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852 Series I Volume XII-II (Supp.) Serial 17 - Second Manassas Part II (Supplemental)
Page 852 OPERATIONS IN N. VA., W. VA., AND MD. Chapter XXIV.
at 4.30 p. m. on the 29th of August, what distance of march would he have had to have made in order to strike the enemy on the flank or in the rear?
Answer. In the first place, I do not assume that at 4 1/2 o'clock Longstreet was on Jackson's right. The accused requires me to assume certain facts.
Question. I assume them.
Answer. Very well, the, I will say further that unless I could know how the command of Longstreet was formed, what disposition for battle he had made on Jackson's right, it is impossible for me to tell how much ground he would have occupied. Therefore I cannot say where his right would have rested, even if Longstreet had been there. I cannot say, therefore, how far General Porter would have been required to march. The distance certainly would have been much less than the distance from Manassas Junction the Gainesville.
Question. Then, without knowing the facts which in your preceding answer you state you did not know at the time when the order of 4.30 p. m. of the 29th August was given, how could you then have known whether it would or would not be in the power of the accused to strike the enemy in flank and rear?
Answer. If the accused will state to the court what facts he says I am ignorant of, I may be able to answer that question. The question sets ut that I was ignorant of certain facts. I should like to know what they are. It is said that I have stated myself to be ignorant of certain facts. Who states those facts, and what are those facts? Ad I will state further that in my previous answer I declined to assume that Longstreet was then on Jackson's right at 4.30 p. m. I am giving an answer only on the assumption of the accused that Longstreet was there, which is not a fact stated or proved.
Question. Without knowing that Longstreet's command was formed or would be formed, or without knowing what disposition for battle he had made or might make on Jackson's right, how did you certainly know when you issued the order of 4.30 p. m. of the 29th August, to attack the enemy in flank and rear, that that order could be carried out by the accused?
Answer. The accused was expected to attack, if possible-and as I understood to be practicable-the right flank of Jackson's forces, and, if possible, the rear of his forces, to prevent, if it were practicable, the junction of Longstreet's forces with Jackson's, and to crush Jackson's flank before Longstreet could effect a junction with him. I did not then believe, nor do I now believe, that at that time any considerable portion of Longstreet's corps had reached the vicinity of the field.
Question. How long did you suppose, when you issued the order of 4.30 p. m., it would take to place it in possession of the accused?
Answer. I did not then know precisely, or even nearly, at what point of the road from Manassas Junction to Gainesville the accused could be found. I could not tell, except within limits, how long it would take to deliver him the order. But I knew that an aide-de-camp, riding rapidly, could go from the field of battle to Manassas Junction or to any point west of Manassas Junction on the Gainesville road if he round General Porter in advance of Manassas Junction, within an hour, by going at speed.
Question. Do you know whether at 5.30 p. m., or between that hour and 7 o'clock, the accused had the enemy immediately in his front?
Answer. I do not know it, except from the reports of others, though I would think it altogether likely that Jackson would have pushed out some force to observe the road between Gainesville and Manassas Junction. It is altogether likely, therefore, that some of Jackson's troops were in presence of General Porter's advance, though of my own knowledge I do not know that.
Question. Will you point out, if you can, upon the map, the position of each of the corps other than that of the one under command of the accused, at 4.30 p. m., August 29?


Sammy learns about Rosh Hashanah and sizes - big, middle, and little - as he watches the Shapiro family get ready for the holiday. When he falls into a jar of honey, he gets free by eating it! A pleasant introduction to some of the holiday symbols and a warm portrayal of a mother-child relationship.


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Irish Hope To Start Strong At Home
September 6, 2012 by Jim Lefebvre
For a program that has posted only a 17-16 home record over the past five seasons, Notre Dame needs to develop some home-game momentum in order to have a successful 2012 season.
Notre Dame great Jim Seymour
Recent home openers have tracked with the overall difficulty of the Irish at Notre Dame Stadium. ND has dropped three of its last seven home openers – an overtime heart-breaker against Michigan State in 2005, a 33-3 shellacking at the hands of Georgia Tech in 2007, and last season's inexplicable collapse against South Florida.
As in many areas, Ara Parseghian set the modern-day standard in home openers, going 10-1 from 1964-74.
Parseghian and his troops had no better opener than in 1966, when he unleashed a pair of sophomores – quarterback Terry Hanratty and wide receiver Jim Seymour – and knocked off a Bob Griese-led Purdue team, 26-14. Hanratty and Seymour connected on 13 completions for 276 yards and three touchdowns, including an 84-yarder. Seymour's receiving total of 276 yards is still the single-game Notre Dame record, 46 years later. The victory propelled ND to a 9-0-1 season and the national championship.
Ironically, in the seven coaches since Parseghian, the best records in home openers belong to Ty Willingham (3-0), Bob Davie (4-1) and Gerry Faust (4-1). Lou Holtz encountered three losses and a tie to go with seven victories, and Dan Devine was 4-2. Charlie Weis went 3-2 and Brian Kelly currently stands at 1-1.
Saturday's game will mark the 13th time Purdue has been the home-opener opponent, as the Boilermakers are the most frequent guest to start the home season. Notre Dame is 10-2 against Purdue in home openers, and hasn't lost one since 1974 (Parseghian's only loss in home openers).
People can debate about the atmosphere at Notre Dame Stadium, and what can or should be done to develop a more intimidating setting for opponents. But Coach Kelly summed it all up when he said, "We win games, it will be nice and loud."
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So as we mentioned in our previous posts, after 7 months of distance, we are finally together again. Today we would like to share with you our experience, we got from our first weekend together.
While Issy was browsing some places near Sofia, Bulgaria, she found this really captivating and amazing place known as "The Windmills" Hydropark (Хидропарк Вярътните Мелници). And we decided to spend a weekend there.
Situated in the village of Gorna Malina (30 km from Sofia), it took us no more than half an hour to get there and left us absolutely splendid as soon as we entered it's complex.
The complex consists of 2 big and 2 medium sized Pools, a huge Lake, 3 Restaurants (2 of which sadly are not working for this season), Waterslides and a Heated Pool area known as the Deluxe Zone (charged separately). And of course the most important part – the 6 Windmills. Each one of them consists of 3 hotel rooms – the 1st floor is a big Suite, the 2nd floor is a Junior Suite and the 3rd floor is a room for a couple. Every room has a separate balcony with an amazing view of the aquapark and the lake.
There are plenty of activities like Horse Riding, Paintball, Mini Golf, Archery, Cycling, Fish Spa, Boating with "Water Cycles", Mechanical Bull Riding, Water-walking Balls, Karaoke, Energy Pyramyd, a Zoo and many other kids playgrounds.
Now, we'll let our pictures do the talking about this exquisite place and the Summer vibes, it renders.
Although the place is really good for relaxing and enjoying, the one big drawback about it is its over-priced nature. We personally consider, that there's no necessity for them to charge the customers with such high prices, especially the restaurant, where the quality of the food is expected to be better for such prices.
Nevertheless, it's an absolute chilling arena – you've got water slides, heated pool, beautiful scenery and with a sunny day it makes this place a perfect relaxing site to get tanned.


Lew's Tournament Performance TP1 Speed Stick Casting Rod is rated 4.2 out of 5 by 5.
Constructed from lightweight IM8 graphite blanks, Lew's® Tournament TP1 Speed Stick® Series Casting Rod is known by anglers for its strength and sensitivity. The TP1 features American Tackle's MicroWave guide system to eliminate wind knots and improve your casting accuracy and distance. A Winn® Grips handle with Dri-Tac technology split grips gives the angler superb rod control In any kind of weather, making it the perfect rod to take on just about any fishing excursion.
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House of Commons to Vote on Canadian Autism Partnership
The goal is to provide funding for research, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment.
Today in the House of Commons a motion calling for the government to support the Canadian Autism Partnership was debated. The motion is non-binding and will be voted on Tuesday, May 30, on whether to create the Canadian Autism Partnership.
"May 5, 2017 — Mr. Lake (Edmonton—Wetaskiwin) — That, given that: (a) Autism Spectrum Disorder ("autism") is widely considered the fastest growing neurological disorder in Canada, impacting an estimated 1 in 68 children; (b) it is a lifelong diagnosis that manifests itself in a wide-range of symptoms, including difficulty communicating, social impairments, and restricted and repetitive behaviour; (c) individuals with autism and their families face unique challenges over their lifespan, often leading to families in crisis situations; and (d) Autism Spectrum Disorder is not just a health issue—it has overarching implications for Canadian society as a whole; accordingly, the House call on the Government to grant the $19 million over 5 years requested by the Canadian Autism Partnership working group, Self-Advocates advisory group, and the Canadian Autism Spectrum Disorders Alliance, in order to establish a Canadian Autism Partnership that would support families and address key issues such as information sharing and research, early detection, diagnosis and treatment."
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Year after year the Commission of Employment Equity (CEE) tells South Africans what they already know, that white men are in top management positions and black South Africans are lagging behind. There is truth in the statement, but a truth spoken without the will or power to change it does nothing for the situation. The absolute truth is that white men dominate in almost every sphere of senior and executive management across industries even in companies that are consulting on B-BBEE. Yes, white people are telling white people how to become blacker and we wonder why the change is so slow.
The universal reason for this is that even in the B-BBEE consulting world there's a skills shortage. The irony would be so laughable, if it wasn't so tragically serious. When white companies are confronted about why they don't have any black staff in senior and executive management positions they quote the official response that is the equivalent of no comment, which is "no skills". They then proceed to subscribe to superficial transformation strategies by throwing black people a bone putting them in junior management positions while the top is preserved for the proverbial white fellow that supposedly has the skills. What a cop out!
Meanwhile back at the ranch, according to a report in Politicsweb an Adv. Anton Alberts refers to B-BBEE as "interference in the economy". The Adv. Anton continues to say that "If BEE does not exist, but the focus is placed on training and skills development from school level, the economy would already have fared better and that by creating business opportunities in an artificial manner for a couple of well-connected and ignorant individuals in general, the poor is, in reality, being betrayed." Yes, these words were actually uttered. Such bigotry and parochial reasoning regarding the ultimate objectives of B-BBEE is in my opinion the foremost reason for the stagnation and regression of our economy. The fact that people like Adv. Alberts view the imperatives of B-BBEE, which is to redress the inequalities of the past injustices caused by the apartheid regime (which means white and black people were not equal and generations later are still not equal, Advocate Alberts), as creating "artificial business opportunities for well-connected and ignorant individuals", is just an indicator of much still needs to be done towards achieving true transformation in our country and until this has been achieved, B-BBEE can unfortunately go nowhere.
B-BBEE should not be viewed by white companies as a threat but rather as a tool to increase growth, improve business and contribute positively to the economy. South Africa has the ability to create space for everybody, if everybody is prepared to move up and make space for each other. Being at the coal face of Transformation consulting I found that 60% of companies who implement a sound B-BBEE strategy reported an increase in profit, showed higher staff productivity and benefited year on year from increased business opportunities.
As a country, we've made mistakes in the implementation of B-BBEE due to cronyism, corruption and treating it like get rich quick schemes for the fortunate few. However, great strides have been made to rectify the wrongs and more and more people are now benefiting. South Africa's growing black middle class is testament to the fact that it's working. It just needs to be embraced, accepted and actually implemented by all stakeholders in our economy. The imperatives of the Revised B-BBEE Codes are clear and contrary to popular belief are not designed to "make business suffer" in our Country but rather to build our economy by affording black South African people the opportunity to gain sustainable access to the economy.


Bulimia is an eating disorder which involves excessive binge eating followed by purging through vomiting, the use of laxatives, a diuretic or excessive exercise. In many cases this behaviour will then be followed by fasting over an extended period of time.
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The Man With The Hat – A Celebration of Larry's Life and Legacy
The Man with the Hat: A Celebration of Larry Harvey's Life and Legacy (1948–2018), at San Francisco's Castro Theatre on Saturday, July 14, 2018. On this special evening, we celebrated Larry Harvey's life, legacy and influence, through storytelling, live music and performance, videos, and audience participation.
By burnersxxx • Posted in Burner Stories, General	• Tagged 2018, bryan harvey, history, larry harvey, legacy, stewart harvey, video
Acton v Goodman: Judge Rules, Off To New York [Update]
In the YouTube truther trial of the century, CIA whistleblower Dave Acton (Sweigert) is suing cinema verite Faux News journalist Jason Goodman over his alleged abuse of his "Crowdsource the Truth" channel with repeated acts of cyber-harassment or cyber-terrorism.
The judge in South Carolina has made his first ruling on the case. Judge Bristow Marchant denied defendant Goodman's Motion to Dismiss. He has recommended the case to the Southern District of New York, where the defendant operates his alleged interstate racketeering organization from.
The judge reviewed 3 things:
that the plaintiff has standing
that subject matter jurisdiction exists
that the case is not frivolous
The case passed the test, but South Carolina may not be the most appropriate place to deal with it. In the judge's view, Goodman was in New York when he broadcast his "Clear and Present Danger" show featuring the alleged cyber-attack.
Plaintiff Dave Sweigert still has the right to go before the Court to plead his case for the jurisdiction remaining in South Carolina, where the Dirty Bomb Hoax incident took place in the form of the Port of Charleston's Wando Welch container terminal being shut down for more than 8 hours. The port handled $75 billion of cargo in 2015, which is about $10 million an hour.
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I have tried to post all the documentation from this case but I think I missed this filing, which names Robyn Gritz, Thomas Paine of True Pundit, and Jenny Moore.
Lift the Veil did an excellent show on this today, which Dave Acton called in to. Dave's call starts around the 35 minute mark.
Thomas Paine was doxxed this week by Buzzfeed. His real name is Michael Moore, and he was with Jenny Moore when they recorded 90 minutes of abuse survivor testimony right before her alleged death. He is one of the many frequent FBI-connected guests on Jason Goodman's channel. He revealed in this interview that he works with a private intelligence organization, similar to the London Center for Policy Research that Robyn Gritz is a Senior Fellow at (alongside former CIA director and frequent Fox News contributor Jim Woolsley and frequent Alex Jones guest Lt Col Anthony Shaffer). The Center's web site lists addresses in New York and Washington, DC – not London.
Robyn Gritz has been very successful in crowdsourcing funds through social media, raising almost $50,000 so far this year. She's not above connecting her fundraising efforts to Moore's death.
General Flynn didn't make out nearly so well:
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"13 Times More Dangerous Than Returning From Active Combat"
Salon has done an excellent piece on the epidemic of suicides amongst Burning Man workers.
There is a great deal of concern about the high frequency of depression and suicide among Black Rock City LLC (BRC) workers. While several factors contribute to depression and suicide, and correlation is not causation, the fact remains that 3 suicides (in a year) is an astonishingly high rate for virtually any population so small, and more so because, while these deaths are mourned, they are not entirely unexpected.
To put this in perspective, the US Army in 2011 reported a peak of 22.9 suicides per 100,000 soldiers, which was the highest rate seen in a decade. Per 100,000 appears to be a standard metric for this sort of thing. Assuming the combined numbers of Gate, DPW and Rangers to be approximately 1,000 strong, that would mean a suicide rate of 300 per 100,000. Statistically speaking, Black Rock City's staff are 13 times more likely to kill themselves in the off-season than veterans returning from active combat duty. Even in a "slow year", where only one BRC worker commits suicide, that is still 4 times the Army's highest recorded suicide rate.
Read the full story at Salon.com
The story has also been picked up by the Daily Mail, Rave Jungle, and EDM Tunes. There's also a rebuttal piece on Medium. If the suicide rate is just standard, nothing special to Burning Man, then why are there no other festivals with such a high death toll?
The seven suicides in seven years were just for DPW workers. There have also been Burners who committed suicide at the event, or after the event, workers who died on the job, and tragic fatal accidents.
Burning Man's official history traces its origins to a secret society known as The Suicide Club. Coincidence? Or dark irony?
Some previous related coverage:
DPW vs the Org – Labor Relations Board Ruling (2018)
Protesting the Protestors (2014)
Man Burns When Man Burns (2017)
RIP Lost Tom (2017)
RIP Spoono (2015)
Burning Man Electrician's Tragic Death (2014)
Burner Dies At Utah Regional (2014)
Woman Dies At Burning Man (2014)
How Not To Die At Burning Man (2014)
9 Ways to Die At Burning Man (2013)
Monday is the New Saturday (2012)
There have also been two deaths by drowning at regional events, political activist Jay Houston Marx at Transformus NC (2015) and Matthew Vo at Lakes of Fire MI (2016).
The Black Rock Beacon also covered deaths at Burning Man in 2014:
Black Rock Beacon: A History of Deaths (2014)
Before this year, there were at least six deaths in Black Rock City. An additional number of Burners passed away after being evacuated.
The known deaths, reported by the Black Rock Beacon and other media or the Burning Man organization:
2011 – Erika Kupfersberger, cerebral hemorrhage.
2007 – Jermaine "Jerm" Barley, suicide by hanging.
2006 – Adam Goldstone, a DJ with a known heart condition, died in RV after fainting.
2005 – Sam Rich, a member of the fire-dancing group Controlled Burn, heart attack. Rich had sustained a head injury for which he was given stitches on Wednesday, the day before he died.
2003 – Katherine Lampman, run over by art car she was exiting.
2001 – A participant chose to run into a fire, according to the Afterburn probably the burning of Amazing Larry's Lucky Seven Ages, the casino built into two large dice in the Deep Playa.
Among other event-related fatalities, an unidentified 52-year-old female Burner died in a Reno hospital after being transported from the Playa in 2010 because of an "unknown" medical condition, according to the Afterburn.
In 2005, a second Burner suffered cardiac arrest on the Playa and died that October after slipping into a coma in the hospital.
One fatality occurred from one of the two aircraft crashes in 2003. Barry Jacobs, the pilot of one of the planes, died after being hospitalized.
Two additional deaths in 2001 associated with the event included a Department of Public Works volunteer who died in a motor vehicle accident on the highway before the event and a second traffic fatality on Highway 447 during Exodus.
Michael Furey died in a motorcycle accident as the event was being set up in 1996.
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By burnersxxx • Posted in Dark Path - Complaints Department, General	• Tagged 2018, complaints, Death, dpw, labor, suicide, union, working conditions
From Spanky's Wine Bar to Sonoma Slut Shaming: Former Mayor Fights Back
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Mainstream media is all abuzz with the news that Rachel Hundley, the former Mayor of Sonoma who is running for re-election to the Council and aims to be a role model for women, has been "slut shamed" with racy photos of her from Burning Man posted on a web site "Rachel Hundley Exposed" (now shut down).
A California councilwoman says someone is trying to "slut shame" her into dropping her re-election bid — by creating a website filled with scantily clad photos of her at Burning Man.
Rachel Hundley, a councilwoman in Sonoma, said she received a threatening email earlier this month, accusing her of "immoral and unethical" behavior and telling her to drop out of the city council race or her candidacy would be "one of full disclosures."
"I was threatened by an anonymous coward," Hundley, 35, said in a YouTube video last week, calling the ominous email, "nothing short of extortion."
The email included a link to a now-disabled website called "Rachel Hundley Exposed," which she said showed "scandalous" videos and photos mined from her social media accounts, showing her wearing only a bra and underwear at Burning Man, the free-spirited arts and music festival.
The site was seemingly created by an organization called "Sonoma Citizens for Peace and Cooperation," the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
In Hundley's video, which had over 20,000 views as of Tuesday, she owned up to managing a wine bar at a "consent-focused sex-positive theme camp" that is part of Burning Man.
"What was especially disturbing in this era of Me Too was the attempt to slut shame me for celebrating my body and for my attendance at Burning Man," she said
[Source: NY Post]
A quick search confirmed that the "sex-positive wine bar" she is associated with is the infamous Spanky's.
The story has generated an enormous amount of free media attention for the candidate: Washington Post, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Petaluma Argus Courier, Chicago Tribune, NY Post, NY Daily News, Newsweek, Heavy.com, Inquisitr, Vox, Huffington Post, SF Chronicle, NDTV, The Cut, Daily Mail, South China Morning Post. There's also discussion at Reddit.
Something to think about, Burners – it's all fun and games running around in your underwear off your face on Molly and acid today, but will you still think the same way in 20 years when the photos surface?
Hundley said she is not going to take down her publicly shared social media pics, which IMO are quite tasteful and not "slutty" in any way :
Follow the discussion on Rachel's Facebook page.
@HillaryClinton, this one's for you. #PresidentsDay2018 #whitepantsuit and #champagne pic.twitter.com/kAhPvlvS14
— Rachel Hundley (@rachel_hundley) February 19, 2018
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Burning Man TV is Live
Here's the official BMorg stream.
There is chat and other streams (eg Gerlach Webcam) at Camp Envy
If you have any other stream links, audio, video, or chat, please post them in the comments.
By burnersxxx • Posted in News	• Tagged 2018, Black Rock City, burning man, live stream, tv


Place the tomato, cucumber, onion, red bell pepper, Serrano pepper, and garlic along with a good pinch of salt, into the work bowl of a food processor, process, using on/off pulses until the contents are liquidy but not liquified...you still want some texture. Add the can of tomato juice along with the lime and lemon juices with a few dashes of Tabasco ; pulse once or twice until mixed in, taste and add salt as needed. Pour into a covered container and allow to sit in the refrigerator for a few hours at least to allow the flavors to develop. When ready to serve, stir and taste for heat, and salt. Adjust to taste. Serve in chilled bowls with garnishes as desired.
*LindySez: Most methods to peel a tomato tell you to put an x on the root end, drop into boiling water for about 2 minutes, remove and then peel. I find method cooks the tomato to a degree. I prefer to put a long fork in the stem end and to hold it over a flame, turning until the skin bursts. Then peel. Plus I don't have a pot of water to dispose of. My seeds were small, so I didn't seed the tomato. You could if you prefer or if your tomato has a lot of seeds.
Or at least, I didn't like Gazpacho.
The first time I was served a "Gazpacho" it was a thick, tomato and bread-based "soup". And I use the term soup loosely. It was a combination of soggy bread and tomato juice. With a bit of garlic and olive oil. I liked neither the flavor nor the texture.
Second time. Fully blended Gazpacho. Really good tasting V-8 juice. Add me a shot of vodka and call it a Bloody Mary.
So I stopped ordering it or thinking about it.
Until BB and I went into a little bar/cafe in New Orleans for a bite before we went to our lunch. That's what we food people do. Eat something at place A before we head over to place B to eat. It's the only way to dine.
As we sat and looked over the menu, BB's eyes lite up as he saw they had Gazpacho on the menu. A nice light little nosh before lunch.
"I'm not a big fan of Gazpacho," said I.
"I LOVE Gazpacho, and I order it ALL THE TIME," said he.
Holy cow, do I even know this man?
So we order a bowl and I am impressed. This is a good Gazpacho. Nice chunk. Full flavor. Some heat. Not overly tomatoey. Good balance of acid.
My garden is ripe with red tomatoes, beautiful sweet juicy cucumbers (Chinese Snake, burpless and never bitter) and plenty of peppers. So what else to make, but Gazpacho?
This recipe is not too chunky, and not too liquidy. It has a great balance of acid, coming from both lemon and lime juice, subtle heat from the peppers, but it's the beautiful fresh tomato and sweet cucumber that makes the flavors sing.
Many recipes use 1/3 to 1/2 cup of olive oil. I chose not to use olive oil except as a finishing touch. This keeps the soup not only lower in fat and calories, but also allows the fresh flavors of the vegetables to shine through without being muddled by oil.
You may note I did add a can of tomato juice. My vegetables were so fresh and juicy that after the soup was ready, I thought it a little thin. I wanted to add a little more density to give a better mouthfeel. So I tasted, added a bit of tomato juice, tasted again, and found the canned juice did not disrupt the freshness but did give me the mouthfeel I wanted. You can add it, or not. But I would.
My mother taught me to peel tomatoes by making an X on the root end with a sharp knife, then plunging them into boiling water for a couple of minutes until the skin loosened. We would then remove them from the water, let them sit for a minute or two to cool, then proceed to remove the skins from the still warm tomato. By the time we got to the last tomato, it was pretty soft. A hot tomato will continue to cook.
As time went on, I thought…why not do what I do with all my other vegetables when I blanch them? Shock them in ice water? So I did that for a while. Boil the tomato, remove it from the hot water, shock it in iced water, then peel. Better results for the condition of the tomato but now I had two vessels of water to dispose of.
A local farm to table food writer here in Sonoma County, Michelle Anna Jordon, wrote in her column one day that she peels her tomatoes by holding them over an open flame until the skin of the tomato just popped. So I thought I would give that method a try and it's now the method I use all the time. Not only does the tomato not get any dilution in flavor from being in boiling water, but the skin also pops well before the tomato is heated. So you can easily remove the skin from your still "raw" tomato.
And no pots of water to take care of.
Easy – I like easy.
Use fresh, farm fresh, not winter grocery store, tomatoes. Summer tomatoes. From your garden. From the Farmer's Market. OR if that is impossible, use a quality canned Italian tomato. Yes, that's right. I would prefer canned to a grocery store tomato. While I peeled* them, I did not seed them.
The sweetness of the cucumber helps tame the acids from the tomato. So again, as fresh a cucumber as you can get. In this case, if you can't get a farm or garden fresh cucumber, then I would use the regular burpless cucumber in your store. More flavor than the Japanese or hothouse variety. Peel and seed.
Red onion, due to its sweet nature, is preferred over yellow or white. If you don't have red, use a sweet onion such as Vidalia.
When it comes to the bell pepper, red is also preferred due to its sweeter flavor. Yellow or orange could be substituted, but the color of the finished soup will be compromised a bit. Green should not be used, the flavor is just … too green.
Serrano peppers are perfect. But if you can't or don't want to use them, jalapeno or another hot pepper could be substituted. As always, I recommend you taste a bit of your pepper before deciding how much, or how little, to use. I had one super hot pepper and one semi-hot. Together, they worked. Of course, I did have the optional diced pepper to add at will, so everyone could adjust the heat to their own taste buds.
Many recipes I viewed used vinegar and or sherry as the acid in the soup. I thought these flavors to be too strong and really change the freshness of the ingredients. So I tried lemon and lime juice (honestly I had one of each so I used one of each.) I loved the bright acid this brought without changing the freshness.
This soup loves to hang out in the refrigerator. It needs time to allow all the flavors to really get together and make a party. A few hours, at least, but better a day. Or two.


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Meryl collected recipe books. She had what appeared to be hundreds. They were all arranged on shelves according to type: pickles and chutneys, desserts, foreign recipes, and so on. Of course, many recipe books were collections of all sorts, so she had shelves for all sorts as well.
Meryl's carrot cake was apparently a phenomenon. "You should use my recipe," said Meryl to Nancy. "My recipe doesn't come out as sticky as yours. It's perfection."
"Your pumpkin pie," said Meryl to Charlene, "is very nice, but I have the best pumpkin pie recipe in the world. You're welcome to use it."
"You overcooked your roast?" said Meryl (in wonderment) to Dottie. "I have a way of cooking roasts that's fail-proof."
In short, Meryl's reputation for fine cooking had become a legend. And what a thrill it was when she was coming to the pot-luck dinner!
"Could you bring some dessert?" asked Charlene.
"We're so looking forward to it," said Dottie.
"I can't wait," said Nancy.
Meryl had to drive an hour and a half out of town - way-way out of the neighbourhood - to purchase a dessert no one would recognize.
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US: Last week the Bureau of Economic Analysis released the "Advance Estimate" for second quarter GDP growth, which came in at 2.3%. Also, first quarter GDP was revised upward from negative -.2% to positive .6 percent. That's nothing stellar, and it is consistent with the current, mediocre expansion. The Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank's "GDPNow" model, which is updated weekly based upon statistical analysis of current data (known as "nowcasting"), was expecting 2.4%, and that's about as close as you can get to hitting the nail on the head! On our previous two webcasts and in several Kee Points, I have discussed the Atlanta Fed's new GDPNow model. It has, along with the Leading Economic Indicator index, been one of the better indicators during this expansion.
Europe: Greece is still the headline-maker in Europe as it continues negotiations with creditors. Greece opened its stock exchange Monday after a 5-week hiatus, and Greek stocks promptly sold off, losing 22%. That obviously wasn't a surprise to the rest of the world, as global markets remained largely unaffected (Associated Press). In his Brookings Institute blog, former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke chastised the rest of Europe for its lack of reform, and argued that Greece's reform targets should be based upon European growth. Specifically, slower European growth makes it tougher for Greece to grow, and they should be given more leeway under such circumstances. Bernanke also reiterated the idea that Germany has been a big beneficiary of the euro as it has a much more competitive exchange rate (i.e. lower) than it would if it were a stand-alone country (dramatically increasing the global price competitiveness of its exports). That's a pretty good answer to the question, "Why doesn't Germany just break off from the euro and go it alone?" Germany's unemployment rate is less than 5%, while the euro zone ex Germany unemployment rate exceeds 13% (Germany makes up about 30% of Eurozone GDP).
Japan: Japan's growth rate appears to be hovering around zero again, influenced no doubt by lower growth from its key trading partners, China and the US (BofA Merrill Lynch). I've mentioned before that the story in Japan is corporate governance reform, or a possible change to managing for shareholder value in Japan. Right now that is almost non-existent. The vast majority of Japanese companies haven't really been profitable (i.e. earned their cost of capital) for decades. The promise of Japanese reform has always been to make it easier to hire and fire in Japan…to jettison underperforming assets and managers, etc. Prime Minister Abe looks to be pushing such reform, and while there have been a lot of false starts in this direction in Japan over the past 20 years or so, it is definitely worth watching. As an aside, a BIG observation here is that, when it comes to international investing, you often hear a lot about overseas growth and various positive dynamics (emerging consumers, etc.), all of which are true. That's the case for looking abroad as well as at home for investment opportunities. But you almost never see a discussion ranking countries by how shareholder friendly their policies are. My quick stab at this? In the developed world, the US is the best for shareholder returns, followed by Europe, which tends to favor workers more, followed by Japan, which is the worst but has the most potential for positive change. In emerging markets, the economies and companies are in general far less diversified. There are a handful of world-class companies in emerging markets that create shareholder value, and a lot of firms (mostly local) that do not.
China: The sharp 30% correction (decline) in Chinese stocks is a function of the near 150% one-year run up that preceded it. I've mentioned before that the Chinese stock market is heavily manipulated by government policy, and I don't think it is the key to what's important in China right now. What's important about China is that growth continues to slow. Five to six percent growth estimates are very common now, as opposed to a year ago. In a client update two years ago I displayed a quote from the McKinsey Global Institute stating that no country had grown as China had without a slowdown that surprised even the pessimists. McKinsey felt that the next several years would see China heading towards the 4%-5% growth range, and I think that's what we're seeing. I felt 2014 was the last year in which China would be able to hit its ~7.5% growth target, and I think China's slowing growth is being felt by all emerging markets, not just commodity producers.
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This weekend my family and I visited a local food market. We wanted to see what it was about and to buy some really great fruit and veggies. But in the end we ended up at the cake stand and it was like a dessert lovers dream come true. Yes, we did buy some fruit and veggies, but we ended up buying cake too.
Other than that I didn't do much. I even took a small break from the re-writes and watched some Big Bang Theory. Because I ate so much cake, I learned to drink green tea and it didn't taste as bad as I had thought. It could actually be a drink I could drink often. Now all I have to do is become friends with exercise.
So, what are you up to?
I find it difficult to drink green tea, but I LOVE my rooibos tea.
I would have bought cake too. Lots and lots of cake. Only I would have skipped the fruits and veggies altogether.
I really do need to eat healthier.
The cake looks yummy, Murees! Thanks for sharing. Glad you bought fruits and veggies too. Good job. Looking forward to hearing more about your writing projects.
Rebecca - Mine too! I have an incredible sweet tooth.
Michelle - I like rooibos too. I started drinking green tea to be a lot more healthy, especially to help detox after Christmas. I think you are so lucky to like savoury food more, because whenever I go on a health plan, sweet things are what I crave most.
M.J. - Cake rocks, man. I know what you mean with eating healthier. But it is so hard.
Deanie - Thank you. I knew we had to buy fruits and veggies too. It made us feel less guilty about buying the cake.
Katie - It was a great weekend. I wish I could send you some cake.
LD - Sorry! I am trying the diet thing too, but I fell off the wagon with the cake. Hence the reason I bought fruit and veg too. Wishing you a fantastic 2014!
Hi Murees - it's good to switch off completely sometimes .. the cake does look rather delicious though .. and you won't be doing it too often .. more veggies and fruits next time?!
Hilary - Switching off is rather good. I like it every now and then. In my defense, the cake was for 5 people, not just me.


Jalaleddin is a fictional historical novella, and much of the history is accurate when we compare it to sources from other authors from the time. Armenia and the Campaign of 1877 by Charles B. Norman, a British correspondent based in the Ottoman Empire during the Russo-Turkish War, is one such source. Jalaleddin was serialized in eight issues of the Tiflis-based Armenian newspaper, Mshak, and Armenia and the Campaign of 1877 was published by a British publishing company called Cassell & Co, which exists today as an imprint of Octopus Publishing.
The two books were written at the same time, and portrayed in a similar way the same set of events that were taking place in the broader context of the Russo-Turkish War. Although it's not unexpected for an Armenian author to have focused on a set of events that concerned his own people, it is surprising to have a whole book about the topic written by a Briton who, incidentally, did not think too highly of the Ottoman Armenians (e.g., in Chapter 4, Norman writes "…after centuries of such misrule the Armenian has become as bad as, if not worse in many points than the Turk.").
Monastir (now Bitola, Macedonia) Note: thanks to Nicholas Al-Jeloo for helping me solve this puzzle.
The 4th corps (Erzurum), which was proximal to the events that unfolded, was known as the Armenian corps, although it did not contain any Armenians, or even any Greeks, Christians, or Jews. Their exemption from the army was compensated by an annual tax, in addition to the cizye that was levied on non-Muslim residents of the Ottoman Empire. So the Armenian corps, composed entirely of non-Armenians, was based primarily in Erzurum, with other bases distributed across Eastern Turkey, including in the cities of Bayazit and Van, which are prominent locations in Jalaleddin.
If not for Norman's account, we would not know whether Raffi had spared any details, or how much he may have spared. After all, Jalaleddin is intense, and one gets the impression that Raffi was pulling no punches (indeed, this was our initial impression when translating the work). It was only when reading Norman's account that we realized that Raffi was calculated in what he chose to depict, and that he was not writing blindly out of some sort of a Freudian id.
Now, why were the Kurds killing Armenians in a war between Russia and Turkey? Armenians claim they were unjustly massacred, whereas many Kurds and Turks claim that such events cannot be called massacres inasmuch as they occurred during war.
The fact is that the Armenians and the Kurds involved in these events were located right in the battleground of the Russo-Turkish War. And religious likeness would have aligned the Kurds more closely to the Ottoman Empire, while aligning the Armenians more closely to Russia. From this perspective, the Turks and Kurds had reason to be distrustful of the Armenians: the Armenians in Anatolia did have a history of fighting back (for example, in the First Zeitun Resistance), and the Lieutenant-General of the Russian army was an Armenian from Tiflis (Tbilisi) named Arshak Ter-Gukasov.
Raffi's own work(s) perhaps serve as a stronger indication that the Armenians played no major part in the Russo-Turkish War. For all his anger toward the Kurds for their perpetration and toward the Turks for not intervening, Sarhat—the protagonist of Jalaleddin—puts the blame back onto the Armenians for being too passive in the face of Destruction, for fear of upsetting the Ottoman government and risking retaliation, for putting the fate of the nation in God's hands as an excuse for not doing the courageous thing and fighting, and for hoping that their docility may spare them their lives. Sarhat also explicitly respects the Kurds for their bravery and willingness to fight, and wishes that his own people would be so brave, as to defend their own nation against attacks.
Jalaleddin is about self-defense: it repeatedly asks its reader to consider how one ought to behave when danger confronts one's interests—selfish and communal—and when there is a conflict between the courses of action required to defend against selfish and communal interests. And it delivers answers, powerfully. More importantly, it shows that despite many acceptable answers, infinitely many perhaps, there is always one unacceptable answer—cowardice.
According to Nicholas Al-Jeloo, Sheikh Obeidullah was from the present-day village of Baglar, Sheikh Pekar was from Vastan (present-day Gevas on the southern border of Lake Van), and Sheikh Jalaleddin was from Arvas (present-day Doganyayla). He also adds that who Norman refers to as Sheikh Tell would have been the Sheikh of Tillo, near present-day Siirt.
From the perspective of a modern observer, an obvious thing to do is to question the Evil actions of the Kurdish perpetrators, or, as Norman did, to question the failure of the Ottoman government to serve Justice. In many countries, we now rely on strong legal systems to deal with such matters, and therefore forget that this was not the norm at the time. Even the United States Constitution—which 100 years before these events had emphasized the human right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness—was not yet delivering on its promises from the perspective of today's standards. And let's not forget that the year 1877, which was a about a decade after the Civil War had ended, was still 80 years shy of the signing of the Civil Rights Act that addressed the problem of segregation for the first time in the U.S. And even that did not yield immediate results.
In writing Jalaleddin, Raffi concerned himself with neither the actions of the Kurds nor the Turkish Government; he concerned himself instead with the Armenians, and what it was in their power to do in their circumstances: While the Armenians could not control how they were being treated, they could control how to respond to such treatment. The fact that such a choice exists is a premise of Jalaleddin, and the question of what one ought (not) to do with that choice is something that the reader must be prepared to face.


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Hard to imagine this grouping is going to go chalk. Brown has looked great all year but lurking close behind is Washington, who blew them out at Stanford. Pitt is a sneaky third seed with 13 years of institutional knowledge on how to ready for the season's culminating event. Would any order of Brown-Washington-Pitt shock when pool play is complete? The potential for shakeup is alive and well in Pool D.
It's not often you see a team end a decade-long hiatus and enter Nationals as the No. 4 seed. Yet, here's Brownian Motion, back with a vengeance.
While they've failed to qualify for 10 years, Brown hasn't been a doormat. They've been in the mix in the New England Region. They've played meaningful games on Sunday. But nothing that would lead you to believe they could come out at Warm Up and hand a loss to defending champs Carleton (one of CUT's two losses on the season). Brown is the breakout team of 2018, if such a superlative exists. How did they get here?
The last two seasons have brought a tidal wave of new talent to Providence. 2017 brought BMo a fantastic class that included lightning quick handler Ken Noh, Henry Laseter, and All-Freshman Solomon Rueschemeyer-Bailey.
With a bumper crop of young contributors, Brown took steps to build towards the future.
Smart and the leadership put together a tough 2017 schedule—Florida Warm Up, Northwest Challenge, and Easterns—and indeed took their lumps.
Youngsters got quality reps, strides were made, and Brown ended up losing to Massachusetts in the final of a one-bid New England region. Progress.
Enter the 2018 rookie class. Brown doesn't have a Freshman of the Year. They have Freshmen of the Year. Seriously—check out these highlights. The most notable rookies are Dylan Villenueve (a Bay Area WJUC player) and John Randolph (WJUC and Seattle Cascades) who, after the final at Warm Up, Carleton head coach Phil Bowen told Ultiworld he had been recruiting since ninth grade. Azeez Adeyemi, Jackson De Campos, and Benjamin Turoño round out a plug-and-play rookie class that has been integral to Brown's 2018 success.
This is the kind of class of polished rookies you might expect to see at a big university with a huge youth scene like North Carolina or a cultural holy land of ultimate like Carleton. For an ivy league school with a student body of just over nine thousand and strick admission standards, this is a generational unit for BMo.
Brown's offense will look to start with handlers Noh and Laseter. Both have the yardage-gaining break throws that make it even harder to guard Mac Hecht. Though he's only a junior (though on such a young team he seems like a haggard old veteran), Hecht might have the best flick placement in the open division. He will be relied on to do much of the shooting for the offense. "We're going to be expecting [Hecht] to be making throws," Smart said with a chuckle.
Defensively, Brown can be dangerous because of the varied looks they can use. They have the personnel to run person-to-person—with playmakers like captain Eli Motykca leading the way—but they also have a zone that's been giving teams fits. Rain and wind in Milwaukee will help BMo's zone. But according to Smart a similar look from the opposition may not have the same effect because of the critical thinking nature of someone at Brown.
After all, their team name is a physics term for how particles move in a fluid…which I'm just now realizing is a pun.
In the program's heyday, Brown won two national championships (2000 and 2005) and produced three Callahan winners in Fortunat Mueller, Justin Safdie, and Josh Zipperstein. There's a lot of success in Brown's history—just not a lot of recent success.
This 2018 squad has already done a lot to change that.
This is likely the first of (at least) a few consecutive trips to Nationals for an uninitiated BMo. When most first year qualifiers break through they're typically in the back half of the field and unburdened by any real expectation. Top five seeds don't have that luxury. Brown will need to fight tooth and nail to hang on to the pool and put themselves in the best position to make a run at the title.
If you're a Sundodger fan you've got to love this draw. Washington is 7-0 against the pool; with wins over Victoria, Pittsburgh, and a 13-7 thumping of top-seeded Brown at the Stanford Invite.
The challenge for head coach Mark Burton and his team will be to avoid the pitfalls that come with reflecting on past success.
"I tell them to ignore the pretty lights," said Burton on keeping his team focused on the moment and away from the hype.
There has been no shortage of pretty lights for Burton's bunch this season. Washington started the spring on an absolute tear. After a flawless victory at the Santa Barbara Invite, Washington made it to 12-0 before finally dropping a game to Cal Poly-SLO at Presidents' Day.
Better late than never for the kind of valuable teachable moment that a loss can offer. Since Prez Day Washington is 21-5.
The Sundodgers' fifth overall seed at Nationals is a program best and much of that success can be attributed to a concentration on improving defensive fundamentals and concepts. Areas that have received extra attention at practice: recognizing opportunities to help, sandwiching on deep shots, footwork, and energetic marking. It also never hurts to have someone dedicated to lead a position group. Recent alum DY Chen has returned to the team to coach the defense.
The Sundodger defense is deep but has a nice mix of specialists sprinkled in. Porter Jones is a pesky handler defender who can get his matchup dancing in the dump space. The big-bodied Reed Hendrickson is coming into his own in his second year (via Whitman) with the team. Towering pulls from Derek Mourad will force the opposition into uncomfortable starting positions. With a format that gives ample rest, expect to see Manny Eckert cross over from the O-line to provide an intimidating mark.
As it relates to the rest of the pool, Washington took down Brown at SBI with a lot of these themes. They played lockdown defense on the handlers. In transition they looked to fast break and hit hucks.
It also doesn't hurt that Nick Roberts, a fifth year transfer from Tufts now at UW, has seen Brown's act in New England a time or two. Roberts has been a fantastic addition in Seattle.
"He's been the glue. He's the vet that everybody needs," Burton beamed.
A handler in his four year career with Tufts, Roberts was challenged by Burton to take on more of a downfield role with his new team.
Along with Roberts, Washington's Callahan nominee and creative thrower Steven "Benny" Benaloh will anchor the offensive backfield. Lucas Chen, a small speedster, will exploit matchups with a lethal first step. Efficiency will be the name of the game for the Washington O-line…if they can hold with minimal effort, that will allow them to bring help over to spell the defense or find a ripe matchup.
This is a deep, young team. The Sundodgers took 29 players on the A team this year and only five of them will depart after Nationals.
Keeping a group of college aged players on task, positive, and in the moment has to be one of the hardest jobs in sport. It can mean the difference between victory and collapse.
Burton also promised a special surprise in Milwaukee to add to Washington's menagerie of weirdness. Whatever works. We saw UNC ride hand towels to a title in 20151 Keeping an even keel throughout the inevitable highs and lows of the weekend will be critical to any team's success. If that means stuffing your teammate into a giant donut, so be it.
It is unusual to see Pittsburgh this far down in a pool at Nationals. In fact, it hasn't happened since 2010.
It was a bit of an inauspicious start to the season for Pitt. At Queen City Tune Up, they stumbled out of the gate and dropped their first two games. Maybe the standards are just so much higher. Pitt is usually good for a major tournament win during the regular season. Last year they won Warm Up and Stanford. What's changed?
"What's different about this year is that I am 100% certain that we have not played our best yet and I'm also 100% certain that it is ahead of us," said long time Pitt head coach Nick Kaczmarek.
Perhaps more than any other team contender in the field, Pittsburgh has had to do some serious line shuffling this season. Once again Kaczmarek and company have had to find a way to overcome substantial roster turnover. Unlike years prior, a lot of those extra points have been picked up by rookies.
Pitt's coaches threw everything at this class early on and kept expectations high. The strategy seems to have paid off. Several rookies have found themselves in starting roles.
Harry McNamara and Marcel Oliart have earned legitimate D-line scratch, along with Kevin Tsui, a DEVYL handler who can play both ways. A couple tall guys, Will Hoffenkamp (6'4") and Will Helenski (6'3"), have been doing some cutting. Then there's Myles Cooper, a true rookie (a rarity at Pitt) who has shown a defensive aptitude. Kaczmarek said Cooper might be the best raw athlete Pitt's had since Tyler DeGirolamo. That's ridiculously high praise.
Pitt has shown some strange, unexpected line combinations over the last few months. Subbing and roles have been more fluid than ever (something like 18 players have seen time on both sides of the disc) and there has been more attention on specific matchups—but this is no accident. Pitt is one of the most filmed teams in college ultimate and has been mixing up the roles of their players to keep things… less predictable. Kaczmarek was unwilling to share much more.
The stakes of the tournament are obviously high, but the layout of the tournament is easy on the players. You would have to imagine that Pitt's U23 players Mike Ing, Callahan nominee Dylan Best, and Jonah Wisch be playing plenty of points in crunch time.
Don't let the seed fool you. This is the same old Pitt. All of their losses came to against other nationals caliber teams. That's a high floor. As for the team's ceiling? Pittsburgh defeated North Carolina at Easterns—Darkside's only loss of the season.
Pittsburgh has losses to Brown and Washington but, heading into their 14th straight nationals, Kaczmarek's group is best equipped to maximize the extra prep time after regionals to make one final push for improvement.
The University of Victoria' inaugural men's division appearance at college nationals is a bit of a redemption story from the team's high hopes in 2017.
"We should have gone last year. Screwed up our shot and then knew what needed to change for this year," said coach Malcolm Bryson, recalling a double game point loss to Utah in the backdoor bracket.
Bryson, who is still at the university but without eligibility, became one of those necessary changes when he stepped in to take on coaching duties. Last season this team was uncoached, which is rarely a recipe for success in the college game.
Victoria doesn't historically attract skilled freshmen like the teams seeded above them in Pool D, making the addition of U20 players Sean Bennett and Justin Pettenuzzo an impactful shot in the arm. This year's rookie class helped to take pressure and points off of fifth year studs like Trevor Knechtel and Callahan nominee Ben Burelle.
In this year's game to go in the Northwest (and without Burelle due to injury), Victoria was able to battle back from a multi-break halftime deficit. Receiving on double game point, the Vikes marched down the field with clinical offense to claim the final bid to Nationals.
It should be noted that Knechtel, a captain and center handler, battled through elimination play of regionals with a broken throwing hand. He is expected to play in Milwaukee.
Victoria has achieved Nationals. Will they be able to avoid the fanfare that can distract first timers?
Time will tell. Expect them to come out fired up. Victoria will play regional rival Washington on Friday morning for the sixth time since January.
Take a look at Florida State's score page. Lots of losses there. Even when the dust had settled after the bid-stealing frenzy in the Atlantic Coast, there was nowhere else to put FSU but dead last.
Hey, none of that dull red on the USAU page matters now. DUF is Cinderella and Milwaukee is their ball.
"We've definitely gotten better at every tournament we went to, every game we played," said Florida State coach Kody Cotton.
There was no shortage of motivation for Florida State: going 1-6 at Easterns and mustering only two wins at Huck Finn2.
DUF made a few important strategic adjustments. The first was moving handler Tim Lootens to the drive the D-line's offense. The second was getting back to a style of play that was synonymous with Florida State when they made semis in 2015: an athletic brand of person-to-person defense that tries to generate blocks.
The defensive renaissance has been effective but also came at a price. Cotton says it actually scared away a lot of perspective players at the beginning of the year. This is the first time there were no A team cuts. The 25 guys on the roster are the ones who stuck around after tryouts.
It's been a rocky road for DUF and the fact that they were able to put it all together at Southeast regionals is pretty remarkable. Then again they are coming off their best game of season, an upset win over a prohibitively favored Florida… maybe they're heating up.
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China's economic slowdown deepened in July as strict Covid Zero measures and a slumping real-estate market threaten the chances of a recovery to a "reasonable" range.
Welcome to Talking Business, a podcast produced in Melbourne Australia. The podcast is available on the Acast site, my own website, the Apple Podcast store or wherever you go to get your podcasts. Or you can get it at the Business Acumen website at www.businessacumen.biz.
I am Leon Gettler. My job is to review and monitor the week's news in business, finance and economics. I bring it all to you, every week.
This is episode number 29 in our series for 2022 and today's date is Friday August 19.
First, I'll be talking to Red Leaf CEO Ian Schubach about how to build the post-pandemic workplace. And I'll be talking to Rabobank economist Michael Every about the economic slowdown in China and its implications for Australia.
But now, let's talk to Ian Schubach.
In worrying news for Australia, China's economic slowdown deepened in July due to a worsening property slump and continued coronavirus lockdowns, with an unexpected cut in interest rates unlikely to turn things around while those twin drags remain. Retail sales, industrial output and investment all slowed and missed economists estimates in July. The surveyed jobless rate for those aged 16-24 climbed to 19.9%, a record high and headache for the Communist Party as it gears up for a major congress in coming months that's expected to give President Xi Jinping a precedent-defying third term in power. The data suggest a crisis of confidence among Chinese businesses and households, adding another threat to the world economy as global demand for everything from Apple iPhones to luxury goods take a knock. At the same time, a worsening property slump is being felt at home and abroad as commodity prices such as iron ore and copper plummet. China's bonds surged and the offshore yuan weakened as investors absorbed the disappointing data prints and surprise rate cut. China's leadership has ruled out large-scale stimulus and vowed to continue with its stringent Covid Zero policy, requiring authorities to shut down businesses and lock down the population when major outbreaks occur — as is the case now in the resort island of Hainan. That's dimming the growth outlook for the rest of the year, which economists are downgrading further below 4%.
Oil giant Saudi Aramco made an astonishing $700 million in profit every single day, the biggest quarterly profit of any publicly listed company in history. The Saudi Arabian petroleum and gas company reported an eye-watering $68 billion (US$48.4 billion) of profit in the second quarter of 2022. Its earnings were boosted by surging demand as Covid-19 restrictions were dropped around the world — and pushed even higher by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Net income leapt 90% year-on-year for the world's biggest oil producer, which clocked its second straight quarterly record after announcing $55.46 billion (US$39.5 billion) for Q1. Aramco's massive Q2 windfall was the biggest quarterly adjusted profit of any listed company worldwide, according to Bloomberg. The state-owned Saudi firm heads a list of oil majors raking in massive sums after ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, TotalEnergies and Eni also revealed multi-billion-dollar profits in Q2.
The world's biggest fund manager, BlackRock, has selected Australia for the rollout of its largest investment in grid-scale batteries that will be crucial to driving the shift from coal to clean energy. BlackRock, which manages $US10 trillion ($14 trillion), announced it intends to commit $1 billion for nine battery-storage projects spanning the nation's east-coast electricity grid after agreeing to acquire Melbourne-based battery developer Akaysha Energy which has nine projects proposed across the National Electricity Market. The commitment marks the American behemoth's first investment in deploying battery storage projects in the Asia-Pacific region, and its most significant investment in batteries globally. BlackRock Asia-Pacific's co-head of climate infrastructure, Charlie Reid, said BlackRock had selected Australia because it was experiencing many challenges of the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy much sooner than other countries.
A weekly gauge of consumer confidence put together by ANZ and market research company Roy Morgan increased 4.9% last week, but remains in negative territory. The sentiment index registered 84.2 points for the week, well below its long-term average of 112.2 points based on data stretching back three decades.
Australian workers have suffered another large real pay cut, with the latest official data showing wages growth fell further behind the surging cost of living in the year to June. The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics Wage Price Index shows baseline pay packets rose 2.6% over the year to June after a 0.7% rise in the quarter. This means "real wages" slumped 3.5% over the year to June amid inflation of 6.1%.
Nine has denied that its chairman Peter Costello acted as an undisclosed Crown lobbyist, working personally for James Packer as he attempted to get "closer" to the Victorian gaming minister, the billionaire businessman. James Packer claimed that he paid Costello $300,000 in 2011 to try and lobby his friend and former staffer Michael O'Brien, the then Victorian gaming minister. This has been alleged in private correspondence with the former federal treasurer. According to the emails, Mr Packer claimed he'd hired Costello to be a casino lobbyist in 2011, helping him get "close to" the Victorian gaming minister. Nine said Mr Costello was an "adviser" to Mr Packer during that time, and refuted claims he was working as an unregistered lobbyist. In the emails, Mr Packer accuses Mr Costello of hypocrisy and deceiving the Nine Entertainment board, which he chairs, about his time as a "secret Crown lobbyist" in 2011. "Your job was to get me closer to (then gaming minister) Michael O'Brien," Mr Packer wrote to Mr Costello in July, adding he paid the Future Fund chairman $300,000 "to lobby for me, for Crown". Mr Costello was not the registered lobbyist for Crown or Mr Packer's private vehicle, Consolidated Press Holdings. The gaming group was represented by Strategic Advice Australia, a firm owned and operated by former Labor national secretary Karl Bitar. Mr Costello, who joined the Nine board in 2013, was briefly listed as the owner of a registered lobbying firm, ECG Advisory Solutions, that year. Mr O'Brien, who worked for Mr Costello for several years from 1999 when the latter was federal treasurer, said he had "met and was lobbied by a number of Crown executives".
KPMG has "exited" 11 people from the firm for misconduct including bullying, sexual harassment and policy breaches during the past year. The number of complaints more than doubled to 88 after a concerted internal campaign to encourage staff to speak up about unethical behaviour at the firm. The firm expects the number of complaints to continue to rise amid the push to instil a culture where partners and staff members are unafraid to report wrongdoing. More than one-third of the 88 complaints, or about 32, related to policy breaches, while another 27%, or about 24, were bullying allegations. Nine complaints were about sexual harassment with seven substantiated, leading to one individual leaving the firm. This is up from three reports of sexual harassment in 2021. Overall, the firm finalised 69 misconduct investigations last financial year, with 38, or 55%, substantiated partially or in full.
The average weekly fuel cost for Australian motorists has hit $100, after rising an extra $5 a week over the course of the past three months, according to new figures. The Australian Automobile Association's latest Transport Affordability Index, released on Sunday, shows average weekly fuel costs across the nation rose to $100.39 in the June quarter. Typical weekly household transport costs, which take into consideration average weekly spending on fuel, car loan repayments, tolls, insurance and servicing, as well as public transport, also grew by $11.74 in capital cities in the first quarter to $412.21 and $342.98 in the regions. The fuel costs factor in the temporary halving of the fuel excise rate, inflation running at 6.1% annually and global price shocks stemming from the war in Ukraine. Michael Bradley, managing director of the peak motoring body, said it was the first time the national weekly fuel cost average had passed $100 since the index's inception in 2016.
Australian employers are throwing in the towel on hybrid work, with more than 40% of companies no longer expecting staff to ever make an appearance in the office. More than four in every 10 companies no longer expect their staff to show up to the office. A survey of nearly 1200 companies, conducted by the Australian HR Institute in July, found just 4% required employees to work in the office full-time. Of those surveyed, 7% of organisations allowed employees to work from home continuously, while 34% had no set number of days required in the office but did encourage it. The average proportion of employees working continuously from home has increased from 5% before the pandemic to 18% Almost 30% of companies are requiring a minimum of three days a week in the office and 16% request two days. More than half of the organisations revealed they were offering incentives to lure staff back to the office, such as social events and free coffee or meals. Those surveyed reported that before the pandemic, on average 23% of employees worked from home at least one day a week. Now it's 58%.. More than half of the human resources professionals surveyed expected that working from home or remote working arrangements would remain the same over the next two years, while 25% predicted that the rate of working from home and remote working would increase.
BHP has issued an apology to staff subjected to sexual harassment , after revealing it had received substantiated reports of more than 100 cases in the past year. Of 103 substantiated cases in the 2021 financial year, BHP said 37 had involved non-consensual kissing or touching of a sexual nature. Another 66 had involved other forms of harassment including sexual comments, unwelcome gestures or sending inappropriate text messages or images. Australia's largest miner said 101 of the individuals involved in the 103 substantiated cases had been sacked, had resigned or been removed from site if they were a contractor. "We are deeply sorry and apologise unreservedly to those who have experienced, or continue to experience, any form of sexual harassment anywhere at BHP," the company said on Tuesday BHP said it had been conducting assessments to identify risks and prevent sexual harassment, including through leadership and training, enhanced security at accommodation sites, confidential reporting processes and disciplinary actions. Similar issues had been reported at resources giant Rio Tinto
And the profit reporting season continues. BHP booked a $US30.9bn net profit for the financial year, up 173% from last year. Santos has reported free cash flow of $US1.7 billion for the period and an underlying profit of $US1.3 billion, up 300% on the prior corresponding period. Corporate Travel swung to a $3.1 million net profit in the year ended June 30 from the year-earlier loss of $55.35 million Dexus full year 2022 net profit rose 42% to $1.62 billion and adjusted funds from operations were 53.2¢, up 2.7%.. Fund manager Magellan has reported a 23% fall in revenue to $553.53 million while adjusted net profit after tax fell by 3% to $399.73 million. Blood products giant CSL had a 5% fall in profit to $US2.3 billion ($3.3 billion). Pact's net profit fell 25% to $70 million in the year to June 30. E-commerce player Redbubble has reported a net profit loss of $24.6 million in the year to 30 June, down 56% from a profit of $31.2 million in FY21. Software platform Whispir has doubled its net loss to $19.4 million on sales up 48% to $70.6 million for FY 2022. Shopping mall landlord Vicinity Centres has swung to a $1.2 billion profit, increasing 571% from a loss of $258 million in FY21. Domain has reported a net profit after tax of $55.3 million for the 2022 financial year, up 46% on the prior year. Downer delivered a 17% drop in net profit to $152 million. Acquisitive software business ReadyTech has posted a net profit of $8.8 million on sales up 56.5% to $78.3 million. Brambles delivered $US571.7 million in after-tax profit on a statutory basis, up 7% on the previous year, while underlying profit increased 6% to $US930 million. Bapcor has reported a record statutory profit after tax of $125.8 million for the year ended June 30, up 5.9% on the previous year. Seven West Media reported an underlying net profit after tax (excluding significant items) of $200.8 million for the year ended June 25, an increase of 60% on the previous year.SCA Property Group reported funds from operations of 17.4¢, or growth of 17.9%, and adjusted funds from operations of 15.3¢, or growth of 21.3%. Super Retail Group, which owns Rebel, Supercheap Auto, BCF and Macpac brands, said it net profit fell 19.9% to $241.2 million in the 53 weeks ended July 2 compared with the consensus forecast of $224.4 million. Sims has reported sales revenue of $9.26 billion for the 2022 financial year, up 56.6% on the prior corresponding period (pcp), while statutory EBIT increased 146.4% to $773.6 million. Temple & Webster's FY 2022 profit lost 14.2% to $12 million while sales climbed 30.6% to $426.3 million on an EBITDA margin of 3.8%. Buy now, pay later business Sezzle's net loss widened to $US43.1 million ($61.2 million) for the full year. Growthpoint Properties Australia has announced a 17% decline in statutory profits after tax of $459.2 million. Challenger Financial reported a 57% drop in net profits after tax to 253.7 million in the 2022 financial year. James Hardie cut its full-year profit forecasts for the 12 months ending March 31 to between $US730 million ($1.04 billion) to $US780 million, from a previous band of $US740 million to $US820 million. Real estate investment trust Goodman Group grew operating profits by 25.3% to $1.5 billion in the 2022 financial year, while revenues jumped by more than a third to $5.2 billion.SG Fleet net profit rose 39% to $60.7 million. Abacus Property Group grew funds from operations by 18% to $160.9 million in the 2022 financial year. SEEK reported a 130% surge in full-year net profit from continuing operations to $240.8 million BlueScope's overall net profit more than doubled to $2.81 billion in the year ended June 30. Underlying earnings before interest and tax totalled $3.79 billion, a full-year record. It was the highest profit since BlueScope was split off from BHP in 2002 and had its own ASX listing. Temple & Webster net profit fell 14.2% to $11.97 million, hurt by its initial investment of $1.7 million in to its new home improvement site, The Build.Carsales has reported net profit after tax of $161 million for the year ended June 30, up 23% on the prior corresponding year. JB Hi-Fi has reported total sales of $9.23 billion for the 12 months ending June 30, up 3.5% on the prior year. Online sales increased 52.8% to $1.63 billion. Charter Hall Social Infrastructure REIT (CQE) has reported a statutory profit of $358.5 million for the year ended June 30, up $184.4 million on the prior corresponding period (pcp). Beach Energy's total revenues increased 13% to $1.8 billion in FY2022, while its underlying earnings lifted 17% to $1.1 billion. GPT Group has reported a net profit after tax of $529.7 million for the six months ended June 30, down from $760.5 million in the prior corresponding period. Listed investment company Bailador Technology have reported net profit which rose 23% to $34 million while gains on financial assets rose 36% to $70.7 million. GUD Holdings reported a statutory net profit after tax of $27.3 million, down 55..2% on the prior year, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has recorded a 9.4% increase in full-year cash profit to $500.4 million. Argo reported record full-year profit of $312.9 million, up 79.9% year on year.
And that's it for this week. And next week, I'll be talking to Frank Meehan, the managing director of FiscalNote, the leading technology provider of global policy and market intelligence, next-generation carbon and ESG management software solutions. And I'll be talking to Indeed economist Callam Pickering about the latest unemployment and wages figures.
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Wishing you all a safe and healthy week. And looking forward to bringing you Talking Business next week.
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