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SolisTek Inc. is a Los Angeles based company that offers digital grow light products.
With the need for improvement in lighting technology for the hydroponic industry, we saw an opportunity to introduce software based technologies such as Ignition Control, Sense Smart, and the Matrix LCD ballast. All of which, have since changed the entire industry standards of manufacturing digital ballasts.
With our inside and out understanding of the horticulture industry and extensive knowledge and network in sourcing and manufacturing, it was a match made in heaven to bring the latest and greatest improvements on products that have stayed the same for years.
Our Mission is to always stay on top of the game with new innovative technology and improvements. We refuse to solely compete on price as all others are resorting to. Anyone can play the price game, but only a few elite businesses can survive based on innovation, quality and great product design. SolisTek is best known for the special features that we have brought and essentially standardized in the industry. Those features and products include Ignition Control technology, Sense Smart pre-diagnostic safety checks, Matrix LCD Digital Ballast and our HILED panel. We currently sell to 5 different countries in Europe, Australia, Canada and of course our home territory the USA.
One of our most prized achievements is the less than 0.5% return rate, and that will save the end users the headache of having to waste valuable time and money on inferior products that provide lower quality light and most likely to fail prematurely.
Majority of our feedback talks about our best features which is our quality of light and low return rates. Others also talk about the higher yields they experience using our matched systems. Lighting is one of the most critical components of an indoor garden. The quality of light that you provide your plants will directly affect your end product.
The indoor horticulture industry has been littered by copies of poorly designed product SolisTek is looking to better our industry with our innovation of new technologies. We strive to better educate the end users on how to use our products to the maximum efficiency and also provide the right tools such as the different color options for our Metal Halide lamps that provide more UV spectrum than any other lamp on the market.


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In Dil, I saw Aamir turning from a larva to a beautiful butterfly. But today, he can transform himself into a beautiful evening or a brilliant sunset with clouds of magnificent colours. He has the capacity to be the moon shimmering in the water below. He is such a powerhouse of talent that he can transform his personality into all these things and look beautiful. If in the beginning, Aamir was just an individual butterfly and his beauty limited, now he has acquired the capacity to create a spectrum of his own. That is his evolution.
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seems that all 4 of the florist shops in the town won't send her flowers from the FFRF.
The religionists down there are very savage right wingers who would break your legs as soon as look at you .
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I thought this was old news, tied to the original court case. FFRF is suing for damages because the florists refused to send flowers to Ahlquist when she was pushing to remove religion from her school. I could be wrong but I don't think anybody is bothering her now.
Personally, I think anyone refusing to provide flower services due to religious beliefs is a blithering idiot. I do not think they should have an obligation to provide those services though. There may be federal and state laws that say otherwise.
I really don't think this is current so there is no need for anyone to rush in to help her.
Thanks Greg, Unfortunately this is new because 3 other Cranston florists have now joined the first one. This is one nasty community she lives in and anyway we can help her would be good.
I think if we could get our message to the kids of the community things might be different. Kids, even of people like that, do not like to have parents who do evil and vicious things.
booklover, you're ignoring non-humans.
I'm with luna. I'll even bet a few bucks there are some kids in Cranston not yet ruled by fear.
BTW, didn't Roger Williams found Rhode Island colony when religious bigots ran him out of Massachusetts?
Long term we might improve. There is good reason to believe that many of the younger generation of religious believers follow the rules because the older generation tells them to, but when they become the older generation the same thing happens again.
I'm sure if you talk to christians in their 70s, you will find that there are rules which you would be sent directly to hell for 50 years ago that are perfectly acceptable now.
Religitards being slow learning dicks is not news, it's part of the war of ideas, now lets sick 'em.
I put out a couple of tweets #EvilLittleThing
Can I send yong lady a support massage, so she may know athiest all arround the world stand by her side.
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Slifer Smith and Frampton matches brokers' donations
VAIL, Colorado – Slifer Smith and Frampton has taken a strong interest in supporting the public schools of Eagle County. Education Foundation of Eagle County is an organization raising private funds to the fill the current gap in public funding for our local schools. With a strong belief that our schools are a reflection of our community and neighborhoods, Slifer Smith and Frampton has offered to match their brokers' donations with a commitment total of $10,000.This is in addition to the roughly 5 percent of net income that Slifer Smith and Frampton donates annually to Eagle County charities and nonprofit organizations."As a company that was founded in the Vail Valley 50 years ago we've watched the area grow from a vision to a world-class destination," said Jim Flaum, president and managing broker. "We recognize the importance of philanthropy in achieving, maintaining and enhancing the place we call home."Slifer Smith and Frampton has donated or sponsored more than 75 local organizations. Organizations touched by their philanthropy range from those focusing on issues in the medical field, social issues, local beautification, sporting activities, education and local business development. "Vail, Beaver Creek and surrounding areas became what they are today because visionaries committed themselves to a cause," said Flaum. "We believe that a key component to a strong community is the willingness of its residents and businesses to give back. We lead by example and encourage our brokers to do so too."For more information on Slifer Smith & Frampton Real Estate visit http://www.vailrealestate.com or call Slifer Smith & Frampton Real Estate's business office at 970-845-2000.


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Susan Feniger's Burmese Gin Thoke Melon Salad
At once sweet, tangy, earthy, and nutty, Susan Feniger's interpretation of a Burmese digestive snack in her Street Food is truly a knockout. Her recipe combines a blend of melons--watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew--with a potent mix of young ginger, sesame, and coconut. (This is the gin thoke.) Next, the salad is then bulked up with blanched peanuts and strangely perfect green lentils and then dressed with a bit of sugar, soy sauce, and lime juice. It sounds like a crazy combination, but it works.
Reprinted with permission from Susan Feniger's Street Food by Susan Feniger. Copyright 2012. Published by Clarkston Potter. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
- Yield:serves 6
- Active time: 45 minutes
- Total time:45 minutes
- 1/2 small seedless watermelon (2½ pounds)
- 1/2 ripe cantaloupe melon (1 1/2 pounds)
- 1/4 ripe honeydew melon (1 pound)
- 2 (3-inch) pieces young ginger, peeled and minced (1/3 cup), or 2 (3-inch) pieces regular ginger, peeled and minced (1/3 cup)
- 1/4 cup sesame seeds, toasted
- 1/4 cup lime juice (from 3 to 4 limes)
- 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 3/4 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 cup dried green lentils
- 2 cups wide-flake unsweetened coconut
- 1 1/4 cups blanched raw peanuts
- 4 fresh kaffir lime leaves, chopped
Start by cutting up the melons: Trim off the rind of all 3 melons, remove any seeds, and cut the flesh into 1/2 inch dice. Put all of the diced melon in a large mixing bowl.
In a separate bowl, combine the ginger, sesame seeds, lime juice, soy sauce, 1/4cup of the olive oil, 2 tablespoons of the sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon of the salt. Mix well and pour over the melon. Toss, and let marinate at room temperature while you prepare the rest of the salad.
Put the lentils and 4 cups cold water in a small saucepan set over high heat, and bring to a boil, about 5 minutes. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes. Add 1 teaspoon of the salt and cook for 5 minutes, or until the lentils are tender but not mushy. Drain, rinse with cold water to chill, and then stir into the melon mixture.
Combine the coconut, peanuts, kaffir lime, remaining 1 teaspoon sugar, remaining 1/4 cup olive oil, and remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt in a large sauté pan. Toast the peanut mixture over mediumlow heat, stirring it constantly, until the coconut and peanuts have toasted, somewhat unevenly, to a golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
Just before serving, add the peanut mixture to the melon mixture and stir gently to combine. Serve in a large bowl, preferably at room temperature.
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De Lamar was born in Logan, UT, to Hyrum and Claudia Gibbons. He was the sixth of seven children. Many of his early memories were set against the backdrop of farm life during the Great Depression.
He was born, raised, and remained an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout his life.
At 19, he served a full-time mission to what was then the East Central States Mission. Upon returning home, he was greeted with enlistment papers to serve as a Teletype operator in the US Army during the Korean Conflict.
After the war, he returned home and attended Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University) studying chemistry. Upon graduation, he was accepted to George Washington University Medical School to become a doctor of medicine in 1959.
His earliest years in practice were in Lewiston, UT, during which time he met and married his wife of nearly 50 years, Alberta "Beppy" Johanna Krommenhoek, on December 15, 1960.
Soon after their marriage, they moved from Lewiston to Blanding, UT, where they raised a family of five children until 1982 when the family moved to Washington, DC. After brief stays in Washington, DC; Indianapolis, IN; Grace, ID; Kellogg, ID; and the Netherlands, they returned and retired to Blanding in 1998.
De had an active life filled with a taste for adventure, innovation, community involvement, art and music, as well as a commitment to country, church, and family life.
In addition to his practice, he participated in community organizations including Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, local Chambers of Commerce, and served as mayor of Blanding for a short time.
De never stopped learning new things and trying new adventures. He enjoyed reading, gardening, building models, flying airplanes, riding ATV's, traveling, and serving others. He wrote a number of books, some of which include: "The Self-Help Treatment of Colitis and Crohn's Disease" and "Their Secrets: Why the Navajo Indians Never Get Cancer."
Following what he personally described as a full and fulfilling life, he quietly passed away at home with loved ones by his side.
He is survived by his children: Charlotte Gibbons, Grant (Bonnie) Gibbons, Robyn (Mark) Evans, Mignon (Kent) Clegg, and Gregory (Sheila) Gibbons; 19 grand children and one great-granddaughter.
He is preceded in death by his wife, parents, older brothers Don and Wayne, granddaughter Adrienne Clegg and grandson Benjamin Gibbons.
Funeral services were October 5, 2009, at the Blanding LDS Stake Center in Blanding.
The burial was performed in the Logan Cemetery in Logan, UT, on October 6, 2009.
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There are too many to mention but a few cannot be over looked. Thanks to Carolyn Black for her love and friendship. And special thanks to their medical professionals and LDS Ward family, who took such good care of their yard, family, and home during their final days.


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Norwood (1999) proposed that Maslow's hierarchy can be used to describe the kinds of information that individual's seek at different levels. For example, individuals at the lowest level seek coping information in order to meet their basic needs. Information that is not directly connected to helping a person meet his or her needs in a very short time span is simply left unattended. Individuals at the safety level need helping information . They seek to be assisted in seeing how they can be safe and secure. Enlightening information is sought by individuals seeking to meet their belongingness needs. Quite often this can be found in books or other materials on relationship development. Empowering information is sought by people at the esteem level. They are looking for information on how their ego can be developed. Finally, people in the growth levels of cognitive, aesthetic, and self-actualization seek edifying information . While Norwood does not specifically address the level of transcendence, I believe it safe to say that individuals at this stage would seek information on how to connect to something beyond themselves or to how others could be edified and empowered.
Maslow published his first conceptualization of his theory almost 60 years ago (Maslow, 1943) and it has since become one of the most popular and often cited theories of human motivation. An interesting phenomenon related to Maslow's work is that it enjoys such wide acceptance despite a lack of evidence to support the hierarchy as he described it (Wahba Bridgewell, 1976; Soper, Milford Rosenthal, 1995).
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Maslow recognized that not all personalities followed his proposed hierarchy. While a variety of personality dimensions might be considered as related to motivational needs, one of the most often cited is that of introversion and extroversion . Reorganizing Maslow's hierarchy based on the work of Alderfer and considering the introversion/extraversion dimension of personality results in three levels, each with an introverted and extroverted component. This organization suggests there may be two aspects of each level that differentiate how people relate to each set of needs. Different personalities might relate more to one dimension than the other. For example, an introvert at the level of Other/Relatedness might be more concerned with his or her own perceptions of being included in a group, whereas an extrovert at that same level would pay more attention to how others value that membership.
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Dealing with notifications on a Wear OS watch has gotten better as the phone version of Android has improved its already impressive notification system and as phone app developers have taken advantage of new interactions. Many apps now send notifications with action options: For example, you can check a to-do as done, approve a payment, respond to a message, or, most often, just acknowledge something. The Q Explorist and Venture are no different than most Wear OS watches in relaying notifications, but in our testing they rarely showed lag in processing them, nor was either watch's screen unresponsive to swiping or tapping options. Each watch's vibration motor provides just enough buzz and movement to avoid missing things while not feeling like electric collar training for humans.
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"The Perfect Pencil Pointer," patented on April 29, 1890, was probably designed for schoolrooms or offices. It resembles very little the pencil sharpeners in the schoolrooms, offices, and libraries that we are familiar with today. We know pencils were common in the 19th century because it has been recorded that Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) made his living selling pencils in Concord, Massachusetts for a time. The instructions on the underside of the invention are very precise and include the caution, "Don't bear on hard. Please remember this. Take hold of the carriage so as to let the pencil project between first and middle finger as shown..."
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It's not great to be young, said Chris Colfer, a 23-year-old American actor, singer, and author to Esquire magazine for their The Life of Man project.
It's hard to disagree with Colfer. Youth are usually considered reckless, restless, and aimless. But in recent years things have changed. The change seemed more apparent last Sunday at the Social Good Summit, an annual event that celebrates technology and social action.
Almost every speaker pointed out how young people are creating solutions for the problems they and their communities are facing. "Young people want to be involved and really want to have their voice heard," said Mette-Marit, crown princess of Norway. Young people are using social media to create a world where they have to access to clean water and air, livable land, quality education, and better opportunities for growth.
As impacts of globalization and technology combine, forcing the world to change, young people feel empowered and capable shaping the world. 84% of this generation of young people believes it's their duty to change the world for the better, said Zeenat Rahman, special adviser for global youth issues at the U.S. Department of State.
Most young people of this generation are better educated than their predecessors. Democratization of technology has democratized self-expression. Empowered with cheap technology such as mobile and expression platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, it's almost second nature for youth to express their concerns, ambitions and hold their governments accountable.
Watch President Jim Yong Kim of the World Bank Group talk about how everyone can make their voices heard:
As technology makes the world increasingly one global village, we will see more collaboration worldwide primarily because of young people. Recently, when I spoke to Rachel Kyte, vice president of sustainable development at the World Bank Group, she suggested young people are less concerned about acquiring personal wealth and more about making sure they and their peers have access to resources.
Social media allows young people to exchange ideas and collaborate seamlessly. Challenges of a faraway land are not usually ignored by global youth, mainly because of the way they share information. What happens in one corner of the word makes an immediate impact in another. Young people use social media to organize and impact events on the ground. We have seen that from India to Egypt.
While the process of self-expression has become inexpensive and easy, young people understand that challenges facing them are complex. And the solutions won't be easy. They believe changes that are needed are more about people and less about political ideology. From the United States to Sierra Leone, young people are taking matters in their own hands to make an impact. They think governments are slow and usually incapable of tackling complex challenges that need immediate solution. That is why they are working with each other, at times experimenting and failing, to tackle problems.
Historian Arnold J. Toynbee once wrote, "Growth takes place whenever a challenge evokes a successful response that, in turn, evokes a further and different challenge." The world has made enormous advances but faces new global challenges. Young people know they will inherit a world facing the impacts of climate change and pervasive inequality.
One message that I took away from the Social Good Summit was that youth are working hard to meet the challenge with solutions. With access to technology in a global world, youth are bound to be unconventional leaders of international development.
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I believe young people of
I believe young people of this century have the full capability, energy and creativity to evoke a global revolution for a once and good change for the benefits of their people,communities, families and most importantly, their future. Young Sudanese are using social media to organize and take this revolution to a good success to build their homeland by their hands.
In Nigeria, we are taking
In Nigeria, we are taking over! We only need support and encouragement. And I believe that with the team of like minded youths coming together, Together we can Achieve More.
Four values prevail
Four values prevail:partnerships, empowerment, participation and accountability. Governments, young people and those not in the youth age group need to the four values standard operating procedures. That way young people will be provided opportunity to play roles responsibly. Those handing over to young people will have left behind dependable and capable persons.
youth represent another world
youth represent another world. Yes Youth can do a lot of things that would be able to bring change over the World.
I believe young people can be
I believe young people can be in partnership with each other than the old,because being young and educated they understands their common interest which is to shape their world, and also filled with energy they work tirelessly to achieve their aims and goals. Discipline and self-control becomes their greatest challenges, but with proper orientations can be the best
Sorry, but this is bullshit.
Sorry, but this is bullshit. "They believe changes that are needed are more about people and less about political ideology."
To believe that change are "more about people" is also an ideology, so don't try to make it not.
But I truly understand that you at the world bank believe in that, because when the people unite as a force for change, you wont have the same ability to excersize power as you have had before.
You can try showing down our trouths that we need to individualize, but we understand that such a process makes you more influental. But you can expect that the swing will turn back either way..
Let us not be pessimistic
Let us not be pessimistic here: Social media could arguably be the most important thing that ever happened to us-young people today. Our networking, exposure, learning-mention it, has all taken a new level. What remains with us, is to work together in solidarity with one another to 'make more necessary noise' on current global health challanges affecting us, like road traffic crashes, climate change, HIV/AIDS, unemployement etc.
as a youth the fact that im not a millionaire or more, and am making an impact in my society, it only takes me some more brain, an eye for observation, partnerships, empowering each and quickly achieving long lasting solutions that would have otherwise been neglected for year So yeah! I know young people in the world hold the answers to all the social, economic.. issues facing the world. So go on and make the change you can.


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Before I start, yes, I know that what matters is the action on the field, not what happens on the video screens, yada yada yada.
But still, the news about the new giant screen going up at Safeco Field got me to thinking about the screens at Centurylink Field. I was a season ticket holder during the Seahawks first season there, and even then I remember being a little disappointed in the screens. My disappointment then wasn't so much the size of the screens--it was more about the less-than-ideal aspect ratios of the two screens. The screen above the Hawks Nest appears to be the old 4:3 standard definition ratio, and the screen above the south endzone is panoramic. Neither one of them is well suited to showing replays in 16:9 high definition format, and most of the replays they show are truncated and don't include all of the action that the folks at home are seeing on their HDTVs.
The problem is that those non-standard dimensions were dictated by the design of the stadium. It seems it would be impossible to make the north screen bigger without widening the Hawks Nest seating (and reducing the beautiful views of the city). The south screen would block seats if it was made taller, or suites if it was made wider.
Is there any room to improve the screens at the Clink? Does it matter?


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Ask A Citizen.com is a new international platform where you ask questions to citizens from others countries.
Our site is online but not yet ready for (big) promotion. There are no questions yet. We're still looking at some bugs and usability issues. Have a look at http://www.askacitizen.com.
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25 - 35 years old with a good education or who are still students. More Facebook than Myspace. More Mac than Microsoft. More Obama than McCain...
In general openminded people interessted in different cultures, countries. People who see globalisation as a challenge instead of a problem. Who like to travel and may have friends in different countries.
Please look at what we have now. It is not bad but also not finished. It needs a professional eye. We want te keep the design very light. We don't have a lot of pages and features. Simple, simple, simple is our motto.
If you visit the site you will be redirected to your own country by ip-recognition. That is going to change into. Our landingspage will be:
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- Kinase Buffer A is supplied as a 5X concentrated stock. Prepare a 1X solution by adding 4 mL of the 5X solution to 16 mL of ultrapure water. The 1X Kinase Buffer A is stable at room temperature. 1X Kinase Buffer A consists of 50 mM HEPES, pH 7.5, 10 mM MgCl2, 1 mM EGTA, and 0.01% Brij-35.
- Some kinases require additives such as calmodulin and Ca2+, which need to be added to the Kinase Buffer A. Specific additives can be found in individual Kinase LanthaScreen® Activity validation packets.
- Prior to use, the antibody tube should be centrifuged at approximately 10,000 x g for 10 minutes, and the volume needed for the assay should be carefully pipetted from the supernatant.
- The antibody dilution buffer does not contain EDTA. EDTA is added separately to TR-FRET dilution buffer, followed by the addition of antibody.
- Assays containing Fl-p53 as a substrate are run at a much higher concentration of substrate, so 1 mg will run 29,500 wells.
- Check the tube for the concentration of tracer. For Tracer 236, this is 50 μM in DMSO; for Tracer 178, 199, 314, or 1710, this is 25 μM in DMSO.
- A 1 mM stock of staurosporine can be prepared by dissolving 100 μg of staurosporine in 210 μL of DMSO. The molecular weight of staurosporine is 466.53 Da.
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Note: Antibody centrifugation is required to remove aggregates whose Tb or Eu donor signals can disrupt data analysis.
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I have a 6 month old and a 20 month old that are in daycare. A new policy has arised where the facility is no longer allowing food that needs to be warmed up for lunch. Sandwiches and "Lunchables" only. Peanut butter is also not allowed. I am trying to gather information to support my proposal to the agency to revoke the new policy. Tips, approaches, research results or any other valid information would be appreciated. Thank you for your time.
This is difficult because there is no evidence that kids require a warm lunch. The main issue here seems to be that it may limit choices somewhat at a time when you are trying to introduce new foods, or if your toddler is a picky eater. It's not clear what the day care center allows for infants, since clearly sandwiches and lunchables are not appropriate. You can find some guidelines for feeding infants and toddlers at http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/infant/infant.html which may provide information for you to present to the agency. It also includes a list of possible foods that could be included under this policy. Best of luck.


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by Pete Mazzaccaro
When we talk about the past in Chestnut Hill, we often focus on its buildings.
In recent weeks we've published photos from the archives of the Chestnut Hill Historical Society that depict street scenes from as far back as 100 years ago. It's interesting to see how the character of the neighborhood has changed and been redefined by changes to its buildings. Dozens of books have been published that detail the neighborhood's physical history. Few feature the names of its prominent citizens.
(A noted exception is David Contosta's "Suburb in the City," a history of the neighborhood that includes its people.)
We have institutions that are dedicated to preserving the neighborhood's character, from the Chestnut Hill Historical Society to the Chestnut Hill Community Association's Streetscape Committee. Our zoning committees are also, in part, charged with the same. No zoning change comes without consideration for the building's past. The state and well being of Chestnut Hill's historical buildings are of the utmost priority for many of its residents.
What is less a part of our conversation about Chestnut Hill's past is its people.
This came to mind last week when news arrived that Frank Salemno, a man who had been cutting hair on Germantown Avenue for 75 years(!) had closed his shop to retire. In recognition of that, news of his retirement is the front-page story.
Why front page? Not everyone in Chestnut Hill knew Salemno. His clients were only (or mostly, anyway) men. And not all men are into old-fashioned barber shop cuts that cost well under $20.
But Salemno's barbering career dates back before most Chestnut Hill residents were born. That, in and of itself, is reason to take a moment to recognize the man and what he accomplished, even if it was just opening up the shop doors and turning on the lights. Not everyone does that for 75 years.
And with Frank's retirement, it's clear that a piece of Chestnut Hill is lost – faded into the past – like many of Chestnut Hill's prominent citizens before him. His building will remain, but it probably won't be long until the barber pole comes down, the barber chairs are removed and a new shop or office takes its place.
Then how long will it be before most people forget the building was a barber shop to begin with? Five years? Ten? Probably not longer than that. Our memories are pretty short. Surprisingly so.
I don't want to make it seem as if Salemno's retirement is a bad thing. I can't imagine lasting as long as he has at anything. But it's sad, again, to see something that you'd come to expect as a constant suddenly surprise you by being not so. It's sad to see another name slip from the present to the past, reminding us that change is inevitable – even change we don't like.
In 50 years from now, perhaps, chestnuthilllocal.com will feature images of Salemno's barbershop. It will then look like photos of horse-drawn carriages on Forbidden Drive or ice skaters on the Wissahickon look now: impossible images of a past that we can only imagine.
So cheers to Frank Salemno for a well-earned retirement. The neighborhood will miss you. Even those of us who didn't really know you that well.


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I read about Amanuensis Monday in Randy Seaver's blog "GeneaMusings", and Randy read about it on John Newmark's genealogy blog "TransylvanianDutch". Amanuensis: A person employed to take dictation or copy manuscripts.
This is part two of my grandmother's audio tape. Bertha Louise Roberts was born in 1897 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England and she came to Beverly, Massachusetts in 1915, via Ellis Island, with her parents and brother Horace. They joined her sister Hilda, who had already married and come to Beverly.
Last week Bertha described her preschool years, and in this section of her audio tape she describes her playmates, the conditions in the crowded neighborhoods, and her Sunday school memories at the All Soul's Hood Memorial Church.
"My mother would give me a penny and at the bottom of the street where we lived there was a nice sweet store. Of course we called candy there "spice." And I remember the different things I would get. They had the candy potato and in the middle there was a tiny prize of some kind. And I remember the licorice ladders we got. And the different things I bought. I thought that spice shop was just the most wonderful place.
We had no yard to play in so we would play on the sidewalk. Sometimes we would go up to the moor, the Yorkshire moor. Part of this moor was cultivated and part was just rough and I remember they had band concerts there and they had sand piles the children could play in. I was very happy playing the different games especially jump rope and then we had a game called "Whip and Top." These tops were in different shapes. Some were in the shape of a big round top and the others were carrot tops, the shape of a carrot. We would chalk designs of different colors on the top of the top and then spin it and whip it all the way along the sidewalk. And of course when we were in school, after school we could play in the school yard. We had another game - shuttle cock and battledore. This was something like badminton. We had a battledore and a little cork with feathers sticking out of it, and we'd spin it up in the air and bat it with the battledore. See how many times we could keep it up.
Then we had another game called "Buttons." And we were very fortunate in my house because evidently my father and mother had worked in the mills and they had a lot of buttons. This game consisted of chalking a ring on the sidewalk and then determine how many buttons we would throw from a certain distance. The one that got nearest to the center of the ring was the first one to have their turn and they would push the buttons and if they got them in the ring they kept those buttons. And of course we played hop scotch and a lot of the games the children have here.
When I was a little girl we belonged to the Episcopal Church. Now our church had two, there was two churches. The high church and the low church. The name of it was All Soul's Hood Memorial Church. They had a vicar to preside over the church and three curates. Now I went to the low church which was nearby. It was rather unique the way it was built. It was built so that the church was high up and underneath it was the gymnasium and the great big room where they had the social events. To go up to the church there was a gradual incline going round and gradually up to the top. At the top of the incline was the vestry where the curate would have this little office and the boys and men would put on their surplices. My brother was in the choir. The choir then consisted of just boys and men. And it was a high church. By that I mean it had quite a few different rituals. The surplices were changed on the minister according to the time of the year and the choir was led by a cross. I loved to go to church and I especially liked to sing the psalms that we all sung. And my father and mother would take me.
And where we had the piano my sister started taking piano lessons and we would love to get around the piano on a Sunday and my father would love to sing… the old songs like "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep" and "Whispering Hope" and the hymns and we really had a good family life.
The Sunday School was in another building near this factory I mentioned before, the furniture factory. In back of that factory there were these hills leading up to a highish plateau. At the bottom of those hills we tiny children would play with the clay just like the children play with the sand at the seashore.
And my mother worked very hard. She kept the house very clean and the steps were washed every Saturday morning and the sidewalk and the window sills and the people there would use this clay to use on the edge of the steps. And Saturday morning everybody would do this cleaning. All the way down the street it really looked nice and clean. My sister would go to a neighbor to do some chores to earn some spending money. And she would come home with some goodies. And my brother and I being much younger would raise the dickens and want to eat some of the goodies that she got.
My….. I had an aunt that lived nearby. And she was left a widow with five children. So Mother and Dad helped them as much as they could and two of these little girls were just a little older than I was and whatever I got to wear Mother would try to give them the same thing.
When we went to school we had school shoes and a school dress and a pinafore. And when we came home from school we had to change into our play clothes. The pinafores were plain to go to school, but on a Sunday we had a pretty pinafore with our Sunday dress. And I remember wearing high shoes and then when I was real tiny I wore the ankle strap shoes. And I remember being in little plays and things in the Sunday school, and how proud I was to be with it, with those things.
As I got a little older the church had what they called the Needle Brigade. And of course I had been baptized there and I had my godmother as the head one of this Needle Brigade. We learned to knit and make things for this bazaar that we had once a year. And my godmother would read a story while we were working. We knitted dish cloths and different things and the older children knitted pretty things and this bazaar was quite an affair. We would all get on the stage and sing some hymns first and then of course the tables had all these things on that we had made. And as I got older I was in charge of one of the tables and I thought that was really something.
Then at Christmas time we would have a party. And had a Christmas tree at the Sunday school. We didn't have a Christmas tree at home but we had this party and were given an orange and an apple and a small gift and we thought that was wonderful."
To be continued on another Amanuensis Monday...
Link to part one http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/04/amanuensis-monday-berthas-audio-tape.html


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Re: Florida Coastal School of Law - 2008 discussion
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April 16, 2008, 10:03:46 AM »
To the OP: I can definetly identify with your decision, I grew up in NJ, went to RU UG, and got waitlisted (later rejected after classes had alreay started) at RU-Newark. My LSAT killed me (154). FCSL offered me a 1/2 tuition scholarship, I took the $ and went down there for my 1st year. I was able to do well and transferred to RU-Camden, just graduated in Jan and have an App clerkship lined up.
FCSL isnt a bad place at all, its really more like a bar prep than a typical law school though. However, the job prospects in Florida will not be great for you, even if you are toward top of class. Jacksonville is totally dominated by U of F alumni, plus a lot of Miami and FSU grads. Additionally, you simply will have no realistic chance of getting employment back in NJ after you graduate from there. The market is really bad here right now and I know a lot of smart people from decent schools who are out of work.
If you can get into Seton Hall, you should go no matter what it costs. SH has an excellent rep and alumni base in NNJ. If you do go to FCSL, be advised about the job problems I discussed above. I would definetly recommend transferring after your first year back to RU (you will still get instate tuition) or SH. Be warned however that FCSL grades on a strict C curve, meaning half the class MUST get a C and about 1/3 must get a D or F. Also, 1/4 of the first year class gets kicked out every year. Therefore, getting good grades and transferring out should not be taken for granted especially because most people there will be trying to do the same thing. Because of the curve and limited job opps, FCSL was extremely competitive while I was there, much more so than RU. Feel free to ask any othere q's. good luck.
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April 17, 2008, 11:07:24 AM »
Ok, so I posted this a few days ago and have gotten mixed reactions. Many people seem to think that because I could not afford a class, that I did not study. I studied my ass off to be completely honest, and I would much rather admit that I did not do my best with a score like that...but it isnt the case. The first time I took the test I got nervous. The second time I took it at New York Law School and I was way better prepared...the bad part was that the proctor docked my entire section by TEN MINUTES!!! When people told her she argued with us and wasted more time, and in a room full of potential lawyers, the argument continued. Thats why I did so bad again! I got docked ten minutes and lost the last five being distracted by argument anyway. I got ten right in that section...do you know how much that extra time would have helped?
I then prepared to take the test for a third time, which got canceled due to weather. After that I had to start applying and I thought I might be okay.
Basically my plan is to do the FCSL thing for a year and transfer back up, but I am still going to try the Seton Hall route. So many people suggest it, so I will see what I can do.
Thank you to everyone for your responses, they have been helpful (except for that one about lighting my life savings on fire...lol). Keep em coming!
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April 17, 2008, 11:37:04 AM »
Two things.
One, never plan on transferring. It is unpredictable how well anyone will perform in law school. Accordingly, do not attend a law school that you would not be satisfied graduating from in the middle of the class with respect to rank.
Two, if you believe that your experiences with the LSAT were not reflective of your ability, deferring for a year and retaking the test would be a much better option than attending any of the schools that you are currently accepted or waitlisted at. Usually, a school will only consider the higher LSAT if an applicant scores 6-8 points higher than previous attempts. Hence, if you think that you could take the test again, and, barring further unforeseen circumstances, score a 158 or higher, you should defer. Think about it. This is one of the biggest decisions of your life and one year is nothing in the scheme of things.
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April 17, 2008, 01:03:41 PM »
Don't do it OP!
It is clear your LSAT did not reflect your true ability. 10 Minutes on a test could mean a 10 question difference, which would could mean a solid 6-10pt score difference
Planning on transferring is a terrible idea. Grades are simply not possible to predict accurately. Some people have the gift, some don't.
I know it would be a let down to have to delay things a year, but it will be more than worth it in the long run.
Re: Florida Coastal School of Law - 2008 discussion
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April 17, 2008, 01:24:57 PM »
Don't go to this school, man. Everyone here is giving you sound advice. Don't do it. I'm not trying to rain on your parade, or be a jerk. I went to a fourth tier school, and I have a list of disadvantages I could rattle off. My law school is even attached to a highly respected undergrad institution. I have had no problem finding jobs, but that is only because all my previous employment experience has been in the legal field, and I know alot of lawyers. (Although on an interesting note, one of my classmates was a summer associate at Cadwalader, Wickersham, and Taft in NYC after our second year).
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you get nothing else, get this: That guy told you right. Do not count on transferring. It is not as easy to transfer as you might think. I tried it, and many of my classmates tried it. Only a handful made it. I put alot of research into this and had some conversations with admission officers at my target schools. Other law schools typically only accept transfers from the top portion of the class and it is on a space available basis. Even at a third tier school, you may have a difficult time if you aren't in the top quarter. Some schools won't even take you as a transfer if you couldn't have qualified originally. That means if your LSAT score didn't cut it as a first year aplicant, it won't cut it as a transfer applicant (those schools are not the norm though).
Sure, you might make the grades. I don't know you. You're probably a pretty smart person. But, law school thwarts smart people all the time. The law is strange in that it requires you to adopt a certain method of intellectual reasoning to learn and apply it. That method of reasoning is part of what is taught, but some people get it and some people don't. Plus, you're graded on a curve. You might get it, but if you don't grasp it stronger than 75% of your classmates you're not doing well enough to have solid tranfer options from a school like Florida Coastal.
Listen man, most people who walk in the door the first day of the first year think they have what it takes to be in the top 10% of the class. The stark reality that will hit them between the eyes 4 months later during Christmas break (when grades come back) is 90% of them don't have what it takes to be in the top 10% of the class. Hell, 50% of them don't even have what it takes to be in the top half of the class.
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April 17, 2008, 04:35:35 PM »
FCSL is a proving ground.
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April 18, 2008, 12:17:54 PM »
Bottom line is, going to FCSL is a HUGE gamble, you can be the smartest person ever to go there, bust your ass more than anyone, and still get straight C's. Unfortunately, grading is extremely subjective when you have a prof grading 80 essays that all look alike, plus the admin requires profs to use a strict C curve. Even if you finish in the top 20% (which there is an 80% chance against, obviously), there is still a very real possibility that you wont be able to find decent legal work when you graduate. Plus, you have to understand that EVERYONE in law school is smart and hardworking, there will certainly be people smarter and more hardworking than you. Again, not that it really matter, because grades are extremely subjective and somewhat random.
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Mystery fans, mark your calendars. The New York Times Bestselling author of the Victor Carl mystery series will read from his first stand-alone thriller "Blood and Bone", Wednesday, March 20 at 7 p.m., at the Chestnut Hill Hotel.
There's an old adage about writing – open a vein and bleed on the page. Lashner takes it a step further in "Blood and Bone", making the reader's blood race and heart pound with the story of Kyle Byrne, the illegitimate son of a prominent Philadelphia attorney.
When his father dies, Kyle's life starts to unravel at the seams. But it is when his father's law partner is brutally killed that Kyle becomes the focus of a murder investigation and starts to question the circumstances of his father's death. A review in the Wall Street Journal said Lashner "… manages to be deadly serious and frequently hilarious."
Lashner was a criminal prosecutor with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., before quitting the law to write fulltime. A graduate of the New York University School of Law, as well as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he lives with his wife, his three children, and his dog, Chase Muttley, outside Philadelphia. The Victor Carl novels, which have been translated into more than a dozen foreign languages, include "Killer's Kiss", "Marked Man", "Falls The Shadow", "Past Due", "Fatal Flaw", "Bitter Truth", and "Hostile Witness".
Lashner's reading is part of an ongoing monthly literary salon benefitting Chestnut Hill Center for Enrichment. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door and includes wine and cheese reception. Receive a 10 percent discount on food if you dine at the Chestnut Grill that evening.
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We had a manager's meeting this month. Here's what we discussed:
1. Goal Setting Process
Mary Backus led a discussion on the goal setting process for LIS. Her presentation is available at http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dg3d3j83_10ck44mfgj . Milestones for the process are: Area and Team Goals due at end of July. Workgroup goals due at end of August. Individual goals reworked to fit into this new framework at end of September. Area and workgroup goals to be vetted by FLAC and SLAC in time for budget development process.
2. LIS Focus Document
Mike Roy shared a draft of the LIS Focus document that is revised on a quarterly basis. The document is open for comments on the LIS Blog at http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/07/14/updated-lis-focus-document-draft/ .


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Bar Docket No. 07088
In the Matter of RONALD D. HECK,
In a letter dated November 14, 2000, to the Clerk of the Appellate Courts, respondent Ronald D. Heck, of Topeka, an attorney admitted to the practice of law in the State of Kansas, voluntarily surrendered his license to practice law in Kansas, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 217 (1999 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 246).
At the time the respondent surrendered his license, a formal complaint had been filed by the Disciplinary Administrator's office in which there were two separate complaints. There were allegations of failure in safekeeping a client's property, lack of diligence, misappropriation of a client's funds, a conflict of interest, and conduct involving dishonesty or misrepresentation, as well as conduct that adversely reflected on the respondent's fitness to practice law.
This court, having examined the files of the office of the Disciplinary Administrator, finds that the surrender of the respondent's license should be accepted and that the respondent should be disbarred.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Ronald D. Heck be and he is hereby disbarred from the practice of law in Kansas and his license and privilege to practice law are hereby revoked.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk of the Appellate Courts strike the name of Ronald D. Heck from the roll of attorneys licensed to practice law in Kansas.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this order shall be published in the Kansas Reports, that the costs herein shall be assessed to the respondent, and that the respondent forthwith shall comply with Supreme Court Rule 218 (1999 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 250).
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Had I Been a Child
35395, Children's Songbook, Had I Been a Child, 80
Had I been a child when Jesus came
Unto the Nephites that blessed day
And showed them the wounds in his hands and his feet
And knelt with them to pray.
Then he might have held me safe in his arms;
He might have looked in my eyes and said
A word, with his blessing of kindness and love,
His hands placed upon my head.
Someday, when the Savior comes again,
Oh, how I hope that my heart will be
As pure as the hearts of the children that day
Who gathered around his knee.
Words: Mabel Jones Gabbott, 1910–2004
Music: Darwin Wolford, b. 1936
From "Song of Cumorah," a children's cantata about the Book of Mormon. © 1981 by Jackman Music Corp. This song may be copied for incidental, noncommercial church or home use.


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Tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson deserves a lot of credit for stretching himself on this release. Although he can sound very close to Joe Henderson at times, on this set he interprets a wide-ranging repertoire that allows him to avoid falling into the revivalist hard bop category. In addition to a pair of originals (the medium-uptempo blues "Hamlet's Favorite Son" and "Assessment" which is dedicated to Elvin Jones), Jackson performs songs by the likes of Egberto Gismonti, Frank Zappa, Muddy Waters ("Country Girl" which has a vocal by Cassandra Wilson), Freddie Hubbard, Charles Mingus, and Hank Mobley (a delightful rendition of "Recado Bossa Nova"). Most of the selections (even the two that include organist Lonnie Smith) utilize a sparse background with the versatile guitarist Fareed Haque, bassist Peter Washington, and drummer Billy Drummond leaving plenty of space. This surprisingly modern and subtle program is one of Javon Jackson's finest to date. ~ Scott Yanow


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Here It Is, The Definitive NYC Snow Storm Photo
We've seen a lot of photos on Twitter, and through the AP, of New York's big snow storm.
Below are our three favorites, all from Twitter.
The first photo shown below seems to be fast becoming the definitive photo of the storm. We've seen it tweeted multiple times and think it sums up the storm pretty well.
The city just ground to a halt as the wind and snow blew in.
Below are two more good photos we saw on Twitter. You can see the unplowed streets of Brooklyn and the pain of walking through the storm. (The bottom photo is from NYT tech writer Nick Bilton.)
Have you spotted better? Drop a link in the comments for us to check it out.
For more pics, from the pros at the AP, click here →
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UPDATE: Here's a great time lapse video of the storm, shot in New Jersey it seems, via a commenter on this post.
December 2010 Blizzard Timelapse from Michael Black on Vimeo.
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It's an interesting exercise in reviewing my perceptions from earlier in the year for me, and I hope for you too.
Originally posted on RGE Monitor.
A farmer who eats the seed corn over the winter must borrow to plant in the spring. He must repay the loan from the harvest, leaving him with even less to live on come the following winter if the crop does not yield a greater harvest. The misfortune of one bad harvest can start a cycle of decline that leads to permanent penury. Sharecropper plantation owners have exploited and impoverished sharecropper farmers on this principle for centuries.
Is it different for nations?
"It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption." - Jean Baptiste Say
In the classical conception of economics, capital is the surplus of production over consumption. Only by consuming less than is produced can a person, or a company, or a nation accumulate capital for reinvestment, growth and continued prosperity. Capital cannot be borrowed, because borrowing implies repayment from the proceeds of the endeavour at a rate which – on the whole – precludes accumulated surplus.
A gambler might get lucky and make enough to both repay the debt and hold a surplus over his consumption, but gambling erodes investment discipline and prudence, and so over time proves a poor basis for economic management in the home, the boardroom or the Treasury.
A thief or con-artist might steal or defraud enough to repay the debt and hold a surplus over his consumption, but theft and fraud erode commerical confidence and invite retribution, and so over time prove a poor basis for economic management in the home, the boardroom or the Treasury.
A defaulter can simply refuse to repay the debt, and keep any surplus for himself, but defaulting erodes investors' confidence and leads to bankruptcy, and so over time proves a poor basis for economic management of the home, the boardroom or the Treasury.
Borrowing implies risk, for both the lender and the borrower.
Somehow neo-classical economics was able to finesse this principle to convince a generation of consumers, bankers, regulators, legislators and investors that debt should be considered capital too, and that more debt than savings could be good for economic growth and prosperity.
For a time, the neo-classical economists appeared to have found a financial perpetual motion machine. As consumers, companies and governments borrowed more, they appeared to prosper more. Leveraging the accumulated equity in their homes, the consumers got bigger houses and bigger cars. Leveraging their fixed assets and future revenues, the companies got bigger balance sheets, bigger executive remuneration and bigger shareholder dividends. Leveraging their power of taxation and monetary creation, the governments got bigger militaries, bigger bureaucracies, bigger scope for patronage projects. The bankers intermediating all this debt got bigger too, with bigger bonuses for "loan origination", bigger fees from M&A, bigger commissions and income from securities and derivatives dealing, and bigger influence with their supervisors to loosen any inconvenient accounting, reporting, audit, scope or expansion rules that might have impaired their freedom to keep the party going.
Free Market became the rallying cry of those who believed in perpetual motion. They passionately decried regulation as impairing the market's freedom to allocate "capital" to the best likely return. They passionately decried taxes as diminishing the "capital" held by those who would reinvest it in growth. They passionately exhorted consumers, businesses and governments to borrow as much "capital" as they could possibly bear, and to err on the side of profligacy, so that more "capital" would be working to grow their revenues and balance sheets in the "free market".
But the problem with this perpetual motion machine was that it was all the time grinding the seed corn. The "capital" it was pumping out was not the surplus of production over consumption, but the borrowed surplus of greater fools who believed in the hawkers' pitch of perpetual motion and laid their meagre savings and accumulated assets on the barrelhead in faith the machine would return them multiplied.
The reality of the American, UK and other heavily leveraged economies is that we have eaten our seed corn and eaten the seed corn of those who have financed our profligacy. Over the past twenty-five years there has been a quiet conspiracy among those bankers profiting from the process to promote gambling, stealing, fraud and default as solutions to disguise the implications of a failure of perpetual motion.
Financial markets have morphed over this time from mechanisms for efficient allocation of scarce investment capital to promote greater production through rewarding foresight and diligence into casinos that reward those with a system that beats the unwary and beats the house. Leverage has been used to overcome bad judgement, rewarding those willing to risk more at the expense of the prudent. Modern markets have arguably never been less transparent, with fragmentation, off-exchange dealing, derivatives, structured finance, hedge funds and other ill-transparent innovations making it all but impossible for the average Joe Investor to assess activity and prospects with any confidence.
Companies were urged to borrow for sprees of mergers and acquisitions, and then either declare bankruptcy to shed their inconvenient pension liabilities or move production offshore to reduce expenditure on labour or both, emerging from these contortions as desirable prospects for more mergers and acquisitions. Any setback resulted in the generous retirement of one incompetent executive and the more generous appointment of another that would borrow the company into future prosperity.
Consumers and consumer finance companies were urged alike to feed the machine by overstating house values, overstating incomes, understating debts, juggling credit cards, and continually recycling any proceeds from the mania's inflation of asset prices back into more accumulated debt through regular refinancing. Workers were forced to give any surplus savings from labour to the machine as mandatory pension contributions or cajoled into it through tax breaks on 401Ks and other ruses funnelling seed corn to the machine.
Governments were urged to finance wars, social welfare spending, police state intelligence technologies, infrastructure and excess, defaulting through loose monetary policy, defrauding through massaged official statistics, and deregulating the financial sector and capital markets when credit constraint threatened to stem the tide. A government that got into trouble was urged to "privatise" by leveraging or selling government assets, the seed corn of past accumulations, or to put services out to tender in the private sector so that they could pay more to receive less through the miraculous efficiencies of free market fulfillment of social needs. Any difficulty or disruption was overcome with tax breaks, subsidies and public underwriting of yet more debt creation - with mortgage interest deductions, corporate debt interest deductions, FNMA, FHLC and other ploys all feeding more seed corn to the machine.
All of this will someday unwind. It may be this year. It may be next year. It may be several years hence if central bankers can scrape together more seed corn from ever greater fools to keep the perpetual motion machine turning over. At some point, indebted societies must revert to the discipline of consuming less than they produce to repay their debts, or these societies will suffer the even worse consequences of the social dislocation and commercial disruption that follows gambling, theft, fraud and default.
Globalisation has allowed the bankers to hawk their perpetual motion wares to a wider pool of greater fools. This is a dangerous policy. Warren Buffett has long warned that as long as the US has major foreign trade deficits, it has to "give away a little part of the country" each year. He warned America was becoming a "sharecropper economy," where Americans largely work for foreign-owned firms – or governments. The profusion of sovereign wealth funds represents the rational diversification of states with surplus production over consumption – capital – to preserve that wealth through equity investment that unlike debt will be secure from the debtor's attempt to inflate away his obligation through the expedient of monetary laxity. Owning equity means a permanent claim on American production. Like the sharecropper, foreign equity ownership implies permanent want and decline to penury for the borrower nation.
Worryingly, globalisation has increased the likelihood that debt will lead to political instability and international conflict. The wars for resource, long a "Great Game" but now increasingly a violent and expensive gamble, are only one outcome. Food riots and inflation encourage governments to resort to intervention and oppression. Internal economic decline and dissent reinforces calls to patriotism, theocracy and militarism over reason. Lately I find myself wondering if the "beggar thy neighbour" policies of the 1930s weren't a result of a similar dynamic, following, as they did, a similar era of massively irresponsible bank-fuelled credit growth and deflation.
When I was young and in debt, an old mentor of mine enjoined me to pay off my loans and my credit cards and to never again "borrow for consumption". Investment that would confidently yield a good return, such as buying an education in a profession or purchasing a home for the long term, could be financed, but a new TV or a holiday must always be earned and paid for from present income.
Strange to say, but his advice shocked me. I had grown up with debt. My parents were always in debt. My earliest memory of economics is my father explaining to me that he loved inflation because his salary would get bigger and his debts would get smaller.
Nonetheless, I took my mentor's advice and have lived within my income, whether large or modest, ever since. Perhaps I have missed out on having a grander house, or a flashier car, or the trendiest gadgets, but I have slept remarkably well for over twenty years and feel confident of withstanding the challenges and profiting from the opportunities that the future may bring.
Hat tip to Capone (the blogger formerly known as JMa) for suggesting the title in his comment on Professor Roubini's blog on2008-05-13 14:39:49.
I've been given a regular Friday slot here on Finance & Markets Monitor. This allows us to carry on the chitter chatter over the weekend when the Professor's blog is quiet for the most part. There may be some weeks when I don't post, but the team at RGE now has enough depth that there will always be something worth reading here.


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The UC Santa Barbara women's tennis team opened its 2011 season with an impressive showing on day one of the second annual Gaucho Classic.
The Gauchos won four of five matches in flight "A" singles. Kiersten Meehan defeated Malia Wahinepio of Northern Arizona 6-4, 6-0 and Sofia Novak began her final season as a Gaucho with a 6-0, 6-3 win over Lauren Mulhern of Colorado State.
Freshman April Scatliffe battled back from a first set loss in her collegiate debut and defeated Tori Arneson of Colorado State 4-6, 6-3, 6-1. Natalia Lozano grew stronger as her match against Jessica Parizher progressed and pulled out a 7-5, 6-1 victory.
Katerina Mozolyuk earned her first win at UCSB in fight "B" singles defeating Marjani Simmons of Cal State Northridge 6-1, 6-2.
In doubles Natalia Lozano and Jordan Dockendorf notched an 8-3 win over Arneson/Wajakowska of Colorado State. Lozano and Scatliffe teamed up top defeat Pironkova/Rohonyi of Loyola Marymount 8-1.
The Gaucho Classic will continue tomorrow morning beginning with doubles matches at 10 a.m.


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1 Building base camp ROW.
2 The camp site is close to the track.
3 Wout preparing BBQ food.
4 Bart and Martine
5 The 750km-Düsseldorf-to-Le_Mans skate group arrives.
6 TNS Frankfurt building their base camp.
7 Including a kitchen :-)
8 Me having a first look at the track.
9 Good surface..
10 and a nice hill.
11 Having a last good rest before the race.
12 Or not.....TNS having their last briefing.
13 Dirk found his sleepingbag.
14 Photo-boy Frank, Germaine and Martijn.
15 Maritza managed to get something growing here :-)
16 Ouch, to early in the morning.
17 Having breakfast.
18 Our coach Wilma.
19 The rest of the camp is waking up too.
20 And ofcourse another briefing: eavesdropping on German strategy.
21 Now it's time for the Roller Parade through the city.
22 Martine, Germaine and myself.
23 Germaine.
24 Martiza.
25 Jan making new friends.
26 Some dressed up for the occasion.
27 Is this decoration, or did this guy fall into a bush?
28 The eye-sight impaired skaters can participate as well using a guide on skates.
29 Dutch Team ROW.
30 Let's go!
31 Everyone in the official shirt.
32 Meeting another Dutch team: "Bob the Racer" from Delft.
33 La vache qui roule?
34 The real photo boy.
35 A couple of thousand skaters entering downtown Le Mans.
36 A saint?
37 Up hill, down hill.
38 Arriving at the towns square.
39 The staff having a busy time.
40 A never ending stream of skaters.
41 Peter S. and Erwin.
42 Peter N, it's me.
43 All packed together.
44 Janf
45 DUSFOR Einroller Frank.
46 And back to the circuit again.
47 To set up our pit box.
48 Getting ready for the race. (Pic. MC)
49 The relay boxes.
50 Saturday 4:00 pm ready to start. (Pic. MC)
51 Running to our skates at the other side of the track. (Pic. MC)
52 Strapping on the skates as fast as you can. (Pic. MC)
53 Except for me, I was busy filming. (Pic. MC)
54 and on my way. (Pic. MC)
55 Waiting for the relay.
56 Germaine ready to race her lap. (Pic. MC)
57 The relay strip.
58 The Dunlop bridge on top of the hill.
59 Excellent asphalt surface.
60 Hardly any files to draft.
61 Germaine
62 Martijn
63 Martine
64 Wout
65 Bart
66 Peter S.
67 TNS pit box.
68 Our pit box. (Pic. MC)
69 Coach Wilma inspecting the crew. (Pic. MC)
70 And again the hill.
71 Getting ready for the last lap.
72 Bernard, another solo skater.
73 Now people are teaming up.
74 Even long files to draft.
75 The last km.
76 Solo skaters Bernard en Brigitte.
77 Water supply.
78 This is a great moment. The crowd cheering for the last meters to the finish.
79 Yes, we're done!
80 The ceremony of the winners.
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It seems only the other day that Max Muller, in the second volume of his "Chips" (1869), called our attention to the importance of the comparative study of Folk-lore. Already the literature of the subject makes a respectable library, and in the volume before us we have a contribution from a new and almost unworked field. The half-dozen examples of negro tales published a few years ago in
"Harper's Monthly"
and the
"Riverside Magazine"
served only to whet the appetites of lovers of legend; and we trust that Mr. Harris has not now exhausted his repertory in this entertaining collection. He calls attention in his introduc- tion to the difficulty of persuading the negroes to "acknowledge to a stranger that they know anything of these legends; and yet to relate one of the stories is the surest road to their confidence and esteem." Just so Mr. Dasent, as quoted by Max Muller, says, " it is hard to make old and feeble women, who are generally the depositaries of these national treasures, be- lieve that the inquirer can have any real in- terest in the matter. They fear that the ques- tion is only put to turn them to ridicule."
In his well-written introduction. Mr. Harris raises the question as to the origin of these myths, without, however, undertaking to an- swer it. So far as appears, they have nothing in common with the Aryan cycle of popular tales, which has until now been the principal object of investigation. On the other hand, they are found very widely spread in South as well as North America. Did the Indians get them from the negroes, or the negroes from the Indians? Mr. Herbert H. Smith, author of
"Brazil and the Amazons,"
as quoted by Mr Harris, is positive that the negroes brought them from Africa; but considering their wide dissemination among the American natives, and their distinctively American character in many cases, we should hesitate to consider this as settled. We must wait for a careful ex- amination of the native folk-lore of Africa as the next stage in the investigation; the single illustration from Upper Egypt, not a very ex- act resemblance at that, is not enough to found a theory upon. We must remember, what students in the comparative sciences are prone to forget, that resemblances in language, myth- ology, institutions, and legend, may often be as easily explained by analogy of circumstances and way of thinking as by identity of origin.
It is not so much the stories themselves, as their prevailing character, that appears to point to an origin distinct from that of the old world myths. The hero of the tales is the Rabbit; it is, says Mr. Harris, "a fable thoroughly characteristic of the negro; and it needs no scientific investigation to show why he selects as his hero the weakest and most harmless of all animals, and brings him out victorious in con- tests with the bear, the wolf, and the fox. It is not virtue that triumphs, but helplessness; it is not malice, but mischievousness." We would note that in one of the Zulu tales eited by Max Muller ("Chips," vol. ii., p. 210) the hare-- —and the Amercan rabbit is a hare--—outwit the lion and compasses his death. These stories, indeed, of the rabbit and fox, form a distinct cycle--—a sort of inverted
Reineke Fuchs
; "it progresses," says Mr. Harris, "in an orderly way from a beginning to a well- defined conclusion, and is full of striking epi- sodes that suggest the culmination." We do not see why, this being so, he has not arranged the stories so as to show this development, but has interrupted the " Rabbit cycle " with inde- pendent stories like the Deluge, the Deceitful Frogs, and several Bear stories.
But it is not merely as a collection of folk- lore that this book deserves notice. It is a valuable study of dialect, or rather affords valu- able materials for such a study; for the com- piler does not enter into the subject at all, ex- cept to point out the differenee of dialect in a parallel story taken from the
" Riverside Magazine."
This is from the sea-island region while Unele Remus lives in the neighborhood of Atlanta. These two dialects do not, after all differ very materially from each other, but are very different from the "Jim Crow" negro talk of the border slave-states, with which the people of the North are most familiar--—tosay • nothing of the mongrel "nigger-talk" of the minstrels and the newspapers, which is neither fish, flesh, nor fowl.
There is a third point of view in which this volume will be found to possess great interest, and value--—as bearing upon the questin of reconstruction and the future of the South in one of its most important aspects: the sentiments and habits of the negroes themselves. Uncle Remus's "Story of the War," testifified to as "almost literally true," has a moral for those who cannot see how the freed slaves should ever act politically with their old masters. Unquestionably there was a class of slaves typified by Uncle Remus, "who has nothing but pleasant memories of the discipline slavery--—and who has all the prejudces of caste and pride of family that were the natural results of the system." No Northerner who has lived in the South in association with the freed slaves needs to be reminded of these "prejudices of caste and pride of family; or of the undisguised contempt with which their proteges often looked upon them, as compared with the real gentlemen and ladies who used to have them flogged. It seemed, an unaccount- able servility of spirit; nevertheless it was a fact, and one of some importance in the problem of reconstruction."
Lastly, the editor says that he is advised by his "publishers that this book is to be included in their catalogue of humorous publications"; and if there are any who do not care for folk- lore, or for linguistic study or for reconstruction, it will be hard if they cannot pass a fore- noon with rare enjoyment, laughing over the adventures of "Brer Rabbit." We should like to give one of the stories in full, in order to illustrate this feature. This would, however, require too much space, and we will only give the conclusion of the " Story of the Deluge. ' The deluge, according to the story, was caused by the crawfishes, who "bo'd inter de groun' en kep' on bo'in twel dey onloost de fountains er de earf."
"Where was the ark, Uncle Remus," the little boy inquired, presently.
"Noah's ark," replied the child.
"Don't you pester wid ole man Noah, honey. I boun'he tuck keer er dat ark. Dat's w'at he wuz dere fer, en dat's w'at he done. Leas'ways, dat's w'at dey tells me. But don't you bodder longer dat ark, 'ceppin' your mammy fetches it up. Dey mout er bin two deloojes, en den agin dey moutent. Ef dey wuz enny ark in dish yer w'at de crawfishes brung on, I ain't heern tell un it, en w'en dey ain't no arks 'roun, I ain't got no time fer ter make um en put um in dere. Hit's gittin' yo' bedtime, honey."
The illustrations are excellent, and add a great deal to the fun of the book.
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Thoughts on The Voice: Audition Round 5February 27, 2012
Image from &y at Flickr, used under Creative Commons
Alright people, I think the coaches have fewer than 10 picks to make, so hopefully they can wrap this up and we can get to the much more fun and very probably rigged battle rounds.
Contestants' Notes
-Whitney Myer is giving off that Nikka Costa vibe, and it's not because of just her curly red hair. It's also that light, uptempo, janky R&B. She's doing "No One," which I think was originally by Alicia Keyes, and I quite light this bouncy rendition. She earns turns from all four coaches. Whitney goes with Adam, whose experience fusing pop-rock and R&B might help develop her overall brand with minimal genre clash. What a good start to the show!
-David Boreanaz lookalike David Dunn goes the lite-rock route on "The Man Who Can't Be Moved." When I heard the first few notes of this song, I thought this was going to be another jerk with an acoustic guitar, but I saw him with just a mic, which was a relief. David tried to make the bleh song lively with some walking around the stage, but he just didn't have the emotion or charisma in his voice (and he just blew that falsetto section.) No turns for you!
-The Shields Brothers seem like some kind of rock n roll Coreys. At least their dual-tenor duet of "Dancing With Myself" is different than the usual schtick duo acts pull. Nonetheless, they have the same problem most of the duos on this show have – neither one of them is a very good singer individually. They skate by on their uptempo style and their harmonizing. They end up on Team Cee Lo.
-I must compliment Cheesa for taking on Beyonce, especially on the midtempo clunker "If I Were A Boy." She starts off sounding way, way, way too low for her range at the start, but she pulls out the stops for the big, soaring chorus and knocks out most of the notes. I didn't care for the performance because it felt like so much oversinging. Still, I respect her vocal prowess and she definitely has the charisma worthy of a Beyonce song. She gets a turn from Cee Lo.
-I think Preston Shannon could have used a sparser arrangement for "In The Midnight Hour." singing was rough and solid, but it couldn't quite stand out against the big, clean arrangement of the house band. While Preston seems to come from a blues background, he kept the soloing to the beginning and end. He was good on the axe, but it's called The Voice, not The Guitarist. It's too bad, and I hope this guy finds a good avenue for his art.
-OK, so the alliterative Lex Land lands two turns (Adam and Cee Lo) within the first 8 notes of the song, but damn she is undersinging the hell out "I Can't Make You Love Me." I heard serious mush mouth problems in her singing and the dulcet, plinky music didn't help al all. Maybe if she did something with more menace and smokiness (Portishead, Goldfrapp, early-2000s Moby, etc.) she would have come across better. Then again I just want trip-hop to make a comeback. Eh, maybe Blake can help bring out her inner torch singer.
-Cameron Novack starts out strong, doing a weird Savage Garden-esque soft sell of Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know." Then he gets bogged down in the flow of the build up to the chorus (back off the freestyling, dude.) He then shifts to oversinging the chorus. Overall Cameron's performance wasn't too bad, but his abrupt shift in delivery style for each part of the song might have been too jarring. If he stuck to the restrained pop style or even charged in with aggressive oversinging I feel like he could have done better. Also, letting the coaches "cheat" and pick him after the turn would have set the worst precedent for the show, because then every hot contestant who walked up onstage would have a second shot, and that would be shitteous!
-At the start, Orlando Napier comes across as a low-key guy with a piano (which is still better than an acoustic guitar.) He got away from that once he got up from the piano, but he failed to win me over. The John Mayer song choice and Randy Newman singing style was a bad combination. Also…ENUNCIATE! Adam picks him has his final team member.
-Lee Koch has guts for taking on Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," which karaoke connoisseur Brian Rafferty called one of the worst songs to sing since the verses are so rambling and weird against the familiar chorus. Lee is trying his best with the material and doesn't flub any of the lines, but he just could not hit those "how does it FEEL" lines in the chorus. He earned a turn from Christina through his harmonica playing, which in my opinion is a bad sign. I don't like when competitive singers use instruments as crutches. It feels like cheating. I predict that he'll get eaten alive in the battle rounds.
-WADE (is the all-capitalization really necessary?) tries something kind of cool with a warm Stax-ed out soul rendition of "Rehab." Vocally WADE (and that's the last time I'm all-caps-ing that) has bursts of greatness, especially in the verses, though he hit some rough spots in the other parts. He just needs a little practice. Otherwise he's a good combination of traditionalism and risk-taking. Cee Lo should be able to work his voice out, as Wade becomes his concluding pick.
-Adley Stump takes on Carrie Underwood's "Last Name" (uh-oh) and it's a bit of a wreck. She wasn't bad, just mediocre. You could walk into any karaoke bar, and someone singing that song would sound just as good. Frankly the performance felt like so much mediocre singing except for those few belts (which I concede gave me chills.) She really couldn't sustain her run and stick the landing. Predictably, she heads for Team Blake, and I think he'll have more faith in her. Maybe he'll coach her on fashion as well (go-go boots, star bandana, and Victoria Jackson hair?) She is the last pick of Team Blake.
We get a brief montage of failed singers (the Beta lady who sang Jason DeRulo sounded kind of interesting to me.) Also, Danny Devito sings "Three Times A Lady" during a Lorax crossover commercial skit. I was just wishing he'd sing "Troll Toll" from The Nightman Cometh. Then….
-Sera Hill pulls out every trick in the traditional R&B singer book – up and down runs, extended holds, power belting – and she kills every one. I thought her song choice was super slow and boring (and way too Idol) but damn she was good! She was a pro doing her thing, and that's just wonderful. She becomes the final pick of the show as the last contestant to join team Xtina.
And now a summary of tonight's winners, in the order they were announced:
-Mark Ronson should pay attention
-"I can't tell Corey Feldman from Corey Haim."
-Charisma without the power
-Will Beth Gibbons come on as a mentor?
-Bad meets icky
-Karaoke cannon fodder
-Tradition meets risk
-A lot of people could do that
-She could have a good run on Idol
And there we have it! We have our Top (shudder) 48! Tune in next week for the theatrical battle rounds and tune in tomorrow for the start of my recapping of American Idol's Live Top 25 rounds. SO MUCH SINGING!!!


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The Raiders will waive middle linebacker Rolando McClain Friday, according to an ESPN report.
UPDATE: The Raiders confirmed they have waived McClain.
McClain's departure was a foregone conclusion ever since his two-game suspension last season for conduct detrimental to the team after he got into an exchange with coach Dennis Allen after being informed Omar Gaither would be the starting linebacker.
There was no immediate confirmation from the Raiders on the transaction.
Earlier in the season, McClain was removed from the field in the nickel defense, with rookie Miles Burris taking his place.
The Butkus Award winner from national champion Alabama never became the playmaker or defensive presence the Raideres had hoped after making him the No. 8 overall pick in the NFL draft.
While often invisible on the field, McClain made headlines for the wrong reasons off the field, most notably an in-season arrest in 2011 on charges that he allegedly fired a gun near the head of an acquaintance following an argument.
Misdemeanor charges of third-degree assault, reckless endangerment, menacing and illegal discharge of a firearm within the city limits of his hometown of Decatur, Ala., were eventually dropped when the victim in the case declined to assist in prosecution.
Most recently, McClain was arrested for failing to citation after being pulled over for illegal window tint.
The Raiders signed three linebackers during the free agent period, Kaluka Maiava, Nick Roach and Kevin Burnett. Roach is the likely starting middle linebacker if the Raiders retain a 4-3 defense.