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Reba McEntire: Reba Duets
Reba collaborates alongside a cadre of contemporary pop and country chart-busters, churning out some truly excellent duets that showcase both her own considerable talents, as well as that of her guests.
Reba McEntire
Reba DuetsLabel: MCA Nashville
US Release Date: 2007-09-18
UK Release Date: 2007-09-24
Reba McEntire is something of a throwback to the old days of country music. She's very much old school, possessing both the classiness and grit of Loretta Lynn and the homespun glamour of Dolly Parton. And as one of the female pioneers alongside Parton in making country music palatable to a mainstream, pop audience; Reba is a bridge to the newer generation of crossover country artists. Still rooted firmly in country as opposed to the Top 40 leanings of many of her female contemporaries, Reba is still recognizable and appreciated by fans outside of the spectrum of country music thanks to a myriad of critically acclaimed successes in the worlds of music, stage, and television.
In addition to numerous music awards, she has received the prestigious Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Award for her performance on Broadway in Annie Get Your Gun. Her work on her sitcom, Reba earned her a Peoples Choice Award. McEntire's accolades outside of the music world are as impressive as her numerous achievements within.
For nearly three decades, Reba's voice manages to sound sweet without being syrupy, while being extremely powerful. McEntire's vocal strength yields a different kind of authority than the bluesy, drawling growl of Janis Joplin, the weathered rasp of Marianne Faithful, or even the soul-shrieking powerhouse of Tina Turner. Instead, Reba's voice combines the aspects of all three singers but tempers it with a Southern sweetness and an unmistakable femininity. Whereas the aforementioned belters carry an element of androgyny, Reba's voice is clear and crisp, yet still manages to convey a sense of fearlessness and strength, bursting through with a power from the bottom of her soul. It's the voice of a woman who is very at home with being a girly-girl at times, but a no-nonsense one.
On Reba Duets, Reba hooks up with a variety of chart-topping superstars in the genres of pop and country music. Ever the charming Southern belle, McEntire does not set out to outshine her company. In many cases they shine right along with her, producing some gorgeous results on several pieces on the album. While some of the guest artists fade into the scenery, the one constant that remains throughout the whole of the disc is that Reba sounds as effervescent as ever on every single track.
McEntire's vocal persona shines through instantly on "When You Love Someone Like That" with LeAnn Rimes. The two women's voices blend well together with Rimes sounding like a younger version of Reba. In this duet, Reba assumes the role of the wise woman who's been there, a comforting, reassuring presence to the heartbroken LeAnn, assuaging her grief over a relationship gone bad. While definitely a falling within the jurisdiction of new school country, slightly poppy and with an edge of female empowerment, the song plays up the grand old tradition of country music of concise and emotion-packed storytelling with a single song. The song is one of the standout pieces on the disc. The pairing shows off the tremendous vocal range of both women, hitting high notes as a harmonious tandem and skillfully choosing the right moments to nail it for dramatic and passionate effect.
Reba shares the stage with Ronnie Dunn, one half of Brooks & Dunn, on "Does The Wind Still Blow In Oklahoma", a very traditional, male/female duet, saturated with country fiddling. A fish out of water tale, Reba and Ronnie Dun put on a verbal play written in the form of letters written home to family about finding a special, fellow Okie in the wild and wooly world of California.
Perhaps the most unique track on the album is the outstanding duet featuring Reba alongside Kelly Clarkson on Clarkson's hit "Because of You". This isn't the first time Reba has sang with Clarkson who is arguably the most vocally talented Top 40 star currently plying her trade. McEntire performed a duet or two with Kelly on American Idol with a redux of her 1993 classic duet with Linda Miles, "Does He Love You?" Revamping the track, the delineation between pop and country is sharp. Reba's voice carries her familiar, full-bodied twang alongside Clarkson's, powerful, pop-tinged, multi-octave alto. As with Reba's turn with LeAnn Rimes, the double-feature cover of Clarkson's hit showcases two women with exceptional and distinctive voices playing to one another's strengths.
Not every song on Reba Duets makes for a strong pairing. One of the more uptempo ballads on the album, "Faith In Love" with country/rock outfit Rascal Flats is a good but rather average piece while the same can be said for "She Can't Save Him" with Trisha Yearwood.
On "Everyday People", Reba's duet with the celebrated Carole King becomes an anthem for Habitat for Humanity, one of the many charitable organizations Reba works with. Unfortunately, King tries to affect too much of a Southern twang instead of singing with her real voice. In contrast with Kelly Clarkson's strong, self-possessed, and unashamedly pop/rock tones, it's a bit of a downer to hear a legend like King playing the vocal equivalent of "dress up". It's an attempt to better fit in with Reba's honest timbre, where a contrast could have better served the track.
Similarly disappointing, is the unexpected surprise cameo by Justin Timberlake on "The Only Promise That Remains". Timberlake relegates himself to background vocal duties on this track. He fades into a secondary role as opposed to the other artists on who make a strong showing next to the legend. Timberlake sounds pretty enough and does contribute a certain mood to the piece, however, anyone expecting more of a collaborative effort out him would be sorely disappointed.
With a nice array of guest artists, vocal styles, and tracks each with their own unique flavor, Reba Duets far exceeds the expectations of albums where one artist isn't solely responsible for the quality of the material. Most duet albums are marred by uneven collaborations, and fortunately, this one isn't one of them. With an abundance of storytelling and artists with the ability to convey the proper emotions on each mini-drama contained on the album, Reba Duets is largely a strong showing, with even the lesser offerings on the album substantially outweighed by its significant merits.

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Cool framework for me
Very nice software design.
<personal>I love catalyst!!! I've not worked so fast or had so much fun in ages and been using it since 2005!!!</personal>
<business>Less code re-write, quicker applications, more clients, happier clients. What more can we say!</business>
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This has been my favorite web application framework, and the basis of much of my creative and professional work, since the middle aughts. The community (based around the IRC channel) is large, active and helpful.
I've been happy to see the project's leadership not shy away from having the framework adopt new community standards (e.g. Moose and Plack) after they come to prominence. I can see myself confidently continuing to use Catalyst for a long time to come.
Catalyst is a well-written MVC framework, however it is billed as the one-stop solution to developing largish web applications in Perl, but in my experience it's no panacea.
For some projects MVC may be a good fit, but for others it seems to be a hindrance. If MVC is right for your project, then Catalyst is almost certainly the MVC framework you should be using; but don't just *assume* that MVC is right for you. Investigate other options first.
For many projects, sitting directly on top of Plack without an intermediate framework may be a better option.
See also www.slideshare.net/kiphampton/magpie-...
Excellent framework with little better than worthless documentation. The latter often assumes a level of knowledge or expertise approaching that of the catalyst developers with the result that one can waste large amounts of time trying to solve simple coding problems.
If one make the effort to unravel how catalyst works then using it is quite easy. However, don't get me started about the DBIx::Class object-relational mapper which, after several days of trying to learn, I completely gave up on since even its useless documentation states that using raw SQL is sometimes the only means of accessing the database in the desired fashion. I use Catalyst::Model::DBI to execute canned queries and experience no problems.
Regarding object-relational mappers in general, I understand the concept of representing blocks of related data as an object, and even to some extent, abstracting the interface to the data store so the latter can be changed if necessary. I question how often a web application data store changes in its life cycle, and how a web application developer can get away with with not having a mastery of the very simple SQL language in the first place.
Just great! Easy to use, nice documentation, friendly community and devel team following some best practices and latests trends!
I imagine if you are reading these reviews, you are new to Perl, otherwise you have already come across what in the past few years has become the Perl-standard MVC framework.
Do not be put off: check CPAN for the step-by-step tutorials, which are clear, well-hyperlinked, and come with extensive samples, which show you how to build a Catalyst web-app from the bottom up.
If you have used Spring or Ruby or pretty-much any other implementation of the MVC pattern, you should have a functioning Catalyst application with ORM, authentication, authorisation, and session-management within five hours.
Catalyst is the current industry standard what comes to Perl MVC frameworks. Just check the number of plugins available on CPAN: just overwhelming! You really can't go wrong with Catalyst if Perl and MVC is what you need.
I can wholeheartedly recommend Catalyst if you're looking for a sane, mature and well-supported Perl MVC framework!
Catalyst is great and I like to give some reasons for my statement.
I'm not coming from the world of web development and starts just some
month before to develop my first big web application. A lot of people
tolds me that I should use Catalyst, but because I read a lot of
another statements about Catalyst ... a poor documentation and that
it's hard to understand, I hadn't the heart to give Catalyst a chance.
Today, after the long way to read Catalyst's documentation and to
needle some people on IRC with a lot of questions... I can say that
all time I spend on it is not a lost time.
Great, even if documentation is not perfect and not so easy to use at once.
Catalyst is the new frontier of web development: it's easy, productive, elegant and fun.
It really pays to spend some time learning the philosophy of Catalyst and MVC, and the use of the wonderful (somehow) Catalyst-related modules such as DBIx::Class and HTML::Widget. Your way to develop web applications will be shaken from the roots, and you'll be able to focus on what you really need to do, not on always-the-same tasks and bloated-code-fight.
It 2 simple words: try Catalyst.
Catalyst is a very nice framework because unlike many other framework there is lots of emphasis on reducing bloat, keeping things clean, reusable, and flexible.
This means that Catalyst is a good choice for the long run, because chances are you can extend it and fix it more easily than more tightly coupled frameworks.
It's ease of use and arsenal of plugins and components mean that most of the time what you want has already been written, letting you focus on the code that is unique to your application, and thus cutting down development time.
Highly reccomended!
Bias note: I participate in Catalyst development, but I didn't when I first realized these things =)
Catalyst brings some serious web development mojo to Perl. For a long time I stuck with Perl because of CPAN but thought other languages provided better frameworks and were leaving Perl behind. No more with Catalyst.
Catalyst is a MVC web framework designed to handle all the common web application functionality and let you spend your time on the application as opposed to the plumbing. To achieve its goal it combines abstraction with a logical architecture to produce a robust, plug-and-play, component-based platform for developing web applications.
This is supported by several key benefits:
(1) MVC architecture: Perhaps most among Perl frameworks, Catalyst supports a strong separation of concerns according to the MVC method. This allows large web applications to be built while keeping the code organized and easy to understand.
(2) Object/component management: Large Perl web applications tend to grow into a collection of many parts whether those parts are objects, functional modules, or simply a large collection of scripts. Often it is up to the developer to decide how to connect the parts. Catalyst combines multiple-inheritance, component auto-discovery, URL-dispatching, and view forwarding to do this for you. Catalyst handles a lot of basic design and architecture that other frameworks require saving a huge amount of time both in initial development and maintenance when someone has to understand and modify the code.
(3) Engine abstraction: Support for CGI, multiple persistent Perl environments and multiple web servers is built-in. Often upgrading from mod_cgi to mod_perl requires a certain amount of pain. And while converting a web application from mod_perl 1.9x to 2.x (incl. apreq, etc.) is manageable, why bother when Catalyst will use both transparently? Need more than Apache/mod_perl? Catalyst will let your growing requirements use the lighttpd and Zeus web servers. Abstracting away engine support will save a lot of time when planning for growth and when making the transition.
(4) Component abstraction: For common functionality, Catalyst attempts to provide a unified API to multiple CPAN modules in the areas of ORM, templating systems, session management, authentication etc. This removes a lot of the effort from switching from one option to another as often you only need to learn the Catalyst API making it easy to change component options and come up to speed on a project that has made different component choices.
(5) Flexibility / TIMTOWTDI: Unlike some frameworks, if any part of the system doesn't suit your needs, there are other options available or you can make your own. While Catalyst recommends a certain configuration and component selection, you are free to customize it to fit the projects and/or developers particular needs. In certian situations, being able to choose one way of doing things over the other may dramatically increase productivity.
Some caveats: Catalyst can run on mod_cgi but a persistent environment is recommended for production. Documentation can be improved.
Already, I can't imagine building a complex Perl web app any other way. Thanks and kudos to the Catalyst team!
The concept and the election of components are exelent!
Really surprising. I'm used to packages like this (that do lots of things) being tricky to install. Catalyst went right in without a question or a dependency to follow (might be I just happened to have everything underneath; OS X 10.2). Had the skeleton of an app set up and running with the built-in server in 30 seconds.
This is similar to things I've been doing on my own--URI dispatching and such--but *so* much better rounded out and easy to extend; reuse. The idea that what I'm writing for a vanilla .cgi is all set to flip over to mod_perl at any time is just flabergasting. I haven't finished anything with Catalyst yet but if it continues to be this slick I'm going to rewrite three websites with it.
With CDBI and TT underneath, web development starts to feel more like recess than work.
This is by far the most useful and easy to use MVC Framework, I've ever seen...
It is View and Model agnostic (to suit your habits), simple, powerful, practical to use AND easy to extend.
All I can say is : Just give it a try...
For years I've been searching for the "Holy Grail" in web frameworks in Perl.
I started to look at Maypole, but soon heard about Catalyst, and I just haven't looked back since! The code already feels mature, and shows no signs of instability or unnecessary feature creep. It's only a matter of time before Catalyst becomes the de facto MVC for perl web development.
Catalyst makes web-programming fun again!!
Catalyst is a wonderful framework for quickly building complex web applications. It removes all the mundane tasks of handling parameters, file uploads, URL structures, database models, and templates, saving countless hours of development time. It's extremely flexible: you can follow the standard method of using Class::DBI::Loader and Template::Toolkit, or use your own database models and template library.
Numerous handy plugins make things even easier to use. 10-line login screens, 5 line form validations, built-in sessions, and so on, it doesn't get much better than this.
Another cool feature is the numerous different "engines" you can run your application under. The same code can run everywhere from a shell script or CGI script for development, to a screaming-fast 100% mod_perl app for production.


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Finance & Development, December 2011
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Finance & Development, December 2011
- From the Editor: Africa: Changing the Narrative
- People in Economics: Second Time Around
- Africa's New Engine: Africa looks to its middle-class consumers to drive prosperity
- What Ails South Africa: Plagued by high unemployment and closely tied to Europe, South Africa struggles
- Straight Talk: The Quality of Growth: Poor households are benefiting from sub-Saharan Africa's high growth and wider global reach
- Building an African infrastructure: Key political decisions are needed to build critical rail networks for a continent well suited to them
- Point of View: Preventing Famine: The ongoing drought and famine in the Horn of Africa make a case for using global risk management to achieve food security
- Picture This: Africa—A Look into the Future: What will the continent be like in 50 years' time?
- Role Reversal: Emerging economies are less dependent on debt, less vulnerable to volatile investment sentiment, and are rethinking the role of capital flows
- Land for Sale: Clues to whether easy credit causes booms and busts in asset prices can be found in U.S. farmland prices a century ago
- To Sell or Not: The author of Zombie Economics, looks at the pros and cons of privatization
- Back to Basics: What Is Econometrics?: Taking a theory and quantifying it
- Fixing the Flaws in EMU: The euro area's long-term survival requires a fundamental transformation of policymaking
- A Cushion for the Poor: Commodity-exporting governments can reduce debt and still protect their least well off citizens
- Less Volatile than Meets the Eye: Contrary to popular wisdom, commodity prices can be more stable than those of manufactured products
- Are the Critics Right?: A new study finds that public education and health spending get a boost when low-income countries receive IMF financial support
- Book Reviews
- Data Spotlight: Trade in East Africa: Increased intraregional trade and lower tariffs are paving the way for faster growth
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To the age-old question of how many conservatives does it take to screw in a light bulb, we now have a definitive answer: Just one, but it will take him weeks to chase down a vintage incandescent bulb because he won't touch an energy-efficient one.
At least that's the obvious conclusion to draw from a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study, put together by researchers from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, asked hundreds of people to pass judgment on light bulb options.
When energy-efficient light bulbs were touted as being good for the environment — with a "protect the environment" sticker — those customers who described themselves as politically conservatives were less likely to buy them. When the sticker was blank (but everything else was left the same, from price to information about potential energy savings), those same consumers were more willing to give the product a try.
Now, keep in mind that conservatives weren't completely mush-brained about this. They were capable of buying LED or CFL (compact fluorescent light) bulbs that last 9,000 hours longer than standard bulbs, when the price was attractive. But the notion that somehow they were striking a blow for the environment was a complete turn-off.
How have we gotten to a point where being green causes some to see red? Researchers suggest that the issue of carbon emissions and climate change has become so politically polarizing that it's affecting consumer choice.
Perhaps it won't be long before clever marketers start advertising energy-wasteful products on talk radio. Buy the "Big Daddy" bulb and keep those West Virginia coal miners busy supplying the nation's most polluting power plants!
Of course, one suspects this trend extends beyond light bulbs. No doubt there are conservative households that take pains not to recycle or purchase groceries with the words "organic" or "fair trade" anywhere on the label, or enjoy dumping used motor oil down the storm drain when nobody is looking. Sounds like something about which Rush Limbaugh would extol the virtues, doesn't it? Perhaps he already has.
Yet, there might be some advantages in this knee-jerk, anti-environmental stand. Instead of being banned outright, assault rifles could be labeled, "Endorsed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency." Oil companies might be required to donate a portion of their sales to Greenpeace, with motorists required to display a complimentary "I gave to Greenpeace" sticker on their rear bumper after every gas station fill-up. Someone might at least start a rumor that the exhaust of public transit buses was opening a hole in the ozone layer that worsens every time another passenger boards.
To be fair, green marketing isn't exactly winning over a lot of moderate and liberal consumers either, experts say. It's likely a secondary consideration, at best, after quality and price. But the study suggests that it takes ardent conservatives to take a strong stand against the interests of themselves, their families, their friends and the rest of the occupants of their planet. One can only imagine their quandary the day they run out of conventional light bulbs and have to face the fact that staying in the dark is even better for the planet than using the energy-efficient variety. Oh, the pain.


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Movie Knitting
Posted by Kim at Thursday, June 29, 2017 comments (0)
Do you knit in the movies? I love to do that. The pattern has to be simple (this one is 2x2 ribbing). Of course, it's dark in there, so I can't follow a pattern. Yarn that is at least worsted is better that smaller yarn. I've tried socks, but it's harder for me. Circular needles are good because I can't loose them. Knitting markers are OK - they are great if I need to track a pattern - but they do pop off, and get lost in the dark.
For me, the best movie knitting is a simple scarf. I've made scarves almost entirely in movies - so much so that I didn't see how they looked until I was almost finished with them.
Movie knitting is great.
Distress Oxide Surprise
Posted by Kim at Sunday, June 25, 2017 comments (0)
When the distress oxide ink first came out, I thought, "Oh, no - I don't want another kind of ink. I have way TOO many ink pads, and I really don't want to start with another set. I'm sure I don't need it."
Then, this past month, a distress oxide ink pad was included in the Simon Says Stamp card kit for the month. (I'm sure they do this on purpose!). And, truth be told (is this confession time?), I was interested in trying it out. I'd been looking for the ink pads at my local craft stores, and missing them. And THEN, SSS had a Ranger sale - 20% off. So you know the rest. Many of the colors arrived at my house.
But - I like them! I played a little to make this background. I placed some of several colors of ink on my ranger craft mat, added water, and picked up the ink with a piece of ranger watercolor paper. The result was awful. The yellow took over and turned everything to mud.
So, the next time, I just put green, blue and yellow on the mat. Wet that. Picked it up. Dried it with a heat gun. Then, I put pink, purple and blue on the mat. Picked that up. Amazing. It layered instead of mixing, and I loved the result.
So much so that I'm going to stop typing now and go make another card.
(The penguin in is from the SSS card kit from April - Wild Cuddly Critters.
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Five Items
Posted by Kim at Thursday, June 22, 2017 comments (0)
I was thinking yesterday that if I had to list what I consider to be the best cardmaking purchases I have made, what that list would be. I decided to eliminate the obvious and necessary purchases, such as paper, ink and coloring supplies. Beside those, what would be the 5 most useful or enjoyable cardmaking purchase I have made?
- My raskog cart. In fact, this is the item that started me compiling this list in my head. I love the convenience of this cart. It is used every time I make a card. Because items are organized well, and right at hand, it saves me time. And I love it.
- Two background stamps that I use all the time - The My Favorite Things Sheet Music Background stamp and the My Favorite Things Romantic Script Background stamp. I use both of these all the time - they just complete so many cards and make them look finished. Love them.
- My Misti and my Misti. Yes, I have two of them. I have one of the original size and one mini. I hesitated to by the mini - after all, I had the original size, what did I need with a smaller one. My husband bought it for me (lovely man). I use them both, sometimes at the same time.
- My paper trimmer. It's this one, the smaller one. I have two other larger ones, and I use them, too, but this one is small enough to fit on my desk (the others are too big for that). I love that I can see exactly where it is going to cut and that I can see the measurements to the right of the cutting blade. I use it on every card I make (I can't cut a straight line without it.).
- My scoring board. It is this mini one from Martha Stewart. I realize that I could use the "gutter" in the trimmer for scoring, but I don't like it. I like this. It sits on my raskog cart, right next to my Misti, and I use it on every card. I can't fold at all - not straight, anyway, and this does it for me.
There are others, but these are the first three that came to mind. I could also wax poetic about my Ranger craft mat, my Wagner heat gun, my Sizzix die cut machine, the mason jars I use for watercoloring, but five was my pre-set limit.
As a bonus, I love these pieces of pottery that are on my desk. They catch trash when I need them to, hold the backers off of tape, and sequins (the flat one does that). I could have bought less expensive and less pretty dishes for those purposes, but these make me happy when I craft.
Posted by Kim at Sunday, June 18, 2017 comments (0)
This month, I've been posting an image each day of birds on my Facebook and Instagram feed. I thought I would share some of them with you. These were all taken with our Nikon 5100 and the Nikon DX 55-300mm lens.
Card for a Bishop
Posted by Kim at Monday, June 12, 2017 comments (0)
About a week ago, a friend, who is also the spouse of the Director of Connectional Ministries for the West Virginia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, facebook messaged me. They needed a thank you card for the Bishop who was preaching for the annual conference - would I make one? I said yes, and asked her what it should look like. The answer was mountain scene or birds.
This is what I did:
The card is water colored on Arches Coldpress paper. I took inspiration from an image of the view from Snowshow Mountain that I found on the internet.
It was nerve wracking to do. A card I make for a friend or family member is one thing - but a card for a bishop? Done at someone's request? Quite another thing.
But in the end, what is done is done, and out it went.
This is what I did:
The card is water colored on Arches Coldpress paper. I took inspiration from an image of the view from Snowshow Mountain that I found on the internet.
It was nerve wracking to do. A card I make for a friend or family member is one thing - but a card for a bishop? Done at someone's request? Quite another thing.
But in the end, what is done is done, and out it went.
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West Virginia Mountains
Posted by Kim at Saturday, June 10, 2017 comments (0)
We went to the northeastern mountains of West Virgiina over Memorial Day Weekend. These images were taken using all three of my cameras (listed here).
Oodles of Doodles - May
Posted by Kim at Wednesday, June 07, 2017 comments (0)
I've mentioned before that The Petit Planner on Instagram publishes a monthly doodling challenge. In May, the challenge was a list of foods. It's fun to do - and fun to think of creative ways to interpret the words.
Some of my favorites this month were cookie (I drew the Cookie Monster) and hamburger (Hamburgler).
Labels: bullet journal , Colored Pencils , Doodles , drawing , Other Creativity
Snowshoe Scarf
Posted by Kim at Sunday, June 04, 2017 comments (0)
Last weekend we went to the mountains of West Virginia. I knew I wouldn't find a yarn store there, and I wanted to knit in the car while we traveled, so I ordered yarn to take with me.
I am drawn to blues and greens, so much so that many of my scarves are shades of those colors. I do buy a few other colors, but not beige. I like color.
I ordered this yarn because the name of the color is snowshoe - we went to Snowshoe mountain for the weekend. I couldn't reisist it! And it will match my coats (which are black with taupe trim).
I'm knitting a 2x2 rib with Knit Picks City Tweed, Aran weight. The yarn is soft - 55% merino wool, 25% superfine alpaca, and 20% donegal tweed. It's a heavy worsted weight yarn, so I'm using US size 9 needles.
On the trip, I knit one skein - 164 yards. I purchased three of them.
The top image is the scarf sittig on a rail of the deck at the hotel. The second one is the scarf sitting on the dashboard as we aproached Seneca Rocks.
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Today's big news is a written fiscal proposal by Congressional Republicans. The press describes it as a counter to "President Obama's deficit reduction proposal," but that is incorrect. Obama hasn't made an offer concrete or credible enough to be described as a proposal. The Boehner offer is contained in a three-page letter to the President, signed by six Republican House leaders along with Boehner. You can read it here.
The Republican offer is more concrete than anything President Obama has come up with, but that is damning with faint praise. This is how Boehner and the others present their proposal in the letter:
So we get $800 billion by eliminating deductions, but which ones? And spending is to be cut by $1.2 trillion, but what spending? Boehner properly refers to these numbers as a "framework" for negotiation. I thought that Bowles's November 1, 2011 testimony would elucidate such details, so I tracked it down. You can read it here. Unfortunately, Bowles wasn't a great deal more specific than Boehner. Here is Bowles's description of his proposal, which he described as a compromise between the positions that were then staked out by Republicans and Democrats, as opposed to the more thorough-going reforms of the Simpson-Bowles plan, in its entirety:
Chairman Hensarling. Thank you. The gentleman yields back. All time for Member questions has concluded.
However, I would note, prior to Senator Simpson's departure, he did mention, Mr. Bowles, that you had something you might want to present. Without objection, I would certainly yield you a couple of minutes if I understand you have something else you wish to present to this committee.
Mr. Bowles. I can do it very quickly. I tried to think, if I were sitting in your shoes or I was the go-between as I was in the what became the Simpson-Bowles plan, if it was possible for you all to get to the $3.9 trillion deficit reduction, given where your positions are today, and I think it is, I think you can get this done, and I will just go through briefly the arithmetic. And, again, you have got to flesh out the policies, but if you look at where I understand the two sides now stand, and this is from just listening, which is what you have got to do if you are the guy in the middle, you know, the proposals for discretionary spending, and these are all above what the $900 billion and the 400 that was in the continuing resolution, so this is in addition to the $1.3 trillion worth of spending cuts that have already been done, but you all are between $250 and $400 billion of additional cuts on
discretionary, so I assumed that we could reach a compromise of an additional $300 billion on discretionary spending cuts.
On health care you are somewhere between $500 and $750 billion of additional health care cuts. I assumed that we could get to $600, and I got there by increases in the eligibility age for Medicare that I discussed with Senator Kerry when he was talking to me. That is about $100 billion. That would take you from the 500 where the Democrats are to $600 billion, and it happens to come not on the provider side, which I think would kind of balance that out.
On other mandatory cuts, you are somewhere between 250 and 400, so I settled on 300 there, and we had enough cuts in our plan to get you to 300 on the other mandatory. Interest will obviously just fall out at approximately 400 billion, the savings there. You agreed actually on CPI in your two plans of approximately $200 billion. The total of that is $1.8 billion.
That left me a little short.
That gets me to revenue. And on revenue I took the number that the Speaker of the House, I had read had actually agreed to, and I was able to generate $800 billion through revenue from the Speaker's recommendation, and if you did that without dynamic scoring, but you did it, and, you know, on dynamic scoring I am kind of on the Reagan plan, trust and verify, which we talked about earlier. If it actually comes, great, you will use it to reduce rates or you will use it to reduce the deficit. But if you add the $800 billion there and you do that slightly on a more, make it so the code is slightly more progressive after you have done it than before, then I think you have really got something that you might be able to work with the Democrats on.
That would give you an additional total of $2.6 trillion added to the 1.3 you have already done. That is $3.9 trillion in deficit reduction, and I think that would create a lot of excitement with people in the country, and I think it would go a long ways toward building up confidence that we really could stand up to our problems.
I'm not so sure about the excitement part. Basically, Bowles's proposal is just a series of numbers intended to represent a compromise between the parties' positions. He was hardly any clearer about where the money was to come from than was today's letter by House Republicans.
So, what should we make of Boehner's latest move? On the plus side, he has put an offer on the table, and done so publicly. This at least stakes out some kind of position and is certainly better than closed-door, secret negotiations. Presumably the offer will generate some pressure on President Obama to come forward with a more meaningful proposal than was communicated by Tim Geithner.
The biggest problem with the House's gambit is that the GOP proposal is so unmemorable. Everyone knows what Obama's position is: close the deficit by raising taxes on the "rich." Of course, those who are at all knowledgeable realize that we don't have anywhere near enough rich people for that to work. But most people, living in blissful ignorance, probably think Obama's position makes some kind of sense. How does one sum up the GOP's position? As set forth in today's letter it is not, to say the least, catchy.
What makes the Republicans' position reasonably tenable is that polls consistently show that most Americans think the federal government spends too much money, and does so inefficiently. Most Americans say they would rather see spending cuts than tax increases. So if John Boehner and the rest can define their disagreement with Obama in simple terms–he wants to solve our budget problems by raising taxes, while we want to solve them by getting our spending under control–they will be playing to a reasonably receptive audience. But they have to define a clear and simple message before they can begin the process of selling it to voters.


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Supporters of two bills on marijuana–- one to decriminalize possession of small quantities and one amending Virginia's on-the-books medical marijuana law–- accuse Delegate Rob Bell in a YouTube video of leading the charge to derail legislation that might have provided relief to cancer victims.
Michael Krawitz, with Virginians Against Drug Violence and Patients Out of Time, complains that Bell ignored human suffering and used "straw man" arguments during a January 27 subcommittee hearing by alleging that the measures would lower the penalties for an adult selling pot to a third grader–- an "inflammatory" allegation bearing little connection to the real world, says Krawitz.
Bell, however, says he remembers a respectful hearing, and that he questioned a witness who claimed decriminalization would save $75 million a year by keeping Virginia's 20,000 pot arrestees out of jail for 30 days.
"That was inaccurate," says Bell. "I can't recall a case where anyone spent 30 days in jail for pot."
House bills 1134 and 1136 were carried by Republican Delegate Harvey Morgan from Gloucester, and have been tabled for a year.
The makers of the video "had an agenda," says Bell. "I am not as important as they think."
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I take it back "Name" maybe everything is a plot! Hook, post my comments! I used nice, non-disparaging language and the only potentially libelous thing I said was that the Kennedy rise to power was an unintended consequence of Prohibition. But I winked! ;) Freedom of speech! Freedom of speech!
legalize it, don't critize it!
PS - tax it.
Hello hamadryad,
It is tempting to answer you in the style you seem to be accustomed to writing but I try to be a gentleman
so suffice it to say you are dramatically uninformed.
First, Cannabis use goes back at least 10,000 years and is not just part of human cultural expression but also is part of the evolution of the human body as we each have an endogenous Cannabinoid Receptor System which allows us to survive, Look it up!. I encourage you to spend an hour or ten reading some of the massive amount of literature on the subject. Start with http://www.druglibrary.org
Second, the two bills that we are talking about would allow Cannabis to be treated as cocaine and morphine are now, not exactly a liberal approach!! and the other would remove criminal sanctions from marijuana allowing us to use our jails and cash for better things. Again not a liberal approach. The sponsor is a conservative republican and the chairman, the Republican Party Leader in the House of Virginia's General Assembly, was the author of the medical marijuana provision.
Bell is not conservative. Bell is not on the side of law and order, Bell is not on the side of fiscal conservatism, Bell is not trying to protect our kids!! How do I know? Because we are working on those things and Bell has stepped up as our chief opponent!!
Thanks for nothing, Rob.
Oh, DRAT! The system stripped out a link and an email address.
The quote from the Code of Virginia may be found online at:
AITCH TEE TEE PEE COLON SLASH SLASH leg1 DOT state DOT va DOT us SLASH cgi-bin SLASH legp504 DOT exe?000+cod+18.2-251.1
As for the email address, Google me.
Ole' Rob's got an agenda too. He's angling to be AG one day. Boy, wouldn't THAT suck.
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It happened again! I tried to post maybe two paragraphs and it disappeared. What's up Hook?
"I did not swallow! er.. Inhale!"
Take "the" from in front of "organized crime", I am writing too fast. Cannabis receptors: Even if we have receptors which match a chemical in marijuana that does not mean we should be partaking of marijuana. Those receptors were originally there for a chemical that our body naturally produces. (Hi Mr. Michael, thanks, very good idea, for now I am posting these little bits.)
To think otherwise would be to say that we had evolved in symbiosis with marijuana plants. And though pot may have a long history, to this day most people have neither inhaled nor ingested it. So those receptors are there for another reason.
Dear hamadryad,
You may want to write the message in an email to yourself and then copy it into the forum that way you can't lose it so easily. I know how it feels when you get something finally written the way you like it and then poof it's gone. Michael
Now Roy, I did google you and found that you are a fairly well known libertarian. That means we agree on some things (gun control) and obviously disagree on others (marijuana legalization) since I am more of a traditionalist/conservative.
You seem a pretty intelligent fellow, but I ask you, if you hadn't been smoking pot lo these many years, what might you have accomplished? What "sounds" might you have heard? What "melodies" of erudition and creativity might have sprung forth? I will state again, those receptors were meant for something besides pot. I believe marijuana stimulates a kind of intuition, another "consciousness" that we are supposed to achieve NATURALLY. (And yes, it was long ago, but I personally know of what I speak here.)
And the "personal experience of detrimental effects of marijuana use on young people" is this: As a teacher I have noticed that those kids who are "potheads" are a dreary, sad, lethargic sort, with all their vibrancy and energy muted. From a purely empirical stand, pot can't be good for kids if it makes them act half-dead.
Aaaand boo! goes the dynamite.
Laws: We were talking about Rob Bell originally and state laws. I think that for medical use both federally and at the state level it should NOT be banned. And I don't want jails filled with nonviolent marijuana offenders. We agree more than you realize on laws. Too many nonviolent offenders in jail make for no room for the murderers, rapists, and molesters who really should be there!
The reason I haven't addressed all your points is that I am still doing so even as we speak! I lost everything, as I mentioned before, and am now posting in dribs and drabs.
The end.
Dear hamadryad,
As I am still in Vienna, Austria wrapping up meetings with our US drug czar and others at the Commission on Narcotics Drugs meetings I don't have alot of time to participate in this interesting discussion but I want to answer one of your points. In reference to your comment "My point on subcultures if something is undesirable, it is easier to eradicate when it is not mainstream." It is precisely that you can identify these individuals activities as being tied to a distinct sub culture that eradicating them for the stated purpose of inducing the sub culture to disappear is an act of violence, a crime against humanity a loss for all time of the strength that we draw from such diversity and an act that is thankfully a violation of our anti-genocide conventions. All the best, Michael
my new hero: Roy B. Scherer
Please point me to the statistics for Hemp related traffic accidents versus Alcohol?
Pot was an issue of timberland versus hemp. Timber won, but hemp is better for many things including paper. Just follow the money. Those that had timberland made hemp the demon.
Monomaniac at work again. I won't tell you how delicious dinner was (homemade spinach-cheese calzones, manicotti in fresh tomato-basil sauce, rolls, spring salad) because that would be exhibitionistic and I disapprove of that modern, narcissistic trend.
Oh, as a side example let me tell you about someone close to me who smoked pot in his teenage years, then left it. He had, and still has, phenomenal musical ability. He noticed that when he smoked marijuana he was not as creative, couldn't "hear" sounds and melodies as well as when he was not smoking regularly. And the effect lasted for days, not just when he was high. He stopped and as a man in his twenties never partakes for two reasons: it is the law, and he doesn't think it's good for him.
Don't know what problem you were having, H. I concur with Michael's suggestion of first writing your complete post in Notepad, or your email client, then cut-and-paste into these boxes.
You haven't answered a number of points I made, nor given any indication that you're willing to do even elementary research. Wish you would do both.
Glad to hear that you're in favor of medical use -- too bad most of the Rs on the subcommittee are categorically opposed. Glad that you don't support jailing kids for it, or burdening them with a criminal record.
Enjoy your meal, soak your typing fingers in hot Epsom Salts solution, go to the library and read up on the subject . . . and then get back to me. My email is rscherer AT infionline DOT net.
Also, read the current (or perhaps previous) issue of CHARLOTTESVILLE magazine for a good review of this issue.
An example of a cultural phenomenon that was impossible to eradicate was alcohol use. Prohibition did not work because alcohol use, though it can be very harmful, was endemic, and attempts at prohibiting it had harmful unintended consequences.
The unintended consequences were increase in the power of the organized crime and the rise of the Kennedy dynasty. :)
I think Rob Bell is hiding something in his past or present. He waves the moral/religous flag so often it makes me think he is trying to detract from his own secrets. Anyone that says they are more moral than others is definetly a troubled soul. I hope he is exposed
Only checked this today. I see I got a rise out of a few people. OK, first off, I said I am not in favor of severe penalties. Perhaps Rob Bell is in favor of penalties more severe than I would call for, but I still do not support total legalization of marijuana. It IS still a sub-culture in America, and I hope it stays that way. Kids, and grownups for that matter, do not need to smoke more pot. I teach History so I know that there are many cultural phenomena that go back more than 10,000 years and are now scorned--let's see, cannibalism, slavery, hallucinogenic mushroom use (OK I scorn that, perhaps you don't), human sacrifice, prostitution--just because people have done something for a long time is not at all a sign that what has traditionally been done is a good thing. (And of course I know cannibalism is much worse than partaking of marijuana. These are examples. It seems the human race has a fatal bent for things that are not good for them or others.)
And to the man, or any person for that matter, who is helped with nausea or pain by using marijuana, I say, let a real physician prescribe it. However, this excuse of "medical" usage is put forth mostly by people who just want to get high. And it is true that our brains have receptors with which drugs interact, but the receptors are not there because it is a natural thing to do drugs. It is not. Natural activities like exercise, prayer, meditation, sex, and just socializing, laughing, and having a good time are what they were really made for. If there is a major problem like disease, pain, etc., by all means, use drugs, but the regular use of mind-altering substances is a sign to me that someone does not know how to really LIVE.
And now for all those hamadryad comments. Hamadryads do not "live in trees" per se. They ARE trees, trees who have spirits and can sometimes appear as people, other times as trees. But when they are people, they are rather leafy people, and when they are trees, they have a remarkably human aspect. (Read Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, it's all in there.)
joe, absolutly averyone has something they're ashamed of.
Unfortunaltly for us, Mr. Bell was most likely ripped off a lot when he was a young lad or wasn't cool enough to partake with the ones who were doing it in high school/college. You know, you're everyday noob. I could see how a scorned bunch of those guys would want to ruin it for everyone else...
This is my 4th point/response: hamadryads: I don't mind half so much as you might think being called a tree-dweller. Right now a large hollowed out tree seems not such a bad alternative to the mortgage I am shelling out. And we could all be a little kinder and gentler in our language. I, after all, called those first posters ââ?¬Å?1d1ots". Which wasn't very nice!
Mr. Roy, if I have time I may do research, but I am very, very, busy, and I have too much personal experience of detrimental effects of marijuana on young people to change my mind. Here I stand: Don't make it legal, don't punish too harshly, everybody LIVE rather than dope yourself up.
(OK, I realize after spending a quarter of my day posting it is also ironic that I should say I am too busy. Hey, maybe this posting thing is addictive, maybe we should make too much posting illegal, maybe... JUST KIDDING!)
Did I forget to answer some of your points? I think I was going to address that comment about the world being able to afford losing a few people because there are billions more. I thought that was callous. I believe every individual is unique, precious. And I was going to say that you probably wouldn't be against seat belt laws and helmet laws although they did take away some liberty, but that was before I found out you were a libertarian, and you are very likely against those kind of laws also. I am not, and I feel that way because I don't think people are replaceable, and the loss of a little liberty is OK if there is a much greater good that comes. We do have responsibility one for another, we just have to know where to draw the line. I can't be a libertarian because I think the line is drawn in that philosophy way too close to a state of anarchy.
You are all idiots. Marijuana use is part of a "subculture", not a longstanding cultural phenomenon like alcohol. There still are very good reasons for trying to suppress its use, and there is a much better chance of success in a marijuana prohibition than with alcohol. I am not saying penalties should be severe, but legalizing it would DRAMATICALLY increase its use and that is in no sense a good thing. Huzzah to Rob Bell for standing up for what is right. If he was not "cool" enough to do pot in high school, I would say "coolness" is highly overrated. (I am a high school teacher and I know what I am talking about here. Too often the "cool" kids are delinquents.) Good for Rob Bell and I will vote for him again!
My Dear hamadryad,
I would like to know what you would like to say to my two sons that absolutely know that Marijuana saved their father's life. I would also like to know what you would say to my two sons if it were up to you to refuse me the Marijuana that saved my life.
I am here for the past 13 years because after losing 94 pounds in three months from constant projectile vomiting I was given Marijuana and I stopped vomiting. Prior to trying the Marijuana I tried everything I even tried suppositories, but my liver was failing and they were too powerful and made me hallucinate. I was finally able to keep food down thanks to the Marijuana. That lead to my doctor prescribing me the chemotherapy and my being able to keep down the pill part of the chemotherapy down. And for the twenty months I was able to stay on the chemotherapy.
In the states where Marijuana is recognized as medicine, all those states allow it's use for Hepatitis C. Except for Virginia. Virginia Only allows it's use for Cancer and Glaucoma. Delegate Bell was instrumental in keeping it that way. Many Virginians will suffer due to Delegate Bell's actions on that day. I heard of his joking attitude and the brownies and his Cheech and Chong jokes. Not professional in such a serious subject, in my opinion.
I would like to know what you would say to those citizens of Virginia with Hepatitis C and and to their kids especially since it raised the success rate from 11% to well over 65%.
Hamadryad -
Nice screen anme, since it seems that in spite of being a high school teacher you seem to have been living in a tree all these years.
Marijuana use is indeed a "subculture", but is absolutely longstanding -- at least 5,000 years, arguably more than twice that.
You say, "There still are very good reasons for trying to suppress its use, and there is a much better chance of success in a marijuana prohibition than with alcohol."
Would you care to list those reasons, AND estimate the costs associated with them? It's all well and good to say that in a perfect world, no one would use drugs of any kind, but in case you've been living in a tree, I need to inform you that we do not live in a perfect world. In the real world, people get sick, and need medicine, and some of those medicines cause other problems which in turn require more medicines to treat them. In the real world, people use various ways to give themselves a temporary break from the humdrum day-to-day life with its cares.
Every society of which we know has some means of escape -- with the possible exception of the Eskimo. Even grade-school children, without drugs, engage in breath-holding maneuvers and spinning maneuvers to give them a short-term break from reality. Can you say -- and if so, with what evidence? -- that any behaviour so widespread is abnormal?
You say, "legalizing it would DRAMATICALLY increase its use", but again you show no evidence for that, and for that matter "legalizing" was not at any point under consideration. HB1134 would have lowered the penalty for possession to A $500 civil fine. The maximum penalty for 1st-offense possession under current law is MAXIMUM 30 days, and $500 CRIMINAL fine. Not a very big change, and would prevent thousands of young Virginians from having a criminal conviction on their records. As far as that change dramatically changing the rate of drug use, you obviously have not paid any attention to the twenty years and more of evidence of what's happened in those states which have made this change. Too much time in the tree, I suppose.
The other bill (HB1136) which Rob Bell, Todd Gilbert, Ben Cline, et. al. killed would have very slightly expanded the possibilities for physicians to prescribe marijuana to their patients when, in their professional judgment, it would be appropriate. You know, just like cocaine and morphine. You have a problem with that? If so, for what reasons?
If I may, I would gently suggest that you get out of your tree and actually do some research before you spout off in the future.
-- Roy B. Scherer
-- Oh, by the way, please notice that SOME of us do not hide behind screen-names. The reason for that is that we post truth, and we are willing to defend our views against any anonymous attacks from idiots on either side.
Oh, for heaven's sake "Name", not everything is a PLOT.
Oh Leafy One, allow me to deal with a couple of points you raise.
Let me first say that I'm aware of the nature of hamadryads. I admit taking the easy shot at you for being a tree-dweller, because it was so appropriate concerning both your screen name and your attitudes -- and because I can't resist a straight line. "It was the hamadryad's fault, Lord. She tempted me."
Now, I agree that marijuana users are a subculture, but don't see the significance. Chess players are a subculture, as are sky-divers and oenophiles. None of the latter are illegal, and none have been around as long as marijuana use. Are you suggesting that America should attempt to eliminate all subcultures? Wouldn't that make the melting-pot a bit bland?
People don't need to smoke pot? No, of course they don't, in most cases. They don't need to read books, or watch movies, or add spice to their foods, either.
We're human. To live, as opposed to merely existing, means more than merely breathing, taking sustenance, excreting, possibly breeding, and eventually dying. Yes, some of the things we do are not good for us, and may well harm us. That's all right, Hamadryad. Some people climb Mount Everest, some people jump out of airplanes, some people smoke marijuana. It's all right. We have billions of humans on the planet; if some of them kill themselves, there are plenty of replacements, and the death will provide a useful object lesson for others.
As far as medical use is concerned, you quite obviously do not understand the current state of Virginia and Federal law, or you would not prattle about "let a real physician prescribe it".
Virginia law theoretically allows medical use, "pursuant to a valid prescription issued by a medical doctor in the course of his professional practice for treatment of cancer or glaucoma",
The trouble with that is twofold. First is that use is limited to those two specific condition(unlike the case with any other substance whatsoever, and second is that it requires a "valid prescription". That last would be no problem at all, were it not for the fact that the Feds have marijuana classified as a "Schedule I" substance, which means that any prescription written for it is INvalid on its face.
The Feds, of course, finally admitted (in January) that they have been systematically blocking research into the therapeutic uses of marijuana for decades. In spite of that, there's good evidence that it has multiple medical uses, and that specific components have more.
As to whether or not "this excuse of ââ?¬Å?medical" usage is put forth mostly by people who just want to get high", that's first of all merely your opinion, and irrelevant even if true. EVEN IF 99 percent of medical-necessity claims were false, that would say nothing about the ethics of allowing genuine medical use. After all, merely because junkies fake symptoms and forge prescriptions to get morphine does not keep it from being a vital part of the pharmacopeia.
Regarding brain receptors, I'm afraid that once again you reveal that you haven't done too much research in this field. All the things you cite are indeed good ways to feel good, but they do not excite the same receptors used for cannabinoids.
Finally, you may have a sort of point about drug use being a sign that someone doesn't "know how to really LIVE", but according to the studies that have been done, use of marijuana is much more likely to be the RESULT of physical/mental/psychological problems than it is to be the CAUSE of them.
Seriously, Hamadryad, I understand your concern, and (as a certified geek and nerd), I completely agree that "ââ?¬Å?coolness" is highly overrated". However, you have failed to do the research. I'd suggest that you start with what is still, in my estimation, the best layman's book on drugs that I've ever read: LICIT AND ILLICIT DRUGS, by Edward Brecher and the Editors of Consumer Reports (1972, Consumer's Union). You might follow that up with the report of the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, volume 1, MARIHUANA: SIGNAL OF MISUNDERSTANDING (1972, Government Printing Office). Once you've read those, drop me a line at .
Good heavens! I wrote a whole page of the most lovely cogent prose in response to Roy S. and hit submit and it disappeared! Where did it go! It was so pointed, so pithy, so, I don't know how to describe it. Hook! Where did it go!
The above is an actual question for the Hook staff. Do you have my submission somewhere?
Did I surpass some sort of length restriction? It was long, but I don't think any longer than the other long postings here. I feel slightly faint. I composed that comment with such care, such craftsmanship...
OK Mr. Roy, they are only letting me post 2 or 3 lines at a time. The short posts may not contain the devastating argument of the originals, but I will try to be succinct. My rejoinders were on the topics of 1. subcultures 2. cannabis receptors 3. laws 4. hamadryads and 5. I forget, maybe it will come back to me.
My point on subcultures was that I don't disapprove of them per se. I am an avid book reader and that has become a subculture in today's electronic world. My point was that if something is undesirable, it is easier to eradicate when it is not mainstream.
Something can be illegal and not merit jail time. I think we could be much more creative in punishments--community service, etc. I want to discourage people, especially young people, from using it, not slam them in jail. (OK guys I am sorry for all these posts with HAMADRYAD as the header. I like my nom de plume but even I am getting nauseous seeing it this many times.)
Last point about laws. Those communities internationally and nationally who have opted to legalize marijuana are now rethinking it because pot-shops are "attractive nuisances" and bring down a community. No, this is the last point. As a teacher I care what happens to young people. And I don't want them put in jail, but as they get older, the typical thing that happens is that kids spontaneously leave pot because it is not sanctioned by society. That wouldn't happen if it was sanctioned.
OK I am going to eat dinner. Someone (Michael? Roy?) please post. I am beginning to look like a monomaniac. And I don't even do this very often!
Hey, I figured out why they didn't post my comments! I was apologizing (sort of) for calling the first posters "1d1ots" and the same comment posts when I substitute "1"'s for ""i's"! But my original, not so nice comment got through! Life is full of irony.
OK it's not the end. I wanted to respond to you saying that marijuana use doesn't cause problems, but people take marijuana because they have problems. That is no argument for its use. That is called self-medication, and people with for example, depression, or bipolar syndrome, often self-medicate with things that are horribly wrong for them, like alcohol.


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Many studies have shown that visual inspection of duct seals in residences is not enough. Code now requires a pressure test. Pressure testing ducts as required by the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code is far superior to visual inspection and will definitively confirm that duct leakage is kept to a low level.
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