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The economy feels better. Why don't you?
Wall Street's celebrating "strong" earnings and the Fed thinks the recession may soon end. But consumers won't be confident until the housing woes are over.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The economy seems to be getting better. That's what Wall Street is telling us. Stocks soared Wednesday thanks to a slew of decent earnings reports.
That's also what C Street -- home of the Federal Reserve -- is telling us. In the minutes from the Fed's last meeting, released Wednesday afternoon, policymakers indicated that the recession could be over "before long."
But on Main Street, people seem to have a decidedly different view. It's hard to find things to be happy about when the unemployment rate is at a more than quarter-century high of 9.5% and the housing market remains in shambles.
The mess in housing -- foreclosures in the first half of the year were up 15% from the first six months of 2008 -- is something that some fear could keep a lid on an economic recovery.
So even though investors, CEOs and Fed chair Ben Bernanke may be seeing green shoots everywhere they look, many average Americans have to squint very hard in order to find them. Just try telling a Zillow.com-obsessed home owner who's watched the value of his home continue to plummet in recent months that the economy is getting better.
"The big unknown variable in the economy still is housing," said Haag Sherman, managing director with Salient Partners, an investment firm based in Houston. "The worst may be behind us with subprime loans, but I don't think housing has found a bottom. We could have a recovery in Corporate America that's much narrower than the recovery in the broader economy."
Talkback: Are you thinking of buying or selling a house now or do you think prices will fall much further? Leave your comments at the bottom of this story.
Sherman pointed out that banks are starting to experience waves of delinquencies and defaults with higher-quality mortgages such as alt-A loans and prime loans.
To that end, JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500), which posted strong second-quarter results Thursday morning thanks to healthy gains in its investment banking division, reported some fairly dismal numbers out of its consumer lending unit.
The bank said that net charge-offs, a figure that measures the amount of debt written off as bad, were $1.3 billion from home equity loans, double the $511 million of a year earlier. And net charge-offs related to prime mortgages quadrupled to $481 million from $104 million last year.
JPMorgan Chase is widely considered one of the healthier banks around. So if it's experiencing more difficulties in its home loan business, it's likely that two of the more troubled big banks, Citigroup (C, Fortune 500) and Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500), will also disclose more bad news from their mortgage units when they each report their second-quarter numbers Friday morning.
Rising delinquencies could lead to more foreclosures. If so, it's harder to envision a scenario where prices will rebound since foreclosed homes just add to the inventory of unsold real estate.
Steven Kyle, professor of applied economics at Cornell University, said the fear that prices will fall further is discouraging some homeowners from even putting their homes on the market because they're worried about the existing glut of homes.
Kyle added that with unemployment nearing 10% and likely to exceed that level before long, he worries many consumers won't be willing to buy homes -- even if prices stay relatively affordable and mortgage rates remain fairly low.
"Housing is not going to go rocketing off anytime in the near future. Interest rates are already low, so you won't get a boost from that. And unemployed people aren't buying houses," Kyle said.
Sherman said that, ironically enough, more talk of an economic recovery could actually hurt chances of a housing rebound, since it could lead to higher rates in the future.
That's because some fixed-income investors may start to fear inflation and start selling long-term bonds, which would drive up their yields. Bond rates and prices move in opposite directions.
In fact, it's already happened to some extent. The yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury has surged from a low of about 2% in December to about 3.5% currently. Many fixed-rate mortgages are closely pegged to longer-term Treasury rates, so a further dumping of Treasurys won't help prospective home buyers.
"You can have housing stabilize for a bit and then take another leg down. Continued affordability is what we want to see, but if bonds sell off, that weighs on affordability," Sherman said.
Nonetheless, there are some pieces of good news about the housing market. The National Association of Home Builders reported Thursday that builder confidence in July was it its highest level since last September.
In addition, finance professors Paola Sapienza of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, said consumers are much more confident about the housing market now than they were just a few months ago. The professors run a quarterly survey of consumers that looks at their trust in the financial system.
Sapienza said that a majority of consumers polled in June thought that prices in their market would be stable over the next 12 months and that only 26% thought prices would decline. By way of comparison, nearly half of the consumers surveyed in December were predicting price drops, Sapienza said.
We'll find out even more about the state of housing Friday morning when the Census Bureau reports its latest figures on housing starts and building permits. Both numbers are key measures of potential demand for new homes.
Economists surveyed by Briefing.com are forecasting that the number of permits rose slightly in June to an annualized rate of 524,000 from 518,000 in May and that starts dipped a tad last month -- from a rate of 532,000 in May to 530,000 in June.
The consensus estimates for both permits and starts are considerably higher than the record lows set in April. So as long as the June numbers are close to forecasts, one could make the case that the housing market is stabilizing and that the worst may be over.
But as I pointed out in Wednesday's column about earnings, stabilization is not the same thing as a recovery. And even though Wall Street still seems willing to subsist on a diet of green shoots salad, consumers are hungering for more substantial evidence of a recovery.
"The end of the world didn't in fact happen so people got more optimistic earlier this year. But to say the end of the world was avoided doesn't mean we're now swimming in rose petals," Kyle said. "The real estate market is still looking rocky. The danger is we just bump along in this stagnating saggy state for awhile."
And as long as that's the case, consumers are unlikely to feel much better about the economy.
"People are still nervous. We haven't seen an actual turn in housing yet, just signs of bottoming," said Brad Sorensen, director of market and sector research with Charles Schwab. "This isn't rocket science but an improvement in the housing market will make consumers feel more confident and more willing to spend and that will have a trickle down effect on the overall economy."
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On the morning of Dec. 13, 1862, Union Gen. John G. Foster�s troops encountered Confederates along the Wilmington Road near Woodington.
On the morning of Dec. 13, 1862, Union Gen. John G. Foster�s troops encountered Confederates along the Wilmington Road near Woodington.
Foster ordered his units into battlefield formations about three-quarters of a mile from the creek. The following is taken from Foster�s official report:
�On Saturday, the 13th � We reached Southwest Creek, the bridge over which was destroyed, and the enemy posted on the opposite bank, some 400 strong, with three pieces of artillery. The creek was not fordable, and ran at the foot of a deep ravine, making a very bad position for us. I ordered a battery in as good a position as could be obtained, and under fire the Ninth New Jersey, which had the advance, pushed gallantly across the creek by swimming, by fragments of the bridge and by a mill-dam, and formed on the opposite bank. At the same time, the Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania, of General Wessells� brigade, forced a passage by the felling of trees and fording about half a mile below bridge, and engaged the enemy�s left, who thereupon retired and deserted the breastworks.�
The destroyed bridge referred to in Foster�s report was just upstream from the present-day bridge. About 4,000 feet of the earthworks on the north side of the creek are still well-defined. About 600 feet were destroyed by a bulldozer in 2002.
The mill dam is still in place, with the millhouse pilings clearly visible. It is about one-fourth mile upstream from the bridge.
The following is taken from Confederate Gen. Nathan Evan�s official report:
�On Saturday, the 13th instant, the enemy approached Kinston in considerable force and attacked the line of our forces under the immediate command of Col. James D. Radcliffe, North Carolina Troops, who had taken position on the west side of Southwest Creek. At 10 o�clock, I arrived on the ground and assumed command, and ordered Colonel Radcliffe to take command of the left wing at the crossing of the upper Trent Road. The enemy then was attacked at Hines� Mill while he attempted to cross the creek. After a sharp engagement of an hour, I fell back toward the Neuse River, keeping line of battle and arresting his approach about 2 miles from Kinston Bridge. He then attacked in considerable force, but retired after an engagement of ten hours. I rested on my arms that night in this position, the enemy ceasing fire after nightfall.�
Hines� Mill referred to in Evan�s report was sold to Waller Brothers around 1900 and became known as Waller Mill.
It is estimated that 2,000 Union troops crossed Southwest Creek on Dec. 13, 1862. The remaining 10,000 made camp for the night on the south side of the creek. One Massachusetts soldier wrote that they spent the night in a pleasant grove around a little church called Woodington; actually, it was the Woodington Meeting House built in 1829. It was used for community meetings and by several denominations for periodic church services. It has been moved from its original site and is now being used as a storage building on the Rigsbee Farm in the Woodington Community.
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Local historian Dr. Lonnie Blizzard has written a series of stories about the First Battle of Kinston, which took place Dec. 13-14, 1862; those stories will appear today through Saturday in The Free Press. There are also two opportunities for you to interact with history:
First Battleof KinstonPowerPoint presentation
When: 3 p.m. today
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You know that awkward moment when you suddenly realize you've greeted the Swiss president by flying another country's flag?
That was the unfortunate backdrop for a meeting in Kiev between Switzerland's federal president, Didier Burkhalter, and Ukraine's prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, convened Monday to discuss rising tensions between Ukraine and Russia.
With all good intentions, Yatsenyuk's office had arranged to have a Swiss flag in the office along with Ukraine's for the moment when the two political leaders shook hands. A lovely gesture, had it actually been the Swiss flag. But it was Denmark's flag instead.
Admittedly, the two do have some key features in common -- a red background with a white cross. The Swiss cross, though, is small and centered in a field of red, while the cross on the flag of Denmark extends all the way to the edges. Burkhalter didn't let the mix-up get in the way of the crisis discussion, though he did point out the Danish flag before shaking Yatsenyuk's hand, according to 20 Minuten.
This was not the first time the Swiss banner has been mistaken for its Danish equivalent. During the Danish cartoon crisis in 2005 -- when drawings depicting the Prophet Muhammed sparked a diplomatic crisis -- protesters reportedly burned Swiss flags.
To avoid future confusion, here's a picture of the Swiss flag:
And this, as a red-faced flag-procurement functionary in Kiev now knows all too well, is the Danish one:
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Equinix's New L.A. Area Data Center Opening Today with MySpace as Anchor Customer
Foster City, CA — May 17, 2006 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, today announced that MySpace, the premier lifestyle portal for connecting with friends and discovering popular culture, has entered into a new agreement with Equinix to significantly expand the company's presence through a new Equinix Internet Business Exchange™ (IBX®) center opening today in the Los Angeles area. Once MySpace is fully installed, the agreement is expected to generate approximately $6 million in annual revenues for Equinix.
The MySpace social networking portal has experienced tremendous growth and regularly ranks in the top 10 most visited sites on the Web with more than 75 million users. As a quality end-user experience is critical to the company's offering, MySpace is leveraging the network-rich environment of Equinix's centers to implement a robust, high-performance network connectivity infrastructure. At Equinix, MySpace has access to a critical mass of network service providers, giving it the greatest amount of flexibility in managing its Web operations, including high-bandwidth features such as multimedia streaming, as well as the ability to reduce network interconnection costs and enhance end-user performance.
"MySpace is an excellent example of the new generation of digital content and media providers that seek a more streamlined and efficient approach to the network infrastructure that provides the critical link between them and their end-users," said Peter Van Camp, CEO of Equinix. "Equinix is committed to providing solutions to this market that help them directly reach their network partners through peering relationships that improve performance and eliminate the costs of intermediate network backbones."
With the aggregation of networks operating within Equinix's centers, the new facility will allow MySpace to cost-effectively execute strategic connectivity and data exchange, or "peering," agreements with key business partners within a highly secure and reliable environment. To optimize interconnection efficiencies, MySpace will be able to expand its use of the Equinix Exchange™ service, a central switching fabric managed by Equinix that facilitates network and content peering amongst Equinix customers. Through these direct connections within the same facility, MySpace will also be able to eliminate the cost, as well as the performance degradation associated with linking to multiple partners over significant geographic distances, resulting in enhanced end-user performance.
"By offering a unique, network-rich environment with access to more than 200 networks, Equinix enables us to directly interconnect with the networks serving our end-users, providing a more streamlined path between content and users," said Aber Whitcomb, CTO of MySpace. "This model not only enhances our site performance, but also enables MySpace to peer with end-user networks and exchange traffic in a way that circumvents the traditional method where content providers were required to pay for transit to reach end-users."
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JPNN/New Delhi/Aug 15, 2015 / Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his customary Independence Day address, Saturday asserted that the frenzy of communalism or the poison of casteism have no place in India but did not announce any major scheme unlike last time as he answered criticism on fighting corruption. In his 85-minute speech from the ramparts of the historic Red Fort, he referred to the major issue facing his government -- 'One-Rank, One-Pension' (OROP) -- on which he said the government has accepted in principle.But he stopped short of announcing acceptance
of the demand of ex-servicemen who are agitating for over last two months. Wearing a printed orange-coloured turban and delivering probably the longest Independence Day speech by a Prime Minister, Modi avoided any reference to the disruption in Parliament over which President Pranab Mukherjee yesterday expressed concern. He mentioned the announcements made during his first Independence Day address last year like Swachh Bharat and Jandhan schemes and said many of them had been implemented in a time-bound manner like building of toilets. The government programmes are focussed on welfare of the poor and other under privileged sections while ensuring reduction in inflation and efforts to boost growth to double digit, he said.While talking about efforts for development, Modi made a strong pitch for communal harmony and peace. "The world keeps signing praise about India's diversity and greatness. Like diversity, the country also has simplicity and unity, which are our capital. These have been nurtured over the centuries. This capital has to be preserved," he said. "Be it the poison of casteism or the frenzy of communalism, these have no place in the country and should not be allowed to grow. These ills have to be eradicated through the nectar of development," he said.
He said if the unity of India is destroyed, then the "dreams" of the people will also be shattered as the country looking forward to development and progress.Modi, in his second Independence Day address, focussed largely on the issue of corruption and asserted that the steps taken by his government over the last 15 months to deal with this "termite" had started yielding results. Responding to opposition criticism that nothing is happening on dealing with the problem of black money, he said "some people love to spread pessimism" as he informed that about 6500 cr of undeclared money has been disclosed during the compliance window provided by the government. Asserting that there is no allegation of even one paisa corruption against his 15-month-old government, he pledged to free the country from this malaise "braving all kinds of attacks" and ridiculed those questioning this endeavour. Responding to opposition criticism on dealing with corruption and black money, Modi said, "some people love to spread pessimism. It is like an addiction. They cannot get sleep without it. For them, there is no meaning for programmes and initiatives. They keep on saying that nothing is happening, nothing is visible."
Though he did not name anybody, his remarks assume significance as Rahul Gandhi had only last week in Parliament questioned what had been done on dealing with black money."There is a lot of talk in our country about corruption. It is like a sick person giving suggestions to others on how to remain healthy, there are people who are themselves corrupt, who give suggestions on how to deal with corruption," the Prime Minister said."Giving suggestions to each other is also an art. I want to give an account today...We have not shown our commitment to fight corruption by addressing press conferences. We are working on the ground. We have shown results," he said.He said corruption had become a part of the system and "contractors were running the nation".Noting that his government had taken steps to correct the system, he said corruption has to be "severed from the system" and it has to start from the top.
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Harpo Productions announced Friday that the last episode of "The Oprah Winfrey" show will air on May 25.
Oprah announced in 2009 that she would be ending the top-rated daytime talk show after 25 years. She has since launched the "Oprah Winfrey Network."
Oprah tweeted Thursday that new shows will commence on April 7. The show has been in reruns over the past few weeks.
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CHICAGO -- A number of White Sox players and coaches spent the end of Tuesday's scheduled off-day watching Texas right-hander Yu Darvish come within one out of a perfect game against the Astros. There was a decided White Sox connection, with A.J. Pierzynski trying to join Ron Hassey as the second catcher in Major League history to be behind the plate for two perfect games, and Philip Humber in the Houston dugout.
Humber threw a perfect game, with Pierzynski catching, on April 21 of last season against Seattle. But this year's White Sox squad watched Tuesday's action more as fans.
"When [Marwin Gonzalez] got the hit, I stood up and started screaming because I was kind of mad," White Sox closer Addison Reed said. "That was an awesome game that [Darvish] threw. It would have been better if he allowed a hit in the seventh inning."
"I love watching baseball and I was into it, and I kind of felt for him in that whole situation and A.J. getting that close," White Sox catcher Tyler Flowers said. "Obviously, both of them did a great job."
Flowers has never caught a no-hitter at any level, although he did come within six outs of a perfect game with Zach Stewart pitching against Minnesota on Sept. 5, 2011. Stewart retired the first 21 batters he faced before Danny Valencia doubled to right.
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The Autumn Semester Commencement will be held Friday, December 14 starting at 10:00 a.m. at Veterans Memorial, 300 West Broad Street. The ceremony is free and open to the public. More than 700 students have earned degrees at the end of the college's first semester.
Speaking to the graduates at the ceremony will be John Lowe, President and CEO of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams. Lowe joined Jeni's after receiving a late-night call from his good friend, Jeni Britton Bauer. Lowe has responsibility for all aspects of the business, except, as he says "the most important ones--flavor development and ice cream making." Since he joined the company in July 2009, Jeni's has an annual growth rate in excess of 70% and has become profitable while maintaining a family ownership structure and true-to-its-roots small batch ice cream making.
Lowe joined Jeni's from General Electric Company, where he served in numerous leadership roles, beginning with his appointment in 2005 as Chief Privacy Leader for GE Infrastructure. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, and earned his law degree from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
World Book Night to be held in April
World Book Night is an annual celebration dedicated to spreading the love of reading, person to person. This year, the Columbus State Bookstore will be a World Book Night participating bookstore, so we ask that you apply now so you can be part of this great campaign to give free books to light or nonreaders on April 23, 2013, Shakespeare's birthday. Please apply before January 23 at www.WorldBookNight.org.
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Keith Wollenberg, LogisticsART project coordinator, attended a best-practice brainstorming session about assisting the chronically unemployed November 28 in Washington, D.C. Attendees represented states from Ohio to California, and they discussed the success of their programs in order to identify promising practices for helping the long-term jobless find gainful employment. Wollenberg presented the LogisticsART project, and the importance of having staff trained to work with this type of population.
Dianne Fidelibus, assistant professor in MH/AS/DD, gave a presentation at the annual State of Ohio Training Academy (SOTA) holiday event December 7 at the Confluence Conference Center. In her speech, titled "Sense-Sationalizing Your Presentations," Fidelibus described how to utilize different senses to enhance participant retention. Because Fidelibus teaches a class on Therapeutic Laughter, one of the "senses" she described was the sense of humor.
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David Rivers, left, and Michael Bowers hold their awards presented at the 2012 Statewide SBDC Conference.
Michael Bowers, supervisor of the Small Business Development Center at Columbus State presented several sessions at the recent SBDC statewide conference: "Outside the Box Funding Alternatives,""Location-Based Applications and Services to Help Improve your Business,"and
"How Small Businesses Have Gone Ga-Ga for Mobile Devices."
The SBDC Statewide Conference provides an opportunity for attendees to learn about the latest products and services that will enable them to better counsel Ohio's small business clients and entrepreneurs.
At the statewide conference, David Rivers, consultant with the SBDC, won the 2012 Ohio SBDC Individual Performance Recognition Award. This award recognizes the individual advisor who conducts the most one-on-one client advising hours in the network in the state of Ohio.
Rivers also won the 2012 Advocacy Award, given to the individual whom the network recognizes for consistently promoting and supporting the program and mission of the SBDC to help individuals start, sustain and grow small businesses.
And, finally, the Ohio SBDC at Columbus State won the 2012 Ohio SBDC Economic Impact Recognition for Business Starts, given in recognition of the Center staff who assisted clients in opening the most businesses in Ohio in FY2012!
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Samantha August
The first Dean M. Bortz CSI,CDT Scholarship was awarded at the monthly meeting of the Columbus Chapter of the Construction Specification Institute (CSI) to Samantha August, a 4.0 GPA Landscape Design student starting her second year in the program.
The scholarship will allow her to continue her education. Samantha currently serves as the Columbus State Landscape Association president. She was selected from several candidates based upon specific criteria including her academic performance, service to the profession, and an essay on her passion for the industry. Interim Dean Dr. Mary Vaughn presented the award.
The scholarship is sponsored by the Columbus CSI Chapter and is open to any Columbus State student in the Construction Sciences and Engineering Technologies department. The 2013 scholarship application period will open in September 2013.
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Project Diversity is now accepting applications for 2013. Project Diversity is a comprehensive eight-month not-for-profit board leadership development program that develops leadership abilities in individuals through a combination of experience, vision, empathy and training.
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Concord Bridge or Fort Sumter Part II
Things which are unsustainable obviously will not be sustained, and the current political order in the United States is unsustainable. It is difficult not to see in today's heated rhetoric and occasional violence - though mild compared to what has happened in other places - the first breezes heralding the approaching storm.
In my previous entry, I attempted to define the opposing world views which make the conflict inevitable. I described them not as liberal or conservative, democrat or republican, or red or blue - these are meaningless labels - the modern equivalent of Guelph and Ghibelline . The next civil war will be between those who must rule, and those who have little need for rulers, and it will not flare into violence until the latter change into those who will not be ruled.
I use the term civil war simply to refer to a conflict between people who are citizens of the same country, so banish thoughts of Pickett's Charge, and Sherman's March - it will not be that kind of civil war.
The reason it won't be, is not because those who must rule are enlightened and wouldn't think of launching a scorched earth offensive through the cities and neighborhoods of those who defy them. It has happened before in this country, and it would be folly to believe the police, national guard, regular military and all the others who draw a paycheck from the state would refuse orders to make war on their fellow citizens. I would like to believe that would be the case, but the still standing chimneys of the long gone homes which once stood between Atlanta and Savannah argue against a naive trust on the better angels of human nature.
Money is the reason the conflict will not resemble that of 1861-1865. That war was mostly fought on credit, and the federal government's credit was good enough that it could issue debt to finance its efforts - even the the confederate states could, until the last days of the conflict, still purchase weapons and material on loans mortgaged against their future cotton production.
This is not the case today. Even though U.S. debt still has some value, that value would evaporate if the already nearly bankrupt federal government were to try to finance a fight against a rebellion. If you think the Iraq/Afghanistan wars were expensive, imagine the cost of those same kind of operations covering the continental U.S.
But just as the central government does not have the wherewithal to mount a continent-wide counter insurgency; no other group has the wherewithal to mount a threat which would require it. With all due respect to constitutional militia groups, while I do think citizen militia will have an increasingly important role in the coming decades, that role will not be as the thin line of resistance standing athwart the path of some statist behemoth which has finally crossed into tyranny.
You may say a government whose employees stick their hands up ladies skirts before letting them board airplanes, and supplies weapons to the vilest gangsters in the hemisphere so it can use the resulting carnage as a justification to curtail our rights at home, has already become tyrannical - and I agree with you, but do the people who live up and down your street also agree?
No, make that extremely doubtful. Here in Ohio we just had an election where the biggest issue was a referendum on repealing a pension reform package which would have just slightly slowed the gravy train for public employees. The public sector unions and their allies spent thirty million dollars to convince voters that asking state employees to contribute a few percent of their pay to fund their otherwise completely tax financed salary, benefit, and retirement packages, would leave the police helpless to stop crime, the fire departments without water, and death and destruction just around the corner. The rubes bought it and repealed the reforms by a two to one margin. So no, to the vast majority of our countrymen the idea that friendly Mr. Policeman and brave Mr. Firemen, and selfless Mrs. Teacher could ever be agents of a despotic government would be an absurdity.
But the cost of those pay and benefit obligations has been going steadily up, while the revenue required to cover them has gone down. Those who must rule have established a regime where the support of half of the population is purchased by plundering and then distributing the wealth of the other half. The problem is the money is running out.
Even if those who must rule suddenly realize the trap they are in, do you think their allies - the ones who supported them, collected the taxes for them, distributed propaganda for them, enforced the laws for them, and depended on their largess for daily bread, will also just walk away saying, "No pension for me, I guess I backed the wrong horse." I can't think of a metaphor to illustrate the minuscule chance of that happening.
Mr. Vanderboegh has said that law enforcement officers must "Choose This Day Whom You Will Serve". It is important that the question be publicly put to those we trust to enforce the law, but I believe it contains within itself its own negation - the "This Day" part. All but a small percentage of police and for that matter, everyone who draws a paycheck from the state, made their choice years or decades ago - they chose the cause of their paymaster.
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"All but a small percentage of police and for that matter, everyone who draws a paycheck from the state, made their choice years or decades ago - they chose the cause of their paymaster."
Sorry, Mike, but on that conclusion I think you're completely wrong. As both a retired military officer and a current public employee, you'd think I'm exactly the kind of person that you're writing about in the 2nd part of your essay. However, I swore an oath to the Constitution, not to any particular politician or political party.
So, I'll go on paying my taxes and voting for the candidate that I like or against the one I don't, and I'll continue to support the policies that I like. But that doesn't mean that I'm blind to the problems of our country.
Neither you nor any politician or union member or anyone else should think that I'll always just roll over for a paycheck. I'm prepared to make sacrifices, whether in paychecks or retirement funds or something greater, but I'll never fail to support the Constitution.
- November 13, 2011 at 3:31 PM
I'm retired military, also. My take is that if they keep plundering the treasury, I won't have any pension left anyway. I figure I've got about four more years of government largesse before it all goes to doo-doo, if nothing changes. So it really doesn't matter.
Either we change out the current batch of crooks for a new batch who may do it right, or it all goes away. Whether by Cloward-Piven collapse, or by civil war, or by some other catastrophic event, or with a whimper. It goes away.
I'm with Alan. I continue paying my taxes and voting for the good guys, but my allegiance is to my country, not the bureaucracy holding it hostage.
- November 14, 2011 at 8:57 AM
Check out the Oath Keepers organization.
The folks that have sworn loyalty to the constitution, not the politician or party.
- November 14, 2011 at 10:14 AM
- fast richard said...
A civil war would only incidentaly involve conflict between the government and the citizens. The primary conflict would be between factions of the citizenry. You present arguments which are substantially similar to what I have heard recently from the leftist of the occupy mobs. I suspect that the desired final state of society might be different.
- November 15, 2011 at 7:53 AM
I have a friend who works as a civilian employee of the Navy at the Pax River Naval Air Station. Several years ago, I asked him how his Naval cohorts would respond if asked to (ahem) execute unconstitutional orders, i.e. to help in an overthrow of our Constitution. The question he put to them was thus in the vein of, "Whom would they choose to serve?"
The response was visceral and overwhelming. They swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, not to the follow the illegal orders of the bureaucrats who inhabit gubmint. They are on our side.
- November 21, 2011 at 10:35 PM
- Earl said...
During the Nixon Watergate years the division I was with was planning to go to Washington DC to secure the city -- my question to the officers was do we support the President or the Congress, Nixon didn't let it come to that. But the Army split in 1861, mostly just the officer corps. It is always more than money worth dying for, always.
- November 21, 2011 at 11:13 PM
Oh well you had me on your side till you started blathering on about issue 2. Im a union fireman...and an oathkeeper. You and I will simply disagree in the whole issue.
- November 22, 2011 at 3:43 PM
"They swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, not to the follow the illegal orders of the bureaucrats who inhabit gubmint. They are on our side."
Yet, here we are.
- November 22, 2011 at 5:15 PM
- John said...
Gentleman, I think you are missing the point of Mike's thrust. He isn't looking at individual police/ firefighters rather at the herd. Remember, a person is smart - people are stupid.
I used to make the mistake of judging by assuming I am average. Just from the fact that you read blogs like this, you ARE NOT average.
- November 23, 2011 at 10:03 AM
Just found this blog excellent.
I thought about what the police & military would do in a situation where they had to choose sides. I believe the answer is in these excellent comments just as I thought, sounds like they would stick in the early stages only to ultimately choose what the founders chose in the 18th century the constitution and family. This is why these are being attacked today. God help us all...
- November 23, 2011 at 10:25 AM
- Graybeard said...
Linked back from my place..
- November 23, 2011 at 9:07 PM
The issue isn't what the government employees do so much as what kind of cretins the voters will keep putting in office. If nothing changes and the economy collapses there won't be salaries or pensions anyway.
As long as people who vote aren't willing to recognize the danger we are in then it's hard to press government employees about this.
As long as progressives are in denial about government trying to do every function in life then nothing will change.
The moment California or Illinois government can no longer go on their spending spree will be when realty hits. Because Congress will not appropriate money to bail them out. Especially since the federal government is burning through borrowed money at such a fast clip.
- November 24, 2011 at 10:47 AM
Causa Patet, exactly.
The union firefighter and public employees here say they will just keep paying their taxes and supporting the Constitution. That's just funny. Well, no,...sad, actually.
If you think voting is gonna fix the situation, then yes, you are blind to the problems.
- November 26, 2011 at 7:21 AM


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Overall, the vaccine does not raise the odds of developing Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), a disorder of the peripheral nervous system, says Nizar Souayah, MD, of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark.
"But there is clear evidence from our database of an increased incidence of Guillain-Barre syndrome in the first six weeks, especially the first two weeks, after vaccination," he tells WebMD.
Still, the risk is extremely low: 26 in 10 million in the first two weeks and 30 in 10 million in the first six weeks after vaccination. That compares to 5 in 10 million odds in the general population, Souayah says.
In response to the study, a spokesperson for Merck, which makes Gardasil, notes that the CDC says that "the data do not currently suggest an association between Gardasil and GBS."
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Guillain-Barre syndrome is a rare nervous system disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the nervous system. This immune system malfunction is usually triggered by an infection, such as with flu virus, or other illness. Occasionally, surgery or vaccinations will trigger the syndrome.
The link between Guillain-Barre syndrome and vaccinations isn't clear. But researchers say concerns emerged after an association was noticed during the 1976-1977 " swine flu" season. Since then, "there is always a concern when any vaccine program is introduced," says Ken Gorson, MD, a neurologist at Tufts University/St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston.
In January 2007, the CDC added Gardasil to its routine childhood immunization schedule. The CDC recommended Gardasil for all girls aged 11-12 and even for girls as young as 9, with catch-up doses for girls and women 13-26 who hadn't been vaccinated earlier.
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Overall incidence of lesions, combining those with or without epithelial breach, did not differ significantly between the two treatment groups: 34.3 percent versus 29.4 percent in the nonoxynol-9 and placebo groups, respectively.
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Researchers divided lesions into those with or without an epithelial breach and assessed whether incidence of lesions with a breach also increased with increasing gel use. Incidence of lesions rose with increasing gel use. The increase in incidence of lesions was seen in both groups, but it happened most rapidly in the nonoxynol-9 group. Hazard ratio of HIV-1 infection in women who had at least one episode of a lesion with an epithelial breach (irrespective of treatment group) was twice that in those who never had such a lesion. Lesions without an epithelial disruption did not increase a woman's risk of HIV-1 infection.
Researchers conclude that nonoxynol-9 increased risk of HIV- 1 infection compared with placebo. Risk was especially high in women who used the study drug gel more than 3.5 times per day and who had a high incidence of lesions with epithelial disruption. This finding, researchers said, suggests that nonoxynol-9 has an adverse effect on vaginal integrity when used frequently, thus increasing women's susceptibility to HIV-1 infection. At low frequency use, nonoxynol-9 had no effect, either positive or negative, on HIV-1 infection. Their conclusion did not change after adjustment for sexual behavior (frequency of vaginal sex not protected by condoms or unprotected anal sex). Assessment of other microbicides should continue.


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CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq, Nov. 15, 2006 - Before heading into Baghdad, soldiers here put on layer after layer of protective gear. There's the Army combat uniform first, then an outer tactical vest, and finally, they top it off with an Army combat helmet.
All that gear is great for physical safety, but sometimes it takes more to make soldiers feel at ease.
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"My wife sent me Twinkie the Kid during Operation Iraqi Freedom I as a joke, and it hasn't left my side since," the Townsend, Mont., native said. Twinkie the Kid has developed many Cav-like characteristics since spending so much time with Johndrow. He even got a new name: "Cav Kid."
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"The Stetson isn't authorized in theater -- yet -- but we let it slide for the Cav Kid," Johndrow said.
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The First Team's command sergeant major isn't alone when it comes to carrying tokens from home.
For Staff Sgt. Brian Grinshaw, it's a golden wedding ring that fits tightly around his right ring finger that brings him comfort.
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She said her father gave it to her for luck on her first deployment, and she has kept it with her ever since.
"It seems once something gets you through one deployment, you have to bring it on the next," she said.
If you look deep in the pockets of Lt. Col. Eric Winkie, HHC, 1st Cavalry Division, you will find a crucifix blessed by a chaplain during Desert Storm. The crucifix has traveled with him through Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Kuwait and now back to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom.
"All of my kids have touched it, and I don't leave home without it," he said.
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The Las Vegas Review Journal reports today that Amonix, a California-based solar panel company that has received more than $20 million in federal tax credits and grants, has shut down its manufacturing plant in Northern Las Vegas, just 14 months after it opened. The company, which makes concentrating solar photovoltaic technology, is the latest clean energy casualty of the Obama adminstration's clean energy initiatives, which have become a main target of Republicans since last year's Solyndra bankruptcy scandal.
According to the LVRJ, the Las Vegas manufacturing plant — Amonix's largest manufacturing facility, has been idle since May, and the company started selling off the factory equipment this week. The company did not respond to Business Insider's calls for comment today.
The plant, which opened in May 2011, was financed in part by $9.5 million in tax credits from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, according to the company's website. The company also received $15.6 million in grant funding from the Department of Energy's Solar America Initiative.
At the time of its opening, Amonix's Las Vegas factory was widely praised by Nevada politicians from both sides of the aisle, including Republican Governor Brian Sandoval and Democratic Congresswoman Shelley Berkeley, who is now in a tight race for Nevada's open Senate seat. President Obama also praised the company during a 2010 speech at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The news comes at an opportune moment for Republicans, as the party's presidential nominee Mitt Romney attempts to move the conversation away from his record at Bain Capital and his refusal to disclose more tax returns.
The Republican National Committee has already sent out an email blasting the Obama administration's clean energy program and accusing the White House of providing funds to the failed Amonix project as a favour to Obama donor Steve Westly, whose company, The Westly Group, has also invested in Amonix.
UPDATE, 1:50 p.m. 7/19/12:
Amonix confirmed Thursday that it has shut down its North Las Vegas manufacturing facility, but clarified that no federal dollars were spent to fund the project because the tax-credit the company received from the government was never utilized.
Here is the statement:
Based on intense competition, the challenging solar energy equipment pricing environment and
lower than anticipated demand for CPV (concentrated photovoltaic) solar energy in Nevada and
other states in the U.S. southwest, Amonix has made the difficult decision to restructure the
company and shut down its manufacturing centre in North Las Vegas, NV.
• We appreciate the efforts that the city of North Las Vegas and the state of Nevada made in working
with us to make the facility successful. We looked at several options and were really hoping that we
could keep the North Las Vegas manufacturing facility, but it is not economically possible for Amonix
at this time.
• As we work toward a successful long-term future, we are adjusting our business and operations
plans to parallel changing market conditions.
• The current plan is for Amonix to vacate the North Las Vegas factory by the first part of August,
• The only federal incentive Amonix received for the North Las Vegas facility was a $5.9 million federal
manufacturing incentive tax credit that was never utilized. Tax credits can only be used to offset
taxable income, and Amonix has not realised taxable income to utilise the tax credits. Thus, those
tax credits have not been claimed and have had no cost to U.S. taxpayers.
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TreeView with Three-State Checkboxes
Posted by Mike Korzeniowski on December 11th, 2003
Desktop-as-a-Service Designed for Any Cloud ? Nutanix Frame
Over the last few months, I have been involved with a cople of projects that required the use of checkboxes in a TreeView control. One of the frustrations with the standard TreeView is that you can't show a partial selection to indicate that some of the children are selected. A partial selection in a complex tree allows the user to easily determine where the selections are, even if the tree is not completely expanded. A similar idea is used in manu backup programs to allow the user to select the files to be backed up.
To add this sample to your project do the following:
- Copy mod3StateTreeViewFunctions.bas and checkboxes.res to your project directory and add them to your project.
- Add an ImageList object to the form where your TreeView resides
- Initialize ImageList with tri-state checkboxes by calling InitImageList <NameOfImageList> (see Form_Load sub of the demo form)
- Bind the ImageList to your treeview
- Populate TreeView with values
- nbsp; <optional> Set checkboxes in the TreeView, updating the parents and children
To capture a state change event (see demo form for the sample code):
- Use the MouseDown event to capture the x and y location of the click.
- Use the Click event to check if the click is near the checkbox bitmap. This is tricky as the offset of nodeTest in the demo may need to be adjusted depending on the ScaleMode you use. I used Twips, the default selection.
- <optional> You may want to filter on a specific mouse button (not implemented in demo)
- <optional> Use the KeyPress event to capture keyboard ordered state change, I used space to trigger this
- If a state change is to occur, call ProcessStateChange passing the node that is about to be changed


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I have recently downloaded the latest version of Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 but whenever I try to install it, it shows the following dependencies. Can anybody tell where I can find these dependencies.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of symphony:
symphony depends on **libnotify1 (>= 0.4.4)**; however:
Package libnotify1 is not installed.
symphony depends on **libnotify1-gtk2.10**; however:
Package libnotify1-gtk2.10 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing symphony (--install):
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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
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Even when Disconnect follows the path we expect it to follow, it does so in a way that keeps us intensely engaged. There wasn't a moment during this movie when I thought about anything other than this movie.
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The structure is sheer contrivance — three narratives intricately interlocked — while the plot amounts to a convenience store of variably credible, or borderline incredible, strands. Yet the film is impressive all the same.
Characters are richly drawn and relatable, though at times stories teeter on melodrama. The overall effect, however, is powerful.
Disconnect is by turns frustrating and fascinating.
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Intense, powerful film explores joys and dangers of the Web.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Disconnect is a sobering and compelling drama that shows both adults and teens trying to find a way to express themselves -- and connect with each other -- online. Sometimes, it's for fun, but often, it's because they're lonely and sad and are looking for support. And other times, it's to hurt, bully, or belittle others, which can have very serious consequences. The Internet is also presented as a vehicle for exploiting young people, who may be trading their bodies for money. Expect scenes in which teens are baring body parts, either via webcam or pictures, and online sex workers are shown bare-breasted. There's also some frank talk about sexual acts, a confrontation with a gun, images of a suicide victim, and some drinking, pot smoking (an adult smokes with a teen), and swearing ("bitch," "s--t," "f--k," and more).
Messages: The movie is intense and sometimes bleak (with some bullying), but in the end, it shows how adults are struggling to understand and help teens who are disaffected and disenchanted and attempting to make connections online -- and those who may be looking for a way to communicate their feelings by way of the Web, too.
Role models: Characters are flawed but have good intentions, including a father who wants to make sense of his son's deep sadness, an ex-cop who wants to help a couple, a husband seeking justice, a wife searching for support after a tragedy, and many more. Know, though, that there are bullies in the film, too, and though they may see the error of their ways at some point, they're pretty cruel.
Violence: A man vows to seek revenge after his and his wife's identities are stolen, which leads to a confrontation with a gun; two boys mess with a classmate online and make fun of him; a character is found hanging from the ceiling; two men start beating each other up in the wake of a tragedy.
Sex: Teens send racy pictures of each other via text and email; in one, an underwear-clad woman's lower torso is shown. A scene shows online sex workers talking to their clients while wearing very little clothing (bare breasts are visible); an adult flirts with a teenager.
Language: Frequent use of everything from "f--k" and "s--t" to "damn," "ass," and "bitch," used both by kids and adults.
Consumerism: Plenty of labels/logos are seen and shown, including Apple, Dell, iPad, Facebook, Sony, Adidas, MasterCard, and more.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Some scenes show adults drinking; an adult smokes pot with a teenager.
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If you search the web for Yoga Teacher Training schools, you will be inundated with hundreds of styles and approaches in almost every corner of the globe. All of these programs promise to graduate exceptional, knowledgeable teachers with a penchant for presenting the practice of yoga in a safe and accessible way. But as the number of Yoga schools explodes, are the thousands of new teachers they are producing every year really credible and safe?
In New York, the state Department of Education doesn't think so and is requiring Teacher Training schools to obtain a Vocational License similar to what any technical school would have, and have threatened 79 yoga training schools with closure and up to $50,000 dollars in noncompliance fines if they don't. These stricter regulations may be a trend in the yoga world as its popularity continues to grow, and more and more people are becoming students and teachers.
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Though it is not a requirement to become a teacher training program, many of today's yoga schools are registered with Yoga Alliance, the industries current supervisory agency. Yoga Alliance is not affiliated with any state or national governing body, and seeks mainly to uphold the standards of the ancient practice of yoga as well as ensure the credibility and safety of the teachers that graduate from a registered program. The standards of a Yoga Alliance registered school are broad though quite thorough and help students and potential teachers to know what to expect from the registered program.
Whether or not to bring more regulatory standards into the scope of yoga is an ongoing debate. Currently, there are no requirements or standards that one must meet to "teach" yoga, though more and more people are choosing to train through a registered school before going out into the world to teach. Students, also, are becoming more educated on how to choose a certified teacher. But, the practice of yoga, just as any physical practice, can have its risks. Risks that won't necessarily disappear with stricter regulations.
What could happen if yoga schools become state and federally regulated could be a double edged sword. On one side, yoga will become much more of a business than it already is potentially losing the individual creativity and interpretation on which many schools thrive. Schools may often have to teach, or not teach, based on regulations with materials being standardized or omitted based on the opinions of people in business suits who may or may not know anything about the practice and teaching of yoga. But, conversely, having your school or your certification recognized by a state and/or federal licensing board may elevate the credibility and the compensation of yoga teachers. As a fellow yogi/physical therapist recently pointed out, in the 70's physical therapy was an emerging art that was not state or federally regulated, thus physical therapists weren't viewed with the respect and credibility that they have today. With regulations and standardizations, physical therapy has grown into a well-respected field which is not only credible but also well compensated. Maybe the potential is there for yoga, too.
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Multi-published Christian author Jennifer Peikert author of Daughters of God…Modesty Matters releases her latest book, Being a Proverbs 31 Woman…What Does That Mean?
Are you finding yourself unfulfilled in life or in your marriage? Do you want to find out what is the God given role you have in your marriage and within your life? Then this book is for you! Written to encourage and teach women of all ages what a Proverbs woman is and what that really means, the author takes a look at Proverbs 31:10-31, and speaks of the fulfilling role women have in relating to God, their husbands, their children and within society.
In today's modern society women are taught independence and self-sufficiency, the author notes that this view is skewed and not biblical. The author adamantly proclaims that a Proverbs woman is a helpmate to her husband, but also one that builds her house, rather than tearing it down. Come and learn what a Proverbs woman really is and what it means to you. You will be glad you did.
Written with compassion and honesty, the author holds a firm biblical perspective that teaches women to be obedient to the Word of God while incorporating much scripture throughout the book that teaches and admonishes women to have the proper attitudes towards the Lord, their husbands and their children. From this stance of obedience and honor, a woman is called to be many wonderful things that will bless her, her husband, her family and her life.
Discover your destiny as a woman of God and as a Proverbs 31 woman… "…and they shall call her blessed." This book is a much recommended and inspiring read for women that want to make their life and marriage all that it can be. Many will find solace in the role they were created to fulfill and will find sweet contentment in positioning themselves under the God-given covering they were created to live in.
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