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Rising Costs of Apartments and Properties For Lease in West Campus
Posted by David Kanne on Friday, November 8th, 2013 at 10:17pm.
Characterized by its proximity to the UT campus and many conveniences, West Campus is one of the most popular — and expensive — living areas for UT students. According to Multiple Listing Service, a professional rent listing used by West Campus realtors, rent in the area has increased by about 15 percent since 2008.
At least three new apartment complexes will have their grand opening this year, including 2400 Nueces, Callaway House and 21 Pearl. West Campus has also caught the eye of some out-of-state and international investors, which increases the value of land.
The popularity of West Campus is driving up prices at older apartment complexes in the area, leading some UT students to share rooms or leave the neighborhood entirely. Apartments are also being leased quicker, forcing current and prospective students to make a housing decision or lose a space.
Rent for recently built apartments in West Campus averages $1,250 a month for one-bedroom apartments and $850 per bedroom a month for two bedroom apartments, according to the listing service.
Officials expect a total of 2,484 additional bedrooms to be completed in West Campus this year. There have been more than 6,100 bedrooms added in West Campus since 2004, according to the West Campus Neighborhood Association.
Petroleum engineering senior Zeff Gibran has been living in West Campus for three years. After experiencing multiple difficulties at different apartment complexes in West Campus, Gibran will be moving to a new apartment complex for the third time in the fall to find a lower rent of $475 a month by living with five roommates.
Gibran first lived in 21 Rio, an apartment complex located at the intersection of 21st and Rio Grande streets. A 1,405 square-foot, three-bedroom apartment at 21 Rio currently goes for $2,985.
After struggling with repeated power outages, water failures and what he said was lax security at 21 Rio, Gibran and his roommates moved to the Quarters Sterling, which he said was less costly. The five roommates paid $500 a month each for a three-bedroom apartment.
Currently, rent for a three-bedroom apartment at Quarters Sterling is $915 per room, according to West Campus Living, a listing service.
Even though Gibran is using his financial aid money to pay for his rent, Gibran said he is mindful that his parents will have to pay back his debts.
"I am still trying to watch my money to make sure that I don't spend too much," Gibran said.
Gibran and his roommates are not alone in their attempts to cut costs. In response to increasing rents, many students will share a bedroom with a friend, said Alex Ray, a realtor and broker associate at West Campus Living.
"The influx of new properties has inspired many of the older properties to renovate and upgrade to 'keep up with the Joneses,'" Ray said. "The new construction properties, which are the 'Joneses,' definitely have higher than average rents and are setting a new bar for luxury student living."
There is a possibility, however, that the sudden completion of multiple new properties could depress rental costs in the near future, Ray said.
Syed compared Austin to New York in terms of its rental trends and rising cost of living.
"The whole environment they're creating is more like New York where you're charged for every little thing," Syed said. "As soon as you start having to weigh more people in smaller areas and everybody wants to be in the same place, the trends start shaping into an overall high cost of living."
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The Tree with a Thousand Faces
The floors of my house, built in 1852, are longleaf pine scarred by feet, by errant coals from a woodstove, by the jaws of termites, but they have held these 165 years without even a subfloor to support them. The narrow spaces between the boards contain the dirt of ages, packed hard as clay. Longleaf timber has incredible strength due to its slow growth, which creates dense heartwood. It has been compared to cast iron and steel, but its strength is only one of its superpowers. Author Janisse Ray, who hails from Georgia, deep in longleaf country, writes that longleaf heartwood is "so heavy and thick with resins that saw blades bounce away from it." Even if the saw can manage to cut the wood, the resin will clog up the blade. It's as though the trees are imbued with mythical abilities. To clear millions of acres of longleaf pine was a Herculean effort, a battle between foes equally determined. One sent roots down so deep no man could dig them out. The other used every tool available, including the blood and sweat of slaves.
Longleaf pine floors are almost nonexistent in newer houses because longleaf forests cover a fraction of the land they once did. In the 1600s, the pine's range extended from Virginia, south to Florida, and then followed the curve of the Gulf Coast to Texas. Those ninety million acres of longleaf pine have dwindled to 3.4 million acres, but the region of America east of the Mississippi and south of the Mason-Dixon line would not exist as I know it if not for the longleaf. This single tree species enabled colonization, settlement, and economic growth. It opened routes to the west. Longleaf pines witnessed history, and deep in their roots, they harbor stories of all the ways humans have mistreated the landscape and one another. Longleaf has many stories to tell, stories of beings—including itself—whose voices are not often heard.
In my quest to get to know a tree that is largely gone from Virginia, the state where I live, I proceed circuitously. Since pine straw often comes from longleaf pines, I stop one day at Southern States farm co-op to see if they have any. I pay at the counter, and then drive around back to the loading bays, where, often, a man named James loads up my bales of straw and my potting soil. James takes a forklift down to the lower barn. When he comes back with my pine straw, I say, "Do you know what kind of pine it is?" He stares down at it. "What kind you want?" "I don't need any particular kind," I say. "But I read it's sometimes longleaf pine." James pulls a few needles out of the bale. "Looks like long leaves to me," he says matter-of-factly. When I get home, I pull some of the straw out and bring it inside to compare with my field guide. Three needles per bundle. Twisting. I measure the samples at twelve inches, too long to be slash pine. I feel deeply satisfied by this knowledge.
But the straw is not a tree. To see the trees themselves, I drive east on US Route 460, which runs from Kentucky through the entire state of Virginia. I pass through towns stuck in time. At the side of the road, remnants of cotton dot the empty fields. The Melody Inn's bright retro sign reads VACANCY, and the marquee has lost so many letters that its message is indecipherable. I pass misfit tourist attractions centered around peanuts. Nut-pun-filled billboards for Virginia Diner, "A legend in a nutshell since 1929," pop up now and then. The highway, once a popular route to the beach, has not found another purpose since being superseded by I-64 to the north, but it is the highway that leads to the nearest stand of longleaf pines.
There is barely a sign marking the longleaf restoration plot I have come to see. When I finally find it, the trees are not towering or majestic, as I'd imagined them. Instead, probably about ten years old, they look like Joshua trees or some other desert plant. Most of the trees stand at human height, friendly and unassuming. The ocean of pines is quiet and otherworldly. I see deer tracks and scat laced with white fur. Prickly pears and reindeer lichen sprawl across the bright, sandy soil.
In early life, longleaf pines are nothing more than bristly leaves sticking up out of the ground. Whisk brooms. Feather dusters. The needles grow up to seventeen inches long, and in the mass of needles, the bud lies protected. This is why the longleaf pine thrives in fire: the long needles burn, but they direct the flames away from the important part of the plant. Fire eliminates competitors and lets the longleaf grow with plenty of light. The cultural aversion to fire, which developed as America became more settled, contributed to the demise of the longleaf.
There are no untouched stands of longleaf left in Virginia. This has been essentially true since the close of the nineteenth century. The longleaf is more closely associated with the states south of Virginia, especially North Carolina, whose residents are called Tar Heels because of the state's long history of gathering resin to make tar from the longleaf. The French botanist François Michaux wrote in the early 1800s that 70 percent of the Carolina lowlands were longleaf pine. "These trees, frequently twenty feet distant from each other," he said, "are not damaged by the fire that they make here annually in the woods, at the commencement of spring, to burn the grass and other plants that the frost has killed." The annual burns made it easier to hunt, encouraged new growth of longleaf, and helped to control ticks and chiggers. It was Native Americans who first burned the longleaf forests, and burns were part of cracker culture in the Deep South of Alabama and Georgia. Fires, along with the sparse branches characteristic of the longleaf, meant open spaces and a clear understory, something hard to imagine now, when people rarely allow a forest to burn.
Here in Virginia, the longleaf grew in the Great Dismal Swamp region, which creates a bridge with North Carolina. Much longleaf habitat in the area has been developed and built over, but before European settlers came, the Great Dismal Swamp spanned over a million acres, many of them covered in longleaf. It was not only vast but also impassable—to all but the most determined.
Richard Grant reports in the Smithsonian that some Native Americans made their homes in the Great Dismal Swamp in order to escape "the colonial frontier." A short time later, slaves began to hide in the swamp, too. Before the Civil War, the swamp was a stop on the Underground Railroad. It was home to those for whom a place called the Great Dismal Swamp offered a better life than the one they knew. For two hundred years, they were among the many whom the longleaf harbored and protected. The people who lived in the swamp built a society almost completely cut off from the outside world, dependent upon food and materials that could be found nearby. The fugitive slaves were called maroons, which Grant says probably came from the Spanish for "something wild and defiant." They chose a communal system of labor, the opposite of the slavery they had fled. The longleaf witnessed the lives of the maroons. To some extent, it enabled their freedom and escape by providing the ecosystem in which the communities lived and ate and breathed. The longleaf, too, was wild and defiant in its way.
That was not its only human trait. Its sap, or resin, like the blood in our own circulatory systems, kept the tree alive. But, unlike human blood, longleaf resin was valuable for making naval stores—tar, pitch, turpentine, and rosin (distilled resin)—which the British navy badly needed. The navy used pitch to coat rope and sails to make them waterproof. Pitch protected the hulls of the boats and made them watertight. Longleaf pine has more resin than other pines, which made it the choice tree for naval stores. The only way to get the sap out in any quantity was to make deep cuts into the tree. Boxing, the pre-1900 method of obtaining longleaf resin, involved hacking a wedge-shaped cut into the base of the trunk and inserting a metal box to catch the sap. Boxing was done not just once per tree but sometimes four times, once on each side of the tree's trunk. The practice eventually killed the tree. Later, resin harvesters used a more sustainable method, the Herty system, cutting angled slashes in the trunk. When one slash stopped oozing sap into the collection tin, another could be cut above it. In time, a tree might have many slashes layered up its trunk, creating a "catface" pattern, like cat whiskers. These old trees still stand in the woods, staring out with their thousands of faces carved by thousands of hands.
The longleaf seems to me a tree of empathy. Humans have boxed it, scarred it, catfaced it, cut it, burned it, and built with it. Most of the humans who did these things were African-American slaves or prisoners. The work was difficult and dangerous. Workers performed their tasks in brutal temperatures, enduring gnats, mosquitoes, chiggers, and flies. The hours were long. Longleaf historian Lawrence Earley writes of one slave who ran away to escape because he would rather have died than continue the labor of producing turpentine from longleaf pine. These two beings—trees and coerced humans—must have said to one another as they listened to the sound of axes, saws, their own voices: I feel your pain; I understand you; I hear you. Our lives have been stolen, but our spirits survive.
Botanist Charles Mohr wrote in 1897 that many North Carolina longleaf pines were "bled" for over twenty years. After a reprieve, they were bled again. "Such old martyrs of the turpentine orchard are unfit for lumber," he said, "but, impregnated as they are with resin, are used for piling and for posts of great durability." I imagine the life of these trees, their tired old age when it is hard to stand. When they have given and given and given their entire lives, they give even more.
I like to imagine the tree, tall and strong, throwing off the chains of servitude, insisting on freedom. I like to imagine the longleaf as John Henry, the African-American hero who is the subject of many songs. John Henry's real identity is unknown, but historian Scott Reynolds Nelson presents evidence that John Henry was a prisoner in Virginia, leased out as labor for blasting mountains away for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway tunnels. John Henry was said to work faster than the steam hammer machine, but unlike the machines, the human workers often died of lung disease from the blast dust. This is probably how John Henry died. Nelson writes that many of the songs about John Henry are upbeat, but that the lyrics are, in fact, often filled with pain and supernatural elements that suggest "John Henry died but still lived in the ground." Nelson goes on to connect the supernatural aspect of the songs to West African tradition, where "those who had died in terrible or surprising circumstances still inhabited the underground." The narrative of the longleaf bears similar elegiac and supernatural elements.
Peter Wohlleben, in his book The Hidden Life of Trees, offers thoughts that lead me to believe felled longleaf pines may still be alive under the ground, their ancient roots communicating with one another and also sending echoes of the past humming up to us if we are willing to listen. Wohlleben was shocked to discover ancient beech stumps still displaying signs that they were alive. He hypothesizes that surrounding trees were sending nutrients to the roots of the felled trees, lending assistance as we might to an injured human being. Is it not possible that some longleaf stumps, scarred by boxing, felled by loggers, could have life in them, deep underground, supported by other trees?
Many trees, at the beginning of their lives, aim for the sky. They put out branches and leaves. Depending on the species, they might grow as tall as a human—or taller—in the first year. The longleaf chooses the unassuming path, growing in a manner almost the opposite. For the first seven years of its life, it aims downward. Charles Mohr writes that, after two years, the longleaf taproot extends up to three feet into the ground, but the stem is "scarcely 1 1/2 inches long, with an increase in diameter hardly perceptible." The longleaf's roots grow laterally, too, meaning that its hidden life is vastly more extensive than its visible life. By maturity, the trees' taproots extend eight to twelve feet below ground, deeper than the roots of other pines. Longleaf lateral roots can extend as far as seventy-five feet from the trunk. The root system means that the longleaf can reach deeper for water in times of drought, in spells of heat. Its deep roots hold it to the ground when fierce winds come. Hurricane Katrina felled or caused extensive damage to the south's economically important loblolly and slash pine forests, but the longleaf stands were barely touched. In a time of climate change, the tree may be one of our most resilient species. It bends but doesn't break in wind, stands strong in fire, drought, and flood. It resists beetle infestations, which are increasingly prevalent. With each degree of temperature rise, it's more valuable. The longleaf earns its moniker "the phoenix tree" because when fire sweeps through, it seems to burn everything in its path. The longleaf, with roots deep and needles long, grows again a short time later, as if to say that fire is nothing compared to having faces carved into its trunk. Hurricanes are nothing compared to the willful blade of the saw.
In early America, longleaf was an important economic and industrial resource. Charles Mohr wrote that the longleaf was excellent "for masts and spars; in civil engineering, for the building of bridges, viaducts, trestlework, and for supports in the construction of buildings." The trees left after timber harvest were used to power blast furnaces for iron. Nineteenth-century publications about longleaf cite the weight of its wood, the height of its timbers, the price of its products, the number of railroad ties used in a year, the number of cattle or pigs who can graze on an acre, the number of longleaf mills, the amount of lumber processed by each mill, the rapid decrease of longleaf acreage proportional to the increase in years since Europeans first settled longleaf territory.
Captain John Smith, when he landed on the shores of Virginia in 1606, was impressed by the "great plentie of Pines and Firres." The longleaf pine had not been botanically named in Smith's time—it was named by British botanist Philip Miller in 1768—but we can say with some certainty that the species of pine Smith found was Pinus palustris because it was useful for pitch and tar. The longleaf, with its high production rate of resin, inspired greed and capitalistic imagination.
In the early days of logging longleaf, the trees often had to be removed from the woodlots one at a time because they were so heavy. They could only be transported three or four miles over land, which meant they had to be within that distance of a river so that they could be floated downstream. River transport, however, was unpredictable due to seasonal flows. The expansion of railroads dramatically increased the capacity for transporting longleaf timber.
Decimation of longleaf forests followed the progression of railroads as they were being laid—Virginia to North Carolina, and then to the southernmost states. Sawmills lined the railroad like train depots. The railroad cars themselves, and the ties that held the tracks together, were longleaf. Railroad ties, "must be all heartwood and free from blemish," Mohr wrote. The preference for such high quality wood created a great deal of waste. A mile of railroad required 3,000 ties. Mohr added this up: "construction of the 3,240 miles of railroad traversing the forest of longleaf Pine east of the Mississippi River [required] nearly 10,000,000 ties," a quantity requiring replacement approximately every six years. Imagine the money to be made meeting such demand. Longleaf was akin to gold or oil.
In 1852, when my house was built, there was already a railroad to carry my floors from the longleaf part of the state almost to my door. Ecological historian Cecil Frost estimates that 1.5 million acres of Virginia might once have contained longleaf pine forests. In 1852 the Civil War had not yet wracked the nation, northern timber supplies had not yet been exhausted, and the railroad had not reached the deep woods of Georgia and Alabama.
Longleaf allowed the construction of the railroad, and the railroad in turn allowed access to more longleaf. "By 1880," Frost writes, "all commercial timber had been removed from lands within a few miles of streams and railroads." Transit corridors (river and rail) enabled environmental destruction. Even if the railroad had disappeared, one might have charted its route based upon where longleaf had been decimated. The sea, too, both depended upon longleaf and contributed to its demise. Longleaf provided the materials needed for British ships, then American ships. These ships carried longleaf timber and products to the Old World. All these processes enabled a cycle of economic expansion and longleaf ecosystem contraction. Longleaf not only built the South, but also advanced the entire nation.
The longleaf supply once seemed inexhaustible, but even in 1897, Mohr warned, "The greatest danger threatening the existence of the forests of Longleaf Pine must be ascribed to the agency of man, since their destruction is caused chiefly by the reckless manner in which they are depleted without heed to recuperation." It was not only humans who destroyed longleaf. The settlers grazed their pigs, cattle, goats, and sheep in stands of longleaf. Pigs equalled or exceeded humans in number in the early years of America, and it took over ten acres of longleaf pine to support each pig. Pigs ate the seedlings of the longleaf pines, rooting them up as they went. The practice of using longleaf woods for cattle grazing lasted well into the twentieth century. Longleaf cattle range practices may have shaped the American west by establishing traditions of open range grazing, one of only many ways the longleaf affected human culture.
John McPhee's 1967 book The Pine Barrens paints a portrait of a whole way of life, a unique culture, built around the ecosystem of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Those who weave their lives with the pines forge a livelihood built upon "sphagnum in the spring, berries in the summer, coaling when the weather is cold" instead of driving to nearby cities to work in offices or service industries. The longleaf pinelands of the Deep South were—and perhaps could still be—similar. Georgia settlers developed a whole way of life around the longleaf ecosystem: pine straw in the fall; game hunting when it's cold; grazing cattle in the summer; selective timber harvest for high grade wood products; forage in the form of fruits, nuts, and gopher tortoises ("cracker chicken"). Many places in the south already have longleaf written into their identities. The book Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See reports that southern names like "Pitch Kettle Road, Lightwood Swamp, Tar Pit Swamp, Tar Landing, Tar Bay, and Pitch and Tar Swamp" mean that the place's history is bound up with longleaf, even if the ways of life and the economies built around longleaf are gone. The place names say, "This tree was important." And it still is.
I often wonder what the southern landscape was like before highways and tract homes, before clearcuts and invasive weeds, when longleaf pine stands were as vast as prairie. I cannot experience these trees the way someone three hundred years ago would have, but the longleaf so impressed early settlers and travellers that we have a good historical record of the species and its ecosystem.
William Bartram described longleaf territory in the Carolinas in the language of Romanticism: "an open forest of stately pines (Pinus palustris) through which appears the extensive savanna, the secure range of the swift roebuck…which gradually widened to the sea coast, and gave me an unconfined prospect, whilst the far distant sea coast islands, like a coronet, limited the hoary horizon." Lawrence Earley notes that Bartram's writing influenced Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Therefore, by association, the longleaf contributed to the writing of some of the most well-known Romantic verse.
By the twentieth century, longleaf forest was no longer the territory of Romantic poets or botanists. Instead, it belonged to the military, which liked longleaf forest because it was open, a good environment for training soldiers and testing aircraft maneuvers. One of the last remaining stands of longleaf pine is in the Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge in Alabama, located on the former army site Fort McClellan. During World War II, Fort McClellan housed prisoners of war from Italy and Germany. The trees witnessed human captivity. They witnessed Japanese-Americans helping to train troops in the fighting techniques of Japanese soldiers. They witnessed the advent of chemical warfare when the fort was used to train the Chemical Corps from the 1950s through the 1970s. The grounds were designated a Superfund site, and are still being cleaned of toxic waste.
In 1940, the War Department took over 384,000 acres of Choctawhatchee National Forest in Florida to use for gunnery training. Supposedly, the land was to be restored to national forest use when it was no longer needed. Eighty years on, it is still Eglin Air Force Base. The longleaf forest there must be filled with spent munitions, shrapnel, and injured trees. The gopher tortoise, a species that relies upon the longleaf ecosystem, must wonder at these shards of metal, at the blistering noise, the inhuman vibrations in the earth.
Longleaf pine is often called heart pine. It has a giving character. I can hear the tree saying the words of Emma Lazarus, "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." In addition to sheltering fugitive slaves, longleaf has harbored life and welcomed diversity: a hundred species of birds, thirty-six mammals, and seventy-two reptiles and amphibians. It would take many seasons to count all the plant species the longleaf supports. It creates a unique ecosystem because it is itself unlike any other tree.
Perhaps young longleafs, connecting deep underground with the still-living roots of their forebears, hold all the stories their species has witnessed, stories of separation, loss, death, and finally freedom. While the march of construction and new highways tries to erase POW camps and traces of slavery, the longleaf remembers. Among these trees, I hear voices and stories. In the brightness of white sand, the vivid green of feathery needles, I see the many textures and colors of life. I crouch on the ground and pretend I'm two inches tall among the lichens, the mosses, the white dots of mustard flowers, the sprawling, thorny cactus leaves, which remind me that there are so many ways of living, of surviving, and this tree has observed and recorded them all. It is a tree of experience, animal, plant, and mineral. With its faces young and old, living and seemingly dead, it is beauty in a time of ugliness, history in a time of forgetting, respite from suffering, a cathedral of light and life.
J.D. Ho has an MFA from the Michener Center at the University of Texas in Austin. J.D.'s poems and essays have appeared in Georgia Review, Ninth Letter, and other journals.
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Global Health Clinics Ltd. and its subsidiary, Medicinal Cannabis Resource Center (MCRCI), have committed to expanding the company's clinic outreach initiative through a series of acquisitions and openings nationally. The initiative program provides primary cannabis health care and outreach, targeting areas of Canadians that do not have readily accessible cannabis or cannabis information. Once fully operational, the program will be able to provide thousands of Canadians annually with information and its ACMPR (Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations) licence, linking them with one of Health Canada's licensed producers.
Currently targeted are clinics in British Columbia and Alberta; these partner-operated clinics act as a vital link between the communities in which they operate and the local health authority by facilitating better cannabis care and information for potential patients. Further, these clinics will further help the pavilion arm of the company expand its out reach to more rural areas, broadening the outreach of Global Health Clinics.
"At Global Health Clinics, a cornerstone of our beliefs is that all Canadians should have access to medicinal cannabis as well as recreational. By facilitating better health outcomes for our fellow Canadians, we will continue to be a key component of the rapid growth cannabis sector. As we have seen in developed markets like Washington and Colorado the medicinal market is extremely lively and active accounting for a large portion of overall cannabis purchases," stated Terry Roycoft, chief executive officer of Global Health Clinics.


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By Andrew Stuttaford
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You want gloom? The Sunday Telegraph's Peter Oborne has got gloom. He's sounding the tocsin here:
Another symptom of the frivolity of the European political class is that the European Central Bank is being urged to intervene in the Italian bond market to restore stability. Standard & Poor's and Moody's do not produce ratings for the ECB, but if they did, it would be given junk bond status, or worse. The ECB is bankrupt, and this would be evident for all to see but for the fact that it has grossly overvalued the practically worthless Greek, Irish and Portuguese bonds in its portfolio. At some point, eurozone states will be asked to fill the massive holes in the ECB's balance sheet, and matters will then get messy. Some may plead poverty; others will point out that the constitution of the ECB specifically prevents it from purchasing national bonds, and that its market operations must have been ultra vires.
Furthermore, it is unclear to whom the ECB – whose dodgy accounting, reckless investments and contemptuous disregard of banking standards make even the most irresponsible Mayfair hedge fund look like a model of propriety – is ultimately accountable. The idea that it can step effectively into the Italian bond market, whose total value of around 1.8 trillion euros makes it larger by far than Greece, Portugal and Ireland combined, is a joke.
Wake up: the eurozone is very close to collapse. It will come as no surprise if some Italian and Spanish banks are forced to close their doors in the course of the next few weeks. Indeed, British holidaymakers on the Continent should be advised to take care: hold only the minimum of the local currency, and treat with especial suspicion euro notes coded Y, S and M (signifying they were printed in Greece, Italy and Portugal respectively). Take plenty of dollars with you, which shopkeepers will certainly accept if there is a run on the banks, or if euros suddenly cease to be legal currency. The precautions may not prove necessary, but there is no point in taking risks.
Alarmist? Let's hope so. That said, Oborne's point about the ECB is well made. There's a lot of who-knows-what lurking on its books (we should not forget the exposure that the ECB's short-term funding operations may have given it to the banks of the Eurozone periphery). If it was a 'normal' central bank that would not matter (much). A national central bank can (and should) step in and (temporarily) do what it takes—however hope, prayer and flim-flam the methods—to keep the show on the road. The distinguished 19th century political economist Walter Bagehot had this to say back on this topic in 1873 (a touch ominously I last quoted this here on the Corner back in October 2008):
A panic, in a word, is a species of neuralgia, and according to the rules of science you must not starve it. The holders of the cash reserve must be ready not only to keep it for their own liabilities, but to advance it most freely for the liabilities of others. They must lend to merchants, to minor bankers, to `this man and that man,` whenever the security is good. In wild periods of alarm, one failure makes many, and the best way to prevent the derivative failures is to arrest the primary failure which causes them. The way in which the panic of 1825 was stopped by advancing money has been described in so broad and graphic a way that the passage has become classical. `We lent it,` said Mr. Harman, on behalf of the Bank of England, `by every possible means and in modes we had never adopted before; we took in stock on security, we purchased Exchequer bills, we made advances on Exchequer bills, we not only discounted outright, but we made advances on the deposit of bills of exchange to an immense amount, in short, by every possible means consistent with the safety of the Bank, and we were not on some occasions over-nice. Seeing the dreadful state in which the public were, we rendered every assistance in our power.` After a day or two of this treatment, the entire panic subsided, and the `City` was quite calm…
…The ultimate banking reserve of a country (by whomsoever kept) is not kept out of show, but for certain essential purposes, and one of those purposes is the meeting a demand for cash caused by an alarm within the country. It is not unreasonable that our ultimate treasure in particular cases should be lent; on the contrary, we keep that treasure for the very reason that in particular cases it should be lent.
Wise words. The Eurozone's problem is that the ECB is not a national central bank acting with the interests of a nation in mind and with access to "unlimited" resources (including, presumably, the printing press and, eventually, recourse to the taxing power of the state), but something rather more nebulous. That vagueness leaves room for the question that no one should ever want to hear in a panic of a type that appears to be building: who is going to underwrite the underwriters?
Oborne's point is that the answer to that question is dangerously unclear. He's right to be worried.
Andrew Stuttaford is the editor of National Review's Capital Matters.


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An Encounter refers to any time we observe killer whales (orcas), from one of our research boats or land, where at least one individual is identified and photographed. Updated 1:45pm Sunday, October 27. Here is a large sperm whale with a … Authored by As told to Amy Sutherland Wordcount August 28, 2020 | 650 words, about 3 minutes Share this article. We're a ZOO - Visit our collection of North American land mammals including black bears, bison, elk & deer and enjoy our geese and ducks. In this July 31, 2015 photo, an orca leaps out of the water near a whale watching boat in the Salish Sea in the San Juan Islands. Read more The latest incident occurred on Friday afternoon just off A Coruña, on the northern coast of Spain. Most Interesting Jobs: A Love Affair With Killer Whales Lots of kids imagine working with animals when they grow up – but Juliette Nash made it happen. Available Positions. Coastal Job: Whale Dog A super-sniffing canine plays a key role on a killer whale research team. Share this: Share on Flipboard; Share on Facebook; Share on Twitter; Article body copy — HELP US HELP THE WHALES — Orca Conservancy is a registered Washington State 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and your donation is tax-deductible within the guidelines of U.S. law. The Whale Sanctuary Project is working with you to establish a model seaside sanctuary where cetaceans (whales and dolphins) can live in an environment that maximizes well-being and autonomy and is as close as possible to their natural habitat. Marine Wildlife Photography Specialists. A series of aggressive actions by orca whales along the coast of Spain and Portugal has left scientists baffled. Renaud and Ruth used to work together on orca research; Renaud has been studying this population of killer whales since the 1990s. Although we encourage schools to deliver the materials in October, teachers can use the materials all year to inspire students about wonderful whales and dolphins. Local Deals Jobs Classifieds Senior Resources Legal Notices Place an Ad Advertise Mobile & Apps Archives. The Whale Museum's Soundwatch Boater Education Program: 2019 Summer Internships Available!Soundwatch is a successful and internationally acclaimed education and monitoring program working to reduce vessel disturbance to orcas and other marine wildlife in the Salish Sea region of Washington State (USA) and British Columbia (Canada). Typically, 2-4 staff are involved in an encounter. Pin It. They called orcas asesina ballenas, or 'whale killer' – a term that was eventually flipped around to the easier 'killer whale'. Halcyon Yachts was taking a … The orcas here in the islands are quite gregarious. ORCA's Whale Education Month . Highest Killer Whale Sightings in British Columbia! Call to Book Now. . He was subsequently transferred in 1992 to SeaWorld Orlando, Florida. The tale of the killer whales. Once we come into contact with whales (i.e., within a distance of identifying individuals by sight), we have begun our encounter. The killer whale is easy to identify by its size and its striking coloration: jet black on top and pure white below with a white patch behind each eye, another extending up each flank, and a variable "saddle patch" just behind the dorsal fin. A clicking killer whale produces high frequency sounds and uses the echoes of those sounds to form images of the areas around him or her. Or Orca? The wea. Responsible Whale Watching; Protecting & preserving our natural environment; Supporting local businesses & communities; Educating the young & young at heart; Giving back; Delighting visitors ; Does this sound like you? Ranging from polar regions to the Equator, orcas live in close-knit family groups of up 40 individuals. 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Catching up with Lost
Simon Varwell / Tuesday 9 March 2010
We are now a third of the way through Lost series 6, and because I was able to watch the most recent episode in Aberdeen as it was broadcast on Sky, I'm up to date with the new season for the first time.
That has allowed me to delve, free from the risk of spoilers, into the ever-helpful resource that is Lostpedia. Essentially a "Lost" wiki, Lostpedia contains a myriad of pages on the characters, events, places and even mythology of the show, providing the kind of detail that you can too often miss when simply watching episodes.
Series 6 hasn't been exactly the most bewildering but it's still been helpful to remind myself of a few facts and get my head straight about the compelling "parallel universe" basis of the series. It's too early in the series to speculate how things might end, but there are so many options and possibilities, as Lostpedia outlines, and while we've had several mysteries explained there are still more to be cleared up.
Alas, like a briefly-passing portal in time, my ability to delve into Lostpedia will be… well, lost as of tomorrow, as the USA airs the next new episode, Lostpedia fills with new spoilers, and I have to wait for the next installment to arrive in the post from Justin.
I can't wait. I wonder what I'll do once Lost is over?
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Megan (Joinee Van Blaricom) says:
Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 5:41 pm
Pretty much the main reason why you're one of my favorite Joinees is that when we met all those years ago, you got confused because you thought Lost was a reality show. "There was a plane crash, and people DIED?" Priceless.
Simon Varwell says:
Wednesday 10 March 2010 at 9:14 am
Megan! How the devil are you all?
I'm struggling to recall that particular line of conversation but it makes entire sense – there was indeed a reality TV show by the same name: see Wikipedia.
Thursday 11 March 2010 at 4:25 pm
How funny! I'd never even heard of that show.
I'm doing pretty well, celebrating my daughter's first birthday today! Her new favorite thing is to wear a colander on her head. I stay at home with her and am expecting baby #2 at the beginning of August, which is slightly terrifying considering how close in age the kids will be (not quite 17 months apart). My husband's working on being cancer-free; he had a thyroidectomy in September and starts a radioactive treatment in a few weeks. We're planning a vacation to tour Vietnam on motorcycles, despite the fact that neither of us has ever ridden one (also slightly terrifying).
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* Always keep a burning candle within sight. Extinguish all candles when leaving a room or before going to sleep.
* Never burn a candle on or near anything that can catch fire. Keep burning candles away from furniture, drapes, bedding, carpets, books, paper, flammable decorations, etc.
* Keep candles out of the reach of children and pets. Do not place lighted candles where they can be knocked over by children, pets or anyone else.
* Trim candlewicks to ¼ inch each time before burning. Long or crooked wicks cause uneven burning and dripping.
* Always use a candleholder specifically designed for candle use. The holder should be heat resistant, sturdy and large enough to contain any drips or melted wax.
* Be sure the candleholder is placed on a stable, heat-resistant surface. This will also help prevent possible heat damage to counters and table surfaces and prevent glass containers from cracking or breaking.
* Keep the wax pool free of wick trimmings, matches and debris at all times.
* Always read and follow the manufacturer's use and safety instructions carefully. Don't burn a candle longer than the manufacturer recommends.
* Keep burning candles away from drafts, vents, ceiling fans and air currents. This will help prevent rapid, uneven burning, and avoid flame flare-ups and sooting. Drafts can also blow lightweight curtains or papers into the flame where they could catch fire.
* Always burn candles in a well-ventilated room. Don't burn too many candles in a small room or in a "tight" home where air exchange is limited.
* Don't burn a candle all the way down. Extinguish the flame if it comes too close to the holder or container. For a margin of safety, discontinue burning a candle when 2 inches of wax remains or ½ inch if in a container.
* Never touch a burning candle or move a votive or container candle when the wax is liquid.
* Never use a knife or sharp object to remove wax drippings from a glass holder. It might scratch, weaken, or cause the glass to break upon subsequent use.
* Place burning candles at least three inches apart from one another. This is to make sure they don't melt one another, or create their own drafts that will cause the candles to burn improperly.
* Use a candle snuffer to extinguish a candle. It's the safest way to prevent hot wax from splattering.
* Never extinguish candles with water. The water can cause the hot wax to splatter and might cause a glass container to break.
* Be very careful if using candles during a power outage. Flashlights and other battery-powered lights are safer sources of light during a power failure. Never use a candle during a power outage to look for things in a closet, or when fueling equipment - such as a lantern or kerosene heater.
* Make sure a candle is completely extinguished and the wick ember is no longer glowing before leaving the room.
* Extinguish a candle if it smokes, flickers repeatedly, or the flame becomes too high. The candle isn't burning properly and the flame isn't controlled. Let the candle cool, trim the wick, then check for drafts before re-lighting.
* Never use a candle as a night light.
Below is a side by side comparison of two identical candles and votives to illustrate the benefits of proper candle maintenance.
The wick of the candle on the right was trimmed to 1/4" prior to lighting. Then extinguished, trimmed to 1/4" and re-lit every 2 hours.
The candles were allowed to burn at a rate based on the amount of heat produced by the size of the flame..
The untrimmed wick also produces higher smoke and soot emissions.
and minimizes heat, smoke and soot emissions.
Enjoy safer, cleaner and longer burning candles.


Priam was a Human female Imperial Admiral served in the Navy during the First Galactic Civil War. Around 0 ABY, she was sent to the planet Troska with a commendation for Lieutenant Treyz Manech, who had uncovered the corruption of the Kyber Family and the rogue Imperial officer Sev Buzk.
A Human female from an unknown world, Priam graudated from the academy and served in the Imperial Navy of the Galactic Empire. When the First Galactic Civil War started in 2 BBY, Priam's task was to fight against the Rebel Alliance and received the rank of Admiral. Sometime after the battle of Yavin IV, resulting the destruction of Death Star I, Priam had been sent to Troska where it was a minor Outer Rim planet that only warranted a small Imperial outpost. Commander Buzk was illegally exploiting the natives, for his own personal gain. When Lieutenant Manech reported Buzk's illegal actions, and developed a plan to expose his corruption and expand the Imperial presence in the system, Admiral Priam and her colleagues approved Manech's plan and agreed to grant him the resources needed to carry it out. When it succeeded, she traveled to Troska to congratulate Manech, and give him new orders.
Admiral Priam was created by writer Jeremy Barlow, and drawn by Francisco Ruiz Velasco, though was not identified until given an entry in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia. To date, the character has only appeared in Boba Fett: Overkill, a one-shot comic.


The Japanese government said Tuesday all measures to prevent the spread of hog cholera have been completed, following an outbreak of the disease at a farm in central Japan earlier this month.
Gifu Prefecture, which has buried hundreds of dead hogs, finished disinfection of the farm and a separate facility, to which manure, suspected to have been infected with the disease, was transported.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has placed a ban on exports of pork from across Japan following the outbreak, but shipments to Hong Kong resumed Tuesday, excluding those from Gifu Prefecture.
Remaining pork exports can restart with the approval of countries that receive Japanese pork products. Of Japan's pork exports totaling 1 billion yen ($9 million) in 2017, Hong Kong was the top destination, accounting for 600 million yen.
Hog cholera, which does not affect humans even if meat from an infected animal is consumed, is endemic in Asia.
But it is the first time since 1992 that an infection has been confirmed in Japan. Tokyo had declared the virus eradicated in 2007.
The farm in Gifu first reported the sudden death of a pig on Sept. 3 to the prefectural government. Tests by the central government found on Sunday that the pig had been infected with the hog cholera virus.
The Gifu government culled 546 hogs at the farm on Sunday and Monday. Separately, around 140 hogs died due to the disease between Sept. 3 and 10.
Hog cholera affects only pigs and wild boars with almost a 100 percent fatality rate.


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import datetime
import os.path

class Lumberjack(object):

    def __init__(self, filepath='log.txt', is_verbose=None):
        self.is_verbose = is_verbose

        filename = os.path.basename(filepath)
        date = str(datetime.date.today())
        name = date + '_' + filename
        path = os.path.dirname(filepath)
        self.log_path = os.path.join(path, name)

        sep = '#' * 10
        timestamp = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
        time_message = sep + " " + timestamp + " " + sep
        self.__call__(time_message)
        self.__call__(sep + sep + sep)

    def __call__(self, message):
        with open(self.log_path, "a+") as log:
            log.write(message + "\n")
        if self.is_verbose:
            print(message)

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