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Rent: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | Transcript
John Oliver discusses why rent has become increasingly unaffordable, what we can do to combat a system that is stacked against tenants, and, of course, Dakota Johnson's complex relationship to limes.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Aired on June 19, 2022
Main segment: Housing in the United States
Other segment: United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack public hearings
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John: Welcome, welcome, welcome to "Last Week Tonight." I'm John Oliver. Thank you so much for joining us. It has been a busy week. The U.S. entered a bear market. There was historic flooding in Yellowstone National Park. And in Peru, a hearing concerning a corruption inquiry into their president was disrupted in a truly spectacular way.
What the public prosecutor's office is investigating is — [speaking non-English language]
The gentleman there is interference from what seems to be the law firm showing very suggestive images. [Laughter]
John: Wow, that's a little more than suggestive images. A suggestive image is the enticing hint of what lies beneath. That's straight up dick. That's a whole dick on the tv in Peru. [Laughter] But instead of focusing on that, we're going to concentrate on the U.S., where the House committee investigating January 6th continued to unearth new details regarding the days leading up to the insurrection, including the surprisingly large role of Trump's legal adviser, John Eastman. And quick sidenote: if you're ever accused of a crime and your lawyer shows up to court dressed like this, you are going to jail. [Laughter] Eastman was the one who devised the theory that Mike Pence could single-handedly negate the election results, a theory that was met with an appropriate level of skepticism at the time from this White House lawyer.
I said, hold on a second, I want to understand what you're saying. You're saying that you believe the vice president acting as president of the senate can be the sole decision maker as to, under your theory, who becomes the next president of the United States? And he said "yes." I said, are you out of your f-ing mind?
John: Right. Although, I will say, at this point, you can just say "fuck." [Laughter] Democracy is hanging on by a thread, and you had a front row seat. You can say "fuck." You said it then and you should say it now. Because what he was suggesting to you there was bonkers. The idea that a single person could decide the presidency is completely against the ideals of this country, which is why the constitution starts with "we the people" and not "Mike." [Laughter] Also, I know it's not the important thing, but what is happening behind that man? [Laughter] Why does this bat have "justice" written on it? And what are these three metal wig things right below it? Do you wear them? Or did you see one of those guys painted silver who moves when you give him money and scalp him? Also that panda painting, and this is true, was apparently featured in the "Fifty Shades of Grey" movie. It is all very weird! I would say it's the most distracting visuals during a televised government hearing, but as we all know, Peru has significantly raised the bar in that regard. Now, obviously, the point of these hearings is to learn lessons from the efforts to steal the last election, to prevent it from happening again. But for many republicans, it seems the only mistake they see is that they didn't go far enough. Because we're in the midst of a midterm election year right now, and already, more than a hundred republican primary winners back Trump's false claims of election fraud. An especially concerning subset are candidates for Secretary of State, because they could end up in a position to directly influence the next presidential election. Take Jim Marchant, who looks like what a child would produce if you simply told them to "draw business." [Laughter] On Tuesday, Marchant became the republican nominee for Secretary of State in Nevada. Which is alarming, given that he's a conspiracy theorist who's said things like this:
The shape that our country is in right now is because of election fraud. The people of Nevada have not elected anybody since 2006, they've been installed by the deep state cabal.
John: Wow. "The people of Nevada haven't legitimately elected anybody since 2006." That is a pretty bold claim, especially coming from a guy who himself was elected to the state assembly there in 2016. [Laughter] Also, when Marchant was asked to specify who, exactly, he thought was stealing elections, he said, "I don't know, actually. I think it's a global thing. The people in power want to maintain their power." Which is honestly pretty refreshing coming from a conspiracy theorist. "Look, we know there's a secret cabal pulling the strings of politicians around the world, but I'm certainly not going to wildly speculate about it. That would be irresponsible." [Laughter] But crucially, Marchant isn't alone, he's actually leading a group of candidates called the America First Secretary of State Coalition, which also includes New Mexico's Audrey Trujillo, who's referred to the 2020 election as "a coup," making her explanation of why she decided to run for office a bit worrisome.
I decided to run for Secretary of State when I saw the very inconsistencies in this last election, you know. I feel that a lot of people, whether we can prove it or not, feel that this election was stolen.
John: Wait, wait, "whether we can prove it or not?" But that's a pretty big loophole, isn't it, Audrey? We all believe plenty of things that we can't prove, but we shouldn't base major life decisions on them. For instance, I can't prove that, in his day, beloved children's author of "The Giving Tree" Shel Silverstein was fucking nonstop. I believe it, though! Look at him. Now you believe it, too! Look at America's first fuck boy, he knows exactly where the sidewalk ends. [Laughter] But again, we can't prove it, can we? So we just keep that belief in our hearts, and try not to use it as motivation to completely dismantle democracy. It's the least that we can do! And then there is Kristina Karamo, who's running for Secretary of State in Michigan, and who is really something.
Kristina karamo has not been shy in insisting there was widespread cheating in the 2020 vote, touting debunked claims and saying Donald Trump was the true winner in Michigan. Her most inflammatory language is aimed at democrats.
Their party has totally been taken over by a satanic agenda.
Including Michigan's current Secretary of State.
She's an evil woman. She's a very, evil, evil, evil woman.
John: Okay, obviously, democrats don't have a satanic agenda, mainly because that would require having an agenda in the first place. [Laughter] Also, for the record, Michigan's current Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, is not evil, evil, evil. In fact, just go to her Wikipedia page, and look for the section entitled "Horrible acts of evil." It is just not there. Although you will find that "she has completed 23 full marathons since 2005." But that's not evil, is it? It's just annoying. [Laughter] No judgment, but the only reason to run that many marathons is because you like bragging to your friends, or you're horny for stopping traffic. Those are the only two options. [Laughter] But look, extreme views on election fraud are par for the course for this coalition. The thing with Karamo is that she has a lot of other views, too.
She suggested in a podcast that premarital sex paves the way for society condoning pedophilia.
When we normalize people fornicating, and we normalize people living together with their boyfriends and girlfriends, all this stuff, we open a door to us to get to the point where we have people who want to normalize pedophilia.
She also referred to herself as an anti-vaxxer before the covid-19 vaccines were authorized.
[Whispering] Guess what, I'm crazy. I'm an anti-vaxxer.
John: Oh, come on, you don't sound crazy, whispered voice on the phone. [Laughter] And while there's a lot to object to there, "we normalize people fornicating and living together as boyfriend and girlfriend" is like, ten fake moral panics ago. I'm not saying she's not wrong, it's just she's wrong in such an outdated way, it's like finding out someone's mad at Bill Clinton for trying weed. You're upset about that? Today? I mean, you're wrong for being mad about that but even worse, you're late. Look, these are just three of the worrying candidates for Secretary of State around the country. There are many, many others. Which should frankly give everyone pause. Because the January 6th Committee is reminding everyone just how close we came to democracy basically collapsing. It was a handful of people in the right position choosing to do the right thing that saved us from a constitutional crisis. But there are multiple candidates running for consequential positions right now on the platform of basically, "let's do the coup again, but better next time." And if you're not worried about that, if I may quote a man with the world's most chaotic zoom backdrop, you're out of your fucking mind. And now, this.
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John: Moving on. Our main story tonight concerns housing. The thing that 16-year-old TikTok millionaires can afford, and you can't. Housing is something tv audiences can't seem to get enough of, whether it's watching angry couples hunt for the perfect place to get divorced in, or watching celebrities giving architectural digest tours of their homes, as they discover things that were clearly put there by stylists, and occasionally call it out in a gloriously passive-aggressive way.
I love cooking. I cook a lot and I bake a lot.
I love limes, I love them, they're great, I love them so much and I like to present them like this in my house. [Laughter]
John: She's so magnificently weird. Real Dakota-heads will know that she later claimed she is, in fact, actually allergic to limes, saying "it was hard to ignore them, so I just lied." But she may well have just been lying about that as well. She's pure chaos, I love her, she should be the president. [Laughter] But this story isn't going to be about people who own their own, lime-infested homes. It's going to be about the more than 1/3 of American households who rent. And if you do rent, you'll undoubtedly be aware of what's been happening recently.
Tonight, skyrocketing rents forcing a growing number of Americans to think twice about where home is.
Rent prices across the country skyrocketing.
Rents are rising nationwide.
Rents are going way, way up.
John: Yeah, rent is skyrocketing. And that is the last thing you want to hear is on the rise, along with Covid cases, murder rates, and Henry Kissinger's life expectancy. [Laughter] The bitch just won't quit, will he? The median monthly asking rent in the U.S. surpassed $2,000 for the first time last month. That's up 15% since the same time last year, well above the rate of inflation. And it's up over 30% in cities like Cincinnati, Seattle, and Nashville, and nearly 50% in Austin. You, or someone you know, might well be struggling to find a place right now, or are being priced out of where you currently live by your landlord. But the fact is, rent affordability isn't a remotely new problem.
If you live in New York, your city became unaffordable to rent in in 2004. See this line? That line is 30% of what you make. Generally, for rent, it's advised you don't spend past that line. But if you live in Miami, you probably passed that line in 2001. And in Chicago in 2012. Los Angeles has been plain unaffordable since before 1979. Rent is growing faster than the money most people make to pay it.
John: It's true, rent is growing faster than wages. It's a problem we've known about for decades and is only getting worse. Which was, I believe, a working title for this show. It was either that, or "America's saddest home videos with adult McLovin." [Laughter] You're laughing too hard at that. In fact, right now there's not a single county in the U.S. where a worker earning minimum wage can afford a modest two-bedroom rental home. And look, there are undoubtedly individual landlords out there who behave decently to their tenants. But others will conveniently blame "the market rate" for extortionate rent hikes, and imply that the decision simply isn't theirs to make. Just watch financial guru Dave Ramsey try and reassure one landlord who said he felt guilty about raising his rents above what his tenants could afford.
If I raise my rent to be market rate, that does not make me a bad Christian. I did not displace the person out of that house if they can no longer afford it, the marketplace did. The economy did. The ratio of the income that they earn to their housing expense displaced them. I didn't cause any of that.
John: Of course, kicking someone out of your house doesn't make you a bad Christian. It's in the beatitudes: "blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Fucked are the poor in money, for theirs is the kingdom of landlords. Wazzaaaaaaaaaaaa!" [Laughter] So given that rents are going up and some landlords seem to think that's completely unavoidable, we thought, tonight, we'd look at rental housing: why it's increasingly expensive, how steeply the system is stacked against renters, and what we can do to combat that. And let's start with understanding our current housing supply. You'll often hear that high rents are a supply and demand issue: basically, too many renters, not enough units. And that is partially true. Because there currently aren't nearly enough affordable units in the U.S. Which is a little weird to think about, because if you live in any city, you probably see new buildings cropping up all the time, called things like "4 East" or "Summit 3eleven," with taglines like "Luxury urban dwellings driven by design." There's almost certainly a coffee shop without a bathroom on the ground floor. [Laughter] So apartments are being built. But the problem is, thanks in part to local, nimby opposition to more affordable, multi-family housing, it's mainly been at the high end. In fact, in the last three decades, the national stock of rental units available actually grew by more than 13 million. But, crucially, the number of units at the lowest end of the market fell by nearly four million. That might be why if you've ever tried to search for affordable apartments in your area, google just says "nope." [Laughter] And this serious lack of new affordable housing has enabled landlords to charge higher rents for the units that exist, something that's increasingly attracted institutional investors: these are corporate landlords, like private equity firms, or even publicly traded companies, that pool the rents of their tenants and sell them as investments. They've long been players in apartment rentals, but more recently, after the 2008 housing crash, companies like these popped up to snap up single-family homes and rent them out. And because institutional investors are always trying to maximize returns, they'll take any opportunity to push rents higher. Take Monarch, which has been called middle America's fastest-growing landlord. Here is their owner last year salivating at the prospect of rent hikes.
We have an unprecedented opportunity, at least in my working lifetime, to really press rents, press rents on renewals because the country is highly occupied. We're 97.5%. And so, where are people going to go? They can't go anywhere. They want to be in apartments, or they have to be in apartments, and we have a tremendous opportunity to press both on renewing leases for existing residents, and to reset market rates, which we've reset numerous times even this year.
John: Wow. "They can't go anywhere, and for us, that's an unprecedented opportunity to press them." That is a terrible way to talk about people. Honestly, it's barely an acceptable way to talk about paninis. "Those sandwiches can't go anywhere, fuck it, press 'em. Squeeze those fuckers! I wanna see lines!" [Laughter] So if you're wondering why your rent is going up, it may well be because your landlord sees the current affordable housing crisis as a chance to "reset market rates." And in a lot of the country, there are very few legal constraints to stop them doing that. You may have heard of "rent control," which strictly limits how much a landlord can charge you, but vanishingly few people have access to that anymore. More commonly, there's rent stabilization. Which, in theory, means that on certain older properties, landlords can only raise the rent by a certain percentage per year. But only two states and DC require it, and more than 30 states have actually passed laws banning it. And even when protections exist, landlords can find ways around them. For instance, they might try and force rent-stabilized tenants out by allowing a property to fall into disrepair. Or by harassing them with incessant construction until they voluntarily leave. Take the rent-stabilized tenants who lived in this building in New York. Their landlord claimed he was simply upgrading it to improve tenants' quality of life. But that is not how it felt to them.
Tenants say they were offered buyouts to leave, but some, like George Manatos and Gretchen Mongrain, who've lived here for almost ten years, opted to stay. A decision they say came with a warning.
Well, if you don't take the buyout, we are going to renovate this and you are going to have to live through the nightmare of renovation.
Mongrain says the unit next to her was demolished with a crowbar. When she asked about the noise and debris left behind —
All the person said was, "I just want to let you know there's going to be a lot of rats from now on."
John: You know, it says a lot that they would endure a rat-littered construction site just to hold onto a rent-stabilized unit, because that's not exactly a welcoming message. If you went to somebody's home and their welcome mat said "there's going to be a lot of rats from now on," you'd drop your casserole dish then and there and turn the fuck around. Thereby instantly falling right into the rats' trap. [Laughter] And it's worth noting: when rent-stabilized tenants did leave that building, the asking rents, unsurprisingly, then as much as doubled. And I assume those apartments were then snapped up by a nice young rat couple with rich tastes and disposable income. I believe we have a photo? There it is. They seem nice. [Laughter] And with rents being squeezed across the board, and protections few and far between, lower-income renters are, obviously, the most vulnerable. Even before the pandemic struck, 23 million people lived in households that paid more than half their income on rent and utilities. Which is just not sustainable for anyone. Now, in theory, we have something designed to combat that. Federal housing assistance in the form of housing choice vouchers, commonly known as "section 8." The idea behind them is that a household still has to pay 30% of its monthly income for rent and utilities, but the government will help cover the rest. The problem is, the program is massively underfunded, to the point that only 1 in 4 households that qualify for assistance actually receive it. As we've shown on this show before, sometimes people have literally raced to apply for vouchers when they became available. And even once you've applied, the waiting period can be absurd. Take Chicago alderwoman Jeanette Taylor, whose application took a ridiculously long time to be approved.
When did you apply for this voucher?
And when did you get it?
2022. So 29 years.
What was your reaction when you got that letter?
I just sat on the side of the bed for like an hour in shock. And I was like, God, you got a sick sense of humor.
John: I mean, she's right, he does. Although to be honest, I prefer God's early stuff. Convincing Abraham to almost kill his son as a prank? Very funny. Flooding the world and making one guy get every animal species to fuck on a boat? Hilarious! [Laughter] But a housing voucher that's 29 years late? I dunno. That does start to feel like God's running out of ideas. And even if you're lucky enough to get a voucher, you still then have to find a landlord willing to accept it. But many landlords don't, either because they see it as a bureaucratic hassle, or because they have a stigma against Section 8 recipients, all of which leads to a lot of stories like this:
I was blessed with a homing choice voucher in April, and I haven't been able to find a spot. I called over 200 places that would supposedly take the voucher, and none of those places were actually renting.
How many places do you think you got turned down from?
Jesus, at least 15.
15 Places turned you down?
If not more. It's like I have a plague. It's like we have a plague.
Everywhere you turn, no Section 8. I've called up 50 apartment complexes in Sacramento. They don't look at me as an individual. I'm on Section 8, therefore I'm poor. Therefore, I'm bad.
John: That is terrible. Because even the worst people will honor vouchers. Take Willy Wonka. Sure, he may have run a sweatshop with horrible safety protocols that put children's lives in danger, but even he had the decency to honor the fucking vouchers! [Laughter] Now, discrimination against those with section 8 vouchers is illegal, in some places. But even where that's the case, landlords can just invent other reasons to turn people away. And with housing this tight, rents skyrocketing, and landlords holding this much power, low-income renters can be left vulnerable to the nightmare scenario: eviction. We've talked about evictions on this show before. They're invasive, traumatizing, and like all the other perils of renting, disproportionately affect black people. One study of more than a thousand counties found black renters made up around 20% of all adult renters, but nearly a third of all eviction filing defendants. And perhaps nowhere demonstrates the enormous power imbalance between landlords and tenants more than housing court. Starting with the fact that, in most places, tenants don't have a right to a lawyer in eviction proceedings. And if you don't have an attorney to guide you through what can be a complex process, not only can you fail to raise legitimate defenses, you can make basic mistakes with huge consequences.
Gina comes across a tenant sitting distraught.
So she came to court, she came to court early and as happens sometimes because court is confusing, she sat in the wrong courtroom.
While her case was heard in a different courtroom. When she realized her mistake, she dashed over and caught the landlord outside, but he doesn't want to speak with her.
And the court informed her that after ten days, the sheriff would come in and remove her and her three children from her home.
John: One tiny mistake and her housing was gone. Which is clearly unfair. The only time someone should be punished for going into the wrong room is when they accidentally stumble into the 3:30 showing of "Downton Abbey: A New Era." [Laughter] Get ready for a long, boring ride. "But John, it's delightful because they're British!" Counterpoint: it is not. [Laughter] One study of nearly 100,000 eviction cases in Denver found that nearly 90% of landlords were represented by a lawyer, compared to less than 1% of tenants. Which is not good. And yet, some attorneys who work for landlords get very angry at the suggestion that tenants are poorly protected. Take this guy, who represents multiple landlords in St. Louis. He's a self-styled guru for the real estate bar. And just listen to him giving a zoom seminar about evictions, and rolling his eyes at some of the basic legal protections extended to renters during Covid.
The advocates for the tenants are like, "you know, these people still don't know what's available to them and they don't know anything about the CDC declaration." [Bleep] Them! [Bleep] Them all! They're too stupid to know what their legal rights are? They shouldn't have signed a [bleep] contract for $1,000-a-month unit for a year if they're too [bleep] stupid to sign, to know anything, to read the news, to have any idea about their rights! If they're too [bleep] stupid, they shouldn't be signing the $12,000 contract.
John: Okay, first, that is definitely the angriest I've ever seen anyone wearing a "rush" hat. [Laughter] And second, there is no doubt that man, at some point, has been kicked out of a youth soccer game. He just exudes "ref, I'd like a word" energy. I guarantee that is a man who has thrown a lawn chair, or at the very least, squeezed a kool-aid jammer so tight in his fists, the other parents thought his hand was covered in blood. Besides that, I will say, he seems like a cool guy. [Laughter] So that is what tenants can be up against. And the problem is, eviction filings can be on your record for years, jeopardizing your chance at future housing. Just watch as this woman contacts a realtor about a home that she's interested in.
Did you get a chance to drive by and take a look at it?
Yeah, I'm sitting in front of the home right now as we speak.
Okay. And what's your name?
Margaret.
Okay, Margaret. And how soon are you looking to move into a home?
As soon as possible. Right now.
Are you on a lease where you're living at right now?
No, as a matter of fact, we're not. We're actually homeless.
Okay, so where are you currently living?
In our vehicle.
Yeah, unfortunately, when we check the court records and see an eviction, unfortunately, we can't help you.
John: Look, there are some things that should probably stay on your record. Like war crimes, or voting for Taylor Hicks in the 2006 season of "American Idol." [Laughter] You shouldn't get to come back from that so easily. But people should have a chance to find safe and affordable housing, since the alternative is being homeless! And the thing is, you can be turned down for housing simply because an eviction case was filed against you, even if that case was later dropped, or indeed, you won it. The long-term damage that eviction filings do to your record is why many will choose not to fight when a landlord tries to kick them out. That's one of the reasons people can wind up with a so-called "informal" eviction. That's where their landlord does things like change the locks, threaten them, or even remove the front door. It is hard to measure just how many of these take place each year, but a survey of Milwaukee renters found that for every eviction executed through the judicial system, there are two others executed outside the court, without any form of due process. And given just how devastating evictions can be, it is infuriating to hear how some involved in the process view it. Remember that screaming rush fan from earlier? Well, it turns out, he actually has a little more to say.
It's sad to say, and some of you who are not landlords might be shocked to hear, we evict grandparents who are poor. We evict cancer-stricken people who are attending chemo. It's sad, but what's sadder is that somebody who purchases property for hundreds of thousands of dollars is given the finger by the law.
John: Except it's not sadder. [Laughter] It's just not. On the great big list of sad things: person getting evicted during chemo is up there with dog deaths and the first ten minutes of "Up." While landlord doesn't get rent is at the very bottom, with celebrity tweets about a shitty airline experience and white guy not allowed to rap all the lyrics. It's objectively not sad, at all. That is the core issue with rental housing in this country: people who think investments deserve more respect than basic human needs. And it has set up a system designed to ensure that some people just spiral downwards: they can't move somewhere cheaper if nowhere cheaper exists. They can't apply for federal assistance if there's nowhere near enough. They can't even use that assistance if no one accepts it. They can't take their landlord to court if the court system is skewed against them. And they can't depend on rental housing ever again if they're evicted even just once. It's a complete shit show. So what can we do about it? Well, there are some small things. We could pass rent-stabilization laws, and laws that prohibit discrimination against recipients of housing choice vouchers, and make it easier for landlords to accept them. We also could pass laws mandating the sealing of most eviction records, and give people a right to counsel in housing court. That alone can have massive impacts. In 2017, after sustained pressure, New York city became the first place in the country to give tenants the right to a lawyer in housing court. It is a major reason why, even before the pandemic moratoriums, residential evictions were down 40%. And luckily, other places are now following that lead. But I would argue what we really need to do is fundamentally change our mindset away from simply hoping that we can just tinker around the edges of housing policy and the private market will sort the rest of this shit out. Because we've tried that for decades, and yet, here we are. Instead, we need to agree: housing is a human right. And that is not actually just some empty slogan like subway's "eat fresh", or Gatorade's "is it in you?" Which, looking back, was very, very weird. [Laughter] This can actually be policy. Many countries, including France, Scotland, and South Africa have legally codified a right to housing. And here in the U.S., 3/4 of Americans already believe that it is a human right. As for what that would mean, it would entail a massive federal investment in rental assistance, and the creation of much more affordable housing units across the board. And before anyone suggests we can't afford that: we already subsidize certain people's homes. The mortgage interest deduction gives massive subsidies to homeowners, by letting them deduct the interest that they pay on their mortgage on their taxes. That has cost the federal government more than $580 billion over the last decade. And currently, nearly 2/3 of the deduction's benefits are going to those making $200,000 or more a year. I am benefiting from this program and I do not need to be! So we are clearly willing to prioritize housing in the budget, just not for the people who need it the most. The point here is, for a large portion of the population, simply having a place to live is an everyday battle. And for far too long, we've prioritized the protection of investments over individuals, and we've set up a system where landlords can "press rents and reset market rates," and justify their actions with self-serving bible readings, even as they subject tenants to everything from tactical rat assaults to the incoherent rage of the single most foul-mouthed fan Ontario's premiere prog rock power trio has ever fucking known. [Laughter] And now, this.
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Tracy, thanks for swinging by and I will swing by and bring you some more wine later on.
It's just me, a few bottles of wine. I'm a mom and I enjoy a nice glass of my wine sometimes.
Literally took a sip of the wine. I just want that for the record. It's not a prop.
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Oh, she has wine!
And they said "wine?" And I said, uh, yeah!
I need a hand, I need a glass of wine.
There you are.
We have wine in our teacups.
We have one in our teacups. We are having a tea party.
Is there wine in the teacup?
All right, I love you.
And we are going to go shopping for wine!
Let me bring my own bottle of wine and I will be here.
Right here with my glass of wine.
It's always a pleasure to be here. I think I lost my wine. Oh, you have your wine?
I lost my wine for the hundredth time tonight.
I have my college teachers, I have my Dave Matthews t-shirts that I love. Don't get me started. [Singing]
I'm number 41 all the way. We almost had Dave Matthews wine on QVC years ago. I think we should all go to his Instagram —
Oh, my gosh! [Laughter]
John: That's our show. Thank you for watching. These are my lines, and I love them, and I love to present them like this on my desk. See you, good night!
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Technology drives human progress. In the past quarter of a millennium, we went from steam-powered machines and the industrial revolution to the internet and the information age. Our jobs changed, the places we worked in evolved, and so did the tools we use to communicate with each other to work together. We've gone from memos and notice boards to email and team chat in less than a century!
At the turn of the nineteenth century, letters had already been a staple of human communication for a few centuries. Business letters were formal, descriptive messages with little to no technical jargon. They were usually typed on stationery with the company letterhead and primarily used to communicate with clients and customers – people outside the organization.
Memos first appeared in the workplace in the late nineteenth century and became commonplace by the 1920s. The word memo is a shorter form of memorandum, whose Latin origin translates to 'something to be noted' or 'something to be recalled.' Memos were meant for internal use, so they were shorter, informal messages, and the use of jargon was acceptable. They were used to request specific information from colleagues, respond to previous questions, share new information, or give instructions to do something – creating a "paper trail" for future reference.
Employees wrote memos and sealed them into "routing envelopes" to be picked up, processed, sorted, and delivered by mailroom clerks and postmasters. Typically staid and humourless (there were exceptions!), paper memos signified an era of instruction, rather than dialogue.
Skipping ahead through the PC revolution, the birth of the internet and Ray Tomlinson's "clever hack" helped email become the de facto means of workplace communication. Businesses saved money on paper, stationery, and mail rooms. Employees could now send and receive information to one or many people at the click of a button. Moreover, if required, one could always print an email and share it physically – just like a memo.


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Pretrial Detention and Misconduct in Federal District Courts, 1995-2010
Thomas H. Cohen, J.D., Ph.D., Bureau of Justice Statistics
Presents findings on general trends in pretrial detention and misconduct in the federal district courts between fiscal years 1995 and 2010. The report highlights trends in the number of defendants released and detained pretrial and examines the changing composition of defendants with federal pretrial dispositions, including the increase in defendants charged with immigration violations and the growth of defendants with serious criminal backgrounds. It examines the relationships between pretrial detention and the type of charge and the criminal history of the defendant. In addition, the report includes trends on the rates of pretrial misconduct, including technical violations, missed court appearances, and re-arrests for new offenses between 1995 and 2010.
The number of defendants with cases disposed in federal district courts more than doubled from 45,635 in 1995 to 100,622 in 2010.
The number of defendants with cases disposed who were detained pretrial increased by 184%, from 27,004 in 1995 to 76,589 in 2010.
Growth in the number of pretrial detentions was driven primarily by immigration caseloads, which increased by 664%, from 5,103 cases in 1995 to 39,001 in 2010.
The percentage of drug defendants detained pretrial increased from 76% in 1995 to 84% in 2010.
Weapons caseloads nearly tripled between 1995 and 2010, and the percentage of weapons defendants detained pretrial increased from 66% to 86% during the same period.
Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP)

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Sunday Book Review|How Gandhi Became Gandhi
Sunday Book Review
How Gandhi Became Gandhi
By GEOFFREY C. WARD MARCH 24, 2011
Some years ago, the British writer Patrick French visited the Sabarmati ashram on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in the Indian state of Gujarat, the site from which Mahatma Gandhi led his salt march to the sea in 1930. French was so appalled by the noisome state of the latrines that he asked the ashram secretary whose job it was to clean them.
A sweeper woman stopped by for an hour a day, the functionary explained, but afterward things inevitably became filthy again.
But wasn't it a central tenet of the Mahatma's teachings that his followers clean up after themselves?
"We all clean the toilets together, on Gandhiji's birthday," the secretary answered, "as a symbol to show that we understand his message."
Gandhi, circa 1906.
Credit Vithalbai Jhaveri/GandhiServe
Gandhi had many messages, some ignored, some misunderstood, some as relevant today as when first enunciated. Most Americans — many middle-class Indians, for that matter — know what they know about the Mahatma from Ben Kingsley's Academy Award-winning screen portrayal. His was a mesmerizing performance, but the script barely hinted at the bewildering complexity of the real man, who was at the same time an earnest pilgrim and a wily politician, an advocate of celibacy and the architect of satyagraha (truth force), a revivalist, a revolutionary and a social reformer.
It is this last avatar that interests Joseph Lelyveld most. "Great Soul" concentrates on what he calls Gandhi's "evolving sense of his constituency and social vision," and his subsequent struggle to impose that vision on an India at once "worshipful and obdurate." Lelyveld is especially qualified to write about Gandhi's career on both sides of the Indian Ocean: he covered South Africa for The New York Times (winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his book about apartheid, "Move Your Shadow"), and spent several years in the late 1960s reporting from India. He brings to his subject a reporter's healthy skepticism and an old India hand's stubborn fascination with the subcontinent and its people.
This is not a full-scale biography. Nor is it for beginners. Lelyveld assumes his readers are familiar with the basic outlines of Gandhi's life, and while the book includes a bare-bones chronology and is helpfully divided into South African and Indian sections, it moves backward and forward so often, it's sometimes harder than it should be to follow the shifting course of Gandhi's thought.
But "Great Soul" is a noteworthy book, nonetheless, vivid, nuanced and cleareyed. The two decades Gandhi spent in South Africa are too often seen merely as prelude. Lelyveld treats them with the seriousness they deserve. "I believe implicitly that all men are born equal," Gandhi once wrote in the midst of one of his campaigns against untouchability. "I have fought this doctrine of superiority in South Africa inch by inch."
It actually took a long time for the Mahatma to turn that implicit belief into explicit action, Lelyveld reminds us. When Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi arrived in Durban from Bombay in 1893, he was a natty 23-year-old British-trained lawyer, hired to help represent one wealthy Muslim Indian trader in a dreary civil suit against another, and primarily interested in matters of religion and diet, not politics: in an early advertisement he proclaimed himself an "Agent for the Esoteric Christian Union and the London Vegetarian Society." But, Lelyveld writes, "South Africa . . . challenged him from the start to explain what he thought he was doing there in his brown skin."
Mohandas K. Gandhi arrived in South Africa in 1893 as a young British-trained lawyer.
Credit Keystone/Getty Images
Initially, Gandhi was simply affronted that discriminatory laws and bigoted custom lumped educated well-to-do Indians like him with "coolies," the impoverished mine, plantation and railroad workers who made up the bulk of the region's immigrant Indian population. The nonviolent campaigns he waged to bring about equality between Indians and whites over the next 20 years would lead him — slowly and unsteadily, but inexorably — to advocate equality between Indian and Indian, first across caste and religious lines and then between rich and poor. (His identification with the aspirations of black people would not come until long after he had left Africa.)
As Lelyveld shows, the outcomes of Gandhi's campaigns in South Africa were neither clear-cut nor long-lasting: after one, his own supporters beat him bloody because they thought he'd settled too quickly for a compromise with the government. But they taught him how to move the masses — not only middle-class Hindu and Muslim immigrants but the poorest of the poor as well. He had, as he himself said, found his "vocation in life."
Soon after returning to India in 1915, Gandhi set forth what he called the "four pillars on which the structure of swaraj" — self-rule — "would ever rest": an unshakable alliance between Hindus and Muslims; universal acceptance of the doctrine of nonviolence, as tenet, not tactic; the transformation of India's approximately 650,000 villages by spinning and other self-sustaining handicrafts; and an end to the evil concept of untouchability. Lelyveld shrewdly examines Gandhi's noble but doomed battles to achieve them all.
He made a host of enemies along the way — orthodox Hindus who believed him overly sympathetic to Muslims, Muslims who saw his calls for religious unity as part of a Hindu plot, Britons who thought him a charlatan, radical revolutionaries who believed him a reactionary. But no antagonist was more implacable than Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the brilliant, quick-tempered untouchable leader — still largely unknown in the West — who saw the Mahatma's nonviolent efforts to eradicate untouchability as a sideshow at best. He even objected to the word Gandhi coined for his people — "Harijans" or "children of God" — as patronizing; he preferred "Dalits," from the Sanskrit for "crushed," "broken."
Sometimes, Gandhi said Indian freedom would never come until untouchability was expunged; sometimes he argued that untouchability could be eliminated only after independence was won. He was unapologetic about that kind of inconsistency. "I can't devote myself entirely to untouchability and say, 'Neglect Hindu-Muslim unity or swaraj,' " he told a friend. "All these things run into one another and are interdependent. You will find at one time in my life an emphasis on one thing, at another time on [an]other. But that is just like a pianist, now emphasizing one note and now [an]other." It was also like the politician he said he was, always careful to balance the demands of one group of constituents against those of another.
Gandhi in India in the 1920s. Credit Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
As Lelyveld has written in "Move Your Shadow," "Gandhi had hoped to bring about India's freedom as the moral achievement of millions of individual Indians, as the result of a social revolution in which the collapse of alien rule would be little more than a byproduct of a struggle for self-reliance and economic equality." Foreign rule did collapse, in the end, "but strife and inequality among Indians worsened."
Gandhi is still routinely called "the father of the nation" in India, but it is hard to see what remains of him beyond what Lelyveld calls his "nimbus." His notions about sex and spinning and simple living have long since been abandoned. Hindu-Muslim tension still smolders just beneath the uneasy surface. Untouchability survives, too, and standard-issue polychrome statues of Ambedkar in red tie and double-breasted electric-blue suit now outnumber those of the sparsely clothed Mahatma wherever Dalits are still crowded together.
Gandhi saw most of this coming and sometimes despaired. The real tragedy of his life, Lelyveld argues, was "not because he was assassinated, nor because his noblest qualities inflamed the hatred in his killer's heart. The tragic element is that he was ultimately forced, like Lear, to see the limits of his ambition to remake his world."
Nonetheless, Lelyveld also writes, while he may have "struggled with doubt and self until his last days," Gandhi "made the predicament of the millions his own, whatever the tensions among them, as no other leader of modern times has." And, for all his inconsistencies, his dream for India remained constant throughout his life. "Today," Gandhi wrote less than three weeks before he was murdered by a member of his own faith, "we must forget that we are Hindus or Sikhs or Muslims or Parsis. . . . It is of no consequence by what name we call God in our homes."
That was a revolutionary notion when he first urged Indians to unite against their oppressors in South Africa before the turn of the 20th century. It was revolutionary when he came home to India at the time of World War I, and still revolutionary in 1947 when India was simultaneously liberated and ripped apart by the religious hatred he had repeatedly risked his life to quell, and sadly, it remains revolutionary today — for India and, by extension, for the wider world as well.
GREAT SOUL
Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India
By Joseph Lelyveld
Illustrated. 425 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $28.95.
Geoffrey C. Ward, a biographer and a screenwriter for documentary films, spent part of his boyhood in India and is currently writing a book about partition.
A version of this review appears in print on March 27, 2011, on Page BR1 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Political Pilgrim. Today's Paper|Subscribe
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
In 'Great Soul,' Joseph Lelyveld Re-Examines Gandhi MARCH 29, 2011


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Q: Why NSMutableDictionary's setValue:forKey doesn't work I want to write a timer class that records average elapsed time of a function. So I want to save how many times the function is ran. But the item in dictionary isn't changed.
here is my code:
@implementation Timer {
    NSDate *startTime;
    // NSString *item;
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}

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}
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    // std::cout << message << ": " << 1. * (clock() - timerTimestamp) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC * 1000 << "ms" << std::endl;
}

@end

But the itemCounts[message] is always nil. Please help me :)
Thanks in advance!

A: You have only declared the dictionaries.
Before using them you have to initialize them somewhere:
itemCounts = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
itemTimes = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];

A: You forgot to initialize the dictionaries. In Swift you would have seen a crash if you do like this :)

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As it was Purps's idea in the first place, he did the planning. He collated a list of what units people could contribute and prepared an interesting scenario based on Minden, but suitably re-named. It was to be a first run out for all of us with the Honours of War rules from Osprey. They proved to be relatively simple to pick up and gave a good, fast-moving game that produced believable outcomes and events.
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Below, Purps' Frei Korps looking good coming up the road, until all the enemy artillery targeted them and sent them packing on the first turn. Another new unit consigned back to the box before they'd got stuck in.
I was sending them to support Purps's left flank, which failed to move for the first 5 turns (he rolled a 1 each time!). When he finally got going he flung his newly-painted hussars into range of 4 artillery batteries, and back in the box they went. Two months' work followed by one blunder. Very funny, so I abandoned him and marched this battalion back to the ranks again.
The game, and the whole day, was great fun all-round, in excellent company.
We've got some other ideas for games we can play as an occasional local group, so hopefully there'll be more to post soon.
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Absolutely wonderful looking game. I do like the teddy bear fur….
Exactly what I was going to say. What wonderful figures, and so glad the rules suited you.
Fab pictures! It all looks so pretty.
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Is it possible to make the items in the Grid Gallery load randomly?
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My name is Charmaine (hence the Char in the blog title), and I am a foodie based in Perth, Western Australia. I spent my childhood in Kuching in Sarawak, Malaysia, and my adult life in Perth.
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Mark this day
For today is the anniversary of the day Democrat president Woodrow Wilson, darling of the progressive movement, brought segregation north. Where's that reader "Pulled up in OG", who's been reaching back to 1776 to pronounce the founding fathers worthless racists?
One hundred years ago today, Woodrow Wilson brought Jim Crow to the North. …
The Progressives … were not, however, ordinary men, and they knew it. Like their successors today, they dominated America's universities. With some justification, they thought of themselves as an intellectual elite; and, with rare exceptions, they enthusiastically embraced eugenics and racial theory. That the inchoate racial prejudices of their contemporaries were grounded in fact they took to be a truth taught by science; and, being devotees of rational administration to the exclusion of all other concerns, they insisted that public policy conform to the dictates of the new racial science.
Wilson, our first professorial president, was a case in point. He was the very model of a modern Progressive, and he was recognized as such. He prided himself on having pioneered the new science of rational administration, and he shared the conviction, dominant among his brethren, that African-Americans were racially inferior to whites. With the dictates of Social Darwinism and the eugenics movement in mind, in 1907, he campaigned in Indiana for the compulsory sterilization of criminals and the mentally retarded; and in 1911, while governor of New Jersey, he proudly signed into law just such a bill.
Prior to the segregation of the civil service in 1913, appointments had been made solely on merit as indicated by the candidate's performance on the civil-service examination. Thereafter, racial discrimination became the norm. Photographs came to be required at the time of application, and African-Americans knew they would not be hired. The existing work force was segregated. Many African-Americans were dismissed. …. For 35 years, segregation in the civil service would be public policy. It was only after Adolf Hitler gave eugenics and "scientific racism" a bad name that segregation came to seem objectionable.
Jim Crow had not been the norm before 1890, even in the deep South. As C. Vann Woodward noted nearly 60 years ago, in The Strange Career of Jim Crow, it became the norm there only when it received sanction from the racist Progressives in the North. Their influence was profound and pervasive. In 1900, E. L. Godkin, founder and longtime editor of The Nation, saw the handwriting on the wall. In the pages of that journal, he lamented that "the Declaration of Independence no longer arouses enthusiasm; it is an embarrassing instrument which requires to be explained away. The Constitution is said to be 'outgrown.'" Those who once "boasted that it had secured for the negro the rights of humanity and citizenship" now listen "in silence to the proclamation of white supremacy" and make "no protest against the nullifications of the Fifteenth Amendment."
Wilson championed the trend identified by Godkin. In his presidential campaign in 1912, he told his compatriots, "We are in the presence of a new organization of society." Our time marks "a new social stage, a new era of human relationships, a new stage-setting for the drama of life," and "the old political formulas do not fit the present problems: they read now like documents taken out of a forgotten age." What Thomas Jefferson had once taught is now, he contended, utterly out of date. It is "what we used to think in the old-fashioned days when life was very simple."
Above all, Wilson wanted to persuade his compatriots to get "beyond the Declaration of Independence." That document "did not mention the questions of our day," he told his countrymen. "It is of no consequence to us." He regarded it as "an eminently practical document, meant for the use of practical men; not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; not a theory of government, but a program of action." For the rights of individuals celebrated in that document and for the limits on the scope of government implicit in its celebration of those particular rights, he had no use. They were, he recognized, an obstacle to rational administration of the very sort exemplified by his subsequent segregation of the civil service.
For similar reasons, Wilson was hostile to the constitutional provisions intended as a guarantee of limited government. The separation of powers, the balances and checks, and the distribution of authority between nation and state distinguishing the American constitution he regarded as an obstacle to the formation and pursuit of rational public policy. "Government" he considered "not a machine, but a living thing . . . accountable to Darwin, not to Newton." Nothing of that sort could, he believed, "have its organs offset against each other, as checks, and live." Its health was "dependent upon" the "quick co-operation" of these organs, "their ready response to the commands of instinct or intelligence, their amicable community of purpose." Wilson was the first to call for there to be a "living" political constitution "Darwinian in structure and in practice." To this end, in running for the presidency he openly sought "permission — in an era in which 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word — to interpret the Constitution according to Darwinian principle."
Today's progressives eschew Social Darwinism and the pseudo-scientific racism espoused by their intellectual forebears, and they oppose racial segregation and the sterilization of criminals and the mentally retarded. But they are no less confident of their own righteousness than were the Progressives of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and they have no more respect for the rights espoused in the Declaration of Independence, for limited government, and for constitutional forms than did their predecessors. On this day, the hundredth anniversary of Wilson's segregation of the civil service, they ought to reflect on the terrible damage apt to be done by an unlimited government disdainful of the natural rights of man and dedicated to rational administration as envisaged by fallible men.
Enough of the bad news, here's something pretty cool
Parents surprise 4-year-old at Disneyland when her Marine father comes home from Afghanistan.
'I wish with all my heart that my daddy would come home,' she says while covering both her eyes over the well's edge.
Lt. Scott Brown and Alyssa
At least you can't call them Indian givers – they never gave in the first place
It's two mints in one!
Obama and Betsy Warren have something else in common besides their oppressed minority status: they're both letting their brothers languish in poverty.
Betsy's brother lives on $13,000 a year ("look, he's a lazy bum, the Senator explains, "you think I'm gonna support him? That's you people's job, and I've come to Washington to make sure that you do it."
Barry's brother George lives on about ten bucks a month, but as Hussein points out, "money goes a lot farther in Africa – he's fine, really."
Something that can't continue, won't
Greenwich Democrats visit California to express their unity with the poor
Government spending per household now exceeds median household income. We already know that 50% of us don't pay income taxes, so who do you suppose will pay for this largess? Hint: despite Obama's fervent rabble rousing appeal to the mob, it won't be just the "rich" – there aren't enough of them, sucker.
Planned Parenthood: until it has left the womb and survived "for awhile", a baby is a fetus and may be disposed of as the mother, and only the mother sees fit
Just a collection of cells.
SCIENCE: While in womb, babies begin learning language from their mothers. "Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language, scientists have discovered. The study indicates that babies begin absorbing language while still in the womb, earlier than previously thought. Sensory and brain mechanisms for hearing are developed at 30 weeks of gestational age, and the new study shows that unborn babies are listening to their mothers talk during the last 10 weeks of pregnancy and at birth can demonstrate what they've heard."
As Glenn Reynolds points out, "[o]f course, this may be one of those unreliable small-sample neuroscience studies we've been hearing about: "Forty infants, about 30 hours old and an even mix of girls and boys, were studied in Tacoma and Stockholm, Sweden."
Posted at 6:33 pm by Glenn Reynolds
Here's Planned Parenthood on "post-birth abortion", until recently known as infanticide.
More proof that global warming is unprecedented
Well darn, I hid the Internet under there in a lockbox, and then plum forgot where I'd put it!
"Mysterious" stone structure found thirty feet under water in Sea of Galilee . Since sea level, according to warmists, has remained exactly unchanged during the history of man and only began rising six years ago when the phenomenon was discovered by mainstream media, scientists are perplexed as to who would have built such a massive structure under the sea in 400BC. "It couldn't happen, "NASA's Greenist in Chief and Muppeteer Jim Hansen says,"therefore it didn't. Your eyes are playing tricks on you".
From Tennessee, another expert thinks he has an explanation that reconciles the (supposed) existence of the rocks and the constant sea level.
Foreclosure rates soar in Fairfield County
Interesting interactive map here, where you can drag your cursor over individual towns and get the numbers. Greenwich, according to Realty-Trac, has one active foreclosure for every 1,600 homes, Bridgeport's rate is more like one in five hundred. I'd speculate that the difference has less to do with how much better Greenwich households are doing than Bridgeport's and is instead the result of how expensive the homes are here and the sophistication of Greenwichites, who know to hire a lawyer to drag the process out for four or five years. I'm aware of several situations in town where the lenders haven't even begun foreclosure on loans that have been in default for more than 18 months because, they reason, it's better to have the homeowner there at least keeping the place heated than to leave it empty while the suit drags on.
Three accepted offers of note
56 Frontier, 828 North and 19 Stoney Wylde.
56 Frontier
56 Frontier is a well built house with a great back yard. I liked it and so did my clients, who put in a bid that was rejected (they went on to buy an even better house, in our opinion, so no harm no foul). Asking $3.195 at the end, it started at $3.999 in 2008, and was purchased new in 2003 for $3.350, with a lot of improvements added later. Good house.
828 North Street
828 is not much of a house, but it sits on 4+ acres just across from the lower gate of Conyers Farm. Very decent building site, it would be a fantastic building site were it a little closer to town. But it's a pretty straight run down North Street to downtown, so it's not hard to imagine why someone would ignore the distance. It was the price that kept this on the market so long, not the location. Started at $5.995 million in 2008, finally dropped to $3.250.
19 Stoney Wylde was just purchased for $2.975 million in 2010 yet has an accepted offer now on a last listing price of $3.1 million. Not a tear down – this is a beautiful contemporary, but the real draw here is the land, or that's how my own clients viewed it. Depending on the final selling price, this might be a pure land sale. We'll see.
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How not to hold a broker open house
I was just at another Riverside house, where the listing agent brought along a friend to entertain her, apparently, because the two ladies sat in the kitchen chatting with each other while we snooks wandered through by ourselves.
A good agent at least pretends to be interested in selling selling her client's house and makes herself available to answer questions and perhaps even point out features that otherwise might be missed. I guess this one figures that with the Riverside market so hot the house will sell itself. Such easy work for $50,000, or so they think. Spring always brings out a new flock of agents, mostly bored housewives who think would be fun to get rich selling their fellow PTA and Garden Club mommies's houses. A few stick around and do well; the others discover that there's work involved, fly off to Nantucket for the summer and we don't see them again.
Why your agent goes to open houses for you
Just left a Riverside house whose listing claims a first-floor bedroom and bath. I have clients who need just that accommodate elderly family visitors so I made it a point to stop in. Imagine my disappointment to learn that the reason I had to ask where that bedroom was was that, in the agent's opinion, the closetless office at one end of the house could be served by the tiny shower at the other end and voila! A bedroom. That's ridiculous and unprofessional. At least I wasn't embarrassed by wasting my clients' time dragging them over to see this (otherwise very nice) house.
April 11, 2013 · 11:42 am
Report from the open house tour (now that kerfuffle at GHS has faded)
8 Taylor Drive, Cos Cob. Overlooks former Food Mart's parking lot, but at $1,495,000 and 2008 construction, probably best value in this price range for new (ish) construction. The owner paid $1.695 in 2008, which I probably wouldn't have advised, but given the low inventory today, a good buy. It will be gone by Monday, I predict,
(No listing link because I'm on my iPhone )
Lock down at GHs
Rumor is that three gunmen have been detained but that's just a student repeating a rumor. There aren't that many critics of the music hall.No other news yet.
Not everything in Riverside is gold; silver, maybe, but not gold
If you go to the trouble to Photoshop in clouds, why not take out the wires while you're at it?
11 Miltiades, asking $1.295 million, reports an accepted offer. I'd call this another free house deal, but of more interest, to me, is that it last sold in 2004 for $1.250. Toss in some negotiation between asking and agreed-upon price, and the 2004 record looks safe.
16 Indian Head Rd
Still unsold and thus on the open house tour today is 16 Indian Head Road, at its new lower price of $3.999 million. It sold in 2005 for $3.945. My thought then was that someone had overpaid. So far, the market seems to agree with that assessment.
Between rushing around yesterday and being sick, no blogging got accomplished. Should be more active today (I'd ask about paid sick leave for the self-employed but I'm afraid to give the Democrats any ideas) with open houses etc.
In the meantime, and following up on yesterday's last post, the Board of Education voted last night to go ahead full steam with the music hall, $42 million price tag destined to soar still higher of not. The discussion was about an orchestra pit: we'll be digging a pit alright, but a money pit, not one for the next, heretofore-undiscovered Otto Klemperer.
Here's a sample of what the board heard, and ignored:
Saying the savings would not be worth the sacrifice, the Board of Education Wednesday rejected plans to cut from the Greenwich High School music instruction and auditorium project in order to make up for escalating costs.
After construction bids for the project came in last month about $6 million over budget, architects of the so-called MISA project proposed getting rid of the orchestra pit and second balcony from the new 1,325-seat auditorium, which would save an estimated $1.7 million.
The project estimated to cost $37 million a year ago has grown to more than $42 million.
Board members agreed the orchestra pit was worth keeping, even though it will be built below the water table, and needs a watertight seal to keep water contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls from infiltrating the construction site.
Superintendent of Schools William McKersie said the district is competing with private schools to attract students interested in music and theater programs, and the new auditorium could make the high school more attractive.
Saying that while he supports the MISA project as is, board member Peter Sherr said he was worried previous budget estimates have been too low. Both Sherr and board member Peter von Braun voted against going forward to ask for permission to finance the project. They're worried it will have negative effects on other education programs, such as an upcoming investment in digital learning.
"We have the right project for the wrong price tag," Sherr said. "If we run into any problems, this thing is going to blow past $42.5 (million) without blinking."
Before the vote on financing, von Braun threw out a radical suggestion: Build a new high school. He said the possibility had been floating around among people in town over the last week. The town could cap the high school fields and save millions of dollars in soil remediation costs. Von Braun said the town could also make up for the $100 million to $150 million cost of building the new school by moving Town Hall to the current high school and renting out the empty building on Field Point Road.
"Here is an opportunity, with delay, to get a free major high school," von Braun said. "Compared to the nine years (for MISA) we could do this with in a comparatively short period of time."
The idea was met with raised eyebrows from board members and laughter from those in the audience.


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Landsquids have a new member!
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Hell's Satans are are now emeritus
Simon KingThu 9/23/21 at 4:17 pm EDT
The Hell's Satans branch has retired with emeritus status. Emeritus is what we use to recognize the retirement of longtime branches who have been active for over a decade and made significant contributions to the Moped Army — there was no dispute that Hell's Satans deserve this rank. They joined as a Moped Army branch back in 2004 with strong 18 member presence in Richmond, VA. They've had a huge impact on the moped scene there and throughout the country.
New branch submissions due 9/30/21
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It's that time of year where your moped club can apply to be a branch of the Moped Army! Chances are that some of us have met you already, but it's a big country and the pandemic has kept most of us close to home for another year. During our branch review process we'll get to know you better, learn about the history of your club, and understand how you'd represent the Moped Army in your area.
Hit up the application page for more info and be sure to submit before the end of the month if you want to be included in this year's process. If you have any questions don't hesitate to drop me an email.
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Bakers Dozen Run Information
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Exciting News! We are less than a month and a half away from the start of Bakers Dozen 2021!
I wanted to share some information that will hopefully answer some questions and get stoked for the ride!!
Covid 19: In following CDC guidelines for outdoor sporting events, we will be requiring proof of vaccination or a recent negative test result to participate
Housing: This year will be all Camping! Some of the sites we have reserved ahead of time so no need to worry about them filling up before you get there! One exception will be camping at Deal's Gap (dealsgap.com) which all but the fastest teams will need to reserve camping on-site!
Registration: Don't worry if you haven't registered yet or plan to register closer/on the day of the event. We will make sure everything is squared away before the race begins on Sunday. If you have registered, we have received your registration and will also check in before the event begins.
Starting Line!! This is the exciting part! We will be hosting everyone the night before the race begins at a TBD location in or around Atlanta, GA. Saturday, June 26th we will have a space for teams to do some final adjustments/tuning/test rides before the start line at 10AM the next day. We will host an informational meeting as well as go over team names/sizes/registration on Saturday evening to make sure everyone is on the same page before we begin.
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Computech receive Queen's Award for Enterprise
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Computech IT Services receive the Queen's Award for Enterprise 2017.
Computech IT Services, a leading South West software development house, have joined an elite group of companies in receiving the Queen's Award for Enterprise 2017.
This is an awards program for British businesses and other organisations who excel at international trade, innovation or sustainable development. It is the highest award of this type for British businesses.
The C.E.O., Garry Thompson and C.O.O., Kevin Baskott, represented Computech at a reception hosted by Her Royal Highness, The Queen, at Buckingham Palace earlier this year.
At a further ceremony held on Friday 13th October 2017, the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall and Vice Chairman of Cornwall Council presented Computech with the award at their Saltash Office.
Find out more: http://www.businessmanerp.com/2017/04/25/queens-award-2017-goes-computech/
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SMART Technologies' SMART Board is a device that turns a normal computer into a large, interactive touchscreen. Many educators find the SMART Board difficult to set up, even more difficult to troubleshoot, and nearly impossible to use with any device that is not designed specifically with the SMART Board in mind. Connecting the Nintendo Wii to your SMART Board is almost as simple as connecting the Wii to a normal television. With all of the educational software available for the Wii, connecting your Wii to your SMART Board will allow you to greatly improve the interactive educational experience in your classroom.
Locate the yellow, red and white RVA input jacks on your SMART Board projector. Plug the Wii's A/V cable into the Wii, and plug the three inputs at the opposite end of the cable into the RVA inputs on the projector. Each coloured input must be inserted into its corresponding coloured input jack on the projector.
Plug the Wii's sensor bar into your Wii. Place the sensor bar on the SMART Board's pen tray.
Plug your Wii's power adaptor into a power outlet and turn on the Wii. Press the video selector button on your SMART Board or SMART Board remote until the Wii menu appears on the SMART Board screen.
Some SMART Board models have RVA input jacks on the board itself. In this case, you can connect the Wii to the board through these inputs, and there is no need run the Wii through the projector. With the sensor bar placed in the pen tray of the SMART Board, make sure the Wii is set up to have the sensor bar located below the screen. You can access this option in the Wii's System Settings menu.