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Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage. It is not socialist. It is Common Sense. (search for "poor" among Thomas Paine quotes). See: List of minimum wages by country. And: Medicare-for-all, like Canada, is not socialist either. See: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. [4]. Racist Republican state governments in 28 states passed laws to prevent cities from raising the minimum wage. Far-right talk radio helps Republicans do this. Republicans block cheap municipal broadband in 26 states. Vote!
18 Aug: Bernie Sanders unveils criminal justice reform plan aiming to curb prison population.
7 Aug: Luxembourg to be first European country to legalise possession, sale, and production of cannabis. Coalition of Liberals, Social Democrats, Greens. [9][10][11].
President Vladimir Putin. Screwing up elections at home and abroad. Wikipedia: 2019 Moscow City Duma election protests. And: Moscow Mitch blocks election security bills in the US Senate, and nearly all cannabis reform legislation!
22 Jul 2019: Philippine march for cannabis. Quezon City, part of Metro Manila. [13][14][15].
US Republican leaders are out of touch with mainstream Americans and Canadians.
21 Jul: Canada. THC slushies, pirate radio, and cannabis-driven boom in a Mohawk community.
19 Jul 2019: Texas Republican Leaders Want You to Know They Really, Really Hate Marijuana. [18][19][20][21]. 18 Jul: Texas Republican Lawmaker Lies about Pot & Veteran Suicides to Block Medical Access. [22][23].
17 Jul: Republicans Want a White Republic. They'll Destroy America to Get It. Time magazine.
12 Jul: Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers To Fly Flag In Animated Series.
11 Jul: Wisconsin Republicans Say No To Cannabis Reform. Increase Budget For Corrections.
US household debt is at an all time high. $13.7 trillion. See PDF page 3.
American revolutionary Thomas Paine. See: Common Sense. His statue in Thetford, England. See his quotes. Search for "poor" within those quotes. He supported economic justice, unlike today's Republicans.
6 Jul 2019: New York eyes plan to clear criminal records for over 200,000 pot busts.
2 Jul: There's More Evidence That Raising the Minimum Wage Won't Cost Jobs.
12 Jun: Ohio. Cincinnati City Council votes to allow marijuana possession up to 100 grams. [32]
4 Jun: Oakland Just Decriminalized Magic Mushrooms, Ayahuasca, Peyote, Iboga. [42]. And: 8 May 2019: Denver voted to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms. 18 June: Is Canada next for shrooms?
Sao Paulo, Brazil. -- June 1, 2019. Huge crowd. Photos. [43][44]. Marcha da Maconha. Marijuana March. Streets filled from end to end in overhead photos and videos. Video.
2. Please share widely: [45].
31 May: Federal Appeals Court Rules DEA, Fed. Govt. Must 'Promptly' Reassess Marijuana's Illegality.
31 May: Illinois Becomes 11th State to Legalize Recreational Marijuana.
26 May: A Lesson From 1930s Germany: Beware State Control of Social Media.
9 May: Mexico Wants to Decriminalize All Drugs and Negotiate With the U.S. to Do the Same.
4 May: Illinois. Democrat governor (with Democrat legislature) announces plan to legalize marijuana.
3 May: 'Luxembourg Can Set an Example in Europe' When It Legalizes Cannabis in 2020. [49][50].
1 May 2019: Las Vegas council approves marijuana 'social' lounges. 30 Apr: Large-Scale Cannabis Business Park in Detroit Will Train Past Marijuana Offenders. 30 Apr: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (Republican) says Senate won't pass bill to lower penalties for marijuana. 29 Apr: People Over 40 Shouldn't Work More Than 3 Days a Week, Study Says. [61].
29 Apr: Paul Free released after 25 years in prison for nonviolent marijuana offenses. [62][63].
Yearly GCM-420 city lists and maps. 27 Apr 2019: Why Senate Republicans block and filibuster the rescheduling of cannabis (even for medical purposes): Marijuana can block a green card holder's U.S. citizenship — even in states where it's legal. 24 Apr 2019: Will legal pot mark the end of the neighborhood weed man? Exorbitant dispensary prices.
History of 420 in cannabis culture and activism.
10 Apr: Medicare For All: Accept No Substitutes. [64][65]. Medicare spends only 1.4% on bureaucracy:
Weekly totals for cities/towns worldwide for #FridaysForFuture youth strike for climate.
Video: A teenage climate activist (Greta Thunberg) called out world leaders in December 2018 at age 15. [66][67][68]. Her videos have tens of millions of views. Wikipedia: School strike for climate.
Louisiana. Serving Life w/ Hard Labor w/o Parole for $20 of Marijuana.
For first time, as many Iowans support legalizing recreational marijuana as oppose. 23 Feb 2019.
Medicare spends less than 2 percent on bureaucracy. 1.4% to be exact. See chart. We need Medicare for All. Nearly a third of our health care dollars go to something other than health care. See also:
Trump approval hits new low (35%) in CNN poll. 32% in AP–NORC poll. Lowest in history for a first-year President. [72]. Bring back democracy: Remove Presidential veto power. And: Senate 60% rule.
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Republicans Voted Often to Kill Coverage of Pre-Existing Conditions. [73][74][75].
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- 6 Global Marijuana March
- 7 Cannabis is safer
- 8 Cannabis versus cigarettes
- 9 Life for Pot. Under Trump
- 10 70,200 deaths in US in 2017
- 11 During Trump's drug war.
- 12 US Republican cannabis war
- 13 GOP Senate blocks cannabis
- 14 Trump vetoes vets' cannabis
- 15 Trudeau's Canada legalized
- 16 Trudeau is not a socialist.
- 17 Canadian healthcare myths
- 18 Single Payer costs less and
- 19 Canada is not socialist.
- 20 It has higher minimum wage
- 21 It has a lower murder rate,
- 22 US; more handgun owners.
- 23 Portugal's drug decrim
- 24 Healthcare for all costs less
- 25 Drug company price fixing
- 26 Huge cost of deductibles
- 27 Medicare for all costs less
- 28 And is not socialist.
- 29 US drug war is expensive
- 30 Cash bail costs taxpayers
- 31 Ground wars are costly
- 32 Pentagon is a money pit.
- 33 Hemp for all
- 34 Children's Climate Action
- 35 Green Love. Warming &
- 36 Green energy costs less
- 37 Oil subsidies are socialist.
- 38 President Eisenhower was
- 39 A progressive Republican.
- 40 He wasn't a socialist. His
- 41 91% top marginal tax rate
- 42 & lower middle-class taxes
- 43 Equaled prosperity for more
- 44 Vs Republican Party today:
- 45 GOP kleptocracy, drug war,
- 46 US Republican war on poor,
- 47 Increasing income inequality,
- 48 Flat inflation-adjusted wages,
- 49 And lower minimum wage.
- 50 Massive US student debt
- 51 = Republican loansharking
- 52 College at 16 is cheaper.
- 53 Massive US medical debt,
- 54 Massive US household debt,
- 55 And mass US incarceration.
- 56 Polls support legalization
- 57 Vote out most Republicans
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1034 cities have participated from 85 different nations or subnational areas since 1999.
|Global Marijuana March links.
GMM: photos, basic city lists, maps, detailed city lists, years, regions, nations, links, graphics. Google images: Crowds, flyers: Marcha da Maconha. And: Marche Mondiale du Cannabis. And: Marcha Mundial de la Marihuana. And: Global Marijuana March. Add city name to searches. See signup. And: Facebook hashtags: [76][77][78][79]. Twitter hashtags: [80][81][82][83][84]. Google Plus searches: [85][86][87]. Pinterest: [88][89].
Global Million Marijuana March. GMM Facebook pages. GMM yearly city totals. Many GMM links. See also: 420 event lists. And: More cannabis-related links. And: Google News archives. And: GMM on Wikipedia. Google (add name of city to searches): [90] [91] [92] [93] [94] [95] [96] [97]. [98]. Google maps: city, state, nation.
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|Browse GCM city lists and maps: ~ 1999. 2000. 22.214.171.124.220.127.116.11.188.8.131.52.188.8.131.52.126.96.36.199.
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Cannabis is safer[edit]
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Share link: Obama.
- Obama correctly said that cannabis is safer than alcohol. See: Cannabis is safer. He also said marijuana should be treated more as a public health issue than a criminal one. And: Obama signals support for legalizing medical marijuana. [153]. See video.
- USA. 1 in 10 deaths of working-age adults are alcohol-related (disease, overdose, car crashes, falls, violence, etc). 87,798 per year, 2006 to 2010. [154][155][156][157][158].
See longer article: Cannabis is safer.
- Imagine if Mitt Romney had been elected President in 2012 instead of Obama.
- Obama on marijuana legalization. [159]. "My suspicion is that you're gonna see other states start looking at this". The Washington Post. Jan. 22, 2015.
Above quote is from Sanjay Gupta interview of Obama on April 15, 2015. Interview aired on CNN on April 19, 2015. [160][161][162].
- Obama administration asks Supreme Court to reject lawsuit filed by Republican governments in Oklahoma and Nebraska to stop legal marijuana in Colorado [163]. December 2015.
Cannabis versus cigarettes[edit]
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Chart is for regular marijuana and cigarette use by 12th graders in the USA in the past 30 days. For cigarettes actual daily use is measured. For marijuana it is for use on 20 or more occasions in the past 30 days. Green line is for marijuana. Dark blue/purple line is for cigarettes. Percent of 12th graders using over the years. Note the drastic and welcome drop in cigarette use. Marijuana use has stayed relatively low and steady.
Life for Pot. Under Trump[edit]
USA. Life for Pot. Under Trump
70,200 deaths in US in 2017[edit]
During Trump's drug war.[edit]
There were 70,200 overdose deaths in 2017 in the US under the Republican-led drug war under Trump.
US yearly overdose deaths, and the drugs involved. Among the more than 70,200 deaths in 2017, the sharpest increase occurred among deaths related to fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (synthetic opioids) with 28,466 deaths. Source.
US Republican cannabis war[edit]
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|Legal Marijuana Advocates Rank The Best And Worst Governors On Cannabis. 2.. By Tom Angell, Jan 16, 2019. From the article (emphasis added):
|Of the governors who received passing grades in the new scorecard, 22 are Democrats and only five are Republicans. Meanwhile, 100 percent of those who got A grades are Democrats. On the other end of the scale, the 15 who got D grades and the four who received an F are all GOP governors. No Democrat got less than a C.
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- 23 Feb 2019: Trump Continues to Flip-Flop on Medical Marijuana.
GOP Senate blocks cannabis[edit]
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The Republican US Senate is a pseudo-democracy. A minority of Republicans block federal rescheduling or descheduling of cannabis. They block many bills that have majority public support. They do so via a radically expanded filibuster rule that requires 60% votes to pass anything, thus allowing a minority of 40% to rule.
See Wikipedia: Nuclear Option. It can bring back "50% plus 1" democracy to the US Senate. Stop the:
Republican Senate filibuster against rescheduling or descheduling of cannabis. Still true.
|16 July 2018: Republican Congressional Committee Blocks Marijuana Votes (Again).
|10 July 2018: Republican Congress Has Blocked Dozens Of Marijuana Amendments.
Trump vetoes vets' cannabis[edit]
Trump vetoes democracy. He does so via the threat of presidential vetos requiring a 2/3rds vote of Congress to override. No European democracy has such authoritarian executive vetos. Their kings, presidents, and prime ministers were stripped of such power.
|2 May: Trumpcare: Time to Admit It: Trump Opposes Cannabis Legalization. He opposed latest 3 bills for veterans' access to medical cannabis.
Trudeau's Canada legalized[edit]
- Wikipedia: Cannabis in Canada. Recreational cannabis is legal in Canada.
Canadian healthcare myths[edit]
Return to top. See: Canadian healthcare myths.
|Videos. US Republican myths about Canadian healthcare: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96. Nations with better and healthier quality of life: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13.
Single Payer costs less and[edit]
See charts in these articles:
- Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
- Happy alternatives to US Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.
|Medicare-for-all is single-payer, non-socialist, non-government-owned, Canadian-style healthcare.
|Charts. USA spent $3.3 trillion on healthcare in 2017. (2.3.4.). Canada got better outcomes, spent half as much per person, and thus has a higher median wealth. So: 55% of Americans support 'Medicare-for-all'. (2.)
|Households with handguns: Canada: 3%. USA: 30%.)
|Median wealth per adult 2018. US dollars
|Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP. 2017
|Murder rate per 100,000. 2016
|US spent 17.2% of GDP (national economy) on healthcare in 2017. Canada spent 10.4%. See: info, charts, videos exposing US Republican myths about Canadian healthcare. (2.)
|Life expectancy 2016 (2)
|Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2017
|Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2015
|82.8 years
|78.5 years
It has higher minimum wage[edit]
A higher minimum wage is also not socialist. Canada has a higher minimum wage than the US. See: Wikipedia: List of minimum wages by country.
It has a lower murder rate,[edit]
US; more handgun owners.[edit]
See chart in previous section. Canada has a much lower homicide rate, and a much lower rate of handgun ownership. Even clueless Trump pinheads might figure out the connection. It is that simple.
Portugal's drug decrim[edit]
Return to top. See: Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization.
We need to look at Portugal, where their overdose death rate, HIV, and hepatitis rates, were all drastically reduced after decriminalization and a public health, universal healthcare, treatment-for-all approach.
Portugal's drug decriminalization. 22.214.171.124. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2.
It has now been 18 years since Portuguese decriminalization in 2001.
USA had 185 overdose deaths per million people. From 2016 chart in article. Also, see chart below.
Portugal had 6 overdose deaths per million people.
Chart of the day: Drug overdose deaths per million persons. Can the US learn something from Portugal? • AEI | Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas. By Mark J. Perry @Mark_J_Perry - July 9, 2017. See chart:
How Europe's heroin capital solved its overdose crisis. By Chris Brown. Apr 25, 2017. CBC.ca. "Goulao says 90 per cent of public money spent fighting drugs in Portugal is channeled toward those health-care goals — just 10 per cent is spent on police enforcement."
- Portugal. Cannabis-related links. Also has links about Portugal's drug decriminalization.
Healthcare for all costs less[edit]
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Total healthcare cost per person in Canada and Europe is half of what Americans pay per person in taxes, deductibles, copays, and premiums. This is because health insurance companies have much less to do with healthcare there. Drug prices are negotiated. And universal healthcare is about prevention and keeping people well, and not about continually "treating" them and keeping them profitably sick. See info, charts, and videos in this article:
|Charts. US spent 17.2% of GDP (national economy) on healthcare in 2017. - Canada spent 10.4%. See: info, charts, videos exposing Republican myths about Canadian healthcare. (2.)
|Per capita spending on health. Public and private costs. USD - PPP. 2017
|Healthcare costs as a percent of GDP. 2017
|% of health costs paid by gov't. 2016
|USA spent $3.3 trillion on healthcare in 2017. (2.3.4.). Canada spent half as much per person, and got better outcomes. 55% of Americans support 'Medicare-for-all'. (2.)
|Life expectancy (years). 2016
|Under-five mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2016
|Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2015
|3. 4. 5.
Drug company price fixing[edit]
12 May 2019: Sweeping lawsuit accuses top generic drug companies, executives of fixing prices. On 60 Minutes. CBS news. From article: "But 1,215 generics, many of them the most prescribed drugs, jumped on average more than 400 percent in a single year. ... 90 percent of all prescriptions filled in this country are filled with generic drugs."
Huge cost of deductibles[edit]
2 May 2019: Trumpcare: Health insurance deductibles soar, leaving Americans with unaffordable bills. Los Angeles Times. 26 Mar 2018: Why thousands of Americans Are Risking It and Skipping Health Insurance. Bloomberg News.
Medicare for all costs less[edit]
16 Jul 2018: The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care. New York Times.
10 Apr 2019: Medicare For All: Accept No Substitutes. [166][167]. Medicare spends only 1.4% on bureaucracy:
Related charts. See image source on Facebook.
US drug war is expensive[edit]
Cost of Republican-led U.S. drug war.
Cash bail costs taxpayers[edit]
Return to top. - Republicans will do almost anything to maintain a high incarceration rate.
|29 Mar 2019: Republican history of support for the Bail Bond Industry, and cash bail for people accused, but not convicted, of nonviolent crimes. 2.3.4.
24 Jan 2017: Our Money Bail System Costs U.S. Taxpayers $38 Million A Day. On HuffPost.
Ground wars are costly[edit]
$5.9 trillion is the cost of America's wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, etc..
Pentagon is a money pit.[edit]
17 Mar 2019: The Pentagon's Bottomless Money Pit. By Matt Taibbi. Rolling Stone. "Despite being the taxpayers' greatest investment — more than $700 billion a year — the Department of Defense has remained an organizational black box throughout its history. It's repelled generations of official inquiries, the latest being an audit three decades in the making, mainly by scrambling its accounting into such a mess that it may never be untangled."
Hemp for all[edit]
- Google search: The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Jack Herer. Chris Conrad.
|12 Dec 2018: Veto-proof Farm Bill passed overwhelmingly by Congress. American farmers will be able to plant and harvest hemp. It could spark a boom for the $1 billion marijuana-linked CBD industry. 2.
Children's Climate Action[edit]
Weekly totals for cities/towns worldwide for #FridaysForFuture youth strike for climate.
Facebook video with captions. A teenage climate activist (Greta Thunberg) called out world leaders in December 2018 at age 15. See comments and number of views by clicking on the video after it starts. Another popular version. Her videos have many tens of millions of views. See the full version on Youtube. It has a transcript in the description. There are many versions online. See Wikipedia: 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference. See: Thousands of UK Students Skipped Class to Protest Climate Change. Feb 15, 2019. Many photos.
- Wikipedia: Greta Thunberg. And: Wikipedia: School strike for climate. Many events worldwide.
- Google search: greta climate. Twitter: #FridaysForFuture #SchoolStrike4Climate #ClimateStrike.
- Wikipedia: Voting age. Voting age of 16 in many countries. Youth have more sense than US Republican climate change deniers.
Darwinian evolution turning into US Republican politician evolution:
Green Love. Warming &[edit]
Democrat Congresspeople in the US support cannabis reform and the environment much more than Republican leaders. Republican misogyny as represented by Donald Trump is only matched by Republican misogyny for Mother Earth. Partly due to Trump the number of Democrat women in Congress increased in record numbers after the 2018 midterm election. The number of Republican women in Congress declined after the 2018 election. See Wikipedia: 2018 United States elections.
18 Dec 2018: Nevada becomes first US state with majority-female legislature. This was partly due to voters dumping the trump morons (Republican leaders) who opposed recreational cannabis. Nevada legalized recreational cannabis in 2016.
Overpopulation is the main driver of global warming. Free birth control is part of the solution. The Little Ice Age is believed to have been partly due to the reforestation that occurred during the hundreds of years of lower human population caused by the Black Plague worldwide.
Colorado's Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success. Free birth control. July 5, 2015. New York Times.
7 July 2015: As with cannabis legalization Colorado led the way.. More info. 2.3..
Wikipedia: Population milestone babies.
- 9 June 2015: Abortion Rates Dropped Sharply. What Caused It? "According to a survey released by the Associated Press on Monday, abortions have dropped by 12 percent nationwide since 2010. ... the correlation between increased access to contraception and a decrease in unplanned pregnancy has been significantly documented over the last two decades. Teen pregnancy rates have been dropping to historic lows, a trend that has been connected to the change in social norms surrounding contraception and increased birth control availability."
- ObamaCare Birth Control - Obamacare Facts. Free birth control.
Green energy costs less[edit]
8 May 2019: Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending. By Tim Dickinson. Rolling Stone. From the article (emphasis added):
|It accounts for the "differences between actual consumer fuel prices and how much consumers would pay if prices fully reflected supply costs plus the taxes needed to reflect environmental costs" and other damage, including premature deaths from air pollution.
President Eisenhower was[edit]
A progressive Republican.[edit]
- They tried to call FDR and the New Deal 'socialist' too. Here's how he responded. By Michael Hiltzik. Feb 13, 2019. Los Angeles Times.
91% top marginal tax rate[edit]
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Hires Former Marijuana Lobbyist As Senior Advisor. By Kyle Jaeger. January 7, 2019. Marijuana Moment. From the article: "Both believe that marijuana should be legalized at the federal level".
Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal.
7 Jan 2018: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is floating a 70 percent top tax rate — here's the research that backs her up. And: Haters. And: Dancegate.
Eisenhower, the progressive Republican President, had a 91% top marginal income tax rate.. He participated in one of the greatest eras of economic prosperity-for-more in the US in the 1950s.
That era had lower overall taxes on the middle class.
Make America Progressive and Prosperous for More Again.
As Poll Shows Majority Back 70% Top Marginal Tax Rate for Ultra-Rich, Ocasio-Cortez's "Radical" Proposal Proves Extremely Mainstream. [168][169].
Median wealth per adult. Credit Suisse 2018. Country links below are to Wikipedia articles.
Country Median wealth
per adult.
US dollars
1 Iceland 203,847 2 Australia 191,453 3 Switzerland 183,339 4 Luxembourg 164,284 5 Belgium 163,429 6 Netherlands 114,935 7 France 106,827 8 Canada 106,342 9 Japan 103,861 10 New Zealand 98,613 11 United Kingdom 97,169 12 Singapore 91,656 13 Spain 87,188 14 Norway 80,054 15 Italy 79,239 16 Taiwan 78,177 17 Malta 76,116 18 Ireland 72,473 19 Austria 70,074 20 South Korea 65,463 21 United States 61,667 22 Denmark 60,999
& lower middle-class taxes[edit]
Overall taxes on the middle class in the US were lower in the 1950s
Equaled prosperity for more[edit]
Eisenhower, the progressive Republican President, had a 91% top marginal income tax rate.. He participated in one of the greatest eras of economic prosperity-for-more in the US in the 1950s.
That era had lower overall taxes on the middle class.
- Viral meme says 1956 Republican platform was pretty liberal. Article by PolitiFact says it is mostly true. See Wikipedia: PolitiFact.
Vs Republican Party today:[edit]
GOP kleptocracy, drug war,[edit]
|Republican Party. Greed, ground wars, drug wars, and mass incarceration.
Source. 22 Jan 2019: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A system that allows billionaires to exist alongside extreme poverty is immoral.
Wage slave waking up
See: map source. U.S. Dept. of Labor. Map of states with higher minimum wage than the federal minimum wage. Note that slavery still exists in the Republican South. Wage slaves.
Wikipedia: Minimum wage in the United States. Wikipedia: Fight for $15.
That illegal smile Republican leaders don't like.
US Republican war on poor,[edit]
Return to top. Income inequality and drug war.
Increasing income inequality,[edit]
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richest 10%.
The Richest 10% of Americans Now Own 84% of All Stocks. Dec. 19, 2017. Time (magazine). "The top 10% of American households, as defined by total wealth, now own 84% of all stocks in 2016, according to a recent paper by NYU economist Edward N. Wolff."
Rich get richer; while middle class wages are flat (inflation-adjusted), and the federal minimum wage (inflation-adjusted) has declined.
USA. Since 2001, labor's share of national income has suffered a sustained decline. 11 Sep 2018.
Flat inflation-adjusted wages,[edit]
Return to top. See: Under Trump, inflation-adjusted real wages are flat.
Chart. Homelessness is increasing under Trump. And: Inflation-adjusted wages are flat.
The top line in the chart below is for hourly wages adjusted for inflation: Bottom of chart below says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."
And lower minimum wage.[edit]
USA. Inflation-adjusted federal minimum wage over the years. US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. [170].
"The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nation." See: Charts. See Wikipedia: List of minimum wages by country.
Massive US student debt[edit]
Facebook video: $1.5 trillion in student debt. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. Read the heartbreaking comments. 10 Dec 2018: People Are Living With An Incredible Amount Of Debt From Student Loans And Credit Cards. By Venessa Wong. BuzzFeed News.
= Republican loansharking[edit]
See Wikipedia: Student debt. Roughly 1 in 4 adults. No bankruptcy rights. Much higher interest rates. Lifetime debt. Modern loansharking and predatory lending, approved by Republicans.
College at 16 is cheaper.[edit]
Return to top. See: Wikipedia: Age of majority. By country.
Scotland: Adult at age 16. Prolonged adolescence is a waste of time and money. Public high school in the USA costs an average of $12,509 a year per student in taxes. The money now spent for high school between the ages of 16 to 18 could be set aside for 2 years of college tuition, room, and board. See: Scotland. What can I do at my age? See: Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991. See: Wikipedia: Education in Scotland: "In 2014, research by the Office for National Statistics found that Scotland was the most highly educated country in Europe".
Massive US medical debt,[edit]
This doesn't happen in Canada, due to single-payer universal healthcare.
17 Jan 2019: US. 34 Devastating Stories About How People Are Still Crushed By Medical Debt. By Venessa Wong. BuzzFeed News.
Massive US household debt,[edit]
Return to top. See Wikipedia: Household debt.
US household debt at all time high. Chart below from page 3 of PDF.
Total household debt. 1st quarter 2003 through 2nd quarter 2019.
Total Household Debt by Type:
And mass US incarceration.[edit]
- US still has the world's highest incarceration rate. The Republican-led drug war and Republican/NRA-led implementation of mandatory sentencing caused it.
|The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world due to the Republican-led drug war, and the Republican/NRA-led campaign for mandatory minimum sentencing. 29 Mar 2019: Republican history of support for the Bail Bond Industry, and cash bail for people accused, but not convicted, of nonviolent crimes. 2.3.4. 30 April 2019: How Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons Into Big Profits.
OECD (developed democracies). Incarceration rates in chart below. See source info. And: Wikipedia:List of countries by incarceration rate. And: Wikipedia: Comparison of United States incarceration rate with other countries.
Polls support legalization[edit]
Return to top. See: Cannabis polls.
The majority of Republicans overall now support full cannabis legalization, but many of their leaders do not.
12 June 2019: 64% of Americans support legalizing adult use of marijuana. [171]. By Gallup Poll. 19 April 2019: CBS poll at 65% for legalization. This is after decades of activism such as cannabis marches, events, education, referendums, and more. See: cannabis polls and activism. We march until all the anti-cannabis US Republican leaders are removed from office.
Vote out most Republicans[edit]
Return to top. Vote out most US Republicans and their cannabis war.
Prosperity for all is not sustainable without universal healthcare, progressive taxation, higher taxes on the rich, lower taxes on the middle class, a high minimum wage, and a sustainable population. Vote out most Republicans! Ballotpedia issues: marijuana and minimum wage. It is not socialist. It is Common Sense. (search for "poor" among Thomas Paine quotes). See: List of minimum wages by country. And: Medicare-for-all, like Canada, is not socialist either. See: US federal minimum wage has 35% less buying power than in 1969. 10 years since last increase. A record. [172]. Racist Republican state governments in 28 states passed laws to prevent cities from raising the minimum wage. Far-right talk radio helps Republicans do this. Republicans block cheap municipal broadband in 26 states. Vote!
Money wasted on health insurance companies, drug wars, and most ground wars, helps no one.
Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration.


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I am having trouble to understand what topology is given to the tangent bundle of a smooth manifold that allows it to be a smooth manifold itself. In my understanding, among other things the topology must be second countable and Hausdorff. The definition of the tangent bundle $TM$ of a smooth manifold $M$ I am using is
$TM = \bigsqcup_{p\in M} T_pM$,
that is the disjoint union of all $T_pM$ where $T_pM$ is tangent space at $p$ consisting of all derivations at $p$. Since there is no further specification on what topology this space is given I assume we take the natural disjoint union topology.
However, in that case it seems that $TM$ is not second countable because then every set $(O,p)$ where $O$ is an open subset of $T_pM$ would be open and disjoint from any $(O,q)$ for $q \neq p$. So unless $M$ is countable there would be an uncountable number of disjoint open sets which contradicts second countability.
The only alternative I can think of is using the natural smooth structure of $TM$ as the topology. That is for every open subset $O$ of $M$ the open sets of $TM$ are defined as $\pi^{-1}(O)$ where $\pi$ is the natural projection $TM \rightarrow M$. But then $TM$ can not be Hausdorff, since any two elements of the same fiber of $\pi$ could not be seperated by open sets.
In conclusion, in both cases $TM$ could not be a manifold, so I must be missing something very obvious. Thus, I would really appreciate it if someone could point out my misconception.


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adjective 1 : marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest 2 : causing no trouble or symptoms
She was standing on the causeway with her aunt and a group of cousins feeding the chickens, at that quiet moment in the life of the farmyards before the afternoon milking-time. The great buildings round the hollow yard were as dreary and tumbledown as ever, but over the old garden-wall the straggling rose-bushes were beginning to toss their summer weight, and the gray wood and old bricks of the house, on its higher level, had a look of sleepy age in the broad afternoon sunlight, that suited the quiescent time.
— George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
Sir Francis Bacon may be responsible for pulling this word from its Latin parentage into its English existence; he wrote in The Advancement of Learning (1605) "For the nature of man doth extremely covet to have somewhat in his understanding fixed and unmovable, and as a rest and support of the mind. And, therefore, as Aristotle endeavoureth to prove, that in all motion there is some point quiescent…." The word traces to the Latin verb quiescere, meaning "to become quiet; rest." Today the English word quiescent is used to mean "tranquilly at rest," or, in medical contexts, "causing no trouble or symptoms." It is also sometimes used to describe silent letters especially in Semitic languages like Hebrew.


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I'm beginning to think there needs to be at least 4 more hours in the day.
I am still working full-time, and at 34 weeks pregnant I feel like have so many things I want to do to prepare for the baby.
Plus, be social with friends & family. Maybe relax & watch a TV show.
Blog. Bake some coconut blondies.
Hmm what else... oh yeah, SLEEP. That is, if I could get comfortable, which is nearly impossible these days with the raging heartburn and feeling like I can't breathe. (My father reads this occasionally so allow me to clarify - not in a 'hospitalization required' sort of way, Dad. It's normal for us preggos to feel a bit winded, things are getting awfully crowded in there so that means the ol' lungs can't expand like they used to.)
But oh well, I guess it's all just preparing me for the ZERO sleep I'll probably be getting in a matter of weeks!
I'm starting to rethink this 4 hours though - maybe we should go with an extra 6 or 8 hours in the day, just to be safe?
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1 C. plus 2 T. all-purpose flour
1 t. baking powder
1/4 t. salt
3/4 C. packed light brown sugar
1/3 C. (5 T.) butter, softened
1/2 t. vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 C. (6 oz.) semi-sweet chocolate chips
3/4 C. sweetened shredded coconut
Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease 8-inch square baking pan.
In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
In large bowl, beat brown sugar, butter and vanilla extract until creamy. Beat in egg. Gradually beat in flour mixture until combined and no flour streaks remain.
Stir in morsels and coconut. Press into prepared baking pan.
Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until golden brown. Cool completely in pan on wire rack, then into bars. Makes 16 bars.
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WARRENVILLE, Ill., Feb. 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Being able to hear the teacher clearly is vital to learning and academic success. This is no small feat for children with hearing loss. If a hearing impairment remains undiscovered in a child of school age or if the learning environment is not adapted to the hearing challenges, then not only can this impede learning, but it can also affect the child's emotional well-being. It is therefore important that hearing loss is detected and treated early in school children.
If hearing loss is not detected and treated, the affected students face huge challenges every day: "They will experience difficulty in hearing and understanding their teachers, which in turn will be a barrier to educational progress in line with their peers," said Christine Jones, AuD, who is the Director of Pediatric Clinical Research at Phonak, the global leader in hearing technology. "This is not surprising when you consider that, with noise levels of 60-80 decibels in the classroom[1], even children with normal hearing sometimes find it difficult to make out what their teacher is saying."
Along with comparatively poor performance at school, headaches and emotional stress are also symptoms associated with undetected hearing loss. "Children with undetected or untreated hearing loss may exhibit behaviors wrongly associated with attention issues or discipline problems, just because they are not hearing well," explained Jones. "Children may unnecessarily feel isolated and misunderstood because of it."
Choosing the right school for my child"There is no single "right" educational path for children with hearing loss, this is something that parents should seek professional advice on," says Max Dimpflmeier who teaches both inclusive and mainstream classes at the Gisela-Gymnasium school in Munich and who himself has profound hearing loss. Hearing care support is available from schools, state education and advisory centers, associations and self-help groups, among others. Parents are encouraged to also seek the opinion of a pediatric audiologist, a pediatrician or an ENT physician. "When choosing a suitable school, parents should consider the different options and individual needs of their child as well as the degree of hearing loss, since both overloading and under-stimulation can lead to frustration. It's also important to give the child a say in the decision," explained Dimpflmeier.
Children with hearing loss may be supported in various types of educational environments. In the United States most children with hearing loss are educated in an inclusive or mainstream environment. This means that while they may receive supplemental aids and support services, the child attends school with typically developing classmates. In some cases students in the mainstream classroom may receive sign or captioning support, they may only be mainstreamed for certain classes during the day and may use the wireless microphone system to improve access to auditory instruction.
While the Individual with Disabilities Act in the United States requires that children are educated in the least restrictive environment, some children's needs are best met in a special school or classroom. In this case the child may attend school where the room, equipment and skills of the teacher are specialized for children with hearing loss. For example, if the child primarily uses manual communication such as American Sign Language, their goals may be best met in a classroom with a fluent teacher and other children communicating through the same modality.
What kinds of technological aids are available for students? If a child has been diagnosed with hearing loss, child-friendly hearing aids can help: they are particularly robust and tailored to the needs of children at different stages of their childhood. Wireless Microphone systems can be used in the classroom to enhance the effectiveness of hearing aids. They consist of a microphone, which is worn by the teacher, and a receiver attached to the child's hearing aid. This allows the child with hearing difficulties to understand their teacher well from a distance, even in classrooms with background noise. Soundfield Systems offer another solution for improvement in a classroom. They amplify the teacher's voice through a speaker to improve classroom acoustics and overcome background noise. For those students wearing personal FM systems, they can use a FM microphone to enhance their hearing ability.
"Thanks to the range of educational opportunities and modern technical solutions, children with hearing loss today have the possibility to actively master school life despite their hearing loss," says Jones.
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[1] Teacher's Union for Education (Gewerkschaft Bildung und Erziehung), Baden-Wurttemberg State Association, 2008
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"Short Term 12" director Destin Daniel Cretton, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" editor Lynzee Klingman and "Middle of Nowhere" composer Kathryn Bostic are among the jury members of this year's Los Angeles Film Festival, which kicks off Wednesday and runs through June 19, Film Independent has announced.
Cretton, whose drama "Short Term 12" won an audience award at last year's LAFF, will sit on the narrative jury along with producer Stuart Cornfeld ("Tropic Thunder") and film critic Ella Taylor.
The documentary jury comprises Klingman, director Margaret Brown ("The Great Invisible") and film critic Justin Chang.
Bostic, filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz ("The Day I Died"), director Kevin Bray ("Walking Tall") and Fox audience-strategy exec Nicole Bernard are the jurors for L.A. Muse, a new section of the festival highlighting movies set in, shot in and inspired by Los Angeles.
The shorts jury consists of actor-filmmaker Todd Berger ("It's a Disaster"), writer-director Kyle Patrick Alvarez ("C.O.G.") and casting director Julia Kim ("Get Shorty").
The festival will award cash prizes in the narrative, documentary and L.A. Muse feature competitions, as well as the narrative, documentary and animated short-film competitions. A jury award will honor the best performance in the narrative section, and audience awards will be presented to the best documentary feature, narrative feature, international feature, short film and music video.
Sponsored by the Los Angeles Times, the LAFF will screen more than 200 feature films, shorts and music videos from more than 30 countries over its nine-day run at L.A. Live's Regal Cinemas downtown.
Bong Joon-ho's post-apocalyptic sci-fi film "Snowpiercer" will open the festival, and Clint Eastwood's big-screen adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical "Jersey Boys" will close.
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Eligibility for the program is determined by financial criteria. Those found eligible receive an EBT (electronic benefit card) which is scanned in any of 29 local grocery stores and farmers markets in Broome County.
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SFSP was created to reduce the likelihood of nutritional risk for low income children during the months when schools are closed for summer recess by providing free meals at participating summer meal sites such as schools, parks, pools, recreation centers, camps, housing authorities and other neighborhood locations. Through SFSP, schools, governments and nonprofit organizations receive Federal and State funds to continue a child's physical and social development by providing meals during the summer with the number of meals and dates varying by site.
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Locate the nearest open site with this on-line mapping tool: http://www.fns.usda.gov/summerfoodrocks.
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DALLAS — Monta Ellis scored 12 of his 29 points to lead a fourth-quarter comeback, Dirk Nowitzki added 22 and the Dallas Mavericks forced a seventh game in their first-round series with top-seeded San Antonio, beating the Spurs 113-111 on Friday night.
The eighth-seeded Mavericks bounced back from consecutive losses by handing the Spurs their first road defeat when leading after three quarters this season.
Tony Parker scored 22 to lead the heavily favored Spurs, who are stuck in a tossup series after they won all four games against Dallas during the regular season.
San Antonio took a nine-game winning streak against the Texas rival into the sixth postseason meeting between the teams, but now the second Game 7 between these teams is Sunday in San Antonio. The Mavericks won the other one there in 2006.
The Mavericks kept the series alive on the same floor where Vince Carter had given them a 2-1 series lead and sent the crowd into hysterics with an improbable winning 3-pointer.
Fans were standing the entire fourth quarter this time, when the Mavericks trailed by five points to start the final 12 minutes before a 14-2 run for an eight-point lead. Parker got the Spurs close again and had a duel of driving layups with Ellis in the final 2 minutes.
Parker, who had 13 of his points in the fourth and added six assists, spun through the lane before shoveling one up over Nowitzki with his left hand to get the Spurs within 106-105.
The Mavericks pushed the lead back to six before the Spurs made it interesting again with 3-pointers from Danny Green and Patty Mills. It wasn't over until a shot by Mills on an inbound play with 0.4 seconds left was ruled to have been late. It was short anyway.
Dallas' DeJuan Blair had 10 points and 14 rebounds after missing Game 5 against his former team when he was suspended for kicking Tiago Splitter in the head.
Both teams had six players in double figures, with Splitter making 11 of 12 free throws for a playoff career-high 19 points. Danny Green had 17, matching his total for the first five games of the series combined, and Tim Duncan had 16 points and nine rebounds.
Carter finished with 13, and Jose Calderon had 12 points and six assists.
The Mavericks, with a revamped backcourt led by Ellis and Calderon, had to work hard to get back in the playoffs and haven't won a postseason series since beating Miami for the title in 2011. They didn't clinch until the second-to-last game and settled for the West's lowest seed after losing to Memphis in overtime to finish the regular season.
The Spurs coasted into the playoffs with a league-best record of 62-20 after losing to Miami in seven games in the NBA Finals last year. But now they're being pushed to the limit in the West playoffs for the first time since the second round in 2008, when they beat New Orleans before losing to the Los Angeles Lakers in five games in the conference finals.
NETS 97, RAPTORS 83 >> Deron Williams scored 23 points, shaking off a second-half injury, and Brooklyn forced a seventh game in its first-round series by beating visiting Toronto.
Despite appearing to hurt his left foot or ankle early in the third quarter, Williams dominated his matchup with Kyle Lowry and helped the Nets put it away with a 3-pointer with 1:13 left that made it 92-79.
Game 7 is Sunday in Toronto, with the winner advancing to face the defending champion Miami Heat.
It became the fourth first-round series ticketed for a do-or-die game in these playoffs, with the Atlantic Division champion Raptors trying to get by a Nets team that still has a chance to reach the high expectations it had entering the season.
GRIZZLIES WITHOUT RANDOLPH >> Memphis must play Game 7 of its first-round series at Oklahoma City today without scoring leader Zach Randolph and possibly point guard Mike Conley.
Randolph was suspended for punching Steven Adams in the jaw late in Game 6. The Grizzlies had no comment on the NBA's decision after landing in Oklahoma City.
Conley strained his right hamstring in the loss and is struggling to recover. Memphis' backup point guard, Nick Calathes, is out for the series because of a drug suspension, meaning No. 3 point guard Beno Udrih will likely carry more responsibility against Russell Westbrook and Reggie Jackson, two of the quickest point guards in the NBA. Conley said he plans to play, but he expects to be sore.


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Going to be a nice weekend to get out and play BV. Will not be too hot like the last time Jay Cram and myself tried to play in upper 90's with high humidity. Jay thought he was going to tough it out and walk around without a shirt and no hat. Pretty soon he was all delusional suffering probably from heat exhausting. he started babbling and i knew we needed to get to some shade. Danger, you in? Who is in?


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Fox News is using reports that Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez may be nominated as Secretary of Labor to revive their manufactured scandal that the Obama administration favored the New Black Panther Party in a 2008 voter intimidation case.
The right-wing media has spent years propping up the bogus charge that President Obama's Justice Department engaged in racially charged "corruption" in the New Black Panther Party case. The claims, promoted by GOP activist J. Christian Adams, fell apart given the fact that the Obama DOJ obtained judgment against one defendant, while the Bush DOJ declined to pursue similar allegations in 2006.
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The compressed air system is the most misunderstood of all industrial utilities; the best engineering course has little more than a few hours of education regarding air. You can't get the necessary training through vocational technical institutions, colleges, or universities. If you have trouble getting the correct information from the salespeople who call on you, then your primary source of information is experience. As a result, here are the kinds of things that regularly occur in industrial settings:
• If a complaint arises about low pressure out in the production area, another compressor typically is turned on. If that doesn't help, another one is turned on. If maintenance runs out of compressors, they buy more until the pressure rises enough to keep production people from complaining.
• If production people complain about contamination, and the compressor appears to be working based on supplier service inspection, maintenance will either replace the equipment with more of the same or deem it as being inappropriate and buy a different kind of cleanup equipment.
• If problems persist on a machine, maintenance will change service companies and never buy that brand or type of equipment again.
What should be painfully obvious here is that none of the decisions made had anything to do with business sense, systems jeopardies, or any kind of problem definition. Many shop mechanics make their operational and maintenance decisions based on the following commandments:
• keep it running,
• control the maintenance cost,
• anticipate and prevent failure, and
• keep the telephone from ringing.
Real-world example #1
At a plant where I used to work, we were asked to reconfigure the air system to adapt to an improved manufacturing process. Up to this point, the role of utilities was so submissive to production that manufacturing didn't even see the point of a briefing. I made the mistake of asking what the rules were for the use of compressed air at the point of use. One of the production managers clarified things quickly. He said, "We take it . . . you make it! If you do a good job, we can keep the costs down." That seems pretty clear, doesn't it?
Everyone wanted to discuss what new supply-side equipment we should put into the budget. I thought it may make more sense to figure out what we needed. However, history had shown that no matter how much air was available, we'd need all of it in a relatively short period of time. They were all set to get into the heated subject of how many compressors, what brand, type, and size, but I got them to agree that demand should drive the supply. The spokesman for production told us that they were going to need about 4,000 cfm more than what they were using now. I asked how they determined the 4,000 cfm, and at what pressure they needed it at?
The pressure they requested was 90 psig. This number was higher than any previous accepted minimum pressure. Utilities had taken their numbers and inflated them by a 20% "fudge factor" on volume and 5% on pressure. When all this was done, we had arrived at 4,800 cfm at 115 psig.
The preliminary guess at the compressor and auxiliary requirements put this expansion at around 1250 bhp. Correcting their fudge factor put it closer to 800 bhp. This was 322 kW less, and at $0.08 per kW per hour, meant $25.81 less per hour just for electricity (not including water, maintenance, labor, depreciation, etc.). This translated to $266,074 per year difference in operating cost. The reduction in capital was more than $76,000, including installation.
We next refined the loading and determined that we had sized the individual units too large. The sizes were based on the peak of 4,800 cfm and at sizes convenient for our vendors. We also realized that the base load changed dramatically along with the trim, not only within any shift, but from shift to shift. With this information, we realized we did not have any trim capability, only blowoff capability. This led us to look at two different types of compressors: one was for the base and the other type was for trim.
Therefore, we increased the number of compressors and substantially reduced the size of each. Although we didn't realize it at the time, we had also reduced the risk of interruptions because of the reduced consequences of a unit failure. At the end of this exercise, our capital requirements and annual operating cost were reduced further. We were entering the reconfiguration process with an $302,074 reduction in first-year capital and operating cost by reducing the fudge factor alone.
Next, I asked what the minimum acceptable air pressure was in production and if it wasneeded. Production said they needed 90 psig, but it would be nice if they could have more than that. I asked how much more. They said 100 psig. Again, why? They said more would be "nice." This would have required 2,008 hp to elevate the pressure 15 psig for the entire system above the current lowest pressure of 85 psig. Doing this would cost $1.14 million. I asked what they would get for the elevated pressure. The spokesman said, "I don't know . . . probably feel a little better about the reliability of the air system, but I didn't consider how much that would cost." You can buy a lot of psychiatric couch time to improve your feelings for $1.3 million!
Real-world example #2
A second example involved an automotive assembly plant that had 73,000 scfm, but more than 19,000 cfm of leaks. This plant was a 24/7 operation; they never shut down unless they absolutely had to. Under these circumstances, no one had noticed how much air was being serviced in the system in a shut-down mode. This would be based on the number of compressors they had to run to maintain pressure when they did nothing. Everyone agreed that there were many leaks.
No one knew how much the leaks amounted to or the energy required to support them. One person mentioned that they had tried to get management to support a leak-fixing exercise. They learned that management didn't want to spend an unspecified amount of money for an unmeasureable result.
We determined the volume of what we could not shut off and subtracted it from the total supply at our lowest load. That was 19,000 scfm at full line pressure — air that was being used with the plant shut down! (I have seen hundreds of plants with this percentage and a few plants with more leaks by volume.) We used more than 4800 bhp of compression equipment to maintain the extraordinary waste. That's more than $318 per hour, or $2.79 million per year.
Three concepts to remember
Several years later, I worked in the field for a major pneumatic tool and hoist manufacturer. This experience provided me with the next steps in my thinking process. During nine weeks of training, we were taught how to optimize the air tools as they were applied to industrial applications. Three major ideas came from this study.
One was that the efficiency of the equipment is a function of how it was installed. Whenever we demonstrated or tried a tool for a user, we should always try to use our own company-supplied hose and fittings. There was no explanation or technology supplied, other than the fact that the tool would work better. It would achieve higher torque, grind more metal, etc. We found that most manufacturers, including my employer, did not go out of their way to specifically state the required volumes or pressures required for proper operation.
The second idea is that you can get applications to work more efficiently at the same pressure or get the same efficiency with more volume at lower pressure. The volume of air required by the tool is a function of the supply pressure, so the higher the supply pressure, the higher the exhaust flow. You can achieve the same amount of work energy by increasing the mass inversely proportionate to the reduction of the absolute pressure.
The third idea is that because of compressed air supply limitations, a different style of tool or size of air motor is sometimes necessary.
To further complicate everything, users often break the compressed air decision-making up to two or three different levels of management, based on the capital cost of the components. All too often, compressor decisions are made by an executive who doesn't know an air compressor from a milling machine. When you sort all this out — depending on the number of required bidders from each group, coupled with the levels of management — 20 or 30 different opinions pop up about what should be done. All these groups have different interests and priorities. It's little wonder that very few air systems work. One of the outcomes is that if the system works — even remotely as well as the designer intended — everyone is delighted. When you begin to look at all of this systematically, you have to change to a new pair of glasses to understand what's going on.
Measuring compressed air
For many years, people have been trying unsuccessfully to measure the performance of compressed air systems. This, of course, has been done with every other utility with no problem. The old "compressed air is free" thinking stems from a lack of knowledge of quantities and cost. You can't determine cost without usage. Then you have to compare demand volume at pressure against supply energy in real time.
Most plants have nothing other than the minimum acceptable pressure gauges on the equipment. A few alwo measure flow from the compressors, but this does not measure energy. I'm not sure what value this has other than perhaps holding suppliers accountable or noticing change in ambient or maintenance conditions.
Most people who measure flow are interested in demand accountability. They accumulate volume without pressure over a long time, such as a month. This gives a very distorted view of usage and energy because it does not detail peaks, valleys, energy, or efficiencies — which drive cost. Flow and pressure must be measured with respect to time if the information is to be meaningful — usage vs required energy. Until you have information supporting the quantitative problem, it is difficult to get any support for solutions from management or utilities. The air system has a lot of problems, and if we spend a lot of resources on problems, things will get better. Not many managers will invest in that one.
The few systems where I was able to collect data gave me an opportunity to measure constituents of demand — such as leaks and artificial demand. I had always been comfortable with a 10% to 20% value for these two items. What I was realizing was that it was more like 25% to 40% on the average, and that didn't include any supply inefficiencies or inappropriate production usage. Combined with leaks, it is common to see more than 75% of all usage unregulated. Once you know the size of the problem, and you translate that into monetary terms, you can get management's attention. As you dig into the solutions, you need information in order to benchmark progress and build discipline to maintain standards.
As users began including information gathering into retrofits, we were able to see that the estimates of usage when originally designing the system missed the actual usage by a mile. It took a long time to figure this one out. You might start believing that the manufacturers of air equipment don't want people to know what the relationship can be between air usage and power required to support it.
It takes 30 scfm at 90 psig or an equivalent weight flow in real time to generate 1 hp of compressed air work energy at the point of use. It takes about 8 to 9 hp of compressor and auxiliary equipment to generate that power. A typical ¼-in. air drill requires 8.5 scfm or 0.2 hp of electricity. A 7-in. disc grinder requires 60 scfm — about 15 to 18 hp of electrical support. Rather than judging or guessing why the industry does what they do, I'll show you. They provide use factors, which supposedly are based on the typical volumes. As an example, they would estimate that the ¼-in. drill would operate for 20% of a minute and the grinder may have a 50% use factor, or 30 seconds per minute. They then estimate the volume per minute from:
8.5 scfm × 0.20 = 1.7 scfm, or 60 scfm × 0.50 = 30 scfm
Because all installation components must be sized based on rate of flow — not average flow per time period or cumulative cycle flow over a minute — most systems and components are sized improperly. You cannot take 2 ft3 per 5-sec cycle four times per minute and call it 8 cfm. The rate of flow is 2 scfm × (60 sec / 5 sec), or 24 scfm. The results are high differentials and an inability to handle peaks. The systems approach to these problems results in high operating pressures and extra compressors that remain on all of the time, to manage large or coincidental demand events.
Compressed air storage capacity
Perhaps the most thought-provoking and overlooked issue in the system is storage capacity. For the most part, knowledge about this factor has come in pieces over the past 20 years or more. The supply industry looks at storage only from its own point of view. What I hear most often is that the seller of the compressor specifies the storage based on a "guesstimate" or said that his type of machine did not need a tank. Engineering decisions require more than such stabs in the dark.
Whether one compressor requires storage or not, all systems require storage. Storage serves many purposes in a system, such as:
• isolating events in the system, eliminating the need to keep energy online all of the time for the intermittent appearance of demand,
• protecting users from seeing the effect of other users,
• providing the ability to replace air usage over long periods of time and then use it at very high rates of flow. This can eliminate the need for a very large amount of energy, depending on the recovery time available between events served, and
• controlling the rate of change in the system based on scf per psid available. Without this being done properly, automation is a waste of time.
Changing our ways
In the mid '80s, I gave up the battle of point-of-use systems control. It was the exception rather than the rule when you could get operators in a plant to not fiddle with the regulators. An old timer explained it to me. He said that people played with regulators because they could . . . regulators have a handle.
Some things haven't changed at all. Compressed air is still the most expensive in-plant utilityr. It takes more than nine units of electricity (including auxiliary requirements) to generate one unit of air energy. Seldom if ever do I find a system that is achieving much more than a minimum acceptable result. Somehow, in the development of the industry's thinking, the concept of "more is better" got linked with compressed air. With the exception of storage, nothing could be farther from the truth.
We have learned to keep production complaints to a minimum with whatever resources are available to us . . . all too often more power. The demands on plant engineers, maintenance managers, and production engineering to control cost and improve quality will not allow us to "do what we did, and get what we got."
The merging of all of these topics is the magic of operating a best-in-class system. I invite your open-mindedness, as much of the information will be quite different and occasionally contradictory to what you may believe to be true. It is not the intent of this series of articles to "get the system to work" or "keep the equipment running." It is my intent to provide you with the concepts and information, as they apply to working systems, to improve the quality and quantity of production at a significantly lower compressed air cost. In Part 2 of this series, we will explore the best ways to design a new compressed air system.
What if we treated our electric systems the same way we treat compressed air?
1. We would have to remove all the nameplates from the motors and electrical devices. We normally have no idea what volume or pressure is required of air using devices other than by trial and error.
2. We would buy electrical-using equipment with no regard to voltage, amperage, or the effect that it might have on the system, assuming that the local utility would compensate for whatever the results were on the system.
3. We would remove all the circuit breakers, transformers, capacitors, and starters from the system and use only primary power, regardless of need. If a particular user required control, we would put rheostats on those applications and nothing on the balance of applications.
4. We would use one or two sizes of wire and connection components on all electrical applications, regardless of voltage or amperage, and expect maintenance and the local utility to correct the system to compensate for how the production works. The size and selection of those components would be determined by the stores department and purchased based on price, availability, and minimizing inventory. Example: Use ¼-in. hose and fittings on all applications regardless of flow or pressure. Once the connections are made, if the application doesn't work, you simply increase the pressure supplied to the equipment until it works the way we want it to. Wouldn't that be interesting to do with electricity?
5. Give every operator and supervisor the phone number of the local utility. If the equipment in production isn't working the way that they want it to — regardless of any changes in speeds, feeds, faults, or any other problem — they simply call the local utility, who will alter the way they are supplying electricity to the plant to correct that single problem. If they cannot correct the problem with more whatever, they will simply buy more whatever or build another power plant and try again to solve the problem that was reported over the telephone.
This example may seem ridiculous, but it would actually be a relatively close parallel to the way that most compressed air systems are operated. The sad part of this is that limited resources are available to learn more about compressed air.
R. Scot Foss is president of Plant Air Technology, Charlotte, N.C., which specializes in air system auditing and design. This series of articles is based on his book, Compressed Air System Solution Series. To order a copy, click here.


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PER 2014(17)2 Editorial Special Edition
On Friday 27th July 2012 the conference on the "Green Paper on Land Reform: Challenges and Opportunities" was held at the Hakunamatata Estate in Muldersdrift. The conference was a joint project by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) and the Faculty of Law, North-West University. While the main focus of the conference was on the specific issues raised by the Green Paper on Land Reform of 2011, it also addressed current and contemporary issues relating to the Land Reform issue as experienced in South Africa.
Papers were delivered on various aspects of land reform relating to or arising from the Green Paper on Land Reform, 2011. The programme included a large number of excellent and thought provoking papers as well as a number of panel discussions that resulted in enthusiastic audience participation. Of these, the following papers and presentations were collected, evaluated and published in this special edition of PER. The first contribution by Wian Erlank (North-West University) gives an overview and discusses the challenges the Green Paper on Land Reform bring to the fore. It sets the stage for the publication at large. This is followed by Juanita Pienaar (University of Stellenbosch) who deliberates on what she calles the "mechanics of intervention" and the Green Paper on Land Reform. Henk Kloppers and Gerrit Pienaar (North West University) gives a historical context of land reform in South Africa and early policies; and Henk Kloppers then considers Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the context of land reform. He is followed by Hanri Mostert's (University of Cape Town) contribution on land as a 'National Asset' under the Constitution and what this system change envisaged by the 2011 Green Paper on Land Policy means for property under the Constitution. Elmien du Plessis (University of Johannesburg) article on the lack of direction on compensation for expropriation in the 2011 Green Paper on Land Reform. This special edition ends with Motsepe Matlala, the President of the National African Farmers Union gave an illuminating oratio on the opportunities and challenges of the 2011 Green Paper on Land Reform for the National African Farmers Union (NAFU SA).
The timing of this edition is fortuitous, since a follow-up to this conference was held at Hakunamatata, Muldersdrift on 19 and 20 June 2014 with the specific focus on Land Reform and Food Security.
More on the theme.
The contributions contained in this special edition provide an extensive overview of land reform, especially in their introductory sections - before delving into the more technical aspects. However, a very brief note on the issue of Land Reform in South Africa might be beneficial for foreign readers. As in most other areas of the world, ownership of and access to land is an important issue in South Africa. This is especially topical in South Africa due to the fact that the racial segregation policies and laws of the past had the effect of removing people from their land, of restricting their access to land, and also in most instances of prohibiting their ownership of land. Ever since the abolition of "apartheid" and the introduction of the new, democratic dispensation, the initiative of "land reform" has been identified as requiring actively promotion in order to address these injustices of the past. Mandated by the Constitution and implemented through legislation, the South African Land Reform Programme has seen many developments over the past few years. While it is clear that much has been done to address these issues, it is also clear that current land reform strategies have not have the intended effect and would need to be adapted before this important programme is resumed. The Green Paper on Land Reform of 2011 is one of the instruments that has been used to create new interest and public engagement both in Land Reform, the development of better public policy and - eventually - of legislation. In the context of this brief description of the existing situation, this issue focusses on the most pressing aspects of land reform at the moment.]]>
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Latest data from PIMCO's Total Return bond fund shows how manager Bill Gross has massively shifted his funds' allocation into the foreign bonds of developed countries.
As shown in the table below, taken from the latest fourth quarter Pimco report, 'Non U.S. Developed' debt has jumped to 16% of the portfolio vs. just 3% the quarter before. That's an enormous shift in exposure given that it happend over just three months for this $200 billion fund.
Furthermore, he's slashed his exposure to both U.S. 'Government-Related' (to 32% from 48%) and 'Mortgage' (to 17% from 22%) securities. 'Net Cash Equivalents' meanwhile spiked to 8% of the fund vs. 2% in September. It's pretty clear Mr. Gross expects a rocky road ahead for U.S. fixed income:
PIMCO Q4 Total Return Fund Report: While PIMCO does not expect the Fed to tighten any time soon, there is still the question of how negatively markets will react as the Fed winds down its unorthodox policies that were designed to inject liquidity into the financial system. These policies include the Fed's program of purchasing mortgage-backed securities.
The current environment is characterized by a high level of policy uncertainty and relatively rich valuations for many fixed income assets. This setting argues for caution in terms of overall risk exposure in portfolios, but PIMCO believes there are still a number of prudent strategies available to enhance potential
Emerging Markets and Currency - PIMCO plans to take exposure to high quality EM credits such as Mexico, Brazil, Korea and Russia, which have low levels of debt relative to the size of their economies. We also will look to take positions in select EM currencies, such as Brazil and China, anticipating that faster growth in these economies should allow their currencies to gain versus the U.S. dollar.
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