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I went through my cedar chest today and found these assignments from first grade. I also found a love letter to Jesus and a vampire story I wrote when I was six (look out Stephenie Meyer!) I think it's funny to see the little seedlings of myself in here. A little bit smart-ass, a little bit suck-up and a dream to play in the major leagues (it could still happen.)
KNOWING YOURSELF---Taking care of yourself is important and something you will do if you value yourself. Complete the statements below.
1. When I feel well, I… PLAY
(Rest? What seven year old says rest? Mother, I'm a bit fatigued, I think I'll just have a little rest.)
3. When I am encouraged I…DO IT
(Damn straight)
(I'm trying to set myself up as a woman of action.)
(Smart ass. What the hell do you think I do when I'm happy? I act happy goddamn it.)
(From this answer we can clearly see that my first grade class has just finished some sort of "feel good about yourself" video where they told us things like when you're angry "let it out." I do not remember any video but know that my reality is quite the contrary. I am still holding grudges from around that time. Like how I wasn't allowed to get cupcakes at the bakery because my grandma said I'd only lick the frosting off even though STEVE was the one who only ate the frosting, I ate the WHOLE cupcake thank you very much. (boy it feels good to let that out.)
9. When I am alone I… FEEL SORT OF SCARED
(So basically, were you to happen upon little Stephie sitting alone, you'd find me sort of scared and looking sort of sad. Like a puppy that just got kicked.)
(I'm sure I thought I'd impress the teacher by using the word "mope" but don't think I got its full effect here.)
(I am sooooo full of shit. I can't even recall ever eating an orange as a child, let alone giving it a top three spot in the favorites. Obviously it was the healthiest sounding food, that self-conscious little first grader Steph could think of on the fly.)
(As of that survey I had never attempted any of those things. Sounds to me like I was recalling what I could from whatever exercise program was on while I waited for the Mickey Mouse club in the morning. Although with pushups apparently I knew it would be unrealistic to make it plural—that's still true.)
(What a fucking suck up. Hmmm, let's see, will Sister Lucille see through my veiled attempt at flattery?)
(I never played baseball)
(twenty three years later I still do two out of those three on a regular basis)
1. I hope I can be a sea diver
2. I hope I can live to a ripe old age (Am I seven or 72?)
3. I hope I can always do good in school.
4. I hope I can have a religious education
5. I hope I can always help others.
6. I hope I can be the first girl to play major league baseball.
We were then instructed to circle the ONE goal we thought could actually become a reality. I would like to meet the person who came up with this piece of early educational genius. Here's a swell idea, let's get a bunch of seven year olds to list out all their hopes and dreams and then whittle them down one by one until they're left with only a single goal in life.
The assignment was to think about times when YOUR actions might have caused others stress. However, secure in the knowledge that I couldn't possibly be causing stress to anyone else, I instead used the page to air my grievances about family and friends.
HOME: Everybody always giggles at me because I'm chubby.
WITH FRIENDS: My best friend keeps bragging about what she has and what she does.
A. Find a quiet spot out-of-doors. Relax yourself.
B. What you see: car
What you hear: wind rustling in the trees (bet I was particularly proud of that one)
What you Smell: flowers
What you Touch: the grass
What you Taste: an apple
(Again, a huge bushel of crap. I have painted a lovely scene, rustling breeze, grass, flowers, the taste of apple on my tongue. I highly doubt there was even an apple in the house when I did this assignment. Most likely I filled this out while sitting at the dining room table eating chips and dip and inhaling the smoke from grandma's Virginia Slims.)
Here's my favorite part though.
C. Did anything hamper your ability to concentrate? Yes, the outdoors
(It's so perfect. When you go outside, what's keeping you from being able to concentrate? The Outside asshole! Who can think with all this fucking nature? I never was an outdoorsy kind of girl. I was more of a watch TV and do cross-stitch patterns kind of kid.)
Look for more fun stuff later like report cards with comments like "shows no apparent self control…"


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In 1954 and only just out of the National Service, Keith travelled by ship to Nepal on a collecting expedition. Keith remained in Nepal for nine months to collect all manner of specimens, from spiders and small reptiles to amphibians and fish that could only be found in Nepal's fast-running hill streams. Keith was keen to collect those specimens that lay beyond the country's 'known' biodiversity, searching instead for unusual habitats that were unique to Nepal. Keith created a short film of a second expedition to Nepal in 1962, which is now held at the British Film Institute.
Keith conducted a broad range of work at the Museum, including learning to skin varieties of animals, some of which were decidedly more difficult than others. He was also responsible for receiving the specimen of Guy the gorilla from London Zoo, which is now on display in the Museum's Cadogan Treasures Gallery.
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KALAMAZOO—A campus memorial service will be held Sunday, Oct. 21, for Dr. Van Cooley, interim dean of Western Michigan University's College of Education and Human Development, who died suddenly July 31 in Florida.
The service, which will be a celebration of Cooley's life, will be held at 1 p.m. in 1910 Sangren Hall. Sangren, the new home of the education college, was a major focus of Cooley's work during the final months of his life. It opened for classes this fall and was formally dedicated Sept. 28.
Cooley was appointed in January to serve for 2012 as interim dean of WMU's education college. Prior to that he had served since 2006 as chair of the Department of Educational Leadership, Research and Technology. Before joining the WMU faculty, he enjoyed a 22-year career in public education in Indiana, holding positions as a middle and high school teacher and as an assistant superintendent and superintendent.
A reception will follow the service. Parking is available in lot 41 and at Henry Hall, which is next to Sangren Hall. Memorial contributions may be made to the Van E. Cooley Memorial Scholarship fund through the WMU Foundation at mywmu.com.


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If not Seth, who?
With Seth MacFarlane's tweeted announcement that he would not be returning as host of the Academy Awards after his controversial but highly rated turn earlier this year, the question becomes "Who next?" Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will have quite a challenge. The motion picture academy continues to strive for a certain respectful solemnity with a fizzy nod to old-school Hollywood glamour while also needing to attract younger viewers, grooming the next generation of Oscar watchers.
When the academy found itself in a pinch after the fallout of its Brett Ratner situation in late 2011, it turned to the tried and true with Billy Crystal. Yet hanging over that entire show was the shadow of Ratner's planned host, Eddie Murphy. Would he have hit the stage in the red leather suit from his "Delirious" concert film? Perhaps we could still find out.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler received universal acclaim for their job hosting the most recent Golden Globes, with many calls for them to take the reins of the Oscar show. Though Fey has already been reported as saying there is "no way" she would host the show, this is Hollywood. There is a way.
Young multi-hyphenate star Joseph Gordon-Levitt seems a natural fit, as his spirited dance number during last year's broadcast could now even be seen as an audition for the job. A younger star might typically be paired with someone else to ease the burden -- shades of the star-crossed James Franco-Anne Hathaway pairing -- so who could match Gordon-Levitt for his energy level and song-and-dance-man skills?
How about Justin Timberlake, the musician who has strongly courted Hollywood? Or even Channing Tatum, who is both an acknowledged friend of Gordon-Levitt and who also gave an unexpectedly classy turn dancing with Charlize Theron at this year's ceremony. Perhaps throw Emma Stone into the mix as well?
And what about giving Franco another try? Could it be any worse? As Zach Galifianakis recently put it in an interview with Franco as part of his "Between Two Ferns" Web show, "I wouldn't consider what you did at the Oscars hosting the Oscars."
How about Galifianakis? Paired with his "Hangover" costar (and Oscar nominee) Bradley Cooper? Rotating in Cooper's "Silver Linings Playbook" costar (and Oscar winner) Jennifer Lawrence?
Hey, this fantasy league play is fun! But having the task of Zadan and Meron to make it a reality likely less so. (For the record, I'm voting Team JGL.)
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Miami-Dade mayor sees no voter 'animosity' toward him over Dolphins deal
The Miami Dolphins' short-lived quest for a subsidized stadium renovation could have turned out a lot worse for Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez: Voters could have handed him a resounding political defeat at the polls had they rejected the deal he negotiated.
But the Florida House of Representatives effectively canceled the referendum, for now shielding the mayor and county commissioners from much of the fallout.
Without a public vote, the politicians who supported the stadium deal cannot declare victory. But they also don't face the prospect of seeking reelection after a potential loss.
"There's no animosity toward me," Gimenez said in an interview shortly after lawmakers concluded their annual legislative session Friday without taking up the bill necessary for the special election to take place.
Gimenez required the referendum, which club executives had hoped to avoid. He also forced the team to make a nearly $4.8 million nonrefundable payment to cover election costs. The county will get to keep the more-than $1 million left over.
But despite those concessions, merely negotiating with the Dolphins has tarnished Gimenez's reputation among some former supporters who liked him in part for stridently opposing public financing for the Miami Marlins' ballpark.
"He's a disappointment," said former Hialeah Mayor Raul Martinez, who has criticized Gimenez on Spanish-language radio.
Martinez said the mayor "pulled a fast one" by reaching a "last-minute" deal with the Dolphins less than 48 hours before commissioners gave it tentative approval. "It doesn't look clean," Martinez said.
Though the mayor and commissioners are elected to nonpartisan posts, both Miami-Dade Republican and Democratic party leaders opposed the plan.
No major Democrat challenged Gimenez, a Republican, in his two mayoral elections in 2011 and 2012. At least one prominent Democratic-leaning group, SAVE Dade, supported him after he endorsed county policies to benefit same-sex couples.
"We helped elect him," Democratic Party Chairwoman Annette Taddeo-Goldstein said.
But, she added, that might change if Gimenez seeks reelection in 2016, as he has signaled he will do.
"As a Democratic Party, we expect to run a candidate against him next time," she said, without naming any potential contenders.
Still, with reelection more than three years away, much could change for Gimenez. A referendum might have cemented the Dolphins deal — whether it succeeded or failed — as Gimenez's legacy. Dying at the hands of legislators gives the mayor more wiggle room, said his pollster, Dario Moreno.
"If you were a Dade resident and you were for it, you can't blame Gimenez, and if you were against it, you can't blame Gimenez too much," Moreno said. "Gimenez did all right."
The mayor walked a fine political line on the deal. He said he would vote for the agreement, which would have raised the mainland county hotel-bed tax to give the stadium up to $289 million over three decades. But he also said he would not actively campaign for it.
In interviews, the mayor painstakingly explained — and praised — the deal. When he traveled to Tallahassee after commissioners approved the agreement, Gimenez spent most of his time talking about it.
Yet not even support from the mayor and a majority of commissioners could sway House leaders, who were also hearing from a divided Miami-Dade legislative delegation. The Dolphins' experience highlighted what Tallahassee veterans have known for years: Local politicians often hold little sway in the state Capitol.
"The Legislature in general is not influenced greatly by some of the resolutions that we pass at the local level," said Commissioner Esteban "Steve" Bovo, a former state representative. "They're just not."
Democratic Rep. José Javier Rodríguez of Miami, one of several local representatives who worked to thwart the Dolphins' legislation, noted that commission districts don't usually line up with legislative districts. Without overlapping constituents, lawmakers have less of an incentive to agree with commissioners.
"The fact that the county commission took a position on something doesn't necessarily mean much in Tallahassee, where we represent our constituents in our districts," he said.
The team's fate was tied more to its insistence on having a decision before National Football League owners award the 50th and 51st Super Bowls on May 22 than to anything the Dolphins did locally, said Miami Republican Rep. Carlos Trujillo, perhaps the team's most vocal opponent.
"They tried to rush it through the political process," he said. "And we didn't want to raise taxes in order to give it to a billion-dollar, for-profit industry."
Gimenez, for his part, stood by his deal and attributed its demise largely to the fact that — in addition to the bed-tax hike — the Dolphins wanted lawmakers to approve a $90 million sales-tax subsidy over 30 years for the stadium renovation.
"The death knell to this bill was probably the state-sales tax," he said, adding that he thought the team would have dropped that request in the face of legislative opposition. "That's probably what doomed their efforts."
The Dolphins have laid the blame on House Speaker Will Weatherford, accusing him of reneging on a promise to give the bill a floor hearing. Weatherford has denied making the pledge.
Dolphins CEO Mike Dee, citing internal polls, has said the team expected voters to sign off on the deal in the May 14 referendum. But the team, which had raised at least $1 million for its campaign, has not released any poll figures. Other surveys have shown public stadium financing remains toxic among voters in the wake of the unpopular Marlins deal.
The county elections department next week plans to release a tally of the votes cast before the election was canceled.
Gimenez dismissed suggestions that the Dolphins saga would affect his political future.
"A politician would have said, 'No, I'm not going to do this,' just strictly for politics. It's a no-brainer," he said. "But I'm not a typical politician. I do what I think is the right thing.
"At the end of the day," Gimenez added, "I think I'm fine."


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Robert Rodriguez's new "Machete Kills" is the strongest example yet of the corner the filmmaker seems to have painted himself into, a sad funhouse of bad movies made in thrall of bad movies. Even the self-sufficiency of Rodriguez having his own production facilities in Austin, Texas, seems to be yielding diminishing returns, as so much of what he has done recently feels like wandering into the backyard to idle away a day.
The story of "Machete Kills" follows a blade-wielding secret agent (Danny Trejo) as he attempts to stop a power-mad industrialist (Mel Gibson) bent on nuclear destruction and interstellar domination. Trejo's Machete character grew out of a fake movie trailer included in the Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino collaboration "Grindhouse." He was then spun off into his own feature, "Machete," and now this sequel.
In some ways, the worst thing to ever happen to Rodriguez as a filmmaker could be his friendship and affiliation with Tarantino. Where Tarantino takes genre tropes, clichéd characters and sketchy ideas and turns them inside out, upside down and wrings unexpected emotional resonance from what should be unworkable parts, Rodriguez, without Tarantino's ear for dialogue or uncanny sense of structure, is rarely able to spin his stories into something more. So "Machete Kills" winds up a slightly camp, tinny parody of bad action movies, playing out with the same sense of tedium as a genuine bad action movie.
Trejo, a fantastic screen presence, has been better used as a supporting character elsewhere than as a leading man here, as his gruff charms reach their outer limits. The extensive supporting cast of "Machete Kills" all seems a bit confused and left on their own. Charlie Sheen (billed as Carlos Estevez) plays Charlie Sheen as the president, while Gibson brings a darkly crazed tinge to his turn as the film's villain. Numerous other performers, including Antonio Banderas, Cuba Gooding Jr., Demian Bichir, Sofia Vergara, Vanessa Hudgens and Lady Gaga (in her movie debut) all don't so much appear as pass through.
Arguably the film's best moment is an end-credits outtake of Michelle Rodriguez and Amber Heard, salty and breezy where the rest of the feature itself is course and stiff. Robert Rodriguez's best films, "Desperado" and "Sin City," wrestle with bad movies to turn up something uniquely good. In "Machete Kills" it seems the bad has pinned down the good, making the film feel like a defeat.
"Machete Kills." Running time: 1 hour and 47 minutes. R for strong bloody violence throughout, language and some sexual content. In wide release.


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A fondness for taking himself to the ugliness that is too often affiliated with many of the aspects of a life half-awake is where Jeffrey Lewis has put his heart. He's actually just drawn a big, shakily-lined heart around all of the many uncomfortable details that he's forced to live with, comply with, or be surrounded by. He finds the drab and the mundane to be almost fascinating in their inherited boredom. It's something to think about as the days grow into their numbness. It's something that gets him thinking crazy thoughts, working manically through the piles of catastrophes that seem to find him to be delectable to their itchy stingers, like a sweet meat for mosquitoes with grumbling stomachs and garbage on their minds.
All of the details that Lewis lets infest his mind - and all the New Yorker thinks in are details - form a snarled mash-up of "fast food" culture and the deeper tips that could be considered the unspoken conversations of a richer, finer cuisine. He has such an active grasp on his surroundings and what they're going to do to him. He knows that they're scheming and he knows that they're already kneading him, softening him into some confused beast. It tires him and yet it inspires him to deal with all of the vexing and exciting foibles that bear down on him whether he likes it or not.
He puts all of these illustrious riddles into his ragtag music that has earned him more than a cult status in the United Kingdom and surprising anonymity through much of the United States. And they sound as if they might be making him lose it, at least figuratively, getting to him often and with stronger force. He takes a broad focus of life and death and all that filler and fills it with those troublesome, minute details that burn and enhance. He takes the trash and makes it into a collage that is helped by his brother Jack and an assortment of characters, who make sense of all the spinning, all the vomiting and all of the paranoia that is ever-present when Lewis gets moving in the mornings. He sings about its overwhelming nature on "Couldn't Take It Anymore," where he muses about taking a walk down to the grocery store to buy a bottle of rat poison that he'd like to pour wholeheartedly down his "gullet," in a lethal dosage. It all gets to him. He cannot stop it.
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LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — A California lawyer is suing Microsoft, claiming the technologySurface tablet he bought doesn't have all the storage space the company advertised.
Andrew Sokolowski says he bought a Surface with 32 gigabytes of storage last week. But he quickly ran out of space after loading it with music and Microsoft Word documents.
He discovered that half of the 32GB storage space was being used by the operating system and pre-installed apps.
Sokolowski filed the suit Tuesday at the Superior Court in Los Angeles. He is seeking class action status.
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Indiana State University will recognize five graduating seniors for scholarship, leadership and service during winter commencement ceremonies Dec. 15.
Alyssa Doyle of Chalmers, Elizabeth Gentry of Hartford City, Janelle R. Huber of Brazil and Tammy Riker of Washington received the Hines Medal. Named for Linnaeus Hines, who served as Indiana State's fourth president from 1921 to 1933, the Hines Medal goes to students with the highest cumulative grade point average during the pursuit of a bachelor's degree. Annie Vassar of Lowell received the President's Medal for Leadership, Scholarship and Service.
Doyle is graduating with a degree in elementary education and a minor in reading and early childhood education. Doyle played outfield for the Sycamore softball team and served as an assistant at the university's Early Childhood Education Center. She earned an Indiana Top Scholar award, the Catherine Polson Education Scholarship, a National Fastpitch Coaches Association Scholar-Athlete designation, Missouri Valley Conference Honor Roll designation and the conference's President's Council Excellence Award. She also earned a nomination for Presidential Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Her community activities included Ryves Youth Center at Etling Hall, Light House Mission, community softball clinics and Special Olympics Indiana.
Doyle is the daughter of Linda Doyle and Don Doyle and a graduate of Frontier High School. After graduation from Indiana State, she plans to obtain an elementary school teaching position.
Gentry majored in social studies education with concentrations in history, economics and psychology. An Indiana State Scholar, she also earned the Girls State, Blackford Foundation, Blackford Masonic Lodge No. 106, Jackson Masonic Lodge No. 146, Masonic Grand Lodge of Indiana and Raymond J. Reece and Frances R. Kepner scholarships. She exhibited her photograph "Under the Boardwalk" in the University Honors Art Gallery and her photograph Agnus Dei" in "After Images."
Gentry's campus involvement included Baptist Collegiate Ministry, which she served as a member and substitute coordinator, small group leader, leadership council member, secretary treasurer and on the conversational English international outreach program. She also served as a supplemental instructor for economics and was a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta honors society. Her activities included Southside Church of the Nazarene and service as Nazarene Youth International president.
Gentry is the daughter of Linda Wallace and Tim Wallace. She is a graduate of Blackford High School. Following graduation from Indiana State, she intends to teach for a period of time before beginning service as a missionary in South America.
Huber will graduate with a degree in music education with an instrumental music concentration. A member of the University Honors Program at Indiana State, a Sycamore Scholar and an Academic Honors Scholar, she also received the Theodore Presser Scholarship, won in the Paul W. Hagan Concerto Competition, received the Barbara Booe Bushong Flute and Piccolo Award and is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, the national music honor society.
Her campus involvement included the Symphony Orchestra, in which she performed and conducted, Wind Orchestra, Flute Choir, Marching Sycamores and Terminal Velocity (Woodwind Quintet). Her community activities included the Brazil Concert Band; Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra; and Jackson Township Community Band.
Huber is the daughter of Melanie Huber and Matthew Huber. She is a graduate of Greencastle High School. She intends to enroll in graduate school in the United Kingdom to earn a master's degree in wind conducting with the goal of teaching music in a public school environment.
Riker is graduating with a degree in music education, concentrating in general and instrumental music. Her awards at Indiana State include Pi Kappa Lambda Outstanding Senior, Paul W. Hagan Concerto Competition Winner, Creative and Performing Arts Award, Barbara Booe Booshong Flute and Piccolo Award, Ruth Zenor and Helen Zenor Brez Scholarship, and Paige's Music Paul-Edmund Daviess Masterclass Winner.
Her campus involvement included the Wind Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra, Marching Sycamores, Flute Choir, University Honors Program, Sigma Alpha Lambda, music history tutor; National Association for Music Education; and flute and woodwind instructor for Crossroads of America Youth Orchestra. Her community activities include serving as a flute instructor and as a member of the Brazil Concert Band and Terre Haute Symphony.
Riker is the daughter of Teresa Cook of Montgomery and Bruce Riker of Otwell. She attended Washington High School. Following her Indiana State graduation, she intends to enroll in graduate school to earn master's and doctoral degrees in order to teach flute at the collegiate level and continue with her performance career.
Vassar is completing a degree in physical education - all grade - with concentrations in physical and health education, and a minor in dance. While at Indiana State, she received the Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship; Eleanor Forsythe St. John Scholarship; Outstanding Senior Award - Alpha Omicron Pi; Catherine Wolfe Indiana Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Scholarship; Dr. Kent L. Gardner Scholarship (Order of Omega); and the Norma F. Schuessler Scholarship. She was also named Fitness Instructor of the Year, received the J. D. Miller Distinguished Service Award and was named a Sigma Chi Sweetheart.
She served as president of the Organization for Students in Physical Education, choreographer of Fusion Dance Company, morale chair for the Riley Children's Hospital Dance Marathon, new member educator of Alpha Omicron Pi fraternity, president of the Order of Omega, Sycamore Leadership Coalition and Student Government Association. Her community activities included the Indiana Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance; YMCA ballet instructor; highway cleanup volunteer; Special Olympics Indiana; Relay for Life; Terre Haute Community Health; Austin Walk; and Jump Rope for Heart.
Vassar's parents are Mary Vassar and Tim Vasser. She attended Lowell Senior High School. Following graduation from Indiana State, she intends to teach health and physical education in northwest Indiana and pursue a graduate degree in education. She also intends to continue her volunteer work for and support of non-profit organizations.
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Alyssa Doyle of Chalmers, Elizabeth Gentry of Hartford City, Janelle R. Huber of Brazil and Tammy Riker of Washington received the Hines Medal. Annie Vassar of Lowell received the President's Medal for Leadership, Scholarship and Service.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
The Peerless Prognosticator of Palm Beach
We have been asked in recent days why we don't join the chorus of investment advisors, CNBC pundits and just plain wise guys offering stock market/investment predictions for the New Year.
Our standard response has been similar to what James Thurber wrote in his introduction to "My Life and Hard Times" (look it up, kids), to the effect that he always carried the uneasy feeling that whatever he was writing had already been done better and more quickly by Robert Benchley (look him up, too).
Robert Benchley was a famous humorist, sort of the Will Farrell of his day—only literate and actually funny. And, in our book, the Robert Benchley of stock market prognostications has to be my old pal, Doug Kass, the so-called "Bear of Boca."
Doug, who runs money, writes on the stock market and somehow managed to find time to appear on CNBC in years past whenever the hosts needed to find a lonely bear on housing, also publishes a list of predictions every year.
So with Kass on the case, who needs another batch from us?
Sure enough, Sunday night it hit our email: Doug's fearless predictions for 2009. So fearless, in fact, that the number of predictions runs to twenty in all.
And these are not your Bryon Wien-variety, "The dollar will strengthen and then weaken"-type stuff.
Wien, who pioneered the annual Wall Street prediction phenomenon, tends towards the kind of on-the-one-hand-on-the-other statements employed by Wall Street strategists such as he used to be. Doug, however, minces no words. Whereas last year, for example, Wien (who to his credit accurately predicted recession and credit tightening) foresaw consumer spending being "lackluster" in 2008, Doug predicted a "retailing depression," quote/unquote.
And Doug's predictions for 2009 are, as usual, a mix of straightforwardly logical calls quite at variance with the emotional consensus (on housing, for example), along with some out-of-left-field notions, including musings on Madoff that are of such specificity that you wonder what, exactly, Doug has been hearing at temple.
Now, we will not attempt to repeat, refine, or review any of the 2009 predictions. You should read them yourself, as Doug wrote them:
But before you do, we want take issue with one aspect of Doug's new list.
Candor and lack of word-mincing aside, what also distinguishes Doug from other Wall Street "seers" is that Doug always prefaces his new predictions with a no-holds-barred look back at his prior lists. Read carefully from this year's look-back:
Our surprise list for 2008 proved to be our most successful ever, with 60% of last year's "possible improbables" proving to be materially on target. Almost half of the prior year's predicted surprises actually came to pass, up from one-third in 2006 and from 20% in 2005. Nearly of one-half 2004's prognostications proved prescient and about one-third in the first year of our surprises for 2003.
What we want to take issue with is Doug's note that 60% of the picks from his 2008 list were "materially on target."
The fact is the 60% that Doug got right, in our view, were so out-there at the time he wrote about them, and turned out to be so dead-on-accurate in the way they unfolded—record market volatility, hedge fund outflow acceleration, job losses, "an unprecedented and abrupt drop in personal consumption expenditures," not to mention Fed policy, Goldman Sachs miscues, private equity "at a standstill," the value of the dollar falling and the price of oil breaking above $135—that to say Doug was "materially on target" is like saying Tiger Woods won a golf game last summer before his knee gave out.
If anybody came closer than Doug Kass to getting the guts of the 2008 financial crisis—and much of its ramifications—right, ahead of time, we'd like to know.
Indeed, so variant (to use one of his favorite terms), so out-there, so accurate and so timely were Doug's 2008 predictions that we here at NotMakingThisUp herewith re-title the so-called "Bear of Boca" with something more appropriate than that one-dimensional sobriquet.
Since Doug's Florida office is in Palm Beach these days, we're going for the "Peerless Prognosticator of Palm Beach."
And while we're at it, we'll mention something else. One other unfinished piece of business lurks here.
We think it only right that every guest on CNBC—the money managers and the so-called strategists who smirked, sneered, laughed, snorted, and talked over Doug during his Larry Kudlow appearances for the two or three years that the housing bubble was percolating into a worldwide economic crisis which not one of those prattering princes of positivism got right—ought to say on the air and into the camera, the next time Kudlow has them on, for whatever reason he might want them on, what Abraham Lincoln once wrote to General Ulysses S. Grant after that general's bloody march on Richmond:
"You were right and I was wrong."
It won't happen, of course. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't.
So, our hat is off to Doug Kass: The Peerless Prognosticator of Palm Beach.
Jeff Matthews
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20 comments:
- Kass Fan said...
Doug handled himself like a consummate gentleman - cool/calm/collected -- on Kudlow's show during the rose-colored-glasses Dow 15000 days when the other guests ridiculed his bearishness. I was always impressed by his demeanor when the other guests (ostriches?) smugly attacked his ideas. Of course, Doug ended up being right, and he's got the scars and the dough to prove it. Way to go Dougie!
- Mark said...
Kass made some good macro calls, but went on record (on "thestreet.com") with a lot of lousy trading calls, as he turned bullish again way too early, at one point recommending Citi in the $20s: http://www.thestreet.com/story/10398712/1/kass-buy-citigroup-for-a-rainy-day.html
Anyone following Doug's advice here (and a number of other times that he tried to short-term-time the market) would've wound up giving up a huge chunk of anything made earlier on the short side.
- Kieran said...
I appreciate his comments, though I agree with some more than others. I'm anticipating a rally to S&P 1100, but I doubt it will last. I suspect he's also right that the new administration will create a significant housing credit that could help to stabilize the residential housing market. Though I suspect they'll have to make the housing credit permanent or phase it out over 20 years to keep housing propped up after 2009. One year won't be anywhere near enough. As for the CRE market rebounding shortly, that's a highly improbable improbable. If we get a rally from here, I'll gladly take the other side of that trade.
- Josh Brown said...
great summation of Kass's 2009 Surprises Jeff...
did my own version over on The Reformed Broker blog this morning
I start every day with Doug Kass and I urge my readers to sping for the subscription as well
- michael said...
A lot of his predictions can be summed up by "the Fed succeeds in reflating (most of) the bubble". I disagree.
And I miss any mention of continued "Deleveraging" effects in his outlook.
- Anonymous said...
I listen closely to Kass, he's a very smart guy and I agree with some of his 2009 predictions, albeit far less than the 2008 ones. But reading through his 2009 list it seems like he's one of these people who are delerious about Obama and believe him to be The One. I guess it's just interesting to see someone who was bearish for so long think we're going to have an incredibly (unrealistically?) quick recovery.
FWIW, the only thing I think he's dead-wrong about is gold.
- Anonymous said...
The most interesting part when reading Doug Kass' 20 Predictions For 2009 was when he describes the purpose of his predictions:
"The real purpose of this endeavor is to consider positioning a portion of my portfolio in accordance with outlier events, with the potential for large payoffs." (bold & italics mine)
I find it interesting that Mr Kass is thinking probablilistically, by "betting" on long shot events that potentially have positive financial outcomes should those long shot events come to fruition (i.e., betting on "black swans" according to Nasim Taleb).
I think it's a great way to think about how to invest in stocks, too (i.e., betting on stocks that are down 50%+ with the possibility of a comeback based on an unanticipated earnings surprise or two). But I could be wrong, though...
- whydibuy said...
Oh, here we go. " Possible improbables". If it happens, well I said it was possible. If it doesn't, I did say it was improbable. Another version of the good old fashioned double speak. He'll be right either way. So Kass was allegedly a hot hand in '08. My instincts say to do the opposite the next year of whatever the former hot hand recommends. Yes, I said former hot hand because thats usually the way things work out.
- Finn Kristiansen said...
I think on my own blog last January I accurately predicted the outcome of the election and pressure on state budgets (both rather obvious events). But was not actually trying to make predictions per se.
- MattJ said...
My nomination for best predictions for 2008 is Karl Denninger (the Market Ticker blog)
Doug Kass has bee very good, but I think Denninger has been the most accurate (if a bit too hyperbolic) of the web commenters I read.
An aside - Kudlow gets a lot of criticism for his boosterism and rose-colored glasses, but it is from his show that I first heard Doug Kass, Peter Schiff, and many other bears over the last few years. He has done a great service to viewers who watch with an appropriate level of skepticism by providing a platform for people with viewpoints different than his.
- Jeff Matthews said...
MattJ: I agree on Kudlow, and deliberately excluded Larry from the critique.
I've been on the show myself, and although Larry may disagree with your conclusions, he'll always ask why you think the way you do rather than criticize what you think just because it's different from his own conclusions.
(I recall fondly watching Larry interview Socialist Senator Bernie Saunders of Vermont during the TARP bailout debate last fall. Saunders gave Larry enormous grief over Larry's support for the bailout. Larry took it in stride, and let Saunders have his say. It was great television.)
The talking heads who owe Doug an apology are the perma-bullish guests--the strategists and economists--who tried to make Doug's life miserable when he appeared on the show while the Bubble was in full swing.
Not for nothing, those same permabulls probably made their investors' lives miserable, too, given their complete lack of intellectual honesty and inability to listen to guys like Doug Kass.
- Anonymous said...
And yet the year of 2009 will be the year to prove Kass wrong on most of his predictions. Neither Obama, nor anyone else, including Mr. Printing Press, would be able to reverse the downward death spiral movement. The only thing that might are sustained efforts to rebuild the now almost completely outsourced US production capacity. As it concerns the US, which has turned out of the largest creditor nation into the largest debtor nation, all debt based solutions are non solutions at all.
Once the Obama rally fades away, the markets will set new lows, which won't be the lows. Eventually, when the bottom is reached, the market will trade at those levels similar to the Nasdaq trading after the dot.com collapse in 2000.
- Jeff Matthews said...
Funny how fearless commentators can be--whether it's slamming a blog post, or cyberstalking, or making predictions like this one--so long as they can do it anonymously.
Doug Kass, at least, puts his name on it.
- BlackLab said...
Mish has done good work. He doesn't compile prediction lists per se, but he did write some very clairvoyant columns in late 2007 and early 2008.
- joelandsonia said...
itulip.com -- by far the most accurate prediction of this mess *way* before it started.
- Bird said...
Oh Jeff, how little you understand of the genius that is Mr. Will Ferrell.
- Jeff Matthews said...
Bird: Guilty as charged.
- "DoctoRx" said...
In addition to the comments re Mish and ITulip, both of whom have been excellent, Nouriel Roubini at rgemonitor.com laid out the more-or-less precise course of this crisis a year ago and has been banging the drums for a long time.
Both Doug Kass and ITulip have had some bad calls. Roubini and Mish have been amazing.
- Anonymous said...
"If anybody came closer than Doug Kass to getting the guts of the 2008 financial crisis—and much of its ramifications—right, ahead of time, we'd like to know."
Prem Watsa (Fairfax Financial)and John Paulson (Paulson & Co.) were not only dead-on about the crisis and its ramifications, but made absurd quantities of money by investing according to the way they saw things playing out.
- ferdi said...
Question. If in 2008 he made 60% of the calls right he also made 40% of calls wrong. Which calls were wrong?
Comment. On the financial crisis, Doug Kass has not been the most accurate, as the blog reports. Has this guy ever heard of Meredith Whitney and Nouriel Roubini?


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Sophomore guard Katie Arterburn (Indianapolis, Ind.) and senior forward Erynn Meiklejohn (Fort Wayne, Ind.) topped a balanced Black and Gold attack with 14 points each. Arterburn's final total benefitted from a four-of-six effort from outside the arc, while Meiklejohn also led the squad on the boards (six rebounds), grabbed three steals and a blocked a Defiance College shot attempt.
Nine MU players made their way into the scoring column. Junior center Alyssa Hammond (Osgood, Ind.) had another productive night with nine points and five rebounds, and junior forward Abby Lang (Indianapolis, Ind.) and sophomore center Stephanie Barmes (Greenwood, Ind.) tallied six points each.
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*Jo-Lynn Westlund, Vienna: "We have a 9-year-old Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier. Basically, 50 pounds of fluff. We bought him about 4 1/2 years ago from a woman in Front Royal with two boys aged three months and four years. Her husband had been killed in a skiing accident about six months earlier and she was struggling to keep life going. Seamus had been her husband's dog. He took him with him to his store everyday in Middleburg. He was incredibly trained and very people oriented. In fact, he came to us two days before my future daughter-in-law arrived from Sardinia. It was love at first sight. We had him for almost six months before we ever heard him bark. He's a real love, although we unfortunately have 'untrained' him in many ways. If we are going out of town we have to be careful that he does not hear the zipper on the suitcase or he starts pacing and crying. When we open up the back of the SUV he bolts into the car fearing he will be left behind. Ironically, the only things he has chewed up have zippers. And that's what he eats...the zippers. He loves to play with his tug toy with anyone who is willing. Yet he seems to sense how hard he should play even with our 3 year old grandson, Tristan. When there is a party at our house he senses who loves dogs and will position himself next to those people. Recently, we finished a year-long renovation. We remained living amidst the chaos and Seamus felt the construction crew and subs were really coming to see him every day. I think they enjoyed him as much as he enjoyed the attention. As a part of the renovation we put in an invisible fence. Seamus loves it. He now goes out on the front porch sitting in his favorite wicker chair presiding over the cul de sac as a king would over his kingdom. In the back yard he sits on the patio and watch as the deer (sometimes as many as 8) feed on our neighbor's bushes without making a sound. He is a truly wonderful pet in spite of his chronic health issues...allergies, ear infections, sensitive skin and anxiety issues."
*Michael Amouri, owner of Caffe Amouri: "Othello [aka OD] came to me just about two years ago. He was a rescue brought into my shop by Dr. [Ashkan] Ghaffari.
I had had dogs pretty much my whole life. About a year before I opened the shop, my German shepherd Dutchess—who our espresso blend is named after because she was 'Sweet and Mellow'—died at the age of 13. I decided that I shouldn't have a dog while I was trying to open up a new place. After a year and a half, I thought that it would be great to think about getting one. I happened to mention it to Doc G. who I knew was active in dog rescue. Well, he started parading dogs into the shop. Most of them, however, were those little guys. Cute, but I was used to bigger dogs... German shepherds, golden retrievers, etc.
One day, Dr. G came in with OD. I still wasn't sure if I was ready for the responsibility of a dog so I asked if I could take him home for a bit of a 'trial run,' both to see if he liked it and if I was ready. The first night he was there, I was lying on the couch and he was standing there, looking at me... and then he decided to jump on my chest. This from a 60 pound dog. So, I was sold. He is a big goofball, so I guess we're a perfect match.
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*Cindy Stewart, Vienna: "Buzz and I adopted 'Tacitus' from the Fairfax County Shelter four-and-a-half years ago, a little white cat with a large and feisty personality. He loves to sit out on our deck and sun himself, a habit we discovered was not in his best interest, health-wise, when we started to notice little black spots on the bridge of his nose that were later diagnosed as a type of skin cancer. We now understand that human companions of white cats and dogs need to limit the time their white-furred friends are exposed to direct sun.
Gratefully, there is a veterinary practice in the greater-metropolitan area that holds a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to administer a specialized radiation treatment that has virtually no side effects, except for loss of fur in the area treated. Cost is moderate, and Tacitus displayed no discomfort afterwards. Tacitus has had two treatments, with great success.
Shelters and rescues have wonderful animals like Tacitus and our other cat, Jake, whose lives can be saved by state-of-the-art veterinary care."
*Preschool teacher Terry Ayotte, Vienna: "He was just a little peanut when we got him. We looked at cats online at HART's [Homeless Animal Rescue Team] website. He was being fostered. He was orphaned and being bottle-fed which is why he was so small. When we saw him at HART's location, we knew he was the one."
Amelia Uman, 12 years old: "He's pretty smart. I have allergies so he's not supposed to be in my room. But he sneaks in and climbs the ladder to the top of my bunk bed and haps there. He likes it there because he likes being up high and there are things hanging from the ceiling.
He'll jump up and bite you when he wants to play. If you want a pet, you should get a rescue animal instead of buying one because they need homes."
Tallie Uman, nearly 10 years old: "I like his playful personality. He tries to reach doorknobs to open doors. He can reach underneath and pull it open. His color makes him special and he likes to bite and hide under his own chair. I would tell people to adopt a pet rather than buy one."
*Kathleen Miller: "Gracie is a black lab mix who was adopted when she was only 7 months old from the Animal Welfare League of Arlington. She is now 10 years old. Gracie and her siblings were left in a cage in a field in West Virginia and the Welfare League rescued them and brought them to Arlington. Gracie is the leader of the pack. The other dogs know not to play with the stuffed animal Gracie has carried around since she was a puppy or to sleep in the spare bedroom where Gracie sleeps at night.
Emily is also a black lab mix who was adopted from the Washington D.C. Humane Society when she was 1 year old. She turns 10 years old this year. Emily and Gracie quickly became playmates and sisters. Emily enjoys going running with Kathleen as well as playing fetch when it involves swimming in the water to bring the stick back. She has been Kathleen's sidekick since she was a puppy and still follows her around the house no matter what. Emily also chooses not to take commands from anyone except Kathleen.
Olie is a collie mix who was adopted when he was 1 year old from a high-kill shelter in South Carolina. He was named after Olie Kolzig of the Washington Capitals because his parents are season ticket holders and Kolzig is his dad's favorite player. He is turning 5 years old this year.
He was transported by train to Northern Virginia where Kathleen and Kelly picked him up and brought him home. A few months prior to finding Olie, Kelly had to make the decision to say goodbye to his childhood dog of 15 years. This prompted him to begin looking for a dog of his own. Olie was turned in by his owner because they were welcoming a new baby to the family. Upon bringing Olie home, it was quite evident Kelly and Kathleen saved him from an abusive home. It has taken much time to get Olie to trust them and the people around him. Every day when Kelly comes home from work, Olie knows it is time for him to accompany Kelly to the mail box down the street and will wait impatiently by the front door to do his daily run."
*Sandy Gerner and horse-companion Candya, Tucson: "Our largest pet is 1,000 pounds, Candya, the almost 33-year-old horse I have loved for the 28 years she has been a part of our family. She taught me to ride, taught our children to ride, and now lets our grandsons sit on her back.
We got her from a woman who was moving out of state. She wanted Candya to be a barrel horse... not a good idea, and her initial owner fell off when she spooked at something. Candya never did like cows, by the way.
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I'm BAAAAaaaack! The Halloween Party, The Fall Benefit and the Big Fat Remodel. A Cautionary Tale./
October rolled around and she realized she needed to plan the Halloween Party for her 12 year old daughter which had been promised ever since her older sister had a party when she was 12. Well, one couldn't have a party unless one was moved into the semi-finished remodel of one's new kitchen and basement studio, now could one? So the big push to move in was begun.
Meanwhile, the woman's husband scheduled a business trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg for a week and a half....... That's when the nightmares began. The woman would wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat asking herself "What have I done?!? I have over committed, and I will never get it all done!" Details would race through her mind day and night: " Have I bought enough gold leafy things for the decorations? Do we have black sprinkles for the cookies? Do we have enough white spider web stuff? Who is ordering the chair ties and the VIP gifts for the benefit? What is the phone number for the hotel in Moscow? How can we fit the extra ten seats in the new restaurant design for the upcoming Team Meeting? How will I get this daughter to violin while that daughter gets to soccer practice? Why is the powder room sink leaking?". The lists went on and on.
The woman was one step away from stepping into the static on the television screen......
Well, with alot of help, the woman managed to get through the stressful weeks and has lived to tell the tale. Here are a few images to show you all a glimmer of what has been happening over the last two weeks:
The tent for the Silent Auction and Wine Tasting part of the Fall Benefit for my daughter's High School known as "Revelry".
Some examples of the decorations. The theme was "Starry, Starry Night". Very original, I know. But one must work with what one is given, mustn't one?
Table decor and flowers for the "sit down dinner" part of the event.
After the mad rush to finish the decorations for the benefit, I raced home to decorate the house for the Halloween party:
A few tombstones and pumpkins. (The tombstones were made from the Styrofoam in the box that my new West Elm Parsons table came in. We just got through putting the table together in time for the party.)
My daughter picked the perfect party planning paper: Hello Kitty.
Now I ask you, what Halloween party would be complete without Jone's Candy Corn Soda and lots of cookies with black and grey frosting? ( Small shudder here.)
Halloween slipcovers, perfect for protecting furniture from Sprite and Rainbow Sherbet punch spills. (Photo from my as yet unfinished office/studio space.)
Pumpkin carving contest. Not real sure what some of these masterpieces are all about.
Here are a few of the fab party guests!
OK....I know you have been waiting for a peek at the the remodeling progress, so I will not keep you in suspense. Although not complete ( no furniture, accessories, etc.) here are a few pics of the kitchen:
Sorry about the picture quality!
We are partially moved in, at least enough to forgo the paper plates and cups! It is almost surreal to be able to use a real stove and dishwasher again!
So this post is my "Ode" to Decorno's "Original Content" plea. Now that things have calmed down a bit, I will be back to regular postings. Thanks to all of you who have patiently hung in there with me!


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[Produced By Kanye West, Ken Lewis, Mike Dean & RZA]
[Intro: Kanye West]
Me and the RZA connect
Yeah, me and the RZA connect
[Verse 1: Kanye West]
And I'll never let my son have an ego
He'll be nice to everyone, wherever we go
I mean I might even make him be Republican
So everybody know he love white people
And I'll never let him leave his college girlfriend
And get caught up with the groupies in the whirlwind
And I'll never let him ever hit the telethon
I mean even if people dyin' and the world ends
See, I just want him to have an easy life
Not like Yeezy life, just want him to be someone people like
Don't want him to be hated all the time, judged
Don't be like your daddy that would never budge
And I'll never let him ever hit a strip club
I learned the hard way, that ain't the place to get love
And I'll never let his mom move to LA
Knowin' she couldn't take the pressure now we all pray
[Jay Z]
Me and the RZA connect
Me and the RZA connect
[Verse 2: Jay Z]
Sorry junior, I already ruined ya
Cause you ain't even alive, paparazzi pursuin' ya
Sins of a father make your life ten times harder
I just wanna take ya to a barber
Bondin' on charters, all the shit that I never did
Teach ya good values so you cherish it
Took me 26 years just to find my path
My only job is cut the time in half
So at 13 we'll have our first drink together
Black bar mitzvahs, mazel tov, mogul talk
Look a man dead in his eyes so he know you talk truth
When you speak it, give your word, keep it
And if the day comes I only see him on the weekend
I just pray we was in love on the night that we conceived him
Promise to never leave him even if his mama tweakin'
Cause my dad left me and I promise never repeat him
Never repeat him, never repeat him
Produced by Kanye West and RZA, this song samples Nina Simone's "Feeling Good". It is an uncharacteristically personal and emotional song from Jay Z, in which both rappers speak to their unborn sons in a manner reminiscent of 2Pac's "Letter To My Unborn Child". Both have since had daughters.
On the fifth of December 2015, the moment for Kanye was finally there: his wife Kim Kardashian gave birth to a baby boy.
Bu Thiam, Def Jam's Vice-President of A&R, said that the track's concept emerged from a conversation Jay and 'Ye were having about their [hopefully] impending fatherhood at the Mercer Hotel in NYC:
So, it was just a conversation that they were talking about just having kids and how they're gonna raise their kids because of the success that they're having now."


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Looks like they finally budged...
Looks like they finally budged...
[I]"Now I know that I'm supposed to lead by example and all that but I'm not shoving that aside like it don't mean anything. I know it's important, I honestly do, but we're talking about practice. We're talking about practice man. We're not talking about the game, we're talking about practice."[/I]
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PACE � A man was shot twice by someone attempting to burglarize his vehicle Monday morning, according to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff�s Office.
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With the violin complete all that is left is to string the instrument and tune it up. It will develop more tone with time and playing, but I'm very pleased with the sound. This is a fine 3/4 size Michel-Ange GARINI made in the Vosges Mirecourt region of France for the workshop of Jerome Thibouville-Lamy (JTL) in the early part of the 20th century – probably around 1903-5.
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Hi people,
I'm planning a trip to Florence next year. Maybe it happens to be that someone here knows some cool sights relating to alchemical symbolism there.
I found out that there seems to be a fresco on the church Santa Maria Novella, where in the flames of hell "alchimisti et falsificatori" are seen.
I'm also open for suggestions near Florence or other alchemical related spots of interest. I guess the cathetral in Sienna may be an interesting option too.
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When does the growing season start?
In places that have a real winter, it may be when you sit in front of the fire and open that envelope of seed packages.
Beautiful pictures of bountiful harvests.
Maybe you pour some hot cider, get out the graph paper and draw up a plan for where the turnips and beets will grow, and where the tomato plants will get their footing.
Maybe you pour some hot cider, get out the graph paper and draw up a plan for where the turnips and beets will grow, and where the tomato plants will get their footing.
To our wheat growers, planting the seed is not the beginning.
On his fields in Santa Barbara County, one of our wheat growers, Tom Shepherd, talks about what goes on before seed time. In his words, seed planting is not the beginning. It is the end of the first phase.
Good stewards of our lands make it clear that they are not only growing plants. They are growing the soil. Improving and nurturing it. And wheat – both as an edible grain, and as a cover crop for rotation &
Curtis Davenport talks about soil conditions on the land near Santa Ynez where he intends to plant 25 acres of Sonora wheat.
Back on his prepared fields Tom is planting Red Fife, putting 50-pound sacks of seed into the hopper of his seeder … with the help of Max Iniquez, the field foreman.
Our growers know that successful farming is not just about the plants. Or what shows up above the ground.
Earth asks us to take an oath – an earth oath, which is a phrase you cannot says rapidly six times – and it is just as Hippocrates would have said about caring for the soil: "First of all, Do No Hurt."
Good stewards of the land are once again growing local grain for local mills and local bakers. It is not a metaphor but a very real and literal grass roots revolution.


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The New Mexico Highlands University Cowboys have started to roll as they have won three straight in a four-game series over nationally ranked No. 13 Colorado State-Pueblo.
The Cowboys took the first three games by scores of 2-1, 20-4 and 17-16.
Game one was a pitchers' duel as NMHU's Drew Vassil and CSU-Pueblo's Mario Mattivi squared off. Vassil took this battle as he allowed only eight hits and one earned run in his nine-inning complete game performance. Vassil struck out four CSUP batters en route to his fourth win of the season.
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ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- A 12-year-old girl died Friday in an apparent drowning in a swampy area between two lakes near here.
JaLysa Anne Cook of Alexandria was found in about 3 feet of water about 6:10 p.m, according to authorities.
Life-saving efforts were begun immediately. Cook was taken by ambulance to Douglas County Hospital, but life-saving efforts were unsuccessful.
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office and its Water Rescue and Recovery Team were called to the area next to the Central Lakes Trail between lakes Cowdry and Darling. The site was next to the channel between the two lakes and near several houses on the west side of Alexandria.
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The Deja Vu Review is a weekly meme hosted by Brittany at The Book Addicts Guide. Its an opportunity to revisit old books you might have read before you launched your blog, but that you think should maybe still be highlighted.
An Author You Are Thankful For
When I first saw this prompt on the Book Addicts Guide, I was like easy-peasy…and then I sat down to write the post and ummm, yeah, not so much…there are many authors that I like and admire because of all their writing, but thankful for is a bit harder…then it was like a lightbulb…the one author I am thankful for is LaVyrle Spencer – wayyy back in my teen years, she was my main introduction to romance (aside from a few Silhouette/Harlequin's that I had read). I found a bunch of her books when I was snooping in my mom's room one day (statute of limitations has expired now right?) – I then proceeded to devour all of her books.
Most people know her for Morning Glory – which is not related to the Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford movie that came out a couple of years ago. But it was turned into a movie starring Christopher Reeve and Deborah Raffin (see more here). However, unlike most people this wasn't my favorite book by her – I liked it, but didn't love it.
At the same time, I am hard pressed to figure out which one of her books is my favorite – its a toss-up between Years featuring a mail-order bride right before WW1, Bitter Sweet about finding love, losing it and finding it again, That Camden Summer or The Gamble – each one holds a special place in my heart. It was a sad day when she announced her retirement from writing. I keep hoping, even now 15 years later, that she will release just one more book. I recently trolled ebay and bought a collection of her stuff that I had lost/misplaced over the years.


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A Russian woman, known only as "Natalia K," allegedly underwent six hymenoplasties to "restore her virginity" for her husband.
Apparently, Natalia's husband was upset that he didn't take her virginity, so for their first wedding anniversary, she got a hymenoplasty. And then, despite doctor's warnings, she got repeated hymenoplasties for six years in a row. MosNews.com, a Russian news site, reported Natalia was hospitalized for "an unspecificed minor infection" due to a "weakened immune system," although we're unclear if that would be related.
A hymenoplasty, also called vaginoplasty or vaginal cosmetic surgery, re-attaches the hymen and gives a woman's vagina the appearance of never having had sex before. Although the extremely controversial procedure is performed by cosmetic surgeons, critics disparage hymen repair surgery for buying into the idea that a woman is more valuable if she is an "untouched" virgin.
We understand some cultures prize a virgin wife above all else, though we're pretty speechless anyone would undergo this very intimate surgery even once. [MosNews.com]
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As the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, went into effect Jan. 1, the effects in Lamar County have ranged from the good, the bad to the ugly.
One self-employed resident, through sheer perseverance – and the loss of no less than seven of his applications by healthcare. gov staff members – finally got through the marketplace maze and got affordable coverage that increased his benefits while decreasing his premiums. It kicked in right on time.
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Another black mark on the 2012 Red Sox
The Red Sox were historically bad, everybody knows that.
Then there is this telling nugget: This is the first time the Red Sox were shut out in the American League Most Valuable Player voting.
In all 24 players received at least one vote this season. But because of poor performance or injury, no Red Sox players were deemed worthy. Frankly, it would hard to make a case for any of them.
The American League MVP award has been given out 93 times since 1911. There was no award in 1929 and 1930 or from 1915-21. In every season until 2012, the Red Sox had at least one player represented in the voting.
In 1965, a dreadful 100-loss season, there was Carl Yastrzemski. Even Felix Mantilla and Tony Conigliaro received votes.
During World War II, when Ted Williams missed three seasons, Boo Ferriss and Bobby Doerr were outstanding players. Jimmie Foxx was there before Williams.
Note: We initially thought the Red Sox were shut out in 1933, too. But Rick Ferrell was traded to to the Sox that season and played the bulk of his games for Boston and finished 12th in the voting. Thanks to Jake O'Donnell for pointing that out.