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Monday, November 1, 2010
The Clothing of a Scoundrel
An Education is a 2009 British coming-of-age film based on the true story of a bright 16 year old schoolgirl and the thirtyish scoundrel who seduces her in 1960's London. Odile Dicks-Mireaux (A Constant Gardner and Dirty Pretty Things among others) did the men's costumes a la Sean Connery as James Bond.
The men are hatted, narrow tied and tie barred, wearing solids for the most part with lapels that complement the width of the neckties. I am sceptical that British men would have been belted fifty years ago but the palettes would be at home today.
Worth a look for anyone seeking more Mad Men style.
12 comments:
- R. Jacob said...
It takes a keen eye to notice a small detail like that, but of course that is your forte!
- November 1, 2010 at 8:58:00 AM PDT
- JC said...
A cad and bounder too.
- November 1, 2010 at 10:55:00 AM PDT
- Miss Rayne said...
I would say that the 60s were the decade when younger men began to wear belts, across all the classes.
- November 1, 2010 at 11:32:00 AM PDT
- Carmelo Pugliatti said...
Will,you like the style of early 60s?
In Italy suits were clean and net,but not so skinny like in USA. - November 1, 2010 at 1:59:00 PM PDT
- Brummagem Joe said...
Of course guys were belted in sixties London. I was there. In fact braces for the young and youngish were completely beyond the pale. This movie captured the zeitgeist fairly well I'd say. The Bristol the bad guy drives was one of THE cars of the era along with the Alvis, Jaguar E type, Healy 3000, and Aster.
- November 1, 2010 at 2:21:00 PM PDT
- Horatio said...
I loved loved loved that skinny & tight aesthetic as a young man, but always knew that in the modern day, such clothes were costume.
Being of small frame and short stature, I naturally tend towards narrower lapels and ties, but now, in my mature years, find any non-knit tie under 3" unwearable.
Even so, it's nice to see the popularity of narrowness. I'm happy that the zeitgeist is moving more towards my dream, even if it is 20 years too late for me to wear it. - November 1, 2010 at 3:56:00 PM PDT
- Laguna Beach Fogey said...
The 1960s--what an atrocious decade! I wish it would go away.
As if the hippies and stinking flower children weren't enough, now we see the younger unenlightened generation falling in love with the MadMen fad.
One can tell these tubby chaps are cads by the narrow cut of their necktie and jacket lapels.
Narrowness of lapel, narrowness of mind. It all adds up. - November 1, 2010 at 6:00:00 PM PDT
- Brummagem Joe said...
Laguna beach fogey: I'd say you know not of what you speak. Speaking as a 60's Mad Man, you haven't the faintest idea of what a great time it was. The only comparable era was the 90's and that was fairly pale by comparison.
- November 2, 2010 at 10:49:00 AM PDT
- Carmelo Pugliatti said...
Hippies were in late 60s.
We speak of early/mid 60s (1960-1966)a age of taste and elegance,with a great silhoutte for men. - November 2, 2010 at 11:46:00 AM PDT
- Horatio said...
What dem udder guys sed. While I agree with your distaste for the hippies and other horrors of the Cultural Revolution, we are talking about the early 60s, the continuation of the 50's aesthetic.
I must also object to your misrepresentation of pre-Civil Rights America as "narrow-minded." Our forebears built a great, if imperfect, country with unprecedented freedom and prosperity; we have not handled their legacy well at all.
Besides, LBJ and his cohort wore narrow ties and lapels with stingy-brimmed hats (when they were behatted at all), and they don't get accused of narrow-mindedness, now do they? - November 2, 2010 at 2:02:00 PM PDT
- Robin said...
Certainly younger men wore belts in the early '60s.
There are photographs of my grandad in his mid-30s looking pretty sharp in his suit, wearing a belt in what must have been 1963 or '64.
He was a bricklayer from Eltham, South East London (a working class, though neat and tidy part of London) - not into fashion by any stretch of the imagination, but looked pretty smart. - November 4, 2010 at 2:51:00 PM PDT
- Hal said...
In early 1960s Britain belts were certainly worn by younger men but hats were very rarely worn - only a few Mods sported them. Hats had been slowly disappearing since the middle 1930s.
- November 11, 2010 at 2:16:00 AM PST


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Beginning iOS Programming
A couple of months ago I bought an iPad – one of the new ones, with the retina display. It's really lovely. A toy, for sure; a luxury – but a good one to have for that. I've used it a lot – for all the things you'd expect like facebook, mail, twitter, listening to music (and Radio 4), etc. I've also read several books on it (the retina display is very very very easy on the eye), played a few games (particularly Myst, which I'd never played before, and the fascinating Cargo-Bot), and had fun with some music making apps (both NanoStudio and the Korg iMS-20 are good for a few hours' dicking around at least – but I'm more seriously intrigued by the prospect of using it to to control Ableton Live, and I spent a good chunk of last Saturday exploring the options there).
So, yeah, it's a shiny device and lots of exciting things are happening with it. That being so, I'd like to be able to program it, so I'm going to try to get into that now – and probably blog about it a bit here.
I was still running Snow Leopard on my MBP, and the latest XCode requires Lion, so I finally got round to upgrading yesterday (completely painless, should have done it ages ago). So now I can install the latest tools and get cracking.
To that end, I'm gathering materia:
- On my desk I've got the lab's copy of Wei-Meng Lee's Beginning iPad Application Development but it's the 2010 edition, only goes up to iOS 3.2, and has poor reviews on Amazon, so I'm not very excited about that.
- I've ordered a copy of Mark et al's Beginning iPhone 5 Development which looks much better and which I've heard good things about. It should arrive tomorrow, after which point I expect it'll be my main resource for a while.
- For Objective C goodness I've also got Stephen Kochan's Programming in Objective-C 2.0…
- … and my friend David Chisnall's Cocoa Programming Developer's Handbook which is full of clever stuff (some of which you might need to be Chisnall-clever to understand) – mainly Cocoa-specific but the boy knows his stuff and it's definitely got some shiny tips.
- Frosty recommended DocSets to me, so I've got that installed on the iPad for handy second-screen reference.
Any other recommendations for stuff I should be looking at/using/reading/listening to/absorbing through my skin?

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My Dear Friends:
The gavel just fell on an historic Session, as momentous as the last one, which ended discrimination in marriage against gay and lesbian Marylanders and their families. As the confetti rains down on us this Sine Die and we prepare to leave Annapolis, I want to thank all of you for your activism and engagement on behalf of the remarkable changes we have put into motion.
Consider some breakthrough achievements of the Session:
** The Firearm Safety Act of 2013, SB281, one of the strongest pieces of state legislation in America responding to the massacres across the country by deranged men wielding assault weapons and the never-ending death toll from handgun violence in the streets and homes of our cities and towns. This landmark legislation will: ban the purchase of assault style weapons, require fingerprinting and a license to purchase a handgun, limit magazines to 10 rounds of ammunition, bar persons who have been involuntarily committed from purchasing a firearm and improve coordination with the national background check database. Several of the provisions that made it into the final package mirrored the stand-alone bills I offered in the Senate, including the assault weapons ban and the requirement that people notify law enforcement within 72 hours of discovering that one of their firearms is lost or stolen. I am convinced that, because of the comprehensive licensing system, the involvement of State Police in regulating the firearm dealers, and the 72 hour lost-and-stolen provision, we will dramatically reduce the risk of illegal guns entering the criminal underworld through straw purchases, fake "losses," and bad-apple dealers. At the same time, we have been careful to respect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens who continue to enjoy the rights of self-defense and home security with a handgun as well as use of rifles for the purposes of hunting and recreation. There is no right to own a nuclear weapon or a grenade launcher despite the fact that they are "arms," and there is no right to carry the same kinds of assault weapons that are used on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. Although the NRA has been able to stymie meaningful change in Washington, right next door we are showing that it is possible to restore some reason to our gun laws. Thanks to my colleague Senator Brian Frosh for his inspired leadership on the floor, Vinnie De Marco, District 20's own Tony Hausner, who became an influential lobbying force on this legislation, Gina Angiola andMarylanders Against Gun Violence, and so many other District 20 people who joined this campaign, including Jill Ortman-Fouse, Phil and Emily Ackerman, Casey Anderson and Mary Kiraly.
** Abolition of the Death Penalty SB276: After centuries of capital punishment in our state--a history that included the execution of indentured servants who conspired against their masters, the hanging of a witch on the Eastern Shore, outrageous racial disparities and arbitrary enforcement, cruel indifference to the families of murder victims left twisting in the wind for decades, no effective penal deterrence, and the placement of innocent people on Death Row—we repealed the death penalty in SB 276, replacing it with life without the possibility of parole and a commitment to assist the families of crime victims. I want to thank the resilient and brave Kirk Bloodsworth, a former Death Row inmate who spent nine years behind bars and became the first person in America to be exonerated based on DNA evidence. An ex-Marine and a Marylander whose family has been here so long there is a Bloodsworth Island on the Eastern Shore, Kirk is campaigning to abolish the death penalty across the country and has made the prospect of executing innocent people into an issue that can no longer be avoided. We could not have won this battle without him, or without Jane Henderson and the Maryland Committee Against State Executions, or without NAACP National President Benjamin Jealous andNAACP's Maryland President Gerald Stansbury, without the Maryland ACLU, or without District 20 activists like Holly Syrakos and Peter Jones, American University Professor Rick Stack and my WCL colleague Cynthia Jones, as well as the incredible activism of the inter-faith religious community, especially pressure from the MarylandCatholic Conference and Bishop William Lorrie, Rabbis Michael Feshbach, Mark Loeb, and Gerry Serotta, and the many Quaker, Baptist, Methodist, and Unitarian Universalist activists, like Reverend Liz Lerner McClay. I will never forget, and will always treasure, the four days that I spent as floor leader in the Senate fighting off dozens of amendments and a Republican filibuster, and I thank you for the hundreds of calls, messages and visits you sent me during that time.
** The Mortgage Assistance Relief Act, SB383, legislation that I introduced to empower our Commissioner of Financial Regulation, our Attorney General, and other state law enforcement officials to crack down on the continuing scams perpetrated against Marylanders homeowners who are under water and other consumers struggling with debt. This legislation, the last bill to pass in the Senate just a few moments ago, will permit tough administrative action against scam artists who demand upfront fees to negotiate debt refinancing and who charge people in debt exorbitant service fees based on extravagant promises about debt consolidation that are never kept. This important law will provide Marylanders with the same protections against predatory practices made available federally under the regulations of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
** Stopping False Liens SB770, legislation I introduced in consultation with State's Attorneys and Sheriffs across Maryland to outlaw the filing of knowingly false or fraudulent liens against other people's homes and property. This outrageous practice has become a widespread trend with far-right groups like the Sovereign Citizen movement that deny the legitimacy of the American government, our legal institutions and our currency. Falsely claiming that public officials who enforce the law are in debt to them for hundreds of millions or, in one case, even billions of dollars, members of such groups have been slapping liens on innocent people's homes and property and making their lives a legal and bureaucratic hell. My hope is that this law will stop them in their tracks.
** Protecting Medical Marijuana Caregivers, SB580, follows up on legislation I introduced two years ago by establishing that carefully defined medical "caregivers"--people who have no criminal record and are assisting very ill people to use medical marijuana--may themselves have a defense if criminally prosecuted for handling the drug. Meantime, we also passed legislation authorizing university hospitals to set up medical marijuana clinics to distribute the drug to seriously ill patients, like people with cancer, AIDS, and multiple sclerosis, so that they do not have to buy marijuana from criminal drug dealers. We continue to see positive motion forward in reforming our drug laws.
** Reasonable Accommodations for Disabilities Due to Pregnancy, SB784, requires employers to work with their employees to come up with "reasonable accommodations" of pregnancy-related disabilities. As the floor manager for this legislation, which was introduced by Senator Joanne Benson and District 20 Delegate Tom Hucker, I was thrilled to work with women's groups, progressive businesses and unions across the state to establish fairness in the workplace to permit pregnant women to keep working.
** The Food Allergy Awareness Act, SB390, is a bill I introduced with Delegate Sheila Hixson that will require restaurants to display a poster explaining food allergies and ingredients to their employees so they can better handle questions from customers who have food allergies and establishes a task force to study how to handle food allergies in food service facilities. The idea for this bill came from a young constituent we have,Quinn Buckley, who came to Annapolis with his parents Michael and Marianne to testify about how difficult it is for his family to eat out at a restaurant given his severe peanut allergy and the lack of information and training available to waiters and waitresses. Thank you, Quinn! Keep up your great activism and your hard work at Sligo Creek Elementary School.
** Bond Bill funding for Maryland Youth Ballet, Pyramid Atlantic and the Takoma Park and Silver Spring Shared Use Community Kitchen! These bills provide state funds for the Youth Ballet to make major energy improvements to the beautiful downtown facility, construction of the Pyramid Atlantic center at the new Silver Spring library, and construction of a new community kitchen in Takoma Park that will create the opportunity for many groups and people to engage in community cooking and meals.
Near-Misses: We Live to Fight Again. . .
** We didn't pass everything we wanted. We lost, on a heartbreaking 23-22 floor vote, the HOME Act, which would forbid discrimination against tenants based on the source of their income and rental payments. This law would protect elderly and disabled people who survive on Social Security benefits, homeless veterans receiving VASH vouchers under Section 8, other working poor people dependent on Section 8 vouchers, and women dependent on alimony or child support, We have had this law for decades in Montgomery County, Frederick City and County, Howard County and Annapolis and it has proven a big success popular among both tenants and landlords. We will definitely be back to fight for this legislation with housing advocates and a great interfaith coalition working on it.
** We failed to overcome industry opposition to the Community Cleanup and Greening Act of 2013, the statewide bag bill designed to clean up our waterways and beautify the Bay. But we have a great environmental coalition building statewide and we will keep pushing to clean our streams and waterway of plastic garbage!
** The full Senate and the House Environmental Matters Committee passed the bill I introduced to require that the 30-hour drivers' education course in the state include a 15-minute video on the mechanics and importance of organ donation. Most people don't know that there are 18 life-saving organ transplants every single day but that 80 people die every day for lack or an organ donor. This instructional video, prepared by Donate Life Maryland, will educate young Marylanders about to get their licenses on how organ donation works. Alas, the bill went down without a vote on the House floor in the last few minutes of Sine Die.
** We again failed to pass the Fairness for All Marylanders Act, which would prohibit discrimination against trans-gender people in housing, employment, and public accomodations. Many counties, like Montgomery County, Howard County, Baltimore County and Baltimore City already have these essential protections, and we need to overcome the "bathroom anxiety" associated with this bill and legislate equal rights for everyone.
** After unanimous passage in the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee and on the Senate floor, my legislation to deny paternity rights to rapists in the children they conceive in the course of an attack, alas, collapsed again on the House side in the face of strong opposition by a few members of the House Judiciary Committee. After three years of trying to protect women who decide to have babies in this crisis situation, we clearly need a major statewide mobilization on the issue and I will be in touch about this. The last thing women in this situation need is their sexual assailants interfering with their lives.
** We need to figure our more effective strategies for empowering small business and curbing the habits of both corporate welfare and corporate dominance in our politics. As you know, I worked with Councilman George Leventhal, peace activist Jean Athey, and so many unions and local groups who organized the successful effort to strip $1.4 million in retroactive funding for Lockheed Martin to "reimburse" them for lodging taxes paid at their conference and hotel complex and the effort, alas unsuccessful, to stop the hotel tax break of $450,000 a year that just passed the House earlier today. I led the fight on the Senate floor against this indefensible giveaway. I wrote an article a few weeks ago for the Nation magazine about this scandalous subsidy to the world's largest defense contractor, which already draws $300 a year from every taxpaying American family in the so-called "Lockheed Martin tax." You can read the article here. Similarly, my legislation, SB 772, to block corporations from engaging in corporate spending or contributions without proving that they have a mechanism for assessing the political views of their shareholders was never even given a committee vote. If the premise of the Citizens United era is that CEOs have unlimited "free speech" rights to spend treasury money on politics because corporations are just associations of citizen-shareholders, then the CEOs should not be able to spend without the explicit consent of the shareholders. And if most stock is owned by institutional shareholders, like employee pension funds or universities, the corporations should be forbidden to spend in politics because whose views are they representing when they speak?
There is much more to do, and miles to go before I sleep, but I am happy to report to you, my dear friends and constituents, that we are making progress every Session and every day. The Mishnah says that it is "not incumbent upon us to finish the task, but neither are we free to desist from it." So we continue to move forward on the values and priorities of our wonderful community. . .
With all best wishes and thanks,
Jamie Raskin
Ps The Washington Post recently took note of our progressive surge in Maryland, although the newspaper gave these dramatic events a somewhat different spin than I did. To me, it's clear that the politicians are just now catching up with the people. The heart of the word "progressive" is "progress" and this is exactly what we are making in Maryland.


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The U.S. Postal Service plans to end Saturday mail delivery as soon as August to cut financial losses, a change Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said it can make without Congress's approval if necessary.
The service, which lost $15.9 billion last year, said it would continue six-day deliveries of packages, deliver mail to post-office boxes and keep open retail locations that now operate on Saturdays.
The change would lead to the elimination of 22,500 full- time equivalent jobs and reduce costs by as much as $2 billion a year, Donahoe said. Job cuts can be made by attrition and buyouts, he said at a news conference in Washington.
"We need to generate nearly $20 billion in cost reductions and revenue increases to be able to close our budget gap and repay our debt," Donahoe said at the service's headquarters.
Lawmakers have stifled previous cost-cutting proposals, including efforts to end Saturday mail delivery.
Cutting Saturday delivery is allowed under Congress's continuing resolution funding government operations that expires March 27, Donahoe said.
"It is our opinion with the way the law is set with the continuing resolution, we can make this change," he said.
House Speaker John Boehner said lawmakers need to have bipartisan conversations about the Postal Service's future and take action.
"Trying to act in this postal area is pretty difficult," the Ohio Republican told reporters Wednesday. "Congress has tied their hands every which way."
The post office's losses have continued to widen and are estimated at $25 million a day. Mail volume is down 26 percent from its 2006 peak. To pay bills and keep the mail moving, the postal service has had to skip $11.1 billion of required payments over the past two years for future retirees' health costs. It exhausted its $15 billion borrowing authority last September.
The service, which has 521,000 career employees, says it will run out of money in October even after ignoring this year's retiree health obligation. If it can't pay workers or buy fuel for trucks, Americans looking for their bills, magazines and catalogs could find empty mailboxes.
Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican who leads the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which oversees post office operations, backed Wednesday's proposal. Issa included elimination of Saturday delivery in a postal bill that didn't come to a vote in the House last year.
Issa and Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, his party's senior member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Congress calling the change to five-day delivery a "common-sense reform" that is "worthy of bipartisan support."
Sen. Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat who heads the governmental affairs committee, said he's "disappointed" by the Postal Service's move. A Senate measure approved last year would have required the service to study Saturday delivery changes for two years and Carper said he'd prefer that route.
"Despite my disappointment, it's hard to condemn the Postmaster General for moving aggressively to do what he believes he can and must do to keep the lights on at the Postal Service, which may be only months away from insolvency," Carper said in a statement.
President Barack Obama's budget proposal for fiscal 2013, released last year, called for cutting one day of mail delivery each week.
Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers union, called the move "disastrous" and said Donahoe should resign or be ousted.
"If the Postmaster General is unwilling or unable to develop a smart growth strategy that serves the nearly 50 percent of business mailers that want to keep six-day service, and if he arrogantly thinks he is above the law or has the right to decide policy matters that should be left to Congress, it is time for him to step down," Rolando said in an emailed statement.
Americans, by an almost 4-1 majority, supported ending Saturday mail delivery in a 2011 national poll of registered voters by Quinnipiac University, in Hamden, Conn.
About 5 percent of the postal service's employees in January accepted a cost-cutting early retirement offer. The service says it has already cut about 60,000 full-time jobs in the past two years.
Donahoe, in a Jan. 3 statement, urged Congress to make postal legislation "an urgent priority."
"We are on an unsustainable financial path," Donahoe said. "The Postal Service should not have to do business this way."
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We simply need SEVERAL competing currencies. Some digital or paper against holdings others just solid precious metals. We can have quite a variety and let the "market" decide which ones will be successful. Personally I think we need to get back to currency being cumbersome for quite some time until any of us are going to trust a "system" we can't see, touch or feel run by strangers far away. I think credit lines with stores, merchants, utilities etc are fine and can take care of most of our transactional spending but should be paid in hard PM currency.
The most important thing is we let the FED and their fractional reserve banking go off on their own. If anyone wants to deal with them then fine but the rest of us need several options.
We definitely need to make sure every " of currency that goes into the stockmarket is transfered out of US dollars and into a completely backed currency. This crap of creating money out of thin air then multiplying it by 10 crap is for the birds. They play the stockmarket like a slot machine using worthless slugs.
To me letting strangers hold or manage my currency is as logical as letting them hold or manage my children. The essence of the entire thing will just never work out for very long before there are problems. They are simply too easily corrupted and too hard to keep secured.
You hit on two keys there:Personally I think we need to get back to currency being cumbersome for quite some time until any of us are going to trust a "system" we can't see, touch or feel run by strangers far away.
"...we can't see, touch or feel..."
"...run by strangers far away..."
There is something to be said, I think, for a small committed group willing to circle the wagons in defense of one another's property--in addition to their own. That's what I want to put to the test in a way that I don't think has ever been tested before.
Should states even be involved in currency at all?
If they are involved, then what exactly should the state do, beyond simply having a policy of what currency it uses in its own transactions? Did those states have legal tender laws? If so, that might be more of the cause of their problems than multiple currencies. If the currencies are all commodity-based, and none of them are given a legal monopoly status, then they'll be interchangeable, and people, wherever they live, will choose to use the currencies that are most widely accepted and trustworthy when exchanging them for metals.
Im not a libertarian. Im not advocating everyone run around with no clothes on and smoke pot.
To anyone that sent me a PM and didn't get a reply, check your inbox, it's full! Small quota on this system, and I can't send a reply.
That's the whole historically misapplied point of a "standard". It's just intended as a convenience, to make trade more efficient, with UNITS that can be referred to that relate to a commonly traded weight and purity for a given UNIT.
If everyone is following the same standard, the flow of trade is supposedly made more efficient, as we all refer to the same predictable UNITS. Fortunately, we have all the standards we need. We didn't ever need EAGLES, DOLLARS and CENTS in the first place, except perhaps as a branding mechanism, to distinguish them from other currencies. Troy ounces and grains (or any other metric) were always sufficient. The problem (for currency debasers only) is that you can't change a Troy ounce (or a gallon or an inch) into something else. Unless your Great Britain and you start with a thing called a POUND STERLING, and it ends up eventually having a meaning that has NOTHING to do with its original.
As for actual standards of weights and measures, we have evolved, and have all that down pat now. There is no problem with transporting and trading gallons of milk across state lines, or even deciding to package and measure them as liters, and going back and forth between the two. A gallon is a gallon, and a liter is a liter, and everyone knows what they are, and it's easy enough to convert between the two.
We're not in Confederate times, and technology has all but eliminated many of the former problems of currency inefficiency. Go to pay with gold and/or silver junk coins to someone who accepts it regularly as payment, and watch what they do. They won't count the coins. They won't bite them, or examine the ridges. They'll pull out an electronic scale, and calculate the PM contents for themselves. And for many you can pay in jewelry and flatware, and once they know that it's genuine (quick acid tests) they'll do the same with that.
That, and whatever the courts will "make" currency by default in adjudication, absent specific tenable terms in a contract that declares otherwise. Constitutionally that is nothing but gold and silver coin. But all states disregard the Constitution on that little explicitly stated sticking point. Beyond that, there is no need for state involvement. What private parties choose to use as current money is between those two parties alone, and ostensibly voluntary on both parts, with the state NOT a party of interest.
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With the current technology available "paper" currency is simply WAY too easy to counterfeit. That is just with domestic crooks but the largest problem you have is international crooks and foreign governments counterfeiting the currency. We constantly find tens of millions and even billions in counterfeited currency and Treasury Bonds overseas.
We are on the absolute very last leg of using paper or digital currency at all. They are both so easily corrupted/counterfeited a couple teenagers could do it. Current paper reproduction and digital security breaching technology is simply too cheap and easily attainable. You have to remember the Federal Reserve and World Bank crooks have trillions in real estate, corporations, stocks, PM's etc etc etc. These people are global terrorists and crooks beyond anything the innocent sheeple of this country could comprehend.
I mean these people will invade a country, assassinate its leaders and slaughter 600,000 civilians to keep a small middle eastern government using the US Dollar for oil transactions. What chance do you think a paper or digital currency stands against these human holocausts? I have no doubt these people will resort to heinous crimes beyond our comprehension to get back into power.
No thanks.... the paper and digital crap is playing right into their hands. We have to K.I.S.S..... keep it simple stupid. Drag around and hide PM's or such and have monthly types of credit lines for daily and monthly type transactional business. They are simply not going to go digging up backyards and beating open safes but the second you "CENTRALIZE" anything they are on it like a dog on a bone. At this point only a complete fool would centralize any currency competing with the FED bankers. They would "eat your liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti".
It is imperative to TOTALLY decentralize the "payment of goods/services" situation with multiple tangible transactional commodities. If one becomes unstable we simply move to another one. The damage is minimized.
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Good point about paper money. However, gold standard can be just as crooked. In earlier times, nations would plunder another's wealth just to get their gold, so they could create more money to expand their empires. England used fractional reserve banking in the 1600's, so they could expand the economy without having to do that.
Ron Paul did make a good point on a talk show one night when gas went up to about $4.00/gallon. He said he could get it down to a dime a gallon. The host asked how, he said: How much is an old silver dime worth? About $4. So there is stability with pm currency. I heard of one company that paid its employees with pm coins. They reported the face value to the IRS, so they didn't show much income to pay taxes on.
You could get local merchants to accept a local currency "backed" by Bitcoin. Just create an alternative client or app that uses the Bitcoin blockchain but has the local logo or currency name. I spoke to the guys at bitpay who said that they may be able to create a sort of "gift card" that has Bitcoin value behind it. There are also printable bitcoin bills and bitcoin coins that could be traded.
If the local merchants all accept it and use it, then it would thrive as a local currency. There is a guy in Berlin working to get several restaurants and stores to accept Bitcoin, he has 4 so far.
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DURHAM — The next time Tyler Kelleher takes the ice at the Whittemore Center he'll be one of the good guys.
Kelleher, who is listed at 5-6 and 154 pounds, didn't figure in the scoring Sunday, but did have a goal and an assist Saturday night in a 3-1 win over Merrimack to add to his team-leading totals of 13 goals and 25 points.
Shane Eiserman, who also played for the U.S. U18 team Sunday, can't wait to wear the UNH jersey either. That's what attracted him to the program in the first place.
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Where: The National Marine Life Center, 120 Main Street, Buzzards Bay
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Tuesday, July 3rd – Thursday, August 30th
Join the Marine Life Center for marine animal-themed story time and arts and crafts! Different theme each week. All ages welcome, and most suitable for children ages 3-8. Children must be supervised.
WEEKLY THEMES: July 3, 5: Polar Bears & Sea Otters
July 10, 12: Sea Turtles
July 17, 19: Manatees & Dugongs
July 24, 26: Dolphins, Porpoises, & Whales
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August 28, 30: Red-Bellied Cooters & Diamondback Terrapins
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Hi Partners-
Please reply to this discussion if you are in District 562 and have partners participating in the Walk for Water at the end of the month. Have they created a profile here yet? It would be great to have them on so they can join the event here and be linked in to join future events.
Do you need more flyers? I have some extra ones if you need them. Thanks!
Hello Wendy! I as well as Matt Juergens will be participating in the event!
Wendy, Edgar Corral, Stephanie Dallman & Amy Kubiak from 14020 will be walking!
Hey Wendy, wanted to keep you updated, Edgar, Stephanie & Amy will be volunteering instead of walking.
Hi Wendy!
I have 2 partners and myself (with the kiddos) that will be walking. :)
Hi Everyone!
How was the Walk for Water? Let me know and post some pictures! Congratulations on a job well done. I'm proud to be your partner and will see you at the next event!
My partners from 14020 had a great time, they volunteered with the registration, and were done in enough time to walk for a couple of hours as well. I should have some pictures to add soon. Thank you to everyone who helped with this event, I look forward to the next one!
Hi Wendy! The walk was a blast! It was great to see so many participants as well as familiar faces from our district! :D


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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Creep Chic
Stacy Downs is a great style editor and writer for the Kansas City Star. When she called to say they would like to feature Curious Sofa in a Halloween story I was thrilled. We went shopping for ideas and inspiration to help her readers get a jump on their fall decorating. The shot above was staged for the cover story outside the shop. Stacy wanted to recreate what we had done last year for her readers. Read the article here. Enjoy!
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- http://joymariesboutique.blogspot.com/ said...
Love you upside down witch. You have such a stunning blog. I admire your courage to open the boutique. It is very inspirational. I have an online boutique but haven't taken the next step to do a store front. I welcome any advice or trade-secrets.
Best Wishes!
http://joymariesboutique.blogspot.com/ - Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 10:24:00 AM CST
- just a little bit shabby said...
That's so cute! Congrats on being chosen to be featured, it is great publicity for your shop!Enjoy!
Sandy - Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 11:51:00 AM CST
- Lorie said...
That witch is SO CUTE! I love it!
- Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 2:15:00 PM CST
- Crowsnest Pass Primitive Folk Art said...
Great Legs, but I love those stockings even more!! Susan
- Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 4:22:00 PM CST
- Elise said...
VERY funny ! Thank you so much - I now have a smile on my face
- Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 5:19:00 AM CST
- Franny said...
This is so neat! And your front doors are so inviting...I'm mellll*ting....!
- Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 6:25:00 AM CST
- donna said...
Always so inspiring! You never cease to amaze...Just saw the piece you did for the Christmas Ideas mag...Too Fun!
- Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 3:01:00 PM CST
- The Apiary said...
Love the witch. I have to borrow this for my own porch. I am always so inspired by your Halloween Ideas.
- Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 6:13:00 PM CST
- Tattered Goods said...
What a riot you are... I love it! I hope your Monday is beautiful.
Sheila - Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 10:38:00 PM CST
- Coordinately Yours said...
I'm so honored to have been featured along side of you!
- Monday, September 21, 2009 at 10:00:00 AM CST
- Brenda said...
This is just too cute! I love Halloween.
Brenda - Monday, September 21, 2009 at 2:56:00 PM CST
- The author said...
It was just as fun in person as I thought it'd be. What a neat staged photo.
- Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 11:32:00 AM CST
What Christmas idea? Please share a link when you have it, or the title of the magazine!
Thanks. - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 4:04:00 AM CST
- My Selective Memories said...
What a fabulous store (and blog). Congratulations on your feature!!
Living in North Carolina, I can't visit your store, but do your featured artists have websites or blogs? I would love to know more about many of them. - Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 5:06:00 PM CST
Ok, I was in today and bought my $63 worth of stuff to do my part for your store. I have my eye on some other things so I will get them next month! I am not one of the ones that can buy the big ticket items, but I'd hate to lose your store, so I'll help little by little! I asked about when Christmas goes up. I LOVE Christmas time and I can't wait to see what ideas you have! I have collected a lot of the old white ironstone/ restraunt dishes and some of your old silver. I think I see an idea on how to use those forming in my minds eye. Your staff are so friendly.
- Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 7:38:00 PM CST
- Curious Sofa said...
$63?!!! Honey, that is a great amount. DO NOT apologize. If only every warm body that walked in would do that. All sales help. Thanks for the support.
- Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 9:45:00 PM CST
- Tara Powell said...
Wow, I am in awe of all your Halloween decor! I love having Halloween parties and it's great seeing some decorations that are as sinister and macabre as mine!
I think my favorite is the lighted dollhead fixture- genius.
I live in the Kansas City area and have not been in your store, I will be sure to pay you a visit!
Tara - Friday, September 25, 2009 at 12:09:00 PM CST
When I was in your store last week I found a real treasure! Your zinc labels are fabulous! They were pretty well hidden on the shelf, but I found them and I LOVE them! I have baskets hanging from my bedroom doors and they look fantastic hanging on them by using a piece of thin jute. You really need to put those out where more people will see them! I think I may have to come back and get more, as I shared the ones I bought with my daughter.
- Monday, September 28, 2009 at 11:07:00 AM CST
- pinkstilettos said...
LOL...those legs look real! I really like what you have done here. Have a great day!
Daisy~ - Monday, September 28, 2009 at 1:11:00 PM CST
- thefrenchflea said...
Love the witch. You have a great blog!
- Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 7:09:00 PM CST


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Rejuvenate hands and neck with the dermatologist Fredric Brandt's trio of treatments — Clear and Brilliant (collagen-stimulating laser), Ultherapy (lifting, firming ultrasound) and Botox and Belotero (filler). Results are immediate, though continuing treatment delivers bigger results. Go to drfredricbrandt.com.
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The cardiologist Alejandro Junger says that a daily dose of Ashwagandha — the ayurvedic equivalent of ginseng — can increase energy, immunity and tolerance to stress. Take yours (available at health food stores) with a serving of Juice Press's Tropi-zyme, fortified with wheat grass. Go to juicepress.com.
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Prep lips for the season's bold colors by using a weekly anti-aging mask, like Kaplan MD Lip 20 Mask, $48. Go to kaplanmd.com.
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Debloat with a Manual Lymph Drainage body treatment from the aesthetician Isabelle Bellis. Starting at $450; isabellebellis.com.
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Carroll County Times Challenges Commissioner's Policy to Redact Email Addresses
The State's Attorney General's Office told the board of Carroll County Commissioners in late December that it cannot unilaterally redact email addresses from Public Information Act requests.
Following a recent decision by the State's Attorney General's Office stating that local governments should not unilaterally redact email addresses from Public Information Act (PIA) requests, the Carroll County Times made a request for "all email distribution lists from Carroll County commissioners."
According to Carroll County Attorney Timothy Burke, the county received the Times' PIA request on Feb. 12. The county has 30 days to respond to the request. Maryland's Public Information Act gives the public the right to access government records without unnecessary cost and delay, according to the attorney general's office.
In a December 2011 board of Carroll County commissioners meeting, the board unanimously voted to redact email addresses from PIA requests, citing security concerns. The board asked the State's Attorney General's Office to weigh in on its decision.
The State's Attorney General's Office returned its opinion to the Board of Carroll County Commissioners in late December 2012 concluding that email addresses should not be unilaterally redacted from PIA requests. However, the attorney general's 16-page opinion also noted that there are some scenarios where it is appropriate for email addresses to be redacted.
In Thursday's meeting, the commissioners concluded that the request from the Times was vague and therefore difficult to comply with. There were differing opinions on whether "all email distribution lists" refers to all names in a contact list, or all emails from any communication with the commissioners, or lists that have been created specifically to send out correspondence such as a newsletter.
"What they're really doing is they're [Carroll County Times] testing the law with this," Rothschild said.
According to Burke, if the county does not comply with the PIA request, the county must then petition the court to get a ruling on its decision to withhold the information.
Commissioner Robin Frazier pointed out that there is a bill being considered in Annapolis that would allow for the removal of email addresses from PIA requests.
Burke laid out several options for the commissioners. He said the county could ask for clarification from the Times on exactly what information they want. Or, Burk said, the board could ask the Times to wait until state legislation is voted on.
Commissioner Richard Rothschild commented that maybe the board should just go to the court to get a determination since the request is not cluttered by any other controversial issues.
"We're gonna have to reckon with this. This is a very simple request," Rothschild said. "There are no other peripheral issues involved here ... maybe we should go ahead and test it. Let's take it to the Circuit Court and let one of our judges decide. It's not going to get any easier than this, there's nothing else associated with this other than 'give me all your emails'."
Commissioner Haven Shoemaker said he would rather wait for statutory change than take a gamble with going to court. Rothschild said it could take months for the bill to be dealt with in state legislature.
The board directed Burke to ask the Times for clarification on their PIA request and to see if the Times is willing to hold the PIA request until the state makes a decision on the bill dealing with this issue.
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David J Iacono
10:54 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
Let's face it, this do nothing Board of Commissioners is the worst we have seen in Carroll County. Their tenure in office has accomplished nothing for the voters and has actually cost taxpayers unnecessary funds for frivolous activities like Robin Frazier's exhorbitant travel claims and bogus climate change summits that enriched those in Baltimore County. In 2014, let's deep six this Board and elect a responsible board that wants to govern instead of promote their extreme right-wing tea bagger ideology in Carroll County.
Kym Byrnes
11:31 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
Just FYI, here is Senator Getty's bill to keep email addresses out of PIA requests. The bill suggests that email address should not be public record. http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2013RS/bills/sb/sb0880f.pdf
4:16 pm on Saturday, February 23, 2013
If email address should not be made public, then neither should home or work addresses...or they should go one step further with their crazieness and have all the information on the SDAT website redacted.
4:16 pm on Saturday, February 23, 2013
If email address should not be made public, then neither should home or work addresses...or they should go one step further with their crazieness and have all the information on the SDAT website redacted.
Ross Dangel
12:13 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
Thanks Kym. So reading between the lines, we have 5 Commissioners (2 in particular) who are not in favor of open government and would like to continue to conduct the public's business in secrecy. They are willing to instruct our delegation to waste time on supporting legislation that promotes now illegal secrecy in government in Annapolis. And when this fails, which it of course will, because it's completely stupid, Rothschild & Frazier want to invest more taxpayer's money in a lawsuit to allow them to keep secrets from the public. I thought the Tea Party was all about freedom...promoting secrecy sounds like more the thing a fascist government would support. Glad to hear the Times is challenging them...again!
Robin Nicole
12:33 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
What is the Carroll County Times going to do with this information once they receive it? THAT'S what I'm curious about.
Buck Harmon
2:01 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
The Commissioners should provide the Times with the information that is sought within 30 days, as the law requires..
.Because they know that they are intentionally breaking the law, a higher degree of accountability should be sought for non compliance.
Intentionally manipulating the law with false or wrong denial should also warrant an internal investigation of those who choose to break the law.
3:56 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
I agree Buck. Plainly, they seem to be making a mountain out of a molehill. If they have nothing to hide and aren't really doing anything wrong, why all this cloak & dagger stuff? Save us the sanctimonious crap about privacy concerns and protecting citizens from cyber criminals, it's their butts they are worried about and we all know it!...Are they hiding illegal activities like using their public offices and staff for personal campaign and fund-raising activities or maybe using official government and county resources to organize private Tea Party or other neo-Nazi political activities...nah, not these Commissioners! :) As the old saying goes, "where there is smoke, there is fire". If they have nothing to hide, why all the drama? Now lots more people may be interested in what's in those emails and exactly who they are going to. I think it's indeed a public concern if a Commissioner is abusing the public trust by using their office for personal or political gain. They took an oath and have a responsibility to protect Carroll's interests, not play e-mail footsie with a bunch of national Tea Party nuts. The law is pretty clear on this subject, even in Carroll County when you know the judge.
10:34 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
I would hope the CCT's pursues this issue. The law clearly states that this information is to be made public. Also, if a denial to provide the information is the response from the County to the requestor, the County is to take the reason for the denial to the State's Attorney's office for approval. I don't believe the County has ever followed the law and asked the State's Attorney to validate their denial to provide the information.
Bonnie Grady
5:50 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
Actually, the Commissioners would have to take it to the Circuit Court, not the State's Attorney. And the burden of proof is on the "custodian of the records" to demonstrate why they should not be released. The Commissioners are dancing around this by pretending to be confused as to the exact meaning of "email lists" as used by the Carroll County Times. They know exactly what it means and they have no intention of releasing any of it. BTW, Kym, do you have copies of those emails that Rothschild provided to Neil Ridgely under a PIA request about a year ago? They demonstrate clearly what is being alleged in these comments: that Rothschild and his assistant Kathy Fuller have been running a national political campaign out of the County Office Building. Those emails serve as absolute proof of that. The public needs to see those. Let me know if you don't have them and I'll provide them for you.
Artemus Gordon
4:12 pm on Saturday, February 23, 2013
If county e=mail resources are being used, we have a right to see anyone to whom information is being sent (newsletter should be a matter of public record. The"chilling effect" would be if they are able to conceal this onformation. Rothschild and Frazier complained about the meetings that Howard and Shoemaker are conducting throughout the county which were advertised in the paper and on the county website) but resist full disclosure on their contacts. Commissioners should be able to travel to any part of the county to hear citizen viewpoints. That is why they need to run county-wide and not district-wide. We are reaping the bitter harvest of that bad decision by our state delegation. Some full disclosure on how that was orchestrated would be interesting to see some of the county interests that were involved in disregarding the county-drawn map by the voters and doing what they wanted. I heard a radio ad this morning aqbount the institute on the constitution that conducted the classes for county employees (thank goodness they weren't mandatory). They are conducting classes in the near future and urged you to bring your pastors along. Whichever persons who pushed the idea of having classes on the constitution and picking this institute (instead of a college or law school) to conduct this class (still should not have been mandatory) reveal why we need to know e-mail information done with county reonsources and for county business. Artemus Gordon
Bonnie Grady
5:54 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
Can you say "Delegate Donald Elliott, (R) Union Bridge"? He's the one who threw in that shady little change at the last minute. And Haines, Stocksdale, Krebs, et al, went along with it.
Judith M. Smith
12:53 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
People should take the time to go back to EyeonCarroll to see why this whole redacting issue was started...Carroll County staff was using county resources and time to send a newsletter that was to selected people for political purposes...Check it out
Ross Dangel
4:04 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
@Artemus-The Commissioner district maps is an old dead issue, but most definitely was something that was 100% political and engineered to elect exactly the kind of extreme board of Commissioners we now have. Specifically, the Wheatley map that was the choice of the Republican Central Committee was designed to unseat Commissioners Perry Jones & Julia Gouge, who weren't beholden to real estate interests and were just too moderate for the folks in the RCC. Property Rights Senator, Larry Haines never wanted 5 Commissioners, but when it got through "accidentally", the law was purposely a mess and the only choice was to ignore voters and rig the election districts to keep the power base in Westminster. The non-partisan (Option 2) map chosen by the bi-partisan districting Commission and overwhelmingly supported by all of the municipalities, would have kept Gouge in her natural district and not put Jones on an island with Union Bridge at the northern tip of his district. It would have also given more representation to a rising S. Carroll who carries the tax base. Ironically, now Senator Joe Getty's lawsuit killed map Option 2 that the courts ordered, but years later the delegation successfully enacted their rigged map on a closed door vote, so that's what we have now. It's really no different than what O'Malley and the Democrats did to Rep. Roscoe Bartlett with their ridiculous re-districting. Absolute power corrupts absolutely!
Bonnie Grady
9:22 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
And so now they've done it! The Fighting 59th decided to take their petty, personal, politically motivated fight to court, on your dime, Carroll County! They say they don't have money to fund our schools, they say they don't have money for infrastructure projects, they say they can't support human services programs, but by garsh, they can waste our tax dollars to play their silly little games, all in the name of politics. If the voters of this county are STUPID enough to vote these people back in office next time, or to replace them with new Tea Baggers, then you will once again get the government you deserve!


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