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Supporting Affordable Housing through Tax Credit Syndication
As a tax credit syndicator, CAHEC structures equity funds using investors' capital. CAHEC's most recent fund is the South Carolina Preservation Fund II LP (SCPF II). SCPF II is a $32 million equity fund designed to preserve and renovate a portfolio of older, multifamily housing properties in South Carolina. The targeted portfolio includes 41 properties with a total of 1,548 units. Although all investments in SCPF II were fully subscribed in 2008, banks can invest in other CAHEC equity funds as they are developed. To learn more, visit their Web site or e-mail Dana Boole or call (919) 788-1803.
New Market Tax Credits Help Preserve Affordable Multifamily Housing
Jubilee Housing, a faith-based, nonprofit organization, which provides affordable housing and supportive services to economically disadvantaged residents of the Adams Morgan neighborhood, purchased Ontario Court in 1980. This preservation financing will continue to keep the apartments affordable. The child care center, Jubilee JumpStart Early Childhood Development Center, will offer educational programs during the day and provide care for children during the night and on weekends, while parents work.
Enterprise Community Investment and PNC New Markets Investment Partners used the New Market Tax Credit program to make this project a reality. The tax credits were leveraged, and PNC Bank provided an additional $3 million loan. Through the Housing Production Trust Fund, DHCD contributed $3 million to the project, and Jubilee Housing provided additional funds. Once the child care center opens, PNC plans further investment through the PNC Grow Up Great program, the bank's initiative for early childhood education.
For more information, visit the Jubilee Housing Web site.

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Before you buy, "stress test it"
by Gary Sipiorski
The author is the dairy development manager for Vita Plus of Madison, Wis. He is a member of the board of directors with Citizens State Bank of Loyal, Wis.
In 2011, dairy producers received the highest Class III average yearly milk price ever recorded at $18.37. The highest monthly milk price of $21.67 was tallied last August, and it was preceded by the second-highest monthly total, $21.39. One has to look back to July 2007 to find the third-best Class III of $21.38.
Dairy farmers weren't the only ones who received a high price for their product . . . grain producers, too, saw some all-time best paychecks. Granted, expenses ran high; however, there was still plenty of cash on hand with the expected gain in 2011's total farm income to be more than $7 billion over the previous year when all of the numbers are finally added up.
Profits and expenses are up
We have all heard the comment, "When farmers have money, they spend it." It is true that farmers help move the economy. As a result, machinery manufacturers have stayed busy, farm construction businesses are hiring workers, and land inflation continues. While profits are up, so are expenses. Based on these higher production costs, higher incomes are needed but not guaranteed.
Future profits are not guaranteed. We are coming off a year with record dairy exports. But future success is not guaranteed. There is uncertainty with European debt, and one never knows what is really happening in Asia, so stress testing new capital expenditures should trump emotion.
On the flip side, the Federal Reserve Bank's January statement stating it will keep interest rates at the present level until late in 2014 does send a signal to buy something. The Federal Reserve, in March 2012, has repeated their statement that interest rates would stay low until the end of 2014. All of agriculture, however, needs to be watchful that they are not lulled into thinking prices will never drop again.
Stress test purchases with at least a 25 percent lower milk price. Think that's unrealistic? Then remember 40 to 60 percent downturns have taken place in the last 20 years within agriculture. Specifically, here are the steps:
1. Stress test your balance sheet. What would it look like if cattle and land prices dropped by 25 percent? What would your net worth look like? Would your lender still be able to lend you money for an operating loan?
2. Stress test your cash flow. What would your income look like if milk dropped by 25 percent? Given current market conditions, there could be $2 to $4 in your milk check related to the export market. What if Europe has a recession and it spills over onto the Asian economy where much of our powder is shipped? Would they cut back on their purchases?
3. Stress test interest rates at 8 to 12 percent. Even though the Federal Reserve has made a multi-month statement on low interest rates, never say never.
4. Stress test your current equity or liquidity. How much cash do you keep on hand? At a recent dairy business meeting, it was suggested that dairy producers keep two months of milk checks in reserve. I know that it is ridiculous for many dairy producers to think about keeping that much cash in a money market. Just think what they could buy. How different would the stress level have been in 2009 if there had been one month of income parked in the checkbook?
5. Sit down to think about and work through income and expense changes on your dairy before making a major financial commitment. Work the numbers through before emotion takes over. Make sure you do not load up on a lot of monthly payments in good times only to find it difficult to make the payments in skinny times.
6. When assets are added to the dairy, ask yourself if each dollar invested can generate at least 70 cents of gross income each year after the initial purchase. Some accounting firms think even higher gross incomes should be expected.
7. Sit down with your family members and key employees to determine if they see purchases the same way you do.
8. Talk over your intended purchases with your financial consultant, accountant, and certainly your lender before adding to your debt. Bankers do not like surprises even though they have plenty of money to lend and generally want to say "yes."
Be able to ride the cycle
There have always been up-and-down prices in agriculture commodities. There are always risks and many opportunities. Be careful of the mind-set of a "new era" of now permanently higher commodity prices. Change and progress are good, but make sure you have your financial eyes wide open to the reality of what is possible and stress test your ideas first.
This article appears on page 384 of the May 25, 2012 issue of Hoard's Dairyman.


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Bitter Seeds is an internationally award-winning film that explores the future of how we grow things, weighing in on the worldwide debate over the changes created by industrial agriculture. Companies like the U.S.-based Monsanto claim that their genetically modified (GM) seeds offer the most effective solution to feeding the world's growing population, but on the ground, many small-scale farmers are losing their land. Nowhere is the situation more desperate than in India, where an epidemic of farmer suicides has claimed over a quarter million lives. Every 30 minutes one farmer in India, deep in debt and unable to provide for his family, commits suicide.
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Ok, well I kind of keep bees, if you call leaving them alone in the eave of my house, bee keeping. I'd like to move them to a proper bee keeping hive, probably a TPH, although I live in an HOA community, so it'd have to be on the sly. Oh, and they've been there since October, I was there when they swarmed, but didn't know enough to catch them.
We have a bunch of fruit trees, and everything has been setting so much more fruit. How can you tell if they're Africanized? They don't seem to be very aggressive, they're right at the front door and we walk back and forth under them all the time.
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Glad to hear that was a help. Love to see some of your pots. I keep one of my disasters as a spoon rest. Helps me see how far I've come. Laura Updated 12 Mar · 0 comments


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I am using an AMD trunnion I have no idea if that would make a difference
As or right now I have the original depressor spring in place.
I am using an AMD trunnion I have no idea if that would make a difference
You can bevel the cartridge guide a lot with out compromising the trunnion strength. I will post some pictures of mine so you can see how much I have beveled it. I will also post a picture of my cartridge depressor and feed tray modifcation. By opening up the slot in the feedtray allows the cartridge to sit lower so the bullet nose is below the cartridge guide. My feed tray is opened up enough so that the connecting springs of the links rest on the feed tray. Bending down the cartridge depressor tip guides the bullet below the cartridge guide. Having to TIG weld the tip back on, if done right, so you have complete penetration of your weld, should be no problem strength wise.
Also, from what I can see in your pictures looks good although you are going to have to remove the portion of the left guide rail that is sticking down into the ejection port. Otherwise you are going to have ejection problems. Just leave enough for the cap screw above it to have a complete threaded hole.
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It looks like you may have not narrowed the stripping lug on the bolt enough. This will also cause the cartridge and links to ride up high in the feed tray and not line up so the nose of the bullet is below the cartridge guide. The stripping lug should be narrowed so it is narrower than the gap in the links. Otherwise it will lift the cartridge and link up and cause the same problem.
Here is some pictures of the feed ramp and how the cartridge & link set down in the feed tray slot. You can also see how the stripping lug of the bolt head has been narrowed. A good picture of this is in the tutorial. You may have to weld a small block to the top of the cartridge guide and blend a bevel into the guide to get it to deflect the cartridge down into the chamber depending on what your trunnion looks like. I did on this trunnion. If you do, a piece of 1/4" key stock works and just use minimal weld so you don't anneal the trunnion locking lug areas. You can see that the block is welded along the top and sides but the welds are away from the locking lugs. Don't weld the block to the top of the locking lugs. I also beveled and polished the top of the chamber a small amount to remove the sharp edge. Be sure you don't bevel into the chamber more than about 1/8" though.
Thanks for the quick reply. I think that you are right on about the stripping lug now that you mention it. I must say it is amazing the work that you put into the tutorial and then to be so willing to help me now both you and cntrailrider are amazing people. I was worried that the slot that I had put in my feed tray was to wide but now I know that I am on the right track. I will probably add the piece of 1/4 inch than there will be no were else for the round to go except for in the chamber. Have a wonderful Easter all!!!
Well I trimmed the stripping lug, beveled the feed tray edges a bunch more and beveled the cartridge guide. My other problem was that I had the feed pawls in the wrong position causing the round to sit cocked in the feed tray instead of being in line with the chamber. It is the greatest feeling in the world to see that round get stripped out and see it fly out the front of the trunnion. I had a couple of other questions. For loading conventional MG such as the M249 SAW and M240 is bolt locked to rear open top cover place rounds against cartridge stop close cover. I do understand that both of these weapons fire from the open bolt. The reason for locking the bolt to the rear before loading thou is to insure that the feed stud on the bolt will line up with the feed guide rail. I realize that the MG47 fires from the closed bolt. So how do you go about loading it and maintain alignment between all moving parts. Also when using a standard AK barrel do you still make the bolt carrier extension 6.13 long? I have not purchased my barrel yet so I have no idea what the dimension for the gas block is. One last question what did you use to make the brass deflector? Thank you again for all of your time..
Leave the first 3 links empty and hook the first link on the little tab on the right side of the feedtray. Be sure that the feed cam is pushed all the way to the left and if your feed stud is right on center you should be able to close the top cover with the bolt forward and locked. Then pull the bolt all the way to the rear and release it. It should advance a cartridge into the slot in the feed tray part way on the rear stroke and the rest of the way on the forward stroke just before the stripping lug strips it from the belt and feeds it into the chamber. The bolt carrier should be the same length for a standard AK barrel or a RPK barrel. For a shorter barrel that has the gas block different than 10 1/2" from the face of the chamber to the shoulder that stops the gas block you will have to adjust the length as necessary. I made the brass deflector from a curved piece of 18 ga sheet and just soft soldered the radiused ends to it.
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HBS - Stay with it!! Lookin' good
Well I finished turning my gas piston this evening. I wanted to use some Stainless Steel hydraulic tubing that had a thinner wall so I needed a larger piston. The piston is a little longer and larger of course. I hope that helps me out on down the road. I also threaded the inside of the piston so I could just screw it on instead of brazing.


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Movie Review: Haywire
The thought of Steven Soderbergh, of all people, directing an action-packed international cast revenge thriller starring an MMA supernova could send your hopes soaring or get you scratching your head.
Director: Steven Soderbergh Rating: R Studio: Relativity Media
The thought of Steven Soderbergh, of all people, directing an action-packed international cast revenge thriller starring an MMA supernova could send your hopes soaring or get you scratching your head. Film snobs may give Haywire a wide berth and action junkies may snub it because it stars Gina Carano instead of, say, Jason Statham or Gerard Butler. Either group would be missing a bet because the movie is a cool, cleverly made, head -crushing, bone-breaking blast.
The wily, even self-satirizing screenplay by Lem Dobbs (The Limey) casts Carano as a covert operative for a company hired by the government. When she gets double-crossed during a hostage-freeing mission in Barcelona, she sets a fiendishly clever mousetrap for some powerful, relentless creeps with whom she plays a worldwide game of cat and mouse.
The movie is served up in a stylish, elliptical, high-energy '70s mode and features Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor and Bill Paxton. But it relies heavily on the incredible physicality of the sexy, likeable Carano. Unlike such previous female action stars as Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron, she reportedly cracked heads, kicked butt, scaled heights and drew blood without relying on stunt doubles. Carano co-stars Michael Fassbender (whose scenes with her are highlights) and Channing Tatum reportedly wore plenty of padding but their epic clashes with the Muay Thai mistress have a visceral, real-time rawness.
Haywire, especially coming after things like the Ocean's Eleven series, The Girlfriend Experience and Contagion, marks yet another zigzag in Soderbergh's career. He may be unpredictable but his command of movie making is exhilarating and lord knows he's never dull. And neither, happily, is the non-stop, bare-knuckled, balls-out fun of Haywire.
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Playboy Contributing Editor Stephen Rebello has written many Playboy Interviews and 20 Questions features. He is the author of such books as the notorious Bad Movies We Love (with Edward Margulies) and Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, the latter of which has inspired a dramatic feature film set for production in 2012. His most recent Playboy Interviews include Josh Brolin and Cameron Diaz.


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El Dia de los Muertos displays at ITC
UTSA Tri-campuses to celebrate 'Day of the Dead'
By James Benavides
Public Affairs Specialist
(Oct. 31, 2007)--The UTSA Tri-Campus community will observe El Dia de los Muertos, the traditional Day of the Dead celebration, with displays and activities at the UTSA Tri-campuses on Nov. 2, the Christian feast of All Souls Day. El Dia de los Muertos is a way to celebrate the lives of deceased relatives and friends. In the Hispanic tradition, as long as the departed are remembered, they are never truly gone.
El Dia de los Muertos usually involves preparing an altar (or "ofrenda") dedicated to the memory of a loved one. Various artifacts are placed on the altar including candles, religious emblems, salt, water, calaveras (sugar skulls), incense, marigold flowers, photos and other items that may have been associated with the deceased in life, such as sunglasses, tools or jewelry.
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At UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures, educational specialist and floor manager Willie Mendez has prepared the altar for the past 10 years. This year, it is dedicated to the memory of deceased ITC staff members, docents and friends.
In addition to the traditional altar, ITC educational specialist Patti Dunn continues to research the contemporary evolution of the holiday and its re-emergence with the help of Chicano artist Joe Lopez and photographer Pedro Ruiz. Their findings are shared in a new ITC documentary, "Imagenes en Transicion: The Evolution of Contemporary Imagery in El Dia de los Muertos," which is incorporated into the exhibit.
The ITC Dia de los Muertos exhibit is free and open to the public, but does not include admission to the main floor. UTSA students, faculty and staff are admitted free with UTSACard. The exhibit runs Oct. 11-Nov. 4.
At the UTSA Downtown Campus, the Office of Student Activities invited students, faculty, staff and organizations to prepare altars for display in the Durango Building student activities center. They will be on display through Nov. 5. Altars on display include a tribute to the late Sen. Greg Luna and altars by UTSA Downtown Campus Facilities Services, Catholic Students Association and the Mexican-American Studies student organization.
At the 1604 Campus, altars are on display Oct. 31-Nov. 2 at the University Center galleria, sponsored by the Inclusion and Community Engagement Center and student organizations. At 10 a.m. Nov. 2, Pan de Muerto, the traditional Mexican sweetbread baked for El Dia de los Muertos, will be served at the University Center galleria near the altars.
A UTSA College of Architecture class received an invitation from the Museo Alameda to participate in a Dia de los Muertos observance by designing and building the structure for the museum's altar on Market Square. It is one of the museum's first community collaborations and its first with UTSA.
Students from lecturer Curtis Fish's visual communications class designed and installed the pyramid-like cardboard structure for the museum's "Dia de los Muertos: Honoring our Heroes" exhibition, which opens Nov. 2. The altar will remain through Veterans Day, Nov. 11, drawing together the two distinct cultural celebrations. For more information, visit the Museo Alameda Web site.
In addition to the Nov. 2 Feast of All Souls, the Catholic community celebrates the Feast of All Saints on Nov. 1. In observance, the Catholic Students Association will conduct two All Saints Day masses, 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the Durango Building student activities center, UTSA Downtown Campus, and 7-8 p.m. at the St. Anthony Catholic Center on Roadrunner Way.
For more information on El Dia de los Muertos celebrations, visit the Institute of Texan Cultures Web site or contact the Office of Student Activities, Downtown Campus, at (210) 458-2816 or the Inclusion and Community Engagement Center at (210) 458-4770.


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Wayne White was raised in the mountains of Tennessee, which may well seem an unlikely background for the celebrated cartoonist who went on to design the extraordinary, iconic physical universe of Pee-wee's Playhouse. Neil Berkeley's engaging documentary portrait of Wayne White chronicles the vaulted highs and troubling lows of a commercial artist whose life becomes a tightrope, delicately balanced between the need to work and the high demands of the art he loves so deeply. At the core of the film, White guides us through his wonderfully entertaining life story by way of his latest creation: a hilarious, biographical one-man show consisting of performance pieces as well as his dryly witty "word paintings," which have brought him to the attention of the world of fine art. (87 min.)
"A thoughtful, skillfully executed pure pop pleasure, from start to finish." –Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
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Your wedding anniversary is a lovely date to remember, but it's not the only milestone that matters. It's even more intimate to celebrate less public moments of which only you two know the true meaning, such as your first kiss, first vacation together or — hey — even the first time the pregnancy test turned blue.
Sure, you have funds earmarked for bills and savings, but every couple also needs a just-for-fun account to fund the occasional, much-need indulgence, says Brown University psychiatry professor Scott Haltzman, M.D., author of The Secrets of Happily Married Men. "Put some money aside that won't destroy your budget when you use it," he says. Spend it on a spur-of-the-moment weekend trip, a pricey bottle of champagne or front-row tickets to a concert you're dying to see.
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#1 Sun 01 Apr 07 8:32pm
Years ago, in New Caledonia, I had the most amazing meal of cerviche ("raw" fish cooked in lime juice). It was a white fish probably "perroquet" (parrot fish) with coconut and coriander.
Since then, I've tried almost 50 recipes for cerviche but none match the original in flavour or texture.
Any suggestions for tried and true and "thumbs up" recipes?
Thank you.
#2 Mon 02 Apr 07 1:14am
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I might be more to do with the time between the fish swimming about and when it hit your plate.
#3 Mon 02 Apr 07 1:30am
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Huh? Do you mean freshness- staight of the lagoon- the largest in the world?
NC's reef is second only in size to our Great Barrier Reef. To see it from the air is amazing. To be paddling with kids and have the small reef fish swimming around your feet is also amazing.
I lived and worked there on and off from 1980-1984. My friends are restauranteurs and I moon-lighted at the now defunct Club Med as their nurse (handing out Panadol for hangovers, sunburn treatment and the very occasional trip to the public hospital, Gaston Bourret) was the extent of it.
When the cruise ships full of Australians came in, I helped out as a translator and in the kitchen when they were really pushed.
#4 Mon 02 Apr 07 1:55am
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Yes, I was aiming at freshness. If you go to sydney's fish market you are getting the leftovers after the export market, restaurants, supermarkets and fishshops have go theirs? Claudio's is still the best though.
#5 Mon 02 Apr 07 2:18am
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That's where I always shop (if I can get a park). Never seems to taste the same, though.
Perhaps it's that "idealised" memory of food in a great location (by the lagoon) with friends who are no longer with us or that with age (a truth) our taste-buds become less sensitive/receptive.
Still, I keep on trying.
Anyone have a great recipe for cerviche with lime, coconut milk and coriander?
#6 Mon 02 Apr 07 2:24am
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Claudio's is the best you can get from the markets (I was very pleased last year to have this confirmed by one of the senior floor managers of the market), if you can't get it from there you could try catching your own fish or living with the happy memory
#7 Mon 02 Apr 07 4:07am
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I mix the sole fish in small cubes, some chiles, red onion, red and yellow sweet pepper, chopped coriander and lime juice.
I let it stand for about 30 min and serve it with sweet potatoes cooked in the oven with some oil.
I've never tried with coconut milk , but it could taste nice....
I've tried once with some mango chopped in cubes.
I hope you could ever try that ceviche again!!!
#8 Mon 02 Apr 07 6:16am
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Hi Cusi. Don't think I've met you before. Where are you from.
I wish I could taste that "simple lunch" again, too. Last time I was in Nouvelle Caledonie, the restaurant was still there, but, of couse, the menu had changed.
The freshness of the fish, the lime and the coconut milk (from the trees surrounding us) were what "made" the dish. Nothing added except salt and pepper and a simple green salad afterwards. If given a choice, it (and a sorbet) afterwards and a dozen freshly shucked oysters as an entree would be my last meal.
Nice to meet you!
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Does anyone have an idea if this right
cubed white fish
lemon juice
white wine
dried oregano
white pepper
I think this is how an old boss of mine made it. But he used fish cutlets. He was from Greece. Do they have a "raw" fish dish, traditionally?
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#10 Mon 02 Apr 07 6:48pm
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Thanks for your response!
The Greeks might add oregano, but the Melanesians/Polynesians would never. The dish I ate was high on lime juice and coconut milk which makes me think it has a Tahitian influence (Polynesian).
I am a second generation French-Ukrainian-Irish- Anglo Australian married to a second generation Greek-Anglo who was brought up on traditional Anglo food so I'm not the best one to ask re traditional Greek food.
I do know that it's very regional and that in some areas they eat the slabs of salted fish, similar to what Italians call "baccala" or French call "moreau"- know that's incorrect spelling. My daughter has started Uni and has helped herself to my huge Collins Robert French dictionary and my philosophy texts.
Suggest you post on "Greece is Everywhere" in the Introductions forum. They would be better equipped to answer your question.
Thanks for your help!
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Effectiveness of Lavage With Alcohol - Chlorhexidine for Chemical Matricectomy
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To compare the efficacy of the lavage with 70% alcohol plus 0.5% chlorhexidine versus 70% alcohol in the surgical treatment of ingrown toenails.
Ingrown Toenail
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|Effectiveness of the Lavage With 70% Alcohol Plus 0.5% Chlorhexidine Compared to 70% Alcohol for Chemical Matricectomy in the Surgical Treatment of Ingrown Toenails
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- Quantity of phenol recovered in each lavage with each solution [ Time Frame: up to 2 weeks ]The amounts of phenol in the samples were quantified by a Jasco modular high performance liquid chromatograph HPLC (Jasco International Co Ltd, Japan) equipped with a LG-2080-04 quaternary low-gradient unit, a PU-2080 pump, a DG-2080-54 degasser, an AS-2050-plus autosampler and a UV-2070 plus UV/Vis detector was used. A C18 column Luna (particle size 3 µm, 150 x 4.6 mm) (Phenomenex, Torrance, CA, USA) was selected for the chromatographic separation of the components, adjusting the column temperature to 30 °C (LC Ni-II/ADC oven).
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Ingrown toenail irrigated using 70% alcohol - 0.5% clorhexidine
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In the intervention group five rounds of 3 ml wash of 70% alcohol - 0.5% clorhexidine was used to irrigate the exposed area of the nail to neutralize any residual effect of phenol and found out how much residual phenol is still in the wound.
Other Name: chlorhexidine-gluconate
Active Comparator: 70% alcohol
Ingrown toenail irrigated using 70% alcohol
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After phenolization of the ingrown toenail the wound is irrigated with 15 cc solution of 70% alcohol plus 0.5% clorhexidine
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The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of the lavage with 70% alcohol plus 0.5% chlorhexidine versus 70% alcohol during the phenolization procedure in the surgical treatment of ingrown toenails in patients undergoing for chemical matricectomy.
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Gao W, Legido-Quigley C. Fast and sensitive high performance liquid chromatography analysis of cosmetic creams for hydroquinone, phenol and six preservatives. J Chromatogr A. 2011 Jul 15;1218(28):4307-11. doi: 10.1016/j.chroma.2011.04.064. Epub 2011 May 6.
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ingrown toenail
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It was no more than an offhand comment tossed from one friend to another in the fall of 2002. "We oughta go to Honduras over spring break," were the words, more or less.
At least that's how Shital Chauhan, PT '06 (her first name rhymes with "lethal"), then a physical therapy major in her third year at Marquette in the College of Health Sciences, remembers it.
She was talking with her great good buddy Jeff Bodle, Bus Ad '04, also then a junior. Bodle told her about an amazing trip he'd taken the year before to an orphanage in Honduras with a bunch of friends and a crew of doctors from his hometown of Indianapolis.
Something about that suggestion spring break in Honduras worked its way into Chauhan's heart. She didn't know then that deep in the mountain villages of a third-world country thousands of miles from Milwaukee, something would be stirred inside her. Something about the dirt-poor children and women and men of Honduras who carve out lives at the remote ends of sometimes unpassable roads. People living in thatched-roof adobe huts that leak when it rains but who never fail to find reason for hope and joy.
Something about that place and those people grabbed hold of Chauhan and never let go, and so it became her life's work to lift the yoke from their hard-working backs and give them the tools to cultivate a life as close to robust as possible.
She didn't know then that, as Dr. Toby Peters, associate senior vice president at Marquette, puts it now: Chauhan and company "essentially created a corps of compassion, changing the lives of those served and those serving."
What started as that spring break trip to Honduras in 2003 is now the nonprofit Global Brigades, the world's largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization, serving the poorest of the poor in Honduras, Panama and Ghana.
The numbers speak to the power of Global Brigades. Not even 10 years after that first ad-hoc trip, some 12,500 student volunteers have served 300,000 people. More than 350 GB chapters have sprung up at universities across the United States, Canada and Europe, and they bustle with some 5,500 undergrads trekking to remote villages halfway around the globe annually to work in nine specialty areas: medical, dental, public health, water, business, micro-finance, law, environmental and architecture. So far, six service programs are set up in Honduras, five in Panama and four in Ghana.
From peering down the throats of kids with tonsillitis to extracting abscessed teeth, from teaching the villagers to build eco-stoves that keep their huts free from lung-clogging soot to building community banks to pouring concrete floors that cut down on parasites, Global Brigades wholistically transforms the lives of people who live in unthinkable poverty.
"It's easy to toss around a number like 350 chapters, but when you go to Honduras and see it, when you drive through one of these small villages and see groups of college kids going every which way, hard at work on some project, that's the real beauty of it," says Pallav Vora, chief legal officer for Global Brigades and Chauhan's fiance.
"Getting inside young people when they are really quite impressionable and full of optimism and passion I sound like an old man, but instead of texting and wasting their lives, this is really quite something," says Vora, who is just 30 and sits beside Chauhan in the kitchen of a loft in Chicago's West Loop. The condo serves as Global Brigade's U.S. office, thus saving on office rent.
The two of them shove aside their ever-pinging laptops to talk about the brigade that is the heart of their lives.
Chauhan, whom her friend Bodle remembers as "side-splittingly hilarious, the sort of person everyone thinks is their best friend," curls into a sleek armchair, sipping high-octane coffee.
It doesn't take long to realize that with or without mouthfuls of caffeine, Chauhan is one animated spirit and wholly captivating storyteller.
"Right away," she says, leaping back to the fall and winter of 2002 and the start of what would become the Global Brigades story, "we decided instead of just showing up at the airport, let's collect meds and equipment."
Rookies back then in the fine art of scavenging, she and Bodle and Stephanie Merlo, H Sci '04, pored through Milwaukee's Yellow Pages, dialing local physicians, asking if they had anything to donate to this motley band of Honduras-bound Marquetters.
"We borrowed a car," recounts Chauhan of step No. 2 in the scavenging short course. "For one week, we had Steph's parents' van," a blue Plymouth Voyager. They managed to fill the van, packing it with donated goods, which they stored in a basement boiler room in a big blue house at 17th and Kilbourn, shared in classic Marquette style by nine girls.
"It was a dangerous-looking basement. It really looked like a drug den," Chauhan says, rolling right on with the story. "Everyone who was going on the trip was allowed two 50-pound suitcases, so we went to Goodwill and got as many suitcases as we could. That, of course, saved shipping costs.
"It was all very undergrad students trying to make something out of nothing," she says of the prevailing ethos still alive now and certainly then, when weekends were punctuated with "packing parties" and hip-hop-stoked Saturday nights were spent stuffing medical supplies into every last suitcase.
When spring break 2003 arrived, 20-some college kids and 40-some shoddy suitcases rode into the night to two Chicago-area houses Chauhan's in the suburbs and Merlo's in the city. Benevolent parents fueled the kids with home cooking, and they all boarded a 5 a.m. flight to Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras.
Once on the ground, they boarded a bus and rode to the village of Nuevo Paraiso, where they stayed in an orphanage, six beds to a room. It took another three hours driving on bone-jarring mountain roads to get to the first stop on their medical brigade, where the students thought they'd be little more than "grunt workers," hauling bags, translating a few scant words.
Instead, Chauhan recalls, the doctors threw them into the thick of it. Awakened at the crack of dawn, they drove hours to villages, each one poorer than the last, tended to hundreds of patients and worked until close to midnight, then packed up again for the next day's excursions.
During the course of that week, while absorbing the joy of this culture that didn't measure riches by material yardsticks, Chauhan was pulled deeper and deeper into the mission. Bodle, now a neurologist in his third year of residency, remembers watching her and witnessing the birth of something remarkable: "She was spending a really long time with each of the patients, getting much deeper than the rest of us."
Chauhan remembers the end of the week, crying at the Tegucigalpa airport, not wanting to leave. And she remembers being picked up by her immigrant parents at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
"As I told the stories of what we'd seen and where we'd been," she says, "I remember my father, who is not a man of many words, quietly saying, 'That's how it was in India.'"
Suddenly, in the midst of telling the story all these years later, Chauhan's eyes fill with tears. She stops to wipe one away. She talks about how her father, now a mechanical engineer, grew up so poor, his own father a struggling farmer who grew rice and sugar cane on a scant half acre in Gujarat, India.
Her parents lived in their little village with only a few hours of electricity a day. She talks about how when they came to America, they had nothing but the $10 bill stuffed in her father's pocket and how they managed to raise her and her brother with all the trappings of a suburban American life and send them both to college. Not until she took that first Honduran trip though could she actually picture the stark frames of her parents' impoverished earlier years.
Chauhan returned to Milwaukee forever changed, convinced that what she and her traveling band began in the mountain crevices of Honduras had to continue.
She searched for but did not find any organized service trip groups targeted to undergrads. So she made the hero's choice: "If there isn't anything out there, let's just start it."
And, so, they did.
At first, it was called Global Medical Brigades, and another Marquette-based trip happened the following winter break. By the end of their first year, they added a second chapter, launched at the University of Michigan. And, then, another and another. By 2005, there were 75 chapters.
It wasn't long before the co-founders of Global Brigades Chauhan, Steven Atamian, Enrique Rodriguez who met in serendipitous ways, realized that medicine alone would not cure the ills of Honduran poverty. The name was changed to indicate a broadening of service areas.
So, in short order, they formed brigade after brigade, a multipronged grassroots approach that addresses everything from antibiotics to water-filtration systems and that aims to rid daily lives of a plethora of scourges ranging from parasites to deforestation.
Since the get-go, Global Brigades has never abandoned the make-something-from-nothing spirit of keeping costs at bare-bottom lows while maximizing people power.
Peters, who has traveled on nine Global Brigades ventures, bristles at anyone who refers to these trips as "volunteer tourism." Far from it, he insists. "A week of transformation," he calls it.
It was that very thing that got under the skin of one extraordinary physical therapy student all those years ago. And, now, one village, one college kid and one trip at a time, she's hell-bent on making certain it gets under the skin of thousands and thousands of others.
Quite a spring break souvenir. Wouldn't you say?


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Published May 2008,February 2011.
Up to about 1,900 BCE the Celestial Pole was Thuban a star in the 'tail' of the constellation Draco. By 1,000 BCE it was Thuban in the constellation Ursa Minor. Today Polaris is the last star in the 'tail' of Ursa Minor
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'Sun time' and 'clock time' are different. Sun time is based on the fact that the sun reaches its highest point (the meridian), in the middle of the day, and on the next day at its highest point, it will have completed a full cycle. However, the time between the sun reaching successive meridians is often different from clock time. According to clock time, from May to August, the day is close
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Russian FM after meeting with Kerry: Russia has no "common vision" on Crimea with the west
posted at 2:01 pm on March 14, 2014 by Allahpundit
The Crimean referendum on independence is Sunday. Western sanctions are set to take effect Monday. Today's meeting was the last grasp for a deal before the two sides dig in.
"We do not have a common vision of the situation," Sergei Lavrov told journalists in London through an interpreter, adding that the "dialogue was constructive."…
Lavrov also told reporters that Russia had no plans to invade southeastern Ukraine.
"The Russian Federation does not and cannot have any plans to invade the southeastern regions of Ukraine," he said…
Lavrov also said Crimea – which was part of the Soviet Union before the end of communism – was of "immeasurable" value to Russia, and meant more to his country than the Falklands mean to Britain.
Here's what Lavrov means he says they have no plans for a broader invasion:
Lavrov says Russia has "no plans to invade southeastern Ukraine," by which he means such a plan may materialize at any moment
— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) March 14, 2014
Russian troops are now massing in three different border regions to Ukraine's east. Could be that the Crimea referendum is itself largely a pretext for a broader invasion: If there are any protests or skirmishes in the south or east in response to the vote, which seems highly likely, that's Putin's cue to claim that ethnic Russians throughout the rest of Ukraine are in danger and need "rescuing." In fact, per The Interpreter, Lavrov refused to acknowledge at today's meeting that Russia has invaded Crimea. They're still sticking to the transparent fiction that the troops now in control of the province are some sort of mysterious homegrown element that's keeping the peace lest it explode from ethnic tensions. Can't wait to find out next week where the 200,000 men in camouflage patrolling eastern Ukraine supposedly came from.
Kerry warned him today that the west won't recognize the results of the referendum under these circumstances, as if Lavrov cares. On the contrary, Moscow's focused right now on preparing Russians for confrontation with the west and its sympathizers:
But then came the day a Moscow acquaintance announced on Facebook that her daughter, a first-grader, came home from school in a panic because the teacher had told the class that America was about to invade Russia. But then television host and attack dog Dmitry Kiselev went after the "radicals" in Kiev in a special broadcast dedicated to Ukraine, saying that the transfer of Crime to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic in 1954 was "a historical crime" and blaming the dissolution of Yugoslavia on the West. "What is Yugoslavia now? A pimple on the body of Europe."…
Yesterday, Ekho Moskvy, the biggest Moscow radio station who had its website blocked yesterday, invited on the air the editor of Den, a strange Moscow paper, said the crackdown on the press was necessary because the West had waged "an information war" against Russia, to which Russia had to present a united front. A family friend wrote from Moscow in shock: His television was telling him the internet is for radicals and perverts, which, to him, was a clear foreshadowing of a great firewall with the West. (Other Moscow friends, all liberals, are beginning to get seriously depressed. One describes a foreboding feeling that a civil war is near, another asked for the number of a good immigration lawyer in the U.S.)…
Here's what's scary about this: this is all being done, according to various reports, without any consultation with anyone outside Putin's shrinking inner circle of old KGB spooks. The economic elites most likely to suffer from a plummeting ruble and sanctions have been shut out of the decision-making process. This is all about intangibles, the things that reason can't hook, the things impervious to logic and reasoning and even the cynical algebra of geopolitical interests.
So, yeah. To put it mildly, between this and the fact that 69 percent of Americans now see Russia as a threat to the U.S., there is indeed no "common vision."
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The kit you got is most likely a milled receiver kit, there are some small differences then a stamped receiver kit.
I'm not sure what to say to some of your questions, maybe when you post pic(s) I'll be able to help.
And welcome to the forum
I bought an ak parts kit (Bulgarian underfolder)
I obviously had to order front and rear trunnions. I opted, due to availability or lack thereof to buy a used barrel from Numrich's.
The trunnion I bought was listed as a Romanian front trunnion from black market arms and is marked as 23 mm. The barrel components appear to fit, haven't tried to press them yet, but the trunnion is huge. I will try to post some sizes tomorrow, but I figured I'd check with you all. Is there something I am missing? Or do I just have random parts?
By the way, the rear sight block and trunnion will not fit each other well.
Any ideas?
The kit you got is most likely a milled receiver kit, there are some small differences then a stamped receiver kit.
I'm not sure what to say to some of your questions, maybe when you post pic(s) I'll be able to help.
And welcome to the forum
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem" Ronald Reagan
It is a milled kit, but it was my understanding that all I needed to do was order trunnion and a barrel. I did some research and discovered that euro barrels are 23 mm at the chamber. Chinese barrels are 19.75 or something, but the barrel is thicker on the Chinese. I don't get how every thing else fits but the chamber is too small.
welcome to the forum. did you order chinese parts? They may not fit the Euro parts.
Look in the archives here on the forum. There is a chart that shows you the differences in the Euro vs Chinese parts.
Usually, parts kits come with a front trunnion. Yours did not? That lends credence to Coils' statement regarding milled kit. You are in a whole nother ballpark there.
post pics. They will help us figger out what you have...
I know it is a milled receiver kit. I bought a stamped receiver and a used akm barrel along with front and rear trunnions.
The barrel is not threaded at the chamber and has the appropriate threads at the muzzle. I'll be measuring it shortly, but I don't think it's a Chinese barrel.
See attached pics.
Barrel components, prior to be pressed, just hand tight
OK I got you on the milled kit, makes more sense now.
But I never messed with a milled kit so I'm going to have to go off fuzzy memory, I know you'll find the info here.
Someone mentioned before that the Bulgy milled AKs (actually most of the milled receiver AKs) uses the AK47 pattern barrel. From the rear sight forward they are a little larger then the AKM.
The rear sight & trunnion pic is what I was thinking you meant. You will find this with all trunnion I believe, so you'll have to mod the trunnion in this area or the rear sight base.
The barrel trunnion pic, that barrel looks way to small or the trunnion is way to big.
You'll need to measure those and yes they should be about 23mm, as you stated the Combloc AKM uses a barrel/trunnion press fit at about 23mm.
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem" Ronald Reagan
Double checked with caliper, I do indeed have a Chinese barrel. The barrel sizes are good with the exception of the trunnion, rather than find a new barrel, does anyone know if Chinese trunnions will work in a polish receiver?


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I wanted to take the time to thank you for all the work you do on the draft,,,video,analysis, etc. I just don't have the time to do it myself and your hard work always keeps me informed on the latest prospects. thanks again and keep up the good work. GO BLUE!
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I think you all did a great job on this block!
klgreene, you're not going backwards, you're learning every time you make something new, even when it is not the way you wanted it. Next time you know how to do it right :) I think there's nothing wrong with your block, we all have missing points somewhere in a quilt. I know I do!
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Adding my prayers for those in the line of the storm, Marty, LaQuita's daughter and everyone else having issues.
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I am in. Can't miss it.
Adding my prayers for those in the line of the storm, Marty, LaQuita's daughter and everyone else having issues.
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I'm in for November!! Headed over to pm Lori.
Faith is not about everything turning out OK; Faith is about being OK no matter how things turn out.
There were ALOT of people who did not send in pm's when thy received or when they mailed, new people need to read the directions more carefully and experienced swappers need to take the the 2 mins out of your life to send it when you mail and when you received. Thank, Lori
I'm in, I'm in... and this month, I will not send a SP virgin kind of package!!
I'm in too, now that I am in the country until March!! I'll be sending you my info PM tomorrow! I love these swaps!!
I'm in, sent PM last night Lori
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Sent Lori my info this morning - looking forward to this month's swap.
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By Donna L. Wilson and Kirk D. Jensen
Illustrating the adage that no good deed goes unpunished, retailers offering financially-strapped or credit-challenged consumers the option of layaway are facing criticism and threats of litigation and regulatory scrutiny.
According to Senator Charles Schumer, if retailers do not better disclose their layaway fees to customers, he intends to ask the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") to determine whether they are breaking the law and engaging in deceptive or misleading business practices. Senator Schumer is accusing the industry of "taking advantage of people and charging them outrageous interest rates, under the guise of making it easier and more affordable to shop."
Although layaway programs were commonplace—and generally noncontroversial—throughout much of the 20th century, in the last decade retailers generally had ceased offering a layaway option to consumers given the increasing consumer preference for and the convenience of credit cards. For the retailer, layaway imposes additional costs, such as administrative costs for handling the account, storage costs, and the risk that the consumer will not complete the transaction, which retailers attempt to offset through layaway fees. However, with increasing numbers of consumers unable to obtain credit, layaway has become an attractive alternative which offers numerous advantages to consumers. For example, it enables consumers to buy an item at its lowest price, rather than wait and lose the discounted pricing. Also, if for some reason a consumer cannot ultimately complete the purchase, it is not reported to the credit bureaus.
Layaway programs, however, impose legal and compliance risks on retailers and other merchants, and are subject to an array of federal and state laws. For example, on the federal side, there is the Federal Trade Commission Act (the "FTC Act"), and such financial services statutes and regulations as the Truth in Lending Act ("TILA") and its implementing regulation, Regulation Z. The FTC Act prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce. TILA and Regulation Z apply if your customers are required to agree in writing to make payments until the purchase is paid in full, and require certain written disclosures before a transaction is made under an open-end consumer credit plan. Both TILA and the FTC Act carry potentially substantial penalties.
Meanwhile, on the state side, retailers must comply with statutes that expressly regulate layaway programs (for example, in California, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, Ohio, and Rhode Island). These statutes dictate, for example, the maximum amount of service charges, any cancellation policies, and the content of disclosures. Certain of these state statutes impose strict liability, and carry the risk of statutory damages or multipliers of actual damages. For example, in the District of Columbia, retailers are prohibited from charging more than one dollar ($1.00) in total service fees for all items purchased on a given day, and default, late fees and cancellation fees also are severely limited. Non-compliance with the District of Columbia requirements can result in penalties of up to $1,000 per violation. In addition, retailers must ensure that their layaway programs comply with state statutes that prohibit unfair or deceptive practices more generally. Otherwise, they run the risk of federal and state regulatory and enforcement actions and investigations, as well as follow-on class action litigation.
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Its shaped kind of like a Skyy - SCCY now.
Hi, I sell airsoft guns but I cant figure out what replica this is. Any of you pros know what replica this is, so I can advertise is properly. Please please.
Thank you!
P.S I hope the pic loads properly.
It's starting to really bug me. I've googled through about 500 hand gun pics and cant find a match.
Looks like a cross between a Walther PP (the clip) and Walther P22..
The Chinese just make something and throw it in a box.
Seems generic to me. If you did find something obscure it closely resembled, I don't imagine the labling would help the sales.
Send it to Mike. Once he figures out which holster it fits, you'll know what gun it is.
I think it's an airsoft only pistol. Though the Walthers P99, CZ's and 77b's may look similar, there's nothing like it in production unless you're agent 007. It's a fantasy based on real pistols. It's also ugly as sin and should never be used as a prototype for any real pistol.


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some appear to be really down on JJ, while others still see the potential and flashes, just not enough opportunities...Wonder what JJ has to say about all this lol
some appear to be really down on JJ, while others still see the potential and flashes, just not enough opportunities...Wonder what JJ has to say about all this lol
He really does have great versatility, shiftiness, and speed, if he is to be the player he ws in college...
The risk with regards to him as a WR is a common 1 for Smaller WRs coming out of college with limited experience vs press coverage. He just cannot get off the line of scrimmage without being mauled in the initial 5 yards. He finds himself too far behind in the route. That is what he needs to figure out , in my opinion, before he can make any real contribution.
The short training camps have hurt JJ not to mention sitting behind our best WR tandem in the history of the franchise. If Cruz does sit out for a while, it will help JJ get more reps in camp and show whether he's got the good or is just another iteration of Sinorice.
No one remembers who came in second.
Jernigan is certainly due for a breakout! this is his 3rd year already and he hasn't impacted anything!
that doesn't mean he wont impact the offense he just hadn't had much of a chance with Nicks Cruz Hixon and Randle!
the Giants are giving him a chance to make an impact and I think he will be surprisingly good this coming year!
if they kept Barden around for 4 years they will imo retain JJ at least for the duration of his contract!
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I'm pretty sure the team said they plan on using him as PR/KR so we will at least get to see what he can do on special teams. Don't call JJ the next Moss just yet.


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Right this very second, we're working hard on the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act and – as always – the McKinney-Vento. But this year, we also aim to:
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And really, that's not all. Remember the whole federal plan to end homelessness that the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness released last June? Remember the youth homelessness site visit campaign? Remember how the HEARTH Act is going to kick up at any moment?
The people that we elect today will have the ability to make significant changes in our lives – and for my part, I'm hoping they have the best interests of our communities and our country at heart.
And if that isn't enough, let me remind of you of the situation at hand with a few flashback statistics (courtesy of the Center for Housing Research):
- With only one in three poor renters benefiting from federal housing assistance, by 2006, some16.8 million renter households (46 percent of all renters) were paying more than 30 percent of their income for housing.
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Look, you don't need us to tell you that the situation out there isn't rosy. Isn't there some hubbub about the rent being too high in New York?
For many, it's not a joke – it's for real. Countless Americans are struggling to stay stably housed and support themselves and their families while precariously straddling their financial cliff. Together, with the support of Congress and the Administration, we can make that tightrope walk just a bit easier. With a focus on housing and services, we can prevent and end homelessness in this country.
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