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Thursday, June 7, 2012

The Arthurian — "One for You, Three for Me"

In the 1950s, about 60% of corporate profits came from real production, and the rest from finance. During most of the Great Inflation, the ratio was 50-50.

Today, about 25% of corporate profits come from real production. Three quarters comes from finance. From other people's debt.
Should give pause.

Few words, mostly FRED charts.

Read it at The New Arthurian
"One for You, Three for Me"
by The Arthurian

Anonymous said...

different numbers:

Tom Hickey said...

Thanks, Anonymous. Here's the clickable link for convenience. Good post to check out, too.

Chart of the day: US financial profits By Felix Salmon

Matt Franko said...

I dont know how they are doing it.

New z.1 is out. Suggest look at page 10, Table F.1

Total credit market borrowings running at 1.5T annual rate in q1 but 1.3T of that is UST "borrowing". Pre GFC they were running in excess of $4T with UST near balanced budget.

Must be trading profits or asset values or something because actual borrowings in that sector are still in the toilet.

This would be a good question for JKH... ie 'How are they doing it?"

Leverage said...

Wealth erosion of households? There is an huge transfer under way.

While in aggregate saving rates may be increasing you have to ask whose savings are increasing. A majority of the population probably is using capital to maintain living standards.

So while profits may be rising for 'money changers' (be them corporations or bankers), with new credit influxes barely covering it there is liquidation of assets to pay for these profits.

In the end they get both cheap assets and all the income to buy these assets. When there is no more capability to extract blood 'inflate away' or 'liquidate' the debts -bankruptcy- (this is already going on for most stressed households).

Matt Franko said...

Good points Lev,

Table L.100 in the z.1 shows the Household Sector is up by about 1T in USTs since 2008, and you can see the rest of the Financial Asset classes.

Households seem to be up in aggregate, but somebody said in another thread, 'everybody is in a household'.

So transfers may be taking place entirely within this sector (distributional aspects).

z.1 doesnt go into that level of detail.

another thing is that if you look at F.8, you can see the savings and investment flows. (at the risk of bringing up S & I again!)

Private savings is running in excess of $500B higher than before GFC I think this is the basic difference in our economic performance since then.

Leverage said...

A comment on this trend:

In a capitalist system the natural outcome is that profits fall in a mature sector until the market corporate distribution stabilizes.

This shouldn't be avoid, is a GOOD thing. It means the sector is becoming increasingly efficient at managing resources and the relative income compared to the aggregate of the economy is decreasing.

Total efficiency means there are zero leakages, a mature economy should function so leakages are reduced to mere friction. A very mature sector is agricultural industry for example, it has been maturing since centuries ago and when entered the industrialization phase the efficiency has gone higher and higher. A small sector of the population can produce more food that it's needed, this means we are squeezing all the juice from natural capital (resources), in a relatively efficient way 8considering the availability of cheap energy sources).

In financial terms it means there is little space to differential accumulation of capital, financial capital is which is necessary to keep flows of goods and services active. The small surplus needed for savings is provided by a small deficit by the currency issuer to prevent the system collapse.

So the answer to the trend is NOT to increase the share of profits of the rest the economy, but to shrink financial profits. I think that the share has increased is just an other sign of economic maturity by developed nations, because we haven't found ways to solve the job and income problems, we 'financialize' the economy so we can keep the system going with nominal growth.

IMO what should be achieved is income stability for the majority of the population and not only for capital through transfers and and corporate welfare by the government (deficits). If done so we could see how the economy financial share shrinks to it's 'natural' size (the one where it adds value and doesn't actually destroy wealth).

paul said...

Over at NC Matt Stoller is stirring the hornets nest again…

He may need some MMT help over there.

Matt Franko said...

wrt the Stoller article, seems like the state level govts have fashioned themselves retirement packages that ALL US CITIZENS deserve, but the Federal govt REFUSES to provide.

State govts are trying to use their authorized coercive force of taxation and their local monopoly on violence to extract "rents" from the non-state-govt sector in order to obtain the USD balances needed to sustain the state retirement systems.

When we provide local govts with the authority to impose coercive taxes, while not also providing the authority to issue balances of state currency in order for the non-state-govt sector to be able to pay them, it is a DEADLY combination...

Tom Hickey said...

"Households seem to be up in aggregate, but somebody said in another thread, 'everybody is in a household'. So transfers may be taking place entirely within this sector (distributional aspects).

This is what financialization implies. As more corporate profits accrue to the financial sector and fewer to the non-financial sector, it's just financial assets getting shifted around ("redistributed") rather than creation of new wealth in terms of new real assets. The direction of the flow is upward.

Dan said...

The increasing wealth of the non-producing financial sector is consistent with what Michael Hudson has been saying for quite a while.

As others have mentioned, I'd like to see the household sector broken down by class. I'm guessing the improvement is tilted toward the upper class.

Clonal said...

You can look at Emmanuel Saez' work "Income Inequality in the United States his latest figures are updated to 2010 Tax returns

Also Saez' Summary for the broader public "Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States", updated March 2012

Matt Franko said...

The account of Luke is instructive here:

12 Now tribute collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what should we be doing?"
13 Now he said to them, "Impose nothing more than has been prescribed to you." Luke 3

Getting both the correct balance between spending/taxation and the correct assignment of level of authority are important.

Clonal said...

Also there is a new policy note from Jan Kregel - see Lessons of the JPMorgan Chase Affair: What Is All this Risk

[S]ince the passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999, the major activity of banks is to profit from changes in the prices of the assets held in its trading portfolio—and for JPMorgan Chase, in its hedging of its global portfolio. This activity generates little new investment and virtually no employment. If the bank guesses right, it makes capital gains for its shareholders; if it guesses wrong, and other banks have made the same guesses, the government and the general public are called upon to bear the losses. The problem is not simply that the banks are too large; it is that they generate shareholder returns by betting on changes in asset prices in their portfolios rather than by betting on investments in real productive activities that create income and employment for the economy as a whole.

Matt Franko said...

I see the timing as the same between that JPM soap opera and the recent oil sell off.

Back in 2008 when the GFC happened, oil collapsed to like $33, (I remember pumping at costco for $1.47 in Dec 08) and then back up to recently over $100.

So perhaps this JPM thing has caused a short term risk review in the sector and some positions were reduced/liquidated, causing a short term sell off in the asset values that these banks trade in (oil) (similar to 2008).... when this 'risk off' period is over perhaps expect oil to go back up to $100 as the cartel will regain control after this short term sell off by specs at the banks.

Tom Hickey said...

@ Matt,

Yes, but what was prescribed was still onerous even without it's being inflated by the tax collector for extra rent beyond a just share for doing his job.

Tom Hickey said...

I look at this as a series of bombs going off. While the numbers are encouraging of a nascent recovery, although slow, the continual explosions are reminding that the global financial sector is still precarious.

Clonal said...

Tom - you might want to look at Ellen Brown's Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover"

Matt Franko said...

"what was prescribed was still onerous even without it's being inflated by the tax collector"

Tom, Perhaps not. At least I dont see it in the scriptures.

I see at least 3 different monetary systems operative during the time of Jesus documented in the Greek scriptures.

1. You have the Romans running a state currency system (nomisma) via spending denarius and taxing them back out via the Poll Tax (kensou).

2. You have the local government, probably Herodians also running a state currency system (nomisma) at the local levels by spending drachmas and staters and taxing them back out via Tribute (tele).

3 You have Israelites using silver (argurion) and bronze (assurion) metallic coins as medium of exchange and probably barter.

I believe the authorities probably set the systems up to work, and corruption of the sort John was counselling against by the tax officials would have screwed up the designed flows and led to hoarding and screwed it all up.

The officials were not morons like we have today and would know that they could never tax back their own coins without spending them first. This is just common sense and not abstract at all when you are using physical coins.

My belief is that the leadership of the Israelites did not object to the dreaded "tax collectors" because the tax rates were too high. (Dont tell Grover Norquist!)

It was because they resented the fact that paying the tax made them demonstrate subjection to the authority of the Roman and Herodian civil governments.

Paul went on to reveal this reason for settling the various taxes in Romans:

"1 Let every soul be subject to the superior authorities, for there is no authority except under God. Now those which are, have been set under God,
2 so that he who is resisting an authority has withstood God's mandate. Now those who have withstood, will be getting judgment for themselves,
3 for magistrates are not a fear to the good act, but to the evil. Now you do not want to be fearing the authority. Do good, and you will be having applause from it.
4 For it is God's servant for your good. Now if you should be doing evil, fear, for not feignedly is it wearing the sword. For it is God's servant, an avenger for indignation to him who is committing evil.
5 Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of indignation, but also because of conscience.
6 For therefore you are settling taxes also, for they are God's ministers, perpetuated for this self-same thing.
7 Render to all their dues, to whom tax, tax, to whom tribute, tribute, to whom fear, fear, to whom honor, honor." Romans 13

I think the leadership had their shit together back then as opposed to now.

I'm sorry to say it, but it often looks like those folks back then were in many ways smarter than we are today.... just because they did not have much of our modern technology does not mean they were morons, in fact I believe to the contrary.


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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Anyone who reads Infinite Jest seeking clues to David Foster Wallace's self-murder will be rewarded on pages 695-7 (in the Back Bay Books edition) where he essentially gives us a 12 years premature suicide note, explaining that suicide is the severely depressed person's last and shittiest choice (Wallace likens it to leaping from a high window in a burning building) when all treatments fail--as they apparently did for the author.

Interpolated postdated suicide notes aside, Infinite Jest still doesn't interest me enough to devote a week or two to reading every single page. It remains a boring, overly centrifugal novel with flaws that are not outweighed by its virtues. Unlike Pynchon's longer novels, it fails to grab me and compel my interest; it's an easily putdownable book (in both senses of that neologism); it invites skimming and jumping and tends, like some Pop Art, to really discourage close reading, to deflect the reader's attention from its often banal and mediocre prose. It's interesting, though, when reading the novel today, to note the nearly immediate Tarantino-like influence it exerted on the young writers of the mid-90s. Mark Z. Danielewski and Jonathan Franzen come instantly to mind; Eggers and Lethem aren't far behind. Of all the books those four guys have written (and were any women influenced by DFW??? His fiction seems to be a guy thing, like Star Trek and wanking), Danielewski's House of Leaves takes the most chances and often succeeds. It's certainly a more original novel than Infinite Jest.

Wallace at bottom was not a great writer, as his hit-and-miss short fiction collection Brief Interviews With Hideous Men shows. He was a better thinker, perhaps, than a prose stylist or storyteller, and his short fiction "Octet" shows us a writer who has thought himself into a morbidly self-conscious corner. At his best, Wallace is interesting, intriguing (as People magazine might have said the year IJ was published), but he's no Joyce, no Nabokov, no Kafka, no Philip Roth, no Pynchon. I'd put DFW somewhere near Barthelme and DeLillo on the American Literature family tree. He's midrange and might've made it to the upper branches had he been able to live longer.

Wallace's biggest problem, identified correctly by James Wood in How Fiction Works, is his tendency to become the banality he depises. His critically-intended mimetic satires of our debased postmodern language became examples of that very debasement--a kind of conceptual blowback. The fact that despite this (or because of it?) his work inspired cultlike devotion has frequently put me in the uncomfortable position of wanting to tell people that they probably shouldn't like DFW's work all that much, that it's not that good, that even within the last 25 years I can name many novels that kick Infinite Jest's bloated ass: Against the Day, Austerlitz, Blood Meridian, Sabbath's Theater, The Satanic Verses, Coetzee's Disgrace, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Wallace is a poor candidate for literary messiah.

Wallace's work has the same effect on me as too much of postmodern fiction (belying the claims of the author and his supporters that he was markedly different): an almost instant amnesia for the incidents and forms of the stories. If the author doesn't care about narrative and character, why should we? Despite its typical freneticism, most postmodern fiction communicates only the author's boredom and exhaustion--and these it communicates all too well.

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Renato Pagnani said...

Infinite Jest is not simply a post-modern novel, but more like a post-post-modern novel. The fact people still see it as post-modern self-wanking is unfortunate.


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Transitivity of Marathi verbs

Before you move to the  past tense , you must know the concept of ” transitivity of verbs “. English lack it but Hindi has it. If you speak Hindi regularly, knowingly or unknowingly you are using it.

Lets master this concept through examples :

Consider the following 2 sentences

1) I ran

2) I ate

Now ask a question ” WHAT ” to the above sentences

1) A :I ran.

B : What ?

It is meaningless. There is no answer for this stupid question. In this case, the verb ” RUN ” is called an intransitive verb.

Now see the 2nd sentence

2)A :I ate.

B : What ?

A :A Pizza

There is an answer. So, the verb “eat” is Transitive.

A :I saw.                 A: I wrote                       A : I made                      A : I took

B :What ?              B: What ?                           B : What ?                       B: What ?

A :A Cow              A : Numbers                      A : A tatto                    A : A Pen

All the verbs above are transitive.

Now the question is, what is so great being a transitive verb ? Why do I have to bother about them?

The answer is, in past tense, transitive verbs have to listen to the objects present in the sentence.

Carefully read the following sentences

In present tense:

Ajay says, ” मी उठतो (wake-up) “.

Rani says, ” मी उठते.”.

“To wake” is an intransitive verb since asking “WHAT” to above sentences is meaningless.

Let’s see how these sentences look in Past tense:

Ajay says, “मी उठ-लो.” ( I woke-up)

Rani says, “मी उठ-ली”. (I woke-up)

For all intransitive verbs : -तो becomes -लो  and -ते becomes -ली in past tense.

मी थांब-तो (I stop) -> मी थांब-लो (I stopped) and मी थांब-ते -> मी थांब-ली

मी धाव-तो (I run) -> मी धाव-लो (I ran) and मी धाव-ते -> मी धाव-ली

मी चाल-तो (I walk) -> मी चाल-लो (I walked) and मी चाल-ते -> मी चाल-ली

Now let’s repeat everything for a transitive verbs

In present tense:

Ajay says, ” मी खा-तो” (eat) .

Rani says, ” मी खा-ते.”.

If we go by the above rules then these sentences will look like :

Ajay says, “मी  खा-लो.”

Rani says, “मी खा-ली”.

This is wrong Marathi.People will laugh  and tell you to visit mindurmarathi.com regularly.

Unlike intransitive verbs, transitive verbs obey to the object and not the subject.

” Ajay eats snakes”

Transitive verbs will obey to the object : Snake ,not the Subject : Ajay.

If the gender of the object is masculine , then verb takes the suffix -ला , if feminine then suffix-ली  and if plural then it takes suffix -ले

मी समोसा खा-ल्ला ( I ate Samosa )

मी पाव-भाजी खा-ल्ली ( I ate Pao-bhaji)

मी समोसे  खा-ल्ले. ( I ate many Samosa)

Please read the next lesson to master this concept.

Next Lesson : Past tense in Marathi>>>>

22 comments on “Transitivity of Marathi verbs
  1. siva chander says:

    How to simply say , ‘I ate ‘ (when what I ate does not matter )

  2. neelu says:

    I like these lesson very interesting and easy to learn.thank you very much.

  3. Ana says:

    I love these lessons. Very easy to learn. Thank you. Can you please post the link of your next lesson after this topic of transitivity?

  4. Tarit Das says:

    सकर्मक और अकर्मक क्रियापद तो हिन्दी जैसा ही है, लेकिन ‘झाला’ शब्द मराठी में किस संदर्भ में प्रयोग होता है जरा उदाहरण के साथ समझाइये।

  5. Tarit Das says:

    एक मराठी वाक्य है – अनेक दिग्गज रिंगणात | इसका हिंदी अनुबाद क्या होगा ?

  6. Rahul says:

    Really easy to grasp and just the right amount of new concepts in each lesson.
    thanks a lot Akshay.. U make me come back to learn some more..:D

  7. Tarit Das says:

    In our student life, we used to have a revision exercise after the entire syllabus was completed. It used to cover the the salient features of the syllabus to have a grasp on the complete course material. That acted like a refresher course. To me, highlighting of the main features of Marathi Grammar through lessons like this serves a very useful purpose of refreshing our memories and updation of our knowledge. This is indeed a very commendable job. I wish you to give such important points from time to time through lessons like this one. Thank you very much Akshay, I can assure you to take full advantage of your good efforts.

  8. Radhika Panicker says:

    Hi Akshay
    Am enjoying the lessons and understanding them too but can’t seem to remember the rules properly.

  9. Rishi Bondre says:

    I think ” I stop ” should be transitive because we can ask ” Where ” .

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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Lend Them Your Fears

Authors Nate Southard and Lee Thomas are the co-chairs of this year's World Horror Convention ~ unveiling itself (in other than stygian darkness) over four days in the urban paradise of Austin, Texas. I recently interviewed them for the Austin Chronicle ~ you can see that much longer transcript right here – and these are some of the highlights of our palaver at Quack's Bakery on 43rd:

Brenner: Why does someone go to a horror convention, much less
the World Horror Convention, in the first place?

Thomas: People can’t always talk about this stuff at work or with their families. A lot of times people just don’t get it. But you go to the con and suddenly it’s like you’ve got four hundred of your best friends sitting around talking about horror, y’know?

Southard: For a lot of us, it’s the one weekend a year where we can sort of function as a society, where we’re not all the quiet people standing in the corner wondering how to start a conversation. We can actually figure that out in this circle.

Thomas: The wallflowers become a weed species.

[Brenner makes a note: This Thomas guy, he's fierce with the soundbites.]

Brenner: So both of you guys write?

Southard and Thomas: Yes.

Brenner: And when did you get started on that? How old were you
when you thought, “Oooh, I’m gonna write some fuckin’ horror.”
Although, ah, you might not have phrased it quite like that.

Thomas: I was in third grade, but I don’t think that counts. I was basically breaking copyright on the universal classics. And I just wrote as a hobby. That’s what I did when my friends were playing video games or going out to the movies and whatnot. I didn’t even try to start publishing until about ten years ago.

Southard: Pretty much the same story for me, but I’d gone about it from a different angle. In middle school and high school, I always wanted to write comic books for a living. And through high school and college, that morphed into wanting to be a screenwriter. And I came down here and went to RTF at UT. Very odd, getting a screenwriting degree from a documentary school. But, by the time I graduated, mostly by reading and picking up on some authors that I hadn’t really heard of before, I found this new fascination with prose. And I’ve really been trying to focus on prose for about seven years now.

Brenner: What drew you guys to horror as opposed to the literary-fiction genre or sword & sorcery or something like that?

Southard: It’s just what I’ve always liked to read. Some of the first prose I remember was Stephen King’s collection Night Shift. And for the longest time I couldn’t actually read his novels, because they just took so long to get going, but maybe that’s because I was just a smart-ass little kid. But his short stories always fascinated me.

Thomas: I read anything I could get my hands on when I was a kid, and when I was nine or ten I picked up a copy of The Exorcist, because my parents had it in the house. I picked it up and read it and I was just was stuff I understood at that age. And I remember that I put down the book, and I was walking out of my bedroom, and my mother was standing at the end of the hall. And just the way the light hit, she was in silhouette, and I … I freaked. I mean, it was just this terrifying moment. And yet, on some level, I dug it. So I just kept reading, trying to find something like that again.

Brenner: Are there obscure horror writers – not new ones who are just starting out, but classic writers – who you would recommend to people who might not have heard of them?

Southard: I think the big one for me would be Jack Ketchum. In some circles, he’s pretty well known. But he hasn’t really had a huge break-out, he hasn’t really crossed over yet.

Thomas: And he’s our grandmaster for the convention. He’s a phenomenal writer. He’s very much from a literary background, but he deals with things that are so unpleasant, so difficult for people, that I think they take the warning seriously when someone says “You may not want to read this, because blah-blah-blah.” It’s difficult work for people to get their heads around, it’s extreme stuff. But with Ketchum it’s so well done.

Southard: He wrote my favorite book, but it’s a book I can’t read a second time.

Brenner: What book is that?

Southard: The Girl Next Door.

Thomas: They made a movie out of that about three years ago.
And it’s very disturbing stuff.

Brenner: Do y’all make a living solely from your writing these days?

Southard: I do not, no. [He sighs.] I’m still working a day job.

Thomas: I am. I can’t say it’s a terrific living, but, yeah.
I’ve been doing that for about six years now.

Brenner: Have you done that with just books, or have you had things optioned for movies as well?

Thomas: I’ve not made that jump yet. I’ve had producers who, well, they contact you every time you have a positive Publisher’s Weekly review, and then you never hear from them again. Or they want to talk to your film agent, so you send them to your film agent, and then you never hear from them again.

Brenner: Are there sub-genres of horror that y’all are particularly drawn to, like splatterpunk or ghost stories or true crime?

Southard: I find most of the best horror coming out right now to be marketed as more of the crime genre. Gillian Flynn’s two books, Ken Bruen’s American Skin, those are – you find them in the mystery section, but they’re horror.

Thomas: I prefer the supernatural work – except in the case of Jack Ketchum, which is all real-world based – it’s more fun for me when I’m writing, and when I’m reading it’s more enjoyable to see somebody bring something new to it.

Brenner: What do you guys think of the – not intentionally, necessarily, by any one organization – but the mass marketing of, the pop-culture force that is HP Lovecraft,
these days?

Thomas: I think it’s great, in a lot of ways. Because he was overlooked, but now people are starting to get it. And I think a lot of it has to do with where we’re at culturally, now. A lot of people are feeling pressed-in by these indifferent forces. Whether it's the government or their jobs or whatever, there’s a lot of that in our society right now. But I think people also realize, on some level, “It’s not just about me,” so they get into this idea that all of these forces that they can’t control are affecting them. And Lovecraft was all about that. The Elder Gods are wreaking havoc, but we don’t know it. We either don’t know it, or we come to realize that they don’t care about us: They’re not here to hurt us or do anything with us in particular, they’re just walking through, and we’re getting stomped on. And I think that’s coming out in fiction right now, a lot of great writers like Laird Barron and Wilum Pugmire.

Southard: Some John Langan stuff.

Thomas: There’s this whole undercurrent – many of them are British – none of the three we just mentioned are – but there’s this whole British movement, a very strong current of that, just waiting to break out. So maybe that’s what will follow the zombie trend, I don't know.

Southard: Just … no more mash-ups.

Brenner: Mash-ups?

Southard: Like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Thomas: A classic novel, with some horror thing thrown on top of it.

Southard: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.

Thomas: Yeah, we really want all that to go away.

Brenner: Candide and Cthulhu.

Thomas: There you go, that’ll be the next one. Dibs on the title.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books

[Edited by Jeff Martin and C. Max Magee
Soft Skull Press, 192 pp., $14.95 (paper)

So here's an anthology of writing about how long-form writing and reading, in the omni-connected, ever-distracting Internet age, is (possibly) threatened with extinction or is (more likely) changing to survive. The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books is neatly summed by a back-cover blurb from John Wray: "I sat down to read it expecting a coroner's report and found a manifesto instead."

Fuck yeah, John Wray, you're not kidding: What a refreshing surprise in these days of lit-scene doom and gloom. Editors Jeff Martin and C. Max Magee have gathered essays and vignettes and such from a bright segment of modern scribes – a few of the names recognizable from The New Yorker's recent best "20 Under 40" issue, hey – who weigh in with author's-eye views in their engaging styles and do much to dispel the more funereal prognostication going on at the corporate level of booksmithery.

Rivka Galchen starts off the post-introduction considerations, her surreal "The Future of Paper" a palate-cleansing abstraction before the less fantastical responses are served. David Shields isn't among the lettered company in this volume, but his Reality Hunger: A Manifesto functions as a sort of welcome touchstone for several of the writers, especially for David Gates and Jonathan Lethem, whose back-and-forth emails (originally seen in PEN America 12: Correspondences) are as relevant to the subject at hand as they are cleverly revelatory in general. Treme writer Tom Piazza briefly interviews himself about the future of books. Reif Larsen, of T.S. Spivet fame, tackles the more hardware-oriented, structural side of things with his graphics-embellished "The Crying of Page 45." Kyle Beachy, aside from dissing the abovementioned Shields as "an asshole" who "doesn't believe in communion," offers a plaintive assertion along the lines of novels (that he finds important) being important because, c'mon, guys, you can feel how important they are. Emily St. John Mandel, on the other hand, thoughtfully welcomes our new e-book overlords: "The conveniences of the digital age are inarguable," says the staff writer for editor Magee's The Millions website.

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A brand new ME - A table at my backyard

Too many things that happen lately that does matter me. Now, i had make an agreement with myself that i will put all unhappy things behind and live life to the max, life is too short and too silly to worried things that are not worth it. So now, please wish me luck. Since blogger have a new look, i decided to give my blog a new look too. I decided to separate my craft into two blog,

  • 1st is the exiting blog for only miniature
  • 2nd is for the craft things that i make or idea that are not miniature.

I hope this will work, i will announce it later once i complete the new blog.

At the period of absence, i made a theme miniature, I named it "A table at my backyard"
I wish i will have this in my backyard one day in real scale of course.
I baked some doughnut  and waffle for my breakfast. After the great feast, i start potting my succulent plant, my hubby bought me some peonies at the market on his way home from badminton, and i found an old picture frame in the garage. Phew... after all the hard work, i had cookies and strawberry/blueberry custard tart as afternoon tea.

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Taking the ball Monday at Progressive Field was the pitcher who has arguably made the biggest impact of any player who switched teams before the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline.

It wasn't Ubaldo Jimenez.

It was Doug Fister, whom the Tigers acquired from the Mariners on July 30 in a move that was hardly talked about outside the Motor City but has played an integral role in how the races look right now.

Jimenez and Fister matched up on this Labor Day, kicking off a series that's essentially do-or-die for the Indians. And you can say the Tigers' 6 1/2-game American League Central lead over the Tribe as the day began was very much a byproduct of the performances of the players the two acquired in hopes of getting over the hump.

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• Fister came into the week 3-1 with a 2.97 ERA in six starts since joining the Tigers, a team that was in desperate need for a reliable No. 2 man behind Justin Verlander because it didn't really know what to expect from the likes of Max Scherzer, Rick Porcello or Brad Penny. With Fister's help -- and I hear Verlander has done his part, too -- August was the Tigers' best month of the season, and they're 21-11 since the end of July. During that time, their division lead increased by four games.

• On the other side, Jimenez -- who albeit has been better lately -- posted a 7.29 ERA in his first four starts in an Indians uniform. During that stretch -- in which the Tribe went 1-3 in games when its new ace took the mound -- the Indians' deficit in the division increased by two games.

A similar case to Jimenez is that of Carlos Beltran, a July pickup many believed would be the answer for the Giants, but he struggled early on and only caught fire after a lot of the damage had been done.

Beltran has picked it up since being activated from the disabled list a couple weeks ago. But the switch-hitting right fielder was basically irrelevant for nearly his first full month in San Francisco, batting .244 with no home runs in his first 11 games before missing about two weeks.

From July 28 to Aug. 23 -- the dates when Beltran was acquired and when he was activated from the DL -- the Giants went from four games up in the National League West to two games back.

Yes, with more than one full critical month past, two of the most talked-about Deadline moves -- Beltran to the Giants and Jimenez to the Indians -- have almost been deterrents to the teams who got them, while an under-the-radar move the Tigers made has seemingly been the most beneficial.

In fact, the Tigers have hit on basically everything so far.

They acquired infielder Wilson Betemit from the Royals on July 20 to fill in for a struggling Brandon Inge, and Betemit carries a .300 batting average and 14 RBIs after his first 30 games. Then they got Delmon Young from the Twins on Aug. 15, a move that has paid dividends considering Magglio Ordonez's struggles, Brennan Boesch's likely season-ending thumb injury and Young's .746 OPS since switching clubs.

While Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski can take great satisfaction from the moves he made, John Mozeliak of the Cardinals may get a bit queasy every time he thinks back to July 27.

That was the day the Cardinals essentially sacrificed acquiring long-term answers for a valuable commodity in Colby Rasmus to instead get pieces that were all about competing this season. And while starter Edwin Jackson (3.44 ERA in eight starts), lefty reliever Marc Rzepczynski (2.03 ERA in 13 1/3 innings) and veteran right-hander Octavio Dotel (2.20 ERA in 16 1/3 innings) have performed, the Cardinals face the reality of a 9 1/2-game deficit to the Brewers and the fact the Rasmus deal didn't land them any high-impact players who will help them beyond 2011.

Such are the effects one move can have on a season, and sometimes even on the landscape of an entire franchise.

This past July, the playoff-bound Phillies (with the addition of Hunter Pence) and Braves (Michael Bourn) solidified their lineups and are now more dangerous than ever; the Red Sox (Erik Bedard) and Tigers got necessary, beneficial rotation arms; and the Rangers (Mike Adams) and Brewers (Francisco Rodriguez) acquired eighth-inning guys who have provided boosts.

The Giants, Indians and Cardinals have been nowhere near as fortunate.

Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and his blog, listen to his podcast and follow him on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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http://mmajunkie.com This week’s final two episodes of “The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir” featured the semi-final bouts in both the lightweight and light-heavyweight tournaments.

Lightweights George Roop and Junie Browning both suffered submission losses while trying to earn their ways into the Dec. 13 live finale.

The pair gives their opinions on the final two episodes, the obstacles they each faced, their opponents for the undercard of the live finale, and more in the second of two editions this week of “Ten ‘TUF’ Questions.”

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MMAjunkie.com: You fought the full 10 minutes in your first two bouts on the show. Did that give you any concerns about your finishing abilities?

George Roop: Definitely not. I just feel like I fought some real tough guys. Rolando (Delgado), he’s a tough guy to finish. He’s tall. He’s a very accomplished jiu-jitsu player, and it’s really, really awkward to fight Rolando. And there was a lot of pressure, as well, to get into the house.

And two, John Polakowski, I really believe that I would have finished that fight very easily if my hand wasn’t broken. It would have been a lot easier to sink in the choke. Those are the reasons why I don’t think I finished some of the fights.

I’m really confident in my finishing ability. I’ve got the killer instinct. And when I see I’ve got somebody hurt, I really go after it.

MMAjunkie.com: The hand injury was obviously far-more serious than you let on during the show. How bad did the injury turn out to be, and how difficult was it to fight through that injury?

George Roop: I knew that my hand was broken right away when it happened. I was really trying to downplay it because I didn’t want to go to the hospital. Another reason being that I was mentally trying to battle the situation as well.

The final outcome on it when I got home was that I had a broken index metacarpal on my right hand. I had one break in my hand, and it was a metacarpal. It was mentally rough, but it was a lifetime opportunity.

MMAjunkie.com: Your semi-final fight against Phillipe Nover was obviously disappointing. Phillipe generated a ton of positive praise during the season. Were you impressed by Phillipe, or do you feel things would have gone differently if you were 100 percent healthy?

George Roop: I’m not a man of excuses by any means. I congratulate Phillipe on his victory. He was better than I was that day. But I definitely do believe if I was 100 percent, the fight would have definitely been different.

It was definitely hard to defend the kimura because I couldn’t really grasp on and clamp on with two hands to defend it. And I fought five days before that with a broken hand and went through a war with John Polakowski. I know they make it look like I broke my hand two days before the Polakowski fight. But in all reality I did break my hand two weeks before that fight. So training was really tough for that two weeks, and that’s why I gassed in the second round against Polakowski. And I was surprised that I even made it through the first round.

But I think the fight (with Phillipe) would have gone better if I was healthy and more mentally ready to fight.

MMAjunkie.com: You seemed to avoid the majority of the controversy that surrounded this season. How would you evaluate your experience on the show?

George Roop: It worked out well. I’m not going to be a reality TV star by any means. I really believe that it was pretty much the Junie (Browning) show the whole time. I’m not going to really do anything — I’m not going to piss in somebody’s food. I’m not going to drink piss, or [expletive] on people’s food just to get some TV time.

I was there to fight, and that’s what I literally wanted to do. I’m a fighter. I’m not a reality TV star. I’m good at going in the gym, sweating hard and showing up for a fight and leaving it all in the cage. That’s where I do my talking.

MMAjunkie.com: You’re now booked on the finale with Shane Nelson. What are your thoughts on that matchup?

George Roop: I think Shane’s a great fighter. Shane is a very skilled fighter, a very technical fighter. And I believe this is a really good matchup for me. I think that I’m going to be able to expose a lot on him. And unlike on the show, I think I’ll really be able to use a lot of weapons in my arsenal that I wasn’t able to use due to my injury.

I really think this is going to be a great matchup for me and you’re going to see an exciting fight. Frank Mir has moved me out to Las Vegas. I’ve been training here for the last three-and-a-half, four months. And I’ve evolved. It’s going to be a great fight, an exciting fight. Don’t miss it.

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MMAjunkie.com: You’ve admitted to playing things up a bit for the camera during this season. Do you consider the attention that’s surrounded you a good thing or a bad thing?

Junie Browning: I don’t think any publicity is necessarily a bad thing. People, most people, probably don’t like me. But they’re still going to tune in to watch me. Even if it’s to see someone kick my head off my shoulders, it still brings the ratings.

I guarantee you more people were interested in mine and Efrain (Escudero’s) fight than Eliot (Marshall) and (Ryan) Bader. I thought they fell asleep in the cage on top of each other.

MMAjunkie.com: UFC President Dana White gave you a brief psychological evaluation in the final episode. Did you agree with his belief that you were self-destructing in an attempt to avoid a potential loss?

Junie Browning: Yeah. Maybe not even intentionally, maybe sub-consciously. I sort of accepted the fact that I was going to lose already. It was going to be embarrassing. I just knew I wasn’t prepared to fight at all. I know what it takes to get in there for three five-minute rounds. I don’t feel like I had what it took right then.

I don’t think I would have been upset if I went home. At least I wouldn’t have gotten my ass kicked like I did on national television. That’s not a good way to look at it, but that’s the way I felt about it at the time. I wish I could fight him tomorrow, because I don’t think it would be a first-rounder.

MMAjunkie.com: You wanted to quit mixed martial arts both before and after the bout with Efrain. How long did you keep that state of mind, and what changed within you to continue your professional career?

Junie Browning: Immediately after the fight, they take you straight to the confessional. Of course it’s not going to be the most positive things that you’re thinking of. I was just really down on myself. I went home and thought about it and realized that I wasn’t fighting at 100 percent. So that’s not a good time to quit. If I felt like I was fighting at 100 percent and still lost, it would have been a little bit different.

MMAjunkie.com: Out of the four losing semi-finalists, your bout is the only one that will be featured on the main card. What are your thoughts on the UFC featuring you despite the controversial actions that surrounded you throughout this season?

Junie Browning: I think once [the UFC] realized I came out here (to Las Vegas) to train, and that I changed stuff up — that I’m not necessarily exactly the way I was on the show — I think they are sort of taking a gamble on me again. They know I’m going to put on an exciting fight, regardless. I’m sure a lot of those other guys, their fights aren’t going to be very exciting. They need someone to put on an exciting fight that night.

MMAjunkie.com: What are your thoughts on the finale matchup with Dave Kaplan?

Junie Browning: I think it’s an awesome matchup for me. I trained with him. I don’t believe there’s any aspect of the game where he is better than me. My one downfall was my cardio, and I feel like he’s going to be banking that my cardio is not going to be very good, and he’s going to be surprised.

I’ll be better than I’ve ever been. [People] are going to realize that I’m not the same person. It’s going to be obvious, too. It’s not going to be little things. Everything is going to be improved. I’m going to be a different fighter. People are going to realize that I should have won the whole show. I just made a bunch of dumb mistakes.

And I’m going to show them some stuff in the fight that they’ve never seen in any MMA fight.

John Morgan is the lead staff reporter for MMAjunkie.com.

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So far, I have only had the ramen at Yakyudori, and and now I can't wait to go try the yakitori items.

I look forward to the part 2 photos.

I didn't realize they were serving yakitori items. The last time I was there it was still just ramen. I can't wait to try the yakitori items!

I need to try natto when I get a chance.

When was the last time you tried the karaage? When they first opened, it was terrible, but on my last visit (a few weeks ago), it was much lighter.

Yippeee! Finally, a Yakyudori post! Great photos and I'm excited for part 2.

Visited the Hillcrest location last night. They had p-toro on the menu. It was delicious. They also added nabe-yaki udon as well. Dashi was made from scratch. It really hit the spot after a few beers and shochu.

Hi Sandy - I actually think the Yakitori is better then the ramen.

Hi Kirbie - They do a really good job with it.

Hi Bill - Let me know what you think when you try it.

Hi Hao - Last time, two weeks ago.... brought out a a tray of the frozen stuff....knocked it on the counter a few times.... it was even worse than this photo which is from about a month ago.

Hi Jason - I'm glad you're happy..... I'm sorry I took so long to get around to it.

Hi Kamisama - Actually, I think the Convoy shop is better.... last visit to HC location was not that great.

Ooh, I love the buta-shiso! Really, I love anything with ume and shiso. :-)
Took a friend to Alforon last night--still great!

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What? That's it?

Next time we come here, I will ask for "1" stick instead of the regular 2. I love the wings. We call them "bat wings." Did you know that you can only order one order of "bat wing" per couple per night at the Hillcrest location?

Hi Jenne - I'm sure the owners were really happy to see you! I hope you got enough garlic paste.

Hi TFD - At least you didn't have to guess which restaurant this was, right? One of these days I'll show you how easy it is to do Tebasaki Wings......

am wondering if this place is near a baseball field? Yakyu is baseball and dori is road...hmm..everything looks so good!

Hi Kirk, I was there a few evenings ago but was an hour early before the grilling started. I've yet to try the yakitori though I've been a long time patron of the hillcrest location. Thanks for sharing your meals with us!

Hi Kat - That's interesting..... both locations aren't near any baseball field.... hmmm, I'll have to ask them how they got their name.

Hi Dennis - I've noticed a downturn in preparation at the HC location recently.... have you noticed the same? I think it's only recently that they've officially defined 530 as the starting time for the grilling. I can understand; bincho is not cheap stuff!

Owner is a big fan of baseball. And they serve chicken. Hence the name Yakyu (baseball) Dori (bird).

Hi Kamisama - Thanks for that tidbit!

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“In the new European Commission, form follows function. We have to be open to change. We have to show that the Commission can change," says Commission president.

Juncker’s Commission announced: Lithuanian takes health and food safety spot

"The problem concerns the fact that a simplified registration for traditional health claims was omitted in the NHCR."

Author response: On the bending of EU botanical laws and meanings

EU harmonisation needed to break botanical deadlock

What will it take to break the botanicals deadlock?

The problem with botanicals is just a matter of colliding cultures, industry interests and of process, says managing director for Italian-based Hylobates Consulting

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BELFRIT leads Europe in botanicals harmonisation as Italy affirms 1000-strong list

“Reiterative applications of the assessment scheme to related botanicals or different botanical preparations obtained from the same plant variety can allow a QPS status to be derived for specific groupings...”

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The 6-nation survey found 2359 people used 1288 different products and 491 individual botanicals and extracts.

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Banditos’ “The Filthy Sessions” Album Review

On Banditos’ first full length album “The Filthy Sessions”, I’m reminded of why I got into music in the first place. The feeling you get when you hear a REALLY good album for the first time. Everyone is familiar with it, even if his or her taste may be different. Or unless they are deaf. I should get out of the way that, after Pine Hill Haints, Banditos is my favorite band in Alabama. I’ve seen (and booked) them many times; so I know well how these songs typically sound live. And I’ll be goddamn if they don’t sound as good or better here. Got plenty more review for you, but first, watch this.

Banditos is a seven-piece alternative country band out of Birmingham, AL reminiscent of acts like Grayson Capps and Colonel Dixies. They are comprised of acoustic guitar, banjo, tuba, stand up bass, steel guitar, electric guitar, drums, and vocals. They have three singers, two male, and one female. The frontman, Corey Parsons, looks and sounds like Grayson Capps if he was much younger and wilder than he ever was. Stephen Pierce, the banjo player, also offers backing vocals and sometimes takes the lead for a hot minute. This brings us to Mary Richardson, the last front of the band. Mary has soul in her voice, reminiscent of a much older jazz singer, such as Billie Holiday. Her voice has the tendency to stop potential haters right in their tracks, as I’ve seen at Alabama Music Box, The Blind Mule, and even Government Street Grocery many a time.

The album opens off with “Blood is Thicker Than Water”, a bluegrass tune with brass courtesy of newish member Ben Griner on tuba. The tuba adds much more than you think it would, especially live. The guitar licks on “Blood is Thicker Than Water” are reminiscent of Johnny Cash’s electric guitarist Luther Perkins. Actually, a lot of what electric guitarist/lap guitarist Jeffrey Salter plays is very reminiscent of Johnny Cash, which is interesting when combined with the way the rest of the band plays.

Stand up bass player/professional “Hagrid” from Harry Potter impersonator, Jeffrey Vines takes the bass for a walk in tracks like “Messin’ Around” and “The Gambler”. Drummer Randy Wade rarely gets a chance to REALLY cut loose, but in songs like “Filthy Havin’ Fun”, you get a chance to clearly see that the man’s got chops.

Lyrically, this is one of the better-written albums about getting fucked up and having a good time I’ve heard in a hot minute. Quote-worthy lines include “Listen to me man, said take my advice/if you’re gonna leave your girl around me….. better think twice” and “I’m still filthy havin’ fun/ always on the run/ and that, aint ever gonna change”. Though in true country/americana fashion, there are a number of songs about having hard times.

The album’s high points (and there are quite a few) come in songs like the melancholy “Let Me Go”, the high energy usual show closer “Filthy Havin’ Fun”, the short but catchy “Womanizing Blues”, the very Folsom Prison Blues- esque “The Gambler”, and album closer “Preaching to the Choir”. Bottom line: this is about as good as alternative country gets esteemed readers. If you like alt country/honky tonk/americana, you wont be able to resist. I give Banditos’ “The Filthy Sessions” an 8.5/10, but with a condition; this band is truly capable of one day making that perfect ten.

Even though I did my best to review the album, you really have to listen to understand. Here’s a link where you may listen to the whole album and please, let us know what YOU think:

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Sooner or later, you pay

Sooner or later, you pay

You run up your personal debt. You can stall off the day of reckoning by moving your debt around. As it gets worse, the moves become more frequent and desperate. Business runs into this when they are failing. If the fundamentals do not change, sooner or later comes a day of reckoning. One day the business is doing just fine, (At least from the outside) the next day they are out of business. Personal bankruptcies can eliminate that debt. Business can sell off whatever assets they have and the investors take the loss. (Not to mention the workers who are out of work) But governments are different.

Governments can print money. When they get into financial trouble, they just print more money. The problem is, this is just another desperate move to prevent the inevitable. (Unless the FUNDAMENTALS CHANGE) The United States has not entered this phase yet, but we are getting much closer.

I have been watching for signs of inflation for years now. The spike in the price of gold is a classic indicator. Now I am seeing reports of how car prices are going to start going up. Food prices (caused mainly by the drought) are also expected to rise. I am seeing banks beginning to charge fees for letting account balances drop below a minimum amount. These were common in the late 1970's when inflation was reaching for 20%. Remember how gas stations were charging more for use of your credit card? The new regulations that went into effect will enable ALL merchants to charge for the use of credit cards. It has not begun yet, but it just may be an early indicator.

I am watching for these signs. So maybe I am just seeing what I want to see. What is unsettling is that I know that sooner or later, no matter how well you move to put it off, when your finances are poor and you are spending more than you produce, the day of reckoning comes. Unless you implement fundamental CHANGE. President Obama is NOT doing this. In fact, he is speeding up the process. Think that the gap between the haves and havenots is large now and growing? We have not seen anything yet.

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The Amazon Kindle Fire HDX is a good tablet ... but many other Android tablets are better

The Amazon Kindle Fire HDX is a magnificent piece of hardware, but you can only reap the full rewards of it if you're fully invested in the Amazon ecosystem.

Like the Nexus 7 from Google (GOOG) -- a tablet that's hard not to mention in the same breath as the latest from Amazon (AMZN) because it's so similar -- the $230 Kindle Fire HDX has a 7-inch display with a resolution of 1920x1200 (323 PPI). That makes it equally pleasing for reading and movie watching.

At roughly a third of an inch thick and weighing 10.7 ounces, the Kindle Fire HDX is slightly bigger than the Nexus 7 ... but not in a detrimental way.

The device is very fast. The UI feels hardwired into your finger, reacting to your every move without so much as a hitch. No video is too strenuous on the Kindle Fire HDX, and few web pages can cause the Silk browser to hiccup.

In benchmark tests, the Kindle Fire HDX bested the Nexus 7 handily every single time.

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But there's still little perceivable difference between the two devices when it comes to general use.

On the design front, the combination of glass and black plastic on Amazon's new tablet isn't breaking any new ground. But it does forgo the gracefully curved lines many tablets adopt for their shells, and instead opts for a harder, faceted look. That works to good effect.

Compared to the Nexus 7, the wider side bezels make the tablet more comfortable to use with one hand while reading, as there's room for your thumb to sit on the device without covering the screen. And the stripe of glossy plastic that spans one of the tablet's sides also provides a little extra grip against your palm. That makes it less likely for it to fly out of your hand unexpectedly.

Kindle Fire HDX lacks some of the top apps. But the Kindle Fire HDX also runs a custom version of Android. It is not simply slapping a skin on top of Google's OS, but using it as a foundation to turn it into an entirely different beast. This is most noticeable in the OS interface. The Kindle also has its own App Store, which is completely separate from Google's.

A lot of the major apps and games -- Yelp, Spotify, Hulu Plus, Temple Run, Madden -- can be found in the Kindle App store. But others, like Netflix and Dropbox, are nowhere to be found. And Google's own apps, such as Gmail, Chrome, Maps, YouTube, Hangouts and Drive, are all absent. That diminishes the benefits to owning an Android-based device.

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Instead, the Kindle Fire HDX, like the Kindle Fire devices before it, is committed to keeping you locked into its own universe. Books, albums and movies you've acquired from Amazon are presented in the same manner as the apps themselves, further emphasizing Amazon's desire for its users to consume media.

If you're looking for the latest and greatest mobile games, this also is not the device for you.

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Many of the Angry Birds-esque usual suspects are present, but those more serious about games will find better luck on a proper Android device, and the best luck on an iPad. That's a shame, because graphics benchmarks show the Kindle Fire HDX to be on par with serious, hardcore portable gaming devices like Nvidia's Shield.

There are perks to owning an Amazon-made device. Amazon Prime subscribers not only have access to free movies and TV shows, but can also download select films for offline viewing. Still, this is a feature with more potential than current value. Not every title on Amazon Prime is eligible for downloading, and many of the films currently available are older, lesser known ones.

Buy the Kindle if you love Amazon, but other Android tablets are better. At the end of the day, the Kindle Fire HDX offers the best raw hardware performance. But the best overall experience on an Android tablet still belongs to the Nexus 7. Its OS is better designed, and Google's own apps and services are superior to Amazon's replacements.

Amazon does offer a bigger tablet as well: the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9. But the bigger screen is the only difference between the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 and regular Kindle Fire HDX.

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And while the larger tablet has a beautiful screen and performs every bit as well as the Kindle Fire HDX, the only reason to buy this is if you plan on consuming a lot of movies from Amazon or have terrible eyesight and need everything magnified.

Magazines would be another good reason to pick up the bigger Kindle Fire, but most of them aren't formatted for the 16:10 aspect ratio, which makes the reading experience less than optimal. And if I were buying one for books, I'd rather have the more traditionally book-sized device.

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Variable mortgages sidelined in favour of fixed

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There's been a huge amount of competition in the mortgage market of late. Research from Moneyfacts shows that this is down to the market undergoing a period of intense preparation, with providers looking to improve their offerings ahead of a base rate change – and it's fixed rates that are becoming increasingly dominant.

Fixed rates have fallen dramatically in the last few months, with Moneyfacts' figures revealing that the average two-year fixed rate mortgage has dropped by a significant 0.25% in the last two months alone, now standing at 3.27% – a clear reduction from the 3.52% recorded in August.

But just why are providers reducing rates so considerably? Well, it's all down to base rate. Since it fell to its historic low of 0.5% in March 2008, many borrowers exiting a fixed rate have found it cheaper to remain on their lender's standard variable rate (SVR) rather than take on a new, and often more expensive, fixed rate mortgage.

Figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) show that as much as 67% of today's mortgages are on SVR, highlighting the reluctance to switch. However, because borrowers on these variable rates aren't tied to their mortgage, a large portion of the market could change mortgage provider at any time – and it's got providers worried.

Lenders must protect their mortgage books and are therefore concerned that when base rate rises – and with it SVRs – borrowers will look for better deals from competitors' fixed rates.

Consequently, the battle to own the fixed rate mortgage market has begun. This, then, is the reason behind such dramatic rate cuts, but the pressure can also be seen from another angle – product availability.

Alongside falling fixed rates, product choice is on the rise, another indication of the importance lenders are putting on retaining customers. The number of fixed rate mortgages on offer has risen by 297 since September, while in the variable market, products have only risen by 10 – indicating that lenders are reluctant to add to a variable book that doesn't lock borrowers in.

Clearly, the focus is squarely on preparation in the hope that when borrowers do look to remortgage, they'll head for a low fixed rate product offered by their current provider.

Sylvia Waycot, editor at, said:

"The remortgage market will witness a considerable boost in activity when base rate changes. Many borrowers will look for a fixed rate to shelter from further increases, and many will look at starting a new relationship with another lender.

"This is what is driving lenders to start planning now to protect their lending books and their market share by enticing their SVR borrowers to stay put.

"Rates are being cut considerably, and in many cases, lenders have made more changes in recent months than they have done in the last few years. They're getting ready for the inevitable increase to base rate by ensuring their fixed mortgages look attractive when borrowers want to move.

"Fixed rates are becoming increasingly dominant and, as a result, increasingly lower-priced, as lenders strive to be seen as offering the best rates. This level of activity is anticipated to continue as the prospect of an increase to base rate looms, with such intense competition potentially fuelling further fixed rate reductions as the market readies itself."

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Greens don't care about life outside the capital

Gormless is a City Green and clearly has no interest in Ireland's biodiversity or the preservation of living off the land.

Gormley's spokesman said: "This research was on political attitudes in Dublin South East to assist the minister in policy formulation. This expenditure is permissible under the expenditure guidelines and fully receipted."

When forming his policy, Gormless asked his constituents. Apparently, the custodians of the land - the farmers - do not have anything to contribute, nor indeed anybody outside Dublin. Pretty much ensures skewed research that the taxpayer funds.

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The Irish Green party is a city party after all. Wouldn't want country folk to start making a fuss. "Farmers don't vote green", is the justification for this attitude. But farmers are some of the greenest people in Ireland. I wouldn't support the greens if I was a farmer. They didn't fight for REPS - the single biggest contribution to biodiversity and care of land in Ireland and the "green" party shot it down. It's just as well that they claim to be an education party because green they ain't.

Amazing the changes of heart the Greens have had since going into coalition with Fianna Fáil! No more opposition to the motorway through Tara and no more support for Shell to Sea.

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FHA Originations Increase in December

FHA Originations increased by over 9,000 in December (to over 130,000 for month) from November (around 121,000). It shall be interesting to see if this is a trend that continues for future months. The month of November was the first month of statisitics after the elimination of Down Payment Assistance. This should be interesting to watch over the next couple of months. The chart below shows the monthly trend in originations.

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People of all ages are invited to “talk, sing or shout” into the horns at the Blue to Black Art Weekend in Black Mountain on Saturday, May 4 and outside the Asheville Art Museum at the Big Love Festival on Sunday, May 5.

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It's #AskAwayFriday!

I choose to swap 10 questions with Ophelia from Latina Mama Rama.
Below you will find the answers to the questions Ophelia gave me, and once you're done reading over my answers you can go check out her answers here.
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1.    Do you live by any motto or philosophy? Be kind. I want to live my life doing for others, and exemplify that to my children-- hopefully they too will do the same.

2.    What would your dream job be? One were I make my own hours and I'm my own boss. I'd love to have my own farm or little restaurant... I think... but that could change tomorrow.

3.    Is there anything that you wish would come back into     fashion? Dressing up.  I love watching old- time movies and seeing how everyone took pride in their appearance, people dressed nicely for a baseball game, suites, ties, dresses, and blouses.
4.    If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go and why? Paris, my girls want to go badly, and I along with my husband would love to make that happen for them.  Plus... I'd love to place a lock with my honey and my kiddos at Pont de l'Archeveche, in Paris, France.

5.    How do you manage your time between blogging and motherhood? Quite unorganizedly... I'm trying to fix that! I'm starting a schedule once the kiddos start school.  For now it's late nights and early mornings and Mommy Guilt.

6.    If you had to spend a day not using technology, what would you do?
I try to have a few of those every once and awhile.  I feel guilty doing that too because I don't want to let anyone down... I'm thankful for Hootsuite!
I would probably just spend time with my family, doing the usual walking around our downtown, goofing on one another, cooking and playing made-up games :)

7.    What do you do when you first wake up in the morning? Check on my babies, then my other baby the iPhone :)

8.    What is your favorite food? Hamburgers!!

9.    If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would do? Look for a new house, we have outgrown this underwater home of ours.
10.What was the last movie or TV show that made you tear up or cry? 42. My husband and I... along with our eldest daughter watched 42 this weekend, and it was hard to watch.  I hated that the truth of the movie was our {America's} reality, and my daughter had to see all the ugly. My heart ached watching this movie.

Thanks Ophelia for these questions! I hope you will all go check out the linky! XOXO

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Entergy: Consultant's report supports MISO membership

JACKSON — Entergy Mississippi Inc. says Mississippi stands to gain from a proposal by the utility to join a large regional transmission organization. This is according to a recent analysis by Mississippi Public Service Commission consultants Bates White, LLC, Entergy reports.

The consulting firm was hired by the MPSC to provide an independent analysis of Entergy Mississippi’s proposal to join the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator Inc. RTO and an assessment of the savings to Mississippi electricity customers. Conclusions find that the utility’s proposal entails “substantial prospective net economic benefits to Mississippi,” according to Entergy.

Entergy Mississippi estimates its customers will save approximately $250 million in the first decade of its proposed membership in MISO, a nonprofit organization that operates an RTO with an established organized market for the purchase and sale of wholesale electricity. Entergy Mississippi filed its formal request to join MISO last December.

“There are substantial prospective net economic benefits to Mississippi, along with the other Entergy operating companies and SMEPA, joining MISO,” the Bates White consulting report notes, according to Entergy. The study further notes that “Independent production cost modeling directed by Bates White indicates that joining MISO would provide (Entergy Mississippi) with approximately $178 million more benefit than would (other alternatives evaluated), measured by reduced generation cost (10-year NPV).” The report also concludes that SMEPA in particular would benefit from following Entergy Mississippi into an RTO.

“The MPSC consultants’ report is more good news for energy customers in Mississippi,” said Haley Fisackerly, president and CEO of Entergy Mississippi. “It confirms what years of work and numerous studies have demonstrated — that our move to MISO is good for our customers and good for the communities we serve.”

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