... Helped the Crimson to a 16-7 win over Connecticut College Oct. 15 with two goals and three steals ... Netted a hat trick in 10-9 win over Mercyhurst Oct. 16 ... Tallied five goals, three assists and four steals over three games to help secure third place at the Ivy Championship Oct. 29-30 ... Totaled five goals, six assists and three steals to help the Crimson place fourth at the CWPA Northern Championship ... Scored four goals during the CWPA Eastern Championship to help the Crimson finish seventh.
2010 (Junior):
Team captain ... Finished the season fourth on the team in goals (34), second in assists (24) and tied for second in steals with 32. ... Tallied one score and grabbed three steals in the MIT Invitational against Cal Lutheran Sept. 5 ... Had a goal, assist and steal in the Princeton Invitiational versus Cal Baptist Sept. 11 ... Notched two goals, one helper and a takeaway at Princeton in the Princeton Invitational Sept. 11 ... Found the back of the net twice and dished an assist versus George Washington in the Princeton Inivtational Sept. 12 ... Contributed one goal, one assist and one steal against MIT in the ECAC Championship Sept. 17 ... Put in a goal, dished two helpers and grabbed three takeaways versus Washington & Jefferson in the ECAC Championship Sept. 19 ... Notched a score and four steals against MIT Oct. 2 ... Led the team with four goals and added two assists versus Occidental in the Claremont Convergence Tournament Oct. 8 ... Tallied two scores, had three helpers and grabbed one steal against Caltech in the Claremont Convergence Tournament Oct. 9 ... Scored a season-high five times and added one assist and one steal against Queens (N.Y.) Oct. 16 ... Contributed two goals and four steals at Connecticut College Oct. 17 ... Led the team with four goals and also dished two assists and grabbed a steal against Connecticut College in the CWPA Northern Division Championship Nov. 6.
2009 (Sophomore):
Netted 16 goals ... Scored against No. 13 Pacific at MIT Invitational (Sept. 5) ... Tallied a goal in win over George Washington at Princeton Invitational (Sept. 12) ... Had a goal against Fordham at Princeton Invitational (Sept. 13) ... Scored in win over MIT (Sept. 16) ... Tallied two goals against Fordham at ECAC Championships (Sept. 19) ... Scored once in victory against Connecticut College at ECAC Championships (Sept. 20) ... Netted two goals against Brown (Oct. 10) ... Notched two goals against Fordham (Oct. 17) ... Tallied two goals against St. Francis (N.Y) (Oct. 18) ... Scored once against MIT and notched a goal in win over Connecticut College at Northern Division Championships (Nov. 7) ... Had a goal in victory against Queens (N.Y.) at Northerns (Nov. 8).
2008 (Freshman):
Tabbed Harvard's Rookie of the Year ... Tallied two goals in victory over Washington & Jefferson at Cambridge Invitational (Sept. 13) ... Assisted on four scores in win at MIT (Sept. 18) ... Scored against Brown during ECAC Championships (Sept. 21) ... Had a goal against Brown (Oct. 1) ... Scored at Fordham (Oct. 12) ... Had goals in back-to-back games against Queens (Oct. 18) and No. 14 St. Francis (Oct. 19) ... Scored win in at Connecticut College (Oct. 23) ... Had two goals against Connecticut College and one vs. MIT at Northern Division Championships (Nov. 8).
High School:
Lettered in water polo as a driver at 10th Belgrade Grammar School ... Played in the Serbian Water Polo League ... Captained the Partizan Water Polo Club ... Team won the Serbian Open Age Group U-18 Championship in 2007 ... Captured the U-16 titles at the Serbia and Montenegro National Age Group Championship, the Belgrade Trophy International Tournament and the BEOVAL Belgrade Water Polo League championship in 2005 ... Won the Yugoslav National Cup U-14 title in 2002 and the Yugoslav National Age Group Cup U-12 championship in 2001 ... Volunteered at the National Association of Childhood Cancer Parent Organization of Serbia from 2006-2008 ... Interests include music and guitar playing.


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A Few Fast Facts about Managed Funds in Australia
For the trivia buffs among you, here are some intriguing facts about managed funds in Australia — the biggest, smallest, oldest, cheapest, most expensive, and the best and worst performing.
Size of the industry: The fund management industry in Australia looks after more than A$1.335 trillion in local assets (as at 31 December 2009). When you include money brought in from overseas and managed in Australia the amount goes up to $1.7 trillion. The industry is made up of more than 11,000 managed funds, with 131 registered fund managers operating. The top 30 fund managers control 86 per cent of funds under management. Compared with the rest of the world, Australia is ranked fourth by amount of money managed, after the USA (A$11.2 trillion), Luxembourg (A$2.3 trillion) and France (A$1.8 trillion).
Amount of funds under management: In 1992, the Australian government introduced a mandatory retirement income system through employer-sponsored superannuation. Since then, according to government figures, the funds under management (FUM) in the investment industry have grown by a compound annual rate of 11.9 per cent. In fact, FUM has doubled since 2003. In May 2010, the government announced an increase in the compulsory superannuation rate from 9 per cent to 12 per cent of each employee's salary by 2020, no doubt adding further growth to the industry.
The first: The first investment in Australia calling itself a unit trust was, fittingly, the First Australian Unit Trust, set up in 1936 by Hugh Walton. However, the first investment company (not unit trust) was founded by JB Were & Son in 1928. Walton's fund followed closely behind similar unit trusts that had begun to emerge out of post-Great Depression Britain in the early 1930s. The trust forecast an annual return of 10 per cent and charged a 7.5 per cent entry fee, which makes today's typical 4 per cent look quite reasonable. The fund had a fixed 15-year term and, upon winding up in 1951, had generated 7.7 per cent per annum returns.
The oldest: The oldest fund still available to the Australian public is the Schroders Australian Equities Fund, set up in 1964 with more than A$1.1 billion in assets as at 31 May 2010. Schroders reckons that, since it began, the fund has returned 13.6 per cent per annum before fees. The second-oldest fund is the Perpetual Monthly Income Fund, which was established in August 1966, followed by the EQT Mortgage Income Fund, launched in 1971.
The largest: Platinum Asset Management and various cash management trusts dominate the top of the list for size. Up until mid-2010, Macquarie Group's cash management trust (CMT) was the largest managed investment scheme in Australia and, at its peak just before the global financial crisis, had close to A$19 billion in assets. In 2010, Macquarie converted the CMT to an ordinary bank account. Platinum's International Fund is the largest, with A$9.1 billion in holdings at 31 May 2010, followed by ANZ's cash fund V2, with A$6.2 billion, the National Australia Bank's Cash Manager, with A$3.6 billion, and the Platinum Asia Fund, with A$3.5 billion.
The smallest: A few funds operate with only A$10,000 in holdings. According to Morningstar, 87 per cent of managed funds have less than A$100 million in funds under management and, amazingly, 52 per cent of managed funds have less than A$5 million.
The cheapest: Funds that track a market index such as the S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation Index have some of the cheapest management fees around. The Macquarie True Index Share Fund charges no fees, according to Macquarie. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) — similar to index funds but listed on the stock exchange — typically have fees ranging from around 0.2 per cent per annum up to 0.9 per cent per annum, depending on the market index being tracked.
The most expensive: Some managed funds charge both annual management fees and performance fees if they do well. Combining the two sets of fees, the most expensive retail fund in Australia is the Aspen Diversified Property Fund, with an annual cost of 4.54 per cent per annum and returns of an astonishing loss of 88 per cent over the 12 months to 31 May 2010. Funds that borrow money to invest, called geared funds, also make the expensive list, with many having annual costs running over 4 per cent.
The best performers: The three top-performing funds available to the general public in Australia over the seven years to May 2010 are specialist funds. The ING One Answer ING Small Companies Growth Fund returned 25.84 per cent per annum, the ING One Answer ING Resource Opportunities Fund returned 21.28 per cent per annum and the BT Classic Investment Natural Resources Fund returned 19.87 per cent.
The wooden spooners: The funds that have performed the worst in Australia over the five years to 31 May 2010 are all property funds. The worst performer was the Australian Unity Property Securities Growth Fund with minus 25.66 per cent return per annum. The Real Estate Capital Partners Enhanced Income Fund lost 12.41 per cent per annum and the EQT SGH Property Income Fund lost 5.78 per cent per annum


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Tulo-CarGo duo off to blazing start
MILWAUKEE -- Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki loves the smell of fear.
He expects to get that sense when games are close and opponents have to deal with Carlos Gonzalez batting third and himself in the cleanup spot. Each of the Rockies' standouts homered in each of the first two games of the season.
"It's just a good feeling when you know that you feel dangerous," Tulowitzki said. "You feel like the other team knows when you're coming up. They have to plan their pitching around it.
"I know when a lefty's getting up, 'CarGo' is there, but then I'm over there knowing I might get a chance to face a lefty unless they bring the righty in. You see the whole game change a little bit when we're both swinging the bat well and hitting three and four."
Gonzalez is just happy he doesn't have to do his damage without Tulowitzki. Last year, Tulowitzki played in just 47 games due to a left groin injury.
"He's one of the best players in the game," Gonzalez said. "Having him healthy, any team would like to have him in the lineup. We all feel pretty good when he's in the lineup because he can do a lot of things on the baseball field. He can win games by himself, offensively and defensively, too."
Most experts expect the Rockies, with questionable starting pitching, to finish in the lower part of the National League West. Manager Walt Weiss isn't giving in to those expectations, partly because of the heart of his batting order.
"Seeing 'CarGo' and 'Tulo' in the 3-4 holes is nice," Weiss said. "We've got to have those guys if we're going to make a push at this thing."


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Obamacare finally clears the tower
The Obamacare rollout is changing in front of our eyes — turning from a running joke into one big shoulder shrug.
And that's good news for the White House, because at this point, even basic competence is good news.
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That's the lesson of the new enrollment numbers the administration released Monday, which showed that more than 3 million people signed up for private health coverage under President Barack Obama's health care law by the end of January. It's behind the original expectations, but way ahead of the disaster scenarios that had looked possible during the worst months of the troubled rollout last fall.
( WATCH: Obama: Employer-based health insurance system not going anywhere)
There are still reasons to be skeptical of the numbers, and health care experts warn that the administration still has a lot of work to do by the end of March — when enrollment ends for this year — to get the right mix of customers so there are enough healthy people to pay for the sicker ones.
But the new report is good enough that it might reset Washington's expectations: maybe Obamacare isn't going to be a train wreck after all. Maybe it'll be more like one of those Metro trains that runs kind of slowly, and sometimes stops in the middle of the tracks for no apparent reason, but eventually gets you where you need to go.
Here are the top takeaways from the new numbers:
The meltdown has been avoided
Back in October, it looked like Obamacare enrollment could end up as a total bust. Just 106,000 people had signed up, and it looked like a stretch to get even a few million by the end of March.
( 20 quotes: More Obamacare, less work)
Now, the disaster scenario is already off the table. By the end of January, 3.3 million Americans had selected a private health insurance plan. That's a 1.1 million increase over the December figures, and it shows that people were still signing up at a pretty fast pace, even though December was supposed to be one of the peak months as everyone rushed to sign up for January coverage.
The enrollment is now "large enough for the market to function," said Jonathan Gruber, the MIT health economist who consulted on Obamacare and the Massachusetts health reform law that preceded it. The first test the health care law had to pass was to get enough customers to avoid financial instability, he said, and "we're already past that."
And for once, HealthCare.gov — the federal enrollment website that had the bungled launch — actually did better than the state-run websites. The federal website, which serves 36 states, had a 62 percent increase in signups in January. The state websites, in 14 states and the District of Columbia, only upped their numbers by 42 percent.
"The federal marketplace finally seems to be getting its sea legs," said Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Jon Kingsdale, a consultant who ran the Massachusetts health insurance exchange that became the model for Obamacare, called the new numbers "very encouraging," because it means enrollment didn't slow down in January as many analysts had expected. It's also a sign that enrollment could stay strong in February and then surge in March as enrollment ends, he said.
Of course, everything is about expectations — which are lower now than they were before the sputtering launch in October.
( Also on POLITICO: The Web's cacophony of anti-ACA sentiment)
Are the numbers actually good? "It essentially depends whether you're going to give them a pass on the first six weeks" when the federal website was essentially broken, said Gruber. "If you start the enrollment season in mid-November, than I think it's outstanding. If you start it in October, it still looks a little behind."
And for Obamacare critics, they're not good enough to make up for the disasters of the early months.
"That's why you talk about how you launched the beautiful new ocean liner, and then it hit the rocks, and then suddenly you're talking about how great it is that you got everyone off the ship before it went down," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum. "You have a different set of expectations when it's a rescue operation."
They won't hit 7 million — but 6 million is doable
No, the Obama administration is not on track to hit its original enrollment goal: 7 million people in the health insurance exchanges in the first year, based on the Congressional Budget Office projections of how many they'd get.
But based on the new numbers, 6 million isn't out of the question, independent analysts say. That's what CBO estimated in its newest projections, released last week, after it factored in all the website problems during the troubled launch.
"Enrollment appears on-track to reach roughly 6 million by the end of March," said Caroline Pearson, vice president at the Avalere Health consulting firm.
( Also on POLITICO: ACA enrollment: Mayors hold the key)
Levitt said the Obama administration "could very easily reach or exceed" 6 million — but it depends how much outreach it's able to do in the last two months of enrollment, he said, as well as how much insurers are willing to spend on advertising to attract as many customers as they can get.
Two important points the new numbers don't tell us, though: How many of these customers were uninsured before, and how many are just replacing health insurance policies that were canceled because of, well, Obamacare.
On a conference call with reporters, Obama administration officials said they don't have that information. But not to worry, they said — they're focused on getting as many people to sign up as they possibly can.


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The heart is often used as a symbol of vitality for good reasons. The heart pushes blood and oxygen to every cell in the body to be used as fuel and carries waste away. Without this process, the body cannot function. The heart plays a role in many aspects of your health and wellness.
Efficiency Matters
The heart beats an average of 60-80 beats per minute, which can add up to millions of beats in just one month. When something works this hard, it is important that it also works efficiently. Well-conditioned athletes can have resting heart rates below 50 beats/minute. Even though their heart beats slower, it can do the same amount of work or more than a heart that beats 60-80 beats/minute. An athlete's heart pumps stronger during each beat, needing fewer beats to get the job done. Over a lifetime, a difference of 10-30 beats/minute can add up to quite a few beats.
Fortunately, you do not need to be an elite athlete to have a strong, healthy heart. Adding any physical activity to most days can be your connection to better heart health. Physical activity can be as simple as going for a walk.
Being active can help your heart and ward off many health problems. The US Department of Health and Human Services recommends at least 150 minutes per week of moderate activity or 75 minutes a week of vigorous activity.
Our bodies are, after all, designed to be active. In fact, inactivity can lead to problems. Your bone and joints are more susceptible to damage and breaks, and you increase your risk for heart disease.
An Ounce of Prevention…
The heart can be affected by physical and mental stressors. You can feel your heart speed up when you sprint across a busy road or when you have a burst of emotion like anger or surprise.
Physical activity can decrease the effect of stress on the heart and body. A fit body and mind will help improve heart health. Regular physical activity can:
- Improve physical abilities by:
- Improving the heart's ability to pump blood
- Increasing energy levels
- Increasing muscle strength and endurance
- Improving agility
- Change physical appearance by:
- Toning your muscles which gives you a tighter appearance
- Burning calories which helps with weight loss or maintenance
- Improve overall wellness by:
- Helping with stress management
- Improving self-image
- Helping to decrease anxiety and depression
- Improving relaxation
- Improving the ability to sleep
- Creating a social activity opportunity
- Promoting healthier cholesterol levels
If you have heart problems, physical activity can still play an important role. A strong and healthy body can help you manage your condition. Physical activity can help reduce the stress on a sick or weak heart and decrease secondary risks like obesity and diabetes. If you do have heart health issues, talk to your doctor before starting an exercise program.
Even if you are healthy, but have not exercised in a long time, you may need to talk to your doctor to make sure that you are in good physical condition to exercise.
Where to Start
For most people, you can begin right away. Find an activity program that you enjoy. Do not pick an activity that does not fit into your schedule, does not fit in with your personal preferences, or has too many obstacles, because you may lose interest quickly. A program that starts with too much intensity is also likely to lose your interest.
Work towards reaching these basic goals:
- 30-60 minutes of physical activity on most days of the week (total of at least 150 minutes/week)
- Include some strength activities at least 2 times/week
Make It Stick
Long-term regular physical activity will count more than a brief and spectacular burst of activity. Most people do not plan to become sedentary. It creeps up on you. Work to increase your physical activity the same way. Gradually add steps. Find activities you enjoy that can replace more sedentary activities.
Here are more tips that have been shown to be useful:
- Find an exercise partner. You are less likely to skip the activity if someone is waiting for you.
- Write it down or use a fitness tracker. Keep a log of your activities and how much you accomplished either by distance or time. It will help keep you honest.
- A long-term goal is fine, but also make short-term goals, because they provide quicker feedback.
- This is important, make it a priority. Plan it out. Find a time in your daily routine when you can regularly fit the activity in.
- Consider doing your activity in 10-minute spurts throughout the day. Spurts can be as effective as being active for 30 minutes straight.
- Be flexible. Life happens and you may find that you need to make adjustments to your routine. A rigid schedule and goal may not be worth the stress. Keep an open mind to new activities and schedules.
Make It Count
Any physical activity is better than none. But at least a few days per week you should aim for more than a leisurely stroll. A moderate intensity level is best to help you make health changes. Moderate intensity activity is enough to get your heart rate up and make you feel a little out of breath but not feel worn out when you are done.
Do not forget to enjoy your activity for the daily benefits it can bring and know that your heart appreciates it as well!
- Reviewer: Michael Woods, MD
- Review Date: 07/2016 -
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OCEAN CITY- The Ocean City Marlin Club successfully defended its Challenge Cup title last weekend, defeating the Cape May Marlin and Tuna Club to retain the cup for the second straight year.
According to tournament rules, the top six boats from each team are included in the final point tally. Fourteen Ocean City Marlin Club boats participated while 19 participated for Cape May.
Ocean City led the way with nine white marlin releases and two blue marlin releases for 975 points, while the Cape May team caught and released four white marlin and two blue marlin for 600 points. Ocean City's top boat, the "Billfisher," led the way with five white marlin releases.
The Challenge Cup officially began in 1979 as a formal competition between the friendly rival fishing clubs, which meet in the canyons off the coast of resort every year at this time to battle for the coveted trophy. The competition began nearly 30 years ago with an informal banter on the offshore airwaves as both clubs often cross paths in the same fishing hotspots off the coast.
In 1979, Ocean City's Charlie Kratz and Cape May's Scott Smith somewhat formalized the competition by making up a set of rules, and the tournament eventually evolved to what it is today. The tournament used to alternate between the two sites each year, but several years ago, the Cape May club decided to come to Ocean City each year, largely because it prefers Ocean City's nightlife and other amenities to that of the sleepy New Jersey town.
The Ocean City Marlin Club won the tournament for the second year in a row last weekend, knotting the series at 12 wins each. Any time either team wins three years in a row, the cup is retired and the losing team has to purchase a new Challenge Cup. The cup has been retired five times over the years as each club has gone on mini-runs.
For example, Cape May won the first two tournaments in 1979 and 1980, and Ocean City won the next two in 1981 and 1982. Cape May won three straight from 1983 to 1986 and the cup was retired. Ocean City responded by winning the next three, from 1987 to 1989 and the cup was retired again. Cape May won three more in a row from 1990 to 1992, forcing another retirement.
The longest streak in the series ran from 1995 to 2002, when Ocean City won five times in a row. After the first three, the cup was retired and Ocean City won two more. Cape May retired a cup with a three-year streak from 2003 to 2005, and Ocean City has won the last two.
Because of offshore conditions, the Challenge Cup was basically reduced to a one-day tournament with Friday the only fishing day.


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Welcome to this week's Sunday Survival Buzz – a roundup of preparedness news, tips, articles and recommendations from around the web. But first, an update on my own preps.
Sometimes I take my own advice and take a break from prepping. This was one of those weeks. I had a lot of writing to do – both for my weekly piece on the San Juan Islander as well as my monthly article for the Absolute Rights Newsletter, so I let most everything else go. And every once in awhile, you should too!
The one thing I did do – you just knew I could not be a 100% slacker – is mix up some additional test concoctions for DIY cleaning products. After reading some of those really bad DIY cleaning e-books on Amazon (sorry, but I am glad they were free or I would have demanded a refund), I just know that I need to compile all of my recipes and post them here for you. Again, for free.
Okay, enough about me. Let's get on to the Sunday Survival Buzz.
Survival News & Articles from Around the Web
Before I start, I should mention that I do get a bit frustrated in that by the time Sunday rolls around, many of the articles that I have found are either old news or already plastered all over the internet on other prepping and survival sites. For that reason, I seek out articles that may have a different twist, may have to do with consumer issues, or that simply represent darn good information.
Okay, enough about that. There are a lot of worthwhile articles this week so here we do.
Diabetic Survival in a SHTF Scenario: This is something I do not see addressed too often online. The article starts with "Type 1 diabetics don't have to count themselves dead when the SHTF if they follow a few prepping tips" and goes on from there. So if this applies to you are someone in your family, take note.
DIY Fire Starter Wafers: This is something I want to try – looks interesting, looks easy, and the end result is useful. You can purchase these cotton makeup-remover pads at your local Walmart, warehouse club, drugstore or Amazon.
A Smartphone Bill under $50? Red Tape readers reveal their cell secrets: If you covet a smart phone but can not stomach the costs (or you want to reduce your costs), you just might pick up a tip or two from this article. In the recent radio show I did on Destiny Survival Radio, I came down hard on smart phone users and probably offended a lot of people. (And to set the record straight, I do want to apologize for that.)
On the other hand, I know of some people that are on the verge of losing their homes yet spend over $300 a month on their phones. Craziness.
LEGO Finds Spare Discontinued Set So Boy Who Saved Up For 2 Years Wouldn't Be Disappointed: This one is from the "it just warms your heart" department. If you read nothing else today, read this one.
Procedures for Sudden Cardiac Arrest: This is very valuable information to know ~ especially if you encounter someone who has had sudden cardiac arrest. It's a short video and may help you save a life including instructions for using one of those new, automatic heart restart machines (AED) that are now available in many locations. (There is one available in my neighborhood.)
Knowing the procedures for sudden cardiac arrest doesn't help you, but let's hope that someone near you knows what to do if it happens.
Backdoor Survival Reader Tips
Need a Faraday cage? This tip came in via email (sender anonymous by choice):
My husband is the world's best scrounger. He was going by a 1920 textile mill that was being torn down. He noticed a steel freight elevator.
He asked if they wanted to get rid of it. They said "It's yours if you can move it today". So our walk out basement (aka the bunker) now has a 12'x20′ faraday cage. Hubby welded steel strips around the seams just to be sure it was tight and of course everything was already in metal bins and trunks.
Isn't it amazing what a little scrounging and creativity can do?
And here is one from "George" in Washington State:
Here's a cheap alternative method for a shade for oil lamps, use disposable aluminum pie forms (tins), cut a hole out of the center of one so that it can go over the chimney yet it still can rest on the glass of the chimney. For a wall reflector use a disposable turkey roasting pan.
And yet another from "Nelson". This one has to do with the sooty pots that are a result of cooking outdoors over an open flame such as with a rocket stove:
Coating the bottom and sides of your pots with liquid dish soap will decrease the clean-up. The soot will come off easier.
The last one for today is from "John":
As a professional blacksmith, I get burned a lot … ok daily. I've tried everything, aloe this and that and a host of other products.
What I have found that truly works is, Bag Balm. This product was originally formulated and marketed to dairy farmers to put on cows teats that get rubbed raw from the milking machines. You can get it at most pharmacies, however, you can usually get it at your local feed store cheaper. It comes in a little green tin. It works great for burns, abrasions and superficial cuts. Give it a shot. I swear that you'll swear by it as well.
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The Final Word
I don't know about you, but this holiday season I am being bombarded with emails from companies trying to sell me stuff. Not only am I getting email from trusted sources but also the amount of spam has doubled. I hate to be a Grinch, but I for one, will be glad when this gifting season is over.
But in the meantime, if you do plan to shop for gifts, I hope you will consider starting your shopping experience with one of the links here on Backdoor Survival. Remember, you don't need to purchase the item I have suggested, anything you purchase will result in a small commission to me or a sale to one of my sponsors.
Enjoy your next adventure through common sense and thoughtful preparation!
Bargain Bin: Let's start with a couple of items from today's article.
Swisspers Cotton Squares: These are square, not round, but will still work great for your DIY fire starter wafers.
Bag Balm® Skin Ointment, 10oz Tin: This stuff is really inexpensive and may be found at local feed stores for even less. Here is the official description:
Bag Balm® has been the farmer's choice for treating tough chapped skin and minor abrasions since 1899. No one sees more cracked dry skin than a farmer. Safe for both people and pets, Bag Balm® works to soften tough cracked skin while protecting it from further damage. Simply massage into the skin allowing ointment to remain on the surface for full softening effect. The petrolatum lanolin base is similar in texture to petroleum jelly and contains 8-hydroxyquinoline – a natural antiseptic and disinfectant. Easy to apply, Bag Balm® stays put to provide relief and a temporary waterproof barrier. For treating dry skin and minor abrasions, there is nothing like the original Bag Balm®.
Holiday Gift Ideas: With the holidays coming up, budgets are stressed to the limit. Something to consider as a sneaky prepper gift for the non-prepper in your life is the Backdoor Survival Portable Pocket Kit. Heck, for as little a $5, you can purchase a single item in the kit or for about $50, you can put the whole thing together yourself. Something to think about, anyway.
Other ideas? Check out the items in the article Survival Gear Checklist – 15 Items to Get You Started dwhich is an outstanding value for $119.99 with free shipping.
Kershaw OSO Sweet Knife: This "oh so sweet" knife is solidly built, stainless steel knife that comes razor sharp right out of the package. It will pretty much cut through anything the price is amazing.
Streamlight Nano Light Keychain LED Flashlight: extremely small and light weight yet it will throw off a decent amount of super-bright light. At just .36 ounces and 1.47 inches long, the Streamlight Nano Light Keychain Flashlight will take up a minimum of space in your pocket or bag.
Paracord Survival Bracelet: Why a Paracord Bracelet? So you always have some of this useful cord on your person.
Windstorm Safety Whistle: This particular whistle can be heard a long distance away and above howling wind and other competing sounds.
Swedish Firesteel: Using this basic pocket fire-starter, you can get a nice fire going under almost any conditions. This is a small, compact version.
Pepper Spray: It is always good to have some form of defense that will temporarily halt a bad guy that is in your face.
Emergency Mylar Thermal Blankets: These come in compressed packets small enough to fit in a pocket or wallet. You will be surprised at how warm these will keep you.
One of my readers pointed out that Emergency Essentials currently has a two person "Bivvy" on sale of $18.99. Now being an ex-city girl, I had to go to Wikipedia to figure out what a "Bivvy" or Bivouac was. In the briefest of terms:
A bivvy sack is a thin waterproof fabric shell that is designed to slip over a sleeping bag, providing an additional 5 to 10 °C of insulation and forming an effective barrier against wind chill and rain.
Anyway, I though that was cool and for $19, not a bad thing to have on hand. To find this,you will need to enter the keyword "Bivvy" into the Emergency Essentials search box but it is there, on sale this month along with a number of other items.
Now I know there are a lot of diehard Emergency Essentials fans out there but I also want to ask you to consider Legacy food products.
Not only are they 100% GMO free, but they are lower in sodium, have fewer artificial ingredients and just taste good. More on that later – just wanted to give you a heads up and a link if you want to give them a try.
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As part of the launch of the World Bank's World Development Report, a distinguished panel (including MIGA's own Edith Quintrell) convened at IFC to discuss the topic of Private Sector Growth and Job Creation. Jyrki Koskelo chaired the panel and asked for a lively and frank discussion. He got more than he bargained for.
In addition to Ms. Quintrell and Mr. Koskelo, the panel included:
- Arnold Ekpe, CEO of Eco
- Rosalind Kainyah, Vice President, External Affairs, Tullow Oil
- Justin Lin, senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank
- Jay Naidoo, World Development Report Advisory Council Member, and, most provocatively
- Mohamed Ibrahim, Chairman of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.
The panel quickly transformed into the Mo Ibrahim show. Mr. Ibrahim set the tone by challenging the panel's very purpose. The private sector, he mused, does not wake up every morning wondering how it can create more jobs, but rather how it can make more profits.
His observation should not surprise anyone, and certainly Mr. Ibrahim has created many a job while making money on telecoms in Africa. His larger point, when it came, was an important one: Investment in job-creating industries in poor countries will come when entrepreneurs recognize that money can be made in providing services even to the poorest of the poor. This might have left the audience wondering how they, as World Bankers, could spur this type of entrepreneurship where it was most needed. But this is not an entrepreneur's concern, of course, and that alone is a valuable lesson.
Emerging from Mr. Ibrahim's central point was a corollary observation that we are living in a world where there can no longer be any secrets. Since, he asserted, in the age of WikiLeaks, "we are all naked", he exhorted companies who sign contracts with governments to make those contracts public. This is a noble goal, but it may end up being a nightmare in practice, as it could create road maps for litigation and might serve as a straitjacket for future contract negotiations.
But did we digress from the topic of jobs? Or the topic of making money? In the places most in need of development, we can only hope that Mr. Ibrahim is right that the two goals are coterminous, and that they will be achieved in parallel and in due course.


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Auris Medical News Release
November 13, 2012 – Auris Medical reporting positive results from phase IIb trial with AM-111 for the treatment of acute sensorineural hearing loss
Auris Medical announced today positive results from a phase IIb clinical trial with AM-111, its investigational drug for the intratympanic (i.t.) treatment of acute sensorineural hearing loss (ASNHL). The study demonstrated that the treatment was well tolerated and showed a statistically significant and clinically relevant treatment effect.
The double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled phase IIb study with AM-111 was conducted in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, involving more than 30 sites. A total of 210 patients suffering from acute acoustic trauma or sudden deafness were enrolled within the first 48 hours following the incident. Their hearing loss, measured against a reference value, had to be at least 30 dB at the average of 3 contiguous audiometric test frequencies. Study participants received one single dose of either AM-111 at 0.4 or 2 mg/ml or placebo by way of i.t. injection and were followed for 90 days. In case of insufficient hearing recovery by Day 7, they were given the option of receiving oral prednisolone as a reserve therapy. Preliminary results from the phase IIb study show that the local treatment with AM-111 was well tolerated.
In addition, the study demonstrated a substantial improvement in hearing threshold and speech discrimination score. In subjects with severe to profound hearing loss who were treated with AM-111 0.4 mg/mL, the primary study endpoint, absolute hearing improvement in the 3 most affected contiguous test frequencies from baseline to Day 7, was met (p < 0.02, compared with placebo). The outcome was confirmed by the coprimary endpoint "% of hearing loss recovered at Day 7" (p < 0.03); the odds ratio for complete hearing recovery was > 2.2. Importantly, the improvement in the speech discrimination score from baseline to Day 7 showed also a statistically significant difference between AM-111 and placebo treated study subjects (p < 0.02). The differences in hearing and speech discrimination recovery between treatment groups appeared as early as on Day 3 and were clinically relevant. Further information on the clinical trial and detailed outcomes shall be presented in a scientific journal.
"The cell penetrating peptide AM-111 represents a novel approach to treating ASNHL", stated Professor Markus Suckfüll, Munich (Germany), coordinating investigator of the study. "The clear and clinically meaningful improvements observed with AM-111 in the treatment of severe to profound hearing loss demonstrate that effective otoprotection is feasible, and they appear very promising. The inclusion of a placebo arm to control for the effects of spontaneous recovery lends particular credibility to the results and will provide also a wealth of important new information for future hearing research." Thomas Meyer, Auris Medical's founder and Managing Director, commented: "We are very pleased with the positive results from the phase IIb trial with AM-111, which were achieved under challenging clinical conditions. The outcomes are in line with the positive results from preclinical studies conducted in various ASHNL conditions, which had demonstrated the strong otoprotective effects of the peptide." In a next step, Auris Medical is planning to discuss the phase IIb results and further clinical development with AM-111 with regulatory agencies.
About acute sensorineural hearing loss
Acute sensorineural hearing loss may be the consequence of various insults to the cochlea. It may result e.g. from overexposure to noise, bacterial or viral infections, inflammation, vascular compromise, or a variety of other factors. In ASNHL, sensorineural structures of the inner ear – inner and outer hair cells, neurons – are damaged, as well as other structures such as supporting cells or vascular tissues. The common observation is a temporary increase in hearing thresholds, i.e. hearing loss. Thanks to cellular defences and intrinsic repair mechanisms, a certain amount of such hearing loss is frequently recovered in the subsequent days and weeks. The remaining hearing loss however is irreversible. ASNHL may be accompanied by other disorders of the inner ear such as dizziness or tinnitus. When ASNHL develops into permanent hearing loss, it may have chronically debilitating consequences. Hearing loss may have serious impacts on professional and personal lives, e.g. through avoidance or withdrawal from social situations, reduced alertness and increased risk to personal safety, impaired memory and ability to learn new tasks, or reduced job performance and earning power. To date, there exists no treatment for ASNHL with proven efficacy.
About AM-111
AM-111 is a cell-permeable peptide that selectively blocks JNK MAPK mediated apoptosis of stress injured hair cells and neurons in the cochlea. Major cochlear stress incidents that may result in irreversible hearing loss include exposure to excessive noise, disturbances of the blood supply, viral or bacterial infections, and exposure to certain ototoxic substances. When administered within therapeutic time window after the incident, AM-111 can effectively protect cochlear hair cells and neurons that would otherwise undergo apoptosis and be lost forever. AM-111's otoprotective properties have been extensively tested and confirmed in various animal models so far, including acute acoustic trauma, acute labyrinthitis, surgery trauma, aminoglycoside ototoxicity, semicircular canal injury in otitis media and cochlear ischemia. AM-111 has been granted orphan drug status in both the European Union and the USA for the treatment of acute sensorineural hearing loss. The active substance of AM-111 has been in-licensed by Auris Medical from Swiss biotechnology company Xigen S.A.
About Auris Medical
Auris Medical is a Swiss biotechnology company developing specific pharmaceutical compounds for the prevention or treatment of inner ear disorders, an area of great unmet medical need. Around the world, many million people are permanently suffering from severe hearing loss and tinnitus. Truly effective and safe treatments for these disorders are still lacking. Auris Medical is currently focusing on the development of treatments for acute inner ear tinnitus (AM-101) and for acute sensorineural hearing loss (AM-111).
Dr. Thomas Meyer, Managing Director, telephone +41 61 201 13 50, [email protected]
Auris Medical AG • Aeschenvorstadt 37 • CH-4051 Basel • Tel. +41 61 321 13 50 • www.aurismedical.com
Auris Medical News Release


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Recently we announced the Cambium Networks (NASDAQ: CMBM) acquisition of the Xirrus wireless business from Riverbed Technology. Following two years as part of Riverbed, this acquisition brings Xirrus back to a company focused on delivering best-in-class wireless networking solutions.
If you are not familiar with Cambium Networks, we are a global next gen wireless infrastructure company with a broad range of point-to-point (backhaul infrastructure), point-to-multipoint (wide area distribution), cloud managed Wi-Fi and switching solutions for enterprise, industrial and service provider network operators.
We are excited to have the Xirrus team, technology, partners and customers join Cambium Networks. Xirrus' solutions will complement and extend our existing Wi-Fi portfolio, particularly for high-performance applications and cloud managed services. Our fixed wireless broadband point-to-point and point-to-multipoint solutions open opportunities for extending your wireless network. We are particularly excited to collaborate on the initial releases of 802.11ax technology to bring advanced cloud-managed cost-effective Wi-Fi 6 solutions to you.
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On the heals of the latest exposé of slaughterhouse cruelty, followed by the largest meat recall in history, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has released a 150-page report authored by Dena Jones analyzing humane slaughter enforcement at state, federal and foreign slaughter plants. Crimes Without Consequences: The Enforcement of Humane Slaughter Laws in the United States reveals an ongoing lack of sound enforcement at plants around the world.
Unfortunately, the horrific treatment that made headlines with the latest recall is nothing new. Not only did roughly 800 separate company recalls take place between Jan. 1, 1994 and Nov. 31, 2007, but cruel treatment of animals has been documented in myriad US Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspection reports.
"The hog was lying in the cradle and all four feet had been removed. The hog was observed to be kicking and shaking its head. It exhibited skin twitching and irregular but rhythmic breathing with deep abdominal and thoracic movement. It appeared to be gasping for breath," a USDA inspector wrote about a still-conscious hog at a slaughter plant in Frankenmuth, Mo.
At plants around the country, handling, stunning and slaughter is conducted with little of the needed oversight by federal and state departments of agriculture. Workers who are responsible for ensuring proper treatment of the animals are typically untrained, uneducated and transient. Animals are slaughtered at high speed to maximize profits. And while it is technically banned by federal law, ill and diseased animals may still be sent to slaughter to minimize losses.
Enforcement of the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act by the USDA is woefully inadequate. Only 42 enforcement actions beyond issuances of deficiency reports for noncompliances were taken in the United States between 2002 and 2005. Whistleblower accounts and undercover documentation suggest the majority of crimes are not observed or recognized by inspection personnel, not reported through the proper channel, or the appropriate remedial measures are not being taken.
All poultry are exempted from current law, an egregious situation that should be rectified by Congress. Though species that are covered by law must be rendered insensible with one stunning attempt before they are killed, industry data itself reveals that this is not the case. American Meat Institute guidelines consider an acceptable pre-slaughter stunning effectiveness rating of 99 percent for pigs and 95 percent for cattle and sheep. The National Chicken Council has set an acceptable stunning standard of 98 percent for chickens. Even if every US plant met these voluntary industry goals, 185 million chickens, 1.8 million cattle and sheep and 1 million pigs would still be killed inhumanely each year.
At the very least, the 10 billion animals killed annually for food in the United States are entitled to a merciful death. AWI calls on Congress to:
- extend the federal slaughter law to include poultry;
- assign a minimum of 50 USDA inspectors the sole task of ensuring the humane handling, stunning and slaughter of animals;
- reject the notion that sound enforcement can be achieved by use of cameras in lieu of inspectors; and
- abandon the notion that industry self-regulation is adequate.
Crimes Without Consequences: The Enforcement of Humane Slaughter Laws in the United States can be viewed online. Print copies will be available from AWI in May for the cost price of $2.00.
Shame on Ohio State University
In a show ring fad known as short docking, the entire tail of a lamb is cut off purely for cosmetic purposes. AWI Quarterly readers will remember our spring 2007 article that noted scientific research demonstrating an increase in rectal prolapse in sheep who have been short docked. One of the institutions involved in that research, Ohio State University (OSU), is apparently continuing to short dock, despite both its own research and a university policy prohibiting the practice. AWI has received a series of photographs taken this year at the OSU Sheep Center, featuring lambs and ewes who have been short docked. One image clearly reveals a ewe with a repaired prolapse.


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Raymon Grace
Raymon Grace is a native of the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia and has been studying forms of healing since 1973.
Raymon is founder and president of Raymon Grace Foundation,and has taken dowsing to new heights, empowering individuals to gain more control of their lives.
His work has been used in at least 48 countries to improve water quality, reduce violence in schools, communities and to eliminate abuse of women and children.
He has been a guest on numerous radio talk shows including the well known "Coast to Coast Am Radio."
He has authored three books.
He also has a unique DVD created for purifying and energizing water and a DVD for clearing energy in homes & schools, along with several other DVD's & CDs.
Retired newsman, Jack Kestner, a long time friend wrote:
|If you do nothing, nothing is going to happen, if you do something, something might happen, The Future is yours, do something about it!
© 2008 Raymon Grace All rights reserved


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Because of the BOA program I've been seeking out and finding people with memories of Hudson's waterfront in the 1930s. (Does everyone know about the BOA program yet?)
These 90-year olds have never heard of "Furgary," but always called the boat houses "the shacks."
(I did some polling, and it was agreed by all that the term "shanty" was disparaging. It did however bring to mind a "hobo village" that formerly stood on the shores of the South Bay in the West Creek, near to where the WWII plane crashed. Two old timers agreed: "those hobos never gave anyone any trouble.")
It seems that everyone back then had "a shack," or was connected with someone who did.
Among the names recalled:
Johnny Malinowsky, Browny Nunnimaker, Benny Drabeneke, Augy Olman, Johnny Krisakenis (a.k.a Kenas), Frank Roetina, Bud Krafte, the Swintock family, the Rowens, the Pladelaskys, and so on.
I see that the arrangement of cabins stayed relatively stable in the first half of the 20th century. I wonder how they match up with today's configuration? (Recall that some of the old cabins have been moved from their original positions.)
To see a "fish market" at Furgary in 1889 is just amazing. It corroborates the old timer's accounts that when they were kids the camp had already been there since time out of mind.
In the '90s they'd have sold fresh-caught shad and sturgeon (a.k.a. "Albany beef").
A photograph shows that it remained a fish market with a retail outlet into the 1960s, but of course shad gill netting continued right up to the moratorium two years ago, and during the time that our LWRP was being prepared (needless to say there was no acknowledgement from that quarter).
One old couple described the common sight of the fish cart out of North Dock making its rounds through the lower half of the city. A hawker blew on a special horn while a second man administered the fishy bits.
Hudson's history begins at the waterfront.
Frustrating river access during hunting and fishing season,from mid November through mid May, when no one else is using it is inane. It is an abuse of power, an overreach and a perversion of the public use doctrine.
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Suggested bumper sticker:
"Hudson's LWRP is a Gentrification Machine."
In fact, representatives of Furgary took part in the LWRP workshops in January 2007, and were even invited guests to Linda Mussman's sham interviews involving the famous "47 stakeholders." (Incredibly, the current BOA program cites these two examples of "public participation" as direct evidence of its own public outreach record! It's nearly a scandal, yet nobody flinches.)
The Furgarian's LWRP input was ignored, even though the issues they raised should have been incorporated during the drafting and application of the state's coastal management policies to Hudson's circumstances. It was these contents that were central to the LWRP, and not any silly planning items which may never come to pass.
The Furgarians shared a common dilemma with the South Bay ecologists. The only way to defend our interests in the Final LWRP was to bring an Article 78 legal challenge against the Common Council through the State Environmental Quality Review Act.
Never forget that the council's way of including the public was to steamroll it.
After Friday's Gossips piece titled "Selling Off the Assets," Alderman Friedman expressed his exasperation that people tend to wait for someone else to "start the process." He advised people to come to the Common Council meetings to make their interests and ideas known.
But on October 18th the Furgarians did exactly that, and they were tricked.
For an actual example of what comes from speaking before the Economic Development Committee, the Furgarians had the same results as they did when they took part in the LWRP.
To quote from Gossips' account:
"The committee expressed some concern about the cabins' ability to survive the winter. At one point, Furgarian Dennis Malloy volunteered the Furgarians to "shore up the cabins so they can make it through the winter." Pointing out that they knew what needed to be done, he said they would be willing to do it at no cost to the City. This led Friedman to suggest that there might be a way to "work out some kind of stewardship agreement" with the North Dock Tin Boat Association. This led to talk of insurance and liability ..."
After Dennis corrected the notion that the Furgarians were now anything other than "just a bunch of guys," the aldermen discussed the liability issues until most of the assembled committee members were agreeable to Dennis' suggestion, including the Chairman Mr. Moore.
Within days we signed releases which took care of the liability problem (the CCCA provided their own releases the day the artists visited Furgary).
Now inside of Furgary for the first time in months, we began shoring things up for winter. The mayor's aide Gene Shetsky proved himself a most agreeable companion.
So with liability was no longer an issue, and the people who understand the old cabins best volunteering to shore them up against neglect while keeping the grounds clean, why did Mayor Hallenbeck and Common Council President Moore renege last week on this agreeable solution?
By what convoluted personal chemistry do individual politicians who are allegedly obsessed only with liability issues first learn to solve the problem; then next invite the hands-on participation of an eager public; and finally abolish all reference to the option with no further explanation?
There can only be one explanation. Mr. Hallenbeck and Mr. Moore desire the Furgary cabins to fall down on their own.
A physicist once told me that for him the ultimate sin was to contribute to the amount of entropy in the universe, to which all wrongdoing ultimately contributes. The actions of individuals who have reversed themselves on this small Furgary issue - even after their obsessive liability issue was solved - are entirely inconsistent with a historical sensibility.
Do the individual aldermen on the Economic Development Committee who were agreeable to the nascent stewardship arrangement know that their own suggestions were first engaged, then suddenly reversed with no further consideration? I'll wager that they do not.
HDC the City of Hudson Inc and (most likely the Land Conservancy) have worked in concert to eliminate NDTBA INC. They obstruct the free flow interstate, intrastate and international trade. "To prevent trusts from creating restraints on trade or commerce" Ive appealed to City leaders on the level of a citizen to no avail. Keeping poor fishermen from "air and light", fore shame! They should prepare now for a business war.
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Thank you, Carole, for providing these maps. True, the shacks at the north dock have a long, amazing history. I was so encouraged at the recent meeting of the EDC - it was the first time I sensed a genuine desire from some city officials to preserve some of the structures and include a couple of folks from the Furgary in discussions regarding the future of the entire north bay. The offer of FREE help from some Furgarians to help prep the shacks for winter seemed to be well-received provided liability waivers were signed.
The hope I felt only a few short weeks ago quickly disappeared when the mayor's aide delivered the message from the mayor and the common council president that the Furgarians' free assistance, offered up last week again in Sandy's wake, would not be accepted. Of course if makes PERFECT sense that a city strapped for cash would turn down the offer of free labor and repairs with no liability. Instead, I now clearly see the likely outcome that the city will simply let the shacks rot so that demolition will be required for reasons of "safety" and "liability."
To those we dutifully elected and put our trust in, remember that people ARE paying attention. We've seen Hudson brazenly destroy significant bits and pieces of the city's history in the past and we're tired of the act now and make pathetic excuses later tactics we've too often seen employed. We're watching...we're vocal...we vote.
The north dock tells countless stories of generations of Hudson's fisherman, of willing stewards of the bay and the river, of families who loved and cared for a strip of land in which - until just a few years ago - no one but them showed any interest. City of Hudson, EMBRACE and protect the history and significance of the north dock! Do the RIGHT THING!
Right on, Tiffany.
Probably nobody got through my long-winded comment above, but at the end I suggested that the aldermen themselves may not have been apprised of this reneging.
The Furgarians are not unique in their interest. The landscape painters who visited Furgary in October had also signed liability waivers, or "releases," which the CCCA had provided on its own.
Why did the mayor and the council president suddenly and quietly change their minds after letting the public see how generous they were regarding the trial "stewardship" proposal?
Neither of my aldermen in the 1st Ward are members of the Economic Development Committee, and so they weren't privy to the encouraging discussion in which the Furgarians took part at the last EDC meeting.
It's almost as if Mr. Moore wasn't there either, although at the time he was among the most encouraging voices!
If your alderman attended the last meeting of the EDC, please ask them what has transpired to cause the about-face?
Judging from this one experience, these council and committee meetings are a total sham. Why would the public attend these meetings only to be subjected to such cynical treatment?
Wait, I know the answer: they don't.
Strictly speaking, the decision to let the Furgary buildings collapse is no longer contained as a "ministerial" action of the mayor.
The mayor's decision of ministerial neglect is actually the first action towards the creation of the North Bay Recreational and Natural Area.
The co-decision of Messrs. Hallenbeck and Moore, as was presented to me by the Mayor's office, illustrates a factual over-lapping of responsibilities now taking place between the executive and legislative branches of city government
In time, these leaders' intention to commit what amounts to municipal vandalism will become less and less attached to the mayor, and more evidently and properly belonging among the duties and concerns of the council.
Not only has he reneged on his fair treatment of the Furgarians, Mr. Moore was careful to say at the Economic Development Committee meeting that the city wasn't committed to the Columbia Land Conservancy's "Master Concept Plan" for the city's North Bay.
But at the subsequent BOA hearing, I revisited Mr. Moore's words as a warning to the city's BOA presenters who were "all in" with the conservancy plan. I paraphrased Moore's noncommittal tone about the plan at the previous EDC meeting, adding that the BOA committee had better take care not to over-commit to a plan the city wasn't at all sure about.
Mr. Moore who serves on the BOA Steering Committee was visibly annoyed. The city's grant-writer then suggested that ours was a side-discussion, which might be discussed elsewhere. I contradicted the suggestion, telling him that the conservancy plan for the North Bay, whether people liked the plan or not, was a central feature of the BOA application.
That was the moment when Mr. Moore publicly committed the Common Council - and the City of Hudson - to the conservancy Concept Master Plan, and thus a Rubicon was crossed.
So now it is a matter for the council to decide. The over-lapping of executive and legislative responsibilities is increasingly on the side of the council.
The moment that Mr. Moore reversed himself on the council's commitment to the conservancy's Concept Master Plan, something which he was undoubtedly hoping would remain in the Economic Development Committee became the concern of the entire council.
A decision to let the cabins fall apart is the first phase of a whole action, which the State Environmental Quality Review Act instructs us must not be "segmented" from the rest of the plan.
And when it comes time to implement a plan for North Bay, the Common Council will invariably serve as the SEQRA Lead Agency in the environmental review. At that point the mayor's responsibility should have passed entirely to the council, although that's not what happened with the LWRP during the tenures of our previous, extremely timid councils.
Even aldermen who serve on the Economic Development Committee were not aware that the mayor and Mr. Moore had reversed their positions since the EDC meeting.
A meeting which all agreed was productive, and which left all parties with a feeling of progress and mutual respect, has come to nothing.
I'm grateful to Gossips for providing the opportunity to air this evident derangement of the usual City Hall monologue (if that's not too redundant).
In the meantime, calling all historically-minded people of Hudson (!?) .... damned crickets again! I guess I'll never figure some folks, but I'll still say hello.


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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and U.S. Senator Rob Portman, R-Ohio, talk after a campaign rally in Cincinnati, Ohio September 1, 2012.
WEST WINDSOR, VT -- Ohio Sen. Rob Portman came close to being Mitt Romney's most important defender, but, starting Tuesday, he is the Republican presidential nominee's biggest rival.
Portman joined the Republican presidential nominee on Tuesday to help out with preparations for this fall's debates. Portman is playing the role of President Obama during these initial practice sessions located in the remote woods of Vermont.
"It's quiet and there are no distractions," said a senior Romney adviser of the 134-acre estate of former Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey. It's not in a swing state and far from any major TV markets.
Portman was among the top contenders to be chosen as Romney's running mate. But now, instead of spending his days campaigning throughout the country, he is holed up with top Romney advisers preparing for three of the most important evenings of the presidential race. Top Romney aides Beth Myers, Stuart Stevens, Lanhee Chen, Fehrnstrom, Ed Gillespie and Peter Flaherty have all descended upon the home, as well.
It's a role Portman knows well, having played Obama during Sen. John McCain's practice presidential debates in 2008.
The Romney campaign, backed by the RNC, is holding its own counter-convention in Charlotte this week, primarily challenging the president's record on the economy. Andrea Saul discusses.
And while this may be familiar territory for Portman, it is relatively unexplored terrain for Romney. Even after participating in 19 debates throughout last fall and the early part of 2012, Romney never prepared by engaging in mock debates. Instead, advisers say, the former Massachusetts governor preferred to sit with advisers and float possible questions and answers. But, a one-on-one debate is different, and that is why Portman is in The Green Mountain State.


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HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, N.J., May 31 (UPI) -- A New Jersey judge ruled the parents of four children with Nazi-inspired names will not get custody of their kids.
Adolf Hitler Campbell, 6, and his two sisters, Joycelynn Aryan Nation Campbell, 5, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, 4, have been in state custody since shortly after a Holland Township grocer refused to decorate a birthday cake for the boy's third birthday, The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger reported Wednesday.
State officials allegedly took custody of a newborn son, Hons Campbell, just hours after his birth in November.
Now, a Superior Court judge has decided that self-proclaimed Nazis Heath and Deborah Campbell cannot have custody of their children.
"These kids weren't abused. Our kids weren't taken because of abuse," Heath Campbell said. "I'm honest about who I am and what I am."
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Elected in December, Park also must answer victims of her father's 18-year dictatorship and address worries about a lack of jobs, a growing gap between rich and poor and a stagnant economy. There's pressure for her to live up to her campaign suggestion that she can return the country to the strong economic growth her father oversaw, the so-called Miracle on the Han River.
North Korea's underground atomic detonation tests her vow to soften Seoul's current hard-line approach to its northern rival. Park called the Feb. 12 test, the North's third since 2006, "a challenge to the survival and future of the Korean people" and said Pyongyang should abandon its nuclear ambitions and work for peace.
"There should be no mistake that the biggest victim will be none other than North Korea itself," Park said in her first speech as president during a ceremony where troops in formal uniforms shouted "loyalty" and fired cannons in salute.
At her inauguration, a band played a military march before a crowd of tens of thousands, including U.S. National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso. Before Park took her oath of office, South Korean superstar PSY performed his global hit "Gangnam Style." Children and the elderly alike joined him in the contagious horse-riding dance he made famous in the song's video.
As Park was sworn in as president, North Korea' s state media continued their typical rhetoric against South Korea and the U.S. over annual military drills that Pyongyang says are an invasion rehearsal.
"The U.S. warmongers should think what consequence will be brought out for getting on the nerves of the DPRK, a dignified nuclear power," the North's main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary carried by the official Korean Central News Agency. DPRK refers to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the North's official name. It warned the allies would "die in flames" if they start a northward invasion.
Pyongyang, Washington, Beijing and Tokyo are all watching to see if Park pursues an ambitious engagement policy meant to ease five years of animosity on the divided peninsula, or if she sticks with the tough stance of her fellow conservative predecessor, Lee Myung-bak.
Park's decision will likely set the tone of the larger diplomatic approach that Washington and others take in stalled efforts to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions.
"If Park Geun-hye wants to contain, the US will support that," said Victor Cha, a former senior Asia adviser to President George W. Bush. "But if Park Geun-hye, months down the road, wants to engage, then the US will go along with that too."
Park's first weeks in office will be complicated by North Korea's warning of unspecified "second and third measures of greater intensity," a threat that comes as Washington and others push for tightened UN sanctions as punishment for the nuclear test.
That test is seen as another step toward North Korea's goal of building a bomb small enough to be mounted on a missile that can hit the United States. The explosion, which Pyongyang called a response to US hostility, triggered global outrage.
Park has said she won't yet change her policy, which was built with the high probability of provocations from Pyongyang in mind. But some aren't sure if engagement can work, given North Korea's choice of "bombs over electricity," as American scientist Siegfried Hecker puts it.
The economic aid and other benefits that North Korea would have received by "choosing electricity over bombs ... will be made much more difficult, if not impossible, for at least the next five years," Hecker, a regular visitor to North Korea, said in a posting on the website of Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation.
As she takes office, however, Park will be mindful that many South Koreans are frustrated at the state of inter-Korean relations after the Lee government's five-year rule, which saw the North conduct two nuclear tests and three long-range rocket launches. In addition, attacks blamed on North Korea that killed 50 South Koreans in 2010.
Park's policy calls for strong defense but also for efforts to build trust through aid shipments, reconciliation talks and the resumption of some large-scale economic initiatives as progress occurs on the nuclear issue. Park has also held out the possibility of a summit with new North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Park's last stint in the presidential Blue House was bookended by tragedy: At 22, she cut short her studies in Paris to return to Seoul and act as President Park Chung-hee's first lady after an assassin targeting her father instead killed her mother; she left five years later, in 1979, after her father was shot and killed by his spy chief during a drinking party.
Park's transition to power has been rocky, reflecting deep rifts in South Korea that many trace back to her father's dictatorship.
She began her first day as president with lawmakers deadlocked over her government restructuring plans, which include newly created or revamped ministries. Some of the people she has nominated for ministry posts have been accused of tax evasion, real estate speculation and ethical lapses.
Many of Park's nominations for top posts came as surprises, and she was criticized for relying only on a handful of close associates, and for being secretive.
Much has also been made of Park's role as a trailblazer for women in South Korea, which is still a largely male-dominated society. The income gap between men and women is the widest among the world's most developed countries. But Park gave only two of 18 Cabinet posts to women. Late liberal former President Roh Moo-hyun, Lee's predecessor, named four women to his Cabinet when he took over in 2003.
Park also has handed top jobs to people with ties with her late father, reviving claims in the campaign that she doesn't fully understand her father's complicated legacy. Park Chung-hee is both reviled as a dictator and human-rights abuser, and revered for leading South Korea from the economic rubble of the Korean War.
Critics have said Park Geun-hye's North Korea policy lacks specifics. They also question how far she can go given her conservative base's strong anti-Pyongyang sentiments.
But Park has previously confounded ideological expectations. She travelled to Pyongyang in 2002 and held private talks with the late Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un's father and predecessor. During the often contentious presidential campaign, she responded to liberal criticism by reaching out to the families of victims of her father's dictatorship.
"I don't think this latest spike in the cycle of provocation and response undermines her whole platform of seeking to somehow re-engage the North," said John Delury, an analyst at Seoul's Yonsei University, noting that North Korea wants a return of large-scale aid and investment from South Korea.