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A new leaf for Alexandria art scene
Mikko Cowdry and Chuck Wencl jazzed up the crowd at Big Ole Central Park in Alexandria on Thursday. More than 70 residents came together to celebrate what most people are calling the city's first public art display - the Gathering Tree.
Following the spirited performance, Mayor Dan Ness formally acknowledged the piece as attendees celebrated with ice cream treats.
"Probably the first public art in Alexandria, hopefully it's not the last," Ness said. "This is the beginning of something great."
Mayor Ness said Alexandria has always had a vibrant music and performing arts scene and hopes this sculpture will bring a more expansive art interest to the community. In addition, Maxine Adams, executive director for Lake Region Arts Council, presented the mayor with a Legacy City sign, which will be displayed around town.
Artist Marcia McEachron said inspiration for the Gathering Tree comes from all facets of life. McEachron has a background working with metals and noted blacksmithing as an influential trade.
"[This] sculpture is about light and shadow," McEachron said. "It's almost a sundial."
As the pieces for the sculpture were being plasma cut, one dropped out of the middle, McEachron said. That piece was another leaf that was molded into a chair.
Chairs are currently being sponsored for inclusion in the Gathering Tree display. A few chairs have already been committed, said Sandy Susag of the Alexandria Arts Advisory Committee. Each chair costs $360.
Innovative Builders and Mark Lee donated the foundation for the sculpture. Park Director Bill Thoennes and the park department staff were instrumental in securing the sculpture for the city.
The Gathering Tree has been brought to Alexandria through the Alexandria Arts Advisory Committee, which commissioned the work through a $10,000 grant from the Lake Region Arts Council with funds from the Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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In the graph, slaves, by definition, humans ruled by weapons (enemies) and money (slave proper), are degraded by the animal people-castes in a very Darwinian manner.
Humans are becoming increasingly disordered into a free state of chaos and pleasure, a democratic state in which freedom is merely virtual, since they are perfectly ordered by A.I., the information algorithms and values secretly encoded in the mathematical language of money and the equations of value of weapons and machines, as they substitute and atrophy the human kind, while evolving in perfectly ordered systems called company-mothers of machines:
There was though a previous less professional system of people-castes all too obvious, in which metal, weapons and gold with its higher metal-entropy to kill bodies and information-mirroring (gold) to hypnotise already in a 'chemical way', converted men into pheromonal slaves of its values, 'greed' and violence', eviL=anti-live hypnotic behaviour and murder of other human beings..
In the graph, slaves and enemies are the entropy object of weapons and gold, which animetals with idol-ogies of different racisms put at the bottom of the human pyramid of wrong social classes… to be able to ab=use them with go(l)d and weapons, through violence an greed, the 'hidden values' of selfish memes of metal.
The ultimate reason of that pyramid are however the equations of profits of capitalism and its values: 'pecunia infinita nervus belli'.
The sintax of metal languages defines the memes of animetal cultures.
Slavery appeared first in the records of Mesopotamia with the name of 'enemy' or 'from foreign lands'. So the buying of humans for the fetishe gold atom appeared only when caravaneers, mostly transporting weapons with donkeys and buying slaves condemned to death by armies, established the leasing of human life for money. From then on, the 'capitalist' system, which merely means that money is the absolute valuable good, hence men can be exchanged for it, under a simple systemic equation of exchange of 'energy-object' for 'information-subject', worth to remember, from the perspective of 'slave labor':
Man (Object=slave=Salary) = Price:Money (verb): cost = Machine (Object=slave=price)
This is the fundamental equation of labor in terms of money, where man is an object, bought wholesale (slave) or part-time (salary), and hence is equal to a machine with a price, also a slave. And because both can be compared, as the relationship is of equality, there is no reason why in objective terms (digital values) men cannot loose their job. And because machines evolve and men do not, men WILL ALWAYS TEND TO LOOSE JOBS. This completely contradicts classic economic theory that affirms there is an equilibrium point of full labor, based in a STATIC conception of the machine as an object that does not evolve.
It is obvious though that because machines evolve and humans do NOT evolve their IQ and bodies, as machines do, departing from an ideal static point of full employment in the past, the MARGINAL profits of Machines will constantly increase as their price drops (better methods of reproduction, OVERPRODUCTION CRISES), their output/productivity grows (more evolved machines) and HENCE A CAPITALIST SYSTEM BASED IN THE VALUES OF MONEY will 'systematically' diminish labor towards a point of zero labor in the future, when all white collar works and blue collar works can be substituted by white collar Pcs (metal minds) and blue collar robots, as HISTORY of labor proves.
But this only will happen in a world RULED by money as the LANGUAGE of maximal power whose syntax of 'man as an object' substitutes the Universal grammar of our verbal, human-centered language:
Man (subject) < Verb (action) > Object (energy).
Here as it is AN INEQUALITY IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO COMPARE MAN, WHO HAS HIGHER VALUE WITH THE OBJECT, AND SO legally governments in 'human societies', ruled by laws and the human wor(l)d, are obliged to obey thesyntax of words and put penalties and barriers to the substitution of workers by technology.
THE CONCLUSION IS OBVIOUS: Legal words and hence historic verbal systems (governments, ethic religions) MUST CONTROL ECONOMICAL SYSTEMS based in the values of money.
So what is the solution to the conundrum of money as a commodity, gold that values metal more than life?
Obviously the subjection of money to the power of the Law, by making FIAT MONEY, LEGAL TENDER MONEY not in gold support. Only fiat, legal tender currency, representing nations carries human values and can be used to reproduce a world to our likeness, spent by governments in the creation of salaries and welfare goods.
Thus the type of money, its values and who invents it; matters, since it defines not only who rule societies but what societies care for and reproduce.
THERE IS NO SERIOUS ANALYSIS IN economic SCIENCE OF THE NATURE OF MONEY AS A LANGUAGE OF DIGITAL INFORMATION THAT CARRIES more information than words (mathematical synoptic syntax allows this), and controls society. Money is thus fiat money, nomisma, whose value is establish by law. It is not gold,a commodity, a very primitive version of money as a language, established due to the easiness to create coins and other accounting units with metal. Money as nomisma (law in greek), means that its power is established by governments and hence it is a privilege to regulate society that must be on the hands of governments, NOT private bankers.
The fight for power in economics thus has been ABOUT THE CONTROL OF the fundamental language of power, money,
To put prices and value reality with them, to issue money – that is the game of Pricers vs. Prophets of the world.
SINCE GREECE AND THE FIRST DEMOCRACIES established money as fiat nomisma (Solon, Licurgus and Numa in Athens, Spart and Rome) CONFRONTING the power of Eastern Empires (Persian emperors and Phoenician-Jewish-Carthagean Trading Empire) which considered MONEY AS A FETISHE OF GOD, a small representation of the sun-God accumulated during millennia in their temples (GOLD RELIGIONS OF MESOPOTAMIA and Levante).
Ever since the Greek-Latin culture that invented science, logic, the scientific method, democracy and classic art, making man the center of creation tried to reach independence through the establishment of nomisma, fiat money controlled by states, made of different substances than gold and the Levantine temples tried to impose their culture, based in a more primitive, previous type of mind (ilogic, emotional, subjective, mythic based in pyramidal structures of power with coalitions of warriors and bankers in control of society on top with the power of weapons and money).
This fight is the essential fight of history, which has clashed mostly the cultures of the neolithic and its fertile rivers and the Southern European social culture of humanism against the Germanic-Semitic nomadic cultures of people-castes of warriors and traders and we study many of those battles, relating some of its episodes latter on as an introduction to the study of the present usury-debt crisis.
The law of eusocial evolution, natural to all species, which evolve together, sharing energy and information through common networks, when they recognize each other as equal being, cells of the same superorganism, is confronted by the law of darwinian devolution, in which species that consider each other different ab=use the others as relative energy of their selfish agenda.
In human superorganisms, the laws of eusocial evolution were perfectly defined by the great prophets of love, in the old age, by the messages of love of Buddha, Jesus and Mhmd, in the modern age by the work of the r=evolutionaries of history, with their motto 'egalite, fraternite, solidarite' and the socialist vision of a planet ruled by social love.
On the other side of history though 'animetals=humans+memes of metal, money, weapons or machines' perceived themselves as different, because of the power of their enhanced energetic weapons and informative, hypnotic money. So they don't recognize other humans as equals, breaking the law of eusocial love and devolving history to a primitive 'homo bacteria' state, which is the dominant zeitgeist of our age. In the graph, a case of darwinian devolution by the power of weapons and one of eusocial evolution among two brothers of the same family.
Most people ignore that the Universe displays two "moral" behaviors, in order to enhance the survival of its species; behaviors which are repeated constantly in all the scales of the fractal Universe.
Social Evolution
Similar "cells" of a same species, act in herds and organisms. They are parallel species that communicate energy and information, to evolve into more complex social organisms. We could say they "love" each other. In cases of social evolution the population of a certain species will socialize, and become a more complex organism, sharing their information and energy, often "hunting" together. The population will become a society more powerful than the individuals. Social evolution will enhance the power of the herd that survives better. In history, the survival mandate of social evolution became the concept of love in Natural Religion, and "equality, fraternity, and solidarity" in modern politics. It clearly justifies as natural behavior the idea that men should not compete with men, but work together to resolve the problems of our world as a "single, historic organism".
Darwinian Struggle
Species which are different, abuse each other as relative energy. We might say they "hate" each other. Why? Because those species cannot communicate and act together. To communicate the emitter and the receptor must be essentially the same species, or at least must have similar informative and communicative organs.
When beings are very different and cannot decode their information, they absorb that force of communication as a form of energy, and feed on it. They consider the other species an energy source, and act in consequence as hunters. Then we talk of a Darwinian struggle, a fight between species, of hate, of predators and victims.
The hierarchical pyramids of animetal cultures.
This earlier structure of 'capitalism' where 'capital' is understood in the modern sense as money and also capital in mechanisms, in the earlier age weapons now machines, is reflected in the previous graph:
– On top of mankind there is money, gold, in the past, today e-money cycles in the mind of computers, and the goal of our corporations that rule our politicians is to multiply money, origin of the boom and bust financial crisis as the one we still live. This goal that is the only goal of corporations has a Biblical origin in the Semitic Jewish Cult(ure)s to Go(l)d of the ancient Cananean civilization when a new type of society, neither a warrior society with weapons on top or a fertility cult to god, but a merchant society with banker-priests that asked for gold exvotes to their temples, was established by phoenicians and imitated by jewish caravaneers, who called themselves 'Am Segullah', People of the treasure, ill translated as 'chosen people'. This people of the treasure formed a slave society in which the levis, or banker-priests on top enslaved the 11 tribes of hebrews, habirus 'those who walk behind the asses' as they were military transporters in mules, trading in luxury, weapons and slaves to bring gold ex-votes to the temple. This religious, theocratic origin of capitalism latter transferred by the Protestant reformation with its emphasis in the old testament to the germanic 'warrior animetals', and fusioned in the British->American cultures is therefore the origin of all the idol-ogies that prevent the science of history and the alternative, Greek->Latin->European->American rational, scientific, enlightened culture that pursuits a true democracy and a true sustainable world, but lives under the boot of the Germanic-Jewish animetal empires ever since.
So we can observe the real structure of power based in those idol-ogies of metal: on top the supreme power, the search for profits, the idol-ogy of capitalism. Next it comes Abrahamic Religions, which in the Biblical original version are religions that validate go(l)d as the supreme goal of humanity, paired by Nationalistic religions that revere weapons, with a germanic, tribal origin. They provide the ego paradox, the carrots of false power that the common people absorbs to obey and enslave for the system and its masters.
Here in the next level of memetic power and mental programming of mankind comes the political system that can be in capitalism a military dictatorship or a false bipartisan choice – since the Universe is one and science has one truth, it follows that only one 'science of history and economics for a sustainable world should exist' and so politicos should be voted in open lists, parties should be abolished as carriers of idol-ogies and protectors of corrupted politicos and all of them voted after tenure and judged – that would be a democracy.
Next comes of course, represssion. The Memes of metal, weapons, the stick that makes the system 'sustainble' for power. Then it comes the managerial upper-middle class of society, the people who do have a high level of life, and it can be internal to a nation, but also within the structure of the entire planet, an entire people-caste or privileged nation, which is on top of the metal wave and has specialized in the control of societies with money (jewish people-caste of banker-priests that controls the west and in the past germanic aritocratic warrior tribes, origin of european capitalism that controlled a mass of christian chattel). on the bottom remains the 90% of society which has to work, is extorted with taxes, controlled by police, programmed by the media system and in this manner imprinted with the beliefs of the system.
C) Model Hypothesis: A new Top predator, animetal cultures prey with metal memes on Mankind.
Again the perspective of an animetal and a human being is different.
The model hypothesis of the Animetal is that he is chosen of go(l)d, and so STILL TODAY, we hear the CEO of Goldman sachs telling us that ' a banker's job is God's job'.
A scientist though will see on top, of our societies the 3 animetal='man+metal' people-castes, aforementioned:
Bankers, warriors and in the modern age also scientists. And he will see them as parasites or if he has an epic flair, as the new top predator species of the planet that use memes of metal to control life.
On bottom he will see humanist cultures that try to build historic superorganisms based in eusocial love and welfare goods and flourish when animetal hordes civilize till a new weapon destroyed them.
And the bad news about it, is that those hierarchical pyramids with animetals on top show human beings on the bottom don't control the system.
Since animetals on top are slaves of its power 'idol-logies' who don't reason, but believe the future of metal memes is their tribal 'manifest destiny' because the ego paradox makes them think they are special, entitled to be 'more than God' without any tradeoff. Intelligent, humble people who since Genesis' parable explain them the trade-off of using memes of metal that atrophy them to be more than life by are shunned off.
Animetals are addicted to the energy and information overdrives that machines give them and deny metal also kills them. A 2nd salvation strategy essayed by verbal masters is to make them love, eusocial evolution: the understanding that all humans are members of the same species, which must love each other – share energy and information among them to become parts of stronger social superorganisms – instead of being animetals, attached to metal-energy (weapons) or metal-information (Gold, machines) to come on top. But Christian & Buddhist prophets who preached this strategy in the Western and Eastern tradition (11) won short victories as 'animetal' anti-prophets taught them to be selfish and substitute ethics for the power of metal-memes, ending love cultures, corrupting believers with weapons (Luther, son of a miner) and gold (Calvin, son of a money-lender).
Meanwhile in the East, the alliance of warrior castes that use weapons to murder infidels– Jihad Islam and Kshatriya castes in India; Mongols and Samurai with muskets in Japan, extinguished Buddhist cultures. In the industrial age, animetals will add to the power of gold& weapons, organic machines that enhance our body/mind making us addicts and atrophying our organs. Warriors and bankers join scientists, creating company-mothers that rule all Western Nations, hidden under a 'placebo' mask of 'Democratic rights' controlled by lobbies.
This will be the pattern: when gold, money as commodity is established, when weapons overcome the law, when the German-Jewish civilization takes over the latin-greek enlightened one humans plummet. And both 'parasite classes' of mankind create a hierarchical pyramid:
On top there is the go(l)d or Iron sword of the Temples to Baal or Yvwh, Assur or Thor. This fetishe object is 'the mediator' in the covenant contract with God, common to Assyrian and Jewish religious law… WITHOUT the fetishe, today converted in 'profits' the priest, today the corporation, cannot enter in contact with 'God'. Thus gold, today profits is the ultimate goal, needed to achieve immortality – in the Calvinist religion becomes the proof of God's chosen. The last room of the Yvwh temple is in fact made of pure gold, called the sacrest of sacrest, where only the Levi banker-priest can enter.
In German religions is a huge sword, which is the common link between the Smith that runs the tribe and the God in valhalla – both have one. And children are impaled, sacrificed in the oldest Cananean religions to the altar of Baal or El. What Abraham does is to substitute his child for a sheep, symbol of the goyyim, the gentile, meaning that as the Capitalist power expands over other people, the 11 slave tribes come up a stair, and now they obey the banker-priest and control the sheep-gentile, with whom they do NOT share emotions. Only money deals relates them to the gentile.
This is still essentially the way most Jews relate to gentiles – only through business deals, and this is essentially the pyramid of capitalism, which we show in a classic XIX c. drawing in the next paragraph, with a bag of gold on top, priests behind, then corrupted politicos, and weapons, then the managers – the habiru and on the bottom the goyyim, the workers without rights.
Who is more guilty of our demise as species, the german criminal psyche or the greed values of gold? The body or the language of the cult(ure)s of eviL?
The mind, which controls the body. Let us then, as 'information/heads/languages', control always all complementary systems of the universe – that is, control bodies and energy, study in more detail in this introduction the main of those ideologies, capitalism, the issue and control of money, the language of social power in an economic society.
Capitalism in this view is as old as the Mesopotamic and Levantine cultures that imposed it in its temples of gold. Against them, Democracy and freedom born in Greece with Fiat money defied them in a series of 'mothers of all battles' that started when Athens and Sparta defied the gold temples imitated by delphi and broke their germanic, anthropomorphic Gods, established fiat coins and liberated the human spirit. Some of those battles:
We conclude that among all memetic non-life based objects that enhance our survival or give us power, none has the importance of metal-memes:
– Weapons, made of the strongest energetic atom of the Universe, iron, kills bodies and makes its carrier or 'animetal warrior' the most powerful being of planet Earth.
– Money, traditionally a precious metal, informative atom, Gold or silver, which hypnotizes the mind (there are studies that show the contemplation of gold inhibits the production of oxytocin, the atom of eusocial love and happiness; and at chemical scale, gold and its closest atom mercury, goes to the brain and kills the neurons) and so it makes slave of greed and the banker that carries gold, anyone under its sway.
Money in this 'civilization' was always a commodity, as it hypnotized their minds and became its religious fetishe
– Finally machines enhance apparently our body and mind capacities (though it substitutes and atrophies them).
And that power is what makes 'animetal cult(ure)s' fundamentalist ones.
The first of those battles were:
– The fight of Greece Vs. Persia, when northern mediterraneans that had survived as a culture of life, freedom and human art in Crete, where the 'charioteers' that destroyed the fertile crescent had no arrived, and then in Ionia, became free of the slavery to go(l)den Temples that dominated trade from Levante. Solon in Greece broke the monopoly of Gold temples that obliged peasants to pay taxes in silver and gold, making them debt slaves of the temples, as Jewish Usury lenders would do in the Middle Ages, establishing 86% of usury every year, to obtain slaves for the eunuch traffic during the lower middle ages. Thus Solon forbade debt slaves, established as Licurgus did in Sparta a fiat money of iron, stamped by the nation and freed the Southern europeans, MAKING POSSIBLE the birth of Democracy, the Greece culture, the first age of reason, and the eusocial doctrines of neoplatonism.
– The fight of Rome vs. Carthage+Israel. Rome became independent of Etrurian temples by establishing Numa coins, made of brittle iron and bronze, cheap coins which were made legal by the eusocial honesty of the Roman people.
So the European world made for the first time the transition from the primitive, dog-eat-dog cruel Semitic psyche, in which the word had no value neither life, mind and body of Humanity degraded by the primitivism of the Germanic-Semitic, visual Neanderthal crossed races that now again are bringing mankind into dark ages – while at the same time pretending to be righteous, hard-working, honest victims of mankind.
Those battles continue in the Middle Ages between the eusocial church and the German-Jewish warriors and slave traders; then between Italians who invented paper money and goldsmith usurers.
Then between French Revolutionaries and British and German armies… Once and again till the present battle between Social Europe and Frankfurt's ECB.
And between colonies wanting to print fiat money and the Bank of England. Thus, those battles also took place in America, between private bankers and free-debt money, the last of which happened between lincoln, who invented free greenbacks and those who killed him, chose Mr. Grant a corrupted, drunkard as president who redeemed greenbacks for gold and instaured the dictatorship of bankers in America that still endures. Since in America, once the founding enlightened fathers were forgotten, unfortunately the irrational, greedy temples of gold won that battle that brought all the wars and tragedies of history.
The evolution of idol-ogies. Animetal cycles of war.
Thus we can explain the 'interaction' of human beings and metal from an idol-ogical perspective, explaining , through the 'universal grammars' of those memes of metal, where they interact with us as objects and subjects, as systems of energy and information that interact with humans.


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|Mohamed, 2, with his mother Malyon in the stabilization centre at Benadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, where he is being is treated for malnutrition.
By Iman Morooka
MOGADISHU, Somalia, 8 September 2011 – Mohamed, 2, weighed just over five kg when he was brought to Benadir Hospital in Mogadishu recently. His family had arrived in the Somali capital just a month earlier. Due to prolonged drought, they had lost all of their livestock back home in Elbur, located in the Galgaduud region of central Somalia.
Mohamed, who was suffering from severe diarrhoea and malnutrition, was admitted to the hospital's UNICEF-supported stabilization centre.
After treating his diarrhoeal condition, the hospital staff addressed his severe malnutrition with therapeutic formulas and round-the-clock medical care.
The boy's weight increased to 9 kg, and a nurse said he would soon be discharged from inpatient care.
Children at high risk
Mohamed's family is just one of tens of thousands across Somalia who have fled to Mogadishu, which is now home to 470,000 displaced persons. About 100,000 of them have recently arrived in the city, escaping the effects of famine and drought.
"We now live in Badbaado camp for the displaced, where we intend to stay because we don't have any means to survive back home," said Mohamed's mother. Badbaado camp shelters nearly 30,000 displaced persons, according to the UN refugee agency.
There are far too many Somali children, like Mohamed, falling into severe malnutrition – a condition that places them at high risk of death within weeks unless appropriate treatment is provided. As a result, the stabilization centre at Benadir Hospital is operating beyond its full capacity, treating hundreds of severely malnourished children each month.
The hospital lacks enough beds to accommodate all the patients, and some of the children and their mothers have to sleep on mattresses on the floor. During July alone, about 450 children were admitted to the facility, with over 300 treated and discharged.
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|UNICEF Somalia Chief of Child Survival Dr. Osamu Kunii talks to one of the mothers of severely malnourished children who are being treated at the Benadir Hospital stabilization centre in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Specialized care
The Benadir Hospital centre is one of four such specialized inpatient facilities in Mogadishu, and 16 throughout southern Somalia, that UNICEF supports in order to provide treatment to severely malnourished children suffering from medical complications.
UNICEF Somalia Senior Nutrition Manager Peter Hailey explained how children are treated when they arrive at the stabilization centres.
"At this critical stage," he said, "feeding the child with just food could be harmful, because their body has been severely weakened and they need special therapeutic formulas." Once medical complications such as fever, diarrhoea and pneumonia are under control and the child recovers his or her strength and appetite, added Mr. Hailey, "they then go on a treatment course for a few weeks that uses ready-to-use therapeutic food, which helps the child to rapidly regain weight."
UNICEF steps up support
Amal, 15, the young mother of a 20-month-old baby, Mohammed, is relieved that her son is showing signs of recovery.
"My child was vomiting and had diarrhoea. I was so worried about how sick he was," she recalled. Amal and the baby had just arrived in Mogadishu from Bardera in Somalia's Gedo region two weeks before.
"After three days of treatment at the hospital, he is much better," Amal said as she fed ready-to-use therapeutic food to her child. "His diarrhoea has subsided, and now he is recovering."
In response to the current food crisis here, UNICEF has more than doubled its support to both outpatient and inpatient facilities across southern Somalia, aiming to treat 17,000 severely malnourished children each month. Since early July, UNICEF has shipped more than 490 tonnes of ready-to-use therapeutic food into southern Somalia, enough to treat over 33,000 severely malnourished children.
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Playa Vista Sellers Define Goals When Selling Home. Selling a home is life changing experience. Before selling define your goals. What are your motivations for selling your home? Are you relocating to another city?
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Here at Cruise Shipping Miami, the massive annual cruise industry expo, we've heard over and over from experts in the field that the recession has driven lines to cut prices to "unheard of" or "unprecedented" levels (we've seen many of such discounts here on Cruise Critic). But during one particular panel discussion, a speaker made an interesting point: with rates being what they are, we may see folks who've been ardent supporters of certain brands for years quickly jump ship. There simply comes a point when the deal becomes too sweet to pass up.
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DROPS design: Pattern no n-145
Yarn group A + A
Size: S - M - L - XL - XXL - XXXL
Finished measurements:
Bust: 102-110-120-130-134-144 cm /
40"-43½"-47 1/4"-51½"-52 3/4"-56½"
Full length: 70-73-75-78-80-83 cm /
27½"-28 3/4"-29½"-30 3/4"-31½"-32 3/4"
Materials: DROPS COTTON VISCOSE from Garnstudio
Color no 29, light gray green:
400-450-500-550-600-650 g
And use: DROPS KID-SILK from Garnstudio
Color no 06, light grayish green:
100-125-150-150-175-175 g
DROPS CIRCULAR NEEDLE size 5 mm / US 8 (80 cm / 32'') - or size needed to get 17 sts x 22 rows in stockinette st with 1 strand of each yarn = 10 x 10 cm / 4'' x 4'' (approx. 18 sts x 23 rows in pattern).
DROPS CIRCULAR NEEDLE size 4.5 mm / US 7 (80 cm / 32'') - for shawl collar.
DROPS MOTHER-OF-PEARL BUTTON, NO 522 (20 mm): 1 piece for all sizes
DROPS CottonViscose: Colour chart / Alternative Yarns (Yarn Group A)
DROPS Kid-Silk: Colour chart / Alternative Yarns (Yarn Group A)
NOTE: This pattern is written in American English. All measurements in charts are in cm. For conversion from inches to cm - click here. There are different terms for crocheting in American and British English. If this pattern includes crochet, click for "crochet terms" here. For this pattern in British English, please click here.
|= K from RS, P from WS
|= P from RS, K from WS
|= 1 YO between 2 sts
|= slip 1 st as if to K, K 2 tog, psso
|= K 2 tog
|= slip 1 st as if to K, K 1, psso
|= slip 2 sts on cable needle in front of piece, K 2, K 2 from cable needle
For further pattern help, please contact the store where you bought the yarn. Having bought DROPS yarn, you are guaranteed to receive qualified help from a store specializing in the DROPS patterns.
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I bought a steam mop about a week ago and used it today for the first time. It was sure easier then mopping the other way but I am not sure it gets floors any cleaner.
After I mopped my kitchen and dining room, I noticed streaks on the floor. The pad on the steam cleaner was just dirty in places. I took the pad off and washed it in the sink, wrung it out and replaced it damp on the steam mop. Then I went over the floors again and was amazed at how much more dirt I picked up. My floors really didn't look that dirty!
Then I decided to give it a real test. I washed the pad again, replaced it and took it to our shower. Of coarse it was a little hard to manuver it to clean in the shower, but I was truly amazed at the results! My glass shower doors got clean enough I could actually see through them. The floor of the shower was spotless. I tried to clean the walls, but it was to hard to manuver it to do a thorough job.
I am going to buy one of the hand held kind. I can see so many places I will use it. So overall I am impressed. I was able to do the floors and the shower without killing my back like I usually do!
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Ballan country escape - 4br, warm & cosy
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Situated in Ballan, close to station, shops, Ballarat and Daylesford.
2 Sparkling bathrooms, fully equipped galley kitchen with Blanco appliances, 4br, 2 living areas, massive deck with views across river valley and golf course.
With the farmers & Lions markets in town, good coffee and proximity to Mill Rose quilting mecca, Daylesford, Ballarat and the golf course & Ballan pool, we're sure you'll find plenty of reasons to extend your stay in Ballan
Expansive established garden, heating, a/c, linen, towels provided for your enjoyment.
Our home is architect designed with masses of light and windows, with peaceful views onto the garden and lush golf course.
The central living space has Tom Dixon lights, Eames dining table, lounge with comfy couches and TV. There is also wifi : yay
There are 4 bedrooms 1 with in-built desk and a sparkling shared family bathroom with shower and large bath. There are heated towel racks and plush towels for your bathing enjoyment.
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Given the differences in housing and living costs across U.S. metros, a single national rate makes little sense.
In the last couple of weeks, national politicians have begun to talk seriously about economic inequality and increasing the income of the working poor. "It's well past the time to raise a minimum wage," President Obama said in an economic address last week. "It will be good for our economy. It will be good for our families."
Democrats in both the House and the Senate have proposed a hike from the current $7.25 to $10.10, with further increases pegged to inflation. This is a much-needed jump. But even at the new rate, full-time minimum wage employees would earn just 37 percent of the median full-time wage across America, as University of Massachusetts Amherst economist Arindrajit Dube pointed out in a recent New York Times op-ed. Real purchasing power would still be much lower than it was several decades ago.
And given the substantial differences in housing and living costs across U.S. cities and metros, a single minimum wage makes little sense. Workers need much more to get by in San Francisco or New York than in smaller, less expensive cities.
Already, state and municipal governments are at the leading edge of efforts to raise the minimum wage, adopting local minimums significantly above the federal requirements. Last month, voters in SeaTac, Washington – a town notable for its major airport, filled with minimum-wage workers at newsstands and fast-food joints – narrowly approved a huge hike in their minimum wage to $15. And in a more modest move, but one that will affect far more workers, the District of Columbia City Council recently backed an $11.50 minimum wage. Nineteen states have set their minimum wages above the federal level. California, Connecticut, New York , Rhode Island, and New Jersey are set to do the same over the next year or two.
But what should these local minimum wages look like?
Dube suggested a wage floor of 50 to 60 percent of the median wage, writing to me that this was "close to the international standard and our own norm during the 1960s and 70s." The labor market data and research firm EMSI provided current data on median wages, which we used to estimate suggested minimum wages of 50 and 60 percent of the median wage by metro.
The map above, by the Martin Prosperity Institute's Zara Matheson, shows how the median wage differs across America's largest metros. The metros highlighted in yellow are those where median full-time wages are less than $20 an hour. These are places were setting the minimum wage at half of the metro median would result in a floor below the federal $10.10 proposal. These metros include Buffalo, New York and much of the Sunbelt, including New Orleans, Tucson, Las Vegas and all of Florida's major metro areas – Orlando, Miami, Jacksonville and Tampa.
The metros marked in green are those where 50 percent of the metropolitan median is a figure between $10.20 and $12.50. These include Providence, Rhode Island; much of the Midwest, stretching from Pittsburgh to Detroit to Minneapolis; Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.
The metros marked in teal and blue are those with the highest median wages. Workers in these cities would require a minimum wage of more than $12.50 to reach just half of the metro's current median wage level. These are all coastal knowledge metros: Seattle ($12.75), New York ($12.90), Boston ($12.98), San Francisco ($13.95), Washington, D.C. ($15.20) and San Jose ($15.72).
Workers in fewer than 20 of the nation's 52 largest metros (those with populations of more than one million people) would make 50 percent of their area's median wage under the current Congressional proposal for a $10.10 minimum wage. And, there is not a single large metro where a minimum wage of $10.10 would be greater than or equal to 60 percent of the metro's current median full-time wage.
The table below zooms in on the top and the bottom of this spectrum, showing the metros with the highest and lowest suggested minimum wages based on our calculations.
|Suggested Minimum Wages Based on Median Wage Levels For Large Metros
|Metro Area
|Median Hourly Earnings
|60 Percent of Median
|50 Percent of Median
|San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
|Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
|San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
|Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH
|New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA
|Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
|Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT
|Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville, CA
|Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
|Baltimore-Towson, MD
|Metro Areas with Lowest Median Wages
|Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
|Jacksonville, FL
|New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA
|Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL
|Las Vegas-Paradise, NV
|Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN
|Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN
|Oklahoma City, OK
|Memphis, TN-MS-AR
|San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
|Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
In many of the cities near the top of the list, local efforts have already raised the minimum wage above federal standards. But those rates are still quite below our suggested minimum. This January, for example, San Jose's minimum wage will rise to $10.15, while the minimum wage in nearby San Francisco will increase to $10.74. Many of the metros at the bottom of the table, in contrast, are in states like Louisiana and Florida, which have not raised their minimum wages above the federal minimum. No metro has set a minimum wage that would bring the salaries of the lowest-paid workers in line with the metro median.
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Some business owners and conservative economists argue that raising the minimum wage will drive up prices and could force some people out of work. But Dube notes that raising the minimum wage can help the economy in other ways. In a 2010 study, he and his colleagues found that a hypothetical 10 percent hike in the minimum wage would have no statistically significant negative effects on restaurant or retail industry employment. And in a forthcoming Department of Labor study, Dube found that, on an aggregate level, this same increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty by about 2 percent.
But raising the minimum wage is clearly just a first step. Wages in the $22- to $25-an hour range will be needed to create good, family-supporting jobs – comparable to what manufacturing jobs paid back in the day – in many of America's largest cities. As Dube rightly noted in an email:
Creating a service-sector equivalent of a manufacturing job is an important goal – and a very challenging one. I think the minimum wage can play a role, but I don't see it doing it alone. The federal minimum wage is too blunt a tool to take it to something like $22 an hour.
It will take a much bigger push to upgrade the 60 million low-paying service jobs that make up nearly half of America's work force. A federal minimum wage of $10.10 is just the first step to address what Obama called "the defining challenge of our time: Making sure our economy works for every working American." What we really need is a minimum wage that reflects the very different conditions faced by workers and families in cities and metros across the United States.
Top Image: A group of protesters walk through the Walmart retail store parking lot on Black Friday in Elgin, Illinois, November 29, 2013 (REUTERS/Jeff Haynes).


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June 18, 2009
Establishing more toll roads with "congestion pricing" rates -- higher fees during peak hours and lower fees during off-peak times -- is a simple way to reduce greenhouse gases, says National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA).
According to the Texas Transportation Institute, based on wasted time and fuel, congestion in 437 urban areas cost the nation about $78.2 billion in 2005. However, other surveys have shown motorist resistance to congestion pricing or anything else that would raise the cost of automobile travel.
Yet, there is evidence that congestion pricing improves traffic flow, says the NCPA:
- In London, after the adoption of congestion pricing, traffic declined by 15 percent and travel times declined by 30 percent.
- Similarly, bridges and tunnels between New York and New Jersey experienced a decline of 7 percent during the peak morning period and 4 percent in the evening.
- The reduction in pollution has also been substantial: London saw a 37 percent average increase in traffic speed, a 12 percent decline in particulate matter and nitrogen oxides and a 20 percent drop in CO2.
- In Singapore, there was a 10 m.p.h. increase in average speed, a 45 percent reduction in congestion and 176,400 fewer pounds of CO2 emissions.
- Stockholm's congestion pricing plan resulted in 15 percent decline in traffic congestion and up to a 14 percent decline in CO2 emissions.
To encourage widespread adoption of congestion pricing, the federal government could restrict federal funding or devote a share of the gas tax to new roads implementing such systems. Allowing private companies to compete for value-added toll road construction and ownership should speed the pace of construction and reduce the need to increase gasoline taxes, says the NCPA.
Source: Editorial, "Congestion pricing," Oil & Gas Journal, June 17, 2009; based upon: Iain Murray and H. Sterling Burnett, "10 Cool Global Warming Policies," National Center for Policy Analysis, Study, No. 321, June 3, 2009.
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"ASDA can be a great place to work but there is a lack of respect and envy towards professionals"
- Work/Life Balance
- Career Opportunities
- Comp & Benefits
- Senior Management
Friendly colleagues
Some nice customers
Professionals not treated fairly.
Some awful customers
Advice to Management
In order to succeed in the professional side of the business, you must encompass a different strategy offering more respect and career opportunities. Professionals do not have to be sen "rumbling" frozen foods or tissues in order to be part of your team. Focus on your professionals' strength!
Managers respect their employees
Good pay
Good holiday pay rate
They give the hours you request
There are usually overtime
Discount could be increased from 10% to 25% or higher
Advice to Management
management are actually good
Quite flexible when it comes to shift swaps
Keen eye for health and safety
Good for a part time job
Highly unprofessional managers
Adamant about staff working either Saturday or Sunday (company policy blindly obeyed by all managers - even when it's not the case)
Poor flexibility with regards to changing departments and no job rotation
Paid less in comparison to the other BIG 3 retailers (Sainsburys, Morissons and TESCO)
Very monotonous work at times, but this is more characteristic of the industry rather than ASDA in particular
Advice to Management
Senior managers should be more carefully selected. My manager could not even spell properly (when leaving messages for checkout supervisors) and clearly did not have adequate communication and interpersonal skills to be in that position. Middle management is very poor, which probably is one of the factors leading to such a high turnover rate.


text: Safari Center is proud to announce the addition of a superior roof rack to its exclusive range of Offgrid off-road accessories. The Offgrid roof rack comes fully assembled and has a weight rating of only 250kg, making it convenient for all. The quality workmanship is evident in the fully welded construction, with well-appointed M8 Nut slots on all extrusions. And because of its careful design, the longitudinal slats produce negligible wind noise. The price of the Offgrid roof-rack ranges, depending on the size and make. True to the great service that Safari Centre is known for, they can also make custom sizes if required.


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The Party's Over – How The West Lost The War Of Globalisation (2 x 60′) – BBC Business Editor Robert Peston makes sense of the past 30 years of the global economy and predicts current government cuts are just the start of an era of austerity caused by the seismic rebalancing of the world economy between the West and the emerging economies led by China. Robert charts the parallel lives of families in Britain and in the new superpower economies, interviewing politicians, bankers and economists around the world, to expose the realities of our economic predicament.
The first programme shows how the consumer boom in the West was an illusion fuelled by cheap credit and the huge deflationary effect of cheap goods made in China.
The second film looks to the future, asking whether China and other developing economies are taking the lead in the so-called knowledge economy, previously dominated by the West, and investigates what we can do to compete.
Channel: BBC2
Producer: BBC Productions
TX: Summer/Autumn 2011
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Guitar is in very good condition with nice dark walnut tone. Typical Gretsch binding deterioration in several areas. Neck and headstock binding intact. A little finish checking on the headstock. Re-fretted several years ago. Plays and sounds as it should. Never had neck re-set. Original case with all latches working.
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Blood Red Herbal Journal
Along with a Book of Shadows, Witches love their Journals for recipes, dreams and notes on herbs and brews!
Blood Red Herbal Journal:
This wonderful 6 x 6 inch blood red herbal journal features 400 blank parchment pages and is 2 1/4 inches thick
This little book is perfect for a travel herbal to take walking in the woods, as an herbal book, book of shadows, diary and dream journal!
Your book will reveal:
- Deep red leather
- 2 Bordeaux ribbon bookmarks
- 400 blank parchment pages
- Cover measures approximately 6 x 6 inches
- Hand made marble paper ends.
- Hand sewn paper bound
- The highest quality leather is chosen<
Please Note: Each is hand-crafted and may vary from photo. Leather is hand-selected and may vary slightly in color.
The book of shadows is a witch's greatest tool, providing a place for your craft secrets, spell work, rituals, family traditions and more. As you progress on your path, you will need a place to write! Ultimately your book should be hand-written by you including your practices and beliefs.
Your book will represent the traditional hand bound tome made of leather to which you will add your priceless rituals, spells and information for you, your coven or your family.
The information in a grimoire is handed down through the generations from one member to another.
Your book of shadows is not to be viewed by anyone not trusted or by anyone who is not part of your tradition.
Each book of shadows takes on its own energy unique to you or your coven and in a sense becomes one with you.
Your book of shadows should be given a book blessing and consecrated at the witching hour under a full moon or at a time deemed appropriate for you!
From the artist:
The future is never certain, but you can make it easier. You can preserve the past for yourself and future generations. These books are made for just that, to help you and them to remember the important things that matter to you. These handmade books will last for decades. They are carefully made with the best quality materials here in America. This great book will hold your greatest works to pass them to the future.
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday slammed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav for denying a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigation into the violent Jawaharbagh incident in Mathura earlier this week.
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Windows 7 Pro. 64/SP-1
Sorry no offense intended. I removed it. I have not been doing this kind of thing for 25 years to the best of my memory.
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|09 Feb 2013
Why?! What you wrote was very objective and true. I failed to find the slightest spark of offence, whatsoever. The fact is that I'm still a nerd after all this time as a user.
What I really want is to get rid of this or these remnants of sh*tty Comodo.
|My System Specs
|10 Feb 2013
Let's look some more, using more tools:
Download Security Check by screen317 from
Save it to your Desktop.
Double click SecurityCheck.exe and follow the onscreen instructions inside of the black box.
A Notepad document should open automatically called checkup.txt; please post the contents of that document.
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|10 Feb 2013
Thank you Jacee. I am going to do that, but not right away because since I tried that Comodo uninstaller from the link I was given here to the Comodo forum, I started having different problems. Not great at the beginning, but grew to the point that I could no boot. This is the first time I could boot, it is far from being fixed and one drive is still not recognized by Windows. The system disk is an ATA and is attached to a SATA socked through an adapter. When I try to repair it with the Windows setup DVD the drivers for the adapter, that I have been using for about three years, are not recognized! I have problems with the MBR, chkdsk takes ages and stops before ending, indexes, security descriptors, the volumes bitmaps, bad clusters, can't adjust log size and more. Most of my files (Docuements, downloads, Strat Menu, Firefox profile, etc.) are in the not accessible drive, so I will have to fix that before going on here, My last chkdsks were on 27th January and all were good, but now even the small XP partition that I use so seldom is inoperative. I will be back in a few days, thanks.
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|10 Feb 2013
I'm so sorry for all your troubles
|My System Specs
|14 Feb 2013
I have fixed everything, but a part of the MBR. It took me too many hours, but first of all I could not loose my personal files and documents on that drive. With the time all drives became corrupt and the chkdsk started, but stopped at 11%. When trying a repair with Windows setup DVD, I got an answer like it was for another version or system... I had to check the three disks several times, mostly over night. At the begining not even that old HDD Regenerator would start checking. Regarding that I couldn't assign full time permanently to the job, it was relatively quick.
Here the result of Security Check checkup.txt:
Results of screen317's Security Check version 0.99.57
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 x64 (UAC is enabled)
Internet Explorer 9
``````````````Antivirus/Firewall Check:``````````````
Windows Firewall Enabled!
avast! Internet Security
Antivirus up to date!
`````````Anti-malware/Other Utilities Check:`````````
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware version 18.104.22.1680
Little Registry Cleaner
Java(TM) 6 Update 31
Java 7 Update 13
Java version out of Date!
Adobe Flash Player 11.6.602.168
Adobe Reader 10.1.5 Adobe Reader out of Date!
Mozilla Firefox (18.0.2)
Google Chrome 24.0.1312.52
Google Chrome 24.0.1312.57
Google Chrome Plugins...
````````Process Check: objlist.exe by Laurent````````
WinPatrol winpatrol.exe
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware mbamservice.exe
GetRight Control Anti-virus SecurityCheck.exe
Control Malwarebytes mbamscheduler.exe
Avast AvastSvc.exe
Avast afwServ.exe
Avast AvastUI.exe
Control WinPatrol WinPatrol.exe
`````````````````System Health check`````````````````
Total Fragmentation on Drive C: 2%
````````````````````End of Log``````````````````````
We can read somewhere Java version out of Date! but that is not true because I checked after reading and it was not out of date. The same goes for Adobe Reader; I checked and the result was No updates available. There are too many things and it is hard to keep them all up to date at any time, but now they are.
|My System Specs
|15 Feb 2013
Security Check is showing Java(TM) 6 Update 31, which of course is out of date.
Did you go into the control panel and remove/uninstall that version from "Programs and Features"?
|My System Specs
|15 Feb 2013
I did that and then checked again with Security Check, but the out of date line is still in the new log. Why? Thanks.
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