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Easy Crockpot Chili Recipe

9:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Cheeeeeeers everybody, and Happy Hump Day.<br /><br />Y’know?  Now that football season is in full swing and Lady Autumn is here with her cooler temps, many folks will be throwing Saturday and/or Sunday football parties in their homes.<br /><br />Along with the typical chips, dips, wings, and the like, a great football party can be made even more rollicking with some awesome, crowd pleasing chili.<br /><br />I plan on making chili in a couple of weeks when I take a Saturday off to enjoy a full day of College Football.  It is an easy, and uber-tasty crock pot chili.<br /><br />Here’s what <i>Easy Five Bean Crockpot Chili</i> ala Matt-Man entails…<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPxTMvq76UpdFH_YKYal4VOzAoVJjLHPxqob77bgyBitLB4ngiVqy3mMwJIkPpJZ2xFr7ZFQpavuohFcvqKeJO5OZJPkzmYk4Hhyphenhyphen3TNvUsNQKrXg0_UeaGi6wjgMvEei3dM20rmpafWO7Z/s1600/Chili+Beans.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPxTMvq76UpdFH_YKYal4VOzAoVJjLHPxqob77bgyBitLB4ngiVqy3mMwJIkPpJZ2xFr7ZFQpavuohFcvqKeJO5OZJPkzmYk4Hhyphenhyphen3TNvUsNQKrXg0_UeaGi6wjgMvEei3dM20rmpafWO7Z/s400/Chili+Beans.JPG" width="305" /></a></div><br />Tomatoes, Tomato Paste, Dark Red Kidney Beans, Northern, Black Beans, Lima Beans, and Light Red Kidney Beans...If you’d like, which I do from time to time is replace the one of the kidney beans with butter beans.  But anyhoo…<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnokiBG7WJkvxuPuFOcypo79YSRdvvpMiEQiLkEBRyRnB-E8sc_4MDkoA7kANJYWQaXMRaPegU0zPQTL60tM60ITU7P7VcbgURPI4JFku-wMd-kAAJz5ZTbbwAdcOKLZVQszrlUkbcRj6g/s1600/Spices.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnokiBG7WJkvxuPuFOcypo79YSRdvvpMiEQiLkEBRyRnB-E8sc_4MDkoA7kANJYWQaXMRaPegU0zPQTL60tM60ITU7P7VcbgURPI4JFku-wMd-kAAJz5ZTbbwAdcOKLZVQszrlUkbcRj6g/s400/Spices.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />Not too many spices...Chili Powder, Paprika, Oregano, Garlic, and a secret one which is not shown that replaces Cumin...Liquid Smoke.  Liquid Smoke makes everything better.  A few tablespoons of that into the mix, and bar the door Katy, it’s a TOUCHDOWN!!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPZwiAGYn1Y4SmK1EKQFIyAr-waS2_OWtynB-7d-zgFcToErCGP4kdSx33Ke3t1Er4nn0ZTEDIKE9_QcTPc62W8R4NUdp3kDGEZCCIvnWivLHpQAr2RqkCi5IO9dKthOYJrI485q-tU9L2/s1600/Onions+and+Peppers.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPZwiAGYn1Y4SmK1EKQFIyAr-waS2_OWtynB-7d-zgFcToErCGP4kdSx33Ke3t1Er4nn0ZTEDIKE9_QcTPc62W8R4NUdp3kDGEZCCIvnWivLHpQAr2RqkCi5IO9dKthOYJrI485q-tU9L2/s320/Onions+and+Peppers.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />These are da bomb!! Frozen and already diced onions and bell peppers. Fresh may be best, but too many of us end up wasting them.  So, this an inexpensive and practical way to go.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimnRvVK3w3K7IP1Tl9yIMBHJFhszd96xklpmTxGDZPs67eDjcq_rryFabTse2EbZI7x9UTBbUM8399KglC-wr0zpZxzcBtk37V2uAxQNGvluwOsFcQ9cRA6xyAuFnrHpmLlwqycPT4jJg0/s1600/Chili+Meat.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimnRvVK3w3K7IP1Tl9yIMBHJFhszd96xklpmTxGDZPs67eDjcq_rryFabTse2EbZI7x9UTBbUM8399KglC-wr0zpZxzcBtk37V2uAxQNGvluwOsFcQ9cRA6xyAuFnrHpmLlwqycPT4jJg0/s400/Chili+Meat.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />The MEAT!! Two pounds of ground beef, and one pound of sausage which I will slightly brown off with Worcestershire Sauce prior to crocking it. I also add real bacon pieces.<br /><br />I would use REAL bacon, but I cannot bring myself to use sliced bacon for this. Sliced bacon stands on its own, and should be consumed that way!!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt7xzeRfOEQ7tNSNrbikpy3aAlfTA1piQITAUaqrzW4i2nlKheIgbLOynbG0b_eRy1MhWJU8vlQmOEGuDKhBjhgNbglTVJfs13zU3ZehePf2ZyhvnEXE-OOTG83ilefmwqYUeWxvX5yIP7/s1600/Crockpot.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt7xzeRfOEQ7tNSNrbikpy3aAlfTA1piQITAUaqrzW4i2nlKheIgbLOynbG0b_eRy1MhWJU8vlQmOEGuDKhBjhgNbglTVJfs13zU3ZehePf2ZyhvnEXE-OOTG83ilefmwqYUeWxvX5yIP7/s400/Crockpot.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />The cookery...or, is that, crockery? Anyhoo. This is my newest crockpot. Isn't she sexy and voluptuous?<br /><br />I call her, Samantha. Samantha came with a 2, 4, and 6 quart bowl. I always use the 4 quart bowl.  The 2 is too small, and the 6 quart bowl, I only use when cooking up meth, so it may have toxic residue in it.<br /><br />There you have it. After six to eight hours of simmering, Samantha will be ready to yield her juicy, meaty, and delicious wares.<br /><br />A great accompaniment with the chili is <i>Cheesy Onion Cornbread</i>…<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZybnNG2Y5iw22sE6a_Of1QHUk-WAyb1bEPBR2xuWsN1-wIGClyRWoTHm23T5Z2G4084AVWs99quisCh2q_6nkgRhgKvVkNq6uCAMxNbAGUT_T1_9hDnXdcjL6gDzuitmkVqfXAZBHMWIP/s1600/Green+Onion+Cornbread.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZybnNG2Y5iw22sE6a_Of1QHUk-WAyb1bEPBR2xuWsN1-wIGClyRWoTHm23T5Z2G4084AVWs99quisCh2q_6nkgRhgKvVkNq6uCAMxNbAGUT_T1_9hDnXdcjL6gDzuitmkVqfXAZBHMWIP/s400/Green+Onion+Cornbread.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />Just prepare a box of any inexpensive cornbread mix per instructions, but add some of the frozen onions and bell pepper, along with shredded cheese of your choice and voila!!  Rustic goodness in its most delicious form…<br /><br />Your friends, fans, and fellow football watchers will give you the game ball with two thumbs up.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtmst_YPjUgU4LoLsfN92MQZAb7OqFKe7-oSU4NL9AwLNgFoNVR3oMogUqqwiDsQ4e0wnv1FgzBYnbMIt5SLAJO-pWubv-mSkX9yA1bF8ynXpHdq-z4NEkO1snsC_9xT8oE5Hj8zA2-fNu/s1600/Sexy+Chili.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtmst_YPjUgU4LoLsfN92MQZAb7OqFKe7-oSU4NL9AwLNgFoNVR3oMogUqqwiDsQ4e0wnv1FgzBYnbMIt5SLAJO-pWubv-mSkX9yA1bF8ynXpHdq-z4NEkO1snsC_9xT8oE5Hj8zA2-fNu/s400/Sexy+Chili.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><i>Five Bean Crockpot Chili</i> and <i>Cheesy Onion Cornbread</i>…Easy and delicious, just like me.<br /><br /><i>Cheers!!</i><br /><br />Matt-Man<br /><br /><a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">@mattmaniws</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mattmaniws" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">My Facebook Page</span></a> </div>

Easy Crockpot Chili Recipe

Cheeeeeeers everybody, and Happy Hump Day. Y’know? Now that football season is in full swing and Lady Autumn is here with her cooler temps,...

LIVE FROM NASHVILLE V

8:15 PM Tukiyooo 0

<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">The last day of House of Bishops was full and busy but I find myself too tired to even remember much of it. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">I do recall that my panel presented this morning on the subject of how our diocese had experienced loss opening the way to new possibilities. I presented on how Latino ministries had sprung up in the wake of parish decline; and how something new seems to be taking shape since the greatly regretted loss of the regional vicars (ministry developers). Other presentations were from Julio Holguin of the Dominican Republic about the new sense of structure and formation there; Diane Jardine Bruce of Los Angeles about congregations dealing with ethnically changing neighborhoods by walking the neighborhood and making friends; Todd Ousley of Eastern Michigan about using new ministry models in the wake of declining population and employment; and Jeff Lee speaking of the merger of the Dioceses of Quincy and Chicago. It was all actually quite inspiring. I was particularly touched by Diane’s account of connecting with the neighborhood. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">We did plodding business in the afternoon, nothing anyone could get exercised about. Then we had our closing dinner tonight, including graduation ceremonies for those who have completed the College or Bishops and farewells for three retiring bishops. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">I have loved seeing these special friends and look forward to connecting with then again next Spring.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">Tomorrow, I fly to Reno for the Empty Bowls Benefit Banquet in Sparks, where I will be a waiter once again this year.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

LIVE FROM NASHVILLE V

The last day of House of Bishops was full and busy but I find myself too tired to even remember much of it. I do recall that my...

Confession

5:08 PM Tukiyooo 0

Everybody's got that nutty relative. Well I've got tons of nutty, but mostly they ain't the fun kind of nutty. There's one that that keeps everyone in stitches.  She's a tiny little old lady with the most crass mouth and dirtiest mind.  Think the old lady, Sophia, from the Golden Girls.  Just with a heavier accent, nearly black hair, and a foul mouth.  Usually it's little comments worked into conversation that make you pause and think, "Did she really just say that?"  Since it was safe for work, she sent it to my work email so I could share with my friends lol...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjybT_miiRUXelHrxLq3RyowtsiV5BTZKTjf9m96_ftfoAGp_IlyB3Xp3PQIXIC7epD6iQHsqiFBz1YcQ1cC5Z-WvfM2GKLSnnY1kPMx1Qov7Zl6VD0oGpikp6YJ0TvRwOtzZjYs_7WMGc/s1600/7205_10201530820210768_1754291305_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjybT_miiRUXelHrxLq3RyowtsiV5BTZKTjf9m96_ftfoAGp_IlyB3Xp3PQIXIC7epD6iQHsqiFBz1YcQ1cC5Z-WvfM2GKLSnnY1kPMx1Qov7Zl6VD0oGpikp6YJ0TvRwOtzZjYs_7WMGc/s320/7205_10201530820210768_1754291305_n.jpg" width="276" /></a><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45,"tn":"*G"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">'Bless  me Father, for I have sinned. I have been with a loose girl.' The  priest asks, 'Is that you, little Joey Pagano?' 'Yes, Father, it is.'  'And who was the girl you were with?' 'I can't tell you, Father, I don't  want to ruin her reputation.' "Well, Joey, I'm sure to find out her  name sooner or later so you may as well tell me now. Was it Tina  Minetti?" 'I cannot say.' 'Was it Teresa Mazzarelli<span class="text_exposed_show">?'  'I'll never tell.' 'Was it Nina Capelli?' 'I'm sorry, but I cannot name  her.' 'Was it Cathy Piriano?' 'My lips are sealed Father.' 'Well then,  was it Rosa DiAngelo?' 'Please, Father, I cannot tell you.'<br /><br />The priest sighs in frustration. 'You're very tight lipped, and I admire  that. But you've sinned and have to atone. You cannot be an altar boy  now for 4 months. Now you go and behave yourself.' Joey walks back to  his pew, and his friend Franco slides over and whispers, 'What'd you  get?' 'Four month's vacation and five excellent Leads.'</span></span></span>

Confession

Everybody's got that nutty relative. Well I've got tons of nutty, but mostly they ain't the fun kind of nutty. There's one t...

Chicago Fed National Activity Index (Musical Tribute)

4:53 PM Tukiyooo 0

The following chart shows the 3-year moving average of the Chicago Fed National Activity Index. I have added a 2nd order polynomial trend channel in red.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Zl54NxjhVPlWcoRfuylG7tnfCLCpLO4O_QpTJTLB_IQdPfQV7tEu0tzuI5P1LieqjI7uAd_1G2XaDg6KPH8-TIk-ixVNujI915TCgf4KGTFLOQ3K0yc2QP1oCNMxIgK7GjeVyAvDYCQ/s1600/CFNAI+v.2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Zl54NxjhVPlWcoRfuylG7tnfCLCpLO4O_QpTJTLB_IQdPfQV7tEu0tzuI5P1LieqjI7uAd_1G2XaDg6KPH8-TIk-ixVNujI915TCgf4KGTFLOQ3K0yc2QP1oCNMxIgK7GjeVyAvDYCQ/s320/CFNAI+v.2.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />Gotta love optimism. Assuming that the trend channel holds (might not), then we definitely live in the best of all possible worlds right now. We're hugging the top of that declining channel like glue. Yay.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/vWz9VN40nCA" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><b>See Also:</b><br /><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2010/06/sarcasm-disclaimer.html">Sarcasm Disclaimer</a><br /><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2007/09/trend-line-disclaimer-time.html">Trend Line Disclaimer</a><br /><a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_am_I_going_and_why_am_I_in_this_handbasket">Where am I going and why am I in this handbasket?</a><br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CFNAI">St. Louis Fed: Chicago Fed National Activity Index</a>

Chicago Fed National Activity Index (Musical Tribute)

The following chart shows the 3-year moving average of the Chicago Fed National Activity Index. I have added a 2nd order polynomial trend ch...

Exposing the private companies behind the takeover of government

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outsourcing privatizing Exposing the private companies behind the takeover of government

Our friends at the Center for Media and Democracy are launching a campaign to expose the corporate privatizers taking over our government -...

I-64 over Afton Mountain to receive improvements

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCYV2puNRVb06I1LnDdTJRuCSW_2uW8kv3hp_EONaV6vy9tqyUptQefpZEbICeAKn5Jh4ZQ21eVfEVXp_LCRr0Q3lq8DzkE71L5pYPLgi6-rqpm8mTrOf7a4UtHVcEuOjrHhnuAiBrN5YM/s1600/Afton+Mtn+pileup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCYV2puNRVb06I1LnDdTJRuCSW_2uW8kv3hp_EONaV6vy9tqyUptQefpZEbICeAKn5Jh4ZQ21eVfEVXp_LCRr0Q3lq8DzkE71L5pYPLgi6-rqpm8mTrOf7a4UtHVcEuOjrHhnuAiBrN5YM/s640/Afton+Mtn+pileup.jpg" width="425" /></a></div>For years I-64 over Afton Mountain has been a foggy gap through the mountains in bad weather as well as icy, snowy, windy, and every other weather condition possible. Since it was completed in 1972, this interstate that connects the coast of Virginia westward to the mountains has been used by millions of travelers. It's gentle grade and curves made crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains far easier and safer than in the past, and in good conditions it's a breeze to drive.<br /><br />That is, until bad weather hits, and one particularly nasty deterrent over the years has been fog that can be as thick as pea soup, literally limiting visibility to about as far as the front of your vehicle. With eyes squinting to see through the thick, opaque haze, it can make for a white-knuckle, heart-stopping drive as you go up against Mother Nature.<br /><br />And then there's the other drivers. That's where Russian roulette comes into play because some drivers feel completely safe continuing at the 65 mph posted speed limit even though they can't see beyond their noses. Others slow down ... but how much? Some almost stop while others feel safe at 55 or 45 or 35. That's a dangerous mix on foggy or wintry Afton.<br /><br />For years those living in the area have suggested that a variable speed limit would be helpful under such conditions. Improvements have been made as far as automatic fog lights that outline lanes making it easier not to drive over the side of the mountain, and electronic signs with messages warning of inclement conditions. But the speed limit issue was still there. And pileups still happened even with the improvements.<br /><br />Thankfully, according to the <a href="http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/state-regional/improvements-planned-for-i--over-afton-mountain/article_0e894fc3-9f94-5394-97bf-9b31ac75f5c4.html"><i>Richmond Times-Dispatch</i></a>, a new phase of improvements is going to be put in place and, included in Phase 2, will be the variable speed signs:<br /><blockquote>The variable speed limit would allow VDOT to not only detect  inclement weather or changing traffic patterns but automatically alter  the road’s legal speed limit to prepare drivers for the conditions.<br /><br />In Afton, Shiley said, “we looked at crash types,  not just number of crashes, and it led us to this solution: We really  need to have something to get motorists to slow down when we have fog  conditions or winter weather conditions.”</blockquote>Afton is legendary for the pileups that have occurred over the years:<br /><blockquote>In April 1992, state police responded to a 60-car pileup that resulted in two fatalities. In April 1998, a 65-car pileup sent 40 people to area hospitals. Then, less than three weeks later, the road was the site of an 18-car collision. In all three incidents, police reported that fog was a major factor.</blockquote>The new improvements will be welcomed. Now if we could just get climbing lanes....

Afton Mountain I-64 VDOT Virginia I-64 over Afton Mountain to receive improvements

For years I-64 over Afton Mountain has been a foggy gap through the mountains in bad weather as well as icy, snowy, windy, and every other w...

Forbes, Wittman, Rigell: 'Sequester impact on military a disgrace'

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By Reps. Randy Forbes, Rob Wittman, and Scott Rigell<br /><a href="http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-nws-oped-congressmen-0922-20130921,0,2135044.story">The Daily Press</a><br /><br />If you were told that your son or daughter was going to fly on an airplane that had only 70 percent of its required maintenance, or whose pilot had trained for less hours than optimally required to maintain proficiency, would you allow him or her to get on the plane? Of course not. Yet thanks to sequestration, the U.S. military is facing a situation where our sons and daughters are being asked to do more with less training, less maintenance, and less modern platforms. Today, the military is experiencing the greatest readiness crisis since the Vietnam War. Should the president and Congress fail to find a solution to our nation's budget woes, readiness will likely degrade even further. Forced to find immediate savings, the services have curtailed training and deferred maintenance in ways that threaten to damage our national security for decades.<br /><br />Sequestration's roughly $500 billion in defense cuts over the next decade have come on top of the administration's already substantial reductions to national defense spending. Accordingly, the services have chosen to absorb the majority of these cuts by reducing their near-term readiness, which generally means less training for the men and women wearing our nation's uniform.<br /><br />For Army and Marine units, other than those scheduled for deployment to Afghanistan, this means substantially less time firing live ammunition and fewer opportunities to train with the vehicles they may eventually take into combat.<br /><br /><i>Read the rest of this article <a href="http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-nws-oped-congressmen-0922-20130921,0,2135044.story">here</a>.</i>

Forbes, Wittman, Rigell: 'Sequester impact on military a disgrace'

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By Reps. Randy Forbes, Rob Wittman, and Scott Rigell The Daily Press If you were told that your son or daughter was going to fly on an airpl...

Eric Cantor's Republican Roundup -- October 5th

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO8K_y1rdr_E7m7k29jO2WuMENX3pRFkdYsBC2k3LuRBajAMPECI-aGs_6RUHlwpnNpOk59v_39Ic3zrggl7xE-I3Es-PBh5i8BZykgGVPHAecwxVeay_zg6rItUIHXIxaoYCSUXRtrOI5/s1600/Republican+Roundup+2013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO8K_y1rdr_E7m7k29jO2WuMENX3pRFkdYsBC2k3LuRBajAMPECI-aGs_6RUHlwpnNpOk59v_39Ic3zrggl7xE-I3Es-PBh5i8BZykgGVPHAecwxVeay_zg6rItUIHXIxaoYCSUXRtrOI5/s320/Republican+Roundup+2013.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">It's only about 10 days until Eric Cantor's 2013 <a href="http://www.republicanroundup.com/">Republican Roundup</a>. Every year thousands turn out for this free event in the far west end of Richmond that features BBQ dinner, children's activities, vendors, and lots of politicians, all hosted by Congressman Eric Cantor and the 7th Republican Congressional District headed by Chairman Linwood Cobb. It's a great opportunity to catch up with Republicans from all over the Commonwealth. Be sure to <a href="http://www.republicanroundup.com/rsvp-now/">RSVP at the website</a> for your free tickets to this year's event. Here are some photos from past years.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUE-GrRVcH6iFQBiVBvbAT5tleVU-iavx_6femZq7d1sYaDpd_d0nhc6SpJPlcA4SnZ9PCNalaKZ2bq6C6U6YTfzrrq4CXAGMRL6h4Z2LXAiy1G1ssi8vlLvh0arI0je3N9jQTPpjSooM9/s1600/Republican+Roundup+Eric+Cantor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUE-GrRVcH6iFQBiVBvbAT5tleVU-iavx_6femZq7d1sYaDpd_d0nhc6SpJPlcA4SnZ9PCNalaKZ2bq6C6U6YTfzrrq4CXAGMRL6h4Z2LXAiy1G1ssi8vlLvh0arI0je3N9jQTPpjSooM9/s320/Republican+Roundup+Eric+Cantor.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Our Majority Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCpDWUQ-SHj9ujx9Uh5JASDK19TjJSl45ZR2fpE0vp0xBVb81OrBEX9ubEouqbZPfJoOsWnE_V7_KmmQoucJPRGdjagix_vXiLzH0H3q5epNETEWWU_4qG18qlw3NA0oderskUDUjgYLid/s1600/Republican+Roundup+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCpDWUQ-SHj9ujx9Uh5JASDK19TjJSl45ZR2fpE0vp0xBVb81OrBEX9ubEouqbZPfJoOsWnE_V7_KmmQoucJPRGdjagix_vXiLzH0H3q5epNETEWWU_4qG18qlw3NA0oderskUDUjgYLid/s320/Republican+Roundup+2.jpg" width="244" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Charlie and Polly</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi__BvbQeTrfT08jMuXFqr3-Ws98Arvjw55Z7UK9c4C-QZAD1-Ob4RWeGfwju9BUbVqWeM0xmwdUkobl-1jiOb7w7MAn1JbujUk5I9Ma55-IulHxObFui05tVEyR5WhyphenhyphenQZ5q9YKpcD_ZnWg/s1600/Republican+Roundup+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi__BvbQeTrfT08jMuXFqr3-Ws98Arvjw55Z7UK9c4C-QZAD1-Ob4RWeGfwju9BUbVqWeM0xmwdUkobl-1jiOb7w7MAn1JbujUk5I9Ma55-IulHxObFui05tVEyR5WhyphenhyphenQZ5q9YKpcD_ZnWg/s320/Republican+Roundup+3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Congressman Cantor and 7th District Chair Linwood Cobb</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFxaZURcrDNeOsVMUHxbXpRS_xWQ9hH4mDkLzETifXLX4FQt-BnYbJsvOvdIII_9qzguh49d55_7XiD6HWtvJjkpx1754Sa4kDB34quat7753fJUZRq0TOy2B1QDygJhyphenhyphen-6qbSjzFwEuh1/s1600/Republican+Roundup+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFxaZURcrDNeOsVMUHxbXpRS_xWQ9hH4mDkLzETifXLX4FQt-BnYbJsvOvdIII_9qzguh49d55_7XiD6HWtvJjkpx1754Sa4kDB34quat7753fJUZRq0TOy2B1QDygJhyphenhyphen-6qbSjzFwEuh1/s1600/Republican+Roundup+4.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi59c-Jgy2TobTT96f-d_IlMqjqHzcvocN5GynJTLSKGumJY_s1G9UQrW5qNuwPnHFvYV9JwaKqDBQcKK-Gzwi_c2DGMxDyPjjZr6P7_n646D9YwK74zWVwGvMJmxahRwBP-NJjwl1RcnB/s1600/Republican+Roundup+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi59c-Jgy2TobTT96f-d_IlMqjqHzcvocN5GynJTLSKGumJY_s1G9UQrW5qNuwPnHFvYV9JwaKqDBQcKK-Gzwi_c2DGMxDyPjjZr6P7_n646D9YwK74zWVwGvMJmxahRwBP-NJjwl1RcnB/s1600/Republican+Roundup+5.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Mike and Judi</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXI6tyjwnc4k0EgHLNFFuVEMN8Lc4VLmKTOytSyFmzCZd8mqSjUeq761C1Y4WTFgnBpLilPsjuZVrNH5hgMO-41hyODhoNIvcbdx-anXyL5_MYDk9Me7TkFmqq8hQz7itIRL8WT4RHZlHI/s1600/Republican+Roundup+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXI6tyjwnc4k0EgHLNFFuVEMN8Lc4VLmKTOytSyFmzCZd8mqSjUeq761C1Y4WTFgnBpLilPsjuZVrNH5hgMO-41hyODhoNIvcbdx-anXyL5_MYDk9Me7TkFmqq8hQz7itIRL8WT4RHZlHI/s320/Republican+Roundup+6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Bloggers Row</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdI200f-EQd7y6dBQdzTn2x-Iam-h6wt8olrSGSOnaD1CR4PaWaeYWUionEWx646IbuIdI2NazdXmD4_ioNC1inzNC4Uya1NfOlEqktgPRBE2sIAgcWaTJCgvKqAPyC8C6eEYA7P8o8wEl/s1600/Republican+Roundup+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdI200f-EQd7y6dBQdzTn2x-Iam-h6wt8olrSGSOnaD1CR4PaWaeYWUionEWx646IbuIdI2NazdXmD4_ioNC1inzNC4Uya1NfOlEqktgPRBE2sIAgcWaTJCgvKqAPyC8C6eEYA7P8o8wEl/s1600/Republican+Roundup+7.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Christy and Davis</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiDxPtHY-qP9JzZDIx7GAFNKv7mvICwcKh5cXsMqRReMP7dCQ-cbgLBMGsy1G5v2D6pqwJNdyVi-wcTuLgNiNFXV13Ivulwy4pWE5R6i83VWFBHML0AwbFvfCN7Juw8WZ-kw9z01J0tlc_/s1600/Republican+Roundup+8+Bob+McDonnell,+Bill.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiDxPtHY-qP9JzZDIx7GAFNKv7mvICwcKh5cXsMqRReMP7dCQ-cbgLBMGsy1G5v2D6pqwJNdyVi-wcTuLgNiNFXV13Ivulwy4pWE5R6i83VWFBHML0AwbFvfCN7Juw8WZ-kw9z01J0tlc_/s1600/Republican+Roundup+8+Bob+McDonnell,+Bill.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Our Governor and Bill</div><br />Photos by Lynn R. 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I'mTired And Pissed Off

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This seven day a week bullshit is getting old.<br />On top of that I spent ten and a half hours inside a confined space on my fucking knees last night with a restraint harness on stringing a whole shit ton of wires and my left foot is still numb on top.<br /><br />I'm fucking beat.<br /><br />Hopefully I will have next Saturday off.<br /><br />If nothing else I still have 3 floating holidays to burn and if worst comes to worst I'll use one of those.<br /><br />As for the pissed off part.<br /><br />As I was sitting here trying to wake up, all groggy as fuck, my wife tells me that the boy is having anger issues and that they got into it last night, again.<br /><br />He is fifteen and I remember those days.<br /><br />I took off from home at that age and never went back myself.<br /><br />They got into it about grades and of course being a growing male of that age, he is mouthy as all get out to her. The little fucker is smart enough to know better when I am around because I'll get his ass.<br />She escalated it and slugged him on the arm so he went ballistic and punched the window over the sink that hangs out, kinda like a mini green house. I forget what they call those things.<br />Anyways, he busted the inner window and of course, cut the shit out of his hand.<br /><br />Dumbass.<br /><br /><br />I just got off the phone to the glass place and they will be out tomorrow, to the tune of about $250.<br /><br />You can rest assured that the lad and I are going to have a short conversation.<br /><br />A very short, one sided conversation.<br /><br />If he pulls his lippy fucking shit on me I might end up calling a drywall guy too.<br /><br />Sigh.<br /><br />They say there is no rest for the wicked and I certainly have earned my share  but I am starting to wonder if I wasn't Genghis Kahn in a previous life.<br /><br /><br /><br />

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<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Bart Jameson</div><br /><br />  <div class='uawarticle'>Stress and obligations already fill your life. It can seem as if you are simply adding additional stressors to your life with the design of a diet tips and weight loss information website. You can find tune the focus, have a strategy for design and marketing efforts that will allow you to have a successful website with these guidelines. The process will not be as overwhelming.<br />  <br />  A great way to demonstrate the quality of your products and make people want to come to your diet tips and weight loss information website is a testimonial. You can add quotes to your site from people who you satisfied with your website or experts. Make sure to get permission from the person you are quoting or they might get angry and go to a different site.<br />  <br />  Handicapped visitors should be kept in mind when attempting to ensure that a variety of people can easily utilize your diet tips and weight loss information website. Make your website more available by allowing the resizing of text, using valid HTML and CSS, avoid frames and be sure to use alt tags in images. There are a number of web designers trying to make it more convenient for handicapped visitors to use the internet. This will bring in increasing amounts of traffic.<br />  <br />  With your reader's permission, get their e-mail addresses. Set up a double opt-in with them. Circulate a newsletter, once they have opted in. Don't make it too long, just make it short, simple, and funny so they will keep checking your diet tips and weight loss information website.<br />  <br />  Offer some informational booklet to your visitors in return for their contact details or for their participation in a survey. You will find that the cost of the free information is more than compensated by the information you gather from them.<br />  <br />  Your pages should never just 'end. ' Always give your readers an option to explore other areas of your site, or perhaps links to the sources you've used to get your information. You want to keep your users on your site for as long as possible, and even if you send them elsewhere to see your sources, at least they'll know they can come back to your site for a comprehensive collection of resources they can utilize to get the answers they seek.<br />  <br />  Ensure that your diet tips and weight loss information website has all of the information required to convince a prospective client that your website is the one to rely on. It cuts the time spent on decision making and question asking while making it easier for them to see all of the reasons why they should choose you.<br />  <br />  iPhone is one of the most popular smartphones around. Most of my iPone's users of rely heavily on apps to consume their content. It is a smart idea to create an iPhone application for your diet tips and weight loss information website. Having a knife own application display the content of your website could bring you new readers, as well as allow your current ones to receive your sites' content on their iPhone.<br />  <br />  </div><br />  <div class='uawresource'><br />  	<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br />  		About the Author:<br />  	</div><br />  	<div class='uawlinks'>Simply go to your favorite search engine and look for <a href='http://www.buyphen375quick.com/'>where to buy phen375</a> if you wish to enhance your understanding related to <a href='http://www.buyphen375quick.com/buy-phen375-where-to-buy-phen375-the-safest-diet-pill'>weight loss</a>.</div><br />  </div><br />

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Children’s Librarian - East Hampton Public Library

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<strong>Children’s Librarian -</strong> <strong><strong><span style="color: #48286d;">East Hampton Public Library</span></strong></strong> is seeking an individual with demonstrated supervisory experience and  familiarization with the operation of children’s library services. This  is a full-time position.  Duties include, but are not limited to  planning, developing and executing programs designed to interest  children; provide outreach and in-library services; supervise staff and  volunteers; prepare statistics, reports, publicity requests and work  circulation desk as needed. Position requires strong knowledge of  technology frameworks used to deliver library services in a growing  community with changing needs.  Strong interpersonal skills with all age  groups are essential.  Two years in a lead role delivering public  services with MLS or equivalent combination of education and experience  is preferred.  Schedule includes a 35 hour workweek, with benefits-some  evening and weekend hours required.  $25.01 per hour.  Job description  and application are available at <a _fcksavedurl="http://www.easthamptonct.gov" href="http://www.easthamptonct.gov/" target="_blank">www.easthamptonct.gov</a>.  E.O.E/A.A/M-F.   Please submit cover letter, resume and employment application by<span style="color: red;"> October 11, 2013</span>, or until filled to:  Town of East Hampton, Department of Human Resources, 20 East High Street, East Hampton, CT 06424.

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Book Review: Archive

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<a href="http://www.pinkcomma.com/archive/"><b><i>Archive: Design Biennial Boston</i></b></a> edited by Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo, Mark Pasnik<br />pinkcomma books, 2013<br />Paperback, 240 pages <br /><br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjef5vgFv1fUp3a38Sg-vcFIofg4PrI4RFh9YAheXrnjMCISB9klSb6QeVuQDCvnXYbAQYgHsgxLVS1coKeleCRp8nxt87G3BSuc-iIEDbPLtNFCVn3aLFP_ypB6FM13-owwFkC6qc9SfA_/s1600/Archive-001a.jpg" /><br />[All photographs courtesy of <a href="http://www.pinkcomma.com/archive/">pinkcomma books</a>]<br /><br />In a recent eMagazine article I put together for World-Architects, a number of institutions responded to a short Q+A about "<a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/pages/insight/making-architecture-public">making architecture public</a>." Exhibiting architecture, like making books on architecture, is ripe for questioning, as the communication of images and writings on architecture is increasingly spread digitally. But, like books, exhibitions aren't going away any time soon, because even as both suffer from the difficult task of trying to explain something large (a building, a landscape, a city) on a much smaller canvas, exhibitions offer a social aspect—bringing people together into one place—that keeps them popular.<br /><br />One of the institutions that participated in the piece, Boston's <a href="http://www.pinkcomma.com/">pinkcomma</a>, is an independent gallery that started as an extension of the architecture office <a href="http://www.overcommaunder.com/">over,under</a>. The trio of Grimley, Kubo, and Pasnik wanted to, per the eMagazine article, fill a void in the city "between  the critical exhibitions at universities—which were rarely focused on  Boston—and the marketing-oriented displays produced by the professional  organizations that were meant to engage the local community." Their creation of the Design Biennial Boston (DBB) in 2008, which included <a href="http://www.pinkcomma.com/young-architects-boston/">an exhibition at pinkcomma of ten emerging local designers</a>, is an important part of a goal that responds to the strong institutions in and around the city (Harvard and MIT, to name just two) and how the people attending them are transient and have a focus elsewhere. The gallery and biennial put the focus on the local, something that may seem counterintuitive these days.<br /><br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXIMzr7xvvm2n3n-mFbk42AIA_gHxvvAqLPHIFFoclVs854tjw7GLLvKZzwhCcv8HUkWHX75GX9WOnVMB8GwaZ8_fX6tJqBJZ6fePcqRRYeVAtwNxrt3PVakyV2EV9-aY1Y_3EK9jnr7yv/s1600/50.jpg" /><br /><br />In 2012 the DBB moved to the newly opened <a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/projects/project-current-review/35897_bsa_space">BSA Space</a>, a gallery component of the Boston Society of Architects, displaying all 19 winners from the first three biennials (photo above). Additionally, four of the winners created installations for the gallery, each one reflecting one of the four themes set up by the curators: culture, material, discipline, type. These themes are used to categorize the 57 projects (3 from each designer) that were displayed in the exhibition and are found in the pages of the companion book. The themes, like the "survey" portion of the book, enable cross references between the projects; this is fitting given the emphasis on creating an "archive" (of the exhibition's and book's title) of the designers and the projects that represent them.<br /><br />The survey (photo below) does a decent job of contextualizing the DBB designers, showing where they work, where they teach, where their projects are, how much money they make, what software they use, how they get work, and so forth. The charts use a consistent format of white circles on black backgrounds; the more concentric circles, the more the designers have in common. One or two are unreadable (it's hard to tell at what schools the principals teach, for example), but overall they do a good job of straddling universal/global characteristics with local concerns. The latter make up much of the project archive—considering that just over half of the projects are in Massachusetts—but the local is also addressed in the "observations" section at the front of the book, which includes essays by the curators and a few academics.<br /><br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzp3cXunKxOGH1iS7FHPDYHGHjA3vwti5DcTE8g9pL-dGWfQAJ9u4yp56dVIcUQA3RmluqxMyvCOcVJQhkP_HkG1a_R0rqDQ_aPjXEQLO0dNDvrsrVKjGxZXhaqFQ63mHJsFnfN99c2qa/s1600/48.jpg" /><br /><br />Like many exhibitions and books on architecture, the emphasis of <i>Archive</i> is on the projects. Short and sweet (one spread per project), the projects assembled here convey the quality output in Boston really well. Outside of the four themes it's difficult to find consistent threads among the projects; there is too much diversity to further partition them. One thing I found myself doing was focusing on the projects for Boston, especially those that attempt to reshape the public realm: C&MP's Coming Soon, a conceptual provocation for a downtown site; Touloukian Touloukian's Riverside Park Pavilion; and all of Utile's projects; to name just a few. The book is not limited to local designers producing local solutions, but there is something admirable in awarding and cataloging the achievements of those who decide to stay in and around Boston and take part in a growing and (from the outside) exciting architectural scene.<br /><br /><b>US: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374532990/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374532990&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.com" border="0" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan.gif" /></a> CA: <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0374532990/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374532990&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.ca" border="0" height="28" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan-ca.gif" width="90" /></a> UK: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0374532990/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374532990&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.co.uk" border="0" height="28" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan-uk.gif" width="90" /></a></b>

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Rural residents raise hell at Moral Monday protest

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<a href="http://www.journalnow.com/gallery/news/article_d0043a1c-24bc-11e3-b21d-0019bb30f31a.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scores of Moral Monday protesters</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> came to tiny Yadkinville, N.C., last night to fight the repressive anti-worker policies approved by Gov. Pat McCrory and his legislative allies this year. The rally was the 19th such event held since late April. Nearly 1,000 people were arrested at weekly protests held in the state capital earlier this year.</span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHMII6jxxdfgUd43AuSVoyjmUr-YXW4JE8Moo4hO7T09Mk9MQiR0TboVvTUjTcbljS7EFdaFnxRweW_065IPZ_qHOXPqqkTVCiBK_LPffdgTJZOltLZy5ofriJHxx3cbYoKq3vRFV12svq/s1600/9.24moralmonday2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHMII6jxxdfgUd43AuSVoyjmUr-YXW4JE8Moo4hO7T09Mk9MQiR0TboVvTUjTcbljS7EFdaFnxRweW_065IPZ_qHOXPqqkTVCiBK_LPffdgTJZOltLZy5ofriJHxx3cbYoKq3vRFV12svq/s320/9.24moralmonday2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laid-off worker Philip Diehl addresses crowd at rally.</td></tr></tbody></table>Jobs and education were again at the top of the agenda for demonstrators. Several said the event gave those living in rural North Carolina the chance to have their voices heard in Raleigh. They oppose decisions to cut unemployment benefits and public education and the failure to expand Medicaid coverage for 600,000 residents.<br /><br />Philip Diehl, who was laid off his job with Freightliner Trucks, said workers are hurting while McCrory doles out fat salaries to his staff. Protesters are just trying to make a difference, he told the <a href="http://www.journalnow.com/gallery/news/article_d0043a1c-24bc-11e3-b21d-0019bb30f31a.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" rel="nofollow">Winston-Salem Journal</a>: <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">You are fed up with the way things are going. You are trying to peacefully change things.</blockquote><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christopher Petree, president of the Yakin County Association of Educators, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisPetree" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">tweeted that the governor and the Legislature are motivating</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> the public to action:<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shout out to the @NCLeg and @PatMcCroryNC for bringing out the activist in me. You all know how to rally the masses!</span></blockquote></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The event closed with a candlelight vigil to remember all state residents who have been damaged by the extreme policies approved by lawmakers this year.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Week after week, North Carolina residents are pushing back on an agenda crafted by </span><a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/02/heres-billionaire-trying-to-destroy.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">state budget director Art Pope</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, a multimillionaire who helped underwrite the campaigns of Gov. McCrory and his cronies in the Legislature. It is largely modeled on the pro-corporate, anti-worker platform of the </span><a href="http://www.alecexposed.org/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">American Legislative Exchange Council</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And more demonstrations are expected. In addition to the ongoing Moral Monday events, North Carolina teachers are </span><a href="http://triangle.news14.com/content/news/699770/nc-teachers-consider-walkout-to-protest-poor-working-conditions" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">currently mulling whether to hold a statewide walkout Nov. 4</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> to protest policy changes and poor working conditions in the classroom.<br /><br />Stay tuned.<br /><br /></span>

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10-Year Treasury: FED a Story

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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdaMc0KgNXFLSTM0pPSnTRkSo4dThNtO-aXENcYTYMYa0YIH451_ZPVrppProGgmQ5DuwG9GTtHui6vfhWoMgl1wf3q84Dc75IylUWQabU-lG9hDbdvvn-7wijzEf0hAH43rA4PhuPswI/s1600/FED+a+Story.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdaMc0KgNXFLSTM0pPSnTRkSo4dThNtO-aXENcYTYMYa0YIH451_ZPVrppProGgmQ5DuwG9GTtHui6vfhWoMgl1wf3q84Dc75IylUWQabU-lG9hDbdvvn-7wijzEf0hAH43rA4PhuPswI/s320/FED+a+Story.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />The Fed was even more shocked than I was to see just how many people instantly converted to the belief that the 10-year treasury yield would breach 3% and continue to rise for the foreseeable future (even in a <a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=mHI">short-term 0.04% interest rate</a> and <a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=mHJ">sub-par employment growth</a> environment).<br /><br /><b>September 24, 2013</b><br /><a href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2013/09/23/prepare-your-portfolio-for-rising-interest-rates/">Fox Business News: Prepare Your Portfolio for Rising Interest Rates</a><br /><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><i>You've been warned -- for years -- about the impact of rising interest rates on bonds and what that might do to your portfolio.<br />...<br /><br />Calling in expert help could be useful for individuals as well. If the thought of figuring out bond durations and premiums versus par seems too daunting, consider visiting a fee-only financial planner or adviser. Investment planning is a full-time job for a reason. It can be complicated.</i></div><br />If you can't trust the financial "experts" at Fox Business News to help you line the pockets of financial planners and advisers, then who can you trust?<br /><br />I've definitely <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/03/wrong-way-siegel-strikes-again.html">been warned</a> for years. <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/07/real-math-behind-siegels-mythical-35.html">No doubt</a> about that. It's all just a <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-long-term-death-of-real-yields.html">big adventure</a> to me though. I'm a loner, a rebel.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="236" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/mKLizztikRk" width="420"></iframe><br /><br />This is not investment advice.<br /><br /><b>See Also:</b><br /><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2010/06/sarcasm-disclaimer.html">Sarcasm Disclaimer</a><br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=mHx">St. Louis Fed: 10-Year Treasury Yield</a>

10-Year Treasury: FED a Story

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Ideas On How To Get Flat Abs For Women

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<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Amanda Baird</div><br /><br />  <div class='uawarticle'>Learning how to get flat abs for women helps them eliminate the layer of fat that forms around the stomach. This is the basic of getting a shapely body. It makes all the other exercises worthwhile. In order to achieve this ultimate goal, you need to take a combination of exercises that target certain areas. Diet is another crucial element in this regard.<br />  <br />  One of the oldest and most effective strategies is aerobic. It offers more benefits include easy temperature control and better circulation. For the exercises to be effective, they should be done for approximately thirty minutes in a day. Taking two days off during the week helps you achieve your goals in a healthy manner. This should be done consistently. A professional trainer will help you reach optimum levels of workout and maintain safely.<br />  <br />  Exercising can be fun through such activities as running, dancing, swimming, walking and cycling. These activities help you regulate the rate of heart beat and in the process improve your health. Cardio training should be alternated between intensive and mild. An example is sprinting and walking alternations for around twenty minutes. You should catch your breath and resume the sprint.<br />  <br />  Stomach fats are easy to deal with through polymetric exercises. An example is the squat thrust where one begins at a sit up position and spreads the hands and legs by jumping to the highest possible level. This strains the body when repeated for fifteen to twenty steps in a progressive manner. An X jump is a variation of this move but one begins from a sitting position. Ensure that you push your body to the edges.<br />  <br />  Strength training helps the body to build muscle by burning calories and increasing metabolism. Examples are crunches, leg raises and side bends which exercise the upper and lower abdomens as well as obliques. You should do between fifteen and twenty five steps every day. There are compound exercises that are as effective. They include dead lifts. Heavy weights should be included.<br />  <br />  Proper diet forms a crucial part of a healthy body. You are advised to avoid junk foods like chips and sweets. The best alternatives for these foods are fruits and vegetables. You should opt for lean proteins found in nuts, beans and lean meat. Whole grains help you avoid overeating since you will be fuller for long. Take food in small portions until you feel full. You should take breaks during meals so that you can detect when you are getting full.<br />  <br />  Experts advise that you check on the glycemic index of the foods you take. The lower they are, the healthier for you. The options available in this regard are broccoli, carrots, berries, cabbages, apples, tomatoes and bananas. You should complete your meals two hours before you go to sleep. This is because of a slowed body metabolism that affects digestion. Take sufficient amounts of water each day.<br />  <br />  In order to master <A href="http://www.themabs.com">how to get flat abs for women</A>, it is advisable to lower the intake of sodium. You will look bloated since the body retains large amounts of water. There are healthier options where foods are involved. It is advisable for you to reduce alcohol intake because of the number of calories contained in each glass.<br />  <br />  </div><br />  <div class='uawresource'><br />  	<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br />  		About the Author:<br />  	</div><br />  	<div class='uawlinks'>Discover how to get flat abs for women by reviewing this informative source at <a href="http://www.themabs.com">www.themabs.com</a>. Visit the related homepage now on http://www.themabs.com.</div><br />  </div><br />

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Long-Term Oil Price Trends

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The following chart shows the 5-year, 10-year, and 20-year moving averages of the price of crude oil in inflation adjusted terms (August 2013 dollars).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2HLCo3QF_JXRoMlekkA2z2o8lIj0T1vojYf0q9fxD5CpCjMAJXSPR2_jKvLzrdEm8zzyeYnh_LXgz60Dx8dVLqos8T-mFbkBkzAnQEc_QD7M-qylyCs2Ri4LyBucJFGFPivquzwSrXfY/s1600/Long-Term+Oil+Price+Trends.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2HLCo3QF_JXRoMlekkA2z2o8lIj0T1vojYf0q9fxD5CpCjMAJXSPR2_jKvLzrdEm8zzyeYnh_LXgz60Dx8dVLqos8T-mFbkBkzAnQEc_QD7M-qylyCs2Ri4LyBucJFGFPivquzwSrXfY/s320/Long-Term+Oil+Price+Trends.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />There is no good news in the 10-year and 20-year moving averages. Both are currently at record highs and climbing.<br /><br />The only good news here is that the 5-year moving average is rolling over. However, this news is offset by the fact that the <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/energy/">current price of oil @ $102.73</a> is well above the 5-year moving average. Should it stay there then the rolling over will be temporary.<br /><br />What could cause the 5-year moving average to continue to roll over? A recession brought on by high-priced oil could certainly do it. For the first time in U.S. history (March 2012 to March 2013), the real price of oil averaged more than $90 over a 5-year period (August 2013 Dollars). What a drag.<br /><br />For what it is worth, nothing tends to kill higher prices like higher prices (most bubble watchers would agree). Note that the perpetually increasing upward trend in <a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=mHm">total miles driven</a> has failed.<br /><br />No predictions here, simply observations.<br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=mHl">St. Louis Fed: Crude Oil Prices (WTI)</a><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CPIAUCNS">St. Louis Fed: CPI</a>

Long-Term Oil Price Trends

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Private prisons’ profit scheme: lockup quotas and “low-crime taxes”

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<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKngdUrVaaMFr5ZUn4zq8ZtmjIPorCH020-CUUhp39DMnAfdtQjoQhxuBvvU7R3eDcJmW_RVL-6_i3lkCJ4QXGPsIqsSsJtcwGwOxWJS79JlAm2rEvIq2fvbBzN4OSuvEWdBkDYAJQt7bv/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-02-04+at+11.43.09+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKngdUrVaaMFr5ZUn4zq8ZtmjIPorCH020-CUUhp39DMnAfdtQjoQhxuBvvU7R3eDcJmW_RVL-6_i3lkCJ4QXGPsIqsSsJtcwGwOxWJS79JlAm2rEvIq2fvbBzN4OSuvEWdBkDYAJQt7bv/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-02-04+at+11.43.09+AM.png" /></a></div>It would be a good thing if crime levels dropped to historic lows, right? Well, not if your business model relies on high incarceration rates. A <a href="http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/article/criminal-how-lockup-quotas-and-low-crime-taxes-guarantee-profits-private-prison-corporations" rel="nofollow">new report</a> from <a href="http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/" rel="nofollow">In The Public Interest</a> (ITPI) explains how prison industry giants like <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Corrections_Corporation_of_America" rel="nofollow">Corrections Corporation of America</a> are making big profits by locking states into contractual occupancy quotas and “low-crime taxes”:</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">65 percent of the private prison contracts ITPI received and analyzed included occupancy guarantees in the form of quotas or required payments for empty prison cells (a “low-crime tax”). These quotas and low-crime taxes put taxpayers on the hook for guaranteeing profits for private prison corporations.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Arizona, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Virginia are locked in contracts with the highest occupancy guarantee requirements, with all quotas requiring between 95% and 100% occupancy. Though crime has dropped by a third in the past decade, an occupancy requirement covering three for-profit prisons has forced taxpayers in Colorado to pay an additional $2 million.</blockquote><div>When the big house is big business, low crime hurts the bottom line, so private prison corporations have cooked up all kinds of schemes to keep their jails full. The ITPI report, titled “Criminal: How Lockup Quotas and 'Low-Crime Taxes' Guarantee Profits for Private Prison Corporations,” says three private prisons in Arizona are administered by contracts that require 100 percent capacity. That's right – the state is obligated by the corporation to keep these prisons full or pay a fee for unused beds. <br /><br /></div><div>Hmm, do you think this kind of system would encourage or discourage criminalization? Well, it doesn’t matter – as long as corporate profits are high.</div><div><br />That’s why CCA pitched the idea to dozens of states last year:</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">In 2012, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest for-profit private prison company in the country, sent a letter to 48 state governors offering to buy their public prisons. CCA offered to buy and operate a state’s prison in exchange for a 20-year contract, which would include a 90 percent occupancy rate guarantee for the entire term. Essentially, the state would have to guarantee that its prison would be 90 percent filled for the next 20 years (a quota), or pay the company for unused prison beds if the number of inmates dipped below 90 percent capacity at any point during the contract term (a “low-crime tax” that essentially penalizes taxpayers when prison incarceration rates fall). </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">When policymakers received the 2012 CCA letter, some worried the terms of CCA’s offer would encourage criminal justice officials to seek harsher sentences to maintain the occupancy rates required by a contract inserting occupancy guarantee provisions into prison privatization contracts.</blockquote>Ya think! And even as they work to force states to keep their prisons full, private prison companies push for more draconian sentencing laws. <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/private-prisons-occupancy-quota-cca-crime" rel="nofollow">Andy Kroll writes</a> in <em>Mother Jones</em>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Private prison companies <a href="http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents/gaming_the_system.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">have supported and helped write</a> "three-strike" and "truth-in-sentencing" laws that drive up prison populations. Their livelihoods depend on towns, cities, and states sending more people to prison and keeping them there.</blockquote>Occupancy quotas protect the private companies from changes in the prison population and fluctuations in the crime rate. Meanwhile, they put taxpayers on the hook for reduced incarceration rates – all in the name of sustaining an industry that thrives on throwing people behind bars.<br /><br /><div>Michele Deitch, a criminal justice expert at the University of Texas, told <em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/private-prison-quotas_n_3953483.html" rel="nofollow">Huffington Post</a></em>:</div><blockquote class="tr_bq">It's really shortsighted public policy to do anything that ties the hands of the state. If there are these incentives to keep the private prisons full, then it is reducing the likelihood that states will adopt strategies to reduce prison costs by keeping more people out. When the beds are there, you don't want to leave them empty.</blockquote><div>We’ve reported a lot on the <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2012/01/security-worse-at-private-prisons.html">horrible safety record</a> and criminal mismanagement of privately-run prisons. These contracts show once again why privatized prisons are such a bad idea.</div><div></div><div>Unlike state-run prisons, which are actually accountable to taxpayers and not driven by profit, private prison companies are the worst offenders when it comes to poor safety standards, including low staffing and other violations. They’re not in the business of keeping communities safe. They’re in the business of big business – by locking up more and more people and doing it on the cheap.<br /><br />And that’s why private prison corporations like to claim that privatization saves money. But occupancy guarantees prove they do just the opposite. When the prison companies cut corners, the savings go to private profits, not taxpayers who pay more for prisons that are less safe.</div>

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James River High School Rapids ... Ladies Varsity Field Hockey

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZoaUgKJab9G-ufN6b3pLLJ5p1hZbHiYHjJDMu6OLS8isIPeAaMVtWGhoYjFo2t2DhUIRNbgjaE3cEMgeSnyElA_XImdKt7zLKJQkb_L5DPbid7vuqOr8LnhkNqv0_5QFXBqnMtGqgkvxn/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZoaUgKJab9G-ufN6b3pLLJ5p1hZbHiYHjJDMu6OLS8isIPeAaMVtWGhoYjFo2t2DhUIRNbgjaE3cEMgeSnyElA_XImdKt7zLKJQkb_L5DPbid7vuqOr8LnhkNqv0_5QFXBqnMtGqgkvxn/s320/4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">James River High Schools "Swamp" ... the football/field hockey field along the mighty James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmd1zRU2rpCK5Xk_5xeIMnscit51dr8I7DDkGa9LJj0ep1Mm93_zMX9NZDO7TI_ThLZFQVtJnKMXEXnio82QR4mAqXjoo9fEXKw5DcvUbDBq9Xxn9BlOLtV-G42ExPAyp8aJtp9KnMMUHf/s1600/6.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmd1zRU2rpCK5Xk_5xeIMnscit51dr8I7DDkGa9LJj0ep1Mm93_zMX9NZDO7TI_ThLZFQVtJnKMXEXnio82QR4mAqXjoo9fEXKw5DcvUbDBq9Xxn9BlOLtV-G42ExPAyp8aJtp9KnMMUHf/s320/6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I had to get a picture of brother-in-law Jon's shirt. The Rapids' colors are purple so we were all wearing purple for SWAC Niece. Go, Rapids!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDafK3j18zVcZNINMfTDeq9Jx6ExcyUbWcSACzrKbLBP_sUem9-QrcY7j3AwJyXYx4H1YcbcD2m-lJxXm_4LclmziNyKESPOxcUVd87gmdZPVHn6YTfw-YSH45OLnvJVN09GVzr7cktRhW/s1600/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDafK3j18zVcZNINMfTDeq9Jx6ExcyUbWcSACzrKbLBP_sUem9-QrcY7j3AwJyXYx4H1YcbcD2m-lJxXm_4LclmziNyKESPOxcUVd87gmdZPVHn6YTfw-YSH45OLnvJVN09GVzr7cktRhW/s400/5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The starting lineup against Matoaca included SWAC Niece.</div><br />Photos by Lynn R. Mitchell

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James River High Schools "Swamp" ... the football/field hockey field along the mighty James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia...