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First Quarter GDP 2009 in the USA was down 6.1%. This is after a revised 6.3% drop in fourth quarter of 2008 (preliminary fourth quarter report showed a 6.2% decline). Real exports of goods and services decreased 30% in the first quarter, compared with a decrease of 23.6% in the fourth. Real imports of goods and services decreased 34.1%, compared with a decrease of 17.5%.
The personal saving rate — saving as a percentage of disposable personal income — was 4.2% in the first quarter, compared with 3.2% in the fourth quarter of 2008.
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March indicates that the economy has continued to contract, though the pace of contraction appears to be somewhat slower. Household spending has shown signs of stabilizing but remains constrained by ongoing job losses, lower housing wealth, and tight credit. Weak sales prospects and difficulties in obtaining credit have led businesses to cut back on inventories, fixed investment, and staffing.
Although the economic outlook has improved modestly since the March meeting, partly reflecting some easing of financial market conditions, economic activity is likely to remain weak for a time. Nonetheless, the Committee continues to anticipate that policy actions to stabilize financial markets and institutions, fiscal and monetary stimulus, and market forces will contribute to a gradual resumption of sustainable economic growth in a context of price stability.
True, those words hardly sound like great news but the markets were quite happy.
Although banks are scooping up billions in bailout money or borrowing money from the Federal Reserve at as low as 0%, they aren’t passing on those savings to consumers. Credit card interest rates have increased for many major card issuers and even doubled or tripled for some consumers who pay their bills on time. Bank of America is raising interest rates on about 4 million customers with balances. Citigroup and Capital One have also jacked up rates.
* The standard balance transfer fee has risen to 3%, and Bank of America recently joined Discover in increasing that fee to 4% on certain offers.
* Cash advance fees had been 3%, but Bank of America now has 5% cash advance fees for money obtained through ATMs and at banks, and 4% fees on advances via direct deposit and checks.
* Foreign transaction fees — charged when you make purchases in other countries or use foreign banks — are going up for many cardholders. Starting June 1, Bank of America will begin charging for a service it had previously provided free: Transactions made in U.S. dollars but processed through foreign banks (such as online purchases from overseas merchants using foreign banks) will be hit with 3% fees.
The incredibly large fees are a good reason to not use your credit card for these activities. 5% to get money from an ATM. You have to be crazy to submit to such a fee. The banks continue to fight with the airlines for who can keep providing the most horrible customer service.
But over the past year, Moayyad has taken on a new type of challenge. Peet’s has joined an effort to develop a vibrant coffee industry in sub-Saharan Africa. The Coffee Initiative, as it’s called, is run by TechnoServe, a nonprofit, and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The goal: to double the income of poor coffee farmers in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda by linking their products with coffee lovers in the developed world.
Because of bad roads and delays at border crossings, it took 12 days for a truck with a container full of green coffee beans to travel 1,000 miles to the Kenyan port of Mombasa. The sea journey from Mombasa took nearly two months. Worse, when the shipment arrived in Oakland, Calif., in late February, a portion of the coffee was slightly damaged.
Moayyad traveled to Rwanda to cement relationships with farmer groups and gather stories about the farmers for use in marketing. With a videographer tagging along, she navigated molar-crunching roads in a four-wheel-drive pickup to remote villages and farms perched on hillsides high above Rwanda’s Lake Kivu. On the roadsides, children greeted the passing truck with an excited cry of “Abazungu [white people]!” Moayyad plans to post a journal of her travels on Peet’s Web site, aimed at the company’s most loyal customers, called Peetniks.
A good effort. Real world issues confront you when you take steps to build the capacity for capitalism to help people live better lives. We need more such efforts to help capitalists make better lives for themselves around the world.
It seems to me the situation that lead to the current economic problems are due to the overthrown of the Glass-Steagal and other long time sensible regulation put in place to restrict economy wide destruction caused by a few large financial firms (well, that plus incredibly poor management by people that paid themselves many times more than anyone else and other factors – huge consumer debt…). But the most significant systemic problem was failure to regulate even close to sensibly. I have several posts on this topic on previously: Congress Eases Bank Laws, 1999 – Treasury Now (1987) Favors Creation of Huge Banks – Canadian Banks Avoid Failures Common Elsewhere and Greenspan Says He Was Wrong On Regulation.
Capitalism requires sensible regulation. Regulation is not a friction on capitalism it is a necessary component. Poor regulation is a friction that is waste that should be excised. Unfortunately that is a very challenging task and when you allow those with the most gold to set the rules it is no surprise you have them saying they should not be regulated but should be protected. The failure of financial regulations do show the very obvious problem we have currently of those that donate huge amounts to politicians are granted favors that are paid for by the economy overall.
The widespread failure to regulate financial markets recently is almost certain to lead to this exact type of situation every time. Companies will over-leverage, take huge risks, take huge pay while times are good and just go bankrupt when times are bad. Think about how a bank makes money. They charge fees for things like: writing a loan, overdraft charges on your account, arranging financing (loan or stock sale)… They charge more for in interest than they pay. Some money there but really they are doing nothing special so they should not be able to charge too much. Even the ridicules fees companies pay (often those in the companies have arrangements to get personal special deals – allocations of IPO’s, jobs later…) for arranging stock sales do not have a systemic risk. Those risks should be very easy to manage sensible.
They speculate in currency markets, commodities markets, futures, derivatives… If you want a stable economy if you allow huge speculative investments to be assumed to such an extent they risk the economy you are in trouble. If you refused those risks to limited liability companies perhaps your limited regulation model might work. Where those profiting on products with negative economic externalities would personally go bankrupt prior to the losses becoming economically crippling. But I doubt even that would work. And we don’t have that now. We allow people to setup limited liability corporations, drain them of capital on speculation of potential value and then walk about with hundreds of millions of dollars if the company fails. And the negative externalities (due to huge leverage) are huge.
Regulation seems the obvious solution. And it works when applied. It wasn’t until the USA decided to abandon the financial system regulation and enforcement that the problems became systemic. And see the current Canadian banking system for what happens, even while the world economy is collapsing if you required banks to remain banks instead of massively leveraged speculators paying huge bonus to the executives based on their claims of profitability.
I agree trying to control risk is dangerous. There are however, very sensible measures to take. Do not allow huge financial companies to exist (we have laws on anti-trust, anti-competitive behavior…). Do not allow banks to speculate (more than a careful controlled regulated amount). Do not allow massive leverage of massive amounts of money. Do require audited financial records. Do require companies that want to speculate to be much smaller than regulated bank, and bank-like companies. Do elect politicians that will appose allowing companies to undertake systemic risks to the economy for short term financial gains.
We continue to elect politicians that provide large favors to those giving them money at the expense and risk to the rest of us. Therefore we are bringing this upon ourselves. When we chose to stop supporting politicians that behave in that way then we will get different behavior. Until that point it will continue. We don’t seems to be in any mood to change what we have been doing.
Conventional mortgages averaged 4.61 percent in 1951, 4 percent when backed by the Veterans Administration, and 4.25 percent by the Federal Housing Administration, according to The Postwar Residential Mortgage Market, a 1961 book written by Saul Klaman and published by Princeton University Press. Rates during the 1930s were as high as 7 percent.
Mortgages were cheaper through most of the 1940s, ranging from about 4 percent to 5.7 percent, depending on whether the lender was a life insurer, a commercial bank or a savings and loan. In that era, most loans were for 14 years and less.
The central bank has purchased more than $300 billion of mortgage-backed securities in 2009 through the week ended April 8, helping to cut home-loan rates to 4.82 percent last week from 5.1 percent at the start of the year, according to Freddie Mac data.
The difference between 30-year mortgage rates and 10-year Treasury yields has narrowed to about 2.2 percent from 3.1 percent in December, which was the widest since 1986. The spread remains almost 0.7 percentage point above the average of the past decade, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Rates for 15-year mortgages are about 1.8 percent above 10-year Treasury yields, compared with an average 1.4 percent since 1999.
Excellent article with interesting historical information. I don’t believe mortgage rates will fall to 4% but differences of opinion about the future is one function of markets. Those that predict correctly can make a profit. I am thinking of refinancing a mortgage and I think I am getting close to pulling the trigger. If I was confident they would keep falling I would wait. It just seems to me the huge increase in federal debt and huge outstanding consumer debt along with very low USA saving will not keep interest rates so low. However, as I have mentioned previously, it is interesting that the Fed is directly targeting mortgage rates and possible they can push them lower. The 10 year bond yield has been increasing lately so the slight fall in mortgage rates over the last month are due to the reduced spread (that I can see decreasing – the biggest question for me is how much that spread can decrease).
Related: Fed to Start Buying Treasury Bonds Today – Federal Reserve to Buy $1.2T in Bonds, Mortgage-Backed Securities – Low Mortgage Rates Not Available to Everyone – what do mortgage terms mean?
The Obama administration must break up the biggest financial firms if the nation is to return to economic health, three prominent bailout skeptics told a congressional panel Tuesday. Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz and MIT professor Simon Johnson warned the Joint Economic Committee of Congress that the current government policy of propping up troubled financial giants could impede an economic recovery.
I must say this is the is how I feel, but I don’t have the time to research all the details – to know all the existing limitations for realistic solutions. But I can’t believe allowing huge, incredibly poorly run financial organizations to remain in place with the same bozos that have looted the treasuries of their companies and then taken huge handouts from the federal government, is good policy. It was a very bad idea to allow such anti-competitive large financial institutions to exist in the first place. Then the extremely bad behavior of thousands of people taking millions from those banks treasuries and imposing huge risks on the financial system certainly should result in government finally doing their job to prevent harm to the economic system.
Hoenig said authorities must set up a procedure that would allow big nonbank financial firms to be temporarily taken over by the government. Regulators would then replace management, wipe out shareholders and seek to sell the cleansed institution back into private ownership. Stiglitz, formerly an aide in the Clinton administration [and Economics Nobel Prize winner], said the process of briefly taking over banks then selling them back to investors would be much less costly for taxpayers.
This sounds like a much more sensible strategy to me. It is certainly much much better than increasing consolidation with moves like having huge financial firms buy other huge firms. Obviously I would not support the selling of pieces of the old broken institution to remaining large organizations. The anti-competitive market power must be sharply reduced.
I made my 100th contribution to a micro-loan through Kiva last week. Participating with Kiva is a great antidote to reading about the unethical “leaders” taking huge sums to run their companies into the ground (or even just taking obscene sums to maintain their company). The opportunity to give real capitalists an chance at a better life is wonderful.
Kiva allows you to lend money to entrepreneur (in increments of $25). The most you get back is the amount you loaned, and if the entrepreneur, does not pay back the loan then you take a loss. This is something you do if you believe if giving people an opportunity to make a better life for themselves through hard work and intelligent economic choices.
I encourage you to join me: let me know if you contribute to Kiva and I will add your Kiva page to our list of Curious Cat Kivans. Also join the Curious Cats Kiva Lending Team.
My loans have been made to in 32 countries including: Ghana, Cambodia, Uganda, Viet Nam, Peru, Ukraine, Mongolia, Ecuador and Tajikistan. Kiva provides sector (but I think this data is a not that accurate – it depends on the Kiva partners that are not that accurate on identifying the sectors (it seems to me). A large number of the loans are in retail, clothing and food. I like making loans that will improve productivity (manufacturing, providing productivity enhancing services…) but can’t find as many of those as I would like (8% of my loans are in manufacturing, 11% agriculture, retail 18%, 23% food, 25% services (very questionable – these are normally really retail or food, it seems to me).
Some examples of the entrepreneurs I have lent to: welding workshop (Nicaragua), expanding generator services business with computer services (Cambodia), food production (Ghana), manufacturing nylon (Nigeria), internet cafe (Lebanon), electronics repair (Benin), new engine for mill (Togo), weaving (Indonesia) and a food market (Mexico).
21 of my loans have been paid back in full. 3 have defaulted. Those figure give a distorted picture though (I believe). There was a problem with a Kiva partner (they partner with micro-finance banks around the world) MIFEX, in Ecuador. Kiva discovered that MIFEX (i) improperly inflated the loan amounts it posted for entrepreneurs on the Kiva website and (ii) kept the excess amount of the posted loan to fund its own operational expenses. Kiva does not expect any further payments on these loans. I had 2, so I think those 2 give a fair impression. The 3rd default is from Kenya. That loan was to a business selling bicycle parts. In 2008, in Kenya, the prevailing political crisis deteriorated and businesses have either been destroyed or closed in fear of looters. Technically the loan did default, however, I was paid $71.50 out of $75 loan (so the defaulted amount was very small.
Home Ownership Shelter, or Burden?
The collapse in house prices matters most directly to two overlapping groups: those who bought property at the peak of the market and now face “negative equity”; and those (in America) who took out subprime mortgages. Roughly 10m Americans are in negative equity—ie, the cost of their mortgage exceeds the value of their home. In Britain about 3% of households are in negative equity. For homeowners, negative equity makes houses more like a trap than a piggy bank. Those who cannot meet their payments lose their house, their savings and (in America, usually) their credit rating for seven years.
The other area of concentrated distress is subprime mortgages, which increased their share of the American mortgage market from 7% in 2001 to over 20% in 2006. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, the delinquency rate was 22% in the fourth quarter of 2008, compared with only 5% for prime loans.
“Perhaps the most compelling argument for housing as a means of wealth accumulation”, argues Richard Green of the University of Southern California, “is that it gives households a default mechanism for savings.” Because people have to pay off a mortgage, they increase their home equity and save more than they otherwise would. This is indeed a strong argument: social-science research finds that people save more if they do so automatically rather than having to choose to set something aside every month.
Yet there are other ways to create “default savings”, such as companies offering automatic deductions to retirement plans. In any case, some of the financial snake oil peddled at the height of the housing bubble was bad for saving.
The debate over whether home ownership is a wise investment or not, is contentious (more so in the last year than it was several years ago). I believe in most cases it probably is wise, but there are certainly cases where it is not. If you put yourself in too much debt that is often a big problem. I also think you should save a down payment first. If you are going to move (or have good odds you may want to) then renting is often the better option.
The “default saving” feature is one of the large benefits of home ownership. That benefit is destroyed when you take out loans against the rising value of the house. And in fact this can not just remove the benefit but turn into a negative. If you spend money you should have (increasing your debt) that can not only remove you default saving benefit but actual make your debt situation worse than if you never bought.
Federal Reserve Beige Book highlights for April 15th. The Beige Book documents comments received from business and other contacts outside the Federal Reserve and is not a commentary on the views of Federal Reserve officials. The book is published eight times a year.
Manufacturing activity continued to decline in most Districts and across a wide range of industries. Several reports, however, noted that the pace of decline had slowed or that factory activity had stabilized. The Boston, Philadelphia, Richmond, Atlanta, St. Louis, Minneapolis, and San Francisco Districts cited decreases in production. The Chicago and Kansas City Districts said declines in production had slowed.
Manufacturers’ assessments of future factory activity improved marginally over the survey period as well.
Consumer spending remained generally weak. However, several Districts said sales rose slightly or declines moderated compared with the previous survey period.
Home prices continued to decline in most Districts, although a few reports noted that prices were unchanged or that the pace of decline had eased. Low mortgage rates were fueling refinancing activity. Outlooks for the housing sector were generally more optimistic than in earlier surveys, with respondents hopeful that increased buyer interest would lead to better sales.
Commercial real estate investment activity weakened further.
Labor market conditions were weak and reports of layoffs, reductions in work hours, temporary factory shutdowns, branch closures and hiring freezes remained widespread across Districts.
Sales of so-called immediate annuities are climbing as retirees are drawn to lifetime payments guaranteed by U.S. insurance companies. Immediate annuities pay a periodic fixed amount of money for life in exchange for a lump-sum payment.
Payouts among insurers vary significantly, said Weatherford of NAVA. Monthly payments range from $629 to $745 for a $100,000 investment by a 65-year-old male, according to a survey of six issuers by Hueler Companies, a Minneapolis-based data research firm and provider of an independent annuity platform.
An annuity is a comforting in that you cannot outlive your annuity payment. However, there are drawbacks also. Having a portion of retirement financing based on annuity payments does help planning. Social security payments are effectively an annuity (that also increases each year, to counter inflation). While living off social security payments alone is not an enticing prospect, as a portion of a retirement plan those payments can be valuable. If you have a pension that can also serve as an annuity.
It can make sense to put a portion of retirement assets into an annuity however I would limit the amount, myself. And the annuity payout is partially determined by current interest rates, which are very low, and those now the payout rates are low. If interest rates stay low, then you lose nothing but if interest rates increase substantially in the next several year (which is certainly possible) the payout for annuities would likely increase.
Choosing to purchase an annuity is something that should be done after careful study and only once you understand the investment options available to you. Also you need to have saved up substantial retirement saving to take advantage of the option to buy enough monthly income to contribute substantially to your retirement (so don’t forget to do that while you are working).

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I spoke with a friend I hadn’t seen in a while this Shabbos. He’s a successful international businessman. He moved from the U.S. to Israel about 2 years ago, beginning to do his business in Israel in addition to it’s current international activities. He bought an apartment and set up a comfortable situation, as well as opening an office and hiring some local employees.
He invested significant money in opening his Israeli office, and after two years (and lots of challenges in learning the local business culture), he’s beginning to make a profit in the Israeli office.
When he started in Israel, one of his young adult age children was finishing learning (Torah) in Israel, very successfully. But the remainder of his family is quite comfortable in their American life. They came for some months, decided it “wasn’t for them” and headed back to their comfortable life style back in a major American city and Jewish community. Subsequently, the one (adult age) child learning in Israel finished and also returned to the U.S.
In speaking with my friend, he told me his U.S. business has been losing money for the past 4 years and is nearing the edge. He can’t survive in the current U.S. economic climate, and like many a businessman has been accumulating losses – eating up savings and investments and accruing debt, hoping the economic climate will turn before the business runs out of resources. But that time is coming near for his business, as well as the impact for his employees and his personal financial situation.
He wisely tried to prepare alternatives, preparing both a home and income for himself and family in Israel. But his family is having none of it. Israel is not the home they know and are comfortable in. He’s lonely, spending months in Israel away from his family building up an alternative income stream that may be the difference between poverty and a decent life.
But his family… doesn’t get it. The U.S. can’t have changed, the opportunities can’t be gone. We certainly hope that’s true, but for now the facts say otherwise.
What should he do? Close down in Israel, sell (or rent out) his family sized comfortably set up apartment, and return to life in the U.S. while watching his business resources dwindle to the breaking point? Or try to survive alone, preparing an alternative that his family may seriously need if the U.S. business continues on it’s current path another year or two (with his family deriding him for it)?
He is earning money in Israel, so he must stay.
If the children have jobs in the USA, then they can stay. If not, they should go back to Israel and look for work, or help the father in his business.
Israeli culture can be a shock to the system for Anglos, but if one can make a living in Israel then by all means stay.
Yes, I agree that he should stay. Eventually I think they will see how successful he is and decide to join him. However, once the kids are adult age they can go their own way. But his wife should reconsider and not be so selfish.
In my opinion he needs to stay in Israel and yes, travel back and forth for the sake of keeping both his Israeli business and keeping his family intact with him. His family may not "get it" yet he needs to understand he "gets it" and he must remain strong.
What about following halacha? I am sure he already knows exactly what he has to do.

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In-patient or residential, alcohol and drug treatment needs that the individual obtaining therapy for addictions or chemical abuse, residing in a Everett Rehab facility for a designated period of time. Inpatient treatment might be either brief or long term depending on the requirements as well as scenario of the person.
Although inpatient treatment could happen in a health center setting, essentially a domestic setup is common, providing 24-hour care as well as guidance. One of the most common technique of treatment is a restorative community, involving the team and also various other people, concentrating on helping the specific recognize the resources as well as conditions that bring about substance abuse. Medical care is additionally offered.
The major advantage of residential treatment is accessibility to the restorative community. Clients are submersed in a recuperation atmosphere where all are committed to breaking the addiction. One of the most effective programs that do not have a collection time for launch, and develop therapy programs that are personalized to the needs of the client.

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text: Dublin Bus wishes to advise customers that due to an incident at Doyles Corner, Phibsborough, routes 38, 46A, 120 and 122 have all been diverted on their outbound journey to turn left at doyles corner and use the Phibsborough Road, North King Street, Manor Street and Prussia Street to Hanlons Corner. Route 46A will then turn left back to normal route and routes 38 120 and 122 will proceed on to Cabra Cross and on to normal route from there. This diversion will be in place until further notice.

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My dental, orthodontic and laboratory costs are covered up to 75% in all three classes of “Dental plus” insurance. The maximum annual coverage limit varies from class to class.
Health: I go to my dentist knowing that I am covered for the necessary check-ups and treatments. As a result, my teeth are healthier.
Payment: the insurance covers part of my invoices and relieves my budget.


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1. Soak the sun-dried tomatoes in hot water for 10 to 15 minutes and drain well.
3. Add the mushrooms and saute for 2 minutes.
5. Grind together the sun-dried tomatoes, chopped tomatoes, ginger and garlic to a coarse paste.
6. Add soy sauce, lemon juice, lime juice, cardamom powder, red chilli powder, cinnamon powder, clove powder, cumin powder, coriander powder and brown sugar.
8. Place the chicken breast fillets on a baking tray.
9. Add the mushrooms and pour over the tomato mixture.
10. Place the tray in a preheated oven at 200C/400F for 20 minutes or until the chicken is cooked.
Feel free to comment or share your thoughts on this Baked Chicken and Mushrooms Recipe from Awesome Cuisine.

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text: We really quite like the current scheme at Diesel. OK well it is the usual marketing malarkey, although of course their scheme is produced to their usual high standards even though it is marketing led. The Diesel Island promos photography is quite stunning although the campaign is a little cringe worthy for our tastes with its re-written philosophical Island laws. For example "the best part of learning from mistakes is having made them", we are sure was once one of the hundreds of versions (possibly by Smiles), "those who never made a mistake never made a discovery" or another Island Law, "Experience only tells us how things were done in the past" was possibly taken from Santayana's misquoted "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfil it". Unfortunately it all reads a little like poor translations into 'Engrish'. Still, the windows look great.

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Paraguay's central bank cut its monetary policy rate by 25 basis points to 5.25 percent, the first rate cut since July 2016, as recent data show slowing economic activity while inflation remains favorable.
The Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP) has now cut its rate 75 basis points since embarking on an easing cycle in April 2016.
The bank's open markets operation committee (CEOMA) said the decision to lower its benchmark rate was unanimous and economic indicators since its previous meeting in May indicated slower economic expansion in the short term with leading indicators showing activity below the month of July.
On the other hand, inflation remains favorable and inflation expectations remain well anchored, with different inflation measures following a downward trajectory and the gauge for core inflation stabilizing below the target.
Paraguay's headline inflation rose to 4.0 percent in July from 2.9 percent in June while core inflation declined to 5.3 percent from 5.7 percent.
For 2017 BCP is targeting inflation of 4.0 percent, plus/minus 2 percentage points, down from 4.5 percent in 2016.
Paraguay's economy grew by an annual rate of 6.6 percent in the first quarter of this year, up from 3.4 percent in the previous quarter, in line with the central bank's April forecast for 4.2 percent growth for the full year, up from a previous forecast of 3.7 percent.
After falling sharply in 2014 and 2015, Paraguay's guarani has been relatively stable since 2016 and was trading at 5,615 to the U.S. dollar today, up 3.8 percent this year.


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New and Used Surgical Instruments are for Sale at The Dr’s Toy Store. Buy Surgical Instruments now for the Best prices.
Surgical instruments are tools specially made to help healthcare professionals perform certain actions during the operation. Most instruments made from the early 19th century are made of durable stainless steel. Some are designed for general use and others for specific procedures. There are many surgical instruments available for virtually any specialization in medicine. There are precision instruments used in microsurgery, ophthalmology and otology.
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This Promise Light Watch is actually a laser watch that purifies the blood. I love it very much as it has been instrumental in the healing of my Diabetes. I am also eating little to no sugar and taking many other nutritional supplements. I also am exercising regularly.
However the watch has been instrumental in removing sugar from my blood, increasing circulation to my nerve damaged feet. It also has normalized and fixed my Chlorestrol levels, LDLs and HDLs! My natropath doctor said she has never seen such improvement so fast! The results are amazing if used 45 minutes a day 5 days a week for 90 days as the studies suggest and prove it will work.
Very good adjunct to any other healing program especially for heart disease of all types. See information below.
Please call 530-925-3502 for more info about this product.
The Tachyon Light Watch is a blood cleanser, strengthener and energizer, which among many other things strengthens and reestablishes the resonant field of the mitochondria within the body in real time. This is again a very simple to use and an amazing healing device. Literally worn like a watch on the body it quick and efficient and powerful.
Here are some videos showing the clinical results of how the laser works to purify the blood and increase the blood by wearing the Light watch!
OR you can download the videos from the links below for your safekeeping.
The Tachyon Light Watch has an automatic timer and an extra laser light extension feature. The extension can be used with the Tachyonized Chakra Set or the special Nasal attachment that activates the Pituitary and Pineal Gland.
The Tachyon Light Watch itself has 6 laser light emitters that feed coherent light directly into the blood through the radial artery on the wrist. Dark field blood tests taken, before and after show that the blood platelets are separated so they are oxygenated easier. It has been proven to lower Cholesterol.
After the blood absorbs the laser light, nothing is accumulated in the blood cells themselves. There is only the positive effect of enhancing the biological and physical state of the cell.
Photonic light is the cleanest energy that enters into the body without adhering to any substances. Using the arterial radials for irradiation of the blood to cure disease is good because it will not hurt any of the healthy cells during the rehabilitation. There is no negative effect of the pathological cells either. We call this a “green physical treatment therapy”.
It adopts 6 low level lasers with the wavelength of 650nm for treating, it is the most advanced photons medical apparatus in the world to prevent and heal cardiovascular-cerebro-vascular diseases & Diabetes.
The points that are stimulated on the wrist are called Neiguan in the Chinese science of acupuncture. This is one of points of conjunction of the eight “Strange flows”.This is an advanced sub science in meridian therapy, which address the blocks by interpreting the 5 Element Theory.
These meridians bring life force from chest and the internal organs through the body undulating below the skin and back to the surface. The Light Watch delivers the photonic field where all of these meridians are on the surface for optimal performance. In both the modern Western medicine allopathic model and the Traditional Chinese Medicine, the irradiation location on the wrist is the optimal place for utilizing laser light to prevent and treat cardio-cerebral vascular diseases.
By stimulation of the Neiguan point the body is aided in repairing cardiac muscles, reduce the resistance lipid metabolism, improve homodynamic and vessels elasticity, so that it help to reduce high blood pressure and improve heart function.
By comparing the different irradiation locations and relevant points with laser apparatus and other similar products.Our product is non-invasive, painless physical therapy. The irradiation of the superficial skin of arterial radials, is the most effective point for blood restoration.
The special laser of 650nm wavelength penetrates easily through skin and wall of vessel and is absorbed by blood.The irradiation location of wrist is near to heart and abundant blood flows across wrist arterial radials.
Hyperlipidemia, hyper viscosity hyperglycemia, different kinds of cardio cerebral vascular diseases, coronary diseases, angina, myocardial infarction, atherosclerosis, cerebral thrombosis, cerebral infarction, cerebral apoplexy and its complication, brain atrophy, headache, vertigo, shortness or breath, insomnia, impotence and limb numbness etc., diabetes and its complication as well as different kinds of associated categories.
Hyperviscosity: the blood viscosity can be reduced significantly after 30 minutes irradiation, 7-10 times irradiation is needed by some people.
Hyperlipidemia: normally, the blood lipid can be reduced after 20 days irradiation. Some people may need 30 days.
Hypertension and hyperglycemia: normally, the blood pressure and blood sugar can be reduced after 30 days irradiation. Few people may need 2-3 months.
Laser irradiation of blood can reduce blood lipid and total cholesterol.
Laser irradiation of blood is proven to quickly, effectively correct the abnormal lipid metabolism and to maintain the body lipid metabolism balance level. The cell membrane cholesterol / phospholipid ratio is normalized and improves the stability and fluidity of membrane lipid. At the same time anti free radical – lipid peroxidation is indicated and heals injuries and accelerates the scavenging of free radicals.
See here in this picture the nasal attachment is placed on the extension and is easily clipped directly into the nasal passage. Now you have a direct connection to the brain via the blood brain barrier, which in the nasal cavity is very thin.
Laser irradiation of nasal cavity to cure rhinitis.
Hyperviscosity, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, ischemic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. It also has good curative results on the Rhinitis, allergic rhinitis, acute rhinitis, chronic rhinitis, sinusitis and nasal polyps.
A diffused beam of red laser light will activate and balance your pineal and pituitary endocrine glands. The amount of energy transferred is tremendous and is felt as a healing sensation throughout the body. The sense of euphoria is bought about by a natural release of endorphins and complex neuro-hormornal structures released by the Pituitary or “master gland”. The Pineal gland is also very sensitive to light and is mankind’s connection to the divine self and Christ Consciousness. The red laser will activate the first ray energy of divine will and power.
These 2 endocrine Glands relate to the third Eye chakra and the crown chakra respectively. All of the world’s major lineages of spiritual light have teaching and exercises that are designed to bring the consciousness and awareness of individual by exercising the mind and concentration to bring ones focus to the physio-spiritual centers known as chakras or endocrine glands!


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My favourite children’s book was a book of fairy tales. I loved the pictures!
No very daring I know!
That book wasn’t a hit here, but I love that your family has a deep connection with it.
I’m not sure that book is for everyone, but yes, it has deep meaning for us.
I’m not sure any book is for everyone. Clearly, it has a following, so there’s something about it that has value to some.
You’re right…it would make an interesting tattoo. I can see the Prince holding the Rabbit on Toot’s deck, while he blows merry steam rings…maybe in the shape of hearts.
Alexander and the no good very bad day. Thats part of the title. Me and my kids love that one. I don’t think it would make a very good tattoo.
I read that book when I was a child!
I don’t know that I have a favourite children’s book. There are a few I enjoyed reading to my kids – can’t remember any of the names at the moment. It’s great though that you have such a wonderful memory of time with your children that you wanted to tattoo it. My tattoo for my kids (there was just one at the time, but the next time I get a tatt I’ll get one for the other two) is a butterfly. Just the idea of the cocoon… it has a special meaning.
Thanks for sharing this wonderful story! 😀 Your tattoo, and your daughter’s are beautiful.
Thank you for stopping by and for sharing your tattoo. I know they aren’t for everyone, but I do know that many people have special meanings for their tattoos.
Thank you for stopping by. The placement of my tattoo was probably the hardest part, after deciding what to actually do. I wanted to be able to see it, but it’s tough when most work places don’t like them showing. I went ahead and took the risk on my arm, though, and I’m happy I did. I was originally going to put it on my ribs, but I don’t think I would have been as happy as it would have limited my view of it.
A great story a beautiful tatoo!
Thank you so much! I’m so happy you enjoyed it.
What a beautiful story. I read that book in your home and loved it. I love the colors in your tattoos. I love the message at the bottom. So very touching.
I was first introduced to this book when I was pregnant with my miracle child, my son. The first time I read it to him, he was still in my womb safe and sound as I read and rocked him while I read it to him with tears rolling down my face. As a baby, toddler, and preschooler it was one of his favorites. He would reach up with a very soft hand and remove the tears from my face as I read it to him. Once he was in kindergarten, I would turn the pages and he would tell me the words. He wasn’t reading them, mind you, he just knew the story so very well that he quoted each page by heart. Then he while sitting in my lap, he would wrap his little arms around me and rock his momma.
I used to read ‘guess how much I love you’ to my kids over and over. I still have a copy.
Thank you for sharing. 🙂 I’m going to make sure I don’t lose any more copies of favorite books.

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Songwriter Alex Alcocer typically takes the solo route in his musical endeavors, with each instrumental and vocal layer – guitar, percussion, synth – concentrated into one reverberating energy.
Alcocer goes by the moniker AlexAlco. The San Antonio native, now based in Austin, released a new EP, Ojos Oscuros, pulsating with Latin rock, electro-pop and psych. And this time, AlexAlco enlisted the help of friends and family for a full band for his EP release show tonight at The Electric Church, 5018 E. Cesar Chavez. The Banisters, Latchkey Kid and Mr. Meringue just joined this evening’s bill to round the party out quite nicely. Things get started at 10 p.m. Check it.

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The first coffee bush in Brazil was planted by Francisco de Melo Palheta in the state of Pará in 1727. By 1770, coffee had spread from Pará and reached Rio de Janeiro. Coffee was initially planted only for domestic consumption. In the 19th century, the demand for coffee started to increase in America and Europe, and by 1820, coffee plantations began to expand in Rio de Janerio, São Paulo, and Minas Gerais, representing 20% of world production. By 1830, coffee became Brazil’s largest export, accounting for 30% of world production.
From 1880 to 1930, Brazil increased their production of coffee, creating a greater need for labor than what could be found in Brazil. During this period, millions of immigrants moved to São Paulo, transforming it from a small town to the largest industrial center in the developing world. In 1850 the population was 30,000 people, and by 1900 it increased to 240,000. By 1920, Brazil was supplying 80% of the world’s coffee.
Brazil occupies almost half the landmass of South America and is the only Portuguese- speaking country in the region. The sheer size of the country and the mix of ethnic origins – mainly Indigenous, African and European – has given Brazil a diverse cultural identity. Brazil is the 10th largest economy in the world and in recent years there has been a strong expansion into agro-industry with a whole range of agricultural products being added to traditional exports such as coffee.
Today, Brazil is famously the world’s largest coffee producer, supplying nearly 60% of the total production. About two-thirds of domestic production is arabica with one-third robusta (conillon as it is known locally). Traditionally, most arabica coffee produced has been natural dried coffee, but more recently quality improvements have seen a growth of pulped naturals and washed. Brazilian coffee is preferred by many as a base for espresso blends as it offers low acidity and a smooth sweetness.

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POTTSTOWN PA – An exploration of the historic value associated with wampum and wampum belts, part of an educational symposium on Native American heritage but postponed since January due to inclement weather, has been re-scheduled for Sunday (Feb. 10, 2019) from 1-3 p.m. at ArtFusion 19464, 341 Beech St. The discussion, led by artist, entertainer and story-teller Barry Lee, is open to the public.
Wampum and wampum belts were important as historical and ceremonial records. They held significant value among the Native American communities encountered by European explorers and colonists.
Narrator Lee and his wife Barbara Christy are the primary entertainers of the five-time nominated Native American Music Award band, “Spirit Wing.” Experts say Spirit Wing is among one of the most popular Native American acts in the Middle Atlantic states, and is recognized for its dedicated representation of Native American culture.
Lee and Christy have performed during recent years at Pottstown elementary school assemblies and the annual “PowWow on Manatawny Creek” event held in Pottstown on the first weekend of May.
Admission to the talk is free, but a $5 donation is suggested. Proceeds will benefit the annual celebration of Native American culture, and maintenance of the Native American burial site in Pottstown. For more information, call Ron Williams at 610-327-1838 or send him an e-mail to naheritagecircle@comcast.net.


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Several members of our laboratory participated and presented posters at the Miami Winter Symposium, January 28-31, 2018 in Hyatt Regency, Miami. Drs. Andras, Bertrand, Cho, Leda, Park, and Skowronska received registration fee waivers.
New paper by Hyung Joon Cho "HIV Alters Gap Junction-Mediated Intercellular Communication in Human Brain Pericytes" was accepted in Frontiers of Molecular Neuroscience. The co-authors are Alyce Mei-Shiuan Kuo, Luc Bertrand, and Michal Toborek.

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COLEBROOK — Girl Scout Troop 40427 held a tag sale on Saturday, May 24, at the Colebrook Community Center.
The threat of thunderstorms did not deter the girls from organizing the sale, although the questionable weather did change their plans slightly.
Originally the event was to be held in the parking lot of the Community Center, but it was moved inside as a precaution.
The troop is a small, close-knit group of girls who are all from Colebrook.


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Education creates opportunities for children and young people and helps to overcome the cycle of poverty. For this reason, we support school education, boarding school education, the teaching of slum children and tutoring for children and young people in our missions. With regards to vocational training and further education, our support is aimed at young people and adults to order to develop their own skills.
In many parts of the world a vibrant society is growing which is campaigning for a sustainable improvement of living conditions. We, the Pallottines in Germany and Austria, want to strengthen societies by building schools in order to create income which leads to sustainable development. Our help is aimed at people who initiate, supervise and support projects.
Our confreres in the missions work in the formation of candidates for the priesthood and brotherhood, and together with the local people, they advocate on behalf of the disadvantaged and work in various institutions. As spiritual guides they proclaim the faith, as social workers they help people in need.
The diocese of Doumé-Abong ‘Mbang is situated in the tropical rainforest of Cameroon and is geographically half the size of the Republic of Ireland. For more than ten years, Pallottines have been involved in the ‘Collége de la Salle’ in Doumé. The school,with boarding facilities, has 200 pupils, whose school fees we contribute to. Many families of the large forest region are poor; some can only muster a part of the school fees and pay with bananas, chickens or goats. We, the Pallottines, provide help there because we want to give these people prospects.
The state of Arunachal Pradesh is located in eastern India, bordering China. The Pallottines of the Nagpur Province are present in Kimin, Yachuli, Daporijo and Siyum with missions and they support the local Christians. Father Johnson Puthur is a priest in Siyum. He helps women in different villages to get organized and offers workshops. Today these women are producing candles, learning tailoring and literacy, producing traditional ornaments, receiving lessons and farming their own fields.
Not far from Zambia’s capital Pallottines from the Indian Nagpur Province have opened a primary school. We have co-sponsored the construction of this primary school. It is part of a much larger school which the Pallottines are planning close to the capital Lusaka. In India, we support the education of children and young people in schools and boarding schools throughout the country.
The Pallottines in Yaoundé lay the foundations to create opportunities for a better future for children and adolescents. Cameroon’s capital, with three million inhabitants, is the country’s second largest city. We maintain a nursery school for 200 children and a primary school for 1100 children in the city district of Mfoundassi. In addition, the construction of a secondary school with space for 21 classes was started last year with our help.
Children in South Africa are particularly affected by the rising poverty. In George, Pallottines run a soup kitchen for the poor of the nearby township and distribute food to the elderly in a retirement home. In Queenstown, children get everything they need to live and attend school in the area. In Nagpur, India, we also care for the disadvantaged, help people living with HIV and support the elderly and sick in Doranahalli.
Father Marcel Chibuzo Emeribe lives in the English-speaking Western part of Cameroon. The Pallottine Father is priest in a small village named Widikum and every weekend he looks after the people in the remote areas. In order to be able to reach these areas, we have given him two motorbikes, as the slopes are impassable for a car.
Across the globe, Pallottines pray for the concerns of the faithful. We were able to pass on the numerous small donations for Mass intentions to the local confreres in the missions last year yet again.
We, the Pallottines, are especially grateful to all those people who have been supporting our missionaries worldwide for many years. One of our 40 missionaries in Latin America, Africa and Asia, who is being supported by family, friends and aquaintances, is Jakob Wasensteiner. The missionary from Lenggries in Germany works in the suburbs of São Paulo City in a multi-religious environment, and has become an ‘enabler’ there.
In Africa and Asia, we support the training for the priesthood and brotherhood. Every year young candidates begin formation in one of our formation houses. They are preparing themselves to assume duties within the community of the Church. Well trained pastoral carers and competent “enablers” guarantee a closeness to the people.
It is difficult to predict how many people will be on the move trying to escape conflict, persecution, poverty and insecurity in the coming years. The number of those fleeing their homelands will rise to unprecedented heights if there is no political resolution to the conflicts. There are those who say that tackling the causes has been neglected for years. Our mission work starts right there. In order to ensure that peace and justice are not just empty words, each with his talents, his strength and his knowledge can work to change the world. The time has come not to work against one another, but rather hand in hand with each other. This requires the personal attention of us Christians and the belief that God is visible in each person.
We, the Pallottines, want to change the world for the better and with your help we support projects in our mission areas. We want to be part of the solution by helping people assist one another in solidarity and giving poor people prospects for the future. We support, for example, the construction of schools in poor countries and thus lay foundations for a better future. To give an example, I am grateful to all supporters who have helped us start the construction of the high school in Cameroon.
In our mission areas, we stand in solidarity with our confreres who advocate for the disadvantaged, offer training programmes and perform tasks within the community to enable young candidates to train for the priesthood and brotherhood. A focus of our Province is the financial support of the formation houses where young candidates for Pallottine priesthood and brotherhood study and prepare for life in the community and for service to the people.
I am very grateful to relatives, friends and other supporters of our missionaries who time and again open their hearts and send them money so that they can finance their projects abroad. The commitment of our missionaries is far-reaching. Far away from home, they are often involved in social and charitable institutions. Likewise in mission stations, they also provide assistance to the Christians locally.
In Africa and Asia, the Pallottines also support those people who are at the margins of society and need special care. We support HIV projects and the care of the elderly and people in need. We pay the school fees of children whose families are too poor to afford it themselves and thus provide long-term prospects. We help people who are in need through no fault of their own and we are a point of contact for all our missionaries’ concerns. We do not only want to pass on donations to our missionaries, but also ask what the projects have achieved and what improvements can be made. It is our concern to hand over high-quality projects and institutions to the future generation of Pallottines which will change the life of the local people positively and long term.
All photos in the Mission Report are from Brother Bert Meyer.
A PDF-dowloadable version of the mission report 2015 is availabe here.


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An article at Gizmodo (you can read the whole thing, and see photographs, here) shows a screen capture of a Google Earth view, with the arid expanses of eastern China overlaid with a strange pattern of white lines. The photograph is captioned, "What the hell, China?", presumably because asking China "What the hell?" has resulted in their immediate cooperation in the past.
To which I reply: well, not really all that much. You'd think that if the Chinese were trying to create a mock-up of the streets of DC in order to "calibrate their optical targeting systems," it would conform perfectly, not just "sort of." On the one hand, the writer seems to think that the Chinese are up to something super-technological and amazingly top secret, and in the same breath that they can't draw a straight line. C'mon, you can't have it both ways. If they were trying to target DC, it'd be kind of important to get the map correct, don't you think? It'd also be pretty easy, given that accurate street maps of major US cities have been available online for years.
Of course, the problem is the usual one; if you're allowed to rotate, shrink, or enlarge a random pattern of lines, you can always make it align to another such random pattern -- as long as you're content with a "sort of" fit. I'd bet that I could take the Chinese line pattern and make it align to the streets of Ithaca, New York, if I wanted to, and also if I had technological skills higher than that of a typical kindergartner, which I don't. It's like my previous post about ley lines; if you can manipulate the data, and you're okay with an approximate match, you can always find a pattern.
So, what are the Chinese really doing out there? Assuming, of course, that the pattern wasn't Photoshopped in by some hoaxer? The answer: I have no idea. But I'm going to go out on a limb, here, and state for the record that I'll bet it has nothing to do with alien landing sites, optical targeting systems, evil weather-control apparatus, or the Masons. On the other hand, if today an alien spacecraft adorned with Masonic symbols lands in the middle of downtown Ithaca during a freak tornado, I will consider myself as standing corrected.

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Lawmakers: Afghan Leader Threatens to Join Taliban!
Is this finally the last straw? Will we now wake up, and realize that we have no Muslim allies? They are using us for our money, and to gain power. In the end they will stand with Islam against us. It is time to bring the troops home, drill where we can, and end all Muslim immigration and aid. As I have been saying for years, it will be us or them. There will be no middle ground, so take a side.
KABUL – Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened over the weekend to quit the political process and join the Taliban if he continued to come under outside pressure to reform, several members of parliament said Monday.
Karzai made the unusual statement at a closed-door meeting Saturday with selected lawmakers — just days after kicking up a diplomatic controversy with remarks alleging foreigners were behind fraud in last year’s disputed elections.
Lawmakers dismissed the latest comment as hyperbole, but it will add to the impression the president — who relies on tens of thousands of U.S. and NATO forces to fight the insurgency and prop up his government — is growing increasingly erratic and unable to exert authority without attacking his foreign backers.
“He said that ‘if I come under foreign pressure, I might join the Taliban’,” said Farooq Marenai, who represents the eastern province of Nangarhar.
“He said rebelling would change to resistance,” Marenai said — apparently suggesting that the militant movement would then be redefined as one of resistance against a foreign occupation rather than a rebellion against an elected government.
Marenai said Karzai appeared nervous and repeatedly demanded to know why parliament last week had rejected legal reforms that would have strengthened the president’s authority over the country’s electoral institutions.
Two other lawmakers said Karzai twice raised the threat to join the insurgency.
The lawmakers, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of political repercussions, said Karzai also dismissed concerns over possible damage his comments had caused to relations with the United States. He told them he had already explained himself in a telephone conversation Saturday with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that came after the White House described his comments last week as troubling.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said reports Karzai threatened to abandon the political process and join the Taliban insurgency if he continued to receive pressure from Western backers to reform his government are troubling.
“On behalf of the American people, we’re frustrated with the remarks,” Gibbs told reporters.
The lawmakers said they felt Karzai was pandering to hard-line or pro-Taliban members of parliament and had no real intention of joining the insurgency.
I am on another conservative site, and there are bunch of them that are mad at me. Saying this is just not true. I can see us losing this war.
Well, Brennan said they were pulling out of Afghanistan next year.
Surah 3:28 — "Let believers not make friends with infidels in preference to the faithful — he that does this has nothing to hope for from Allah — except in self-defense." Mawdudi explains, "It is lawful for a believer . . . to keep his faith concealed and to behave in such a manner as to create the impression that he is on the same side as his enemies. A person whose Muslim identity is discovered is permitted to adopt a friendly attitude toward unbelievers in order to save his life." Karzai ain't gettin' that lovin' feeling from Uncle Sam anymore.
Exactly, Gary. It's what muslims are called to do. It's what muslims are taught to do while living in infidel lands..milk the 'Great Satans' for all their benefits and success and then use those things in their efforts to destroy the very ones that are practically bending over backwards to appease and accommodate them…much to my anger and our detriment!
The west should respond with the threat to nuke all arselifters back to the friggin' stone age… oh wait, they already live in the stone age. Sorry, forgot about that.
Make that threat to an age where the stone age would look like heaven!
Drop the NUKES. Blacktop this place. His corruption schemes are threatened.
Talibans hate him, so if he decide to join them they will immediatelly kill him.
Yes, that's the only sensible solution.
The only problem I see is that an IED would take out more soldiers that way.

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Over its impossibly long run, The Simpsons has done just about everything well. It’s also done just about everything poorly, but, hey, you do a TV show for 28 seasons. A big, high-concept season finale about all Springfield’s canines taking over the town? Why not? I mean, the show’s gone to space, it’s built a monorail, spent most of an episode as a hot pepper-induced hallucination, turned Homer into a singing star, pro baseball mascot, sideshow freak, pro boxer, art world phenom, and several dozen other splashy, episode-driving occupations. And while the most memorable Simpsons episodes traditionally incorporate some more subtle character beats into the shenanigans, shenanigans for their own sake are memorable, too—as long as they’re funny enough to justify the detour into wackiness.
In “Dogtown,” Homer swerves into poor ol’ Gil rather than hitting Santa’s Little Helper (they’re both eating out of the same alley garbage cans), and only wins the ensuing civil lawsuit because his slick lawyer plays on the jury’s affection for dogs. Gil’s weaselly lawyer (the weaselly lawyer) does his case no favors by citing all the adorable things dogs do as proof that dogs are worth less than people, thus inadvertently establishing a legal precedent that dogs are worth more than people. Quimby, seeing votes in the town’s newest hair-trigger whim, enacts some “untested, hastily passed, pandering laws” that make Springfield into a dog paradise, ignoring the pleading wisdom of Michael York’s veterinarian Dr. Budgie that those dogs are gonna turn on people once they discover that humans are no longer in charge. They do, chaos ensues, Marge tells off Milhouse’s pipsqueak chihuahua that’s leading the pack (all the dogs immediately show Marge their bellies, which, cute), and that’s that.
As far as bare bones go, why not? Again, silly and high-concept can work if the jokes are good enough, especially if an episode manages to ground the silliness in some sort of character work. Failing that, a bold stab at self-reflexive meta-comedy can also power things along. But here, the jokes aren’t good enough to sustain the premise, the character elements are perfunctory and sparse, and, as has been the case for a few years in a row now, the season finale has seemed less like an attempt to go out with a bang, and more like an afterthought.
For one thing, while Santa’s Little Helper is the impetus behind the White God-esque dog-pocalypse, the Simpsons’ trusty greyhound barely figures in the plot at all. When the town’s dogs go wild, he runs off, but essentially disappears until the crisis has passed (with Marge punting little Taquito the chihuahua over the horizon, a jarringly cruel thing coming from her). Santa’s Little Helper has flirted with going feral and fearsome before, and there, it was his relationship with Bart that saved the day in the nick of time. Here, Bart worries about his pal’s loyalty, but then the dog just splits, and their bond is irrelevant. The same goes for ol’ Gil, although his extraneousness is played with as just another joke about how extraneous Gil is. There’s a certain element of ol’ Grimey in how Homer and Marge brush off Gil’s disappointment that Marge’s heroism robbed him of the chance to redeem himself in the eyes of the town. Especially in Homer’s line that Gil needs to redeem himself, even though he’s done absolutely nothing wrong but get run over by a car. Still, poor Gil’s story isn’t developed enough to make his arc even the sort-of sick joke it’s intended as. Which may be part of that joke, but, here, it’s even too much of an afterthought to register as that. And Marge’s summation, about our love for dogs stemming from their unquestioning love and loyalty resembling what we wish we got from each other, is sweet, but awfully perfunctory in the scheme of the episode.
If ”Dogtown” were simply a non-stop dogpile of solid gags, that’d be something. And there are a few decent ones here and there. I laughed loudly when I figured out just why Homer was laboriously using Snowball II’s claws to pull the exhausted Santa’s Little Helper through the doggie-door, a blessedly long and patient setup to a very dumb joke of the sort that Homer would think so hilarious. And Wiggum, hauling Dr. Budgie to jail for making a dog wait for its pedicure just because of a non-dog emergency, exhibits some prime Springfield P.D. logic with his sneering, “Dogs locked in cages? That’s no way to treat a dog! Now lock him up in a cage… like a dog!” Homer demands the kids pull down the “Purge armor” on the house once the dogs go berserk, which, again, is some fine Homer-esque crisis thinking. Bart and Lisa go looking for their dog, escaping from Grandpa’s watchful eye by cranking the heat in the house up one whole degree (he immediately falls asleep).
There are a few other fringe benefits here. The animation is ambitiously cinematic, with the angle when Budgie is thrown into the police car and the shadow work on Homer’s drunken nighttime flight from the newly ferocious dogs standing out especially well. I continue to be tickled at York’s ongoing presence on The Simpsons as a semi-regular—his hoarse, gravelly old man voice as Dr. Budgie fits into the show’s chorus of characters perfectly. Same goes for Kevin Michael Richardson, popping up here in a couple of roles (including a Stephen A. Smith-style news pundit/shouter).
In the end, though, as this is the end of season 28, there’s just not much here. Credited writer J. Stewart Burns, a Futurama vet, is clearly at home in this sort of plot-driven event episode—apart from the Futurama crossover, he’s also behind the two big “future Simpsons” stories (along with the deeply regrettable “Hannah Horvath’s tattoo universe” episode), all of which, like “Dogtown,” seem a lot more fun and ambitious in concept than they turn out to be in execution.
And that’s a wrap on season 28 of The Simpsons for the A.V. Club, everyone. Thank you, as ever, for reading. And thank most of you for commenting. See you in the fall.


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LOS TALLERES DE LA ‘RALEIGH CYCLE COMPANY LIMITED’ estan situados en Lenton, Nottingham (Inglaterra). Hace mas de 30 anos los establecieron unos hombres laboriosos que dedicaron sus vidas a la production de no solamente bicicletas se alta calidad, sino de bicicletas que siempre reunen las ultimas mejores. Ano tras ano, con adelantos siempre en aumento, la compania ha ensanchado sus talleres hasta que, desde un modestisimo taller, estos se han transformado en una fabrica gigantesca llena de maquinaria, que cubre mas de 7 hectareas y da emplo a mas de 2,500 operarios.
‘This is the Age of Steel!’ proclaimed Raleigh in their advertising brochure, pointing out that their ‘All-Steel Bicycle’ describes the fundamental difference between the Raleigh and other bicycles. It is a testament to the quality of manufacturing of that time that this machine is still in good running order nine decades later.
In 1924, Great Britain was one of the world’s leading industrial nations, and bicycles one of its leading exports. So Raleigh’s catalogue was printed in a variety of languages.
In the 1920s, there was a public demand for a reasonably-priced fast lightweight road-racer. Raleigh responded more ably than other manufacturers, fielding a dedicated road racer as well as a lightweight roadster. Named either the Popular or Standard, it was a sloping top tube road racer with regular equipment to make it suitable for daily use. Further down the page I’ve included a chart to show the evolution of this model through the 1920s, culminating in the 1929 model with the Heron lamp bracket and metal head badge.
This example is in very good original unrestored condition, with the box lining still showing up well on its paintwork. As you can see in these photos, the transfers (decals) on the steering head and rear mudguard are also in good condition, as is the ‘Popular Light Roadster’ transfer at the top of the down tube. The ‘All-Steel Bicycle’ transfer, also on the down tube, is faded but legible. The nickel is tarnished and would benefit from cleaning, as would the rest of the bicycle (I’ve left it ‘as found’ after some years of dry storage).
I assume the rear stand to be a period accessory, in which case this Raleigh Popular appears to be totally original. I’ve left the old tyres on it as they are good enough for riding and fit the overall patina of the machine; I’ll include a pair of new Raleigh Roadster tyres in its sale too.


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Logically, 差点没 is not that different from 差点. In fact, you shouldn't think of it as a single word; think of the 没 as belonging to what follows 差点 and it makes more sense. Still, it can be a little confusing, and is worth a closer look.
Note that the "Verb Phrase" part is a desired result. So this structure is literally saying, "almost didn't [Verb Phrase]."
Also note that because you're using 没, you don't use 了 after the verb phrase.


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“Can I rearrange this room?” “Fred” asked a couple of days before Christmas.
I told Bud about it later.
“Who’s Frank Schwa?” he asked.
How do I explain feng shui, the harmony in a room, to man who had hoed out so much junk just to make this room usable?
The family room, as we called it, had become a depository — first for the boxes that we moved out of my brother’s apartment after he passed away, then for the boxes and furniture we moved when we rearranged to make space for a downstairs bedroom and bathroom for my father, and finally for the boxes that we moved home from the nursing home after my mother passed away.
Maybe the feng shui was all wrong.
Maybe the “flow” didn’t work.
But there’s a level of comfort in that same orange loveseat being in the same spot through the years.
I confess — we moved it this year, though. Not because of feng shui, but to make room for a smart TV.
The focal point still is, and always has been, the fireplace.
I think Frank Schwa would approve.
The ambience, the aesthetic appeal — both are present in its friendly warmth.
Even more important to me, though, are the people who fill the room.
Frank Schwa may or may not be among them.
To me, he’s the least important guest.
I love this. I’m not sure how often Frank Schwa comes to our house, either, but like you I enjoy the family and friends who come more 🙂 .
A fireplace is a good focal point for such a room.

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Brimbank Presbyterian Church does not currently have a full time minister. Normal Sunday services will however continue. For any enquiries please use the Contact link on this or Home page.
Andrew is married to Moira and they have four children.
Ken is married to Deb and has two adult children and two grand-children.
As the Clerk his role is to help the elders in administrative tasks.
He is also our Safe Church Representative.
The Board of Management looks after the financial and material affairs of the church. Sheryl is our secretary, Yoliza is our treasurer. Christo and Neil are general members.


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Crafton communicates with thousands of subscribers to her daily e-mail meditations. Theyand others who say the Daily Officeswill treasure this collection of brief meditations. Based on the assigned biblical texts for each day of Year Two from Advent through Holy Week, Crafton’s writings complement perfectly the morning, noon, evening, and nighttime prayers that are the Daily Offices.
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Found the answer here. Pan the GarageBand track to one side, and export to iTunes via the Share menu. Next, in iTunes, set iTunes' importing preference to the format you want, and mono, Select the song in iTunes and choose the "Create [format] Version" menuItem from the advanced menu.... I want to avoid the audio level differences between channels in a stereo and mono clip Adobe Audition makes this easy, but it isn’t obvious. Here, for example, is a stereo clip (“Space Ambience”) that needs to go into a mono session (“Multitrack Session”).
How would you make a mono audio track stereo?
You basically create a copy of the track you want to make into stereo, one for the left channel and one for the right channel. The trick is basically to alternately peak the odd frequencies spectrums of the graphic equalizer on the left track while dropping the even ones to a low level setting, and then do the same thing with the right track but instead do the opposite settings.... You could sacrifice the left or right channel of a stereo track and apply it to the remaining mono channel. Pan your audio track hard left or hard right . It doesn’t matter which extent you choose but you must pan the track 100% to that side.
Double-click "Mono.adv" to add it to the selected track. The effect controls appear in the Device View area. The Panorama parameter adjusts the sound's location in the stereo field; it is set to "C," or center, by default, so as soon as you add the effect, the track is made stereo.... Take a mono source signal and bus it to two mono aux tracks, panned hard left and right and grouped for convenience. Insert a Trim plug-in and a monophonic convolution reverb plug-in into both aux tracks.
You could sacrifice the left or right channel of a stereo track and apply it to the remaining mono channel. Pan your audio track hard left or hard right . It doesn’t matter which extent you choose but you must pan the track 100% to that side.... 20/04/2009 · THEN do same thing again back to Stereo - so I have both channels with the same info - it is effective mono - but looks to the system as stereo - annoying part is is creates a new wav of the sound track ..
17/01/2012 · quick and grimy mono-fication: a million. Export the stereo wav record from Audacity in a format Microsoft can talk - say, stereo, 16 bits, 44100 Hz - and reserve it.
Take a mono source signal and bus it to two mono aux tracks, panned hard left and right and grouped for convenience. Insert a Trim plug-in and a monophonic convolution reverb plug-in into both aux tracks.
Double-click "Mono.adv" to add it to the selected track. The effect controls appear in the Device View area. The Panorama parameter adjusts the sound's location in the stereo field; it is set to "C," or center, by default, so as soon as you add the effect, the track is made stereo.