Georgia Mae was originally supposed to have her first session with me for a Fresh 48 session. Mama had some things come up and was flown back to the states to deliver her. We decided instead of Fresh 48 and newborn session we would do milestone sessions throughout her first year! I was so excited to see her grow over the year. Let me tell you this year has flown by so very fast. I loved each and every session with Georgia Mae. We knew we needed to do a cake smash at the end of the year because I am a Bloomsburg Cake Smash Photographer.
March 1 was rolling near and we wanted to set up an adorable first birthday cake smash session! This was perfect because I am a Bloomsburg Cake Smash Photographer . Her family calls her ladybug so we had to incorporate that into her session. We used pink and gold to accent the set up. It was originally supposed to be outside but big sister had been sick and we chose to stick with studio. I pulled out a background I had bought from a fellow photographer here and had never used. That was one of the best ideas ever! I quickly put it up and used the other decorations I had bought for it. I added three little ladybugs in there to keep with her little nickname.
Georgia Mae wasn't too sure about being in the spotlight and staying away from mama. We got her to play with the props and stay put for a few seconds. She wasn't too much in to the smiling, but we did get a few out of her. Once the regular shots were over we pulled out the adorable cake her mom brought with. It was white with gold dot accents and a pink ruffle around the bottom. It went so well with the entire set up. Georgia Mae wasn't so sure about touching it and smashing it. She stuck her finger in and daintily ate a little. Smiling here and there. My daughter came in and got her really smiling. It was adorable. She got so excited about clapping. Her big sister didn't think she was getting messy enough and thought she would help by smashing her face in the cake for her. Let me tell you, we all cracked up laughing. Best cake smash event ever! Then we realized she wasn't happy about it and we quickly comforted her. She had a few more minutes to slap the cake and then she was done!
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Fox News' Wallace Questions Trump Integrity Over Iran Pullback — Doesn't Have The Stomach For Conflict
Fox News' Wallace Questions Trump Integrity Over Iran Pullback — Doesn't Have The Stomach For Conflict
Wallace: Does Trump 'Have the Stomach' to Confront Iran?
Fox News' Chris Wallace decided to second-guess Pres. Trump over his decision not to respond with military force after I ran shut down a $225 million drone on Thursday morning.
At one point in the interview on Friday morning, Wallace said Pres. Trump did not have the stomach for conflict.
On Friday morning, Pres. Trump said he decided against striking Iran 10 minutes before the planned attacks late Thursday night because it wasn't worth it. this was like red meat to Wallace who questioned Trump's integrity and raised the question, "Does the president have the stomach to get deeply involved, perhaps, in a confrontation with Iran?"
Wallace: "We know there was a big National Security Council meeting with the president yesterday where they discussed all of this, and usually the Pentagon is very sophisticated in being able to say, 'look, here are various target packages, here's what we would hit, here's what the collateral damage would be," said Wallace.
Wallace: "Any discussion of what collateral damage in terms of the deaths on the ground would be is discussed at that point before the president gives a new order as to what various targets he wants to hit."
Wallace then questioned the president's statement that he only learned of the number of casualties the strikes would cause ten minutes before they were to be dealt with.
Wallace: "The idea that 10 minutes before the strike has the president says how many people are going to be killed if we go ahead with those strikes, that usually is discussed in depth a great deal for that,"
Wallace continued his assault on Pres. Trump's statement claiming that the Commander-in-Chief "doesn't have much of an appetite for a strike" and that there was a rift or conflict within the administration on whether or not to escalate the response to Iran.
Wallace: "Donald Trump as a candidate — and even as president — said that there was a real cost of that in terms of the U.S. Threatening to do something and not going ahead and doing it so there's a cost to action and also a cost to inaction"
"Stomach" has nothing to do with it. What's the actual strategic objective? How much will such a thing cost? How will this be paid for? Given how badly Iraq went, what will we do differently? What about other countries being destabilized if we do this?
Somebody needs to take Wallace to the woodshed. It is just two days since the drone was shot down, and Chris is demanding blood from the POTUS and the US military. Trump should bundle Chris on to a plane and have him dropped off in Iran so they can deal with him in their torture chambers.
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15 results for Electricity
1.Innovation by Carolina Country Vol. 48 Issue 4, April 4 2016
Innovation is an expectation that many electric cooperatives and their members have. Recent innovations in use throughout North Carolina's energy cooperatives are pay-as-you go options, energy management portals and apps, and usage alerts. Newer trends include an increased use of solar farms, microgrids, and connected thermostats in the state.
Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 48 Issue 4, April 4 2016, p14-15
Electricity; Electric utilities--North Carolina; Innovations
2.Electric Vehicles by Emmett, Arielle Business North Carolina Vol. 36 Issue 1, January 2016
Emmett, Arielle
Evident is the promotion of alternative fuel sources and eco-friendly living in the provision of Electric Vehicles (EV) and charging stations. The current availability of both in North Carolina placed the state at number twelve in the nation. The author noted the relative scarcity was felt more in Western North Carolina. She, however, was optimistic about greater receptivity and rise in rank on the horizon for this type of transportation.
Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 36 Issue 1, January 2016, p18-19 Periodical Website
Electric Vehicles; Ecology; Alternative energy sources; Alternative fuel industry; Electricity
3."What is a Transformer"? by Carolina Country Vol. 47 Issue 6, June 2015
The definition for a transformer included how they operate, voltage levels appropriate for their stations and substations, and the ubiquitous presence of this electronic equipment in daily life.
Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 47 Issue 6, June 2015, p14
4.The Ins and Outs of Outlets by Carolina Country Vol. 47 Issue 7, July 2015
The electrical relationship between outlets and receptacles was explored through factors such as type, function, and recommended installation locations for receptacles. For the non-mechanically inclined, included were some interesting facts.
Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 47 Issue 7, July 2015, p14-15
Electric utilities; Electricity
5.Co-ops Love Kids by Howard, Magen Carolina Country Vol. 43 Issue 12, Dec 2011
Howard, Magen
North Carolina Association of Electric Cooperatives coordinates several statewide programs designed to reach young people. The Bright Ideas program, offered by Touchstone Energy Cooperatives, provides funding for teachers interested in developing innovative classroom activities and curricula to teach middle school students about electricity and renewable energy.
Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 43 Issue 12, Dec 2011, p20, por
Educational innovations; Electricity
6.Tower of Power by Exum, Steve Business North Carolina Vol. 30 Issue 11, November 2010
Exum, Steve
A factory in southwest Charlotte produces the equipment used to produce more than a third of the electricity in the United States. The author pre4sents the history of the Westinghouse Pant, now known as the Siemens Plant.
Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 30 Issue 11, November 2010, p48-55, il Periodical Website
Electric apparatus and appliances; Electricity; Electric industries
7.America's Perfect Storm by English, Glenn Carolina Country Vol. 40 Issue 1, Jan 2008
English, Glenn
A shortage of electric capacity, huge increases in demand for power, and the cost of climate change are in the making of a perfect storm. North Carolina electric cooperatives discuss plans to reduce carbon dioxide emissions based on technological solutions including energy efficiency, carbon capture and storage, and renewable sources.
Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 40 Issue 1, Jan 2008, p10-11, il
Renewable energy; Energy conservation; Electricity
8.Coalition Considers 17 Transmission Projects in North Carolina by Carolina Country Vol. 40 Issue 3, Mar 2008
The North Carolina Transmission Planning Collaborative identified seventeen major transmission projects as part of the 2007-2017 Collaborative Transmission Plan for North Carolina. The projects represent more than four-hundred million dollars in investments for improved electric utilities and transmission.
Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 40 Issue 3, Mar 2008, p9
Electric utilities; Electricity; Electric power
9.Memories of the Old Wood Stove by Leggett, Carroll Metro Magazine Vol. 2 Issue 9, Dec 2001
Leggett, Carroll
The author reflected on the value that wood stoves, existing before the widespread adoption of electricity Down East during the 1940s, had for the region's people. Leggett offered illustrations such as the better tastes of wood stove cooked foods, stories featuring family members like the author's mother, and the important role these stoves played during holidays such as Christmas.
Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 2 Issue 9, Dec 2001, p45-46 Periodical Website
World War (1939-1945); Electricity; Home economics, Rural; Cooking; Electricity--Rural installation, 1940s
10.The Juice Sleuth by Martin, Edward Business North Carolina Vol. 20 Issue 11, Nov 2000
Martin, Edward
Between $60 and $120 million in electricity is stolen every year from North Carolina utilities. Martin discusses steps companies take to prevent theft and how thieves are tracked and caught.
Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 20 Issue 11, Nov 2000, p56-63 Periodical Website
Electric utilities; Electricity; Theft--Automobile
11.Mountain Man Now Getting Electricity by Carolina Country Vol. 21 Issue 6, June 1989
Jack Blevins is now receiving electricity at his remote cabin in Ashe County, North Carolina. Last fall, Blevins and his now-deceased brother, Tom, came to the attention of the Blue Ridge Opportunities Commission. The Blevins brothers were living in a dilapidated wooden shack with no electricity, but with the help of volunteers, the commission built them a new cabin wired for electricity.
Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 21 Issue 6, June 1989, p10, por
Electricity; Rural development
12.Oral History Project Focuses on Early Years of Rural Electrification by Carolina Country Vol. 16 Issue 10, Oct 1984
Rural electrification helped to create a whole new way of life for rural people. North Carolina's rural electric cooperatives have launched a statewide oral history project to preserve the personal recollections of early co-op organizers and the first generation of Tar Heel co-op consumer-members. About fifty volunteers will be tape recording interviews with members and pioneer co-op directors and employees as part of the project.
Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 16 Issue 10, Oct 1984, p9, por
Oral history; Electricity; Electric utilities--History; Rural preservation
13.A True Down Homer by Farrow, Elizabeth; Fountain, Earl; Farrow, Connie Sea Chest Vol. 3 Issue 3, July 1976
Farrow, Elizabeth; Fountain, Earl; Farrow, Connie
A true down homer was about more than just being born in a local town or having one's name affiliated with a local building. What made Charlie Gray Sr. so included turning down job offers after graduation from North Carolina State College, so he could own a local grocery store. Being a down homer was also reflected in his promotion of education for the area. During his almost fifty year career as a school principal and teacher, he professed a hope for Hatteras Island to have a central accredited high school.
Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 3 Issue 3, July 1976, p72-77
Hatteras Island--History; Libraries; Teachers; Cape Hatteras; North Carolina State University; Masons--North Carolina; Hatteras Inlet--History; Electricity; Schools--Decentralization
14.Industry Collaborates to Move Nuclear Power Plants Offshore by Willis, Thomas W. New East Vol. 1 Issue 2, Mar/Apr 1973
Willis, Thomas W.
The need for electricity was pressing—twofold more every seven years for rapidly growing areas. The problems contributing to the crisis: shortage of fossil fuels and residents' reluctance to have electric generating station in their backyard. Westinghouse Electric Company, coupled with Offshore Power Systems, proved the crisis could be averted, the problems were not insurmountable. Their solution for anyone seeking an alternative fuel source and/or not wanting generating stations within sight: nuclear power plants offshore.
New East (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, Mar/Apr 1973, p18-19, 42-44
Nuclear power plants; Nuclear energy; Electricity
15.Dimensions of a Crisis by Chaney, Jim Carolina Country Vol. 3 Issue 4, Apr 1971
Chaney, Jim
At the 29th annual meeting of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, rural electric leaders, including representatives of North Carolina's electric membership, considered the dimensions of the energy crisis. This article discusses how North Carolina plans to find solutions in obtaining an adequate supply of dependable, economical electric power.
Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 3 Issue 4, Apr 1971, p8-11
Electric power; Electricity; Energy industries


My current mask series is influenced by the scorched earth policies of our present government and represent the global threat to our natural environment and human population. This impending scenario of massive devastation has produced a heightened response in me. These assemblages express alarm at the reckless attack on protections that include land, water, air, and all living things. My fanciful visages invite the observer in to make them pause and appreciate both the grandeur and fragility of nature and the need for our protection.
The first masks used recycled cardboard shoe inserts and packaging. I now haunt junk stores for rattan baskets and other cast-offs. When evacuated from our home for nine days during the 2017 wildfires in Somoma County, I spontaneously created on-site art on the first clear day on a walk along the Bay in San Rafael. These pieces became my spontaneous response to the fires—a photo journal that I recorded with my iPhone. There was enormous freedom in embracing ephemeral images when my physical art and possessions could be ash. I wanted to bring this newly tapped spontaneity when I returned home. The studio work is getting more complex in structure and intention in response to the increasing onslaughts from this administration. The masks are a natural continuum of "Stick Stories" (mentioned below) where I show a deep concern for nature whereas, now I highlight its vulnerability. Although, each work can stand alone, shown in conjunction with each other, there is an implied deeper message.
I seek a plethora of influences. Nature informs me: A tiny bird nest from a miniature pine forest. The shed skin of a Kingsnake. Grain-size luminescent shells from a Kauai beach. Art museums are home to me. Tribal and native arts impress me with their clarity of purpose. I am drawn to locations that transport me to a primordial memory and to marvel at our earliest artists and architects: the Altamira Caves, the Mayan pyramids, Stonehenge.
Before I started making assemblages, I did ceramic sculpture and detailed narrative watercolor paintings. The stories were often based upon what disturbed me in the news: poaching of elephants, Mount Saint Helens volcano eruption, the martyrdom of South African anti-Apartheid activist Stephen Banku Biko. I continue to select the medium that best expresses my ideas. I can't imagine making art without the bright, saturated color that excites me. I make art to give credence to my interior chatter and to communicate with others.
The ladders, sticks, and wall assemblages are created mainly from the detritus that I search for in my natural environment. I commonly use driftwood to visually and literally weave my constructions together. The bleached branches and fist-shaped knots are so intrinsically beautiful, it seems disrespectful to add marks or color, but I have to do it. Although each of the works is individual, they share a common language of birds, fish, ocean, land, and sky.
This body of work divides into four categories. "Stick Stories" are poles that can each stand alone or in a group. "Ladders" are the three-dimensional echoes of the flat ladder images that often popped up in my paintings. Each of the "Panel Series" is built on a wood background rescued from the original veneer walls of our house remodel. "Windows" metaphorically frame the surrounding landscape.
I reside in northern California, near the Pacific Ocean where I gather driftwood and ideas for my artwork. My father, a hydraulics engineer, taught me when I was young to regard our planet as a sacred place that we must protect. He took me on walks where he pointed out the buttercups, the honeysuckle, the streams running downhill. The rarest find was a dinosaur bone on the yet unspoiled shoreline just footsteps from our home in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. In that pre-civil rights era, he also instilled in me that all people are equal. After a long string of moves before I was eight years old, we settled in my birthplace of Chicago. The beaches of Lake Michigan were an integral part of my life.
I seem to need to hold a tangible object, feel its weight in my hand, then move forward, buoyed by the rhythm of the making. The discarded objects that I collect bring their histories to serve as material: wooden toys, feathers, corks, chopsticks, buttons, beads, hardware, wire, and assorted junk. As a maker of things, I am aware of my carbon footprint and am dedicated to reusing materials.


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RSF: Bulgaria again lowest in EU in media freedom ranking
Written by The Sofia Globe staff on April 21, 2020 in Bulgaria - Comments Off on RSF: Bulgaria again lowest in EU in media freedom ranking
Reporters Without Borders, RSF, has again ranked Bulgaria lowest in the European Union in its 2019 media freedom ranking, released on April 21 2020.
Bulgaria ranked 111th out of 180 countries covered in the RSF report.
Among EU member states, next-lowest was Hungary, in 89th place, and Malta, in 81st place.
RSF ranked Norway – not an EU member state – top in media freedom.
Second, third and fourth places were taken by EU member states: Finland, Denmark and Sweden, respectively.
In a note on Bulgaria, entitled "black sheep of the European Union", RSF said that despite increasing international pressure, media freedom in Bulgaria has not improved in 2019.
"Corruption and collusion between media, politicians and oligarchs is widespread in Bulgaria," RSF said.
The most notorious embodiment of this aberrant state of affairs is Delyan Peevski, who ostensibly owns two newspapers (Telegraph and Monitor) but also controls a TV channel (Kanal 3), news websites and a large portion of print media distribution, the report said.
"The government continues to allocate EU and public funding to media outlets with a complete lack of transparency, with the effect of encouraging recipients to go easy on the government in their reporting, or to refrain from covering certain problematic stories altogether."
At the same time judicial harassment of independent media continued to increase, RSF said.
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The ISEH forms part of the the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM). The NCSEM is a major new Department of Health initiative to deliver education, research and clinical services from three hubs in the London (ISEH), East Midlands and Sheffield.
The London Olympic and Paralympic Games pledged to deliver a lasting health legacy to tackle the crucial issues that threaten health budgets, workforce efficiency and the health of the nation. Recent advances in medical care offer opportunities to improve the health and performance of both elite sportspeople and the general population. However despite these advances, many people's health is at risk as a direct result of inactive lifestyles.
The success of the Olympic legacy depends on establishing a greater level of understanding of the health and wellbeing benefits of physical activity and exercise, and enabling people to be active throughout their lives. In order to achieve this, leading academics and healthcare professionals have come together to form the NCSEM. Via a mix of innovative research and education, and leading-edge clinical practice, the NCSEM aims to both promote public health and use elite sports medicine to benefit the general population.
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Matisse & Sadko Team Up with Raiden for Big-Room Anthem "Light Me Up"
By Protocol Recordings	August 3, 2018 December 14th, 2018 No Comments
Matisse & Sadko together with rising star Raiden prove that progressive house is far from dead on their new track "Light Me Up," out on Nicky Romero's Protocol Recordings. "Light Me Up" has all the makings of a bonafide festival anthem; its soaring melodies and pristine vocals illicit a feeling of euphoria from the first note, while the blooming bassline will have fans on their feet and dancing once the drop hits. The collaboration fuses Matisse & Sadko's energetic house sound with Raiden's dynamic production abilities for a track that feels nostalgic of EDM's festival heydays, yet sophisticated enough for the modern dance scene. Matisse & Sadko have had numerous successes as of late, including "SLVR" with Steve Angello and "Break Through the Silence" with Martin Garrix, while Raiden has had a huge summer with the release of "Hit the Club" with Fedde Le Grand and "Keep My Light On" with Dubvision. Press play on "Light Me Up" to be instantly transported to your happy place!
Listen to "Light Me Up"
Nicky Romero's Protocol Recordings has quickly become a renowned, taste-making imprint with a diverse roster of artists who all have one thing in common—the ability to excellently produce forward-thinking electronic music. Enter Raiden, an academically trained producer and guitarist, as well as a critically acclaimed artist who has established himself as a force to be reckoned with; his track "Heart of Steel" featuring Bright Lights was featured in the Ultra Korea 2016 aftermovie and played by David Guetta and Martin Garrix on their radio shows. Raiden's performances at Ultra Music Festival, Tomorrowland, Fabrik, Life in Color Ibiza and World DJ Festival have garnered him a loyal international audience. As part of the Protocol family, Raiden continues to evolve into one of the industry's most esteemed producers. Keep an eye on Raiden's socials to see what's next for him and the Protocol family.
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Gear Spotlight: I've Always Wanted That!
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Techniche Self-Contained Cooling Vest: Drivers of track-day cars, formula cars or sports racers often do not have sufficient room in the cockpit for the box of a cooling system. Or you may be a driver or instructor who sometimes finds himself/herself in cars owned by others. These drivers can still stay cool with a self-contained cooling system. Self-contained systems consist of a vest that holds multiple cooling packs front and back – there is no box or plumbing and no electrical hookup. The cooling packs, which stay cold for up to three hours per use, contain a special fluid that freezes at 58 degrees F. That temperature is more comfortable against the skin than 32 degrees F and also allows quick refreezing by plunging into a cooler between sessions. We've tried these systems and the comfort level is surprisingly good because the "ice" packs conform to your body as they get slushy.
CoolShirt Club System All-In-One Kit: Offering a choice between 12-quart and 24-quart sizes and various hose lengths, this complete CoolShirt cooling system can also be equipped with temperature controls which allow the driver to regulate his/her temperature much more efficiently and evenly than a simple On/Off switch allows for. This system is natively compatible with CoolShirt shirts, but can be made compatible with all shirts (CoolShirt, Momo and F.A.S.T.) by adding the universal fitting kit. Replacement and maintenance parts for these cooling systems can be found here.
Simpson Super Speedway Gear Bag: Once you start making a habit of heading to the race track on a regular basis you quickly realize that lugging around all the requisite gear can become a bit of a hassle if you don't have the right tote. This gear bag will comfortably accommodate your helmet, HANS device, two fire suits, two pairs of racing shoes, and two pairs of gloves with plenty of room left over for any incidentals. This effectively puts all the gear you need for a race weekend in one easy-to-carry bag. Featuring a heavy duty trolley system, smooth rolling polyurethane wheels, and ample ventilation to allow air flow through the bag and minimize dampness and odor build-up, this is a gear bag designed for racers by racers.
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Four more weeks of the crazy.
Sunday, October 2nd, 2016
My old friend Adrianne often calls me on Sundays to catch up, and she did this past week. Of course we talked about The Only Thing Anyone is Talking About These Days ™, with all its assorted craziness. I have to be stingy with Washington Post links, because they're pretty good about enforcing the 10-articles-a-month thing, but I really must draw your attention to two of them – this one, about a disturbed woman who is Trump's No. 1 fan, and the frankly insane appearance of the candidate himself on Saturday night in Pennsylvania (where the disturbed woman lives! Coincidence? I think not!).
I had just hung up the phone when it occurred to me that sometimes, only Bill Murray can put it into words.
I honestly feel very bad about Melanie, the woman in the first story. Life has dealt her a raw deal, and she lacks the coping skills to make it better. I don't think she's typical of Trump voters, but she's certainly a rather intense concentration of their worst traits, isn't she? And there are so many people willing to take advantage of her emotional fragility and, shall we say, tenuous grasp on reality. Get past the stuff up top, about what she believes, and read about her life. It's hard not to feel pity.
As for Herr Trump, well, talk about a tenuous grasp on reality.
Prediction: After the election, he'll continue to hold rallies. And people will come. I'm not sure how he'll make them pay off, but he'll figure something. Guys like that don't give up the grift easily, and he seems to feed off rallies in some strange way. He really sounds like he's about to go off the deep end, though, doesn't he?
Halfway through the statement, Trump took a nearly 20-minute-long break to cover a range of topics, including these:
— He reflected on how his movement has "the smartest people… the sharpest people… the most amazing people." He said the pundits — "most of them aren't worth the ground they're standing on, some of that ground could be fairly wealthy ground" — have never seen a phenomenon like this.
… — He recounted how the "dopes at CNN" and "phony pundits" refused to acknowledge how well he was doing during the primaries. "Then we started getting 52 percent, 58 percent, 66 percent, 78 percent, 82 percent," Trump said, not making clear what those numbers mean. "And they just didn't understand what was going on."
— He said Clinton could not fight bad trade deals or Russian President Vladimir Putin because "she can't make it 15 feet to her car," alluding to video that showed Clinton buckling as she unexpectedly left a 9/11 memorial service early. Her doctor later said she had pneumonia. Trump then imitated Clinton by flailing his arms and jostling side to side. He walked unsteadily away from the podium as if he were about to fall over. "Folks, we need stamina," Trump said. "We need energy."
— He claimed that he has a "winning temperament" while Clinton has "bad temperament." Trump continued: "She could be crazy. She could actually be crazy."
When are the Trump endorsements going to start coming? You know they're out there, being written by sweaty men and women who are, just this once, thanking God that editorials are, by tradition, unsigned. They hope they can get away clean. We'll see.
Does anyone think the tax story will change anything? I don't. It won't change the polls, anyway, but I enjoyed reading this how-we-got-the-story story, just the same.
So, how was everyone's weekend? Me, I got started on what I expect will be a multi-month affair — cleaning the basement. Multi-month because I can't stand to do it all at once, and prefer to ruin an hour or two of a succession of weekends. I opened a box that was sealed and marked, in Alan's handwriting, "Nancy's letters." Found this:
More from my vast collection of purloined letterhead.
There were also letters, one from my first boyfriend, after we'd broken up. He wrote that he still loved me and hoped to earn back my respect someday. (We'd split up over his drinking.) Alas, he died before we could be reconciled, in a one-car fatal. Which seems as good a transition as any to the bloggage, which starts with this great Jon Carroll remembrance of a recently deceased friend, who was also his AA sponsor. Great sponsor, difficult friend:
I found that the program worked. Not entirely, because I will always be an addict, but better. And it was Pamela who brought me that. It was Pamela who made sure I went to meetings; who framed the issues in a more useful way; who took my telephone calls at any time in the evening. I was just one of her sponsees, and her phone rang a lot, and she always had time. She was just a miracle. Her sponsees adored her. I adored her.
I didn't drink. Stuff got better.
But things change. After 15 years or so, I slowly stopped going to meetings. Part of was the God thing; I was an atheist. "Are you drinking?," Pamela would ask. "Then don't worry about it. AA doesn't care." And, officially, it doesn't. But then someone at a meeting says, "God never gives you more than you can handle," and people in the metal folding chairs nod their heads and murmur, and I don't say, "that's demonstrably not true. Example one: death," because even though you're supposed to be honest, some kinds of honesty will alienate you from the group.
They were estranged in recent years, although Carroll's wife befriended her and was, in fact, the one who found her body. There's a nice passage in there about forgiveness, but I don't want to give away the store. Read it yourself.
This Scott Adams takedown Alex posted over the weekend is great. What a maroon.
Finally, mankind's battle with raccoons is not going well. The raccoons are getting smarter, as any person who's ever taken them on knows too well.
And so another week looms ahead of us. Mine will be simultaneously fast-paced, vexatious and fun. Hope yours is, too.
Posted at 12:18 am in Current events, Same ol' same ol' |
92 responses to "Four more weeks of the crazy."
Deborah said on October 2, 2016 at 5:32 pm
Today my husband and I went to the Art Institute again. We said we'd go once a week but of course we didn't, I maybe went 3 or 4 times during the summer. I'm always astounded by the masters, over and over again they hold up over time. This time it was a Matisse that got to me, Bathers at a River http://www.albomadventures.com/art-institute-of-chicago/ 9 that guy had the best photo of it that I could find on google, color is hard to match. It's large and the guy in the photo gives you an idea of scale (you have to scroll down a bit). Thursday night went to the symphony and it was another example of how the masters got it right, Beethoven's 7th was amazing, the musicians we're really in to it.
As we sit in our aerie in the sky we're watching what we call "The clouds of Sils Chicago", as the fog rolls in off of Lake Michigan and proceeds down Michigan Ave. It's very majestic. We watched the movie "The Clouds of Sils Maria" a bunch of times so that's where we came up with it.
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jcburns said on October 2, 2016 at 5:34 pm
That Washington Post story, by Stephanie McCrummen, is so good and such sober writing (letting the crazy stand for itself) that it has affected me more than, i think, any of the journalism on the mood of our land in a campaign year has.
It makes me wish for a Clinton victory followed by some sort of brilliant bureaucratic move on President H'Clinton's part that frees up billions of dollars for mental health resources for these folks. All of these folks. The tired, the poor, the huddled deplorables.
And the piece makes me just the tiniest bit wary. If it weren't for the evocative (haunting?) photos that accompany the piece, part of my brain in these disappointing times would be waiting for a shoe to fall along the lines of "yeah, 'Melanie'? Completely made up by the reporter."
But I want to believe.
Jakash said on October 2, 2016 at 6:01 pm
"I have to be stingy with Washington Post links, because they're pretty good about enforcing the 10-articles-a-month thing…"
Is this to honor their rules, as a fellow journalist, Nancy?
Should I feel bad, is it unethical, that I clear the cookies from the browser and read as many NYT and WaPo articles as I want? Yes, they do enforce the rule, but not in a very draconian fashion. Is there some reason they have such an easily worked-around paywall, but places like the WSJ just don't let non-subscribers access their articles at all? Bueller? Anyone?
We're paying for the NYT right now (digitally) and have for several years. Some of the GREAT work by the Washington Post staff in the past few months (including such old-school stalwarts as Dan Balz and Karen Tumulty) is making my hand hover over the 'Subscribe' button for the WP…and if the NYT doesn't get back on its game, we MIGHT cancel them and go WaPo.
nancy said on October 2, 2016 at 6:29 pm
Yeah, if news organizations ask for a little money in return for what they provide, I generally pay it, provided it's of good quality. I get sent to a lot of obscure papers to read one or maybe two stories, in which case I think the 10-a-month limit is reasonable. But the WashPost is something I read nearly every day, and I'm probably going to subscribe for about $10 a month or so. Reporters and editors gotta eat, too.
The Jon Carroll link is lovely, I encourage everyone to read it.
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Sherri said on October 2, 2016 at 7:20 pm
There's no relationship like the one between a sponsor and a sponsee going through the steps together for the first time. Jon Carroll's piece captures that well.
I'm paying for the NYTimes and the WaPo these days. The WaPo has really upped its game since Bezos bought it from the Grahams. I still subscribe to the paper Seattle Times.
You can often get around the WSJ paywall by googling the headline. There are other papers around the country that I will occasionally run up against a monthly limit because I'm following a particular story, and then I'll just fire up a different browser to get around it, because I know I'm not likely to come back to that paper for months or years.
BTW, I hate the web design of the Gannett papers. Every time I encounter one, I cringe.
David C. said on October 2, 2016 at 7:47 pm
Our local is a Gannett rag and the interface is truly horrible. I subscribe for $9.99/year for digital only, so I can tolerate some over aggressive advertising for that.
Julie Robinson said on October 2, 2016 at 7:59 pm
Both the NYT and WaPo have daily email newsletters that often contain free links. Well, NYT is M-F, but they also have weeklies for theater, science, cooking, books. A lot of days I end up deleting them without doing more than reading the headlines, but there's just not enough time.
I worked all day around the house yesterday and today after church took my mom to see a play, Blithe Spirit, at the local university. We both agreed it needs an update for the modern attention span, but still had some good moments. We planted daffodil bulbs on her cat's grave afterwards, and while we were gone Dennis had made meatloaf, one of her favorite meals. He even baked some apples, yum, yum. We try to make things nice for her, because, you know, she's 84. And I guess when she's gone I'll have more time for reading but right now it's neglected.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
Jolene said on October 2, 2016 at 8:13 pm
The McCrummen story is amazing. In past years, the Post has held online chats in which the writers of articles such as this chat with readers. I don't think they're doing that anymore, which is unfortunate as I'd love to know how she encountered and worked with the woman in the article.
It's horrifying, but is it also maybe a bit unfair in its juxtaposition of a political stance and mental illness? Not that one click on a Facebook comment thread doesn't take you into a reality in which few of the people who've known the Clintons have lived to tell the tale, but still . . .
The Jenna Johnson piece was also impressive. There were lots of ways she could have written that, but her flat, declarative style is very effective in conveying Trump's unraveling.
My takeaway from the McCrummen story was about how this vast network of insane propaganda websites has enfolded this woman and assures her, multiple times daily, that she's NOT crazy, that there IS someone just like her, etc. Mental illness is one thing, but positive affirmation of it is quite another.
The poor woman in the WaPo article, much like some of the people in the stories Jeff(tmmo) shares, are walking demonstrations of the failure of our mental health care system. Simply handing out drugs without any further support doesn't really even put much of a bandaid on huge gaping wounds.
I was struck by the way she thought everybody was corrupt:
She went on disability. After a while, she tried to get a job at the local firehouse but came to believe officials were stealing money. She tried to stay on top of her anxiety medication but thought her doctor was committing Medicare fraud. She joined a motorcycle club called Bikers for Christ but found the members to be just "filthy old men."
There's some deep-seated rage, and no doubt a backstory that behind what we read in the WaPo.
An unexpectedly fascinating piece about William F. Buckley and feminism: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/william-buckley-feminism-intellectuals-firing-line-women-214301
Suzanne said on October 2, 2016 at 9:04 pm
You know what is very, very frightening to me about the Trump fan article? What she says is nothing I have not heard from family members, people that sit next to me in church every Sunday, more than one pastor I know, and a great number of people I am connected with on Facebook. Where I live, almost none of what she says is unusual and she would not be considered anywhere near crazy.
That's the sad reality of where talk radio, lunatic internet sites, and FOX news has brought us.
alex said on October 2, 2016 at 9:22 pm
I get the WaPo's newsletter on my iPhone, but to read daily on the computer I just change between multiple browsers.
As for raccoons, we encounter them from time to time, but lately we have an opossum who likes cat food. Fun to watch.
This weekend went to a charity auction and snagged a vintage black-lacquered 8-panel room divider with an Asian motif, as well as an art deco vase with a theme that looks vaguely like greek hieroglyphs of people fornicating.
brian stouder said on October 2, 2016 at 9:55 pm
What Sherri said at #12. That article was genuinely affecting – and not in a hostile way, but in human terms.
I suppose there's probably at least a few Clinton supporters who believe God-knows-what about the Donald. Hell, if Donald wins the presidency, that could be ME – thinking his wife is really a man, or that mass executions in the streets are part of "the plan", and so on
Deborah said on October 2, 2016 at 10:29 pm
We have a lot of raccoons around our place in Santa Fe, and skunks too. We've heard they hate each other but we've definitely seen them together in the back of the building. Once we were sitting out having breakfast on the side patio and a big old raccoon came out from under the garden shed and sauntered over to us. We skedaddled because of fear of rabies but it was kinda cute. They don't seem to be able to open the garbage bins, thank goodness. We probably get these animals hanging around because we're about a block from the river. There are occasionally bears in the area too, we haven't seen any so far but a couple of years ago there were 13 spotted in the city. They came down from the nearby mountains because of the drought that year.
Sherri said on October 3, 2016 at 12:55 am
Hey, MichaelG, have you encounter any superblocks in your visits to Barcelona?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/nyregion/what-new-york-can-learn-from-barcelonas-superblocks.html
Jakash said on October 3, 2016 at 12:59 am
Thanks for the various replies about the newspapers, folks. I get the daily emails from the NYT and WaPo, too, and often just scroll through the headlines without even reading any articles, sometimes just deleting the email unopened. The only thing I try to look at every day is Toles' cartoon. I certainly read more than the allotted number of articles for the month from both of them, but it's not like I read several articles every day.
"Reporters and editors gotta eat, too." I realize that, and we subscribe to the Chicago Tribune, but I guess I compare the national papers to listening to NPR rarely and not paying for that, either. I didn't subscribe to them before there was an internet, and I wouldn't subscribe if they had a really hard paywall, either. I just consider their availability a truly swell perk of the wild west of the web, but I don't feel like I read them enough to feel guilty about taking advantage of their being free to me. I do think that quality journalism like that is worth paying for, though, and if I spent a lot more time on the sites, I'd probably feel more like I ought to pay.
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Sherri said on October 3, 2016 at 2:14 am
I mentioned the newspapers I pay for, but another thing I have is a Texture subscription. I pay $15/month and get digital copies of a wide variety of magazines, including back issues. Previously I had been paying for a digital subscription to the New Yorker and Sports Illustrated and occasionally something else, but I switched to this. You can get monthly mags for $10/month, but to get the weeklies is $15. Wide variety of mags available: SI, NYer, Time, Newsweek, Wired, Consumer Reports, Rolling Stone, New York, Sunset, Smithsonian, Atlantic, Mother Jones, many more.
ROGirl said on October 3, 2016 at 5:43 am
Suzanne, I don't know anyone who supports Trump (I'm not on facebook), but I had the same thought regarding all the other people who support him, not just one sad, delusional woman who latched onto something that gave her an "answer" to her problems.
adrianne said on October 3, 2016 at 6:05 am
And…I'm on the verge of canceling my New York Times subscription. Their lead political story today? A look at Bill Clinton's infidelity. I wish I was making this up, but I can't. The problem is aside from the insane political desk, the quality of their journalism is so good. Dean Baquet better root out the problem post-election. Luckily, Paul Krugman has declared war on his own paper's political craziness. He's a gem every Monday and Friday.
I think I'll get an online subscription to the Washington Post. Their political reporting has been spot-on this cycle. The articles on the deranged Trump supporter and — speaking of deranged — Trump's insane appearance in Lancaster County, Pa., were the best reads all weekend.
Deborah said on October 3, 2016 at 8:05 am
I loved Sherri's link about superblocks. I can't believe I never heard of it before. I'm a big reader of urban planning and walkable city initiatives, and this one slipped past me. I read a lot of what the urban planner Jeff Speck writes and I read the blog Strongtowns etc. but none of these have mentioned superblocks. Anyway, I can see the pros and cons but we really need to figure out ways that cars, buses (and other public transportation), pedestrians and bikers can share the road. It's not all about cars. As a walker I'm all for stuff like this.
And Michael G, how're you doing these days?
Also, I loved the photo in Sherri's superblock link of a playground that's basically paint. That's genius. As someone who worked on the design of a playground, if you want to do something more creative it can be expensive. But paint is cheap.
brian stouder said on October 3, 2016 at 9:53 am
I'd say there's probably an affecting short story (if not a novel) in the one-car fatal guy.
This week we have an honors breakfast at Wayne for our senior (who will receive her 4th academic letter), and later in the week I'm off to the Lincoln Colloquium in southern Indiana (near Dale) – so it's all good!
Deborah said on October 3, 2016 at 10:00 am
Brian, congrats to your daughter.
I think I have some work I could do for Clinton in NM for the next 2 weeks, I leave Weds. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-the-craziest-end-to-the-2016-campaign-runs-through-new-mexico/
Charlotte said on October 3, 2016 at 10:29 am
I cancelled my NYT subscription — which is an ORDEAL btw — and bought an annual subscrip to the Guardian for about 50 bucks I think? The NYT just pissed me off and was expensive — 20 bucks a month for online only. I do get the Billings Gazette, which can be quite good when they're doing their own reporting, and the local Livingston paper delivered — also, I have a woodstove so, paper newspapers are handy.
My neighborhood battle isn't with raccoons, it's skunks. Hank-dog got it squarely between the eyes a couple of weeks back in what looked like an attempt to protect the chickens. A few years ago, I had one come in the dog door in the middle of the night. He was surprised by a dog on the basement stairs and let go inside the mud room. That close, it smelled like an electrical fire. Lingered for weeks.
Ugh, Charlotte, I have nightmares about skunks getting into our place in Santa Fe. I can't imagine what that must have been like.
Jean Shaw said on October 3, 2016 at 10:49 am
Is it time to take bets on who leaked The Donald's tax info?
adrianne said on October 3, 2016 at 10:54 am
Leading candidate: Marla Maples!
Heather said on October 3, 2016 at 11:05 am
I saw something saying a WaPo reporter suggested it was Tiffany.
At the Art Institute yesterday I heard a group of people suggesting it was Melania because they said the last thing she wants to be is First Lady because she won't be able to sneak around and have her affairs then. And they also said when Donald loses she will leave him so fast his head will spin. They speculated that she's got another sugar daddy waiting in the wings. It was quite a lively eaves dropping session for me. How's that for starting a conspiracy theory.
brian stouder said on October 3, 2016 at 11:26 am
Deborah – well done!
Who the heck knows? – but I like your scoop the best
Bitter Scribe said on October 3, 2016 at 11:27 am
One of things I find most annoying about Adams is the way he keeps insisting that his "personal safety" is somehow at risk if he doesn't support Clinton. This is stupid on so many levels. For one thing, how many crazy people with guns does he think the candidates have respectively, and for another, if he's that damn worried about his "safety," why does he keep blogging favorably about Trump?
Jeff Borden said on October 3, 2016 at 11:43 am
My bet is Marla Maples, who has reason to be furious at her ex for excluding their daughter from all this hoopla. And there are three signatures on the documents: Trump's, Marla's and the accountant's. Occam's Razor says it has to be her. And she has motive.
Peter said on October 3, 2016 at 11:44 am
I'm in the same boat as Charlotte – I would do anything to bring the raccoons back, because those $*&^%$^$# skunks have chased them away – which is no small accomplishment, I must admit.
They've dug up a good chunk of my lawn looking for grubs and ants, have sprayed my car when I park it on the street, and will sit on our porch and just wait for someone to spray.
I hate them almost as much as I hate Trump, for many of the same reasons.
nancy said on October 3, 2016 at 12:05 pm
I saw two raccoons while riding to boxing class this morning. It was still dark and they are nocturnal, so makes sense.
For the record, I sorta hate those fuckers, while accepting them in an all-God's-creatures sense. I have noticed the ones you see in the country are half the size of their city cousins. Alan frequently fishes at night, and once saw a mama and several babies at the stream side, washing their food in their creepy little prehensile paws.
basset said on October 3, 2016 at 12:21 pm
I left a stringer of fish atttached to a dock once, went back to camp for awhile and returned to find the stringer pulled up and nothing left of the fish but scales.
Sherri said on October 3, 2016 at 12:22 pm
I'm no fan of raccoons. Our neighbors in California had a raccoon come in through the cat door, wander into their 5 year old's bedroom, and bite the kid. Rabies shots, what fun!
When we moved,up here, our house had a cedar shake roof, and one evening we discovered that raccoon had chewed a substantial hole in the shakes. Same thing happened to a neighbor. Raccoons make it difficult to resod a yard, because they'll come in at night and roll up the sod to get to the insects underneath.
I'm mostly live and let live with the suburban wildlife, even the coyotes we get but raccoons are a pain. The bear that was wandering around last spring was a step too far, but hopefully that won't be a regular occurrence.
Joe K said on October 3, 2016 at 12:30 pm
Well as far as Trump's taxes go, if no laws were broken, what difference does it make?
Just like Hillary, no laws broke so what.
Pilot Joe
MichaelG said on October 3, 2016 at 12:32 pm
I had kind of a rough month or so but I'm feeling a lot better now. Starting chemo again this week.
No, Sherri, it seems from the story you linked to that the superblock in El Born was introduced just this September. I didn't see it when I've been there. However, the Av de la Catedral, Carrer dels Arcs and the Portal de l'Angel all of which lead from the Catedral to the Placa de Catalunya, a distance of maybe a half to three quarters of a mile is all pedestrian friendly. That is, there is no auto traffic in general but taxis and delivery trucks are permitted. People just cover the street. It seems to work all right but that's a limited area and there are lots of easy alternatives for vehicular traffic.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3858412,2.172801,3a,75y,165.16h,95.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2tunRkc2WcK24yisXA72wA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
I'm a bit leery about closing down streets. I think it should be phased in carefully and slowly and observed. Remember, places like Barcelona generally have better public transportation than US cities.
Jakash said on October 3, 2016 at 12:33 pm
I often wish we could spend more time outside the Chicago megalopolis — even when you're in a delightful natural area like the Arboretum or Botanic Garden, you almost always hear traffic and airplanes — but this skunks/raccoons conversation makes me appreciate the city! I don't doubt that there are raccoons around, but I never see them. Coyotes have certainly made an impressive incursion of late, but they don't spray folks. There seems to be a surprising number of rabbits, though; I see them pretty often and there's no downside to me, since we don't have a garden…
re: your "Clouds" comment @ #1, did you happen to see that St. Bitch and I both gave shout-outs to "Sils Maria" at the end of the 9/16 thread?
Not that it matters or that any response was necessary, but since they were directed to you, I wouldn't want you to have missed them, and they could have easily been overlooked once the next post came up:
http://nancynall.com/2016/09/16/poor-kid/
Joe, you're obviously taken with Trump. I'd love to hear your reasons why?
No, sorry, I missed that Jakash. Sometimes I have to remind myself to go back and read the last few comments in a thread because I go to bed early and there's a new post by Nancy the next day.
Jakash, I should add that I'm glad you and St. Bitch both enjoyed the movie after I wouldn't shut up about how good I thought it was.
World-class trolling, there, Pilot Joe! Congrats!
Uh, his ONLY supposed qualification is that he's a genius businessman, but he lost close to a billion dollars one time? Sad!
Also, he loved to criticize others for not paying enough in taxes. Hypocrite, much? The clueless hubris it must take to complain about other people for problems that he exemplifies to a much greater degree boggles the mind.
https://thinkprogress.org/7-tweets-by-trump-about-taxes-that-are-very-awkward-now-75b500ea4f45#.k9idqfsdf
Michael G, I'm with you on closing down streets, not against it just leery. It's better to come up with a compromise, try getting cars to slow way down and be more careful so peds and bikes can share. Obviously you can't do this to all streets, but selected ones. Also, the one thing about closing down streets is that it can be temporary, you can try it for awhile and then if it's not working adequately just open them back up again. All you need are some buckets of paint and a few planters and signs to do these experiments.
There's still nobody quite like the NYTimes when they decide to commit journalism, but they haven't decided to commit journalism nearly enough when it comes to this election. I don't know, maybe it's because I think like an engineer rather than a journalist, but I don't get the whole approach to political journalism. It seems the perfect area for linking in other topics that a newspaper has already built up resources in, like science and health and business, to do deep dives into the candidates, but instead we get endless coverage of candidate travel as the press pool waits for the candidates to make a gaffe and breathless reporting on leaks that are being fed to the press by people with an agenda.
I'm not dismissing the importance of leaks, and Susanne Craig did good work on Trump's taxes and her earlier story about Trump's businesses (which is a good example of the kind of reporting I'd like to see more of.) But I'd also like to see more work like David Fahrenthold's, work that says, okay, if what a candidate claims to be true is true, what would that look like, and digs for the evidence, and tells us even if it is true, not just if it's false.
We've seen lots of stories about potential conflicts of interests re the Clinton Foundation, but I can't find a single Times story about the potential conflict of interest with Trump and Deutsche Bank, which seems like a pretty big deal. I know Deutsche Bank is in trouble, I know Duetsche Bank is facing a $14B fine from the DOJ, and I know Trump owes hundreds of millions of dollars to Deutsche Bank. I'd like to know more about the implications of that.
Donald Trump (probably) broke no laws with his taxes. But is that the kind of country we want?
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trump-american-oligarch
Peter said on October 3, 2016 at 1:44 pm
1. Pilot Joe: I'm not nearly as upset about Trump's lack of tax as others – it is true that he broke no laws, and if the loss is on the up and up (and THAT I doubt…) he's certainly entitled to the deductions.
I think the interesting item is that in a year when the stock market went up 37%, and in an industry (gambling) where you only need to be breathing in order to make money, our Donald lost a boatload of money.
As a pilot, you can appreciate how Donald ran Trump Express (or didn't, as the case may be). He had no clue on how to run an airline (although in fairness, you could say that for a lot of airline executives) and it showed. How's he going to run something far more complex and alien to him?
2. The lady in Pennsylvania: Not to make too much fun of a person who has a lot of problems, but if I was her neighbor I think I would be going on vacation as soon as the election results are announced.
Who are the extremists?
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/10/01/florida-fear-and-resentment-directed-muslims/Djx0RaMF6NsJOKThLPJIOK/amp.html
Trump Foundation ordered to stop fundraising. I think someday Trump will look back at his decision to run for President and realize it was the beginning of the end of his grifting days.
Sherri, I think you nailed it at #57, above. The horserace narrative is familiar, and it practically screams out for both-sides-ism. It keeps nailing eyeballs, because you can always get 'em to step right up when a poll changes by a point or two. A wise editor would direct reporting about politics the way you suggest, but "today on the trail" has the greatest of all characteristics: Familiarity.
Judybusy said on October 3, 2016 at 2:07 pm
Wow, Sherri, that's really disturbing. I am always a little weirded out when I've voted in a church, because I see it as a religious place, not for politics. But I figured the precinct only had so many places, so shrugged and cast my vote. I love that the mosque rep wanted to have a food truck outside the mosque for voters, and had to be reminded "it wasn't a party." I want this guy running my local voting place!
I know this is a super small thing, but we have a lot of Muslims in Minneapolis. I go out of my way to say hi and smile. After reading in this article about the woman who doesn't make eye contact while driving, I'm keeping that up. I also make a point of doing the same with people of color. Just a very small way of correcting the crap they deal with most days. I've read so many stories by black men who get white women acting fearful around them–crossing the street, clutching their purse, etc.
Sue said on October 3, 2016 at 2:10 pm
When I had had enough of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, I let my subscription expire and made an equivalent donation to the Center for Media and Democracy.
And after the Guardian did the expose of Scott Walker, I subscribed online. I think there's a reason that stuff was leaked to a non-Wisconsin publication.
LAMary said on October 3, 2016 at 2:13 pm
Marla sounds like a good bet to me.
I'm not too fond of raccoons, skunks or coyotes and we have all three in abundance. The raccoons are huge around here. They look like small bears. The thing that is creepy about urban wildlife is they are not at all afraid of people. They just stand there and look at you when you come across them. A week ago Friday I went out the front gate and there were two good sized coyotes standing not five feet away from me. I threw a rock and they moved about ten feet. Then a neighbor in an SUV came barreling down the street and they ran away just enough. I considered going inside for my wrist rocket dinging them a few times but I had to get to work.
About two years ago a raccoon got into my garage and just tore the crap out of everything. I don't mind them outside, but if they get in your house it's not good.
Not so interested in what Trump did or did not pay in taxes, but I'd sure like to know what the budget line is for tax lawyers. How much did he have to spend to save all that tax money?
See 17, 18 and 19:
http://www.suburbankamikaze.com/suburban_kamikaze/2007/09/25-reasons-why-.html
Hank Stuever said on October 3, 2016 at 2:21 pm
Sorry, but I'm compelled to put in a plug for a Washington Post subscription, especially with some of the deeply discounted offers going around — 99 cents for access for the next four weeks; less than $9 a month if you buy a year's worth. It's the right thing to do if you're reading more than 10 articles a month. I wouldn't try to take stuff from your employer, beyond the free sample.
Some of you who have local newspaper subscriptions should check and see if that doesn't also entitle you to digital access to the Washington Post. For example, I know that Dallas Morning News subscribers get Post access with their subscription.
Also, if you haven't already, see if your Amazon Prime account offers access or discounts. I know that it's been offering six free months to Prime members.
The Post is doing a lot of great stuff, especially on the campaign, but also in a lot of other areas. It's not like we're done on Nov. 8. I highly recommend a series we're doing right now on the dreadful impact of cobalt mining in Africa and graphite refineries in China. You'll never look at your iPhone the same guilt-free way again.
adrianne said on October 3, 2016 at 2:33 pm
Hank, you sold me!
Jeff (the mild-mannered one) said on October 3, 2016 at 2:58 pm
WaPo is a much, much better deal than the NYT online. I feel compelled to continue with my Times subscription which probably has more to do with their cultural coverage than anything, but I feel the tie unraveling. WaPo though has kept on impressing me more and more this year. I second Hank's recommendation, and I write for a Gannett ra . . . paper.
Hillary looking good and giving a good speech in Toledo this afternoon. Being ahead in polls again and the negative stories re Trump are giving her confidence.
susan said on October 3, 2016 at 3:35 pm
People with skunk problems need to encourage great horned owls to hang around. They are one of the only, if not the only, predator of skunks. They have a poor sense of smell.
The WaPo is definitely doing good work beyond the election coverage, and the Amazon Prime rate is $3.99/month for digital access, much cheaper than the $3.75/week that I pay for the NYTimes.
And I'll give the Post this…
Jennifer Rubin has stopped being a moron, even if she's not worth reading on her best day.
I'm definitely going to check out the WaPo deals on Amazon Prime. Thanks for the tip Hank.
And Sherri.
FDChief said on October 3, 2016 at 4:20 pm
Count me in the minority that has little sympathy for the Trumpnoia woman. Does her life suck? Sure, no argument there. Has she chosen to react to the suckage by becoming a rage-filled bigot looking for a Fuhrer? Yep.
Whatever sympathy I might have developed was pretty quickly quashed by the fact that this woman's vote is as valid as mine. My sympathies end where her ability to foist a gibbering autocratic loon into a position of authority over me begins…
basset said on October 3, 2016 at 4:38 pm
Another take on the Spanish "superblocks":
http://www.citiesofthefuture.eu/barcelonas-first-superblock-fighting-power-habit-wavering-political-will/
As good as Susanne Craig's piece was, there were pieces missing from it. One question I had was how? How do you accumulate $900M in debt,how does it relate to his bankruptcies and the other details we know about his businesses, and how do you use the tax law to game the system? This article dives deeper into those issues: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/03/art-of-the-steal-this-is-how-trump-lost-916m-and-avoided-tax.html
The other piece I want is context. Is this typical of real estate developers? Is this a case, like the carried interest loophole, where the system is just broken, or did Trump stretch it beyond what is normal?
Does anyone know how you encourage great horned owls to hang around? Seriously want to know. We have a neighbor who lives closer to the Santa Fe river than we do who we found out has been trapping skunks and releasing them way far away. Bless him. We haven't had as many skunks as we'd been having and we were wondering why.
Basset, interesting. Actually cars parked curbside can save the lives of pedestrians walking on narrow sidewalks close to the street. When a car goes out of control and jumps the curb it's a deadly projectile. I'm a fan of curbside parking because it gives a perception of safety to the pedestrian even though the possibility of an out of control car is rare. They form a barrier between you and the speeding cars which is comforting. Many cities are putting bike lanes on the inside of cars parked curbside for the same reason. It feels safer which is huge.
Deborah, Minneapolis tried the bike lane like that on a very small area a few years ago. It was so counterintuitive that I parked by the sidewalk, and got ticketed and towed. I was with a friend and we discussed what to do for a few minutes before I parked. As a bicyclist, I would feel so trapped and feel afraid passengers would swing open the door and hit me. It's a hazard with parked drivers now, but at least I have a few feet to dodge them. I think the street design was changed pretty quickly. Perhaps with more public education, this design could work but it felt wonky. I felt that if I parked where I supposed to, other drivers wouldn't get that it was a parking lane, and would drive into me.
What we're doing now is really wide bike lanes–as wide as a vehicle lane of traffic in some areas–and I think this is the way to go. They are also very well-marked.
Whether there is on street parking and where the bike lanes are are not factors in isolation. You have to look at the design of the entire system, or network, which is what makes the superblocks concept fascinating. The critical aspect, and the politically difficult one, is to get away from the idea that the car is the most important user of the street. As mentioned in the article basset pointed to, people in Barcelona are used to their free on street parking. Donald Shoup, who is quoted in the article, has a book called The High Cost of Free Parking. Parking isn't free, even if isn't being charged for.
Redmond has a Complete Streets ordinance, which requires that all transportation projects make accommodations for pedestrians and bicyclists as well as cars,with a few exceptions. There are a variety of ways to accomplish this, even in situations you wouldn't think possible (a bike trail runs alongside but separated from a limited access freeway, for example.) Sometimes it means slowing the cars down via various methods, or reducing lanes so that pedestrians don't have as many lanes to cross. We're in the middle of a major change, years in the planning, to tow of the major streets in downtown that should make them friendlier for pedestrians, though at a cost to throughput for cars. There will be benefit for cars for navigability in that we're converting one way streets into two way streets.
Heather said on October 3, 2016 at 5:42 pm
I love those protected bike lanes. About a half-dozen cyclists have been killed here in Chicago already this year.
Judy Busy, I've heard that. I don't know what the answer is. In Chicago in the loop area on Dearborn they have those protected bike lanes, and by protected I mean that they're on the inside of parked cars, between the sidewalk and the parked cars. It's been well received by the bikers of course. It may take awhile for everyone to get used to it, like most things.
Sherri, Shoup is getting a lot of play in urban planning these days. He really knows what he's talking about. And you are so right about having a comprehensive plan, the bike lanes can't be in isolation or it's meaningless.
Heather, there was a bike fatality a couple of blocks from here on Michigan and Oak, a young man tried to cross Oak before a bus turned onto it from Michigan. the bus couldn't stop in time. So sad. That has been the biggest problem I read recently with bikers being killed by commercial vehicle.
They put up these ghost bike memorials when a biker gets killed in traffic. They paint a bike white and put flowers on it, some of them have been up for years and some are gone immediately. I think they're effective in making people stop and think. I've seen them in other cities too.
Yes, riding in this city can require nerves of steel. I'm always scanning parked cars ahead for anyone who might swing open a door without checking first, and trying to keep an eye out for cars that might do a right turn right in front of me.
I read a website for Chicago cyclists and people are concerned that the spate of recent deaths is desensitizing people to them. It doesn't help that the victim is usually blamed, even if it's not his or her fault.
beb said on October 3, 2016 at 6:26 pm
Sherri @48: Newsweek did a long piece on the conflicts between Trumps business interest and American foreign policy.
And #49: Wapo's Allen Sloan suggests that Trumps billion dollar lose could be some kind of illegal tax sheltering. Which goes back to Joe K's question if Trump's done nothing illegal… but we will never know if he's honest until he releases all his taxes.
Beb, Kurt Eichenwald has done a number of good pieces about Trump's businesses and debts. He's got another out today, about Trump using Chinese steel and aluminum companies to build his buildings: http://www.newsweek.com/how-donald-trump-ditched-us-steel-workers-china-505717
I'm just also interested in the Deutsche Bank story. I can find stories about DB's problems, and stories about how DB is the only major bank that will still lend to Trump, but I would like to understand better the implications of regulating a bank that is a major creditor of the President.
Joseph Kobiela said on October 3, 2016 at 6:43 pm
Pete at #50,
Historically airlines have never made money, they have years when they show huge profits but tend to have many more years when they lose tons more, in order to make any money you would have to say so long to flying to Fla from Dtw for $120.00. Hopefully Mr Trump if elected will do what every smart business man does when he doesn't know about something you hire someone who does, hopefully he will, we will see.
By the by in 2014 Warren Buffett lost 875,000,000, and I believe George Soris has loss over 1.5 billion.
Deborah, unsurprisingly, I've taken a bigger interest in urban planning lately!
This addresses the context part of the Trump tax story to a degree: http://www.vox.com/2016/10/3/13147520/trump-tax-loss
Deborah, according to my farmer friend, the best way to attract owls is to raise pastured chickens. Owls are his biggest predator problem. This probably isn't the most practical suggestion you'll get, but the way to attract any bird is to give them food or water.
Just got an earful from my dad, who managed a corporate real estate portfolio and retired in 1991 because the tax laws created under Reagan pretty much put him out of business — and enabled people like Trump to get a billion-dollar break in 1995.
As my dad explained it, real estate developers stopped relying on lenders in the late '80s and early '90s because the wealthy began forming partnerships to create tax shelters under Reagan's scheme. They'd build buildings — office towers, office parks, shopping centers, etc., — without any prospective tenants or any kind of real plan. The partners could take losses on these things sitting empty, which a lot of them did. They were worth more empty than if they were fully occupied by paying tenants. The shareholders could also take depreciation on the property in ridiculous amounts. A lot of people parked their money in these things as a tax shelter until it became such a scandal that the law was rolled back to curb the ridiculous excesses.
So Trump's 1995 returns probably reflect his partnership in a yuge batch of money-losing commercial properties intended as tax shelters to create losses (and thus tax loopholes) for the investors. Legal at the time, perhaps, but that doesn't mean that those who profited from it were acting in good faith, any more than the pols who snuck the law into existence while the rest of us were sleeping.
Yeah Chinese steel was a huge no no when my husband designed a federal courthouse in St. Louis. There was a big brouhaha when the contractor tried to get away with using it. It had a very poor reputation of being structurally sound. It sounds like that's still the case.
Alex, what a helpful explanation. I had suspected as much.
Ah, yes, Mr. Trump "hires the best people," as he loves to say. Odd how he's represented by the most pathetic team of talking heads anybody's ever seen and is on his third campaign manager. You'd think the "best people" would be keepers.
Are Warren Buffett and George Soros running for President, saying "Only I can fix it" when it comes to a myriad of problems, based on their business acumen? I must have missed that.
Julie, remember all of the half-assed shopping centers that went up in the '90s? The ones that are still poorly occupied and have marginal tenants that come and go? Used to be that investors wouldn't commit to such a project without first having signed leases in hand. It's pretty much that way again, but the landscape is littered with a lot of crap that should never have been built.
joel hanes said on October 3, 2016 at 8:34 pm
raccoons are getting smarter
Obligatory reference : "King Of The Hill", a short story by Chad Oliver in one of Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions anthologies.
If you've ever read it, you know exactly what kind of science fiction story it is.
The reason we need the NYTimes to be better: the NYDailyNews also got the tax returns, but they weren't able to verify them before the Times. The Times has the resources almost nobody else has; I just wished they used them better. It makes me wonder what a Marty Baron led Times would look like.
Deggjr said on October 3, 2016 at 9:29 pm
C'mon Pilot Joe, I thought Republicans cared about the national debt. How can a President Trump speak to the debt as a problem when he's placed himself outside the solution? To make the money he makes and not pay any Federal taxes at all, he has no moral standing.
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La Piazza Cavour est une place située dans le quartier San Lorenzo, dans le centre historique de Naples, en Campanie.

Elle est appelée aussi Largo delle pigne, en raison de la présence de pins (en napolitain e pigne) et était, comme la via Foria, un grand collecteur des eaux pluviales descendant des différentes collines à l'extérieur des murs de la ville.

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La Piazza Cavour donne à l'est sur le Musée archéologique national; elle est fermée par la Porta San Gennaro érigée pour marquer la fin de l'épidémie de peste de 1656.

L'église Santa Maria delle Grazie se trouve également sur la place Cavour, qui est agrémentée en outre, en son centre, par la fontaine du Triton. On remarque aussi l'église Santa Maria del Rosario alle Pigne.

Parmi les édifices qui entourent la place, on peut voir la façade de l' église du Gesù delle Monache construite au début du  à la demande de Jeanne d'Aragon, seconde épouse du roi de Naples Ferdinand I.

Elle est située à proximité de la  » de la  ou de la  sur la ligne 2 du métro de Naples. Depuis le , un tunnel piéton relie les deux stations entre elles, permettant ainsi la connexion des deux premières lignes du métro.

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La prononciation correcte est Piazza Cavoùr, en mettant l'accent sur le « U ». Les Napolitains, cependant, ont tendance à prononcer son nom Cavour, et cette utilisation est si bien établie que la prononciation correcte n'est utilisée par presque personne dans la ville.

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Gennaro Ruggiero, Le piazze di Napoli, Tascabili economici Newton, Rome, 1998

Articles connexes
 Places de Naples

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BRAD KESELOWSKI, No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Mustang – IS THERE A NEW ELEMENT THIS YEAR THAT HAS ALLOWED THE TEAM TO BE SO SUCCESSFUL COMPARED TO PREVIOUS YEARS? TEAM PENSKE HAS BEEN GOOD FOR A LONG TIME. "I think it takes a lot to win at this level and a lot of things have to come together is maybe more accurately said. I think if I was to look at a few key points I would say one of them is from Ford Motor Company and the efforts that they've put in. They made a couple really nice moves over the last two or three years that probably culminated when they were in a better position to roll out the Mustang than they would have been elsewise to where the Mustang came out, and I don't think we missed a step. I think we probably took a step forward with the Mustang, so that's been very helpful to Team Penske, so credit to Mark Rushbrook and the team there at Ford and the things they've done to do just that. They brought on this guy named Tommy Joseph who I talked about last week. He's been a big gain for us on the Ford side, and then I think beyond just the Ford specific oval, I would say that Doug Yates and his group with the engine side have done a really good job responding to some of the challenges when you make the changes that have been made to the engine and so forth and kind of staying on their toes, and part of that goes back to Ford again because I think Ford bringing on Stewart-Haas was a good marker for Doug Yates and his group to push them as well, so that culmination has been really strong, some strong decisions made by Ford Motor Company that have kind of been high tides for all ships. If I was to look at anything, I would say that's probably the biggest factor and it's come together this year with the new car and the rules changes."
WHERE IS THE BALANCE BETWEEN ENTERTAINMENT AND COMPETITION FOR THIS SPORT? "I think if you back up to the schedule announcement. I've got to say I was pleasantly surprised somewhat, kind of ecstatic and shocked that there were as many changes as there were. I didn't see that one coming. I think that was a good shot in the arm for the entire sport and I think that's an example of changes you can make that don't compromise competition for entertainment. I don't always believe that you have to trade is I guess what maybe I'm trying to say and the schedule change is a direct reflection of that. I think it's important to keep the schedule fresh and to have new ideas and to keep up with some of the challenges in the marketplace, whether it be the Olympics or whether it be markets that have made significant investments, so I was pretty excited to see that personally. I just go back to what I said earlier, I don't think it always has to be a trade off. I think you can make the competition and entertainment better without always having to sacrifice one or the other and the notion that you can't has always been very frustrating to me. Those ideas are the ones that I think you should always throw out the window right away – anyone who tells you you have to trade and has an idea that requires a trade, so as far as where the balancing mark is, when I put my race car driver hat on I'll be honest I put a concerted effort to say I don't care as long as I have the fastest car of the group then everything else will figure its way out. It's a tough line for the sport to walk. Obviously, the entertainment factor is important and integrity is important with the competition side. I'm not sure I'm the right person to always give an answer. I think at the end of the day the fans are pretty smart and they'll give you their answer and they'll answer you with ratings and attendance."
COMING UP ON 10 YEARS SINCE YOUR FIRST CUP WIN. HOW DID THAT WIN FURTHER YOUR CAREER AND SET THINGS IN MOTION? DID THAT LEAPFROG YOU TO PENSKE? "I'd like to think that it opened some doors for me. It's hard to say because none of us have complete control over our destiny, but when I look out the window I'm not sure I would have ended up at Penske if I hadn't won that race. It was a major marker. It opening up, in my mind at least, but I can't speak for Roger or Discount Tire, it opened up the window for me to get the Discount Tire deal, which I needed to really feel good about driving for Team Penske because that opened up the XFINITY Series for me, opened up the team development side that I thought was gonna be so critical to our success and to kind of get Penske on its feet. If you recall, they were in a bad place at the time, and I don't know if that would have happened without winning that race. Maybe it would have. I don't know. It's a better question for Roger and Discount Tire, but either way I'm glad it happened. I'm thankful and I wouldn't trade it for anything else."
HAVE YOU FELT THIS PACKAGE TAKING MORE OF A TOLL ON YOUR BODY PHYSICALLY? "I think the cars are obviously a little hotter and there's a number of reasons for that, more on-throttle time, probably more specifically on the shorter tracks to have the right side window in, so there's a different between driving around with the windows down and with the windows up in a really hot car. So, yeah, I would agree that they're definitely more physically demanding and that's part of the challenge. That one I don't think really bothers me. I think it's not dangerous it's just a little harder, so I think going into Bristol next week that will be the big challenge. I think I said that last week in the press conference after the race. That race I think has a lot of people on pins and needles, not just physically, which it should be physically, but with the cars themselves. I think the cars are really gonna see a lot of load and a lot of stress, especially if the temperatures are pretty cool, which generally they are in the spring Bristol race, so I think at the moment the drivers are definitely feeling it a little bit more, not to the point where I think it's dangerous or anything like that, so I'm not too concerned about it, but I am concerned about some of these higher load tracks that the cars and teams will be a little bit behind and that could have a big effect on the race."
THOUGHTS ON QUALIFYING. WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN? "I don't know. I just had this conversation with my teammate, Joey Logano, and part of me thinks it will be very similar to what we saw at California and part of me thinks it won't. The one thing that I would say separated California from this track is that the cars here at least will be faster in two laps than they will in one lap, so that would probably mean you'll see everybody make a lap at least, but there are no guarantees, so we'll see. We're gonna learn together."
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From almonds to walnuts, India plans to impose higher tariffs on some of US goods: sources
India is by far the largest buyer of U.S. almonds, paying $543 million for more than half of U.S. almond exports in 2018
Reuters New Delhi Last Updated: June 14, 2019 | 15:57 IST
India is preparing to impose higher tariffs on some U.S. goods including almonds, walnuts and apples next week after a delay of about a year, two sources said, following Washington's withdrawal of key trade privileges for New Delhi.
From June 5, President Donald Trump scrapped trade privileges under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) for India, the biggest beneficiary of a scheme that allowed duty-free exports of up to $5.6 billion from the country.
India is now looking at adopting the higher tariffs, the sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, although the U.S. has warned that any retaliatory tariffs by India would not be "appropriate" under WTO rules.
"What India is doing is legal and the tariffs on U.S. goods will only lead to an impact of around $220 million," one of the sources said, declining to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.
India's Ministry of Commerce and Industry did not respond to an email from Reuters to seek comments.
India initially issued an order in June last year to raise import taxes as high as 120% on a slew of U.S. items, incensed by Washington's refusal to exempt New Delhi from higher steel and aluminum tariffs.
But New Delhi repeatedly delayed raising tariffs as the two nations engaged in trade talks. Trade between them stood at about $142.1 billion in 2018.
India is by far the largest buyer of U.S. almonds, paying $543 million for more than half of U.S. almond exports in 2018, U.S. Department of Agriculture data shows. It is the second largest buyer of U.S. apples, taking $156 million worth in 2018.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is expected to visit India this month, said this week the United States was open to dialogue to resolve trade differences with India, through greater access for American companies to its markets.
Dates for Pompeo's visit have not been officially announced but media said it could be ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first meeting with Trump in more than two years, on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Japan, on June 28 and 29.
Trump has repeatedly called out India for its high tariffs, even though the two countries have developed close political and security ties.
New Delhi's new rules in areas such as e-commerce and data localization have angered the United States and hit companies such as Amazon.com, Walmart Inc, Mastercard and Visa, among others.
Previously, India has called the withdrawal of GSP benefits "unfortunate", and vowed to "always uphold its national interest in these matters".
Also read: India mulls retaliatory tariffs after US ends preferential trade status
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        public virtual DbSet<Storage> Storages { get; set; }
        public virtual DbSet<Type> Types { get; set; }
        public virtual DbSet<Vendor> Vendors { get; set; }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub