Gudrun greets her husband's slayers with a smile, but she'll get her revenge!
You think about collecting your farm hands and exacting revenge by killing your brother's killer. It would be fair, it would be just. But then his brother might summon up a band to come kill you!
Not so fast. Your godi has his own issues. Sure, he wants to retain your loyalty. And he'd like a reputation for justice and wisdom. But that's one of the reasons he doesn't immediately offer to help you kill the guilty man. He doesn't want a blood feud on his hands that could escalate and cost a lot of people their lives, including more of his supporters, maybe even him. And there is credit to be gained if he can settle this matter in your favor but without bloodshed.
The Law Rock where the Althing met
Luckily for you, the killer's alliance of godar breaks up over other issues, conflicts among them, and he comes to the Althing with very limited support. The godar name the farmers and other men who will hear the evidence and pass judgment, and with his allies, your godi is able to stack the quarter court's panel with quite a few people favorable to your cause.
But you have the best of both worlds: a solid case, and the weight of political influence. The panel decides in your favor. Better yet, the sentence they pronounce on the killer is the maximum that could be inflicted: the greater outlawry. This means that your brother's killer loses all of his property, and all of his rights. No one can help him, and anyone is free to kill him.
The killer flees the Althing, but is killed by your widowed sister-in-law's family who track him down in the desolate interior. Your godi assists you in taking possession of your brother's farm, while he gladly takes the disputed woods as your own. You arrange a good marriage between your brother's eldest son and the daughter of your godi, and settle them and the rest of your brother's family on the farm you previously occupied.
Everyone's happy . . . until the killer's son, thirsting for revenge, kills you fifteen years later. But that's another story.
Ragnarok: the world is being destroyed by fire
(By Emil Doepler (1855-1922), c. 1905)
I grew up with Edith Hamilton's account in Mythology (1940/42) as my source on the Norse gods and their world. To judge from Hamilton's account, the mythology portrayed a dreadful world in which the Norse gods struggled to survive, knowing they were doomed at Ragnarök. It seemed to me to be a humorless world developed by grim people.
Thor doing what he does best
(By Marten Eskil Winge (1825-1896), 1872)
Take Thor, the best known Norse god, the wielder of the mighty hammer Mjöllnir. Ever hear the expression, "Thor has a hammer, so to him, everything looks like a nail. He instinctively reaches for his hammer to bash in someone's skull any time he's faced with a problem. Far from being the long-winded hero of Marvel comics, the mythological Thor is an amusing combination of masculine pride and limited intellect. It shows.
One Viking practice was to engage in flyting: a contest of exchanging insults in ritual fashion. One of the masters of flyting is Loki, the trickster figure of Norse mythology, born of a giant, but blood brother to Odin, chief of the gods. At one memorable feast, Loki takes on most of the Norse gods, insulting their courage, fighting ability, and sexuality. He's fairly crude, but quite inventive. For example, he accuses Odin of letting the weaker side win in battle so his Valkyries can claim the braver men after they are slain. He accuses Frigg, Odin's wife, of incestuous relations with Odin's two brothers. Those are just a few of his accusations.
Thor isn't present at the beginning, but comes in just about the time Loki brags about seducing the goddess Sif, Thor's wife! Well, Thor isn't going to take that lying down, so he calls Loki a homosexual (in terms that were specifically insulting in Viking culture) and threatens to kill him with Mjöllnir. Loki waxes creative, telling one embarrassing story about Thor after another. But all Thor can do is just repeat his initial insult and threat. He sounds like a broken record.
Doesn't Thor look pretty as a bride?
(By E. Boyd Smith (1860-1943), 1902)
Oh, those embarrassing stories? For some reason, Loki skips what I think is the funniest one. One day, Thor wakes up to find his hammer gone. (It's hard to ignore the Freudian implications.) It turns out a giant has stolen and hidden it. The giant won't give it back unless Freyja, the goddess of love, marries him. So to recover his hammer, Thor has to impersonate Freyja by dressing up as a bride and pretending to marry the giant. As a bride, Thor is not a smashing success. He eats and drinks so much at the wedding feast that Loki has to apologize for him. Thor wears a veil to disguise his looks, but when the giant peeps beneath it, Thor is so enraged that his eyes glare in a distinctly unfeminine way. Thinking quickly, Loki again offers an apologetic explanation, saying "Freyja" hasn't been able to sleep for eight nights thinking about her future husband.
Odin's not going to get his way this time!
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Now you might think, "Men!" And you'd be right. Male gods brag about their sex lives, while accusing females of being unfaithful or promiscuous. Just like real men have done.* And that's the point. The Norse gods were all too human in character. And in laughing at them, the Vikings laughed at themselves. They could even admit, sometimes, that if women were fickle toward men, men were just as fickle and deceitful to women. After making these observations, the speaker in the Hávámál (one of the poems in the Elder Edda) sums it up by saying love makes fools of us all. Even Norse gods.
* No, that's not an observation on contemporary politics. Leave it alone.
A glorified portrait of Harald Hardrada
(credit: Wikipedia/Colin Smith)
His name was Harald, Harald Sigurdsson if you want to know his father, but he's gone down in history as Harald Hardrada, "Harold the Hard-Ruler" we would say in English. He was King of Norway for twenty years, from 1046 until 1066, until he died in battle on foreign soil. And he is often considered "the last of the Vikings." To what does he owe this dubious honor? He spent most of his life in battle, whether as a mercenary captain, a raiding Viking, or a warrior-king.
When he arrived, the situation wasn't looking too good. Magnus controlled both Norway and Denmark, and the only trouble he was getting was from Swein Estridsson, who had once been Magnus's right-hand man in Denmark but now claimed the throne there for himself. Ever the opportunist, Harald joined forces with Swein and the King of Sweden to try to topple Magnus.
He got one. Tostig, the deposed Earl of Northumberland in England, came to him with a plan to invade and conquer England. Harald liked the idea. He recalled that Magnus had claimed all of Canute the Great's realm, and that had included England. Tostig also promised he could get many nobles to rise up against the newly crowned English king, Harold Godwinson (who, incidentally, was Tostig's brother, but they didn't get along).
So Harald went to war, and sailed to England. He easily defeated Tostig's successor and the Earl of Mercia at Fulford on September 20, 1066. York surrendered on September 24. The north of England was his!
And then the next day, to the utter astonishment of Harald and Tostig, King Harold Godwinson appeared with the main English army, long before anyone expected him in the north. Godwinson had marched 200 miles in four days! The Norwegians thought themselves outnumbered, and Tostig urged that they fall back a few miles to rejoin the troops stationed by their ships, but Harald would not retreat, and instead ordered riders to fetch the reinforcements.
Battle was joined at Stamford Bridge. The story has it that a single Viking held the bridge and slaughtered forty English soldiers before he was killed, but that was the last good news for the Norwegians. The English charged across the bridge, engaged their enemy, and broke the Norwegians' shield wall. In a do-or-die effort, Harald, big man that he was, charged into battle himself where the line had been pierced. But it was not enough. He died there.'tMy favorite Viking saga tragedy
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A 1654 map of the Orkneys
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But Erik understood that he needed a home base where he could take his plunder and keep his family safe. He thought of the Orkney Islands, Officially, they were ruled by the three sons of Earl Torf-Einar: Arnkel, Erlend, and Thorfinn. But these three young men proved no match for the bloodthirsty Erik. He took over the islands in 937 as his new kingdom. And he took the three sons of Torf-Einar with him on raids. Originally, they were probably hostages, but over time, they became Erik's collaborators. Indeed, this is probably when Thorfinn acquired the nickname "Skullsplitter."
Gunnhild is informed of Erik's death, as imagined in 1899
Erik's widow, the formidable Queen Gunnhild, returned to Orkney with her two sons. Like Erik, they found the island earldom too limited for their ambitions. They cast about for some way to regain power in Norway. The King of Denmark offered them help in 955 and they departed from Orkney, leaving behind the remaining son of Torf-Einar, Thorfinn Skullsplitter, as the sole ruler of Orkney. But to solidify the bonds between the two families, Gunnhild married off her daughter Ragnhild to Thorfinn's son Arnfinn. This union was to have dire consequences''s brotr's'But Ragnhild wasn't satisfied. Considering what happened next, one suspects Havard had failed her as a husband and lover, much as his brother might have. For while Havard still had at least three more younger brothers living, it was not to them that she turned. No, instead she robbed the cradle by making eyes at one of Havard's nephews! This was Einar "Buttered-Bread," so called to distinguish him from his cousin Einar "Hard-Mouth."
Ragnhild's technique played on Einar's vanity. She praised him as a good man who would make an excellent ruler. She made it clear that a woman would consider herself lucky to marry Einar. In case he was a little slow on the uptake, she added that she didn't expect her marriage to Havard to last much longer. Einar got the point. Lust for power and for the body of his aunt made him Ragnhild's patsy. He quickly gathered some of his followers and ambushed Earl Havard, killing him in the skirmish.
Maybe Ragnhild had never really wanted Einar as a husband, or maybe she didn't want to go against popular opinion. So she betrayed him. She went to his cousin, Einar Hard-Mouth, and suggested that Einar revenge Havard's killing by killing Einar "Buttered-Bread."
So far, none of the descendants of Thorfinn Skullsplitter had shown much in the way of brains. But Einar Hard-Mouth wasn't completely stupid. He had some idea that Ragnhild's talk of family honor might be a cloak for some scheme of hers. And yet he still fell for it! Thinking he was being tough and realistic, he made it clear that he expected both the earldom and Ragnhild's hand guaranteed as his rewards. No doubt Ragnhild must have laughed up her sleeve at this. Here Einar thought he was driving a hard bargain when he was just asking for the same thing she had promised Einar "Buttered-Bread" only a short time before! Naturally she agreed. And naturally she had no more intention of keeping to her side of the bargain this time, either. But Einar Hard-Mouth had fallen for her. He summoned his men and tracked down Einar "Buttered-Bread," killing him just as he had killed Havard.
Ragnhild was pleased. But she wasn't going to let some boy Einar's age push her around. Instead, she went to the fourth son of Thorfinn's, Ljot, pointed out that he had a better claim to the Earldom of Orkney than Einar did, argued that he should take the throne, and the best way to cement his claim was to marry Ragnhild!
You'd think by this time, someone would have figured out what sort of schemer Ragnhild was. And maybe Ljot did. But whether he did or not, Ljot was a chip off the old Skullsplitter, a man not to be trifled with, not by Ragnhild nor anyone else. Oh, he listened to Ragnhild. He became Earl of Orkney and married Ragnhild. When Einar Hard-Mouth tried to take the earldom and Ragnhild away from him, Ljot had Einar killed. When the King of Scotland tried to take over the Earldom's possessions on the Scottish mainland by using Ljot's brother Skuli as their pawn, Ljot made war on the Scots and killed Skuli.
Maybe Ljot was just the sort of man Ragnhild needed. Maybe he was tough enough and virile enough to keep her satisfied. Or maybe she was finally getting too old and tired. She'd been a wife to three men and probably a mistress to at least two more over more than thirty years, and was now in her fifties. In any case, she didn't engage in any plots to kill Ljot (that we know of). Instead, Ljot would die as the result of his wounds in one of his campaigns on the Scottish mainland.
It had been only about a decade since Thorfinn Skullsplitter had died, but thanks to Ragnhild's machinations, only one of his sons, Hlodvir, remained alive. With Ljot's death, Hlodvir became the next Earl of Orkney.
With Hlodvir's ascent, we hear no more of Ragnhild. Maybe Ragnhild was dead by that time. Maybe she looked at her chances, saw that Hlodvir already had a wife, and not just a wife but a son, Sigurd, who was almost an adult, and decided she should finally retire into widowhood. But judging from her career, I wouldn't be surprised if she went to her grave thinking that if she had just been a few years younger, she could have made a play for Sigurd. If she had, she would have altered history. Sigurd "the Stout" became one of the most powerful Earls of Orkney ever, and would die in the famous Battle of Clontarf in 1014, fighting with Sitric Silkenbeard, Viking King of Dublin, against the Irish High King Brian Bóru.
Historical fiction on TV: "Vikings"
"Vikings" protagonist, Ragnar Lothbrok
To catch up on how popular culture represents Vikings (and no, Marvel movies featuring Thor don't count . . . well, they shouldn't), I sat down the last few weeks to watch the History Channel's show Vikings, first broadcast in 2013, and now scheduled for a fourth season. I was able to get hold of only the first season on DVD, so that's mostly what I'll talk about here. Bottom line, if you want to skip the rest of the review: so-so entertainment, so-so history, but useful for all that, and the series does have its moments.
The History Channel has had some dubious times, having swung from the "Hitler channel" due to the prevalence of World War II features, to exploring the fringes of the alien UFO theories. My expectations for this series were appropriately low. And right from the first episode, there were historical howlers. Was I really supposed to believe that the Norsemen had never sailed west before? Or that they stumbled on Lindisfarne monastery simply by chance? I won't even get into the outfits, which one historian described as more appropriate for a leather fetish bar in the 1980s. Why is it that historical dramas about rough men love leather so much? Okay, stupid question.
And then there's the pacing. One can see the struggle between Ragnar and Earl Haraldson shaping up from the get-go, but it takes six episodes to come to a climax. Doesn't sound so long? The Earl's been killing Ragnar's allies dishonorably since episode 2. The show wants us to think Ragnar is some wise, far-sighted man, and Travis Fimmel, the actor who plays him, can sometimes make me believe, but he's a pussy for putting up with friends and family being killed as long as he does.
I should be putting a picture of Rollo here, but I don't care about him. Instead, here's the improbable warrior Lagertha, who's also Ragnar's first wife
A large part of the problem is TV's tendency to turn historical dramas into soap operas. I first noticed this in the HBO series Rome, which should have been called Desperate Roman Housewives. The producers of these series think that the way to hold our attention is to drag every major character into labyrinthine plots. For example, Ragnar's brother Rollo is simultaneously envious of his brother, carrying a torch for his brother's wife, considering betraying his brother to whichever powerful man offers him a deal, bedding Earl Haraldson's widow, and banging anything else in a skirt that he can reach. It's all supposed to create dramatic tension and develop Rollo's character. But it's all so unreal in its relentless complexity that I end up not caring about Rollo at all. In fact, by the time I finished watching the first season, he was just "the irritant who's supposed to make Ragnar's life more complicated." And the same could be said for many another character.
And yet . . . in between the de rigueur battle scenes and the plot complications, the characters do actually get some chances to develop. Ragnar's pseudo-wise silences don't impress me, but his battle smarts in setting up battles to favor his side do. His romance with a woman other than his wife and his son's unfavorable reaction to this don't move me, but Ragnar's way of dealing with his son's disapproval does.
And probably the most affecting moment in the entire first season is a side show to the main event: not the duel between Ragnar and Earl Haraldson, but the funeral afterwards. Ragnar's willingness to honor his foe and the grief of Siggy, Haraldson's widow, provide some genuine emotion, because they are human reactions to events that don't seem contrived. It's not Euripides' The Trojan Women, but the episode exists for the same reason: human grief is real and understandable.
Siggy's usually a throw-away character, but here she's an essential part of the funeral episode
But what of the history? Again, Rome provides a reference. The series took painstaking care to get some details authentically correct, while doing great violence to the actual historical events and people. And Vikings is doing much the same, by reweaving history to make what the producers think is a more dramatic story, blending the authentic (e.g., the raid on Lindisfarne) with the inauthentic (e.g., the church at Uppsala). In both cases, just viewing the episodes won't tell you what's accurate or a guess or anachronistic or simply wrong.
Yet, in both cases, the series can provide an entry to learning more about history, so long as you start with the question "Was it really like this?" Did the Vikings really worship their gods at a church like the one shown in episode eight? Well, no. But then where and how did they worship? At that point, the historian and folklorist and archaeologist can step in and provide some answers. Most viewers won't even get that far. But let's treasure and encourage the ones that do, and help others along the same path.
That's Ernest Borgnine on the left, playing the 1958 version of Ragnar. Janet Leigh gets to play an ornament . . . oops, sorry, a princess. This one's no warrior-princess.
This entry was posted in Vikings and tagged history, movie review, Ragnar, Viking, Vikings on October 5, 2015 by Brian Bixby.
Honor in Egil's Saga
. For the Vikings, one key value was honor. As shown in Egil's Saga, honor is a complicated matter, depending not just on what one does, but who one is, and who else one deals with.
Although Egil thought burning people in their houses an honorable course, later Icelanders would condemn the practice as dishonorable, as in Njal's Saga. (Depicted: the burning of six kings by legendary Swedish king Ingjald, an 1830 book illustration by Hugo Hamilton (1802-1871).)
As? Why, by burning down their house and killing anyone who tried to escape. That's a hardcore Viking for you.
Fighting in battle also qualifies as an honorable occupation. Egil and his brother Thorolf helped lead King Athelstan's army to victory in chapters 52-55. Athelstan honored Egil with recognition of his favor . . . and two chests full of silver.
And there are duels. Vikings used duels to settle many disputes, including disputes at law (see chapter 57). Egil even intervened in another family's dispute to fight a duel. A man named Ljot wanted to marry a girl whose family refused him, so Ljot challenged the girl's brother, Fridgeir. The idea was that if Ljot killed Fridgeir, that he would win the girl's hand anyhow. Nice idea that, that one might have to marry a man because he killed your brother! Egil was staying with Fridgeir, who has been an exemplary host, and when he found out what was going on, Egil offered to challenge Ljot. Well, when they arrived at the site chosen for the duel, Ljot agreed to fight Egil instead of Fridgeir, because Ljot thought Egil a more worthy and tougher opponent. Ljot figured that if he killed Egil, he would win more honor than killing the younger, weaker, and less famous Fridgeir. In case you have to ask, Egil killed Ljot.
Egil had a long track record of killing people. He believed, along with most Vikings, that revenge was honorable. As in so many things, Egil was a bit extreme. When he was seven years old, he killed an eleven-year-old over a dispute at a ball game (chapter 40). Good thing Egil wasn't in the NFL during "Deflategate!"
On another occasion, Egil challenged Berg-Onund to a duel over a disputed inheritance when he couldn't get satisfaction by litigation. Painting by Johannes Flintoe (1787-1870)
If being a good fighter is something we expect of Vikings, being a good poet is not. Yet Egil was a noted poet, and several of his poems are recorded in the saga. (Although there's some argument about whether they are genuine compositions of Egil's.) His first recorded notable poem (chapter 31) was delivered at age three! So much did the Vikings honor poetry that King Eirik Blood-axe, who had many reasons to have Egil executed, spared him after Egil composed a drapa, a long complicated poem celebrating heroic deeds, in honor of Eirik (chapters 60-62).
Another worthy way of gathering honor among Vikings was to be generous. Equals were generous to each other (chapter 68). Wealthy, powerful men, such as Egil's uncle Thorolf, generously supported many followers (chapter 9). Kings who made generous gifts were held to be honorable, as Athelstan did to Egil (chapter 55). Indeed, if you gave a worthy gift, you not only gained honor, but the recipient gained honor as well. Consider Egil's uncle Thorolf. He built a magnificent longship that was so much better than King Harald Fairhair had that the king became jealous of Thorolf. Thorolf realized that he was slighting the king by appearing to be better than him, so gave the king the longship as a gift (chapter 11). Harald was pleased, and both men gained honor.
Warrior, poet, and sometime heroic spewer of vomit, Egil was a Viking through and through
That last exchange demonstrates some of the dangers of the Viking code of honor. It was not wise to gain more honor than one's superiors. Thorolf made that mistake, and while his gift of the ship temporarily solved the problem, ultimately his success led to King Harald Fairhair having Thorolf killed (as detailed in the chapters up through 22). And it wasn't considered good form to act honorably and obviously expect to be praised for it. Late in his life, Egil received a wonderful shield from his friend Einar (chapter 81). What's Egil's first reaction? He was insulted that Einar left the shield because Egil thought Einar expected Egil to praise Einar and the shield in a poem! Egil wanted to go after Einar and kill him! Only after he learned that Einar was far away on his ride home did Egil regain his temper . . . and compose a poem about the shield and his friend Einar!
There's a lot more to be said about Viking honor in Egil's Saga. But I hope these few examples give you an idea of the range of Viking honor, and the complexity of the society that measured honor in these way.


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What’s more, by word, I really mean six words: “I’m searching for another employment.”
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Everything is so soft and feminine. Love it! </s> I have decided to build a geodome for Burning Man 2002. This is going to function as a chill space for the group I am traveling with this year, The Island of Big Bang. Yes, it's a time travel theme. But more to the point, they needed a dome, I needed to build one. Next year, I'll either use it again with Big Bang, or I could take it to another group, or take it on my own, but meanwhile, this is the test year. And the assembly year.
I am chronicalling my efforts below, complete with photos. Homage is given to Jeff, a good guy who built this same dome before me, which gave me confidence in the specs, and of course, maximum props to Tara at DesertDomes.com, whose handy online dome calulator and info pages have helped countless burners create their structures. Those who didn't major in math at CalTech, at least.
And speaking of specs, here they are:
I am building a 12' radius, 3 frequency 5/8 Geo-Dome from 3/4" EMT conduit.
Again, thanks to DesertDomes.com for graciously allowing me to use her graphics. Based on some leads Tara lent me, I hope to generate some Maya-rendered domes to make things even easier to see and understand in the not-too-distant future.
If you have a VRML plugin, you can see a 3D view of a similar dome at Bob Crispen's VRML Domes site. Great info there on the underlying math, but his site doesn't show any 5/8's domes, so it's not an exact match to our work here.
Lots below for your amusement. The guffaws will have to wait until I have a really interesting injury to show. Meanwhile, choose from:
-Dome Math
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Strut A = 30 pieces 4.183' long (4'2.20")
Strut B = 55 pieces 4.842' long (4'10.08")
Strut C = 80 pieces 4.948' long (4'11.40")
4-way connectors 15
5-way connectors 6
6-way connectors 40
= 61 bolts needed (61 connections total)
Figure 1.5" (0.125') extra length needed for each strut to allow .75" from end (on each side) to centerpoint of drilled hole
Strut A = 30 pieces 4.308' long (4'3.72")
Strut B = 55 pieces 4.967' long (4'11.64")
Strut C = 80 pieces 5.073' long (5'0.88")
Rounding up for initial cutting, I need:
30x 4'4" sections
55x 5' sections, and
80x 5'1" sections.
Figure cutting blade is 1/8" thick.
Figure 10' section of conduit cut to give exact 4' 11 3/4" sections and "close enough" 5'something" sections would suffice.
This is when reality strikes. No. Turns out this won't work. It's close, but not quite precise, and precision is needed for a dome this size that goes up without a struggle. So.
11.93' Radius Dome (I'm still going to refer to it as a 12' dome, of course):
30x 4'2"
55x 4'10"
80x 4'11"
So, 10 sections of conduit yield 10x C struts and 10x B struts
Continue in batches of 10 until I have all 55 (better make it 57 for extras) sections of "B" plus 57 sections of "C", then shift to cutting "A" and "C" struts from each section.
Make first batch of cuts (55 of them) at 4'10" yields:
- one 4'10" section (only 1/4" too long) and
- one 4'11.75" section (3/4" too long)
No good. Better make first batch of cuts at 4'11" The extra 0.04" can be soaked up in a shorter flat section for the bolt with no problem.
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How has it taken us so long to visit Whangarei Falls?The iconic natural attraction of the Northland city is usually the one thing that people see if they are just "passing through", so it should really have been the thing that we rushed to when we arrived!Well, we like to believe we have been savvy enough to stick around in Whangarei, because there is actually so much to do. Not only have we done an epic activity from the area in the form of scuba diving at Poor Knights Islands, but we have also discovered some free and affordable activities like seeing a kiwi bird at Kiwi North and seeing glowworms while exploring Abbey Caves. Now, part-way through our stay here, we can all be like: "Want to visit Whangarei Falls now?" then be all like: "Yeah, why not?"
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These indoor gardens are a little harder find, hidden a the end of First Avenue. The entrance directs us to make a choice: Fernery or Conservatory first?Oh my Gawd!
It's what you do in gardens, right?
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Question: How to mount antenna on the side of a home.
A recap, I'm about to move into a new home and will be setting up an 8 Bay UHF and possibly a second VHF-HI antenna. I have been planning on doing an attic install, but I'm also investigating the possibility of doing an outdoor install as well.
This is my first home and I'm a complete DIY newbie. So please go easy on me!
I would prefer to not have a mast that goes from the ground up because I will eventually be erecting a large antenna farm for my ham radio hobby. The wife has said to either put the TV antenna in the attic or on the side of the house. I also would rather not do a roof mount, the roof was just redone on the house and I don't want to start drilling holes in it. I don't believe the fascia of the roof would really hold much weight.
I like the idea of using a "J-pole" mount, similar to a dish mount, with a 5 ft mast coming out of the mount. I'd like to mount this directly on the side of the house at the highest point just below the roof. With me so far?
This is a brick house, so I have no idea how to drill and mount something to brick. Additionally, I've not been able to find a dish J-pole mount that could support a 5 ft mast (unless I'm dumb and have missed it.) I've considered hiring a Dish installer to just install the J-pole mount to the house, but I've got to learn how to be more DIY handyman!
Could anyone give some suggestions on how to mount the mast to the side of a brick house, and suggest a good mast?
Probably you could mount it to the fascia, maybe if you drilled on through so you also go through one or more rafters, then maybe use some long threaded rod.
Or maybe better, add some blocking behind the fascia before drilling through and bolting to it. Do you have an accessible area behind the fascia? Blocking is just meant as extra wood to strengthen it. Use quality wood if you can do this. I would use redwood or cedar and treat it with linseed oil then paint it, then attach with lag bolts. I could add blocking behind the fascia on my house if I wanted to. But yours may be different, depends on the details of the construction.
Well, I've done some more research and found the J-type mount I was talking about...
However, now that I think about it, on the wall probably won't work. It's been 2 months since I've last seen the house (moving in next weekend) and completely forgot the style of the roof. The exterior wall isn't tall enough, like I thought it was. Also, looks like a gable mount is out of the question too. The only gable is on the garage on the front of the house. While there's no restrictions that say I can't put the antenna there, I imagine that would look odd on the front of the house. (See second photo)
So I'll try the attic first, but may have to look into doing the J-type mount on the roof. I'm just nervous about drilling into a brand new roof.
Attached is a pic of the back side of the house. If anyone has any suggestions on how to get the antenna outdoors and at least at the roof line - without doing a mast from the ground that would need guy wires - Please let me know.
The reason I'm trying to not use guy wires is they are not wife-approved
That's not even a gable roof. That's a hip roof. The ridge does not even extend to the side of the house on those.
See, I'm learning! I wasn't kidding when I said I'm a new homeowner and DIY newbie
So I suppose I'm looking for suggestions on how to mount on this type of roof. As I said, I will first try the attic but I'm trying to get as much info and ideas as possible before I start the project. I'm hoping to get the hardware and get it done after next weekend.
You have a gable at the garage, over the garage door. You could mount to the fascia there, with some blocking. Except, of course, it would be ugly having it out front facing the street like that.
Agreed. I personally wouldn't mind how it looks, I'm a ham radio operator and will eventually have a few radio antennas sprouting up from the back yard I'm going to run the garage gable idea over with the wife and get her opinion.
Again, I'm hoping the attic will suffice but I'd rather know my options now rather than later.
What does your TV Fool report look like? The ease of mounting an antenna is really dependent on the strength and directionality of your signals.
VERY true !, and that house really looks like it's in a HOA... am I right ?
Luckily and surprisingly it's NOT an HOA And no deed restrictions for towers, antennas, etc.
Here's the TV Fool report, dkreichen may remember it when I posed as a "guest" last week. TV Fool
For reference, the back end of the house faces the SSW.
Most all of the channels are LOS by only a few miles.
UHF 14 may be a little difficult, but I believe I can aim the 8-bay in a direction that should get it and the other locals just fine.
VHF 11 might be a challenge, the TV Fool report says it's LOS, but when I pull up the estimated coverage map for WTZT 11, the house is actually right in a shadow. I may use a dedicated VHF antenna for 11 and find it's sweet spot.
I'm fairly confident that an attic installation will work just fine, so I will be trying that first. If it doesn't I will either try a tripod mount on the roof or see if the wife will go for the gable install in the front of the house on the garage.
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I think the beamwidth of the 8-Bay will be quite adequate to cover the CW and other channels at that distance.
You could use a Heavy Duty J-Mount*, mounted on the back side of the Roof near the Peak, in line with the Back door.
Assemble the J-Mount's Post, with the shorter bend attached toward the Bracket, and the longer section upright.
This way the Mount would be hidden, and only the Antenna showing above the Roof.
You could run the Coax into the Ridge Vent, and easily into the Attic. Allow enough Cable outside the Ridge Vent, to create an exterior Drip Loop.
Being able to see into the Attic through the Ridge Vent, will able you to locate the Rafters, and drill (small) pilot holes directly into them, for Lag Bolts.
Silicone Sealer should be shot under the three mount positions (between the brackets and shingles), after the Post is vertically/horizontally aligned, at a height sufficient to place the bottom of the Antenna just above the Ridge Vent.
This should make for a very sturdy mount ! :thumb:
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An additional Long Brace may be required (ie: two long braces) for proper placement of braces.
...Could anyone give some suggestions on how to mount the mast to the side of a brick house, and suggest a good mast? Thanks in advance!
Assuming you actually need an 8-bay, you could stack a pair of identical 4-bays on a side-mounted mast as the single 4-bay is seen mounted below.
Regarding mounting it to the side of a brick house, google Rawl to find appropriate fasteners.
(Photo by Dan K. the pro antena installer here)
Bamatenna, I think an attic install would work fine because I doubt you'll get anymore channels with an outdoor set up than you would with an indoor (attic) set up. "Course that depends on how strong the TV signals are at 12' to 15' as opposed to their signal strength at 25'. Granted, outdoors would give stronger signals but I don't think you're gonna' gain anymore channels by putting the antenna outdoors.
It's not a 2 story house, and whatever that roof is called, I'd say it's a nightmare, because re-roofing it, will cost you nearly as much to pay for the coping lol when you will need a roof, you'll hear all about it (if you even ask)!
Ok, my opinion (if you have or plan to have kids): Backyard, (looking at the pic you posted) near the left corner, I think that would be the best place to slap a pole. A tripod mount is probably a better idea, but again, roofing can easily be abused the wrong way!
Fascia boards are usually 1" think, and typically rotted if there is any age to them. They are purely for looks in my opinion. Finding a soft piece of fascia will create a new project I think. Garage gable, eek lol.
The left corner of the back could support your whole antenna arsenal I think, it's away from the porch, you don't want to ruin that area, your wife would bring it up everyday!!!
Kind of glad I don't have these decisions to make lol. That house looks very nice! Gratz on being a new homeowner!!!
The side of the house with the garage would be ideal in my opinion also, this would leave the wires in the garage, then wherever? An attic install would probably work even better, heck it would be higher up if you don't use a pole! There's probably an antenna in the attic now, have ya checked, maybe not though. That really is a hard choice to make if it has to be an exterior install! I agree with the pole/ground up idea, that's what I'd prefer over a roof mount, after re-reading (new roof). Even if it is mounted on the side (without a pole), I think you would be better off in the attic. Depends on the insulation too though. Silver shiny stuff could be a no go. You'd have to investigate that area! So many variables really! lol
Oh, and P.S. once you see shingles lifted, call your insurance, and get your Wind damage check! lol Save it for roofing repairs tho, or however they do that!
Also, CW here where I am, I turn to it every weekend... NOTHING but Paid Programming!!! And when there is something on, it's usually same as Fox... Hopefully if you go through the trouble, your CW has better content!!!
Why be so negative, just help out the guy. Who gives a rats ass what type of roof it is. He's just looking for help. Obviously, you know everything about everything


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All Paths Lead Toward 13,000
In Libya Like Egypt, I offered the following two scenarios for stocks.
Scenario A (in light blue on the chart below) - Stocks have a rough morning on Monday but the selling does not accelerate and the market begins to gather itself after the Fed meets on Tuesday. New 2011 highs are seen in April.
Scenario B (in light purple on the chart below) - Stocks open lower on Monday, accelerate during the day and close below the lows of last Friday, March 11. In that case, the 4-5% pullback ends up being 7-9% and we see a bottom by the end of March. From there, new 2011 highs are made later during the second quarter.
So now we know that scenario B is occurring with A already being eliminated as you can see in the chart below. So far, the market seems like it really likes the purple path as it sold off almost exactly to the bottom of the arrow and has now bounced smartly.
So, why am I not totally convinced? I don't like the fact that there have been so many up days that have seen all of the upside at the open and the market spent the rest of the day going sideways. That's not really strong conviction from key players. When I am bullish, I like when stocks open down or flat and spend the day rallying to their highs in the final hour of the day. But maybe I am being too hard on the market.
While I continue to believe that the stock market will see more new highs next quarter, (how could you not with the continued torrent of liquidity being pumped in by Bernanke & Co.) I do not have a strong opinion (as hard to believe as that is) that it's straight up from here. Rather, as you can see from the final chart below, I offer two possible paths with the same outcome.
If the green path appears to be favored by the markets, we should see lots of choppy moves in the coming week or so before breaking higher. In this case, we will likely stick with our current portfolios, which were increased to maximum equity exposure last week to go along with the maximum commodity holdings we’ve had all year. If the orange path takes hold, there may be some short-term trading opportunities. As always, we will take it one day at a time and see what the markets bring us.
FYI, I will be on CNBC’s Worldwide Exchange on March 30 from 5:35am to 5:55am.
Labels: Benanke, commodity holdings, Dow, Egypt, equity, FiscallyFit, Heritage Capital LLC, Japan, Libya, Paul Schatz, stocks, trading
Conn. IRS tax assistance centers offer Saturday hours
Taxpayers having difficulty visiting an Internal Revenue Service Taxpayer Assistance Center during weekday business hours can visit an IRS office on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in New Haven at 150 Court St. or Hartford at 135 High St.
This will be the IRS' final Saturday Open House during the income tax filing season to provide free assistance to taxpayers who need help filing their tax returns. Help with account questions, such as collection or examination issues, is also available during the Open House.
“We are opening our doors on Saturday, March 26, to help taxpayers who may not have a chance to seek assistance during the work week,” said IRS spokesperson Gregg Semanick. “If taxpayers need help preparing their tax returns or have an account question, we encourage them to visit one of our open houses.”
In addition to IRS help, community organizations partner with the IRS.
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) programs assist people who earned $49,000 or less, and Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) programs assist individuals age 60 and over with their 2010 income tax return preparation and electronic filing. Many of these sites have Saturday hours, while others offer assistance at various times during the week. Taxpayers can call 800-906-9887 to find local partners.
Labels: Gregg Semanick, Hartford, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, New Haven, open house, tax returns, taxpayers, VITA
Stratford woman sentenced for misuse of veteran's benefits
David B. Fein, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Ellen Pack, 64, of Broadbridge Road, Stratford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport to 2 months in prison, followed by 2 years of supervised release.
Pack was convicted of stealing U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs disability benefits while acting as a fiduciary for an incompetent military veteran. Hall also ordered her to spend the first 3 months of her term of supervised release in home confinement and to pay a $2,000 fine.
According to documents and statements made in court, Pack in 2006 and 2007 served as a fiduciary for a military veteran who was a patient at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in West Haven. As part of her fiduciary duties, Pack received funds from the Veterans Affairs department meant to be used solely for the veteran’s care and benefit.
Instead, Pack used significant portions of the monthly benefit payments, totaling more than $30,000, to pay for various items and expenses for her own use.
On July 27, 2010 Pack pleaded guilty to one count of misappropriating U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs disability benefits.
This matter was investigated by Special Agents of the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General. The case was prosecuted by Asst. U.S. Attorney Douglas P. Morabito.
Labels: David B. Fein, Ellen Pack, Judge Janet C. Hall, Stratford, U.S. Attorney, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Affairs Hospital, West Haven
Japan... Buying or Selling Opportunity
Last weekend, I was riding the chairlift my ski friend Don and he asked/stated that it seemed like a good time to short the Japanese stock market. My response was that I would rather look for the panic buying opportunity. I think that struck him as odd. Let me explain.
When major news, earnings, economic, geopolitical, etc. hits, there is typically an immediate reaction in the financial markets, and many times an overreaction. Think of the initial shock of the event. Apple blows out on earnings and the masses all want to get onboard. Unemployment comes in much worse than expected and everyone wants to sell. Lunatics fly planes into buildings. I think you get the picture.
Once the news is in the public domain, there is no longer an edge. All of the available news is factored into the market, at least for the time being until the situation takes a big turn. Intuitively, most investors react to news and investor with the news, i.e. selling into bad news and buying into good news.
After 23 years in the business, I don’t have all the answers and still have loads of question, but I have learned to buy when no one else wants to and sell when it seems idiotic to do so. Sometimes, I am early and other times I am spot on. But I live to invest with the minority. In more technical terms, it’s called mean reversion; buying into weakness and selling into strength.
So after my conversation with Don last weekend, let’s say you wanted to sell short the Japanese or even the U.S. stock market. We can use the exchange traded fund (ETF) that Ishares has on the MSCI Japan Index. It closed at 10.80 into the weekend as you can see from the chart below.
But it’s now Sunday and you would have had to sell short at Monday’s opening price, 9.86. At that point, the ETF was down 8.70% for the day and 15.21% since the peak. For me, that’s an awful lot of price to give up in order to put a trade on. Now, if the events in Japan ended right there, the ETF would have likely rallied, but if things got out of control, the ETF would likely head much lower.
As you can see from the chart below, Japan did head lower right at the open Tuesday morning to 9.32, but closed the session above 10. And as I write this Thursday evening, it closed the day at 10.10.
It’s still too early to know the final outcome, but from my seat, I would rather look for signs of panic selling to buy in to than try to hop on board a moving train that’s long left the station.
I vividly remember the events after 9-11, waiting for the markets to reopen. When they finally did and I was looking to buy, that first down day of roughly 500 points saw very little panic. It was probably the most orderly 500 collapse in history! I went home that night with a bad feeling that serious pent up selling was coming. And although I was looking to commit cash and buy, I was still sitting on investments that would certainly get hit in the coming days.
In that case, it took about five trading days for true panic to set in, coincidentally as I was on my second bachelor party trip in two weeks. Waking up in Wisconsin to find the early indication of the Dow down another 500-700 points was definitely unsettling! But it also smacked of real despair and investor capitulation. You could have shorted our market any time during those first five days and you would have been ok for a few days. But once the market turned, stocks launched higher more than 20% in just a few short months. Again, I would rather digest the news, wait for my spot and go against the crowd.
FYI, I will be on CNBC’s The Call on March 24 at 11:05am.
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Labels: Dow, ETF, FiscallyFit, Heritage Capital LLC, Japan, MSCI Japan Index, New Haven, Paul Schatz, reversion, unemployment
Donating to Japan relief efforts? Screen carefully
In the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated northern Japan, people around the world and in Connecticut are opening up their hearts and wallets to help those who survived the devastation.
The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection is urging residents around the state to diligently and carefully check out charities before making a monetary donation toward relief efforts.
“The devastation is overwhelming and the losses, both personal and economic, move us to donate quickly and generously,” Consumer Protection Commissioner William M. Rubenstein said. “But because scam artists are adept at exploiting disaster for personal gain, I urge you donate carefully, so that your kindness and generosity are not exploited.”
Rubenstein suggested taking the following steps:
Donate to well-known, established charities.
This is the best way to ensure that your donation is used appropriately. Establishing an effective, efficient new charity following a crisis is nearly impossible. Find a charity with a proven track record in providing disaster relief on a massive scale, one that has worked in Japan and other affected regions.
One source for checking out the details about a charity that you are considering is http://www.charitynavigator.org/.
Specify that your donation is for this crisis in Japan.
Do not send supplies unless a charity specifically requests them. Otherwise, there may be no system to receive, organize and distribute your donation.
Avoid responding to e-mail and telephone solicitations on behalf of supposed victims.
Unless you personally know someone in Japan, anyone contacting you in this way is most likely part of a scam.
Delete unsolicited e-mails and don’t open attachments.
Never respond to unsolicited emails and don’t open any attachments to these emails even if they claim to contain pictures from Japan. The attachments may be viruses designed to steal personal financial information from your computer.
Beware of copycat organizations.
Criminals are likely to set up bogus sites to steal the identities and donations of generous, unsuspecting individuals. When giving online, be sure to find the charity’s legitimate website. Again, you can access links to each bona fide charity’s sites from the Charity Navigator site referenced above.
Remember: social media sites also require caution and scrutiny – Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and blogs about the disaster include emotional pleas for donations. Do not blindly give via these vehicles. As with any charity, investigate the groups behind such pleas to ensure that they come from a legitimate organization.
“The outpouring of concern and support for those affected by this tragedy is enormous, but unfortunately, so is the potential for fraud,” Rubenstein said. “We all must take precautions to ensure that the generosity of Connecticut residents is not abused."
Suspicious solicitations can be reported to your local police department and to the state Department of Consumer Protection at 1-800-842-2649.
"Anyone caught engaging in fraudulent activity will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Rubenstein said.
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Financial Empowerment: Hip-Hop mogul Russell Simmons raps on serving the unbanked
Philanthropist and author Russell Simmons built the Phat Farm fashion empire into a revenue generator that topped $300 million and he managed rap stars before hip-hop was a lucrative genre within the music industry. Yet, he saw what he describes as a "white space" that no one was cultivating, while others saw these artists as risky. (Photo credit to Gerald Janssen)
Simmons took the leap and formed Def Jam Records in the 1980s, bringing into the mainstream hip-hop greats such as The Beastie Boys, Whodini, Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Ludacris, DMX, Jay-Z and his brother, Joseph Simmons or "Run" from the group Run DMC.
He spoke with me briefly Tuesday, during a stop along his bus tour in New Haven. Simmons visited with more than 800 students at James Hillhouse High School, followed by a reception and book signing at The Rodrick Gilchrist Fashion House in the Westville neighborhood.
In his latest book "Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All," Simmons we don't need money or toys to be happy.
"So rather than any state of material abundance, Super Rich actually refers to living in a state of consciousness where you're able to see the miracles of life unfolding in front of you all the time," the 'godfather of hip-hop' says. "That's right, when you're Super Rich you'll be able to see that happiness is actually a state of needing nothing."
Listen below as he expounds on how entrepreneurship has enabled him to both fill a societal need and satisfy personal passions "There's always something missing," he says, among other things:
One of Simmons' latest endeavors is UniRush Financial Services, a company that provides pre-paid debit cards, money transfer services and helps consumers with building credit histories, as well as creating and managing personal budgets.
Just as he previously noticed voids in the music and fashion industries and established businesses to address them, Simmons felt compassion for the unbanked and developed online services to help them achieve financial literacy, while providing tools that enable them to better manage their finances.
Listen to him talk about how that evolved here:
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“High cost consumer debt can be a financial nightmare. Regular contributions to a saving account can help consumers avoid the need for this type of credit,” Nancy Register, America Save's national director, said in a statement.
The results showed that these consumers are more likely to use credit to pay an unexpected expenditure, than those without this debt. The survey also revealed that 16 percent of Americans have very expensive payday, car title, or pawnshop loans.
Over half of those surveyed who receive a paycheck (55%) reported having difficulty saving a portion of each paycheck. The percentage of moderate-income households ($25,000-50,000 annual incomes) receiving a paycheck who reported this difficulty (69%) was exceptionally high.
About two-thirds of those with credit card debt (66%), but less than half of those without this debt (47%), reported difficulty saving a portion of their paycheck.
Individuals and families will also be encouraged to save automatically through regular transfers from paychecks or checking into savings, officials said.
Bubbles & Collapses Make The World Go Around
Over the past few months, I have written about securities that were very extended on the upside as well as the downside, bubbles versus collapses. Before I get into a new security, which is actually an old one discussed last year, let's take a quick peak and see where they stand today.
The series began with Gold Nearing A Rally, where I showed examples of how gold behaves during a bull market with strong rallies followed by long trading ranges and more upside. We left off with the chart below that offered a likely path.
And today, you can see below that gold behaved as it was supposed to, by rallying smartly to the old and now new highs. As I tweeted and posted on Facebook, I do not believe now is the time to throw caution to the wind and buy gold. The “easy” was made off that low. This textbook behavior is good to see, but far from guaranteed each time. Every once in a while, the market will throw your forecast for a loop, just to keep you honest.
The gold post was followed up by one on Treasury bonds, So Bad, They Are Actually Good, where I opined that there were so few bulls left, and T bonds had been pounded so hard, it was actually bullish. Below you can see the chart at that time.
Today, as you can see below, bonds rallied nicely and have recently pulled back to a point where risk can be identified and contained by the 2011 low. Until proven otherwise, the path should take them higher into next quarter.
On the flip side, cotton has been in bubble land for a while as I wrote about in HUGE Bubble In The Making.
Once again, cotton MAY be peaking, but after being burned so many times, who is going to stick their neck out and become overtly bearish? That's the exact making of a bubble and why so few people actually profit from the first and most severe leg down.
I am going to finish this piece with the U.S. dollar, which I wrote about late last year. As you can see from the chart below, when the masses were uniformly bullish at 90%+, the dollar fell hard. Who was left to buy? Conversely, with less than 10% bulls, the buck rallied with few left to sell.
Today, the dollar is back to being the second most unloved investment after Treasury bonds with less than 10% bulls for the second time this year. It's hard to find many folks who believe it has any chance of rallying over any timeframe. As usual, I am taking the other side, having turned long-term bullish in early 2008 and continue to believe the greenback is in the early stages of a major, multi-year bull market. Of course, I will temper that view when rallies become overloved and unsustainable.
As I finish typing this, the stock market remains under pressure on geopolitical concerns from the Middle East. I do not believe this is going to be a large decline and should wrap up this month. The market has come very far in short order and it is overdue for the pause to refresh.
On a technical basis, as you can see from the chart below, the S&P 500 has been a pattern called a triangle, which is essentially a compression of volatility. This usually leads to volatility expansion, which is what we are seeing right now. Once the bottom of the triangle is exceeded and a rush of fear hits the market, I would expect the bulls to begin to fight back and rally to ensue.
FYI, I will be on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street on March 15 at 9:35 a.m.
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4 ways to find free tax help
The Internal Revenue Service offers free assistance by computer, telephone and in person. The IRS can also help find free tax preparation sites for those who qualify. Here are four ways you can get the information you need to file your tax return.
1. The IRS website is a one-stop shop for a wide array of tax information.
You can even prepare and file your federal tax return through Free File, a service offered by IRS and its partners who make available free tax preparation software and free electronic filing. But you must go through IRS.gov to use Free File.
2. Taxpayer Assistance Centers.
When you believe your tax issue cannot be handled online or by phone and you want face-to-face assistance, you can find help at a local IRS Taxpayer Assistance Center. Locations, business hours and an overview of services are available at IRS.gov. Just go to the Individuals tab and click on the link for Contact My Local Office in the left tool bar section under IRS Resources.
Free tax preparation is available through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and Tax Counseling for the Elderly programs in many communities. Volunteer return preparation programs provided through IRS and its partners offer free help in preparing simple tax returns for low-to-moderate-income taxpayers.
For a list of the 2011 VITA sites you can visit IRS.gov, or call 800-906-9887. You may also call AARP — the largest TCE participant — at 888-227-7669 (888-AARPNOW) or access http://www.aarp.org/ to find the nearest AARP Tax-Aide site.
Call the IRS Tax Help Line for Individuals, 800-829-1040, to get answers to your federal tax questions. To hear pre-recorded messages covering various tax topics or check on the status of your refund, call 800-829-4477. TTY/TDD users may call 800-829-4059 to ask tax questions or to order forms and publications. To order free forms, instructions and publications call 800-829-3676.
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Financial workshop coming for college-bound upperclassmen
NEW HAVEN - Higher One invites college-bound high school juniors and seniors in New Haven and their parents are invited to a workshop on Wed., April 13 from  6-7 pm, at the main branch of the New Haven Public Library, 133 Elm St.
Mary K. Johnson, financial literacy and consumer advocacy manager at Higher One, will present “Becoming a Financially Literate College Student.” She will also announce a new scholarship opportunity available only to New Haven high school seniors who attend the workshop.
This workshop will offer students tips on avoiding the traps of overspending and credit card debt that can have painful consequences both during college and after graduation. Attendees will learn how to stay financially afloat with good money habits, including choosing and managing a bank account and creating a budget they can live with.
Parents will gain insight into the financial issues that college students must cope with for successful outcomes.
Those who attend this training will be eligible for Higher One’s $500 New Haven Community Book Scholarship. Guidelines and application forms will be available at the event.
With operations in New Haven and Oakland, Calif., Higher One provides a full array of financial services including refunds, payments and electronic billing to almost 700 institutions of higher education. The company also provides nearly 5 million students nationwide with a smart new way to manage their student loans and college expenses. Find out more at www.higherone.com.
Advance registration is required for the free workshop. Sign up online at www.higherone.eventbrite.com or by calling the library at 203-946-8835.
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Huge bubble in the making
A few weeks ago, I went into detail on how depressed the Treasury bond market was and how it was almost impossible to find any bulls in So Bad They Are Actually Good . That led me to the contrarian conclusion that treasuries were likely close to at least a short-term, if not longer-term, bottom.
This week, I am going to go to the opposite end of the spectrum and talk about bubbles. In my Shockers 2011 issue, I spoke about cotton, sugar and coffee being in speculative bubbles that would end very poorly. Let's go into the charts for a peak in cotton. I'll come back to sugar and coffee next week.
The key thing to remember about bubbles is that they always last longer than anyone believes. Declines that appear to be the bubble bursting tend to end and another, even more parabolic, move begins until finally the whole thing comes crashing down. Positioning to profit on the collapse is very difficult since, as we've all learned and heard from John Maynard Keynes, "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent".
Cotton is a VERY volatile commodity that's known for dramatic, often straight up rises and gravity defying declines. The chart below doesn't even begin to describe the craziness until you pay close attention to the scaling on the right. 30 to 90 and back and back. Try living through that!
Now, multiple moves from 30 to 90 can certainly be classified as bubblesque.  But what happened next is unbelievable! From the crash low in 2008 at the far left of the weekly chart, check out where cotton is today.  200!!!
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The head of the EU executive sees room to «resolve practical issues» of the Protocol if «common sense» is applied and the parties focus «on the issues that really matter to Northern Ireland», without going into further details.
The central government of the United Kingdom and the unionist parties have criticized the consequences derived from the Northern Ireland Protocol, as they consider the limits imposed on internal trade in exchange for Northern Ireland being able to remain within the common market to be excessive.
The chief negotiator of the European Commission, Maros Sefcovic, has spoken precisely this Thursday with the British Foreign Minister, James Cleverly, to try to take advantage of this «clear window of opportunity». «The EU is ready to redouble its efforts and find joint solutions that benefit all communities in Northern Ireland,» Sefcovic said on Twitter.


Sally Hawkins is a superb actress and in Eternal Beauty she is supported by a very strong British cast. This is not your typical-looking rom-com, showing a woman with paranoid schizophrenia entering into a relationship with a man who has his own health issues. Hopefully the trailer isn't fully representative of the film's tone, as it seems to be playing on Hawkins character's 'quirkiness' which is derived from her mental health - and given the long overdue attention being afforded to the subject in recent years that perhaps wouldn't be the smartest move. Director Craig Roberts (who starred in Richard Ayoade's Submarine) said, “I wanted to flip it…I wanted to take this psychological element of it, and go, ‘this maybe isn’t a weakness. Maybe it’s a superpower.’” Which is a very 'Kanye West'-style approach. The feature itself will give us a better idea, but for now see for yourself with the Eternal Beauty trailer above.
Eternal Beauty opens in US cinemas and on VOD and in UK cinemas from October 2.


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In this tip we'll take a look at some techniques for debugging your JMeter tests. In a previous tip on "Running..es we'll look at in this article, we'll be using the Yahoo Example Test Plan we created in the first tip in this series.
This tip was written using JMeter 2.3.4 running on Java 1.5.0_20. The application used in this article is Yahoo Search since it's a publically available application. The example uses a very low load to simply illustrate how JMeter works. If you would like to test with larger loads, do not use Yahoo. Instead, please use your own application.
While different listeners are useful in different situations, a common listener that I use when debugging a JMeter test is the Assertion Results listener. The Assertion Results listener logs assertion requests and reports failures of any Assertions within your test plan. When I'm creating a Test Plan, I try to add an assertion to each step for just this reason. Assertions are critical to the debugging process, and even if you take them out later, they let you know your test is doing exactly what you expected it to do when you were creating it.
Checkout the JMeter Component Reference for a bit more detail on some of the subtle nuances of using the View Results Tree.
JMeter has two built in debugging elements: Debug Sampler and Debug PostProcessor. Think of these two elements as helpers for providing more information in the View Results Tree listener.
The Debug Sampler generates a sample containing the values of all the JMeter variables and properties at runtime. If you use the Debug Sampler in conjunction with a View Results Tree listener, you'll be able to navigate those values as shown below.
By default, listeners display information graphically in the JMeter user interface. This is a low-information density medium, and one you'll quickly need to move past to get at the details of your test results. O using JMeter is how to write to files.
As you can see in the two figures above, listeners in JMeter have a "Write results to file" field. If you provide a path to file, you can capture detailed information in either XML or CSV format. To configure what JMeter logs for a listener, click on the Configure button next to the file name.
Each format has it's own advantages, but I find myself using CSV more than XML. Each listener saves it's own configuration settings separately. So be careful you don't assume if you change the settings for one listener that it will cascade to all of them. It won't. This allows you to tune different listeners to collect different information.
Threading: The more threads your load test uses, the harder your load generator will work. This is likely the biggest factor to performance. If you need large-scale load testing, consider running your test across multiple machines. You know your load generator is over burdened when you're pinging the CPU or when you're pushing the upper limits of your memory capacity.
ThEven if you run without the GUI, you're still collection listener data. This is the main reason I consider the View Results Tree and Assertion Response listeners debug tools instead of just something you'd always use. That have overhead. You can either remove them from your test, or if you're running from the command line, add a '-l' argument before the test plan name.
In future tips, we'll look a bit more at some other ways you can use JMeter in your load testing. These tips will include recording tests and tips for making sense of all the results. In the meantime, for more on JMeter, you can always checkout the project website at jakarta.apache.org.
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They played golf, talked football and closely examined the program’s facilities. No surprise, Purdue was woefully behind and needed to move quickly to show a commitment to a struggling program.
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Andreas Elias, 21, of Groves Hill in South Woodford, hit a signpost in Woodford Road, Forest Gate, at 2am on April 20.
Mr Elias previously attended Wanstead High School, in Redbridge Lane East, and worked for security.
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9 months ending 30 September, 2005
Revenues up to $1.8 bn (+30%)
Net Profits up to $106 mn (+ 31 %)
Passenger numbers up to 11m (+20%)
Strong growth in domestic and international traffic
$200 mn joint venture for technical and maintenance service center, called HABOM, is on track
Dr. Temel Kotil, CEO, commenting on the results, said:
`year to date, which reflects a combination of good market conditions for tourism, and the positive development of Turkey’s economy and geopolitical situation. However, our results have been supported by our domestic price policy which increased turnover not only for Turkish Airlines but also for the Turkish aviation market as a whole. Looking forward, we also expect to begin to enjoy returns from our ongoing investment programme in our fleet, which will be one of Europe’s youngest by 2008.
The first nine months of 2005 saw a significant rise in revenues to $1,764 mn (2004:$1,358 mn) brought about by: increased seat capacity, up to 13,823 (+16%) and increased load factor, up to 74% (+3 pt). Revenues have been growing at 13% (CAGR) since 2001, positioning Turkish Airlines as one of the world’s fastest growing airlines.
The 50% increase in aviation fuel prices over 2005 contributed significantly to a 69% increase in fuel expenses to $393 mn, one of Turkish Airline’s largest operating costs. Total operating costs increased by 33% to $1,675 mn. Despite our non-hedging based approach, Turkish Airlines secured lower fuel costs than most other AEA airlines with costs of $1.45 (fuel cost/AASK). In addition, Turkish Airlines maintains amongst the lowest operating ($6.65: Costs/ASK) and personnel costs ($1.67: Personnel Cost/ ASK) of any AEA airline.
For the first 9 months of 2005, profits before tax rose to $154 mn from $129 mn, and net income increased to $106 mn from $81 mn over the same period in 2004.
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KMT addresses party loyalty after complaints
does not plan to hold polls targeting only pan-blue supporters as a measure to assure party loyalty in the candidate nomination process for the next election, and insisted that it respects freedom of expression after party members voiced their objection to KMT Legislator Lo Shu-lei’s (羅淑蕾) open criticism of the party.
Lo, a former member of the People First Party, has been a regular critic of the KMT. She often questions the KMT’s policies in political TV talk shows and has voted against the party line on a joint motion —— to immediately stopDeputy Chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱), who also serves as the deputy legislative speaker, on Tuesday accused Lo of undermining the party’s reputation with her criticism of party policies. She said yesterday that many grassroots supporters shared her concern about Lo’s outspokenness, and called on the KMT to step up its efforts to increase the party’s forward momentum.) joined Hung in questioning Lo’s loyalty to the party, accusing her of being an opportunist who tries to please voters in both the pan-blue and pan-green camps.
He suggested that the KMT make adjustments to its election nomination mechanism and hold polls among only KMT supporters to nominate members with a solid support base in the pan-blue camp.
“It’s okay to question the mistakes the government makes, but non-stop criticism of your own party is an act of opportunism to please voters … Holding polls during the nomination process would eliminate party politicians who are popular outside the pan-blue camp and stop opportunists,” he said.
Lo won the party primary in 2011 over former KMT legislator John Chiang (蔣孝嚴) and stood for the party in the legislative election in Taipei City’s Zhongshan District (中山). Chiang had complained about the primary mechanism that allowed Lo to win the polls in the district, which has a large pan-green support base, and questioned Lo’s loyalty to the KMT.
KMT spokesman Yin Wei (殷瑋) yesterday called for party unity in response to disputes over Lo’s behavior, and said the party does not have plans to change its mechanism for the primaries.
“We respect party members’ freedom of expression, although we expect them to discuss the party’s performance based on facts … The KMT has not yet launched the primary mechanism for the next election, so there are no plans to hold polls that exclude pan-green supporters,” he said.
Lo yesterday dismissed criticism of her behavior and said the party has largely ignored her support of government policies, such as imposing a capital gains tax.


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