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Before reality television, I was aware of Dungeness crab season. The catches then didn't seem so deadly (although I am sure they were – they just didn't have cameras to document it) unless you accidently caught your finger in a set of snapping claws, but this thankfully never happened. When it would get really cold and foggy in San Francisco, my mother and I would go to the piers.
Back in the 70s, people went to Fisherman's Wharf to actually get fish, crab in particular. We would go down to the slippery outdoor markets and my mother would buy a solid dozen writhingly alive deep blue Dungeness crabs, angry to be out of the water and cutting up the air with their scissor claws. They didn't band them like lobster claws so if you got close enough you could get cut, but the danger of the Dungeness was part of the magic of them. I must have been about 7 or 8 years old but I felt ancient and alive and adult as I helped my mother pick out which crustaceans were going to die for my dinner.
I selected the ones with the fringiest legs, the featherlike hair that grew in whispery lines along the articulated limbs of the crab. To my young mind, this would indicate virility and strength, bigger meat from bigger muscles. My dad told me to get the ones that looked the maddest. I searched their stalk eyes for anger. They all seemed equally pissed off to me. I love the way that crabs look prehistoric and futuristically robotic at the same time. They are armored and they are packing and they need this because they are so sumptuous and delectable inside. The violent world that requires the hard shell and the weapon hands serves forth a delicious meal. Most things from the killing fields of the sea, the brutal ocean floor, taste really fucking good.
The live crabs would be paid for and then plunged into a rusty metal garbage can filled with boiling seawater for mere seconds. When they emerged from the cans, their color had changed to a deep orange red and they were wrapped steaming hot into white paper parcels. I would hold the parcels close to me and feel the warmth from the steam escaping from the crabs insides. I wondered if they were still somehow alive in there, as I let the fishy steam scent my small body in the car on the way home.
The kitchen table would be covered with Korean newspapers and my father laid out several hard rounds of sourdough bread with a refrigerator cold butter stick. The bread and the butter was almost as integral to the meal as the crab itself. You couldn't have one without the other. The sourness of the bread and the mellow fat of the butter was the perfect compliment to the sweet nut taste of the crab. There was white wine too but I wasn't interested in that. I am still not. I don't like white wine, and my dislike is incongruous to my ladylike persona, I know.
There were instruments of extraction lined up next to the bread, surgery style. Nutcrackers stolen from the big bowl of walnuts that lived on the low table in front of the tv, kitchen scissors, a small fork with 3 tines instead of 4, fondue forks finding new life in the fish game, a chopstick here and there just for pushing out – now I forget what else, but I really think but there might have been tweezers in there. I don't know if this is true, but I wouldn't put it past my family. We didn't have a lot of anything, so it was all about getting the most out of what we did have.
My parents would leave the legs and claws to me and I would pick out perfect pieces of crab meat, absolutely intact. This is just one of my strange and obtuse talents, shelling shellfish without flaws. I am so good at this, with my meticulous steady hand and coulda-been-born-swiss-precision – I have supreme concentration and I am in it to win it like I am cracking a safe. I should have a stethoscope, but I wouldn't need it. I am that good. I showed this off once fairly recently at a fancy seafood bistro in Montreal where the pricey shellfish and champagne came on a tower of ice and polished silver. The other diners around me were breathless as I slipped the shell off of a stone crab claw with the ease of a showgirl stripping off an opera glove. I laid it in the middle of the table like a housecat setting down an offering. The meat was so shiny and red and the act was so impressive no one wanted to eat it so I had to.
My parents didn't stop at the claws. They would break open the big hard crab body shells, opening the backs underneath the legs like they were changing the crab's batteries. Brown green crab roe would spurt rudely from the cracks and my parents would suddenly turn primitive and start slurping the roe from out of the shells and I would get scared and stop eating. I still have nightmares about this. My parents then, really just young people, much younger than I am now, cracking crabs with superhuman immigrant strength to suck up the fishy gritty guts of the thing. Sometimes they would cut their mouths on the sharp shards of crab shell, the crustaceans small revenge, and the blood would mix with the roe and they would leave miniature red brown smiles of the mixture on their wineglasses. This is probably why I don't like white wine, and I never developed a taste for that part of the crab. I leave that to the strong.

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Tokyo, Japan, October 30, 2010 - Serbia v Poland press conference
Poland libero Mariola Zenik: "We're very sorry to have lost the second match in a row as it looked especially as like we had the advantage. We hope after we get to the second round these two losses will not affect our play in the Championship."
Regarding Poland's loss despite solid defense: "You do not win points off defense, and we lacked a counter attack."
Serbia captain Jelena Nikolic: "It's always a pleasure to win against Poland. It's always hard to play against them. We continued to play even after the we lost the first set… I'm so proud of my team, especially our young players. They showed they can take responsibility in difficult moments of the match."
Regarding improvements since Friday: "We played much better than yesterday, but we can't compare the match against Costa Rica to the Poland team. I think today we served very well, and that can help out our blockers."
Regarding their speed: "We are tall players and our coach insists for us to play as quickly as possible, but of course we can't play as fast as some smaller teams. Our setter is playing very well this tournament."
Poland coach Jerzy Matlak: "I think the match was very unstable today, because we had so little time to recover since the Japan match yesterday. Already at 3pm we had to stand against Serbia who played very well. We congratulate them."
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Serbia coach Zoran Terzic: "Any team in the world who wins against Poland, their coach must be very happy, and I am. I am very proud of my girls and very happy because of this match."
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A nonprofit group will cover portions of the costs new subscribers must pay for a Geaux Pass to help avoid Leeville Bridge delays like those experienced in recent days.
Officials say getting more subscribers to use the express lane system is key to eliminating long lines that form as motorists wait for those at the front of the line to pay the toll.
The toll collection system uses two lanes at the southbound entrance to the bridge. One is an express lane which allows Geaux Pass users to drive onto the bridge without stopping. The other leads past a lone automated toll-collection machine, which motorists must stop and feed money into.
New subscribers to the Geaux Pass system will have the $12 fee covered by the La. 1 Coalition, a nonprofit group that advocates for improvements to the highway that links south Lafourche to the rest of the state and nation.
The coalition will cover the tag fee for 900 new subscribers, effectively removing those drivers "from the right lane that is having some delays," said Henri Boulet, the coalition's executive director. "That will lower the amount of delays we have in the future."
Boulet blamed the delays on people learning how to use the automatic payment machine.
The Department of Transportation has had a staff member at the toll machine to help teach people in recent months, Boulet said. That worker was not there last week.
"It took me 15 minutes to get through Saturday," Ivy Kraemer said in response to a Houma Today Facebook post seeking comments on the issue. "Needless to say that put me in a very bad mood."
Geaux Pass subscriber accounts are automatically charged each time they cross the bridge by way of the express lane.
Officials formerly allowed motorists to pay after their trip. However, a state audit found too many motorists neglected to pay and were not properly fined. The system was revamped last year to require pre-payment.
Boulet said those without a Geaux Pass should have their toll payment ready before pulling up to the machine. Motorists are charged depending on how many axles their vehicle has, so it's crucial motorists know this information to avoid holding up the line.
Boulet noted drivers who use coin payment take as little as 30 seconds to pass. Those who have to fumble with crumpled bills can take minutes to pass through, he said.
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Boulet noted frequent travelers could qualify for discounted commuter rates.
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- Job Function
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Deputy General Manager - £25,000 to £28,500 per annum plus bonus Frankie and Benny's is one of Britain's best loved family restaurants. We have over 250 restaurants all over the UK. As a Deputy General Manager you can expect to be leading from the front as we serve over 1 million guests a week. What does Frankie and Benny's stand for? That's simple: "Great food, Great Service". We're looking for a Deputy General Manager to join our family, who can create the buzzing and lively atmosphere we're famous for! You'll have previous management experience and pride yourself on ensuring our guest service is second to none. In return we offer you the opportunity to grow your career in a national brand – we're still growing and we want you to grow too. We need you to help guide, nurture, motivate and broaden the knowledge of the rest of the family, to us, Family Matters….. Your job as a Deputy General Manager: • Support the General Manager in managing the operation of the restaurant including the development and growth of people, sales and profits • Motivate and inspire your team through a genuine passion for hospitality • Manage the restaurant in accordance with established company standards, policies and procedures • Drive sales by ensuring guest satisfaction and implement a high level of superior guest service • Maximise profits by controlling food & beverage and labour costs. • The role of Deputy General Manager is designed to be a stepping stone into General Management. Why join our family? As Deputy General Manager, you will be paid a highly competitive salary of £25000 to £28500 per annum with a generous bonus. Our fantastic training programme is industry renowned, and you will have a personal development plan from day one. Other benefits include 33% discount in any of The Restaurant Group brands, online benefit scheme, contributory pension scheme, and opportunity to invest in our Share-save scheme, staff meals on duty. Do we sound like the family for you!? Then Apply Now…


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Stop Messing Around With the Language
Businesspeople need to quit messing around with the English language. They're really screwing it up. They need to stick with selling things and making money, and leave the language to the experts.
I was recently listening to A Way With Words, a grammar and language show on National Public Radio (think "Car Talk" for word nerds). Someone called in and said he had seen the word "effort" used as a verb several times. As in "I am efforting a new update for my computer." Translation: "I am working on/getting/finding a new update for my computer."
I efforted really hard not to drive my car into a ditch.
Since when did "effort" become a verb? It's a noun. A noun is a person, place, or thing. Not something that businesspeople can mangle so they sound cool. They don't. They sound like they were kicked in the head by a horse.
Excuse me, hoofed in the head.
You put "a lot of effort" into carrying something heavy. Running five miles "takes effort." It takes "no effort" to lift a pencil. You don't "effort a box upstairs," "effort a five mile run," or "easily effort a pencil to a vertical position." It can be an adverb — you can run "effortlessly" — but that's it.
The problem with business jargon is that it turns verbs into nouns and nouns into verbs. Very occasionally, it works. It sounds good. It rolls off the tongue and you wonder how we ever got along without it. Martha, the show's co-host, even gave several examples of verbed nouns we use.
We think nothing about "accessing" our records on a computer. I've heard "access" as a verb for as long as I can remember, and there's nothing wrong with it.
"Texting" on a cell phone isn't a bad thing. Some people may not like it, preferring to "send a text" instead, but it easily lends itself to becoming a verb. It's a word that means what it says.
I wasn't thrilled when "friending" became a Facebook verb, but then, I'm not a big fan of Facebook. (I prefer Twitter where I "tweet" other people, but that's a different matter.) I've come to accept "friending," and use it when I'm talking about Facebook. Otherwise, I still make friends. (Out of paper dolls and we have tea parties, but that's a different matter.)
"What about 'gifting?'" Martha asked.
"Hate it!" I shouted at my radio.
I don't "gift" anything to anyone. I give. I give them a gift. I give them a hand. I give them a head start. The original word — to give — is so short, we don't need a different short word to mean the same thing. We need to get rid of "gifting," and I will do anything I can to incent people to quit.
At least I would if "incent" wasn't more stupid than "gifting." "Incent" is the needless shortening of "incentivize," which isn't a word either. It means "to motivate." We motivate people; people are motivated. We do not incent people, and they are not incented or incentivized.
It has me incensed.
I understand English is a fluid and malleable language. It's changing all the time, thanks to the new technologies that need new words to explain our world.
That's why I don't have a problem with accessing a computer, so I can friend someone, and text them later. I don't even have a problem with the language of texting, although I try to set a good example for my oldest daughter whenever she texts me.
Daughter: Dad, Elizabeth n I r going 2 the mall. L8r.
Me: Dear eldest daughter. I recall stating you could not depart the premises until your quarters were sufficiently cleaned. Have you completed the tasks I set forth this morning?
Daughter: U bet. C U 2nite.
Me: Oldest child of mine, have you discussed this situation with your mother. Is she aware of your intentions about how you propose to spend the remainder of the day? And pray tell, what method of conveyance will you and your compatriot use to travel to the mall?
Daughter: Wut R U talking abt?
Me: Speak English!
Daughter: Join the 21st century!
So, there's a bit of a generation gap there, but I can read what she's saying. On the other hand, I still hate the business jargon that threatens my beloved language. I hate incenting, gifting, and now — with a white hot passion reserved only for misused apostrophes — I hate efforting.
Excuse me, I'm efforting white hot hatred for people who are jargoning my language.
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April jobs report suggests slowing economy; unemployment drops to 8.1 percent
Concerns that the U.S. economy's recovery is stumbling intensified Friday with the government's second consecutive subpar monthly-jobs report.
Employers added an anemic 115,000 jobs in April, as a shrinking workforce shaved the unemployment rate to 8.1 percent, down slightly from 8.2 percent in March, the Labor Department said. Friday's numbers were well below the 170,000 new jobs that mainstream economic forecasters had expected.
The disappointing jobs report helped drive stock prices down. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 168 points to close at 13,038. The Standard & Poor's 500 dropped 22 points to 1,369. The tech-heavy Nasdaq average suffered its worst day of the year, sinking 68 points to 2,956.
Economists think that companies hiring early amid an unusually mild winter explains some of the bouncy numbers.
"The job market was soft in April, given the tepid payroll job gain and the decline in labor force participation. But it isn't as soft as the data suggest, as it reflects payback from the very warm winter, which juiced up job gains earlier in the year," said Mark Zandi, the chief economist for forecaster Moody's Analytics. "Underlying job growth, abstracting from the temporary effects of the weather, is over 175,000 per month. This isn't boom times, but it is solid enough to bring down unemployment further."
Zandi thinks unemployment will be under 8 percent by Election Day, Nov. 6, and that hiring will perk up again later in the year.
Part of his optimism came from revisions Friday that showed that hiring in March was 154,000, not 120,000, and that February's sizzling initial report of 240,000 jobs was actually 259,000. Viewed over a longer stretch, the hiring picture looks stronger than the single month of April.
The White House seized on this theme.
"With upward revisions of 65,000 (private-sector) jobs to the past two months' employment reports, in the first quarter of 2012 private employment expanded by 697,000 jobs, the largest quarterly increase since the first quarter of 2006," Alan Krueger, the head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said in a statement. "So far this year, 827,000 private-sector jobs have been added, on net."
Government job losses – on the federal, state and local levels – drag against that number, however. Private-sector employers added 130,000 jobs in April, but the overall number was lower because of the 15,000 government jobs that were lost during the month.
"The employment deceleration in part results from warm winter weather that pulled some hiring forward, producing a payback now. For that reason we think that the March and April payroll figures understate the pace of recovery, and we look for a better but still subdued pace of job creation in the 150,000-200,000 region over the rest of the year," Nigel Gault, the chief U.S. economist for forecaster Global Insight, said in a research note.
The jobless rate, which fell by a tenth of a percentage point, is declining in part because of workers exiting the labor market.
"The decline in unemployment also reflects the expiration of the emergency unemployment-insurance program in an increasing number of states. Older workers losing unemployment insurance are leaving the workforce, contributing to the decline in labor force participation, and younger workers that were slow to take a job now have no choice," Zandi said. "I expect the job market to reaccelerate later this summer and fall."
The White House's chief economist, Krueger, said exiting workers weren't the biggest reason for the falling jobless rate.
"Though labor force participation fell over the month according to the household survey, since August the unemployment rate has fallen by 1.0 percentage point, from 9.1 percent to 8.1 percent, and nearly three-quarters of that drop is attributable to increased employment," he said.
Still, another 342,000 workers exited the labor force in April, and Republicans, gearing up for November elections, seized on that.
"Spinners looking to support the administration will point out that jobs were revised up for February and March, or that the seasonal adjustment is producing misleading results, or both. There's not enough silver there to constitute a thread, much less a lining," wrote Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the head of the GOP research center American Action Forum and a former director of the Congressional Budget Office.
Within the April numbers was a mix of good, bad and ugly.
On the plus side, the broad category of professional and business services – higher paying white-collar jobs – rose by 62,000. Manufacturers added 16,000 jobs, for 167,000 in the past five months. April's gain was down from 41,000 new manufacturing jobs in March.
"Overall, these numbers reflect recent sluggishness in the economy. Manufacturing activity, while still expanding and positive for the rest of this year, has experienced a slowing in recent months. Part of this might be due to seasonal adjustments, with some businesses taking advantage of the warmer winter," Chad Moutray, the chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers, said in his blog Shopfloor.org. "Yet it is also a reflection of other anxieties that continue to permeate our thinking. Higher energy and raw material costs dampened sentiment for both businesses and consumers, and worries continue to persist about U.S. fiscal policy moving forward, and about Europe's continuing struggles."
Retailers added almost 30,000 jobs during the month, but this is a soft number since retail sales have been sluggish of late and hiring in the sector may not be durable.
"The April employment report is a bit of a head scratcher," wrote John Silvia, the chief economist for Wells Fargo Securities in Charlotte, N.C. In a research note, Silvia and his team said sectors such as leisure and hospitality, which added a paltry 12,000 jobs, should be doing much better, but hiring by retailers, restaurants and bars was stronger than expected.
On the ugly side, the hard-hit construction sector lost another 2,000 jobs during a period when roadwork and building projects should be getting under way.
"It is possible that commercial and industrial construction will remain soft for a few more months," Anirban Basu, the chief economist of the trade group Associated Builders and Contractors, warned in an analysis. Although jobs were lost, the sector's unemployment rate was 14.5 percent in April, he said, better than the 17.8 percent in April 2011.
"For the second consecutive year, the nation's economy has softened during the January-April period," Basu said. "However, U.S. economic fundamentals are better now than they were a year ago, as there is no immediate debt-ceiling confrontation ahead" in Washington.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- As part of its 50th anniversary celebration in 2013, the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture produced a series of video interviews with its Distinguished and Evan Pugh Professors. The second in the series is Maureen Carr, Distinguished Professor of Music and internationally known scholar of the music of Igor Stravinsky.
Carr teaches undergraduate and graduate music theory. She has studied Stravinsky's manuscripts and other documents extensively at the Stravinsky Archive of the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland, as well as at archives in Paris and London. She received a Citation of Special Merit for "Stravinsky's 'Pulcinella'" from the Society for Music Theory (SMT) in October 2011. This publication award recognizes Carr as editor of and contributor to "Stravinsky's 'Pulcinella': A Facsimile of the Sources and Sketches" (A-R Editions, 2010).
In addition to the musical sources and sketches for Stravinsky's "Pulcinella," she has authored several books, including "Multiple Masks: Stravinsky's Neoclassicism in His Dramatic Works in Greek Studies" (University of Nebraska Press, 2002) and a facsimile edition of the musical sketches for Stravinsky's "Histoire du Soldat" (2005, with commentary and invited essays). She is currently under contract with Oxford University Press for a book to be titled "After the Rite: Stravinsky's Path to Neoclassicism from 1914 to 1925." She is also co-author and contributor with Tamara Levitz (UCLA) to "Stravinsky and His World," to be published by Princeton University Press.


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Yeah, Kate Middleton is one cool royal. During a lazy Sunday, the Duchess of Cambridge was spotted shopping for discount baby clothes at an outlet mall. How fun!
Kate Middleton, 32, definitely breaks the mold when it comes to being a member of the royal family. Not only does Kate enjoy doing her own shopping for herself and her son, Prince George, 1, but she likes doing it at outlet malls where clothes are more affordable. What a smart woman!
Kate Middleton Shops For Prince George At Discount Stores
Who needs high-end boutiques and luxury clothing items? Not this Duchess! Are you ready to hear one of my all-time favorite stories about Kate?
On Sunday, Aug. 10, the Duchess was spotted shopping - alone - at multiple different stores at Bicester Village - an outlet mall in Oxfordshire, England. In fact, according to the mall's spokesperson, she visits the outlet mall quite often.
During her shopping spree, Kate browsed the sale racks at Reiss, Ralph Lauren, Gucci, Bonpoint, and Lacoste, where she picked up a pair of pajamas for George, reports the Daily Mail.
It's obviously no secret that Kate is far more down to earth than most of her royal counterparts, but shopping in an open discount mall? That is pretty awesome, Kate!
Kate Chatted & Met With Onlookers During Shopping Trip
Okay, so get this: Not only did Kate browse through sales racks in a discount shopping mall, but she even chatted with locals who recognized her. Can you imagine running into Kate Middleton at an outlet mall? And not only that, but actually getting to TALK to her? Oh gosh!
"Chuffed to bits. I met Kate Middleton today, had a little chat and she was lovely!" a fellow shopper tweeted after meeting the Duchess. How exciting!
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Intern Killed by Lion at California Sanctuary Identified
(DUNLAP, Calif.) -- California state wildlife officials say they will perform a necropsy on the 4-year-old African lion that attacked and killed a female volunteer intern Wednesday afternoon at a big cat sanctuary in Fresno County.
Authorities say the woman was attacked at Project Survival's Cat Haven when she entered the lion's enclosure around 12:30 p.m. local time.
Deputies from the Fresno County Sheriff's Department arrived on the scene and shot and killed the lion. A spokesperson for Project Survival said the lion was named Cous Cous and had been hand-raised at the sanctuary since he was eight weeks old.
ABC News has learned the victim is 24-year-old Dianna Hanson. She was two months into a six-month internship at Cat Haven.
Her father, Paul Hanson, spoke to ABC News by phone from his home in Washington state and said he dropped his daughter off in January, and that she was not allowed inside the lion and tiger cages and could only feed the animals from outside the cage. He says he has no idea why Dianna was inside the cage on Wednesday.
Paul Hanson said Dianna cared for the animals each morning and gave tours to school children in the afternoons. He said she loved to be around big cats -- it was her passion.
The sanctuary was closed to the public at the time of the attack. California's Department of Fish and Wildlife says Cat Haven is licensed and has a good safety record.
Dave Anderson, the founder of Cat Haven, said his thoughts and prayers go out to the victim's friends and family.
Jack Hanna, Director Emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and host of Jack Hanna's Into the Wild, says there's an old saying: "You can usually train a wild animal. You can never tame a wild animal."
Hanna says people who work with animals must remember they're dealing with wild creatures.
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Multivitamins offer almost no benefit in preventing chronic disease "and they should be avoided," experts said Monday in a medical-journal editorial accompanying the publication of two new clinical trials.
The rigorously conducted studies, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, showed multivitamins had no effect on cognitive function or cardiovascular health. They are the latest in a series of reports—including a review last month of 26 vitamin studies—indicating that supplements have little health benefits...


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As some of you reading this will have already realised, I have been away from this blog for a very looooong time!! I did a little post at Christmas (2011) to explain the reason for not being able to keep up with the blog and it has taken this long to make a start on getting back here.
I decided that Sorting Saturday was a really good and very apt start!! The reason for that is because I wanted to get back to the Daily Blogging Themes to help get into the swing of things again. But, I realised that as it has been so long since I properly posted here, I had forgotten a lot of who I had written about and what I said.
So, some sorting was required. It also meant that I had to sort much of my genealogical files and folders on my computer, laptop and in my Dropbox because quite frankly, I had stuff all over the place and in order to find anything to blog about I would have to go through it all to find what I wanted.
Now I have the computer more or less sorted with all my genealogy items in one place (for the moment). Now I know where to look for everything although there still is some sorting to do to make it a better system. I'm hoping my One Note notebooks will be good for that!!
OK, so getting back to the blog. I've been checking what I have done here already, and re-reading most of my posts. I'm horrified to see that my "Coming Soon" section has had three topics sitting there for what must be more than a year!!! Oh my goodness!! So, I think a priority is to actually write the posts for those three topics very soon, and add different items to the "Coming Soon" section and actually do them soon after that.
I was going to add to my Family Tree Charts here but now have the wonderful TNG programme to add to this blog, once I finish adding all the details to it. I think it will be a much better part of the blog and am really looking forward to setting it up here, hopefully soon.
I see some of my other sections such as the Old Documents, Photos of Ancestors, Want Copies? and so on need to be updated too.
There are so many things here that need attending to and I suppose I should be thankful for the break away as it has meant that I have gone through everything with a fresh eye and have been able to spot the things that need attention, whereas before, they were added to the blog and then left.
So, I must do some sorting, sorting and even more sorting and really make a concerted effort to get back into the swing of things. I'm looking forward to it and also to "meeting up" again with my geneablogging friends and all the new cousins I found through this blog. 🙂


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What is the Comprehensive Plan?
The Comprehensive Plan is a long-range plan for the growth and development of Portland through 2035.
- It will help ensure that Portland becomes more prosperous, healthy, educated, equitable and resilient for all Portlanders.
- It is used to manage the location of population and job growth, land development and conservation and public investments in infrastructure (such as streets, sidewalks, parks and stormwater management systems).
- It sets guidelines for community involvement in future plans and decisions.
- It is used by the public to advocate for projects and programs during the annual budget process.
- It establishes a shared plan for the future that is used to coordinate policies and actions across City bureaus and state and regional agencies.
When the Comprehensive Plan is complete, it will have five main components:
- Urban Design Framework that illustrates what the city will look like in the future through a conceptual diagram or map. It includes major design elements such as centers, corridors and habitat areas.
- Land Use Map that establishes legal land use designations for all land in Portland. It provides a structure for determining where various uses (residential, commercial, etc.) will be allowed, and how intense (density, height, etc.) development could be. It is the basis for the Zoning Map.
- Goals and Policies that guide future public decisions about development and investments. Goals are the long-term outcomes the City hopes to achieve by implementing the Comprehensive Plan. Policies describe what must be done to achieve the goals.
- Citywide Systems (Infrastructure) Plan that includes information on current and future transportation, water, sanitary sewer, and stormwater infrastructure systems needs and projects, as well as similar information for parks and natural areas, recreation and civic facilities.
- Transportation System Plan that includes more detailed information than the Citywide Systems Plan about transportation, including street classifications.
Portland's long-range growth and development can help achieve the Comprehensive Plan vision through the following goals:
- Create healthy connected neighborhoods by growing and investing in centers and corridors.
- Guide development to create well-designed centers and corridors.
- Prioritize investment in East Portland's centers and corridors.
- Encourage neighborhood economic development.
- Support the Central City as the regional and state center for innovation and exchange.
- Encourage job growth by providing land and infrastructure for development.
- Create additional capacity for industrial jobs in the Columbia Corridor through land use changes.
- Help move freight through the city and decrease congestion through transportation investment.
- Support job growth in East Portland by changing land use designations near freeways from residential and commercial to employment and industrial.
- Increase livability by improving transitions between institutional and industrial uses and adjacent residential areas.
- Support a healthy environment by connecting habitats and building green infrastructure.
- Create habitat corridors and areas to protect and enhance natural resources and the urban forest.
- Improve stormwater management in developed areas by using green built infrastructure, like green streets and eco-roofs.
- Use natural systems, like trees, streams and wetlands, to manage stormwater in SW Portland and on and near buttes in East Portland.
- Build city greenways to weave nature into the city and provide greater opportunities for Portlanders to walk and bike.
- Reduce disparities and increase equity through strategic infrastructure investments.
- Grow in areas that have high levels of service.
- Make infrastructure investments to fill gaps in service.
- View infrastructure investment decisions through an equity lens.
- Improve resiliency by preparing for climate change, earthquakes and other natural hazards.
- Reduce risk by maintaining critical infrastructure.
- Protect people from the effects of high temperatures and climate change.
- Encourage energy efficient and renewable energy systems.
These goals will be implemented using equity as a guide, through inclusive public processes and community involvement, and with respect for local environmental, social and community contexts, while meeting multiple goals.


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Kristen Connolly reveals what it's really like to wear a bustier
If you're a fan of Netflix's hit show, 'House of Cards' then you probably know Kristen Connolly. The 34-year-old actress plays Christina Gallagher, a congressional staffer and love interest of congressman Peter Russo. Kristen also starred in the cult-classic 'The Cabin in the Woods' and now, her newest project has her as in very different character, the wife of Harry Houdini!
In the two-night scripted miniseries, which airs Labor Day on History Channel, Oscar award winning actor Adrienne Brody, who plays the legendary illusionist and Kristen, who plays Bess Houdini, the wife of the famed superstar tells the told and untold story of Harry Houdini.
While many may not know much about Bess, Kristen's portrayal of her will show a different, unexpected side. "There's a ton written about Harry and not a lot written about Bess. A lot surprised me about her because I didn't know that much about her at all. I didn't realize they didn't have kids and they had a ton of pets, which I thought was really funny, even though I learned that was apparently normal. She's in a way very contemporary. I'd describe her as loyal, fun, and spirited," remarked Kristen. The miniseries depicts Harry's journey from circus sideshows to sold-out concert halls and everything in between.
For Kristen, one of the best (and worst) parts of playing this character was the wardrobe. "Bustiers are amazing, but they are so uncomfortable! They do so much for the body, but at the cost of comfort," describes Kristen.
Kristen describes Bess Houdini right by Harry's side during some of his most amazing feats, but what we found most amazing was Kristen's ability to convey the passion and love Bess had, even under the most life-defying feats. You can watch Kristen in the 2-part miniseries, September 1st at 9/8C on the History Channel.


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SAN DIEGO – Pull the plug on the Tim Tebow circus and give Mark Sanchez every chance to be the best he can be. And do it before the New York Jets voluntary workouts begin April 15.
That is the advice of Sanchez's quarterback guru, Jeff Garcia to new Jets general manager John Idzik.
Wipe the slate clean from the old Mike Tannenbaum regime for a fresh start by Sanchez, 26, by getting rid of the Tebow distraction before it further undermines Sanchez, who has made strong progress grounding himself in the West Coast offense under Garcia the last four weeks.
Garcia is confident Sanchez has what it takes to turn things around.
"If there's going to be competition at the position, it's not going to come from Tim Tebow," four-time Pro Bowler Garcia told USA TODAY Sports on Thursday. "Having Tebow there (last season) just became more of a distraction, more of a circus show. Obviously, it's their decision. But from an outsider looking in, having Tebow there doesn't bring anything positive. It just brings distraction.
"For Mark, the main competition is going to be with David Garrard and Greg McElroy."
Sanchez regressed during a 13-touchdown, 18-interception performance for the 6-10 Jets, completing 54.3% of his passes before coach Rex Ryan benched him for McElroy late in the season.
GOOD MATCH: Garcia quietly helping Sanchez
Ryan said at the owners meetings last month that while Sanchez will get the first snaps during organized team activities, the competition for the starting job will be open.
Garcia played under new Jets offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg with the San Francisco 49ers and Philadelphia Eagles and has helped Sanchez get immersed in the West Coast terminology. Sanchez is entering a crossroads season in which he is guaranteed $8.25 million in salary.
"Mark did a great job of really getting into the playbook," Garcia said. "He has that determination, that attitude where he really wants to prove to himself more than anybody that he can be a great leader for that team and lead the Jets to great results."
Sanchez took this week off to move into a new home in Orange County, Calif., but made impressive strides during his four weeks working with Garcia, who also is overseeing the comeback effort by 2007 No. 1 overall draft pick JaMarcus Russell, who weighed in at 278 pounds Thursday, down from 315 on Feb. 7.
Tebow intends to be at the team's Florham Park, N.J., facility next week. And Garcia thinks that would be a disservice to both Sanchez and Tebow.
The Jets have tried to find a trade partner for the former Denver Broncos starter but haven't found a taker.
"When you're a quarterback, you don't need artificial competition," Garcia said of Sanchez.
"And it's not fair to Tim to put him through all that. If there's a place for Tim that gives him a chance to be a contributor in an offense with another team, let him go be that guy."


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As an artist and musician, Amiri Geuka Farris, 37, experiences no limits when it comes to creativity. His blend of vivid colors captures the images of the Gullah culture while his music opens the door for a new genre, "rhymetry."
He teaches art classes for non-majors at the University of South Carolina Beaufort while he continues to parade his art around the Lowcountry. He recently received an award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation for his artwork with the Gullah Museum in Hilton Head.
He developed his artistic side beginning at a small age with the influence of his parents. As a native of Florida, Farris moved to Georgia to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design.
"I was actually planning to go to an art school in either Maryland or Ohio, but when SCAD called they said there would be more scholarship opportunities available," Farris said.
Farris received his undergrad and masters at SCAD In illustration and painting. He recently moved to Wharf Street to be closer to the Old Town Bluffton artistic atmosphere.
Besides donating his artwork to the Green Garden Luncheon in Bluffton, Farris also recently donated one of his Gullah-cultured art piece in the live auction at the 1862 Circle Gala on Saturday at the Penn Center.
Victoria Smalls of the Penn Center said, "He's very generous and the Penn Center is so honored to have this piece. He's set apart from any other artists in the state."
Penn Center, located on St. Helena Island, is recognized as one of the nation's oldest and most significant African American cultural and historic institutions.
Farris uses textures and colors that make his pieces stand out from other Gullah-themed paintings, giving him a unique talent.
His signature style of using Adinkra symbols stamped into an African dress or a colorful turban enhances the painting, adding history. The layers invite a viewer to look deeper into the painting where colors and textures jump from the canvas.
"His usage of assembling paper, colors and African symbols to add meaning and depth to his pieces lets a viewer know it is Amiri Farris," Smalls said. "When you see his work, you know it's him."
But if his art isn't enough to enjoy, Farris also produces music. A mixture of hip-hop and poetic rhymetry, his music is unique.
"It is all positive messages," he said. "I wanted to create a new genre because I felt that hip-hop wasn't really hip-hop anymore. It was too negative."
He sings, writes and produces his own music showing his multiple talents of creativity. His next music video will have a theme of the video game, "Space Invader." He features his music on various social media websites including YouTube.
"I enjoy being able to create what I want and also be lucrative at it too," Farris said.


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It began with a cozy cabal, the G-6. Then along came Russia and Canada, and the G-8 became the new word in global summitry. Now leadership summits have become super-sized, with the G-20 now the one-stop shop for tackling the world's most pressing problems. Except that these days neither G20s, nor G8s, nor G-Anythings, really tackle much at all, according to our guest, Ian Bremmer.
Ian Bremmer argues that the world is experiencing a void of global leadership for the first time in seven decades. And things may get worse, before they get better.


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Sorry if this is a major debate and I just sparked another bonfire....but I haven't seen any posts on this particular yet.
I thought the major benefits to TBHs were 1) calmer bees, because you don't expose more than 1 bar at a time, but Warre hives don't appear to have this feature, since the bees have to be able to travel vertically. 2) With horizontal TBHs, you don't have to lift anything.
Besides providing insulation at the top (which you could do with an extra super on a Lang) and putting new boxes under the old (which you could also do with a Lang), how is a Warre different from using foundationless bars (with or without a frame, I'm not sure the bees care) in a Lang hive?


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Halan is a vampire of the old school, sorcerously created in a days-long ritual--none of this biting stuff. He hails from the lost land of Gimirrai (gi MERE eye), now but a province in the Zaraafi Empire. In his three and a half centuries of unlife he has played many roles: he has been a hunted predator on the edge of civilization--he can predict the weather at a glance, and if he throws a rock, he never misses--, he has been several different artisans, he has been a minor nobleman. Currently he resides in Meyitshehz in Hengistan, a village known for the quality of its honey. He protects it fiercely: many of the adults know what he is and what he does, and will provide blood and mana when needed.
Gimirrai was a civilized place: respect for elders and good manners were the norm, and upward mobility was possible. As the son of a successful farming family--minor landholders, actually--he was taught to read and write, and studied sorcery in the usual, casual way. He married late, at 25, and by age 30 he had a family. Then the Plague came, overwhelming magickal and mundane resources, and among the devastation, all of his family died, save Halan and his niece. This left a dark place in his soul, and he took to sorcery more assiduously, searching for the secrets of life itself: longevity and healing magicks, even immortality. The wizard Lostaani took him on as an apprentice, and due to his previous studies, he became a master wizard in under a decade. During this time he quietly aided his niece's family even though they had gotten religion after the plague (Sorcery and worship are very different paths: there is often discord and hostility between them). Soon afterwards his investigations led him to the Masters of the Tomb, a group of wizards who also sought immortality. He joined them at once (and was brutally cut by his mentor Lostaani, who had no truck with such unnatural practices.)
Halan helped research a ritual to create vampires, basically turning the target's body into an undead machine, uncoupled from the natural cycles (which offended all the elemental gods) and potentially immortal (which offended any god interested in the pantheon's afterlife.) This explains the well-known problems that vampires have with sunlight, running water and the like, and the need to rest in one's native earth: most of these can be dealt with by appropriate magical protection Halan has found. As well, he developed other dark spells such as Soul Reaving. The Masters of the Tomb soon had a cadre of apprentices who hoped to become vampires after years of service (including donations of blood and mana, of course!) This was no Ponzi scheme: it was understood that the ritual was only offered to a select few. When he was seventy-two (looking a hale fifty due to the afore-mentioned longevity magic), Halan decided the time had come for him to avail himself of the fruits of his labour. He survived the vampirification process (not guaranteed), but the cabal was exposed and broken up with much loss of (un)life about a year later--ironically it was Halan's great-grandnephew who was a linchpin of this operation. Being a good member of the local church (which had grown in influence after the plague), he was horrified by their activities and turned them in to the authorities. (He didn't know that Halan was his almost-ancestor, of course.) Halan had to flee, but was able to carry away much of the group's ritual gear.
Much later, when he was 117 years old, Halan took Akchan of Tsendristan as his apprentice. Akchan showed great promise and used Halan's Soul Reaving matrix to create many interesting magickal items. After about fifteen years, Akchan too became a vampire: some seven years later, doing his own research, Akchan fumbled the making of a matrix for the Vampire Creation ritual. A fell spirit possessed the matrix and convinced Akchan that it was the god of vampires, Gwiyodhunas, that only it could create vampires, that Halan had stolen the power from Gwiyodhunas, and was therefore a damned heretic! After a pitched physical and magickal battle with Halan, Akchan fled southeast to unknown lands, taking his tainted matrix and many other magickal items with him: he became the first priest of Gwiyodhunas. Halan called up many potent Sendings to destroy Akchan but (no doubt with the "god's" help), all failed. Eventually Halan heard no more of Akchan, and assumed that Gwiyodhunas had eaten his acolyte.
He continued to watch over his cadet-branch bloodline, and he fought in secret but unsuccessfully to prevent the annexation of his native Gimirrai by the Zaraafi Empire, 182 years ago. (He has worked to bring about the liberation of his homeland ever since.)
Later he fought the nomadic Laraachin who raided his stock in one of his farmer lives. There was much loss of life, and much creation of magickal items!
Much later still, he recreated the ritual matrix and took one of his niece's descendants, Oleastra, as apprentice (there were plenty of sibling and cousins, so the favoured lineage was in no danger of extinction.) He had tried this before, but with indifferent success--often it was religious scruples that prevented his relatives from taking the final step, but Oleastra was different: she took to sorcery amazingly well (she is actually smarter than Halan), beating his short apprenticeship by a year or so, and became a vampire fairly soon afterwards. Like Halan, she has no qualms about using Soul Reaving on "those who would assault or rob a young woman on her own in the city."
Halan has a number of potent and dark magicks:
--Soul Reaving: normally a wizard uses his own life-force, a part of his soul, to enchant magickal items. This ritual allows a portion of the life-force and intelligence of another, who need not be willing, to be used instead. Halan doesn't know or care what happens to the left-over fragmented souls: he scrupulously employs the ritual only against such uncouth types as try to physically assault him in his old-mage persona--as a Gimirrite he abhors disrespect to elders!
--Vampire Creation: Halan collaborated in the design of this ritual centuries ago; after the disbanding of the Masters of the Tomb, he and his few apprentices may be the only sorcerous vampires in existence--all the rest are Gwiyodhunas' products.
Current State
In addition to his long-standing oversight of his niece's bloodline, Halan has several other projects.
--He protects the village of Meyitshehz and gets protection in return.
--He keeps an eye out for possible recurrence of Gwiyodhunatic activities.
--In the longest term, he works for the restoration of an independent Gimirrai ("just like the old days", he hopes...), in his noble persona of Lord Kraspodos, who can be prickly with strangers.
Age: 432 (looks to be a vigorous 50), about 360 years as vampire
Height: 183 cm
Weight: 78 kg
Frame: medium
Hair: black, close-cropped
Skin: fair but pale
Face: angular, clean-shaven
Eyes: grey
Ears: medium
Nose: hawklike
Voice: medium, resonant
Expression: fierce
Quirks: bushy eyebrows. prickly with strangers.


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As I mentioned in an introductory post, my reading on archaeology has been pretty superficial over the years -- magazine articles, articles on the web or archaeology-dedicated chapters included in books where the main focus was elsewhere; so I'm keen to play catch-up so that I might be able to contribute something here.
So far, I've ordered *The Bible Unearthed* (a fair startng point, I'm told) and I'll spend the weekend reading in the forum here and following what links there are in the hope of discovering more literature that can be understood by the layman.
I wondered, though, if perhaps those of you with some study under your belts might kick off a reading list by, from time to time, suggesting books on the subject at hand (in my case for a raw beginner, but maybe there's also value in swapping reading recommendations for those with more experience) in a fixed thread on the boards.
Eighteen months or so ago when I joined another forum, I found book recommendations from those more clued up on, for instance, ancient middle eastern history invaluable. Special thanks to Seeker for several good suggestions, by the way.
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SANTA CLARA (AP) — NaVorro Bowman had to tell someone about his hefty new contract before it became public. And there was pal Patrick Willis first thing Tuesday before they began their morning workout.
"He was excited as soon as I told him, when I wasn't supposed to," Bowman said about Willis, the godfather of Bowman's twin girls born earlier this year. "I couldn't keep it from him. I think he has lot to do with this, helping me out."
The 49ers' inside linebacker pair of Bowman and Willis will be lining up together on San Francisco's talented defense well into the future if all goes as planned.
On Tuesday, Bowman reached agreement on a five-year contract extension through the 2018 season — a deal worth $45.25 million, with $25.5 million in guaranteed money.
"Any time you get a chance to get a deal done and it sounds great and everybody's comfortable with it, why not?" Bowman said. "It shows the trust the organization has in me."
With Bowman's new deal, it keeps one of the best and most-feared linebacking tandems in the NFL together for the long haul — as Willis is signed through 2016.
The 24-year-old Bowman, a third-round draft pick in 2010 out of Penn State, has 100 tackles, two sacks and an interception this season as a second-year starter for the NFC West-leading Niners (8-2-1). As a rookie, his 20 special-teams tackles ranked third in the NFL.
He earned his first Pro Bowl and All-Pro spots last season.
"That's good, a young guy, a good guy, Pro Bowl, All-Pro guy to be around here another five years," cornerback Carlos Rogers said.
In addition to Bowman and Willis, the team's other two starting linebackers are signed at least for the next three seasons — Ahmad Brooks through 2017 and Aldon Smith through 2015.
"We have a chance to do something really special, with all four linebackers being here for the next three years," Bowman said. "We can make a statement for ourselves and leave a legacy for this defense."
Bowman's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, said he began talking about a new deal with the 49ers in the offseason but the sides were "pretty far apart" at that stage.
"It's a very special accomplishment. I take my hat off to the Niners and to NaVorro," Rosenhaus said. "I think only the most proactive teams get it done. I think this perhaps the most talented team in the NFL. If you want to keep all your good players, you have to get deals done now. You can't let guys get to free agency. You can't keep everybody."
Bowman has credited his rapid development to the guidance he received from Hall of Fame linebacker Mike Singletary, who was fired as San Francisco's head coach after a loss at St. Louis in the second-to-last week of 2010.
"NaVorro epitomizes what we look for in a 49er," 49ers general manager Trent Baalke said in a statement. "We are excited that the All Pro tandem of Willis and Bowman will be together in red and gold for years to come."
While Bowman has never been one to set goals for statistics or accolades, anyone around the 49ers will be quick to acknowledge how much his improved play in 2011 meant to the franchise in getting back to the playoffs after an eight-year absence in coach Jim Harbaugh's first year.
Bowman is a big reason San Francisco has been so strong stopping the run the past two years. The 49ers rank No. 2 in total defense this week, fourth against the run.
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Bowman is certain to oblige. Both of these two are more determined to get San Francisco to a Super Bowl than start comparing their paychecks (Willis still earns more).
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What is charisma, really?
What is it about one personality or persona that draws our attention? That rivets us? And, perhaps even more to the point — especially in light of the picture above — is charisma a quality or a trait that one either has or doesn't have, or is it something that one radiates by virtue of attaining a certain level of notoriety or fame? Would we bother looking at a picture of someone shaving in a men's room in 1965, his head wrapped in a towel, if it wasn't a picture of Frank Sinatra shaving in a men's room in 1965, his head wrapped in a towel?
LIFE photographer John Dominis spent weeks with Sinatra in 1965 — the year the singer turned 50 — emerging with one of the most revealing photographic records of any major performer's private world ever captured on film. From rehearsals in smoke-filled recording studios to Vegas nightclub performances to golf in the Nevada sun to playing with his dog Ringo in his home office to late-night hijinks with his drinking buddies, the Sinatra in Dominis's remarkable photos is at-once far more approachable than the near-mythic bad boy of legend, and more Olympian in the way he dominates every scene. In large gatherings and small, in hotel suites and in sports arenas, virtually every frame Dominis shot makes it clear that, when Sinatra was around, no one else mattered.
[See the gallery, "LIFE With Sinatra: Portraits of 'The Voice' in 1965."]
Call it what you like — charisma, magnetism, star quality — there's little question that by the time 1965 rolled around, Sinatra had "it," and "it" made his every move, every gesture, no matter how commonplace or trivial, somehow significant. Or, if not significant, at least suggestive of something more. Power, perhaps.
[Buy the LIFE book, The Rat Pack: The Original Bad Boys.]
Ultimately, though, what makes a simple picture of Frank Sinatra shaving so weirdly engaging — especially when he's obviously unconcerned with looking cool, or tough, or hip — is that such a picture feels so unexpected, so contrary to the way that, for the longest time, celebrities allowed themselves to be portrayed. Today, of course, when so many pop-culture creatures feel compelled to post, share and tweet every sordid or pointless experience ("Had another hangnail today!") and every ill-formed thought in their heads, a picture of a half-naked singer peering in the mirror as he shaves would hardly raise any eyebrows.
Seeing a bona fide musical colossus unselfconsciously scraping away at his stubble, on the other hand, is so unusual that it somehow doesn't even register as mildly intrusive. Instead, Dominis's photograph is notable, all these years later, precisely because Sinatra is so supremely oblivious to our gaze. It's not that we, the viewers, don't matter; it's just that, having done it all and seen it all in his long, prodigious career, the Chairman of the Board has nothing left to prove.
— Ben Cosgrove is the Editor of LIFE.com


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Can both sides be right on unemployment insurance?
Congress is once again debating whether to extend unemployment benefits. Democrats say it's critical both for the people involved and the economy. Republicans say a falling jobless rate shows the economy is strong enough to let the extended benefits end.
It's a rare issue for which the facts support both sides.
Republicans are right in saying that it's unusual to offer emergency benefits when the economy recently posted a 3.6 percent quarterly growth rate and more than 200,000 people a month are being hired. Democrats are right in arguing that a wide range of labor-market indicators remain impaired and emergency benefits have never been withdrawn with long-term unemployment so high.
What's really at stake isn't unemployment insurance, rather an emergency program signed into law by President George W. Bush and continued by Barack Obama in his two terms.
With the U.S. economy in recession, Bush signed the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program into law on June 30, 2008, giving the long-term unemployed extended benefits on an emergency basis.
Most recently, the program was extended for another year as part of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, signed into law by Obama on Jan. 3, 2013.
Unemployment insurance originally became a national program as part of the Social Security Act of 1935. The act encouraged states to develop their own unemployment insurance laws, and within two years 48 states had adopted their own.
Originally, unemployment benefits lasted 16 weeks. Now, 26 weeks is the norm. In 1970, President Richard Nixon ushered in the federal-state program of Extended Benefits. This provided additional help for workers during periods of high unemployment, giving them another 13 weeks of unemployment benefits for a total of 39 weeks.
Since 1993, states could adopt alternative triggers for Extended Benefits, including a 6.5 percent unemployment rate for three consecutive months and other factors. Today, 34 states and the District of Columbia have an unemployment rate high enough to clear the highest bar to extra benefits.
Bush signed off on giving the long-term jobless another 20 weeks of help on top of the 39 weeks already available under the basic unemployment insurance provision and Extended Benefits, for a total of 59 weeks. Workers in high unemployment states could get even more time.
Less than a year later, Obama, signed the Worker, Home Ownership and Business Assistance Act, adding another 14 weeks across all states, and even more for high unemployment states. Eventually the period stretched to a maximum of 99 weeks of benefits with out a job.
In addition to helping the workers, Obama and Democrats say it helps stimulate the economy.
Citing a drop in the national unemployment rate to 7 percent, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said on Dec. 6 that the strengthening employment picture "should discourage calls for more emergency government 'stimulus.'"
Critics insist the benefits in an improving economy are a disincentive to work.
"We need more jobs, not longer unemployment," said Martin Regalia, chief economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, adding that job skills deteriorate with longer unemployment. He wants more focus on retraining for new employment.
In the latest nationwide read of unemployment, in November, the Labor Department determined that 4.1 million Americans were unemployed for 27 weeks or longer, comprising 37.3 percent of the jobless. Using the White House's math, 2.8 million of them could continue to collect benefits while 1.3 million would not if the program ends as scheduled on Dec. 28.
The stubbornly high rate of long-term unemployment, despite the recent uptick in economic data, is why supporters argue for another extension.
"We're four and a half years into the recovery and we've seen very little actual improvement," said Heidi Shierholz, a labor economist with the center-left Economic Policy Institute.
Unemployment insurance was not meant to be permanent, but the aftermath of the Great Recession is quite different than past downturns, insisted Shierholz.
"It's temporary because the period of weakness is supposed to be temporary," she said, noting that labor markets remain impaired.
Her view is shared in some conservative circles. Michael Strain, a research fellow with the free-market think tank American Enterprise Institute, is sympathetic to the idea that the benefits have been extended for an unusually long period of time, given that the Great Recession ended four years and six months ago.
But the duration, said Strain, is not the proper focus.
"A better metric is . . . the state of the labor market," Strain said.
In past recessions, he said, extended unemployment benefits ended when the long-term unemployed represented about 1.3 percent of the workforce.
"Today, the long-term unemployment rate is well above 2 percent. If we cut off benefits now, we'll be doing it with significantly higher rate of long-term unemployment," said Strain. "This is not a typical recession. . . . I think some of my friends on the right disagree with me on this. I think it's something that reasonable people can disagree on."