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It's about time I do another of my Top 10 lists. I did a Top 10 for April which focused mainly on restaurants. The following list concentrates on food I've been loving lately "" of course in moderation, otherwise I'd be fat and dead by now (!) The following foods are also by no means new, unless noted. They've all been around a long while, although it's only now that we found each other, in some cases, again.
Read and then enjoy them as I do. But not all at the same time, otherwise you're in for one memorable stomachache, the likes of which your insides have never felt before.
Note: This list is in no particular order. I love all my food equally, but of course I love some more than others. Heh.
1. Paratha from Banana Leaf Curry House
When the waiter first served this to me, I thought I'd ordered the wrong thing. I took one look at it and all I could think was, "What is that?" It looked like some kind of edible dunce cap, which it is in a way "" the cap I mean.
It's called paratha (pah-RAH-tah), one in a myriad of flaky Indian flatbreads. At its simplest, parathas are made from wholewheat flour and fried on a griddle. Some are flaky and doughy, but this one was crispy and sweet, with sugar sprinkles that melt on the tongue. You break off a piece like so and pop it in your mouth. Other Indian flatbreads are soft and can be used to mop up the last dregs of curry on your plate, but this one shatters, so treat it like finger food.
Banana Leaf Curry House branches
2. Ube* Macapuno* Cake from Red Ribbon
I had to laugh when I read Robyn's post about ube cake. Over in New York where she's at, it's called "Taro Cake." Heck, I just know it as the cake I grew up on and that I still love to this day. Now there's an ube cake with macapuno in the topping and filling. It's still the same ube chiffon cake with the ube crumbs, but the macapuno makes it more fancy and tasty. And it smells unbelievable too.
*Ube (OO-beh) "" Purple yam, aka "taro."
*Macapuno (ma-ka-pu-NOH) – Called "sport coconut," this is a type of coconut where the cavity is full of flesh. The flesh is usually sweetened to make into desserts and confections.
3. Pata Tim from Mey Lin
Pata tim is a Chinese pork dish that Filipinos have pretty much appropriated as their own. It's made from pork leg (front or back, also known as pata) that's boiled low and long. The pata is quite sinewy and the slow cooking brings out its flavor and natural gelatin. Depending on the recipe, after the pata is boiled, it then goes through one or more or all (!) of the following cooking methods: steaming, deep-frying, or braising.
Mey Lin has a mean pata tim. I'll say it again: Mey Lin has a mean pata tim. You can order a half or a whole pata, which comes to the table glistening, its fat sparkling. As you cut into it, it quivers, its entire being seemingly overwhelmed by its own deliciousness. Eat a forkful of the pata: meat, fat, litid (tendon) "" combining and colliding into paradise on your palate. The pata itself is cooked exceptionally, but it's the sauce that comes with it that's in a class all its own: thick and viscous and sweet, it's the color of caramel with star anise, fennel, pepper, cloves, and bay leaf.
The pata tim at Mey Lin is so good it'll leave you cursing or speechless under its spell. To give you some reprieve between bites, eat rice or order the cua pao, which is siopao dough without the meat. It's great for mopping your plate clean, but not your conscience.
Mey Lin
138 Jupiter Place Bldg.
Jupiter St., Makati
899-6688 / 899-8999
4. My new chocolate playthings
I don't consider myself a chocoholic, so the times when I do get a hankering for chocolate, it has to be worth the taste and the calories that I'll have to work off the next day at the gym. The so-called chocolate snobs will shiver in disgust, but I prefer milk chocolate to dark chocolate, and white is quite decent too.
My current faves are Butterfinger Crisp and Nestle Crunch with Caramel. These are new kids in town, and I've only seen them at SM Supermarket in Makati. The Butterfinger Crisp is wafers upon wafers layered with the orange Butterfinger candy. I actually prefer this to the original Butterfinger, which I tire of after a few bites. Butterfinger Crisp shatters in the mouth with a gratifying crrrrunchh leaving little bits of the Butterfinger candy to melt in my mouth. My Bin better not lay a finger on my Butterfinger.
I adore caramel in any shape or form, so it was easy for me to fall in love with the Nestle Crunch with Caramel. This bar is thicker than the average Nestle Crunch, and when you bite into the middle of a square, out oozes the golden sludge. If you keep this bar in the fridge and then leave it until it reaches room temperature, you'll get a most gratifying caramel trail that will dribble from your lower lip to your chin. What I also love is how the entire chocolate bar is divided into large squares, with "Nestle" written on the upper part and "Crunch" written on the lower part "" how cool is that?
5. Japanese curry from Zaifu
Curry is not something I particularly associate with Japanese food, with Indian yes. So it was a surprise when my Bin insisted that we go to Zaifu at the Power Plant Mall to try their Japanese Curry. Otherwise known as Katsu-curry, this is your regular katsudon (deep fried pork cutlets), but instead of the requisite teriyaki sauce, you get this pool of curry sauce. Overwhelming for most, but utter delight for people who love saucy foods, this is a dish that surprisingly, tastes Japanese. I certainly wouldn't mistake it for Indian, even though the taste of cumin is very much there.
The rice that comes with the curry is too small an amount for so much sauce and meat. Order more rice, if you love "˜em carbs as much as I do.
Out to eat. To be continued…


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Have you ever tried to love someone as hard as you could for five minutes? It sounds like a strange thing to attempt, but that's exactly what the people in a study at the Stanford Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging were asked to do while they sat in an fMRI machine. They scanned people of varying ages, and the person whose brain registered the most love "won." There was no prize, other than bragging rights, but in watching these poignant, fascinating interviews that Brent Hoff did with all the subjects, it becomes clear that they all found the experience unexpectedly moving and learned something about what it means to love and be loved.
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Teen Choice Awards 2012: Improbably Adorable
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Oh, TCAs. I forgot you were on, you hilarious street party. There should maybe be more here to be critical of, but why, when it's all so much fun? Because all the ambitions and strategies are so naked and forced and everyone has just been through a metamorphosis and it's SO DAMN CUTE. Full Story


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Implicit in everything it did yesterday was the message that the DUP has learnt major lessons from its disastrous Assembly election campaign in February and March.
There was no explicit admission of past mistakes or a public mea culpa for March's failures.
But the event was suffused with the sense that the party is attempting to change its image, tone and – perhaps – some of its policies.
In a critical change from three months ago, the DUP is now considering not just how its messages are received by its own supporters – but by nationalists.
Strikingly, Sunday's joint DUP-UUP statement about their talks exploring the possibility of unionist pact framed what had been agreed – a decision to stand aside in favour of the other in North Belfast and Fermanagh-South Tyrone – as a series of "unilateral" decisions, rather than a limited pact in those seats.
That is an unmistakable departure from the past language of unionism when any unionist unity was trumpeted as cause for celebration.
But, in a situation where one word – crocodile – was judged to have driven hordes of voters to Sinn Fein, the DUP now appears to be considering the impact of its language on those who would never vote for DUP candidates.
The DUP has also been forced to adopt a new strategy due to the overwhelming strength of the Conservatives in the opinion polls.
During the 2010 and 2015 general elections, the DUP sold itself as the potential king-makers in a hung Parliament – with the suggestion being that it would likely be a financial benefit of some sort for the Province.
Although the DUP never found itself quite in that position, the arithmetic in the last Parliament gave the party a degree of clout disproportionate to its size as the Tories courted the party ahead of tight votes.
Mrs Foster herself all but conceded yesterday that the DUP will not be in that position after June 8, saying: "On this occasion it does not appear likely that our votes will be required to help form a government at Westminster".
The DUP leader went on to argue that nevertheless the party needs "a mandate for unionism" and a mandate to restore devolved government at Stormont.
On paper, this ought to be a good election for the DUP.
Six of the party's eight seats are all but guaranteed. In the remaining two – Upper Bann and East Belfast – the party is the strong favourite, and it has the possibility of taking South Antrim off the UUP.
Mrs Foster sent out a very clear message yesterday that her party wants a deal to restore Stormont.
But what is far from clear is whether Sinn Fein – now with significant focus on Dublin politics and reportedly considering a leadership transition later this year – feels anything like that urgency.


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Hillside Vision
by Chester Lane
The New Hampshire Music Festival has big plans for a home to call its own--and for a major expansion of its community mission.
It was a defining moment for Scott Brubaker. As a child growing up in the 1960s he used to vacation with his family in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, and when he was ten years old his parents brought him to the New Hampshire Music Festival--to what he calls "a children's concert where they demonstrated all the instruments." Brubaker met the festival orchestra's principal horn player, and "from a very early age I knew that's what I wanted to do." Diligent studies in his chosen instrument would lead to participation in school ensembles and the New Jersey All-State Orchestra, a degree from Oberlin Conservatory, and, in 1973, a coveted post in the Metropolitan Opera's horn section, where he remains today.
But Brubaker's musical and recreational romance with New Hampshire didn't end with those boyhood summers. About six years ago, a friend of his with a home in the Granite State "told me 'there's a wonderful music festival going on up there, and you might enjoy participating in it.'" So Brubaker got in touch with the festival's music director, Paul Polivnick, and was invited to join its orchestra.
Thus in 1998 he began a new phase in his professional life. Soon after his demanding Metropolitan Opera schedule comes to an end each spring, Brubaker heads for New England to join professional colleagues from around the country in an orchestra that anchors the New Hampshire Music Festival's six-week summer season beginning in early July. Six classical programs, each performed either two or three times in a 600-seat hall at Plymouth State College, and enhanced with pre-concert lecture/discussions, are supplemented by an opening pops concert, six evenings of chamber music--and that annual children's concert, today's version of what Brubaker remembers as the galvanizing event of his youth.
Programs for children are a cornerstone of the festival's current $42 million campaign to establish The Center for Music at Center Harbor, which includes an ambitious building plan and defines itself as "a unique, year-round music institution devoted to performance and education." An early, anonymous million-dollar gift provided vital impetus to the project, and President and CEO David H. Graham says development efforts are now in a "quiet phase" as the capital campaign is being carefully balanced with the need to "grow the annual fund." The design team includes architect Christopher P. Williams, acoustician Lawrence Kirkegaard, theater consultant Steven Friedlander, and cost consultant Stewart Donnell. A distinguished cross-disciplinary group consisting of conductor Valery Gergiev, composer John Corigliano, violinist Gidon Kremer, pianist Van Cliburn, and and jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has been tapped for an Artistic Council that will guide the Center for Music as it develops its ambitious goals.
In late 2001 the festival acquired 60 rolling acres in Center Harbor, near the north end of Lake Winnipesaukee and the affluent southeastern shore of Squam Lake, and last spring it moved its administrative offices from Gilford to one of several farm buildings on the Center Harbor property. The master plan calls for construction of a 900-seat concert hall nestled in the woods beside the main house (the former Red Hill Inn, now known as Festival House) and a 200-seat chamber music "salon," as well as musician housing and teaching facilities in both new and existing buildings.
The past year has brought important visibility to the Center Harbor properties. Last summer and fall, working with local sponsors and Yankee Publishing, volunteers from Friends of the New Hampshire Music Festival transformed Festival House into the 2002 Yankee Designer Showhouse. In addition to attracting more than 4,500 visitors and netting $42,361 for the festival, the project brought the physical charms of Festival House to the half-million readers of Yankee this winter through a spread in the March issue of that regional lifestyle magazine.
In striving to make The Center for Music an educational resource for both seasonal and year-round residents of the Lakes Region, NHMF leaders are mindful of the special power of music in enriching lives. Robert F. Daniell, chairman of the festival and the former chairman of United Technologies Corporation, believes that musical study enhances competencies in other areas of human endeavor. "I think it's key," he says.
The Center will build on NHMF's existing winter activities, which include Fleet Music in the Schools--a statewide program that brings ensembles to elementary schools for performances and "hands-on" instrument demonstrations--and Mostly Music, a series of six one-week school residencies by talented young soloists, each culminating in a free community concert. (Some of the Mostly Music artists appear in the summer as well; this year, for example, pianist Andrius Zlabys and violinist Ju-Young Baek will follow up their winter residencies with concerto engagements in July.) The Center for Music plan calls for expanding such activities through a "school for a select few gifted young artists devoted to developing young musicians as humanists, not only musical technicians"; a Musician and Teacher as Mentor Institute; and an In-School Music Education Program in twelve rural communities, designed to "dramatically enhance student achievement by integrating music into standard classroom activities in math and language arts."
Summer Camp for Adults
Begun in 1952 as a chamber-music getaway, the NHMF owes its identity as an orchestral community largely to conductor Thomas Nee, who invested 31 years in the festival and became music director emeritus with Polivnick's appointment in 1993. Although the Center for Music master plan envisions a "musicians' hamlet" on the Center Harbor property, the task of assembling a seasonal orchestra in the Lakes Region from such far-flung points as Seattle, Roanoke, New York, and San Francisco as well as New England has long meant that communal accommodations would be necessary. (Most musicians currently stay at Plymouth State College, in a residence hall close to the concert venue.) "I've tried to capitalize on the things that were healthy and wonderful about this festival," says Polivnick. "I like the atmosphere, the connections among the players. There's been a long history of living together for six weeks, and [we've seen] more than one marriage and divorce." With relatively low annual turnover (about 15 percent), Polivnick has been able to build a cohesive orchestra whose artistic standard, he believes, is steadily rising: Preparing for rehearsals of Dvor‡k's "New World" Symphony last summer, for example, he played back the tape of a concert from six years earlier that included the work. "Our first reading sounded better than the performance did back then."
Though much revered by the NHMF musicians, Nee had nevertheless pushed the repertoire envelope in ways that may not have helped the festival's box office. "We've made it our goal to sell out the house," Polivnick says of his own approach to programming. "We do primarily great works by great composers." Indeed, overtures or symphonies or concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Rossini can be found in each of the two most recent seasons, as well as the upcoming one.
But so, too, can the music of North Carolina composer Russell Peck, whose work has been performed regularly at NHMF since the beginning of Polivnick's tenure. His Peace Overture, a 1988 tone poem inspired by the life of Anwar Sadat and the Israel-Egypt Peace Accords--and one of several Peck compositions on a CD that Polivnick recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra for the Albany label--is scheduled for the festival's August 7 - 9 concerts this summer.
Polivnick says his approach to unfamiliar music is "to start off with a composer and a piece that I'm convinced I can sell to my public, get them to appreciate and enjoy it. With the first success I bring that person back right away, so I get the audience very familiar with them. Meanwhile, I start in with another composer. You see a lot of lip service being done to new music with short pieces that aren't heard again for ten years. I do a limited number of composers, perhaps, but I do real service to the ones I get involved with."
As for Polivnick's espousal of those "great composers" who require no "selling" effort on his part, "I think it's been a good thing, for several reasons. I thoroughly enjoy these works, enjoy learning more and more about them." And consistently filling the hall, he says, "creates a high-energy concert. The enthusiasm our performances have created in that situation has led to this facilities project we have going now. It's a major undertaking that would have been unthinkable even three or four years ago."
In their report on the festival's 50th year, Daniell and Graham noted that NHMF had finished the year with a balanced annual operating budget of $670,000, and that gifts from individuals to the annual fund had more than doubled in the last five years, to $240,000. Veteran arts consultant Albert K. ("Nick") Webster--former managing director of the New York Philharmonic, architect of the NHMF's long-range plan in the mid-1990s, and now a member of the festival board--calls Daniell "low-key but strong, one of those rare business leaders who instinctively knows the right course, but also the need for good process." Webster says that Daniell, Graham, and the other "top-flight people" working to build the Center are taking "a Granite State New Hampshire approach that's not necessarily risk-averse, but appropriately cautious."
Yet from the beginning, Webster has encouraged the community to dream big, "because it's large ideas that they need. The people of means up there are coming to realize what a year-round program will mean for the quality of life. When the Center for Music planners pull it off--the educational spinoffs, the ability to use these new facilities in ways that go way beyond a summer festival--it will be tremendously exciting."
Chester Lane is senior editor of SYMPHONY.


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Among the many big plays in the Patriots' 42-14 destruction of the Texans, a six-yard run by Tom Brady barely registers. But Brady's run on third-and-5 did extend a Patriots drive, and he was fired up and pumping his fist on the field. Afterward, Brady said he thinks he deserves some credit for his ability to make plays with his feet.
"I don't run too often so I've got to show them I can still do it a little bit," Brady said. "All the people out there, the opposing defenses that say I can't run, at least they saw. I'm not a big threat, I'm not RG3 or anything, but I can make a first down."
No, Brady is not a runner like Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, who already has more career rushing yards than Brady: Griffin has 112 carries for 748 yards in 13 career games, while Brady has 399 carries for 737 yards in 174 career games.
But Brady was obviously happy to run for a first down on that play. And the Patriots were very happy in their locker room after a game in which they showed that they are, right now, the best team in the NFL.


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Photo of the Day series for November 2012. Penn State's University Park campus.
Gaming Club
Zac Smythe tossed a rolled up pair of socks at Folahn Akinyemi on Nov. 30 as the Penn State Urban Gaming Club engaged in some friendly competition outside the Millenium Science Complex at University Park. Members of the club fired darts from Nerf guns and used other soft projectiles to play a game they dubbed Thunderdome. Those who got hit were eliminated. The club aims to bring people together for human interaction, physical challenges and tactical game-play.
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John Anderson, a sophomore at Penn State majoring in music education, performed 'Lamento et Tarentelle' by Gabriel Grovlez, with piano accompaniment by Ara Koh, on Nov. 29 during the Penn State School of Music's weekly Bach's Lunch Concert Series at Eisenhower Chapel on the University Park campus. Go to www.events.psu.edu/cgi-bin/cal/webevent.cgi?cmd=opencal&a...; for more information about the Bach's Lunch Series and many more performances by Penn State's School of Music.
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The first snowfall of the season blanketed Penn State's University Park campus on the morning of Nov. 27. The forecast from the Penn State Weather Service is continued light flurries throughout the day with a high temperature of 32 degrees. Go to php.scripts.psu.edu/dept/ur/weather/index.php for weather updates from Penn State's Department of Meteorology.
11 21 12 POTD Thistle Pod and Mt. Nittany
Dried-thistle pods shimmer in the autumn sun on the east end of Penn State's University Park campus as Mount Nittany provides a frame in the distance. Happy Thanksgiving from Penn State.
11 19 12 POTD Leaf Blowing
Scott Sunday, Penn State's Office of Physical Plant (OPP) Building and Grounds department, gathered the fall accumulation of leaves near the Huck Institutes of Life Sciences on the University Park campus on Nov. 19. OPP employees are taking advantage of the holiday break and light walking traffic to gather leaves and perform other necessary landscaping services around the University Park campus. OPP Building and Grounds crews work to maintain the beauty and safety of the University Park campus throughout the year.
11 15 12 -POTD Fresco Restoration
Conservation scientist John Rita worked on the stabilization and restoration of the Land-Grant Frescoes in the lobby of Old Main on Penn State's University Park campus on Nov. 15. The restoration project is taking place in a controlled laboratory setting with windows that allow for the public to observe progress.
111412-POTD Concert Choir
Accompanist John Livingston played piano while David Hood conducted a Penn State Concert Choir rehearsal at University Park's Music Building on Nov. 14. The Penn State Concert Choir is 42-voices strong and performs music from the Renaissance to the present. Go to www.clubs.psu.edu/up/concertchoir/index.html for performance dates and more information.
11912-POTD Knowledge Commons full size
Su Young Kim, a senior at Penn State majoring in finance, studied in the Knowledge Commons at Pattee-Paterno Library on Nov. 9. The Tombros and McWhirter Knowledge Commons is a student-centered learning and study area located on the first floor of the Pattee-Paterno library on the University Park campus. Go to www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/kc.html for more information.


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Following The Rules, Or Taking Advantage Of Them?
What about the rules, how closely should we follow them? The slaps, algorithm changes, TOS updates and constant policy changes we're supposed to comply with as affiliates can be a bit overwhelming at times. And we know that the mother of all rules changes is the almighty (they just think they are) Google. If you don't comply with Google, you essentially don't get to play the game…that is unless you look at the rules a different way.
My financial advisor told me some time back that our politician friends running the show (if you want to call it that) in DC just go about their business continuing to complicate the tax code and then people like him read it and figure out ways to get around it. It's just a game that's been played ever since the wicked lawmakers have inhabited the halls of Congress and state capitals. My financial advisor's job is to look at the complicated mess and figure out a way to save us money. People pay ridiculous amounts of money to Uncle Sam when they don't have to.
I'm beginning to learn that rather than freak out about what Google throws my way, it's a whole lot better to just absorb it and figure out how to use it best to my advantage or what to do to get around it. One thing I've learned to get around lately is the big freakout about lading page quality. The only thing Google wants there is your landing page to reflect what's in your ad and they only look at your destination url. As long as your top level destination url matches your top level display url (even when it goes through a tracking link) and there aren't any quality problems, you are good to go. You can then set your individual keyword url to whatever you want.
You can use this to your advantage if you direct link to offers and are having a hard time getting a good quality score, don't put in your affiliate link as the destination url, use the top level url of your offer and then use your affiliate link with a tracking code as your keyword url. This works on both Google's search and content network. Now put on your thinking caps and brainstorm on ways you can really take advantage of this little trick and you'll never have to worry about quality score again.
Just as a warning here though, I'm not in any way condoning purposely breaking the rules or the law. If you violate Google's terms, you will get nailed and if you break the tax laws, you may go to jail. There is a big difference in taking advantage of what's in the rules vs walking over them and crossing the line. If you do Adsense, there are ways to optimize your ad placements so you earn the most possible, then there are idiots who ask their friends to click on their ads and can't figure out why they get banned.
Don't worry about the rules, adapt and take advantage of them. Oh, I was looking for my wife when we stopped at a rest stop, so I climbed up on the planter wall.
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The Eastern High School auditorium was packed Monday night.
The Washington Teachers' Union was hosting an education forum on, we think, the future of education in our city.
We say, "we think," because the forum was chaotic, noisy and uninformative.
None of the teachers in that auditorium would put up for a minute in their classrooms with the rowdy behavior the teachers themselves displayed.
The format was quite simple. The union invited candidates for mayor to come answer questions about education. The event officially could not be advertised as a political debate, but that was the real intent.
For example, the Rev. Graylan Hagler asked a simple question: Did the candidates support continued mayoral control of the schools? The activist minister took his seat and waited on the answer.
Mayor Vincent Gray spoke with passion about how anything that was done ought to be done for the children. But he didn't answer the question. (We should just stipulate that every candidate wants to do what is "best for the children." It's a meaningless phrase if you really think about it.)
Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans had no problem answering whether he supports continued mayoral control of schools. He bluntly said he had voted for mayoral control and it was the right way to go because the schools had been failing for at least 15 years before that.
Many in the crowd hooted and jeered, but Evans stood his ground. He tried to use his remaining time to talk about why he felt that way, but the audience wouldn't let him.
When newcomer candidate Andy Shallal — owner of the popular Busboys and Poets restaurants — said he wouldn't close any schools, the crowd cheered. When he later defended tough teacher evaluations, he was jeered.
Candidate Tommy Wells, the Ward 6 council member, kept reminding the audience that his ward has a waiting list for its schools because parents have been part of the planning. He says as mayor he would make walkable schools available for every neighborhood in the city.
Christian Carter, the least known candidate and not an officeholder, won cheers as he attacked everyone else on the stage, as well as Chancellor Kaya Henderson and former Chancellor Michelle Rhee. Carter also stalked toward Gray as if he were going to directly challenge him. Gray tensed up, but didn't fall for responding to Carter's theatrics.
At-large Council member Vincent Orange kept to his script, that he'll educate everyone's child, getting them ready for college or the workforce. Newcomer Reta Jo Lewis got a bit tangled trying to answer a specific question on "excessed teachers," asking that it be repeated twice. It was another indication that she's an earnest candidate but lacks real knowledge about many local issues.
It was the third face-off of candidates early in this campaign for the April 1 primary. Ward 4 Council member and mayoral candidate Muriel Bowser didn't attend, citing a previous commitment.
Washington City Paper's Loose Lips columnist summed up the evening for the audience: grouchy. It was an unusually undisciplined forum for a professional educator's group. But one candidate muttered later that "it won't be the worst one" they attend. Let's hope that's not true.
■ A big embarrassment. This one isn't political like the forum. It was the horrendous 45-10 drubbing of the 'Skins by the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday in the icy snow.
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At the Sports Authority shop in Alexandria, customers were coming and going but no one — no one — had a good word to say about the 'Skins. One shopper, who said she was supposed to be at work, only allowed us to interview her as we held a Redskins' seat cushion up to hide her face.
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About a year ago, I did a Megan 101 post. Consider this your 201 course. Or 102. I was never sure how that goes...
1.The control freak in me always hated group projects, but I met my BFF while working on a group project in college. We were doing a project on divorce and kinda fell in love with each other and the rest is best friend history. In that same group, we had a girl who at the age of 19 carried her vibrator around in her purse "just in case". To say that college expands your horizons is an understatement!
2.I read the news out of Africa every single morning. But only read the US news a couple of times a week. I always feel like if there is something I really need to know- I will see it on Facebook.
3.I don't really like to talk on the phone. I prefer texting. I'm funnier in print- and awkward in person. Perhaps that's why I like to text.
4.I like breakfast food for dinner. Except eggs. I like eggs, but if I know that the little, white, squiggly chicken backbone hasn't been picked out, I get grossed out. At actual breakfast time, I like to eat cookies.
5.I am notorious for screwing up song lyrics. In our first year of marriage, I busted out a spirited rendition of a Van Halen song I thought was called "Animal" only to have Kamron tell me it was actually "Panama".
6.I really want another daughter in our house. Right between Sadie and Noah. I think a five year old would fit in just perfectly around here.
7.I find myself listening to kids bop in the car even when the kids aren't with me. Same goes with iCarly on TV long after the kids have left the room.
8.I like to watch train wreck celebrity profiles on E! Okay- I love everything on E! My husband will be mortified that I just shared that.
9.Fish (or any kind of seafood) makes me want to puke.
10.I'm sleeping on the same bed that my parents had when they got married circa 1980. I get grossed out every time I think about it.
11.I'm on the downhill slide to thirty, which does not bother me in the least except that I find that I need to buy both anti aging eye cream and acne medication on the same shopping trip.
12.In the fourth grade, I had a hard time identifying as a girl, since all the other girls seemed to be into practicing cheerleading moves on the playground. That was sooooo not me. Another non-girly girl in my class and I started the tomboy line. Boys, girls, tomboys. All seemed right with the world.
13.There are a few books I read every year: Gone With The Wind, To Kill A Mockingbird, A Million Little Pieces and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
14.My husband is working his way through watching the AFI top 100 movies. I can't stay awake past the first 20 minutes of any of them. Turn on the tv at night and I am a goner.
15.When I was in college, despite the fact that in the dorms I could stay out all night, my parents still made me come home at 11pm when I was home for the weekends. Boo.
16.I'm pretty sure that it's not true, but I've always had in my head that I was conceived in the backseat of my dad's jeep. Perhaps I'll have to do some fact checking with my mother on that one so I can get that image out of my head.
17.If I were to go to my dream vacation destinations, they would be: Tahiti, an African safari and Rome to see all the cathedrals.
18.When I was in college, I was walking down the sidewalk in broad day light when a man grabbed me by the shoulders spun me around and screamed, "FUUUUUUDGE" in my face at the top of his lungs. Only he didn't say fudge. Then he let me go. I suppose he just needed to scream an expletive at someone. I get it- sometimes I'd like to do that, too. But I always walked around with my keys sticking out between my fingers like weapons after that.
19. I like to go and eat lunch with my daughter at her elementary school. Not only does she get so excited, but I really love school lunches. The odd combinations of pizza and corn somehow thrill my soul.
20. I have a crescent shaped scar on my right hand where my cousin bit me when we were kids. Little did we know that we were setting the trend for Twihards.
21. My toes are double jointed and I can make them click and go side to side like a metronome. It really grosses out my husband.
22.I've mentioned before that I can't burp. On our honeymoon we went on a glass bottom boat tour. Kamron says they had water, but I will swear that they only had rum punch on this little excursion. It was really hot and I was really thirsty, so I partook of a wee bit too much. Rum punch is the only know substance that can make me burp and I did three of the most enormous burps (near puking kind of burps) known to man when we got back to our room. We call that night, "the night of the three big burps" and we still laugh about it all the time. My new husband was probably sorry he married me after that little uncontrollable issue.
23.My mom and dad got divorced when I was 20. And no- it did not screw me up for life. They get along swimmingly now and are poster children when it comes to pulling together for their kids and grandkids.
24.My favorite vegetable is lima beans.
25.My current celebrity crush is Anderson Cooper. He could tell me the news any day.
26.We keep all of our family photo albums in a closet right next to our front door, so hopefully if there was ever a fire, we could grab them on our way out.
27.I have a collection of postcards that took me about ten years to build during my teen years. Unfortunatly, though, 15 year old girls tend to send postcards of hot guys instead of postcards related to where they are. So my postcard collection is really a hodgepodge of muscley men pictures with slogans like, "I've got a package for you. No wait- it's only a postcard."
28.I have no decorating sense.
29.My favorite age of kids is age 4. Old enough to be a little independent but still young enough to be sweet and innocent.
30.I bawled my eyes out when Captain Phil on the Deadliest Catch died. I think it's because Phil reminds me so much of my dad.
31.When we only had one kid, I didn't want anyone else to hold her, much less keep her. Now that we have three, I would probably leave them with a prostitute or war criminal if they offered to babysit.
32.The first two birthdays I had after we got married, we were so broke that my husband had to buy me things that we really needed. That first birthday, I got a new mop. The second one, I got a dust buster. They were some of my most prized possessions even though it just about killed my husband to give me a mop for my birthday.
33. I saved all my old love letters from my teenage days. I don't ever read them, but I just like knowing that they are there.
34. I was once in a local theatre production of Steel Magnolias. After the show, a man in the audience came up to me and told me that my version of a southern accent was spot on. He seemed really proud of me. I just smiled and did a little nod. I didn't have the heart to tell him that that was my real life voice.
35. I went on a mission trip to the Appalachain mountains my senior year of high school. We did repair work on people's trailers who had no running water in their homes. They were still using outhouses. The children didn't have shoes. I met a little 5 year old boy named Cody that week and I still think about him to this day. That week inspired something in me and changed my life for years to come.
36. I think the toilet paper roll should go over instead of under. I get this from my mother who will actually change people's toilet paper when she goes to their houses.
37. My favorite board game is Taboo. Kamron and I make a killer team at this one.
38. I made it until I was 28 before I ever had a cavity. I came home and cried because I was disappointed in my tooth brushing ability. To be so spacey, I kind of have some perfectionistic tendancies. Same thing happened when I got my first "B" in fourth grade math. Damn fractions.
39. I'd like to one day do something really radical to improve the world. I just haven't yet decided what that something is. When I figure it out- look out!
40. I wish that I knew how to dance. I love to dance, but I am so bad at it and look so awkward doing it.
41. I bruise like a peach. I also like peaches. And peach tea. And Georgia. But not Georgia sports teams.
42. Sadie's baby book is 25% blank. Noah's baby book is 50% blank. Miles does not even have a baby book. I became that mom. Ugh.
43. I'm not a fan of popcorn. When I go to the movies I prefer Junior Mints.
44. I sometimes go through stages where I will cut out coupons but I never remember to take them to the store with me.
45. We all fight over who gets to cuddle up in this one blanket that we have in our house. Ironically, that blanket was a gift to me from an ex-boyfriend over 15 years ago. Crazy boyfriend- fantastic blanket.
46. I have a hard time relaxing. I can only watch TV for a few minutes at a time before I get up to do some sort of chore or walk around. I don't remember my mom ever sitting down when I was kid. Maybe that's where I get it. However, my childhood house was always spotless as a result of her busy bodyness. That is SO not the case in my home!
47. I ignore the emails from the PTO. I wish I didn't have to but I don't think they want me bringing these wild and crazy boys to volunteer in the library.
48. I think that I am allegic to the stuff that goes in hot tubs to keep them clean. But that doesn't stop me from wanting one on my back deck.
49. I like to take pictures but I never do anything with them. They just sit on my computer and rot.
50. After almost 10 years of marriage, I still can't make a certain bodily noise in front of my husband. Unless I do it in my sleep and that doesn't count- even if it does wake both of us up.
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A Melbourne mother who killed her baby by leaving her in a hot car could be out of jail in nine months but the knowledge of what she did will probably punish her for the rest of her life, a judge says.
Michelle Nguyen, 21, was sentenced to four years' jail in the Victorian Supreme Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of her 10-month-old daughter Thy Tran.
The baby died of hyperthermia in November 2011, with a body temperature of 41.5C, after being left in a sealed car on a warm day.
Justice Betty King said while Nguyen had not intended to kill her baby, she had ignored numerous warnings by family, friends and neighbours about the dangers of her practice of leaving her baby in the car to sleep.
Although she imposed a "much lower than normal" minimum term of nine months on Nguyen's sentence, to allow her to maximise her prospects of rehabilitation, Nguyen would probably be punished for the rest of her life, Justice King said.
"This is a tragedy in every sense of the word," she said.
"You have lost your daughter, she has lost her life.
"Your punishment will continue probably for most of your life as you live with the knowledge of what you have done.
"Your failure to listen to or heed any of the warnings that you were given in relation to leaving this infant in the car will be undoubtedly something you will remember for the rest of your life."
The court heard Nguyen was a 20-year-old raising two young children alone with no support and without stable accommodation, who had had to live in her car for a few days before the death.
She had had a dysfunctional upbringing, with drug-abusing parents, and was herself addicted to several drugs including heroin.
It was her common practice to put her children to sleep by driving them around and leaving them in the car, despite having been repeatedly warned it was dangerous.
On the night before the baby's death, she had been left in the car for an hour and a half until a neighbour heard her crying and knocked on Nguyen's front door.
Justice King said Nguyen's sentence had to serve as a warning to the rest of the community about the consequences of the dangerous practice.
"You were Thy's mother and she was totally dependent upon you for her safety and protection," the judge said.
"Thy was unable to remove herself from the restraints that held her in the child seat, and remove herself from that hot environment, or even regulate her own temperature."


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Source: National Bureau of Economic Research
Release: NBER Macrohistory Database
For Further Information See Source. Source: Manuel Gottlieb, "New Measures Of Value Of Nonfarm Building For The United States, Annually 1850-1939, " Review Of Economics And Statistics, Nov., 1965
This NBER data series a02239 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 2 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter02.html.
NBER Indicator: a02239
National Bureau of Economic Research, Nonfarm Residential Building Activity for United States [A02239USA398NNBR], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A02239USA398NNBR, January 26, 2020.


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Alaska Film Archives
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- This film reel is made up of 6 smaller reels. Reel 1 is labeled "West Point, World's Fair New York 1939," and it contains scenes of men doing calisthenics, men boxing, men fencing and wrestling, men in uniform and marching, and scenes from the world's fair. Reel 2 is labeled "New York to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, June and July 1939," and it contains footage of New York City streets, a West Point gathering, and Puerto Rico. Reel 3 is labeled "July 1939, Trip to Clearwater with Jim Ryan and Ray Henderson 193[?]," and it contains views of children playing, a pilot climbing into a biplane, people with a captive bear cub, Hap Arnold's B-10 Bomber flight from Washington D.C. landing at Weeks Field and pilots in Fairbanks in August 1934, a military aircraft at Weeks Field, a boy's birthday cake, children playing in a garden, and a boat on the Tanana River traveling to the Delta Clearwater River. Reel 4 is labeled "July and August 1939, Plymouth, Washington D.C., Marengo, Black Hills, Seattle, Juneau, Fairbanks," and it contains footage of Washington D.C., people at home, people swimming, farm scenes, a man in a boat, a family gathering, Mt. Rushmore, Elkhorn Mountain, camping, a family eating watermelon along the roadside, Columbia River, boats and fishing, Juneau, and trucks on the Richardson Highway. Reel 5 is labeled "Fort Riley - Marengo," and it contains scenes of men in uniform, children playing, a family gathering, farm scenes, a waterfront and ships, totem poles, glaciers and icebergs, a car towing a trailer, travel along the Richardson Highway, a glacier, "Devil's Elbow," a family at Christmas, hay being loaded, and women getting into a car. Reel 6 is labeled "Bear, Sunset, Village of Ruby, Caribou, Mendenhall Glacier," and it contains footage of the Ruby waterfront, wildlife, the Black Rapids Glacier near Richardson Highway during its advance in the 1930s, and scenery.
- Film contains footage of the Ladd Field Post Cafeteria sign, a man and a woman walking together, a man welding, large machinery, boats on the Chena River, flooded areas in downtown Fairbanks, 1st Avenue Dress Shoppe, swimming pool, Wells Alaska Motors, flooding in a neighborhood, flooding around houses, flooding in the woods, men in a boat, men walking through flood waters, boating in flood waters, Northern Commercial Company power plant with a sternwheeler riverboat parked along bank, Samson Hardware and Mining Machinery, a sunrise in the woods, large pieces of mining equipment, a dredge, men working with hydraulic giants, men working a sluicebox, people around a campfire, people in the woods camping, large mining machinery, farmland (potatoes?), a large dredge bucket, a dragline, two men in a little yellow raft on the water, men walking on the Davidson Ditch pipe, Discovery Claim Felix Pedro sign, people gold panning, a group shot of people showing off goldpans with gold and gold nuggets in them, the landscape surrounding the mining area, KFAR building and tower, the Rapids Meals and Rooms building, Rapids Hunting Lodge (Black Rapids Roadhouse), a group of men on and around a truck, and a large building on fire.
- These scenes from the 1969 North American Championship Sled Dog Races in Fairbanks, Alaska, filmed by Fairbanks photographer Richard L. Hansen, include: an Alaska Dog Mushers Association sign; a Sled Dog Races Sweepstakes sign; dogs in dog boxes on a truck; a truck with Malamak logos; a man removing dogs from dog boxes and placing dogs in harness; a race board with names including Lombard, Attla, Redington, Shepard, Taylor, Nayokpuk, McDougall, Lake, and Folger; a race announcer; a drum filled with slips of paper for a drawing; spectators watching as the race starts under snowy conditions; a variety of dogs in harnesses; spectators buying and eating cotton candy; close-up views of dogs; a close-up view of a Fairbanks Dog Mushers Association patch on a man's coat; many people in colorful parkas and boots; dogs rolling in snow; a sign for George Attla sponsored by J.C. Penney Co.; mushers; a truck for Wright's Aurora Huskies; and dogs peeking out of dog boxes on a truck.
- The filmmaker's original labeling scheme has film AAF-20,005 numbered as Bacon 1-01 and titled "Eskimo carver with old bold [bow] drill: WP [workprint]-100 feet." AAF-20,005 has not yet been digitized - it is the workprint for AAF-20,006, which the filmmaker's original labeling scheme has numbered as Bacon 1-02 and titled, "1988 ivory carver with drill in mouth: ECN [Eastman Color Negative]-100 feet." Reed Bovee interviewed filmmaker Bill Bacon in 2010, and the following information about these films is based on Bovee's notes from that interview: "Box 1 - 3 Small Reels, 1 Large Reel - Kotzebue, Nome, Original reels and Work Prints. BIMA is a floating dredge. Huge dredge was digging up gold bearing sand off Nome. Also other shots of Nome on same reel, ivory carver Pat, close up of head shots of dogs, dog team packed with dogs, tourists panning for gold and riding dog sleds, breakwater, tug and barge coming into channel, Front Street of Nome, ivory shop cut in to ivory carver, downtown Nome, the Nugget Inn on Front Street of Nome, Dredge 5 working." [Note that this description does not entirely match actual footage on reels - it is likely that portions of this description were meant for AAF-20,084].
- The filmmaker's original labeling scheme has film AAF-20,008 numbered as Bacon 1-04 and titled "BIMA dredge: ECN,ECL-1,200 feet." Reed Bovee interviewed filmmaker Bill Bacon in 2010, and the following information about these films is based on Bovee's notes from that interview: "Box 1 - 3 Small Reels, 1 Large Reel - Kotzebue, Nome, Original reels and Work Prints. BIMA is a floating dredge. Huge dredge was digging up gold bearing sand off Nome. Also other shots of Nome on same reel, ivory carver Pat, close up of head shots of dogs, dog team packed with dogs, tourists panning for gold and riding dog sleds, breakwater, tug and barge coming into channel, Front Street of Nome, ivory shop cut in to ivory carver, downtown Nome, the Nugget Inn on Front Street of Nome, Dredge 5 working." [Note that this description does not entirely match actual footage on reels - it is likely that portions of this description were meant for AAF-20,084].
- This film features Joanie Adler's birthday with eight candles on the cake, Joe Crosson Jr. or Don Crosson at the party, Joanie Adler playing croquet with parents, Joanie Adler skiing with her parents and other children, Chena River break-up near the Cushman Street Bridge in Fairbanks, Chena River break-up with cars and trucks on streets (including Illinois Street), an overview of flooding as seen from a rooftop, coal bunkers in the background, Fairbanks Winter Carnival queen contestants, and an ice throne. Notes on the original film say "Terry Gordon, Baby '36, Xmas, Snow, Cabin, Flood, Carnival, Break-up '36, and Carnival '36."
- This film contains footage of Joanie Adler with adults, Joanie riding a pony, Joanie at the zoo, Joanie riding a bike, an unidentified couple at a mining operation, Joanie Adler swimming, Joanie with her parents at a cabin, Joanie playing with Christmas toys, children in a parade in Fairbanks near the Cushman Street Bridge, aerial shots of mountains, break-up, a family camping and sawing wood, and more aerial shots of mountains.
- This film includes scenes of the Dave and Mary Adler wedding party, Joanie Adler holding flowers and playing in a sprinkler, Joanie Adler's birthday party with seven or eight candles, Joanie Adler cooking in a kitchen with Joe Crosson, Jr., glacier and river scenery, Mrs. Adler carrying Joanie and Mr. Adler across a creek, Joanie Adler driving a small car built by Joe Crosson, Sr., Joe helping Don Crosson drive a car, Joanie Adler with puppies, Don Adler in uniform, people at an airport, Joanie and possibly Joe Crosson, Jr. gardening, dignitaries with Governor Ernest Gruening, a Grumman Goose airplane, Joanie Adler playing with dogs, and the Adler family canoeing. This film was labeled as follows: "Mary and Dave just got married; Little Joe and Joan cooking; Joan in car summer 1939..."
- This footage shows the aftermath of the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake. Scenes include the severely damaged Government Hill Elementary School, businesses and homes, a yellow house sitting at an angle after the ground had fallen away, damage at the Alaska Sales and Service car dealership, and crushed cars.
- The filmmaker's original labeling scheme has AAF-20047 numbered as Bacon 11-01 and titled "Air Shots of Kotzebue 1981." Reed Bovee interviewed filmmaker Bill Bacon in 2010, and the following information about the group of films that includes this film is based on Bovee's notes from that interview: "Chilkat dancers, carving on the largest totem pole - The Japanese were having a World's Fair and they wanted to have the largest totem pole so they went to Haines to have it carved; it was huge - Inuit Circumpolar Conference meeting in Nuke, Greenland in 1980, beluga hunting in Kotzebue - In the evening when the hunters bring in the whales they cut them up and hang them to dry - Nome inside shots of Omiak - When he went to Egg Island, big Omiak Eskimos climbed up the cliffs and got the bird eggs, puffin and seagull eggs - They get up there and drop the eggs down to a guy that catches them, and then he gives them to a guy in a boat where he has a basket with grass in it and they fill up the baskets - Bill got up the hill and it was so slippery from bird droppings that he kept slipping so he could not get down - They had to go around and climb up to the top and drop a rope down to him and pull him up - Says it was really embarrassing." Notes on the film box are as follows: "Barrow Nulakatuk, ICC Meeting Inuvik NWT Canada 1960, ICC meeting Nuuk Greenland July 1, 1980, Eskimos going to ECC Island out from Nome 1950, Kotzebue beluga hunters return at night 1950" and "Reel 1: Original, Air shots of Kotzebue Oct. 31 1981."
- This film is labeled "Alaska 1925," "Alaska 25 - Kenai R. - Skilak Lake – Hunt," and "Alaska Hunting II." The film contains scenes of three men in a motor boat towing another boat, men rowing an open boat down a swift river, scenes from within the open boat as a man rows, faces of men in a boat, scenery along the shoreline, men standing by a log cabin, men hiking with packs, a porcupine running into the bushes, men setting up a canvas tent, men joking around in camp, men crossing a small stream, a man playing a flute, a hillside and inlet, and a man skinning a dead bear.
- This film is labeled "Alaska 1931" and "Scenes taken for footage for Milford - Alaska 1931." The footage contains scenic shots of various snowy mountains, glaciers, a small boat in icy waters, a man aboard a boat cranking a film camera, icy waters, a man with a camera, and more glaciers and snowy mountains.
- This film is labeled "Alaska 1931 Reel 4." The film contains scenic shots of glaciers and mountains, a small boat moving in front of a glacier face, a calving glacier, icebergs, a small boat moving through icy waters, ice near a shoreline, a larger steamship moving through icy waters near a glacier face, and seals resting on icebergs in the distance.
- This film is labeled "Alaska 1935" and "Blackstone Bay, College Fiord, Odds and Ends, Goats etc., Fish." The film contains scenes of two men rowing a boat and anchoring it near a waterfall, a man holding a film camera, a man watching salmon swim upstream, numerous salmon in a shallow stream, two men paddling a boat in the distance as seen from a rock opening, a herd of mountain goats on a hillside near a shoreline, a calving glacier and icy waters, and birds flying near a waterfall.
- This film contains footage of Alaska Railroad cars, horses pulling a wagon on a bridge, mountains and glaciers, mountain goats on a hillside, men with a boat on a beach, a street and buildings in Seward, a steam engine and train arriving at Palmer or Matanuska Junction, Matanuska Valley Colony and colonists, farm buildings and farm workers, a hog with piglets, men with pitchforks scooping hay, people in a truck moving furniture, a man and child at a water pump, a hay wagon, barns and silos, people building frame houses, a blacksmith or machinist at work, men moving building supplies with trucks and bulldozers, a family posing next to a finished house, workers and machinery threshing grain or chopping hay, a farmstead with a log home, a Caterpillar crossing railroad tracks, men unloading bags from a truck, people offloading supplies from a train, a bulldozer pulling a load of construction material, several Caterpillars clearing land and grading soil, a train and steam engine, trucks near tents, people with horses, a blacksmith, children in a wagon, the trading post and cooperative store, a family and home, a girl on a ladder, workers finishing house construction, people moving items into a house, a man chopping a tree, a man and boy at a water pump, men pitching hay, a frame home, a log home, a barn and silo, a horse and wagon, a threshing machine, a farm in the distance, and a car on the road.
- This film was used for lectures by the Machetanzes when they travelled outside of Alaska. Footage includes the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner headline "Alaska 49th State," George Sundborg checking teletype and noting the passage of statehood legislation on June 30 1958, statehood headlines from the Anchorage Daily Times and Anchorage Daily News, men launching a large star suspended by helium balloons from the Polaris building's roof in Fairbanks, a line of people signing a giant telegram in Fairbanks, a statehood parade down Second Avenue in Fairbanks, Ernest Gruening shaking hands in Anchorage, and graphics showing routes to Alaska. Additional images include passengers embarking on the Riverboat Discovery near Fairbanks, Jim Binkley piloting the boat and talking on a microphone, Mary Binkley with a microphone and an unidentified assistant showing fur to passengers, Alaska Natives at Tanana River fish camp, Alaska Native men building a fishwheel, men retrieving salmon from a fishwheel and processing it for drying, an Alaska Native woman making a birch bark basket, Sara Machetanz looking at a birch bark baby carrier, and Sara with baby Traeger Machetanz. Additional images include children bottle feeding a moose calf, people harvesting grain and vegetables in the Matanuska Valley, an aerial view of an oil drill rig, Healy coal mine, men operating a hydraulic giant and driving thaw points near Fairbanks, a dredge operating near Fairbanks, men using Caterpillars and a dragline to operate a large sluice box, sluice box clean-up, and a man smelting gold into an ingot. Additional images include the Machetanzes Hi Ridge cabin near Palmer during winter, Fred using a dog team and chainsaw to obtain firewood, a moose at a cabin, Fred and Sara travelnig to Palmer during winter, a snow plow and rotary snowblower on the road, and Jan Koslosky with a rifle showing a large Polar Bear hide. Images at the Fur Rendezvous in Anchorage include a fur auction, a weight-pull contest, a blanket toss, a merry-go-round, the start line of World Champion Dog Sled Races, and Northern Alaska Native dancers performing the Wolf Dance.
- This film was used for lectures by the Machetanzes when they travelled outside Alaska. Footage includes Open North American dog sled races in Fairbanks and Dr. Roland Lombard wearing bib number one. Additional images include travel on the Alaska Railroad during winter, a man with a reindeer in Fairbanks, downtown Fairbanks, a party at the Atwood home in Anchorage, international travelers arriving at the Anchorage International Airport and Bob Reeve at the airport, a musical conductor and choral group, KTVA television studios and Norma Goodman, and shoppers in a grocery store. Southeast Alaska images include glaciers and travel by ship, amphibious aircraft taking off in Juneau, loggers cutting and hauling trees, Ketchikan Pulp Mill, salmon in a stream, purse seiner and cannery. Additional images include two men going upstream in a canoe and fishing for grayling, and campus buildings at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.
- The donor's original number and title for AAF-20723 are: "RM 16. Alaska Airlines, Connie OTZ, Cooper Ldg, Sheep." This film features an Alaska Airlines Lockheed Starliner with "Fly Alaska" on its side (N7316C) landing and taxiing on a snowy runway at Kotzebue in northwest Alaska, an Alaska Airlines ramp agent directing the aircraft on the ground, passengers walking toward and boarding the airplane, and views of sheep on a hill. Note that the Starliner developed out of the Lockheed Super Constellation with the Starliner having a redesigned wing and more powerful engines.
- This film reel is made up of 11 smaller reels. Reel 1 is labeled "1947 West Point and Kay, Bobbie and Ethel, Alcan Highway in mud and snow, Donn skiing and carnival, Mary, more skiing spring 1948," and it contains footage as described plus scenes of travel, a Whitehorse sign, kids playing football in the snow, hockey, skiing, a ski jump, dog mushing, the Fairbanks Winter Carnival, cars racing around a snowy track, and more skiing. Reel 2 is labeled "Trip To Alaska August 1947, Peekskill, Forest Glen, Jackson Lake, Xmas 1947 in Iowa, University of Iowa campus, Washington D.C., N.Y., Oregon," and it contains footage of road travel, scenery, small towns and cities, aerial views from an airplane, a dredge and mining views, a military formation, a football game, ice skating, and a city. A note inside the film can says "Washington D.C., New York, Hartsdale, Washington D.C., to California and Oregon, [?] and myself, February 1948, Alaska back to Peekskill, cadets and football, Forest Glen, Lilly, Jackson Lake Iowa, [?] and trip to Iowa for Xmas, farm, [?], University of Iowa campus." Reel 3 is labeled "Mt. Hood and Mt. Rainier, start of plane trip to Alaska August 1947, Alaska map and California to Seattle," and it contains footage of a map of Alaska and aerial views. Reel 4 is labeled "Lilly and Keith, 1947, [?], Virginia, Lilly and I, Lilly at Skyline Drive, Keith's lacross games, [?] Island ferry and Lilly," and it contains views of people, a game, and New York. Reel 5 is labeled "Football May 8th UA at FHS, Whitehorse, Boats on Yukon, Spring 1949," and it contains scenes of a football game and sternwheelers in Whitehorse. Reel 6 is labeled "June 1949 Peekskill Graduation and West Point Parade," and it contains scenes of cadets. Reel 7 is labeled "Peekskill MA, waterskiing, Badlands, June to August 1949," and it contains scenes of cadets and waterskiing. Reel 8 is labeled "Cleary Hill Ski Meet March 1950, Keith's graduation Peekskill June 1950," and it contains footage of skiing and cadets. Reel 9 is labeled "Alcan, ferry, Yellowstone, east bear, elk, antelope, May 1949," and it contains footage of travel, the Alcan, a ferry, Yellowstone National Park, and a bear. Reel 10 is labeled "Peekskill and Keith June 1950, Garden of the Gods, Keith and I, bear and grouse, football, Huber's Ranch, June to August 1950, Peekskill to Alaska," and it contains views of cadets, travel, a bear, football, a Huber sign, and a house. Reel 11 is labeled "Rocky Mountain Sheep, Boulder Rodeo, Esther Braddock, July to October 1951," and it contains scenes of a rodeo.


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major macro economic indicators
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(e): Estimate. (f): Forecast. *Fiscal year 2019 from April 2019 to March 2020.
- Significant mineral resources (diamond, uranium, copper) and fisheries
- Good transport infrastructure
- Tourist potential
- Dependency on the mining sector
- High unemployment and persistent inequalities
- Agricultural sector exposed to climatic hazards
- Dependency on South Africa
A return to growth in sight
After two years of contraction, the economic, activity should pick up in 2019. The primary sector will drive growth, notably via agriculture and uranium mining. Production at the Husab uranium mine, the world's third-largest open-pit uranium mine, is expected to increase to full capacity in 2019, making it the third-largest uranium producer in the world (after Kazakhstan and Canada). In addition, offshore diamond production, which accounts for 75% of total production, will continue to increase. On the other hand, on-shore extraction is expected to decrease due to the depletion of terrestrial deposits. The Elizabeth Bay mine, for example, is not expected to supply diamonds beyond 2019 according to Namdeb, the company responsible for its operation.
The secondary sector is expected to stabilize. Although it will be supported by manufacturing industries and the water and electricity sector, its development will continue to be hampered by construction, the activity that suffered most during the recession and which is struggling to regain a positive momentum.
Tertiary sector activities will contribute to the rebound in growth, thanks to the recovery in consumption, which will stimulate trade. However, private consumption will continue to be constrained by continued very high unemployment (around 23% of the working population), and an inflation rate that will rise again in 2019. With the Namibian dollar anchored to the rand, the level of inflation will remain vulnerable to the volatility of the South African currency.
Difficult balance between supporting economic recovery and further fiscal consolidation
In 2019, the fiscal consolidation that began in 2015 will continue at a slower pace. The government will likely continue its efforts to reduce public spending, while at the same time endeavoring not to slow recovery. However, a budgetary slippage in the run-up to the presidential elections in November 2019 cannot be ruled out. In terms of tax revenue, reforms have been undertaken to improve the efficiency of their collection, as well as to broaden the tax base. The government is set to continue in this direction in 2019, in an attempt to compensate for the expected decline in customs revenues paid by the Southern African Custom Union (SACU). The ratio of public debt to GDP has continued to increase in recent years, but at a slower pace than in the past. However, a growing proportion of the debt is external (more than 40%), and therefore subject to exchange rate risk, particularly in the short term.
After declining in 2018, the current account deficit is expected to stabilize in 2019. Although still in deficit, the trade balance will benefit from the recovery of the mining sector, which is responsible for nearly 40% of the country's export earnings. Despite an oil price that will remain high in 2019, imports will increase to a lesser extent with domestic demand remaining weak. In addition, the strength of tourism will allow Namibia to record an increase in the surplus in the balance of services. Nevertheless, the expected decline in SACU customs revenues – as a result of weak regional growth – and higher income disbursements from FDI, will lead to a decrease in the surplus in the transfer and income balance. The inflow of capital and foreign investment will help to finance this current account deficit.
Hage Geingob: favourite candidate for the presidential elections
President Hage Geingob is well positioned for re-election in November 2019. His domination on the political scene was confirmed in 2017, with his election as the President of the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO). The hegemony of this party, in power since independence (1990), should continue in the face of an opposition that is struggling to organise itself. However, the ultimately withdrawn provision of the National Economic Equitable Empowerment Bill that required a 25% stake in private companies for "previously disadvantaged people", and the controversial issue of redistributing land to the benefit of black populations are illustrations of the political risk resulting from high inequality. President Geingob must find a balance between the pressures exerted by SWAPO members and part of the electorate, and the fragile economic context, as these provisions may frighten potential investors.
Inequalities in the distribution of land and capital also affect the business environment. In the absence of reforms, the country will continue to suffer a loss of competitiveness vis-à-vis its SADC competitors. In 2019, the country ranked 107th (out of 190 countries) in the Doing Business ranking.
Last update: February 2019