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White PVC Tee / Valve Cover for creating a clean and professional appearance on all pipe tee intersections and valve covers. The top part of the tee / valve cover is solid which allows reducing to a smaller pipe on the top or allowing just the valve stem to stick up outside the cover. Simply cut the top part of the cover to the outside diameter of the smaller pipe or valve stem with a pair of scissors.
Installation Methods:
1.) Use serrated stainless steel King Tacks which are pressed through the overlapping pieces of the fitting cover and will hold them securely. (Steam, Hot Water, etc)
2.) Use PVC Vinyl Z-Tape to seal the fitting cover to the fiberglass pipe insulation. (Cold Water, Chilled Liquid, etc)
3.) Use Proto One PVC Adhesive to glue the seams of the fitting cover. (Exterior Piping, USDA, Washdown Area, etc)
*Tacks, Vinyl Tape, and Adhesive are sold separately.
Use the link below to view the PVC Size Chart to see what size PVC Tee / Valve Cover you need. The PVC Fitting Size is based on both the size of the pipe and the thickness of the insulation.
*Example: You have a main steam supply pipe that is 2" Iron with 1" thick pipe insulation (2 x 1). The supply pipe then has branches that go to 1-1/4" pipe what you are insulating with 1" thick insulation as well (1-1/4 x 1). The size of tee covers to order is based on the 2" Iron pipe (2 x 1 = #11). You would then cut the closed top of the tee to fit the 1-1/4 x 1 pipe insulation on each tee.
Posted by John T. on 9th Nov 2018
Kind of difficult to install especially when tee is reduced to a smaller pipe because you would have to cut the hole to size.
Tacks were a little frustrating because wearing gloves, the tacks were small and difficult to insert. Even when inserting tacks prior to fitting cover on pipe. The tacks would puncture the PVC cover and create a crack in the cover, though that would be my recommended method of inserting tacks.
After having said that, it is a a great item because it gives it a good looking product at the end and it is easier to use than other methods such as cutting into insulation or wrapping around the fittings.
Posted by Todd M. on 7th Aug 2018
The PVC pipe covers look so much neater and cleaner than the old method! Makes the basement room feel clean and finished. Quick and easy to install. I'll be purchasing more for the rest of the basement.
Posted by Unknown on 14th Jun 2018
Easy to install and fits properly
Posted by Unknown on 30th Apr 2018
These covers are the perfect thing to finish out the insulation of the pipes. They give it a nice professional appearance and its a lot quicker and easier than cutting 45's in the insulation. Worth every penny.
Posted by Unknown on 28th Jan 2018
Easy to install. Fit very well. Came with alot of insulation. Recommend buying the special pins to secure the cover.
Posted by Tom S. on 19th Sep 2017
I have a number of T joints that step down to a smaller pipe size from the main steam pipe.
I liked having the ability to cut out the correct opening size of the pipe that is connected to the main pipe.
I appreciated that I was supplied with more than enough insulation batting to cover any situation.
The final result looks much better when the connections are all covered.
I highly recommend investing in covers for your fittings.
Posted by Marlon Y. on 7th Apr 2017
My local store doesn't sell these tees only the elbow covers. I found your store and was able to size out and purchase all the tees I needed for my current job. The tees came quickly and fit perfectly. Phone support is also great as they helped with sizing for copper tubes.
Posted by Joe on 2nd Feb 2017
Works nicely, fairly easy to install, and leads to a clean appearance on the pipes. If it is possible, my only suggestion would be to form the PVC so it naturally springs closed a little more (the PVC elbows do this better than the tees) which would make installation easier with the loose piece of fiberglass provided.
The suggestion in one of the excellent videos on this site of putting in the tacks on one side before wrapping around the pipe was a good one. I found it difficult to push them through that first time when wearing gloves since the King tacks are quite small- a trick I used is to put the tack point-up on a table and push the PVC layer down onto it.
*Joe, great advice on pushing the King Tacks into the PVC on a table! ~BIP
Posted by Steve M on 10th Apr 2016
These PVC Tee covers are a very good way to make your job look great. I like to install them with the King tacks.
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Making it to the major leagues was difficult. Staying there was even harder. Playing as long as I did required God-given skill, persistence, people believing in me, and a lot of luck. Looking back, I didn`t have a long-range plan for a twenty-two-year career. It just happened. I did it by doing what needed to be done everyday. And that included the offseason. If you play long enough, there`ll be good days, bad days, and some days that don`t seem to make an impact either way. [However], all days are good. To appreciate the joy of being the best, you have to experience disappointment...Just because someone is an extraordinary athlete doesn`t mean they`re an extraordinary person. So, if you`re looking for a role model, be a role model." Jerry Reuss Pitcher, Los Angeles Dodgers, 1969-1990 The game of baseball is really like the essence of life. It is full of history, memorable moments, and fun. The game of baseball is taken seriously by fans, as if the game was their life, and to most who love sports, it is. Our Grand Ol` National Pastime is full of the most incredible and prolific events in the history of Major League baseball and focuses on each piece of the complete game, in an informative, fun, and inspirational way. You will find that Our Grand Ol` National Pastime is, as the old saying goes, baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie.


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While I have never thought of myself as very political or extremely patriotic, I do vote and care about what happens here in this country. That's just because I'm a caring human being in general, most the decisions I make in life, big ones anyway that involve ethical decisions, are geared around trying to be kind and trying to think about the 'bigger picture' beyond just me.
Because of this I've made lifestyle choices that have often made me seem odd or have put me far from mainstream America. This is fine by me. Live and let live, as long as we are all respectful of each other.
Of course you guessed by now that my 'politics', if I have to label myself, is liberal. For many years I didn't claim either party and simply considered myself Independent, but this just seemed, well, simply too non-committal to me. And I knew I would never affiliate with the Republican side, so one day I decided to become a Democrat. No surprise there, right?
I'm not an over the top Democrat though. Like I said: politics isn't my schtick. I've lived with Republican Presidents, Senators, Congressmen and all the decisions that they make too. I understand that being an American means: you vote and sometimes your 'side' doesn't win. And then you deal as best you can. You continue to be the best person you can regardless.
But this time it's different. This time the election has left me cold. It isn't just a Republican that has won, but someone altogether different. Someone who so many of us simply can't understand how our fellow Americans wanted as our President. It's simply baffling….and scary.
As reports come out now about his personality (narcissist) and his capabilities (turning democracy into kleptocracy), my years of being a side-line player in our political system is becoming harder to be. I am a pacifist at heart, so plunging into the heart of a heated protest is not my style, but I also am a strong believer in our right to be heard.
Today for the first time in my entire life, I wrote political leaders in my state. My Governor and my two Senators. I'm compelled to do something to bring attention to the freight train barreling toward our democracy. It subtly and over time, can be dismantled without anyone really being aware. Unless we are diligent and proactive. Standing by hoping it will 'go away' or just play itself out, is a dangerous thing to hope for against someone who is so full of himself as this president.
I'm sorry if I have offended those of you who support this person. I only ask that you look beyond your personal needs (and I know they are real!) to the man behind the words. Many men just like him spouted big words and went on to do horrible things. It's about personality here, ethics, greed, morality, neediness, hate and ego to name a few. It's not about political party. He doesn't represent a political party, or me, or you. He represents himself, his family and his own desires.
This is a very dangerous thing for the head of any country!
So be aware, be kind to others (even if you don't agree with them), think beyond yourself, read real news (not on Facebook) and notice what he does and doesn't do, really listen to his words!
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The rich creamy goodness of buttermilk ranch with a kick! We have combine two of our best selling mixes to create this yummy Mexican inspired ranch dip. Also makes a great salad dressing.
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"It was really good, really important for us," Benitez said of the victory. "The team showed character. We had chances that maybe could have been in before (the second goal) but in this period when everyone was talking about our performances away last season, I think it was really important to win the match."
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Greetings Athletes!
Please join us for a no-frills, non-timed, non-competitive 2.62-mile memorial run along St. Petersburg's downtown waterfront..
We hope to bring together the entire Tampa Bay running community in solidarity with runners worldwide, but especially those in Boston. With a no-frills approach, we will be able to keep expenses extremely low, and ALL net proceeds will be sent to assist victims in last week's horrendous attack.
Our tentative schedule:
Walkers are most definitely welcome, as well as all members of the public.
We are inviting several athletes who were in the Boston Marathon to share their experience. We plan to schedule the athletes in the order of their finish, or where they were located on the course when the race was stopped.
In addition, Lynn Gray, Founder/President of the newly formed Tampa Bay Race Director Committee, and Susan Harmeling, Executive Director of the Gasparilla Distance Classic have agreed to speak. They are also helping us behind the scenes to help assure our success.
Other special guest speakers are being contacted as well.
The always-awesome Elizabeth Holloway will be singing Amazing Grace and our National Anthem.
Our goal for this memorial run is for our running community to "Run as One!" - we are asking all our participants to run a steady 10 minute pace. Our friend, ultra-marathoner John Pyle, will lead the group run, carrying the American flag throughout the course.
The Board of Directors of our brand new Starfish Support Foundation just voted to sponsor the administrative costs - insurance, permits, traffic control, etc. - up to $2,000. You might remember this foundation was created from the proceeds of our last virtual run in March.
With entry fees of $26.20, each entrant who registers before Tuesday night will be guaranteed a commemorative shirt and a battery-powered LED candle. We are hoping to keep per-athlete expenses lower than $6.20. Our goal is to send $20 or more per registered athlete to the One Fund Boston.
If you are wondering about the "battery-powered LED candles" - we explored many options. We have several concerns about actual candles: lighting them, keeping them lit, disposing of them, cost, etc. We also hope that our athletes will carry the "candles" while they run, so we can shine the light on our downtown streets.
Virtual athletes: we would LOVE to have you join us, but sorry, we are not offering finisher medals and we simply don't have the resources to be shipping out shirts. We fear we could be committed to shipping thousands of shirts, which for our small company, would take weeks. Thanks for understanding.
So if you register as a virtual athlete, we will send you the bib pdf and ask that you light a candle at the same time as our candlelight vigil and then run 2.62 miles. Though we will be separated by distance, we will be together in spirit. Your entry fee will be heading to Boston.
Full disclosure on how we will keep expenses to a minimum:
- No printed bibs, emails will be sent with bib pdfs
- Shirts will be yellow cotton or 50-50 with blue ink.
- No aid stations - it's only 2.62 miles - byob, if needed
- No post-race party - food and beverage will be available for purchase at Jonny Reno's on The Pier. Bring some cash or credit cards. We will have water at the finish line for our athletes.
- No advertising or marketing - please help spread the word by email and Facebook. We also expect significant pre-run media coverage.
So what DO the athletes get?
Also, this is The Pier's final organized running event after years of hosting such events.
Finally, this memorial run comes from deep within our cores. My wife and I met at Boston College and spent the first 11 years of our lives together there. Rya worked on the next street over from where the bombs went off.
During the 11 years we spent in Boston, I think I watched the Boston Marathon near the finish line 7 or 8 times. If we still lived in Boston, I probably would have been near the finish line.
We are doing this run simply because we can. It is our way of giving back to our community - a night of comraderie, healing and coming together.
Thanks to everyone for your help and your words of encouragement - we truly appreciate your support!
Thank you helping our friends in Boston!
Chris Lauber
Register NOW at Active.com for our Boston Memorial Run.
Hoping to see you again soon!
Chris Lauber
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The registration for the 2013-2014 Halfathon Series is now available. Any one of these races are a great value and all 4 are even better.
Race Site: http://www.floridaroadraces.com/
Active: http://www.active.com/running/tierra-verde-largo-clearwater-fl/5th-florida-halfathon-challenge-4-race-series-2013
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If you want to run the Sarasota Half Marathon next Year, sign up today and save 20% – run the race for $48. I ran it this year and it was a very nice event.
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This 5K is worthy of your consideration both for the wonderful race and after party and for the cause it serves.
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From the race director:
Greetings Athletes!
I sincerely hope this e-mail finds you well!
As you can see from the above sub-headline, registration is now open for athletes who want to register for our entire 4th Annual Florida Halfathon Challenge:
• Oct 28, 2012: 4th Annual Halloween Halfathon, Ft. De Soto Park, Tierra Verde
• Dec 9, 2012: 11th Annual Holiday Halfathon, Taylor Park, Largo
• Jan 20, 2013: 8th Annual Clearwater Halfathon, Coachman Park, Clearwater
• Mar 17, 2013: 4th Annual Beach Halfathon, Ft. De Soto Park, Tierra Verde
Based on the growth in the last few years (2,100 entrants to 3,951 athletes this season), combined with excellent feedback (and hopefully positive word-of-month, hint, hint), along with earlier and expanded marketing, I fully expect to host 4,500 athletes next season. You should also know I plan on adding upgrades in several aspects of our races.
I am working on completing all of our website changes and I expect the updates to be posted next week. In the interim, next season will be a carbon copy of this past season, with simply a change in dates.
Register today for the lowest entry fee of just $160 to the first 100 athletes to register ONLINE ONLY.
That $160 is for all 4 races, just $40.00 per race!
Once the first 100 athletes register, the entry fee will increase to $200 - that's still just $50 per race. From there, entry fees will increase as we get closer to the race as follows:
• $160 online only for the first 100 entrants
• $200 online only until July 1, 2012
• $220 online only until September 9, 2012
• $240 online only until October 26, 2012
So if you plan on joining us again next season, register right away to take advantage of our lowest entry fees. And as always, all early entrants are eligible for full refunds, should an athlete need to withdraw for any reason, as long as you advise us at least two weeks prior to the race you've entered.
We now offer the option to register for 3 of our 4 halfathons . This is intended for athletes who know they can't attend all four halfathons, for athletes who already registered for one of our races, or for athletes who have a deferred credit from last season. PLEASE be mindful of which 3 races you are entering, as there are 4 options to cover the various combinations.
Top 5 Reasons why you should register now for the entire series:
1) Low entry fee of just $40 per halfathon.
2) Eligibility for full refunds should you need to withdraw for any reason.
3) Athletes who register for the entire series are assigned the same ultra-personalized bib numbers for the entire series, with name imprinted and number usually based on birthdates or ages.
4) Athletes who complete at least 3 of the 4 halfathons earn a final ranking and are eligible for series overall and age group awards.
5) Athletes who complete all 4 halfathons receive a limited-edition medal and limited-edition shirt to commemorate their achievement, in addition to all the other amenities earned along the way.
Register now on-line for the entire series!
While you're at the Active.com web page, I encourage you to write a review of the series.
JUST $45 for first 50 athletes to register for each race on-line. Sorry, Halloween Half and Holiday Half are already sold out at the $45 entry fee.
4th Annual Halloween Halfathon & 5K Race, October 28th Register NOW!
11th Annual Holiday Halfathon, December 9th Register NOW!
8th Annual Clearwater Halfathon, 5-Miler, and 5k Fitness Walk, January 20, 2013 Register NOW!
4th Annual Florida Beach Halfathon & 5k Race, March 17, 2013 Register NOW!
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Richards Run for Life is on a Friday, November 4 and 100% of the proceeds benefit Moffitt Cancer Center. It is a 5K race that will take you through beautiful Ybor City. The website is: http://www.richardsrunforlife.com. It should be lots of fun and supports a really good cause. Your pre-registration will get you a t-shirt and lots of good Columbia food following the race. We hope you will show your support.
Richard said that he will bring some comp entries this Saturday morning for the Police Memorial run that takes place on Oct. 8 if you are interested in running it. Thank you Richard.
Hope to see you all Saturday morning,
Linda and Iris
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Chris Lauber has schedules out for the Florida Gulf Beaches Road Races. There is a full schedule of races again this year, including 4 half marathons:
There are deep discounts for registering early – as well as a discount for registering for all 4. If you are interested in these races, check the links below for the latest pricing and links to the individual races.
Latest Newsletter and links to all races: FL Gulf Beaches Road Races: Registration OPEN / Deep discounts
Mai website for Gulf Beaches Road Races: http://floridaroadraces.com/
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For anyone interested in the 5K route for the Honda Grand Prix 5K – here is the map courtesy of dailymile and my Garmin:
Honda Grand Prix 5K - St. Petersburg, FL: Running Route | dailymile
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Surviving the Dances with Dirt trail run Saturday were : Jane (friend of Rachel's), Rachel Wilson, Laurie Chane and Maria Crummet. It was cold, muddy, dirty – in other words perfect - and they had a blast!
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The Training Program for 2015 is on! It is not too late to join us and train for fall and winter half and full marathons.
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the Tampa program!
For more information on the local program, please email our Program Directors Melanie Redding or Sheila Bakken
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Slate roofing is composed of slabs of rock mined
from a quarry, cut and then split. Two holes are
then made at the top of each slate for the
fasteners. Slate is available in a variety of natural
colors and also in different grades that affect their
projected roof life.
Slate can be use on roofs that have a slope of 4:12
and over, providing the roof is strong enough to
support the heavy weight. That usually requires an
engineering inspection, if the home wasn't
originally designed for a slate roof.
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Slates are basically slabs of rock. As such, they
tend to last a very long time. There are slate roofs
that over 100 years old.
They also won't burn, giving them a Class A fire
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The price is justified by the argument that slate is a
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Flashings and underlayment will deteriorate long
before then. Broken slates and installation errors
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type of roofing.
When that happens on most systems, the old
roofing is removed and disposed of. Repairs to the
roof deck are made and new roofing is installed.
It's a relatively fast and cost-effective process that
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it is often carefully removed and set aside for
reinstallation after the rest of the work is done.
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Salvaging the old slate is labor-intensive work and
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to do so. Installing slate is also labor intensive and
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My opinion of slate roofing: While slate roofs
are very attractive, this blog is about saving you
thousands of dollars.
The "dirty secret" with slate roofs is that while
the rock may last for a century or more, the rest of
the roof system will not.
With the high initial cost, high reroofing cost and a
roof life much less than advertised, the life-cycle
cost of slate is huge.
You can do better… for a lot less money.
If you choose slate anyway… Say you have a
historical building where you don't have any choice
or you have more money than you know what to
do with…
Be sure to use a roofing contractor who
specializes in slate. You want a guy who does it all
the time and knows the finer points. Most roofers
don't have a clue about slate, because they
seldom run into it. I've been roofing 22 years and
have only worked on a few slate roofs.
Be open to flashing upgrades and premium
underlayments. That will help to extend the roof life
and lower your overall roof cycle costs. If you're
going with slate, this is no place to cut corners.


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Laurie Anderson: DIRTDAY!
presented by AMP Concerts, in partnership with 516 ARTS
|KiMo Theatre
423 Central Ave. NW, Downtown Albuquerque
505-768-3522, www.cabq.gov/kimo
|$40: available at the KiMo Box Office, www.ampconcerts.org
AMP Concerts and 516 ARTS welcome LAURIE ANDERSON with a special performance of her new piece DIRTDAY! for ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness, the 18th International Symposium on Electronic Art. Laurie Anderson is one of America's most renowned and daring creative pioneers. A pioneer in electronic music, she is best known for her multimedia presentations and innovative use of technology. As writer, director, visual artist and vocalist she has created groundbreaking works that span the worlds of art, theater and experimental music.
DIRTDAY! looks at politics, theories of evolution, families, history, and animals in this riotous and soulful collection of songs and stories. Set against a detailed and lush sonic landscape, the stories and music create a unique picture of a hallucinatory world made of dreams and reality. The third and last in her series of solo story works, which includes Happiness and The End of the Moon, DIRTDAY! is the culmination of Anderson's ground breaking work in this genre.
Her recording career, launched by O Superman in 1981, includes the soundtrack to her feature film Home of the Brave and Life on a String (2001). Anderson's live shows range from simple spoken word to elaborate multi-media stage performances such as Songs and Stories for Moby Dick (1999). Anderson has published seven books and her visual work has been presented in major museums around the world.
In 2002, Anderson was appointed the first artist-in-residence of NASA which culminated in her 2004 touring solo performance The End of the Moon. Recent projects include a series of audio-visual installations and a high-definition film, Hidden Inside Mountains, created for World Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. In 2007 she received the prestigious Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for her outstanding contribution to the arts. In 2008 she completed a two-year worldwide tour of her performance piece, Homeland, which was released as an album on Nonesuch Records in June 2010. Anderson's solo performance Delusion debuted at the Vancouver Cultural Olympiad in February 2010. In October 2010 a retrospective of her visual and installation work opened in Sao Paulo, Brazil and later traveled to Rio de Janiero. In 2011 her exhibition of new visual work titled Forty-Nine Days In the Bardo opened in Philadelphia, and Boat, her first exhibition of paintings, premiered at the Vito Schnabel Gallery in New York. She has recently been appointed as a three-year fellow at both EMPAC, the multi media center at RPI in Troy, NY, and PAC at UCLA. Anderson lives in New York City.
ISEA2012 CONFERENCE TALK: Laurie Anderson is also giving a keynote talk during the ISEA2012 Conference, Conversation with Laurie Anderson and Tom Leeser, on Monday, September 24 at 11am at the KiMo Theatre. To attend the talk, ISEA2012 registration is required (one-day registration available). To register, visit www.isea2012.org or call 505-266-3451.
ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness is a symposium, multi-site exhibition and season-long series of programs around the region, all exploring the intersection of art, science and technology. It focuses on the natural environment and how technology can help sustain life on Earth. ISEA2012, organized and produced by 516 ARTS, features over 100 artists and over 400 presenters from 29 countries. Laurie Anderson's performance at the KiMo Theatre closes the ISEA2012 Downtown Block Party on the same day, 4-9pm (see www.isea2012.org or www.516arts.org).
Related Events:
ISEA2012 Downtown Block Party - Sunday, September 23, 4-9pm


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T'ang got hold of the groom and guardsman Teng Heng and had him be his tutor. He followed him and treated him as a teacher, but was not confined by him - so he could follow along to completion, becoming as a result a mere holder of titles. This is called making yourself superfluous, a method by which two manifestations can be attained. Confucius' injunction "Be done with schemes!" -- you could let that be your tutor as well. Or Mr. Yung-ch'eng's saying, "Be done with days and there will be no more years! No inside, no outside."I don't pretend to understand this snippet at all.
~ Burton Watson translation ~
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Discussion in 'Off Topic [BG]' started by Floating teetH, May 18, 2005.
savour the emptiness
let the pain dance across your palette
i would do that but i have no will power
this thread needs a self-proclaimed gothic person. that'd be sweet.
i am a goth i just don't have will power
wow, i need goth insight. what do goths eat? is Lord Byron a goth? I know he drank wine from a human skull. he also had pet monkeys.
goths eat normal **** and i'm not sure about the guy you were talking about
i tried to spell f o o d but i cussed to much so it bleaped it all out
Lord Byron, he was apoet type. Roger Waters ripped off the lyrics for Shine On You Crazy Diamond from him.
or maybe I just like to say that.
My daughter dyed her hair black with brown and blond highlights. She likes black t-shirts, although she doesn't wear all black. She has her ears pierced a bunch of different places. Can she be goth?
sorta does she hang out with goths and does she listen to manson?
She thinks Manson is a dork. She hangs out with all kinds of different people. She gets good grades. She doesn't skateboard.
then shes sorta goth she's more conter culture like me i'm not a true goth
the children of the night around here seem to conregate at gas stations. I have no idea why.
"Hey man, I need gas, where's the Sunoco?"
"Just look for something androgynous with black clothes and white pancake make-up, then follow it."
lol yea
you gotta admit gas smells good
Then she might be a goth. If you think Manson is a goth, you are not a goth.
I am not a goth either, I just wear black all the time because I'm colorblind.
Goth is so ugly people can be interesting too.
that's my best guess. One of them asked me for a donut while I was in line to pay for gas. It was so random I bought them one.
Can I have a don...umm...$50? I'll PM you my address.


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DAN'S E-REPORT #4 June, 2000THE GLOBAL ECONOMY part 1
The WTO and "FREE" TRADE
THE WTO and "FREE" TRADE
Ralph Nader and Lori Wallach, an attorney and director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, describe the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a world governing structure crafted at the end of the GATT negotiations in 1994. The WTO is designed to enforce limits on the laws and policies of every nation with "the clear intention to diminish if not eliminate the democratic process" both internally and among member nations.
The binding legal provisions of WTO exclude all considerations on environmental, labor, health, or human rights. There are no procedural safeguards, accountability, or required disclosures of potential conflicts of interest. All proceedings and documents are secret. Media, citizens, state and local government representatives are all locked out. All disputes are settled, not by democratically elected officials, but by secret tribunals of foreign trade bureaucrats from a preset roster (Mander & Goldsmith [eds], The Case Against the Global Economy, 101).
Clearly, the concept of "free" trade is misleading in that only economic and political elites make the rules (in secrecy), reap the bountiful rewards, and punish those who violate their rules. In fact, free trade is a cruel contradiction for poor nations, thousands of communities, millions of workers, and a healthy environment. How can you have free trade with a country, like China, where the workers aren't free and are only making pennies an hour?
In fact, in a recent Op-Ed piece in regard to the China trade agreement, Ralph Nader noted that workers making Kathie Lee handbags for Wal-Mart in China are earning 3 cents an hour! Nike contract workers putting in 11 to 15 hours a day are earning 20 to 22 cents an hour. Clothing, auto parts, and consumer electronics manufacture will all be shifted to Chinese sweatshops. The phase out of price supports and protections for farmers will throw 10 million peasants off the land, according to Chinese government estimates. Competition from foreign businesses will likely lead to a wave of state company layoffs, downsizing and bankruptcies, throwing millions more out of work and undermining the social protections that many Chinese companies now provide to their employees (Albany Times Union, 5/21/00).
American workers are also being hurt by free trade and transnational corporations (TNCs), like Wal-Mart and Nike, who shift their production facilities to "semi-slave" wage 3rd World sweatshops. The Labor Department reports that by early 1999, after 5 years of NAFTA, well over 200,000 Americans had lost their jobs to Mexican and Canadian workers, and that only 35% of dislocated workers had found new jobs that paid as well or better (millions more have lost well-paying jobs with good benefits since 1980). The number one growth job, cashier, only paid $6.58 an hour in 1996 (Anderson & Cavanagh, Field Guide to the Global Economy, 41).
Economist Ravi Batra in "The Myth of Free Trade" even makes a strong case for our nation's 25-year decline in real wages being caused by the United States becoming a free trade nation in 1973.
One of the arguments in favor of free trade and global competition is that cheap foreign labor with lower workplace safety and environmental costs will reduce the prices American consumers need to pay. Yet, price is hardly a reliable measure of the total costs of production. In the United States alone, the government (and taxpayers) give away billions of dollars a year to heavily subsidize raw materials, capital, labor, transportation, and waste disposal (pollution adds billions more in public health costs).
David Morris, of the Institute for Local Self Reliance, in examining free trade's dubious assumptions and pervasive threats to community and culture, concludes that "free trade is the religion of our age" and a moral doctrine more than an economic strategy. It assumes that "the highest good is to shop," "bigger is better," "competition is superior to cooperation," and "material self-interest drives humanity" (Nader et al, The Case Against Free Trade, 139).
The far-reaching damages of free trade policies and corporate-driven globalization are summarized by Hazel Henderson:
Unfortunately, most economists still miss the main issue: that the concept of free trade is so narrow. It favors well-organized, powerful market players and their commercial activities over virtually all other local, national, and international concerns and goals, including human health rights and needs, poverty alleviation, social justice, education, local self-determination, agriculture for raising food and fiber for local use, small businesses, local markets, the informal sector even the requirements for local and national infrastructure and national sovereignty itself (Building A Win-Win World: Life Beyond Economy Warfare, 179; Henderson's latest book is Beyond Globalization).
PROTECTIONISM and ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Free traders condemn government interference with the workings of the free market and free trade as "protectionist" and a threat to the global economy (i.e., corporate profits). However, if we look back over the last 130 years, a different reality emerges according to two economic historians.
"The great industrial powers of the world (England, America, Japan) all passed through a phase of protectionism and benefited from it... Between 1870 and 1913, nations pursuing more protective policies (the United States and Germany) experienced higher domestic growth rates and more rapid export expansion than did free trade Great Britain" (Alfred E. Eckes in Opening America's Market). Paul Bairoch also concludes that "In all 19th century cases protectionism led to, or at least was concomitant with, industrialization and economic development" (Linguafranca, 11/97, 32).
From 1945 to 1970 with a mixed economy the United States experienced higher rates of economic growth than during the past two decades of deregulation and privatization. Japan rose from the ashes of World War II and became an economic superpower through a mix of government subsidies and supervision. Similarly, when the government controlled the financial markets in the 1970s and 1980s, South Korea's growth was strong and consistent. Not until the early 1990s, when financial markets were deregulated, and especially during the crisis of 1997-98, did the economy weaken.
THE IMF, THE World Bank, and THE POVERTY OF NATIONS
(The IMF and the World Bank) have arguably done more harm to
more people than any other pair of nonmilitary institutions in human
* In Senegal, touted by the IMF as a success story because of increased growth rates, unemployment increased from 25% in 1991 to 44% in 1996.
* Zimbabwe's SAP (Structural Adjustment Program) forced the reintroduction of school fees, leading to drops in attendance, especially for girls, while a 1/3 cut in health spending is linked to a doubling of deaths of women during childbirth.
* Costa Rica, the first Central American country to implement a SAP, saw real wages decline by 16.9% between 1980 and 1991. A 35% cut in health programs led to a dramatic increase in infectious disease rates and infant mortality.
* During the first four years of Hungary's SAP, unemployment rose from 0% to 13% between 1989 and 1996, the value of wages fell by 24% (Development GAP and Friends of the Earth, On the Wrong Track: A Summary Assessment of IMF Interventions in Selected Countries, 1/98).
The Philippines in the 1980s
Based on 800 leaked World Bank documents, the book "Development Debacle: The World Bank in the Philippines" shows how the World Bank in league with the CIA and other US agencies, purposefully destroyed the domestic economy of the Philippines in order to create favorable conditions for transnational corporate interests (Walden Bello et al, 1982).
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa, which in 1994 had a total debt amounting to 110% of its GNP and triple the rate of all developing countries, has been more devastated than any other regions of the world. Wracked by famine and civil war, and squeezed by structural adjustment programs (SAPs), in the 1980s Africa's per capita income plunged over 20% to the same level that existed in the early 1960s. Some 200 million (30%) of the region's peoples are now classifed as poor with the World Bank projecting the number soaring to 300 million by the year 2000 (Bello, The Case Against the Global Economy, 293). The recent "Letter From Zambia" confirms that SAPs imposed by Western planners are causing needless suffering and death (The Nation, 2/14/00, 22).
In early May, the US Congress passed and Clinton signed the "African Growth and Opportunity Act," another draconian policy that will further shred critical social programs for the desperately poor (who subsist on less than $1 a day). Poverty, the worst form of social violence according to Gandhi, may be the world�s # 1 killer. What then does this say about our leaders??
Russia and Anarchic Capitalism
Clinton & Gore have both told Russians to "stay the Course" (of market �reforms�) and Harvard�s "best and brightest" aided economic ruin and corruption.
Since market reforms began in 1991, Russia has been in the throes of an "unprecedented, all-encompassing economic catastrophe" where the GDP has fallen by at least 50%, capital investment by 90% and, equally telling, meat and dairy livestock herds by 75%. "Some 75% of society lives below or barely above the subsistence level and at least 15 million of them are actually starving" (The Nation, 9/7/98, 6).
The number of Russians in poverty has risen from 2 million to 60 million since the IMF came to post-Communist Russia. Male life expectancy has dropped sharply from 65 years to 57 years. Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic Policy Research told a Congressional committee late in 1998 that "inflation soared 520% in the first 3 months. Millions of people saw their savings and pensions reduced to crumbs" (Multinational Monitor, 4/00, 25).
A 262-page UN Development Program report noted that the market economy is devastating post-Communist countries of the former Soviet Union and in parts of Eastern Europe. Close to 10 million men have perished as reflected in an abnormally low ratio of men to women across the region. The causes, the report says, "include rising suicide rates, declining life expectancy, poor health care and an increase in self-destructive behavior -- including drug and alcohol abuse and crime." Factors include reduced living standards, increased insecurity and unemployment, and the deterioration in social and health services, since the end of Communism (NY Times, 8/1/99, Y3).
"Harvard�s �Best and Brightest� Aided Russia�s Economic Ruin" (Extra!, 1/00, 19). The so�called reforms were more about wealth confiscation than wealth creation. Privatization, which had substantial input from US-paid Harvard advisors, the Harvard Institute for International Development�s Russia project (HIID), fostered the concentration of property in a few Russian hands and opened the door to widespread corruption and the funneling of some $10 billion to US banks. The university�s endowment fund also (illegally) participated in choice auctions of Russian government property.
The report also mentioned that Andrei Shleifer, the head of HIID who has now been dismissed, is now under investigation by the Justice Department. Schleifer, who is a protege of Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, received the Clark Award from the American Economic Association this year, an award that Summers, who has been the architect of economic policy toward Russia, received in 1993 (for further analysis of globalization in Russia, Mexico, Asia, and the United States, see John Gray�s False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism).
Mexico After NAFTA
On January 1, 1994, the day NAFTA (The North American Free Trade Agreement) took effect, the Zapatistas, a populist Mexican rebel force, staged an armed revolt. Since that fateful day, proverty, crime, corruption, chaos, and civil war have soared throughout the country.
Law enforcement has broken down and citizens have formed vigilante groups. Since 1993 bank robberies in Mexico City have increased 12 times and violent street muggings have risen 82% since 1994, making Mexico City one of the world's most dangerous cities. Government-supported paramilitary groups, during Christmas week of 1997, massacred 45 people, mostly women and children, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, a Zapatista stronghold (NY Times, 11/7/97 & 12/27/97).
By 1995, there were news reports of a farm crisis, massive bankruptcies, soaring unemployment, a debtor's revolt, and a financial crisis. Since the mid-1990s, displaced Mexican immigrants have been flooding the United States border and the drug trade has boomed with Mexican bankers arrested by American authorities for laundering millions of dollars of illicit drug money. Mexico's financial crisis resulted in an IMF and US-led $53 billion bailout which accelerated Mexico's business and bank failures, widened unemployment, sent prices skyrocketing, and fed political unrest, as documented by "Fortune" magazine in August 1995.
In 1995 alone, largely due to NAFTA's impact on the destruction of small farms and other small businesses among the peasants, as many as 1 million jobs were lost (John Gray, 22). Mexico�s Center for Economic Studies reported that people�s real incomes fell 30% from 1995 to 1997 resulting in 24 million people (1/4 of the total population living below the poverty line, and 16 million in abject indigence (dollars & sense, 9/99, 10).
Indonesia & South Korea�s Financial Meltdown
In 1997 and 1998, after two to three decades of continuous growth with strong Government controls, virtually every Asian economy -- especially Indonesia, South Korea (where dozens of trade union leaders were arrested), Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines -- plunged into a deep (and continuing) crisis which some observers have called the world's worst financial crisis since the 1930s. Joseph Stiglitz, then-chief economist of the World Bank, conceded that the US and the IMF have worsened Asia's plunge and that "the heart of this current crisis is the surge of capital flows" ($100 billion in and out of the region) (NY Times, 12/3/98).
Indonesia has suffered worst of all with soaring unemployment and rates of poverty, and civil unrest. Food and fuel subsidies have been severely reduced, the currency devalued by 80%, and inflation rose more than 50% in less than a year. Food riots and student protests in May (1998), according to a Human Rights group, led to 1,188 deaths and the destruction of 6,000 businesses, houses, and automobiles. The UN's International Labor Organization reported that for 1998 unemployment reached 20%, economic output declined 15%, and that 40 million people (20% of the population) are being driven into poverty (same news report).
Asian scholars have also written that: "When the Government controlled the financial markets in the 1970s and 1980s, Korea's growth was stupendous. Not until the early 1990s,... when a Faustian bargain was made with the United States... (and) financial markets were deregulated, did the economy sink (NY Times, 11/27/97).
Most developing countries -- particularly in Latin America and
Africa, and increasingly in the transition countries of east and
central Europe -- have implemented or are in the process of
implementing IMF or World Bank agreements and SAPs.
The (IMF) measures are intended to restore investors' confidence.
Instead, they kill the economies and further undermine confidence.
The IMF is welfare for the very rich investors, and serves only to
keep afloat reckless political institutions which have policies that
destroy their own economies.
IMF and World Bank structural adjustment loans (SALs), which were initiated in the late 1970s, have been mainly designed to rescue American, European, and Japanese banks from their overextended loans in the Third World and to further integrate poor southern countries into the North-dominated global economy. But, southern governments in order to receive SALs had to agree to undergo structural adjustment programs (SAPs), which, though ostensibly designed to improve their economies, have resulted in continuing patterns of destructive market- oriented reforms and the government's loss of economic control (Bello, The Case Against the Global Economy, 288).
Catherine Caufield, in "Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations," has written a meticulously documented indictment of the 50-year-old World Bank which now lends poor countries about $23 billion a year. The World Bank, which operates in relative secrecy, puts out consistently over-optimistic appraisal reports and lavishes huge amounts on the elites of poor countries regardless of need or benefit. "The rich get even richer because all loans are tied to the purchase of costly goods and services from the lending country." Bank employees enjoy "high tax-free salaries and cushy benefits." Consultants alone are paid more than $1 billion a year. "More than 80% of the foreign consultants hired for Bank projects are from industrialized countries" (Caufield, front bookjacket, 248).
The most recent data available indicate that 1.9 million people are being displaced by projects in the Bank's current portfolio, that these numbers continue to grow, and that the Bank's resettlement record is poor (Censored 2000, 73). A recent internal World Bank study also found that fewer than 20% of World Bank adjustment loans included any environmental assessment, according to Friends of the Earth (Multinational Monitor, 4/00, 26).
Three comprehensive studies, by IMF and UNICEF economists, and a 30-year study by the conservative Heritage Foundation (U.S. News & World Report, 2/2/98, 37), have concluded that overall the programs have been a failure and have contributed to worsening conditions in already ravaged countries. The 1996 United Nations report found that SAPs imposed by the IMF "have increased poverty, homelessness, and unemployment in more than 50 countries, including some of the poorest of the world." IMF economist Mohsin Khan also found that economic growth was higher in countries that did not undergo stabilization and adjustment programs than in those nations that did over the period 1973 to 1988 (Bello, 287).
Agreeing to a structural adjustment loan virtually means surrendering a country's economic control to the World Bank and the IMF. Deregulation and a dramatic shift away from a small-scale subsistence economy to an export-oriented economy weakens standards and protections for labor, the environment, and natural resources. Tariffs, quotas, and other restrictions on imports are cut, local currencies are devalued, and state enterprises are privatized. The goals achieved are a greater global integration, more competitive exports, and expanded access to foreign capital through billion dollar transnational corporations, wealthy investors, banks, and other financial institutions.
Restructuring the economy toward exports earns the foreign exchange required for servicing the debt and increases dependence on the global economy. The effect is to favor single-product manufacture or single-crop agriculture and to reduce self-sufficiency and diverse local production. As available government funds are channeled into debt repayment and increasing export production, government spending on health, education, and welfare, as well as wages, are squeezed to control inflation. Deregulation has the secondary effect of forcing down wages and standards in other countries including industrialized countries to maintain the competitiveness of TNCs (Bello, TCATGE, 286).
"No New Round--Turn Around," is one of the most massive petition efforts in recent memory. The joint statement (at www.twnside. org.sg) was signed by more than 1,000 mostly 3rd World labor, environmental, consumer, church, and development organizations in more than 70 countries, opposing a new WTO round. The statement opposes any expansion of WTO powers and urges that "governments should review and rectify the deficiencies of the system and the WTO regime itself."
The Uruguay Round Agreements and the establishment of the WTO, proclaimed as a means of enhancing the prosperity and well-being of all people in all member states, "has contributed to the concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich few; increasing poverty for the majority of the world�s population, and unsustainable patterns of production and consumption... at the expense of national economies; workers, farmers and other people; and the environment... The WTO system, rules and procedures... have operated to marginalize the majority of the world�s people."
According to a former State Department official at a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations (American Prospect, 12/6/99), "What you don�t understand is that when we negotiate economic agreements with these poorer countries, we are negotiating with people from the same class. That is, people whose interests are like ours -- on the side of capital" (Extra!, 12/00, 16).
In late 1998 Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders wrote that Congressional progressives plan on introducing legislation "to begin laying out such an alternative" that will "end US financial support for IMF programs that degrade the environment and undermine workers' rights, restrict the power of governments to regulate 'hot money' capital flows, and give more bailouts to international bankers and investors" (The Nation, 9/28/98, 4).
Walden Bello, professor of sociology and public administration, and co-director of Focus on the Global South, a research, analysis and advocacy program at a Bangkok (Thailand) university, examines three schools of financial reform. "The wiring, not the architecture" school of the US, The second -- "Back to the Bretton Woods System" (set up after World War II) -- would establish global controls, like the Tobin tax, or a transactions tax on capital inflows and outflows at all key points of the world economy. The third approach is a new development model.
The thrust of these international, national and regional controls (like the Asian Monetary Fund vetoed by Washington) is partly to help stabilize global capital flows and to shift inflows from short-term portfolio investment and short-term loans to long-term direct (infrastructure) investment and long-term loans aimed at national industrial development. This school would reform the World Bank, IMF, and WTO along the lines of greater accountability, less doctrinal push for free trade and capital account liberalization and greating voting power for developing countries.
China, India, Malaysia, and Chile -- all of whom have national capital controls -- were able to avert the international financial crisis of the late 1990s (Multinational Monitor, 3/99, 24).
NEW (and OLD) MODELS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Even more critical is a fundamental reorientation of an economy
toward a more inner-directed pattern of growth that would entail, in
many ways, a reversal, though limited, of the globalization process.
I sympathize with those who would maximize economic
entanglement among nations. Ideas, knowledge, science, hospitality,
travel -- these are the things which should by their nature be
international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonable
and conveniently possible and, above all, let finance be primarily
Development ultimately is not a matter of GNP, or money, or
physical capital, or foreign exchange, but of the capacity of a society
to tap the root of popular creativity, to free up and empower people to
exercise their intelligence and their individual and collective efforts to
achieve a better life.
Further growth makes us poorer for we are consuming natural
capital and counting it as income... Sustainable development is an
alternative to the standard growth ideology and is incompatible with it...
it is a subtle and complex economics of maintenance, qualitative
improvement, sharing, frugality, and adaptation to natural limits. It is
an economics of better, not bigger... Libertarian economists look at
Homo economicus as a self-contained individual who is infinitely mobile
and equally at home anywhere. But real people live in communities,
and in communities of communities... the extent of pathological
disregard for community in our own country has not yet been
equaled by others.
Do we want an economic and political system that only protects investments, profits, corporate power, and the interests of the wealthy? Don't most people prefer a system that safeguards jobs for the great majority and the interests and well-being of real economies, families, communities, cultures, and democracies?
Economist Ravi Batra in his book "The Myth of Free Trade: A Plan for America's Economic Revival" argues that a new "competitive protectionism" would revitalize local and the national economies. His recommendations include increasing average tariff rates to 40% over five years to protect major manufacturing industries from imports, banning large-scale mergers, and breaking up giant companies to spur domestic competition thereby replacing foreign competition (214).
Colin Hines and Tim Lang, who have written a book "The New Protectionism", advocate a return to security based on local self- sufficiency, local economic control, and local production for local consumption, "protected by a modernized trade philosophy that restricts unnecessary aspects of international trade."
The authors describe seven steps to achieve sustainable, locally- controlled economies as well as dispelling a number of arguments against the New Protectionism: import and export controls, local control of capital, controls on TNCs, new competition policy (promoting domestic and local competition), trade and aid for self- reliance, introduction of resource taxes, and re-empowerment of government (to foster more local market access and more local savings and banking systems) (Hines & Lang, The Case Against the Global Economy, 486).
PRESERVING INDIGENOUS ECONMIES and CULTURES
Large-scale, capital-intensive Western development projects, like giant dams, natural gas pipelines, and oil refineries, have been displacing thousands of residents from their homes and land, rendering the land unlivable through continuous pollution. The Human Rights Watch reports flagrant and deadly human rights abuses in many oil producing nations ("Corporate Crackdowns: Business Backs Brutality," dollars & sense, what�s left in economics, 5/99).
Yet, throughout history native peoples existed, and even flourished, in societies based on self-sufficient and sustainable subsistence economies that fulfilled basic needs. Martin Khor, president of the Third World Network in Malaysia and editor of "Third World Resurgence" magazine, has written that:
Before colonial rule and the infusion of Western systems, people in the Third World lived in relatively self-sufficient communities, planted rice and other staple crops, fished and hunted for other food, and satisfied housing, clothing, and other needs through home production or small- scale industries that made use of local resources and indigenous skills. The modes of production and style of life were largely in harmony with the natural environment (Khor, TCATGE, 47).
Rebecca Adamson, a member of the Cherokee nation in the United States, founded a sustainable development program that could also provide a workable model in the Third World. The First Nations Development Institute and Financial Project, now based in Virginia, link first Indian nations with responsible, caring US investors committed to supporting local micro-enterprise, sustainable development, and eco-restoration based on indigenous cultural principles. Adamson reminds us that:
Tribal knowledge is still not recognized as the product of holistic systems of perceptions, relationships, and organizational arrangements... "Culturally appropriate" economic development led and conducted by Native communities, is... driven by a community's cultural values, based on kinship, shared responsibilities and benefits, and respect for the environment. The indigenous understanding has its spiritual basis in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things ("Indigenous Economics and First Nations," in Henderson, 186).
The Sarvodaya movement is a cultural development model inspired by Buddhist concepts of "awakening" of all members of a community. This and other successful programs have been documented by India's Development Alternatives which empowers villages and local communities through well-researched concepts of alternative, human-scale technologies. A well-attended 1995 conference considering critical issues of human and spiritual development expressed the real bottom line for the human family: "Development must assure the satisfaction of the minimum basic needs for food, habitat, health, education and employment, and the human quest for inner peace and self-realization" (Henderson, 187).
Gaviotas, a very poor and barren Columbian (Caribbean) plains village, has been experiencing a miracle in reforestation. During the past 15 years, millions of pine trees have been planted and remain standing. A remarkable yield of golden resin has led to a resin factory, clear turpentine, and products that can used in soap, inks, newsprint, cosmetics, medicines, and more. Through the hard work of the community, Gaviotas has achieved a sustainable forest and economy, and a UN prize for zero emissions (Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures, Summer and Fall 1998).
Micro-enterprise loans. Dr. Mohammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, has for 13 years been making loans averaging $67, with a 98% payback rate, to poor people who establish their own businesses. ACCION International in Latin America, working in partnership with local private organizations in 15 countries, including the United States, provides small loans and business training to over 17,000 owner/operators of very small businesses each year. These group loans, for which five to eight individuals take responsibility in a variation of the Grameen Bank program, go to the likes of fruit vendors, furniture makers, and seamstresses (McLaughlin & Davidson, Spiritual Politics, 348).
Beginning in 1982, the UN created the Working Group on Indigenous Populations which has elaborated a proposed International Year of the World's Indigenous People and standards for protecting indigenous rights. This document affirms "the right to autonomy and self-government in matters relating to their internal and local affairs," the right to retain and develop their own customs, laws, and legal systems, and rights to restitution of cultural property and protection from cultural genocide (State of the Peoples, 5).
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One person sustained gunshot wounds after an armed perpetrator, a 40 year-old-resident of the Moscow region town of Korolev, tried to break into the Moscow Choral Synagogue in central Moscow on Shabbos and threatened to set it on fire, RT.com reports.
As davening at the shul was ending, the attacker fired several shots at the shul's guards from a non-lethal pistol and he was then arrested and brought to a police station along with the gun and a canister of gasoline that he was carrying.
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The promise and potential of the National Wildlife Refuge System are realized through its 3,000-plus dedicated employees. Refuge managers have identified several workforce challenges relating to staffing, training and career development, leadership development, succession planning, and retention. The National Wildlife Refuge System Strategic Workforce Planning Report (344 KB PDF) provides a big picture of the Refuge System workforce, including workforce challenges and development efforts, a summary of external and internal factors affecting workforce planning; data and analyses; workforce management tools; and recommended next steps.
The future of the Refuge System depends on well-rounded, competent leaders. This policy chapter provides guidance and tools for development of leadership skills and career planning. It also describes policy, procedures and responsibility for leadership development within the National Wildlife Refuge System and implements the recommendations on leadership contained in the System's long-term vision document, Fulfilling the Promise.
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Nancy Splettstoeszer, 63
Nancy Splettstoeszer, age 63, of Hamel, died Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2006 at her home.
Funeral service will be today, Nov. 27 at 11 a.m. at Peace Lutheran Church in Plymouth, with interment in the Lakeview Cemetery of Buffalo.
Visitation is sunday, Nov. 26 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Peace Lutheran Church in Plymouth, and will continue today, for one hour prior to the service at the church.
Arrangements are with the Johnson Funeral Home in Waconia.
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All of our transmissions are fully remanufactured and are held to the highest and strictest industry standards. What this means to you is the fact you are getting a quality product that meets or exceeds the OEM standards, not just a part that is taken apart and "patched". We ensure that all the current updates are performed, during reassembly each unit is ran through tests to ensure correct assembly and quality.
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TransTec Overhaul Kit – Rubber Seals, Metal Clad Seals, Sealing Rings, Paper Gaskets
Master Rebuild Kit with all clutches and steels, name brand clutches such as Borg Warner or Raybestos
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- Updated Spiral Snap Ring Retainer:
Vehicles equipped with this transmission often experience premature failure of the intermediate roller clutch or mechanical diode during high-rpm conditions. Sonnax spiral retaining ring kit incorporates a spiral snap ring that is staked to a locking ring to ensure ring contact with groove during high-rpm conditions, eliminating blowout.
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Vehicles equipped with this transmission one of the common problems are intermediate roller clutch, overdrive band or forward clutch failure, traced to the O.D. servo pin wearing the case bore. The oil circuit which releases or holds the servo off is present as forward clutch oil in 1, 2, 3 ranges. If this release oil leaks through the case, it can cause the O.D. band to drag and/or forward clutches to overheat. If band overheating becomes extensive, it may not hold in 4th gear, which can allow a neutral condition and excessive roller RPM on a re-engagement of 4-2 downshift. The Sonnax Overdrive Servo Pin has two O-rings to positively seal against the piston I.D. and the case bore, eliminating oil circuit leaks.
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At UCSD, athletics and scholarship have healthy relationship
Sometimes in the wake of reports of grade fraud among university athletes and special perks team members receive, the importance of a quality campus sports program can be lost.
For example, the University of California- San Diego boasts of a top-notch fencing team that sent four competitors to the Junior Olympics. Student Alia Bales praises the university's balance of support for its athletes and emphasis on scholarship.
Last year, the Division I referendum sparked much controversy on campus. The referendum, if passed, would have given UCSD the opportunity to move from Division II to Division I if offered a spot in a Division I conference. If the move had been made, each undergraduate would have had to pay $495 more in student fees. The opposition asserted that only student athletes would have directly benefited from the move because they would have gained eligibility for larger scholarships.
Although the referendum failed, some students view the athletic department as parasitic, sucking more than their fair share of student funds. At UCSD, however, the privileges athletes receive are limited to a $500 scholarship per year, priority registration and an allowance for away meets. These benefits are necessary for facilitating an environment where student athletes can maximize their athletic and academic success.
For example, the $500 scholarship UCSD athletes receive helps in the recruiting process. Cross-country athletes, for instance, are given two pairs of running shoes during their season. Yet due to the number of miles these athletes must run, it is necessary for these athletes to buy four shoes — costing $100 a pop — to prevent injuries from bad shoes. The scholarship thus helps support their health and athletic success.
Bales concludes:
The experience of UCSD student athletes is not even close to what the mass media represents as the typical collegiate athletic experience. Instead of a place of excess and wealth, it champions academics and school pride. A perfect example of symbiosis.
Unlike Other Universities, UCSD Exists in Symbiosis with its Athletes (UCSD Guardian)