Hot Dog: Affenpinscher Banana Joe Wins Best In Show : The Two-Way Five-year-old Banana Joe beat out Swagger, the old English sheepdog, and five others. More than 2,700 dogs too part in the competition.
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He's America's top dog: An affenpinscher named Banana Joe was named best in show Tuesday at the Westminster Kennel Club in New York.
"Affectionately called a monkey dog because he looks just like one, Banana Joe made up for near misses the last two years at Madison Square Garden.
"The 5-year-old wagged his tail a mile a minute after earning his 86th best in show title overall. It was a timely win, too, coming a day before he was set to fly back to the Netherlands with his owner."
Swagger, the old English sheepdog, was named reserve best in show.
An American foxhound, a bichon frise, a German wirehaired pointer, a Portuguese water dog and smooth fox terrier rounded out the top seven.
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Obama at NH debate finds corporatist Hillary "likeable enough"
The reason we couldn't have Hillary, according to the *it* bloggers, was that she was a corporatist, whatever that means. Now, I'm not stupid enough to assert that corporations are persons, as the USSC seems wont to do, but I do believe that we can coexist peacefully and that a savvy politician can help both corporations and real, live persons work together for a more prosperous America.
That's not what we have here in the good old U. S. of A. anymore. The gulf oil spill has intensified our focus on the relationship between corporations and the Obama administration. What we have here is a failure to hold accountable. The lack of accountability has been a staple feature of the past 10 years. In fact, I think that's what the whole deregulatory movement is all about: the ability to act with impunity. No one is accountable anymore for anything.
Now, we can blame this on the Republicans or the fact that the Big Dawg's outgoing administration cut the deregulators some slack, perhaps assuming that Al Gore would win the presidency in 2000 and sew things back up. But how do we account for Obama's failure to hold corporations accountable for their misdeeds well into the second year of his first term? Wasn't that what the voters hired him to do? I think when voters heard him say "Change!", they thought he meant setting things right and making the government work for them, putting the brakes on "irrational exuberance", making the rich pay their fair share.
That's not what we got. So, what *did* we get? If Hillary was the ultimate DLC loving "corporatist", what is Obama?
Paul Rosenberg has an interesting post this morning that touches on this subject tangentially. It seems to me that Paul is finally coming around to what we have always thought about Obama. Obama is first and foremost pro-Obama. That is the driving principle by which he operates. In this respect, he is no different than any other power seeking executive. His eye is always on the next position above him. Getting there is his mission in life. Now, he's there.
What did he plan to do once he got to be president of the United States? I suppose that like many people who wanted that spot, he had dreams of making a difference. The problem is that he had very little in the way of experience upon which to draw once he got there. Maybe he bought into the management culture where perceptions and expectations can be shaped. Maybe he really did think it was possible to relate to Republicans. I don't think we'll ever know for sure. Any speculation at this point would be a continuation of the projection of goodness that got him into office in the first place.
It's a complex nation. We are in an economic crisis. One of the major parties is determined to shred what little remains of the social safety net. Obama is either a willing participant or completely overwhelmed where this is concerned. I'm not sure the Republicans even know why they have to be so cruel as to remove all security from the working class. It's like blood sport to them. There doesn't have to be a reason. It's simply who they are and what they believe. If their mindless enthusiasm were to affect one of their own family members, perhaps they would reconsider. But the rich and well-connected may only now be coming face to face with what they have wrought on their poorer cousins. Like rapacious grasshoppers, they've eaten their way through their storehouses and are now are thoughtlessly eating their seed corn in a frenzy of short term thinking and Obama is enabling them.
I think he's weak. I think he hired Rahm Emannuel because he didn't have enough time in Congress to know what levers to push to get things done. And if he didn't have Rahm, he'd have to hire someone like him.
I don't resent Obama taking his wife out on the taxpayer's dime. I don't begrudge him any perk of his office. Being president is hard, even for the guy who is over his head. Even in these tough economic times, it's a good thing to show that you are committed to your wife and that you aren't going to forego a little joy. Life goes on. I don't think race has anything to do with his failure. Character is not fixed by a genetic mutation for melanin production. I think the birther issue is ridiculous and is racist in its formation. But in Obama, we have a man who jumped ahead in the queue not because he was African American but because he was unprepared. Ruthless ambition by the first viable African American politician for president was no excuse for abrogating the responsibility to do what was right for the country.
Would waiting until 2016 to run have made a difference for Obama? We'll never know. But what is clear is that we ditched a politician with 16 years of executive knowledge and a thorough understanding of the mechanisms of government and how to work them. We turned our backs on a politician who came to every debate over-prepared. We humiliated a politician who was associated with the last successful presidency of our lifetime when our country needed a calm, level-headed leader. And we did it when the country could least afford to have an amateur in the Oval Office.
So, I just have to ask, now that the office has forced him to solidify out of the vapor that he was during the campaign of 2008, what is Obama? If Hillary was a "corporatist", what is Obama?
Paul wakes up but is it in time??
Just kidding, Paul. We know you're not a racist, even if you don't think that Barack Obama derives his (so-called) formidable political skills from the unavoidable fact that he is the first black president evah! For us, it was never a matter of race, which is why we held our candidates to a higher standard. No one got a free pass at The Confluence because they could make more melanin. Neither melanin production nor gender, are qualities cross linked to political ability, as far as I know. Integrity, experience and principles probably are. I will admit to being choked up the night Obama won. The joy evident in the crowd in Grant Park was something I waited my whole life to see. But the sentiment was fleeting. There were more pressing issues on my mind.
In fact, he's not even trying to be a competent politician.
In short, Obama's indifference to the suffering of tens of millions of Americans may or may not result in Democrats' loss of Congress in 2010 and/or his own loss of re-election in 2012. Because Republican victories would be utterly catastrophic, I have to hope that these losses don't come to pass. But Obama's governance so far has been disastrous for the middle class. Supporting disaster as opposed to catastrophe is not my idea of a good place to be politically. And a politician who gives us that choice is not remotely a competent one.
And that's not saying anything about his utter failure to even fight for a credible response to global warming, or his continued support for the Bush/Cheney "long war" approach to the "war on terror", the very existence of which is a victory for al Qaeda.
This is incompetence on a breathtaking scale. This is Nero fiddling while Rome burns. And the fact that Obama is a superb fiddle player (first black fiddle player evuh!) does not even come close to making any sort of difference at all.
Welcome to the club, Paul! Myiq will send you your "So you've decided to become a racist!?" complimentary white sheet and hormone replacement therapy starter pack. That is, until you decide to diss us so you don't become contaminated with "a certain class of woman" as Jane Hamsher would say or a closet Republican as Big Tent Democrat likes to refer to us.
It's one of the burdens we carry for being prematurely right about Barack Obama. And it really is a burden because the Obama branding committee was so successful at turning the rest of the party against us. It's just so hard to believe we saw through him early on we just HAD to have some screws loose, right? We saw how some of you guys deep down really did know that Obama wasn't all that but you didn't want to say it for fear of losing face, or losing access or losing your friends or losing your ad revenue. That's OK, we understand. It's human nature. Axelrod and company played that nature for all that it was worth.
The question I have for you now, Paul, is what are you going to do about it? Are you going to stand out there alone, apart from Chris and tell it like it is? Are you going to acknowledge that we are your natural allies? Or are you going to be like BTD and Jane and a dozen other liberals who have turned your backs on us and embraced your cynicism so that you don't have to be tainted by us, the new demographic independent liberals?
If you go your own way, the incompetents win. They love it when you act like being seen with us is embarrassing. With the left divided, no one will be able to hold them accountable for anything they do. But if you acknowledge us, you take the first steps to reconstituting the left.
United we stand and all that treacly sentimental stuff. Once upon a time, there was a reason why it was important.


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I know we are all focused on Hurricane Laura right now, but we thought it would be nice to take a break with that and talk college football.
We are just a little over a month away from the start of the college football season and the SEC football season. The Associated Press has released the first college football poll for the 2020 season.
The LSU Tigers should be the number one team in the country since they won the national championship last season, right? Think again, Tigers fans. Not only is LSU not the number one team in the country, but they also didn't even land inside the top five in the poll.
The number one team in the country, according to the Associated Press, is the Clemson Tigers, which is the team LSU beat to win the national championship last season. The number two team is Ohio State, followed by Alabama at number three. Georgia lands at number four while Oklahoma lands at number five.
Finally, LSU lands at number six in the poll. Number six, y'all. LSU beat the heck out of Oklahoma in the college football semi-final playoff game before beating Clemson, but they are both ranked ahead of the Tigers. How does that happen?
College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl - LSU v Oklahoma
My opinion? #9 is gone and is now a Cincinnati Bengal. Of course, I am talking about Heisman Trophy winning quarterback, Joe Burrow. Maybe that is why LSU dropped in the first poll of the season.
The Associated Press has been releasing the college football polls since 1936, making it the longest running poll in college football history.
With that all being said, LSU begins the 2020 football season at home in death valley when they face Mississippi State in Baton Rouge on September 28.
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Yesterday was "the" big day for soccer at our house!
and even politically Swedish for a short duration, just to keep things interesting.
While the adults were absorbed in the game, I was so happy to have our World Soccer Cup Activity Pack for Kids to keep Mag engrossed in the action. She loved the idea of being our score keeper, and in the loooong stretch of scoreless time, the activity pages were equally engaging.
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It will be so nice to relax and not worry too much about the outcome of today' games... but come Tuesday: Go Deutschland!
This summer, the bloggers of Multicultural Kid Blogs invite you to "Read Around the World!" Throughout the summer, member bloggers (and friends) are sharing favorite multicultural books, covering age ranges for the entire family.
Here's my pick for a new favorite: a bilingual book entitled My Diary from Here to There/Mi diario de aquí hasta allá, by Amanda Irma Pérez.
You can see the author read her book aloud (albeit to a less than attentive audience -- probably the age group) here.
To browse through all the MKB bloggers' book choices, check out our newest Pinterst board, dedicated to this great summer series. Happy Reading!
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Jens Nohka ist Bäcker und lebt in Berlin. Bobsport betreibt er seit 1999, er startet für den BSC Winterberg. Zunächst trat er mit Steve Harnapp an. Später mit Stefan Drescher und René Spies an. Seine größten Erfolge erreichte er bei Weltmeisterschaften. 2002 und 2003 belegte er im Viererbob vierte Plätze, 2004 gewann er im Langen-Viererbob Christoph Langen die Silbermedaille.
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Dow Swings 550 Points – Heres What Triggered the Astonishing Recovery
By CCN: Minutes after opening, the Dow Jones plummeted by around 1.17 percent as U.S. President Donald Trump announced additional tariffs at 25 percent on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods, leading to a global stock market sell-off.
Remarkably, though the Dow Jones saw a recovery of as much as 550 points, swinging the index from 24,569.89 to an intraday peak at 26,019.32.
Here's what triggered that astonishing rally.
The Dow Jones has recovered by more than 400 points on the day (source: Yahoo Finance)
Dow Swings Higher in Volatile Afternoon Session
The swift reversal has been primarily attributed to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's assertion that negotiations between Chinese Vice Premier Liu He and U.S. Trade Representatives Robert Lighthizer had been "constructive."
In a statement, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce expressed concern over the decision of China to take a step back from the trade talks, possibly due to the request of the Trump administration to protect the intellectual property of U.S. companies operating in China.
Myron Brilliant, the vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said:
The American business community urges the Administration and the Chinese government to move forward expeditiously and in good faith to strike a high-standard, comprehensive, enforceable agreement, and end the tariffs now in place. Prolonging trade tensions and the escalation of tariffs are in neither country's interest.
The optimism of Treasury Secretary Mnuchin has likely kept the Dow Jones and the rest of the U.S. equities market afloat during the afternoon hours, which indicates that investors still expect a full trade deal to be established in the medium-term.
Shortly before the market close, the Dow had gained 70 points or 0.27 percent to settle at 25,898.66.
May has been cited as a potential deadline for a trade deal, and President Trump has emphasized his intent to continue negotiations with China. But, it remains unclear whether the two countries would move towards a deal in the upcoming weeks with Trump unwilling to compromise on a new deal.
President Trump said:
"The process has begun to place additional Tariffs at 25% on the remaining 325 Billion Dollars. The U.S. only sells China approximately 100 Billion Dollars of goods & products, a very big imbalance."
"With the over 100 Billion Dollars in Tariffs that we take in, we will buy agricultural products from our Great Farmers, in larger amounts than China ever did, and ship it to poor & starving countries in the form of humanitarian assistance. In the meantime we will continue to negotiate with China in the hopes that they do not again try to redo deal!"
Global Stock Markets Succumb to Panic-Driven Sell-Off
Due to the momentum of the Dow in recent months and the strong performances of tech and finance stocks, the equities market is generally expected to hold its current level.
But, according to Bloomberg, investors made the biggest withdrawals of the year from global stocks, suggesting the declining confidence of investors despite positive fundamental factors such as the Federal Reserve's stable benchmark interest rate and improving jobs growth.
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Tyler Perry's films leave me so conflicted, and I love it.
I really liked the last film of his I watched, For Colored Girls, because it pointed toward a more artistically inclined Perry than I'd seen previously. The melodrama of films like Madea's Family Reunion and The Family That Preys worked on me tremendously. There is a beautiful moment in Reunion where the grandmother delivers a speech about the love of God and family, surrounded by a crystal background, that has stuck with me for years. With every film he finds another moment like this, and it always comes in the most unexpected places.
While I was watching Good Deeds, I realized despite my respect I'd been selling him short. For Colored Girls wasn't the sign of an artist finally coming into fruition, he'd been doing it for years with his performance art as Madea. This is someone who used drag as a way of expressing emotions he suppresses when he is in starring roles as himself. He utilizes various characters as ways of dealing with his troubling past and helping families come together around entertainment that teaches tolerance and respecting a diverse population.
His entire career has been a piece of performance art with revolving characters, and even the heavy-handed bluntness of Good Deeds lands in this category. But it's always heavy, and important, in ways I'm only now understanding.
Perry makes films for a massive audience. The noticeable tell on Wikipedia is where the reception for this film is noted as having a very low score on Rotten Tomatoes and a very high score with audiences. As a public space for editing and opinions, it's noteworthy that Perry's film is one of the few to have the distinction between the two. It seems the reliance on critics to provide a numerical basis for their opinions has completely overridden what they actually say about the film so that people have a lazy indicator of what is good or bad.
So as far as the technique is concerned, Perry's film is still a bit of a wash. Deeds (Perry) introduces himself in heavy-handed voice-over and the Christ imagery is laid on thick with several shots of him enduring the scorching hot of his penthouse shower. Not exactly subtle, but it's still not an automatic negative. But he continues on with dialogue that lays out everyone's motivations as directly as possible with no room for gray areas. There were still moments in the film where I was rolling my eyes, especially when his mother (Phylicia Rashad) criticizes him for not marrying his girlfriend (Gabrielle Union) sooner.
But there's still more to look at. His film is a perfect example of how racism has become married even further with the growing class divide. Not since the early 1900s' when people tried to equate the lower-classvwith the also prejudiced black population has the divide between the classes been so clear. Only now it's illustrating the same thing, high and low class, racism is still pervasive as hell no matter what end of the spectrum you are financially.
Once again, he's not subtle about this, but levels the parallels wonderfully. So many people seem interested in helping out the struggling Lindsey (Thandie Newton) but it's mostly out of a sense of superiority or guilt. The same applies to the lofty rich status of Deeds and his brother (Brian J. White) who, in spite of some irredeemable behavior, rightly tells an arrogant white businessman, "You'd rather claw at your grave than watch two brothers beat you at your own game." And he's right.
Mass marketed entertainment has a too unfair reputation of being below high minded fare. This isn't to say I appreciate one more than the other (give me Solaris over The Avengers any day of the week). But it seems the perception of what one is doing is weighted too greatly over the other. Perry has been struggling for years to show how racism is still pervasive in American culture, he just doesn't hit you in the head over it like some other artists, and that's just as important.
There's a place for everyone in the critical sphere. Even the heavy handed dialogue yields occasionally funny gems like, while trying to highlight the growing class divide, when Lindsey asks Deeds how much a gallon of milk is. He's tortured by the question, goes home, turns over and asks his girlfriend "Babe, how much is a gallon of milk?" "I don't know, you're lactose intolerant."
Sometimes the most direct answer is the best. Perry's films do this. Are there aspects of his fiction I find troubling? Most definitely, especially in his earliest films where he thinks direct physical torture is an acceptable means of revenge, and he still is a bit too simple in his directorial style (I lost count of the number of times Deeds is looking thoughtful behind a desk). In the end, they're still illuminating pieces of entertainment for the time we live in.
Not all films about race have to be Do the Right Thing (which, for the record, is a perfect film). The blunt cyclical reminder that things are changing, but still have a long way to go, is more than worth its place.
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Claim Alert: Three easy steps to reduce your liability
Three easy steps to reduce your liability
Despite the large number of claims stemming from the mortgage crisis, the professional liability risk to appraisers remains manageable with prudent loss prevention. Most claims at this time – whether they are frivolous or have a justifiable basis – relate to appraisals completed during the real estate and mortgage bubble years of 2004-2007. An appraiser has little control now over whether a lender, borrower or other party will make a claim about work in the past.
Our single best piece of advice with respect to reducing your risk for prior work is to keep your reports and workfiles for longer than the minimum five years required by USPAP. We suggest keeping them for seven or eight, or even longer. USPAP has no relevance to any statute of limitations period and whether a plaintiff can sue you about an old appraisal. Given that we are seeing claims about appraisals dating back to 2004 and sometimes earlier, we think that keeping reports and workfiles, in paper or electronically, for seven or eight years provides a better margin of safety for appraisers.
Fortunately, there is much more that an appraiser can do to reduce the threat of liability from future work. You may have heard the following tips previously over the years, but they are more relevant now than ever. You'll find more information and more tips in the loss prevention section of our website at liability.com and available at our new resource readimember.org.
Appraise Your Client and the Assignment. Appraisers report hundreds of claims to us every year. Time and again, appraisers start the story about a claim with something like "I had a bad feeling about this client" or "I had a suspicious feeling about the transaction." Here's a recent example: an appraiser reviewed a sales contract in connection with a home purchase loan and accurately reported in her appraisal that the contract contained significant sales concessions. The concessions exceeded the limits in new lending guidelines. After the appraiser submitted her report, the lender's agent very quickly came back to the appraiser with a "new" sales contract with the same date, signatures and markings, but leaving out any concessions, and wanted the appraiser to prepare a new report. The appraiser declined. In other situations, we've heard appraisers basically say that they knew their client was going to use the appraisal report in a misleading way, but that they figured they could cover themselves with a disclaimer or other cleverness in the report.
Your knowledge – or even nothing more than a gut feeling – about a dishonest situation is your radar in avoiding lawsuits or disciplinary investigations. Many of these situations do produce claims and your best loss prevention strategy is to turn down the assignment if any part of, or any party to, the transaction "smells fishy".
Check and Proofread Your Work. This is certainly obvious advice, but we have to say it because we receive too many claims that result from poor quality control. Indeed, we have had claims asserted against appraisers relating to plain old typographical errors. In one recent case, an appraiser delivered an appraisal report through a management company to a lender for its use in evaluating the sale of an REO property. In the report, the appraiser entered the wrong first digit in his opinion of value – i.e., the appraiser keyed in $150,000 when the value in the report should have been $250,000. While any reasonable reader of the report should have recognized the obvious error because the number was outside the range of adjusted comparables and could not be reconciled with other data in the report, we still had to defend a claim by the management company because the lender allegedly agreed to sell the REO at a low price based on the appraiser's typographical error.
We also see too many lawsuits and disciplinary matters each year involving reports in which entire sections of data or information are copied over from another report and left unchanged. We see these problems from both residential and commercial appraisers. In residential reports, appraisers often carry over data and information that remains in the software template from a prior report in their system. In commercial narrative reports, we see appraisers borrowing sections written for other reports but then failing to update or revise the information to fit the new assignment. Claims about problems like this are even uglier when the data or information is copied from a report by a different appraiser.
These are usually embarrassing claims for the appraisers. Even if the affected data or information would have had no impact on the appraiser's opinion of value, this kind of carelessness provides fodder for the lender or borrower's attorney, and the appraiser is never anxious to have his or her deposition taken in a case like this or to take the stand in court. Accordingly, our simple advice is that a lot of liability risk can be avoided by taking the time to check and proofread your work.
Be Careful What You Promise. As the mortgage crisis has unfolded, businesses involved in lending, whether residential or commercial, have become more keenly aware of their potential liabilities. Overall litigation related to mortgage lending has increased more than tenfold (far more than appraisal related litigation). A visible result of all this litigation has been an increasing use of indemnification provisions in legal agreements, including appraiser engagement agreements and AMC independent contractor agreements.
Indemnification essentially means a promise to reimburse someone else for certain costs or expenses. Appraisers need to be careful about what they agree to in this regard because lenders, servicers and AMCs are now routinely demanding that appraisers promise more and more with respect to indemnification.
For example, a new independent contractor agreement used by a well-known AMC states, in part:
Appraiser shall further indemnify, defend and hold [AMC] harmless from and against any and all claims, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses attributable to any allegation of intellectual property infringement arising out of this Agreement.
Under this provision, the appraiser is agreeing to indemnify the AMC for liabilities for things like patent and copyright infringement in relation to any appraisals delivered by the appraiser – whether the alleged infringement is the fault of the appraiser, the AMC or some third party, such as a software provider. Another AMC's independent contractor agreement states, in part:
Appraiser shall indemnify, defend, save and hold harmless [AMC] from and against any and all liability, claims, damages, losses, fines, judgments, suits, decrees, costs and expenses . . . in any way related to . . . any appraisal report submitted to [AMC] by Appraiser.
This provision similarly would enable the AMC to argue that the appraiser must indemnify the AMC for liabilities or damages and even fines assessed against the AMC relating in any way to appraisals delivered to the AMC by the appraiser – even if the alleged problems are the result of the AMC's own conduct.[*1]
Indemnification provisions also appear in contracts for commercial appraisal work. Fortunately, commercial appraisers often have more leeway to negotiate different or more reasonable language. A reasonable indemnification provision – if one is going to be included in a contract at all – would ideally be two-sided, meaning that both parties have a mutual obligation to each other to indemnify the other party for liabilities arising from one side's negligence or errors or omissions.
Residential appraisers, on the other hand, often have limited ability to negotiate with lenders and AMCs, and often their only choice is to say "no" to the business relationship if the risk being shifted to them outweighs the benefit of doing business with the lender or AMC.
There are insurance concerns too with indemnification provisions. As to this issue, appraisers should understand that indemnification provisions such as the two from AMC agreements exemplified above do not change an appraiser's E&O insurance coverage or "void" the policy. The E&O policy will still provide the same degree of protection and coverage as if the indemnification agreement did not exist. However, under these types of indemnification provisions, appraisers are agreeing to pay losses, damages, attorneys' fees, etc. of the AMC even if the loss or damage results from the AMC's own errors or wrongdoing. Further, the appraiser is agreeing to indemnify the AMC for types of damages that are beyond the realm of E&O coverage, such as damages for patent infringement. Thus, the appraiser is agreeing to pay potential costs and damages that are broader than can be covered by the appraiser's insurance. An appraiser's E&O policy can only cover mistakes or damage caused by the insured appraiser (not a third party such as the AMC) and cannot cover liabilities forced on the appraiser by contract.
When appraisers are concerned about the nature of liabilities they may be assuming under an indemnification provision, we encourage them to discuss the relevant language with us. More information is also available on this topic in our loss prevention resources at liability.com and readimember.org.
Tell Tale Claims
Over Her Head in Mold
An appraiser was asked to appraise an REO property in Florida. She was told by the client that a pipe had burst in the home, causing mold. When the appraiser got to the home, she was met by the mold inspector. He said he would leave his hazmat suit for her to put on before she went inside because the mold was intense. Rather than trusting her gut and walking away, and not wanting to disappoint the client, this appraiser donned the outfit and did an appraisal subject to the remediation of the mold.
The client came back later and asked for more work. They wanted an "as is" value and also a "cost to repair". It was at this point that the insured felt "over her head" and called to ask for advice. Perhaps she should have made that call prior to putting on the hazmat suit.
$4,600,000 - $3,100,000 = $400,000 Loss
A California appraiser prepared a narrative appraisal of a 34 vacant lot residential parcel. He estimated a value of $4.6 million. Almost one year later, after a loan of $3 million was made, the lender noticed a math error in the discounted cash flow analysis. Once this was pointed out to the appraiser he revised his value downward to $3.1 million. The loan defaulted and the lender made a claim for more than $1.5 million in damages.
After a year of litigation, and due in large part to this error, the claim was settled with a payment of $400,000.
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A Colorado appraiser assigned the appraisal of a mixed use building undergoing rehab to a trainee. The estimated value was $3.3 million. A year later, the appraisal was the subject of a lawsuit by the lender who had loaned $1.75 million. The lawsuit claimed the appraised value was overstated due to reliance on rental data provided by the developer/borrower and not verified by the appraiser and due to the use of comparable sales that were not truly comparable or that were out of the market area.
No expert could be located who could support the insured's value. The experts consulted by the defense could get no closer than $1 million less than the insured's value. Although a senior appraiser within the firm had signed off on the report, he later admitted that his other work and time commitments had really precluded him from doing much of a review. He trusted his trainee and admitted his review had only been "cursory". The case settled for over $250,000.
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[*1] Some state AMC laws now prohibit such unreasonable indemnification clauses in AMC agreements. Utah's AMC law, for example, prohibits an AMC from requiring appraisers to indemnify the AMC for claims "arising out of the services performed by the appraisal management company or its agents, employees or independent contractors and not the services performed by the appraiser."
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Sooooooo… As you may know, I have a super awesome kitty named Zoe. She is black and shiny and lovely. She talks to me all day and shouts when she's angry. Her favorite toys are my hair ties, which she often loses under the couch.
Anyway, last week Zoe got really sick. She had a very high fever and wasn't moving. I took her to the animal hospital and they kept her for a few days – gave her medicine and fluids. She was refusing to eat or drink or pee. When I finally brought her home she started eating and peeing again. She is on the mend. Today she watched birds. She hasn't played yet but she is cuddling and meowing and not crying anymore.
I set up a fundraising website to help pay the bill. I'm usually pretty good about budgeting for things but I never factored in a kitty emergency. I'd appreciate any help and would LOVE it if you could share the link to the site with your friends & family. Strangers are good too. ;) Every little bit counts. I'm working on getting her pet insurance. For now, I'm just grateful she's getting well. The site is here. I'm so tired but I'm proud of myself for asking for help. It's new for me.
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Well….here we are, my friends…less than two weeks until Christmas! Are you finding yourself overwhelmed, with too much on to do on your plate right now? Too much decorating to do. Too much wrapping to do. Too much cooking to do. Let me see if I can help you out a bit with a few fast and easy ways to add Christmas around your house!
Fill a sugar bowl with faux or real greenery, a pinecone or two and an ornament. Christmas in less than 5 minutes! This little arrangement could even last you through the winter.
Fill a box with assorted Christmas plates, a special cookbook or two and a large ornament. Add a bow made with festive ribbon for the finishing touch.
Add some tall pinecones to containers, tie a ribbon around the top with a small jingle bell or ornament attached. Place them into a lantern and people will be wowed by what you did! Remove the ribbons and bells after Christmas and you have yet another vignette to carry you through the winter.
Christmas ornaments aren't just for trees. They make great props! Simply place a special ornament along with a couple of ordinary Christmas balls among your everyday items. Another vignette in less than 5 minutes!
For a fast centerpiece, place a scarf in the bottom of a basket. Add a lantern with a candle, an inexpensive faux tree and one other large item (in my case I added a silver squirrel nutcracker). Fill in the empty spots with faux greenery topped with small Christmas balls. Fast, easy and it'll look like a million bucks!
Fill a large basket with assorted greenery, a few sparkly picks, a few shiny ornaments and sticks from your own yard!
Wrapped Christmas presents can be a decoration too! Just be sure to use wrapping paper, ribbons and tags that all work well together. Then group them in an attractive way instead of just throwing them under the tree.
Thank you for stopping by for a visit today! I hope you were able to find some inspiration for quickly decorating your own home for Christmas.
Great ideas. I especially liked the one on the table with the bread bowl and greenery. I pinned it so I don't lose the idea. Thanks for sharing.
I just love all of your quick decorating ideas. I find myself decorating & moving things until the final day. Just love this time of year. Happy Holidays!
Such pretty and easy ideas! These are definitely serving as my primary inspiration as I put the final touches on my Christmas decorating!
So many adorable and current ideas! Thank you for taking your time to share with us!
Great ideas! I especially like the Fast Centerpiece-I'm off to look for a scarf!
Loving all your last minute ideas…..Helps to make the holidays much more fun! Thank you!
Love all these great ideas!!! thanks for sharing!!! We can always use a few more Christmas touches!!
Wow, super quick ideas that I really needed…we have a big party this Saturday and there were a couple of lacking spots to fill with Christmas cheer….thank you so much and MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and all!
Absolutely beautiful. I just love the tray idea. Thanks for sharing all your wonderful ideas. Merry Christmas!!
Great job very welcoming and comfortable.
Those were all really good and simple ideas. Thanks so much!
I love your decorating ideas! I may even "steal" a few for myself!
I love these quick decorating ideas. Especially, the arrangement of the gifts. Thanks for sharing on Sunday's Best.
Love the big basket with the greens.
Such a natural touch and elegant.
Oh my goodness! The basket + scarf + lantern is the BEST idea. I'm setting our Christmas table today and can't wait to use that idea. Off to find a scarf!
That table is darling and I absolutely love boxwood wreaths. So pretty & classic and can be done so many ways. I am starting slow on Christmas decorating and it's pretty minimal so far, but I'm going to try to do a little more over the next couple weeks. I did find a boxwood wreath at Trader Joe's that looks great in the kitchen. 🙂 xo!
What wonderful Christmas vignette ideas. Love them all.
Last minute, sparkly and almost instant. Who could ask for more?
Great tips! I love how you used all of the lanterns in your decorating.
Thank you! Love these ideas!
I love the greenery and sticks in a basket idea! I am planning on doing that with my leftover Christmas tree boughs for a winter front porch decoration. Thanks for linking up with us at Share the Wealth Sunday!
You are always such an inspiration!!
I'm starting to think about how I want to decorate for Christmas/winter. I try to have some of both out so once the Christmas items are put away, I still have decorating pretty much done. I like some of your very quick and simple ideas.


Beijing, Dec 6 (efe-epa).- Ingka holding, the parent company of Swedish furniture and home-furnishings giant Ikea on Thursday announced it will build a shopping mall in Shanghai at a cost of 8 million yuan ($1.16 billion), it's biggest investment yet, state owned newspaper China Daily reported.
The project, set to operate under Ikea's mega-mall brand Livat, will be spread over an area of 430,000 square meters (around 106 acres) and is expected to start operations by 2022.
Apart from Ikea furniture, the mall will also host shops of 300 national and international brands dealing in sports, education, entertainment and food.
Around 60,000 square meters of the area will be converted into office spaces.
According to Ikea estimates, around 3,000 people will be employed at the facility, making it the second biggest premises of the company in terms of employees, only behind its headquarters in Sweden.
Livat has already completed three projects in China in the cities of Beijing, Wuhan and Wuxi, with the total investment of more than 10 billion yuan.
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Efraín Huerta (June 18, 1914 – February 3, 1982) was a Mexican poet and journalist. Born and raised in the state of Guanajuato, he moved to Mexico City initially to start a career in art. Unable to enter the Academy of San Carlos, he attended the Escuela Preparatoria Nacional, where he met writers such as Rafael Solana, Carmen Toscano and Octavio Paz. He had been writing poetry since he was young, but initially opted to attend law school; however, when he published his first book of poems, he left it to pursue writing full-time. As a poet, he published regularly from the 1930s to the 1980s, and as a journalist collaborated with over twenty newspapers and journals, under his own name and using pseudonyms. He was also active politically, a communist and Stalin supporter through his life with his social and political ideas finding their way into his writing. Poetically, he is part of the Taller generation of Mexican poets, although his development was a bit different from others in this group. Near the end of his career, his work had developed a colloquial style, including work focusing on Mexico City and creating a new form called a "poemínimo."

Life
Efraín Huerta was born Efrén Huerta Roma in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1914, during the Mexican Revolution which would have a profound impact on his life and Mexico in the 20th century. He was the seventh of eight children born to José Mercedes Huerta, a lawyer and judge and Sara Roma, with two of his siblings dying in childhood.

The family moved to Irapuato in 1917, where the parents separated, with Huerta moving with his mother and siblings to León, and later in 1925 to Querétaro. Huerta's father remained in Irapuato where the poet visited him on occasion as a teenager. Huerta began primary school late in León, and went on to middle school in Querétaro, attending the Colegio Civil del Estado and later the Academia de Bellas Artes. In his youth he held various types of jobs including drawing advertising posters. In his free time, he was a passionate soccer player,  and later in his life would become a fan of the Mexico City Atlante team, never missing a home game.

Huerta's interest in drawing prompted him to move to Mexico City at age 16 and live with family members while he tried to get into the Academy of San Carlos, but was not accepted. Nonetheless, Huerta would remain in this city for the rest of his life, living in various neighborhoods in the center and west such as Tabacalera, El Periodista, historic center and Polanco.

Instead, Huerta entered the National Preparatory School in 1931, studying under Julio Torri and Agustín Loera y Chávez and forming friendships with Rafael Solana and Carmen Toscano. Huerta also met Octavio Paz at the institution, who was one year ahead of him. Paz and Huerta formed a close relationship in their youth, sharing social, literary and political interests. However, in later life, these two would become distant as their political views diverged.

Huerta entered the law school of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1933, but stayed for only two years. At this time, he changed his name to Efraín, at the suggestion of Rafael Solana, with the idea that it sounded better. For a short time he also used the Hebrew version Ephraím. During his time in law school, Huerta had continued to write poetry, and when the book Absoluto amor (which he dedicated to Adela María Salinas) was published in 1935, he left to dedicate himself to writing.

In 1941, Huerta married his first wife, Mireya Bravo Munguía, who he had known for a decade prior, with Ocatvio Paz as best man. She appears in his poetry as "Andrea de Plata. The couple had three children Andrea Huerta Bravo (1943), Eugenia Huerta Bravo (1945) and David Huerta Bravo (1949-2022).  Much of his day-to-day life during this period revolved about the historic center of Mexico City, especially the area around the Monument to the Revolution and the main street called San Juan de Letrán (today Eje Central). Late nights he was a regular customer at Sidralí, a hot dog and cider establishment, a favorite among journalists, and every Sunday was spent at the Ciudad de los Deportes to watch a bullfight or a match involving the Atlante team. He was an involved father, especially with his two daughters, taking them to the movies,  to the Zaplana bookstore, Super Leche (known for its hamburgers and bottles of milk) and El Moro for churros and hot chocolate, all along San Juan de Letran. However, according to one of these daughters, he was not faithful to their mother.  Son David would grow up to also be a poet and critic, but in a style very different from his father's.

Huerta married for the second time in 1958 with poet and fellow radical Thelma Nava. With her he had two more daughters Thelma Huerta Nava (1959) and Raquel Huerta Nava (1963). With these two he traveled to Morelia, Guanajuato and Querétaro, along with small towns, often looking for Mexican handcrafts. With this family, he lived in Polanco, where he wandering would take him to nearby cafes and restaurants.

The origin of Huerta's nickname El Cocodrilismo "The Crocodilism" is in late 1949, during funding drive for a school in San Felipe Torresmochas, Guanajuato. Here Huerta told crocodile stories, saying that we all have a crocodile in us. In 1973, Huerta was diagnosed with cancer of the larynx, and had the organ removed. Although he survived the cancer, it left him mostly voiceless, recuperating some of his ability to speak with the help of speech therapy.

Efraín Huerta died almost ten years later in Mexico City at the age of 67 due to kidney failure after battling a return of cancer. He is buried in Xochitepec.

Poetry

Publications
Huerta is best known for his poetry, which he began writing as a student. His first publication was a poem called El Bajío, appearing in a local paper called La Lucha, followed by Tarde provinciana. His first book was Absoluto amor (Absolute love), published in 1935, but very few copies remain. This success convinced Huerta to dedicate himself full-time to poetry, politics and journalism. Huerta's first important publication is Los hombres del alba (Men of the dawn), published in 1944, and is considered a classic of 20th century Mexican poetry. In this volume his first works using Mexico City as a subject appears. It was followed by Línea del alba in 1946, with similar themes, a compilation of poems previously published in magazines such as Taller.

In 1950 he published a small volume with six poems called La rosa primitiva, but it was virtually ignored by critics at the time. Another important work is El Tajín (1953), named after the archeological site in northern Veracruz. In 1956, he published Los poemas de viaje, works inspired by his travels to the United States, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and his observation of social and political issues. It also contains poems about his new son, David, written while he was in Czechoslovakia. In the same year, he published Estella en alto, a mix of love poems with those with political topics.

His later works include Poemas prohibidos y de amor (1973), Transa poética (1980), an anthology of previously published and unpublished work,  Estampida de poemínimos (1981), and Amor patria mía (1981).

Style
Influences on Huerta's work include works by Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Generation of '27, the Contemporáneos and those by Pablo Neruda. He is part of the Taller generation in Mexico, along with Octavio Paz, Rafael Solana, Salvador Toscano and others, which rejected lyricism subjectively and aesthetically, opting instead to promote an idea of universal solidarity. This generation was also known for its political and poetic militancy. His work continues the Whitmanian tradition of rebellious non-conformity and vitality, but he eliminates Whitman's base idealism and employs anti-rhetorical lyricism.

His years at law school influenced the logic and diction of his work, especially his early work, although over time, Huerta would abandon the formats of his youth entirely. Huerta differed from others in his generation in that instead of moving towards romanticism and symbolism, his poetry evolved towards the use of analogy, colloquial realism (influence from José Emilio Pacheco) and less academic, more colloquial style, an "anti-poem." His work has been described as "…bringing a loose-jointed exuberance into Mexican poetry."

Several themes are recurrent in Huerta's work. One of these is the concept of dawn (alba), with the idea of faint light bringing clarity. Political and social themes are another, marked both by his militancy and the occurrence of major wars and other conflicts which occurred during his lifetime. Two examples of these are Poemas de guerra y esperanza (1943) and Los hombres del alba(1944), related to the Spanish Civil War and World War II respectively. He generally condemned imperialism and capitalism in favor of socialism and supported the Soviet regime, especially with the poems Stalingrado en pie (1942) and Canto a la paz soviética (1947). The last important theme is that of Mexico City, especially in his later work. In his verses, the Mexican capital becomes a collective which he aims to portray.

In Huerta's last phase of production, from 1969 to his death, he develops a new format of poetry called poemínimo, short playful verses,  where he explored topics with humor, irony and cynicism. These first appear in 1969 in a magazine called Comunidad and in the supplement La Cultura en México, then in books such as Poemas prohibidos y de amor (1973), Los eróticos (1974), Circuito interior (1977), culminating in 50 poemínimos (1978).

Journalism and other literary activities
Huerta began his journalism career in 1936, and during the following decades collaborated with over twenty newspapers and journals, with some exceptions, all in Mexico City. He began with El Nacional and then the weekly El Figaro, focusing on theater and film criticism, something he would continue throughout his career with the addition of investigative reports. Other publications include Nosotros and Cinema Reporter, with many columns published under pseudonyms. At least a dozen are confirmed to be Huerta and include Filmito Rueda, Fósforo, El Periquillo, El Hombre de la Esquina, Juan Ruiz, Damocles, Juanito Pegafuerte.

In 1936, Huerta was one of the founders of the Taller Poético, a poetry magazine from had its first run from 1936 to 1938. Rafael was originally the director but in 1938, Octavio Paz took over, shorting the name to Taller and expanding the format to include short stories, essays, critiques and other article. This revamped magazine ran until 1940. His association with Taller was formative for Huerta and others in part because Paz brought in the work of Spanish writers as well. However, there was a falling out between Paz and Huerta, and Huerta left suddenly for unknown reasons. In 1947, Huerta established the weekly magazine El Figaro, and was its first director. That same year he began collaborating with the Close up de nuestro cine section of the Revista Mexicana de Cultura, part of El Nacional, writing about Mexican popular cinema of the time. Later these writings were republished in two books called Close up I and Close up II (2010) .

In 1951 he became director of the Intercambio cultural magazine, of the Mexican-Russian Exchange Institute.

Huerta's crocodile stories, initially done verbally, became the inspiration for the creation of a work called the Manifesto of the Crocodile, an optimistic idea in opposition to existentialism. From 1957 to 1961, he edited a literary magazine called Cuadernos del Cocodrilo (Notebooks of the Crocodile), doing the illustrations. They were not published until much later, and when they were, they became popular with children.

In 1970, he was president of the Cinema Journalists of Mexico.

Political activities
Huerta's political activities began early, joining the Great Socialist Party of Central Querétaro in 1929. He then joined the Federation of Revolutionary Students in 1936, where he met José Revueltas, officially joining the Mexican Communist Party in 1936. In 1934, Huerta and Paz fought against José Revueltas' incarceration for "antisocial activities", and later were vocal together about the Spanish Civil War. His time in the Communist Party was his most militant, but it was short-lived because in the 1940s, the Party went into crisis, with membership divided into those who supported Trotsky vs. those in support of Stalin. One fallout from this was the expulsion of Efraín Huerta along with a number of other artists and intellectuals. Huerta remained communist and a Stalin loyalist through the rest of his life, despite being aware of the atrocities of the regime.

Huerta's political activities included writing poetry and travel. In 1951, he was named the secretary general of the Consejo Nacional de Partidarios de la Paz. Under this charge he traveled to the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.  After the Cuban Revolution, he traveled to Cuba twice, in 1967 and 1968, in support of the new regime. This also had consequences. He was denied a US visa in 1966 for being a member of a communist sympathizing organization. In 1978 his work was censored in Brazil, and his support for the Sandinistas in Nicaragua resulted in his ban from the country, under penalty of death.

One event about which he was relatively silent was the student uprising in Tlatelolco in 1968, although he had strong opinions about it and about the Mexico president at the time, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. According to his daughter Raquel Huerta Nava, it was because it pained him too much and because some of his children were involved.

Recognition
In the late 1940s, Huerta was awarded the Ordre des Palmes académiques by the French government for his work as a writer and journalist. In 1956 he received the Stalin Peace Prize. Diego Rivera included an image of the poet in the mural Pesadilla de guerra y sueño de paz (1952), which has since disappeared, with its whereabouts unknown.

In the 1970s, Huerta received a number of awards in Mexico for his life's work including  the Xavier Villarrutia Prize (1975), the National Poetry Prize (1976) and the National Journalism Prize (1978) .

After his death, his library and personal archives were acquired by the government and placed at the home of poet Ramón López Velarde and in the library of Salvador Novo to provide public and research access, and in 1988 the Fondo de Cultura Económica published the first edition of Poesía completo.

Interest in Huerta's work waned after his death but has resurged in the 2010s, becoming one of the most-read poets by the generations after him in Mexico. His work has been republished in volumes such as Aurora roja (crónicas juveniles en tiempos de Lázaro Cárdenas, 1936-1939) (2007, a collection of one hundred pieces by Huerta as poet and journalist between 1936 and 1939) and El Gran Cocodrilo en treinta poemínimos. (2014) .

The 100th anniversary of the poet's birth was celebrated in Mexico in 2014 with tributes at the Mexican Senate, the Festival Internacional Cervantino and the Feria Internacional del Libro in Guadalajara.

Works
 1935 - Absoluto amor
 1936 - Línea del alba
 1944 - Los hombres del alba
 1943 - Poemas de guerra y esperanza
 1950 - La rosa primitiva
 1951 - Poesía
 1953 - Poemas de viaje
 1956 - Estrella en alto y nuevos poemas
 1957 - Para gozar tu paz
 1959 - ¡Mi país, oh mi país!
 1959 - Elegía de la policía montada
 1961 - Farsa trágica del presidente que quería una isla
 1962 - La raíz amarga
 1963 - El Tajín
 1973 - Poemas prohibidos y de amor
 1974 - Los eróticos y otros poemas
 1980 - Estampida de poemínimos
 1980 - Tranza poética
 1985 - Estampida de Poemínimos

References

External links
 Efraín Huerta en la página de la Red Escolar de México
 Efraín Huerta: Selected Poems

Mexican male poets
Writers from Guanajuato
People from Silao, Guanajuato
1914 births
1982 deaths
Recipients of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
20th-century Mexican poets
20th-century Mexican male writers


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