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Obama's innate centrism led him to adopt the preoccupation with the budget deficit of Geithner and Peter Orszag (his head of the Office of Management and Budget and another Rubin protégé) in opposition to vocal protests from both Summers and Romer that now was not the time to worry about deficits. As a result, Obama would never acknowledge that the original stimulus was not big enough, a position that left him boxed in when it became clear—as it already had by summer of 2010, if not earlier—that it had indeed been far too small.
The low point, in Scheiber's account, was Obama's inept handling of the 2010 negotiations over the extension of the Bush tax cuts. His own economics team, deeply concerned that "the president was AWOL" on the issue, undertook to resolve it on their own. It was Geithner and the former Clinton political hand Gene Sperling who extracted concessions from the Republicans on the final deal, while Obama still sought compromise. Another casualty of this period was any real progress on debt relief for homeowners. By the end of 2010, both Summers and Romer left Washington in frustration.
Scheiber's book, then, is a dispiriting story both of how Wall Street's influence on Democrats allowed it to escape paying any appropriate price for the mayhem it inflicted, while escaping effective regulation, and of how Obama failed to confront intransigent Republicans. But what made the Republicans so intransigent? That, in different ways, is the subject of two recent books: Thomas Frank's Pity the Billionaire and Thomas Edsall's The Age of Austerity.
Frank focuses on what is, as he says, "something unique in the history of American social movements: a mass conversion to free-market theory as a response to hard times." It is indeed remarkable. After all, for three decades before the financial crisis American politics and policy had been increasingly dominated by laissez-faire ideology, by the belief that markets—and financial markets in particular—should be allowed to run free. Then came the inevitable crash. But far from demanding a return to stronger regulation, much of the American electorate turned to the view that the crisis was caused by too much government intervention, and rallied around politicians aiming to dive even deeper into the policies that led to crisis in the first place.
How did this happen? Frank's answer is that it was the bailouts that did it. By doing things Geithner's way—by bailing out the bankers without strings or blame—the Obama administration left an understandably angry American public with the correct sense that someone was getting away with something. And the right proved adept at exploiting that sense. The famous February 2009 rant by CNBC's Rick Santelli that started the Tea Party movement was a denunciation of TARP, the big bank bailout passed in the waning days of the Bush administration (although a plurality of voters believe that it was passed under Obama). True, Santelli focused all his ire on a tiny piece of TARP, the planned aid for troubled homeowners (aid that mostly never materialized), not the much bigger aid for banks. But at least he was blaming someone, which the Obama administration was refusing to do.
And by the time Obama began, tentatively, to suggest that some bankers might have misbehaved a bit, it was too late. The entire Republican Party and much of the electorate had settled into a narrative in which the financial crisis of 2008—a crisis that followed fourteen years of hard-right Republican congressional dominance and eight years in which hard-line conservatives controlled all three branches of government—was caused by…too much government intervention to help the poor and, especially, the nonwhite. As Frank writes:
Back to the usual, all-purpose culprit: government…. The feds forced banks to hand out special loans to minority borrowers…and…the entire financial crisis was a consequence of government interference.
So the right has recast itself as the enemy of "Big Business," not because it's business but because it's insufficiently capitalist. No better proof of the currency of that view, Frank points out, than a 2009 Forbes article by Paul Ryan, "Down with Big Business," where he argues, "It's up to the American people—innovators and entrepreneurs, small business owners…to take a stand."
But why did the right do so much better a job than Obama and company of seizing the moment? We've already seen part of the answer: Democrats in general, and Obama in particular, were too close to Wall Street to deal effectively with a crisis that Wall Street had created. Frank also makes an important point: in the recent political climate, ignorance really has been strength. You might think that the hermetic intellectual universe the right has created for itself, a kind of alternative reality walled off from any evidence that might contradict faith in the wonders of free markets and the evils of government intervention, would be a liability for the GOP. And it does indeed wreak havoc with actual policymaking. In political terms, however, it has given Republicans unity and certainty where Democrats have been weak and divided.
Yet where does that Republican unity really come from? Frank doesn't really explain this, but there's a pretty good theory laid out in Thomas Edsall's The Age of Austerity. Oddly, however, it's not the theory Edsall himself expounds.
Edsall's ostensible thesis, advanced at the book's beginning, is that scarcity is at the root of our new political battles, that we've entered a new era of harsh politics because a shrinking economy and a ballooning budget deficit make it impossible to satisfy the two parties' political needs at the same time:
The two major political parties are enmeshed in a death struggle to protect the benefits and goods that flow to their respective bases, each attempting to expropriate the resources of the other. A brutish future stands before us.
Yet most of the evidence Edsall advances for this thesis involves pointing to the consequences of the economic crisis—which isn't at all a crisis of scarcity, but rather a crisis of bad financial and macroeconomic policy. Why, exactly, must there be a "death struggle" over resources when the US economy could, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates, be producing an extra $900 billion worth of goods and services right now if it would only put unemployed workers and other unused resources back to work? Why must there be a bitter struggle over the budget when the US government, while admittedly running large deficits, remains able to borrow at the lowest interest rates in history?
The truth is that the austerity Edsall emphasizes is more the result than the cause of our embittered politics. We have a depressed economy in large part because Republicans have blocked almost every Obama initiative designed to create jobs, even refusing to confirm Obama nominees to the board of the Federal Reserve. (MIT's Peter Diamond, a Nobel laureate, was rejected as lacking sufficient qualifications.) We have a huge battle over deficits, not because deficits actually pose an immediate problem, but because conservatives have found deficit hysteria a useful way to attack social programs.
So where does the embittered politics come from? Edsall himself supplies much of the answer. Namely, what he portrays is a Republican Party that has been radicalized not by a struggle over resources—tax rates on the wealthy are lower than they have been in generations—but by fear of losing its political grip as the nation changes. The most striking part of The Age of Austerity, at least as we read it, was the chapter misleadingly titled "The Economics of Immigration." The chapter doesn't actually say much about the economics of immigration; what it does, instead, is document the extent to which immigrants and their children are, literally, changing the face of the American electorate.
As Edsall concedes, this changing face of the electorate has had the effect of radicalizing the GOP. "For whites with a conservative bent," he writes—and isn't that the very definition of the Republican base?—
the shift to a majority-minority nation [i.e., a nation in which minorities will make up the majority] will strengthen the already widely held view that programs benefiting the poor are transferring their taxpayer dollars to minority recipients, from first whites to blacks and now to "browns."
And that's the message of Rick Santelli's rant, right there.
Now, the GOP could in principle have responded to these changes by trying to redefine itself away from being the party of white people. Instead, Edsall writes, the response has been to "gamble that the GOP can continue to win as a white party despite the growing strength of the minority vote." And that means a strategy of radical, no-holds-barred confrontation over everything from immigration policy to taxes and, of course, economic stimulus, some part of which would be paid to minorities.
The immediate effect of this bitter confrontation has been to paralyze economic policy in the crisis. Obama might have had a window of opportunity in his first few months in office, but as Scheiber shows, that window was lost—and there has been little chance of effective action since. So the slump drags on. But as Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein say in the title of their new book, It's Even Worse Than It Looks.* They argue that Congress—and indeed the whole American political system—is close to complete institutional collapse. We have entered a new politics of "hostage taking," they tell us, epitomized by but by no means limited to the 2011 fight over the debt ceiling. And they strongly suggest that the ongoing fiasco of macroeconomic policy may be only the beginning.
It's a remarkable if depressing book, especially impressive given its provenance. Mann and Ornstein are deeply respected congressional scholars, and their book would seem on the surface to epitomize the kind of bipartisan effort Washington insiders claim to love: Mann is at the liberal Brookings Institution, Ornstein at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Yet they reject the temptation to shade their conclusions in the name of "balance." What the country faces, they write, isn't a problem with partisanship in the abstract; it's a problem with one party:
However awkward it may be for the traditional press and nonpartisan analysts to acknowledge, one of the two major parties, the Republican Party, has become an insurgent outlier—ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. When one party moves this far from the center of American politics, it is extremely difficult to enact policies responsive to the country's most pressing challenges.
And where, in all this, is the hope that was so widespread back in 2008? It is, frankly, hard to find. President Obama bears some of the blame for that; he chose to listen to the wrong people, and arguably missed his best chance to turn the economy around. (Just to be clear, this isn't a suggestion that Mitt Romney would do better. On the contrary, Romney is deeply committed to the false Republican narrative about what ails our economy, and all indications are that if he wins, he will make a bad situation much, much worse.) But ultimately the deep problem isn't about personalities or individual leadership, it's about the nation as a whole. Something has gone very wrong with America, not just its economy, but its ability to function as a democratic nation. And it's hard to see when or how that wrongness will get fixed.
* It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism (Basic Books, 2012). ↩
It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism (Basic Books, 2012). ↩


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Turkey Tetrazzini
Turkey Tetrazzini
12 oz egg noodles, spaghetti, linguini or other pasta
12 ounces mushrooms, sliced (about 4-5 cups)
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups of milk
1/4 cup cream
2 cups chicken broth
1/4 cup dry sherry, vermouth, or dry white wine
3 cups coarsely chopped cooked turkey
1 cup cooked peas
2/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan
1/3 cup shredded Swiss cheese
1/3 cup fine fresh bread crumbs
Salt and Pepper
Cook the pasta according to the package directions, al dente; drain well and set aside. After you've started with the pasta, proceed to the next steps. Preheat oven to 375°F. Cook the mushrooms in 3 Tbsp of the butter over moderate heat, stirring, until all of the liquid they give off has evaporated, about 10 minutes. Set aside. In a large, heavy saucepan, melt 1/4 cup of butter. Stir in the flour, and cook the mixture over low heat, stirring, for 3 minutes. Gradually stir in the milk, cream, broth, and the wine or sherry. Bring to a simmer and cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, for about 5 minutes. In a large bowl combine well the pasta, the sauce, the mushrooms, the turkey, the peas, and salt and pepper to taste. Stir in 1/3 cup of the Parmesan and the 1/2 cup of Swiss cheese, and transfer the mixture to a buttered shallow 3-quart casserole. In a small bowl combine well the remaining 1/3 cup Parmesan, the bread crumbs, and salt and pepper to taste, sprinkle the mixture evenly over the Tetrazzini, and dot the top with the remaining 1 tablespoon butter, cut into bits. Bake the Tetrazzini in the middle rack of the oven for 30 to 40 minutes, or until it is bubbling and the top is golden.
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Human Serum Albumin Complex with Perfluorooctane Sulfonate Potassium
Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) is a man-made fluorosurfactant and globally persistent organic pollutant. PFOS is mainly distributed in blood with a long half-life for elimination. PFOS was found mainly bound to human serum albumin (HSA) in plasma, the most abundant protein in human blood plasma, which transports a variety of endogenous and exogenous ligands. However, the structural basis of such binding remains unclear. Here, we report the crystal structure of the HSA-PFOS complex and show that PFOS binds to HSA at a molar ratio of 2:1. In addition, PFOS binding renders the HSA structure more compact. Our results provide a structural mechanism to understand the retention of surfactants in human serum.
Structural evidence of perfluorooctane sulfonate transport by human serum albumin., Luo Z, Shi X, Hu Q, Zhao B, Huang M, Chem Res Toxicol. 2012 May 21;25(5):990-2. Epub 2012 Apr 16. PMID:22482699
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
[ALBU_HUMAN] Defects in ALB are a cause of familial dysalbuminemic hyperthyroxinemia (FDH) [MIM:103600]. FDH is a form of euthyroid hyperthyroxinemia that is due to increased affinity of ALB for T(4). It is the most common cause of inherited euthyroid hyperthyroxinemia in Caucasian population.[1][2][3][4]
[ALBU_HUMAN] Serum albumin, the main protein of plasma, has a good binding capacity for water, Ca(2+), Na(+), K(+), fatty acids, hormones, bilirubin and drugs. Its main function is the regulation of the colloidal osmotic pressure of blood. Major zinc transporter in plasma, typically binds about 80% of all plasma zinc.[5]
About this Structure
4e99 is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
See Also
- Luo Z, Shi X, Hu Q, Zhao B, Huang M. Structural evidence of perfluorooctane sulfonate transport by human serum albumin. Chem Res Toxicol. 2012 May 21;25(5):990-2. Epub 2012 Apr 16. PMID:22482699 doi:10.1021/tx300112p
- ↑ Sunthornthepvarakul T, Angkeow P, Weiss RE, Hayashi Y, Refetoff S. An identical missense mutation in the albumin gene results in familial dysalbuminemic hyperthyroxinemia in 8 unrelated families. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1994 Jul 29;202(2):781-7. PMID:8048949
- ↑ Rushbrook JI, Becker E, Schussler GC, Divino CM. Identification of a human serum albumin species associated with familial dysalbuminemic hyperthyroxinemia. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1995 Feb;80(2):461-7. PMID:7852505
- ↑ Wada N, Chiba H, Shimizu C, Kijima H, Kubo M, Koike T. A novel missense mutation in codon 218 of the albumin gene in a distinct phenotype of familial dysalbuminemic hyperthyroxinemia in a Japanese kindred. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1997 Oct;82(10):3246-50. PMID:9329347
- ↑ Sunthornthepvarakul T, Likitmaskul S, Ngowngarmratana S, Angsusingha K, Kitvitayasak S, Scherberg NH, Refetoff S. Familial dysalbuminemic hypertriiodothyroninemia: a new, dominantly inherited albumin defect. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1998 May;83(5):1448-54. PMID:9589637
- ↑ Lu J, Stewart AJ, Sadler PJ, Pinheiro TJ, Blindauer CA. Albumin as a zinc carrier: properties of its high-affinity zinc-binding site. Biochem Soc Trans. 2008 Dec;36(Pt 6):1317-21. doi: 10.1042/BST0361317. PMID:19021548 doi:10.1042/BST0361317


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Cholesterol is a fatty substance that is produced within the body by the liver. There are some important functions that the cholesterol performs in the body. They are helpful in maintaining the health of the cell walls; help in making vitamin D and also in the digestion of fat.
HDL and LDL cholesterol
These are the uses of the HDL cholesterol which is called the good cholesterol. There is however another kind of cholesterol in the body called the LDL cholesterol which is the root cause of various complications in the body. Some complications that the LDL cholesterol causes are heart diseases and problems like diabetes and high blood pressure. This is when the levels of cholesterol exceed the permissible levels.
Causes of high cholesterol levels
One of the major causes of the increased levels of cholesterol in the body is the incongruous diet that is full of saturated fat. The next apparent cause is the sedentary and motionless lifestyle that is devoid of exercises. The food that you eat is stored in the form of fat and hence in the increase of cholesterol. When there is lack of exercise, it is evident that there is excessive weight which in turn results in excessive cholesterol levels.
How to reduce cholesterol levels
- A firm determination is the first step to lower the cholesterol levels in your body. This is important especially for the ones who are used to eating chunks of junk food every now and then.
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Check out what people are saying about their experiences at The Cooking School at Irwin Street!
Check out what people are saying about their experiences at The Cooking School at Irwin Street!
Our dear Chef Shelley Chapman has moved on to the Big Apple but she has left behind her legacy with her amazing recipe collection now available in Kindle addition. Shelley was a wonderful addition to the Cooking School at Irwin Street where she taught her Tantric Taste and Global Flexitarian classes for many happy students.
This is our first recommendation and one of our faves from one of our favorite chefs, our friend (and the Cooking School at Irwin Street's director Jake Rothschild's mentor) the wonderful Nathalie Dupree. Just click on the image to find out more about Nathalie's newest book available for sale now!
Still a few seats left for this week Global Cuisine Class on Wed. at 6:30. Join Shelley Chapman "the Food Relationship Coach" and author of Tantric Tastes for a taste of the world.
In this hands on class students learn how to impress your family and friends with easy yet fancy holiday appetizer ideas while they wait for the main course. South of the Border cheddar corn fritters w/ Chipotle Tomato Cream, Goat cheese and Shiitake herbed Tart, Smoked Salmon spread with Kettle Chips will be prepared. Make a reservation now.
Dear Chef,
I love quiche, but when I try to make it at home I find that the cheese and egg have separated into two layers with the cheese on top. What is the secret to blending the cheese and egg? I asked a local chef, who told me to bake it at 250 degrees for an hour. I tried that, but they still separated. Am I not using the right cheese?
Generally, I fill the pie shell with the grated cheese (I have tried different kinds) and what ever veggies and meat, then pour the whisked egg mixture on top and bake.
Dear Kathy,
I love quiche too, and have been using the same recipe for the custard since I worked at a fern bar restaurant in the 80′s. It calls for 3 eggs, 1 cup of milk, 1/2 cup of sour cream, a dash of fresh-ground nutmeg and s&p. That mix works for any filling you like. Since I've gone dairy free, I have experimented with various milk substitutes, and I like the coconut milk available in the boxes in the refrigerator section (not the coconut cream found in cans, although that might make a good substitute for some of the sour cream).
When I fill my quiches, I start with the veggies and/or meats. Then I sprinkle on the cheese and use my fingers to distribute it throughout the other filling. I suppose you could even toss your filling and cheese together in a bowl before putting it into the crust so that the cheese is thoroughly distributed and there isn't a distinct 'layer' of cheese. Once all of that is in the crust, I pour my custard in and around the other ingredients, taking care to cover the top of the filling as it pours in, even if some sticks out above the custard. (For example, if I'm using broccoli, I make sure each florette gets custard poured over it so the tops won't burn if they stick up above the level of the custard.)
I always bake my quiches at 325 – 350 degrees. I can't see where cooking it at 250 will do much for you other than delay your quiche gratification! I hope that helps, and I wish you many a fine quiche this winter!
Chef Christy
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How I like my drinks served
Now that's a full moon
How I like my drinks served
Now that's a full moon
This is not a still-shot from "What would you do"? He's 6 foot something & wearing the Shit out of those Pumps...
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Penis Hug Time
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His Dick is the 8th Wonder of the World...
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I'm starting to Love White guys that show-off their Tan-lines...His Ass should be the appetizer...
Would you like some cream with that?
Don't look behind him
^ ugh...sometimes I really hate this gay gene in me that makes me focus on the mess rather than the cute guy...it's so hard NOT to look!
Bad decisions make good stories.
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Maybe I'm old fashioned or something but when I see a person parked in the middle
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of course Zack has hygene issues- how many scenes has he been pissed on in?????
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Diablo III on PS3 to receive exclusive Sony-related items
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Diablo 3 may not be exclusive to PlayStation consoles anymore, but that doesn't mean Sony fans won't get an exclusive treat. Players that jump in on the PS3 and PS4 versions will be able to unlock Sony-exclusive items in the game, including Drake's amulet from the Uncharted series.
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The role of great sources
By Sarah Webb on January 5, 2010
Though my writing life ranges from writing health stories for teens to writing about research topics and careers issues for scientists, the sources that I speak with for the former type of article generally don't overlap with those for the latter. Until now. Last spring, I was working on an article about the common cold, […]
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Molecule of the Week: Tamiflu
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Okay, so I'm officially geeking out with a new idea for a regular blog feature. But here it is, Molecule of the Week! What you see before you is a ball and stick model of oseltamivir, the drug Tamiflu, your friendly neighborhood antiviral drug for influenza, including H1N1. How does this bad boy work? Flu […]
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As swine flu concern seems to be simmering down a little, I want to highlight some of the interesting stories about science that should make a difference in infectious disease science, whether H1N1 turns out to be the next dangerous pandemic or not. 1. Why is the flu seasonal? Honestly, I was thinking about this […]
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By Sarah Webb on May 4, 2009
Looking more closely at the some of the coverage of swine flu, I recognized the (probable) handiwork of a CDC researcher from a lecture I covered recently at the New York Academy of Sciences about biological imaging. Amazingly this technology (negative stained transmission electron micrograhs) actually dates back to the 1950s, but it's fast and […]
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Congratulations, Molly Ringwald — you may yet out-Franco James Franco. Over the past 12 months, the beloved Brat Pack actress has released her first novel, completed filming the final season of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, and won the Internet over with a classic Reddit AMA. Now she's celebrating the release of her first album, a collection of jazz standards called Except Sometimes that dropped yesterday. (Yes, Ringwald sings — don't you forget that The New Mickey Mouse Club launched her career.)
Though most of the album's tracks wouldn't seem out of place on a record by Ella Fitzgerald or Susannah McCorkle, there's one outlier on there: a cover of "Don't You (Forget About Me)," a.k.a. The Breakfast Club's iconic theme song. Here's a preview of Ringwald's version that's been floating around for a few weeks:


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mom has a carmen gia it,s a 68 she took it in to have the oil pan fixed car was at shop for allmost 6 months came back with the same problem how ever they put 4 new tires on it and did not fix problem because it still leaks pools of oil i think i could swim in it!and its not what she asked for!"she the best customer we have"red flag mom!Please they all so gave her a brake job she did not need and charged her for it.my mom is 75
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Report it to the BAR, Bureau of Automotive Repair, if you are not able to reason with the shop that performed the work.
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If you asked specifically for the oil pan to be fixed, and that was not the cause of the oil leak, the shop cannot be held responsible for your diagnoses. Verble approval is needed for additional repairs, make sure that your mom, knows wether she has. Speak to the shop and use the threat of the Bureau of Automotive Repair as a last resort
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March is now here and with that comes lots of Spring Cleaning — well, in my book it does. I will be moving to a new home again soon so I have more than my share of cleaning to do. When that happens, I like to create a list of what I need to clean as well as delegate who will be cleaning what.
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John Taylor in the WSJ:
The Fed's mistake of slowing money growth at the onset of the Great Depression is well-known. And from the mid-1960s through the '70s, the Fed intervened with discretionary go-stop changes in money growth that led to frequent recessions, high unemployment, low economic growth, and high inflation.
In contrast, through much of the 1980s and '90s and into the past decade the Fed ran a more predictable, rules-based policy with a clear price-stability goal. This eventually led to lower unemployment, lower interest rates, longer expansions, and stronger economic growth.
Unfortunately the Fed has returned to its discretionary, unpredictable ways, and the results are not good. Starting in 2003-05, it held interest rates too low for too long and thereby encouraged excessive risk-taking and the housing boom. It then overshot the needed increase in interest rates, which worsened the bust. Now, with inflation and the economy picking up, the Fed is again veering into "too low for too long" territory. Policy indicators suggest the need for higher interest rates, while the Fed signals a zero rate through 2014.
Wait, the Fed had a role in causing the financial crisis? I thought it was all Wall Street's fault. As it so happens, there is a study out today that draws a similar conclusion:
Our analysis has shown that interest rates that are set too low for too long have a significant impact on the creation of housing bubbles. The strong link between deviations of short-term rates from Taylor-implied rates and housing bubbles suggest that in order to lean against house price fluctuations, it is not necessary to consider house prices directly in monetary policy decisions if policymakers set interest rates at levels close to those implied by the Taylor rule.
Our results highlight the additional complexity of maintaining an appropriate policy interest rate for a group of countries like the Eurozone that experience substantial heterogeneity in both the real estate markets as well as in the real economy. As we have seen, Taylor-implied rates as well as the development of house prices differ substantially between some Eurozone countries. Since it is not possible to react to this with a single monetary policy, country-specific measures should be taken to compensate for too low interest rates and in order to avoid a build-up of housing bubbles. This compensation could be achieved, for example, by introducing macroprudential instruments like countercyclical capital requirements for banks, limits for loan-to-income and loan-to-value ratios, or a countercyclical tax treatment of real estate holdings.
Then earlier this month, there was this research, which also put the blame for the financial crisis on easy credit rather than income inequality:
The negative and significant relationship of short-term interest rates and credit growth may also be consistent with the story of for example Taylor (2009) or Meltzer (2010) who attribute the U.S. housing boom to expansionary policy by the Federal Reserve in the early 2000s in an attempt to prevent perceived deflation. Moreover, housing booms and busts in other countries did not reflect redistributive housing policy. In the period before the Great Moderation they occurred during episodes of expansionary monetary policy … it now seems fairly clear from our examination of the data that neither have much to do with rising income inequality.


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Rotterdam Cruise Review by pam vessels: A grand adventure
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My partner and I just returned from the 30 day Incan trip to Lima, Peru. Here are my musings on this trip,
We have sailed on Holland many times and it was not our first time on the Rotterdam. The ship on this trip was on code red at least 3 times and on the preceding cruise had many folks down with upper respiritory problems. We were luck and did not get sick. Many also reported reactions to the cleaning materials used to keep the various illnesses at bay.
Our cabin was 2643. Our cabin was large and in good shape.
I know that on our floor there were "wet cabins" due to flooding. We had no such trouble. Thank goodness,
The food in the Lido was great. It seemed to us that very few people ate in the main dining room. The service in the main dining room was very slow but the food was good.
The shows in the evening were on a scale from 2-10. I personally loved the aft concerts and the oscar night party on the aft deck was great.
We More are a senior couple but honestly I have never seen so many elderly, barely able to get around people on a cruise. The average age on this trip was 72 but I really felt sorry for some of the cruisers. It must have been very difficult for them.
This is the first time I have ever done this review thing so hope I am doing it right.
Overall it was an ok cruise. The crew and the cruisers were all under lots of stress due to the illnesses of so many people. We will cruise on Holland again but hope that next time we are on a healthy ship with at least a few younger folks to balance the activity level. Oh, yes one more small but annoying thing. Holland has got to do something about the awful kleenexes they use. They are small and a waste of time. Bring your own... Until the next time.....aloha pam Less
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Poster Contest Details
Who Can Enter?
Students may enter through their school, homeschool, or community group such as 4H and scouts. Each student may only submit one entry.
Designing the Poster
Educators work with their students to design a poster, following the guidelines below.
An endangered species teacher resource pack is available to support implementation in the classroom. This important teaching aid includes lesson activities across different curriculums, suitable web sites and resources, and entry details for the contest. Download a free Resource Pack.
Poster Specifications
- Students must design an 8˝" x 11" poster containing a picture and a message about one threatened or endangered species. It should encourage people to care about endangered plants and animals and want to protect them. A very short simple message is best for a poster so that it is easy to see and sticks in people's minds.
- The poster may be designed on any kind of paper, including card stock. Students may be as creative as they wish. The poster may be in any medium including collage, free-hand drawing, paint, charcoal or pencil. Chalk, charcoal, and pastel must be sealed with a fixative spray to prevent smearing and smudging. Photography, 3D designs and computer-generated images and text are excluded. Three-dimensional entries will not be accepted.
- All posters should be backed with construction paper leaving a two-inch frame around the edges.
- Only the original poster can be submitted into the competition, no photocopies.
- Each poster should reflect the student's own idea, reflecting the theme. The teacher may assist young children with writing down the message on their poster, but the message must be the child's own thoughts and all artwork must be the child's own work.
- All posters will become the property of the NC Zoo.
Submitting Entries
Schools will first hold a school-based competition, and choose first, second and third place in the following divisions.
- Division 1 – Kindergarten – 2nd Grade
- Division 2 – 3rd – 5th Grade
- Division 3 – 6th – 8th Grade
- Division 4 – 9th – 12th Grade
For the first place winner of each division, please complete an entry form and attach it to the back of the original artwork with a paperclip. Posters will not be returned. Take a photo or copy of your poster before submitting it.
Competition coordinators should take photographs or color copies of the 3 winning entries in each division and submit them on the group results form. This form will be used to issue certificates to those students. Please do not send originals for 2nd and 3rd place to the zoo.
Folded posters will not be accepted. Artwork should be rolled and shipped in a mailing tube or be packed and wrapped flat. Please read the poster contest rules carefully, as only posters that meet the contest rules will be considered. Send your posters to the following address:
Endangered Species Poster Competition
NC Zoo Education Division
4401 Zoo Parkway
Asheboro, NC 27205
Posters must be postmarked on or before Dec. 19, 2014. Winners will be notified by mail in February 2015.
Judging Procedure
The posters will be grouped in one of the following four grade categories:
- Kindergarten through 2nd Grade
- 3rd through 5th Grade
- 6th through 8th Grade
- 9th through 12th Grade
Posters will be judged by a committee of zoo staff and community representatives. The winning poster and runner-up in each grade category will be judged based on the criteria listed below.
Judging Criteria
- Clear message conveyed by the text and artwork.
- How significant or relevant is the poster in increasing understanding of an endangered species?
- Does it communicate the message to a broad audience?
- Did the artist use a catchy slogan or message?
- Creativity, originality and artistic quality.
- Is the design creative and original?
- Does the selected media enhance the presentation of the overall artistic quality?
- Visual clarity — easily read.
- Visual use of space - Is the poster clearly and logically set out?
- Is the text easy to read?
- Research
- Clarity of information
- Was the information accurate?
One winner will be chosen in each division. All winning entries will be combined to create an Endangered Species Awareness Poster. The poster will be sent to participating schools and used in conjunction with the zoo's education programs. Winning posters in each division will be displayed on the zoos web site.
The overall winner of each division will receive a prize pack including a family pass to the zoo, an endangered species poster and an educational program for their classroom.
For more information on the Endangered Species Poster Competition, Email or Phone (336) 879-7715 or toll free 1-800-488-0444 ext. 7715


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In the latest issue of People magazine, the cast of the Today show dress up like they're in Anchorman 2: The Edge of Reason, or something. It's weird. "We're pimps! We're pimps now!" That's what they say, probably. Weirdos.
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DepositWiz enables you to print professional quality deposit tickets that conform to bank standards and include an itemized summary of items for your records. It is designed for small business owners or landlords that need to deposit a fair number of checks every month, and includes a Fast-Fill feature to speed-up entry for recurring payments. Your deposit tickets are also stored in the program database and encrypted to protect your information.
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Simple dictionary applications 1.03
Applications allow users to use free bilingual dictionaries offline. You can download free dictionaries at: http://www.dicts.info/dictionaries.php and at: http://www.dicts.info/uddl.php . You can create and download any bilingual dictionary from the Universal dictionary (system currently interconnects 25 languages). Online dictionaries are at: http://www.dicts.info
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Access2MySQL PRO 5.1.0
Access2MySQL Pro is an effective converter which performs MS Access (mdb) to MySQL and MySQL to Access conversions. Features: Unicode Support, Primary keys and Indexes conversion, Interactive (GUI) mode / command line mode, Built-in scheduler, Renaming of tables, fields, indexes before conversion. There is an ability to save data to PHP script or to a dump file that allows you to get over the restrictions on access to MySQL database if any.
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Help Console 6.0
Help Console is the easiest way to create Help Systems and PDF documentation for your website. Create a 'Help Center' within your existing website that your staff can easily update at anytime from anywhere. Publish online product manuals, product demos, FAQs, knowledgebase articles, PDF manuals, etc. The In-place editing feature allows your technical writers to quickly make changes to online documentation after publishing to your website.
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GRCLive Business Edition 1.5
GRCLive Business Edition is a powerful and affordable communications tool with superior quality Video and Audio, Remote Desktop, File Share storage area, Whiteboard collaboration, Application Sharing, Remote Printing and Recording features. GRCLive Business Edition provides increased office productivity through real-time collaboration with co-workers, employees, and customers. Save time and money with less travel.
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PageFocus Pro 6.54
A versatile application for creating drawing, form, document, hypertext, and form-based database applications. It provides a set of runtime commands for developing form database applications. The system includes multi-language spell check, image and PDF import/export. The runtime program includes a build-in database engine for database management. The package supports double-byte languages, including vertical text entry.
See also: multi-language, Application Development, Desktop Publishing, Database, Form, PDF
Uimix 1.0
Uimix is a window transparency manager that secures the viewing of sensitive information by allowing you to adjust the transparency of a selected window, mixing it with its background. Therefore, the information remains viewable for your eyes only, vital in today's organizations which often have open working areas.
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Excel ActiveX 2.4
Excel ActiveX acts as an ActiveX document container for hosting Excel document in a custom form or Web page. Support Excel automation client and offer abundant sample codes. It can be easily integrated into applications written in languages that support ActiveX control such as Visual C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, C++ Builder and .Net languages.
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SkillFusion Development Engine 5.2.4
Development Engine is a modeling and development automation technology for developers to design software using UML, then generate applications in the language and database of their choice. With Development Engine, you describe your application by drawing a model. Then you select a destination language and database. Language choices include Java J2EE, Java JSP, and C# .Net. Database choices include SQL Server, Oracle, and mySQL.
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RoboRealm 1.0
RoboRealm provides you with an interactive and experimentation vision system to investigate the very complex world of image analysis and image processing. Through an easy to use analysis pipeline you can add image processing filters to translate an image into robotic movements, computer actions, or just plain fun! RoboRealm is free to download!
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RunClik 1.0.1
Have you ever wondered how to group your favorite programs and run them all - with just one click?
RunClik is an application launcher that lets you quickly open more than one program by simply choosing a program group from the system tray. Easy!
You can create program groups, customize the list of items to include, set several item attributes.
You can even launch your favorite program group when Windows starts.
See also: favorite programs, file run, quick run, quick launch, workspace, program groups, launch, launcher, file launcher, application launcher, run parameters, favorite programs groups
PlusPAD 1.0
PlusPAD is an advanced PAD file generator, editor and validator. Includes a solid project based management of the PAD files, embedded validation, multiple languages, fast file processing and esthetic GUI. PlusPAD is able to generate 1 or multiple PAD files, save the formatted html version of the PAD file or even view the PAD file as raw XML inside the embedded browser.
See also: xml description, portable application description, pad file
Email Spider 1.5
Advanced and powerfull tool for extracting email, page title, page URL from website, popular search engines (google, altavista, excite, yahoo, infoseek etc.) using keywords for targeted consumer, internet marketing, website promotion, list management and research.
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TrafficProgrammer Standard Edition 0.6
Worlds' first complete, secure, smooth auto/manual surf traffic exchange software. This can rotate Unlimited URL's per month. TrafficProgrammer offers traffic interchange for your web sites by giving you a chance to visit other members' site. In return you will get visitors to your site increasing highly effective website promotion. It doesn't interface nor effected by websites displayed, leaves no site behind "every site displayed on its turn".
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Compare Two HTML Files & Find Differences Software 7.0
This is a side by side comparison tool for HTML files. The differences will be highlighted within the HTML file itself. Simply browse to two HTML files downloaded from the web and allow the comparing (finding) process to work. The application window can be maximized for a complete view of the 2 HTML files.
See also: comparison, duplicates, html, comparing, finding, contents, changes, application, third, second, first, word, one, two, three, side by side, different, write, read, between, similar, comparator, list, editor, edit, rich text, changing, comparer, check, documents, create, data, way, ascii, diff, matching, match, matches, saving, loading, component, identical, table, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, properties, finding, string, parsing, bodies, this, look, looking, ascii, large, new, folders
MySQL Delete (Remove) Duplicate Entries Software 7.0
Use this program to search and delete duplicate data (values, records, rows and numbers) in your MySQL database. All redundant entries are eliminated except for the first one. You select which fields (columns) to use as criteria, so you can find duplicate rows based on all or some of the values in the row.
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Amadis DVD to iPod Converter for twodownload.com 4.39
Amadis DVD to iPod Converter is an powerful and easy DVD iPod ripper application for converting DVDs to Apple iPod movie and video with excellent output quality
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Lenogo TV to iPod Video Transfer Platium 7.3
Lenogo TV to iPod Video Transfer is such an ideal solution! Lenogo TV to iPod Video Transfer can record TV shows and easily transfer the shows to iPod-compatible format. With Lenogo TV to iPod Video Transfer you can expand your iPod video library to as many channels as your TV.
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MS Word Export To Multiple Text Files Software 7.0
Convert many Word files to text files. Word 2000 or higher required.
See also: docs, txt, many, numerous, files, conversion, converter, application, programs, .doc, .htm, microsoft, word, msword, fully, converting, importing, exporting, import, export, filtered, process, graphics, images, photos, photographs, mass, 2000, 2003, open, save, close, via, files, multi-page, multipage, multi, pages, process, processing, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, bitmap, gif, jpg, jpeg, programmatically, extract
Zabidoo 1.0.704.44
Zabidoo delivers the best of the web to you making it easy to get what you want online. All the best bits of the web that interest you in a single, convenient screen giving you a revolutionary online experience on your PC & mobile. With Zabidoo you'll access great quality content including money-saving offers without the frustration of it taking too long and without the pain of the irrelevant and unpredictable elements of the web.
See also: Browser, Internet Directory, Personal Web, Persoanlized Browser, Customized Internet Directory, Windows Application, Web Browser


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EpiPen Overview
EpiPen and EpiPen Jr Auto-Injectors (generic: epinephrine) are prescription medications used to treat life-threatening allergic reactions in adults and children. EpiPen contains epinephrine which belongs to a group of drugs called sympathomimetic agents. They relax muscles in the airways and tighten the blood vessels, reversing severely low blood pressure and symptoms of allergic reaction.
This medication comes in an injectable form and is injected in the thigh during a serious allergic reaction.
Common side effects of EpiPen include fast and irregular heartbeat, sweating, and nausea.
Seek emergency medical attention, even after EpiPen use, to treat severe allergic reactions.


text: Fuzzy Duck Cocktail Recipe Posted on January 13, 2014 by drin0215 Fuzzy Duck Drink Recipe Category: Cocktails Ingredients : - 1 oz coconut rum (malibu) - 1 oz irish cream (bailey's) - 1 oz brandy Use a "In glass" for Fuzzy Duck drink recipe Pour all ingredients into an old-fashioned glass 1/4 filled with ice cubes. Stir well, and serve. Serve in "Old-Fashioned Glass" Garnish: No Ingredients: coconut rum (malibu). Irish cream (Bailey's). brandy.


text: The Aggies continued to break personal bests and school records this weekend. UC Davis was split between two locations this weekend. Head coach Drew Wartenburg headed to the Mt. SAC Relays with some of the top Aggie competitors while the other athletes stayed in Davis to compete in the traditional Picnic Day Woody Wilson Memorial Classic. Track standouts seniors Jonathan Peterson and Sarah Sumpter continued to make headlines for the Aggies with their performances at Mt. SAC. Peterson became the first Aggie in school history to break the 14-minute mark in the 5,000m. He entered Friday's meet with a personal best time of 14:03.25 and he cut that down to 13:54.25, earning him 11th place overall in the event. Fellow star Sumpter was only challenged by fellow Aggie sophomore Alycia Cridebring in the 5,000m and the pair combined for a one-two finish in the race. Sumpter raced across the finish line first, shaving almost five seconds off her personal best time. Cridebring was right on her heels to finish in... ...Read More →


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Man. "The Flat Earth Society" is right. You think the ocean's aren't warming? Read this, dumbasses:
Man, this pisses me off. We are about to wipe out the world's coral reefs and we're more worried about how much money an energy executive has in his Aruban bank account. What would you rather have, a sea full of tuna or a sea full of jelly fish? Your call, dumbasses.
This is what a coral reef looks like:
This is what it looks like after the water gets too warm:
This is what sequoia trees look like:
What are they going to look like when the seas warm too much to create the cool coastal fogs these trees rely on for life?
What you are fighting for are the short term commercial self-interests of a handful of billionaires over (if you believe in that sort of thing) the rightful care-taking of God's green Earth.
Nothing so stupid as a Right Wing mouth-breather; Preach God on one hand, destroy His Earth with the other.
And if you don't believe in God, where would you like to move to once the forests are scorching deserts and the seas are filled with jelly fish?
You know why the Koch Brothers and Exxon Mobil spend billions to attack the science of global warming? Because they only give a **** about themselves and their own lives. Greed. When you sign on with them, you become the puppets of their greed.
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Humanities Lecture Series: 'The Swerve: How the World Became Modern'
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I am planning on brewing an Imperial IPA this week and have a full boil question. Is there any difference in filling up your kettle to 6 gal of water in anticipation of 1 gal being lost through boiling vs. using only 5 gal. to start with. I would then add water during the boil to keep my wort at 5 gal. This recipe is going to max out my 7.5 gal. kettle so I am looking for any other tricks so that I can still do a "full boil". Of course maybe I am just waaaaaay overthinking this. Thanks!!
I don't see why the add-a-bit-at-a-time would not work. I think it's kind of a clever way to use a barely big enough pot.
Fermentation control drop should work too and you could fill you pot all the way.
Plus another one that admires your ingenuity! It will take a little more monitoring, but it's a sound idea. I'm assuming you are topping up with already boiling water.
You may have just started a new trend for partial boils. Well one!
Instead of adding more water, I just save an extra gallon or so of my final runnings for this exact purpose.


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|Fri, 03-29-2013 - 10:51am
What is something weird that
you keep in your purse or wallet?
|Tue, 04-02-2013 - 1:02pm
Look in the travel section at the store. Its a small plastic container that I can refill. I can't stand itchy ears either! The multi tool is a great idea!
|Mon, 04-01-2013 - 12:19pm
Sorry I didn't get back here sooner... been crazy!
Susan - Q-tips - I have a supply here in my desk at work. I cannot stand it when my ear is itching and I don't have any on me. I might have to steal your idea!
Shelly - I can see why you'd have the adhesive wipes ... but doggie treats? LOL Too funny that your dog hides them there.
Cara - I agree that not many of us would have a pitch pipe in our purse... lol... but my sister and also my best friend both carry the glucose tabs too.
Tracy - I do think your neoprene can holders count! I certainly don't have any in my purse. And I love that you use the Michigan one.... it brought us luck so you have to keep on using it!!!!!!!!! =)
I am not real sure how "weird" it is but I have one of these doohicky's...
You would not believe how many times I have used it! It folds out into a phillips head screwdriver, a straight head screwdriver and also a pair of pliers!
I've had this post up since Friday.... I thought I had posted it but here it was this morning! Then when I DID try to post it, I had to sign in so it was gone and I had to do it all over again. I didn't want y'all to think I wasn't answering my own question! =)
|Sun, 03-31-2013 - 8:23am
A collection of gaming cards from just about every casino in Vegas? I just looked. Nothing really odd. I do, at all times, have a Cincinnati Reds neoprene can holder in there. And I use it a ton. Does that count?
I did use my Michigan one at the hotel Friday night and here yesterday. I hope they win today!
|Sat, 03-30-2013 - 1:13pm
What is something weird that you keep in your purse or wallet?
Well, I don't think it is weird, but I am guessing I am the only one with a pitch pipe in her purse!
I don't normally have it in there, but I needed it for Solo and Ensemble contest the last weekend in February and haven't taken it out yet. It belongs in my desk drawer at school.
I also have glucose tablets in there, but that is probably not quite as unusual.
|Fri, 03-29-2013 - 2:12pm
I have adhesive wipes (used to help take Waylon's PICC line dressing off. etc) Also, the other day, I found one of Sally's dog treats in my purse, she likes to hide them. I was at Wal-Mart LOL


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Girls basketball: North Georgia Christian win on the road
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The North Georgia Christian Lady Chargers varsity basketball team defeated the Horizon Christian Academy Lady Warriors 46-38 on Monday in Cumming.
The Lady Chargers trailed by 10 in the first quarter but steadily climbed back to take the lead and the win.
Julianne Sutton paced the Lady Chargers (2-1) with a double-double, netting 19 points and 17 rebounds. Sarah Rhodes also added 10 points.
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As you know, I'm always trying to find flight solutions for larger pilots. This year at AirVenture, I found another great candidate. It was the debut of the BearHawk LSA. I watched a 280 lb, 6'4" man climb into the front seat and settle in. Awesome! It is a tandem seat aircraft with a 31" wide, and 97" long cabin.
In talking with R. Barrows, the designer of the BearHawk LSA, he advised me that he had just flown off the 40 hrs (with 41 hrs), and then he immediately flew cross country from his airport in Virginia to Oshkosh; a flight of approximately 700 miles one way.
As a business man, I asked him why anyone should buy his airplane versus all the other different airplanes available to them. I always ask this question to see if the developer has a clear understanding of the purpose for his design, and where it might fit in the overall scheme of things. If he doesn't, I may want to wait awhile before I invest thousands of dollars in building or buying his particular aircraft. However, Mr. Barrows, very quickly and quietly responded by saying that if you wanted to get in and out of short strips, carry a couple of 200 lb people, fly relatively fast for this type of airplane, and land at 30 mph within 200-400 feet…then this is the plane you'll want. He knew exactly how to best utilize his airplane and where it fit in the scheme of aviation.I also overheard a customer interact with him regarding a problem he was having. Mr Barrow didn't hesitate, or say "I'll get back with you," and he didn't tell the customer to "take and aspirin and call me tomorrow." The
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Conan! What Is Best In Life?
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(Last Conan! for a while, I promise.)
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(Last Conan! for a while, I promise.)
I looked at the link and thought to myself, Self, do you really want to clickety click? You know what's gonna be behind the cut. And I clicked it anyway, because, you know, I can resist anything but the temptation to click, and sure enough, there it was. Jesus. I think I'll skip lunch today.
Whosever member that is, is totally forked.
I'm sure i'd be rightly disgusted if I could figure out exactly what I was looking at.
Yargh… I could not have been properly prepared to see that. I will now walk around, away from my computer, wincing.
Yeah… No. I… no. Its a great big wide wonderful internet out there, with something for everyone. Changing topic entirely, does anyone know a good place to shop for eye-bleach and Ret-Con?
See, my reaction was different. I've been watching Ellis for years now, so I understand that he posts these things to remind us how TRULY! FUCKED! UP! some branches of the human family are.
I still wish I could hate you to death, Ellis. One day…
Wow.Classic example of shmuck bait.