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Rybak, City Council draft plan for higher property taxes and fewer programs to avoid even more pain later
To hear Mayor R.T. Rybak describe it, Minneapolis is on a fiscal collision course, saddled with the reckless spending of a past era's politicians. However, equipped with the tough new tax policy he successfully shepherded through the City Council this month, Rybak believes Minneapolis can stave off disaster - though not painlessly.
In a politically agile act for a new mayor, Rybak pledged 10 notoriously independent-minded councilmembers as coauthors for the tax policy, which is as stern as it is politically risky: At the same time it significantly raises annual property taxes, it also ensures deep spending cuts.
The plan was adopted July 12 in an 11-1 vote. Only 6th Ward Councilmember Dean Zimmerman voted no, bashing what he called its "screw-the-Park-Board" mentality. Councilmember Robert Lilligren (8th Ward), is also critical, but did not vote because he was out of town.
In essence, the plan seeks middle ground between tax hikes and budget cuts. It is the first step toward the mayor's promise of presenting a 2003 city budget by the end of August.
While it identifies no specific cuts, the plan caps the city's ability to generate new tax levies at 8 percent increases per year over 10 years. Half of the 8 percent would help cover growing costs, half would pay down city debt.
The 8 percent hike is far less than the city needs to pay its current bills without major reductions, according to city Budget Director Tammy Omdal.
It doesn't stop there. The policy calls on the independent Board of Estimate and Taxation - the seven-member body that sets maximum city tax levies - to adopt an identical policy. That would limit the ability of other independent tax-levying authorities, including the Park Board and the Library Board, to raise their levies. A majority seems likely; three board members -- Rybak and two councilmembers who sit on the board -- are policy co-authors, while a fourth, Wally Swan, has espoused fiscal restraint.
Finally, the policy reasserts a 1994 proviso that limits the Park Board's and Library Board's share of state-funded local-government-controlled by City Council. Thus, if the Park Board or Library Board raise levies above a set inflationary rate -- 4 percent a year -- the City Council will offset any gains by holding back an equal amount of state aid. (For park and library board reaction, see page 11.)
It's a hard approach, Rybak said, but necessary. All city taxes come from the same citizens' pocketbooks, he noted, and the council cannot act alone to rein in spending and prevent residents from fleeing to the suburbs to escape runaway taxation.
"If current spending patterns continue we would have to triple taxes in the next decade," Rybak told a council committee. "And that is not something that is at all acceptable to me."
Herding cats
One might well wonder how the mayor managed to pull 11 politicians together to endorse a plan that, according to various sources, could mean elimination of the city's Health Department and its Civil Rights Commission, scrub the mayor's own promise of 24-hour snowplowing service, shorten park and library upgrades and hours and probably bite into key basic services such as police and fire protection and public works.
None of the councilmembers polled actually credit Rybak for prompting their decision, though they congratulate him for his leadership on the thorny issue. Rather, they say they were prompted by hard reality.
"There was no choice," said Councilmember Lisa Goodman (7th Ward), who represents part of Downtown. "Either we significantly look at reducing the size of government or we face substantial, incomprehensible tax increases over the next 10-year period."
Councilmember Gary Schiff (9th Ward) attributes the council's changed thinking to Barrett Lane (13th Ward), the lone council Independent, whose profile is rising after years of going virtually ignored as its voice of fiscal restraint.
Said Schiff of his peers, "I think the one thing we all have in common is that we don't want rich people to leave the city, and we want poor people still to be able to afford to live in the city. Are we going to be able to agree on the same priorities for budget cuts? Time will tell."
No one yet knows exactly what those cuts will be. Lane said budget cuts could come from anywhere; nothing will be held sacred.
"I think everything is literally on the table in a way that it never has been before," he said.
How it will be
An 8 percent hike in overall tax revenues will translate into an even bigger hike for Minneapolis residential property owners.
Residential rates will rise an average 13 percent per year over the next 10 years under the plan. That's because statewide tax reforms enacted in 2001 shift the tax burden from commercial and industrial properties onto homeowners.
Owners of less-expensive dwellings will see bigger tax hikes in percentage terms. (See charts below).
Omdal said the 13 percent annual increase does not include taxes assessed by the county, school board, mosquito control district, the Metropolitan Council, or a bevy of other tax-levying authorities.
They do, however, figure in another 2001 state tax change that eliminates "limited market value," which capped assessment increases and meant some homes were taxed at less than full assessed value. That is being phased out over six years.
Police and fire, not parks and libraries?
Establishing a tax policy, of course, is merely the first stage in setting a budget. The heavy lifting will come this fall, when officials sit down to argue over which departments will see the deepest cuts. It is possible that the council coalition is a fragile one.
The mayor won't tip his hand on where he thinks cuts ought to be made, allowing department heads to suggest their own cuts before weighing in. He only suggests that some city-owned properties could be sold to get them on the tax rolls and raise revenue, or that some services, such as the city and park police, could be combined to cut costs.
Already, park and library board officials are protesting 1 percent cuts in their operating budgets under the plan.
Goodman thinks that if the choice is between increasing park and library funding and cutting fire and police protection, parks and libraries lose. "As needed and as justified as they may be, we can't be in the position of eliminating needed city services," she said.
"Public safety is number one," Schiff agreed. "Police and fire are going to take the least amount of cuts. Social services are going to get hit hard, and we're going to look to the county to pick that up."
Dario Anselmo, owner of Downtown's Fine Line, 318 1st Ave. N., likes the tax cap idea, repeating his mantra that Downtown businesses already are overtaxed. Like councilmembers, he wants police and fire services to remain intact, and also hopes sanitation services will be left alone.
But Anselmo is not as keen on cutting social services programs. He said they often target at-risk youth - the ones most likely to head Downtown to do damage once they spin out of control. But he also agreed that the county should provide those services, not the city.
Can it work
Councilmember Natalie Johnson Lee (5th Ward) voted for the plan with reservations. The only "aye" vote who was not a plan co-sponsor, Johnson Lee, who also represents Downtown, said she didn't like the way the Park and Library boards were brought into discussions near the end of the process. She also worries that social services - many of which she provides council leadership on - are too inviting as targets for the axe.
"The challenge is that anytime there is a budget cut, you have to fight like hell to save some of your social services programs in your department," Johnson Lee said. "Those are the easiest targets. The assumption is that the neediest people are not involved in the political process."
Lilligren, who is taking leadership classes at Harvard University, said he knew nothing of the plan until he received a phone call the Sunday before the policy was enacted. The plan's fast track worries him, he said.
He called the mayor's approach an "aggressive" way to tackle the city's budget woes, adding that it reflects a realization that changes are needed in the way the city spends its tax money.
Still, he said needs to know more before he can fully support it. And he has some doubts.
"The budget cuts may cause more hardship in some of the communities that I represent -- lower-income, higher crime, more development opportunities and blight -- than on some of the more stable, static wards," Lilligren said.
Several councilmembers have mentioned cutting city social spending, typically a county responsibility in Minnesota.
Peter McLaughlin, the 4th District Hennepin County commissioner whose jurisdiction lies entirely within Minneapolis, is supportive.
Five years ago, he said, the city began transferring most of its Health Department functions to the county, and that has worked out well. It could do the same thing with jobs training and employment programs, he said.
McLaughlin is worried, however, that the city could follow the school board's lead and drop out of programs like Way To Grow, which is designed to help young parents in Minneapolis connect with social services.
"I think we've got an obligation to look at these questions," McLaughlin said. "A financial crisis changes the dynamic."
Past leaders skeptical
Some question if the city is in quite the fiscal pickle that officials say it is. One of those is former councilmember Joan Campbell, the past chair of the Ways and Means Committee.
An unapologetic liberal, Campbell doubts that, in Lane's words, "there is more government than we can afford."
"I was always willing to raise taxes in order to accomplish what I thought government should do," Campbell said. "As a liberal, I believe that government should make a difference in people's lives."
She said it is difficult for her now to hear what she called Lane's fiscal conservatism overtaking the council's thinking. While serving, she and Lane often were at loggerheads.
Lou DeMars, a former council president who served throughout the 1970s, ribbed the current crop of elected officials for spending too much time listening to conservative talk-show king Rush Limbaugh. He also takes them to task for blaming today's woes on past councils, saying that they, like the current council, simply were serving their constituents.
"I don't understand why they're doing what they're doing," he said.
DeMars is blunt: the tax policy is doomed. While Budget Director Omdal says the policy aims mainly to guide the department heads in their budgeting decisions over the next 10 years, DeMars said a decade-long policy, in the end, will amount to meaningless words on a page.
"They can't bind the next council," DeMars said. "The best they can do is restrict themselves for their current terms in office. Anything after that is up to the next council or the next mayor, whoever that is."
Herding the cats on the current council over time will be hard enough, DeMars said. The toughest part of the process - deciding who gets what - has not even begun.
When it does, DeMars predicts, there will be ship-jumpers.
"Once you find out what the cuts are going to be," he said, "how are you going to hold the votes together?"


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A's closer Andrew Bailey has strained forearm
Tests revealed Tuesday that Oakland closer Andrew Bailey has a strained forearm, news that came as a relief to the Athletics after they feared he had a serious elbow injury.
There is no timetable for his return, but Bailey will resume throwing once the discomfort subsides.
"It's good news for us, definitely. We'll go from there," manager Bob Geren said in Surprise, where an Athletics split squad played the Kansas City Royals.
The A's were concerned when Bailey left Monday's game against Cleveland in the seventh inning, grabbing his right elbow after throwing a pitch to Ezequiel Carrera.
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Bears remain in complete control as the bulls spent another day not only unable to mount a serious offensive, but losing a little more ground. Meanwhile the bear supply lines are catching up (oversold working off) and more room is opening up to the downside of the wave 3 channel.
The trade right now is simple. Stay short as long as the top line of the channel holds. Take troops home when we near the bottom of the channel and put some back to work when we are near the top, but net on net working off short positions and starting to prepare for the bull bounce that is coming. That bounce may still be several days away. The only thing I know for certain is it will come without warning and you better have a plan ready for when the bulls break this momentum. Until they do however, sit back and enjoy the ride with your bear troops taking some home on each break lower.
If you happen to be still bullish right now and picking a bottom or double bottom then you might want to panic if it starts to look like my wave 3 of 3 of 3 count on deck is right. You could lose a very quick 5-10% or much more if you get caught on a stampede break to new bear market lows. The margin clerks might be very busy this weekend.
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Got that right about the margin clerks, Doc, especially those at Goldman who are having to collect margin calls from their own executives – couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.
Hey, let's give the Doc some tunes for his soldiers… I read his title and this tune popped into my head, just substitute the word "Band" with the word "Bulls!"
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Had alot of success today with an elo deck i have never tried before with a clan i have never tried before but have fallen in love with.
Todays lesson: Elo
Xiander - Monday 13/09/2010, 19:58
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Nice deck.
Wrong forum though.
Xiander - Monday 13/09/2010, 23:07
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Ah, sorry, most people do not play in ELO with the goal of getting far in daily tourneys, which is what confused me.
I do really like the deck. Very well balanced.
Does cley work well for you? I can´t help feeling ambivalent about him. His dammage is nice, but he needs confidence to work.
Well the daily tournament thing is my own style. I play at my very best when i am going fast one battle after another and everything is just flowing win lose or draw. So if i play in elo with the view of getting far in a daily tournament i am playing at my best and not focusing on elo scores which really helps. Over thinking can be your downfall or at least mine anyway.
With regards to cley he is an interesting card. If it wasn't for his bonus he would be regarded as useless because soa would kill him. However i find him to be of good effect If you play someone like sasha or sandro to combat your opponents big hitting opener then normally it is a win for you due to their abilities. Common procedure after a first round like that since you haven't caused alot of damage and you can't win by 2hitko is to damage reduce or not pill on your next card. Throw 2 pillz on cley at this stage and if you pull it off losing should no longer be an option. If it doesn't work then it's still not game over and you might have saved yourself a damage reducer that will come in handy for the 3rd round which will then activate your revenge cards to kill in the 4th. That's only one scenario but i think it can be agreed it is a common one.
All-GioYNWA - Tuesday 14/09/2010, 02:57
Cley ain't useless without his bonus. I use him as a splash card on my tournament decks sometimes.


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Equity futures are down considerably this morning, nearly wiping out all of yesterday's gains. The dollar is higher, bonds are up slightly, oil is lower, gold & silver are down slightly, and most food commodities are lower. Corn is now back below the breakout point I showed a couple days ago.
The situation in Europe is driving the Euro significantly lower. Riots over austerity measures have been occurring in Greece and while that's going on you have criminal bankers and others like Steve Forbes over there proposing to "privatize" Greek assets (and split them up for their pleasure and control.) Of course the bankers tried to do the same thing in Iceland but fortunately the people took action and told the bankers to go pound sand. Hopefully more people will follow Iceland's example in that regard.
I really like the way the media tried to justify the oversold bounce yesterday – like they could even hint at supposedly "good" data. What nonsense, as there was certainly no data that was good, even as trumped up as most of it is. Today's data is also mostly negative.
Of course the corrupt and conflicted narcissists over at the Mortgage Banker's Association managed to pull a positive number out of thin air for the previous week, reporting that mortgage applications increased by 4.5% in the past week, but get this, they also say that refinance applications increased by a whopping 16.5%! My, oh my… that is a whopper… of a fantasy or a lie – pick one. Sorry, but anyone believing that refinance applications can make that size of swing in one week is on some powerful drugs. The people at the MBA are sick and need help – for those who don't know the history here, these are the same guys who derided Americans for walking away from their underwater mortgages at the same time that they were doing the same exact thing from their own corporate headquarters. That's called hypocrisy, and that's just the tip of how messed up these people are. Their data is a great example of a special interest group who tries to influence "consumers" perceptions by manipulating data to spin those perceptions. In my opinion, the mortgage bankers behavior is a great example of why special interests should be separated from government and they should not be allowed to report major industry statistics on their own activities. At any rate, here's the joke for what it is, Econogullible reporting:
Mortgage bankers were very busy in the June 10 week as applications for both purchases and especially for refinancings jumped sharply. The purchase index rose 4.5 percent to offset a similar sized decrease in the prior week. The refinancing index added to a solid gain in the prior week with a 16.5 percent surge. Favorable terms are an important plus behind the demand with 30-year mortgages down three basis points to an average 4.51 percent. One week's data is only week's data but the June 10 week is a good start for the summer housing season. Home builders will have their say at 10:00 a.m. ET this morning with the housing market index.
Pleeeeaaaaase…. How Gullible can you be? Oh, that's right, got to shill to keep the façade in tact.
CPI numbers came in similar to the PPI with the month to month number softening but year over year accelerating. Regular readers know that these numbers also do not reflect reality, they understate overall inflation:
Consumer price inflation softened in May on a decline in energy costs. The consumer price index in May grew at a 0.2 percent rate, down from 0.4 percent in April. The latest figure, however, came in higher than the consensus forecast for no change. Excluding food and energy, the CPI jumped 0.3 percent, following a 0.2 percent rise the month before. Analysts had forecast a 0.2 percent increase.
Turning to major components, energy came down 1.0 percent, following a string of strong gains including 2.2 percent in April. Gasoline declined 2.0 percent after jumping 3.3 percent in April. Food prices rose 0.4 percent, matching the boost in April.
Within the core, indexes for apparel, shelter, new vehicles, and recreation all contributed to the acceleration, rising more in May than in April. These increases more than offset declines in the indexes for airline fare, tobacco, and personal care. New & used vehicles rose a strong 1.0 percent but this may be a temporary effect of supply disruptions of parts from Japan and less availability of some auto models.
Year-on-year, overall CPI inflation worsened to 3.4 percent (seasonally adjusted) from 3.1 percent in April. The core rate bumped up to 1.5 percent from 1.3 percent in April on a year-ago basis. On an unadjusted year-ago basis, the headline number was up 3.6 percent in May while the core was up 1.5 percent.
Today's inflation report lowers the odds of the Fed engaging in QE3 as there clearly are some warm spots within the CPI. With energy softening a bit, food price inflation is standing out more.
The Empire State Manufacturing Index cratered again, this time going all the way to negative 7.8 in June from May's positive 11.88 reading. This is way off of expectations with the consensus looking for positive 14:
HighlightsUmmm, it was the weather! No, it was Japan. But it couldn't possibly be debt saturated American "consumers" within their debt saturated governments, could it? Oh never mind, get out there and shop some more, your nation needs you… to be further in debt.
For the first time since November, monthly business conditions in the New York manufacturing region contracted in what is an ominous, though nevertheless still isolated, indication for the national economy. The Empire State index fell nearly 20 points in the June reading to minus 7.79 in what the report describes as a "steep" decline. New orders fell nearly 21 points to minus 3.61, again a negative reading indicating month-to-month contraction compared to May. Shipments are even worse, down nearly 35 points to minus 8.02.
Other details include faster delivery times, which is an indication of weak activity, and a moderating rate of inventory accumulation which is another sign of weakness. Input costs remain extremely high while pricing power for output prices is easing. The report also shows a moderating rise in the number of employees and a contraction in the workweek.
If the sister report on Thursday from the Philadelphia Fed also turns negative, talk will definitely pick up for contraction in the national ISM manufacturing report for June. National data for May on the manufacturing sector will be posted at 9:15 a.m. ET this morning in the industrial production report.
Industrial Production for May barely held onto positive at just .1%, again less than expected. The trend is definitely down here too, and an ominous sign is that Capacity Utilization fell to just 76.7%. That's a depression era read, again it's a sad statement that we are more than three years past the beginning of the collapse that began in '07 and that companies have had that long to reduce capacity yet even as they do so utilization remains low which tells me there is still too much capacity out there. That fact alone has implications for commercial real estate and also on employment data. Here's Econohope:
Industrial production posted a modest rise in May but was held back by a drop in utilities. Manufacturing improved moderately but was quite strong outside of autos. Overall industrial production in May edged up 0.1 percent, following no change in April (originally unchanged). The market median forecast was for a 0.2 percent gain.
However, manufacturing made a comeback, rebounding 0.4 percent in May, following a 0.5 percent fall the prior month. April auto production had been constrained by shortages of parts from Japan related to the March earthquake and tsunami and this damping effect appears to have continued into May with motor vehicle assemblies essentially flat. Excluding motor vehicles, manufacturing advanced a robust 0.6 percent after a 0.1 percent dip in April.
Utilities dropped 2.8 percent after increasing 2.4 percent the month before. Mining output expanded 0.5 percent after a 0.8 percent boost in April.
On a year-on-year basis, overall industrial production slowed to 3.4 percent from 4.7 percent in April.
Overall capacity utilization in May was unchanged at 76.7 and came in lower than the consensus estimate for 77.0 percent.
The details for the production report are quite encouraging as the headline number was weighed down by utilities and manufacturing excluding autos was very healthy. Taking into account that auto assemblies eventually will work around current parts shortages, forward momentum looks good and the national numbers for May are much more positive than the June numbers from the Empire State report.
The traditional non-NAICS numbers for industrial production may differ marginally from the NAICS basis figures.
Sorry Econohay, it is not fair to say that Capacity Utilization was unchanged. It was only unchanged when compared to the revised lower number from the previous month – you must compare oranges to oranges, that means initial report to initial report and revised number to revised number. This is a classic way that today's media creates a positive spin on negative data. The people reporting the data have learned this too and provide the open door with higher initial readings that get quietly revised downward later. Its part of the sickness that's infested today's pretend economy.
Speaking of sick, our own complicit U.S. Treasury works with the "Fed" to mask the flow of funds to obscure reality… no audit, no looking at the trail of money. But we know the trail… the "Fed" prints money or issues bonds indebting Americans and then they use that money to roll-over prior existing bonds (Ponzi), but they also send money (and gold) overseas to international banks. Then the Treasury gets to come out and say that those same international banks purchased bonds from the United States! It's simply a giant shell game to obscure the truth – the truth being that America cannot really finance our massive debts. So the Treasury and "Fed" work together to obscure reality and that's how we wind up with a positive flow of Treasury International Capital:
The net inflow of foreign investment improved in April but is still at a very moderate $30.6 billion, far below what's needed to fund the nation's fiscal debt and trade deficit. Private foreign accounts were however big buyers of US equities in the month with a net inflow of $16.6 billion. Including official accounts, the net inflow into equities was $17.8 billion. But April was a good month for the stock market which hit a peak at month end, a peak that is now a distant memory and which points to trouble for these readings in the coming reports.
Outside of equities, official accounts, which include foreign central banks, were the biggest buyers in the month with net inflow into Treasuries of $24.4 billion vs a net outflow from private accounts of $1.0 billion. There was a net outflow from both official and private accounts for corporate bonds. When including short-term securities, total inflow in the month nearly doubled to $127.1 billion which is a welcome positive. But a negative in the report is a high level of outflow from the US into foreign securities, at $14.2 billion in the month.
A look at Treasury holdings by nations shows a $7.6 billion rise in mainland China, which is also a positive, to $1.15 trillion and a small decline in Japan to $906.9 billion. UK-based accounts, which are the third largest holders of US Treasuries, shows a $7.8 billion increase to $333.0 billion.
Here's the entire TIC report:
TIC Press Release APRIL
By the way, recent articles suggest that the Chinese have divested themselves of 95% of the U.S. bonds they previously held. Of course the buyer of last resort was the U.S. government who simply printed money to buy them. If those reports are true (I don't know as I don't believe any of the flow data as there is no audit trail), then the Chinese no longer hold the supposed magical and mystical power over the United States that the threat of bond sales holds, now do they? Did the United States defuse that bomb at the expense of higher commodity prices and a weaker dollar? If so, it's a great example of how all loans get repaid with interest in one way or the other. Instead of just paying back the loans, you pay them back every time you eat, every time you fill up at the gas station.
The Home Builder's Housing Market Index cratered again in June, falling from the already depression level read of only 16 all the way to 13. And June is the middle of spring, it's supposed to be the time of year that shows strength. Yikes.


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A woman was arrested after police say they got a complaint about her going door to door, and said they found she was trying to sell pornographic VHS tapes.
Gaffney police said they received complaints last Tuesday about a woman carrying a bag going from house to house. One homeowner said the woman came to her door, and when she did not answer it, the woman moved on to another house.
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Early reports identified him only as "the Berlin patient." But Timothy Ray Brown, the first person cured of HIV, was born and raised in Seattle.
Now, Brown is returning to his hometown to help boost efforts at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and elsewhere to extend the cure to others.
"I don't want to be the only person in the world cured of HIV," Brown said in an interview. "I want there to be a lot more like me."
During his visit, Brown will participate in a science forum at the Hutch and a free, community event Wednesday at Seattle University, where he was once a student. Seattle is also the first stop on his national fundraising tour for The Timothy Ray Brown Foundation, devoted to the search for a cure.
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His own cure was a grueling procedure that required a combination of serendipity and scientific innovation difficult to duplicate.
Diagnosed with HIV in 1995, Brown kept the disease mostly in check with a regimen of drugs. Then in 2006, while living in Berlin, he began to feel so weak he could barely ride his bicycle to work.
German doctors diagnosed a highly lethal form of leukemia.
Brown's first stroke of luck was coming under the treatment of bone-marrow transplant expert Dr. Gero Hütter.
Hütter knew that about one in 100 Northern Europeans carry a genetic mutation that blocks the AIDS virus from getting into their immune cells, shielding them from infection. Since a bone-marrow transplant basically involves killing off the patient's defective immune system with radiation and chemotherapy, and replacing it with one from a donor, Hütter wondered if using a donor with the protective mutation might rid Brown of HIV at the same time it cured his leukemia.
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With a $20 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Hutch scientists are tweaking patients' own stem cells to make them resistant to HIV.
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The treated stem cells would then be infused back into the patient, where the hope is they would proliferate and replace the patient's HIV-plagued immune system.
The research is still in an early stage, but the scientists hope to start clinical trials soon.
In a sign of the growing optimism about a cure, two other labs also received major NIH grants at the same time as the Hutch. Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, are working to rev up patients' immune systems to fight the virus. At the University of North Carolina, the focus is on drugs that will roust out hidden pockets of infection.
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Brown said his foundation will push for more cure research funding, a cause that convinced him to step back into the spotlight.
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I have never tried adding black tin to cullet so I don't know. The yellow is the main color silver presents. If Calcedonia gets stirred, it turns gray. It is self defeating to gather calcedonia glasses. stirring is to be avoided. Heat treatment is really key to success. Hot then cold, then warm maybe then cool. Then hot, then cool. It goes on and on. I am currently making full pots of it at 80 lbs and there is no clear in the work at all but I do have three pots of the calcedonia, all tone different from the main pot. Fun but pricey. It looks like views from the Hubble.
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When I was finalizing the formulations with Jim he asked if I wanted to add a decolorizing agent. I think he mentioned cerium. I wanted color in those batches so I declined, but perhaps it would work well in my reduced clear cullet. It is a pee-ish yellow probably on its way to amber with more tin added.
Cerium is not a decolorizer. Erbium would be a choice but it leaves a faint pink meant to block green tones as did selenium with cobalt. I don't really understand what you are trying to do, or why. It just seems all over the map.
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Hi Dave, you posted this a while back...
"Throwing in about 20-25 grams of black tin per 10# glass (preferably batch for better mixing) with any glass you're melting = instant reduction glass.
Reduced clear on top of reactive glasses = fun. Reduced clear frit on top of reactive glasses = more fun.
This will radically change or disappear some colors so if you're thinking of doing it with a colored glass check with us first.
As already mentioned, you don't need to do this with colors that require reduction to exist, such as copper ruby, silver glasses. etc."
What colors are "Reactive" to you, if not the silver glasses? I looked at the reactive colors in opaque and transparent from Olympic and they are mostly the Iris colors which are silvers. There are others, but I was curious what you defined as the reactive colors.
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Gold and silver glasses are reactive with each other as with copper. Silver is the influence in making Gold glasses change from simple rubies to iris etc.
Adding black tin to a clear is kind of setting up a dog fight between glasses poor in oxygen and glasses that are rich in oxygen. I used to watch others in Santa Fe pouring enormous amounts of silver into clear cullet to get the same reactions one would expect in an oxygen poor glass.
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So, I am incorrect but with a large caveat. Volf indicates that Cerium can indeed be used as a decolorizer but only in the complete absence of Antimony, Arsenic or Vanadium. Even then, it is best coupled with Selenium and neodymium with a potential sneeze of manganese. It's on Pages 401-402 of Chemical Approach to Glass. It certainly surprised me and I would be inclined to stick to Erbium if I was doing it at all.
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I just bought Coloured Glasses from Weyl. Good price on Amazon...$50 in paperback. Volf is at $200 currently.
I looked at the price of erbium when Jordan described his pink color test and it was pretty $$$. Must work well if you would rather use it to remove color.
The mechanism of action for the decolorizers (as described by CMOG) is oxidation of tramp metals. It wouldn't make much sense for me to add oxidation agents into a glass that I just made reducing...like your dog fight analogy. The yellow color is just going to have to be a side product. I'll add less tin next time.
Do you think it is the tin or something else in Cristalica that is turning yellow?
If I had to decolorize, I'd use Erbium. I think 8 grams per 100 lbs is not that much to spend on.
I have on numerous occasions tried to make a cerium Titanium yellow and never had any success at all. I am not sure what Cristalica uses for a fining agent. I would have used antimony trioxide as my tool of choice but it is popular now to use sodium sulfate AKA saltcake. Now I just tried that at a friends suggestion on a reducing glass and it really discolored it badly to where I won't try that again. I think I put 50 grams of saltcake in 80lbs of a selenium pink glass, replacing 50 grams of sodium carbonate so I did not consider that to be a lot of S03 being replaced. It really darkened it badly. I have the spec sheet on the Cristalica and don't see anything there that would cause a yellow tone as I see it. I would not think having black tin in your reducing clear should be a source either, but if you say it's yellow, it's yellow. Iron can do strange things and it certainly has a bunch of valence states.
Weyl is a tough read. You will do it many many times if you are serious. I found after about ten years it made more sense. The problem I have is particularly with the treatment of silver. Both Volf and Weyl act as if it's a renegade to be avoided and I think the renegade part is true but don't think you're going to settle in with some consistency, you won't. It will go south on you in a heartbeat.
In the Joy of cooking, Julia Childs offers up an interesting recipe for mayonnaise. It is straight forward enough until you get to this cryptic observation " "Don't bother trying to make mayonnaise in an electrical storm".
I have certainly been known to have trouble with some colors when the barometer falls. Less air pressure is less air in the blower. She's into ionization.
I think the price on Volf is stable. Mine is hardbound and he printed 20 of them but I had thought the paperback was less. He may be running out. Those things all have the life of a mayfly. If you can find "Recipes" by Finn Lyngaard, grab it. Igneous glass had a limited number of copies Finn's widow sold him. Finn is dead and gone but the Thuringen recipes are just jewels. It is in the Rakow in the original German. Volf , I've seen as the 1981 original priced at $2,000 or more.
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8 grams erbium should be very doable. I'll give it a try and see what happens. I really liked that pink Jordan got and with some left over erbium will be tempted to try that also. Pink and purple use to sell much better for me...everything is cyclical.
I'll snap a photo of my punty bucket...looks like the dog peed on it.
I'm ready to place a new order for unoxidized batch via Jim. Any chance you two were able to chat?
Jim dropped the ball and went off to Murano. I don't know if he has come back yet. We have certainly agreed he can mix it. I'll write him again.
If your clear was decolorized with selenium, it's possible you could get a yellow tone. I remember Spruce Pine inadvertently getting a pink at one point that was attributable to Se. Just not a yellow. The Goddess Selen is an interesting woman. I just can't see using cerium for that. Any Cristalica I have from when I brought the stuff over here from Dobern two- three years back for Spruce Pine ( Jeez time flies) showed no color at all. It was water white.
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Thanks, Pete. I'm hoping he's back but not sure. I've been waiting to try him as I imagine the backlog of orders is nuts.
I can suggest only one other source of metal contamination in my clear. I made the Cristalica frit that I mixed with black tin by ladling into a galvanized bucket full of water. I doubt much zinc would have come off but surely some did.
I'm currently fishing about to see if anyone else is experiencing what you are seeing. It's the same as in crucibles. When I get a single call as a complaint, I always start asking around if anyone else is having the same problem. If It's "Yes", it just became my problem. If it's "No", then its another person either mistreating their pot, or just not understanding that they don't last forever.
Cullet, when it's being bad is quite indiscriminate. It goes after everyone and thy finally do compare notes. That's one of the things I love about craftweb. Strength in numbers. I have a few calls in, here and there. i'm at a loss to explain yellow. I can explain other things, but not that. Again, the stuff I have in the tractor shed is water white . I don't think the Zinc explains it at all.
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Just for some additional info:
That crucible has never seen anything but Cristalica and this was my first time adding black tin. I had about 1/4 glass left of a 80 lb crucible at the end of a day. Added 20lbs fritted Cristalica with 50g black tin. Went from clear to yellow overnight.
Will post a color pick later.
Staying away from this: Are you melting any cristalica without additives? What do they look like?
I have always added black tin to a raw batch, never a cullet. What I wanted was a clear that wa receptive to having such materials as Silver bromide to it and in deed it was receptive. Silver flowed on the surface, it never balled up as I would expect in an oxidized clear.
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Jim confirmed, he does not use cerium as a decolorizer. ( no one does actually, despite CMOG) .Start over.
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I didn't mean to sidetrack you with the idea of cerium as a decolorizer. I should be more careful when I mention things in relation to Jim. I don't doubt that I just heard him wrong or didn't remember what he said.
I never add things to my clear Cristalica. I don't even wash it...just goes from the box into the crucible. The main reason I noticed the yellow was because it was such a contrast from my normal clear.
So, normally the cristalica is clear? So if you add the black tin, it changes colors? I admit surprise but if you turn it to frit, is there a difference between fritting in a galvanized bucket as opposed to something else? We are in an elimination process here, so you're clear about that.
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When I use anything to make Cristalica frit it has always been clear/white. The yellow color did not come on until I added black tin, melted overnight and used it the next day. I could see the tint as I gathered but it became very noticeable in the punty bucket. I haven't made frit with it after the tin addition, but I would guess it will look pale yellow.
well that might just be a nice color. One learns something every day but it will be based in the modifiers and stabilizers. One size ruins all is a good thought. How much did you add?
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Here are pics of the color change. First is a couple punty shards, before and after tin addition. Other is fragments of a bubble that didn't look good so I bagged it.
Not a bad yellow...
50g/20lb frit. Frit was melted on top of ~20 lbs existing glass.
that would be a beautiful glass to solid work. looks green to me though...
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Indeed, a pinch of erbium would clean it up... I'll look at the potential of tin to make a yellow but it might be more likely that the existing iron in that glass has flipped valences.
I seems to me that if you are trying to turn an inherently oxidizing glass , such as Cristalica into a reducing glass by overwhelming it with black tin, my question is, Are you trying to color this reduced clear? If you are, the discoloration doesn't matter. If you're trying to make some sort of free flowing clear that takes silvering well, you might consider just getting some SP87 color base. You have to mix it but it has no nitrates in it.
Jim can indeed mix both my clear oxidized and my non oxidized formulas.They fit each other just fine and should fit cristalica but be a bit lower. I can't say about fit with the formula you had handed to you under some table since I no longer work that stuff. I do have this concern that you think my stuff to be low melt material and that's a matter of interpretation. It was designed for Littleton to replace SP87 if the price of Lithium went out of control and that hasn't happened yet. It is high potash which lend itself to excellent coloring and polishing characteristics but potash also tends to make a glass more viscous. I'm quite pleased with it but I suspect stemware makers might not like it at all, unless they like polishing too.
Where are we going and why am I in this basket?
Indeed, better as a new thread.
Where are we going and why am I in this basket?
I can see where it could be called green...sort of lemon-limeish (brand name: limelight).
I was curious about silver chloride accents and read your posts (and Dave's) about it flowing on reduced clear glass. It worked. I never had the silver flow like that before. I gathered over it and seemed like it flowed out between the gathers. Is that even possible? I used way too much. I'm always experimenting and trying to find techniques to potentially combine and find something "unique". For this experiment, I was trying to combine silver chloride accents and chalcedony. The flowing silver overwhelmed everything and I'll have to try again.
It really wasn't very hard to make Cristalica reducing at least at my 6000ft altitude.
BTW silver chloride chunks are available from US pigment for those who don't have a stash of silver nitrate, or nitric acid and a bunch of coins. Fun stuff. I've made silver bromide from Pete's and Henry's instructions and it was a little easier to handle...less chalky. Of course my bromide stuff was very fresh and the chloride may have been on the shelf a while.
I'm hoping to get 100 lbs of your batches from Jim to get a feel for the viscosity and melting. I love the way the older formula works. Thanks so much, Pete.
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Rocky defense playing role in D-backs' slow start
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PHOENIX -- Last year the D-backs were regarded as one of, if not the, best defensive team in the Majors.
This year, not so much.
In 2013, the D-backs were named by Wilson as baseball's top defensive team, but this year they entered Tuesday's game leading the National League in errors with 27.
"I think the most concerning thing for me is probably the defense," D-backs general manager Kevin Towers said. "We've always taken great pride in that."
It would appear that the struggles on offense might be a part of the problem.
"A lot of those are just guys that are taking their offensive struggles out to the field," Towers said of the miscues. "I think as some of our hitters start to pick it up and swing the bat better our defense will improve."
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Talk:Orthodoxy in Australasia
Macedonian Orthodox
The status of the Macedonian Orthodox Church is that of schism from the rest of Orthodoxy. Their overseas dioceses are unlisted on the remainder of 'collation' pages (eg Orthodoxy in America). Is it proper to list them here? --— by Pιsτévο talk complaints at 23:41, April 29, 2006 (CDT)
In terms of population, number of churches and missions, the Macedonian Orthodox are the second largest Eastern Orthodox jurisdiction in Australia. They have a permanent bishop for Australia and New Zealand. At the moment it is Metropolitan Petar, although that is likely to change soon.
If ROCOR is listed then Macedonia should be listed.
Using the above definition of 'schism', then both are "in schism from the rest of Orthodoxy". But both enjoy cordial relations with some other jurisdiction(s) within Orthodoxy.
Neither ROCOR nor Macedonia are 'heretical'.
I have been trying to get a copy of the Tomos of autocephaly supposedly issued by the Serbian Holy Synod and which was supposed to have been later revoked after intense lobbying from the Orthodox Churches in Greece and Turkey. That would help sort out some of the problems. But it is difficult to get hold of. If it ever existed.
Patriarch Alexii has held talks with both sides. Moscow has offered to be peace broker between the warring factions. Moscow has also decried the attempt by Serbia to set up a parallel hierarchy in FYRO Macedonia. And in balance, Moscow has also decried the imprisonment in Macedonia of the parallel hierarch.
The Serbian Orthodox statement on their official website that all Orthodox Churches support the positions taken by the Serbian Patriarchate is just plain untrue.
Antioch had a very successful facting-finding mission to Macedonia a few years ago. The Macedonian Hierarchy tried to hijack it and turn it into a show of support for the current Macedonian hierarchy. The Antiochian Metropolitan Archbishop who visited there was given national media coverage daily, especially when he suggested the bishops should get out of their palaces and meet all their people, start teaching them all about the Orthodox faith, and start teaching the real meaning of the sacraments and making them widely available to the faithful. The faithful loved hearing about their Orthodox faith. The hierarchy was less than amused.
Both the Serbian and the Macedonian Orthodox Churches suffer from "the Balkanian mentality" as one of my Balkan emigre clergy friends describes it.
Plus there is the siege mentality exhibited from south of the FYRO Macedonian border, to contend with.
A NPOV would be to ignore the imperial aspirations of all three key Churches in this dispute, and to recognise the defacto situation at the moment.
The Macedonian Orthodox are a recognised religious group in Australian Census publications and well covered in Hughes and Godley's "Eastern Orthodox in Australia".
All Australian Religious Sociologists would list them. The Redfern Phanariot certainly would not.
A matter for you as editor of course.
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- Difference between ROCOR and Macedonian is the recognition by some of the 14/15 churches - MOC is recognised by no one, whereas ROCOR is recognised by a small number. Allowing the Macedonian metropolitanate on this page would also necessitate adding them on any other page where there is an overseas diocese (eg America). Having said all that, since its a decision that could lead to precedents formed over OWiki, it's probably best to have a larger amount of opinions. --— by Pιsτévο talk complaints at 17:51, April 30, 2006 (CDT)
- As a group whose status is currently "from the Orthodox Church, but in schism" as per the POV of "world Orthodoxy," they're worthy of a mention. But I would also very much mention their status. The Macedonian Orthodox Church article also is currently quite POV and needs to be completely rewritten, IMO.
- They don't quite compare to the ROCOR for a number of reasons, but I do think they're worth mentioning on their own merits. Their current absence from the American articles is mainly due to a lack of information on them by the American articles' primary compiler. :) —Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!) 21:21, April 30, 2006 (CDT)
Which Churches do you say officially recognise ROCOR? chrisg 2006-05-05 : 2346 EAST


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United States presidential election, 2004
The Campaign
Republicans pointed out that Kerry was liberal, even more so than Ted Kennedy. Bush's popularity numbers were at a point that most Presidents would not get re-elected. Indeed, Kerry led in the polls for most of the campaign season, but failed to get a bump from the Democratic convention, especially when confronted with strong allegations from Swift Boat veterans that his war record was exaggerated and far from heroic. The Republican convention painted Kerry as a flip-flopper, and the Bush-Cheney ticket did receive a bounce. Even so, with a campaign to galvanize the young people to his cause with odd slogans such as "vote or die", Kerry still had a slight lead heading into the election and it appeared he would win.
The Election
On election night, voter turnout was heavy, as the Democrats had hoped, but they underestimated the Republican turnout - which was heavier than expected. Karl Rove's strategy of getting gay marriage amendment propositions on the ballot in key states helped to get out the conservative base. Exit polling was known to be unreliable as more Democrats than Republicans agree to talk afterwards, but this election truly highlighted that. It began to leak on the internet that Kerry had won as the polling showed that he won Ohio by 5 points. The networks believed that Kerry was going to be the next President and all they had to do was report it as it unfolded. In the end George W. Bush won. At first Kerry and Edwards refused to concede and, indeed, Edwards wanted to contest the election, but there were no close states like in 2000. Their best bet, Ohio, was won by Bush with a margin of 120,000 votes. Kerry conceded the next morning and Bush was re-elected as President.
In a rare occurrence, it was found afterwards that Kerry hadn't spent all of the money in his war chest, having over $10 million that could have gone to last minute advertising. The Democratic party was upset and Kerry never did explain why he allowed this to occur.
Due to the high voter turnout and lack of a strong third party candidate, George Bush's tally of over 62 million votes was the most in United States History and surpassed his winning total in 2000 by over 11 million votes. John Kerry's 59 million was the second highest for a Presidential candidate, and, of course, the highest for a losing candidate. The relative closeness of the victory was due in part to lopsided Democrat victories in New York and California; ignoring these states, Bush beat Kerry by 5 1/2 percentage points in the remaining 48 states.
After the election, there were a number of allegations of voter fraud and irregularities by those who couldn't face that their candidate lost,[1][2][3][4] and some Democratic poll workers were convicted of misconduct and failure to perform official duties in a vote rigging scheme to bypass a recount of Presidential election ballots.,[5][6] but in the end it meant little to the overall scheme of how the election went.
Adding to a disappointing presidential election for the Democratic party, one of Minnesota's electoral college members inexplicably cast his vote for John Edwards instead of Kerry. New York also made a mistake and gave their electoral votes to "John L. Kerry" instead of John F. Kerry. The state electors gave a corrected set of results to the Senate.
|Popular Vote
|Electoral Vote
|George W. Bush
|John Kerry
|Ralph Nader
|Michael Badnarik
- ↑ http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won.php
- ↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen/print
- ↑ https://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/03/kennedy/
- ↑ https://www.motherjones.com/arts/books/2005/11/recounting_ohio.html
- ↑ Convicted for Ohio Vote Fraud, Media Forgets They're Democrats, By Warner Todd Huston. Retrieved from TheRealityCheck.org November 11, 2007.
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- ↑ Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
- ↑ One Minnesota Kerry elector voted for John Edwards.


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Ysalamiri were lizard-like tree-dwellers about 50 centimeters in length native to the planet Myrkr, most known for their ability to repel the Force by creating a Force-neutral bubble. This ability evolved in response to predation by the Force-sensitive vornskrs. Many ysalamiri grouped together would expand their Force-neutral bubble by varying distances – sometimes by kilometers.
Anatomy[edit | edit source]
- "I hate that thing."
- ―Jaina Solo, complaining about the ysalamir's ability to repel the Force
Adult ysalamiri grew up to 50 centimeters and hatched their young from bubble-like eggs.[1]
Ysalamiri sank their claws into the Olbio trees on which they lived and drew nutrients.[3] It was very difficult to remove a ysalamir from its tree without killing it, although Talon Karrde's smugglers found a way, enabling Grand Admiral Thrawn to do it as well. Thrawn used ysalamiri for defense by attaching them to a back harness or a nutrient frame which allowed him and his men to remain safely inside the ysalamiri's Force repelling bubble. He used this trick to gain the attention of cloned Dark Jedi Master Joruus C'baoth and accelerated the Spaarti cloning process without the usual side-effects (which occurred when similar Force imprints interfered with one another).
Ysalamiri did not actually negate the Force; since all existence was infused with Force energy,[4] this would not be possible. Rather, they projected a bubble inside which users were unable to exert any influence over the Force. A single bubble measured up to 10 meters in diameter; large groups of ysalamiri could extend their collective bubble by kilometers, but only in great numbers.[5]
Miriskin was a commodity supposedly made from ysalamir skin.[6]
Ysalamiri in culture[edit | edit source]
Having long admired the tenacity of the ysalamiri, the Jedi Order named a form of lightsaber combat, Makashi, after the creature.[7]
Tyber Zann was known for keeping ysalamiri in cages to prevent Force users from being able to cause too much damage.
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- Darth Plagueis (Mentioned only)
- "Sword of the Empire" on Wizards.com (original article link, backup link) (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Tiny Death Star (Non-canonical appearance)
- Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
- Shadows in the Force (Mentioned only)
- "A Credit for Your Thoughts"—Star Wars Gamer 2 (Mentioned only)
- Heir to the Empire (First appearance)
- Dark Force Rising
- The Last Command
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
- I, Jedi
- Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (Non-canon appearance in multiplayer mode)
- The Crystal Star (Mentioned only)
- The New Rebellion
- Vision of the Future
- The New Jedi Order: Dark Tide II: Ruin (Mentioned only)
- The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory I: Conquest (Mentioned only)
- The New Jedi Order: Star by Star
- The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
- The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic II: Refugee (in Tahiri Veila's dream)
- Dark Nest I: The Joiner King (Mentioned only)
- Legacy of the Force: Fury
- Fate of the Jedi: Omen
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You'll only get tomorrow's Xbox One firmware update if you manually choose to
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UPDATE: For clarity's sake, I should have written "accept" instead of "download", as the Microsoft rep told me that users will have to manually "accept" this first one. It may auto-download, it may not. We'll find out very soon. Either way, it's a one-time situation.


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Sir James Frazer studied magic and religion in diverse cultures across the world.
"For four days before they planted seed in the earth the Pipiles of Central America kept apart from their wives "in order that on the night before planting they might indulge their passions to the fullest extent; certain persons are even said to have been appointed to perform the sexual act at the very moment when the first seeds were deposited in the ground." The use of their wives at that time was indeed enjoined upon the people by the priests as a religious duty, in default of which it was not lawful to sow the seed.
The same means which are adopted to stimulate the growth of the crops are employed to ensure the fruitfulness of trees. In some parts of Amboyna, when the state of the clove plantation indicates that the crop is likely to be scanty, the men go naked to the plantations by night, and there seek to fertilise the trees precisely as they would impregnate women, while at the same time they call out for "More cloves!" This is supposed to make the trees bear fruit abundantly.
A couple who have given proof of extraordinary fertility by becoming the parents of twins are believed by the Baganda to be endowed with a corresponding power of increasing the fruitfulness of the plantain-trees, their staple food. Some time after the birth of the twins a ceremony is performed, the object of which is to transmit the reproductive virtue of the parents to the plantains. The mother lies down on her back in the thick grass near the house and places a flower of the plantain between her legs; then her husband comes and knocks the flower away with his genital member. Further, the parents go through the country performing dances in the gardens of favoured friends, for the purpose of causing the plantain-trees to bear fruit more abundantly.
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In the Ukraine on St. George's Day the priest in his robes, attended by his acolytes, goes out to the fields of the village, where the crops are beginning to show green above the ground, and blesses them. After that the young married people lie down in couples on the sown fields and roll several times over on them, in the belief that this will promote the growth of the crops. In some parts of Russia the priest himself is rolled by women over the sprouting crop, and that without regard to the mud and holes which he may encounter.


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Clare Bowen on Landing her Big Break on Nashville
Big hair, sequined dresses, and scandals are all hallmarks of country music, so it's about time that a television show captured all of the drama. Nashville, a new ABC series, portrays a fictional account of the entertainment scene in the famed music capital. The series stars Friday Night Lights' Connie Britton as a legendary country singer who's being pushed to tour with a sassy up-and-coming pop singer (played by Hayden Panettiere). Clare Bowen is part of the larger ensemble cast, playing an author who stumbles into songwriting. You may not recognize the tunes that Clare's character pens on the show, and that's because musicians like Elvis Costello wrote original songs exclusively for Nashville. We spoke to Clare about her audition process and thoughts on recording an album of her own.
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