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NCUA's second-quarter call report data revealed much cause for optimism: substantial increases membership, loan, and earnings growth.
And yet, credit union loans should be growing at double-digit rates judging by previous economic recoveries.
Credit Union Magazine recently asked Mike Schenk, CUNA's vice president of economics and statistics: What gives?
CU Magazine: NCUA recently released second-quarter call report data. What caught your attention?
Schenk: We haven't spotted any shocking new developments but we do see a continuation of several key trends and important changes that we've been following over the past several quarters. These include a strong, sustained increase in total credit union membership, overall improvement in loan growth, and high earnings.
CU Magazine: Can you give us some context on today's strong membership growth?
Schenk: Sure. Over the past 20 years, membership growth has averaged 2.1%. In 2003, those growth rates began a fairly steady decline, hitting a low of 0.7% in 2010.
Since 2010, we've seen an astounding turnaround with a 1.5% increase in 2011, a 2.1% increase in 2012, and, in the most recent data, a 2.1% increase in memberships in the year ending June 2013.
This might not sound like a huge number. But remember, the U.S. population has been growing at a rate of roughly 0.9%, according to the Census Bureau. That means credit union membership is growing at more than twice the rate of population growth.
It's clear: More consumers are discovering the credit union difference, and an increasing number of Americans realize that credit unions are their best financial partner.
CU Magazine: That's an incredible turnaround. What's causing this shift?
Schenk: There are a number of factors at play. One of the more compelling developments was Bank Transfer Day which, at a certain level, was a reaction to big banks announcing stiff increases in consumer fees.
But on a broader level, membership growth reflects the public's disgust with the general bad behaviour many banking institutions have displayed—behaviours that ultimately spawned the financial crisis.
Even today, the Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index shows that 62% of the public trusts credit unions—the highest rating in the financial sector.
In contrast, the index shows just 28% of the public trusts big banks. With a disparity like that, continued growth in membership is a safe bet.
CU Magazine: And loan growth is back?
Schenk: Well, it's like the overall economy. Recovering, not recovered. Improving—but we've got a ways to go to get back to "normal."
Credit union loans actually declined (-1.2%) in 2010—the first time that's happened in modern history. Overall, credit union loan portfolios grew by 1.2% in 2011, and by 4.8% in 2012. The new data shows growth of 5.5% in the year ending June 2013.
Looking at previous economic recoveries at this stage, four years into recovery, credit union loans typically grew at double-digit rates. The long-run average annual growth rate in loans is 7.8%, and a bit over 9% if you remove the Great Recession from the average.
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MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canada's Bombardier Inc (BBDb.TO) took the wraps off its $3.4 billion challenge to industry leaders Boeing (BA.N) and Airbus EAD.PA on Thursday, announcing "solid progress" on the development program for its largest plane to date.
Bombardier's single-aisle CSeries planes, promised with seating for up to 160 passengers, represent the company's attempt to break into the lower end of a 100-to-200-seat market heavily defended by its U.S. and European rivals.
China and Russia are also preparing to challenge the trans-Atlantic duopoly over the largest segment of the global jet market, valued at $2 trillion at list prices over the next 20 years.
Bombardier is aiming to capture 50 percent of the 100-to-149 seat aircraft sub-category over the next 20 years - an estimated $430 billion market, said Mike Arcamone, president of Bombardier Commercial Aircraft.
In the meantime, Bombardier is under pressure to ramp up its order book and ensure no delays. On Thursday, company officials told an audience of executives, analysts and reporters that the program met a number of milestones over the last few months.
"We believe today's discussions of the status of various components, tests completed to date and the status of the flight test vehicles should help build confidence that first flight should occur as scheduled in June," said Chris Murray, an analyst at PI Financial.
Bombardier, based in Montreal, is the world's fourth-largest plane maker, behind Boeing, Airbus and Brazil's Embraer SA. Its hangar includes regional jets and propeller planes, as well as a range of executive aircraft.
It formally unveiled its newest plane after a glitzy multimedia presentation at its Mirabel facility near Montreal, lifting a large screen to reveal one of the aircraft.
Bathed in blue light, the white and olive-gray jet had a red-orange and white nose, its two Pratt & Whitney engines spinning gently.
"It's not a paper airplane, it's a real airplane," Arcamone said. "It's not a re-engined aircraft we are putting into the market ... I can tell you we are a very serious contender."
The company said it was transitioning to flight testing ahead of a first flight scheduled by the end of June.
At list prices, the 110-seat CS100 costs $62 million and the 130-seat CS300 costs $71 million. In contrast, the Boeing 737 MAX costs $82 million and Airbus' A319 NEO costs $88.8 million.
Latvia-based airBaltic is one of the first customers to purchase a higher-density 148-seat version of the plane, the company said.
Bombardier said it would also offer a CS300 with an option for up to 160 seats, either as an initial order or as a retrofitted plane.
A big buyer is Germany's Deutsche Lufthansa (LHAG.DE), the first airline to put in a firm order. Lufthansa Executive Vice President Nico Buchholz was present at the event, along with executives from Swiss International Air Lines and Republic Airways.
Bombardier said executives from about 15 customers and potential customers attended the event, though most asked the planemaker to keep their anonymity.
Its book currently stands at 148 firm orders, excluding a commitment for 32 CS300 jets by Russia's Ilyushin Finance Co. That order is awaiting shareholder approval, which is expected to go through sometime this month.
That compares with 1,064 orders for Boeing's competing 737 MAX and more than 1,440 for Airbus' NEO family, although only a small fraction of those orders is for the smaller models that compete directly with the CSeries.
Arcamone, noting it already has 14 customers, was adamant that Bombardier would meet its target of 300 firm orders and at least 20 customers by mid-2014, when the jet enters service.
Bombardier's slowly growing order book has raised concerns that the company does not have the appetite to lure customers with deep discounts, as Boeing and Airbus do, or provide financing offers and walk-away rights.
"We've had some customers that we did offer launch pricing as our competition's done, which is the industry norm. It makes economic sense," said Arcamone.
The CSeries claims a 15 percent cash operating cost advantage and 20 percent fuel burn advantage over the Boeing and Airbus models. Its airframe is lighter.
The plane uses conventional batteries rather than the lithium ion batteries that have caused troubles for Boeing's Dreamliner plane. "We are very glad about that decision," Arcamone said.
Airbus and Boeing have moved to defend their strong market shares by adding fuel-saving engines similar to those on the CSeries to their own best-selling models.
That is a draw for airlines preferring to stick with existing suppliers, whose planes pilots are already certified to fly and where spare parts are plentiful. Numerous repair stations are already qualified to service the competing jets.
Bombardier, which says it expects orders for the CSeries to pick up once the aircraft has made its maiden flight, has an ambitious launch schedule, analysts say, with little room for error. (Additional reporting by Tim Hepher; Writing by Susan Taylor, Janet Guttsman and Solarina Ho; Editing by Frank McGurty, Maureen Bavdek, Dale Hudson and Dan Grebler)

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Austin, TX is known for live music. In fact, you can't walk down Sixth Street without being pulled into a bar by the sounds of guitar riffs and kick drums. Trust us, we've tried. But that being said, the city is obviously a hotbed for burgeoning talent in the rock and country arena. Enter, The Wind & the Wave – an Austin-based duo that charmed their way into our hearts when they stopped through Pittsburgh on their tour with the Jameston Revival. Get to know more about Patty Lynn and Dwight Baker and listen to a song from their new LP!
I like your tattoo.
KM: Oh, thanks. It's a celtic knot.
Dwight: Are you Scottish?
KM: No, I'm a bit Irish.
Dwight: We played in Ireland.
KM: That's so cool, tell me about it!
Patty: We went on a tour with a band called Stereophonics. They're huge over there. So we were on their US/Canada tour.
Dwight: Yeah, we played Ireland, Scotland and mainland Great Britain.
KM: Tell me about how you found each other and became a band.
Patty: I was in another band and I was living in Austin. And he came out to see somebody that my band was opening for. And liked what he heard, I guess.
Dwight: I just thought you were pretty. No, I loved what I heard. She's got an enchanting voice. It's magic.
Patty: And so after that, my band built a relationship with him. He has a really nice studio in Austin. We made a couple records with him. And then through that process, we just became friends. We just enjoyed each other's company. Definitely more so than I enjoyed the company of my bandmates. It was just kind of a natural thing that happened.
Dwight: And then she quit her band. And I had a break in my schedule so we started writing together and it became that record very quickly. Then three months after that, we signed to RCA. It was very weird and very quick.
KM: That is quick. So you've been a band for about a year?
Dwight: Yeah, I think we're at about 18 months. It's been fun.
KM: People usually want to know what any artist's influences are. But we're going to make you narrow that down to the one album that truly affected your path in music.
Patty: Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie just opened my brain. Before that I didn't really know what I liked in music. Like, I liked whatever my friends liked, or thought I did anyway. And then I heard that record and it's just in another world.
Dwight: I'd say that the first record that affected me was Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys. The first one that I went like, "whooooa. I want to sing along with all of this! This is genius!" And I'm like, 6.
KM: I wanna go back to the topic of touring for a minute. Which place was your favorite to play and why?
Dwight: I like the Midwest. I like Des Moines and …
Patty: Like Omaha.
Dwight: Yeah! There's something really awesome about the Midwest. Or just out-of-the-way places, Portland's been great too. When you don't get a band everytime they come through on tour, like a city doesn't get every tour, kids are just dying for it.
Patty: Which is the way it should be all the time. But it's not. I mean, we're from Austin and I love Austin. Favorite place to go? Austin. But the people who live there see live music 10 times a day.
Dwight: We loved European fans too. 'Cause they just get up on each other's shoulders and throw a beer in the air.
Patty: They know how to do it right.
Dwight: It's like a working class crowd with Stereophonics and they're just out for a good time. And it just makes the show more fun. Listening, paying attention but being rowdy too.
Patty: They're always in the moment.
Dwight: American fans these days tend to spend a lot of time on their cell phones.
Patty: Me included! I'm on my phone all the damn time! But when you go to a show, it's like, why are you there?
Dwight: You almost want to give a lecture. Let's all put our phones on silent like on an airplane and all participate and afterwards, let's go crazy!


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Volunteers play an essential role at WCRC. We cannot do it without you. Join us to help change the course of cancer in your community! Volunteer with us to provide information, resources, and emotional and practical support to women at risk for and diagnosed with cancer.
Volunteers provide many services:
- Information and referral to community resources
- Community health advocates (CHAs)
- In-home support for low income women
- Pro-bono psychotherapy for low income women
- Cancer education and healing arts workshops
- Administration: data entry, mailings, filing, office support, and grantwriting, fundraising and event assistance
The Volunteer Process
- Step 1: Complete the Volunteer Application
- Step 2: Attend a Volunteer Orientation Session
- Step 3: Participate in the Volunteer Training
Step 1: Complete the Volunteer Application
If you'd like to volunteer with WCRC, you first need to apply. Submit the online Volunteer Application, or complete the Volunteer Application (.doc) and return it to Audrey Shoji (firstname.lastname@example.com). Audrey will confirm receipt of your application and invite you to the next Volunteer Orientation Session.
Step 2: Attend a Volunteer Orientation Session
After applying, you must attend a Volunteer Orientation Session at WCRC where you'll learn about us, the services volunteers provide, and volunteer requirements.
Our upcoming Volunteer Orientation Sessions will be held:
Tuesday, January 7, from 6:00-7:00 pm
Tuesday, February 4, from 6:00-7:00 pm
Tuesday, March 3 from 6:00-7:00 pm
Step 3: Participate in Volunteer Training
Following your Volunteer Application and Orientation (required), you may be invited to participate in our 1-day Volunteer Training led by cancer experts, community partners, and staff. Assisted by client and volunteer panels, we'll discuss and explore the basic biology of cancer, cultural humility, boundaries, confidentiality, self-care, and community resources.
Next Mandatory Volunteer Training:
Date: Saturday, January 25, 2019, 9:00-5:00 p.m.
Location: WCRC office, 2908 Ellsworth St., Berkeley
Breakfast & lunch will be served.
For more information and to register, contact Audrey Shoji (email@example.com) / 510-809-0202
WCRC Volunteer Positions Available
- Information and Referral Helpline
2-3 hour shift/week (approximately 10 am-1 pm or 1 – 4 pm, Monday-Friday)
Volunteers conduct phone and drop-in intakes, develop care plans, recommend resources, answer questions, provide emotional support, make follow-up calls to those requesting ongoing support, and train incoming I&R volunteers. We also seek bilingual (Spanish/English, Mandarin/English, Cantonese/English, etc.) volunteers for this position.
- In-home Practical & Emotional Support
2-4 hours/week, times flexible, various locations in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Volunteers are matched with a woman with cancer to provide weekly companionship, connection to resources at WCRC, emotional support, and/or basic practical help such as grocery shopping, errands, light housekeeping, and, if possible, accompaniment or transportation to medical appointments. Access to a car is extremely helpful but not required. Bi/Multi-lingual volunteers may also be matched with a client who prefers support in a language other than English.
- Programa Latino (must be fluent in Spanish)
6-8 hours/month, times vary.
Volunteers provide cancer navigation, emotional support, and education to Latina women in their own language and in support of their cultural values. Volunteers with training in medical interpretation may also volunteer with client support, or simultaneous interpretation at WCRC events and wellness workshops. Los voluntarios proporcionan navegación del cáncer, apoyo emocional y educación a mujeres Latinas en su propio idioma y mantienen sus valores culturales.
- Sister to Sister African-American Outreach
6-8 hours/month, times vary.
Sister to Sister volunteers offer welcoming support to African American women through cancer navigation, emotional support, cancer education workshops, wellness programs, and community outreach. Volunteers must be African-American or of African descent.
- Events and Community Outreach
Usually evenings and weekends, times vary.
Volunteers participate in tabling and outreach. Activities may include sharing and coordinating materials and information at community health fairs and street fairs, and assisting at WCRC fundraising and celebration events.
- Administrative/Office Support (must have admin/computer skills)
3-4 hours/week, (approximately 10 am – 1 pm or 1-4 pm, Monday-Friday)
Volunteers assist with administrative duties such as filing, copying, mailing, phone reception, inventory projects, record keeping, and general facility upkeep. Opportunities to help the Development Department with fundraising, event planning, and grant-writing are also available.
- Volunteer Psychotherapist
12 clinical hours over a number of months.
Join our cadre of psychotherapists – both licensed therapists and interns in private practice – in volunteering 12 sessions to a low-income woman or couple who are living with cancer. These sessions would take place in your private practice office. As part of the program you can choose to participate in an ongoing consultation group that meets every month on the first Wednesday of the month and our CEU program. This network of like-minded clinicians has become a consistent and supportive presence for our volunteer therapists, as well as in the lives we touch in the cancer care community. The regular consultation groups provide a highly valued opportunity for reflection on the challenges of working with women, living with cancer and death and dying. To become a member of the Women's Cancer Resource Center's Psychotherapy Program, please read the attached Membership Agreement / Contact Information form. Volunteers in this program need to attend the WCRC's volunteer orientation but not the training.


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You all know I have a soft spot for dogs.
I am partial to dachshunds at my house, and we currently have two rescues – sweeties Basil and Rosemary. They came to us with limited background story, but enough quirks to know they had not been given the best life before coming to our home.
I cannot imagine the horrors so many animals face, and I wish I could help them all.
Right now, there is a dog in desperate need of our help – whenever I hear details of Muffin's story, I go hug my two pups close. They wiggle away and wonder what's up. Muffin was found, neglected and severely abused, and is currently in the care of a rescue organization.
My friend Kita from Pass the Sushi will be adopting Muffin as soon as this sweet pup is ready. Kita has already spent time with Muffin, and says she is a sweetie:
"As you all know, we are rooting on Lil Miss Muffin, a pup found neglected and abused. She is with the wonderful people at Response-A-Bull rescue as they continue her treatment and long road to recovery. Muffin is amazingly, one of the sweetest dogs I have ever met, even after all she has been through. Her personality is soft and affectionate. She loves to snuggle on the sofa, and with that big cone, it can be quite the entertainment to watch her settle into your lap. But worth it. Very very worth it. With such a long road ahead of her, we are hoping to help raise some awareness and help with the cost of the increasing medical expense for Muffin."
Today a large group of bloggers are coming together to help Muffin with a bake sale. I am contributing Basil's favorite, apple peanut butter dog treats.
There are many tasty treats up for bid, and bids get you raffle tickets for a Le Creuset French oven! Please visit the auction today and help this sweet pup!


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Tradition hangs heavily on the Spanish psyche, but it's also worn comfortably, as an expression of a life lived with pride, spirit and style. For Hemispheres' spring fashion shoot, we travel to Seville to bring you designs informed by the past and inspired by the future — and, while we're there, take you along on an all-senses tour of this sublime town.
Author Jane Wright Photography Oliver Pilcher
IT'S LUNCHTIME at El Rinconcillo, on Seville's Calle Gerona. Paper napkins are strewn on the flagstone floor and the scent of fried garlic and good coffee fills the air. Three sturdy sherry barrels serve as tables for those enjoying their tapas standing up, while the rest of the patrons perch at the ancient wooden bar or sit at tables at the back of the large room. A sheaf of Ibérico hams hangs, cloven-footed, from the ceiling, and in the tiny kitchen beyond the bar, cooks turn out plates of chorizo and croquetitas, saffron-scented arroz and stewed espinicas con garbanzos. There is no background music, only the sound of the Spanish tongue in full, rapid-fire flow.
The fourth largest city in Spain, Seville sits astride the Río Guadalquivir, the country's only river port. With an illustrious past dating back to prehistoric times, Seville was variously ruled by Visigoths, Romans, Moors and, eventually, the Catholic kings and queens of Spain. As the words inscribed on the city's iconic Jerez Gate proclaim, "Hercules built me; Caesar surrounded me with walls and towers; the King Saint took me."
For all the influences that have been brought to bear here, though, Seville's greatest legacy may be its Moorish architecture, wonderfully preserved within the city's history-rich center. There, you can wander the narrow cobbled streets and whitewashed buildings of the former Jewish barrio, Santa Cruz, or take shade in one of the many magnificent gardens around the Alcázar palace that form an oasis of cooling fountains, orange groves, aromatic plants and secluded glades.
While the gardens speak to a more emotional vision, the palace's impressive interior reflects meticulous architectural principles. Vaulted ceilings, huge windows, numerous courtyards and balconies and tiled interiors of intricate geometric detail meant life within was cool and serene. The glorious ceramics found inside the Alcázar are indeed the signature of all the great Andalusian cities — from Córdoba to Cadiz — but Seville is unmatched in its wealth of this art form. (Witness, for instance, the century-old Plaza de España, a vast semicircular brick-and-ceramic monument to the regions of Spain, with the story of each province told in tiled tableaux.)
The city's showpiece is its stunning 16th-century cathedral, purported to hold the remains of Columbus. It was built on the site of a demolished mosque, though the only remnants of those Islamic foundations are the Patio de los Naranjos and its minaret, now the bell tower, called La Giralda. A gentler climb than you might expect, involving a series of ramps big enough for riders on horseback, leads to a heart-swelling view of this city of trees: orange, poplar, yew, cedar and pine, shading the streets and making Seville's parks a haven even in the fierce Andalusian summer.
At night, when the heat recedes, the aroma of cooking wafts through the air and the people spill into the streets to indulge in that most beloved Spanish ritual: dinner. Jovial, entertaining, noisy and often lasting well past midnight, it's the best way to partake in the Sevillian way of life. But it's not all that the evenings have to offer. Down these narrow streets a burst of music occasionally escapes from one of the shadowy caverns where flamenco performers act out tales of struggle, longing and lament. There's a man, a guitar, a woman and sometimes a scuffed, battered stage. The tiniest of movements in the dancer build slowly, quietly, almost menacingly, until her heels erupt into a violent punishment of drumming, her floor-length dress whirling around her in a fury.
The elusive quality of flamenco is known as duende, the spirit of the music and the visceral connection the listener instinctively feels to it. As the evening stretches on, however, and moonlight fills the city's crooked alleyways, never is it clearer that in Seville, a place that reveals its heart through its music and architecture, its zest for eating and drinking and talking late into the night, duende is applicable to more — far more — than just music and dance.
Credits: Fashion director: Nino Bauti, fashion assistants, Rocio Esquivias and Normandie Hoche; photography assistant, Tom Ayerst; hair and makeup artist, James Hurunui; models, Brenda Costa and Mark Waddleton from Next. Special thanks to the Hotel Las Casas de la Juderia and Carmen Esquivias of Family Different Productions (familydifferent.com).
What an amazing set of pictures. You've truely captured Seville's essence. I love the way you have combined top-notch fashion clothes with traditional Spanish elements (e.g. the mantilla). And the light is sublime. Thanks!
Congratulations Jane for your article. It sums up the spirit of Seville and a number of beautiful things that can be seen and experienced as a visitor.
To all, I hope lots of readers discover this wonderful city thanks to your magazine and decide to come and explore it by themselves.


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I think it is time to redefine "belief", or at least to limit its use a little. While it is true that the dictionary defines belief as "an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists", in many cases people seem to add "as a matter of faith" or "in spite of a lack of evidence".
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To me, to my family, to our animals, to our community or to the world.
I don't want to spin my wheels or waste time on anything that isn't relevant in some way.
I am just too busy to be irrelevant.
2013...may it be the year of the Corgi!!! :-)ReplyDelete
I don't make resolutions , just go with the flow . Hope you get your Corgi . Happy New Year .ReplyDelete
I do try to have a couple of goals for the year. Nothing too strict, but there are always things to achieve and improvements to be made!ReplyDelete
I had to google Corgi...lol.
I love "Be the person my chickens think I am".
Happy New Year!
I need to do some sewing too!! :)
Thanks so much for sharing this at The DIY Dreamer… From Dream To Reality!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Love your resolutions. I don't make any but get up every morning and plan to make it the best day ever.ReplyDelete
Love your blog! I would love for you to visit my linky party going on now at http://wallisfarmsdailywalk.blogspot.com/2013/01/blog-post.html
Have a great day!
Great resolutions for 2013, I can't do the chicken part but still :-) Ours are to keep on waltzing among other things :-)
Happy New Year !
I have 2 corgis. You need a corgi! It is always good to have goals for the new year. Writing them down and sharing them with others makes it real. Corgis are awesome - seriously you need to get one!ReplyDelete
Love these resolutions! How much do you think switching to organic is going to increase your bill?
I try to balance our "feed" with leftovers from our dinners tht are good for the ladies.
Cost is one of the main issues Sara. I am hoping to find a local distributor for the feed which will at least alleviate the shipping cost. I also plan to supplement their diet with their 'own' veggie garden this summer and weeds and grass, plus worms the rest of the year.Delete
The last one cracked me up. Great list! (do you mean "macaroons"?) I've been adding in some omega-packed feeds but how much more $ would going completely organic cost me? I think for now, I'll just try to let them out more often (tho it's not much use in the winter!). I'm kind of right there with you on so much of this--knitting, sewing, more veggies...ReplyDelete
Nope, macarons, as in the French 'sandwich cookie' not the coconut white confection with a cherry on top. https://www.facebook.com/MadForMacarons?fref=tsDelete


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July 2013. Dollie took a sewing class in Hunt Valley, Md for 4 days. We drove from home and stopped at a few sites on the way down and back. In the Hudson Valley on the way down we stopped at the Martin Van Buren home, the stone houses in Hurley, and the Huguenot houses in New Paltz. We also toured Longwood Gardens near Philadelphia. While Dollie was in class I toured the Baltimore waterfront, Gettysburg, and Annapolis. On the way home we detoured to Western Pennsylvania and toured two Frank Lloyd Wright houses, Kentuck Knob and Falling Water, then stopped at Washington Irving's home in Tarrytown on the way back up the Hudson Valley.Read More


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A call that Ottawa fans will question helped put New York ahead for good.
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The last Game 7 at the Garden was in the NBA. The Knicks lost 97-95 to Reggie Miller and the Indiana Pacers in the 1995 Eastern Conference semifinals. The last time the Rangers hosted a Game 7 was 1994, when they beat Vancouver to win their first Stanley Cup in 54 years.
After six games, there has been very little to choose between teams that were separated by 10 wins and 17 points through the regular season. But the Senators have one more chance to pull off the upset, needing only one more victory at Madison Square Garden, where they are a combined 4-1 this year.
NOTES: Turris briefly left the game in the first period after a blocking a shot, but returned ... Swedish forward Jakob Silfverberg made his NHL debut for the Senators ... New York's Brian Boyle didn't make the trip after suffering a concussion on a hit from Neil in Game 5 ... Two of Alfredsson's sons, Loui and Hugo, were on the ice with Sens flags when the team came out at the start of the game ... Former Senators Igor Kravchuk and Shaun Van Allen were among the announced crowd of 20,500.


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adding a spelling checker to Sylpheed in Puppy 4.0
Sylpheed has no native spelling checker. It should be possible to use the GNU program aspell. I have searched the forum and found information on aspell with Opera and aspell with Claws, but nothing on it and Sylpheed. Thank you in advance for any help.
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I would be happy just to get Sylpheed to work.
I haven't managed to get it to work under puppy 4.0. It will not connect to my mail server.
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Neither could I. So I went back to Thunderbird which has built-in spell checking and always works. For some reason, people like to use the B-word with Thunderbird, but I would rather sacrifice a few MB of hard drive space for something usable.
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Post subject: Sylpheed and aspell hack
There are versions of Sylpheed with built-in spell checking, but the ones making it into Puppy packages generally don't have it. I can't comment on Sypheed under 4.0 because I'm not running that, but I have long used it under 3.01 with a hack that gives me simple spell checking, if not the best interface. I have defined the external editor, (common preferences->details->external commands) as follows:
rxvt -e aspell -e -c %s
This tells it to run aspell in a terminal with email rules and interactive correction on the file passed to the command. Most of the time the correction I want is in the first 3 alternatives it presents.
I keep thinking I'll get around to installing gtkspell and keep forgetting, because this is just good enough for the present.
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Subject description: Thank you, I got it working
Thanks, prehistoric for the information. I did get it working. To make it complete, one has to install aspell-0.60.5.pet (program) and aspell-en-6.0.pet (english dictionary), first.. Both are located in puppy 3 pet (ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-3) section ibiblio.org.
In Sylpheed, one opens the Configuration menu, selects "Common Preferences", clicks on the detail tab and then for the external editor, one enters rxvt -e aspell -c %s.
To check the spelling, in the compose window, one clicks on the external editor button. This starts aspell in rxvt terminal window. You make the corrections in rxvt. When it ends, Sylpheed has the message in the Compose window with the correct spelling.
This replaces the external editor function with the spelling checking, aspell.
I had no problems with setting up Sylpheed. I initially could not connect to my server. I traced the problem to a misspelling of SMTP as STMP in the server entry! You see why I need a spelling checker. I would check the account settings. I was also able to import my Seamonkey mail folders directly. I had to export the Seamonkey address book as a LDIF file, then I could import it into Sylpheed. It took about a half hour.
I hope this helps.
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You could try this and see if it works, (includes aspell, aspell-en. and gtkspell.)
installing that gives opera spell checking ablility, also pidgin too.
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This may not be relevant to Puppy 4. I'm using Sylpheed 2.3.1 with Puppy 2.17. The email program has a corresponding spell checker - Sylpheed-2.3.1 gtkspell.pup - which once installed, works internally within Sylpheed, marking any incorrectly spelt words immediately they are typed.
Configuration, Compose, enable spell checking [X], Default language EN.
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Thanks, Wolf_Pup and Fossil,
That's a better solution, just need to see where it works. I'm not sorry I posted my hack, though. For those cases where you want to get added functionality without writing code, the trick of redefining an existing external command comes in handy. You can use this for other purposes. It has been around since my old Unix days, when user interfaces were slowly chipped out of granite.
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Thanks Wolfpup and Fossil for the suggestions. I tried the spellchecker_addon.pet and could not get gtkspell to work. The program aspell work normally and using Prehistoric hack, it worked fine with Slypheed.
Fossil, there have been a lot of changes between Puppy 2.17 and Puppy 4.0. The pup package may work. I have tried pup packages before with Puppy 4.0 and generally they did not work. I could not find the package. So I did not try. But thank you for the suggestion.
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I just tried the spellcheck_addon.pet with Slypheed 2.2.7 under 3.02 alpha 6, (which is basically still a 3.01 system.) No luck. I have Opera 9.27 installed, and remember from before that I did not need gtkspell, only aspell, to make spell checking work with that. We may have a conflict with different versions of gtkspell.
If you produce a new package it would be helpful to have a command line call to invoke gtkspell. Looking through that pet it seemed there were gtk function calls, but no way to invoke it from the command line. Using a hack, with gtkspell in place of bare aspell, would give a nicer interface even on versions of Sylpheed, or other programs, which do not have a call to gtkspell built in.
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@JustGreg - and for anyone who still uses an older Series 2 Puppy.
The Sylpheed-2.3.1 gtkspell.pup can be found here:
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Thank you, Fossil for the web site information. I will put it on the "to do" list and report back.
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A night of celebration at a Hudson Town nightclub turned tragic early Sunday when a 23-year-old woman came face-to-face with possible members of a Colleton County street gang, authorities said.
From what Dorchester County sheriff's deputies can tell, Sierra Denise Truesdale was an innocent bystander when she was gunned down outside of the Starlight Lounge just outside of St. George. The Trident Tech student was celebrating her 23rd birthday when she was killed.
Two other people were also wounded. A gunman had not been publicly identified in the shooting Monday afternoon.
Witnesses reported seeing known members of a gang that goes by the name the "Cowboys" at the club that night, an incident report states.
The group usually causes trouble, one man told deputies, but everyone appeared to be having a good time. Then, the men covered their faces with American flag bandannas, walked outside the club and fired off several rounds into a crowd of partygoers.
The incident is an example of why Walterboro Public Safety and the Colleton County Sheriff's Office are combining their efforts to crack down on gang violence.
"We just want to do what we have to do to protect all the innocent people who are affected by this," Walterboro Public Safety Maj. Ken Dasen said.
The Cowboys is one of Walterboro's primary gangs, Dasen said, having been linked to rising gun violence, property crimes and thefts in that area.
Most of its known members grew up together in the city's East Side Acres neighborhood, Dasen said. Although Dasen said the gang hasn't thought to extend their reach beyond Colleton County, aspects of the Hudson Town shooting are consistent with the "Cowboys," including the carrying of bandannas. Colleton detectives are working with Dorchester County investigators on the case, he said.
Walterboro and Colleton County authorities aim to combat all gang violence, not just the "Cowboys," Dasen said. Authorities hold a "zero tolerance" for gang members who violate the law, he said.
"When a gang member pulls the trigger, the bullet is meant to kill someone; whether it is who the gang member meant to shoot or an innocent bystander, the result is the same. We are not going to stand by as gangs wreak havoc on the lives of our citizens and visitors," Dasen said in a news release detailing the crackdown.
Dorchester County sheriff's deputies are still investigating whether the Walterboro gang was behind the events that unfolded in the Hudson Town community, Lt. Tony Phinney said.
Truesdale took a bullet to her side.
Friends attempted to race her to a nearby hospital, but a male driver stopped and waved down a deputy at the intersection of Legare Road and Raysor Street just before 2 a.m.
Truesdale was lying motionless, bleeding from her mouth and nose in the back seat of a black Chevrolet, deputies said. A woman was hunched over her, yelling for the 23-year-old to wake up.
A deputy pulled that woman from the vehicle by her waist in order to help a weakening Truesdale.
She didn't appear to be breathing, but a faint pulse indicated that she was still alive, deputies said. The signs of life didn't last, however. Truesdale was soon pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene, deputies said.
A burgundy SUV pulled up to the intersection and a man yelled that he too was transporting a gunshot victim from the club, an incident report states.
A deputy asked the man to pull over, but instead, the man sped away into the night toward Legare Road.
Two people later turned up at a nearby hospital for treatment of wounds related to the shooting, deputies said.
One man told deputies that he heard two shots, then felt blood dripping from his upper shoulder. Doctors treated a second woman for gunshot wounds to her right forearm and midsection.
Truesdale's mother, 38-year-old Tamika Myers, shed tears for her slain daughter the day after the shooting while grieving at a Hanahan home with other family members.
Her daughter didn't deserve to die this way, Myers said.
Truesdale had her whole life ahead of her and was studying at Trident Technical College to become a medical assistant, Myers said. She baby-sat frequently, and was known for doing hair.
"To know Sierra, was to love Sierra. We're all going to need some closure. She went through the struggle, but she never judged. She knew I loved her, and I know she loved me," Myers said.
If anything, Myers said, she found comfort in knowing that her last words with her daughter were those of love.
Myers called Truesdale at 12:03 a.m. to wish her daughter a happy birthday. They spoke again around 1 a.m. when Truesdale told her mother that she was having a good time and that she just wanted to say that she loved her.
Shots rang out at the Starlight Lounge less than an hour later.
The establishment was linked to another shooting death on June 9 when 27-year-old Edward Raymone Clayton Holmes of Acebasin Parkway in Jacksonboro was shot in the head. That incident took place at a St. George gas station on Jim Bilton Boulevard near I-95 in a fight that extended from the club.
Friends rushed the wounded man to Colleton Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
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An attorney for Charlie Sheen wants statements thrown out that were made by the actor to police investigating a Christmas Day domestic violence report.
In a motion filed April 1, attorney Richard Cummins says an officer questioned Sheen without advising him of his rights.
The motion does not reveal the content of Sheen's statements. A judge has not ruled on the matter.
Prosecutor Arnold Mordkin declined to comment.
Sheen, star of TV's "Two and a Half Men," is charged with menacing, criminal mischief and assault in the case involving his wife Brooke Mueller Sheen.
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A video clip indicates that MK Hanin Zouabi, a mild-mannered but extremist first-term Arab Knesset Member, lied outright when she said she did not know that the Turkish terrorists aboard the flotilla ship were preparing to attack IDF soldiers.
The clip, released on Army Radio's website Wednesday morning – although currently not viewable, apparently because of the heavy demand – shows Zouabi standing next to a group of Turks who are armed with clubs and metal bars.
It is likely that they were among the mob that attacked the sparsely-armed IDF soldiers who rappelled down onto the ship after it refused to adhere to IDF orders to change course. Though the mob proceeded to beat and injure several soldiers, including one very seriously, the small IDF force was able to recover and kill nine attackers.
MK Zouabi said repeatedly after the incident, and again today, that though she was on the ship, she had no knowledge of any preparations for a violent attack on IDF soldiers. Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin said he plans to submit the tapes to the Attorney General and to the Knesset Ethics Committee.
Filmed in the stairwell of one of the ship's below-board floors, the clip first shows Zouabi with an orange life-jacket, standing and talking with mob members. One Israel Navy soldier testified that it was at this point that three of his comrades were being dragged below in an attempt to kidnap them; according to his testimony, it is unlikely that Zouabi did not see this.
Zouabi has had, and continues to have, close ties with Azmi Bishara, former leader of her Balad party who, as a Knesset Member, fled the country after being suspected of aiding Hizbullah during the Second Lebanon War.
After seeing the film of Zouabi, a senior Navy source commented, "It is hard to conceive that Zouabi, standing there in the ship's stairwell, did not see the attempts to abduct IDF soldiers and hide them below-board."
Her presence on the Marmari evoked a strong public outcry, and the Knesset ultimately voted to strip her of certain privileges, such as the rights to a diplomatic passport and public funding of her legal expenses.
"The Israeli public, and the Knesset Members, are tired of Arab MKs taking advantage of our democracy to harm the country," MK Danny Danon (Likud) said at the time. "Zouabi must decide if she supports Hamas and Al-Qaeda, or if she is a member of the Knesset of Israel."
Zouabi herself has stated that she wishes to be both. "I serve my own principles," she has said, "as well as my people that is oppressed by the State [of Israel], and I have no problem doing so in the framework of the Knesset. My voters did not vote for me so that I would strengthen Zionism… There is a people that voted for Hamas, and I fight for their right to choose."
Hamas leader Ismail Haniye personally called Zouabi while the Knesset was debating the stripping of her privileges, and encouraged her to "remain strong."


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Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra and former president Bill Clinton launch the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (CGEP), a Canadian charity that is an offshoot of the Clinton Foundation. The CGEP will become known for many charitable works, including funding relief efforts after a 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
However, investigative journalist Ken Silverstein will allege in a 2015 Harper's Magazine article that the CGEP is actually a "slush fund" for the Clintons. He will write that CGEP "has been moving significant sums of money into the Clinton Foundation's flagship in New York. There's no way for the public to know precisely how much total money the CGEP has taken in over the years—or how much it has forwarded on to the Clinton Foundation—because, unlike in the United States, under Canadian non-profit law charities don't need to report donors to tax authorities." Nearly all the donors to the CGEP are unknown. It is also unknown how much CGEP has given the Clinton Foundation, except that it ranks in the top donor class of $25 million or more.
Charles Ortel, an independent financial expert, will say, "There are no effective controls over the Clinton Foundation or the [CGEP]. No independent party has had access to the bank account records, including wire transfer records. There are no independent directors ensuring compliance with the law. Only a fool would have any confidence in their numbers; it's like Al Capone forming a foundation."
An unnamed "money-laundering expert and former intelligence officer based in the Middle East who had access to the Foundation's confidential banking information" will claim that members of royal families in the Middle East and officials in corrupt governments around the world donate money to the CGEP, which is then sent to the Clinton Foundation. For instance, "Equatorial Guinea doesn't give to the Clinton Foundation in New York because it's too embarrassing [for the Clintons]. They give the money anonymously in Canada and that buys them political protection in the United States. The Clinton Foundation is a professionally structured money-laundering operation. […] I can't say for certain that it's illegal because I don't have access to all the financial information but at best they are skating along the edge." The source concludes that if one puts together all the known evidence, "it's obvious that the Foundation is a fraud."
The Clinton Foundation will fail to disclose an account linked to the CGEP on eight consecutive tax returns, including the time Hillary Clinton is secretary of state. (Harper's Magazine, 11/17/2015)