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Just in case we are having a vote and/or discussion, via the agents conference call tomorrow in regards to increasing the surety bond in Florida, I wish to share some comments. Not many people and/or agents know much about this surety bond increase that is being lobbied and/or proposed. I can't imagine a vote over the phone being legal or binding but I suggest that either you vote no on this or not vote at all on this important matter. There has been no proposals sent out for our review as to what this "Bill" would look like or what it states. If we don't step back from this and take a hard look at the consequences of this legislation you will wake up one day like we did when the "butler rebate" was approved and ask yourself what happened?
I am not trying to create a problem but I have had a tough time getting any information on this proposed bill other than being requested to contribute to a lobby fund in support of a bill that has not been circulated yet. Personally I am not contributing to the lobby fund as I have every year, until I know what the agenda is! Has anyone seen this proposed bill? Does anyone recognize the down side to this proposed legislation? There are consequences to this kind of bill being passed. To many to be discussed here and now. If someone has a copy of the proposed legislation please forward it to me. If we do not have it yet, then why would anyone vote on whether or not to move forward on this. I believe to little information has been disseminated in this regard and I learned a long time ago, if it is hard to get answers to something, then chances are someone is hiding something.
I say all this respectfully, but from what I hear this "proposed" legislation may have some upsides to it, but it has also been discussed that the downsides may be life threatening for some smaller "quality agencies" already in existence. So think carefully before jumping into this please. We need to have a clear understanding as to what it is that we are trying to accomplish here.
I'm not sure a message from Florida to the rest of the world that we need more self regulation is the kind of message we need to be sending out, especially when lenders are trying to have us use third party venders to do background checks on us. (Vetting the agents). Hope this stimulates some thought on this. Thank you.
David D. LanauxPresidentTITLE PROFESSIONALS OF FLORIDA13241 University Dr. # 103Fort Myers, Florida 33907Phone: 239-433-2900Fax: 239-433-0233www.titleprosflorida.com
From Skipper Henderson
Thanks for the email. I agree. I am not the least bit interested in increasing the proposed surety bong requirement. If for no other reason, its going to cost more. I don't know about the rest of the title industry, but I'm finding it difficult to make ends meet. I am not supportive of anything that is going to increase my cost of doing business, surety, vetting, taxes, price of milk, bottled water, etc., etc. you get my drift.
I just want everyone to stop trying to "help" me. The current government is do a good enough job putting me out of business, thank you very much.
Skipper Henderson
From Vince Cassidy
Reply coming very shortly. I am glad people are getting engaged.
Vincent J. CassidyPresidentMajesty Title Services, LLC
"Where Service Reigns"
(813) 831-3885 X 110 Office(813) 777-9748 Cell(813) 868-3751 Fax
NOTE OUR NEW ADDRESS:4006 S. MacDill AvenueTampa, FL 33611www.majestytitle.com
From Bob Booth
Experience & Credentials vs. Financial Investment & Net Worth
The more I ponder the concept of how to 'raise the bar' of title agents and supporting an effort to accomplish the goal by way of raising statutory requirements with regard to surety limits, the less convinced I am this is the wisest path to travel.
As agents we're all business owners (many being small business owners) it seems counter-productive to be looking at ways to increase our cost to conduct business as we try to generate a profit; or to ways that'll add additional costs to our customers without adding value to justify it.
Higher surety limits essentially only serve to protect underwriters from regretful decisions later realized; it won't raise the bar, nor will it increase the professionalism of our industry. These things can only be accomplished by way of education and higher standards of ethics; which if so breached result in severe penalty – financially and criminally.
At the end of the day if an underwriter is tempted to sign an agent/agency, but they're leery for one reason or another, they already have the ability to demand additional assurances. They can simply require additional bond or capital in escrow. The limits set by statute are minimums, not maximums.
In order to achieve the goal of 'raising the bar' with respect to Florida Title Agents the 1st thing we must do is to change the focus of our conversation from title agent to title industry.
The hard facts are, there are no (or darn few) collegiate classes, and no title academy one can attend to learn the title profession, it's OJT at its finest. If we do truly wish to raise the bar we (as an industry) have to get back to considering years of experience, education & character, and those determinations need to be applied by, and should be made by the underwriters, not by state regulators.
It's a slippery slope when the 1st motivation to sign an agency is based upon quick profit returns promised by someone who's a good marketer, or who may know people, as oppose to someone who's actually qualified. We insure real estate, it's more than location, it's education, education, education.
PS: They're a lot of sharp minds out there, I'm sure others have ideas as to how we can raise the bar & improve our profession; give it some thought, let's work together to achieve that!
R.F. "Bob" Booth, Jr., C.L.S.~ COMMUNITY LAND TITLE ~A Full Service [Veteran Owned]Florida Title Insurance Agency2400 SE Veterans Memorial PkwySuite 214 - [2nd Floor]Port St. Lucie, Florida 34952Office Phone: (772) 337-3335www.CommunityLandTitle.net
From Beverly McReynolds10-2-12
Many good ideas here. Thank you!
We do have some of the best minds in our industry participating in this discussion and I am confident that we can find an acceptable direction if we all work together. I hope you will all be on the call tomorrow and I sincerely hope to see each of you at the convention where we can continue to face our challenges and craft solutions!
Beverly McReynoldsPresidentNorth American Title Company700 NW 107 Ave., Suite 100Miami, FL 33172305-229-6517305-229-6559 Fax
David: First, thank you for taking the time to express your thoughts. We need more agents active in our industry association and certainly your email should get some folks thinking. I would like to clarify a few things you wrote about. There will be no vote taken on tomorrow's agent call. I do not know who told you that there would be. There will only be a continuation of the discussion we have been having the last six months.
As far as legislation goes, since there is no definitive direction as to how we raise the bar, there is no legislation to pass around for comments. I would recommend we come to an agreement first, and then pass along proposed legislation. Nothing will be crammed down.
The movement to raise the bar was an action step based on national trends that where threatening the agent model. With the onset of third party entities vetting agencies on behalf of lenders, we are seeing the first changes to affect the agent model. The FLTA Agent section has tried to get ahead of these issues by trying to make the agents stronger so lenders wouldn't have concerns with our viability (third party vetting tells me they have concerns about the current model). "That classic line comes to mind, "Either be at the table figuring this out, or be on the table."
During our annual convention this Nov, we will have more discussion on "Raising the Bar." That will be a great time for more agents to come together to figure this out. I look forwarding to seeing many of you there.
Finally, no decision has been made that I am aware of; just discussion has taken place to insure our model survives changes that are much bigger than FL.
Vincent J. CassidyPresidentMajesty Title Services, LLC
"Where Service Reigns"
From Peter Christiano
I agree with the below, whole heartedly. [referring to Skipper Henderson and David Lanaux's emails]
From the discussion I have heard, the drive behind increasing the bond amount is a simple one, to erect a barrier to entry into our business.
As anyone who has taken even an entry level business course knows, once you are in a business, one of the basic things to strive for is to erect barriers to entry into that business; whether it be through product engineering, better distribution, or cost of Surety and Fidelity Bonds. Most people, when starting a business, look for one that has lower barriers to entry.
We have all seen the effects of easy entry into the title insurance business. Over the past decade, we have been frustrated by being underbid and out-schmoozed (really a word?) by Bagel Bimbos and fly-by night agents trying to make a quick buck because they saw success and assumed they could duplicate it.
However, over the past 3 years have witnessed a culling of that herd and are finally beginning to experience a balance in our industry. The small agents that have survived have done so because they have had the capital to fund their business through that time, or because they are so good at what they do that they have maintained a following, albeit modest, of professionals.
We are now entering a time in which the small agent stands a chance of making a living if he/she manages his/her business prudently.
We have survived the tough times and now are faced with another threat to our very existence.
For those who do not know me, let me fill you in on what I consider to be a fundamental truth of our business. The competition and, therefore the threat, to the small to medium size independent title agent is not the small agent across the street, or across town. We have lived for to long believing the myth that the small agents who have survived this shakeup are threats to us.
On the contrary, the network of now solid, independent agents, who have survived the past few years, collectively represent a viable alternative to the national title insurance agencies. We are what many small realtors and loan officers seek; independent, local business owners, like themselves, who understand that our survival depends on how we handle every single detail of every single transaction for them.
The result of raising the bond requirements impacts the national companies negligibly, yet it can drive us out of business. Do you think they will support that? You bet they will. Keep in mind that we are not just talking about a moderate increase in cost. The elephant in the middle of the living room, and what no one is talking about, is the fact that those that provide the bonds might not make the larger amounts available to the small agent.
As this issue demonstrates, the small agent is at a crossroads. It is time that we wake up and recognize who really is and who is not a threat to us. It is time that we join together as one voice and send the message that we are doing quite well without more regulation.
Higher bond requirements will do nothing to make us more competitive.
Higher bond requirements will do nothing to make us more prudent in our daily activity.
Higher bond requirements will do nothing to make us more responsive to our clients.
Higher bond requirements will do nothing to make us better insurance or escrow agents.
Higher bond requirements will only serve to hurt us, drive some of us out of business and make the national agencies even stronger.
Peter Christiano
Peter Christiano
Marlin Title
I absolutely whole heartedly agree 110%; you have all made it perfectly clear why we should not have a higher bond. Peter Christiano I could not have said it better, I don't know you but look forward to meeting you and all the other agents at the convention in November. Thank You all !!
Martha J. "Marti"
Now let's all work on getting the "bar" set and work together for a better Title Agency world for each and every one of us!
I look forward to meeting you all at the FLTA convention. It is important that we be there, know each other and make our stand!
May this be the best year ever for you!
JoAnne Quarles, C.L.C.Treasure Title Insurance Agency, Inc.12184 W. Colonial Drive, Suite 102Winter Garden, FL 34787Office: 407/654-8811Fax 407/654-4885Cell 407/758-4479mailto:email@example.com://www.treasuretitle.comhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/joannequarles
From Alan Fields
I can't tell you how pleased I am to see this type of principled discussion going on within your association. To me, it shows that we ALL want to create a stronger, better title industry – and right now we are just discussing how best to achieve that common goal and debating what a "better, stronger" industry might look like. To some, it's having financially strong agencies (we do, after all, hold a lot of other people's money) and a surety bond is just , to others it's agents with a strong depth of knowledge and experience; to some it's increased educational requirements. I suspect each of us will have slightly different views of what a "perfect title world" would look like, and we are all looking for the best way to achieve that.
But the important point here is that we are seeing an honest debate among dedicated professionals about how to improve our industry and our profession. For the benefit of those not on these email chains, I'm reposting these to our Title Forum.
So Please – Keep this discussion going in these emails, on tomorrow's call, and at the convention!
Thank you all for continuing to help make our industry better!
Alan B. FieldsExecutive DirectorFlorida Land Title Association249 E. Virginia St.Tallahassee, FL 32302727-773-6664F) email@example.com
website: www.flta.org
From Rosa Peck
Thank you Bob!
True experience expressed is always the best!
I understand that many states are looking at our model in Florida and are leaning toward the way we conduct our business. Raise the bar? Florida title agents have set the bar! Our lenders and consumers are protected. If we spend our time finding ways to get our message out to the national lenders, we would be better served by our association and ourselves. This should be the direction of our leadership.
Unlike some, I'm proud to be a Florida Title Agent and I'm also proud of our industry. Especially my competition and friends in my own market. We made it through the tough times and we deserve to be in business and not to be regulated out of business. Newby's need to earn it just like we have.
Rosa Marie PeckProud member of the Florida Land Title Association since 1990PresidentTitle Connection, LLC1415 Panther Lane, Suite 160Naples, FL 34109Phone: 239.593.0016Fax: 866.728.2993E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Make sure to only close with a member of the Florida Land Title Association
From Aaron Davis
Very good discussion agents
I am in favor of raising the bar for our industry and the overall perceived professionalism of our agents and businesses. The way I look at it is simple:
To open a title agency currently- one needs:
I am joking, however this is how the business and our industry is viewed upon by the outside world. Florida has the lowest levels in the nation of bonding requirements (other states require $200-300k, even CASH on hand, and not bonds in some areas), and Florida ranks amongst the HIGHEST in the country for Fraud and Defalcations. South Florida JUST experienced yet another defalcation, this one making headlines with the owner taking off with $3M from escrow.
My fears, and fears of many of those in the industry, is that this "vetting" process is step ONE, of many to come- to drive the agents OUT. The Lenders are not going to want to do business with those who, on a whim, can take off with millions of dollars and other peoples money. One of the solutions in the lenders eyes is the ELIMINATION of the agent, and eliminating their ability to hold escrow. Only dealing with the Directs directly.
I agree with Bob's statement below, I would like to see the UNDERWRITERS control much of this with higher limits, more policing (NOT additional regulation, just enforcement of what we currently have), however, if the state limits are the MINIMUM requirements, all it takes is ONE UW to NOT require the higher limits (which I am sure they all would love to have), then that UW would have a competitive advantage over the rest. THAT is why the UWs will not or can not require it.
Other issues discussed on recent calls were ideas such as additional title licensing for marketing reps, increases in the CE requirements, the aforementioned higher bonds, etc.
We as an industry or as an association will not make everyone happy, but I think we MUST do something to show the outside world that we as agents and an association DO want to fight fraud, raise our standards and professionalism, even if its at some costs to us, before someone in Washington or Wall St. makes those decisions for us. I don't consider any of the discussions thusfar to be creating barriers to entry (if an extra $1,000 per year for bonding is a high hurdle, I think there are larger issues at hand), I see it as a costs TODAY to protect our business, investments, and livelihood TOMORROW.
I look forward to a great discussion tomorrow on the call, and hope to see you all at the convention in November.
(BTW in case anyone was wondering, the costs for a $100,000 Surety Bond is about $1,000.00.$35,000 = $350.00, $150,000 = $1500.00. you get the picture.)
Please keep the emails coming, the feedback is fantastic! Thank you all.
Aaron M. Davis | President/CEO
"We Do Good Deeds"
I understand David's comments. You commented on the last conference call that something had been written and being reviewed by a couple of people and then would be sent to our lobbyist. I heard it, too. Everyone on the call heard it. So, if not proposed legislation, what is it and why would it go to our lobbyist?
I too will not continue to contribute to our lobby fund until there is transparency again in our association.
Rosa Marie Peck
Proud member of the Florida Land Title Association since 1990PresidentTitle Connection, LLC1415 Panther Lane, Suite 160Naples, FL 34109Phone: 239.593.0016Fax: 866.728.2993E-mail: email@example.com
Hi Aaron,
Sure, it is embarrassing to us in the industry when we find a bad apple.
But Aaron, surety bonds protect the insurer only.
In the latest defalcation that you mention, did the consumer or lender lose any money? How were they affected?
If the insurers want bigger bonds to cover their own losses from any bad apples that they let into the business, I would think that they would buy additional insurance to cover themselves and not place the burden on good agents with unnecessary expenses to compensate for the few bad apples. If we choose on our own as business owners without regulation requirement to increase our professional liability insurance and fidelity bonds, that is good business on the agents part.
Proud member of the Florida Land Title Association since 1990PresidentTitle Connection, LLC1415 Panther Lane, Suite 160Naples, FL 34109Phone: 239.593.0016Fax: 866.728.2993E-mail: email@example.com
Hi Rosa- answering below:
In the latest defalcation that you mention, did the consumer or lender lose any money? How were they affected? ---They were not affected…this time. My point to this is how many more times can it occur until a lender the size of Bank of America makes a blanket decision to NOT do business with independent title agents in the state of Florida at all, and only directs- or for the agents on the "approved list" to have higher bonding requirements, limits, cash on hand, etc.
If the insurers want bigger bonds to cover their own losses from any bad apples that they let into the business, I would think that they would buy additional insurance to cover themselves and not place the burden on good agents with unnecessary expenses to compensate for the few bad apples. ---I fully agree with this statement, and wish my health insurance carriers would do the same, and not increase my rates if I am healthy, just because someone else on my plan or lives in my zip code has cancer or another health issue. Unfortunately as with ALL forms of insurance, the bad apples DO increase the rest of our costs. I wish also that other people will pay for the expenses, and costs of doing business. I'm sure over the years most of us were forced to raise our fees in some way because our COSTS increased (banks wiring fees, Fedex bills, etc.), and closing costs in general through statewide increases in doc stamps, recording fees and more. Those costs all ultimately affected the consumer. In this scenario- WE are the consumer, we are insurance sales professionals looking to continue to offer a product. (At least in DFS and OIR's eyes. I know we are MUCH more than that, but unfortunately our legislators and the majority of the public have NO IDEA what we do, but that's another discussion.)
If we choose on our own as business owners without regulation requirement to increase our professional liability insurance and fidelity bonds, that is good business on the agents part.--- I agree as well, it is good business. However I would rather make that decision myself NOW, by a token increase if nothing else, than not have a decision at all when a national lender makes that decision for us. And if/when they do, it wont be something subtle as a bond increase.
We as an association are not going to do anything that is not in OUR collective best interest, and in the best interest of our industry. So I ask you agents here on this email- if not higher bonding requirements, then what SPECIFICALLY would you suggest we do to send a message to our clients, our legislators, and our government that we WANT to raise the bar and set a higher precedent for our industry, because WE TOO are sick of seeing the bad seeds destroy our reputations as title professionals?
Email: Executive Director, Scott MerrittEmail: Executive Assistant, Jena Daly
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When you get married, it's all about love and the white gown symbolizing your so not virginal "virginity" and the fact that you are just so happy you finally found that one person to spend the rest of your life with. It's magical. There are bells ringing. Birds chirping. Sometimes even harps playing. All is happy happy joy joy. Then time passes. You get older. And you start thinking about what your life would be like if your husband died.
There is a scene in This Is 40 that has the characters talking about what would happen if your spouse passed away, gently, softly, of course. Yes, fantasizing what life would be like if you were separated by death. I will admit that I have done this.
Not in the way you think. I don't want my husband to die. Ever. I'm not fantasizing about it in a romantic way -- I'm thinking of it in one of the oh my gosh what if this happened what the heck would I do kind of way. A panicked way. The same way that I thought about what would happen if I died after I became a mother. Motherhood made mortality a real fear; I couldn't die now because I have these two little beings to take care of and to love and see grow up.
But I have thought about it. If my husband died, I don't think I'd get married again. I'd probably stop shaving altogether. Downsize to a smaller house. Fill it with stuff I find on the side of the road and thrift stores. And not eat nearly as good as I do now since my husband is an incredible cook. When I asked my husband what he would do if I died, he said that was a terrible thing to think about. Good answer. It is terrible. The grieving would be so intensely painful. After nudging, he too said he'd get a smaller house, which is a good idea because since he doesn't clean he would need less space to get messy. I clean; he cooks. Clearly we need to die at the same time or else face a life lacking quality. We both said we'd miss the other terribly.
Some people though, fantasize about their partner's death as a way out. Jezebel writer Tracy Moore points out through psychology professor Benjamin Karney that the end of a marriage by a death means there is no failure involved like the feeling one would get from divorce but the person is gone. Gone gone. It's the way out without the stigma of divorce.
Death is certainly one way to leave someone. And honestly, it's the only thing I want to come between me and my husband. I took till death do us part seriously. So in one way it is more romantic to think that's the only thing that could separate us. Morbid, too, but death is inevitable. Though thinking about your partner's death as a means to get out of your relationship is a whole other issue.
Do you ever fantasize about what your life would be life if your partner died? What would you change or do?
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Following a lopsided home court loss (1-8) in their squash season opener against Germantown Friends last Tuesday, the Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Lions were able to improve their standing over the next two days.
Down in Delaware, SCH blanked host St. Andrew's School, 9-0, on Wednesday afternoon, then were back home on Thursday for a 7-2 victory over the Shipley School Gators.
Graduation claimed six members of the Lions' 2011-2012 roster, and five of them were regulars in the starting varsity line-up. GFS graduated two Tigers and so returns relatively intact, led by a fearsome number one in 11th grader Olivia Fiechter, a U.S. Junior National Team player.
Tuesday's match was the season debut for Germantown, as well, and the visitors came away with 3-0 victories from Feichter, sophomores Grayson Melby (#2) and Annie Tyson (#3), junior Claire Schmidt (#5) and freshman Elizabeth Wallace (#8). Tigers junior Hannah Safford was a 3-1 winner at number six, and 3-2 wins were ground out by the two seniors in the line-up, Anna Bezahler (#4) and Lauren Shinn (#7).
Saving Springside Chestnut Hill from a whitewash was sophomore number nine Allison Day, who topped Tigers freshman Isabel Schmidt, 3-0. Day won each of her matches on the next two afternoons, as well, and she had plenty of company in the Wednesday outing, as SCH didn't lose a match down at St. Andrew's.
Back home to take on Shipley, Day downed Gators senior Abbie Spector, 11-8, 11-8, 11-5. A little higher on the ladder, the Lions won early matches thanks to juniors Sarrah Schreffler (#7) and Leah Beight (#8). Schreffler swept visiting sophomore Sara French, 11-2, 11-7, 11-6, and Beight beat a fellow 11th-grader, Chelsea Shanis, 11-3, 11-4, 11-1.
Springside Chestnut Hill's lone senior, Hannah Baxter, succeeded in straight games, as well, and the same was true of the only freshman in the line-up, Samira Baird. In the fourth spot, Baird bounced visiting senior Carli Ladda, 11-1, 11-2, 11-9, and one rung below, Baxter finished off freshman Britt Lovett of the Gators, 11-4, 11-9, 11-7.
In the only five-game affair of the day, a pair of juniors squared off in the third spot, and Courtney Hamilton of the host team outlasted Anna Martin of Shipley, 11-6, 8-11, 11-7, 10-12, 11-3. The Gators' first win of the afternoon came in the number six match, where senior Zara Steinberg got by SCH junior Nina Nalle in four games, 12-10, 7-11, 11-8, 11-7.
The overall outcome had been decided by the time the number one and two matches got underway. In the second spot, SCH sophomore Francesca Fabiani took the first game at 11-5 and Shipley senior Annie Lovett captured the second round, 11-9, but Fabiani breezed through the last two games, 11-3, 11-2.
The Lions' number one, junior Caroline Canning, is a team tri-captain along with Baxter and Hamilton. She got a leg up in the opening game of her match, but Gators sophomore Pinky Rowe rallied to win 11-9, and she won the second game as well, 11-6.
After another early lead for Canning in the third go-round, Rowe climbed back into an 8-8 tie. The Lions' number one dug in and toughed out an 11-9 victory to force a fourth game, which Rowe won at 11-2 for Shipley's second victory of the afternoon.


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Rated 1 out of 5 by Hal3 from Don't Buy I received these as a wedding gift, and like most other reviews here, the handle broke off of one after just a couple of months. The handle of the 1/4 cup broke off after less than 6 months of minimal use - MAYBE 1-2x/week. After being 1/4 cup-less for over a year now I finally got fed up and decided I would order another, but after reading these reviews, I can see there is clearly an issue with these measuring cups and I will not be spending my money on something overpriced with design flaws if it might happen again anyway.Date published: 2017-11-20Rated 5 out of 5 by PinkPlanet from These are my go-to measuring cups. I love the round shape of these cups. The metal is of excellent quality, it washes well & the cups are very durable. Most of all, I like the Open Kitchen concept handles which allow me to hang the cups in my kitchen! This is my second set.Date published: 2017-08-26Rated 1 out of 5 by Opus from Handle broke off I bought these measuring cups as a gift for Christmas and am extremely disappointed that they broke the first day using them. Simply scooping out a cup of flour caused the handle to break on the 1 cup measuring cup. I only wish I had saved the receipt.Date published: 2016-12-17Rated 1 out of 5 by Briskwheels from Handles Broken Unlike others my measuring cups were marked; however, the handle popped off the 1/4 measurer after less than a year of use. While I appreciated W-S' timely response and offer of a discounted new purchase, I am disappointed that W-S doesn't guarantee that its product will work well for even one year. I should've made the investment in more expensive/sturdier set, which I will be doing now.Date published: 2016-04-01Rated 2 out of 5 by NASHASH from Sizing Mystery These are great and sturdy and stack nicely. However, as others stated below they are NOT labeled so it's hard to tell differences in close sizes. Wish I would have noticed that before.Date published: 2016-01-22Rated 2 out of 5 by BNNY from Handles Easily Break Off I upgraded to these after the handle on one of my cheaper plastic measuring cups broke off, and after my first use, the handle broke on this too. Luckily, Williams-Sonoma's great support had a new set shipped to me and the new ones are working great. I've just learned not to use for anything that requires any force at all. Both sets I received had the correct measurements inside.Date published: 2015-06-24Rated 1 out of 5 by HutchDaddy from Disappointed I was sincerely excited about this line of cooks tools. However, they really are substandard and much less than I would expect from a Williams-Sonoma branded product I don't care what any of the reviews say, mine were NOT marked with measurements on the inside, so every time I had to use them, I had to make sure ALL of them were lined up so I didn't accidentally trade out 1/4 for 1/3 and ruin my recipes. Within months they began to rust, and I took to gently hand washing them whenever we used them. Now, after a year, the handles are breaking off. They look good, they promise big, but they were a waste of money and I'm now shopping for a higher quality product, probably the All Clad.Date published: 2015-05-13Rated 5 out of 5 by Paleomommy from Quality Measuring Cups; Also Look Great! I read the previous reviews for these measuring cups prior to making this purchase and chose to trust in the one or two who said the cups are labeled on the inside. I'm so happy for those reviews! The cups are great quality, very durable. They are, in fact, labeled on the inside.Date published: 2015-02-23


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== Trusted User server (sigurd) ==
== Trusted User server (sigurd) ==
Revision as of 18:44, 2 November 2009
This page provides an overview of the Arch servers and their functions. Details can be found in the respective links for each server. We currently have two phyical server machines:
Main development server (formerly gerolde)
This is a Dual-Xeon 2.8GHz server with 16GB of memory and a 2x300GB software RAID 1 array. It has been bought with Arch donation money and is currently located at velocity, who also donate the power and bandwidth. It runs a Xen hypervisor with the following hosts:
This is the Xen dom0 for the development server. It runs a Debian system with the Debian Xen kernel, as Arch does not maintain a stable Xen kernel. It has no public services. ssh access is limited to a small number of IP addresses and only Thomas, Aaron, Jan and Dale have access to it.
It bridges the physical ethernet interface with the virtual interfaces of the Xen domU instances and runs an IP-based firewall.
This is the main development server. It runs Arch Linux with a modified kernel26 package with pv_ops/Xen support added.
DNS aliases: rsync.archlinux.org, archlinux.org, mail.archlinux.org
It offers the following public services:
- ssh(openssh): All developers have ssh access to this machine.
- rsync(rsyncd): Public mirrors (whitelisted by IP address) can synchronize the FTP directory. Anyone can synchronize the ABS tree.
- smtp(postfix): SMTP server for the @archlinux.org and @aur.archlinux.org domains
- http(lighttpd): All developers have direct access to the FTP directory via HTTP (static content only) - this is password-protected, users must use the mirrors.
Developers use this server to maintain the package repositories, the corresponding packages subversion repository and access the git repositories for their various arch-related projects.
This is the main web server. It runs Arch Linux with a modified kernel26 package with pv_ops/Xen support added. Only developers who maintain web applications have ssh access. The ssh port is only open to gerolde.
DNS aliases: bbs.archlinux.org, dev.archlinux.org, mailman.archlinux.org, planet.archlinux.org, projects.archlinux.org, repos.archlinux.org, svn.archlinux.org, wiki.archlinux.org, bugs.archlinux.org
It offers the following public services:
- http(apache): Hosts the following websites:
- www.archlinux.org: Main Arch website - uses python/django and a few static html pages
- dev.archlinux.org: Developer and Trusted User access to the main website - uses python/django, as well as developer public html directories
- mailman.archlinux.org: Mailing list configuration, subscription and archives - uses mailman
- bbs.archlinux.org: Forums - uses fluxbb(php)
- wiki.archlinux.org: Arch Wiki - uses mediawiki(php)
- projects.archlinux.org: Access to the git repositories - uses gitweb
- planet.archlinux.org: Feeds from Arch-related blogs - uses static html pages
- repos.archlinux.org: Access to the packages and community subversion repositories - uses viewvc
- bugs.archlinux.org: Bugtracker - uses flyspray(php)
- svn(xinetd/svnserve): Public subversion access
- git(xinetd/git-daemon): Public git access
Resource Allocation
Because this box is servicing multiple VMs, the resources allocated to each are not static. Here is how the box is currently divided up:
- dom0: 512 MB RAM, 4 CPUs, 4GB disk
- gerolde: 9493 MB RAM, 4 CPUs, 193 GB disk
- gudrun: 6145 MB RAM, 4 CPUs, 30 GB disk
Trusted User server (sigurd)
This is a Pentium D dual core 3.40GHz server with 4GB of memory and a 2x160GB software RAID 1 array. The machine is being donated by SevenL networks. It runs Arch Linux.
This is the trusted user development server. All trusted users have access.
DNS aliases: aur.archlinux.org, build.archlinux.org, community.archlinux.org, tracker.archlinux.org
It offers the following public services:
- ssh(openssh): All trusted users have ssh access to this machine.
- http(lighttpd): Hosts the following websites:
- aur.archlinux.org: The AUR - uses php
- build.archlinux.org: test ISOs and aif packages, only static content
- community.archlinux.org: apparently nothing
- bit torrent(opentracker): Bit Torrent tracker for the Arch Linux ISO images
Other servers
We can always use more of course for our world domination plans! Right now our infrastructure is mostly contained to the above-mentioned servers, but there are a few specialty things running elsewhere.
This server is hosted on Dan's slice. It runs an instance of munin, which collects various stats from the three main servers (gerolde, gudrun. sigurd) in the archlinux.org domain. If you need access to any of this information and are a developer, get in contact with someone that does server administration.


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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been criticized for abandoning New Jersey for a Disney World vacation shortly before a giant snow storm crippled the state last week. Now he wants everyone to know he had a really fun time.
Some losers who have probably never even been to Disney World are saying that it was a bad idea for Christie to head down there last Sunday right as what ended up being a massive storm churned towards his state. (His lieutenant governor was away, too, in Mexico.) But do not try to make Chris Christie feel bad about about being a good dad. He planned the trip way before any dumb snow storm, so it would be totally unfair to his kids if he had just cancelled it. "I wanted to be there with my kids..." he said at a very defensive press conference today. "I had a great five days with my children."
You know what would have made this situation a lot better? If he had brought a bag of Disney Dollars back for all his critics in New Jersey. They're obviously just jealous that Chris Christie didn't take them to Disney World, too.


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Q1. Why does mankind create these religious doctrines???
Q2. What pupose does religion serve for mankin's survival???
Q3. Is it the religious doctrine that has divided mankind or is it mankind deliberately chosing teams (religion/sects/etc) to justify killing (as a form of population control as needed, gene pool control as needed…). a form of gene pool control/manipulation . innate but intelligent fluid adaption to mankind'se ev er changing environment kind of like our tastes are ever evolving and what we find attractive in the opposite sex for mating purposes, ie 30 40 years ago meaty women were more attractive… the depression would make a man more attracted to a woman that was meaty because she is more apt to survive on less food. educated men prefer lean women, he knows she does not need extra fat to survive… RELIGION is fluid with an anchor and mankind developed it over the millenium as a tool for survival… for the masses mind you.
Q4. Is religion an instinct/genetic/innate to any degree as a survival mechanism??? an auto pilot system that encourages survival of the species???
Q5. Is mankind mature enough to give up religion the pacifier the guiding light, the taming of the animal called man???


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At some point, it hits all of us. One day you're chugging merrily along, and then you're staring at a machine that won't boot -- a machine that just happens to contain everything of importance to you. While some degree of disaster is inevitable, it's how you cope with it that counts.
While computers and file systems get more robust with each passing year, there's always going to be room for disaster recovery techniques. With open source solutions to help you recover from such messes, you're not tied to a proprietary product's costs or licensing agreements, and if you're so inclined you can rework the source code to meet your own needs.
I'm going to explore various ways you can use open source solutions to recover data, bring dead systems back to life, and save your bacon in general. Many of the solutions described here run cross-platform (Lin/Win/Mac), but some of them are *NIX-only and will be described as such.
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No two data disasters unfold in quite the same way. To that end, you'll want to take the appropriate recovery action depending on what went wrong.
Complex recovery. This encompasses things like whole partitions or boot loaders going missing, along with everything on that partition. There are two basic approaches you can use here: recover what data you can from the partition, without trying to reconstruct the partition information per se; or attempt to reconstruct the partition's metadata and remount the partition normally.
The first option is easier, although if you're dealing with an operating system partition, odds are the files you recover from there probably can't be cobbled back together into a bootable system. The second option will give you a more complete recovery, but that'll depend on how much of the actual volume data is intact. Fortunately, there are ways to recover files even from partly formatted volumes, as I'll discuss later on.
Removable storage or optical media. I've had more than my fair share of CDs or DVDs end up unreadable due to damage or age, but I've been lucky enough recover what I needed from them. Most tools work fine on removable drives or optical media, although in the case of CDs and DVDs, one important thing to keep in mind is the drive you're using to read them. If you have access to more than one CD/DVD drive, try creating images using different drives. You may find that one has better error correction or jitter tolerance than the others, and can recover data that other drives might skip over entirely. Also, performing the recovery from within Linux rather than Windows may yield different results as well.
Encrypted media recovery. This is where you say your prayers. If you're trying to recover something -- like, say, the encryption key -- from an encrypted volume, unless you used a laughably weak encryption algorithm in the first place (and why were you doing that?), you're about as likely to get that data back as a falling apple is likely to evade the law of gravity. Encrypted volumes should be treated with double the care of standard volumes: back up the volume headers (encrypted file systems typically have a provision for doing this) and keep them in a safe place, also encrypted.
In all cases, whenever you start performing recovery, make sure that any media you mount to recover from is mounted as read-only. This minimizes the chances of the distro or OS mounting and performing read/write operations on a drive that's "fragile" (i.e., holding data that needs to be recovered). Also do as little work with the original media as possible: make an image file from the media, store it on another drive you know is good, and then work from the image.


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The temperature here has been rising, so people are in better moods and generally enjoying the sun. The fake tan brigade has been out in force and the men are showing off their red lobster sun burns off, and the women are wearing strappy dresses sans a bra.
Two words ladies – strapless bra. Or clear bra straps. Anything but two wobbly melons accosting me whilst I am innocently trying to browse for indigestion tablets.
Speaking of browsing, I had 6 empties to return to MAC. Except visiting my local MAC counter is like a scene from a horror film – do I expect to get served? not without a long wait. So I browsed and browsed, whilst the three sales assistants continued to slap on more cosmetics on themselves. Yawn, yawn. 20 mins later the SA can no longer ignore my waving. May I have this Cool Heat lip shine in High 90s? Yes, she says. Woop Woop! Thats all I needed to hear!
Random haulage from the end of the week now.
Nars Haul:
Blushers in Taj Mahal a very bright orange (love, love, love) and Mounia, a reddish blush with gold sparkles – both STUNNA'S"
Lipsticks – Mojave, a warm apricot gold – extremely metallic and frosty, be warned, but it is a beauty. My favourite MA in the world at Nars used this colour on me underneath Cabiria Lip Laquer (A golden honey brown) for a Megan Fox nudey lip.
Hot Voodoo – a rich frosty copper – very pigmented and rich golden bronze.
I also got a package I ordered a while back from an unusual Korean Brand called Lioele. They had a special pack on offer with random goodies, like a blusher, blemish balm, illuminator, lip glosses and mascara…
The BB cream is in shade 02 which is the darker colour – it is still far too pale for me (about a NC20) and I am a NC35 – not good as I don't like to look ghostly. However it settles and looks much better after an hour or so has passed
The illuminator is GORGEOUS! It comes in a handy click pen for easy application too.
This is the blush that is included – a pretty marble. However it is not pigmented at all – it looks quite shimmery and thats about it:
The three lip glosses that come with the set are pretty nice. The red it a stain – I think you can use this on the cheeks too and it is a strong, long lasting red. The pale pink is a nudey-pale shade with shimmers. The pink shimmery gloss is very glittery – there was a choice of this pink and a reddish-orange-coral shade. I wish I had chose that one now – the colour I got is a little dull.
The weekend has been nice – went for walks, went to see the sights.
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(Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) may release on Wednesday additional results of internal probes into its $6.2 billion "London Whale" trading loss that could lead to a lower bonus for CEO Jamie Dimon, according to published reports.
On Wednesday the bank, the biggest in the United States by assets, is scheduled to report fourth-quarter and full-year results following a meeting of the board of directors on Tuesday.
The board, which started its own review of the loss after it was revealed in May, plans to review bonuses for 2012 and is expected to dock Dimon's and that of Doug Braunstein, who was chief financial officer at the time of the debacle, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing unnamed sources.
The company is to release results from the board's probe, as well as a report of more than 50 pages on an internal investigation, the Journal said on its website.
Bloomberg News reported that the board will consider on Tuesday whether to release the internal report.
JPMorgan spokesman Joe Evangelisti said Dimon, Braunstein and each of the directors declined to comment.
In July, the company used a previously scheduled conference on its results also to discuss findings about the loss. Executives said then that the internal probe had found evidence that traders had tried to hide the full amount of the loss and that top managers had failed in supervision of risk controls.
Dimon said last year that other members of the board, of which he is chairman, would consider the loss and findings from its own investigation when deciding his total pay for 2012.
Dimon was paid $23.1 million in 2011.
Hundreds of lawyers have been involved in the investigation and in responding to questions put to the bank by regulators and law enforcers in the United States and Britain.
The loss is known for the "London Whale" nickname that hedge funds gave to JPMorgan trader Bruno Iksil for the large size of positions he established from London for the company's Chief Investment Office. The trade, made with credit derivatives, became too big for the company to exit easily.
The loss has been a major embarrassment for Dimon. It set back efforts by him and other bankers to cool the resolve of regulators and politicians to tighten controls on trading by large financial institutions.
In April, Dimon dismissed press reports of potential losses from the London Whale as a "tempest in a teapot". A month later, he recanted and apologized.
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The Pistons have agreed to terms with restricted free agent guard Will Bynum, who will sign a three-year contract reportedly worth $10.5 million.
Bynum is expected to continue coming off the bench to spell starting point guard Rodney Stuckey. The Pistons also have rookie Terrico White at that position but could opt to either re-sign free agent Chucky Atkins or another veteran.
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Miley Cyrus did her best to shock the audience of the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night, and according to most, she succeeded. Whether she was stripping to her underwear, grinding on a foam finger or twerking with giant teddy bears, Cyrus left jaws on the floor (though not in a good way.)
Just to make things more fun, Sunday was also Miley's dad's 52nd birthday. Happy birthday, Billy Ray!
Media reaction to Cyrus' bump-and-grind veered between disgust and sadness.
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On MSNBC, "Morning Joe" co-anchor Mika Brzezinski was not amused by the performance at all. After showing a clip of the performance coming out of a commercial, Joe Scarborough and the other panelists were joking about it, but not Brzezinski, who called it "really, really disturbing."
She went on: "That young lady, who is 20, is obviously deeply troubled, deeply disturbed. Probably has confidence issues, probably an eating disorder. And I don't think anybody should have put her up on stage. That was disgusting."
"Real Time" host Bill Maher took to Twitter to comment: "Haven't been in a strip club in awhile, but good to see nothing has changed."
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On NBC's "Today" show, guest co-anchor Brooke Shields, who played Miley's mom on "Hannah Montana," called the performance "desperate."
"I don't approve," she said, speaking in her capacity as Hannah Montana's mom. "Where did I go wrong?"
"I want to know who's advising her and why it's necessary," Shields went on. "It's a bit desperate."
"Today" show co-anchor Willie Geist characterized it as "a big Disney over-correction," citing Britney Spears as another example of a sweet kid actor who felt the need to oversexualize herself to show that she's no longer a child.
The crew on "Fox & Friends" also trashed the performance, with guest co-host Anna Kooiman commenting on the performance: "This was just raunchy. This wasn't sexy. There wasn't any talent."
The Parents Television Council also got in on the outrage, issuing a statement from director of public policy Dan Isett that said: "MTV has once again succeeded in marketing sexually charged messages to young children using former child stars and condom commercials -- while falsely rating this program as appropriate for kids as young as 14. This is unacceptable."
Perhaps the one celebrity whose reaction to the performance is still in question is Will Smith, whose family's supposed shocked reaction to Cyrus was tweeted widely. However, the audience shot was actually the Smith family watching Lady Gaga open the show.
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In 1968, some concerned Christians recognized the wisdom of a unified plan for assisting the poor. They realized that if churches joined forces to aid others, resources would be focused, creating better stewardships and a greater ministry for Christ. Their insight and foresight encouraged many churches and individuals to come together, pooling time and talents, to form Caldwell County Yokefellow.
Later in 1968, rent-free property on Mulberry Street was made available by two Lenoir citizens for Yokefellow's first center. This gift, accompanied by the effors of many, led to the opening and chartering of Yokefellow as a non-profit corporation in May, 1969.
In 1979, Yokefellow purchased a small building on the corner of Harper Avenue and Virginia Street and moved to that location. That building was remodeled and paid for by persons and churches that had compassion for those in crisis.
In April 1993, Yokefellow broke ground for a new building that would double its space and would include an enlarged food pantry, a larger clothes closet, as well as a much needed storage area for furniture. Private offices, client waiting area, receptionist office and kitchen/board room were also in the plans. The building was completed and occupied in December 1993. An open house was help in May 1994 in celebration of the new building and Yokefellow's 25th Anniversary.
In 2004, Yokefellow broke ground on a 25ft x 75ft expansion to the building completed in 1993. This expansion granted more square footage to both the Thrift Store and the Food Pantry. THis new expansion was officially opened to the public Labor Day of 2005.


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Olive Branch opens in Groves; TJ Maxx coming to Port Arthur
It's been just over a month since The Olive Branch opened its doors in Groves, and already the craft mall is filled with vendors.
From handmade jewelry to clothing, spirit items and candles, crosses and purses, The Olive Branch gives local crafters and creators a place to sell.
It's like browsing through Pinterest, but everything is already made so that you can avoid the never-ending pile of glitter and inevitable burns from the hot glue gun.
"I've been wanting to do something like this, but I wanted to wait to find the right location," said owner JoLynn Anderson.
And she chose Groves, where she said the mix of different stores and businesses gives shoppers a unique experience.
Measuring at about 750 square-feet, The Olive Branch is located at 4235 Lincoln Ave. The store is open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
McDonalds grows in Groves
Speaking of new places in Groves, McDonalds is about to get a lot meatier.
The Twin City Highway franchise location currently is being remodeled, and will reopen with an extra 2,000 square feet, said Groves City Manager D.E. Sosa.
The original building, which dated back 20 years, was torn down for a $1 million construction project.
The newly-remodeled building, expected to open this summer, will have two drive-thru lanes and the newest interior.
TJ Maxx opening in Port Arthur
The grand opening for the Port Arthur location of TJ Maxx has been set for May 5.
The 24,500-square-foot store will be located inside Central Mall, where Luby's and Gap once were.
It will be one of nearly 1,000 TJ Maxx stores across the country.
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Wills, Trusts, and Estates
Little, Brown, 1995 - Estate planning - 1123 pages
In this timely new edition, distinguished authors Dukeminier and Johanson build on the success of their phenomenally popular casebook WILL, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES with new coverage of non-traditional family arrangements, living wills, and much more.
The authors blend cases selected for human interest as well as teaching value with provocative hypotheticals, cartoons, photographs, and other illustrations to comprehensively cover this area in a very lively, readable manner. Organized logically, the book begins with estate planning and its limitations, moves to wills and will substitutes, progresses to trusts, and concludes with a chapter on taxation.
New topica coverage includes:
babies inadvertently swapped in hospitals, surrogate mothers, lesbian adoption, and artificial insemination (including children conceived after sperm donor's death)
living wills and powers of attorney for health care, including the Cruzan case and the Uniform Health Care Decisions Act
a new chapter combining mental capacity and undue influence, which features the Seward Johnson will contest and related preventive lawyering issues
shortened, more teachable chapters on future interests and perpetuities
latest changes to the Uniform Probate Code
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It seems the "dead horse" that is the desired NFC playoff scenario has been beaten to death. So I would like to ask out of the AFC teams who would you want to play in the SB? I mean at this point for me I really do not care who we play but if I had to pick I would say not Denver or New England, I feel we could wipe out any of the other teams(especially the colts). Now this is not saying I don't want to play Denver or New England just that I would rather play any of the other playoff teams. If I had to pick a team to play it would probably be (colts exempt because they will be one and done) the Ravens. However whatever team makes it will be hot at that point.
What do you guys want to see and yes I know its early to talk about SB but I just wanted a new topic !


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From: Dale Jenkins ([email protected])
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 05:35:35 PST
I would like any and all opinion on the following PCB topography:
1. 4 layer, FR-4
top = signal, ground fill
inner = signal, ground fill
power = split DC power plane
bottom = signal, ground fill ( mostly ground )
2. RF Receive & Transmit <500MHz + PLL, dual IF conversion
3. We have partitioned off the top ground fill to
isolate each part of the circuit ( RF amp, IF VCO's, PLL, 2nd IF,
Base band ). We also have vias to ground surrounding each section.
The RF amp, VCO's, 1st IF amp, are shielded.
We did #3 to prevent noise from swamping out the RF signal path to
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Does this approach make sense or have we missed the boat!
Thanks, Dale
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In recent years a number of conservatives have wondered where the Right went wrong. One persuasive answer is provided by Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement. Justin Raimondo's captivating narrative is the story of how the non-interventionist Old Right—which included half-forgotten giants and prophets such as Sen. Robert A. Taft, Garet Garrett, and Col. Robert McCormick—was supplanted in influence by a Right that made its peace with bigger government at home and "perpetual war for perpetual peace" abroad. First published in 1993, Reclaiming the American Right is today as timely as ever.
The latest volume in ISI Books' Background series, this edition includes a new introduction by Georgetown political scientist George W. Carey, Patrick J. Buchanan's introduction to the second edition, and new critical essays on the text by Scott Richert, executive editor of Chronicles, and David Gordon, senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
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Rihanna Receives Apology From Dutch Magazine for Racist Comment
Rihanna can't seem to catch a break lately. First, the singer had to leave the stage to vomit during a performance in Lisbon, Portugal, only to encounter an enraged racist man at her hotel in the same city. The latest drama surrounding Rihanna involves the Dutch magazine Jackie and a racist comment they published about the 'Talk That Talk' singer, which they since have apologized for, claiming it was a "joke."
In the magazine, a writer referred to Rihanna as a "n—-r b—-" and called attention to Rihanna's "ghetto a—" and "porn heels." According to The Daily Mail, the author of the article wrote, "Rihanna, the good girl gone bad, is the ultimate n—-r b—- and displays that gladly, and for her that means: what's on can come off. If that means she'll be on stage half naked, then so be it." The author also went on to say that Rihanna is Jamaican, when in fact she hails from Barbados.
The Editor-in-chief of Jackie magazine, Eva Hoeke, quickly tried to backtrack from the offensive comments. Hoeke issue an apology on Jackie's official Facebook page, writing, "While the author meant no harm — the title of the article was intended as a joke — it was a bad joke, to say the least. And that slipped through my, the editor-in-chief's, fingers. Stupid, painful and sucks for all concerned."
The magazine editor continued, "I hope that you all believe there was absolutely no racist motive behind the choice of words. It was naive to think that this was an acceptable form of slang. You hear it all the time on TV and radio, then your idea of what is normal apparently shifts — but it was especially misguided: there was no malice behind it."
Although the magazine staff might've apologized, Rihanna was definitely upset over the comments. She went off on a Twitter tirade against the publication. Here is what she had to say:
"@evajackie I hope u can read English, because your magazine is a poor representation of the evolution of human rights! I find you disrespectful, and rather desperate!! You ran out of legit, civilized information to print! There are 1000′s of Dutch girls who would love to be recognized for their contributions to your country, you could have given them an article. Instead, u paid to print one degrading an entire race! That's your contribution to this world! To encourage segregation, to mislead the future leaders to act in the past! You put two words together, with the intent of abasement, that made no sense…"N—A BITCH"?!….Well with all respect, on behalf of my race, here are my two words for you…F–K YOU!!!"
Even though they apologized, we doubt Rihanna will be sitting down for an interview with Jackie magazine any time soon … And for very good reason.


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Thursday, August 24, 2006
Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry is an interesting place for a number of reasons. First, it is quite pretty. This is because it is a National Historical Park, so there are no Pizza Huts, McDonald's, Burger Kings, or even residents, at least in the lower, older part of town. Instead, you get restored or re-created buildings with plaques and interpretation boards, so it doesn't have much, or indeed any, real life, but it still has a certain beguiling, polished prettiness. You can see that it would be a truly nice place to live if only people could be trusted to reside there without succumbing to the urge to have Pizza Huts and Taco Bells ( and personally I believe they could, for as much as eighteen months), so instead you get a pretend town, attractively tucked between steep hills at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers.
It is a National Historic Park because, of course, it is a historic place. It was at Harpers Ferry that the abolitionist John Brown decided to liberate America's slaves and set up a new nation of his own in northwestern Virginia, which was a pretty ambitious undertaking considering he had an army of just twenty one people. To that end, on October 16, 1859, he and his little group stole into town under cover of darkness, captured the federal armory without resistance (it was guarded by a single night watchman), yet still managed to kill a hapless passerby - who was, ironically, a freed black slave. When news got out that a federal armory of 100,000 rifles and a great deal of ammunition was in the hands of a small band of lunatics, the president, James Buchanan, dispatched Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee (at the time still a loyal Union soldier, of course) to sort things out. It took Lee and his men less than three minutes of fighting to overcome the hapless rebellion. Brown was captured alive, swiftly tried, and sentenced to be hanged a month hence.
One of the soldiers sent to oversee the hanging was Thomas J. Jackson - soon to become famous as Stonewall Jackson - and one of the eager onlookers in the crowd was John Wilkes Booth. So the capture of the federal armory at Harpers Ferry served as quite a neat overture for all that followed. Meanwhile, in the wake of Brown's little adventure, all hell was breaking loose. Northern abolitionists like Ralph Waldo Emerson made Brown a martyr, and Southern loyalists got up in arms, quite literally, at the idea that this might be the start of a trend. Before you knew it, the nation was at war.
This week; illustrations selected to accompany short passages from A Walk in the Woods © Bill Bryson 1997.
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G. Woodbridge. Would that be George Woodbridge, one of the exemplary Mad Magazine artists of the 70s and 80s?
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Harpers Ferry is one of my favorite spots on earth. I lived and worked there for several years, and was involved in an incident Bryson describes in his book.
I have some reservations about his book, however, and will address the topic over in my own blog when I have a chance to run down to the library and reconfirm exactly what he said. Stay tuned!
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U.S. 40 closed between Steamboat and Kremmling
September 14, 2008
Steamboat Springs — U.S. Highway 40 is closed between Steamboat Springs and Kremmling due to a semitractor rollover on Rabbit Ears Pass, the Colorado State Patrol dispatch in Craig confirmed Sunday evening. Traffic is being diverted to Colorado Highway 131 and Colo. 134 over Gore Pass. Troopers are on the scene. No more information was immediately available. Check http://www.cotrip.org for update road closure information.