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BofA, Other Banks Move Closer to Ending Mortgage Mess
Bank of America Corp announced more than $14 billion of legal settlements over bad mortgages it sold to investors and flaws in its foreclosure process, taking the bank a step closer to ending the home loan problems that have dogged it for years.
About $3 billion of Bank of America's Monday's settlements were part of a larger $8.5 billion deal between 10 big mortgage lenders and regulators to end a loan-by-loan review of foreclosures mandated by the government.
Bank of America shares touched their highest level in nearly two years as investors called it a good step toward ending the company's multiple legal woes. The shares later retreated to close down 0.2 percent at $12.09.
Analysts have estimated that Bank of America has paid out some $40 billion for mortgage settlements since the crisis began. Most of those losses stem from its 2008 purchase of Countrywide Financial, once the largest subprime lender in the United States.
But the bank is moving closer to the day when it can stop worrying about mortgages and start focusing on growth, analysts and investors said.
"It's a step in the right direction in terms of trying to put these issues behind the company," said Jonathan Finger of Finger Interests Ltd, a Houston, Texas-based investment firm that owns 1.1 million of the bank's shares.
Besides the multibank foreclosure settlement, the second largest U.S. bank also announced about $11.6 billion of settlements with government mortgage finance company Fannie Mae to end allegations the bank improperly sold mortgages that later soured, and to resolve questions about foreclosure delays.
Bank of America had already set aside money to cover most of those settlements. The deal with Fannie wipes out 44 percent of the buy-back requests the bank faced as of the end of the third quarter. It also eliminates possible future repurchase requests on about $300 billion in loans.
Bank of America's home loan problems are far from over, though. It still needs court approval for an $8.5 billion settlement with private investors and it is locked in litigation with insurer MBIA Inc over mortgage-related claims.
The agreement also does not end a lawsuit the U.S. Justice Department brought against the bank last year over Countrywide and Bank of America loans sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the agency said. The suit accuses Countrywide and Bank of America of causing losses to taxpayers of more than $1 billion.
"I think there is still quite a lot of litigation to go, and I don't think we'll see the end of this for some time," said Thomas Perrelli, a former top Justice Department official, speaking of industrywide legal issues stemming from the financial crisis.
The settlement Bank of America, Citigroup Inc, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Wells Fargo & Co and five other banks entered with regulators pays out up to $125,000 in cash to homeowners whose homes were being foreclosed when the paperwork problems emerged.
About $3.3 billion of the $8.5 billion settlement with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will be in cash, with the rest in changes to the terms of loans or mortgage forgiveness.
In April 2011, the government required banks that collect payments on mortgages, known as servicers, to review whether errors in the foreclosure process had harmed borrowers.
The review focused on foreclosures from 2009 and 2010 and looked at processes, including "robo-signing," where servicer employees or contractors signed documents without first reviewing them.
That loan-by-loan review proved slow and expensive, the OCC said.
The reviews had already cost more than $1.5 billion. They turned up evidence that around 6.5 percent of the loan files contained some error requiring compensation, but most of those errors involved potential payouts much less than $125,000, OCC officials said.
Other banks involved in the settlement include MetLife Bank , Aurora Bank FSB, PNC Financial Services Group Inc, Sovereign Bank NA, SunTrust Banks Inc and U.S. Bancorp.
Wells Fargo said its portion of the cash settlement will be $766 million, which will result in a $644 million charge when it reports fourth-quarter earnings on Friday. The bank said it will spend another $1.2 billion on foreclosure prevention actions, which will not result in additional charges.
Citigroup, which reports earnings next week, said it will take a $305 million charge for its cash payment portion of the settlement, while existing reserves would cover $500 million in loan forgiveness and other actions.
Housing advocates said they viewed the settlement as a positive move as it ends a flawed review process and provides some money, if limited, to consumers. But some advocates and lawmakers expressed dissatisfaction with the pact and suggested hearings could follow.
"I remain concerned that banks continue to avoid full accountability, and I believe that borrowers deserve more answers and transparency than the Federal Reserve and the OCC are currently willing to provide," said Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight committee.
For Bank of America, the Fannie Mae deal was the much larger of Monday's agreements.
Fannie Mae and sibling Freddie Mac essentially buy mortgages from banks and package them into bonds for investors. But during the mortgage boom, banks sold loans to the two companies that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac say should never have been sold because, for example, borrowers had misstated their income. The two mortgage finance companies are pushing banks to buy back the loans.
On Monday, Bank of America also said it was selling the rights to collect payments on about $306 billion of loans to Nationstar Mortgage Holdings and Walter Investment Management Corp. Reuters first reported on Friday that Bank of America was talking to Nationstar and Walter Investment.
Investors appear to have decided the bank is on the right track as its shares hit their highest level since May 2011 on Monday. When Warren Buffett came to the bank's rescue in August 2011 with a $5 billion investment, he received warrants for 700 million shares of stock at $7.14 per share.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer said Monday that he will launch a campaign next year urging California lawmakers to approve taxes on companies that extract oil in the state.
Steyer, a major Democratic donor who also bankrolled last year's Proposition 39 campaign, said he thinks is it ridiculous that California is the only oil-producing state that does not levy such a fee on oil pumped from private land, which could generate billions of dollars a year for the state budget.
Proposals for an oil tax have stalled repeatedly amid pressure from oil companies, which are major donors to lawmakers' campaigns. But Steyer said he believes the current Legislature is more progressive and collaborative than in the past.
"I don't understand why the politics are hard here," he said in a telephone interview. "Who is going to stand up in the town square and say that we shouldn't have a tax on this?"
Tupper Hall, a spokesman for the Western States Petroleum Association, which represents oil companies, said Steyer is wrong to compare California with other states that have such a tax. He said oil companies generate a lot of revenue through other fees, including $500 million a year in state royalties and billions of dollars annually in royalties paid to private landowners for oil extracted on their property.
Hall said an extraction tax would mean more imported oil, decreased investment in the state's oil infrastructure and job losses.
"After understanding the implications of raising taxes on energy production, Californians have rejected all of those proposals and they will reject this one," Hall said.
State Sen. Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa, already has pending legislation that would impose a 9.5 percent per-barrel tax on oil, but it stalled in a legislative committee this year.
Her spokeswoman, Teala Schaff, said Evans hopes to find more support for the bill in 2014. But she noted that the current makeup of the Legislature includes more moderate Democrats who are loathe to oppose the business community, which has opposed such efforts.
"We're giving away our natural resources for free to companies that make billions of dollars a day in profits," she said. "If the Legislature can't get it done, then hopefully the people will."
Steyer says he will seek to persuade lawmakers through public polling that he believes will show voters support increasing taxes on major oil producers, but it could be a hard sell in 2014, an election year. The hedge fund founder from San Francisco said he has "no idea" of Gov. Jerry Brown's position on such legislation but cannot imagine the governor opposing it.
"It's very hard for me to understand how the governor couldn't be in favor of this," Steyer said. "But having said this, he's never said to me 'Don't worry, I'm behind this,'" he said.
Brown's press office did not immediately respond to a call seeking comment.
The governor has been dogged at events lately by protesters who oppose his signing of a law that sets rules for the method of extracting oil and natural gas known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Opponents had sought a ban or stringent regulations on the practice. But of eight bills introduced on the issue this year, only one was signed into law, and opponents say that one was watered-down.
Steyer had a high-profile win in 2012, when voters approved his Proposition 39 by a 60-40 margin. The initiative closed a provision in the tax code that had allowed multistate corporations to choose between two tax formulas, which had cost the state about $1 billion a year in lost tax revenue. His effort was supported by many California-based businesses.
Steyer spent about $27 million of his own money on that campaign. He said he has not set a budget for how much he is willing to spend on a public awareness campaign for the oil-extraction tax.

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Submitted to: Phytopathology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 12/21/1995
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Interpretive Summary: Progress in plant breeding depends on successful detection and exploitation of genetic variability. In many cases, the rate of progress has been hindered by the lack of knowledge of important characteristics and the factors that influence them. Puccinia coronata, the causal agent of crown rust, is the most important fungal pathogen of cultivated oat. The primary means of control of the crown rust is through the use of cultivars that are resistant to this disease. A large number of factors that determine resistance to this pathogen have been identified. These factors are called genetic loci. However, the relationship of one locus to another has been unclear, as well as the location of these loci on the oat chromosomes. In this investigation, we identified and confirmed a group of five loci for resistance to the crown rust disease in a wild relative of cultivated oat. We also identified a locus which interferes with the function of one of the resistance loci in this group. This is one of the first reports of five loci determining resistance that are clustered and originate from a single accession. These types of resistance clusters are useful in the breeding of resistant oats. The results of this work will be of interest to plant breeders, plant pathologists, and researchers interested in investigating host-pathogen interaction in cereals.
Technical Abstract: A set of 100 recombinant inbred lines (RILS) was produced from a cross of diploid (n=7) Avena strigosa (CI 3815) with A. wiestii (CI 1994), resistant and susceptible, respectively, to Puccinia coronata, the causal agent of crown rust. This set of RILS was inoculated with 11 isolates of P. coronata. Infection type reactions to nine isolates (PC54, 263, 290, PC62, 202, 258, 325a, PC58, and PC59) fit a 1 resistant:1 susceptible ratio expected for traits controlled by single genes. Reaction to isolate 264B fit a 3 resistant:1 susceptible ratio suggesting control by dominant alleles of two genes. Reaction to isolate 276 fit a 1 resistant:3 susceptible ratio suggesting control by dominant alleles of two genes, whereby one allele inhibits the resistance conferred by the other. All isolates detected resistance specificities that mapped to the Pca region in A. strigosa for resistance to P. coronata. Pca is positioned between the oat RFLP marker, Xisu2192, and a new RAPD marker, XisuC18, near the end of linkage group A. Five unique specificities within the Pca region were differentiated by recombination. The observation of five specificities conferring disease resistance that are linked in coupling is unusual, because such genes are generally linked in repulsion and inherited from multiple donor parents.


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Lately, I have been hearing far too many men and women use the saying, "Happy wife, happy life." Men say it in front of their wives, who, in turn, nuzzle into them and agree with a smile. Women say it to their husbands who then, roll their eyes and shrug with a grin. What are these idiots grinning about?
As far as I can tell, happy wife, happy life is said when the wife wants something that the husband doesn't really want or can't really afford, but acquiesces because he doesn't want to hear his darling spouse harp on it any further. This saying is incredibly insulting to women because it is akin to saying, SILENT wife, happy husband. But apparently married women these days don't care to notice the insult as long as they are getting granite counter tops in their new dream kitchen.
The husbands won't be happy for too long if they find themselves frequently chanting this mantra either. If you treat your wife like a petulant child and continually give in to her demands, not only will you lose respect for her and yourself, but your bank account will soon be as empty as your head for thinking that this kind of behavior is a good idea.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't marriage supposed to be an equal partnership where both the man and the woman are working towards the same goals in life? Maybe that's where my expectations are too high. I am assuming that people who get married are fully grown adult MEN and WOMEN and not boys and girls playing house.
I have never understood why men always seem to want their wives to shut up. Why would you marry someone you don't want to talk to in the first place. And why does it seem that women are intent on pushing their husbands away with constant nagging for ever more expensive things? If he is not enough in some way, isn't that your fault for marrying him in spite of this shortcoming?
Instead of spouting cutesy sayings that belittle each other and the marriage itself, perhaps you should try thinking of yourselves as allies that help and support each other and see how that goes. Just because something rhymes doesn't make it a good idea upon which to base your marriage.


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Old Fashioned Blueberry Fool Dessert Recipe – Postcards from Maine – Beech Hill Preserve
Every morning at breakfast we would discuss where we should go and what we should do that day. While placing something fresh from the oven on the table, our hostess would always have a great suggestion..usually followed by a welcomed brochure.
One morning was especially beautiful and we decided to go to the Beech Hill Preserve, a conservation property owned by the Coastal Mountains Land Trust located close by in Rockport. Our goal was to hike up the trail to the summit where we would find the romantic stone "tea house", named Beech Nut. Along the way, we hoped to see some special birds (Beech Hill is known to have over 100 species) and admire the large fields of wild blueberries…the small, sweet kind found only in Maine.
As soon as we got on the trail, we spied a sign identifying the native Wood Lily. We were told that when these lilies appear in the fields, the blueberries are ready to pick. We searched and found one! OK, we see the lily, but where are the blueberries?
We were almost at the summit, and still no sign of them….then something on the ground caught my eye…was it…yes, yes, it was. Right there were very low growing blueberry bushes, not the sturdy tall variety I was used to seeing. We'd been walking by them all along and our eyes were focused up and not down. Now that we knew where to look, they sprinkled the hillside like fairy dust.
Beech Nut looks like an enchanted cottage…could someone inside be spinning straw into gold? It was designed by Norwegian landscape designer, Hans O. Heistad and built in the early 1900's out of stone with a sod roof in keeping with Norwegian tradition. The Gribbell family of Philadelphia who developed Beech Hill, used to meander up the curving trail in their buggy, admiring the scenery and carrying picnic hampers groaning with all of the trappings of a fine Victorian tea.
After their journey, they would have their tea overlooking the wonderful panoramic views of the Camden Hills, Penobscot Bay and the St. George Peninsula.
At Beech Hill you are asked to stay on the trail and not to pick the blueberries or the lilies, this land is dedicated to conserving not indulging. There is one day a year (this year, it's TODAY) that you can go up and pick the tiny, blue treasures. So, if you're in the neighborhood….
I thought that it might be fun to have an "old timey" dessert for family and friends for this week's Sunday Supper…something that they might have served at high tea at the top of that hill on warm summer afternoons.
On a dusty shelf in an old antique shop I found a well worn copy of The American Heritage Cookbook. This book is filled with time honored recipes of the past; such a grunts, fools and flummery. By now, you probably know that I'm drawn to simple, tasty recipes. I chose to adapt this one, and I'm glad I did. It has a light, fluffy, fruity taste with a hint of lemon.
Oh, and you top it with crumbled macaroons (not to be confused with French macarons). I found these almond macaroons at my local bakery, but if you can't find them your way, you could use crumbled sugar cookies. I added fresh blueberries as well for another texture to enjoy.
Old Fashioned Blueberry Fool Dessert Recipe
Yield: 6 servings
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes
A light, fluffy, fruity dessert that is perfect for a hot summer evening.
2 pints fresh blueberries, reserving a few as garnish
1/4 cup water
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons grated lemon rind
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
1/2 cup crumbled macaroons (or sugar cookies)
Rinse berries (keeping a few for the garnish) add remainder to saucepan with 1/4 cup of water. Let simmer over low heat for about 20 minutes or till the fruit is very tender. Remove from the heat and place in a strainer over a bowl. Work the berries through the strainer with a spoon. While the fruit puree is still warm, stir in the sugar and the lemon zest. Place mixture in the fridge to cool.
Now you are going to whip the cream and fold it into the fruit puree. I like to place my bowl and the beaters that I'll be using in the freezer to chill. Using chilled bowl and beaters, add heavy cream and whip cream till it forms soft peaks.
Remove the fruit puree from the fridge and whisk mixture a bit to loosen it (it will be slightly jelled). Then fold in the whipped cream. Spoon into serving bowls and place in fridge till you are ready to serve.
When ready to serve, sprinkle crumbled cookies and blueberries on top.


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Gold sale not a priority, says Cypriot finance minister
Cyprus is not giving priority to a sale of gold reserves under the international bailout agreed this month and is still exploring all options to meet its side of the deal, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said in an interview.
Georgiades also said he anticipated currency controls, imposed after a chaotic bailout last month and which led to a lockdown of the banking system for 15 days would be eased in "days or weeks." Cyprus's agreement to sell 400 million euros worth of its gold reserves was one of several shockwaves its progress toward a bailout sent through European financial markets earlier this month.
The amount is small but the precedent of a eurozone central bank being pushed to dispose of some of its reserves helped drive the biggest fall in gold prices in 30 years. Investors worry central banks in some of the eurozone's struggling larger economies could eventually be pushed to follow Cyprus' example.
But while Georgiades said the gold sale was one of several commitments to the island's international lenders, he said it was not an issue which took priority.
"We shall do whatever it takes, we shall meet all fiscal targets. I am sure we shall succeed in gathering the amounts which remain our responsibility in order to avoid any need to come back with a new (adjustment) program," Georgiades told Reuters in an interview on Monday night.
Repeatedly declining to speculate on the timing of any disposal, he said the gold sale was "not even the most important, or the issue of the greatest magnitude" in the bailout deal, worth a total 23 billion euros.
"It is something on the agenda, but it is not something we are tackling now," he said.
Asked whether Cyprus could reconsider the sale if it managed to find the amount elsewhere, Georgiades said:
"So long as we are able to meet the financial element of our commitments I think all possibilities should be explored and they will be explored.
"The same applies not only for that particular issue but the whole framework of our commitments. What I feel it is necessary to repeat is our commitment for fulfilling everything without hesitation."
Teetering on the edge of default, Cyprus last month wound down its second largest bank and raided depositors' uninsured savings at another bank to fund a recapitalization. Both banks were badly hit by their exposure to Greece.
It has to come up with most of the 23 billion itself, with only 10 billion made available by lenders and a fractious parliament, which had rejected milder terms of a broad-based bail-in on bank depositors in March, will have to approve the bailout in coming days.
"I think parliament will acknowledge there is no alternative at this point," Georgiades said, adding that most bailout terms, such as increasing corporate tax, spending cuts and tax increases, had already been approved virtually unanimously by lawmakers in by-laws.
Cyprus imposed capital controls at the end of March, worried about a flight of funds from a banking system flush with cash from Russian and European businesses, but also from many overseas Cypriots.
Now islanders are on a cash withdrawal limit of 300 euros a day and have a 2,000-euro ceiling on what they can take abroad, while businesses cannot make transfers exceeding 20,000 euros overseas unless they are vetted by the central bank.
Firms have complained the restrictions are stifling, while Russia has warned it will only restructure its own loan to the island if its interests here are protected.
Cyprus received a 2.5 billion euro five-year loan from Russia in late 2011. Russia had previously said it was ready to restructure the terms by extending the credit and cutting interest to 2.5 percent from an earlier 4.5 percent.
"I am pretty confident these necessary but temporary measures will not be needed in the next days or weeks," Georgiades said.
Asked whether measures would be eased in two, or six months, Georgiades said: "Definitely not six months. I am optimistic we shall be able to proceed much sooner." [Reuters]


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Let me create a little scenario for you… you are invited to a cookie exchange at the last minute and don't know what to make. OR, scenario #2 (more likely), your kid comes to you and says he/she needs to take in cookies the next day for {fill in event here} which he/she has known about for a month but is just telling you about now.
I give unto you a cookie recipe that you should probably file away somewhere for just such an occasion. Why? Because I am 99% sure you will always have all the ingredients for these on hand! I love these things for their deliciousness but also for their lack of a zillion ingredients. Needed: flour, powdered sugar, cornstarch, butter, vanilla, cream cheese. See? Toldja. And you can make them whatever color you want for any occassion.
The name fits them perfectly too. They practically melt in your mouth! I got this recipe from a friend a few years ago. She has two boys that are allergic to eggs so these are a great fit for them. Nothing but buttery yum in these babies.
Meltaway Cookie Recipe
1 C. butter
¾ C. cornstarch
¾ C. powdered sugar
Mix all ingredients together. Color with food coloring if desired.
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By the way, as a seasoned veteran of the cookie making game, I have definitely decided on a few favorite items that I use pretty much every time I pull out the ingredients to make cookies! I've complied a list below with links to each item … do you have any favorites that I missed?
- Kitchenaid Mixer: The one should come as no surprise! And if you can get it in aqua, all the better! I can't remember the last time I made cookies without it!
- Measuring Cups & Spoons: I love this set because of the odd cup and spoon sizes… 3/4 Cup? Yes! No more measuring 1/4 three times or worse, dirtying a 1/2 cup and a 1/4 cup!
- Spatula: Of course you need a spatula to get those cookies off the cookie sheet! I love this metal one with the slots to make it all that much easier to transfer.
- Silpat Baking Mat: No more need to "grease" a cookie sheet! Just lay this baby down on your cookie sheet and away you go. Nothing will stick to this.
- Cookie Scoop: What did I do before I had a cookie scoop? The easy way to get uniform cookies! I looooove my cookie scoop. I wish I were over-exaggerating here but I'm not.
- Cookie sheet: I love these heavy duty Nordic Ware ones! Mine have been perfectly "seasoned" over the years and they just seem to get better and better!
- Rubber/Silicone Spatulas: How else will you lick the bowl clean? This is a must-have tool to scrape down the sides of that bowl.
Enjoy and happy cookie making!


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Jim Tooley: "The tournament has been terrific"
USA Basketball CEO Jim Tooley answered our questions about 3 on 3 basketball and World Children's Games.
USA Basketball CEO Jim Tooley answered our questions about 3 on 3 basketball and World Children's Games.
A 3 on 3 basketball workshop held by FIBA in Ankara Sport Hall today.
SportingPulse International's FIBA Organizer and Stadium Scoring solutions have been showcased this week (April 24-27) at the World Children's Games in Ankara, Turkey.
The children and coaches commented on Mustafa Kemal Atatürk after Anıtkabir visit.
2nd day of the basketball category in the World Children's Games completed.
Czech Republic's head coach Veronika Matejkova, is the only women head coach in the tournament.
The ceremony took place with the participation of 90 countries and 3000 children yesterday 7 p.m in the evening.
In the category of basketball, the children from 16 countries visited Atatürk's Mausoleum.
Ankara Mayor met with representatives of the International Federations who participate to World Children's Games.
The children from 16 countries competed in the category of basketball.
90 countries are attending World Children's Games in Ankara.
Basketball teams that will compete in World Children's Game have began to arrive in Ankara.


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New York Times Asks For More Newsroom Buyouts
The following email just went out to New York Times newsroom staffers. These are the first buyout offers the paper's put out since the real depths of the recession in 2009. "Voluntary," yes. But not a good sign.
Date: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:24 AM
Subject: A Note From Jill, Dean and John on Buyouts
To: !NYHQ-newsroom
To the Staff:
We are announcing today a limited buyout opportunity to newsroom volunteers, both excluded staffers as well as those members of the Guild-Times bargaining unit covered by the existing print contract.
By limited, that means we are looking at fewer than 20 buyouts across the newsroom, among volunteers who see the offer as being to their financial advantage at this time. The offering to the newsroom is, in any event, wholly voluntary. No matter how many people do or do not raise their hands, no one in the newsroom – either Guild or excluded – will be laid off as a result of this program.
For excluded staff members, the buyout formula effectively works out to two weeks of pay per year of service, with a maximum of one year in salary. The existing formula for Guild members in general provides for three weeks of severance per year, capping at a maximum of two years worth of salary.
The Guild buyout formula is among the issues on the table in the current contractual negotiations between the company and the Guild, and the company has proposed that in the future, the Guild terms mirror those now available to excluded employees. But until the company and the union agree on a new contract and the membership ratifies it – hopefully in the coming months – the current buyout terms remain in effect.
While we remain as loyal as ever to Times journalism and journalists, the uncertain economy has posed a continuing and difficult challenge to The Times: how to rebalance our business for the digital age while remaining steadfast to the quality journalism that defines us?
As you all know, the company has consistently chosen to protect the journalism, even while cutting production and other business-side costs and continuing to demand exacting financial discipline in the way the newsroom itself marshals its resources and controls its spending. Even now, we field a newsroom staff about the same size as it was a decade ago, and continue to invest in new opportunities and new platforms for our content.
In conjunction with this offering in the newsroom, the business side is making a small adjustment in its own budget, mostly by eliminating some open slots. This is consistent with ongoing efforts among our colleagues in the business side departments, who have cut their own staff in half over the past decade.
As in previous buyouts, to ensure we do not cut too deeply in our journalistic muscle, we do reserve the right to turn down some volunteers who are in those areas of the newsroom where we feel we cannot reduce our numbers. It is for that reason, in part, that we have excluded those members of the Guild who are covered by the separate Digital contract.
Anyone who is eligible for this offering and interested in volunteering should contact Bill Schmidt's office by Monday, Oct. 24, and we will get you a copy of the package. You will have 45 days from then to decide whether or not you want to formally apply for a buyout.
Jill, Dean and John
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And Then There Was Light {A Lamp Makeover}
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Gorgeous! You would never guess they looked the way they did before! And the shades are perfect with the room.ReplyDelete
They are a great scale for your room, too! I never find pairs of lamps of thrift stores - you lucky thing you!ReplyDelete
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your little man!
Well done! Great shades.ReplyDelete
These look awesome. I love the color and the shades are perfection! I've been having trouble finding a set at GoodWill, hopefully soon.ReplyDelete
Sweet!! Love it--and they look fantastic.ReplyDelete
I am dying to have those lamp shades in my house, but I just can't find a spot for them! They look great!ReplyDelete
How ironic! I actually purchased two of the same exact shades from Target last week! I'm planning to put them in our bedroom once I find the right lamps for them. Great find! You did an excellent job painting the lamps! :)ReplyDelete
Love them! The lamps, and shades, look great in the room! Awesome find!ReplyDelete
Woo hoo for spray paint magic!! The shades are perfection, Michelle -- enjoy!ReplyDelete
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Do you remember when we met for lunch in San Francisco with Michaela and went into the Jonathan Adler store after? There was a $400 lamp there that I had just DIYed the day before nearly identical.... here is mine.. http://lifeintheklaaslane.blogspot.com/2011/07/leave-light-on-when-im-gone.htmlReplyDelete
Love the lampshades! They are such a fun and cheap way to add a pop of color
Love... Love... Love! Just saw the lampshades today at Target and they were on sale! I forgot the amount. So pretty! Michele MReplyDelete
Love the lamps! && I loved the new Twilight movie too :)ReplyDelete
They look great! And the perfect height, too. "I love lamp" -- you'll only get that if you watch the office ;) ha. Anyone...anyone??ReplyDelete


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Ever since relocating to South Carolina many years ago, and particularly since becoming an advocate for shelter pets throughout the south, I have heard the same myth repeated ad nauseum by shelter staff, volunteers and advocates in general: The reason our shelters kill so many pets is because we don't have strong mandatory spay-neuter (MSN) laws like they do in the north where pet overpopulation is no longer a problem. This is false. It is not true. It is false and untrue and wrong on so many levels, I want to scream every time I hear it.
Let me break it down:
1. Pet overpopulation is a myth. Do the math. There are enough homes for every shelter pet in this country.
2. MSN laws are not the answer to ending the killing of healthy/treatable pets in shelters. The No Kill Equation is the only set of programs proven to end the killing of healthy/treatable shelter pets, as evidenced by the dozens of no kill communities all over the U.S. There are some cities and counties throughout the U.S. which have MSN but in every case, the law has failed to stem the tide of shelter pet impounds and killing. MSN sacrifices pets' lives to ideology. MSN does not reduce/eliminate shelter pet killing and it's failed everywhere it's been enacted. Some examples:
- The city of Los Angeles enacted MSN in 2008 and after the first year, shelter intake and killings were up. Killings increased after the second year as well. The third year was yet another failure.
- Intakes and killings increased in Las Vegas after the city enacted MSN in 2010.
- When CA was considering statewide MSN legislation in 2007, the past president of the California Veterinary Medical Association wrote a lengthy letter to the Board detailing his opposition.
- Killings and costs both went up in King Co, WA after MSN was passed in 1992.
As a result, most every major animal welfare group in the country opposes MSN. That list includes:
- The No Kill Advocacy Center explains "Why Punitive Legislation Fails"
- Alley Cat Allies points out that MSN does not reach most intact cats
- "Best Friends does not support mandatory spay-neuter legislation as a method of pet population control."
- The "ASPCA is not aware of any credible evidence demonstrating a statistically significant enhancement in the reduction of shelter intake or euthanasia as a result of the implementation of a mandatory spay/neuter law."
- The American Veterinary Medical Association opposes MSN.
3. The reason shelter pets are being sent to the landfill in the south at such an astonishing rate is because shelter directors are killing them. To imply that pet owners in the south are too irresponsible to neuter their pets is not only untrue, it's insulting. We have rampant poverty here in the south and a wide range of problems that accompany it. Pet owners here are similar to those in other parts of the country – some irresponsible but most trying to do right by their pets. We are lacking in access to low/no cost neuter services, transportation and community outreach. Implementing a law requiring owners to neuter their dogs and cats does nothing to address those problems.
4. Northern states do not have MSN laws requiring all owners to have their dogs and cats neutered – in fact, no state in the country has such a law.
Rhode Island legislated MSN for all cats over the age of 6 months in 2006. The annual permit to keep an intact cat costs $100 and does not allow the animal to be bred. The breeder's permit costs $200 a year and there are additional requirements regarding vaccinations and care. Violators face fines of $75 per month. I have been unable to find any statistical information to show what, if any, effect the law has had on the number of cats being impounded and killed by RI shelters. If anyone has any data for RI shelters to share, please leave a comment. In the absence of any proclamations to the contrary, I think it's reasonable to guess that RI has not become a no kill state for cats since MSN was passed.
In 1996, Camden, New Jersey enacted MSN requiring a $500 permit for anyone who kept an intact pet over the age of 6 months. The annual permit fee is currently $100 and intact animals must meet other requirements, such as annual vaccinations, in order to be approved each year. Anyone who hasn't bought the permit and whose dog or cat has a litter is required to surrender the litter at the age of 8 weeks to the pound and have the mother spayed within 10 weeks. The state of New Jersey has annual stats posted online for animal intake and disposition, broken down by county. The reports start in 2004 and I looked at Camden Co's numbers for each year available. Intakes are generally trending up – 7464 dogs and cats impounded in 2004, 12,716 in 2009. Camden Co's kill rate in 2004 was 27% and in 2009 it was 26%. By comparison, the statewide average kill rate in 2004 was 43% but down to 34% in 2009. While Camden Co's kill rate was consistently lower than the statewide average in the years 2004 through 2009, the question must be asked: Why is Camden Co impounding so many more animals than in 2004 but failing to reduce its kill rate in keeping with the rest of the state? Camden has MSN, the rest of the state does not. Further, Camden Co has failed to match the lifesaving success rates of 90% or better achieved in dozens of communities around the country – none of which have MSN.
Contrary to the claim made by a SC rescue group on this page, the state of NH does not have a mandatory spay-neuter law (nor do I know of any city or county within the state that has MSN). It does have an Animal Population Control (APC) program which offers assistance to pet owners who meet certain income guidelines and want to have their pets neutered. Owners of intact dogs pay an extra $2.50 for their licenses (over the license fee for neutered dogs) and that money goes toward the APC program. The voluntary program has resulted in a dramatic decrease in shelter animal killings and has saved taxpayers money. A couple of noteworthy items: NH has the lowest poverty rate in the country. And while NH does have a very low kill rate, shelter pets are still killed throughout the state.
We pet owners in the south are not bad people. Please stop blaming us for shelter pet killing. Stereotypes and insults do not save pets' lives. The programs of the No Kill Equation do. If southern shelters would stop blaming the public long enough to check the facts, they would see that the public is part of the solution to the problem. We can help network, foster and adopt pets. We can get our pets neutered if given the means to do so. We can volunteer at and donate to our local shelters. But we're not going to do any of those things if we are constantly demonized by our neighbors in the animal welfare community. You're driving us away with your myths and your blame and your pet killing. Your way isn't working. Why not try something new? Preferably, something real and proven.


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In any society where wealth and income concentrate overwhelmingly at the top, the affluent will almost always come to sneer at public services and the men and women who provide them.
By Sam Pizzigati
Last year state lawmakers in Illinois did their best to make a Chicago teacher strike impossible. They passed a new law that required at least 75 percent of the city's teachers to okay any walkout in advance.
How did Chicago teachers respond? In advance balloting early this June, 92 percent of the city's teachers voted, and 98 percent of those teachers voted to strike if contract negotiations broke down.
This near-total teacher support for the walkout that began last week shows just how intensely frustrated the city's teachers have become. They've been teaching for years in schools woefully ill-equipped to serve the city's students.
The vast majority of these students, 87 percent, rate as "low income." Many have no books in their homes and no quiet place to study. Some — over 15,000 — have no homes at all.
Chicago political officials haven't done nearly enough to help teachers help these students learn. Over 160 Chicago schools have no library. To help homeless and other children in unstable family situations, the 350,000-student Chicago schools have only 370 social workers.
Teachers have consistently called for more resources. But school officials from Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel on down have totally bought into a "reform" agenda that dismisses concerns about overcrowded classrooms and inadequate student support. Schools don't need better resources. They need, Chicago's self-styled reformers argue, better teachers.
This "reform" stance pushes endless standardized testing to identify "low-performing" schools and teachers who can't seem to raise student test scores. For over a decade now, Chicago officials have been closing down schools they deem as "failing" and replacing them with privately run charter schools.
In affluent cocktail party circles, a certain casual demonization of teachers has become culturally prevalent.
The Chicago school chief who initially led this charter surge now serves as the U.S. secretary of education, and his test-heavy, charter-leaning approach has become the conventional education reform wisdom within both Republican and Democratic Party elite policy circles — despite a clear absence of evidence that this conventional wisdom actually works for kids.
"If we really wanted to improve schools," as analyst Melinda Henneberger quipped last week in the Washington Post, "we'd do what education powerhouse Finland does — fund schools equally, value teachers more, and administer standardized testing almost never."
So why does the conventional education reform wisdom — "get tough" on teachers and the unions that protect them — have such broad support among America's political elites?
One reason: The conventional wisdom can be unconventionally profitable for the corporate execs who run the rapidly expanding chains of charter schools. At campaign time, these execs love to show their appreciation.
But support for the teacher-bashing conventional wisdom goes well beyond the ranks of those who stand to profit directly from public education's privatization. In affluent cocktail party circles, as the New Yorker magazine noted last week, "a certain casual demonization of teachers has become sufficiently culturally prevalent that it passes for uncontroversial."
The well-heeled today, adds the New Yorker analysis, talk about breaking teacher unions "with the same kind of social enthusiasm" usually reserved for recommending "a new Zumba class."
Wealthy people royally resent having to pay taxes to support public services they don't use.
This teacher bashing has been spreading for several decades now, ever since the United States first began growing much more unequal in the 1980s. This linkage should surprise no one. These two basic phenomena — a rich growing richer and a rich growing more hostile to public services and the people who provide them — have always gone hand in hand.
Wealthy people, after all, don't typically use much in the way of public services. They don't partake of public parks or public education. They belong to private country clubs and send their kids to private schools, and they royally resent having to pay taxes to support public services they don't use.
These well-to-do need rationalizations for this resentment, and teacher bashing makes for an ideal one. We don't need to "throw money" at troubled schools, the argument goes. We just have to find and fire all those lousy teachers.
Interestingly, back in the much more equal United States of the 1950s, we did "throw money" at schools — and plenty of it.
In 1958, after the shock of the Soviet Sputnik launch, lawmakers didn't bash teachers. They appropriated billions, through the National Defense Education Act, to strengthen schools. A half-dozen years later, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act vastly expanded funding for low-income students.
In today's deeply unequal United States, by contrast, our political elites don't fund, they bash. That bashing, educationally, makes no sense. "Blaming teachers for the failure of schools," as the New Yorker's Rebecca Mead puts it, has to be about as absurd as "blaming doctors for the diseases they are seeking to treat."
But bashing makes sense to the rich. And in a plutocracy, the rich drive the debate — until the rest of us rise up and change the conversation. In Chicago, teachers have now done just that.
Veteran labor journalist Sam Pizzigati, an Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow, writes widely about inequality. His latest book, The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, will appear this fall.


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The only thing that flies faster than time is the progress of technology. Once after lunch, a chip-designing friend excused himself quickly with the deft explanation that Moore's Law meant that he had to make his chip set 0.67 percent faster each week, even while on vacation. If he didn't, the chips wouldn't double in speed every two years.
Now that 2017 is here, it's time to take stock of the technological changes ahead, if only to help you know where to place your bets in building programming skills for the future.
From the increasing security headache of the internet of things to machine learning everywhere, the future of programming keeps getting harder to predict.
The cloud will defeat Moore's Law
There are naysayers who claim the chip companies have hit a wall. They're no longer doubling chip speed every two years as they did during the halcyon years of the '80s and '90s. Perhaps -- but it doesn't matter anymore because the boundaries between chips are less defined than ever.
In the past, the speed of the CPU in the box on your desk mattered because, well, you could only go as fast as the silicon hamster inside could spin its wheel. Buying a bigger, faster hamster every few years doubled your productivity, too.
But now the CPU on your desk barely displays information on the screen. Most of the work is done in the cloud where it's not clear how many hamsters are working on your job. When you search Google, their massive cloud could devote 10, 20, even 1,000 hamsters to finding the right answer for you.
The challenge for programmers is finding clever ways to elastically deploy just enough computing power to each user's problem so that the solution comes fast enough and the user doesn't get bored and wander off to a competitor's site. There's plenty of power available. The cloud companies will let you handle the crush of users, but you have to find algorithms that work easily in parallel, then arrange for the servers to work in synchrony.
IoT security will only get scarier
The Mirai botnet that unfolded in this past fall was a wake-up call for programmers who are creating the next generation of the internet of things. These clever little devices can be infected like any other computer, and they can use their internet connection to wreak havoc and let slip the dogs of war. And as everyone knows, dogs can pretend to be anyone on the internet.
The trouble is that the current supply chain for gadgets doesn't have any mechanism for fixing software. The lifecycle of a gadget usually begins with a long trip from a manufacturing plant to a warehouse and finally to the user. It's not usual for up to 10 months to unfold between assembly and first use. The gadgets are shipped halfway around the world over those long, lingering months. They sit in boxes waiting in shipping containers. Then they sit on pallets at big box stores or in warehouses. By the time they're unpacked, anything could have happened to them.
The challenge is keeping track of it all. It's hard enough to update the batteries in the smoke detectors every time the clocks change. But now we'll have to wonder about our toaster oven, our clothes dryer, and pretty much everything in the house. Is the software up-to-date? Have all the security patches been applied? The number of devices is making it harder to do anything intelligent about monitoring the home network. There are more than 30 devices with IP addresses connected to my wireless router, and I know the identity of only 24 of them. If I wanted to maintain a smart firewall, I would go nuts opening up the right ports for the right smart things.
Giving these devices the chance to run arbitrary code is a blessing and a curse. If programmers want to perform clever tasks and let users have maximum flexibility, the platforms should be open. That's how the maker revolution and open source creativity flourishes. But this also gives virus writers more opportunity than ever before. All they need to do is find one brand of widget that hasn't updated a particular driver -- voilà, they've found millions of widgets primed to host bots.
Video will dominate the web in new ways
When the HTML standards committee started embedding video tags into HTML itself, they probably didn't have grand plans of remaking entertainment. They probably only wanted to solve the glitches from plugins. But the basic video tags respond to JavaScript commands, and that makes them essentially programmable.
That is a big change. In the past, most videos have been consumed very passively. You sit down at the couch, push the play button, and see what the video's editor decided you should see. Everyone watching that cat video sees the cats in the same sequence decided by the cat video's creator. Sure, a few fast-forward but videos head to their conclusion with as much regularity as Swiss trains.
Many of the slickest websites already have video tightly running in clever spots. Soon they'll all want moving things. It won't be enough to put an
IMG tag with a JPEG file. You'll need to grab video -- and deal with the standards issues that have fragmented the browser world.
Consoles will continue to replace PCs
It's hard to be mad at gaming consoles. The games are great, and the graphics are amazing. They've built great video cards and relatively stable software platforms for us to relax in the living room and dream about shooting bad guys or throwing a football.
Living room consoles are only the beginning. The makers of items for the rest of the house are following the same path. They could have chosen an open source ecosystem, but the manufacturers are building their own closed platforms.
This fragments the marketplace and makes it harder for programmers to keep everything straight. What runs on one light switch won't run on another. The hair dryer may speak the same protocol as the toaster, but it probably won't. It's more work for programmers on getting up to speed and fewer opportunities to reuse our work.
Data will remain king
After the 2016 U.S. presidential election, word-slinging pundits made fun of data-slinging pundits, suggesting that all of their statistical analysis was an exercise in foolishness. Predictions were dramatically wrong, and the big data people looked bad.
How did they come to this conclusion? By comparing one set of numbers (the predictions) with another set of numbers (the election results). They still needed the data.
Data is the way we see in the internet. Light brings us information about the real world, but numbers tell us about everything online. Some people may make bad predictions based on imperfect numbers, but that doesn't mean we should stop gathering and interpreting the numbers.
Data gathering, collating, curating, and parsing will continue to be one of the most important jobs for the enterprise. The decision makers need the numbers, and the programmers will continue to be tasked with delivering data in a way that's easier to understand. This doesn't mean the answers will be perfect. Context and intuition will continue to have a role, but the need to wrangle data won't go away simply because a few folks predicted that Donald Trump wouldn't be elected. This means more work for programmers, as there is no end in sight for our need to build bigger, faster, more data-intensive software.
Machine learning will become the new standard feature
When kids in college take a course called "Data Structures," they get to learn what life was like when their grandparents wrote code and couldn't depend on the existence of a layer called "the database." Real programmers had to store, sort, and join tables full of data, without the help of Oracle, MySQL, or MongoDB.
Machine learning algorithms are a few short years away from making that jump. Right now programmers and data scientists need to write much of their own code to perform complex analysis. Soon, languages like R and some of the cleverest business intelligence tools will stop being special and start being a regular feature in most software stacks. They'll go from being four or five special slides in the PowerPoint sales deck to a little rectangle in the architecture drawing that's taken for granted.
It won't happen overnight, and it's not clear exactly what shape it will be, but it's clear that more and more business plans depend on machine learning algorithms finding the best solutions.
UI design will get more complicated as PCs continue to fade
Each day it seems like there is one fewer reason for you to use a PC. Between the rise of smartphones, living room consoles, and the tablet, the only folks who still seem to cling to PCs are office workers and students who need to turn in an assignment.
This can be a challenge for programmers. It used to be easy to assume that software or website users would have a keyboard and a mouse. Now many users don't have either. Smartphone users are mashing their fingers into a glass screen that barely has room for all 26 letters. Console users are pushing arrow keys on a remote.
Designing websites is getting trickier because a touch event is slightly different from a click event. Users have different amounts of precision and screens vary greatly in size. It's not easy to keep it all straight, and it's only going to get worse in the years ahead.
The end of openness
The passing of the PC isn't only the slow death of a particular form factor. It's the dying of a particularly open and welcoming marketplace. The death of the PC will be a closing of possibilities.
When the PCs first shipped, a programmer could compile code, copy it onto disks, pop those disks into ziplock bags, and the world could buy it. There was no middle man, no gatekeeper, no stern central force asking us to say, "Mother, may I?"
Consoles are tightly locked down. No one gets into that marketplace without an investment of capital. The app stores are a bit more open, but they're still walled gardens that limit what we can do. Sure, they are still open to programmers who jump through the right hoops but anyone who makes a false move can be tossed. (Somehow they're always delaying our apps while the malware slips through. Go figure.)
This distinction is important for open source. It's not solely about selling floppy disks in baggies. We're losing the ability to share code because we're losing the ability to compile and run code. The end of the PC is a big part of the end of openness. For now, most of the people reading this probably have a decent desktop that can compile and run code, but that's slowly changing.
Fewer people have the opportunity to write code and share it. For all of the talk about the need to teach the next generation to program, there are fewer practical vectors for open code to be distributed.
Autonomous transportation is here to stay
It's not cars alone. Some want to make autonomous planes that aren't encumbered by the need for roads. Others want to create autonomous skateboards for very lightweight travel. If it moves, some hacker has dreams of telling it where to go.
Programmers won't control what people see on the screen. They'll control where people go and how they interact with the world. And people are only part of the game. All of our stuff will also move autonomously.
If you want dinner from a famous chef downtown, an autonomous skateboard with a heated chamber may bring it to your house. If you want your lawn mowed, an autonomous lawn mower will replace the neighborhood kid.
And programmers can use all of the cool ideas they had during the first internet revolution. If you thought pop-up ads were bad on the internet, wait until programmers are paid to divert your autonomous roller skates past the kitchen vent of a new restaurant. Hungry yet?
The law will find new limits
The ink was barely dry on the Bill of Rights when debates over what it means for a search of our papers to be reasonable began. Now, more than 200 years later, we're still arguing the details.
Changes in technology open up new avenues for the law. A few years ago, the Supreme Court decided that vehicle tracking technology requires a warrant. But that's only when the police plant the tracker in the car. No one really knows what rules apply when someone subpoenas the tracking data from Waze, Google Maps, or any of the hundreds of other apps that cache our locations.
What about influencing how the machines operate? It's one thing to download data, but it's frightfully tempting to change the data, too. Is it fair for the police (or private actors) to forge documents, headers, or bits? Does it matter if the targets are true terrorists or simply people who've parked too long in a no-parking spot without feeding the meter?
These are only a few of the big questions for developers in the years ahead. Software architects need to anticipate these issues during design. They need to think of questions around privacy and the law before any code is written. If they don't, there's a good chance the company will get blindsided by these issues later -- conceivably at massive scale.


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On the first day of the IIHF Twelve Nations Invitational Tournament Series Team USA earned a 12-0 victory over Russia.The Americans came out strong in the first period and scored the game winning goal at 1:54. Russia was hurt by their number of penalties taken as the U.S. continued to capitalize on their opportunities. At the end of the period the score was 4-0 for Team USA.Russia began to fight back in the second period as they managed to gain a few power play opportunities. Both teams were fighting hard, creating a more evenly matched period. Team USA pushed ahead, ending the period 6-0.In the third period the Americans continued to play their game and were able to score three goals in the first five minutes of play. Russia began to look noticeably defeated. Team USA was able to score another three goals, ending the game 12-0.The USA breakouts were well played with crisp passes across the ice creating difficulties for the fore-checking Russian forwards. Players of the Game:USA: Hilary KnightRussia: Alexandra Vafina


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This passage has been excerpted from the introductions and other editorial matter in John Burnett's superb collection of working-class life-histories, The Annals of Labour: Autobiographies of British Working Class People, 1820-1920. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1974. GPL.
Untitled illustration from Gustave Doré's LondonOne of the most remarkable characteristics [of Victorian working-class autobiographies] is the uncomplaining acceptance of conditions of life and work which to the modern reader seem brutal, degrading and almost unimaginable — of near-poverty and, sometimes, extreme poverty, of over-crowded and inadequate housing accommodation, of bad working conditions, periodic unemployment and generally restricted opportunities, and of the high incidence of disease, disablement and death. Yet most of those who experienced such conditions are not, in their writings at least, consciously discontented, let alone in a state of revolt. There is a sense of patient resignation to the facts of life, the feeling that human existence is a struggle and that survival is an end in itself. Especially is this so in relation to the early death of wives or children — a fatalistic attitude that 'God gives and God takes away', and that although one may mourn, one does not inveigh against the Fates which, to us, seem to have treated some so cruelly. Such resignation was, in part, the product of a long history of deprivation and suffering by which, for generations past, working people had been accustomed to poverty, personal tragedy and limited expectations; for some it was reinforced by the religious teaching that this world was, in any case, a vale of tears, and that happiness could only be expected in the life to come. These attitudes are true of the great majority, though not of all. In a few who are politically motivated or involved in trade union activities . . . the resentment against misery and exploitation is open and expressed, and it is noticeable that a more critical tone develops over time. [14]
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Yay, team see-through Anna. I am half way finished and found a nude full-slip that works. I hope to finish it by the time I am in New York.
Omg, my last two photo shoots over 100 pictures each, these guys... lolReplies
as long as the glasses are full, clanking is permitted at any time.Delete
yes, self-made bias on the neckline. i hate facings!
It's amazing! I love the sheer, it's super shop stopping. I made one (what feels like ages ago now!), I think it was the weekend it was released! And I definitely need to do another!ReplyDelete
Your dress looks so amazing. Good luck with the bathroom.ReplyDeleteReplies
thank you on both, lori... WE NEED IT.Delete
You look stunning in this dress! The fabric is so gorgeous and flowy! I can't believe you made this during a bathroom reno - you're a superstar!ReplyDeleteReplies
teehee. there was a lot of starting and stopping, that's for sure...Delete
Go pour yourself another drink lady, you earned it! This dress is fabulous, and that slit is just amazing. Oh, and the fabric is perfect perfect perfect!ReplyDeleteReplies
thank you girl! we need to pour ourselves some IRL drinks soon.Delete
You look amazing in this dress!!! I love the print, I just love the dress. You, Lauren, and Sonja makes me want to buy this pattern and make it out of silk too!ReplyDeleteReplies
thank you, and DO IT. you won't regret it!Delete
Fantastic dress and fabric! Love it so muchReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2013 at 2:23 PM
I love your version of this dress. It takes the Anna to a whole new level of sexy.ReplyDelete
I have a question about invisible thread. Is it only to be used by hand? Or can it be utilized with your sewing machine as well? I attempted to use invisible thread this weekend on a pattern I was making and the results were not good to say the least. Should it only be used for hand stitching?Replies
thank you!Delete
i wondered that myself--i only used the invisible thread for hand stitching, and i found that it had a very curly behavior. i had to use my fingers to straighten out the thread left on the needle every 5 inches or so. it seemed to me like it would kink up in the machine, so i didn't try it.
*but* i only had rayon invisible in my stash. maybe there are other types that would behave differently?
what a story! and you still have an amazing silk dress to show for it. so awesome in sheer! haven't made this dress yet, hopefully will someday! all these fab versions are making me jealous!ReplyDeleteReplies
thanks lisa! glad you wrote, i just found your new digs at wordpress :)Delete
Hahaha! It's the way you tell it and the way you wear it! This is a special Anna in such fabric that would launch a thousand ships. Seriously what a choice, it's worked amazingly. You've worked your magic again, and in the midst of grout mares....even better :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
GROUTMARES. perfect. if i can make you laugh i'm golden!!!Delete
I always love your choice of funky colourful fabrics. This silk must have been a bit of a nightmare to work with but the result is truly fantastic!! Thanks for your lovely comment on my blog the other day and hope your home improvements go well! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
you are most welcome, i'm looking forward to your creations! and the elephants are divine.Delete
Well it sure does look lovely and swishy! You are a sewing superstar. I think you did really well for that scary sheer silk. I don't see anything wrong with the zipper (is it in the back?) but buttons and loops sound fun- though maybe not to sew.ReplyDeleteReplies
yeeeeeah, my photographer didn't snag a great picture of the upper back. mostly because i'm a control freak and couldn't keep my back turned long enough. :) thank you!Delete
Wow, I can't imagine working with such sheer fabric. I would've lost my patience - go you for finishing! I feel a bit out of sync with the blogosphere right now since I just picked up a BHL Charlotte skirt and not the Anna dress. Close enough. :) Good luck with the 20% left of the remodeling...!ReplyDeleteReplies
you know, the charlotte is the only patten i DON"T have and i'm kicking myself for it!!!Delete
Oh wow! This is so stunning! I really need to make an Anna dress, just as soon as I get my sewing machine back :) Good luck with the rest of your house remodelling!ReplyDeleteReplies
it's a great pattern to break the machine back in, gotta have a winner, yes?Delete
Um, this is so damn hawt! I haven't seen an Anna I haven't loved and this looks amaaaazing on you. Nice job girl.ReplyDelete
It looks so amazing! Especially with that necklace. So worth all of the effort. I keep wanting to make one but then don't know where I would ever wear it.ReplyDeleteReplies
ah, but you would wear it to the supermarket...to dinner....to wake up in the morning...Delete
You sassy lady! Loves it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2013 at 10:19 PM
Ahhhhh! That fabric is to DIE for! I want Mood to skip over to the other side of the world so I can go! I love the photographs (Ruggy is seriously good at it) and you look totally classy (as always!) I like the idea of cocktails for breakfast...ReplyDeleteReplies
thank you! and i spied a little "mood ships internationally" emblem over on the site...seemed new to me...Delete
i mean, mimosas exist, right?
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2013 at 1:14 AM
International shipping, you say? That is very interesting... Very interesting indeed! I think I know how today is going to be spent! Thanks for the heads up!Delete
Mimosas are definitely healthy - maybe even healthier than blueberry porridge for breakfast!
You deserve all the cocktails. That dress is fabulous. And totally appropriate for grouting tile. As for me and Anna, our must be a postponed love. I may or may not be counting the minutes; until then I shall live vicariously through everybody else's versions.ReplyDelete
And I can't *wait* to see your Bombshell.
bahahaha - I love your story telling!!! AND this dress is incredible! That printed silk really is gorgeous! Way to go Oona! And way to go Ruggy! ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
sometimes i think i can't ever tell the story of actually sewing the damn thing!! :) thank you, and ruggy says thanks too. he is slowly beginning to believe he's good at this.Delete
You're amazing. I'm interested in learning french seams, so have bought Anna right now! A sew a long would be a great way to learn them!ReplyDelete
you are gonna LOOOOOOOVE it! and french seams are fun as long as you take them as a calming sort of exercise...don't skimp on pressing, mama!Delete
Oh, DAMN. I WANT THIS DRESS. Curse you, Mood and your right-at-hand silks! Also, I have no business craving a sheer long-slitted dress I have nowhere to wear. DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous. And good luck with the bathroom and all that.Replies
um, i'm sorry goddess, you have a reason to wear a thigh high slit EVERYWHERE. it gives great range of movement, for one thing. for another: Your. Legs.Delete
The fabric is a showstopper! And you look gorgeous in this dress!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2013 at 8:52 AM
This is gorgeous! ive already sewn one, and am planning one in silk sooooon ish:)ReplyDeleteReplies
thankya! your multiple elisalexes are brilliant... i wonder how many annas you'll make :)?Delete
I thought I left a long meandering comment on Mood but apparently I didn't? IT went something along the lines of GASP! HEART CLUTCH! YES! Love the sheer action - I have a sweet georgette I 'm gonna do next summer and flash my ass all over the place.ReplyDelete
Trying to deal with the death of a fantasy involving you, Sonja and I strutting down Broadway with our thigh high splits up to here. Sigh.Replies
and i bet you'll do it right with high waisted panties!!! i pussied out.Delete
as for fantasies...
A-Maz-Ing! Totally gawedgeous! I think you're right though, the extra 2 inches of stitching at the thigh slit saved you from total tartiness - you're rigth back at mildy tart, but with flavour! (This is a good thing, trust me)ReplyDelete
Much love!Replies
i mean, looking at that first shot, i don't know what i was thinking. probably "i'm too sewaty to try this on, i'm sure this slit will be fine."Delete
You are the best storyteller! :) And of course your dress is beautiful!ReplyDeleteReplies
ha, thank you on both counts!Delete
Love this dress! The sheer is lovely, but goodness that fabric looks like it would be a beast to work with.ReplyDelete
With regards to the shopping, I had the same issue at Mood recently. Loved a fabric and ordered a swatch, then ended up going to NYC and figured I'd just pick it up in store -- au contraire! Worked in my favor though... right after I got home they had 20% off everything online. :DReplies
it was a bit beastly. muuuuch better when i gave myself more time with it!Delete
oh how i wish i had made that sale. that was such a bummer.
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2013 at 10:34 PM
I looooooooooove this! I'm so glad you beat the dress-- it's well worth all the effort! Seriously, seriously cool. Only you could pull off a sheer chiffon dress!ReplyDeleteReplies
i will say thank you, but ahem, YOU could definitely rock a sheer dress.Delete
Wahou, this dress is stunning ! I love that you use a sheer chiffon fabric. You did a great job !ReplyDeleteReplies
thank you, yours is a beaut as well!Delete
That fabric is incredibly gorgeous. I love the closeup and think it must be incredible against the skin. WOW. I love making the Anna although I still haven't finished the ONE I've made. I scored this great polyester (is that an oxymoron) that I envision lounging about the house in maxi glory. Then, I'm going to make one out of Liberty lawn, the one Liberty lawn I could find that looks like something Morticia Adams would wear. It's so beautiful.ReplyDeleteReplies
ah, great minds, i did my first out of an oxymoron fabric and then went to the "good" stuff :). i love wearing both!Delete
but it seems you've found two oxymorons... how did you find a morticia apropos liberty?!
This is AMAZING! As beautiful as that fabric is I think I would have run away from the bolt in terror at the thought of even trying to cut it, let alone sew with it so good job girl! I love it in a sheer fabric. I hope you feel like the almost tears were worth it!ReplyDeleteReplies
thank you fiona, and i'm about 90% there on the worth it.... MUST CHANGE THAT ZIPPER...Delete
Ummm you working on a drywall surface table alone means we all deserve to buy you a round! The Fierceness is out the window because I just love how sheer it is!! Despite the perils it looks of perfection. The bathroom may have gotten to 80% but you are at 110% - no contest.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful Anna! So light and summery. No crying in sewing, must remember that. Cheers for you for being so productive in this heat and despite home renovations. I can not get my but into gear in this heat!ReplyDeleteReplies
aaaaand suddenly i'm shivering. yay for global warming!Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2013 at 7:14 PM
There's no crying in sewing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha! Then how come I've done it once or twice? Gorgeous Anna dress, very flattering on you. Nice fabric and colours too.ReplyDeleteReplies
ah, perhaps your glass has not been full enough?Delete
thankya :)
This. Is. Amazing!
Lovely fabric, looks so nice and summery. Sigh...
Thanks for sharing some sewspiration :-)Replies
you are most welcome, and thank YOu:)Delete
You are the only sewist I know who can take sexy pics of gorgeous handmade garments, next to a garbage bin. And, trust me, there is crying in sewing.ReplyDeleteReplies
i made a beeline for that gorgeous green dumpster. i kind of want a dress made out of it.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 8, 2013 at 2:28 PM
I'm hearing a ton about this bathroom - I hope we can see it when it's finished! If Ruggy has 10% of the skills you have for sewing, your new bathroom just might be your new living room!ReplyDelete
I've seen so many versions of the Anna dress this summer and yours doesn't astound me any less than the others. You made due with the time and fabric you have and I think it turned out great. Cheers to that!Replies
oh, you'll see it. maybe by christmas.Delete
I do hope a photo shoot will be held in the new bathroom- I want to see this ode to Neptune when it's done!!! Love the dress- that print is a wonderful thing!ReplyDeleteReplies
i wanted to shoot this dress in the bathroom, but the tile or some such craziness was drying!Delete
Good gawd, that slit! Excuse the hell out of me!ReplyDelete
I, for one, quite enjoy Labor Day in New York City. So hmph.Replies
you are a stronger woman than i.... i swear, i was dodging rage walkers left and right.
Beautiful dress!ReplyDelete
What a lovely dress !!ReplyDelete
Love your photos !
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2013 at 6:55 PM
All the effort was worth it, the dress is fantastic on you!ReplyDelete
I've just posted my black eyelet midi Anna dress on my blog www.yosami.wordpress.com - go check it out. I love this pattern!Replies
oh, it's gorgeous! i wondered how this would turn out lined-- with those bust pleats i was thinking it would add bulk, but yours is just perfect! i guess now i have to make anna number five.... POOR ME...Delete
Worth the effort for sure! I had to look twice to figure out the optical illusion skirt...lovely.ReplyDeleteReplies
teehee! you should have seen it with the flesh tone undies:)Delete
You've done it again!!! What a beautiful dress! It looks great on you.ReplyDelete
Very excited to try this pattern out, just having a cruise about to see what folks have made - this is beautifulllllllll, wish there were some fabric finds like that around here! The search continues xReplyDelete
i thankya truly for taking the time to comment, i love a good conversation-- and hope you know my thanks are always implied, if not always written!


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Carl W. Mores
New Horizons: August 2001
Also in this issue
by Various Ministers
The Leading of the Spirit (Part 3)
by B. B. Warfield
by Matthew W. Kingsbury
In December 1999, the Rev. Walter D. Copeland, Jr., began his ministry at the Presbyterian Church of Cape Cod (PCCC) in West Barnstable, Massachusetts. Although short, his ministry had a powerful impact on our church, and it changed lives.
Walt appeared to be remarkably healthy (he worked out regularly at the YMCA) and poised for a long-term, fruitful ministry. But he soon fell ill with liver and stomach cancer. During chemotherapy, he initially experienced a remarkable improvement, but then the tumors returned with a vengeance. On May 18, 2001, he went to be with the Lord at age 51. We were deeply blessed by Walt's ministry. Coping with his illness and death has been trying and at times overpowering.
Walt was born in Philadelphia, and earned a B.S. from the University of Delaware in 1972. His life was redirected by God, and he entered Westminster Seminary, graduating in 1997 with an M.Div. He was called to serve the South Chatham Community Church on Cape Cod, and was ordained to the ministry during that time.
Along the way, Walt preached in numerous churches and focused on works of mercy. He counseled at the Atlantic City Rescue Mission, served on the board of the Whosoever Gospel Mission in Philadelphia, and was a member of the Chatham Council for the Homeless.
After accepting the call to PCCC, he wrote to me, "Would you join me in prayer that those who are weary and burdened would find their way to our side, where they might find words of life and hope."
At our church, membership was small and finances were limited. But as Walt prayed intensely and preached powerfully, the Lord moved mightily. Attendance doubled. Without asking for money, offerings tripled. A strong ministry developed at a nearby assisted living center. A sermon tape ministry flourished. Study groups formed. God's people began to serve in new ways and were deeply blessed and challenged to grow and learn the Scriptures.
Walt's love and willingness to give anything he had to a person in needinstantlyastonished me. His public prayers left us weeping and rejoicing. His sermons were remarkable insights from God's throne. He always stood with towel and water basin in hand. He was a prayer warrior, and much fruit resulted.
As his illness progressed, he often shared his frustration with being unable to do his work. "I am sick of being sick," he said, but never in anger. "The last year has been the best of my life," he insisted. I am convinced that if God had spared Walt, a most extraordinary ministry would have unfolded in our midst.
One woman who used his sermon tapes wrote:
The Lord has used you in my life as a mentor and teacher. The Lord has been pleased to use "the likes of me" to teach 20+ women who faithfully come out week after week. I wish you could be there as they hear the message of grace with tears ... and say, "Why didn't anyone ever teach us these truths?"
The day before he left us, he spoke of entering through the portals ahead of me, and that soon he would see Jesus. He finished his course the following morning as a dear friend read to him from Revelation and he repeated the psalmist's words, "Blessed in the sight of the Lord is the death of his loved ones."
Like Job, I find no easy answer to the questions that arise concerning suffering. But we are led to Jesus, who paid the price and opened heaven's gates to receive us.
An eloquent voice for Christ is still. But Walt's vision continues. His dreams are my dreams. When I asked him if there was something he'd like me to tell the congregation, he said, "Tell them I loved them." And we loved him.
Walt, thank you for teaching us so beautifully about Jesus. We miss you terribly, but we rejoice that you are fully healed and at the Savior's side. We will see you in the morning.
The author is an elder at PCCC. Mr. Copeland leaves behind his parents, Walter and Pauline Copeland; a sister, Karen Duffy; and Esther Fortner, his caregiver and close friend (who previously lost her husband to cancer). For an account of how the Lord briefly extended his life, see the February New Horizons. Reprinted from New Horizons, August/September 2001.
New Horizons: August 2001
Also in this issue
by Various Ministers
The Leading of the Spirit (Part 3)
by B. B. Warfield
by Matthew W. Kingsbury
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