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I just ran across this neat pivot hook--I actually can think of a place I could use it! On the inside of my closet door frame, overhead, to hang the emptied clothes hangers on.
What little neat-o gadget have you seen?
The neatest gadget (and I am stretching my personal definition of the term greatly) is the tote rack storage system someone posted on this forum. The best price was found on Bin Warehouse.
It's made of PVC, holds 12 big totes neatly and off the floor. It helped organize the basement in a heartbeat.
My grandmother used to have something like your pivoting hook for her dish towels. It was 3 hooks and attached to the wall next to her sink. Great idea.
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HOUMA -- If youve been having trouble with your Comcast service, youre not alone.
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Yeates problems may be extreme, but Jacqui Dugas, Comcasts area general manager, said many customers in the Houma area have had similar issues. The problems, she said, are caused by the transition from Time Warner to Comcast. Dugas said things should be running smoothly within two weeks at the most.
Comcast purchased Time Warner, Houmas former cable-service provider, in August. Dugas said company officials anticipated from the start that the process of switching Houmas 25,000 subscribers would take six to nine months.
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Pushing workfare closer to collapse: 2014 a year of successful actionsPosted: January 1st, 2015 | Author: editor | Filed under: Action report, Pulled out! | 4 Comments »
At the tribunal, the DWP argued that if the public knew exactly where people were being sent on placements political protests would increase, which was likely to lead to the collapse of several employment schemes and undermine the government's economic interests.
Get a mirror. Got it? Good! Now take a look at yourself. Yes you. The amazing person looking back at you has made a real difference. A massive difference in fact. In the last year, people who know instinctively that workfare and sanctions are just plain wrong have pushed workfare closer to collapse. That's the government's own view, given as evidence in court in October 2014.
Here are just a few of the ways amazing people like you have helped make it happen:
- The War Memorials Trust rapidly rebutted Cameron's headline claims that the unemployed would be put to work "restoring war memorials".
- Our opposition helped to delay the scheme's roll-out by several months.
- The Boycott Workfare week of action at the start of April persuaded major workfare users Salvation Army, TCV and YMCA to say that the new CWP scheme was one step too far even for them.
- George Osborne's first PR visit for the scheme backfired when it prompted such a huge public response that a week later, Byteback IT pulled out, thanking people for bringing the issues around workfare to their attention.
- Encouraged by hundreds of supporters on social media and elsewhere, charities came out en masse to say no to workfare…
The KVV list already includes many household names – such as Shelter, Oxfam, Crisis, Scope and the Trussell Trust – as well as umbrella bodies and local organisations.
As Oxfam put it "These schemes involve forced volunteering, which is not only an oxymoron, but undermines people's belief in the enormous value of genuine voluntary work." Help invite more organisations to sign up!
This time last year, the Guardian and the Mirror covered our research showing that councils in the UK had used more than half a million hours of workfare. Within days, Scarborough Council, one of the worst workfare-using councils in the UK pulled out! It had taken 120 Mandatory Work Activity placements in its Parks Department, where cuts to staff had recently been proposed. This success should mean jobs are now a little more secure.
Since then, 24 more councils have pledged to boycott workfare. You can ask your council to do the same here.
- On 5 July, the High Court ruled that emergency workfare legislation in 2013 was not compatible with the human right to a fair trial.
- In June, an Upper Tribunal judge ruled that the DWP must reveal the list of organisations using workfare. The DWP fears that the public response to this list could make the schemes "collapse" and has appealed again.
- In October, the DWP was back in the courts again, trying keep information on workfare out of the public domain, this time revealing just how fearful of public opposition to the schemes it is. Once again, it lost its case and was ordered to reveal workfare users.
Ever been forced to attend a course laced with "positive thinking" mumbo-jumbo or referred to a psychologist for 'asking too many questions'? If so, you'll understand why it's so important to push back against the government and workfare industry's attempts to blame unemployed people for the state of the economy.
In 2014, we won an important step in challenging the psychological coercion used by the workfare industry. After a prolonged effort from Boycott Workfare members, with support from academics and mental health activists, the new president elect of the British Psychological Society (BPS), Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes, has agreed to launch an enquiry into the misuse of psychology in workfare and the role of BPS. You can tweet BPS to keep up the pressure here.
When charities and businesses realise the brand damage and disruption that involvement in workfare brings, it often doesn't take long for them to reconsider their involvement.
Direct action at the start of April persuaded major workfare users Salvation Army, TCV and YMCA to say they would not take part in the new Community Work Placement scheme, although it remains to convince them to withdraw from workfare altogether.
In October, the week of action against workfare led to four major charities (Scope, Barnardos, BHF and Traid) cancelling their involvement in Community Work Placement schemes too!
In February, our Welfare Action Gathering brought together over a hundred people from 12 different groups to share information and strategies and plan co-ordinated action. It sowed the seeds for the launch of the hugely successful Keep Volunteering Voluntary campaign. As more and more welfare action groups emerge across the UK, find a group taking action against workfare near you here.
In the year when workfare in New York City was finally brought to an end, we built links with anti-workfare campaigners across Europe too: Boycott Workfare members have met people from the Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland who are campaigning to stop workfare and sanctions in their countries too.
In 2015, watch this space for more workshops, gatherings and international links!
Workfare is weakest where we are strongest. When people mobilise in response to workfare placements in their area, it makes a huge impact.
In 2014, football fans in Dulwich persuaded their club to drop workfare. In Liverpool, Bulky Bobs not only stepped back from workfare but signed a joint statement with IWW calling on other businesses to do the same! Bristol's May Day workfare protest persuaded St Werburghs City Farm to end its Mandatory Work Activity placements.
People taking action in Sheffield picketing Savers and TCV described passers by as "without exception" sympathetic. Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty's impressive blockades of workfare profiteers like Salvation Army were an important deterrent to other potential workfare users.
When John McArthur was sent to work unpaid for his former employer, he chose instead to picket the recycling plant on a daily basis. His action inspired hundreds of people to contact LAMH Recycling and it pulled out too!
Haringey Solidarity Group (HSG) have kept their ear to the ground with weekly "know your rights" and "blow the whistle" leafleting sessions outside Community Work Placement provider Urban Futures. As well as showing solidarity with people facing bullying and mistreatment on the punitive scheme, HSG have discovered who the local workfare users are. Their actions have brought placements at Traid, Cancer Research and Marie Curie to an end, and they are working hard to end the 50 placements at North London Hospice shops.
As major charities and high street shops boycott workfare, placements increasingly take place in local businesses and charities which is why this kind of local action is really important. Every placement we end makes it more difficult and expensive for workfare providers to profit from these schemes. And our impact can be seen in the numbers: Figures published in May 2014 showed a significant decrease in Mandatory Work Activity referrals.
Many people who follow and support our campaign are claiming some form of social security. They may have suffered the scapegoating of the media; abuse and terrible treatment at the sanction-obsessed Jobcentre; or been subject to the positive-thinking, double-speak thought police at workfare providers. If you are one of these people, then you should be especially proud. Whilst the media, millionaire politicians, and workfare profiteers tell us we are to blame, they have failed to break us. With every action you have taken, or workfare user you have named and shamed, you have given others hope.
So look back over the year and see what you have helped to achieve in the campaign against workfare and be very proud of yourself. Together we have made a massive impact. To win on workfare is to defeat those waging war on living standards and the welfare state. We can do it: just look at what you have helped to achieve already.
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I have about 235,000. and still runs like a champ, but we don't push it too hard and use mobil 1.
I have a 2001 with 225,000 on. It's an everyday work truck and personal driver. Rebuilt the tranny and put a new clutch in it, runs great though. My mechanic has an 02 with 460,000 on it!!!
I have a 2002 4.2 with 230,000 miles on it all it's had done is intake gaskets clutch and alternator. By far best truck I've ever owned, I'm a mechanic and sad to say I neglect it every single day and she just keeps goin been waiting for the motor to go kind of disappointed she hasn't ready to drop a fresh one in and tweak her up a bit. I'll never sell my old ford.
125K on ours. I'm planning in the future to replace the intake isolator bolts and clean the intake runners and EGR ports at the same time. Other than that, it's running strong.
352004 as of today!
I was getting near 200K when I got rid of mine. The engine was still running strong, the body was rusted too far along to keep it.
Holy cow! I would have to be 300 years old to rack up that mileage on mine - it only has 17,500!
I'm at 158,300. Engine seems very strong although I've been working on some intermittent drive-ability problems. I'm sure I'll overcome them soon.
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New Orleans shooting wounds 4 as French Quarter crowd parties ahead of Mardi Gras
NEW ORLEANS - Gunshots erupted in a crowd of bead-wearing, drink-carrying late-night revelers on Bourbon Street during the countdown to Mardi Gras, wounding four people and sending bystanders running and screaming. Hours later on Sunday, though, the same stretch was packed with partiers who said they weren't letting the violence dampen their fun.
In a video taken by a witness Saturday night and released the next day, the shootings are preceded by footage of people standing shoulder to shoulder in New Orleans' famed tourist district, with some holding green plastic cups and wearing gaudy hats or masks. A section of the frame highlighted by police shows people jostling and speaking with angry expressions.
Police said in an email that the video depicts an argument involving one of the shooting victims and the suspects. Two men are seen leaving the argument and returning with a third, then approaching the victim as at least one of the suspects begins shooting, according to police. Four shots are heard in rapid succession, followed by screams as some in the crowd stagger into one another and a nearby wall. A man whom police identified as one of the suspects is shown walking through the crowd with his arm extended as the gunshots are heard, though it's difficult to make out a weapon.
Police said Sunday that they were seeking the three men and that they've identified one suspect, but won't release the name.
The shootings wounded two men and two women, three of whom were treated and released Sunday. One man hit in the abdomen, thigh and pelvis was in stable condition Sunday after surgery the previous night, New Orleans Police spokesman Hilal Williams said.
Another man was shot in the buttocks, one woman was shot on the chin and right foot, and the second woman was shot on the toe, police said. No ages or names were released.
The shooting came on the last weekend of partying before Mardi Gras, the Fat Tuesday celebration that is the signature tourist event of the year in New Orleans. And for thousands, the partying continued despite the shooting. Parades rolled under cloudy skies Sunday before crowds of onlookers, though the shootings were on the minds of some revelers.
"It was very disappointing," said New Orleans resident Carol Redmann-Bailey as she watched Thoth roll by. "I was disappointed and sad, but it seems like Bourbon Street stayed open. ... Let the good times roll."
New Orleans has been plagued for years by violent crime, including gun violence that has soared since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005.
In 2011, sixteen people were shot and at least two killed in Halloween shootings in New Orleans. One of the victims was slain near the Chris Owens nightclub, about a block away from Saturday's incident.
Patrick Clay, a 21-year-old Louisiana State University student, told The Times-Picayune that he was standing on the corner of Bourbon Street on Saturday night when suddenly he saw a crowd running and people screaming that there had been a shooting.
"Everyone immediately started running and the cops immediately started running toward where people were running from," Clay said. "I was with a group of about seven people and at that point, we all just kind of grasped hands and made our way through the crowd as soon as possible."
Julia Rosenthal, a 19-year-old from Westchester, New York, had mixed feelings about hanging out in the French Quarter after the shooting. "It's not an OK thing that happened, and it's definitely scary. But I'm not going to let it affect my night," she said.
Peter Manabani, an employee at the Rat's Hole bar, said police had shut down a whole Bourbon Street block for an hour to investigate but allowed people to return to the area later.
Hours later on Sunday, there was little evidence that a shooting had occurred. Revelers were in full party mode, packing the block amid a heavy police presence.
Laura Gonzalez, 21, of Baytown, Texas, said it was her first Mardi Gras and she spent some time in the Fat Catz bar nearby as police investigated. She said the bar locked its doors quickly after the shots rang out and wouldn't let anyone in or out while police went to the scene.
Asked if it was frightening, she responded: "Not really. We were just locked in a bar and we weren't going to let this one incident wreck our party."
Parades rolled all day Saturday but none on Bourbon Street because the streets are too narrow. One of the biggest Mardi Gras parades, the Krewe of Endymion, rolled down a major thoroughfare and just skirted Bourbon Street a few hours before the shooting. Typically, once the parades end, partygoers head to the French Quarter.
Associated Press writer Janet McConnaughey contributed to this report.
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Our White Corian Counters Are In – And We Love Them!
Merry Countermas to us!
They're here. And they're spectacular.
Just as a reminder, the
cave room looked like this back when we moved in last December:
But back to our brand-spanking-new Corian counters. I didn't expect them to feel as chunky, heavy, and stone-like as they do. They're like marble without the veins. Seriously. Nothing plastic-y about them. And they're sleek but sort of matte too if that makes sense, which looks/feels really chic and sort of honed-marble-ish (according to our installer the white matte ones are the only ones that don't show scratches, which will definitely come in handy). So yeah, it's safe to say that we're completely smitten.
Of course things were looking a bit rough when they went in, but we're used to the room looking like crazytown by now:
One of the coolest things to watch was how they made them completely seamless by filling the cracks where the slabs met with some sort of glue-caulk and getting it suuuuuper hot with these defibrillator-looking pieces:
Then they were flash cooled and the installer polished them until the seams were completely gone. Seriously, I'll give anyone who can tell where they were a hundred bucks because it's impossible. Oh but for this step of the project Burger, Clara, and I went for a nice long walk and John shut himself up in our bedroom because it was a little fumey while the glue-caulk was heated up and cooled and smoothed down (but it thankfully wasn't a dusty or messy process, which was nice). So I didn't come back to chaos, just beautiful white amazingness with the fan going and the windows open.
Here's where one of the seams ran (right up this corner) before he worked his installer magic. No evidence of it at all, right? Three cheers for shape-shifting counters. And yes, that is a baguette. We're fancy like that.
The guy was awesome about talking us through maintenance stuff. Here are a few of the fun things that I stood there and actually took notes about because I'm ridiculous (in my defense, the guy seemed to be entertained by my furious scribbling):
- Corian is nonporous, which means stains can't penetrate it (and most of them can simply be scrubbed off, even if you don't catch them right away)
- If stubborn stains (like red wine that somehow sits for a few days) do discolor the top layer of the Corian, a spray bottle full of 10 ounces of water and 1 ounce of bleach should strip the stain right out.
- The white color runs all the way through the counter, so if some insane spot refuses to come out, it can be lightly sanded in a circular motion with extremely high grit sandpaper (400 grit) and then followed with a very fine buffing pad (which was provided to us by the installer along with the sandpaper). It's like they knew we were DIYers. So we don't have to call anyone in to "resurface" things in a decade or two if we feel like polishing them up because they essentially taught us how to do it ourselves.
- Our counters are warranteed for 10 years, so if anything ever cracks or otherwise has issues they can come fix it for free (holla!) using the same method they used to fill the seams, which makes any prior damage completely undetectable.
So that combined with the fact that John's sister has had the same exact counters for five years with three kids and a big dog (and zero repairs/stains) makes us deliriously excited. And I'm happy to report that we're not being nearly as anal as we were with our first kitchen's granite counters (the light color of them really freaked us out in the beginning). We've jumped right into using our kitchen even more – so things like spaghetti sauce have already made an appearance without any disastrous results.
Oh but there is one problem. Our sleek new counters make our old cabinets look like crapola by comparison…
… but once we sand, prime, and paint them (along with fiiiinally replacing the eyeball hardware) they should be worthy of such pretty countertop company. Can't wait to rebuild/cut down some matching doors and get to the whole priming & painting step.
You can read all about why we chose white Corianand how much it costs here, and how the templating process went here. This post is just really about photos. Glorious, glorious photos of the counter that we waited 20 sinkless days for (read more about removing the old counters and sink here).
See that hulking 3 foot by 5 foot peninsula? Pictures don't capture how big it really is (it's larger than the wood dining table that we used to have in here). That baby is pure joy. So much space to spread out and bake/craft/eat/serve up appetizers, etc. The kitchen is pretty much 100% more functional and there aren't even stools there yet (or any wood trim pieces on the back and side of the peninsula to hide those ugly brackets)…
Oh yeah and see those counter edges on the peninsula above? They're gently curved, so there's no pokey part to stab Clara in the eye or John in the hip or me in the belly (yes, we're all dramatically different heights around here).
And for those wondering how we've been dealing with an in-progress kitchen and asking if we've been eating out every night, we've actually been really lucky to have a fully functional fridge, stove, and dishwasher this time around (which was not the case during our first kitchen gut job). So we've still been eating/cooking at home without counters and a sink (we just used a piece of plywood leaned on top of the cabinets as prep space with a cutting board and other platters and plates to keep us from actually prepping food on the plywood). But the whole washing-pots-and-pans-in-the-tub thing was getting old. So happy to have this guy back in action:
Our counter fabricators even left us a handy little cutting board that they made out of the sink hole for us, which can also be used as a trivet (super hot things shouldn't be placed directly on Corian counters, but we never put hot stuff on our old granite counters without a cutting board or trivet, so we should be cool). Oh and for anyone local wondering who we used for installation, we were beyond thrilled with Five Star (our installers) who were hired through Home Depot (where we ordered our Corian). More on that here.
Oh but wait, before the counters went in we hid a little time capsule behind one of the cabinets (which will only be found when our counters are someday removed).
John sweetly wrote it. It reads:
Today our new countertops are being installed. We are a family of three (well, four if you count our chihuahua Hamburger). I'm John Petersik (age 30), my wife Sherry (age 29) and I moved here 11 months ago in December of 2010 with our daughter Clara (age 1.5). We write a blog about our home improvement adventures called Young House Love (www.younghouselove.com). If you're reading this it means you're probably getting new counters too. Hope you enjoy them!
Here's how we hid it behind the corner cabinet by the window (stapled to the back of the cabinet in a ziplock bag).
Ah memories. We can hardly picture the top of the cabinets anymore. Isn't it weird how your eyes adjust so fast? So next up we have to cut down and hang a cabinet for the built-in microwave next to the pantry, start trying to retrofit/build matching doors for the secondhand cabinets that we added to the room, prime and paint the cabinets, tackle the backsplash, hang our built-in range hood and floating shelves, redo all the lighting, lay the cork floors, install our new stainless dishwasher, add crown molding, etc. Whew. Might not be done until late January (we originally were aiming for early Jan) but we're inching slowly towards the finish line. Just taking things one day at a time seems to be the secret to sanity. That and washing things in the sink again. Oh man, it's good to have that guy back.
Psst- I'm over on BabyCenter talking about our plans to build a play table for Clara, and sharing a roundup of the ones that have us inspired. More on that here.
UPDATE: We're officially in love with our new counters. Check out the update post about them here.
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OMG they look FANTASTIC!! Corian has now been added to our kitchen wish list! ;)
wow, I am very surprised at how your counters look!! I am nto sure why I wasn't expecting them to be so, well, white. They look really good.
I started reading this post and that Pointer Sister song kept playing through my head… lol "I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it…." Can't wait to see this project complete!
wowowowowow completely crazy about your countertops!
Your counters look great. I have similar Corian in my house, but it is from the 80's. It really lasts – will be a long time before anyone sees your note!
I loooove them. And I wish to one day have those exact counters in my future home. They're so pretty. And that peninsula? GORGEOUS! Can't wait to see what stools you end up choosing for that space. So.Much.Counter.Space.
i have been carefully following these kitchen posts with great interest—y'all are really inspiring me to see how much kitchen altering i can do on my own! (I also have to remove a wall, but my cabinets are not really cabinets, so all new cabinets AND counters and a rearranging of things.. and a new fridge, and MAYBE bricking up a door…) It's pretty intimidating but seeing what you have done in smaller chunks has really been helpful :)
Is Five Star a Richmond based company? Your counters look wonderful!
I'm in Roanoke and My Dad used to work there! Pretty neat to know who the owners are. They've gotten to be pretty big. :)
They look awesome! As a side note, we have Corian too, and while we do love it… do not put a pizza stone with it's carrier thingie on it. We did, on its trivet and heard a loud POP. It was the seam popping apart from the heat. Luckily, they seam (pun) to grow back together like magic. I want a buffing pad for mine too now. Thanks!
Love, love, love the new counters. I can't get over how bright the kitchen is now from when you guys first moved in. I love being involved every step of the way with you guys as you're redoing your kitchen. It's making me long to redo my 1970's style kitchen.
By the way, I love the Seinfield reference in the first line. Terri Hatcher before she was a Desperate Housewife! haha
I can't get over how incredibly lighter it is in there now! So beautiful.
Ii'mmmm dreaming of a whiiiite counntteerrr…
Lookin' gooood!!! It's come so far!
I cannot wait for you guys to paint the cabinets!! That's going to be a total game changer now that the countertops are in!
Congrats! They look amazing.
Wow, they indeed look pretty! Cant wait to see everything finished and nice and crisp!
What interested me most at this point was to remember that, our contractors did the backsplash tiles first, then installed the counter so some of the backsplash tiles were hidden behind the counter and even behind the cabinets (does that make sense?)
How will you put the tiles without spilling anything on the countertop, I just couldnt figure that out.. Hmmm…
Love them!! Great choice!
I have what may be a silly question – but if you can't put hot pots on the counter itself how can you put them on a trivet made from the same material? Or is it just that any damage it causes to the trivet doesn't really matter?
They look so phresh!!(ha!)
I know how much you love pillows, and i just so happened to come across a brand that used your dining room curtain fabric for pillows. Its featured as the main picture but it wasnt actually listed for sale. https://www.jossandmain.com/Signature-By-Stroud~E154.html?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=http://common.csnimages.com/common/email/reapeat_use/blank150x40-(2).jpg&utm_campaign=
What a transformation!! The living room and kitchen look beautiful. And, you deserve everything you purchase. You both work really hard!! Btw, I have been looking to purchase the shell you have in your kitchen and cannot find it. By chance, do you know where I can purchase one?
PS. Love, Love, Love the white.
It's going to be a White Merry Christmas!! Well deserved!
hugs to Clara and Burger xxoo
I just found your blog a couple of weeks ago and just wanted to leave a note because I am so in love with it!! My husband is a carpenter and we hope to start fixing up our home and eventually do major reno's like you guys are doing. Your blog is filled with such awesome resources and inspiration, I think I have poured over every corner of it. Congrats on your new counters they look fabulous!!
WOW!! they look aaaaamaaaazing!! congrats!! i have corian and love it!! welcome to the club!
They look great! I am sure you are thrilled. I really like the note idea. I am always saying I wish I knew about the history of our house such as who lived here etc. Great idea
Funny, we left a timecapsule between two stories when our upper floor cover was placed two weeks ago too! Filled with dollar and euros cents from countries we've lived in, curtain swatches, a tiny toy truck and few marbles the previous owners kids had lost in the backyard…
Back to your kitchen : so fresh, so pretty, so you guys!
Can't wait to see it finished!!!!
I absolutely LOVE the idea of the time capsule. You guys are doing an awesome job.
What a site to behold – those counters are gorgeous! Merry Countermas!
The counters look great, but will you guys get on painting those cabinets already. Slackers. :-)
You have so much counter-space now! It looks amazing! You guys are so cute – I love the time capsule idea.
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I have tried to look this up, but I don't have the first clue what it might be and my searches have led to nothing. It was left to me by a departing co-worker (which happens every time someone leaves). She didn't know what it was either and it never flowered for her, but it never received natural light until I took it. Now it gets watered once a week (which so far seems to work fine, but if anyone has more specific advice I would appreciate it) and has many new starts all of which have a bloom that only lasts about a day and some even have a second bloom before the new growth begins. Once the start is big enough, I allow it to stay attached but also put it in water then once the start roots, I detach and add to dirt. If someone could help me identify this plant I would really appreciate it.


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Sanctify \Sanc"ti*fy\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Sanctified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sanctifying}.] [F. sanctifier, L. sanctificare; sanctus holy + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {Saint}, and {-fy}.]
1. To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.
God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. --Gen. ii. 3.
Moses . . . sanctified Aaron and his garments. --Lev. viii. 30.
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Sanctify them through thy truth. --John xvii. 17.
3. To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.
A means which his mercy hath sanctified so to me as to make me repent of that unjust act. --Eikon Basilike.
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We have squandered most of our IP via trade deals (production in countries with less than diligent enforcement of IP violations) and ignorant regulation that supports patent trolls. There is very little software that isn't pirated.
Technology is a positive and negative bedfellow. It has probably replaced more jobs than one can count. What took 1000 people 20 yrs ago can be done by 10.
Plain and simple the US has a population problem. But in a consumer based economy, the US has failed to evolve the workforce with technology. Thus as fewer are working, poverty increases, heavy strain on social services and debt increases. Eventually this smothers the economy.
I know you follow Gallup, they picked up on the participation rate drop. They show a level not seen in almost 3 yrs using their matrix (P2P). Only 42.9% in the 30 hr or more work week. Stagnation. And that is with years of QE, forced low interest rates and massive government backing of consumer loans. It just isn't working. Maneuvers can be made only so long before this imbalance causes nothing short of collapse.Jan 10, 2014. 04:30 PM | 5 Likes |Link to Comment
I don't think you should sell anything. Present situation is very positive for the stock market. It is heavily backed by government and Fed actions. Since this article has to do with employment, I thought that is the situation we were addressing. Participation rate has been degrading for some 15yrs. Eventually this imbalance will catch up with a consumer based economy. Corporate ( now almost $10 T) and government (now at $17.3 T) liabilities are at record highs. As long as indebtedness keeps being extended, things will function, but it will be ever diminishing returns. Interest rates have had to be forced down, and now the Fed is having difficulty sitting on them. I suspect they may be forced to hold off on the next taper move to keep things under control. The 10yr is trying very hard to break free of 3%. If it does the Fed may be forced to chase rates quickly.
This is a big gorilla in the room no one wants to see wake up.Jan 10, 2014. 03:41 PM | 2 Likes |Link to Comment
Good portion of housing is purchased by investors...there are actually a few articles here on SA recently warning about the looming slowdown in housing. Regular home buyers (that can qualify) are getting government backed loans. Rental properties are the big winner at the moment. Autos...now I know you know this one.... 95% of all non-revolving consumer loans in 2013 were government backed student and auto loans. Retail sales are dismal as numerous reports are coming out.
On the flip side high end auto sales, Bentley etc. are doing well. The income gap is getting wider and the worker is getting poorer. 70% live paycheck to paycheck, 80% have been in or are impoverished or near poverty (numerous articles on this).
"(Reuters) - The number of U.S. residents living in poverty edged up to 46.5 million last year, the latest sign that an economic recovery marked by a stock market boom has not trickled down to ordinary Americans."
"While the Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 16 percent on a total return basis last year, including reinvested dividends, the Census Bureau report showed median household income slipped to $51,017 from of $51,100 in 2011.
The economy has struggled to sustain growth rates of more than 2.5 percent since the recession ended.
Although the bulk of the more than 8 million jobs lost during the downturn have been recouped, many of the jobs have been in services industries such as retail and restaurants that typically do not pay well."
The evidence is there. No one wants to look.Jan 10, 2014. 03:28 PM | 2 Likes |Link to Comment
The problem really is that there are over 45 million workage not in the labor force. filling the 3 million jobs might buy a bit of time, but the system is going to eat what is left of the economy.
Jan 10, 2014. 03:11 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
LFPR was also rising and had not been in a 15 yr decline as is the case now. US GDP growth then was due to all the other major manufacturer countries were in ruins from WW2 and hadn't rebuilt yet. The US was unopposed manufacturing wise. The picture now is so massively different I can't believe you made the comparison.
Jan 10, 2014. 03:09 PM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
What is the quality of those jobs? Which demographic is filling them? How much has the size of the potential labor force increased vs number of jobs created?
2.2 million sounds nice, but if retirees are taking a large chunk of jobs and the number of those work age but not in the labor force are far outstripping job creation, not only is no improvement occurring, but the consumer based economy will collapse. Considering participation rate for the 25-54 group has been in long term decline it seems as if things are falling apart.
There are 45.4 million NILF 16-64 (no disability).
Extraordinary government and Fed programs are still in place years after the recession supposedly ended. I suspect, it never did end, but merely covered up.Jan 10, 2014. 12:50 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
BIG Employment Miss [View article]Jan 10, 2014. 11:41 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
such as what? it isn't due to retirees..they are the only demographic that is increasing participation rate. The meat of the workforce 25-54 yr olds have been declining for a long time. Gallup shows a decline to 42.9% (for 30hrs a week or more workers). This doesn't bode well in a consumer based economy. Eventually, this decline will crush the economy. Considering all the extraordinary measures still propping up the economy and we still see such degradation, I'm not sure we ever actually left the recession...just poured a can of paint over it and hoped it would stay glossy.
Jan 10, 2014. 11:37 AM | 4 Likes |Link to Comment
A Payrolls Report That Matters Again [View article]
Though people like to point at the ADP numbers...the job gains appear to be in the retiree zone with older demographic showing the only increase in participation rate.
http://bit.ly/I8JC4KJan 9, 2014. 08:46 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Retirement Vs. Discouragement: The Decline In Unemployment [View article]
16-64 with no disability:
http://bit.ly/I8JC4IOct 22, 2013. 09:39 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Johnson & Johnson's Invokana: Be Careful [View article]Apr 1, 2013. 08:18 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Initial Jobless Claims: +20K to 362K vs. 359K consensus, 342K prior (revised). Continuing claims +11K to 3.14M. [View news story]Feb 21, 2013. 09:54 AM | 2 Likes |Link to Comment
Dec. International Trade: The U.S. international trade deficit in goods and services -$38.5B vs. consensus of -$46.0B, $48.6B (revised) in Nov. [View news story]
While the drop in the deficit was much larger than the consensus expected, it was not far off from what the BEA assumed in the fourth quarter advance GDP data. The BEA anticipated that, excluding nonmonetary gold, the trade balance would fall to roughly -$40.0 bln. According to the actual data, the trade deficit excluding gold dropped to $41.0 bln. That means the huge "surprise" in the trade data will not result in an upward revision to fourth quarter GDP and may actually contribute more to the contraction."
"It is likely that it was due to the week-long strike in the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports that occurred after Thanksgiving. That delayed some shipments that normally would have been made in December into January."
Read more: http://bit.ly/UKpVwnFeb 8, 2013. 11:16 AM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
Initial Jobless Claims: 366K vs. 360K consensus, 368K prior. [View news story]
This is after massive intervention by the govt and fed that is still continuing.Feb 7, 2013. 03:42 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Attorney General Holder puts a $5B-plus target on how much S&P (MHP -6.5%) defrauded investors through faulty ratings on MBS, and says the DOJ is going after all of it. "S&P misled investors ... causing them to lose billions of dollars." S&P alone? (earlier: Even $3B seems far too high) [View news story]
True, that can be said for any country that prints its own money. Devaluing the currency though tends to have a rather negative impact allowed to go on too long. Commodities are already experiencing inflation. Economic growth via debt creation doesn't work for very long.Feb 5, 2013. 02:24 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment


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Privacy screening plants
I have a somewhat shady spot in my backyard, where the fence is not too high. I had bamboo growing there, which was great for privacy, but just took over and was so hard to control. I just removed it. I"d like to put something else there that is tall, provides privacy, and maybe deters intruders from jumping over the fence, without being too intrusive--is that a tall order or what?!
Any suggestions are welcome.
I was thinking of Pampas grass, italian cypress, or putting up some trellises and growing bougainvillea. I don't know if any of those plants do well without full sun, and not sure if Pampas is very invasive or not.
I have a similar situation, but my location is in full sun.
Pampas will definitely deter fence jumpers. I think it looks great along the roadside. I wouldn't want it on a small city lot.
How about Ligustrum japonicum (wax leaf ligustrum)? It grows relatively fast in sun or shade and is easily trained as a multi-trunked small tree.
I used viburnum around my swimming pool. A couple are 10 ft high already and 7 or 8 ft wide. I put some other plants in between as well like loripeltum which did well also.
I have a similar problem on one side of my yard. The privacy fence is very old and I don't want to replace it. So I'm thinking of putting chicken wire along the metal posts and getting confederate jasmine to grow up the wire. I have a trellis of it around my pool and it gets very thick and the scent of the blossoms is great. Just some ideas.
Pjames, I'm sure I've seen viburnum, but I don't know where. I just checked it out on Floridata and it sounds perfect for what I need. How big were the ones you planted and how long did it take them to grow to 10 feet?
Here is a link that might be useful: viburnum


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