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Couple to remodel historic stone home
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Tobe and "Red" Moore were camping with their family at their new property off Sunflower Road when a man stopped for some information.
Greg Kite of the Historical Preservation Alliance of Wichita and Sedgwick County was inquiring about the 19th century stone home located on the property just south of Marion on Sunflower Road.
"Kite said he had been watching the property for years and was wondering what our plans were for it," Red said. "He was hoping that plan wasn't to tear the house down."
The Moore do not intend to tear down the house. They plan to restore it to its original state, with the exception of the kitchen, and live in it.
"According to Kite, if we were to remodel the house, the historical society would match our amount spent up to 50 percent," Tobe said.
According to Tobe, people inquire about the house all the time.
"I've had several people offer to buy it," he said. "They've asked to take pictures of or with the house. Even old owners have approached us with photos and stories of what the house used to be like."
The first step, Tobe said, is to get the house registered with the historical society and figure out what rules to follow to meet remodeling requirements.
"I retire in a couple of years," Tobe said. "We plan on starting any work then, if I'm crazy enough to continue to let Red talk me into it."
The couple currently uses the property for family functions like annual holiday campouts.
"We've cleaned up the outside, and people have been using it as a picture location. We've used it for our family photos this year," Tobe said.
The house was named Riverside Home because of its proximity to the Cottonwood River. The Moores bought the property mostly for hunting and fishing.
At the sale, they received a packet of photocopied documents containing deeds dating to 1870, when President Ulysses S. Grant first deeded the property to Evin Hoops.
"I think there are 42 of these documents all-together," Tobe said.
The documents do not reference a house being on the property, so Tobe does not know when it was built. He guesses it was sometime around 1883, because of a drawing and a journal entry by property owner at the time Joshua Peers.
"The time on the drawling fits the same style of other like buildings in the area, so I believe it was built by Peers, but I can't be sure," Tobe said.
The house was built in the same style as the Historic Elgin Hotel in Marion, built in 1886.
It features hand cut stones with ornate carvings, a large wrap-around front porch, an octagonal room with floor-to-ceiling windows, and a full basement.
Tobe said he tried to buy the property from Leland Seifert after the Moores sold their house at Marion County Lake in 1999.
"He was angry at the county for not allowing him to put a trailer house on the property to live in while he redid the house," Tobe said. "So he didn't want to sell."
Tobe built their two previous houses. Red said she had complete faith he would fix Riverside Home.
"It'll take a lot of money and a lot of work," Red said. "But I really want to restore the house to what it used to be, with modern conveniences, of course."
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Soon to be former Packers left guard Daryn Colledge has agreed to terms with the Arizona Cardinals.
From Colledge's Twitter account:
After talks with AZ this morning it seems my time with GB has end. I can not in a 140 say what it has ment to be a Packer.
Colledge spoke with Jason Wilde this morning on ESPN Milwaukee and said the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins had been in the running for his services up until last night.
Two other Packers unrestricted free agents appear close to moving on as well. Judd Zulgad of the Star Tribune reports that the Minnesota Vikings are making a serious run at Jones, while Bill Huber writes that the Redskins are close to getting Cullen Jenkins.
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Commission hopes new language will withstand a constitutional challenge.
A recent court ruling and questions about the constitutionality of three Sarasota County panhandling arrests this month led county commissioners on Wednesday to revise their ordinance governing the practice.
The new language moves away from limiting speech in the form of signs seeking money — a constitutional no-no that put the city of Sarasota in legal hot water — and focuses on the act of panhandling itself.
County commissioners unanimously approved an emergency ordinance that prohibits people from standing "within four feet of the edge" of a road, or stepping into a road, if the purpose is to distribute or receive "any item from, or exchange any item with the occupant of any motorized vehicle."
The move comes after a court ruling this month against the city of Sarasota's solicitation ordinance, which had been used to roust panhandlers from public streets and sidewalks. That ordinance restricted people from holding signs or otherwise soliciting assistance, which was found to be a violation of free speech.
The same attorneys who challenged the city's ordinance were making inquiries about the county's regulations, which also limited "solicitation of donations or attempt to solicit donations for whatever purpose upon the public rights of way."
Sarasota County deputies recently arrested three panhandlers under the old ordinance, leading the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union to begin making inquiries. The ACLU had also challenged the city's ordinance.
"It doesn't surprise me that they're redoing it. We brought the ordinance to the attention of the county attorney weeks ago," said Michael Barfield, who chairs the legal panel of the ACLU. "There were three arrests, but they quickly notified us that they had instructed the sheriff to suspend enforcement after the arrests were brought to their attention."
Barfield said the county ordinance had the same defect as the city's panhandling measure.
"These ordinances are quite old; they're relics of the past," he said, adding "we felt they were on thin ice constitutionally."
Instead of limiting solicitation, which could be interpreted as limiting speech, the county's new ordinance limits the exchange of money or other items between pedestrians and motorists on or near roadways.
Panhandling has been a growing concern in the county and city alike, but Sarasota County leaders say their revisions are focused on public safety, not the persecution of panhandlers.
Commissioner Joe Barbetta said he expects enforcement to continue as before.
"The sheriff was enforcing" the old ordinance, Barbetta said. "And he intended to continue enforcing that."
Commissioner Charles Hines said the panhandling issue is "a difficult conversation," and officials must balance "free speech rights on public property and public safety."
Hines added that "we need to give the sheriff ordinances that he can enforce, that he's comfortable with."
Sheriff's spokeswoman Wendy Rose said the ordinance will be enforced immediately "as written."
The revision was not listed on the County Commission agenda Wednesday and there was no public input. County attorney Stephen DeMarsh raised the issue at the meeting's close. Barbetta said emergency ordinances do not need to be advertised. DeMarsh plans to continue researching the issue and propose permanent revisions.
"It'll eventually come back for final tweaking" and public input, Barbetta said.


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Roughly a third of fish caught off the southwest coast of England show traces of "microplastic" contamination from synthetic clothing fibers, polyester from bags and plastic bottles, and "microbeads" used in facial scrubs and exfoliators, according to scientists from Plymouth University and the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. In a study that explored the occurrence of plastic in 10 species of fish caught in the English Channel, biologists found minuscule pieces of plastic, less than 1 millimeters in size, in the gastrointestinal tracts of more than 36 percent of the 504 fish they examined. A spectrometer identified over half of the 351 items they removed as rayon, a manmade fiber derived from regenerated cellulose that's widely used in garments and sanitary products.
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Other plastics included those "from the breakdown of larger items such as bags and bottles' polyester," as well as plastic microbeads and microcrystals used as abrasives in pore-refining skincare products.
Microplastic debris can be detrimental to fish because they create blockages in their digestive systems.
Microplastic debris can be detrimental to fish because they create blockages in their digestive systems.
"We have previously shown that on shorelines worldwide and on the seabed and in the water column around the U.K., these tiny fragments of plastic are widespread," Richard Thompson, a professor of marine biology at Plymouth University, says in a statement. "But this new reseach has shown that such fragments are also being ingested by fish. Laboratory studies on mussels have shown that some organisms can retain plastic after ingestion, hence microplastic debris could also accumulate in natural populations."
Microplastic debris can be detrimental to fish because they create blockages in their digestive systems or provide them with the false sensation of satiety, he says. Because chemicals can "latch on" to the plastic fragments, they could also make it easier for pollutants in surrounding waters to find their way into the food chain.
Moreover, Thompson adds, there's no need to have plastic debris in the sea in the first place. "These materials are inherently very recyclable, but regrettably they've been at the heart of our throwaway culture for the last few decades," he says. "We need to recognise the value of plastics at the end of their lives and need help from industry and manufacturers to widen the potential for everyday products to be reusable and recyclable."
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badly off[ bad ]SEE DEFINITION OF badly off
Synonyms for badly off
- depressed
- deprived
- destitute
- disadvantaged
- handicapped
- impoverished
- indigent
- needy
- down and out
- hapless
- hard up
- have-not
- ill-fated
- ill-starred
- in dire straits
- in need
- in want
- unfortunate
- unlucky
Antonyms for badly off
c.1200, "inferior in quality;" early 13c., "wicked, evil, vicious," a mystery word with no apparent relatives in other languages.* Possibly from Old English derogatory term bæddel and its diminutive bædling "effeminate man, hermaphrodite, pederast," probably related to bædan "to defile." A rare word before 1400, and evil was more common in this sense until c.1700. Meaning "uncomfortable, sorry" is 1839, American English colloquial.
Comparable words in the other Indo-European languages tend to have grown from descriptions of specific qualities, such as "ugly," "defective," "weak," "faithless," "impudent," "crooked," "filthy" (e.g. Greek kakos, probably from the word for "excrement;" Russian plochoj, related to Old Church Slavonic plachu "wavering, timid;" Persian gast, Old Persian gasta-, related to gand "stench;" German schlecht, originally "level, straight, smooth," whence "simple, ordinary," then "bad").
Comparative and superlative forms badder, baddest were common 14c.-18c. and used as recently as Defoe (but not by Shakespeare), but yielded to comparative worse and superlative worst (which had belonged to evil and ill).
As a noun, late 14c., "evil, wickedness." In U.S. place names, sometimes translating native terms meaning "supernaturally dangerous." Ironic use as a word of approval is said to be at least since 1890s orally, originally in Black English, emerging in print 1928 in a jazz context. It might have emerged from the ambivalence of expressions like bad nigger, used as a term of reproach by whites, but among blacks sometimes representing one who stood up to injustice, but in the U.S. West bad man also had a certain ambivalence:
*Farsi has bad in more or less the same sense as the English word, but this is regarded by linguists as a coincidence. The forms of the words diverge as they are traced back in time (Farsi bad comes from Middle Persian vat), and such accidental convergences exist across many languages, given the vast number of words in each and the limited range of sounds humans can make to signify them. Among other coincidental matches with English are Korean mani "many," Chinese pei "pay," Nahuatl (Aztecan) huel "well," Maya hol "hole."


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The Pineapple Gimlet/
I've been wanting to make this cocktail for months, ever since I scheduled my Midwestern roundabout (Mtl -->StL -->CHI -->TOR -->Mtl) for late April and knew I'd get the chance to revisit The Matchbox, that sliver of a Chicago watering hole that is basically the greatest bar on Earth. To sate myself in the weeks prior, I read through Matchbox's Yelp reviews and saw that, time and again, opiners were recommending the pineapple gimlet. Doesn't that sound ah-mah-zing? A pineapple gimlet!
And then the PhoBlograpHusband and I finally went to The Matchbox and got the last two seats at the bar during happy hour. It seemed foolish for me to order and pay for an entire cocktail that I could only take one sip of (per my own pregnancy rules) so I asked Sean to order himself a pineapple gimlet and he said no. He was in the mood for a Manhattan. I suppose I could choose to call my husband a big, fat jerk at this point but it's really OK. I pouted for a moment and then moved on.
Except not entirely, because I still just knew that I had to try making a pineapple gimlet of my own, at home, for you, me, the blog and that selfish hubs o'mine. And in fact, when that finally happened, it was Sean who took the wheel and hammered this recipe out (because every now and then in my 30-something weeks of pregnancy I just hit a wall and have to go sit comatosely for a while).
Sean did everything right with this pineapple gimlet recipe, and the cocktail is quite divine: light in body yet full and round in flavor. You taste the lime juice first, its citrus tang bullish out of the gate, and then for an aftertaste you get the comparatively soft and lilting taste of pineapple.
Sean used less egg white than I probably would have, resulting in a drink with more visual clarity (and probably more clarity on the palate as well). Usually, out of sheer laziness, I just plop the entire, raw white of an egg into my shaker, but here Sean carefully portioned out just half of the white. Adding raw egg white to a cocktail, as well as complementing the drink with a rim of confectioner's sugar, are two tricks I learned years ago thanks to The Matchbox.
The Pineapple Gimlet
(inspired by the offering on the menu at Matchbox, but I have no idea how similar our recipes may be)
2 ounces Akvinta Vodka
1/2 ounce triple sec
3/4 ounces freshly squeezed pineapple juice
1/2 ounce lime juice
1/2 of the raw white of a large egg
Confectioner's sugar, for the rim
Lime slice, to garnish
Rim a cocktail glass with confectioner's sugar and set aside. Pour all liquid ingredients into a shaker and shake vigorously for about 30 seconds (aka, a dry shake). Then fill with ice and do so again. Strain into your glass and add garnish.
Tasting Notes
Yeah, I made this a vodka pineapple gimlet rather than a gin one. Again, thought it might result in a flavor with more clarity, plus it gave me the chance to use our gifted Akvinta Vodka, which is clear-tasting in all those good vodka ways to say the least.


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Squid with broad beans
Ingredients for 4 people: 1kg clean squid cut into rounds 500g of small broad beans 4 cloves of garlic 1 large onion 4 slices of French bread 1 soup spoon of chopped parsley 2 teaspoons of vinegar 1 teaspoon of paprika 1 pinch of cumin 1dl of olive oil salt
Fry the garlic in a casserole dish with very hot oil and then put them aside. Cook the bread in the same oil and remove it. Chop the onion very fine and brown it slowly. Add a little paprika and the squid, add water and cook for about half an hour. In the mortar, mash the parsley, cumin, garlic and fried bread. add the vinegar and a soup spoon of water and mix with the pestle until you get an even paste. Add the broad beans and the mixture from the mortar to the squid together with a little salt and cook for another twenty or thirty minutes.
Serve in the same dish or in a serving dish.
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Hiya. I sure have been having a busy few months, what with getting my portfolio all polished to show to the world and starting a new job while also looking for others. Whew!
Now that I'm more settled, you can expect some posts in the coming weeks. I'll probably stick more to featured pieces instead of doing a post for every single thing I do. 'Specially since I'm about 4 months behind at this point.
In the meantime, check out my shiny new official website! Which featured in great detail my aforementioned portfolio in full:
:TRANSMISSION: Holiday New Wave dance party
I made this the same day I made the Smiths posters and also the Thanksgiving Eve poster. So, it had barely been thought about as far as a name goes. I sent it to Jake and he said it was fine as is (so I never got to add on the official title--"Christmas Wrapping", which woulda looked awwwesome....).
You know me, I can never be away from retro for long. I decided to make this look jazzy, hip, modern, but also nostalgic and warm. Classic mid-century modern colors are that crisp teal blue with bold red and seafoam green. Since we're talking about "new wave," I figured I might as well make the colors flow together because that's what I do for music. It started to look like a painting from that era and also had some resemblance to Alexander Calder's mobiles. (Too lazy to find anything specific but this should be sufficient). I love the colors. It's so fresh and bright and festive. Hopefully the night (which is actually 6 hours from when I'm typing this) will be as rad. Yes, I'm calling my own work rad!
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:JAGER: "Bubbles"
I got a message last Monday from one of the dudes who runs Clubhouse Jager (which regularly hosts Transmission every week) saying they needed a flyer for New Year's Eve. I was like "totally!" because despite my strong ties to them, I hadn't been asked to do a poster for them before (they do tons of stuff besides Transmission, of course). They wanted something elegant and minimal, that felt nocturnal. He also included a few pictures of twinkle lights but when they're super out of focus. The effect was easy enough to create in InDesign, and from there, I just had to figure out the type. I've been using Coronet a lot lately, ever since I acquired it. It's retro, it's classy, and it's versatile for a script. I liked how it has a slanted feel, so I decided to go with that for the rest of the copy. Plus as one might tell from looking over my most recent work, I'm getting tired of generic alignments. All the type together also created kind of an arrow effect. Doesn't really have any significance, but it's cool.
I also did the ticket design for this event (much like last year's Transmission event), but my Creative Suite is unavailable and I didn't make a .jpg of it. It basically looks exactly like the poster; you're not missing out.
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:WEDDING: Emily & Derek's Invitations
Emily is my big sister. She got engaged to Derek in May and I asked immediately if I could do her invitations. It took quite a while to actually start, because there was some uncertainty about what kind of look and style she wanted. Eventually I just whipped something up and it worked out. She's as traditional as I am un-traditional, so it was interesting to find a way to achieve something that was elegant, formal and classy, while also being modern and a bit hip. Not only that, but this style is a good base for anyone (and it looks good in any color).
I offered to not only design everything, which included the invitation, an RSVP card, and a pair of maps, but to print them all out as well. Wow. That was quite an undertaking. My biggest project ever, and most backbreaking by far.
I got the Epson WorkForce 1100 for my birthday last year and it proved itself to be very valuable for this project. I used nice, heavy 140 lb watercolor paper and it prints like a dream. Archival quality ink, too. I had some issues with Epson a few times, and I'm still a little peeved at them, but not taking it out on the printer. The Printer is a rockstar.
For these types of project obviously it's extra good to have a self-healing cutting mat, a cork-backed ruler, and a utility knife (razor blades work, but your fingers will not thank you.)
Although it does seem to happen no matter what.
Me after 3 hours of cutting out the maps.
Me after 1.5 hours of cutting out the inviations.
After folding, and double-sided printing, and cutting, and lots of BS with epson.... It was an extremely exhausting process, but I'm proud of myself that I was able to pull it off. I did everything myself, and that's pretty awesome. Would I do it again? Yes, but it would have to be for a lot of money.
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This project was quite huge, and took about 4 weeks of good hard work to achieve. I'm in the end stages of my Graphic Design degree at school, which means we finally have classes where we make portfolio-worthy pieces. This particular project was a 24-page (I did 30) catalogue on anything we wanted to do, with basically no limitations when it came to the design. It was a good idea, though, to do something we were somewhat passionate about, and had access to images of. I called my friend Nicholas Smith up, who is a very fervent collector of vintage clothing and accessories, and asked if I could use him and his collection for my catalogue. He agreed, and we went to work. It started out as being I would take pictures of entire outfits and feature one per spread, but that was going to be too much work in such a short amount of time. So, I did just ties, and really found no lack of them (he has some 50 ties just from the 1960's alone).
I conceptualized the entire catalogue, took all the photos, edited them, and so on. I love circles, as we all know, and here I took extra care to display what they also meant for fashion. These are vintage ties, and vintage is very big right now. Our society has a way of recycling trends, and things coming full circle and I believe that history is a wheel. There was no other option than to use the circle. Not only to carry that theme through, but to give pops of color to the photos which I decided would be black and white and grainy (a choice I sometimes regretted when I had a picture that looked awesome in color).
It wasn't very hard after making the first spread. If you want a large catalogue to be consistent and thorough and smart, it's actually very simple: make a template and stick with it. I'm pretty proud of myself for this, and I couldn't done it without the help and companionship of my friend Nick.
(p.s. "Handsome Devil" is the name of a Smiths song.)
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:TRANSMISSION: Electric Dreams
My friends, this is the one that almost made me cry. Yeah yeah, one of my OWN designs made me short of breath. Gave me that little thud in the pit of my stomach. I admit that when this thing all came together, I was blown away by it. Every so often I proclaim a new poster my favorite, or my best. I think this is my favorite and ONE of my best. I'll tell you why.
Jake tells me he has to miss the first two hours of Transmission on December 8, and the DJs from "Numbers" (a monthly 80's dance night now at Club Jäger) will be taking over the first. Numbers is much more synth-laden than Transmission, so it's going to be a synth-heavy night. If I thought my Synth poster was cool, it has nothing on this. Since the night was to be called "Electric Dreams," I wanted the poster to feel surrealistic and futuristic (in fact, Jake said to do something "futuristic" initially). Of course, I couldn't do something futuristic in the traditional sense. I wanted it to be 60's and 70's space age futurism. That was a pretty swell time in design, almost up there with mid-century modern.
Now. I've always seen retro illustrations that recreate that shadowy look, but not a perfectly smooth gradient. Kind of rough-looking, like it was painted on.
Observe the Starbucks 2010 holiday cups:
Anyway. I never knew how to accomplish that affect. I considered emailing design bloggers and asking them, but then I figured, I could probably make a gradient in illustrator and apply photoshop affects to it. I used the "water paper" filter to my gradients and got it pretty close to what I wanted. So, I made some modular white spheres that have no real purpose except to look futuristic and surreal. Without the bases, they look silly. WIth the bases and upside down they look pretty awesome. The wavey colors were just vectors I did in Indesign with transparencies on them. Look a bit like Saturn's rings, only icier.
Univers is a pretty awesome, universal type in terms of achieving modern and retro feels. I took the very thinnest weight, adjusting the tracking, and voila. I didn't really have a plan for the type until I just started playing around with it (this is basically true for everything I do) and when I placed in "Electric Dreams," that's when it happened.
This is my favorite because I fall into it every time I look at it. It's sleek, it's wintry and synthy, surrealistic and different from things I've done, but also along the same vein; it's very much my work. I think it's one of my best because I had an idea, didn't know quite how to execute it, but explored and felt around until I figured it out. It has a built quality that I think is impressive, and I think I used all my elements and the space efficiently and smartly. I explored new techniques and stepped outside my comfort zone (a bit. let's be honest here). I used new colors and type treatments. I think I matured with this one, as I feel I mature with all my posters.
It's simple and straight-forward, but I'm absolutely in love with it.
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:TRANSMISSION: Thanksgiving Eve 2010
This is the big one, alright. Not quite as cool as my last year's one, but still kinda fun and retro lookin'. I did this one up quickly, as I knew I wanted to base it off of this:
but in, you know, autumnal colors.
And of course, I love graphics that represent sound and motion, and circles. I fricken love circles.
I'm afraid I don't have much more to say about it.
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UNITED STATES - Some simple safety techniques for food handling and preparation could help delicatessens and other food stores cut the risk of customers developing the potentially deadly foodborne illness of listeriosis, according to a US government report released on Friday.
The report by the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, recommended strict control of temperature during refrigeration, better cleaning and sanitizing of food contact surfaces and wearing gloves while serving customers.
The report analysed the risk of illness associated with listeria monocytogenes, or L. monocytogenes pathogen, from food prepared and sold in delicatessens and other retail food stores.
L. monocytogenes is a pathogen that has long been of concern to public health officials. The CDC estimates that it causes about 1,600 illnesses, 1,500 hospitalizations, and 260 deaths a year. Though relatively rare compared with other major foodborne illnesses, it has a fatality rate of about 16 per cent, compared with just 0.5 per cent for Salmonella or Escherichia coli.
Investigators simulated the retail deli environment and evaluated how certain sanitary and food handling practices could influence the risk of developing listeriosis from ready-to-eat foods that are sliced, prepared or packaged in retail grocery delis.
They found that employing basic practices that prevent growth of the bacteria dramatically reduced the predicted risk of listeriosis.
Some of the main sources of L. monocytogenes are the slicer for deli meats and cheeses and salad utensils for the deli salads. These can lead to cross-contamination of other foods. Controlling cross-contamination at these points reduced the predicted risk of listeriosis, according to the report.
The study "improves our understanding of L. monocytogenes in the retail deli and should encourage improvements to retail food safety practices and mitigation strategies," the report notes, adding that additional data would be useful to further explore how more specific retail practices and conditions such as equipment design, impact the risk of listeriosis.


text: Hello, I'm Jim and purchased my 2011 cts v 6 speed manual black diamond edition sedan in August. Of course love the car. I also own two other GM greats, a 1990 corvette zr-1 with all documents and Chevys first performance car, a 55 Chevrolet belair 2 dr ht pp 265 three speed with OD and 4.11 rear. All in mint condition. I am an active member of the zr-1 net registry which is similar to this forum. Is this a club with memberships?


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In today's global economy, boundaries which end at the city line mean very little. We are all neighbors and thankfully there has never been a Berlin Wall between us.
The United States is in economic competition against other nations. Within the USA, residents of the Northeastern states compete against other state coalitions based in the geographic South, Rocky Mountains, West and other regions.
Our metropolitan New York area is in competition against other metropolitan areas around the nation and world. I work in New York City. My wife and I travel around the five boroughs enjoying shopping, dining, going to the movies, visiting museums and taking advantage of the diverse different neighborhoods.
We are not alone. Each weekday several hundred thousand Long Island and other suburban residents travel to jobs in New York City. Many others enjoy sporting events, theater, museums, restaurants and shopping.
Likewise, a growing number of NYC residents have become reverse commuters to jobs in Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties along with New Jersey and Connecticut. Other New York City residents attend sporting events, shop, dine and visit other places on Long Island.
It is naive to believe that New York City can survive economically in today's ever-changing technology and global economy without Long Island and the rest of metropolitan New York. The suburbs around the Big Apple are equally dependent on the success of New York City.
In the end, residents of Long Island and New York City have much in common. We should work together as neighbors and not adversaries. Reintroduction of a commuter tax on one set of nonresidents could trigger an economic tariff war among neighbors.
With the financial crises on Wall Street followed by our economic recession, thousands of commuters residing outside of New York City lost their jobs. As a result, the reintroduction of any nonresident commuter tax will not bring in the same level of revenues as was the case during the 1990's when it was last in place.
It could result in a retaliatory commuter tax by the impacted suburban county or neighboring state on New York City residents. At the end of the day, everyone could lose.


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Nov. 23, 2009
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- UCSB's Scott Smith and Crystal Reed competed at Monday's NCAA Cross Country Championships, held at Indiana State University's LaVern Gibson Course.
The athletes were greeted by a warm day and a firm course, which contributed to the fast times clocked in the races.
Smith finished 50th in the men's 10k race, narrowly missing the All-American honors awarded to the top 40 runners. He began the race briskly and was in contention for an All-American placement for the first 6 kilometers.
However, Smith began to fade around the 7k mark and had to fight his way up from about 60th place. He passed more than 10 runners in the final 800 meters to capture 50th with a time of 30:29.1.
Reed finished 168th in the women's 6k race, moving forward near the finish after a humdrum middle portion of the race. Reed was in the top 100 for the first kilometer but began to fade quickly. She eventually was able to reestablish a rhythm and hold her position.
"Sometimes it's tough to stay motivated when your team isn't out there with you," remarked Gaucho assistant coach Avery Blackwell.
"Crystal didn't look comfortable at first, but she eventually got it under control. The experience should help her for next season. Scott also showed some mental toughness by running a good final kilometer, even after he knew All-American was out of reach."
Samuel Chelanga of Liberty won the men's race in a course-record time of 28:41.3. Oklahoma State took the team title with 127 points, followed by Oregon with 143 and Alabama with 173.
Angela Bizzarri of Illinois won the women's race with a time of 19:46.8. Villanova took the team title with 86 points, follwed by Florida State with 133 and Washington with 188.
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When Logan Mills' family bought their '96 Corolla, they weren't looking for anything fancy.
"We bought it in the fall of 2005 from my sister for $500," Mills says. "We just wanted it so that we'd have three cars for three people."
And although she laments the torrent of water that pours from the sunroof when it rains and the funny noises it makes from time to time, "nothing fancy" is serving them pretty well.
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But the real reason the car was worth it in the first place is its stamina: "It has 191,000 miles on it right now, and it's still kickin'," she says.


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Jeff Pidgeon is a toy fanatic. By day he works as a story artist at Pixar, where he helped craft the Toy Story series — he even provided the voice of the little green aliens. In his off hours, he spends time curating one of the world's greatest toy collections.
Telling stories and collecting still wasn't enough for this action-figure enthusiast though, so he decided to design and mass-produce toys of his own creation. His first design, called "Happy Beaver" is going into its second production run and his new product, the "Tr!ckster Fox," is entering the final stages of design. Pidgeon is prepping an online store to sell both and they will also be available at select boutiques.
In between working on Academy Award-winning films and sculpting new toys, Pidgeon talked with Wired Design about his inspirations and the process of bringing a toy from sketch book to store shelves.
Wired Design: What was your motivation for making a toy?
Jeff Pidgeon: I think it's just a natural extrapolation from being such a passionate toy fan in the first place! If you love toys, eventually you'll want to make your own. Whether it's with clay or wood or PVC plastic, it seems to happen. There's a lot of artists out there who customize existing toys into their own creations, or characters they've always wanted to see merchandised. That's another path to the same goal.
WD: How did you develop the happy beaver design?
Pidgeon: Clay. I don't sculpt myself, so I hired Vin Teng, a sculptor I met years ago at San Diego Comic-Con. I really like the way he interprets stylized two-dimensional designs into three dimensions, and he has experience with toy-making. That was important because he could sculpt something I could use with a manufacturer without having to know all the ins and outs of the process.
When I realized that producing my own toy was affordable, I started asking Vin questions and showing him drawings. I gave him a 'turnaround', a type of animation drawing that shows what a character looks like at a variety of angles. Once he had that, he could start sculpting. Since Vin had already done a lot of freelance work, he had a great working method in place - he would show me the figure at various stages of sculpting, I would react to it, then he would make changes. Vin is really good, so there really weren't a lot of changes!
WD: Did your dedication and skill as a collector influence the design from an aesthetically or with regards to manufacturing?
Pidgeon: Definitely - but less concessions to the process, and more influence to my aesthetic - a combination of my design sense and what I think makes a good toy. The more toys you see, the more you know of what's technically possible to do. Sometimes you can learn about manufacturing techniques from other collectors, too.
My "Happy Beaver" toy was an artwork-centric process, in the sense that I had a drawing, and wanted to preserve the look and feel of the drawing as much as possible. Every interaction with anyone else in that process was asked the same question: "How can I make my toy look just like this?" The liason between me and the factory that made the final toy knew more about how to hide and minimize manufacturing artifacts. His job was to get me to that ideal toy version of my drawing with that knowledge, and he did a terrific job. I was very proud that more experienced toymakers were impressed with how well "Happy Beaver" was made.
WD: What was the most challenging part of bringing the Happy Beaver to market?
Pidgeon: In my experience, the time between the first drawings and the finished toy is about a year. I think the most challenging part of production is making choices that you won't be able to change later. I used to really struggle with decisions like that. Fortunately, I trust my own instincts much more than I did when I first started making toys, so heading up projects like this are easier now.
WD: Did you approach the design of the Trickster Fox toy any differently based on your learnings on the Happy Beaver?
Pidgeon: The "Tr!ckster Fox" toy was a somewhat different process. My wife Anita (Coulter) is one of the co-founders of the Tr!ckster event that's been taking place in San Diego over the last couple of years. When the second Tr!ckster was being planned, Anita knew she wanted something similar to the art book for the first event - a primary piece of merchandise. So she suggested I make a fox figure. I had been working with Klim Kozinevich (of Bigshot Toyworks) for a little while on a set of resin figures, but this seemed like the best choice for my next toy, so we shifted our focus onto making the fox.
The "Tr!ckster Fox" process was different because I set out to design a toy, not to make a cartoon character into a toy. I definitely wanted the fox to have personality, but all of the artwork I generated from the start looked a toy of a cartoon fox instead of a cartoon fox. It was different because it was an articulated figure with accessories, instead of a vinyl toy with no joints or extra parts. It was much more complicated.
It was also different because I didn't get the design exactly the way I wanted before I began. Rather than have every choice dictated by the drawing, this time the design evolved over the process of creating it. The Tr!ckster Fox was sculpted digitally, so I got feedback to my notes much more quickly than I had in a traditional sculpting process.
I found that a little bewildering at first - I had just gotten used to a bunch of decisions I'd made, and now all of a sudden I'd have to make all of them all over again. Fortunately, the Bigshot guys were patient with me, and I was motivated to keep things moving because I had a deadline for finishing the project. Gradually, I got used to the new feedback turnover, and the figure turned out really well!
WD: What would you like to do for your next toy project?
Pidgeon: I have a bunch of ideas for future toy releases - that's why I make variants of my current designs, to help buy myself time to make the new characters! The next design on the slate is Kumo-Kun, a kind of anime-luchador-insect-superhero-thing. He was a T-shirt design back in 1998 or 1999, and originally I considered him as my first toy because those shirts sold very well too. But Kumo-Kun was a little more complicated, so I decided to wait. The painted maquette is all set to go - as soon as I can get the cash to make him, I will. I'm considering making a three or four inch resin figure, as opposed to another five-inch vinyl toy, which was my original plan. It'll be cheaper, and if those sell well I can go ahead and make the vinyl figures later. He'll be released in three colors, so I can have a unique version of Kumo-Kun for the next three conventions I attend.
The next project is one I've been developing with Klim before the Tr!ckster Fox toy began. It's a series of jazz musicians that happen to be birds. These will be resin figures, and if you buy all of them, the bases will fit together to form the backdrop of the club where they're performing. There's going to be five or six band members, so I'll probably release a new character periodically rather than make multiple color variants.
I have two more ideas for Happy Beaver toys that I still want to do. I'm looking into making a "Green Beaver" that'll be manufactured out of recycled materials. I also want to figure out my "Shaved Beaver" concept, one that's colored to look like its fur has shaved down to the stubble! I want to put a tiny bandage on each one, too. If I can think of a third idea, I'll do another trio of variants that can be released one by one throughout the year. I'm not sure where they'll fit in the schedule, but they'll be easier to do since I can use the same Beaver molds I already have.
I've also been considering a licensed toy - I did a little homework, and discovered that I could afford to make a limited run of a famous character. I think it's begging for the vinyl treatment, but it may always get back-burnered because I'll probably always want to put one of my own designs first.
WD: How do the toys of today stand up to the Hanna-Barbara ones from the past?
Pidgeon: I can see it from both sides. One the one hand, modern toys have so much more technology at their disposal - both in their manufacturing and their play value. What's possible in a modern toy is truly staggering. I saw an animated Lightning McQueen toy at the store the other day - not only could it talk, but it could make expressions with its eyes and mouth. Sixty years ago, that would have been theme park technology - now you can have it in your kid's playroom. Mattel has a huge line of "Cars" toys - they're so expressive and lovingly detailed, right down to the tiny license plates and bumper stickers. Thinkway Toys started out great and keep getting better and better. Their "Toy Story" toys look like they stepped right out of the screen to come home with you. The sculpting and paint work on modern toys are incredible - there's companies like NECA who are making "Gremlins" and "E.T." action figures that look like movie miniatures! Of course, the laser scanning and direct digital input technologies have really been helpful, and today's sculptors are amazing! Many of them grew up loving the characters they're making into toys, and I think their passion shows in the work.
The figures you can buy from higher-end companies like Sideshow Collectibles and Hot Toys are comparable to on-camera movie props, too. Some are articulated, some have cloth costumes and illuminated features. I have a Hot Toys Iron Man figure that looks like it came straight from Stan Winston Studios! The audience for collectibles has grown, and so has the amount they're willing to pay. Sideshow makes sixth-scale, quarter-scale, half-scale and full sized figures at a level of detail that kids from the Seventies and Eighties could only dream of. It's just gorgeous stuff!
There's a lot of new ideas coming into toymaking. The mid-Nineties saw the beginning of the "Urban Vinyl" or designer toy movement. Artists in Japan and China began making limited edition toys inspired by 'low-brow' art (like graffiti or cartoons), and the trend's been growing ever since. Now designer toys are made all over the world, and have had a clear effect on mainstream toy design. Some (like NHK television mascot Domo) have made their way untouched into Target; others (like Hasbro's Mighty Muggs) owe a debt to their conceptual forbears, Qee and Dunny figures. Designer toys have given a voice to artists and creators who otherwise might never have gotten involved with toymaking, but now can make their influence felt. People like Brian Flynn (Super 7), Amanda Visell (Switcheroo), Ron English, Kidada, Gary Ham (Superham) James Jarvis (Amos Toys) and many others are creating their own collectible art, as well as making characters for other companies as well. I love this genre of toys, and it's exciting to see it thrive!
Now on the other hand... old toys are also wonderful. Many of them are very clever, perhaps because there were more technical/financial limitations placed upon the creators. Toys of the twenties through to the sixties had the advantage of a pool of artists and craftsmen that doesn't exist in the same way today. Look at an old Fisher-Price toy, and you'll see lovely illustrations on those paper labels, and amazing noisemakers under the hood - all made with simple materials. Imagine what it would be like to figure out how to make a chicken cluck or a frog croak without computer chips! These folks did it, and made them appealing, too.
There's a charming quality to the overspray paint jobs and limited color palettes of older toys that's hard to define. Maybe I'd compare it to movies made in black & white, where the filmmakers embraced the limitations so well that they no longer feel like limitations, even now. Some of an older toy's appeal is definitely nostalgia, but many modern toys - like Super 7's sofubi-inspired vinyl figures - mimic those same paint effects today. I think they still work, whether you're a hard-core toy fan or not. The old Hanna-Barbera toys you mentioned also have a category all their own - early merchandise that's so inaccurate to the character design - or "off-model", as an animator would say - that it creates a charm unto itself. John ("Ren & Stimpy") Kricfalusi introduced me to those toys when I worked on "Mighty Mouse" in the Eighties. There's Dino toys that are orange instead of his traditional purple, or Barney Rubble dolls with green hair, or Huckleberry Hound plushes that are red instead of blue. They look like toys designed by people who have never watched the cartoons, but they're still cute in an odd sort of way.
WD: Have you ever been involved with the toy designs from the Pixar movies?
Pidgeon: We've had meetings at work where a bunch of employees get together and spitball toy concepts (and I've attended a bunch of them), but generally Pixar has a Consumer Products division that works with Disney's Consumer Products division to develop merchandise for Pixar movies. They're a bunch of amazingly talented people, and we've all been happy to have a slew of cool toys as a result! I love the new Funko Pop! Disney vinyl figures - they're stylized re-interpretations of classic Disney and Pixar characters. Ben Butcher (of Pixar CP) has been working on those, and I think he's doing an awesome job. I can't stop buying them!
WD: How does the entrepreneurial community at Pixar impact your process?
Pidgeon: Of course, it's wonderful that the community at Pixar exists - John Lasseter and Ed Catmull have always been very generous about nurturing this in the company. I think the major impact is the inspirational component - that sense of, "Hey, I can do that, too." Toymaking is a specific enough undertaking that I tend to get a little more feedback from other toymakers than co-workers (like Brian Flynn and Frank Kozik, whose advice and support have been invaluable). Still, the Pixar talent pool is staggering, and I do get great advice from it as well. Angus MacLane is an even bigger toy fan than I am, and has an incredible eye for detail - you can see it in his hilarious "Toy Story" short "Small Fry", which is all about fast food toys! He's been very helpful and supportive.


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SBN wrote:histrion wrote:SBN wrote:Is it flexing, or is it unstable? We didn't see blurgits other times that they climbed the ladder.
I think you mean agitrons.
Indeed I did. Thanks.
It does appear that the agitrons indicated ladder placement, not instability during use.
I still maintain that they are simply loose pixels, tracked onto the ladder rungs from the beach, being shaken loose each time the ladder is moved.
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Sorry about the delay, i don't log in to this one a lot, i use the "Tapatalk" app and it misses the messages sometimes. I'll be there, but i'll be running the "Novice" group for the Races, they usually run "Expert" "Novice" and "Street" before the races, you'll be in the street group if you're just now taking the license school. The class is as easy as it gets, pass the 10 question test, don't wreck and complete the mock race. It's that simple, no minimum lap times, no BS. I'll be there and i'm working on putting the TSBA and #272 logos on the trailer to make it easier to find me, otherwise just look for my "Jack Daniels" bike, i display it right out there every time. I've been forced to come up to speed real quick on these tracks, i'd never run Cresson and had one track day, then raced, then they changed directions on me this last time, and i had the new 600, so i had to learn it on 2 bikes in one day and race. But i love the challenge. See you out there.
Hey I saw your post on CMRA board. I'd message you on there but I am not a full member yet.
Hopefully I can meet you at ECR the end of September.
I am not sure how the class works but I would like to practice with you Friday if you will be there.
Jim showed me the lines out there and I do pretty well. I can run 2:05/06 all day and a 2:03 is my best.
I doubt it is a track you ride a lot cause of miles.
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Relationships: Wanting someone who doesn't want you
Vail, CO Colorado
Dear Neil: I just broke things off with my boyfriend of 3 years because he's been holding back in our otherwise fantastic relationship. We have had loads of fun together, we fight minimally, never bicker, laugh constantly, we have a wonderful sex life and we have a variety of mutual friends and interests. About a year ago, he first voiced his concern about whether things were progressing the "right" way. I eventually ended things because I felt I couldn't be in a relationship with someone so unsure about his feelings for me. A month later, he was on my doorstep, professing how much he missed me and that he wanted me back.
Here we are 8 months later, and I've had to cut him loose again. He says there is nothing wrong with our relationship, but something is missing for him. He says he loves me and would do anything for me, but doesn't know why he can't give all of himself to me. He suspects he isn't at a place to commit to me, or perhaps anyone. He says that he is struggling with walking away from his youthful "freedom." He currently lives with his parents, which he says is depressing, and has a job that he is very unhappy with. He's almost 30. Everyone else thinks we're perfect for each other – even him – but he just can't take the plunge.
-Rejected in Boston
Dear Boston: Some men simply haven't had enough experience to know what they want – or what will make them happy long-term. Other men are just attempting to find one woman who they can call their own and who they can have and hold. Still, others have the dream of tasting every single piece of chocolate in the entire chocolate factory. It sounds like you want the second choice, and that you're ready to settle down with one man to call yours.
So find such a man.
It's possible that your boyfriend doesn't know why he wants to break up with you because our real motives and our inner feelings are sometimes hidden from us. It may be that you were far more attached to him than he was to you. It may be that the closeness between the two of you frightened him, that he felt he was growing dependent on you or extremely vulnerable to you, so he decided he needed to push away in order to protect himself from becoming too close or too exposed to you.
But let's be clear. You want a man who wants you, and you don't want a man who doesn't want you. Wanting someone who doesn't want you back hurts too much – and it really messes with your self-esteem and sense of personal self-worth.
Perhaps the gentleman you've been involved with will come back and decide he can't live without you, but he may not honestly be ready for a long-term commitment, and you don't want to coerce a man into a commitment if he's not ready for one because there's no assurance that he will stay committed if he isn't ready and is feeling forced into it.
So what should you do? Let your boyfriend go, and quit hoping he will see the light and come back to you. Make peace with this relationship ending, grieve the future you thought you were going to have with him and lick your wounds so you can heal. I'm advising you to let him go, and for you to get strong so you can move on with a clear mind, an open heart and a clean spirit. That way you will be able to be emotionally available for someone else to enter your life when the opportunity arises.
If your boyfriend changes his mind and decides to come back to you again, you're going to have to deal with him more firmly. Saying he wants you back is one thing, winning you back, reassuring you and helping you to feel safe and secure around him is quite another. If there's a next time with your boyfriend, you want to be firm in telling him that action is now required of him, not just words.
If he doesn't come back, or if he remains emotionally held back, go out and find someone who wants you, and who is ready and able to give himself to you.
Neil Rosenthal is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Westminster and Boulder. His column is in its 20th year of publication and is syndicated around the world. You can reach him at 303-758-8777 or email him through his website: http://www.heartrelationships.com, but he is not able to respond individually to queries.
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And motivation for the new year... no more cookies. For those who didn't get this for Christmas, you know Valentine's is coming, right? Yeah I know, shameless, but I just say, any excuse for you to do it is a great excuse.
Notice all the successful posing tips:
Tuck in your finger in your underwear, tilt head to the side:
Squeeze boobs together, even while lying down. (do not worry, I won't take pictures while you are arranging them :)
Squeeze while standing up
Pretend to take your underwear off, lift those hips!
Or just lie down and let me do all the work. And take your stuff off.
What to wear: Pearls, lingerie and pouty lips.
Or just jewelry! This picture will be on my fridge to help me not eat so much cheese.
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Only in America: The BBC would never have commissioned a series like "Homeland"
The furore about the BBC's coverage of the Queen's diamond jubilee was as dubious as every other alleged media scandal. But it unintentionally illustrated the dilemmas the corporation faces as it searches for a new director-general.
If you missed it, the Mail and Telegraph laughed to scorn the BBC's coverage of the flotilla which greeted her majesty on the Thames. Media criticism is the most dishonest form of journalism because reporters promote their employers' interests by damning their commercial rivals. The denunciations of the BBC were no exception. That said, even objective observers had to concede that the BBC gave us giggling celebrities and oafish youth show presenters, rather than reporters who could describe the pageant.
I hope that objective observers also realised that the conservative press missed the true problem. The BBC always argues that it must produce serious news, highbrow dramas and documentaries because the licence fee could not be justified if it just made trash. By the same token, it must also produce lowbrow television because the licence fee also depends on the BBC attracting a mass audience. In effect, the Mail and the Telegraph were saying that the BBC's mistake was to put the jubilee in the wrong box. It treated it as light entertainment rather than serious news.
Everything is wrong with this account because it does not explain why British television is so bad across the board. It used to be better. Until the 1990s, Britain exported quality dramas to the world and imported game show formats from America. Now Britain is the world's leading exporter of format television — the franchises for Pop Idol, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and the like — and imports quality drama from America and Europe. I prefer the term "quality" drama to "highbrow" because the high/low distinction so favoured in British broadcasting makes little sense. Are The Wire, The Sopranos, The Killing and all the other foreign dramas that have made television the most interesting medium of the age, highbrow or lowbrow? The distinction is absurd. People enjoy them because they are well-written, compelling and free of condescending assumptions about the viewers' stupidity. If you wanted a label, you could describe them as "serious populism": intelligent dramas that welcome everyone.
In a new pamphlet for the New Culture Forum, Dennis Sewell gives us one reason why British television has fallen behind. Sewell, a former BBC presenter, examines political bias, not in BBC news, which strikes me as fair and accurate, but in BBC drama and comedy.
Few can doubt that its writers must strike soft-leftish poses if they want to work. Ben Stephenson, the BBC's controller of drama commissioning, announced in 2009: "We need to foster peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, stubborn-mindedness, left-of-centre thinking." And foster them he has. Sewell notes that the enormous stable of BBC drama writers are seldom shy of hinting at, or even baldly stating, their affiliations in newspaper interviews. But: "I can recall not a single instance where one has identified him or herself as a political conservative."


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First, long-duration Treasurys US:TENZ continue to rally despite Fed tapering of quantitative easing and Yellen's comments on a potential rate hike in 2015. Gold GLD, +1.41% has fallen unrelentingly, almost straight down following a powerful run up so far this year. Momentum stocks, particularly biotechs IBB, +0.82% and those in social media SOCL, -0.42% have gotten utterly wrecked. U.S. small caps IWM, +0.38% which have reached historically high valuations, are clearly breaking down, while within the U.S. market, large-caps take the lead.
Has the correction finally started? There are enough things happening behaviorally within the market to consider this. The deflation pulse, which has been a big theme of mine over the past year, remains alive and well. We must all ask ourselves why in the world Treasurys are so well bid when the Fed is stepping away from stimulus.
"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."
We must also ask ourselves why defensive sectors such as consumer staples XLP, +0.67% health care XLV, +0.56% and utilities XLU, +0.87% are leading. When low-beta areas of the market outperform, that tends to be a warning sign of coming volatility VXX, -1.05% and a potential correction ahead for equities.
I have often talked about defensive sectors as a real tell on market sentiment, using their relative movement as an indicator of some of my major (and correct) correction calls, ranging from the May 6, 2010 Flash Crash to the Summer Crash of 2011 and two corrections of 2012.
(As a matter of fact, I was recently awarded the Market Technicians Association (MTA) 2014 Charles H. Dow Award for a white paper my colleague Charlie Bilello and I wrote specifically addressing the predictive power of the utilities sector. That paper, "An Intermarket Approach to Beta Rotation," will be available to download next week, and I plan on expanding on some of the ideas presented in the weeks ahead. My hope is to elevate the discussion and provide an academic and backtested framework with which my readers can work within. It should also hopefully provide context and perspective on why we run our mutual fund and separate accounts the way we do.)
For now, let's take a look at the message of the utilities sector right here, right now.
Take a look below at the price ratio of the Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF relative to the S&P 500 SPY, +0.37% As a reminder, a rising price ratio means the numerator/XLU is outperforming (up more/down less) the denominator/SPY. For a larger chart, please click here.
Note that prior uptrends in the ratio preceded and marked deflationary pulses whereby stocks corrected and/or increased their overall volatility, with 2013 being a notable exception in the first five months of the year.
In 2014, inter-market relationships have clearly begun to normalize. Notice that utilities bottomed and began outperforming before the correction that occurred in mid January this year, and that they never really meaningfully underperformed since. If anything, recent price action indicates more defensive beta rotation is happening than traders and investors likely realize.
Of course this is not a guarantee of a correction, or a crash. Against this backdrop is a quiet meltup beginning in emerging markets EEM, +0.61% which behaviorally have, in the last few trading days, severely disconnected on the upside as U.S. markets and small-cap names have broken down.
If a breakdown were happening in emerging markets right now, I would be more inclined to sound the alarm that crash risks are rising, but outperforming emerging markets should help prevent a severe breakdown on stocks as an asset class overall. Still, higher volatility does seem likely, and while it remains to be seen if stocks will finally correct in the U.S., I think at a minimum we're looking at a choppy sideways period.
This writing is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, a solicitation to buy, or a recommendation regarding any securities transaction, or as an offer to provide advisory or other services by Pension Partners, LLC in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, purchase or sale would be unlawful under the securities laws of such jurisdiction. The information contained in this writing should not be construed as financial or investment advice on any subject matter. Pension Partners, LLC expressly disclaims all liability in respect to actions taken based on any or all of the information on this writing.


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The Center for Reproductive Rights announced Wednesday that it will petition the entire U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for a new hearing on the sonogram law.
A three-judge panel from the Fifth Circuit recently overturned the district court's preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the law, which requires doctors to force women seeking abortions to view and hear detailed descriptions of their sonograms — even when a woman wishes to refuse and when the physician believes it is inappropriate and unethical to do so.
The petition will ask the court to rehear the case en banc — in which all judges in the circuit court would hear the case, rather than a selected panel.
The center also filed a motion seeking to amend the complaint before the Texas district court to focus only on the two claims heard by the Fifth Circuit:
** Texas law violates the First Amendment rights of physicians because it forces doctors to deliver to their patients' speech chosen by politicians to advance an anti-abortion agenda.
** The law violates physicians' due process because it subjects them to harsh penalties for failing to comply with the law's vague requirements.
The motion by the Center for Reproductive Rights streamlines the case by removing the other claims.
"We are seeking a fuller hearing of the bedrock constitutional rights that the Fifth Circuit panel brushed aside," said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. "The district court ruled that this law violated the First Amendment rights of physicians by compelling them to advance an ideological agenda. The full court should affirm that sound decision.
"This battle is not over. We remain steadfastly committed to fighting for the fundamental reproductive rights of Texas women," she said.
U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Friday on the center's efforts to secure a permanent injunction against the law's provisions.
The center filed a class action suit in June against the ultrasound requirements on behalf of Texas medical providers performing abortions and their patients. The center requested a preliminary injunction, arguing that the ultrasound requirements violated the First Amendment rights of both the doctor and the patient by forcing physicians to deliver politically motivated communications to women, even if she declines.
The case, Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services v. Lakey, was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights along with co-counsel Richard Alan Grigg of Spivey & Grigg, LLP in Austin, Susan L. Hays of Godwin Ronquillo, PC in Dallas, and Alex Lawrence and Jamie A. Levitt of Morrison & Foerster, LLP in New York.


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Some of stake presidency's responsibilities related to the Aaronic Priesthood include:
Oversight of the Aaronic Priesthood
8.15.1, 15.1.2 The stake president assigns one of his counselors to oversee the stake Young Men organization (including Scouting where authorized).
Guidance and Counsel
15.1.2 The stake president assigns one of his counselors to oversee the stake Young Men organization (including Scouting where authorized). This counselor ensures that members of the stake Young Men presidency are instructed in their duties.
Members of the stake presidency meet regularly with the presidencies of the auxiliary organizations to which they are assigned. In these meetings, participants counsel together about the progress and needs of members in the organizations.
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18.3.2 The stake presidency convenes one stake general priesthood meeting each year. All Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthood holders in the stake are to attend.
18.3.3 The stake presidency convenes a stake priesthood leadership meeting in connection with each stake conference. The presidency also convenes one other stake priesthood leadership meeting during the year, for a total of three such meetings annually. The purposes of these meetings are to teach priesthood leaders their duties, increase their abilities, and strengthen their faith.
Mission Preparation
Bishops and stake presidents have an especially important responsibility to identify and prepare worthy, qualified members for missionary service (see Handbook 1, 4.2; Handbook 2, 8.7).
Encourage youth to attend seminary to strengthen missionary preparation (see Handbook 1, 4.2).
Arrange for prospective missionaries to participate in the Teaching the Gospel course and missionary preparation classes (see Handbook 1, 4.2).
Stake Activities and Scouting
18.3.9 The stake Aaronic Priesthood–Young Women committee meets as needed to plan stake-sponsored combined activities for young men and young women. Youth should be included as much as possible in planning and carrying out activities such as youth conferences, dances, devotionals, and multistake events.
8.13.4 Young men ages 16 and 17 should be registered if they are pursuing rank advancements or if the stake president or bishop chooses to sponsor Scouting programs for young men of this age.
8.13.4 A counselor in the stake presidency sees that Scouting is organized and functioning in each ward in the stake; that young men, boys, and leaders are registered; and that all Scouting units are chartered. He also develops a positive working relationship with the local BSA council and district executive and serves as a member of the council LDS-BSA Relationship Committee. He registers as a member-at-large for the council.


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Tumor suppressor
A tumor suppressor gene, or antioncogene, is a gene that protects a cell from one step on the path to cancer. When this gene mutates to cause a loss or reduction in its function, the cell can progress to cancer, usually in combination with other genetic changes. The loss of these genes may be even more important than proto-oncogene/oncogene activation for the formation of many kinds of human cancer cells.[1] Tumor suppressor genes can be grouped into categories including caretaker genes, gatekeeper genes, and landscaper genes; the classification schemes are evolving as medicine advances, learning from fields including molecular biology, genetics, and epigenetics.
Two-hit hypothesisEdit
Unlike oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes generally follow the "two-hit hypothesis," which implies that both alleles that code for a particular protein must be affected before an effect is manifested. This is because if only one allele for the gene is damaged, the second can still produce the correct protein. In other words, mutant tumor suppressors' alleles are usually recessive whereas mutant oncogene alleles are typically dominant.
The two-hit hypothesis was first proposed by A.G. Knudson for cases of retinoblastoma.[2] Knudson observed that the age of onset of retinoblastoma followed 2nd order kinetics, implying that two independent genetic events were necessary. He recognized that this was consistent with a recessive mutation involving a single gene, but requiring biallelic mutation. Oncogene mutations, in contrast, generally involve a single allele because they are gain-of-function mutations.
There are exceptions to the "two-hit" rule for tumor suppressors, such as certain mutations in the p53 gene product. p53 mutations can function as a "dominant negative," meaning that a mutated p53 protein can prevent the function of normal protein from the un-mutated allele.[3]
Other tumor-suppressor genes that are exceptions to the "two-hit" rule are those that exhibit haploinsufficiency, including PTCH in medulloblastoma and NF1 in neurofibroma. An example of this is the p27Kip1 cell-cycle inhibitor, in which mutation of a single allele causes increased carcinogen susceptibility.[4]
Tumor-suppressor genes, or more precisely, the proteins for which they code, either have a damping or repressive effect on the regulation of the cell cycle or promote apoptosis, and sometimes do both. The functions of tumor-suppressor proteins fall into several categories including the following:[5]
- Repression of genes that are essential for the continuing of the cell cycle. If these genes are not expressed, the cell cycle does not continue, effectively inhibiting cell division.
- Coupling the cell cycle to DNA damage. As long as there is damaged DNA in the cell, it should not divide. If the damage can be repaired, the cell cycle can continue.
- If the damage cannot be repaired, the cell should initiate apoptosis (programmed cell death) to remove the threat it poses for the greater good of the organisms produced
- Some proteins involved in cell adhesion prevent tumor cells from dispersing, block loss of contact inhibition, and inhibit metastasis. These proteins are known as metastasis suppressors.[6][7]
- DNA repair proteins are usually classified as tumor suppressors as well, as mutations in their genes increase the risk of cancer, for example mutations in HNPCC, MEN1 and BRCA. Furthermore, increased mutation rate from decreased DNA repair leads to increased inactivation of other tumor suppressors and activation of oncogenes.[8]
The first tumor-suppressor protein discovered was the retinoblastoma protein (pRb) in human retinoblastoma; however, recent evidence has also implicated pRb as a tumor-survival factor.
Another important tumor suppressor is the p53 tumor-suppressor protein encoded by the TP53 gene. Homozygous loss of p53 is found in 65% of colon cancers, 30–50% of breast cancers, and 50% of lung cancers. Mutated p53 is also involved in the pathophysiology of leukemias, lymphomas, sarcomas, and neurogenic tumors. Abnormalities of the p53 gene can be inherited in Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS), which increases the risk of developing various types of cancers.
PTEN acts by opposing the action of PI3K, which is essential for anti-apoptotic, pro-tumorogenic Akt activation.
As costs of DNA sequencing have diminished, many cancers have now been sequenced for the first time, revealing novel tumor suppressors. Among the most frequently mutated genes are components of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex, which are lost in about 20% of tumors.[9]
Other examples of tumor suppressors include pVHL, APC, CD95, ST5, YPEL3, ST7, and ST14.
See alsoEdit
- ^ Weinberg, Robert A (2014). "The Biology of Cancer." Garland Science, page 231.
- ^ Knudson AG (1971). "Mutation and Cancer: Statistical Study of Retinoblastoma". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 68 (4): 820–3. doi:10.1073/pnas.68.4.820. PMC 389051. PMID 5279523.
- ^ Baker SJ, Markowitz S, Fearon ER, Willson JK, Vogelstein B (1990). "Suppression of human colorectal carcinoma cell growth by wild-type p53". Science. 249 (4971): 912–5. doi:10.1126/science.2144057. PMID 2144057.
- ^ Fero ML, Randel E, Gurley KE, Roberts JM, Kemp CJ (1998). "The murine gene p27Kip1 is haplo-insufficient for tumour suppression". Nature. 396 (6707): 177–80. doi:10.1038/24179. PMC 5395202. PMID 9823898.
- ^ Sherr CJ (January 2004). "Principles of tumor suppression". Cell. 116 (2): 235–46. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(03)01075-4. PMID 14744434.
- ^ Yoshida BA, Sokoloff MM, Welch DR, Rinker-Schaeffer CW (November 2000). "Metastasis-suppressor genes: a review and perspective on an emerging field". J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 92 (21): 1717–30. doi:10.1093/jnci/92.21.1717. PMID 11058615.
- ^ Hirohashi S, Kanai Y (2003). "Cell adhesion system and human cancer morphogenesis". Cancer Sci. 94 (7): 575–81. doi:10.1111/j.1349-7006.2003.tb01485.x. PMID 12841864.
- ^ Markowitz S (November 2000). "DNA repair defects inactivate tumor suppressor genes and induce hereditary and sporadic colon cancers". J. Clin. Oncol. 18 (21 Suppl): 75S–80S. PMID 11060332.
- ^ Shain, AH; Pollack, JR (2013). "The spectrum of SWI/SNF mutations, ubiquitous in human cancers". PLoS ONE. 8 (1): e55119. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055119. PMC 3552954. PMID 23355908.


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Sydney Catholic girls' school, Stella Maris College, has reduced the risk of Internet threats posed by social networking sites by deploying a Web security gateway.
Speaking to Computerworld Australia, the college's IT manager Chris Maker said the school began working with Websense two years ago to avoid potentially exposing students to malware or unsuitable content through their use of popular social networks like Facebook.
Maker said the security gateway is essential as some teachers and the senior year co-ordinator communicate messages to Year 10, 11 and 12 students using Facebook.
The college has found that getting students to read emails is not overly effective anymore as teenage girls prefer to use social networking to communicate with fellow students and teachers.
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"We can send an email out and we might get only 20 to 30 per cent of the students reading it," he said. "However, on mediums that they are comfortable with like Facebook they pick up the message."
Maker added that only senior students have access to social networking sites as part of the school's duty of care policy to protect Year 7 through to 9 students. These younger students are blocked from using YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
However, the college's IT department will unblock YouTube during elective music classes when these junior students need to share music instructional videos.
According to Maker, the college has had "zero issues" with malware, dirty data and Internet threats since the deployment.
Students to bring their own devices to school
The school's IT department is also modifying its laptop program so that students can choose to bring Macintosh or Windows-based laptops to school rather than use a preferred laptop or operating system.
"Early indications [from students] indicate that there is going to be a strong push towards Macs at the moment," Maker said.
He estimates that the college may have 300 to 500 Macs in use during 2013 from the first day of term. The college has 1,100 students.
These laptops will be supported by the Websense offering when the students log on to the college network.
"The system will know who that student is and be able to apply the [security] policies to their particular year group so they get the right level of Internet access," he said.
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Well, we're a few episodes into the latest season of Real Housewives of New Jersey, and I'm proud to report that Joe Gorga and his sister Teresa are still mad at each other. The two haven't seen each other in a year (except, um, for that whole reunion thing they did together a few months ago on Bravo), but that all changed Sunday night when the two happened to run into each other at the gym. Who would have expected that? They were only mic'd up and toting camera crews. Totally organic!
Nevertheless, the two got into yet another spat, and I won't bore you with the details, but the arc was the same as always: Teresa painted herself as a saint, used elliptical logic to exonerate her husband, got really mad, and flipped something over (in this case, a trash can). Sadly, this was the most exciting moment of the season.
In the end, Joe wound up grunting away on a weight machine like a feral baboon while Teresa huffed away with her trainer, Nicole Greco-Peepas — a.k.a. the future name of any daughter, pet, or houseplant that may come under my custodial care.


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Onorato Goes Deep In Both Games; Dunham Tosses Shutout
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – There were a number of positives in Yale's final tune-ups before the start of Ivy League play. None, though, was more important than the performance turned in by pitcher Chelsey Dunham. Dunham tossed a three-hit shutout as Yale blanked Fairfield 4-0 in the first game of a doubleheader at Dewitt Family Field. The Stags rebounded to win the second game 5-4.
The Bulldogs once again used the long ball to their advantage. Yale had only five hits in the opener, but two were home runs.
Kelsey Warkentine belted a two-run homer in the fifth inning, and Sarah Onorato added a two-run shot in the sixth.
That was more than enough for Dunham, who got plenty of support from her defense. The biggest play was turned in by shortstop Brittany Labbadia in the first inning. With the bases loaded and one out, Labbadia snared a hard line drive off the bat of Lauren Filicia and alertly threw to first to double off Lauren Liseth, who wandered too far off the base.
Dunham then set down the next eight Fairfield batters.
The Stags, though, also were getting an excellent pitching performance. Rebecca Trott didn't allow a hit through the first four innings. Christy Nelson spoiled the no-hit bid when she doubled with one out in the fifth. Warkentine then hit a shot over the left-centerfield fence.
Fairfield threatened in the sixth, loading the bases with two outs, but Dunham got pinch-hitter Nicole Capra to ground out.
The Bulldogs added to the lead in the sixth when Labbadia singled and Onorato drilled a pitch well over the left-field fence.
Yale got off to a quick start in the second game when Onorato doubled home Tori Balta in the first.
Onorato second home run of the day in the third made it 2-0. She now has seven homers on the season.
The Stags scored once in the sixth and then erupted for four runs in the seventh to take a 5-2 lead.
Still, Yale rallied in the bottom of the seventh. With one out, Hannah Brennan doubled, and Nelson followed with a single. Warkentine drove home the first run with a double. Riley Hughes then singled up the middle. Nelson scored easily from third, but Warkentine was thrown out at the plate by Filicia, the centerfielder. Fairfield pitcher Rae Ball retired the next hitter to end the game.
Jennifer Ong, Nelson and Warkentine all had two hits for the Bulldogs.
Yale outhit the Stags 12-9 but left 11 runners on base.
The games will be televised on CPTV Sports on tape delay. The first game will be shown on Friday at 7 p.m. Both games will be shown on Saturday, starting at 5 p.m. CPTV Sports is available only in Connecticut.
The Bulldogs open Ivy League play with a doubleheader at Cornell on Saturday. Yale then plays two at Princeton on Sunday.
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Susan Granger's review of 'Magic in the Moonlight'
Confession: I can't remember seeing a movie from writer/director Woody Allen that I didn't like. Some are better than others, like "Blue Jasmine" (2013), but they're all intriguing in their own way. This entrancing, new romantic comedy falls kind of in the middle.
Set in 1928 on the Cote d'Azur in the south of France, the plot revolves around the efforts of Europe's most acclaimed magician to debunk a beautiful, young American from Kalamazoo, Mich., who purports to be a spiritual medium. Responding to a plea from his longtime friend/fellow conjurer Howard Burkan (Simon McBurney), acerbic Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth) arrives at the Riviera villa of gullible Grace Catledge (Jacki Weaver), who is eager to reconnect with her late, Pittsburgh industrialist husband via seances conducted by another house guest, clairvoyant Sophie Baker (Emma Stone), who's traveling with her protective mother (Marcia Gay Harden). In the meantime, Grace's sappy son, Brice (Hamish Linklater), is determined to woo and win Sophie's heart, while Stanley's Aunt Vanessa (Eileen Atkins) in Provence provides wise counsel.
Obviously inspired by George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," Allen envisions cynically debonair Stanley Crawford as misanthropic Henry Higgins, whose dyspeptic demeanor is so arrogant and brash that he alienates everyone with whom he converses. Indeed, as an astute illusionist, Stanley's so determined to slyly unmask Sophie, proving she's a fraud that he doesn't realize he's succumbed to her "magical thinking."
In this role, Firth seems to be channeling the late, great Rex Harrison, a similarity that Allen subtly acknowledges, evoking memories of "My Fair Lady." As for Stone, she plays sweet Sophie's hand so close to the vest that one wonders if, perhaps, she could be the real deal.
Gloriously photographed by Darius Khondji with opulent period costumes by Sonia Grande, burnished sets by production designer Anne Seibel, and an endearing American songbook soundtrack, it's a joy to behold.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Magic in the Moonlight" is a whimsical, ephemeral 8, airily appealing to those who loved "Midnight in Paris" (2011).


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Medine Simmons necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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We are two property investors who have individually been running property investment courses.
We are joining forces to offer a weekend course.
We have a name Step By Step Property Success and now we need an identity for web, emails, printed notes etc
We need logo and stylized name and logo.
We are not running huge auditoriums courses rather we offer the course at half the price of others on the market to only 20 people at a time.
We are committed to sharing warts and all about our investing experiences and sharing our knowledge through dealing with property investors every day in our work as mortgage brokers.
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People wanting to start or continue with property investing in Australia.
Typically our students are 30 - 50 year old couples on reasonably good salaries.
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