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NBT Campaign '98 Special
The Final, Frantic Days
of John vs. Janet
Can "Big John" Gary hold off surprise challenger Janet Owens in the A.A. County Exec's Race?
In revealing interviews, they present their cases.
Republican John Gary is seeking his second term as Anne Arundel county executive. A man both truculent and sensitive, Gary has been criticized for his autocratic manner and his decisions. He's perennially at war with the school board, and often at odds with the county council.
Whether or not Gary is reelected, his influence will guide Anne Arundel County into the 21st century; the county's master plan for the next 25 years was composed on his watch. The drafting of the plan was public and tumultuous, with many of the diverse interests in the large county indignant at perceived slights.
Nonetheless, Anne Arundel County's general development plan was honored this month by planning professionals as the best in Maryland. "Moving beyond the traditional land-use kinds of things, it brought in the environment education recreation. It went into what makes a good community and looked at how you should meet those goals," said Pat Kellar, president of the Maryland Chapter of the American Planning Association.
From whatever angle you view Gary, you see contradiction. Lambasted as "in the pocket of developers," he has accumulated a list of environmental credits including the Severn River Association's Green Heron Award.
Born to a Baltimore family that migrated to the suburbs, John Gary grew up in Pasadena and Glen Burnie. He turned to politics from business - he was a draper - and represented District 33 in the Maryland House of Delegates for 12 years until his election as county executive in 1994.
Gary's wife of 35 years, Ruthanne, works in county government. The couple live in Millersville and have three children: Donna, Cindy and Greg. He was interviewed in his Arundel Center office.
Q Throughout the primary and onto election day, debate has centered on education. We've heard it said that John Gary wants control, control, control.
A It's just the opposite. Who is there standing for the parents and the children when the school board doesn't do what the public wants them to do? Who's there to make them accountable? Parents come to me and say we want reduced classroom sizes. We want more textbooks and more computers. Then I fund them and the council approves these things - and they don't do them.
Q People call you a bully. Does that trouble you?
A It does trouble me. I'll admit I have a short fuse about people who lie to the public. That's really what riles me up. And I get really upset when I know that people are playing on the ignorance of the average voter. The average voter has no idea what the complexity of that school system is. I'm telling the truth, and the truth is a bitter pill to swallow.
QEven if you're re-elected, there's really nothing you can do to get a handle on the educational administration the way you'd like. Is that right?
A That's right, and neither can Janet Owens. And that's what's disturbing to me because she out there telling people that because she's going to be softer and gentler and nicer, that she's going to be able to get these things done. She would find out how frustrating it is to deal with these folks. Because they don't have to do anything that you ask them to do. And they don't. They do want they want.
Q As you said in a debate the other night, there's more to governing than education. Let's talk about Chesapeake Bay. Do you agree that the Bay should be viewed not just in aesthetic terms but for its importance to the local economy?
A Absolutely. We sell the Chesapeake Bay. We sell the quality of life when we want to go out and attract new businesses for the county. We also have an awful lot of marine trade industry that is directly connected to the Chesapeake Bay and that feed families and pays for expenditures for education and those sorts of things.
You can not afford to let Chesapeake Bay become a non-issue. I've gotten some terrible misquotes on my position on the environment. My position has always been that there can be a balance between the environment and business. And it has to be, because if there isn't, you can't protect Chesapeake Bay and you can't have viable economic growth. That's why, when I've been able to buy property that I thought was sensitive property, we've done it. But when we've had property that is develop-able and zoned that way, that's where I've tried to direct the growth.
Q You stepped up to stop the Franklin Point development on the Shady Side peninsula and promised $3 million in county money to buy the land. Are you convinced that the governor will do the same?
A I think the governor is going to do something and he's going to do it quickly. (Editor's note: See "Dock of the Bay" - the puchase is now complete.) He's in such trouble and the environmentalists are truly his people and they're having doubts about him now. He's got a multi-million dollar surplus coming up; it's much more difficult for me to come up with $3 million than it is for him.
When they asked me originally to do this, the price tag was $15 million and I told them there's no way I can handle that. When [environmental consultant] Joe Browder [of Fairhaven] started the negotiations, he came to me and asked 'what if we can get the property for what he [developer Dominic Antonelli] has in it?'
I said, 'if you can get a $6 million deal, you're darn right I'll be there'...
Not only is it important to the Bay, but this peninsula can't handle any more development. They've got road problems. They've got school problems. They can't handle any more development. I said to Joe Browder 'that's a miracle if you can pull that off '
Q Do you talk to Gov. Glendening?
A I've worked with Glendening. I actually like the man; I must be one of the few people that actually like him. He really is an environmentalist. The guy really cares about the environment and when you talk to him, he's a lot like me; he says that business and the environment can co-exist.
Q With regard to development, we've heard you say to people: 'You've got your place on the Bay; you're just trying to keep others out.' How do you balance development needs with the people's desire to protect their quality of life?
A That's a tough issue. First, I involved the citizens in the general development plan, which I think is one of the smarter things I've done. They came up with a great plan. There's very little development that takes place beneath Rt. 214 under this plan. And the only place it does happen is in the existing communities where you already have development: Shady Side, Deale, Mayo.
I also believe that people will learn that I put together one of the best agriculture protection programs in the state. It's all directed to South County. That's why I couldn't understand Michael Shay and those people with South Arundel Citizens for Responsible Development attacking me, beating my brains out.
Q How do you rank Chesapeake Bay in your order of county priorities?
A I think I'd put Chesapeake Bay and economic development right next to each other. They're inseparable. Our county has the largest amount of shoreline of any of the jurisdictions around. The Bay is so important to the quality of life for our citizens here, that it, to some degree, outweighs economic development.
Q What's the most important thing you've done toward preserving the Bay?
A We put in the 100-foot Bay buffer zone restricting development completely, and we were the first ones to do that. We sent a notice to every single homeowner on the Bay telling them what's permissible and what's not permissible. Up until then, citizens were truly confused about what they could and couldn't do with their property. That really helped people understand they should be planting aquatic grasses and low-lying shrubs in front of the water instead of planting grass and fertilizing. We're now putting together a video tape for every person that buys a home in Anne Arundel County in the critical areas telling them what they can do and what they can't do within this 100-foot buffer.
The second is our agriculture lands preservation. We really are doing a superb job there. We've purchased - I should say protected - over 5,000 acres of land in our four-year term. It's more than [my predecessor] did. And he had money. I've had to do it with innovative methods.
John Gary announces his plan to save Franklin's Point this spring.
Q We've heard you speak of the work the county's Smart-Growth initiative does for Chesapeake Bay. Now the state has one as well ...
A The Smart-Growth initiative was mine; I don't care what this governor says. We had it a year before they did, and they came in and copied it.
We said we're going to redirect growth to the town centers: the Glen Burnie town center, Odenton town center and Parole town center. Glendening knew I was doing this because I went to the state transportation people and I said 'this is how I want to run my county. I don't want to run light rail in my county. Not too many people ride it because it's too long and too slow. I need a transit system that will connect between those town centers so that we have a public transportation system that moves people around that area and redirects the growth to places where we already have the infrastructure.'
Q What's your analysis of what happened to Diane Evans?
A When I ran four years ago, I don't think that Diane thought I could beat Ted Sophocles. When I beat him, I think that upset her plans. It caused her to make a political decision that she shouldn't have had to make. She then thought she could beat me within a Republican primary. And what happened is when she went to all the elected officials and to all the women's clubs, they were all rejecting her.
She listens to Maury Chaput, who's never met a human being that he likes. He's the most negative man I've ever been around in my life. I've never seen anyone like him. For some reason, she then allowed [Senate President] Mike Miller to convince her that she would be welcome in the Democratic Party. After being a fiscal conservative all her life and working in Republican politics for 25 years, I don't know what made her believe that she was going to walk over to the Democratic Party and they were going to embrace her, particularly the unions.
Q Have you had a conversation with Diane Evans since?
A No, and I don't suspect that we will. Her campaign was very personal against me.
Q Are you breathing easier now that you don't have an aggressive Diane Evans to run against?
A This campaign is going to be very tough. I have very high negatives because of this school issue, higher than I've seen in most incumbents. When somebody has a negative opinion, you very rarely can change it and get them to vote for you. We still have a fairly large 10 to 15 percent undecided out there.
Am I comfortable? No. Actually, Janet Owens is a tougher candidate to run against because she has no track record. Diane Evans voted with me nine out of 10 times. And I'd have been able to beat her brains out on the campaign trail.
QYou come from suburban background. How did you get sensitized to open space and the Bay?
A I've always been interested in wildlife. I thought I was going to be a veterinarian when I was in college; that's what I went to school for. I guess that helped me realize what the value of the habitat is. Of course, I also like to play golf, and I think that open space and golf enhance the community
Q What do you shoot on the golf course, 73 to 75 or so?
A No, pretty consistently 85 to 95; I'm not a real good golfer.
Q Do you get out on the Bay?
A I'm one of these guys that's real smart. I don't own a boat. I have friends who own boats. Whenever we get a chance to go out with them, we're real happy with that.
People don't understand about this job. My wife, Ruthanne, and I have very little free time. When we do, we're constantly talking about county business. All the time. This last four years has just dominated our lives. So when we do get a chance, we'll go down to Ocean City for a long weekend, and just get a condominium and do nothing. We don't go swimming in the ocean or anything like that. We just go there, get away and relax.
Q Has your term as county executive changed you?
A Yes, I think it has. Because the press has had an overwhelming effect on me.
When we were in the General Assembly, we had to bust our necks to get anybody to write about us. When I became county executive, if I blew my nose wrong, somebody was writing a front page story about it. By golly, I came into office and bought a county car because the previous one was gone. So I get a front-page newspaper story that says Gary buys a luxury vehicle. I bought a Mercury, for God's sake. I didn't go out and buy some Lincoln Continental. How is that fair journalism?
I've become very sensitive that things I'm saying are taken so out of context, and the things that I do. It's made me defensive. I used to be very open with people and tell them as much as you could possibly tell them about what is going on. But you can't do that with [The Capital] because, number one, they don't bother to get both sides of the story. ... It's been devastating to try to run the government with all this stuff on the front page of the newspaper that is incorrect.
Q What part of this business of campaigning do you like?
A I like getting out and meeting people and telling them what their government is actually doing. We talk about voter apathy, but that's not what it actually is. People are busy trying to run their own lives.
Janet Owens: 'I feel it in my stomach '
With her call for civility in county government, Janet Owens says she's the right candidate to take John Gary's job away.photo by Betsy Kehne
Janet Owens is campaigning for the county's most powerful office as a private citizen and as a Democratic loyalist who challenged conventional wisdom in the primary - and won.
A behind-the-scenes party regular, Owens is president of the Democratic Women of Anne Arundel County. Her only at-large elected office was judge of the county Orphan's Court.
A public administrator by profession and education, she holds a degree from George Washington University and has completed doctoral studies at the University of Massachusetts. In Massachusetts state government, she was the highest ranking appointed woman.
Back in Maryland, Owens switched her career to county government. She was appointed executive director of first the Anne Arundel County Housing Authority and then the Department of Aging.
In the private sector, she has been a director of two insurance companies, a nursing home and the Provident Center Foundation, as well as other community boards. She is currently an officer and trustee of Harbor Hospital in Baltimore.
A double residence - Owens lives in Millersville but recently inherited her family farm and girlhood home in Lothian - gives her experience in both Western and Southern Anne Arundel.
She has been married for 22 years to David Sheehan, who is her campaign manager. The couple have two sons, both of whom study in Massachusetts. Christopher is a junior at Boston College, his father's alma mater. Brendan, 18 and a high school senior, attends a special school.
Q Were you surprised when you won the primary?
A No. I always truly felt I was the right person at the right time. I just felt it in my stomach.
Janet Owens with Democratic legend Louis Goldstein.
Q Did you feel a rallying that hadn't been expected?
A Yes, and that went directly to the Democratic leadership. The Democratic leadership certainly followed through on their commitments to Diane Evans to whole-heartedly support her. But I felt the leaders were out of touch with their own constituents.
Q Is there an experience or constellation of experiences in your life that has led you to make this campaign now?
A I feel in some respects all of my life experiences led me to it because when I decided to run, it certainly wasn't conventional political wisdom. It started about two years ago, and it was all because of driving back and forth to the farm. I thought, I'm free now, and I really can't stand what I see happening to the county.
I am not aware of another person in who's from the deep south of the county, lived in the central part of the county and has spent so much time with real people in North County. There's a deep divide between the regions and real, genuine resentment. The north feel like they're the economic engine, and they get the jail, they get the dumps, they get the fly-ash. The south has all this land, and they have the pollution.
With my years of management experience, I felt this was the right time and the right place for me to try to make a genuine, long-term contribution. And it was because of John.
I do not have other political ambitions.
Q Education has become the big issue of your campaign against John Gary. Your opponent says that the problems are in the system. Without the General Assembly, what could you do to make a change?
A When I say it takes communication and collaboration, it really does. I was in county government, so I am familiar with how it used to be. I saw the relationship between the budget office, the auditor's office and the school board, which was continuous. Now there is such a breakdown.
John says there have been no audits. They're done routinely, required by state law. I think there are not the right people within the Gary administration who are the liaisons with the school board.
Q You've said repeatedly that being civil can go a long way to solving problems. Is that right?
A Absolutely. John constantly is attacking. He doesn't want to hear the problems.
The costs have accelerated. Greg Norris, who is now chief of finance in the school board, used to be the county budget officer. He knows. So when we have all this public discussion - 'I don't know how they spent the money, I gave them this money' - people within government do know.
And it's not all a money problem. There are problems within the school system. Fourteen percent of the population is now special ed. And 25 percent of the budget is tied to that population. These are federal and state mandates, things beyond local control.
So I see it very much as posturing and an attack on public education, because John really doesn't value that as a priority.
Q What do you think your opponent intends to gain from this attack?
A John has a very long history as a parent and citizen - and a legislative history - of attacking the public school system. I think he strongly supports private education: the whole array, from Severn School to the Christian schools to any alternative. I feel like I'm back in my old graduate school days reading Horace Mann that the foundation of democracy is a public education system.
I think John Gary really does not care deeply about that and if he had his druthers would have vouchers and other alternatives, letting people purchase what they want.
Q One of the analyses of your candidacy is that you haven't been on the front-lines recently, especially when it comes to all the development controversies that have so consumed a lot of people.
A Only personally, very personally, with this farm.
When my mother died absolutely unexpectedly, with no estate planning, the easiest thing in the world would have been to sell the farm. Everything worked against keeping the farm. Then I wanted to move toward putting it into preservation. I've worked with the state of Maryland, soil conservation, and the county health department - which I've personally found impossible to deal with in terms of a new septic system.
Q Would you say you share citizens' outrage at the tangle of bureaucratic red tape?
A Absolutely. The permitting process is endless, yet some folks get absolutely expedited permits.
Q What will you do to make this a more equitable system?
A I don't view favoritism for certain folks. Same strokes for all folks. It's permitting and also the paying of bills, seeing how long it takes for payment to get made. I view it as management.
Q But you would be thrust into a mature debate where Gary and Diane Evans each took their positions. How would you be able to get up to speed, and what actions would you take?
A First and foremost, in terms of management style, I am extremely comfortable using experts and listening to people. There are some very good people within county government; many of them have been muzzled. Nor do I find it personally overwhelming getting on top of an issue and learning about it. I know I'm good at doing that. I do think the key is extremely competent, able people.
Q With New Bay Times, Gary talked a lot about his environmental consciousness and how he's come to adopt conservation. Do you think he might be posturing when it comes to growth management?
A Absolutely. I don't believe that for one minute.
Q One of Diane Evans' themes in her ill-fated campaign was payback, how, if John Gary is reelected, there would be a great deal of payback to contributors. Do you share that concern?
A I've said publicly much worse, which is that if John is re-elected, there will be nothing left of the county.
Q In one of the debates, we quoted you as noting congestion and growth extends from one area of the county to the other. Can you give us a short list of ideas or proposals you bring to the job?
A A management review of PACE, Planning and Code Enforcement, is in order. I view that as the internal working of government, and I see that as a first priority.
To the north, Mountain Road is a serious problem. It's increasingly sensitive because of development. Things are exploding up there with a very large proposed development that is allied to the golf course and backs up to Stoney Creek Gun Club. They need a golf course, anything that gives some recreation up there and saves some open spaces.
The areas I see where there are real strengths and some stability are Glen Burnie Town Center. I think the governor's Smart Growth Initiatives are really wonderful, and I think over time, say 20 years down the road, Brooklyn Park and Glen Burnie are areas that could become sustainable communities with mature housing, places where people could live and walk to work. I give John credit for brining it to fruition, but I know how hard people have worked. And it's going to take more effort, to get the sort of new small businesses that make a community fun to walk in.
South County in some respects because of outspokeness of the citizens is in better shape that other areas of the county. I know that the experts that were here, the International Exchange, were so excited about our area. I look forward to seeing in detail what they propose.
Q One of the most interesting things the South County International Exchange proposed at their final community meeting was the continuation of the Small Area Planning Commissions as an early form of local government. What is your reaction to an idea like that?
A I think that's exciting. In Millersville, our General's Highway Small Area Planning group is really outstanding and I think it represents all interests, which is a concern. The thing that worries me is the unevenness of the plans, coupled with comprehensive rezoning, which is coming but is not necessarily linked to the Small Area Planning process. Somehow that's got to be dovetailed.
As far as the unevenness, once a committee finished its work I had thought of another check before it goes to the council: perhaps an independent advisory committee of nationally recognized experts - wise people - who have no interest whatsoever at stake.
Q Another complaint people make is the composition of the Small Area Planning Commissions, particularly in Edgewater-Mayo. Now anybody can say sour grapes, but I think the real complaint is that they had no voice in who was included, and of course that went all the way back to the General Development Plan. Would you be interested in citizen input in the groups that continue to be constituted?
A Absolutely. I think one of the things that has alienated so many of the citizens is that they don't have a voice. Ensuring citizen participation in the sense that government is open to influence - not development interests, to everybody - would be a major priority.
Q How would you do that?
A I think it starts with some hands-on management, meaning department heads know what is going on. They relate to constituents as well as their first-line supervisors. I know I sound like a bureaucrat, but that's what it takes to make government responsive. If it's only the top folks talking to each other and a few top citizens, you alienate people.
Q A lot of our readers pay a good deal of attention to Chesapeake Bay, and the county you seek to lead has hundreds of miles of shoreline on the Bay. Is there a short list of ideas you have about what the county should be doing in the coming years for the Chesapeake Bay?
A One of the big areas, certainly in Severna Park, is tied to our aquifers and wells. In Cape St. Claire, too, and historically down here that's blowing up right now. That's a critical thing for the tributaries, and the water quality is a thing county government can directly impact.
Q We're asking about the Bay itself, not just the sufficiency of water in people's homes? Have you given any proactive thought to any sort of programs?
A I tend to have great confidence in Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and I spent some time with Mike Schultz [director of public information at CBF] trying to find concrete, specific things that county government can do other than the bully pulpit. For one, county needs to apply our own standards to our highways as we build, applying the same standards as citizens.
Q Do you go out on the Bay?
A We fish and water-ski.
Q So you have a boat? And where do you keep it?
A A Boston Whaler. Over in the barn. We put it in and go down the Patuxent River. And we go out with friends on the Bay.
Q About the campaign, the tenor seems to be a bit more brutal in the last weeks. To what do you attribute this? Do you have him running scared?
A I was shocked when I saw the ad saying I was going to lift the tax cap. I never said any such thing. It's a big buy, Channel 13, saying 'Liberal groups supporting Janet Owens - and then my picture - wanting to lift the tax cap.'
I thought, who are these liberal groups? I don't know who they are ... I'm assuming John was worried. I just completed my ads, which will go on cable, and there's no reference to John.
Q How do you win this thing? Who are your voters?
A I see my voters as senior citizens, teachers, young people 18 to 21, Republican women and parents who see what's really happening in the public schools.
Teachers got credit for the primary, but if you look at the numbers, I could never have won without senior citizens.
Q Do you think you've been able to draw the clear distinctions with Gary that you need to draw to rouse this coalition?
A Absolutely. Except with the media. I think the average citizens are absolutely offended with what's been happening with government. I've been astonished. I have not been asked by one person about Washington, and I've decided that folks are so alienated by Washington, by the media, they don't want to hear it, they don't want it in their life. They don't want ugliness and they just want the sense that people are going to do their job and make things work.
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The oft-repeated legend is that once upon a time in 1929, a shipment of Indoor Sports artwork by Tad Dorgan (there he is again!) failed to arrive at the Call-Bulletin in time for publication. Panicked, and with a large hole to fill, the editors called upon staff cartoonist Jimmy Hatlo to fill the space with something similar. What Hatlo came up with was a panel he called They'll Do It Every Time. Dorgan died soon afterwards, and Hatlo's replacement feature was a hit with readers, so the series continued, and was eventually distributed nationally by King Features beginning in 1936. (UPDATE: This legend is almost certainly false. See more info here. I've also reworded the next paragraph to reflect this.) The series was a massive success, and lasted well beyond Hatlo's death until 2008 (!).
Before hitting the big time with TDIET, Hatlo drew a daily series of unrelated editorial and non-fiction gag cartoons for the paper, each time changing the theme and format, basically reinventing the untitled feature for every installment, not unlike Pony Pal™ Mark Newgarden's self-titled alt-weekly comic strip from the late 80s/early 90s.
The one shown here is a classic of the "cartoonists make fun of modern art" genre, and Hatlo certainly had a lot of fun spinning gag after gag free-associated from a study by Pablo Picasso for his 1929 painting Nude Standing By the Sea, which is clipped and taped onto the upper left corner. Not content to only poke fun at Picasso, the comic also features jokes about Herbert Hoover, Babe Ruth, Old Gold cigarettes' ridiculous "Keep Kissable" ad campaign, also mocked by Hatlo in other drawings from this period, and even Paul Chabas's kitsch masterpiece September Morn, making this a unique piece of period satire.
Hatlo's They'll Do It Every Time is well known, but these early gag strips have never, to my knowledge, been reprinted in any form. Luckily, I just picked up, in addition to this original drawing, a cache of 25 clippings of this series from the Call-Bulletin, so stay tuned for some rare, inventive, hilarious stuff!
UPDATE: John del Valle, to whom this drawing is dedicated (after production, no doubt), is almost certainly John Austin del Valle (1904 - 1997), who was a drama critic and columnist at the same newspaper, and later a Hollywood publicist. Here is his obituary at Variety.


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The caveat being you need to read Japanese and know how to use the EDINET filing system to unearth what you are looking for. If you are interested, you can click on the 5% filing rule link on the right hand side of this blog although the details are in japanese otherwise you can e-mail me and I can send you a list of some big funds filing codes in Japan.
I have noticed that Jean-Marie Eveillard's First Eagle Funds/Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Advisers have been very active in acquiring stakes in Japanese companies over the past six months from their filings with Japanese regulators.
Anyway, I was reading the latest (May) First Eagle Funds' Conference Call transcript and Mr. Eveillard had a number of interesting things to say about Japanese equity prices. In particular, his musings on net-nets among the Japanese small cap space were particularly interesting as this is something I have touched on before and am looking at establishing a basket position in too.
Also his remarks on SMC may be worth looking at further, there is a write-up of the company over at Value Investors Club and for non-Japan based investors the company's stock trades on pink sheets in the United States.
Finally, he had interesting things to say on currency risk exposure for exporters and how to think about this, and also Japanese insurers - Controlled Greed has a position in Millea, and other value mutual funds are keen on names like NipponKoa, Millea etc.
Edited highlights below
"Today, the Ben Graham-type companies, in other words, the deep value stocks, are not available, really, in the U.S. or in Europe. They're only available in Japan.
And then, the great majority of those deep value stocks are small stocks... we have been doing some work and we already own a few, have owned sometimes for years, a few small deep value stocks in Japan and we're in the process of doing some additional work on more.
I mean there are stocks in Japan where net cash, cash and sometimes portfolio securities, net of all financial liabilities, net cash is in excess of market cap, which means that you pay less than nothing for the business. Now, as Marty Whitman likes to say, "There is always something that can go wrong." In that case, if the company were to suffer a string of losses for the next five years, then of course five years from now the cash would have disappeared as a result of the losses.
... in the Tokyo stock market, there are a few industrial companies, some of them world-class, where the stocks had declined to levels where valuations, we thought, were very attractive. Now, when I say industrial, it implies, of course, cyclical, speaking very generally.
So, we assumed in those cases that operating profits would go down 30% over the next 12 months, which nobody assumes today, but just in case. And, we found out that even if we assumed that operating profits would go down 30% over the next 12 months for those companies, the valuations on that basis remain quite moderate. So, we own SMC, which is the world leader in pneumatic equipment...
We also own Keyence3, which is world renowned for their automation products. Again, I'm not saying that the Japanese economy is doing well; it's doing so-so. I'm just saying that Japan is not going to sink into the sea and that we think we found some very specific investment opportunities among some Japanese industrial companies...
As I said before, we are long term investors, we hold securities on average for five years, which means that sometimes we own them for six, seven, eight, nine, ten years or more. So, we don't pay a great deal of attention to whether the company is export sensitive or not unless we felt that number one, the Euro would be strong forever vis-à-vis the American dollar and number two, that the competitive advantage of the European company would be ruined truly by the strength of the Euro, which often is not the case.
I mean there are many German companies, for instance, that do not complain today about the strength of the Euro because they are selling, say, machinery that's so complex and so competitively strong that price is a minor, not quite a minor factor, but price is not a considerable factor.
So, unless we thought that the Euro would be strong for the next three to five years, we don't mind owning the stock of a company that either exports much to the U.S. or does a large amount of business in the U.S...
We own the securities of a few insurance companies outside the U.S., specifically in Japan. Although it's a very particular case, I mean these companies in Japan are vastly overcapitalized. Most of the excess capital is invested in Japanese equities. So, we look at them and, so does Marty Whitman of Third Avenue, as disguised investment companies. "
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100+ Readers On What Really Makes a Difference in Keeping a Clean Home
In one's attempt to get their life together, so to speak, one will inevitably feel pressured to buy into gimmicks. That's how The Container Store makes you feel like you're just one $300 receipt from the Mariah Carey closet of your dreams, and why The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up has sold five million copies worldwide. But the truth of keeping a clean home is so much simpler than that.
To prove it, we rounded up more than one hundred responses from Apartment Therapy readers to discover what homekeeping advice actually makes a difference in their very real lives. And guess what? Not one person mentioned a spin mop or chore chart.
Do a Little Bit Every Day
This was by far the number one piece of advice cited by our readers. Cleaning your home is a much more manageable and, dare I say it, pleasurable experience when you ditch marathon weekend cleans in favor of biting it off a few minutes at a time, all the time.
"Spend just a few minutes cleaning and tidying a different room each day."
"Do something every day. I never let things build up (well except for my desk sometimes). I am always trying to clean something out or clean something up so that when someone comes over my house is always pretty clean."
"Always clean a bit as you go about your business in your home so things do not pile up and cleaning is not always left as one big undertaking."
Make Tidying a Part of Your Routine
In the same vein of "do a little every day," many readers suggested that cleaning gets easier when you work it into your normal routine. Make tidying up is as natural and normal as brushing your teeth.
"Make your bed every morning, and do 10 minutes of cleaning or dusting every day. My friends always ask what my secret is to keeping such a clean room, and honestly that is it. Even if my hamper is literally overflowing with laundry (which it always is), my room and apartment still has a put together and tidy feel due to this housekeeping trick."
"Do your dishes and take out the trash every night. Makes for a clean and smell-free kitchen in the morning!"
"If you have a task that you struggle with, make it a point to work on it every time you do something else that is a daily task. For me, it's the litter box. I keep the box by the toilet now, and I have a pact with myself that every time I use the bathroom, I scoop the box. It works wonders."
Make Sure You Don't Half Ass It
The only thing worse than not cleaning, to many of our readers, is cleaning halfway. Many of you touted the benefits of making sure the job isn't just done, but done well.
"Clean things well and often."
"The lazy person works twice as hard, this is probably hands down the best advice I have heard for anything. but essentially, do things right and take the extra time to do it right so you don't have to go back and redo your work later."
"From my grandmother: 'One thing at a time and that done well is a very good rule as many can tell.'"
Own Less So You Have Less to Clean
Decluttering is not just a trend meant to sell books. Many of you suggested that being a bit of a minimalist actually makes keeping a clean home easier.
"Conquer the clutter for easier cleaning."
"Don't let your emotions get in the way of getting rid of stuff you don't need—you'll feel much lighter."
"Less stuff means less stuff you need to clean."
Make Use of Natural Solutions
Many of our readers have espoused the world of green cleaning, sharing that their most life-changing moments were when they decided to simplify their homekeeping toolbox to a few homemade and natural solutions.
"You can clean almost anything with vinegar and baking soda."
"Hot water with ammonia will clean windows and anything glass, and make it shiny. I have found that it's great on stainless steel too. Thanks Mom!"
"Vinegar cleans everything. Pour some in a spray bottle with a solid few squeezes of dish soap to make the best bathroom cleaner you'll ever use. A cupful in the washing machine will get out any weird smells from anything that's machine washable. And 100% non-toxic."
Keep the One-Touch Rule Sacred
When you think about it, a mess is really just a collection of things that have found their way out of place. Many readers recommended that a swift, focused one-touch technique can make a huge difference at home.
"One-touch rule: don't set something down and leave it for later. Put things away as you use them and there will be a lot less clutter to clean up later."
"When cleaning, don't walk around empty-handed — take stuff to its place the first time instead of making an extra trip."
"If you put things away when you use them and clean as you go, you save lots of trouble down the road. You also save yourself lots of anxiety."
Ensure Everything Has a Place
Back to that "putting stuff away" idea: Step one is making sure that everything has a place, as many of our readers reminded us.
"An organized home is better than a clean home. It took me a long time to realize that my problem was that I had a lot of things without 'places.' Once I started looking at my home from more of a functional perspective, I was able to put things in places that made sense, and as a result, kept everything cleaner."
"Build organizing solutions around where the stuff ends up, not where you think it's supposed to go."
"Put your items back to their rightful place each time! If you throw it in the entry when you get home it will take forever to find it's way to its correct home, and it will attract more clutter in the meantime! I am the worst with hanging up clothes."
Above All Else: Just Do It
The hardest part of cleaning is sometimes just getting started. That's why so many of our readers' best cleaning advice was focused on finding (and keeping!) the motivation to get going.
"Just do it. Use your time wisely. If you have a free moment and think 'I need to do this, this and this,' just do one of those things. It takes less time to do it than the ten minutes you take thinking about it. So just wipe the fridge and stove, take out the recycling, put stuff away."
"Don't lay in bed waiting for things to get done. My grandma's favorite saying: 'The bed (or couch) is a coffin!'"
"Do something right away. Do some quick housekeeping or tidying task right away in the morning while waiting for coffee. And right away when you get home; DO NOT SIT ON THE COUCH! Do some housekeeping task, like a 10 minute sweep of surfaces. More times than not this helps set a tone of productivity, and I will continue for about an hour going through the list. But even if that's all I get done, it's less work for me to do tomorrow."
When in Doubt, Outsource
A few of you said your best cleaning tip was passing on the duties to somebody else, if you can swing your budget to include professional housekeeping.
"If at all possible, hire someone to clean."
"Hire a housekeeper. I lost mine a year ago and cannot find a suitable replacement!"
Remember What's Important
I was so touched that when we asked our readers to share homekeeping tips, many of you leaned in to kindness, offering advice that suggested forgiving yourself for whatever state your home might be in and remembering that messes are a sign of a life well-lived.
"Distract from the dust with fresh flowers."
"People always come before things."
I like FlyLady's advice to think of cleaning as 'blessing your home' and as doing something nice for your future self, rather than as a chore or a punishment for being messy
"Don't ever neglect your family. The dust will still be there tomorrow."
It's not too late to chime in! Hop into the comments and let's keep the conversation going: What's your best advice for keeping a clean and tidy home?


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Contract modification extends contract ceiling to $40.9 million
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Canada will exit from stimulus on schedule, says the finance minister. Minister Flaherty says there are no plans to tighten mortgage rules in Canada but would tighten them if necessary if moderation in the housing market does not unfold as he expects. Mr. Flaherty warned last week that the average Canadian household budget continues to escalate and the currently low interest rates are not really helping that situation however, he notes that the new mortgage rules that were implemented last April to curb excessive borrowing have sufficiently addressed this issue for the time being.
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On December 28, 2015, the IRS issued guidance extending the deadline for providing new Affordable Care Act tax forms to employees and to the IRS. This guidance provides a bit of breathing room to employers with 50. However, it does not remove the reporting obligations; large employers still need to focus quickly on these new rules.
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Inchcolm Island
Inchcolm Island
Not far off the coast of Edinburgh lie a few islands. I've seen them a thousand times and always wondered what they were like. So off we went from South Queensferry on a trip to Inchcolm. The sea was un characteristically calm and we swept under the Forth Rail Bridge hearing about the 5000 men (57 dies) and seven year build. It's a strange structure, red, solid, over-engineered (was built in 1890 just after the Tay Bridge disaster. But it's not the structure that amazes, it's the sheer ambition and ingenuity of the Victorians. I've seen some amazing photographs of the bridge being built, especially the final links. I lived for years between this and the road bridge but always preferred the old red bridge. I'm told by my friend Ronnie (the real Thane of Fife – CEO of Fife region) that the road bridge is fucked. The supporting wires are snapping away and can only be slowed, not repaired. There's much talk of a new bridge/tunnel.
Anyway, back to the island. We pass the oil terminal in the middle of the Forth with two tugs on standby and two huge tankers loading North Sea Oil – for expert. It's piped here to be loaded onto ships. We also pass by the north shore gas terminal. But the island's the star.
It's more attractive than I expected, very green with a short, sandy isthmus connecting two masses of dark, rounded igneous rocks. The Abbey sits snugly on the sheltered side of the western rock. It's Scotland's best preserved abbey – remember that the Scots took to the Reformation so deeply that it shocked even its continental leaders. Yet here, not far from Calvinist Edinburgh with its statue of John Knox, lies a well-preserved abbey. The original church can be seen along with the cloister, dining room, dormitory, abbot's house and bell tower. The abbey was often raided by the English so was functional. You can climb up to the roof for some great views. It's very quiet and, just like Iona, you get a real sense of monastic peace. The island has also been used for plague victims adding a note of sadness.
A walk around the island reveals both first and second world war ruins. Up to five hundred soldiers were stationed here. A fantastic trip and highlight of our two weeks in Edinburgh.
East Lothian
Had a day out at the bird reserves and sights of East Lothian. This included Preston Mill, an iron-age fort, North Berwick, Dunbar and several doocotes! We picked wild brambles to add to our Lucas ice cream and visited John Muir's birthplace in Dunbar – the man who kick-started the US National Park system and a global conservation movement.


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What are the current & past survey findings?
The data presented here provide examples of the type of information researchers can obtain from the Tobacco Use Supplement.
Data from the following periods are available:
National Longitudinal Mortality Study
The National Longitudinal Mortality Study (NLMS) is sociodemographic data, collected by the US Census Bureau via in-person and telephone interviews as a part of the Current Population Surveys (CPS), and combined with cause of death information from official state records. The NLMS database includes approximately 3.0 million persons, and cause of death information on over 250,000.
- Variables in the NLMS database: race/ethnicity, marital status, education, income, employment status, occupation, industry, veteran status, household size, nativity/immigrant status, smoking (for certain cohorts), health status, and health insurance status.
- NLMS Cohorts: 1979-2002.
- Linked to Medicare claims data for the period 1991-2001.
- Linked to the tobacco use supplements for years 1985, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999, and 2001.
Updated Information about the most recent years' linkages and how to apply for usage of these datasets will be available in the near future.
Some results from the NLMS are presented in the article:
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Cigarette Smoking Prevalence and Policies in the 50 States: An Era of Change
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ImpacTEEN program featured the TUS-CPS trend data (1992-2007) in its tobacco chart book, entitled "Cigarette Smoking Prevalence and Policies in the 50 States: An Era of Change." See TUS-CPS results and data used in the chart book, or the chart book itself (PDF) , which also includes US maps and other figures for several tobacco control variables.
State Tobacco Activities Tracking & Evaluation System
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has an electronic database warehouse called the State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) system which contains up-to-date and historical state-level data on tobacco use prevention and control. Information from the TUS-CPS data is included in this resource.
The following can be obtained from the site:
- Detailed Report - This report is by topic area (e.g. Economic), by measure (e.g. smoking) for a state by year.
- State Comparison Report - This report displays data for selected topic area by measure by year in all available states with Excel export capability.
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What to see around ReitsumHere are some recommended places to see in the surrounding area:
- • Het Princessehof (9 mi/14.6 km from the city center)
- • Aqua Zoo Friesland (7 mi/11.2 km from the city center)
- • Cambuur Stadium (8.5 mi/13.6 km from the city center)
- • Verzets Museum (8.9 mi/14.3 km from the city center)
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by Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett / L.L. Bartlett
For a number of years, I've been collecting teacups. I know, I know -- very frivolous. But, what is life without beauty?
Niagara On The Lake, one of the (if not THE) prettiest villages in Canada, and had tea at the Prince Of Wales Hotel. Lovely, just lovely. While there, I bought a bag of scones from one of the local bakeries. I froze them and yesterday I decided to have one for breakfast.
Can you say "yum-yum?"
It was de-lish! Of course, I couldn't have it and drink my tea out of an ordinary mug. Okay, my mugs aren't really ordinary. Most of them have a story behind them. Christmas or birthday gifts. Bought as souvenirs on one of our many vacations over the past twenty-plus years.
As it happens, I described it in the 4th Booktown Mystery, Chapter & Hearse. Tricia was visiting the mother of the latest murder victim and this happened to be one of the cups on her shelf. Actually, Mrs. Roth's dining room is actually my dining room. I needed a description and there I was sitting at the dining room table and ... the next thing you know ....
So it was that I ate my lovely scone and drank from one of my favorite cups. Did the tea and scone taste any better because of the pretty china?
You bet your booty!
Do you have a favorite china tea cup? If so, please tell us about it--and the story that goes with it.
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Shura (シュラ)Shula (シュラ) is an anime-only character who is a human-like demon with long black hair, pointy ears, and a "w"-like symbol on his forehead. As such, he lives in the Demon World, and he owns the title of king, as well as one of its best fighters.
Shula is a powerful demon who single-handedly managed to open the giant entrance to the demon world, and kept it open for a while by wedging his cursed sword in its door. During this period, he and many of his minions continually tormented a nearby kingdom during nightfall. He eventually took an interest in the kingdom's young Princess Misa, and kidnapped her, so that he could marry her. It was not long afterward that Misa's father, King Kress, sent the young Goku after him to retrieve Misa.
When Goku finds Shula in the demon world, he finds that Shula has thrown a party to celebrate his soon-to-be bride. Goku confronts Shula, and challenges him to a fight, to which Shula accepts. Shula proves to be a quick and powerful fighter, but Goku manages to find his weakness. The demon world is a place where no bright light has ever entered, and Shula's eyes had become accustomed to it. Goku fires a Kamehameha and blinds Shula, then smashes the demon against the wall. When Shula gets back up, he finds that Goku and Misa are escaping and he sends his minions after him, but two demons, Melee and Gola, block their path. Goku manages to get outside and close off the entrance to demon world forever. Melee then tells him that this is how it should be. Rather than punish her and Gola for interfering, Shula decides to carry on with his party, and invites the two demons along. Shula has never escaped ever since, but it is likely that he is still alive.
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The Pope took a couple of days off to visit the rugged mountains of Alaska for some sightseeing. He was cruising along the campground in the Pope Mobile when there was a frantic commotion just at the edge of the woods. A helpless democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, a 'Vote for Obama' hat and a 'Save the Trees' T-shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically and thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10-foot grizzly.
As the Pope watched in horror, a group of republican loggers with 'Go Sarah' T-Shirts came racing up. One quickly fired a 44 magnum into the bear's chest.. The other two reached up and pulled the bleeding, semiconscious democrat from the bear's grasp. Then using long clubs, the three loggers finished off the bear and two of them threw it onto the bed of their truck while the other tenderly placed the injured democrat in the back seat.
As they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over. 'I give you my blessing for your brave actions!' he told them. 'I heard there was a bitter hatred between republican loggers and democratic environmental activists, but now I've seen with my own eyes that this is not true.'
As the Pope drove off, one logger asked his buddies 'Who was that guy?'
'It was the Pope,' another replied. 'He's in direct contact with Heaven and has access to all wisdom.'
'Well,' the logger said, 'he may have access to all wisdom, but he doesn't know squat about bear hunting! By the way, is the bait still alive, or do we need to go back to Massachusetts and get another one?
I passed this on to a friend of mine in Massachusetts (he is there by force, Work). He says let him know if someone needs bait he has a bunch to pick from.
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If you fancy a night out in one of Brussels' hot spots, with a wild atmosphere and ever-changing music to suit all night owls, then you have to try the unique Madame Moustache.
From midnight onwards, the bar begins to fill up. First you get the local clientele: fashion stylists from Rue Dansaert and members of the gay community. Then you get those looking to hit the dance floor. Everyone crowds the bar counters – like little stands at a fair – to taste some of the delicious cocktails on offer*. My personal favourite is the Green Garden*. And if you prefer shots, ask for a Saloperie!
The atmosphere quickly livens up. The DJ mixes his set from his perch on a wooden cart, while patrons dance in front of huge mirrors or on the stage erected in another corner. Madame Moustache offers truly eclectic music. You might hear Latino at 11 pm and Amy Winehouse at 2 in the morning. And to end a perfect evening, how about a friendly game of table soccer?
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In the latest edition of the LFF Mediawatch the media talks about two German banks bundling their wealth management activities in Luxembourg, a dispute between Germany and Switzerland over tax evasion and a new framework for supervision in Europe. The LFF MediaWatch provides a bimonthly overview of national and international press coverage that is of direct or indirect concern to the Luxembourg financial centre.
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Saturday, April 5, 2008
I Heart Nature
Thursday night after I dropped my daughter off at her Brownie Meeting, I saw a deer running right towards me! Imagine my surprise as I was driving down the street I live on and a deer was in the street. The surprising part is that I live in a very residential area.
It was about 5:15 PM, I was driving down my street, and I saw something running up ahead from a side street right onto mine. I couldn't believe my eyes. It started coming towards me, and as I slowed down to look at it, it bolted to the side and ran right into someone's back yard.
The picture above is not of the deer I saw. I wish I could have gotten a picture of it. But number 1 it was running so fast to get out of the street there was no way. Number 2 I was in the car, and Number 3 I didn't have my camera with me anyway!
I have lived where I'm living now for over 8 years and have never seen a deer, even in the woods around here. Where I lived before this, was in the country with lots of woods, and I would see them all the time. Now I live in a city so it is very unlikely. So it was very exciting to see! I wish my daughter had been with me though!
When I think about it though, on one hand I'm excited to have seen it. But on the other hand it makes me feel in a weird way sad. Because if a deer is running through the city streets, it means that they are being pushed out of their natural habitats. But the nature lover in me is still happy to have seen it!
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Ipswich Classic
The Ipswich Classic is one of Queensland Raceways stand out events, drawing a massive field of competitors in 2018. The action is non-stop from Saturday morning to Sunday evening, and it's a definite must-see event with categories like Group N, as constant regulars.
For all the info you need on the Ipswich Classic, read through the info below. Any questions about feel free to give us a call on 1800 RACEWAYS or drop us an email to firstname.lastname@example.com
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License requirements
- A Queensland Raceways RACERS National license is required - $60 for a single event or $250 annually
- A current CAMS NC, PC or CC license is accepted as well but a Queensland Raceways RACERS Clubman license would also be required - $20 for single event or $65 annually
Should I bring ear protection?
Due to the nature of our venue, visitors can expect to experience a certain level of noise from the vehicles taking part. Reduced noise earbuds are available for all visitors, especially children, to get closer to the action without feeling uncomfortable.
Are pets allowed at the tracks?
No dogs are permitted, nor should they be left in your car or in the campsite. Only guide dogs and assistance dogs for the disabled are allowed on site.
Are there any medical facilities?
We have a dedicated Medical Room at Queensland Raceway and Lakeside Park. Staff are qualified first aiders and we always have qualified doctors and medical staff during events.
Can I bring my own food to Queensland Raceways?
Whilst we do have on site cafes at Lakeside Park and Queensland Raceway, you are welcome to bring food and beverages to either of our venues. Our facilities are perfect for a picnic whilst soaking up the entertainment on track.
What do I need to wear?
Long sleeved shirt, trousers, enclosed shoes and a AS1698 Aust. Standards helmet is the minimum apparel required. There are some exceptions to this mainly for the drift events and cruising where they need only wear t-shirt, shorts, enclosed shoes and a AS1698 Aust. Standards helmet.
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FULL LEATHERS ARE REQUIRED – It can be either a one-piece or two-piece that zips up all the way around.
Gloves must be leather motorcycle gloves and cover your wrists.
Footwear must be motorcycle leather boots & cover at least your ankles.
Helmets must be either Australian, Snell or ECE standard and display the relevant standards sticker. Your helmet must be full-faced the with no cracks or damage to the integrity of it.


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Sydney Inlet Provincial Park is situated in the northern Clayoquot Sound area, between Hesquiat Lake and Pretty Girl Lake. The park encompasses 2,774 hectares and protects old-growth Sitka spruce forests.
Sydney Inlet is one of the best examples of a fjord on Vancouver Island, and is an ideal wilderness area for sea kayaking and pleasure boating.
The Sydney River and its estuary support four species of salmon, including a notable population of chinook.
Many Nuu-chah-nulth heritage sites are situated within the park, as the traditional territory of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation incorporates most of the western portion of Vancouver Island.
There are no designated campsites at this park, however random wilderness camping is allowed. The park has no facilities.
Sydney Inlet Provincial Park is located in Clayoquot Sound, northwest of Tofino on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The park is accessed by boat or floatplane only, from Tofino.
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For an experience unlike any other, step aboard our luxurious 53-foot motor yacht, the "Raincoast Maiden", to view whales, bears, sea lions, eagles and other wildlife in comfort. We offer a relaxing wildlife cruise with a personal touch. With a spacious cabin, washroom, comfortable seating inside and out, guests can sit back and take in the abundant wildlife and magical scenery with a taste of luxury. Truly a nature cruise of a different nature!
More than just wildlife viewing, our interpretive and very personal tours include a scenic cruise through the sheltered waters and breathtaking scenery of the Broken Group Islands and an optional gourmet meal while at anchor. Romantic Evening Cruises and Private Charters are also available. We will share our love and enthusiasm for the area and make your West Coast experience an unforgettable one.
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Trying on the bullet proof vest. I was against this idea...can you hear it. "Little Johnny, what did you do at school today?' "Oh, this man came and put a bullet proof vest on us...it was GREAT!"
In line waiting for their turn in the car on the PA system and camera!
Construction has officially began at the house, project #1 the deck is being framed out.
Well, for us it is busy and going to get busier, we are only three weeks from the arrival of our new addition, my MIL is scheduled for bypass surgery on the 2nd, and we are re-vamping our house...gonna be an interesting October. BTW I cannot stop eating crushed ice by the Big Gulp size cups..what's up with that?


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This week has seen the completion of so many projects and I wanted to share some of them! The signage for Bayside Emporium went up today after Graeme and I spent Tuesday night up to our elbows in Kwik Grip, pasting the banners onto tailor-cut alupanels. Graeme has put in far more work than I on this project, but I was happy to be his humble assistant, do the artwork and brainstorm a budget solution for the stallholders.
I completed a watercolour commission which had become a struggle between me and the paper - I used a large sheet of Fabriano paper (I think it is) and am used to the lovely way Arches paper allows the pigment to swim across the surface, or be picked up as needed. This paper holds the pigment tight and looks very dark when it's wet, making it impossible to determine the level of tint until the paint is dry - so difficult for my layering methods on skin tones, and five times over for five different faces! But I do adore the feel of this piece and hope it delivers the love and admiration intended for the recipient!
I sold an acrylic canvas at the Emporium this week, which was quite exciting! It incorporates a honeyeater and my daughter's profile, and is now out there in the big world somewhere. You can see it here.
I completed a set of wedding cake topper birds. She is calico with an organza layer and lace wings and tail, and a freshwater pearl necklace. He is black cotton with calico underside and wings, and sports a handmade top hat when he's dressed up. These are going to Sydney next weekend for a March wedding, and I have some more in the pipeline to put in the shop in Husky.
I also finished an 14m expo display design and artwork this week, with 29 fabulous images, which I hope will generate lots more business for this client - who i have been working for since 1993 can you believe?!
It is often good to stop and look back on what you have achieved, and remind yourself of the things you have created, first by wishing and dreaming, and then by (often hard to notice) daily steps in the right direction.


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UPDATE Wednesday 1600
I hope their lordships are enjoying their role in pinning down the parameters of devolution.
BBC Wales understands that the Wales Office is now questioning whether the Official Languages (Wales) Bill - that makes Welsh and English the official languages of the Assembly - goes beyond its legislative competence. They've asked the Attorney General to take a look at the bill before it receives Royal Assent. The suggestion is that under the Government of Wales Act 2006 the Assembly can legislate in relation to the Welsh language but not in relation to English.
The Assembly Commission say that any reference to the English language is incidental to the provision that the Bill makes in relation to the Welsh Language and so "in light of these factors the Assembly Commission has concluded that the right course of action is that the Bill should proceed as originally intended."
The Bill was passed just last week on what Rosemary Butler called a "historic day in the history of devolution and of Wales."
If this does end up in the Supreme Court, you start to wonder whether Groundhog Day would be more appropriate.
I'm taking a bit of a punt here but if I had to guess, I'd say that Lord Carnwath has never been to a tattoo parlour in Swansea.
I say that partly because - and here's another punt - I don't think that in Swansea they're called 'tattoo clinics' at all and because in all honesty, he just doesn't look like a man who'd have his wife's name written indelibly on his forearm.
Niether, come to that, do any of the other four judges who are sitting today in the Supreme Court. Their questions, howwever, are needle sharp. These are the men who'll decide whether the very first Bill passed by the Assembly, a significant moment in the story of devolution as the Presiding Officer, Rosemary Butler said at the time, is lawful or not.
The Attorney General and the UK Government argue that it is unalwful. A Bill whose purpose it is to cut Welsh Ministers out of the process by which local councils make bye-laws to deal with things like tattoo parlours, swimming baths and mortuaries has encroached, they argue, on the powers of the Welsh Secretary. Welsh ministers are welcome to abandon their own powers to intervene, they aruge but not those of a minister in the UK Government. The Welsh Government are confident the Bill as it stands is entirely lawful.
This is, to put it bluntly, surreal. I'm sitting in the rich surroundng of the Supreme Court in Westminster, with its oil paintings, intricate carvings and the four nations' emblems woven into the carpet. Amidst all of that I'm listening to the equally intricate arguments being constructed by the top legal minds in the country as they debate whether powers that are held 'concurrently' are the same as powers that are held 'jointly' and if not, do they also differ from powers that are 'incidental.'
But I'm also listening to Lord Carnwath struggling out loud to understand what one earth the Secretary of State for Wales' role would be in reality, if Swansea Council were to change the bye-laws with regard to tattoo parlours. No matter what the bare legal analysis, he ventured to suggest, isn't this really all about a political settlement and just how far devolution has come in practice?
Lord Hope picked up the theme. Whatever the complexities of the clauses, sections and sub-sections, 'the nub of the issue' he argued, was what the Bill was meant to achieve and whether it achieves that, or not.
Rarified surroundings aside, this is a fight neither side wants to lose.
The Welsh Government doesn't want to be seen to have messed up the drafting of its very first attempt at making a Welsh law from scratch. That would be both embarrassing and humiliating. But then neither does the UK Government want to be seen in the highest court in the land to have tried - just that little bit too hard - to slap down the first Welsh law.
Either way, you suspect a small but indelible mark will be left - on the respect agenda.
Tattoos tackled at Supreme court


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Our food dehydrator has been running nonstop lately. Autumn is persimmon-picking season and we've been busy peeling, slicing and drying trays full of the popular Asian fruit.
Native to China but extensively cultivated in Japan, persimmons are an essential part of Japanese diet with more than 1,000 different varieties cultivated for use in everything from wines and vinegars to baked goods and candy. Although they were introduced to North America in the late 1800s by Admiral Matthew C. Perry and have been cultivated in Florida for more than 100 years, persimmons failed to win over the palates of American consumers.


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Verizon has made the HTC One Remix official. The One Remix is, for all intents and purposes, the One Mini 2 with a re-brand. The HTC One Remix is launching tomorrow, July 24, for $99 on a two-year contract. As with most mini phones, the One Remix carries many design features of its larger relative, while trimming down a bit in size. So what are you getting for that $99 pricetag? Here's a rundown:
- 4.5-inch 1280×720 display
- 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor
- 16GB storage with microSD card slot
- 13-megapixel rear camera (not Ultrapixel)
- 5-megapixel front-facing camera
- BoomSound front-facing speakers
- 2100mAh battery
- Android 4.4.2 KitKat with Sense 6 overlay
All in all, not a bad device. You still get a similar design to the One (M8) and a decent mid-range phone. For that same $99 price, however, you can also get an LG G3 on contract, which is a substantially better phone. If you're really digging the smaller design, then go with the One Remix, but otherwise, there are better options. If you do pick one up, let us know how you're enjoying it!