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Trump Likely to Delay Auto Tariffs by 6 Months: 5 Picks
Swarup Gupta
Zacks May 16, 2019
U.S. stocks moved higher on the morning of May 15 amid the simmering trade conflict between the United States and China. The immediate catalyst for these early gains was news that the Trump administration is likely to delay tariffs on imported automobiles. The interconnected nature of the industry had U.S. automakers breathing a collective sigh of relief.
In fact, equity markets finished the day in the green after President Trump made encouraging comments about U.S.-China trade relations. Trump sounded optimistic about upcoming negotiations, renewing optimism about a near-term trade deal.
Analysts also believe that a decision to defer auto tariffs is an attempt to avoid a new battle raging from a larger trade conflict. This is why it makes sense to invest in car and auto parts' stocks, which are likely to gain from such a decision.
Tariffs on Auto Imports May be Deferred
The Trump administration is likely to put off tariffs on imported cars and parts for a minimum of six months, according to CNBC and Reuters. Key officials believe that this is necessary to avoid opening another front in a worldwide trade war, which is already taking a heavy toll on the global economy.
The White House faces a May 18 deadline by when it will have to decide whether or not it should impose duties on car and auto parts' imports. Following the deadline, the Trump administration will have another 180 days to decide on the issue, if it continues to negotiate with the concerned exporting countries.
Trump has been mulling over imposing tariffs as high as 25% on imported autos. The Commerce Department has recommended that such duties be imposed in order to protect the domestic auto sector, citing national security concerns. The same rationale has been used to justify duties on steel and aluminum imports.
U.S. Automakers Oppose Tariffs
While tariffs would hurt car and auto parts' imports, domestic companies would have to suffer ultimately. U.S. industry bodies have stressed time and time again that nothing like a completely domestic car really exists. Auto production depends on components sourced from across the world.
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Duties on auto imports would only make things much worse. This is exactly why the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers warned of the negative consequences of such duties, when the Department of Commerce submitted its recommendations in February.
Reports that the Trump administration is likely to defer tariffs on auto imports are welcome tidings for U.S. automakers. Such duties would raise production costs substantially, ultimately raising prices for consumers and leading to a decline in demand for U.S. autos.
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Plug-in SBC lappy upgrade
Use a Single-Board Computer to upgrade an older system via IDE!
esot.eric
Been mulling this over for years...
Plug an SBC into an old system's IDE connector, (e.g. a laptop), boot the old system off the SBC.
Throw in an imaginary partition or file to handle tasks like intercommunication of keypresses, mouse, networking, maybe even a frame-buffer "device".
Or use VNC.
Really old systems, 386+, could boot from a tiny kernel with minimal support to get the KVM comms up, then everything else could be on the SBC.
Run today's Linux on yesterday's lappy! Just pull out that old hard disk full of bad sectors and replace it with a full-featured new solid-state "brain," and gain a few new features, as well. (Wifi, USB).
I'm creating a project-page for this, after all these years, because yet another blog article got me thinking about it... I'd like to link it... but... Last time I modified my "Project Ideas" page, something went awry. Let's not go through that again.
That said, this is ve
...very much in the "idea" stage.
Also, @AlanH 's #NetPi-IDE is actually quite a bit *there*.
And @mincepi has a solution #laptop2pi for lappies which can boot from USB.
USB-gadget -> IDE?
esot.eric • 11/25/2018 at 18:30 • 0 comments
It's hokey and may not even exist, but one thought is if there's such thing as a *reverse* USB-IDE adapter... Then @mincepi 's USB-gadget idea (mentioned in the first log) could work in systems like these.
That's a tall order... Search-fu returns nada. The IDE-converter would essentially have to be a USB host, which generally means it needs a computer behind it... but that wouldn't be the computer with the IDE connection, since IDE doesn't speak USB. And that wouldn't be the USB-attached SBC-gadget, either, because it's not the host, it's a device.
So, such a device, IDE <- USB, would be unusual, and essentially require an onboard computer inbetween.
I thought maybe such thing exists... e.g. there's a floppy-drive emulator that can use USB thumb drives... Essentially the same thing but with a floppy-drive connector rather'n IDE... But, that has a comparatively large market of vintage (real vintage) comouter-enthusiasts.
Though, this device, the converter, anyhow, could've seen a similar market in, e.g. test equipment. Though, there, I think it relatively-common to replace hard-disks with Compact-Flash cards which already speak IDE.
(And makes me wonder why the floppy-emulator speaks the rather-complicated USB-host, when IDE/CF-host is doable via an 8bit uC! PROPs to its designer for such an undertaking!)
OK, so now we're back to an FPGA as the IDE-device interface, forgoing USB entirely. Props to @AlanH for #NetPi-IDE in achieving that!
Actually, maybe that is *the* solution. Not too fond of FPGAs... "black boxes"... I should maybe get over that.
Alternatives in the IDE<-USB realm...?
I think I recall a PIC32 with a "Parallel Master Port" that could be put into slave mode... Also, I think I recall there being a USB-Host peripheral... Yet another "black box", but, if acheivable, would make IDE<-USB possible for other things, as well, like the aforementioned test-equipment.
Dual-port memory was also a thought, this would go along the lines of an FPGA, no USB involved... And, frankly, only slightly less black-boxy, as it's not particularly common.
The IDE interface is quite a bit like a typical memory-interface... 16 bidir data bits, a few "address" bits, Chip-select, Read/Write... It could *almost* be directly-interfaced to an SRAM. There are a few other signals, some logic required. And without dual-port, there'd need to be arbitration circuitry (latches, buffers...) to allow the device to read/write that SRAM only when the host isn't... and to stop immediately when the host does... A lotta logic, back to an FPGA.
Wifi, of course...
I still prefer the IDE approach, since most of the systems I'd want to do this to are far too old for built-in WiFi... Also, the original/host system would have to have a boot-drive and hardware drivers... and an OS with GUI properly configured, and so-forth... (and have you ever tried to get a random wifi card working in a "universal boot"? Oh yeah, and most wifi cards I've run into can't be hotspots, but I'm old)... and now we're far from the drop-in-and-go system-upgrade I've been visualizing.
BUT, did I mention I'm old? (and so are my systems).
This one, #Pi in my laptop uses WiFi... And, frankly, that does the job nicely in newer systems. VNC, so-forth. I hadn't caught that the Pi and laptop were actually talkin', since there were no wires. How obvious could it be?
Nicely-done.
And, realistically, we are nearing (or even within?) the era where a small SBC might be more powerful than a lappy with WiFi, or bootable USB, and so-forth.
(BTW, I think there's a link in the first log where a Pi was put in USB-gadget-mode as a bootable hard-disk.)
SATA, SPI, and other ramblings
Update at the bottom...
While this particular project is mostly focussed on *really* old systems, e.g. 386-486, maybe pentium, there may be other uses in in-the-now-ish systems such as those with SATA drives...
If nothing else, it got me thinking about the SBC->IDE connection circuitry.
SATA drives can be connected to IDE hosts, and vice-versa, through converter boards which are pretty cheap.
Connecting e.g. an RPi, as a "drive," directly to an SATA host would be... improbable... via its GPIOs. (differential signalling, timing, etc.)
OTOH, later-model IDE controllers were made to be backwards-compatible with *really old* and thus *really slow* drives. An ATA-66 controller could still communicate with a 120MB drive from a decade prior, communicating at something more like ATA-5(MHz).
That means, the newer controller had to be able to slow down its handshaking signals *dramatically* to even detect such a drive.
Now, I can't vouch for SATA converters, but I've not seen them *specify* only working with ATA-66, ATA-133, etc. So, despite the *extremely fast* bit-rate of SATA, there's probably quite a bit of room for a really slow transaction-rate. As I recall, IDE limits that stuff with strobes and acknowledgements... And... besides the actual communication-rate, I think I also recall that e.g. a data-read request is actually not expected to be responded-to until that data is ready, which can take quite some time, what with spinning and seeking.
What am I getting at?
RPis have a lot of GPIOs, but IDE would use most of them, and they're hard to precisely time... ATA-66 might be asking a lot. Besides that, it's nice to have GPIO for other things...
So, maybe, it might be plausible to communicate with an IDE host (or SATA converter) via a handful of GPIO pins and a bunch of latches. (Maybe even via SPI and shiftregs?)
Thoughts inspired by:
https://hackaday.com/2018/11/24/the-best-laptop-gets-even-better
... A pretty sweet CD-drive-bay repurposing with an SBC-inside.
Some randomish delving into the concept:
First: Long-ago, as I recall, it was determined that Pi GPIOs can be toggled up to 50MHz... with a lot of work.
That may sound fast, especially considering early IDE drives' transactions maxed-out at only 5MHz.
But think about all that has to happen in a simple register-read via IDE. I'll simplify:
1) First the host sends an address-request.
2) The device must then acknowledge.
3) The device must access that register.
4) The host pulls the read or write pin active
5) The device must either output the data or read it.
6) The host deactivates the read/write pin.
7) The device must remove data from the bus (if reading)
So, a read-procedure takes something like 10 GPIO transactions... and now the 50MHz GPIO toggling has dropped to 5MHz transactions.
Doable, maybe.
Now... This also applies to our SPI idea...
I mistakenly recalled IDE having some sort of indicator from the drive stating that it was ready to respond. In fact, the only such indicator is IOCS16-, which indicates that the request was received. And, according to my source, that *must* come through within a maximum of 90ns.
Meanwhile, I also looked up the SPI rate, which tops out at 150MHz... 16 bits (and, actually, I count 26 inputs, 21 outputs) would bring that down to 10M-'bus'-changes... and now we're far slower than even an early IDE drive, and 90ns is seriously pushing it.
Nevermind, of course, those kinda speeds in discrete shift-regs would be hard to find, and would have to start pondering things like transmission-lines.
This wasn't about speed... it's about meeting the timing-specs a host might require... using as few pins as possible... And it looks dubious.
There was a link, I think in the last log, where someone threw an FPGA inbetween. And now I see why!
An alternative, maybe, would be an SRAM (dual-port?). Might be doable.
Hmmm.... back...
"Project Ideas"
As of today, this is the related (and soon to be relocated) portion originally from https://hackaday.io/page/1036-project-ideas
This is written latest-to-oldest... oy.
[SMARTER] IDE Drive-replacement(Revisited, see below) (2-5-17)
@Starhawk has informed me of EOMA-68... a PCMCIA-form-factor for SBC's... might be something in there... hmmm... (10-20-17)
Ooooh: Check out @AlanH's #NetPi-IDE! (3-30-17)
And noted on the HaD blog (4-14-17)
AlanH uses a RasPi as an IDE hard drive and other hardware (was networking one?), interfaced via IDE, to a PCjr, no less. Using an FPGA to convert from the Pi's SPI to IDE, and some custom DOS-based drivers, not much different from the ideas laid-out below...
@mincepi is at it again with the inspiration for IDE-Drive replacement (see his#laptop2pi).
(See also my earlier ramblings on the matter, below, "RAM-On-IDE" (9-1-15)).
So, say you've got an old [486-era] laptop with an IDE hard disk. Not much to do with a 486, these days... And, some of those devices had some pretty hefty limitations, being that they weren't *intended* to be upgraded (e.g. my Toshiba T200's BIOS only supported hard disks up to ~128MB, and RAM upgrades are Small and Rare... Maybe 16MB.).
An earlier idea was to install "RAM" (actual real RAM) on a device which looks like an IDE drive. This real RAM could, essentially, look like a swap-partition to the computer, but without the drawbacks of slow physical access-time of hard disks of the era, nor limited-writes of e.g. today's Compact-Flash cards which can [almost easily] be dropped-in as hard-disks in IDE-based systems.
The problem isn't so much to *use* the 486, but to use the *machine*... the display, battery, UI, etc. (Or for e.g. my Pentium150 laptop, the keyboard, sound-card, etc.)
So, why not take the custom IDE "device" a step-further... Install a friggin' Single-Board Computer in its place. Use *that* as the brains, and use the rest of the system for what it's still useful for, its hardware.
(Ironic, maybe, that this goal is somewhat similar in intent, but approached from a different direction, to #Improbable AVR -> 8088 substitution for PC/XT)
Not sure, exactly, how to do this...
Mincepi's method is to use a Raspberry Pi as the brains in a system which can boot from (and has) USB. The Pi looks like a USB-attached hard-disk, which the system boots from, into what I imagine is a pretty limited OS that basically doesn't have to have anything more than some drivers and some sort of remote-desktop to the much more powerful single-board-computer. (Via USB this is somewhat more straightforward, SBC's can run in "gadget" mode, which can make them appear as USB hard-disks, USB ethernet-adapters, and more).
So, how could this be done via IDE (on a system that doesn't have USB)?
Essentially the "Master" drive (since many laptop-systems of the era either A: don't support a slave, or B: have a CD-drive attached) would have to handle *everything*... We're talking:
It has to be bootable by the original system (486, pentium... maybe 386? What about really old Macs? Hmmm...), provide the necessary software to communicate with the SBC, and provide the necessary drivers to interact with its real hardware.
It might have to provide BIOS-overlay support to the system, to support this imaginary hard-disk that will likely appear larger than 128MB.
It has to provide some means of communicating U/I info to that 486 (over IDE!).
It may even need to have support for things like communicating sound-events and other interrupt/timing-specific stuff...?
(again, all over IDE, which wasn't designed with this sort of thing in mind).
(Unlike my earlier ramblings on the matter, this system probably wouldn't have to provide a "swap" partition to physical-RAM attached via IDE. Though could if necessary implement such a thing via the SBC's RAM).
So, I'm imagining a few different 'partitions'. One might be only as large as a frame-buffer,...
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Since I'm not working on a novel right now, I took the opportunity to play through a few PC games that had been on my radar, one of which is Sam Barlow's Her Story. I have some quibbles with it, but on the whole I found it very engaging as a piece of experimental storytelling.
The premise is that you have been given access to a series of police interviews from the 90s, which feature a young British woman. You type in a search term and the database returns up to five videos with that search in it. You are prompted with the first search term: MURDER. Who died and why you are investigating a decades-old murder (a clock in the game establishes that it takes place in the present) are mysteries to be unraveled.
The fact that this is more-or-less a game-ified version of Alta Vista is interesting in itself, but the deftness of the game is in the way it guides the player towards certain revelations. The first videos that come up give you a number of details that send you chasing down details. Because the results are always chronological, and the juicier details about the story will obviously come out in later interviews, the challenge becomes finding ways to narrow your search. The character has strikingly different outfits in every interview, which helps gives the player a timeline. Since you don't get the interviewer's questions, only detached answers, everything feels a little disjointed and context-less, which adds to the puzzle element. And, of course, there are many juicy details to be revealed.
It was interesting. Not great as far as game-play is concerned, but it was a very different way to experience a story, and I enjoyed it quite a lot. But I also found it frustrating. After about two hours I had uncovered all of the relevant plot points but only about three-quarters of the videos. But the game doesn't end until you tell it you're done--at which point it will roll credits (and then give you some cheats to reveal anything you've missed). What this means is that you essentially keep playing until you are so frustrated that you have to stop. And there's a sequence of videos in the middle that seems designed to troll completionists, so a game/story that I enjoyed quite a lot left me with a bit of a sour taste in my mouth.
I must also quibble about uneven production values. There are a bruise and a tattoo that feature, and neither of them look good. The bruise is barely noticeable, and the tattoo looks fake. Considering the effort that went into recreating 90s-era video artifacts, I had to assume that the fake tattoo was supposed to look fake, and that had some story implications. It ended up being a distraction, when it was supposed to be a supporting plot element.
But I still overall liked this game, and considering the price point ($6 on Steam, but frequently discounted--in fact, it's on sale for $3 right now), I definitely recommend it.
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The fake tattoo supports the fan theory that Hannah and Eve are the same person. But nothing else does. I don't buy that theory, but it took up a lot of brain space while I looked for clues around it.
I've had Eve's traditional folk ballad stuck in my head for days.
Seriously, what the hell was up with that polygraph sequence!?
I got seriously confused keeping track of all the pregnancies. So when I exited and it's revealed that you're playing as Sarah, my reaction was "Wait, is she even alive?"


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High school years
Harding attended Klein High School in Spring, Texas and was a student and a letterman in football. In football, he was an All-Conference selection and an All-Greater Houston selection. He attended Iowa State University, where he played defense on the school's football team. He majored in English.

Playing career
In his playing career, he was a defensive specialist for the Iowa Barnstormers (now the Dragons), the former Nashville Kats (now the Georgia Force), the now-defunct Portland Forest Dragons, and the Buffalo Destroyers (now the Columbus Destroyers). He retired as a player in 2000.

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At the start of the 2005 season, Harding's first year leading the Dragons, he was 33 years old, making him the second youngest head coach in the history of the league. He had previously worked in the Buffalo Destroyers organization starting in 2000. After the Destroyers moved to Columbus, Ohio he became the team's defensive coordinator in 2002 and returned in 2004.

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Warm, dry conditions will elevate fire danger in Southland, forecasters say
Elevated to critical fire weather is expected Thursday and Friday in Southern California.
(Paul Duginski / Los Angeles Times)
By Paul DuginskiGraphics and Data Journalist
Jan. 13, 2021 7:09 PM PT
Warm, dry, windy conditions will cause elevated to critical fire weather conditions in Southern California from Thursday through Saturday, the National Weather Service said.
Red flag warnings have been issued for the mountains and valleys from Thursday afternoon through Friday afternoon, and may be extended into Saturday, because of a combination of Santa Ana winds, warm temperatures, low humidity and persistently dry vegetation.
Temperatures are expected to peak Friday at about 20 degrees above normal, said Kristen Stewart, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
Another round of potentially stronger Santa Ana winds is likely Monday though Tuesday or Wednesday, forecasters said.
A conga line of strong storms has capered across the North Pacific, feeding moisture into the Pacific Northwest and delighting surfers with a steady diet of northwest swells this winter. The surf has reached Southern California, but very little rain has. High pressure has been keeping the rain to the north, and that high would need to break down before the Southland could get some of the moisture, according to Stewart.
On Tuesday, an "exceptional" atmospheric river hosed down the Pacific Northwest, causing flooding downpours and strong winds. Strong atmospheric rivers — plumes of moisture that often come from the tropics — like the one Tuesday occur only once or twice a year along the West Coast.
This morning's look at the atmospheric river! We'll have an updated forecast for the rest of the rain we're expecting through Wednesday AM here shortly! #wawx pic.twitter.com/xygpDBBFiE
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While the Pacific Northwest feasts, Southern California endures a drought, all of which is consistent with a typical La Niña weather pattern. The worst fire season in California history could very well continue.
"Temperature records will fall on Friday," said climatologist Bill Patzert. "All the dry vegetation that built up this summer, fall and into early winter is still in play, and the unseasonably high temperatures coupled with gusty Santa Ana winds are our formula for fires."
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Just something I came across on the internet and had to share. I loved these coral shoes when I saw them at Steve Madden, but the JCP ones are seriously just as cute and just a fraction of the price, I LOVE when that happens!! I can't wait for March to be over so I can start shopping again. Happy Monday.
They seriously look identical. What a great find!
The JC Penney ones look exactly the same - love them!
I love finding almost the same look for so much cheaper! This is such a great find!!
no freaking way!!!! I can't believe it. I must head on over to JCP stat!
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Those shoes look exactly the same! JCP has some really great deals now that they changed up their pricing.
I might need to buy these. I'm in desperate need of non-black shoes. These are beautiful.
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What a good find! Did you get them?
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Joe and Evan met in a recording class for college in Brookline, Massachusetts in the winter of 2007, they needed to record a project for a class and signed out the biggest of the studios the school offered. The day of the project, they entered the studio with only a singer-songwriter friend and a full studio worth of microphones and gear. Since singer-songwriters don't require much in the way of engineering, they decided to set up and mic a drum kit as well to do the studio justice. Evan played drums in high school but hadn't been playing for a while, and Joe was playing solo around town during that time, but the two hadn't really talked about playing together. After the session when Joe heard Evan play, the two made plans to jam as soon as Evan could buy a kit of his own. Shortly afterwards they got together in the basement of a hair salon in Arlington, Massachusetts, brought in some friends and began putting together Quixote.
Aside from playing music, and all trying to learn new instruments, I'd say we all have a deep appreciation for food. We all love to cook, especially Anthony and Justin, and we all love trying new exotic foods, especially if its SPICY (sans anthony). Justin has been vegan for years, and Joe has been vegetarian most of his life. Ask Anthony to come over and make ravioli for you--he makes them by hand!
Trying to be in a band in your early 20s is tough, when your non-musical peers are all graduating and starting to make a steady income doing 9-to-5's and your parents are wondering when you're going "settle down" or "figure something out" or whatever, when you just want to play tunes for anyone who will listen. The biggest challenge is certainly money, and trying to stay afloat while doing the art you want to on your own terms. You can't tour without gas money, and you cant get gas money without working or playing enough shows to deserve it, but you can't work a full-time job and take two months to go on tour -- where do you find a compromise? Its tough, but if you love it enough, you make it work and don't even really realize how you did it--it just sort of happens.
One thing that we've all talked alot about, and a big reason that this is the group that plays together, is that we were always the kids who knew music was the only thing we'd be happy doing for the rest of our lives. When you're in high school everyone plays a guitar and has some band, but within a few years of college the strat-packs get sold and the old drumset gets stored in the garage unless you're one of the ones that decides to take it seriously. We could certainly find things that we could do and make a living or to make a few bucks, but music is still the only thing we've ever wanted to do.
Being from around Boston, you encounter a TON of musicians --its both a good and a bad thing. Between Berklee and the Conservatory, and even the assorted recording programs around town, there are plethora of people who play; they vary in musicianship and commitment, but there are a ton nonetheless. We all played with and jammed with countless people before we decided to play in this group, and we've all taken bits and pieces from each person we've played with prior to now. You dont grow as a musician by playing guitar in your room, you grow by learning covers and writing songs with your friends and figuring what chord you go to next or how to transpose two parts that you like so they both work. This is a musical city and we wouldn't be who we are without our surroundings and the people we've already had the pleasure of working with.
So many! Everything from 60's standbys like The Beatles, The Zombies or the The Mamas & The Papas to modern folks like Of Montreal, Wilco or Cap'n Jazz. We'll even dig on a Yiddish polka band or two. No, seriously--I saw Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars this past weekend and they blew me away.
Probably a whole shitload of draft beer and arguing over what to put on the iPod next.
See more from Quixote at www.wearequixote.net, MySpace, and Amazon.


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Victoria Street blessing and opening
The new parks and public spaces created as part of the Victoria Street transformation project will be blessed and officially opened on Friday 7 August.
The blessing by June and Peter Jackson of the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust will begin at 12.15pm in Te Niho Park at the corner of Victoria and Vivian streets and move to Volunteer Corner near Dixon Street. It will be followed by opening speeches celebrating the improvements to the area which is set to become one of Wellington's busiest inner city neighbourhoods.
The Council's investment in the area is an excellent example of how we can make the city a better place and also enable economic growth.
Exciting developments are planned in the area including new apartment and commercial developments and the new WelTec/Whitireia creative arts campus, which will bring more than 1000 students into the area.
We're expecting some 2500 new apartments to be built in this area in the next five to 10 years.
The Victoria Street transformation project will pave the way for this growth. It includes two new paved parks - Te Niho and Volunteer Corner - a new southbound cycle lane, wider, new tree-lined footpaths, and improved underground services.
Some 9km of new underground pipes and ducting have been installed over the past seven months to provide the existing and future services that businesses and people living in this growing neighbourhood will need.
Victoria Street transformation project


As you all know, we had great success in our 2nd annual Patriot Golf Day marathon event benefiting the Folds of Honor foundation last year. Myself and the Myrtle Beach PGA Patriots played 200 holes in two days to raise just over $32,000 for this great cause.
This year we decided to let everyone else join in on the fun. We are taking over Labor Day weekend. Starting Friday, September 2, Crow Creek will host a dinner gala for our tournament round on Saturday, which will be hosted by the Pearl Golf Links. Sunday, the Patriots and I will tee off for our traditional 100 hole marathon at Rivers Edge Golf Club.
We are asking for your support once again. All of you make this event possible and we are honored to participate. Please check out patriotgolfdaychallenge.com. We know we can count on your support and we hope to see you all Labor Day weekend cheering us on. God Bless the USA!
Crow Creek's Restaurant would like to thank all our guests for a great July! Along with hosting a variety of events, this July brought waves of new and returning guests for breakfast and lunch! The word is definitely getting out about the great food and service causing the event schedule for the fall and winter to fill up fast. Schedule your event with restaurant manager Elizabeth Dominguez soon to make sure you get the date you want! Check out the photos below from some of the events hosted in July.
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Footjoy has made a strong push this year, particularly in ladies apparel. A big effort was made to develop a line that was good on the golf course and a day around town. Be sure to check out the bright and vibrant colors of the ladies rain gear. Yes that's right, ladies rainwear. We are very excited to offer a high quality product that the men have enjoyed for years but now caters to our more fashion forward ladies.
The CIS organization serves as a bridge between schools and businesses, identifying and utilizing local resources to provide mentoring, tutoring, and summer/after-school programs. The tournament will be on August 27th – 10am shotgun start. The event will have a vast selection of prizes, raffle items, and even a beat the pro contest. This is the number one charity event held at Crow Creek. Over the last two years, more than $40,000 has been raised. Be sure to sign up fast as spots fill up quickly. Contact Dorine Stoecker at adstoecker@atmc.net for more information.
Click here to read the Crow Creek Real Estate August Newsletter!


I cannot imagine life without knitting. Making things with needles and yarn is the very stuff of life... sound mad? Probably, but it feels good.
It's day three of Knitting and Crochet Blog week. Have you been enjoying all the different posts? I have. If you want to search to see what others are writing each day on their blogs, today's search code is 3KCBWDAY3. For other days, see the search codes listed at the bottom of my post.
Obviously, there are the designers.
Take Lily Kate France. She's a whizz. Talented knitter. Fabulous, inspiring designs. And, I'm sure she's sick of hearing it... but she's 14 years old.
To me she represents the exciting future of knitting. Knitting is okay again. It's not just the domain of elderly ladies and mums-to-be. Young, vibrant designers are creating beautiful patterns for young, vibrant knitters.
And, Finnish designer Veera Välimäki. I've mentioned her before. Veera's patterns are interesting in their construction and very stylish. Knitwear is for wearing again! Beautiful handmade garments are desirable. Even better, we can make them ourselves.
Of course there are others. Designers I avidly follow, waiting for their next fabulous creation. Patterns I'm itching to knit and techniques I'd love to try. There's Ysolda (of course!), Gudrun Johnston, Jane Richmond, Thea Coleman and Hannah Fettig, to name just a few.
But for me, Lily Kate and Veera represent just what I love about knitting in 2012. Knitting is fresh, exciting and very much alive!
Then, there are the writers. Interesting, captivating and fascinating, they write about the ins and outs of technique interspersed with knitterly tales. Can you believe it!!! Neither could I. I was especially excited when I found out about knitting podcasters. Yip, you read me right. Podcasters. You too can listen to knitting talk. My favourites are Nevernotknitting, IMake and The Electric Sheep by Hoxton Handmade. But, have a look around for yourself, there are gazillions!
At this point I should probably backtrack and mention that the knitting festival Knit Nation changed my life. No, it really did! I first went in 2010 and it was AMAZING! I was completely blown away by the numbers of people, the range of yarn, everything. Here was a huge hall of "normal" looking people obsessed with yarn and sticks. They were just like me. I couldn't believe it.
You see, I've always knitted. I tinkered around as a kid making up stitches and combining colours. I've made my fair share of ridiculously long scarves and boxy jumpers. For the last ten years I've done a ton of knitting. Mostly for my kids. Mostly from old patterns and New Zealand yarn. But, prior to that fateful day in 2010 when I was lucky enough to spend the day at Knit Nation, my fourth baby in a sling, I knew only a few knitters. I had just found out about Ravelry, only a week or so before, but was bamboozled and hadn't had a proper look. I'd never heard of independent designers or indie dyers. I nearly died with excitement. And, when I got home, I announced to Mr Myrtle that there would be no more babies. I had too much knitting to do.
"I should have sent you years ago" Mr Myrtle laughed.
And then I learned of Elizabeth Zimmerman, Barbara Walker, Maggie Righetti... giants of the knitting world. Where had I been?! Never mind. I was here now.
Elizabeth Zimmerman in particular really strikes a chord with me. Her books of "patterns" read like stories and I frequently find myself laughing out loud. You can't help but feel good when you find out that someone else knits on car journeys and grabs a few rows while waiting for the dinner to cook. I thoroughly recommend finding her books if you haven't already.
My Grandmother and my mum were the first, and, for a long time, the only knitters in my life. My first heroes. My grandmother taught me to knit and my mum has a yarn and pattern collection that is worthy of a museum. You'll find her every evening with knitting in her hands. And, weekend mornings where will she be? Propped up in bed, tea and toast, listening to the radio.... knitting.
These days I am lucky to have found many more knitting heroes. Everyday knitters just like me, chat on Ravelry 24/7, about knitting, the ins and outs of stitches, techniques, patterns and accessories. We oooh and ahhh over beautiful yarn and lovely needles. We admire each other's projects. These are my everyday knitting heroes, from all over the globe... and, I love it!
So, if you're after some knitting heroes of your own and you haven't joined Ravelry, go, do it now, it's free! And, if making things with yarn and needles makes you feel good, alive even, then you are my Hero!


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Horse Racing Trainer Strategies
The role of the trainer in horse racing is often overshadowed by the owner, jockey and the horse itself. However, skilled trainers are widely respected within the horse racing scene and the very best can make long lasting and lucrative careers for themselves.
The trainer, with his staff of grooms and assistants, create and enact a rigid program of exercise, nutrition and day to day race preparation that culminates with the horse being as ready as possible on race day. Just as all horses are different, so are trainers, and most trainers have settled on their own distinctive training methods after many years of work in the field, often under renowned trainers. Trainers can be somewhat secretive of their techniques, though it is generally recognized that it is the application of the training technique that is just as important as the technique itself.
The very best trainers, when recognized for their prowess, are often inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
The American Racing Manual lists those thoroughbred trainers who have led all others in annual earnings since 1908, and the current leader is Darrell Wayne Lukas of Antigo, Wisconsin with an astonishing 14. Lukas trained Quarter Horses for a decade before finding his true calling as a thoroughbred trainer. Over a 20-year career beginning in 1978 and until his 1999 induction into the NMR Hall of Fame, Lukas trained horses who won 13 Triple Crown races and 18 Breeder's Cup races. In a unique tribute to Lukas' abilities as a championship trainer, he was awarded the prestigious Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer four times.
An accurate and intricate portrait of the trainer's role in preparing horse racing champions can be seen in the highly regarded 2003 film, Seabiscuit. Chris Cooper plays Tom Smith, the man given much of the credit for making Seabiscuit into a memorable champion. The quiet, soft-spoken Smith always preferred to let his results speak for him, and over his stirling career he did just that.
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Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation - A Bright Future Ahead
The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation has been in operation for more than two decades with the objective of saving thoroughbred horses who can no longer compete and are faced with possible abuse, neglect or slaughter. Throughout the years, the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation has made homes available for many racehorses who've come to the end of their racing careers.
Breakfasts for Racing Horses
Fouling and Bumping as Strategies
Strategies by Jockeys
Trainer Strategies
Race Horse Preparation Strategies
Track Conditions and Surfaces


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Sat, 03 Dec, 2022 - 15:39
Man's body found after search on Donegal mountain
The remains were found on Errigal mountain, a popular area for walkers and climbers
A man's body has been found on a Donegal mountain.
The remains were found on Errigal mountain, a popular area for walkers and climbers.
The discovery followed a search of the area at first light.
Among those involved in the search were the Irish Coast Guard and members of the Donegal Mountain Rescue Team.
The search was halted around 9am when remains were found.
The identity or the age of the deceased or how he died has not yet been released.
Gardaí confirmed that the body has been removed from the scene and a postmortem will take place in due course.
A file will be prepared for the Coroner's Court and gardaí say investigations are ongoing.
Man (89) who died after alleged assault in hospital 'meant world to family', funeral hears
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The first vegetarian restaurant in the university headed by the former executive chef of Harvester, Bijas offers pay-by-weight buffet-style meals in line with the food wise concept. Besides, it offers a green dining environment where chandeliers are made with wasted plastic bottles, wall panels timber with FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certificate, and bamboo flooring infused with carbon powder for air purification. The restaurant is an equal opportunities employer with half of the staff being hearing impaired.
Hong Kong JoyKing Enterprise Ltd.


We've compiled a list of freebies to support your teaching, ranging from aquarium tickets and magazines to books and classroom supplies. Keep your teacher's ID handy and get ready to grab some of these resources.
Whether it's free admission for your next science field trip or a one-year pass to LEGOLAND in Florida, we've got the scoop on access.
1. LEGOLAND – Get a complimentary one-year pass for K-12 teachers in Florida.
2. SEA LIFE Aquarium – A free, one1-year pass to SEA LIFE Aquarium for K-12 teachers in Florida.
3. SeaWorld – The Texas, California, and Florida SeaWorld locations offer a free teacher pass.
4. Shedd Aquarium – Free teacher pass for educators from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
5. New England Aquarium – Free pass for teachers in New England to the New England Aquarium.
6. The Florida Aquarium – Free study pass for K-12 teachers in Florida.
7. Philadelphia Zoo – Free summer break pass for teachers and principals to the Philadelphia Zoo.
8. Kennedy Space Center – Free study pass for teachers from Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, GA, and FL.
9. Country Music Hall of Fame – Free admission for Tennessee teachers planning a field trip.
Here is some of the great technology that companies are making available at no cost for classroom use. Help your students acquire those 21st-century tech skills.
10. Basecamp – A leading web-based project management tool. Great for communication and task management.
11. Learning Chess – Register to access the free chess curriculum. Extensive features in this online suite.
12. Antivirus Software – Free antivirus software for schools. Protect and manage your school's devices from a central console.
13. Administration Software – Overview of six free and open source school administration software suites.
14. SaveTheStudent – Curated recommendations on free software for students.
15. 3D Design Software – AutoDesk, a leading provider of 3D design software, offers its product free to students and educators.
16. Web Design Software – Free web design software for educators. Includes Web Calendar, Web Form Builder, The HTML Editor, and Responsive Layout Maker.
17. Microsoft Education – Over fifteen free tools and apps for education. A variety of software from math-specific to general computer software.
18. Special Ed Software – Free software for SEN teachers to use in their classrooms. Choose from over 50 tools.
Current events, anyone? Get your class cutting-edge information with these free subscriptions to pique their interest.
20. Trade Magazines – Free subscription to any number of magazines on professional topics. Good for advanced high school classes.
21. Computer Graphics World – Free annual subscription to this professional magazine. The latest on industry trends and technologies.
22. Yes! Magazine – One-year subscription for middle school and high school teachers, as well as librarians.
23. Free LEGO Club Magazine – Students ages 5-9 can receive a free LEGO Club subscription.
24. Nanooze Magazine – Email the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network to request free copies of their student magazine.
25. Scholastic Magazines – Request samples of Scholastic's magazines for your classroom. Many magazine choices for preschool through high school.
Want your students to read more books? Check out these resources for complimentary classroom materials.
26. Dolly Parton's Imagination Library – Ask each child's parent to register to receive free storybooks from Dolly Parton's foundation.
27. Ayn Rand Novels – If you are committed to teaching Ayn Rand's novels, this academic year, you can receive a classroom set of her novels, free of charge.
28. Book Donations – An online catalog of organizations that donate books. Some of the organizations on this list donate to students in the US.
29. Jan Brett – Contact this children's book illustrator to request a free teacher's pack.
30. Book Bank – Register with First Book's national book bank to request free books if you teach in a Title I school.
31. T A Barron Gift Box – Aids to help you teach T. A. Barron's novels to your class. Includes: posters, maps, reading guides, and a documentary DVD.
32. Book Donations – Request books for your school from The Local Donation program of the International Book Project.
33. Kids Need to Read – Educators teaching in economically disadvantaged communities can apply for books for their students.
34. Library of Congress – Apply to participate in the Library of Congress's surplus book program.
35. The Lisa Libraries – Teachers in low-income areas can request books from this literacy organization.
36. Reading Resource Project – Distributes softcover books for Read Across America Day, Children's Book Week, International Children's Book Day, and other literacy programs.
37. Hachette Book Group – If you work in a struggling school district, you can email Hachette to request they donate books to your school.
Not a big enough budget for supplies? Here are organizations with free classroom resources you can request. If all else fails, you can try your hand at some crowdfunding!
38. School Supplies – Free school supplies for teachers at high-need schools in central Florida.
39. "Crowdfunding" for Supplies – Collect online donations to pay for school supplies. Over 75% of teachers reach their supplies goal using this site.
40. Request Donations – Use DonorsChoose to get free supplies for their classrooms.
41. Adopt A Classroom – Over 10,000 teachers have used this site to connect with donors. Register your classroom to request funds.
42. Schoolhouse Supplies – Free school supplies for teachers in Portland, OR. New and gently used items.
43. The Education Partnership – Register your classroom to request free supplies. For western Pennsylvania teachers.
44. Puberty Teaching Materials – Free DVDs, printed materials, and product samples from Procter & Gamble.
45. Health Booklets – Free booklets on pulmonary health topics from the Will Rogers Institute.
46. Save the Manatee Club – Free resources for educators to help teach students about manatees and manatee preservation.
47. Colgate – Request a Colgate classroom kit that includes a video, posters, storybooks, curriculum, parent take-homes, and Colgate Kid's toothbrush and toothpaste samples.
48. Speedometry™ Kit – Classroom kit from Hot Wheels for 4th grade teachers. Includes 40 Hot Wheels cars and over 100 ft of track.
Still, need resources? What about something engaging such as a DVD? Don't forget online sites such as Facebook Classifieds, Freecycle, or Craigslist, either.
49. National Gallery of Art – Borrow DVDs that cover a range of topics from ancient art to the twentieth century and studies of individual artists.
50. Howard Hughes Medical Institue – Free educational DVDs for educators on science and medical topics.
51. Energy Movie – This DVD includes a documentary, sections each energy type, fourteen Energy 101 videos, and twenty-eight Energy Lab videos.
52. Freecycle – A grassroots and nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own communities.
53. Craigslist – Check the free section of Craigslist in your local area for free items that you can use in your classroom.
54. Aquarium Workshops – Free workshops by the Tennessee Aquarium for schools in Tennessee.
55. Pictures – A safe source for copyright-free images. For use in classrooms, multimedia projects, websites, videos, portfolios, or any projects in an educational setting.


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The search for answers continues as Rickie Fowler begins 12th year on PGA Tour
By Rex Hoggard
LA QUINTA, Calif. – Rickie Fowler began his 12th year on the PGA Tour Thursday at PGA West, which is about a 2-hour harrowing drive across the San Jacinto Mountains to where he grew up in Murrieta.
Long-time Coachella Valley locals will tell stories of Fowler coming across the peaks to compete in junior events and the line was always the same – Who is coming in second? At the dawn of his 12th year in the big leagues the questions for Fowler are now much more complicated.
"Last year it sucked. It wasn't fun," Fowler said, simply, following his first round at The American Express.
It's not that Fowler is at a loss for words when it comes to the state of his game, it's just that an economy of emotions works best.
Last year's American Express was the last time Fowler finished in the top 10 and he's tumbled to 60th in the world ranking. It's the first time since 2014 he's found himself outside the top 50.
The one-time American team staple isn't even on U.S. Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker's radar for this year's matches and he's currently not qualified for the Masters, PGA Championship or U.S. Open.
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"By far the worst year I've had. It was bad for a lot of people," Fowler said of 2020. "I think a lot of people want to move on so that's kind of my outlook, use that as a steppingstone/building block. There's a lot more we want to do to be better than we were before. That's why any of us go through changes."
Beyond the flat-brim hat and the colorful clothes, Fowler is honest. He knows how bad the last few months have been. He's also an optimist and has seen glimmers of good play over the last year, but the consistency has been missing.
He started strong last spring at Bay Hill before fading to a tie for 18th and was alone in third place after three days at last year's WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational before closing with a 73.
More honesty:
"I felt really good at Memphis and thought I would have a legit chance of winning and got off to a good start and it went sideways," he said. "The break did not help me."
He missed as many cuts (four) as a he made after the quarantine and failed to advance past the first round of the playoffs for the first time in his career.
After Butch Harmon stopped traveling full time, Fowler turned to swing coach John Tillery in 2019 because he said he "needed something new," and he remains confident the two are heading in the right direction.
Fowler wants to see 'more consistency' in 2021
"We've been able to see the progress, looking at how the body is moving, where the club is at, some of it is a bit more of a mental battle and a trust factor for me," he said. "There's been a lot of good, but it's different when you're putting it into play."
Like Thursday at PGA West where "Golf in a Dome" required an aggressive style of play at the traditionally low-scoring event. It was exactly what Fowler was hoping for.
"I thought that driving would be the least of my worries. These courses are more second-shot courses and so I was thinking, OK, cool, go drive it halfway decent and have a lot of good irons and wedges and some looks at birdie," he said.
Instead, he hit nine of 14 fairways, and just nine of 18 greens in regulation, on his way to a 1-over 73 that left him nine strokes off the lead. He struggled to quantify his frustration with his driving before finally settling on, "not what I was expecting."
The same thought likely covers the last year. Fowler set out with Tillery in search of more consistency in an understandable quest for constant improvement. At the pace the game is evolving standing still really isn't an option on Tour, but the frustrating results have taken a toll.
There's a comfort level for Fowler on the range but he's struggled to bring that to the course, which is nothing new for any golfer, but the prolonged struggle is real.
"What feels comfortable to me golf-swing wise is not where I want to be. Trying to get into better positions, which feels foreign to me, is trusting that, OK, this feels terrible and doesn't feel right but I need to get to a point where that is a new normal," he said. "It would be like getting used to wearing a mask."
With that Fowler adjusted his own mask, a predictably colorful option, and headed to the range. There are still plenty of questions that need to be answered.
Tour assigns designated areas for autographs
BY Rex Hoggard — January 18, 2022
The PGA Tour is implementing this year a new policy related to player autographs, on where and what they can sign.
AmEx odds: Rahm favored to win over Cantlay
BY Brentley Romine — January 17, 2022
Two weeks after his runner-up at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, world No. 1 Jon Rahm is back in action at The American Express, where he is the betting favorite.
One of the longest – and tallest – hitters in pro golf is teeing it up in Palm Springs this week: 26-year-old South African James Hart du Preez.