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Skip to comments.The Espresso Economy, or Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Posted on 07/17/2011 9:20:04 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
Like most Freepers, I like to get my news and information online. Also, I am (as I suspect many Freepers are) a confirmed coffeeholic. There are few things more pleasurable than sitting down with a tall coffee -- extra cream, and Splenda or Stevia, please, I'm doing the Atkins diet -- and surfing through the web for the latest news and commentary. Free Republic is only one of my favorite sites.
Within the last couple of weeks, I have noticed a great deal of time and attention being given to the ongoing debt limit negotiations in DC. Apparently the problem is that Congress has passed a law that sets a limit on the amount of money the US government can borrow, and yet the fear is that now, or in the near future, the amount of current spending will drive us over the debt limit, and that the government will default on its obligations. Doom, misery, and despair to follow, women and children (and other favored Democrat constituencies) hardest hit, film at 11.
Let me say for the nonce, that this appears to be the first of many problems coming up. According to some pundits, and some Republicans, there is enough money coming in from taxes right now to fund the interest on the existing debt, plus pay the military, and Social Security(*), and a couple of other giveaways, for the foreseeable future: at least until October, when the incoming freshman Congress will be allowed to pass their first budget (the Democrats, in their rush to give us Obamacare, tastefully neglected to pass a budget in the runup to their electoral comeuppance in 2010).
And what is it that has led us to this pass? "Bush's fault" to be sure -- he and the dimwit GOP Congress spent enough during their time together to be an insult to drunken sailors everywhere. Until Nancy Pelosi came in, and with Barack Obama, inspired by Cloward and Piven, they spent enough to make Bush & Co. look like pikers. Why, what's the word everyone is using? Oh, right. A bubble.
It's a strange word, it is, the word bubble. Almost as if I've heard it before. In connection with...another government problem...oh, that's right. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The whole mortgage crisis. People being given ridiculous loans (more than 100% of principal) for poorly-appraised (at best) housing for which they didn't stand a chance of making regular payments; shoehorned in by -- drat, not quite the word bubble, but close -- balloon payments.
Well, how are people supposed to pay for the mortgages? Particularly in this economy. We're competing with Europe, Japan, India, and China you know. Why, we need...EDUCATION!TM And what do you know, college costs have increased, too, rising recently at twice the rate of inflation; and since the mid-1980's, tuition has gone up almost 500%, compared with 100% for prices overall. And yet -- you need the college degree to compete, despite the cost. It sounds like (say it with me) a bubble.
Well, if we had wanted to pay for college, perhaps we should have invested some money. During the recession, most people's 401(k) accounts took a big hit; certainly stocks have not performed well; but precious metals such as gold, have veritably skyrocketed. Almost as if they were in...a bubble.
And don't even get me started on gas prices.
What on Earth is going on here? Is there anything that isn't a bubble? Where are we going, and why does this handbasket have "Lawrence Welk" written on the side?
Well, some people would suggest that the problem is related to the government spending and borrowing, and that with the devaluation of the currency, the prices of various items will of necessity go up, since we are bidding for them with increasingly meaningless dollars. (If money grew on trees, it wouldn't be worth much, right?)
I think that's true, to an extent; but I don't think it accounts for all of the problems. Supply and demand counts, too, and with the US economy in a slump, there is not that much demand across the board for all items.
Or is there? Think of college as an example, and as a gateway -- just as college is supposed to be the gateway to a middle class lifestyle out in the real world. College is very much a medieval institution: a bunch of people get together and discuss, pontificate, cogitate, and drink (look up the origins of the word symposium) and come up with beaucoup deep conclusions, to the praise of their fellows and the admiration of their countrymen. And then when one has studied enough, one is supposed to dress up in a silly robe and tassel and march about to musical pieces with names like Pompous Circumstance.
Nowadays, companies are not supposed to use intelligence tests (it might be discriminatory against morons, and then where would business find new managers?), so they have decided to use college as a substitute: if you have a degree, you must be smart enough to hold a job. The consequence of this (together with the government's insistence that "everyone should go to college, and we'll supply the money in the form of loans"(**)) is to create a LOT of demand for a limited item. And the laws of supply and demand dictate, that if demand goes up, prices do too. The government putting its thumb on the scales by encouraging things like Womyn's Studies or "Earth Science and Environmental Justice" (I only *wish* this were a joke) isn't helping much either.
But the problem with the bubbles isn't just that of college. It seems as though virtually every area of life is becoming infested with bubbles at the same time. Looking at my coffee the other day, with Carly Simon's You're So Vain running through my head --
"I had a dream, there were clouds in my coffee,
clouds in my coffee"
my mind made the sudden connection. The problem isn't individual bubbles: the problem is frothiness: the tendency to MAKE bubbles in the first place!
What do I mean by this?
To answer this, let's go back to the most popular textbook example of a bubble, the South Sea Bubble (yes, I *know* it's Wikipedia. But it's nothing political, and it has decent links, so bear with it). What happens in a bubble is that first, an item of no tremendous worth in itself attracts the attention of investors, who drive the price up. Other investors notice this and join in, driving the price higher. After a time, more and more people join in, hoping to sell their item to "the next sucker in line" and get rich: and in some bubbles, this activity may be actively encouraged by brokers or by salesmen who don't give a hoot about the item, but only the ease with which they can collect commissions. Finally, sales peter out as prices climb astronomically, demand falls, which drives down speculative interest, and the bubble "collapses" as people become as eager to sell (and preserve their paper gains) as they had formerly been to buy.
What does this have to do with our current economy? Well, it has taken time to get here, and I think it reflects the slow inculcation of an attitude on the part of the captains of industry, which has now spread throughout much of society. Let us recall what life was like in the United States for much of post World War 2, when the United States was the predominant industrial power in the world, and our factories unscathed by the war. In such an environment, making money in industry was comparatively easy: build a decent product and sell it. Pent-up demand is almost guaranteed. And with the demographics of a rising US population ("baby-boom"), such favorable tailwinds were a given.
But over the decades, things changed. Factories were built, first in Europe, then in Japan. By the early 1980s there was serious competition for the US auto industry; by the late 1980s, serious commentators were soberly predicting that Japan would overtake the United States economically. The baby boom approached its peak and began to recede. The US government grew larger, as organizations such as the EPA (begun under Nixon) grew enormous under the combined influence of mission creep and long-lasting liberal Democrat majorities in Congress; and with the regulations on production, so too came regulations on people. Longer vacations, workman's comp, maternity leave, ADA requirements, diversity bureaucracy, ever more burdensome taxes.
All of these things made it harder and harder simply to mint money in the United States, producing exclusively for the US consumer.
So companies changed. They began to seek outside markets; they began the process of offshoring: sending production and other jobs to other countries -- first Mexico, then the Far East. And with the jobs, the headaches diminished: fewer environmental regulations, fewer onerous personnel-related laws, the wonders of wage arbitrage, the eagerly awaited promise of legions of new consumers. And just as lavish, the promises to the workers here in the US -- "don't worry, all the dangerous, dirty work is going overseas, so we can more profitably redeploy the money into higher wage, high-tech jobs here in the US."
Funny how that worked out.
The companies then began sending more and more jobs to the overseas locations, in support of the factories which had moved overseas; and to help transition the management to local workers who would have greater cultural sensitivity and increase the overseas markets. And here at home? Some bozo of an executive had the brainstorm that "if we can move the factories there, we can move the foreign personnel here" -- and the use of the H1-B visa exploded.
Who exactly benefited from all of these structural changes? Why, of course. Not the American worker. And not always the consumers (witness the continuing high price of athletic shoes despite production in China, or the continuing high price of Microsoft software despite the legendary wealth of the company executives). But there was worse to come.
Following these kinds of changes in the business world, a similar set of changes happened in the business press, and on Wall Street. The focus changed from long-term, sustainable planning, and from the business as a whole; to the concept of the "superstar CEO" -- the legendary superman who by sheer force of will and determination drove an entire enterprise to unheard of profitability. At least -- in the short term. For in order to make executives more accountable, and to encourage them to look at the financial consequences of their actions, the concept of "stock options" as a primary method of renumeration of corporate officers came in vogue. The theory was that the executives would be motivated to plan for the health and financial well-being of the company, since they would be sure to reap the rewards (in terms of appreciating stock prices) for any well-conceived, well-executed strategies.
(All at a price, of course. Remember the lifetime perks awarded to Jack "Neutron" Welch of GE, to continue in perpetuity, even after he had LEFT THE COMPANY? And in return, so many of the employees who had done the work were rewarded with the empty words "lifetime employability" and a token severance package.)
But one little thing got in the way of the compensation scheme working as planned...one which was to prove disastrous for the economy over time, and in ways nobody had foreseen. The stock options were structured to reward SHORT-term performance. Together with the massive ego boost given to the executives, and the lessons learned in offshoring, executives quickly figured out that goosing the numbers for a year or two was much more rewarding, and MUCH less work, than building a slow-growing company that would last, and weather downturns.
And other executives saw the easy money to be made; but not all of them had large payrolls to transfer offshore; or perhaps, even that amount of work was too arduous for the quick payoffs which seemed possible. Companies began simply to lie and cheat rather than producing any product, in order for the executives to get rich. And all to a fawning press.
Just a few names will suffice. Does MCI-Worldcom ring a bell? Or Enron? Or -- oh, I don't know -- maybe some Wall Street firm or other which dabbled in mortgage-backed securities, or in guaranteeing the loans on those securities.
Which brings us back to the present day. The US economy USED to be based on a shared value, from top to bottom, of hard work and personal accountability: and the United States, hearkening back to the wartime days when it had justly been called the "arsenal of democracy," prided itself for an honest day's pay for an honest day's work: and on the promise of growing into wealth.
It has, over time, and with many fits and starts, been transformed into a culture where political connections count more than work, where manipulation of numbers or of acting merely as a gatekeeper on others' transactions, rather than producing a product, is the path to *real* wealth, where the very government itself is interfering directly in the marketplace to dictate winners and losers, and acting to promise wealth without work to the connected few, and sustenance without work to millions more
...and where the former "arsenal of Democracy" is threatening to become the modern-day "arsenal of Maoism."
In order for the country to survive, we need to move from an economy of froth, based on a profusion of bubbles, in the hopes of instant wealth without work, to an economy of substance, where instant wealth is not realized, but the safety and sustainability of the entire country IS.
(*) Which, come to think of it, presents another potential bombshell. Haven't we been told all along that Social Security is in its own segregated lockbox and that the funds are there whenever we want them? Why, then is Obama saying he can't guarantee that Social Security checks will be sent out if there is an impasse? ...Oh, I get it. He's bluffing. But in doing so, he just admitted that Congress has been spending the incoming Social Security receipts on current expenses all along, leaving a couple of hopey-changey stained IOUs in the lock box in their place. So he just called his own bluff and saved the Republicans the trouble.
(**) This sounds a lot like the government's insistence that "everyone should have a house" because "housing prices always go up" doesn't it?
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Cheers back atcha...good Monday (for me) rant.
It has, over time, and with many fits and starts, been transformed into a culture where political connections count more than work, where manipulation of numbers or of acting merely as a gatekeeper on others' transactions, rather than producing a product, is the path to *real* wealth, where the very government itself is interfering directly in the marketplace to dictate winners and losers, and acting to promise wealth without work to the connected few, and sustenance without work to millions more
I must demur, sir. There was never any "shared value." People sucked just as much in the past as they do now. Government is indeed the problem.
The Espresso Economy, or Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Thanks, grey_whiskers. Sorry for the double post, I was distracted!
Nice write! Now what do you think about the money that's there but supposedly sitting on the side lines because it's known that more Obamanomics is coming down the pike and is now institutionalized, but it hasn't all hit yet?
Personally, I think we're done from man's manipulations and must figure how to now adapt in a country whose countrymen bloody well liked the money from trees era and forgot their God. Sorry to be negative, but solutions will likely come only in proportion to the time spent on our knees and in reparation.
Let me put it this way: how many Presidents before Obama ever walked around with a book entitled The Post-American World and invited the author to the White House?
Americans used to believe in America.
Now fewer do; some hate America; and a few are acting as organ thieves while her heart yet beats.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
Sarah's going to have to consult with some good Hayek-believing economists to work on that; it may be ameliorated by the pent-up wave of corporate spending which will start when her election is announced, and reach a crescendo during the first six months of her working with the new
GOP Tea-Party-controlled House and Senate.
There is only one kind of regulation keeping me and many others from manufacturing something useful for others: local zoning "laws" (once ordinances) against manufacturing, even on large lots in the middle of nowhere.
Ask for a variance, and you'll get closer to who's behind that regulation. "Closer" is most often older women, who oppose your effort to start a business and threaten to sue in advance for some violation or other against the environment.
Find out who once employed or is directly related to the threatening, older women, and you'll find out who is behind the regulations against new, small manufacturing operations: he, who will not allow competition against his global manufacturing, real estate or construction empire.
And the socialism and big spending are bipartisan efforts in every locale. Anti-family and anti-small-business laws are for preventing domestic competition from the domestics.
So then try to get into your local political party meetings, and try to change that political party. But before you do that, make sure that you, your family and all of your possessions are very well secured.
I agree. Good post.
Thanks for the ping; post; post. Very good.
From..."The Law"...
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole with their common aim of legal plunder constitute socialism.
Now, since under this definition socialism is a body of doctrine, what attack can be made against it other than a war of doctrine? If you find this socialistic doctrine to be false, absurd, and evil, then refute it. And the more false, the more absurd, and the more evil it is, the easier it will be to refute. Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation. This will be no light task.
Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
DEFUND/DISMANTLE (when necessary) socialist collectives, foreign and domestic (especially those constructed by "our" government).
...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...
ALTER it.
Thank you. There is an information gap in my "strategy." One way to fill that might be to let the older population (including me) know that Social Security is danger. Heh.
Disseminate the message that SS or something similar can somehow be salvaged by cutting federal funding for public ed., emergency-rescue-911, etc., social programs and so on. All of the local government employees of my past acquaintance received newsletters telling them to write to both parties and vote for Democrats. When they're out of work, they'll no longer be as politically active. And oldsters can outnumber them if used wisely. There would even be division between local government employees (Social Security wedge between old and young).
I'm in my fifties (not so old but knocking on the door). I'm poor (but fed with healthy food by my own efforts), but I'm building things (energy, shelter, food, etc.) on the cheap, little by little. Also own a cheap-**s little piece of land. I saved, had the well drilled and installed the water system myself (gravity fed with cistern, no expansion tank necessary). I'm doing the "Galt" thing with family a little at a time (out of pocket).
My idea is to use our gigantic Baby Boomer population's political weight and momentum as a soft style martial arts practitioner would (or a military commander, for that matter): against us. We can work. We'll live. We'll be alright. Happiness starts in our own minds, and "self-esteem" is an unhealthy concept altogether. Don't worry about us. Older folks tend to prepare and save much anyway. And we're better off doing some kind of manual labor. Because if we stop working completely, we tend to die quicker anyway.
There. The young folks win (jobs!), and the old folks will survive (with many really living it up just great).
HOORAY familyop! Be prepared BUMP! As for SS I'm 61 and could collect in about 9 months (not sure at this time) but plan to keep working. IMO they (socialists) can take that whole FORCED system and shove it up their _ _ _. It is built on the backs of dead Americans. As I see it, the only thing worse in America is Obamacare/Hillarycare TOTALITARIANcare. They will be directly killing (witholding treatment) of Americans who would be FORCED to pay for their own demise. Socialism always results in a lot of dead people. Witness history. Very clever...our POS socialists.
Your idea IMHO has merit though...to rid ourselves of MANY OTHER socialist systems already in place.
"...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness..." ALTER it.
How? By DEFUNDING socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
After that idea gains traction with citizens, legislatures (state and federal) who would have very little real work to do, could be part-time jobs with 1/10th pay, NO retirement, NO perks, NO insurance. Get a job. Pay for your own crap, you POS politicians/socialist wannabees.
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The condo association at one of Tampa's most prestigious towers -- Plaza Harbour Island -- has the feeling that the building is sinking.
The association, according to The Tampa Bay Times, has filed a lawsuit claiming that the 20-story, 144-unit tower has structural problems that include exterior cracking .
The lawsuit says that examinations found "very loose and very soft bay bottom soils'' under the first-floor commercial units. "These soils are completely unsuitable to support the foundation and, as a result, the soils have settled with resulting movement and significant cracking of the walls, stucco and structure.''
The damages to some of the units include "loss of use, relocation expenses, diminution in value, increased insurance premiums (and) damage to other property,'' the lawsuit states.
Click here to read the full story.

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heres a mod that adds a very angry cartton smiley to the map/radar near flinty county on the SF island , very close to marina
Its just a little map easter egg!
1. open TXD worshop or any other TXD editng tool
2. find radar 138 and right click on it
3. click replace and go to my files in TXD and replace it.
4. click Save TXD and click fire then save IMG
done simples!
now just go to the SF island boardiring the LS intelet near marina beach and its where the highway turns youll see it on the map in flint county.


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Hello, I was replacing my valve covers and gaskets and seem to have misplaced the ignition coils on the driver side of my engine. The numbers that used to be on there are deteriorated and no longer exist. Is there a way to describe how they come off the wire harness and match to each coil? My engine seems to misfire, bog out then stall.
have the same problem?
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Looking for a new summer cocktail? This not-too-sweet Strawberry-Kiwi Daiquiri is the perfect thirst quencher for long, lazy nights on the patio.
Here is the definition of daiquiri according to Wikipedia:
A daiquiri is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum, citrus (typically lime juice), and sugar or other sweetener.
However, that is NOT what I think of when I think of a daiquiri. I think of uber-sweet and slushy drinks with an umbrella in them. I love the umbrella, but the sweet slushy drinks are not my thing. When Anna and I were in Miami for BlogHer Food last weekend, we went a day early at stayed at the Surfcomber Hotel, a Kimpton Hotel. If you have never stayed at a Kimpton, you need to change that ASAP! One of my many favorite things about their hotels is the hosted happy hour (The complimentary glasses of Prosecco at check-in and free wifi are bonuses, too!). During the happy hour, the bartender was handing out samples of one of their bar menu drinks, a version of a Strawberry-Kiwi Daiquiri. I would have never ordered this had I just seen it on the menu, but because of the sample, I gave it a whirl. Mind=blown. This is not your syrupy sweet, slushy daiquiri. This is a daiquiri the way they are meant to be. And it took me exactly 2 days before I replicated it upon our return. Holla! Our drink of summer has been found.
I'm not a fan of really sweet drinks, but sometimes I want a change of pace from my favorite gin and tonic (tall with two limes, please). As a rule I'm not really a rum drinker, unless it's in a mojito, but I think this Strawberry-Kiwi Daiquiri is going to change that. The rum takes a little planning, but the only other ingredients are fresh lime juice and simple syrup, another bonus for summertime ease.
If you're looking for us this summer, we'll be on the deck, cocktail in hand, enjoying the fabulous weather. Cheers!
Strawberry-Kiwi Daiquiri
Strawberry-Kiwi Infused rum
- 1-750 ml bottle white rum
- 3 cups diced strawberries
- 2 cups peeled and diced kiwi
Strawberry-Kiwi Daiquiri
- 31/2 parts Strawberry-Kiwi infused rum (see recipe below)
- 1 part fresh lime juice
- 1 part simple syrup
- Kiwi slices for garnish (optional)
To make the Strawberry-Kiwi infused Rum:
- Place chopped fruit in a glass container, add rum and cover. Refrigerate for 36-48 hours. Strain fruit and store infused rum in refrigerator until ready to use.
To make the Strawberry-Kiwi Daiquiri:
- Place all ingredients in a shaker filled with ice. Shake to combine and strain into glass. Serve immediately.
- Garnish with kiwi slice if desired.


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Zimbabwean cops swarm LGBT group's HQ – againAround the World Thursday, August 30th, 2012
HARARE, Zimbabwe – The offices of the Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), a voluntary association founded in 1990 to serve the needs and interests of LGBTI people in Zimbabwe, have been raided by the Zimbabwe Republic Police for the second time in two weeks.
Police seized computers and GALZ literature claiming they were searching for illegal data and offensive materials. Ironically, according to GALZ, some of the machines seized were the same machines that were recently returned to GALZ from a raid on their offices in May 2010.
Pinknews.co.uk reported that at the last raid, 44 GALZ members were arrested – 31 men and 13 women – and taken to Harare Central police station, where they were ordered to give their names, addresses and other personal details. Some members said they were assaulted. None of those arrested were detained under a specific charge.
In a statement released on their Web site GALZ said, "GALZ is disturbed by the continued harassment and the unjust police raids that are severely compromising its efforts to reach out to it's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community … we reiterate our call to the police to end the unjustified harassment of GALZ and its community. Every person in Zimbabwe is entitled to hold opinions and impart ideas without interference. Zimbabweans have a right to assemble freely, associate with other persons and to belong to an association that protects their interests."
Amnesty International released a statement condemning the police action. The organization's African Director Audrey Gaughran said, "The police action is a blatant violation of the basic human rights of these individuals. They have not committed any crime under Zimbabwean law." v
Short URL: http://lgbtweekly.com/?p=28194


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Monday, November 18, 2013
A medicinal remedy with no known adverse side effects: The Rosary
At his Angelus audience yesterday (11/17/13), Pope Francis had boxes resembling medicine handed out to the thousands of people in the square by volunteers. Inside the box was a Rosary. He joked about being a spiritual pharmacist and offered the recitation of the Rosary as spiritual medicine for the heart.
As the Year of Faith comes to an end, Pope Francis is reaching out to those who can bring the message of the Good News and devotion to Our Lady to those who need to hear it most. While some may call this move gimmicky, possibly even in poor taste, what the Sovereign Pontiff realizes is this: in this material age, the younger generations tend to respond to fads, gimmicks, etc. Ask any toddler what a golden, double arch symbol means, and they can tell you: McDonald's. The same can be said for adolescents and young adults when it comes to symbol recognition. They know and appreciate consumer brands, and are even being encouraged through the mass media to recognize over-the-counter and prescription medicines by brand and purpose.
Score one for Francis -- the boots on the ground, meet them where they're at pope -- who understands how to make the New Evangelization ring true in every heart by sharing the Gospel message with a generation in their language and in the present moment.
Posted by Kathy at Monday, November 18, 2013
4 comments:
- lms said...
A very timely post for me, since I just collected rosaries to give out to my 8th grade CCD class. I am trying to introduce them to some of the concrete traditions of our Church (because I fear they don't know about them.) Now I can talk about Pope Francis (again), too!
- November 18, 2013 at 7:55 PM
- Kathy said...
Thanks for the comment, lms! We should draw attention to the pope whenever we get the chance. Best wishes as you share his stories and the Rosary with your class.
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Oh Sweet Canada!
I had a great day today leading the High Country Birding Trip at The New River Birding Festival in Fayette County, West Virginia.
Another big day tomorrow, so just enough time and energy left to share three images.
This was a very cooperative Canada warbler that sang and fed and preened for us along Glade Creek Road. It was my best Canada warbler watching ever. You should have been here.
Labels: birding in WV, Canada warbler, New River Birding Festival


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Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at marble.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
John Haines has been trying since at least 2004 to donate about $31,000 of marble sitting at the Yule Quarry in Marble, Colo., to replace the cracked monument.
Made of Italian marble, with a built in Museum and shrines of the King and his wife, Marble temple is also one of the most popular attractions in Bangkok Thailand.
A friend of mine with chronic illness used what she called the Marble System.
Rod Penner hardly stands out in Marble Falls, Texas, a town of about 5,000 residents, 40 miles northwest of Austin.
John Seed: Rod Penner: Rust on Poles, Crumbling Asphalt, Light Hitting the Grass (PHOTOS)
That is more than the median household income in Marble Falls, which is $30,800.
John Seed: Rod Penner: Rust on Poles, Crumbling Asphalt, Light Hitting the Grass (PHOTOS)
I'm half way through this month's Saveur and dreaming about the tamales that I use to buy from a lady on a country road out in Marble Falls.
Having grown up in Marble Falls and spent my university days in Austin I guess I missed the moment when Zurich and Austin merged, because twenty years ago the chance of finding a house like this on Lake Austin would have been nil.
I snapped a few photos with my iPhone during my fly fishing tripatLees Ferryin Marble Canyon posted by Andrew Simone in photography | * | 7 comments comments
The comment came from blogger Hatfield Girl whose interesting and crisp blog is "Angels in Marble".
For example, it might suggest "Find a gym in Marble Arch" and later "Discover a restaurant in Charing Cross."
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Catherine Lester, Grant County OR
Researching Hamilton and related ancestry.
Trying to determine if Catherine Lester shown in 1900 Grant County OR was maiden Catherine Cassady, who first married a FNU White, 2nd married a Nicholas Baker and possible 3rd married a FNU Lester.
1900 Grant County Oregon:
Catherine Lester, age 78, born PA, parents born PA
Anna M. Dille, age 58, born Ohio, father born PA, mother VA(4 children, 3 living)
Next door Samuel Elliot family.
1910 census of Grant County OR: Samuel Elliot, 51, b MI, w, Nellie, 50 b OH, d, Edna, 15, b OR, and mother-in-law, Anna M Dille, 68, b OH.
Nellie Elliot was maiden Nellie White, daughter of John White and Anna Hamilton.
John White was son of FNU White and Catherine Cassady.
Name also spelled Cassidy, Cassedy, Casedy, Casidy.


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Plasmid DNA digestion problem - (Dec/03/2013 )
Am trying to digest PET 22b with BamH1 and Xho1, however, I met repeated failure with incomplete digestion. I tried various tricks like increase or decrease the total volume reaction, concentration of the enzyme, etc with no success. I believe there might be some contamination with my plasmid DNA that might be preventing it from complete digestion, but I have no idea what that might be. I am using DH5a to grow the PET vector and Zyppy plasmid mini prep kit for plasmid isolation. The quality of enzymes are good as other members in our lab use the same enzymes for other purposes. I'm sick of trying all alternatives and lastly I resort to post it here for need of help. I hope masters in Cloning will help me to solve my issue....Thanks in advance for all valuable suggestions.
Try gel purifiying the plasmid, sometimes that helps.
Two things. First, make sure your volume of plasmid you are digesting is not the majority of the total reaction volume. This just encourages any contaminants present to inhibit the reaction. For example if you are doing a 50uL digest, keep the volume of plasmid around 5uL. As the previous poster mentioned, you could gel purify the plasmid, but I would rather do a phenol/chloroform extraction followed by ethanol precipitation.
If this does not work, don't waste any more time trying different things, just repeat the miniprep. For unknown reasons, your miniprep may have contaminated the plasmid and you will be best served by just starting over. I have never had this problem with minipreps, but I have observed similar situations with the MaxiPrep.
Completely agree with HOYAJM. A likely problem is either ethanol or Gu-HCl contamination of your miniprep DNA. Reducing the volume of DNA solution added will help, but a re-prep with care especially on the spinning of the column dry after the final wash will likely solve the problem. A gel purification will not help if you re-introduce the contaminants as part of gel purifying your sample. A simple ethanol precipitation step may be all that is required (with care to remove the ethanol!).


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The political crisis in Turkey: what has quarreled Erdogan and Davutoglu
"Coup d'etat" – the Turkish opposition clearly outlined the gap loomed between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. In the media and social networks zaroulis rumors about the inevitable and the imminent resignation of the Prime Minister.
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On the outcome of the Wednesday meeting between Erdogan and Davutoglu, it was reported that soon the ruling justice and development will hold an extraordinary Congress. And apparently, Ahmet davutoğlu as the candidate for the post of leader of the party is not considered.
What was the "black cat" which ran between seeming so close political allies of Erdogan and Davutoglu?
"The root of the discrepancies in tandem Erdogan-Davutoglu essentially one, – considers the political scientist, expert on Turkey Ivan STARODUBTSEV. – It lies in the fundamentally different views of the President and the Prime Minister on how the weight is distributed on the two ends of the tandem. Despite the fact that Turkey is a parliamentary Republic, where the President only serves a ritual function, after the first in the country's history of direct presidential elections had a unique situation when formally non-partisan President Erdogan retained the levers of control over all branches of government. But Davutoglu, after receiving formal post of leader of ruling party of justice and development did not become Prime Minister with all provisions to him by the Constitution rights and powers. Everything else, in particular, that recently was leaked to the press from Twitter user "Pelican" (dossier "Pelican") – a practice fundamental design contradiction: the persistence of Erdogan in maintaining the status quo and the no less persistent attempts Davutoglu change it in their favor. How did the efforts of the head office? In the sluggish implementation of plans of Erdogan to adopt a new "civil" Constitution with a transition to a presidential form of government, in an attempt to establish control over the highest party organ of the AKP, in a restrained relation to the arrest of the "professors" who disagree with the power solution of the Kurdish question, etc. Protagonista commentators directly accuse Davutoglu of flirting with the West, which the President formed in recent years turbulent relationship. Not to mention the failure of the foreign policy of the country, which was largely formed under the influence of Professor Davutoglu is the author of "Strategic depth". Particularly painful for Turkey, the failure of the policy of Turkey on the Syrian track. And no the "Brussels agreements" and the exemption from visas to the EU for Turkish citizens (for which country – members of the EU still needs to vote individually) these failures to neutralize".
"And in both, internal and external policy between President and Prime Minister, there are strong differences, – commented from Istanbul, the political scientist Orkhan, gafarly. – As you know, is now preparing a reform of the Constitution that is moving Turkey to presidential form of government. Differences arose, in particular, on this issue. Davutoglu was not completely agree with what Erdogan wanted. On other domestic issues were also differences. For example, on the question of the immunity of deputies. There were disagreements and on foreign policy issues – Syria, for European integration. All of this gathered together. And with Davutoglu as Chairman of the ruling party were removed the authority to appoint regional representatives martinich. After that, it became clear that the AKP supporters, Erdogan proved to be stronger than those who support full equality. Thus, the Prime Minister gave the signal that he was gone. In the near future, before the start of the month of Ramadan will be a new party Congress, which will select the new head of the party. And this means that Davutoglu will resign and the new leader of the party will form a government".
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The Dish: Giffords, Philbins dine in private at Gabriele's
Updated 5:53 pm, Saturday, March 16, 2013
Scene ... The Red Ribbon Foundation Junior Board held an evening of wine and conversation with Gary Dell'Abate, executive producer of "The Howard Stern Show" and an Old Greenwich resident, at WineWise on East Putnam Avenue in Greenwich on Wednesday night. Dell'Abate, an honoree at the Red Ribbon's upcoming April 6 SAFE Gala featuring Mark McGrath of the rock band Sugar Ray, became an advocate for AIDS education and prevention after his brother passed away from the disease in the early '90s. He serves as board president of Lifebeat: Music Fights HIV/AIDS.
Out there ... The announcement of the main-stage performer for this year's Greenwich Town Party, which is scheduled for May 25 at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park, is expected to be made by the end of the month. Full details about ticketing and sale date information will also be released. Previous performers have included Paul Simon, Dave Matthews and Buddy Guy. Local bands should take note that they could be performing along with the soon-to-be-announced lineup. Submissions for local bands and performing artists, who will perform on the GTP town stage, the event's second stage at the Roger Sherman Baldwin Park, are now being accepted through the Greenwich Town Party website (www.GreenwichTownParty.com).
Scene ... Riverside residents and TV personalities Kathie Lee and Frank Gifford and Greenwich residents and TV personalities Regis and Joy Philbin had dinner together in a private room at Gabriele's Italian Steak House on Church Street in Greenwich last weekend. Kathie Lee was so impressed by the restaurant owned by Greenwich resident Danny Gabriele that she mentioned it on NBC's "Today" show with Hoda Kotb on Monday morning, and praised Gabriele's host extraordinaire, Tony Capasso. Also dining at the popular eatery last weekend was SAC Capital Advisors founder and Greenwich resident Steven A. Cohen and his wife, Alexandra.
Out there ... Noted neurosurgeon and Bedford Hills, N.Y., resident Ezriel Kornel is hosting a new medical information program entitled "Back Talk" every Wednesday morning from 9 to 9:30 on News Talk AM 1490 WGCH. On his program, Kornel discusses treatment options and the latest medical breakthroughs in issues related to the back, neck, the spine and the brain, and listeners can call in with their questions. Kornel is affiliated with hospitals in Connecticut, Westchester County and New York City, including Greenwich Hospital, Northern Westchester Hospital, White Plains Hospital and New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. In his recent TV appearance on CBS's "The Doctors," Kornel discussed actress Valerie Harper's diagnosis of terminal brain cancer. His closing remarks were, "Never give up hope."
Out there ... Relay for Life of Greenwich will host a "fondue-raiser" at the Melting Pot on Grove Street in Darien from 5 to 10 p.m. Thursday. A prix-fixe menu and a Relay drink, alcoholic and nonalcoholic options, will also be available for a donation to Relay for Life, and 20 percent of your entire purchase will be donated. Relay for Life of Greenwich 2013 will be held June 14 at Brunswick School Edwards Campus. For more info go to relayforlife.org/greenwichct or email firstname.lastname@example.com."
Scene ... Greenwich resident and actor Brendan Fraser was seen having his hair cut at Hopscotch on Railroad Avenue in Greenwich last week.
Out there ... Legendary folk singer/writer Judy Collins, whose songs "Both Sides Now," "Amazing Grace" and "Send in the Clowns," won her Grammy Awards, will perform at The Ridgefield Playhouse at 8 p.m. Thursday. Collins is a representative for UNICEF and campaigns on behalf of the abolition of land mines. For tickets ($60), call 203-438-5795.
Scene ... "NBC News" correspondent and Westchester resident Kate Snow was seen taking a hot yoga class at Kaia Yoga at The Mill on Pemberwick Road in Greenwich March 9.
Out there ... The Greenwich Chamber of Commerce is hosting a "Women Who Matter" lunch for businesswomen from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Tuesday at The Ginger Man restaurant, 64 Greenwich Ave., featuring guest speaker Susan Ball, deputy director of the Bruce Museum. The luncheon, sponsored by Regina's Art Center, is the first in a series of lunches designed to showcase, honor and learn from women who have a real impact on the world around them. It is sponsored by Regina's Art Center. For more info and to sign up ($40), email email@example.com, or call 203-869-3500 or sign up online at greenwichchamber.com.
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During its audit of the CFPB's fiscal years 2015 and 2014 financial statements, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) identified deficiencies in the bureau's internal control over accounting for property, equipment and software that collectively constituted a significant deficiency in the CFPB's internal control over financial reporting.
Specifically, GAO found that the CFPB did not effectively design or implement controls to assure accurate and timely classification and recording of software costs, nor did the bureau maintain ongoing accuracy and completeness of property and equipment inventory records. GAO also identified deficiencies related to reviewing and approving financial statements; however, it did not consider them to be material weaknesses or significant deficiencies, either individually or collectively.
The CFPB has made corrective actions for two of the four recommendations from GAO's prior management report, which remained open at the beginning of GAO's fiscal year 2015 audit. As a result, the CFPB has seven financial audit-related GAO recommendations to address: the previous two open recommendations and the five recommendations GAO is making in this report.
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The Hold Steady are a band that, after 3 mildly successful but largely respected albums, seem comfortable with their music. A band you'd envision sitting contently amidst others in their shrinking genre without attempting to break out of any proverbial boxes or push any proverbial boundaries.
So with this, their fourth album, they seem to be aiming at sitting in exactly the same place only rather than trying to break outward, they've decided to soar upwards, away and beyond any of the other bands that they were once on par with.
From the first few seconds of Stay Positive you can feel the immediate sense of fun the band are having and are instantly whisked away to the world they're painting with their instruments and lyrics.
Album opener 'Constructive Summer' is swathed in catchy guitars and busy drums as they jovially play with the punk structure, whilst keeping the ideals of pop in mind.
Vocalist and lyricist Craig Finn has never sounded better or more mature for that matter as he dances around each song, narrating, singing and talking himself into spirals of gruff, angry verses and lighter choruses with nods to Bare Naked Ladies-esque pitching and timing.
Lyrically the album is denser than previous efforts with narration going further and deeper than before and this time, Finn wears his heart on his sleeve. 'I hope you'll still let me kiss you', he groans out on 'Magazines' whilst snare drums and faint guitars project his voice to the front of the track, ordering you to listen.
Album highlight 'One For The Cutters', dances around the fifteenth century era with green sleeves-like instrumentation and a constant, single guitar strum, whilst being held in at the seams by Finn's spot on narrative story telling.
We're then greeted by 'Navy Sheets' and its here you can really tell that Finn, and the entire band for that matter don't care what you think; they're here to have fun and lots of it.
Even when the album does quieten down to more piano led songs ala 'Lord, I'm Discouraged', it takes you with it, bringing you down off that ADHD tinged high to a calmer, folkier atmosphere where retrospective narrative is central, allowing the instruments to gently fold over the top of Finns unsure voice creating a shell for the words to sit snugly within....topped off naturally by a kick ass guitar solo.
Sweeping, picking and soaring through just over 40 minutes of guitar heavy musicianship, The Hold Steady are finally the force to be reckoned with that they half promised on their debut and do you know what? They sound a whole lot better for it.


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Michsa Barton Returns from Dead, Shows Up at Fashion Show
Marissa Cooper is dead!
That's not relevant to this story about former OC star, Mischa Barton, but we just wanted to scream it aloud in ecstasy. Fortunately for this tiny actress, there's an easy way to make money aside from actually earning it with any talent: paid public appearances.
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NIST improves accuracy of 'watt balance' method for defining the kilogramTheallIneed.com/NC&T/NIST
The latest NIST work, described in the October 2005 issue of Metrologia and published online today,* confirms the institute's 1998 results using the same method while reducing the measurement uncertainty by about 40 percent, thanks mainly to improvements in the hardware used in the experiments.
"The fact that we got the same values gives us confidence that the uncertainties we're quoting are probably reasonable," says NIST physicist Richard Steiner, lead author of the paper.
Scientists at NIST and other institutions around the world have spent years conducting experiments to find a reliable definition based in nature to replace the current international standard for the kilogram, a century-old cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy about the size of a plum. The new results mean that the NIST method, using an apparatus called the watt balance or electronic kilogram, is almost accurate enough now to meet the criteria for redefinition.
Any decision about when and how to redefine the kilogram would be made by an international group, the International Committee for Weights and Measures, CIPM, and ratified by a General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), which next meets in 2007. The CGPM likely will delay a redefinition until other groups confirm the new NIST results.
|In the NIST watt balance experiment, a kilogram test mass is placed on a balance pan that is connected to a coil of copper wire, which surrounds a superconducting electromagnet. If electric current is sent through the coil, then just as in an electric motor, electromagnetic forces are produced to balance the weight of the test mass. The apparatus measures this current and force. The apparatus also can move the coil vertically, and, like an electric generator, that induces a voltage. The velocity and voltage of the coil also are measured. These four measurements determine the relationship between mechanical and electrical power, which can be combined with other basic properties of nature to redefine the kilogram. (Photo: R. Steiner/NIST)
The other six basic units of the international measurement system are the meter (unit of length), second (time), ampere (electric current), Kelvin (temperature), mole (amount of substance) and candela (luminous intensity). All six are defined in terms of properties of nature and can be measured at any suitably equipped laboratory.
The NIST watt balance is a two-story-high apparatus designed to redefine mass in terms of fundamental physics and quantum standards. It measures the force required to balance a 1-kilogram mass artifact against the pull of Earth's gravity, as well as two electrical values (see graphic). These measurements are used to determine the relationship between mechanical and electrical power, which can be combined with several equations to define the kilogram in terms of basic properties of nature.
One of these properties is the Planck constant, the ratio of the energy of radiation to its frequency. This is one of an extensive set of "fundamental constants" used by scientists to predict a wide range of phenomena. The latest NIST value for the Planck constant reported in the new paper (6.62606901 x 10 -34 Joule seconds) is equivalent to the 1998 NIST result and a 1988 measurement by the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom, which are the two other most accurate values.
The watt balance is one of two leading approaches for redefining the kilogram. The other approach involves counting how many atoms of a specific atomic mass equal the mass of 1 kilogram. The latest NIST measurements, which have an uncertainty of 0.052 parts per million compared to 0.087 parts per million in the 1998 experiments, are far more precise than any previous results by any research group using either approach, according to Steiner. The total uncertainty is calculated by adding up more than 20 sources of error.
The precision of the latest NIST measurements is roughly equivalent to the suspected drift in the current kilogram standard's mass over time, Steiner says. The NIST researchers hope to further reduce the uncertainty of the watt balance measurements to 0.02 parts per million within the next year or so, to reach the level of precision needed for commercial mass measurements in the near future.
The measurements reported in Metrologia are the product of numerous improvements in NIST's watt balance, including reconstruction of most of the hardware to eliminate many sources of error. The coil and balance were enclosed in a fiberglass vacuum chamber, which reduced the need for air corrections. In addition, the coil was stiffened to reduce flexing that caused excess "noise" in the signals being measured. Noise was reduced to one-fifth of the level of the 1998 experiments. Researchers also improved the alignment of instruments, temperature control and the software used for management and analysis of the experiments.
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I think that Tony is going to the end since he is the only average joe who she initiated the kiss with!
As for the "hunks" I have no idea... I think that she finds them pretty, but none off their personalities are really clicking with her yet... She is definitely not acting like Melana with Jason!!!!


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When graphing in Mathstudio 6 on my ipad mini, I used to be able to get the graph to fill the whole screen. Now since the latest update, it only takes half the screen. The left half is filled with the title of the "notebook" I'm working on, and there doesn't seem to be any way to hide it.Can this be restored to it's original form?
I found the solution, you have to expand the document before clicking on the graph. There is a little set of double arrows at the upper left hand corner.


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YORK CO., Va. (WVEC) -- Virginia State Police were called to the scene of a multi-vehicle accident that left one person dead, Tuesday.
The crash occurred on Goodwin Neck Rd. just before 5:30 p.m.
According to police, a 2000 Chevrolet Silverado pickup was heading eastbound when the driver attempted to pass a bicyclist, and drove into the westbound lanes. The Silverado then struck a 2011 Chevrolet Express Van head on.
The driver of the Silverado, Tammy Beaumont, was taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital. She later died from her injuries.
Alcohol did not play a factor in this accident.
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Allotment holders have been left fearing for their safety after knife-wielding vandals destroyed equipment at their Leeds plots.
A number of polytunnels at Headingley Station Allotments have been slashed in a spate of attacks in the last week.
Kevin Bray, treasurer of the allotment association, said: "The plot holders are concerned because this damage is being caused by someone with a large sharp object.
"Apart from the damage, they're worried about what happens if they are alone on the allotment. It's more than just the cost to them, it becomes a safety issue."
It is thought vandals struck at the allotment, which is near Headingley railway station off Kirkstall Lane, on Thursday night and again on Monday, causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage.
In total about seven polytunnels – plastic tunnels used like greenhouses for growing fruit and vegetables – were left in ruins.
Thieves also stole a range of tools from a hut belonging to Steve Lewis, the president of the allotment association, on Thursday.
He said it was the third time he had suffered in the last couple of years.
On another occasion his hut was burned down.
"It feels as though we are targeted," he said. "I've spoken to other allotments and they don't seem to be getting it as badly.
"We've put anti-vandal paint on the fences, but what can you do? If they're determined to do it they will.
"It's demoralising, especially when you look around and see the damage. I'm often the first one here, so I tend to find it and it's sad to see."
He believes someone must know those responsible.
"They need to report it to the police," he added.
Ali Allen, another of the gardeners, has been left facing repairs to her polytunnel for the second time in a week.
"We just deal with it, but if it keeps on happening it does get you down," she said.
"I don't know why they bother, I don't see what they get out of it."
The allotment holders are calling for an increase in police patrols in the area.
A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said anyone with information should contact the Headingley, Weetwood and Kirkstall Neighbourhood Policing Team via 101.


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Two Students Land Competitive Internships
WILMORE, Ky. — Asbury University is pleased to announce that two students have been selected to serve with the international nonprofit organization Samaritan's Purse this summer through a competitive, paid internship program.
Kelsey Adams, a junior Communications major, and Paula Diaz, a sophomore Journalism and Digital Storytelling major, were among only 15 students interns chosen from a nationwide search. Adams will serve on the communications team as a writing intern at the organization's headquarters in Boone, N.C. Diaz will serve as a global intern to increase the organization's communications capacity in Bolivia.
For Adams, the idea of working with a Christian nonprofit was planted in her freshman year during Asbury's annual Fall Revival. Since then, her classes have prepared her to impact the world through a variety of communication strategies.
"I am looking forward to refining my writing skills and practicing the communications theories that I have learned from my studies in the Communications Department at Asbury," Adams said. "I am hoping this experience will either confirm my desire to work in a Christian non-profit setting or spark interest in a new field that I have not considered before. I know that the Lord has a plan for my future, and I am excited to see what doors He might open this summer and in the coming year."
Diaz was introduced to the organization through Asbury's Center for Career and Calling, which coordinated a campus visit from Samaritan's Purse in January. Her internship in Bolivia will help the organization develop its response to recent floods in the area.
"As a journalist, I'm really interested in sharpening my writing skills," Diaz said. "Additionally, as a native Colombian, I'm also really excited to work on my Spanish for a whole summer. It'll be a great way to really indulge in the language again."
The Center for Career and Calling helps students make effective decisions about their employment skills, careers and graduate education options. To find out more, visit http://www.asbury.edu/student-life/career-services.


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Hey, I've got my blog at http://flickerofwhispers.wordpress.com/ and I've just added a new "about me" page today.
My problem is that my new posts are not appearing on the main page, or any other page.
When I view the posts list, it says that they're published 5 and 6 hours ago, but they're not showing up in my blog.
Any ideas?
The blog I need help with is flickerofwhispers.wordpress.com.


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withhacks 0.1.1
building blocks for with-statement-related hackery
withhacks: building blocks for with-statement-related hackery
This module is a collection of useful building-blocks for hacking the Python "with" statement. It combines ideas from several neat with-statement hacks I found around the internet into a suite of re-usable components:
By subclassing the appropriate context managers from this module, you can easily do things such as:
- skip execution of the code inside the with-statement
- set local variables in the frame executing the with-statement
- capture the bytecode from inside the with-statement
- capture local variables defined inside the with-statement
Building on these basic tools, this module also provides some useful prebuilt hacks:
xargs: call a function with additional arguments defined in the body of the with-statement xkwargs: call a function with additional keyword arguments defined in the body of the with-statement namespace: direct all variable accesses and assignments to the attributes of a given object (like "with" in JavaScript or VB) keyspace: direct all variable accesses and assignments to the keys of of a given object (like namespace() but for dicts)
WithHacks makes extensive use of Noam Raphael's fantastic "byteplay" module; since the official byteplay distribution doesn't support Python 2.6, a local version with appropriate patches is included in this module.
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LATHROP – The City of Lathrop isn't necessarily swimming in a pool full of money.
But based on the decision that the city council made Monday night, they're not willing to be drowning in debt either.
More than a month after it was first suggested that city staff look into how much it would cost to construct a pool in the community, the Lathrop council reviewed a pair of options that would have cost the city at least $15,500 monthly – the cost that the Manteca Unified School District wanted every month to partner with the municipality for use of the Lathrop High School pool when it wasn't being used for events.
After the pool at the Sharpe Defense Depot was no longer made available to the city, Councilman Omar Ornelas – who stepped in and ran the meeting for absent Mayor Sonny Dhaliwal Monday night – asked the city to look into the various options at the city's disposal for Monday's meeting.
On one hand there was the $15,500 monthly fee that the city would have to shell out to use the pool at Lathrop High School – following in the same footsteps of Manteca, who opted to contract for the use to the pool at East Union High School when popular summer programs forced the need for expansion.
On the other there was the need for a study – with the price tag estimated between $20,000 and $30,000 – that would determine the feasibility of constructing a pool or aquatic center of its own and working out exactly how much money it would cost to maintain such a venture once the initial capital was invested.
In the end, the council opted to simply have staff contact neighboring communities in Northern California that have their own aquatic centers to find out how they were able to finance them – negating the pitch by Ornelas to pay full-freight for the study out of the capital facilities fee account or the general fund.
"I like the idea of giving our citizens their own things as well," Councilman Paul Akinjo said. "But they cost money and we need to find a way to fund them.
"We need to figure out a way to pay for the studies to determine whether we can pay for these things without tapping into the general fund."
Councilwoman Martha Salcedo said that five years ago she herself looked into how much it would cost the city to add a pool to its list of community offerings, and was discouraged by the information that she uncovered. She learned that communities were closing public pools at an alarming rate because the monthly operating expenses were exorbitantly high.
Initially Akinjo wanted to move the pool idea from the capital facilities fee list, where it currently sits, to the list of capital improvement projects – meaning that the city would have to start collecting money specifically for that project and would have to create a five-year plan to execute its construction.
City Manager Steve Salvatore subtly discouraged Akinjo from making that proposal because of the requirements involved, and suggested that staff could get the majority of the information such a proposed study would uncover without having to shell out the money.


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Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher hailed their goal scoring power after victory at Fulham.
The result moves Liverpool back into fifth place in the Barclays Premier League, two points ahead of Tottenham Hotspur and just four behind Manchester City.
Carragher told liverpoolfc.tv: "We played very well. We got the early goals but I think the first 45 (minutes) was not the real Fulham.
"In the second half when they got the ball, I thought we started to get a little bit nervous ourselves but once Maxi scored (the fourth goal) I think the game was finished then.
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I received this message from a woman who has a VCH piercing:
I have a well healed vch that is over five years old at this point. I've known from the start that it's a bit on the shallow side, but not extreme shallow. I have a relatively deep hood which can completely cover a q-tip, and the exit point of the vch is maybe 1/8" off from the apex. It looks fine from the front and feels fine, the bottom ball does rest squarely on my clit. The only issue I ever have is that it sometimes likes to pop up like a turkey timer, which can feel a bit odd but doesn't hurt. It's not that it's ever bothered me per say, but I do wonder if I'm missing out on sensation because it doesn't go through the apex and if it would be less inclined to pop up if it did. But I worry about rejection since there's an established fistula from the current piercing so close to where the new one would go. I mean really established; at one point a few years ago, I didn't wear jewelry in it for over a year, yet it never shrunk down past a 16 (was pierced at 14g). So I don't think it will ever close up on me. I also worry a little about the aesthetic of having a hole from the old piercing in front of a new one. Call me vain, but I don't want to ruin the look of things as I happen to be rather a fan of my vulva. Would I likely be running into any problems if I opted for a redo? Am I even really missing out on much since the ball sits where it's supposed to? I don't know if it's worth the effort to try for perfect placement or if I'm splitting hairs with this. What's more important for the sensation, the placement of the bottom ball or the placement through the apex? Thank you so much for your time, A.
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Hi A.,
If the new position would be within a few millimeters of your existing piercing, I would advise you against repiercing.
Have you considered trying a j-curve as an alternate jewelry style? That shape is likely to produce more sensation than the gentle curve that you're wearing.
Also, it would probably prevent the pop-up phenomenon you're experiencing. Or, you could put a larger ball on the bottom, which should help with the latter issue.
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Sentencing delayed for London, Ont., group home operator on fire code violations
LONDON, Ont. – Sentencing has been delayed for a London, Ont., group home operator convicted of a dozen fire code violations in connection with a deadly blaze.
Keith Charles was to be sentenced in Provincial Offences court on Monday, but the matter was put off to allow Charles, who is representing himself, to obtain a pre-sentence report.
Charles made the request for a pre-sentence report after justice of the peace Peter Aharan said he was considering a 30 day jail sentence to be served on weekends.
The prosecution had been recommending Charles pay $5,000 per count, for a total of $60,000 in fines, and 18 months probation. A new sentencing date will be set on March 30.
Last week, Charles was found guilty of the fire code violations at the home where 72-year-old David MacPherson was killed in a blaze in November of 2014.
The group home for high need individuals was operated by Charles under the name People Helping People.
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Both Masood and I found ourselves excited like children, checking out everything in the tree house. After putting down our bags, the guy who showed us our tree house excused himself to return ten minutes later with two glasses of chilled lemon juice. Masood tried the swing first, and didn't leave it until, um, he felt like leaving it.
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Volkswagen's T-Roc concept is based on the MQB platform
The T-Roc concept likely previews VW's new compact SUV
The T-Roc features VW's latest SUV styling and comes with a removable roof panel
Volkswagen's T-Roc is powered by a turbocharged 2.0-litre diesel engine
The T-Roc is reputed to have 181bhp and 280lb ft; a 0-62mph time of 6.9sec is claimed
Volkswagen says that the T-Roc can top 131mph
Volkswagen had previously released concept sketches of the T-Roc
The concept is four-wheel drive; entry-level front-drive versions are planned
Interior of the T-Roc showcases latest evolution of VW's styling DNA
Driver will be able to monitor terrain via the central monitor
New look for interior controls could filter down to all of VW's production vehicles
The VW T-Roc concept was revealed at VW Group's evening event prior to the Geneva motor show
Dr Neusser, VW's chief of research and development, said: "We'd like to build the T-Roc."
Dr Neusser said, "We've shown many SUV concepts in the past 24 months – many of them ready for production."
A smaller Taigun and larger CrossBlue could join a new range alongside the T-Roc
Volkswagen has unveiled the T-Roc compact SUV concept, which is tipped to spawn a production version in 2017.
Volkswagen T-Roc: first sighting of future Nissan Juke rival
Speaking at the Geneva motor show, Heinz-Jakob Neusser, VW's chief of research and development, said, "We'd like to build the T-Roc. It would be the logical conclusion of the Golf concept. We've shown many SUV concepts in the past 24 months – many of them ready for production."
Volkswagen T-Roc to bow at 2017 Genenva motor show
Shown here in a series of pictures and official design sketches, the latest in a long line of high-riding concepts from Volkswagen is expected to become part of a five-strong future SUV line-up under development at the company's Wolfsburg headquarters in Germany.
The new Volkswagen, which will share its underpinnings with the Audi Q1, will face competition from the likes of the Nissan Juke, Vauxhall Mokka and Renault Captur.
The exterior of the T-Roc features what Volkswagen describes as the latest evolution of its SUV styling DNA, and showcases a newly designed grille aimed at providing future Volkswagen SUV models with a more dynamic appearance than that of today's offerings.
Running the full width of the front end, it also serves to accentuate the width of the new car in a continuation of the horizontal theme seen on other recent Volkswagen models. A further design feature tipped for inclusion on the production version of the T-Roc are its integrated round LED headlamps.
In a move that hints Volkswagen is considering a targa roof function on selected new models, its latest concept also includes a removable roof panel that can be stowed in the boot.
At 4179mm long, 1831mm wide and 1501mm high, the T-Roc is 247mm shorter, 22mm wider and a considerable 202mm lower than the Tiguan. Volkswagen hints at a kerb weight of 1420kg for the production version of its new SUV.
Underpinning the T-Roc is a variant of Volkswagen's flexible MQB high-strength steel platform. It sports a wheelbase that is 10mm shorter than that of the existing Tiguan at 2595mm. The suspension combines MacPherson struts up front and a multi-link set-up at the rear, while its large arches accommodate 19-inch wheels.
Power for the T-Roc comes from the latest evolution of Volkswagen's familiar turbocharged 2.0-litre four-cylinder common rail diesel engine delivering 181bhp and 280lb ft of torque at 1750rpm. Drive is sent through a six-speed dual-clutch gearbox with steering wheel-mounted shift paddles and an electromechanical multi-plate clutch four-wheel-drive system offering three different drive modes: street, off-road and snow.
Volkswagen's computer simulations point to a 0-62mph time of 6.9sec and a 131mph top speed in street mode, in which the majority of drive is sent to the front wheels. In off-road and snow modes the drive is apportioned in a nominal 50:50 front-to-rear split for added levels of traction.
A similar set-up is envisaged for more powerful versions of Volkswagen's new compact SUV, with lower-powered variants set to get a front-wheel-drive setup as standard.
Further off-road highlights include cameras mounted within the headlamps and at the rear, allowing the driver to monitor the terrain on a central screen.
Set to join the production version of the T-Roc in an expanded Volkswagen model line-up later this decade will be production versions of the smaller Taigun and larger CrossBlue concepts as well the second-generation Tiguan and a third-generation Touareg.
The reference to the letter T in the name of the new Volkswagen concept suggests that the production version, which is expected to be built in Spain, will follow the lead of its SUV siblings by also using a name beginning with T.


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labor worse with each child?
With my first son I was in labor for 21 hours, my contractions felt like strong cramps, but i was able to shower and talk and go through each one without crying. My second son, my labor pains were every other minute and more intense. This time around, I had back labor...the contractions started off in my stomach than moved to my back. It felt like a truck was parking on top of my back. The pressure against my spine was un-real. I'd stop talking and start crying with each contraction. Has this happened to anyone else?
Oldest was very painful. .
Middle child like very painful menstrual cramps
Youngest. .very tolerable till the very end then it was unbearable.
I have two kids and my labor with my son was very painful but went a lot faster then my labor with my dd.
It was painful the whole time.
At the 15th hour I got an epidural because I stopped progressing.
After the epidural, it took 6 hours but I got to 10!
I'm pregnant with my second and hoping it's not too bad.
Yes, my 2nd was worst than my 1st. I had back labor because my 2nd was posterior. My 3rd was easier than my 2nd, but worse than my 1st. My 4th was easier than all of them, and my 5th was the easiest of all despite having double peaking contractions lasting around 3 min each time.
I dealt with them easier, and it was easier to deal with not being in the hospital with them harassing me during labor too.