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Every day, you can see signs of a subtle change in relations between Cuba and the U.S. at Miami International Airport.
More Cubans than ever before are coming to the U.S. to visit, and the number of Cuban-Americans traveling back to the island is also at record levels. With all the visitors, money and goods are now traveling to the island from the United States.
It's a legal loophole in the 50-year-old trade embargo — one that's having a real impact on Cuba's economy, and allowing Cuban-Americans to become investors in Cuba's emerging private sector.
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Shortly after taking office, President Obama made it possible for more Americans than ever before to travel to Cuba. He began by lifting restrictions on Cuban-Americans. Before the change, they could travel to Cuba only once every three years.
Last year, Cuba's government made an even more unexpected move: It began allowing its citizens to visit the U.S., with few restrictions.
Now, eight or nine regularly scheduled charter flights leave Miami daily for Havana and other Cuban cities. At the airport, nearly everyone waiting in line is carrying packages and large suitcases, even flat-screen TVs and other appliances.
Ana Dilla was waiting in line recently with her two in-laws, who were returning home to Cuba after a short visit. Their bags were full of goods they purchased to take home.
"Hair items, clothing, shoes, hygiene items, makeup," Dilla says — all items that are hard to get in Cuba.
Traveling from the U.S. to Cuba is still a hassle. There are restrictions on the type of goods you can bring and how much. Over a certain limit, and travelers pay a penalty. Cuba also assesses customs duties on some goods.
But Dilla says the new freedom to travel has made a big difference to her in-laws and others in Cuba.
"It was a big deal for them, absolutely," she says. "It was much easier than in the past, so it's a good thing. Things are getting a little bit better."
Because of the changes in regulations in both countries, travel between the U.S. and Cuba is at record levels — and growing. That includes so-called people-to-people travel, trips that are organized by groups for education or cultural exchange.
But by far, most of the travel to Cuba is by Cuban-Americans, and it's having an important economic impact on the island.
"The presence of the Cuban-Americans is just undeniable," says Joe Scarpaci, who heads the Center for the Study of Cuban Culture and the Economy and has co-authored a book on Cuba's emerging consumer culture.
Perhaps even more important than their travel are the unrestricted remittances Cuban-Americans can now send back to family on the island. Scarpaci estimates that goods and cash sent by Cuban-Americans now is in the range of $5 billion a year, making it the nation's second-largest source of income.
Using a Cuban slang term, he calls it, " Gusanos carrying gusanos."
" Gusano is the derogatory term that the folks of the island refer to when the Cubans left the revolution — they crawled away from the glories of the revolution. Now they're bringing back these duffel bags that are long and shaped like worms, or gusanos," Scarpaci says.
The goods carried in those duffels aren't just clothing and cologne. Deep-fat fryers, power saws, electric drills and soldering irons are in great demand in Cuba. Scarpaci says he knows of many small businesses there that have started up with goods and cash supplied by Cuban-Americans.
"From small restaurants to home body repairs to plastic-mold makers for use of children's toys. In every one of those instances, the capital for that has come from family members abroad," he says.
Free Market Activity
Nearly 600,000 U.S. travelers — mostly Cuban-Americans — visited Cuba last year. Polls show a majority of Cuban-Americans now support unrestricted travel to Cuba. A majority also believe Americans should be allowed to invest in Cuban businesses.
There are some, though, who believe unrestricted family travel has led to abuses. Mauricio Claver-Carone is the director of the U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC, a lobbying group in Washington that takes a hard line against any move to weaken sanctions on Cuba. While he believes that taking a trip back to Cuba once a year to see family qualifies as humanitarian travel, he says others are gaming the system.
"People that are going back to Cuba more than once a year is not humanitarian. They're essentially residing in Cuba. They have some type of business practice that they've established by taking goods back and forth. They're called mulas," he says.
The Miami-to-Cuba "mules" carry goods and cash, and, at least for some Cuban-Americans, it's a legal end-run around the trade embargo.
"And essentially, they charge per pound or they charge per package, things that they take to Cuba, so they've established a business practice ... traveling to the island back and forth," Claver-Carone says. "That is not the purpose of the regulations. That's a business practice. And that should be illegal."
There are others, though, who say this is the kind of thing unrestricted travel and remittances were intended to accomplish. By traveling frequently to the island and helping — maybe even investing in — businesses run by family members, Cuban-Americans are helping spur the kind of free market activity long sought by the U.S.
Those who favor engagement between the U.S. and Cuba say the next steps should include lifting all restrictions on travel to the island and allowing U.S. visitors to use credit cards there.
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Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. For an introduction to programming in Python, see the Python Tutorial. The Python Library Reference documents built-in and standard types, con- stants, functions and modules. Finally, the Python Reference Manual describes the syntax and semantics of the core language in (perhaps too) much detail. (These documents may be located via the INTERNET RESOURCES below; they may be installed on your system as well.) Python's basic power can be extended with your own modules written in C or C++. On most systems such modules may be dynamically loaded. Python is also adaptable as an extension language for existing applications. See the internal documentation for hints. Documentation for installed Python modules and packages can be viewed by running the pydoc program. COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
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Note that there is internal buffering in xreadlines(), readlines() and file-object iterators ("for line in sys.stdin") which is not influenced by this option. To work around this, you will want to use "sys.stdin.readline()" inside a "while 1:" loop. -v Print a message each time a module is initialized, showing the place (filename or built-in module) from which it is loaded. When given twice, print a message for each file that is checked for when searching for a module. Also provides information on module cleanup at exit. -V , --version Prints the Python version number of the executable and exits. -W argument Warning control. Python sometimes prints warning message to sys.stderr. A typical warning message has the following form: file:line: category: message. By default, each warning is printed once for each source line where it occurs. This option controls how often warnings are printed. Multiple -W options may be given; when a warning matches more than one option, the action for the last matching option is performed. Invalid -W options are ignored (a warning message is printed about invalid options when the first warning is issued). Warnings can also be controlled from within a Python program using the warnings module. The simplest form of argument is one of the following action strings (or a unique abbreviation): ignore to ignore all warnings; default to explicitly request the default behavior (printing each warning once per source line); all to print a warning each time it occurs (this may generate many messages if a warning is triggered repeatedly for the same source line, such as inside a loop); mod- ule to print each warning only the first time it occurs in each module; once to print each warning only the first time it occurs in the program; or error to raise an exception instead of printing a warning message. The full form of argument is action:message:category:module:line. Here, action is as explained above but only applies to messages that match the remaining fields. Empty fields match all values; trailing empty fields may be omitted. The message field matches the start of the warning message printed; this match is case-insensitive. The category field matches the warning category. This must be a class name; the match test whether the actual warning category of the message is a subclass of the specified warning cate- gory. The full class name must be given. The module field matches the (fully-qualified) module name; this match is case-sensitive. The line field matches the line number, where zero matches all line numbers and is thus equivalent to an omitted line number. -x Skip the first line of the source. This is intended for a DOS specific hack only. Warning: the line numbers in error messages will be off by one! -3 Warn about Python 3.x incompatibilities that 2to3 cannot trivially fix. 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The interpreter interface resembles that of the UNIX shell: when called with standard input connected to a tty device, it prompts for com- mands and executes them until an EOF is read; when called with a file name argument or with a file as standard input, it reads and executes a script from that file; when called with -c command, it executes the Python statement(s) given as command. Here command may contain mul- tiple statements separated by newlines. Leading whitespace is significant in Python statements! In non-interactive mode, the entire input is parsed before it is executed. If available, the script name and additional arguments thereafter are passed to the script in the Python variable sys.argv, which is a list of strings (you must first import sys to be able to access it). If no script name is given, sys.argv[0] is an empty string; if -c is used, sys.argv[0] contains the string '-c'. Note that options interpreted by the Python interpreter itself are not placed in sys.argv. In interactive mode, the primary prompt is `>>>'; the second prompt (which appears when a command is not complete) is `...'. The prompts can be changed by assignment to sys.ps1 or sys.ps2. The interpreter quits when it reads an EOF at a prompt. When an unhandled exception occurs, a stack trace is printed and control returns to the primary prompt; in non-interactive mode, the interpreter exits after printing the stack trace. The interrupt signal raises the KeyboardInterrupt exception; other UNIX signals are not caught (except that SIGPIPE is sometimes ignored, in favor of the IOError exception). Error messages are written to stderr. FILES AND DIRECTORIES
These are subject to difference depending on local installation conventions; ${prefix} and ${exec_prefix} are installation-dependent and should be interpreted as for GNU software; they may be the same. On Debian GNU/{Hurd,Linux} the default for both is /usr. ${exec_prefix}/bin/python Recommended location of the interpreter. ${prefix}/lib/python<version> ${exec_prefix}/lib/python<version> Recommended locations of the directories containing the standard modules. ${prefix}/include/python<version> ${exec_prefix}/include/python<version> Recommended locations of the directories containing the include files needed for developing Python extensions and embedding the interpreter. ~/.pythonrc.py User-specific initialization file loaded by the user module; not used by default or by most applications. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
PYTHONHOME Change the location of the standard Python libraries. By default, the libraries are searched in ${prefix}/lib/python<version> and ${exec_prefix}/lib/python<version>, where ${prefix} and ${exec_prefix} are installation-dependent directories, both defaulting to /usr/local. When $PYTHONHOME is set to a single directory, its value replaces both ${prefix} and ${exec_prefix}. To specify dif- ferent values for these, set $PYTHONHOME to ${prefix}:${exec_prefix}. PYTHONPATH Augments the default search path for module files. The format is the same as the shell's $PATH: one or more directory pathnames separated by colons. Non-existent directories are silently ignored. The default search path is installation dependent, but gener- ally begins with ${prefix}/lib/python<version> (see PYTHONHOME above). The default search path is always appended to $PYTHONPATH. If a script argument is given, the directory containing the script is inserted in the path in front of $PYTHONPATH. The search path can be manipulated from within a Python program as the variable sys.path. PYTHONSTARTUP If this is the name of a readable file, the Python commands in that file are executed before the first prompt is displayed in inter- active mode. The file is executed in the same name space where interactive commands are executed so that objects defined or imported in it can be used without qualification in the interactive session. You can also change the prompts sys.ps1 and sys.ps2 in this file. PYTHONY2K Set this to a non-empty string to cause the time module to require dates specified as strings to include 4-digit years, otherwise 2-digit years are converted based on rules described in the time module documentation. PYTHONOPTIMIZE If this is set to a non-empty string it is equivalent to specifying the -O option. If set to an integer, it is equivalent to speci- fying -O multiple times. PYTHONDEBUG If this is set to a non-empty string it is equivalent to specifying the -d option. If set to an integer, it is equivalent to speci- fying -d multiple times. PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE If this is set to a non-empty string it is equivalent to specifying the -B option (don't try to write .py[co] files). PYTHONINSPECT If this is set to a non-empty string it is equivalent to specifying the -i option. PYTHONIOENCODING If this is set before running the interpreter, it overrides the encoding used for stdin/stdout/stderr, in the syntax encoding- name:errorhandler The errorhandler part is optional and has the same meaning as in str.encode. For stderr, the errorhandler part is ignored; the handler will always be 'backslashreplace'. PYTHONNOUSERSITE If this is set to a non-empty string it is equivalent to specifying the -s option (Don't add the user site directory to sys.path). PYTHONUNBUFFERED If this is set to a non-empty string it is equivalent to specifying the -u option. PYTHONVERBOSE If this is set to a non-empty string it is equivalent to specifying the -v option. If set to an integer, it is equivalent to speci- fying -v multiple times. PYTHONWARNINGS If this is set to a comma-separated string it is equivalent to specifying the -W option for each separate value. PYTHONHASHSEED If this variable is set to "random", the effect is the same as specifying the -R option: a random value is used to seed the hashes of str, bytes and datetime objects. If PYTHONHASHSEED is set to an integer value, it is used as a fixed seed for generating the hash() of the types covered by the hash randomization. Its purpose is to allow repeatable hashing, such as for selftests for the interpreter itself, or to allow a cluster of python processes to share hash values. The integer must be a decimal number in the range [0,4294967295]. Specifying the value 0 will lead to the same hash values as when hash randomization is disabled. AUTHOR
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April 5, 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Alekseevich Chaplygin - an outstanding Russian and Soviet mechanic and mathematician, one of the founders of modern aeromechanics and aerodynamics, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR.
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A Camp Against GMOs
22 Feb 2013
Campsites are often places of discussion and ideas, where people share their life (and culinary) experiences. At the Slow Food Camp in Uruguay last month, the discussion (and food) was all about fostering a production system that is good, from a taste point of view, as well as socially and environmentally sustainable. It also focused on the important theme of genetically engineered (GM) crops, a plague in some parts of the world.
The situation is particularly serious and evident in South America, where the spread of GM crops and toxic products is reaching exorbitant levels, as demonstrated by, among others, important documentaries like El poison está en la mesa by Silvio Tendler and The World According to Monsanto by Marie Robin. Images of entire families and small farms surrounded by the advance of transgenic soy plantations cannot leave us indifferent. They are terrorizing images that remind us that food sovereignty is at risk every day.
Within this context, Slow Food Canario held Slow Camp in San Luis, Uruguay over February 4-7; a gathering of young people from across the country as well as from Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Chile, to strengthen their collaboration, particularly on the issue of GM food. Over four days the group shared ideas and meals, reflecting an incredible variety of styles and flavors, and updated each other on initiatives happening across South America. Their campaigns to stop the spread of GMOs in the region have included seminars in Uruguay, Chile and Brazil and a campaign for clear and accurate labeling in Argentina, the first southern cone country to allow the cultivation of GMO crops.
Four days of working to increase awareness and effectiveness, but also four days of the best local food – fish caught by traditional fishers, vegetables grown by organic producers and meat raised on local farms – because the search for quality food is a pro-active form of protest. Voting with our fork effectively reiterates our opposition to GM foods and to support those who cultivate respect for the environment and the health of the consumer.
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Personal Goodwill: Who Owns It?
Personal Goodwill has always been a fascinating subject, impacting the sale of many small to medium-sized businesses – and possibly even larger companies. How is personal goodwill developed? An individual starts a business and, during the process, builds one or more of the following:
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Another approach uses some form of "earnout." At the end of the year, the lost business that can be attributed to the goodwill of the seller is tallied. A percentage is then subtracted from monies owed to the seller, or funds from the down payment are placed in escrow, and adjustments are made from that source.
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NPR's Uri Berliner is taking $5,000 of his own savings and putting it to work. Though he's no financial whiz or guru, he's exploring different types of investments — alternatives that may fare better than staying in a savings account that's not keeping up with inflation.
Reckless bets on real estate can cause trouble. They can, for example, help to bring down the global economy. But many financial advisers say including some real estate in an investment or retirement portfolio is a good idea. It adds diversification.
And real estate prices are rising. Here's one way to tell: The house-flipping shows are back on cable. Buy, remodel, sell, repeat. We've been there before, and it didn't end happily. And yet prices fell so hard during the crash — 50 percent or more in some parts of the country — that a rebound just makes sense. Real estate watchers are divided on whether fundamentals justify further price increases or whether the market is getting too frothy again.
Josh Dorkin runs a real estate investment website called Bigger Pockets. I asked him what kind of real estate bet I can make for $1,000. His advice: Be careful.
"We're kind of in a bubble once again," he says. "We've got these low interest rates; we've got the big money funds coming into the market. And of course if you're savvy and know what you're doing, there's always going to be an opportunity."
Dorkin runs me through my options.
"You could go and flip a house. Of course, you'd need to go out and take out a high-risk loan more likely than not to do that and of course doing that is really kind of like running a job in itself."
Scratch that.
"Other options include crowdsourcing or syndication."
Too complicated.
"And I think the final option is really to go out and buy shares of a REIT — real estate investment trust."
REITs are sold like stocks, and they're held by many individuals and institutional investors. You might have a REIT in your retirement fund. REITs are trusts that own and develop property and earn rental income. Most of it gets passed on to investors.
"They are forced by law — a law created in 1960 — that provides that real estate investment trusts have to meet certain tests," says Brad Thomas, editor of the Intelligent REIT Investor. "And if they do, they are forced to pay out 90 percent of their taxable income in the form of dividends."
Those dividends are a regular stream of income, and they're what make REITs attractive to investors. In a rising real estate market, they're what clinch it for me.
I put down $513.94 on a REIT index fund. It's basically a smorgasbord of many different REITs. It contains what you might expect — REITs that own apartment buildings and shopping centers. But Thomas says the range of REITs today goes far beyond that, "from billboards to prisons to cell towers, campus housing. Even solar is on the horizon potentially."
With so many kinds of businesses seeking to become REITs, the Internal Revenue Service has begun reviewing some conversion applications to determine whether the companies truly qualify as real estate firms. In other words, are they really landlords? The REIT structure can allow companies to significantly reduce their tax bills. The fund I've bought only includes existing REITs, not firms hoping to convert to them.
With that in mind I decide to check out some of my holdings — not online but in the physical world. Within easy driving distance from my house in Washington I find REITs in my fund that own and operate self-storage facilities and highly secure data centers that house stacks and stacks of server computers. In other words, the cloud.
When I started out looking to invest in real estate, I never imagined I would wind up owning a little piece of the cloud. Or a stake in storage units. Or a bit of my former workplace. But it turns out that one of the many holdings in the fund I bought is a REIT called Boston Properties. Boston Properties, I discover on its website, now owns the site where, until recently, NPR had its headquarters. We moved out nearly two months ago. Now it's tearing the old NPR down, and a new building with law offices will go up in its place. Bulldozers are doing fast work. There's lots of debris around. I meet Larry Smoot, the superintendent on the job, and I ask him for a little keepsake from the old building. He comes up to me with a serious piece of real estate right in his hands.
"This came off the Massachusetts [Avenue] side of the face of the building we're taking down," he says, giving me a heavy hunk of black marble.
Nice guy. I didn't even have to tell him I was an investor.
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Exercise is good for your health – we all know that. But it is possible to exercise too much. In fact, recent studies have found that overdoing it could cause damage to your body and your brain.
How Much Is Too Much Exercise?
Regular exercise can help you maintain a healthy weight, improve your cardiovascular health, lower your risk for diabetes, and even improve your mood. But, as in most cases, it is possible to have too much of a good thing. How much is too much exercise involves several factors, including your age, your health, and the type of exercise.
As a general rule, adults should get at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic exercise, 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity exercise, or some combination of the two every week according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). If you go beyond that, CDC says you'll gain even more health benefits. However, some research has shown that going way beyond CDC's recommendation can lead to adrenal fatigue. This can cause symptoms including body aches, lightheadedness, and extreme fatigue.
Pushing Yourself Too Hard Can Increase Stress Hormones
High-intensity, long-duration exercise can push your body past its limits. This can cause you to release more of the stress hormone, cortisol. When you make more cortisol, it can lead to fatigue, reduce your performance, and cause weight gain around the belly. Throwing your hormones out of whack with too much exercise can affect your entire central nervous system, and not in a good way. To avoid pushing your body too hard, limit the frequency of your trips to the gym and choose an exercise routine that is either low intensity/long duration or high intensity/short duration.
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Pushing your body can help you become stronger and faster, but it is also important to rest. It gives your body a chance to recover. If you push yourself too hard for too long, you may experience some or all of the following symptoms:
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LYON, France – Fake goods worth more than USD 200 million have been seized and nearly 1,000 people arrested in a series of operations co-ordinated by INTERPOL across South America targeting organized criminal counterfeiting networks.
Carried out under the auspices of Operation Jupiter in partnership with the World Customs Organization (WCO), the year-long operation throughout 2010 led to a series of interventions across 13 countries in the region and the seizure of nearly eight million counterfeit products including construction materials, sports clothes and shoes, sunglasses, mobile phones, books, car parts, computer software and alcohol.
Goods were recovered from a range of locations including markets, commercial shopping centres and from street vendors, and in a number of cases social networking sites were also identified as distribution channels for counterfeit products.
The fifth such operation co-ordinated by INTERPOL in the region, a key element in the success of Jupiter V was the increased awareness and allocation of resources to tackle the dangers posed by counterfeit and pirated products, including the creation of dedicated Intellectual Property crime units in Chile and Peru.
"The volume and range of goods recovered are clear evidence of the value that Operation Jupiter brings in identifying and dismantling organized crime networks behind these counterfeits and also demonstrates the massive scale of this type of crime not just in South America, but globally," said INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble.
"Since launching Operation Jupiter five years ago with just three countries, INTERPOL has remained committed to providing sustained, long-term support to national police and customs in addressing the problem of counterfeits, and the successes which have been achieved provide a model for tackling other types of transnational organized crime across the globe," added the INTERPOL chief.
"The success of Operation Jupiter in the South American region can be attributed to the dynamic and committed partnership between Customs and the Police which has shown that international co-ordination and co-operation is key to further major achievements in the fight against counterfeiting and piracy as it facilitates our joint efforts to remove fake goods from the marketplace whilst bringing more criminals to justice," said the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization, Kunio Mikuriya.
General Pedro Baillon Farfan, Director of the Policía Fiscal in Peru said: "The efforts deployed by INTERPOL to support South America in the fight against piracy and counterfeiting, has generated an important exchange of experiences and new knowledge that has helped to deeply understand this criminal phenomena and also allowed the design of new strategies and guidelines. The involvement of Peru in Operation Jupiter V has had an important impact, leading public institutions and private sector representatives to focus their efforts on this initiative, strengthen their commitment and work in partnership with us for the deployment of operations on the ground".
This fifth Operation Jupiter conducted in South America consisted of four operational phases, including the provision of training to more than 150 police and customs officers, prosecutors and intellectual property crime investigation specialists.
Operation Jupiter V involved Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, France (French Guyana), Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Since INTERPOL's Intellectual Property Rights programme launched the first Operation Jupiter in 2005 with just three countries, nearly half a billion dollars worth of counterfeit goods have been recovered, while also assisting police to identify and dismantle gangs involved in drugs and gun smuggling.


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What a coincidence! E.T. was on my TV today, too!
"Hi, bakery? I have a baby shower coming up. Do you make cupcakes?"
Thanks to Dawn M. for finding these little bundles of joy. It's been a latte fun!
- Related wreckage: The Creepiness Continues
When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong.
This looks like something they might serve at one of those "abstinance education" classes, to scare you out of having sex (forever).
such an odd contrast between the pretty nice tv & cup to the creepy babies!
Uh... yikes?
I would guess that Ethan was anencephalic but making a cake of that would be in extremely bad taste.
See, on that first one I see an orange frog sitting on a microwave.
"Please...please don't fry me!"
Mmmmmmm..... orange frog legs.
Those are definitely the most creepy baby shower cakes yet.
wv - coadic: These cakes are a different sort of coadic moment.
Oh wow..these are just on another level of creepy..
I'm so confused. The television and the cup are well-made; were the ugly babies on purpose? Or do the respective bakers have prosopagnosia? I'm leaning towards the second.
No squinting necessary to see the beefy guy in the wife beater. Had to squint to see it as a baby in a diaper!
Aargh! Again: like the horrible baby creature in Kingdom Hospital (the Danish version)... Man, babies are gross :/
(Wv: abies - a coincidence?)
I can totally see the muscular man!
I think the thing that disturbs me most about the last one is that the liquid in the cup is kind of a mottled green-brown. I think I'd prefer not to know what "Joe" is getting up to in that cup...
Really, really ugly and disgusting.
What in the name of all that's holy were those bakers thinking?!?! I swear that first one looks just like my baby did...when they pulled him out (C section) halfway and half of him was still in. And although like all new parents we insanely took a picture of that because we were so happy he was here...I would take a fork to the eye before wanting THAT on a cake. And that's a picture we only show to people who reaaaaaaaallly are medically inclined or love us to death. :) In fact, as I started scrolling, I honestly thought that what was below the baby was going to BE some woman's stomach in mid C section...that's exactly how much it looked like it. I was almost relieved it was a TV.
But then that brings up a whole new host of questions: Why is a burnt, bloody baby bursting from the TV? WHY? Was the mom really the first woman impregnated by an alien and this was how she gave birth...in Roswell?
I would have more thoughts but I have to go lie down now.
Ethan looks like some Aztec or Mayan god... And how the italian guy managed to get stuck in that cup beats me.
Kagehikaru read my mind, the liquid in the cup combined with the creepy orange glow of the "babies" is the most creepy to me.
And why is the coffee **green**??
i once had a dream in which a little gremlin was chasing me... that first "baby" bares an uncanny resemblence!
wv: messete. I nearly messeted my pants when the creepy gremlin baby jumped out of the alley and attacked!
Aw, that's so sweet that you posted John Boehner's baby photos.
Hm, what's that? That's cake?
*screams in terror and flees the room*
.............. :|
And here I thought that second one was a pig in a cup...
Those are horrific.
Ethan's eyes...
*shifting side to side*
He's following me...
I've always believed one should choose one's own career. Whatever makes one happy, you know? And honestly, of all the wrecks I've seen here, not one has made me say to myself: "Some people just should not try to be cake decorators."
Until now.
Please put down the fondant roller and airbrush, hon. Back away. No, further. Keep going.
Hold me...I'm so frightened!
Joe is not a man in a wifebeater. Joe is the Queen of Heart's piglet in a bonnet. My God, a baby like that would put one off the continuation of the species.
i think i saw these guys in jars at the Mutter Museum a few months ago...
What exactly IS that the creepy baby is swimming in?
~ shudder ~
I read this post three times before it sunk in that these are really baby shower cakes. Why is Ethan wearing an Amish bonnet? I don't think the Amish use tv's.
I think "Joe" looks like a genie in a turban rising out of a very unique "magic lamp". Quick make a wish ...
Why are they orange?!?
I'm worried about the blue surrounding Joe's head. Looks too much like the halos over the heads of the Holy Family in Renaissance paintings. Clearly a wife-beater like Joe would not have a halo so what could it be?
There must not be much to watch on that TV, because the TV Guide is awfully small.
Holy moley! Those "babies" look like something from a horror movie!
Those babies look like the mutant psychic creature in Total Recall (the one hiding under the dude's jacket) ... gone to "Oompa-loompa."
(And if you've gone to Oompa-loompa, it's time to put down the self-tanner or walk away from the tanning bed!!)
Wow, really punny today! Love the "cup cake" routine.
The wife beater is scary with that blue fro/bathing cap.
The roasted alien baby is really scary. What's with the Amish cap? I thought it was a boy!
wv: gauta. Those cakes are freaking me out. I gauta get outta here.
Am I the only one who sees the Buddha in the first cake? Yes? Okay...
Why is the TV Guide a little black book? What kind of channels are they watching? and how is this related to a new alien baby?
Inquiring minds want to know....
I did take the time to read all that was on the first one and thought it was too bad because: Cute idea...creepy alien lobster baby
The second looks like he is being thrown into "The Dip" in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
*sobbing* Mommy!
I think it's the half-human/half-alien baby from "V" (the '80's version).
Can't deal with the puns. OMG too funny.
"Jersey Shore called... they want their tan back"?! BWAHAHAHAHA
Yikes! I can tell they used the Wilton 3D Teddy Bear pan for these........but what a mess!
The verification word is "throp" as in a Misanthrop(e) made these cakes!
Those are insanely awful looking! If I saw them in person, I'd have to restrain myself from covering them so they wouldn't look at me anymore! Uck.
People didn't actually PAY for those, did they?
Oh. My. Lord.
...why is Joe swimming in a cup of the Hudson River???
The only explanation is that these bakers have recently watched Eraserhead by David Lynch.
Wow. I'm not a professional and I tried to make a booby cake for my son's 18th birthday. I messed up the food colouring for the skintone and it was far too orange-y. We decided that the boobies belonged to someone with a spray-on tan.
But they didn't look diseased and bronzed. Those were extra-creepy.
(word verification: "react") haha!
That "abstinance education" idea is also working on me, but mostly for giving up cake. But I guess Lent is starting, so now I know what I can give up. I'll just refer back to this post for support.
It's Ash Wednesday, so maybe that's why these babies look so grimy?
What is truly scary is how anyone could consider those cakes good-looking enough to buy or sell! Eek!
I guess Oompa-loompa's & Tetley Tea Folk (see youtube if you really want to) have baby showers too.
So creepy. Go to one of these showers & get an eye, nose or baby fingers, ewww! I wonder if the cake inside is red velvet?
WV misurea: I get misurea just looking at these freaky baby cakes.
Oh gosh.. I've read ever single day you've posted and I've laughed a few times. But you were on a freaking roll the last two days!!!
Having dabbled in cake decorating i can tell you its not easy!
That said I have no hesitation in calling these the UGLIEST CAKES i have ever seen.
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Yikes! I can tell they used the Wilton 3D Teddy Bear pan for these........but what a mess!
I was just going to post this....
I like how both decorators remembered to put bonnets on for the babies
The first decorator could have nixed the baby and kept the tv, it was so well done
Are you SURE those cakes are supposed to be babies?????? They don't look anything like babies.... maybe baby Oompa-loompas (sp??) --the orange things from the Willy Wonka movie (the old one from a long time ago before cakes were made in such frightening shapes and colors)
Oh dear. That first cake is just really ... unfortunate.
I gagged upon seeing "Joe." I am not exaggerating.
They really look like newborn babies!
I mean, there are just no words. Really. I'd cut into them just to make it completely impossible to figure out what it was! "Cake! Let's have cake! NOW!"
Were those cakes baked or spawned?
I demand compensation from those wreckators for emotional distress and mental trauma *rocks back and forth*
Those are just terrible! Shouldn't a person who wants to make baby-cakes understand what a human looks like in the first place?
You really had fun with this one didn't you?
Quite frankly, these "cakes" need to be cut - into teeny-tiny, unrecognizable pieces!
Oh, what the heck! Just chuck them into a woodchipper and be done with it!!
I can't stop laughing!!!!!
Those cakes are creepy as all get out. I'm actually traumatized.
Can you please do me a favor? Can you remind all those bakers out there that upside-down heart cakes don't look like anything other than asses? And they make me wonder how old the cakes are in the first place...
*runs away screaming*
OMG, those are horrible! Gremlin, anyone? And why are they so.. tan??
Those are baby shower cakes???!!?..yikes!
These babies look a lot more like frogs than the frog-wrecks featured a little while back.
Both of those monstrosities almost appear to be sitting on a floor; see what looks like a baseboard in the background in the first picture?
ALTHOUGH...it looks like a fire extinguisher case in the wall in the first photo--right behind the whateveritis (which is sitting there looking all whatevery and being referred to as an "Ethan"). And one wouldn't normally find a fire extinguisher placed that low to the floor. I for one wouldn't think to look down there. Especially in an emergency when I'd be all panicky and looking for a door or window. Or something to throw up into.
So, anyway, the Ethan makes "7" (!!)
But... 7 WHATS??
Look, anytime someone wants to chime in with a theory, I'm all ears.
I'd like to put this whole sordid affair behind me.
O GOD. Why would anyone want a harlequin baby cake? D:
they don't even look like babies!
happy baby shower heres a skinless alien baby and a dude in a beater...
i hope these were not paid for
Jen, you are a prize. I save my lurking for the nights I can't get to sleep. You're turning me into an insomniac! Stop being so darn funny, because tonight I'm afraid my laughing-out-loud will wake up the whole household.
Actually, I think those are not babies, but wreck-y attempts to recreate the "Glo Worm and Friends" series. (Or rather, their opposite, namely Tan Worm and Friends...)
Seriously, look at Ethan; he looks just like the Glo Spider I had as a kid. Here's proof.
These are supposed to be babies? What are they, mole-man babies?
Talk about disaster cakes... eesh!
Well that has turned me off of ever having a baby shower.. and quite possibly ever having sex again.. lol
My God... they look like Harlequin babies... o.o
I'm guessing Mandrake Root. Get your protective earmuffs.
Both of them kinda remind me of the scary Satan-baby in "Eraserhead". Note: This is really not a good thing...
I thought that first one had "Satan" written on the front....
Aliens are coming ...
Your blog makes me laugh on a daily basis. I think it's wonderfully entertaining. But these cakes are so crazy, I can't believe people pay for them.
Thank you for the laughs!
that is horrifying.
yeah. i was going to point out the eraserhead baby resemblance as well. now i just want to recommend nobody google the term 'eraserhead baby'. turns out the film itself is significantly less disturbing than the message boards.
Wow, creepy doesn't even cover it. The first one is very E.T.
Mum: he's staring weirdly at me, Muuuuuummm!
@sendingtheclowns. I was also thinking the same thing. I realized that they were trying to make a pun with "John and Kate Plus Eight." That's why the baby is on a TV. But it is all the wreckier because in no way whatsoever do I believe "Ethan" and "seven" rhyme. Not even slant rhyme.
You know, until I looked closer, the first one called to mind a microwave oven and its horrible results on a baby. So dark, but really!?!?!?
The coffee is GREEN?!
As interpreted/ analyzed by my 3-year old daughter:
Cake #1 ; "That baby is a crab."
Cake #2: "Hmmm, poo poo."
I am PIMPL so hard right now! SERIOUSLY....stop it! Ok, breathe....
E.T....My god. I used to like him...now look at what he is! ;) xx
they should have considered starting over.
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Joan figured she would need months to recover physically from the heart attack 2 years ago that led to her heart failure. She didn't realize she would need just as much time to recover emotionally.
"I was only 52 when I had the heart attack," she says. "Heart disease runs in my family, but I thought I'd been taking care of myself. It just hit me out of the blue. And then I got heart failure because of my heart attack. So now I had a health problem that wasn't going to go away."
The heart attack and heart failure changed how Joan saw herself. For months, she wasn't able to take long walks in her neighborhood or meet her girlfriends for tennis dates.
"I went from being this really active person to barely being able to walk at first," she says. "After I got out of the hospital, it took me a long time to be able to even walk a short distance. I was so out of breath, I had to stop three times to sit on the curb while I was trying to go around the block."
Joan also felt down about being a "heart patient" and all the medicines she needed to take.
"I went into this terrible depression," she says. "I would sit at my kitchen table and feel I was in this cloud of dread. I didn't feel like me. I felt like, 'I'm never going to be me again.' "
On top of the depression, Joan was worried a lot. She had cardiac rehabilitation, so she was learning how to slowly be more active. But she was anxious that any activity would harm her heart.
"I felt like another heart attack was just waiting to happen," she said. "I could feel my heart pounding when I would walk up some stairs, even if I went slowly. I was convinced that I would drop dead right on the stairs. I knew I had to get some help. I couldn't keep being sad and afraid all the time."
Joan talked to her partner and some of her close friends about her feelings. They told her that she was the same person they always loved. But Joan felt she needed more help. Her doctor recommended a counselor.
The counselor "helped me see that I was focusing on all the things I couldn't do anymore, instead of the things I could do. I may not be able to play singles tennis as intensely as I did before, but I can play doubles. I can still take walks and swim. I may have to take more breaks, but I can still do those activities."
One of the ways the counselor helped Joan was by showing her how to stop negative thoughts when they overwhelmed her. "She taught me how to recognize when I'm saying negative things to myself and how to stop it. Then I practice saying something positive instead."
Her doctor also prescribed an antidepressant, which Joan plans to take until she and her doctor feel she is ready to stop.
Joan has gotten a lot of her strength back. She knows that she will have good days when she has a lot of energy, and she'll have bad days when she feels tired.
"But I'm doing much better than I was when I was sitting on the curb outside my house and feeling sad. I enjoy my life again."
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When buying a home today, why is there so much paperwork mandated by the lenders for a mortgage loan application? It seems like they need to know everything about you. Furthermore, it requires three separate sources to validate each and every entry on the application form. Many buyers are being told by friends and family that the process was a hundred times easier when they bought their home ten to twenty years ago.
There are two very good reasons that the loan process is much more onerous on today's buyer than perhaps any other time in history.
1. The government has set new guidelines that now demand that the bank proves beyond any doubt that you are indeed capable of paying the mortgage.
During the run-up to the housing crisis, many people 'qualified' for mortgages that they could never pay back. This led to millions of families losing their home. The government wants to make sure this can't happen again.
2. The banks don't want to be in the real estate business.
Over the last several years, banks were forced to take on the responsibility of liquidating millions of foreclosures and negotiating an additional million plus short sales. Just like the government, they don't want more foreclosures. For that reason, they have to double (maybe even triple) check everything on the application.
However, there is some good news in this situation.
The housing crash that mandated that banks be extremely strict on paperwork requirements also allowed you to get a low mortgage interest rate.
The friends and family who bought homes ten or twenty years ago experienced a simpler mortgage application process, but also paid a higher interest rate (the average 30-year fixed rate mortgage was 8.12% in the 1990s and 6.29% in the 2000s).
If you went to the bank and offered to pay 7% instead of around 4%, they would probably bend over backward to make the process much easier.
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Instead of concentrating on the additional paperwork required, let's be thankful that we are able to buy a home at historically low rates.
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Airfares Continue to Increase
The price to board an airliner in the United States has risen for the fourth straight year, making it increasingly expensive to fly almost anywhere.
The average domestic roundtrip ticket, including tax, reached $363.42 last year, up more than $7 from the prior year, according to an Associated Press analysis of travel data collected from millions of flights throughout the country.
The 2 percent increase outpaced inflation, which stood at 1.5 percent.
Airfares have risen nearly 12 percent since their low in the depths of the Great Recession in 2009, when adjusted for inflation, the analysis showed.
Ticket prices have increased as airlines eliminated unprofitable routes, packed more passengers into planes and merged with one another, providing travelers with fewer options.
Today, 84 percent of seats are filled with paying passengers, up from 82 percent in 2009.
"Anyone traveling today will know that those flights are full," said Chuck Thackston, managing director of data and analytics for the Airlines Reporting Corp, which processes ticket transactions for airlines and more than 9,400 travel agencies, including websites such as Expedia and Orbitz. "Just through supply and demand, those fares will go up."
And none of this factors in the bevy of extra fees travelers now face for checking bags, getting extra legroom or even purchasing a blanket, meal or pair of headphones. The typical traveler pays an additional $50 roundtrip to check a single suitcase.
Those fees, introduced in 2008 to offset losses from rising fuel prices, now bring in $3.4 billion a year for U.S. airlines and have helped them return consistent annual profits for the last four years.
Airlines pay just over $3 a gallon for jet fuel, up from $1.89 in 2009. Another $2.7 billion a year is collected in reservation-change fees, with airlines charging up to $200 to revise an itinerary.
"I love to travel, but they're making it more difficult," said Brian Kalish, a frequent flier from Arlington, Va. "Maybe I've been spoiled that it used to be so cheap to fly. It just feels like they are charging more and giving less."
The AP reviewed data from 6 million annual flights taken in the U.S., analyzing fees and government on-time records along with fare data from the Airlines Reporting Corp.
Jean Medina, spokeswoman for Airlines for America, the airlines' trade and lobbying group, said over the long-term fares have not climbed as fast as inflation and that flying "remains a great bargain."
"Carriers continue to invest in their products with new planes, new services and new destinations," Medina said. "It's a great time to fly."
Airlines are able to push fare and fee hikes because there is less competition.
"You get some pricing power as a result," said airline consultant Robert Mann.
A wave of consolidation that started in 2008 has left four U.S. airlines -- American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines -- controlling more than 80 percent of the domestic air-travel market. Discount airlines such as Allegiant Air and Spirit Airlines have grown at breakneck speed but still carry a tiny fraction of overall passengers.
"Even with the presence of a number of strong, sizable low-fare airlines, you are still seeing airfares go up sizably," said Henry Harteveldt, a travel industry analyst with Hudson Crossing.
Starting July 1, fliers will also face higher taxes. The government's security fee is currently $2.50 each way for a nonstop flight, capped at $5 each way if a traveler has a connection. This summer, that fee will be $5.60 each way whether or not there's a connection. The fee hike is estimated to cost travelers an extra $1 billion a year.
Higher fares did not mean better service for passengers last year.
During the first 11 months of last year, 19 percent of flights failed to arrive within 15 minutes of their scheduled time. That's up from 16 percent during the same period in 2012, according to data kept by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
The number of flights canceled in those 11 months also jumped nearly 15 percent to 81,265. The government has yet to release data for December, but the numbers won't be pretty. A series of snow and ice storms led to thousands of additional delays and cancellations.
"If we're paying more," Kalish said, "we should get more in return."