Commiefornia sux. Move to America for chrissakes.
just counted 15 on inci web. I think half the fires are up in your neck of the woods, plus several more just on the other side of the Idaho border in the panhandle. I hope this all clears up too. I'm coming up with a pontoon boat to Flathead end of the month.


In today's competitive retail market, keeping up with industry trends is imperative and retailers who adopt early are able to meet their customer's growing expectations. Auto-Star Compusystems Inc., an innovative developer of point of sale software, and Motion Computing, a leading global provider of mobile technology, are pleased to announce the certification of the Star-Plus POS and the Motion CL910 and F5te Tablet PC. Together, the solution offers retailers the latest in mobile point of sale technology.
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Meet Paul the Inuit elder - one of Jeremy Charles's Wild Bunch
In his new book, the Newfoundland chef celebrates his best ingredient: his characterful suppliers and friends
Paul Jararuse from Wildness by Jeremy Charles. Photograph by John Cullen
Jeremy Charles, the patron chef of the award-winning Newfoundland restaurant Raymonds, has managed to find culinary fame in the wilds of north-eastern Canada, not only thanks to the region's incredible natural flora and fauna, but also via the men and women who catch, gather and bring that produce to his restaurant.
Given the size of the place, that range of ingredients can be incredibly broad. While only 500,000 people live in this easterly province of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador has a total landmass of 144,353 sq miles; that's bigger than the UK or Germany, and roughly the same size as Japan.
In some of the region's southerly provinces, you can farm sheep and pigs, but in the more northerly Torngat Mountains National Park – where the ground often stays frozen all year around – the local Inuit population rely on traditional sources of food.
Traditionally air-dried char (Pittiq). From Wildness.
Charles remembers visiting the region, with Wildness's co-author, the writer Adam Leith Gollner, and the book's photographer, John Cullen. "Up in the Torngat Mountains National Park in Northern Labrador, Adam, John, and I were taken around by a group of Inuit elders who told us about their traditional foods—which do not include any domesticated animals," Charles recalls in his book Wildness: An Ode to Newfoundland and Labrador. "One of the elders we met, Paul Jararuse, is a role model for young Inuit hunters today. Paul used to be known as the strongest man in Labrador. His friends told us how he would bounce around the campfire on his back, with his arms and legs raised upward."
Seal carpaccio, alder, juniper and partridgeberries. Photograph by John Cullen. From Wildness
You could put some of Jararuse's vitality down to his diet. "Hunting is how the Inuit community has always sourced food, long before Europeans arrived," writes Jararuse in his personal essay for Wildness. "Gathering too: berries, plants, and flowers."
Polar bears are common in this part of Canada, and feature in local inuit diet and lore. "We call the polar bear nanuk," he goes on. "We have so much respect for nanuk. They are smarter than humans; they just don't talk. They know if you are scared."
Indeed, Jararuse has been caught out by the animal in the past. "One time, I was staying in a shack during hunting season, and I got up to go to the bathroom at around 4 a.m. It was a beautiful morning, so sunny and calm," he writes. "As soon as I took my pants off, I heard something breathing behind me. It was a polar bear. I immediately made animal sounds to scare it, then took off back to the shack as fast as I could. At the same time, the bear ran off in the other direction. I had scared the polar bear—and the polar bear had scared me."
Should you find yourself in a similar situation, Jararuse has some advice. "My dad told me that in the situation of actually coming face to face with a polar bear, you have to look them in the eyes with a neutral but serious expression," he writes (and also strikes this expression in the image, above). "This way, when the nanuk clocks you, he will understand that you aren't aggressive and that you aren't prey."
Chef Jeremy Charles. Photograph by John Cullen. From Wildness
We seriously hope you never had need to put Jararuse's advice to the test. Despite these scares, he believes that, by following traditional ways of life, he and his fellow Inuit can set an example for the world.
"Our home, the Torngat Mountains, has become a national park to help protect the area. That means mining companies can't exploit it — they came looking for uranium here, but we stopped them. We said, 'We are not letting you take our uranium because you will use it to bomb other people.' Why use bombs? We're humans. Canada is known as a peaceful country. I believe that we have a duty as Canadians to show the rest of the world how productive and harmonious our way of life is."
Wildness by Jeremy Charles
You can find out more about Jararuse, and get some traditonal Inuit recipes as well as a lot more harmony and lots more on the produce by buying a copy of Wildness here.
Wildness Hardback | English USD$59.95
AskaHardback | English USD$59.95
A Very Serious Cookbook: Contra WildairHardback | English USD$49.95
Chicken and Charcoal: Yakitori, Yardbird, Hong KongHardback | English USD$39.95
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Meet Lori the Forager - one of Jeremy Charles's Wild Bunch
In his new book, the Newfoundland chef celebrates his best ingredient: his skilled, characterful suppliers
Want to garden like Alice Waters? Then put in a night shift
3 dishes to look out for in Olafur Eliasson's kitchen at the Tate
Want to garden like Stephen Harris? Then grab some seaweed
Look what Jeremy Charles just caught!
7 street foods to try in the US, Mexico, Greece and Turkey
A Taste of American Independence Day
Jeremy Charles on Newfoundland's Renaissance
Get home recipes from America's new best restaurant
Want to garden like the world's best chef? Then break the rules
Have a Mississippi fish fry on National Catfish Day
Nordic baking is the world's most diverse Magnus tells the BBC
These two chefs and Phaidon authors are getting married!
Watch Garden Chef Niko Romito as he takes you on a tour around his Reale restaurant garden in Abruzzo, Italy
Meet Brian the Hunter - one of Jeremy Charles's Wild Bunch

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This is a beautiful and very unusual new silver plated drinks coaster comprising a triple bottle holder drinks cart, where each bottle has its' own cart.
This is a beautiful and very unusual new silver plated drinks coaster comprising a triple bottle holder drinks cart, where each bottle has its' own cart. Fashioned in the traditional English style, the rims of each holder have lovely intricate foliate decoration.
With this silver plated drinks coaster, each holder also has its' own beautifully fashioned wheel as well as a handle in the shape of a cherub. The cart itself can be pulled along by a cart handle which features a turned wooden holder and each base has a circular hole where bottle drips can drain.
Overall it is a very alluring piece which is sure to make a statement on any dining table. It is in excellent condition as can be seen from the photos. Do take a few seconds to look at these and apprise yourself of just what a beautiful and unusual piece this silver plated drinks coaster is.
As it is often a good plan to view before you decide, we are always pleased to encourage you to view our stock in our North London warehouse. So why not sort out a visit to view this silver plated drinks coaster in person? And while you are here you can also find out about our range of other terrific silver pieces and collectors' items.
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It is advisable to get in contact with us prior to making a visit to confirm that the silver plated drinks coaster is still available and has not already been sold. Also if you contact us we can ensure that we have the best expert available to you to talk you through your purchase and reply to any queries you may have. We are always delighted to discuss our items such as this silver plated drinks coaster in detail and suggest alternative options should change your mind or want to compare this silver plated drinks coaster with other similar silver items. We believe there is no such thing as a silliy question and we fully understand that you will want to get your purchase right so please feel free to ask about any issues you might have.
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If you are not able to set up a visit, we're still happy to reply to any requests you have about this silver plated drinks coaster. To raise these with us please don't hesitate to get in contact by email or telephone using the contact information on this page. We have a number of in-house experts who will be able to tell you all about this silver plated drinks coaster and also chat through the ins and outs of investing in and caring for beautiful silver objects more generally. We are always glad to talk in detail about all aspects of silver collecting to our customers and potential customers to make certain that you are truly pleased with everything you are considering purchasing from us. When you get in communication remember to mention the item reference number that you will also find on this page to make sure that we can identify the particular silver plated drinks coaster you are taking a look at.
We are industry experts in the transport and delivery of fine items of silver such as this silver plated drinks coaster. High-quality articles of silver of this nature take specialist handling to guaranteed that they get to you in the same perfect state that they left us. We are very careful with our packaging and shipping to make sure that whatever you buy from us will get to you in perfect condition. We are pleased to ship this silver plated drinks coaster to nearly any location across the world and will take care of all the necessary packaging and shipping particulars. However, we require that you get in contact first before choosing this silver plated drinks coaster as we need to be sure of all the specifics and that you have a full shipping estimate before you order. Happily we send orders totally free to any mainland UK destination.
If you are not satisfied for any reason with this silver plated drinks coaster when you get it, in conformance with the Distance Selling Regulations you can send it back to us within 14 days and we will provide a reimbursement. You are required to return this silver plated drinks coaster to us in its original wrapping and condition. You will also be accountable for the return shipping fees unless we sent you an product that is substantially different to the one you believed you would be acquiring.
Please note that you are fully responsible for any customs fees or duties that fall due as a result of delivering this silver plated drinks coaster outside the European Union.


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Q: Blazor Shared Components not rendered I have a problem, and I can't find a solution. This question is maybe already solved a couple of times, but it's hard to find a working solution for my constellation.
I'm using Blazor wasm 3.2.0-preview3.20168.3'. My goal is to move my components in a shared library to use it across my projects.
The problem is my components are not going to be rendered if I'm moving them into a shared library, so the tag <alert><alert/> is not resolved. The browser displays <alert><alert/>.
If they are in the main project, everything is working fine.
In the main project in  "_Imports.razor" the dependencies are imported
@using BlazingWebShared.Services
@using BlazingWebShared.Component

My library .csproj looks more or less like this (not including comments etc):
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor">

    <PropertyGroup>
        <TargetFramework>netstandard2.1</TargetFramework>
        <AddRazorSupportForMvc>true</AddRazorSupportForMvc>
    </PropertyGroup>

    <ItemGroup>
        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly" Version="3.2.0-preview3.20168.3" />
        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.Build" Version="3.2.0-preview3.20168.3" PrivateAssets="all" />
        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebAssembly.DevServer" Version="3.2.0-preview3.20168.3" PrivateAssets="all" />
        <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.HttpClient" Version="3.2.0-preview3.20168.3" />
    </ItemGroup>
</Project>

Does someone have an idea what I'm doing wrong? Or can someone share a library I can use as a blueprint?
Thank you very much for your time and help.

A: The line
<AddRazorSupportForMvc>true</AddRazorSupportForMvc>

tells me that you checked "support for pages and views" when you created your Razor Class Library (RCL). Make a new one without that check. You get a very different project setup with or without that checkmark. Amongst other things it will target the wrong platform, core 3.x instead of standard 2.x

And don't forget that you also have to import the .css and maybe .js files from the RCL into your _Host.razor or Index.cshtml . See this answer for that.

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Every Sunday dedicated volunteers work Bingo. The monies raised from bingo help support our school and parish. This past year, Bingo made $76,759.85. This is a 75% increase from the year before! This is by far our largest fundraiser of the year. However, we are in need of more dedicated volunteers to keep bingo running. The crowds are growing, but our volunteers are not. We are in need of people to volunteer once a month on a regular basis. There is no smoking in the gymnasium. Come and get involved, meet new people, and help support your parish through your gift of time. To get involved please call the parish office at 445-9668.
The Sacrament of Penance is celebrated here on Saturday at 3:00 p.m. and on Monday immediately after the 12:00 mass. However, the Sacrament will not be available on Monday, August 3rd.
There will be an open house on Sunday, August 9th from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Specht Center to celebrate the 95th birthday of Marian Fontaine. Please come and celebrate this special occasion with Marian. She has requested that your presence be her gift. If you are unable to attend and would like to send her a card please address them to Marian and drop them off or send to the parish office at 672 So. 3rd Street, 43206.
The Benedictine monks of St. Andrew Abbey in Cleveland invite young men between the ages of 18 – 45 years to participate in their summer "Living with Benedict" monastic vocation discernment retreats to be held on the weekend of Aug. 14–16, 2009. Contact Fr. Gerard, OSB for additional information at gerard@cbhs.net or visit www.bocohio.org .
CATHOLIC WOMEN/YOUNG WOMEN of the YEAR banquet will be held on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009, at 5:00 p.m. at the Berwick Manor Restaurant & Party House. For additional information contact the DCCW office at 614.228.8601.
In commemoration of The Year of the Priest, as has been proclaimed by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Saint John Vianney, Universal Patron of Priests, will be honored Saturday, August 1st, through his feast day, Tuesday, August 4th, at St. Joseph Cathedral. All members of our Diocese are welcome to join us in this beautiful celebration after every mass when the Holy Relic of the beloved Saint will be exposed on the altar of the Terce Chapel for veneration and private prayer.
Dear Lord, we pray that the Blessed Mother wrap her mantle around her priests and through her intercession strengthen them for their ministry. We pray that Mary will guide your priests to follow her own words, "Do whatever he tells you" (John 2:5). May your priests have the heart of St. Joseph, Mary's most chaste spouse. May the Blessed Mother's own pierced heart inspire them to embrace all who suffer at the foot of the cross. May your priests be holy, filled with the fire of your love seeking nothing but your greater glory and the salvation of souls. Amen.
Performance Workshop Dates, August 17-21, 2009.
Who Qualifies: Females and Males interested in the performing arts in grades 8-12 from beginners to advance levels. Cost is $125/includes t-shirt. The workshop location is Dublin Dance Center, 2665 Farmers Dr., Columbus, 43235 from 9:00 a.m.to noon. Email questions to Liz O'Dorisio at odorisio@wideopenwest.com . Scholarships available.
St. Paul the Apostle Parish, 313 North State Street in Westerville, will be hosting a Job Fair on Thurs., August 6, from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. in their Activities Center. If you own a business or are in a position to hire, we hope you will consider participating. Should you have any questions about the Job Fair or would like to know how you can be an exhibitor at the event, please contact Helmut Naunheimer at 882-2109 or helmutn@stpacc.org or Tom Nann at tnann@wowway.com .


Although random cell complexes occur throughout the physical sciences, there does not appear to be a standard way to quantify their statistical similarities and differences. The various proposals in the literature are usually motivated by the analysis of particular physical systems and do not necessarily apply to general situations. The central concepts in this paper—the swatch and the cloth—provide a description of the local topology of a cell complex that is general (any physical system that can be represented as a cell complex is admissible) and complete (any statistical question about the local topology can be answered from the cloth). Furthermore, this approach allows a distance to be defined that measures the similarity of the local topology of two cell complexes. The distance is used to identify a steady state of a model grain boundary network, quantify the approach to this steady state, and show that the steady state is independent of the initial conditions. The same distance is then employed to show that the long-term properties in simulations of a specific model of a dislocation network do not depend on the implementation of dislocation intersections.
We consider two-dimensional critical bond percolation. Conditioned on the existence of an open circuit in an annulus, we show that the ratio of the expected size of the shortest open circuit to the expected size of the innermost circuit tends to zero as the side length of the annulus tends to infinity, the aspect ratio remaining fixed. The same proof yields a similar result for the lowest open crossing of a rectangle. In this last case, we answer a question of Kesten and Zhang by showing in addition that the ratio of the length of the shortest crossing to the length of the lowest tends to zero in probability. This suggests that the chemical distance in critical percolation is given by an exponent strictly smaller than that of the lowest path.
We consider a discrete, non-Hermitian random matrix model, which can be expressed as a shift of a rank-one perturbation of an anti-symmetric matrix. We show that, asymptotically almost surely, the real parts of the eigenvalues of the non-Hermitian matrix around any fixed index are interlaced with those of the anti-symmetric matrix. Along the way, we show that some tools recently developed to study the eigenvalue distributions of Hermitian matrices extend to the anti-symmetric setting.
We continue our study of the chemical (graph) distance inside large critical percolation clusters in dimension two. We prove new estimates, which involve the three-arm probability, for the point-to-surface and point-to-point distances. We show that the point-to-point distance in Z 2 between two points in the same critical percolation cluster has infinite second moment. We also give quantitative versions of our previous results comparing the length of the shortest crossing to that of the lowest crossing of a box.
The hallmark of a major evolutionary transition, whereby independently replicating units became grouped together into larger wholes, is the "decoupling" of fitness of the collective from the individual fitnesses of the units. It is widely believed that the key element making such decoupling possible is extensive cooperation between the lower-level entities. Here, it is demonstrated that cohesive multicellular behavior can arise in a purely competitive setting as a generic consequence of division of labor. A minimal theoretical model of competitive coexistence on multiple resources provides an explicit manifestation of fitness decoupling in a rigorous mathematical sense. This form of multicellular behavior is not vulnerable to "cheaters" and can be expected to be widespread in microbial ecosystems.
In pattern-forming developmental systems, cells commonly interpret graded input signals, known as morphogens. Morphogens often pattern tissues through cascades of sequential gene expression steps. Such a multi-tiered structure appears to constitute suboptimal use of the positional information provided by the input morphogen because noise is added at each tier. However, the conventional theory neglects the role of the format in which information is encoded. We argue that the relevant performance measure is not solely the amount of information carried by the morphogen, but the amount of information that can be accessed by the downstream network. We demonstrate that quantifying the information that is accessible to the system naturally explains the prevalence of multi-tiered network architectures as a consequence of the noise inherent to the control of gene expression. We support our argument with empirical observations from patterning along the major body axis of the fruit fly embryo.
Information theory is gaining popularity as a tool to characterize performance of biological systems. However, information is commonly quantified without reference to whether or how a system could extract and use it; as a result, information-theoretic quantities are easily misinterpreted. Here we take the example of pattern-forming developmental systems which are commonly structured a cascades of sequential gene expression steps. Such a multi-tiered structure appears to constitute sub-optimal use of the positional information provided by the input morphogen because noise is added at each tier. However, the conventional theory fails to distinguish between the total information in a morphogen and information that can be usefully extracted and interpreted by downstream elements. We demonstrate that quantifying the information that is accessible to the system naturally explains the prevalence of multi-tiered network architectures as a consequence of the noise inherent to the control of gene expression. We support our argument with empirical observations from patterning along the major body axis of the fruit fly embryo. Our results exhibit the limitations of the standard information-theoretic characterization of biological signaling and illustrate how they can be resolved.
Most of classical theoretical ecology is based on the assumption that organisms in a community can be naturally partitioned into groups of individuals that can be treated as identical. At the same time, mounting experimental evidence from studies of microbial communities raises the intriguing question whether this intuition is an accurate description of the microbial world. This work builds on Mac Arthur's model of competitive coexistence on multiple resources to construct a framework that does not rely on postulated existence of species as fundamental ecological variables. In one parameter regime, effective "species" with a core and accessory genome naturally appear in this model as emergent concepts. However, the same model allows a smooth transition to a highly diverse regime where the species formalism becomes inadequate. An alternative description is proposed based on the dynamical modes of population fluctuations. This approach provides a naturally hierarchical description of community dynamics which is well-defined even when the species description breaks down. The relevance of this framework for understanding the complexity of naturally observed microbial communities is discussed.


A nice example of a classic 1950s Mercedes-Benz cabriolet (W121), this 190 SL is in very good shape and comes with clean documents and a traceable title history. The car was imported from Sweden in the late 90s and now has Greek historic plates. The current owner retained its original condition and spent large sums of money to replace some ageing parts with genuine ones -such as the hood mechanism and fabric, at a cost of more than 10.000 euros. Even the new petrol cap is a genuine replacement at a cost of 300 euros. These are only two examples which demonstrate the car's meticulous maintenance record and the owner's attention to detail. Among the car's other notable features is the harmonious combination of the dark blue soft-top with the silver paintwork, complementing the finesse of the 190 SL's fluid lines and chrome details.


There is a dedicated area provided for IT services with over 24 IT workstations in which has been installed the latest software for word processing for academic projects such as essays and dissertations. Our workstations also have Referencing Software to guide students on how to do proper referencing and develop a bibliography. Simply contact the IT department for any support needed.


Former UN peacekeepers living in Nakusp reflect on their service as Remembrance Day approaches.
Chester Taje and Crossley Coates were with UN peacekeeping forces in Cyprus in the 1960s.
Being a veteran of the Canadian military means being reminded of the passing of time every November.
Chester Taje also says the men and women who served before him, come to mind this time of year.
The two men — one a life-long resident, the other a relative newcomer to Nakusp — both served in the second iteration of Canadian military service, as UN peacekeepers. Both men served on the island of Cyprus, keeping Turk and Greek forces separated in the 1960s.
Keeping the peace — Canada's commitment since the late 1950s — can be a dangerous business too, the two men say. About 160 UN peacekeepers died in Cyprus (where there is still a small Canadian contingent) including 28 Canadian soldiers.
The two men say compared to the books, movies and cultural impact of the First and Second World Wars, the contributions of Canadian peacekeepers are relatively unknown.
"Most Canadians probably don't know what Cyprus is or where it is on a map," says Taje.
The men both downplay their roles, pointing to the vets who came before them and who passed on their knowledge to the next generation.
"All of our training personnel were Second World War, Korean War vets," says Coates. "We got close to those guys and they could tell you a lot, things to keep you safer.
"I had an uncle who I'd say was a real war hero, with a military medal," says Taje. "And I think of his life afterwards, when you compare his life, and the PTSD you hear about today.
Canadians have spent decades ignoring our peacekeeping missions, and that obliviousness has continued to this day, say the two men. They point to our new role in active service in Iraq, where troops act as advisers, to Afghanistan, where we supported U.S. operations there.
Taje thinks that ignorance about war, and the reality of what it does to young soldiers, is feeding another generation of damaged veterans.
But modern politics, the size and preparedness of the modern Canadian military, the ongoing social media battles over military policy — should take a back seat, at least this coming Saturday, to remembering the sacrifice of brave young men, the vets say.
"Think about the freedom you actually do have because if some people 50, 60, or 70 years ago didn't do what they did, you might be living under a totally different kind of government," says Taje.
"But not only think of the millions of people killed in the two wars. Think of the millions that were killed after for retribution. Nobody knows about that. People think peace came along one day and everything was fine the next. No. No. No. It still carried on for a long time afterward.
Coates and Taje will join other Nakusp veterans and the public for the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Legion at 10 a.m. this Saturday. The parade down Broadway to the Cenotaph takes place at 10:45.
Taje appeared in an Maclean's magazine advertisement highlighting Canadian peacekeepers in the early 1970s.


From a very young age I realised that training was always going to be a big part of my life. I started boxing at the age of 13 as the years went on the passion for my sport grew and grew. My highest accolade for my career is winning the commonwealth games gold medal, I am currently pursuing my professional career. Through my years of experience and training as an elite level athlete I have learned many qualities that are very beneficial for my coaching career. I have been coaching clients for the last 3 years.
I like to focus on each and everyone's main goal. Treat everyone as an individual and do what suits them as everyone is unique.


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Malaysia Leads Market Lower
Nov. 20, 1997 7:18 am ET
SINGAPORE -- Share prices fell on the Stock Exchange of Singapore Thursday, pressured by a freefall in Malaysian shares.
The benchmark 30-stock Straits Times Industrials Index lost 39.94, or 2.4%, to 1641.03, while the broader DBS-50 index of stocks from different sectors shed 2.05 to 449.83. At the close, losers outpaced gainers 374 to 53, while 358 shares were unchanged.
The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index, the key index of the Malaysian bourse, fell 11% Thursday.
Traders noted that Malaysian shares, traded over-the-counter in Singapore, contributed to the bulk of the day's hefty volume of 256 million shares. The most active stock was Malaysia's finance company and property developer Magnum, which chalked up 16 million shares.
Dealers noted that the more liquid Singapore shares and companies with Malaysian ties suffered most as investors scrambled to get cash.


GENERAL INFORMATION: Beneficial nematodes (Steinernema feltiae) are microscopic roundworms which prey on soil and wood-boring pests, such as flea larvae, white grubs, cutworms, strawberry weevils, cabbage root maggots, and fungus gnat larvae. They act by penetrating pest hosts and in conjunction with bacteria they carry, kill most hosts within several days. Steinernema complete their lifecycle in the host's body, which culminates in the emergence of juvenile nematodes. The entire cycle takes between seven to 14 days. This particular species of nematode is not harmful to humans, gophers, domestic animals, earthworms, ladybugs, lacewings, or praying mantis.
RELEASE: Beneficial nematodes (BN) may be released any time of the year when the soil temperatures are 60° F or above. In the Bay Area, release from March to November is safe. Beneficial nematodes thrive in moist soil conditions, but will not withstand soggy soils. They also cannot withstand direct sunlight, so must be applied after sundown or in shaded areas. Populations remain effective for up to two years, but annual application is recommended for maximum efficacy.
COVERAGE: Each package contains seven million beneficial nematodes and covers up to 2500 square feet. Faster results occur with higher concentrations.
DIRECTIONS: Water the areas to be treated, thoroughly, the day before spreading the beneficial nematodes. Beneficial nematodes sold as Nema™ Globe nematodes appear as a very fine light brown powder packaged in a Ziploc bag. This package contains about seven million beneficial nematodes and covers up to 2500 square feet. Fill a one quart jar three-quarters full with warm water. Pour the beneficial nematodes powder into the jar of water, and rinse the Ziploc package and any remaining powder into the jar of water. Vigorously shake the jar with its beneficial nematodes powder and let stand for a one-half hour or until the contents have dissolved. Break apart any large clumps to help them dissolve. After the powder has dissolved vigorously shake the solution again and pour the contents into a one and one-half to two gallon watering can half filled with lukewarm water. Add enough water to fill the watering can, using the added water to rinse the one quart jar. Stir the beneficial nematodes solution in the watering can frequently to keep the beneficial nematodes suspended. Distribute the beneficial nematodes solution directly from the watering can or pour the solution into a tank sprayer and spray the solution over the affected area. Use a slightly coarse spray and a strong pressure. Agitate the container frequently to keep the beneficial nematodes suspended. Keep the lawn moist for the next three days (or a week in dry weather) to ensure nematodes are flushed down into the root zone where feeding grubs are present.


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2021 Reading Year in Review
It has been a few years since I did a reading year in review here at the Blog o' Stuff, the most recent being 2018, and before that, 2015 so apparently, I update this blog every 3 years. That's a far cry from the multiple posts per week I'd publish in this blog's heyday.
For completeness sake, here are the other previous years I've put up a reading year in review, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006).
As I've done every year for the past decade and a half, I've contributed to SFFWorld's Favorite of the Year lists: Fantasy/Horror, Science Fiction, and Film/TV. Where those book lists are focused only on 2021 releases, here at the dusty old Blog o' Stuff, I don't limit the list to just 2021 releases. I'm still very actively reviewing for both SFFWorld and The Tap Takeover
2021 was a tougher year than 2020 in some ways. We thought normalcy would return, but that did not happen. We are still in a pandemic. The year began for me with surgery on my shoulder (which I scheduled in 2020, but still) and for the better part of the first half of the year, our sweet dog Sully was fighting major health issues, passing away at just over 11 years old on May 4, 2021. My wife and I were heart-broken, but we realized how much joy Sully brought to us over those years. In the summer; however, our spirits were brightened by the arrival of our new puppy, Dusty! She brings a smile to our face constantly and she was and is the perfect dog at the right time, she is exactly what we needed.
Of the nearly 100 books I read in 2021, here are some stats:
30 2021/current year releases
33 reviews posted to SFFWorld
40 can be considered Fantasy
32 can be considered Horror
18 can be considered Science Fiction
32 books by authors new to me
47 Books by women
15 total debut
I also have to give a huge shout out to a couple of book folks on social media who have re-invigorated my love for the Horror genre. It isn't like I didn't read horror in the past, but it usually made up only about 20% to 25% of the books I read in any given year. In 2021 Horror was 34% of what I read. Fantasy is usually about 50%. Those shout outs: My college pal Dave Aldrich who started up his own booktube channel, Book Blather. Sadie Hartmann, AKA Mother Horror, who runs the Night Worms Book Box subscription service with Ashley Sawyers aka Spookish Mommy, maybe the best cheerleader/advocates for horror fiction I've come across in years as well as Neil McRobert's Talking Scared podcast. All positivity from them and quite a few books and writers I discovered this year are a result of following Sadie on Twitter and Instagram. Also, shout out also to my former SF Signal colleague Derek Austin Johnson (twitter), who has been posting one horror book per day for the whole year on his Instagram.
So, without further adieu, below are the books I enjoyed reading the most in 2021. There's no order outside of the first two on this post. If I've reviewed the book, the title will link to the review.
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
(My favorite overall novel of 2021, Favorite Horror)
What can I say about this novel without giving away too much of what makes it tick, from the dark and supernatural point of view? Nothing really, because this book turned into something quite unexpected. What I will say is that Oliver is a wonderful creation, despite the pain he feels from others, he does not crumble or wither. He finds strength in how this ability makes him want to help others. Like Oliver, what Chuck has done in The Book of Accidents is powerfully build up empathy in the characters he's created in this novel. On the whole, their motivations seem genuine, their actions understandable if not approved, and the characters simply come to life.
In my review of Wanderers, I mentioned Chuck Wendig's affinity for the fiction of Stephen King and parts of this novel (in addition to the elderly, friendly neighbor) definitely evoke the best of King's work. The genius here; however, is that Chuck Wendig completely owns everything in The Book of Accidents. The result, a modern masterpiece of Dark/Horror Fiction.
The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst
(My Favorite Fantasy Novel of 2021)
Getting the gang back together is a popular motif in many stories, fantasy stories included. One of the most popular (and one of the foundational fantasy sagas in this vein for me) is the DragonLance Chronicles, so I suppose I'm pre-disposed to liking stories that begin in this fashion. In The Bone Maker, the evil sorcerer was defeated 25 years ago, but at no small cost to the heroes who took him down.
Durst examines some deep things here, grief, forgiveness moving on (or not) from a powerful traumatic experience, faith/belief in ideals, and life being more than just one event. She does so this all while weaving a wonderful story and a fascinating, potent magic system in the back drop. The characters a mature, fully rounded, breathing, emotive people whose experiences so completely inform every action they take. Small things in the background of Durst's writing, storytelling, and world-building make the story and characters on the page come across very elegantly.
In a shelf-filled with multi-volume fantasies it is not only refreshing to see and enjoy a single-volume Epic Fantasy novel, but truly something special for the book to be this amazing.
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
I'm a big horror fan, but the slasher sub-genre was never my go-to subset of the genre. It isn't that I dislike it, I just prefer some of the other flavors of horror. Of course, I'm familiar with a couple of the big ones like Halloween, Friday the 13th, and one of my overall favorite horror movies, A Nightmare on Elm Street, so some of the character stand-ins/homages didn't land with me 100% since I'm not super well-versed in Slasher films. Again, that isn't necessarily the point nor are those connections required to be made to completely enjoy the novel, more like a dash of whip cream on a delicious scoop of ice cream. In fact, Dr. Carol Elliott is likely an homage to Professor Carol J. Clover, who coined the term "Final Girl" and theory in her 1992 book, Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. All of that said, The Final Girl Support Group was an enormously fun, extremely smart, thrill ride of a novel. It is a novel that both entertains and Makes a Statement, which in my mind, is what great literature should do. I continue to say this when I write about Grady Hendrix's work, but with each novel or thing (non-fiction like Paperbacks from Hell or films he's written) he produces in the genre, he's cementing himself as a foundational voice in early 21st Century Horror. His novels have become appointment reading for me at this point.
Blood of the Chosen by Django Wexler
In everything I've read from Django Wexler, especially Blood of the Chosen, the action and combat scenes are essential, and extremely fun to experience. I didn't feel like I was just reading the words on the page, I felt like I was a proverbial fly on the wall in the action. This is especially true of the final conflict of the novel, so much of the narrative was slow burn build that the explosive ending was extremely compelling. The slow burn of the novel's beginning made the build-up and the action of the finale that more enjoyable. That ending also sows seeds in some verdant land for a potent continuation in the third novel.
As thick as this novel was, just over 400 pages, I read through it rather briskly. Wexler is a damned fine storyteller and his love of the fantastic comes through the page as a catchy thing.
Near the Bone and The Ghost Tree by Christina Henry
The Ghost Tree: Henry does a great job with the pacing of the novel as she goes between the multiple threads of the novel. Alongside that strong element of the novel are the emotions of the characters and how strongly the come across the page. From the loneliness Lauren feels, to the awful feelings conveyed by Mrs. Schneider, to the anger the Lopez family feels, Henry makes each character unique.
The Ghost Tree plays on some popular tropes in the horror genre, a 1980s setting, a small town with secret, haunted woods/tree, a hidden lineage and plays with them extremely well. One of my favorite horror novels over the past decade and a half is Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge and I found some really nice resonance between the two novels – small, isolated town with a dark secret being the most prominent.
Near the Bone: This is the second book I read by Henry, but it will be far from my last. Set in a remote, secluded mountain cabin, Mattie is in what can be considered an unhealthy relationship with her husband William. She is confined to the cabin, except when William needs her help and William wants nobody to know of their presence on the mountain. When she discovers a mutilated fox, William decides to hunt down the thing that left the corpse near their house. Strange, inhuman voices begin to cry out in the night and visitors stumble upon Mattie and William. Part psychological thriller, part monster story, Henry tells a taut, gripping horror story here.
Wizard of the Pigeons by Meghan Lindholm
Wizard of the Pigeon is a novel that can work on multiple layers, and the power of Lindholm's prose is in the ambiguity that allows the reader for that kind of experience. It can easily be readable as a novel with real magic in Seattle while it can also be read as an account of a man suffering from severe PTSD whose coping mechanism is thinking of himself as a wizard. The third alternative is a combination of the two. For me, I see magic.
I must also comment on the physical book itself. As I intimated above, this book has largely been out of print for well over a decade. Sean Speakman, owner of Grim Oak Press decided to publish this 35th Anniversary edition and it is a book whose beauty does justice to the powerful story told between its covers. With evocative full-page color art pieces by Tommy Arnold, the book gets a truly Artistic treatment in terms of a physical book being a piece of art or an artifact.
This book is a must read, must own for readers of the genre especially if you've enjoyed anything by Robin Hobb. Wizard of the Pigeons is a progenitor of the Urban Fantasy genre in the truest sense of magic in the cityscape and not leather-clad vampires and vampire hunters. Not that there's anything wrong with leather clad vamps and vamp hunters, but this book is not that. This book is a beautiful testament to the power of prose, how beauty can be found and carved out of pain and through suffering.
Mount Fitz Roy by Scott Sigler
Mount Fitz Roy is the sequel to Sigler's hugely popular novel Earthcore. I listened to both books via audible. I've enjoyed everything I've read from Sigler and when he re-released Earthcore with the great Ray Porter on audio, I finally read it…and immediately wanted to read Mount Fitz Roy. The premise is that an something on is hiding in the caves of large mountains where knives form an ancient civilization are found. It really isn't a spoiler to point out this civilization aren't human. Sigler builds up tension incredibly well and is a master at science fiction horror. Porter is maybe the best narrator I've had the pleasure to hear.
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
A run down motel, murders in the past connected to our protagonist Carly who decides to work in the hotel to try to solve the unsolved murder of her aunt Viv 35 years earlier. St. James tells the story in parallel timelines, Carly in the present and Viv in the past, which makes the pages fly by because of St. James's ability to end each chapter in a way that forces you to continue reading. The Sun Down Motel was a near pitch-perfect supernatural murder mystery, one of those books I wish I could read again for the first time.
The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
Ava Reid has boldly announced herself as a literary force with The Wolf and the Woodsman. The novel is impressive in its beauty, characters, and uncompromising nature and is all the more impressive for being Reid's debut novel. I would not be in the least bit surprised if The Wolf and the Woodsman lands on multiple "Best of the Year" lists for 2021.
Of Honey and Wildfires by Sarah Chorn
Sarah Chorn's second novel, Of Honey and Wildfires, is the start of a new series/new world and new characters. Set in a world that evokes the old West/Frontier, the Shine and mining of it dominates everything. The closest analogue I can think of is that Shine is kind of like Spice from Dune. It heals, it is a source of power, it can be consumed, it is everything. …
Human emotion, tragedy, and pain are wrought beautifully on these pages through Sarah Chorn's carefully constructed prose. There's a sliver of hope throughout the undercurrent of despair and pain that helps to drive the narrative. Of Honey and Wildfires is a compulsively readable novel whose relatively short page count for the genre (barely 300 pages) belies the epic story and gamut of emotions and purely powerful storytelling on display.
Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman
Chapman takes very real-life events and uses that as a launching pad to spin a gripping story out of those events. He does a fantastic job of humanizing the participants of what would seem to be a larger-than-life bombastic news story. I've long been fan of parallel narratives and here in Whisper Down the Lane, Chapman builds up the tension in both Sean and Richard's stories. It is probably not much of a secret that these stories converge in some fashion, but how Chapman builds towards this convergence is extremely effective. He has a knack for creating a compulsive narrative, which is why I burned through the novel in a couple of days, Whisper Down the Lane was extremely challenging to set down.
Whisper Down the Lane is a potent, compulsive thriller with horrific elements that is one of the most gripping novels I've read this year.
Slewfoot by BROM
Much of the story feels like a historical fantasy / fairy tale, but then Brom shifts the tone into something darker and a story firmly entrenched in horror. That build of tension and build of Abitha's character is like a powder keg that explodes in what at one time could be considered dark magic. Here also is what Brom does so well…he upturns the historical perspective and turns the "good" on its head into something not quite so pleasant. He does this via the simmering of tension I mentioned earlier as well as the path Abitha's nemesis Wallace takes. Brom gives readers a character to root for in Abitha and an antagonist that is unlikeable in Wallace. Brom doesn't just make Wallace a cardboard cut-out of a villain, he balances the character by showing some insight into the Wallace's motivation. We see why he feels the way he does, even if his reaction to those feelings are villainous.
Brom's art, a half-dozen color plates in the center of the book and chapter icons that take up half the page, enhance the immersive experience of Slewfoot. His words are just as potent at telling the story as is his art. The obvious comparison in recent years is to the film The VVitch because the timeframe, horrific elements, witchcraft, but except maybe a bit more hopeful.
Brom has created a story that feels familiar and fresh and is the kind of powerful story that could last through the generations as a book/novel/story to revisit every Hallowe'en.
Star Kingdom by Lindsay Buroker
This is the second series I've read from Buroker and she has a great knack for character and storytelling in her work. She's self-published (one of the biggest names in genre self-published authors), but most of her work is also available via audible. This series takes place thousands of years in the future when humanity has left Earth. The Star Kingdom series focuses on robotics professor Casmir Dabrowski, who is forced to flee his comfortable life when he is being hunted for reasons he can't imagine. Joining Casmir is his best friend and roommate Kim Sato and filled with great character development, thrilling action, and are just pure fun. These audio books are available as omnibus editions and are fantastic listens.
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
I guess I re-read this series about once every ten years. Or when the TV Show starts up. Either way, I am in the midst of re-reading the series via audiobook and I'm loving it. I've said quite a bit about this series in the past, and as of this writing, I had just finished The Dragon Reborn.
Maradaine by Marshall Ryan Maresca
Maresca's interlinked series of series has been a delight. I read The Thorn of Dentonhill back in 2015, dove back into some of the Maradaine novels last year, and have continued to make my way through the various series this year, in chronological order not in series order, which is what Mr. Maresca recommends. These books are relatively short (barely 400 pages at most) in mass market paperback and have a sword and sorcery feel to them, taking place in a shared location. In many ways, his Maradaine saga is not unlike the Marvel Cinematic Universe, four trilogies that eventually tie together. You don't necessarily need to read one of the trilogies to get what is going on in the other, but it makes for a more rewarding experience. Maresca has a handy "reading order" guide.
I also reviewed, and loved the 2021 entry in this series, An Unintended Voyage, which seems to act as a bridge between "Phase One" of Maradaine and the next phase.
Miriam Black by Chuck Wendig
For all that I've read by Chuck Wendig, I'd never read his breakout series, Miriam Black and the only reason I'm not kicking myself for not getting to this series sooner is because I'm not getting to experience these books for the first time. Miriam can tell you how you die and exactly when you die just by touching you. That doesn't sound fun at all, and Miriam would agree with that sentiment. Horror/thriller/mystery rolled together, I think Chuck has said he envisions these as horror novels. I'm not going to argue with the man. I've read the first three thus far, Blackbirds, Mockingbird, and The Cormorant.
I think it might be obvious at this point that my author of the year is Chuck Wendig. Even if I hadn't met and chatted with him in the past, I'd love his books and writing.
So...not a bad year for reading for me. This year was the first time in probably 15 to 20 years that I got close to reading 100 books in a year.
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Borne out of a love for photography, Roman Road local Zoë Gower-Jones's Can I Take Your Picture? project began on 1 January 2017. Pausing each day to chat to a stranger on Roman Road to take their portrait, Gower-Jones embarked upon a mighty year-long mission to document the faces she passed in the street.
So heading out camera in hand, Gower-Jones spent a year looking for people to photograph, daily. 'It was quite difficult at first to approach people, but I have got better at it,' she says of the first weeks of the project. A scroll through her Instagram page is proof enough of people's willingness to have their picture taken. It's a visual list – tiled, colourful and engrossing – of the often eccentric characters you can come across in the East End. People of all nationalities, ages and religions have made the cut. The one thing they have in common is a bright aesthetic.
'I'm always attracted to colour and what people are wearing. Being a designer, I have an eye for style and colour,' says Gower-Jones – explaining how she chooses her subjects. Sometimes though, it comes down to practicality and logistics. Committing to take a photograph every day, means also having to take a photograph on holiday – sometimes in a country where you don't speak the language.
And what of the people of her local Roman Road? 'It's interesting doing it on my doorstep. I think Roman Road is really an interesting place to be doing a project like this. It definitely feels like the East End here and everyone really is so friendly,' says Gower-Jones, strong in the belief that the project has brought her much closer to the community.
2018 will see the Can I Take Your Picture? project move from Instagram feed to your local feed in an exhibition at Muxima cafe this summer. Keep an eye out for more of Zoë Gower-Jones' eye catching Roman Road portraits. She may not be taking one a day any more, but she's still on the hunt for colourful characters. Put your brightest look together for a walk down Roman Road. Zoe might be out with her camera.
What a great project Zoe!!


Hey y'all, hope you have been having a nice weekend. So last night when I sat down to do nails I decided to go St Patrick's Day themed but honestly I'm just not feeling it. Like Snoopy yesterday was super fun but really no other ideas are really speaking to me. So that all being said I think for the rest of this week I will stop and go to spring nails. How does that sound? However before I do that I do have some St Patrick's Day nails for you this morning.
First off I started with on coat of Zoya Tilda for my green background. Then next up I used a dotter and white acrylic paint and did dots for the background of the main art. Then I took a Twinkled T brush and a dark green acrylic paint and painted on the shamrocks. After that I painted on the horse shoes with gold acrylic paint. Then the shamrocks looked like they needed something so I added ILNP 1UP into the middles of them. That's pretty much it then. I waited for it all to dry and used Seche Vite Top Coat.


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This seminar will review the components of oxygen delivery and how oxygen delivery to the tissues may be compromised despite adequate delivery via the macrocirculation (i.e. loss of hemodynamic coherence). The mechanisms regulating blood flow through the microcirculation will be reviewed, as well as regulation of transvascular fluid balance and the pathophysiology that may impair microcirculatory blood flow. Although treatment approaches will not be discussed, methods to assess and monitor the microcirculation will be described, including their application and limitations.
- To review the definitions of microcirculation, microcirculation, and hemodynamic coherence, as described in this review.
- To review the basic anatomy, physiology, and role of the macrocirculation and microcirculation.
- To develop an understanding of the regulatory inputs to the microcirculation in the control of local blood flow.
- To understand the role and function of the endothelium, endothelial glycocalyx, erythrocytes, and smooth muscle cells.
- To develop an understanding of what is meant by loss of hemodynamic coherence.
- To understand how pathological changes in these components affect microvascular flow and transvascular fluid balance.
- To recognize the indication and limitations of various monitoring modalities for the microcirculation.
Dr. Julie Dechant obtained her DVM from the University of Saskatchewan. She did a private practice equine internship in Alberta, Canada before completing a three-year residency in Equine Surgery and a MS in Clinical Sciences at Colorado State University, resulting in board certification in the American College of Veterinary Surgeons. She then worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University before joining the University of California, Davis, where she is an Associate Professor in Clinical Equine Surgical Emergency and Critical Care. Dr. Dechant completed a ACVECC fellowship at UC Davis and is board certified in the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. Special interests include improving diagnosis and management of emergency and critical care patients.
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Ever since Sarah Lund stepped onto our screens via Danish television series The Killing, sporting a certain jumper, our interest in Scandinavian wool has been piqued. But the Norwegians have been working in wool for centuries. Katie Treggiden investigates the enduring appeal of this ancient material.
First, we have to look at the history of wool in Norway. Archaeological records show that the history of spinning and weaving in Norway dates back to the time of the Vikings. The Old Norwegian or 'Gammel Norsk Spælsau' is one of the most ancient domestic sheep breeds still present in Europe.
The Old Norwegian's wool is 33 – 36 microns wide and 80 – 120 millimetres long, making it perfect for a range of applications from combing, felting and hand knitting to spinning into yarn. The cold, fresh mountain pastures the sheep graze on deter bacteria and parasites, reducing the need for chemicals in the cleansing of their fleeces. "The combination of these climate conditions and careful breeding through generations has resulted in a course, bulky wool with a high degree of resilience, which is ideal for warm, comfortable blankets," explains Norwegian designer Kristine Five Melvær. Besides being warm, it is also green – completely biodegradable, Norwegian wool has been verified by the EPEA on 'cradle to cradle' criteria, and is certified by the Nordic Eco Label.
But what's really interesting is the way that contemporary designers are eschewing modern materials in favour of working with local producers to reinterpret Norwegian wool for a new audience.
Oslo-based designer Andreas Engesvik's Bunad Blankets are made by 100-year-old textiles company Mandal Veveri and based on the traditional folk costumes the factory also produces. "The idea for the Bunad Blanket came about one Christmas Eve," he says. "I was sitting in the kitchen – surrounded by my girlfriend and her family. They were all wearing Setesdal bunads. I sat in a chair while the others stood and walked around me. The abundance of colours, stripes and details was overwhelming. It hit me then that bunads could be experienced as colours composed on a surface." The first collection, launched at the London Design Festival's 100% Norway in 2012, comprised 130 x 200 centimetre blankets featuring motifs from five different regional designs; Setesdal, Nordland, Fusa, Bringeklut from West Telemark, and Sunnmøre. "The Bunad Blanket introduces this rich tradition into our daily environments and interiors," says the designer.


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Mortgage rates reach 20-year high, close in on 7%
Mortgage rates hit their highest point in 20 years this week, coming within a hair of 7% and further crushing many homebuyers' dreams.
The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage jumped to 6.92% from 6.66% last week, according to Freddie Mac. Rates have increased more than a full point since the start of September and are now more than double where they were at the beginning of the year.
Quickly escalating rates — coupled with elevated home prices and tight inventory — are forcing budget-conscious buyers to put off their purchase plans, while those who remain are using the weakened demand to their advantage – negotiating deals with sellers before they are priced out of the market.
"Rates resumed their record-setting climb this week, with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage reaching its highest level since April 2002," Freddie Mac Chief Economist Sam Khater said in a news statement. "We continue to see the tale of two economies in the data: strong job and wage growth are keeping consumers' balance sheets positive, while lingering inflation, recession fears, and housing affordability are driving housing demand down precipitously. The next several months will undoubtedly be important for the economy and the housing market."
Homebuyers pushed aside
With rates now 3.7 percentage points higher than they were from the start of the year, trouble in the housing market continues to brew.
Homebuyer demand remains at a 22-year low, the Mortgage Bankers Association survey for the week ending October 7 found. The volume of mortgage applications for purchases decreased 2% from a week earlier, and are down 39% from a year ago.
At the same time, pending home sales in August – an indicator of housing health – also dropped 2%, marking the third straight month of declines. Contract signings were down 24.2% year over year.
"Homebuyers are very aware that interest rates have gone up," Adriana Perezchica, president of Via Real Estate in Washington State, told Yahoo Money. "The first question they ask is what their monthly payment will look like."
The monthly mortgage payment for a median-priced home of $427,000 with a 20% down payment at the current rate is $2,254, according to Realtor.com. That's 75% more from the same week last year, and adds about $11,600 to the yearly burden of financing a home.
And now, potential buyers are likely to have a harder time qualifying for a mortgage.
Mortgage credit availability fell 5.4% to an index reading of 102.5 in September, MBA data found, its lowest level since March 2013. A decrease in the index indicates that lending standards are tightening.
Lenders have been harsher about requirements on government-backed loans, which are often favored by first-time homebuyers, declining 5.7% in September. That's the seventh month of declines in the last eight months.
"There were a lot of people that were content in their home, and when they decided to move up they realized what the reality is," Jason Sharon, owner and broker of Home Loans Inc., told Yahoo Money. "First-time buyers were sidelined, and now it's starting to happen with that second group of buyers, too."
Home sellers lose optimism
At the same time, home sellers are growing less and less confident about their prospects.
Housing sentiment reached its lowest level since 2011 in September, according to a Fannie Mae survey, . The share of respondents who said it's a good time to sell sat at 59%, down from 74% a year ago. Only 19% of respondents said it's a good time to buy, with 75% saying it's a bad time to buy.
As the first-time buyer pool has dwindled in recent months, some buyers still in the market are taking advantage of weakened demand to strike deals with sellers.
The share of homes with a price reduction jumped from 11% last year to 19.5% in September, according to Realtor.com. That's up from typical 2017-to-2019 levels, but below the share of price reductions in September 2018, which reached 21.2%.
"In the last month, I've actually seen a surge of first-time homebuyers that weren't able to purchase in the last three to five years because they didn't have options to be able to purchase an entry-level house with the frenetic competitions and bidding wars," Perezchica said.
As we shift into colder months, buyers may see home prices fall as competition comes to a lull. As mortgage rates continue to increase and homebuyer demand slows due to high borrowing costs, it's more likely that price cuts will continue to scale up.
"There's still demand for houses," Sharon said. "But when it comes to pricing homes, sellers will just have to be more reasonable about expectations."
Gabriella is a personal finance reporter at Yahoo Money. Follow her on Twitter @__gabriellacruz.
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February 12, 2014 at 8:32 am EDT | by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Police gay liaison unit transferred to patrol duty
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has reassigned members of the department's GLLU to street patrol duties. (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key)
A decision by D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier to indefinitely reassign members of the department's Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit to street patrol duties in the Sixth and Seventh Police Districts is hindering their ability to respond to LGBT-related calls throughout the city, according to sources familiar with the Metropolitan Police Department.
A statement released on behalf of Lanier by MPD spokesperson Gwendolyn Crump disputes this claim, saying the GLLU and at least one other specialized unit whose officers have also been detailed to other assignments "are still operational and doing what they have done in the past" to serve the LGBT and other communities.
But the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the GLLU's four active officers previously assigned to the GLLU headquarters office in Dupont Circle have most recently been assigned to patrol a single location deemed a high-crime area – the 1500 block of Alabama Avenue, S.E. – and must obtain permission to answer a GLLU call outside that location.
"That permission is not always granted," said one of the sources.
The GLLU and the three other specialized units serving the Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and deaf and hard of hearing communities routinely have been temporarily detailed to street patrol and other assignments since former D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey created the units in the 1990s.
The latest change, believed to have been initiated by Assistant Chief Diane Groomes, who heads the department's patrol division, is different than past detail assignments because it has no known termination date and appears to be an indefinite reassignment for the units, the sources said.
One of the sources said the department also rearranged the work shifts for members of all four liaison units. Prior to these changes, the four units collectively had officers on duty seven days a week, 24 hours a day except for one hour, the source said. Now, according to the source, no core liaison officer is on duty during a period from 4 a.m. to 10 a.m. every day.
"Specific units such as the GLLU and the Asian Liaison Unit have been deployed to the Sixth and Seventh Police District over the last several weeks to enhance community outreach in areas of the city that have seen a high demand and call volume from specific communities represented by the Liaison Division," Crump said in her statement.
"Even though the officers were given specific areas to patrol and provide community outreach in, the officers are still available to respond to any area of the city to assist when calls for service come in as well as follow up with victims as they have in the past," Crump said.
She noted in her statement to the Blade that the latest change came in response to a review of last year's calls for service to the GLLU. She said a "large volume" of calls came from the Sixth and Seventh Districts and that many of the calls were for incidents of domestic violence.
"Domestic/family violence is a huge concern, and the number of domestic/family violence crimes and incidents that are taking place in the Sixth and Seventh Police Districts involving members of the LGBT community is something that urgently needs to be addressed by the members of the GLLU and Special Liaison Division," Crump said.
The Seventh District is located in the far Southeast section of the city east of the Anacostia River. The Sixth District consists of a section of far Southeast and part of far Northeast D.C.
The sources familiar with the GLLU who spoke to the Blade said GLLU officers are committed to responding to domestic violence calls and doing all they can to assist victims of domestic violence. But two of the sources said deploying the GLLU's four currently active core officers to a single block on Alabama Avenue would do little to help curtail domestic violence.
"So how do they respond more quickly to domestic violence if they're told not to leave the area that they've been assigned?" asked one of the sources.
Another source said that since the GLLU officers were detailed nearly two months ago "they haven't been doing what they normally do and that's to go out to all wards of the city and all the districts and do outreach and crime patrols and stuff like that," said the source. "So that's why they haven't been around" and seen in the LGBT community in other parts of the city, the source said.
Capt. Edward Delgado, commander of the Special Liaison Division, has in the past issued a weekly and sometimes biweekly report sent by email describing the types of calls to which each of the four liaison units responded and the location of the calls. Delgado's report also described specific patrol locations where the units, including the GLLU, were assigned each week.
The Blade stopped receiving the reports around the time the GLLU officers were detailed to their new assignments in the Sixth and Seventh Districts.
One of the sources said all four special liaison units had been detailed to areas in the Sixth and Seventh Districts. Crump's statement only mentions the GLLU and the Asian Liaison Unit as having been detailed to the new locations.
Sterling Washington, director of the Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs, said Delgado told him the changes were limited to the GLLU and the Asian Liaison Unit.
The MPD website page for the Special Liaison Division included a chart early this week that showed there were six "core" members of the GLLU and 110 affiliate GLLU members based in the seven police districts and in other police units.
Lanier created the affiliate program for the liaison units shortly after becoming chief in 2007 as a means of strengthening the reach and capabilities of the units. Affiliate members receive special training related to the specific liaison unit to which they join, the chief has said. She has said they are trained to respond to liaison unit calls but remain assigned to their regular police duties in the police districts.
The sources, however, said the core GLLU officers, who are in charge of training the affiliate members, aren't informed by police officials about how many affiliate members respond to GLLU-related calls. One source wondered whether most of the officers listed as affiliate members actually respond to any GLLU calls or are involved in LGBT related police matters.
The sources said the list of core GLLU officers shown on the website was outdated in that only four of the six listed were currently active with the unit. The website chart identifies the core GLLU members as Officers Kevin Johnson, Justin Markiewicz, Joseph Morquecho, Zunnobia Hakir, Juanita Foreman, and Sgt. Carlos Mejia. The chart shows Mejia as serving both the GLLU and the Latino Liaison Unit.
According to the sources, Officer Hakir is on indefinite maternity leave and Sgt. Mejia was no longer with the GLLU or the Latino Liaison Unit. Sgt. Matthew Mahl, who had been serving as acting supervisor of the GLLU in the recent past, is currently working with the GLLU three days a week on limited duty while recovering from a work-related injury, the sources said.
In her statement, Crump said plans are under way for new activities for the GLLU and other liaison units.
"In the coming months, members of the GLLU and the Special Liaison Division as a whole will launch various community outreach initiatives throughout all of the police districts focusing on the different concerns within each specific community and geographic location," she said.
"Each police district has different needs, so the Special Liaison Division remains flexible to provide the best possible service and community outreach everywhere," Crump said.
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February 12, 2014 at 1:38 pm EDT at 1:38 pm
Yet another slap in the face to DC's LGBTs by Vincent Gray's MPD chiefs. Feeling safer from hate crimes and violence yet?