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Preakness Healthcare Center
A quarry purchased the Preakness Hospital property and began demolishing buildings shortly after its closure. More buildings disappeared as the quarry operations expanded. Finally, all that was left was the original sanatorium building, building 1. This was demolished in 2015, leaving nothing left of the Preakness Hospital.
Tunnel Races
Demise of Preakness (2015)
Preakness was essentially the red-headed stepchild of abandoned hospitals in New Jersey. We acknowledged it's existence, we went a bunch of times, but that doesn't necessarily mean we liked it. It was sort of like if that really cute guy you met at Starbucks ghosted you, but it was Saturday night and you were really bored, so you resorted to texting that kinda cute but also kinda creepy guy from Tinder. Not that I would know anything about that.
The first time I visited Preakness, a friend of mine had driven up with me for the day to do some exploring and ultimately meet-up with someone else. This is where the misadventure begins. The person we are meeting up with has been to the hospital once or twice before, so in the car we decide upon an impromptu trip to check it out. By now, it's getting dark out, and a snow-storm has rolled in. My poor Honda Civic can barely manage the turns as we snake our way towards Preakness. Our backseat driver starts to realize that perhaps he doesn't quite know where he is taking us. This is before everyone has smartphones, so it wasn't as easy to quickly narrow down where we needed to be.
It's also worth mentioning that the directions were coming from someone I would eventually come to realize is usually so stoned that they couldn't tell their left foot from their right. This is a common theme you might come to notice throughout some of our stories here. No matter, we press on, even as conditions worsen. We eventually arrive, a few wrong turns later, including somehow managing to drive down the sidewalk in the middle of a college campus. My new co-pilot then instructs me to go ahead and leave my car in the Police Academy parking lot. So now it's dark, on a late December evening, as we are leaving footprints in the snow from the Police Academy down to the abandoned hospital. What could possibly go wrong you might ask?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. After an uneventful entry and exit, we spend a brief period of time poking around before the screech and rattle of a rusty garage door opening scares us off. It turns out that the town was storing some Public Works supplies in an adjoining building, and some workers had stopped by to pick up snowblowers and other equipment. We venture back to the car, having accomplished nothing more than a brisk workout in the subzero temperatures.
My friends and I must have visited Preakness a few dozen times over the years, each time coming out with some sort of new ailment brought on by the staggering amount of mold. One of my fondest memories is one of the first times I hung out with Vacant NJ here. A friend of mine made the trip up from Philly with me to meet-up with him, and we somehow ended up at Preakness. As we were wandering around, we entered the tunnels to see if they connected to the adjacent detention center. After quickly becoming sidetracked, we found a group of relatively new wheelchairs in a corner of the basement. I would like to take credit for coming up with the idea, but I'm not really sure which one of us it was, but we decided to see how fast we could race them down the decline of the tunnel. We raced over and over again in near total darkness until we began to cough up black soot. We laughed so hard that we surely inhaled enough asbestos and toxins to cut our lives short.
I usually end these stories by saying how the building was leveled or stands as a pile of rubble, but this isn't true for Preakness. It was not only demolished, but the site it stood upon for nearly a century was blasted out to be used as a quarry. The road we would walk on to go to it doesn't even exist anymore. So much has changed.
Abandoned New Jerseyon April 4, 2020
@ Tom T. Travis
Thanks for the comment! The current Preakness Healthcare Facility at 305 Oldham Rd, Wayne is actually a totally separate and new facility. The original Preakness was built in the early 1900's and served initially as a TB hospital, and was later turned into a longterm healthcare facility in modern times. The tunnels are original to the building and the furthest one that went past the prison was to an old nurses cottage that was demolished early on when the campus became abandoned. This campus featured here was the one on Valley View Road, which now doesn't really exist due to the quarry expansion. There is no evidence to us that there was ever a tunnel running to the current Preakness built in 2009. It's highly unlikely for a modern facility to build any sort of tunnel system, especially to go to a decrepit building over 1/4 mile away downhill. We also spent a lot of time in those tunnels and broke open any closed doors. It's very rare for any post 1960's buildings to have any form of human sized tunnel system in them.
I think this stems from confusion in online articles regarding the expansion of the NEW Preakness up to 406 beds from an unknown initial number. Here is the press release:
"In 2009, the Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders built a new facility for Preakness Healthcare Center, replacing the old one. The new facility expanded to house 406 residents. It continues to provide long term skilled nursing care, sub-acute care, behavioral care, respiratory, respite and hospice care, to ensure the upmost care for its residents."
and from the developer:
The Preakness Healthcare Center is licensed as a 406-bed skilled nursing facility that is owned and operated by the Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders.
The Challenge
This project involved the construction of a new Unit Four, 340 bed Long Term Care Facility in multiple phases. This project also involved the demolition of multiple outdated health care facility buildings, designated as Unit Two and the alteration and renovation of the existing Unit Three. The structures that had to be removed were constructed in the 1930's and were made of concrete and masonry. Prior to demolition, rodent, asbestos and lead abatement operations had to be performed. The demolition of the facilities was performed using conventional techniques. All materials were separated and recycled at offsite facilities.
Our Solution
All work was completed in accordance with NJDEP and other associated agency requirements. The new facility that was constructed consisted of a structural steel frame with cast-in-place concrete floors and masonry, metal panel and glass exterior. Multiple patient, examination, and treatment rooms, along with Administration areas were constructed. All demolition and construction work had to be completed in phases to allow for the facility to remain open and operational. "
So yes, the original 2009 building is still standing and has had some additional units added onto it, but the 1920's TB ward building bit the dust in 2015.
I haven't ever seen any footage of other film crews using it, but that would surely be interesting! Place was a real dump.
Tom T. Travison March 25, 2020
So Preakness is still open (2020) and thriving as the county nursing home with long term care and short term sub-acute/physical rehab care. Prior to 2009, there were two buildings. Building 1 and the main building, which were in opposite sides of the same hill. Both buildings were connected underground by a tunnel, or by vehicle. Building 1 was the building in these photos.
A few years prior to 2009, Preakness, the state and Passaic County agreed that Building 1 was becoming too run down. The building was always freezing or blazing hot, uncontrollably infested with rodents, and in dire need of lead paint and asbestos removal. The choice was to double the size of the main building, or renovate Building 1. It was actually cheaper to double the size of the main building than to renovate Building 1. So, after construction was completed on the addition to the main building, Building 1's residents were all relocated to new units in the newly constructed addition to the main building. After all residents were transferred, the tunnel was sealed, and Building 1 was condemned.
Occasionally, film crews used the newly abandoned site until the plot of land was to a quarry. Still today, the main building and it's giant addition are operating as Preakness Healthcare Center.


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Show SummaryAdam opens the show complaining about a last minute line-up switch at his performance over the weekend. He also talks about Natalia's ice skating performance, and emphasizes the importance of pushing yourself and having butterflies in your stomach. Dave Dameshek is also in studio, and the guys joke about a senior circuit for boxing. Adam then brings actor Rhys Darby into the studio, and the guys talk the New Zealand military, rowdy standup crowds, and integrating sound effects into your comedy. Bald Bryan then reviews the new Captain American film. Dave Dameshek returns as Rhys slips out, and the gang talks more about superhero politics. Shek then reveals the Creep of the Week, and talks about a chance encounter with Jack Silver at the Superbowl. As the show wraps up, Alison reads news stories about Adam getting the field goal posts raised, and violence in Isla Vista.
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It's more than a movie… That's the tag line Sports Illustrated is using to justify putting Brad Pitt on its cover. Pitt is playing Billy Beane, the Oakland A's general manager in Moneyball, which is due out this week and has received rave reviews.
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The flower girl was so tired and cranky before the wedding, but she came through RIGHT when it counted!!
A fun picture before the wedding.
Lindsey was a beautiful bride!!
Ebby Lee & Daddy
I caught somebody making silly faces in the mirror!
Baby Brynn got in on the action too.
Whitney, Brynn, Lindsey, & Aunt Rene'
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Newlywed Ty and Nixon…they were almost dressed EXACTLY alike for this wedding.
Would you believe me if I told you this was the best of three?? Crazy to think that next year, we'll have another addition to our family picture! After the wedding and pictures, Ebby Lee was dying to ride the party bus for the wedding party. So, the two of us loaded up with everyone to go take more pictures outside.
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Tab and I were in those empty chairs…Newlywed Morgan, Torie, Engaged Tarah, New Daddy Jared, Bride Lindsey, and New Mom Kelly.
Nixon was all about getting some lovin' from this girl!! He went from Ty to pretty girl, pretty girl, pretty girl ALL night!
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FARMDALE, KY., September 10, 1875.
I NOTICE in your September number fac-simile of a poem by Poe, dated in March, 1829, and said to have been written after he left West Point. E. L. D. [page 143:] is in error. Poe was a member of my class at the Military Academy — which entered the Academy in June, 1830, and he left the Institution sometime in 1831. I remember him well. While at the Academy he published a small volume of poems which were not thought to have much merit. He was too much occupied with his poetry to attend to the severe studies of the course at the Academy, and hence resigned, in order to devote his whole time to poetry.
The writer, having graduated, left the Academy in 1834, and, while visiting a friend in Baltimore in the fall of that year, was asked by a casual acquaintance if he knew Edgar Allan Poe, who had informed the gentleman alluded to that he was acquainted with me. On responding in the affirmative, I was told that Poe was then working in a brick-yard in Baltimore, being engaged in wheeling clay in a wheel-barrow. This may throw light on that part of his history immediately after his leaving the Academy.
(R. T. P. Allen, of the Class of 1834, late Superintendent of Kentucky Military Institute.)
Robert Thomas Pichett Allen (1813-1888) was born in Baltimore, MD. He graduated at West Point in 1834. He variously served as an artillery officer, a civilian engineer, a teacher of Mathematics and Engineering, and eventually superintendent of the Kentucky Military Academy, which he founded in 1845. During the Civil War, he fought for the Confederate side, although he was not popular with his men, and was considered something of a "martinet." After the war, he returned to the Kentucky Military Academy, where he remained until 1874, when he retired. He drowned while swimming in Florida.
E. L. D. was Eugene L. Didier, who printed a slightly modified facsimile of Poe's manuscript for the poem now called "Alone", which appeared in Scribner's Monthly Magazine for September 1875. His changes to the facsimile were not acknowledged, and caused some scholars to unnecessarily question the authenticity of the manuscript.
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Borussia Dortmund is playing Bayern Munich today in the German Super Cup to kick off the 2014 Bundesliga season. Dortmund was given a 2-0 lead thanks to striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's tally.
While the goal was nice, the Spiderman mask celebration is even better.
For good measure, Aubameyang's goal and his best Peter Parker impression in the aftermath: https://t.co/sxjb6CVBal
— Bleacher Report UK (@br_uk) August 13, 2014
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang celebrated scoring against Bayern Munich with a Spiderman mask. (via @Sport_EN) pic.twitter.com/8vgtErgx4H
— Bleacher Report UK (@br_uk) August 13, 2014
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If you're a regular reader of PMY boat tests, you're familiar with a disclaimer we too often use that goes something like, "Since the conditions were dead-calm on test day, I couldn't evaluate her seakeeping abilities." Well, you won't read anything like those words in this test. The early-December day I was aboard the Hatteras 68C produced some of the snottiest, nastiest, most all-around uncomfortable conditions I've ever had the misfortune to experience. The thermometer had inched its way to 31F, but 25- to 30-knot northerlies made it feel like seven. Although we weren't offshore where the seas were eight and building, we were in the ocean, just outside Beaufort Inlet in central North Carolina, in steep, closely spaced threes and fours that promised jaw-crunching impacts, especially on the quarters.
I can't say the test was uneventful—imagine shooting a radar gun in those conditions at her top speed of 39.4 mph—or that the ride was smooth, which would have been the case only aboard an aircraft carrier. But I can say the 68 was well-mannered, surprisingly dry, and devoid of jarring. At every speed she ate it all up—even if we did not.
One reason she did is traditionally conservative construction that emphasizes strength over lightness. The 68C is simply devoid of squeaks and groans. Another is her hull-and-powertrain package, a remarkable piece of engineering. This is the second Hatteras—the 54 was the first—to diverge from the principals of the late Jack Hargrave, which marked Hatterases virtually since day one. Her deadrise is moderate, from 22 degrees forward to just two degrees at the transom. To avoid a harsh ride—especially with an oversize 21'6″ beam—convex forward sections shoulder away seas and soften both horizontal and vertical impacts. Double chines and generous bow flair control spray; on test day it seemed the chines did most of the work. Two strakes per side contribute dynamic lift, stability, and tracking, but I felt they, too, knocked down a lot of spray. Whatever does what, I can tell you that this boat is dry.
Prop pockets not only reduce draft (5'3″) and shaft angle, but also propeller-tip clearance–by ten percent, says Hatteras—increasing efficiency the same way ducting does on a jet engine. It's a tricky calculus: too little clearance, and vibration increases, especially at slower speeds. There's none of that on the 68.
Instead of being mounted on the transom, the trim tabs are recessed into the end of each tunnel, where they operate in high-velocity water coming directly off the seven-blade props. More efficient, they can be smaller and require less deflection—reportedly 70 percent less—while maintaining effectiveness.
The 68 is also reportedly the first boat anywhere with tapered rudder bearings that use the weight of the stainless steel rudders to constantly tighten themselves and so compensate for wear. Also new are crosscut strut bearings that improve water flow, and thus lubrication, and a cylindrical keyway and key that reduces prop-shaft stress where the propeller bolts on.
Still another innovative hull feature that's both practical and aesthetically pleasing is the removal of engine-room vents from the hull sides. They're under the cockpit coamings, where there's less direct spray, although demisters are still fitted. The absence of hull-side vents and saddle tanks also increases engine room space: I measured nearly three feet from the starboard Caterpillar C32 to the outboard air conditioning compressors. Combined with 6'4″ headroom, the cockpit-accessible engine room is truly spacious. As for the fuel tanks, there are five FRP ones—three mains forward and two day ones aft—necessitating a transfer-pump system.
To make sure the big Cats can breathe, a sophisticated air-induction system employs two fans, one for induction and the other for evacuation during engine operation; an interface with the engine ECUs increases fan speed as engine rpm increases to avoid excessive noise at lower speeds. Flip a switch once the engines are shut down, and both evacuate to quickly reduce engine room temperature.
The 68 is so full of smart engineering details that it's easy to forget that her primary purpose is fishing, until you look around her cockpit—all 195 square feet of it, thanks to that generous beam. A transom door is standard, but there's no gate, as Hatteras believes it compromises the structure. At the forward end are identical-size baitwells, freezers, and stowage tubs; since they're modular, you can order any combination that suits your needs. Cushions on the elevated mezzanine provide 25 square feet of seating, and since there are no fuel tanks below decks, there's room for two 5'5″-long fishboxes plus an 11-foot-long lazarette accessed from the engine room.
Three steps up, the saloon is big: 12'2″ long with 6'10" headroom. A port-side, U-shape settee is big enough for three beefy anglers to snooze on. There's stowage below, but rods go in dedicated stowage beneath the C-shape flying bridge lounge. A step up, the port-side, U-shape galley is across from an eight-person dinette. The level of finish here and everywhere is equal to the 68's expansiveness. Cherry panels are finished in your choice of gloss or satin and cut via CNC router off of the boat, which accounts for the near-perfect fit and finish.
Flanking the companionway down to the accommodations levels are two handy rooms. To starboard is a walk-in that holds a standard 4.6-cubic-foot freezer, with plenty of room left for stowage; the port-side one is a hand-and-knees affair that has the CPU for the Ethernet monitoring system, and more stowage room.
At the bottom of the companionway are four staterooms, including a big forepeak VIP and a full-beam master aft and amidships. On our boat the two were separated by port and starboard twin-berth guest staterooms; an optional layout makes the port room a single and adds an en suite/day head, ideal for captain's quarters.
Another option is an open or enclosed flying bridge—sad to say, given the conditions on test day, ours was the former, although with an effective enclosure. Accessed by an athwartships cockpit ladder (if enclosed, you get a circular stair from the saloon), it's smartly laid out, with the console far enough aft to provide a view to the cockpit yet maintain forward sightlines. Two pedestal chairs are standard and a third is optional; either way there's room to stand between them and the aft railing. I'd guess the C-shape seating forward could hold a dozen, and there's also a handy chillbox and aft-facing double seat to starboard.
Such smart design is ubiquitous on the 68, which is why she can run with any convertible in the world. But the boat does lack one thing: a price. Hatteras chooses not to reveal either a base or as-tested figure, making it hard to compare her to competitors. Too bad, but then after my day aboard, I'd be hard-pressed to call her overpriced at any figure.


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The full-block Galleria building in downtown Portland was sold last month to a partnership including Unico Properties. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
Vacasa employees work in the firm's 60,000-square-foot office in the Heartline building last fall. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
From left, Reed Lewis, Alex Zimmer, Larry Ferar and Dan Van Calcar of Soderstrom Architects are teaming to diversify the firm's portfolio. Lewis and Ferar are part of Soderstrom's Ferar Studio, which specializes in winery and distillery design; Zimmer oversees all of Soderstrom's interior design work, and helps develop efforts by Ferar Studio. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
Journeyman carpenter Carlos "Charlie" Ramirez, an employee of Advanced Pro Builders, secures a floor joist while framing the Koz on SW Fourth Avenue building. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
The Koz on SW Fourth Avenue mixed-use building is begin erected on the site of a former surface parking lot at the south end of downtown Portland. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Kenny Basler, a journeyman ironworker with Madlyn Metal Fab, secures a steel beam in place at the Koz on SW Fourth Avenue mixed-use project. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Carpenters with Advanced Pro Builders frame walls at Koz on SW Fourth Avenue. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Journeyman carpenter Mario Davalos, an employee of Advanced Pro Builders, frames walls on the building's fourth floor. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
The wedge-shaped building is being erected on a triangular lot overlooking Interstate 405. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Koz on SW Fourth Avenue will contain 64 studio units and 46 loft apartments. Corner units will feature exterior decks. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Tyson Wenz, a journeyman crane rigger with Seabold Construction, secures a load of floor joists. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Koz on SW Fourth Avenue overlooks Interstate 405 and Portland's West Hills. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Greg Hallstrom, a fourth-year apprentice plumber with Atlas Plumbing, installs piping to serve a toilet, sink and shower on the floor above. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Tom Turner, a superintendent with Seabold Construction, nspects structural steel work (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Jose Lopez, a carpenter with Advanced Pro Builders, cuts a floor joist.
Journeyman carpenter Johnny Hongun, an employee of Advanced Pro Builders, unwraps a stack of floor joists. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
The building will contain 108 residential units and ground-floor commercial space. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Journeyman carpenter Johnny Hongun, an employee of Advanced Pro Builders, cuts a floor joist. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
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Seth Callaway, a journeyman pointer/cleaner/caulker with BAC Local 1 and a foreman with Pioneer Waterproofing, stacks bricks removed from the Hallock-McMillan Building. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
Bremik Construction employees Antonio Mayes, bottom left, an apprentice carpenter with Local 1503, and Ely Saucedo, a project superintendent, build forms for a grade beam to support a moment frame on the front of the Hallock-McMillan building in downtown Portland. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
The Hallock-McMillan building, Portland's oldest standing commercial structure, is undergoing a full seismic rehabilitation and reconstruction. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
A statewide rent control bill that would cap increases at about 10 percent each year has advanced through the Oregon Senate Housing Committee. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
Jeff Nevin, an apprentice carpenter with Local 1503 and an employee of Skanska USA Building, constructs formwork at the new Sherwood High School. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
A four-story structural steel classroom wing is being erected at the Sherwood High School site. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Skanska USA Building is self-performing virtually all the concrete work at its Sherwood High School job site, including the concrete tilt panels being used to build the gymnasium. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Jake Owen, a journeyman electrician with Local 48 and an employee of Rosendin, installs underground electrical conduit at the Sherwood High School project. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Carpenters with Skanska USA Builders construct formwork. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Jeff Nevin, an apprentice carpenter with Local 1503 and an employee of Skanska USA Builders, installs vapor barrier at the Sherwood High School job site. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
The 342,000-square-foot school is being erected on a 73-acre site. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Carpenters discuss site plans at the Sherwood High School job site. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
The beginnings of a tiered choir pit have been cut into the area that will house the school's performing arts wing shown. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Jose Estrada, an apprentice carpenter with Local 1503 and an employee with Skanska USA Building, intalls a column form. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Installation of pan decking is under way on the third floor of the four-story classroom building. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
A four-story structural steel classroom wing is currently in progress at the Sherwood High School site. (Josh Kulla/DJC)
Trevon Moore, a pre-apprenticeship student with the Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center, aligns material while building a trash enclosure at the Kenton Women's Village in North Portland. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
Aaron Palmer, a journeyman electrician with Frahler Electric and member of IBEW Local 48, hangs wire for outdoor string lights at Kenton Women's Village. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
Torre Sathrum, center, a Northwest College of Construction instructor, guides POIC students Abdul Abdullahi, left, and Austin Smith in building a landing outside the entry to a pod at Kenton Women's Village. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
A sleeping pod at the new site of Kenton Women's Village is among six from the original site that will continue to be used for shelter. The pods are being upgraded more permanent features, including radiant heating, lighting and power outlets. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
POIC pre-apprenctices Brandon Lane, left, and JuWan Feliciano discuss plans for a trash enclosure. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
Derick Bolden, Sr., left, cuts material with help from fellow POIC students Benjamin Pelote, center, and Francisco Garcia-Reeves. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
POIC student Trevon Moore carries a piece of treated lumber for use in a trash enclosure. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
POIC students, from left, Matt Armour, Alexiss Ramirez and Francisco Garcia-Reeves raise a solar-powered lighting fixture into place on a shipping container that has been converted into a restroom. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
Some of the pods moved from the original site to the new location will be instead used for storage and other auxiliary purposes. Three successful designs have been selected to be replicated as part of the Pod Build Challenge, and the volunteer teams will build seven of each. (Sam Tenney/DJC)


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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen:
Melissa raised the plate on upturned palms. "Cupcakes," she said. "Thought you might be needing some cupcakes in your life right around now."
Not being theatrical, Chip felt disadvantaged around people who were. "Why are you bringing me cupcakes?" he said.
Melissa knelt and set the plate on this doormat among the pulverized remains of ivy and dead tulips. "I'll just leave them here,'" she said, "and you can do whatever you want with them. Goodbye!' She spread her arms and pirouetted off the doorstep and ran up the flagstone path on tiptoe.
The cupcakes were full of butter and frosted with a butter frosting. After he'd washed his hands and opened a bottle of Chardonnay he ate four of them and put the uncooked fish in the refrigerator. The skins of the overbaked squash were like inner-tube rubber…He lowered the blinds and drank the wine and ate two more cupcakes, detecting peppermint in them, a faint buttery peppermint, before he slept.
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway:
I took out my knife, opened it, wiped off the blade and pared off the dirty outside surface of the cheese. Gavuzzi handed me the basin of macaroni.
"Start in to eat, Tenente."
"No," I said. "Put it on the floor. We'll all eat."
"There are no forks."
"What the hell," I said in English.
I cut the cheese into pieces and laid them on the macaroni.
"Sit down to it," I said. They sat down and waited. I put thumb and fingers into the macaroni and lifted. The mass loosened.
"Lift it high, Tenente."
I lifted it to arm's length and the strands cleared. I lowered it into the mouth, sucked and snapped in the ends, and chewed, then took a bite of cheese, chewed, and then a drink of the wine. It tasted of rusty metal.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck:
And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.
Eat, Love, Pray by Elizabeth Gilbert:
Giovanni and Dario, my Tandem Exchange twins, are originally from Naples. I cannot picture it. I cannot imagine shy, studious, sympathetic Giovanni as a young boy amongst this—and I don't use the word lightly — mob. But he is Neapolitan, no question about it, because before I left Rome he gave me the name of a pizzeria in Naples that I had to try, because, Giovanni informed me, it sold the best pizza in Naples. I found this a wildly exciting prospect, given that the best pizza in Italy is from Naples, and the best pizza in the world is from Italy, which means that this pizzeria must offer … I'm almost too superstitious to say it … the best pizza in the world? Giovanni passed along the name of the place with such seriousness and intensity, I almost felt I was being inducted into a secret society. He pressed the address into the palm of my hand and said, in gravest confidence, "Please go to this pizzeria. Order the Margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me later and tell me that you did."
So Sofie and I have come to Pizzeria da Michele, and these pies we have just ordered — one for each of us — are making us lose our minds. I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair. Meanwhile, Sofie is practically in tears over hers, she's having a metaphysical crisis about it, she's begging me, "Why do they even bother trying to make pizza in Stockholm? Why did we even bother eating food at all in Stockholm?
Pizzeria da Michele is a small place with only two rooms and one nonstop oven. It's about a fifteen-minute walk from the train station in the rain, don't even worry about it, just go. You need to get there fairly early in the day because sometimes they run out of dough, which will break your heart. By 1 p.m., the streets outside the pizzeria have become jammed with Neapolitans trying to get into the place, shoving for access like they're trying to get space on a lifeboat. There's not a menu. They have only two varieties of pizza here — regular and extra cheese. None of this new age southern California olives-and-sun-dried-tomato wannabe pizza twaddle. The dough, it takes me half my meal to figure out, tastes more like Indian nan than like any pizza dough I ever tired. It's soft and chewy and yielding, but incredibly thin. I always thought we only had two choices in our lives when it came to pizza crust — thin and crispy, or thick and doughy. How was I to have known there could be a crust in this world that was thin and doughy? Holy of holies! Thin, doughy, strong, gummy, yummy, chewy, salty pizza paradise. On top, there is a sweet tomato sauce that foams up all bubbly and creamy when it melts the fresh buffalo mozzarella, and the one sprig of basil in the middle of the whole deal somehow infuses the entire pizza with herbal radiance, much the same way one shimmering movie star in the middle of a party brings a contact high of glamour to everyone around her. It's technically impossible to eat this thing, of course. You try to take a bite off your slice and the gummy crust folds, and the hot cheese runs away like topsoil in a landslide, makes a mess of you and your surroundings, but just deal with it.
Remembering Blue by Connie May Fowler:
Nick was never a picky eater but after suffering through so many of my culinary failures he was well within his rights when later that same day he poked at his food with a fork and asked tremulously, "What is it?"
"Tomato pie."
Lillian had given me the recipe and I followed it to a T. Four to five tomatoes, blanched for easy removal of the skins. Three quarters of a cup mayonnaise (feel free to use light but not fat-free). Pillsbury refrigerated crusts (bake the bottom crust for ten minutes in a moderate oven, otherwise you'll have a juicy mess). As much garlic as pleases you (Nick, as you must know by now, loves garlic). At least one and a quarter cup cheese (I use feta). Plus fresh basil. Put it all together and bake at three hundred and fifty degrees for about thirty minutes.
I served it with a green salad and sweet tea. I watched out of the corner of my eye as Nick balanced a bite-sized morsel on his fork, lifted it to his lips, and discreetly sniffed. His face betrayed neither surprise nor disgust. Having gotten this far- even if the savory smell had offended him- he had little choice but to go ahead and eat. He popped it in his mouth and chewed tentatively but within seconds his eyes widened gratefully and his face relaxed in that way men have- you know, when they are suddenly and unexpectedly content (I have noticed that this phenomenon almost always revolves around food).
"This is really good!" he said.
"Thank you," I said, ignoring the note of amazement in his voice.
That night, he chewed heartily. He ate two more pieces and I wrapped up what was left and handed it to him as he walked out the door.
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi:
The winner of the race would receive a prize made by the last one to cross the finish line: an enormous pastilla, the most delicious of all of Allah's varied foods. At once a pastry and a meal, pastilla is sweet and salty, made of pigeon meat and nuts, sugar, and cinnamon. Oh! Pastilla crunches when you munch on it, and you have to eat it with delicate gestures, no rushing please, or else you will get sugar and cinnamon all over your face. Pastilla takes days to prepare because it is made of layers of sheer, almost transparent, crust, stuffed with roasted and slightly crushed almonds, along with a lot of other surprises.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carol:
Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words "EAT ME" were beautifully marked in currants. "Well, I'll eat it," said Alice, "and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door: so either way I'll get into the garden, and I don't care which happens!"
She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, "Which way? Which way?" holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing; and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size. To be sure, this is what generally happens when one eats cake; but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence:
When they had run and danced themselves dry, the girls quickly dressed and sat down to the fragrant tea. They sat on the northern side of the grove, in the yellow sunshine facing the slope of the grassy hill, alone in a little world of their own. The tea was hot and aromatic, there were delicious little sandwiches of cucumber and of caviare, and winy cakes.
"Are you happy, Prune?" cried Ursula in delight, looking at her sister.
"Ursula, I'm perfectly happy," replied Gudrun gravely, looking at the westering sun.
"So am I."


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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Did the Fed Economist Slam Bloggers for the Same Reason that Fundamentalist Priests Slammed the Printing Press?
Kartik Athreya of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank argues that bloggers are stupid, and that only PhD economists have a right to say anything about economics policy.This distinction is a little ridiculous, given that many of the world's top PhD economics professors are bloggers.
And it must be noted that the Fed ignores any PhD economist who exercises any scintilla of independence.
For example, all of the PhD economists who say the economy won't recover unless we break up the giant banks are ignored (even if they happen to be former Federal Reserve chairmen or Fed Bank presidents).
And well-known PhD economist James Galbraith is ignored when he argues that - because fraud caused the economic crisis - economists should move into the background, and "criminologists to the forefront".And of course, the PhD economists calling for a complete audit of the Fed or - heaven forbid - a challenge to Fed powers, are ignored.
In fact, as I pointed out in December, most economists don't exercise any independent thinking because economists are trained to ignore reality:
As I have repeatedly noted, mainstream economists and financial advisors have been using faulty and unrealistic models for years. See this, this, this, this, this and this.
And I have pointed out numerous times that economists and advisors have a financial incentive to use faulty models. For example, I pointed out last month:
The decision to use faulty models was an economic and political choice, because it benefited the economists and those who hired them.
For example, the elites get wealthy during booms and they get wealthy during busts. Therefore, the boom-and-bust cycle benefits them enormously, as they can trade both ways.
Specifically, as Simon Johnson, William K. Black and others point out, the big boys make bucketloads of money during the booms using fraudulent schemes and knowing that many borrowers will default. Then, during the bust, they know the government will bail them out, and they will be able to buy up competitors for cheap and consolidate power. They may also bet against the same products they are selling during the boom (more here), knowing that they'll make a killing when it busts.
But economists have pretended there is no such thing as a bubble. Indeed, BIS slammed the Fed and other central banks for blowing bubbles and then using "gimmicks and palliatives" afterwards.
It is not like economists weren't warning about booms and busts. Nobel prize winner Hayek and others were, but were ignored because it was "inconvenient" to discuss this "impolite" issue.
Likewise, the entire Federal Reserve model is faulty, benefiting the banks themselves but not the public.
However, as Huffington Post notes:
The Federal Reserve, through its extensive network of consultants, visiting scholars, alumni and staff economists, so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank has become a career liability for members of the profession, an investigation by the Huffington Post has found.
This dominance helps explain how, even after the Fed failed to foresee the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression, the central bank has largely escaped criticism from academic economists. In the Fed's thrall, the economists missed it, too.
"The Fed has a lock on the economics world," says Joshua Rosner, a Wall Street analyst who correctly called the meltdown. "There is no room for other views, which I guess is why economists got it so wrong."
And - even now - mainstream economists are STILL willfully ignoring things like massive leverage, hoping that the economy can be pumped back up to super-leveraged house-of-cards levels.
As the Wall Street Journal article notes:As they did in the two revolutions in economic thought of the past century, economists are rediscovering relevant work.It is only "rediscovered" because it was out of favor, and it was only out of favor because it was seen as unnecessarily crimping profits by, for example, arguing for more moderation during boom times.
The powers-that-be do not like economists who say "Boys, if you don't slow down, that bubble is going to get too big and pop right in your face". They don't want to hear that they can't make endless money using crazy levels of leverage and 30-to-1 levels of fractional reserve banking, and credit derivatives. And of course, they don't want to hear that the Federal Reserve is a big part of the problem.
Indeed, the Journal and the economists it quotes seem to be in no hurry whatsoever to change things:The quest is bringing financial economists -- long viewed by some as a curiosity mostly relevant to Wall Street -- together with macroeconomists. Some believe a viable solution will emerge within a couple of years; others say it could take decades.
Saturday, PhD economist Michael Hudson made the same point:I think that the question that needs to be asked is how the discipline was untracked and trivialized from its classical flowering? How did it become marginalized and trivialized, taking for granted the social structures and dynamics that should be the substance and focal point of its analysis?...
To answer this question, my book describes the "intellectual engineering" that has turned the economics discipline into a public relations exercise for the rentier classes criticized by the classical economists: landlords, bankers and monopolists. It was largely to counter criticisms of their unearned income and wealth, after all, that the post-classical reaction aimed to limit the conceptual "toolbox" of economists to become so unrealistic, narrow-minded and self-serving to the status quo. It has ended up as an intellectual ploy to distract attention away from the financial and property dynamics that are polarizing our world between debtors and creditors, property owners and renters, while steering politics from democracy to oligarchy...
[As one Nobel prize winning economist stated,] "In pointing out the consequences of a set of abstract assumptions, one need not be committed unduly as to the relation between reality and these assumptions."This attitude did not deter him from drawing policy conclusions affecting the material world in which real people live. These conclusions are diametrically opposed to the empirically successful protectionism by which Britain, the United States and Germany rose to industrial supremacy.
Typical of this now widespread attitude is the textbook Microeconomics by William Vickery, winner of the 1997 Nobel Economics Prize:"Economic theory proper, indeed, is nothing more than a system of logical relations between certain sets of assumptions and the conclusions derived from them... The validity of a theory proper does not depend on the correspondence or lack of it between the assumptions of the theory or its conclusions and observations in the real world. A theory as an internally consistent system is valid if the conclusions follow logically from its premises, and the fact that neither the premises nor theconclusions correspond to reality may show that the theory is not very useful, but does not invalidate it. In any pure theory, all propositions are essentially tautological, in the sense that the results are implicit in the assumptions made."Such disdain for empirical verification is not found in the physical sciences. Its popularity in the social sciences is sponsored by vested interests. There is always self-interest behind methodological madness. That is because success requires heavy subsidies from special interests, who benefit from an erroneous, misleading or deceptive economic logic. Why promote unrealistic abstractions, after all, if not to distract attention from reforms aimed at creating rules that oblige people actually to earn their income rather than simply extracting it from the rest of the economy?
As I have previously written, mainstream economists and financial advisors who promote flawed models are not necessarily bad people:
I am not necessarily saying that mainstream economists were intentionally wrong, or that they lied because it led to promotions or pleased their Wall Street, Fed or academic bosses.
But it is harder to fight the current and swim upstream then to go with the flow, and with so many rewards for doing so, there is a strong unconscious bias towards believing the prevailing myths. Just like regulators who are too close to their wards often come to adopt their views, many economists suffered "intellectual capture" by being too closely allied with Wall Street and the Fed.
As Upton Sinclair said:It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
See this, this, this, this and this.
Michael Rivero may have the hardest-hitting critique of all:
This seems to be a return to the mindset of the middle ages where only the clergy were allowed to read and interpret the bible and the laity were presumed incapable of comprehending the intricacies and subtle nuances of the faith.
And indeed there is a great deal of similarity between economics and [fundamentalist version of] religion in that both depend on the unquestioning faith of the masses that those pretty printed pieces of paper represent something real, albeit invisible.
But the advent of the printing press led people to take a closer look at the actual content of [fundamentalist version of] religion and it has been revealed not as a complex and sophisticated system but as a mish-mash of half-baked myths and legends often in contradiction with itself and used to enrich the church ....
The same is true of eocnomics. the advent of the blog has led people to take a closer look at the actual content of economics and it has been revealed not as a complex and sophisticated system but as a mish-mash of half-baked theories and math often in contradiction with itself and used to enrich the bankers and conceal their fraud against the public. Athreya is reacting to the blogs the way [fundamentalist] priests reacted to Gutenberg's Printing Press.
The fraud and danger of the Federal Reserve system of banking stands exposed to the public eye, sans the "benefit" of correct interpretation by the self-appointed priests of Mammon. The public now understands that when a private bank issues the public currency at interest, debt will always exceed the available money supply. The public now understands that the Federal Reserve is no more Federal than Federal Express. The public now understands that the Federal Reserve is a legalized counterfeiting operation, that creates the money they loan out out of thin air! The public now understands that the Federal Reserve system of banking, since its creation in 1913, has reduced the value of a dollar down to about four cents! The public now understands that the Federal Reserve system is a pyramid scam that only works when ever larger populations of borrowers can be found, and that once an entire nation or planet has borrowed to the max, the system must crash (which is what is happening now).
Just as the [fundamentalist] priests, stripped of the arcane scriptures and rituals, stand exposed ... so too the economists, stripped of their arcane equations and theories, stand exposed ....
Karthik Athreya doesn't like that fact that the public sees the Federal Reserve for what it really is.
For some other criticisms of Athreya, see this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this.
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Ph.D.=Piled Higher and Deeper. Mr. Athreya may be a High Priest of the Economics Temple, but in December 2005 I was blogging that the only thing keeping the economy aloft was real estate speculation fueled by crap financing. What were Mr. Athreya and his brethren shoveling then?ReplyDelete
This article is based on the flawed assumption that economists have any influence on national economic policy WHATSOEVER.ReplyDelete
Risk arbitrageurs rigged the game with "capture"
All this Ph.D crap is total bullshit.
I love Washingtons Blog.
I also believe that R. Christopher Whalen and Janet Tavakoli are the only names in populist finance that can be trusted.
The reason the Fed and its minions failed to see the crash coming is because Keynesian economists NEVER see a crash coming. ONLY Austrian economists predicted the crash and one does not need a PhD to understand Austrian theory and apply it.ReplyDelete
I have no degree in economics, but I study Austrian theory because it makes sense and has predictive power. I saw the crash coming and adjusted my life around it. I sold my house just before the housing market crashed and made a big profit. I took early retirement from my job and between my pension and the profits on the house, I live quite comfortably cruising full time in my sailboat.
Reading a few books by the Austrian economists is worth far more than 10 doctoral degrees in economics.
FED economists have no credibility -- they have been consistently wrong. Many bloggers (especially Austrian) have been consistently correct. Bernanke especially has been very wrong on many fundamental issues, he said in 06-07 that there was no housing bubble, that the subprime problems would not spread...etc, etc, I could go on & on, there are countless quotes and videos all over the web, yet these facts somehow continued to be ignored by many.ReplyDelete
yet these facts somehow continued to be ignored by many.ReplyDelete
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text: Prof. Dragan Maksimovic received his B.S. (1984) and M.S. (1986) degrees from the University of Belgrade (Serbia, Yugoslavia), and his Ph.D. degree from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1989. In 1992, he joined the University of Colorado at Boulder where he is currently a Charles V. Schelke Endowed Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. In 1998, with Prof. Robert W. Erickson, he co-founded the Colorado Power Electronics Center (CoPEC), and has since served as the CoPEC Co-Director. CoPEC research program in smart power electronics and digital control for high-frequency switched-mode power converters has attracted significant support from numerous industrial sponsors and agencies (NSF, DARPA, ARPA-E, DOE, ONR, DOEd). Prof. Maksimovic is also affiliated with the University of Colorado Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI). Prof. Maksimovic is a Fellow of the IEEE. He has published over 250 papers in journals and at professional conferences, and holds over 30 US patents. He co-authored the textbook Fundamentals of Power Electronics, 2nd edition, Springer 2001, and the textbook Digital Control of High-Frequency Switched-Mode Power Converters, Wiley-IEEE Press 2015. He received NSF CAREER Award in 1997, IEEE Power Electronics Society Transactions Prize Paper Award in 1997, IEEE Power Electronics Society Prize Letter Awards in 2009 and 2010, CU Boulder Inventor of the Year Award in 2006, the IEEE PELS Modeling and Control Technical Achievement Award for 2012, Bruce Holland Excellence in Teaching Awards in 2004 and 2011, Charles Hutchinson Memorial Teaching Award for 2012, and the 2013 Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award. He currently serves as a co-Chair of the IEEE PELS Technical Committee on Power Conversion Systems and Components, as an IEEE PELS Distinguished Lecturer, as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and as an Editor for the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. He served as the General Chair of IEEE COMPEL 2010. His current research interests include power electronics for renewable energy sources and energy efficiency, high frequency power conversion using wide bandgap semiconductors, digital control of switched-mode power converters, as well as analog, digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits for power management applications.


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Return to Freedom is a co-plaintiff in this important case. When necessary, RTF selectively litigates against actions which would set dangerous precedent to threaten America's wild horses and burros. Please consider a contribution to RTF's Wild Horse Defense Fund.
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WASHINGTON — A dust-up in California's remote Modoc County has lassoed the attention of one of the nation's top courts, with wild horse protection and property rights both on the line.
Animal advocates want more land within the Modoc National Forest set aside for wild horses. Ranchers fear the loss of rangeland suitable for cattle grazing. Their legal fight might foreshadow plenty of other public-lands conflicts when the incoming Trump administration starts putting its brand on agencies like the Forest Service.
"This is one of the most significant wild horse populations left in California," Suzanne Roy, executive director of the Davis, California-based American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, said Thursday.
Located in California's far northeast corner, Modoc County claims fewer than 10,000 residents. Roughly half the county's land mass sits within the 1.3 million-acre national forest, enhancing the clout of federal officials and inciting the occasional conflict with residents. It's a region in which political phrases like Sagebrush Rebellion take root.
This case, though, allies the ranchers with the Forest Service.
"This action has important implications for how the Forest Service manages the nearly 200 million acres of national forests," attorneys for the wild horse advocates said in a legal brief.
The 30-minute oral argument is fallout from the Forest Service's 2013 management plan for a portion of the Modoc National Forest called the Devil's Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory. The territory consisted of two parcels totaling 236,000 acres when it was established in 1975.
The Devil's Garden site is one of 37 federal wild horse or burro territories nationwide.
The Forest Service adjusted the Devil's Garden borders in the 1980s to create a larger, unified territory, some of it including private land previously used for grazing. The agency further recognized these new borders in a 1991 forest plan. The new management plan in 2013, though, shrunk the territory back to the original 1975 layout.
The change in 2013 cut the expanded wild horse territory by 25,000 acres as it reverted to its original size, and it set a maximum wild horse population of 402.
"We're trying to prevent the Forest Service from reducing the size of their habitat," Roy said, adding that "it's all being driven by the (ranching) interests in the area."
The California Cattlemen's Association, state farm bureau and others favoring the smaller territory noted in a legal brief their concerns about the "unprecedented wild horse population explosions that have spilled over onto adjacent private lands and into government-funded offsite holding facilities."
"Over the past decade, the Devil's Garden Wild Horse Territory population has exploded to reach 1,124 horses," the farm groups wrote, adding that "wild horses have even been observed on private property far from the wild horse territory."
In a 2015 ruling, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson upheld the Forest Service's action as administratively justifiable.
"At the time the Devil's Garden (territory) was established, the Forest Service concluded that the disputed territory did not qualify as the territorial habitat of wild free-roaming horses," Jackson said in her 50-page opinion.
The challengers appealing Jackson's decision counter in legal filings that the disputed territory "is, and always has been, prime wild horse habitat."
Jan. 12 meeting set on Devil's Garden, Calif., wild horse plan, Dec. 7, 2016
Devil's Garden update: California wild horses ready for adoption, Nov. 29, 2016
Devil's Garden Days Six & Seven: Roundup ends with 290 California wild horses captured, Oct. 2, 2016


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Lisa Calderone-Stewart is a youth minister with a dying wish: that her program, Tomorrow's Present, continues after she succumbs to cancer. She wrote an article on youth ministry, Does the church put faith in our youth?, in U.S. Catholic, and now she is blogging about the spiritual process of dying on our website. Here are her blog posts:
The dying wish of a youth ministry pioneer
A blog post by Executive Editor Meinrad Scherer-Emunds about Lisa.
Don't sit on the edge of the pool. Plunge into Lent
Lisa looks forward to exercising her soul during what may be her last Lent.
Forgive us our sins
Her son's story of asking for forgiveness inspires Lisa's image of heaven.
For whom the clock changes
"Spring forward" has Lisa looking hopefully to the future.
These holy days
Last year, Lisa spend her holiest of Holy Weeks in hospice with her mom. This year she's anticipating her own heavenly holy days.
Easter season comes with stories
Family stories told at the holidays increase in meaning for Lisa as death nears.
Interfaith dialogue from youth to life's end
We can continue to learn from other faiths, even at the end of our lives.
Carpe Diem
Along with her anniversary of being diagnosed with cancer, Lisa Calderone-Stewart celebrates major transitions at work and in life.
Mary, Martha, and cancer
Cancer can change the way you hear this week's gospel reading about Martha and Mary and debate between action and reflection.
Living with death and a DNR
What's life like when you wear a "Do Not Resuscitate" bracelet?
Enjoying one bite at a time in hospice
Whether in good health or in hospice, the reality of death shouldn't stop us from savoring life.
When the head and heart conflict
The process of nearing life's end teaches us to go with the heart over the head.
Crafting perfect Christmas memories
Mistakes and tears are all forgotten when one family looks back on their tradition of making crafts.
Dying to know you
While there's no rhyme or reason to explain terminal illness, we're all on the same path toward death.
Go Slow. Fast.
In her second "last Lent," Lisa Calderone-Stewart still finds value in fasting.
A burdensome Lenten journey
Even Jesus didn't want to take the journey he had to take before reaching Easter Sunday.
Seize another 365 days
Lisa Calderone-Stewart celebrates another year of living with cancer.
Everyone needs a bucket list
Bucket lists aren't just for the dying—and they should include more than just adventures.
Watermelons, watermelons, everywhere
The quintessential summer fruit, seeds and all, is a metaphor for the sweetness of life and the bitterness of cancer.
Waiting for the end
Lisa describes how the process of dying can be like watching a house come down around you.
Autumn lessons
As the weather cools and the trees begin their transformation from green to gold to brown, lessons on life can be seen all around.
The honeymoon is over; the love is not
Passing through the phases of dying are a reminder that no matter how the body deteriorates, we are still fully loved.


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Pets of the Week: Humans! You Must Meet Yuma And Anna (And Cuddle A Lapful Of Kittens)
Animal Arcata
Helen Tozer and Mara Segal
Yuma is a tri-color male German shepherd mix. His age is estimated at around eight, though he could be younger.
Yuma is a very gentle dog, pleasant to be around. He is good on walks and doesn't pull on the leash at all. He is another member of the shelter football team and loves to fetch! Yuma will bring the ball back and give it up to be thrown again.
He would love to have the opportunity to walk and play ball with his own family! He gets along well with other dogs also. Come meet Yuma today and see if he is the dog for you!
Yuma is neutered, microchipped and up to date on vaccinations. He has been at the shelter since July 10 and his ID number is A063960.
Anna is a brown tabby and tortie domestic shorthair. She is seven months old and has been spayed. She arrived at the shelter on August 5. Shelter staff said the following about her. "Anna is a loving and perky kitten. She is happy, affectionate and good natured."
Her ID number is A064236.
For more information about Yuma and Anna, call the Humboldt County Sheriff's Animal Shelter at (707) 840-9132.
If you know of an animal that you would like to see displayed in this column, e-mail Helen at email@example.com.
Animal Arcata is generously sponsored by Balanced Aquarium.
Companion Animals
Asti Morris
Delightful and her eight kittens are all doing wonderfully and soon these kittens will join the other adoptable animals in the cat room.
Companion Animal Foundation (CAF) loves when visitors come and help socialize the animals. CAF very much appreciates their volunteers and all the wonderful community for support that has been given over the years.
The best donation that one can give to the animals is time and love. Many of the rescue animals have not had much contact with people and would make the best companions if socialized at a young age.
If you are interested in volunteering with the animals, please email firstname.lastname@example.com or call (707) 826-PETS(7387). Come visit the kitties and puppies at 88 Sunny Brae Center from Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. cafanimals.org
Companion Animals is generously sponsored by Humboldt Pet Supply.


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Stokes' Theorem
Stokes' Theorem states that the line integral of a closed path is equal to the surface integral of any capping surface for that path, provided that the surface normal vectors point in the same general direction as the right-hand direction for the contour:
Intuitively, imagine a "capping surface" that is nearly flat with the contour. The curl is the microscopic circulation of the function on tiny loops within that surface, and their sum or integral results in canceling out all the internal circulation paths, leaving only the integration over the outer-most path.[1] This remains true no matter how the capping surface is expanded, provided that the contour remains as its boundary.
Sometimes the circulation (the left side above) is easier to compute; other times the expresses the surface integral of the curl of vector field is easier to computer (particularly when it is zero).[2]
Stated another way, Stokes' Theorem equates the line integral of a vector fields to a surface integral of the same vector field. For this identity to be true, the direction of the vector normal n must obey the right-hand rule for the direction of the contour, i.e., when walking along the contour the surface must be on your left.
This is an extension of Green's Theorem to surface integrals, and is also the analog in two dimensions of the Divergence Theorem. The above formulation is also called as the "Curl Theorem," to distinguish it from the more general form of the Stokes' Theorem described below.
Stokes' Theorem is useful in calculating circulation in mechanical engineering. A conservative field has a circulation (line integral on a simple, closed curve) of zero, and application of the Stokes' Theorem to such a field proves that the curl of a conservative field over the enclosed surface must also be zero.
General Form
In its most general form, this theorem is the fundamental theorem of Exterior Calculus, and is a generalization of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. It states that if M is an oriented piecewise smooth manifold of dimension k and is a smooth (k−1)-form with compact support on M, and ∂M denotes the boundary of M with its induced orientation, then
- ,
where d is the exterior derivative.
There are a number of well-known special cases of Stokes' theorem, including one that is referred to simply as "Stokes' theorem" in less advanced treatments of mathematics, physics, and engineering:
- When k=1, and the terms appearing in the theorem are translated into their simpler form, this is just the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
- When k=3, this is often called Gauss' Theorem or the Divergence Theorem and is useful in vector calculus:
Where R is some region of 3-space, S is the boundary surface of R, the triple integral denotes volume integration over R with dV as the volume element, and the double integral denotes surface integration over S with as the oriented normal of the surface element. The on the left side is the divergence operator, and the on the right side is the vector dot product.
- When k=2, this is often just called Stokes' Theorem:
Here S is a surface, E is the boundary path of S, and the single integral denotes path integration around E with as the length element. The on the left side is the curl operator.
These last two examples (and Stokes' theorem in general) are the subject of vector calculus. They play important roles in electrodynamics. The divergence and curl operations are cornerstones of Maxwell's Equations.
Stokes' Theorem is a lower-dimension version of the Divergence Theorem, and a higher-dimension version of Green's Theorem. Green's Theorem relates a line integral to a double integral over a region, while Stokes' Theorem relates a surface integral of the curl of a function to its line integral. Stokes' Theorem originated in 1850.


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Even in the face of tragedy, the buying of expensive crap must go on. At least, if you're Oprah. And so, while entire towns are still closed off in New Jersey and children in Staten Island don't have shoes, Oprah released a resurrected version of her famed Favorite Things list filled with even higher frivolity-level tchotchkes than usual. WORST TIMING EVER, OPRAH. Couldn't you at least wait for the smoke over Breezy Point to clear?
From a $2,700 mattress to a $500 fan, Oprah's list showcased items far beyond the reach of most consumers. We've picked out the most oblivious, tone-deaf bits and rated them for you on a scale of one to five Paltrows, in honor of Goop matron Gwyneth, a pioneer in out of touch rich lady recommendations.
Lafco's 14 soap set will set you back $238, or $17 apiece. Ivory Soap is like $1 a bar. Both get you clean! Only one makes you literally smell fruity and irresistibly rob-able.
Four Paltrows.
Reverb Hard Headed Helmet, $60, or $48 with OPRAH code. Paying for a decent bike helmet is worth it, and this is sort of cute.
One Paltrow. I'd buy it.
Gourmet Pigs in a Blanket artisanal hot dogs wrapped in dough by These Little Piggies, 56-count box PLUS DIPS, $85, but $68 with special OPRAH coupon code. Call them glorified hot dogs (poor people food!) all you want, but have you considered that perhaps they are made up of very fancy meat scraps? Perhaps zoo tigers? Who's the foolhardy rube now?!
Five Paltrows
Casa Dragones Sipping Tequila, $275.Oprah says it's so delicious that you just drink it like water. Empty bottles can be used to carry desperate PLEASE SEND HELP notes to the mainland.
Three Paltrows
Lancer Skin Care Luxury Collection. $250. For that hard-to-buy person on your Christmas list to whom you want to send the message: You need skin help, and it is worth $250 to me to provide that help to you. In future post apocalyptic Bartertown scenario, can be used as a substitute for butter.
Two Paltrows
Earth Balance Gift Pack. $15 "I am passionate about this coconut and peanut spread," says Oprah. I believe that's all you need to know.
Three Paltrows.Would be four Paltrows if it cost more than $25 for two things of fancy peanut butter.
Back Home Pajama Set by Born to Lounge. $160.00.Oprah reports she could live in them.
Two Paltrows
Pipcorn Holiday Crate, $88 for four flavors of gourmet, hulless, naturally grown, popped in small batches popcorn. Comes in decorative rustic looking crate. Get one for your secretery!
Four Paltrows
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Fine print – August 2011
President Obama came to town a few weeks ago, and much levity ensued. But I might be the only person who found anything funny about the president's visit to the Triangle, during which he toured a manufacturing plant and met with his Jobs and Competitiveness Council for a status report. (The job market is still code blue, by the way. But you don't need a presidential council to explain that.) Meanwhile, Obama's top economic adviser, also in town, affixed a concerned look on his face and nodded in sympathy as executives explained all the methods by which the administration could help business get back on track — by getting out of the way, for instance. And just a few miles away, Gov. Beverly Perdue and the legislature were at odds over the state budget, which the governor declared was insufficient in the way of taxes and would cause jobs to be lost if people weren't compelled to put more money on the table to keep state workers employed. So why laugh, even if it was laughter born of irony and derision? Because the alternative is despair.
I'm not one of those who believe today's politicians are uniquely craven and inept and that the system of governance is more dysfunctional than ever. My guess is that politicians have always caused people to gnash their teeth in frustration and that the system has always operated at near-maximum inefficiency. Two things are different these days, though.
First, government at all levels has metastasized into a lurking, intrusive presence in your daily existence. In the beginning, government existed solely to provide services — mail delivery, an orderly court system, defense of the nation — and build things such as roads, dams, schools, water systems and sewage-treatment plants. But elected officials, local, state and federal, kept assigning themselves more duties. Those additional responsibilities have ranged from the noble, such as looking after the poor, to the absurd: nagging citizens about their eating habits, licensing marriages, regulating nail salons and declaring jihad on the garbage disposals under your kitchen sink. (That last one actually happened in my city a couple of years ago. The disposals won.) The idea that government should perform a few important tasks well and efficiently, and otherwise leave us alone, is long gone. Politicians and bureaucrats are on an endless search for things to fix, regulate, control or tax. Worse yet, hardly any problem is ever solved. They're just added to the ever-growing list of things politicians and bureaucrats are protecting us from.
The long-term effect of that governmental intrusiveness is the second of the things that are different nowadays: We have embraced the concept of the nanny state in a way previous generations never did. We're happy to let government recommend what we should eat, make sure our cars are well-maintained, teach values to our children along with math and science, demand that we buckle up when we drive, etc. In short, we have acquiesced to our own servitude. We are required to please government. It does not bend to us nearly as much as we bend to it.
I suspect that's why I'm the only person who was bemused, albeit sourly, by Obama's jobs-creation summit and the governor's claim that a lower state budget will result in fewer jobs. It's the ultimate in nanny-state thinking: Whether by direct hiring or the formation of committees to ponder the problem of unemployment, government can make jobs appear. We can rest easy while politicians and bureaucrats fix unemployment.
To understand how far down the path of nanny-state thinking we have gone, consider this unacknowledged premise behind Perdue's concern: that revenue should be adjusted around a certain staffing level, instead of the other way around. What this means, of course, is that you work for government. Government doesn't work for you.
The jobs summit in Durham, no less revealing, carried its own unacknowledged concept. When policymakers from Washington parachute into town to ask business leaders for advice on how to get people to work, the relationship is that of lord and supplicant. The policymakers will hear the pleas of the beleaguered and then decide what appropriate acts of benevolence can be bestowed upon them. Again, this is exactly backward. What ought to happen is the public should demand, none too politely, that politicians and bureaucrats account for their tax and regulatory policies, labor-relations enforcement and everything else that hampers hiring, job creation and business expansion.
The best expression I've seen on the perverse relationship between government and its citizens came in a recent column by Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter that appeared on the Bloomberg News website. In it, Carter described a plane trip in which he sat next to a business owner who explained why he had instituted a de facto hiring freeze. Government's endless tinkering with policies, particularly regulation, make it impossible for owners to anticipate future costs, he said. Carter then asked him what role government should play in regards to business. The man's answer should be etched in stone: "Government should act like my assistant, not my boss."


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IKEA Canada is recalling millions of chests and dressers because of a tip-over hazard that has resulted in 78 incidents resulting in dozens of injuries including the deaths of six children in the U.S.
Officials are urging consumers to "immediately stop using and move any unanchored IKEA chest of drawers into storage" until they can be secured to a wall or returned to a store.
There have been no fatalities in Canada, but Health Canada said it received one report of a tip-over incident with minor injuries. IKEA Canada received three reports of tip-overs with two minor injuries.
An estimated 6.6 million MALM-style chests and dressers sold in Canada are a part of the recall, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Tuesday. Dozens of other styles of IKEA three-, four- and five-drawer chests and dressers are also part of the recall.
The recalls include children's chests and dressers taller than 23.5 inches, and adult chests and dressers taller than 29.5 inches.
Owners can return the MALM or other styles of dressers for a refund, or receive a free kit to fasten the furniture to the wall.
A 22-month-old Minnesota boy died in February when a MALM six-drawer chest fell on top of him.
There were two other deaths in 2014, including a 23-month-old boy from Washington State who became trapped beneath a three-drawer MALM chest that tipped over.
IKEA received reports of 41 tip-over incidents in the U.S. involving MALM chests and dressers — which sold from 2002 to June 2016 for between $70 and $200 — injuring 17 children between 19 months and 10 years old, according to the safety commission.
There were another 41 tip-over incidents in the U.S. involving chests and dressers other than MALMs, which killed three children and injured 19 others.
IKEA Canada said it will now only sell chests of drawers that meet the American Society for Testing and Material standard on free-standing stability.
To receive a free wall-anchoring kit, call 1-800-661-9807 or visit ikea.ca/saferhomestogether.


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Monday, April 12, 2010
Make It A Double
There's nothing like some great discourse especially of the double monk variety. Ken sent me a link to another fine pair of double monks this time courtesy of Shipton & Heneage - bench made, good year welted, leather sole and all for a cool $395. Oh man, first it was Bean boots then Vans Authentics - my eye has quite a few apples these days. Love it or hate it, but never ignore it...
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Double Monks are starting to catch my eye as well but I can't seem to find a decent pair where I live (Sydney, Australia). I find this is the case with most things I dig style wise. Any tips on where/how I could find them all the way down in Oz?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 12, 2010 at 5:38 AM
Same. Sydney is a vacuum.ReplyDelete
Thomas and Anon- I wish I knew...you guys just need to find someone who does international shipping.ReplyDelete
True L.A.S but it's hard when you can't try the gear on and see how you look, it makes me reluctant to take the risk.ReplyDelete
Thanks for trying!
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It may be inconvenient to users of more popular digital distribution platforms, but its picking up steam. During a UBS conference in London earlier today, EA chief financial officer Eric Brown set Origin install numbers at "about 4 million", saying that third-party content was coming "very soon".
Millions have flocked to EA's Origin since its launch earlier this year, largely due to the downloadable exclusivity of popular titles like Battlefield 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic. But soon PC gamers may have other, non-EA reasons to install the Origin client, according to Gamasutra. "Initially, Origin is set up to deliver EA games, but very soon, we'll be delivering third-party content to Origin," said EA CFO Eric Brown at a UBS conference in London today.EA plans on using the more than 130 registered users it's gathered over the years and its varied payment options as leverage to attract third-party game companies to the service.
It's hard to imagine EA's service surpassing Steam in terms of user numbers or game selection, but it's not outside the realm of possibility. Once the company starts adding big name third-party titles to its already impressive roster, we may be in for some interesting times in the digital delivery business.
EA's Origin Hosting Third-Party Content 'Very Soon'; 4M Client Installs [Gamasutra]