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Published by Admin on March 20, 2020 March 20, 2020
The pandemic threatens everyone's health, with the most vulnerable being the elderly and the immunocompromised. But it also has a major impact on the working class, who are more often forced to make decisions out of necessity that put them in harm's way. This is especially true of the most marginalized members of the working class: Indigenous peoples, immigrant and racialized communities, women and the 2S/LGBT community.
The province of Ontario will likely be one of the provinces hit the hardest by the pandemic. Ontario has the most confirmed cases of COVID-19. Ontario is also the province that has been leading the corporate austerity agenda for several years with the lowest per capita spending on social programs. Ontario is last when it comes to per capita expenditures on hospitals.
Almost three decades of the corporate austerity agenda has decimated healthcare in the province and opened up the sector to privatization. Ontario has 1.4 acute care hospital beds per thousand inhabitants with Canada averaging 2 per thousand. This can be compared to Germany's 6 hospital beds per thousand.
The crisis in healthcare did not start with the coronavirus. The Ford government's massive cuts in the 2019 budget included health. The current 18.3-hour hospital wait time is up sharply from 14.4 hours when the Conservatives were elected. This is a 27% increase in just 18 months. In many communities the situation is critical. In Brampton, the government just voted against funding a second hospital, while the current hospital was operating at more than 100% capacity throughout the first half of 2019. Thousands of patients have been stuck in hallways for more than 72 hours waiting for a bed. In early 2020, the city council of Brampton declared a health care emergency. Brampton is not alone, 40 other hospitals in the province averaged 100 per cent capacity during the same period in 2019.
Neoliberal attacks on public healthcare in Ontario have put the province in a situation where many were suffering and dying needlessly long before March 2020. These deaths are now set to rise dramatically, caused by the pandemic as well as the Ford government. What drives this situation are the wishes of Bay Street and US health corporations to underfund and privatize medicare in order to amass profit from people's health. We call for the immediate restoration and expansion of health and hospital funding.
The systemic failures we are witnessing in our province and in other capitalist countries contrast with the efforts of China and Cuba who have responded effectively to contain the virus. They are in the lead in sending doctors, medical teams and supplies to Europe. China is making its experience in fighting the virus available to all and Cuba is offering anti-viral drugs it has developed to the world, which have already been used in China. Socialism has shown its ability to mobilize resources towards a common goal much more effectively than a system built to support private monopolies designed for profit.
The growing economic crisis will also bring disaster for working people without immediate relief and efforts to implement a program to recover jobs, wages and living standards. The ultimate cause of the current economic crisis is the capitalist system. Since 2008, global capitalism has never fully recovered; it has only addressed the demand to restore corporate profits. Despite record low interest rates, debt expansion and military spending, quantitative easing and massive corporate and wealth tax cuts, growth has stagnated. Most workers who lost their jobs in 2008 are now working lower-paid, more precarious and non-union jobs. Real estate and rent have skyrocketed as wages have stagnated. The capitalist system was chronically ill. The coronavirus has simply sped things along. The same prescription that was given to the financial system after 2008 will not make it healthy, it will only further consolidate capital and personal wealth and push down living standards for the vast majority.
The provincial government's waffling and inadequate measures have cost time and may cost lives in the fight against COVID-19. Last week the government said that leave from work to self-quarantine required a doctor's note. This week that has been reversed and the government has said they will bring in emergency legislation to ensure that no one loses their job due to self-isolation. Still, many will be forced to work in unsafe workplaces, either because of employers' pressure or because of financial necessity.
Ontario workers have no mandatory minimum sick leave, which was stripped from them a year ago by the Ford government. If they are to self-isolate without pay from their work, then only half qualify for Employment Insurance (EI). Those that qualify for EI will only earn 55% of their salary, which means most will not be able to pay the rent. The Federal government has started an Emergency Care Benefit that they say will deliver $450 a week to those that do not qualify for EI. With the average rent in Toronto now at $2,300 a month for a one bedroom, that means that 125% of the benefit would go only towards rent. These measures are totally inadequate.
The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) demands the following actions be immediately implemented:
Immediate funding for hospitals to open closed wards and beds, including capital funding for new hospitals and equipment where needed
Eliminate the requirement to produce health insurance cards; provide healthcare and treatment to all who need it
Immediate funding to expand hospital and healthcare staff across the country based on need, with attention to Northern and Indigenous communities, many of which have boil water advisories while almost none have hospitals or adequate healthcare facilities and staff to meet the crisis
Immediate funding and oversight of long-term care homes, where the elderly and infirm are in greatest danger, where staff-patient ratios are very high, and staff are contract workers in several homes simultaneously
Immediate funding of public health services, including expanded testing for the COVID-19 virus, and restoration of public health units
Guarantee all workers 21 paid sick days
Enforce COVID-19 health advisories in workplaces, with penalties for employers who violate the advisories; set-up hotlines to report employer violations
Make EI non-contributory, and universal and immediately accessible to all workers including part-time and precarious workers and first-time job seekers, for the duration of unemployment at 90% of previous wages or 90% of an annual livable income
Introduce a guaranteed annual livable income now
Extend Ontario's temporary ban on evictions and ban foreclosures
Defer rent payments, rollback rent and implement rent control legislation to cover all rental units
House the homeless with emergency, interim, and permanent social housing
Provide emergency housing on reserves, and in Northern and isolated communities
Defer personal debt, including mortgages and loans
Eliminate student debt and cancel credit card debt
The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) fights for the same demands as the Communist Party of Canada. For the Communist Party of Canada's statement and full policies to stop COVID-19 and the recession please visit: http://communist-party.ca/emergency-action-required-now-to-stop-covid-19-and-deep-recession/
Provincial Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada (Ontario)
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Scotland in the United Kingdom: An Enduring Settlement?
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Patrick Geddes: three drawings towards a poetics of the city
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Police research, evidence-based policing and police-academic partnerships in national jurisdictions
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Preserving and forgetting in the human brain
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Setting the pace: Scotland and the UK devolution project
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Soil and Water Quality
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Sub-state regions and citizenship in Europe: Changing Borders in Europe Exploring the Dynamics of Integration, Differentiation and Self-Determination in the European Union
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Testing the Theory of 'Planned Communities': An exploration of the link between community design and everyday life through a participatory approach
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The economic case for staged development and providing appropriate incentives for good behaviour in the context of 'resource curse'
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The Social Dimension of EU Energy Law
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The Triple Helix and User-driven Centres of Competence: Towards a new organisational model?
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What makes the Autoethnographic Analysis Authentic?
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: An Archetypical Example of an Ethnocracy
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WWBIC – Opportunity Given – Followed by Economic Abundance Conversation
By Lee Gutowski on September 2014 in Business Spotlight, News
Photo by Lee Gutowski
When the Currents told Wendy Baumann, chief visionary officer of the Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation about this month's focus on Economic Abundance, she responded with an enthusiastic "Great … Love the theme," via her iPhone. Which makes perfect sense, since the corporation that she has guided for 20 years, WWBIC, has been all about nurturing, championing and achieving local economic abundance since its inception.
The enthusiasm is contagious at WWBIC, a statewide nonprofit organization that supports women and men who want to start their own business, grow an existing business, or create jobs for themselves and others. On a recent visit to their office, I got to meet a WWBIC client who was about to open his new BBQ venture at 4115 N 76 St., Larry's Hoagies & Bar-B-Que Station. Larry had great news – the meat smoker for the restaurant had arrived, and was set to be installed and ready to roll for the business's opening weekend. Minutes later, Larry's small business consultant, WWBIC's Athena Agoudemos, showed up on the scene and congratulated him heartily. Next came Mara Henningsen, vice president of client programs and services, who I was about to interview for this story. She told me Larry's food is incredible – it got rave reviews at a big family event Mara hired him to cater.
Small business owners all over Wisconsin have used the valuable resources WWBIC provides to pursue their goals. Local clients include Purple Door Ice Cream, Coast In Bikes, Fresh Is Best, Melthouse Bistro and Lazy Susan, just to name a few. In 1987, WWBIC started in Milwaukee with a mission to provide opportunities for "individuals who face barriers of traditional means" to pursue "their dreams and economic well-being, providing business education, one-on-one business technical assistance, financial capability programming, and access to fair and responsible capital."
"Our niche is really strong," Henningsen explains. "Yes, WWBIC is a CDFI (community development financial institution) in that we provide micro and small business loans to people under served by traditional financial institutions." But they are different from most CDFIs, since they also offer financial education and technical assistance to their clients. WWBIC is also a Women's Business Center offering business education classes and "technical assistance provided one-on-one to clients by staff members." Each loan recipient, for example, is assigned their own small business consultant to work with them throughout the life of the loan.
WWBIC is a CDFI funded by the federal, state and local governments, as well as earned revenue and donated revenue. The organization offers four major services: 1) access to capital/lending; 2) business education; 3) business technical assistance, and 4) financial capability education programs (classes on budgeting, building wealth at any income level, repairing one's credit, and more). They also work with partners to provide individual development accounts – matched saving accounts for acquisition of an asset, including the purchase of a home.
Henningsen stresses that WWBIC is "noncompetitive to banks with a community focus," but instead is "able to come in and help folks that banks may view as high-risk. We are a 'life happens' lender in that we can help people that have, say, low collateral or poor credit. We can also work with people who have bankruptcy for a viable reason.
"We are putting dreams to work, although we're not guaranteeing that the dreams will work," Henningsen admits. Nevertheless, since WWBIC has instituted the small business consultants into their model, they have shrunk their loan default rate to a mere 2%.
"We want clients to outgrow us," Henningsen laughs, "We really do! And it's happened."
To illustrate the point, Henningsen proudly gives the example of WWBIC client GSI General Inc., a building restoration and remodeling company that did about $1.4 million worth of business in 2013.
Over the past 15 years, WWBIC has expanded with physical offices in Madison, Racine and Kenosha. Their Milwaukee office is gearing up to move from their old location at 2745 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive into the Schlitz Park River Center building (1555 N. River Center Drive). The WWBIC-owned Coffee With A Conscience, a café that sells fair trade, organic coffee as well as unique local products made by WWBIC clients and Wisconsin-owned businesses, is located in Schlitz Park as well, and in 2013 opened a second location in the 411 Building (411 E. Wisconsin Ave.). All CWAC profits support the mission of WWBIC's work.
"We've seen exponential growth" in the last two years, according to Henningsen, because they have "the right players in the ballfield." Not only have they been souping up support staff in the form of a pool of around 200 volunteers (bankers, lawyers, graphic artists, marketing pros, etc.) from around the state, they have been expanding their focus to Spanish speakers and deep bicultural backgrounds.
"Our team is a huge aspect of our growth," Henningsen reiterates. "We now have four physical offices, and those over the last few years have expanded to include folks on the ground in rural communities around the state. The answer to local problems is local people, so we went with that kind of a model, putting people on the ground, living and working in those communities, from those communities, that can provide the kind of services we do in our offices."
WWBIC Helps Riverwest Business
Riverwest resident Martha Kipcek (see Neighbor Spotlight, page 6) is one local businesswoman who benefitted from WWBIC's help.
"I was a client of WWBIC," she recalls, "but back in 2002. I was a dazed single mother trying to put together a game plan for supporting my family. I turned to food as my strategy and WWBIC as my guide to entrepreneurism. The class was excellent. 16 weeks for three hours every Monday night. It was intense but provided the steep learning curve I needed to make it as an entrepreneur. Start Smart was the name of the class. It helped me launch a small catering business and be successful enough to provide the sole support for my family of four.
"In the ensuing years, I morphed into a sustainable good food activist and have suggested the class to dozens of people wanting to launch their small business, whether in the food industry or not. We are lucky to have an organization like WWBIC in our backyard. They offer tremendous support to our community. Thank you for shining the spotlight on WWBIC."
Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation 2745 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Milwaukee, WI 53212
414-263-5450 Office Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 5:00pm Or by appointment wwbic.com
by Vince Bushell
Our economy operates on the scarcity principle. Concentration of wealth among the few is a topic in the news. From the middle to the bottom of the economic classes, we are being told that we are losing ground. Less and less and less every year. Less of what? Money of course. It is scarce and hard to get. Our economy may be improving but not for the middle to bottom of the scale.
Maybe it is time to change how we look at this issue. Instead of focusing on what is wrong let us focus on what strengths we have as citizens and a community. Who is making a difference? Who can help smooth the path to a more secure and satisfying life in Riverwest and Milwaukee?
What and who and where are the agents of economic abundance in Milwaukee?
In this issue we will show some success stories and some agencies that offer opportunities for citizens to move toward prosperity and economic security. This focus is on the small. The very small scale. Start up businesses by young and old entrepreneurs, places to go for assistance in creating a business plan, getting a loan, managing staff etc. are the focus of this issue.
And I mean small. Business that start with the founders only or a few hires. We are not talking about 600 employees. We know that these larger corporations play a role in employment here, but small businesses offer not only jobs to thousands in Milwaukee, they also offer the ability for people to have more control of their lives and often increased satisfaction.
I am not promising easy. But never doubt that in a room full of citizens there is a remarkable amount of assets. It represents an untapped economic abundant future. And maybe economic abundance means being satisfied with less rather than more. A tomato from the backyard always tastes the best. A home that you own built by Habitat for Humanity can be a castle.
And for those who have struggled with alcohol, drug abuse and depression, a way forward on that small scale by organizations like Serenity Inn (see story p. 11), offers a new life that recognizes the true needs of the individual and the dangers that too much can bring.
A number of years back Woodland Pattern brought Wendell Berry to speak in Riverwest. His philosophy had a profound affect on me. I always thought it was good enough to just care and offer help in the community. But Berry said you don't have a neighborhood unless you have commerce near your door. And the people that run these stores and shops and bars, live in that neighborhood. That active small scale commerce builds community. And if you don't believe that just spend a few hours in the Riverwest Co-op and Cafe. It's the buzz.
Want to learn more? Attend the following conversation.
Conversation on Economic Abundance Presentation by service providers, clients, entrepreneurs. Empowering citizens. Hosted by the Community Transformation Project and Marquette University School of Professional Studies. Presentations by:
WWBIC
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Posted by Car and Driver December 16, 2015 23:10
Latest reply by B R. February 03, 2019 21:57
Volkswagen's Beetle is one of the oldest nameplates still in use today—here's a peek at the Bug's history.
Cool article...great photos... However, I can remember back in the day, when you could buy a bug, 50's- late 60's.. They either ran forever, free of any real problems, or you never made it home from the dealership...there was no in between...
RudyToot
It was different in the 60s. The car had no power and no options and it was cheap and the ads were entertaining. It was a little POS that so many people loved unconditionally. I had fun driving one and the leisurely acceleration was part of the experience. How we all survived driving around in cars that would fold up like napkins in a crash is anyone's guess. Well, new evidence shows that child safety seats are no more effective at preventing child injuries and death than using adult seatbelts on them, but then we didn't even use adult seat belts in general then. What car has this sort of aura now? None. We don't have a super cheap, slow, strippo conveyance that evokes good feelings from a lot of seemingly sane adults.
Sergeant2
The old VW bugs and vans bring back fond memories for me, I'm talking late 60 and early 70s versions. In 1972 I owned a 1964 or 65 VW van, not certain of the year, but the driver and passenger windows instead of rolling down, slid back, it reminded me of cockpit windows in some of the WW II era fighter planes, man I thought that was the grooviest thing ever, and talk about fun to drive, with my Doobie Brothers eight track playing of course. Around that same time, after I sold the van I bought a 67 bug, man I drove that sucker from Albany Georgia (southwest Georgia) to Cincinnati and back, and the whole time, both ways, I had to keep my hand resting on the gearshift to keep it from popping out of fourth gear, but other than that I made the trip with no problems. Of all the vehicles I see on Mecum Auctions the restored old VW vans are my favorite, well, except for maybe 55 or 56 Chevy Nomads, two tone red and white.
Johnny B.
Haha, you said "grooviest". That is far out man.
Back in college, one of my frat bros had a VW bus w/ a pop-up camper and "kitchenette". It was the road-trip vehicle of choice. I helped him install a pretty decent sound system in it, and once when our campus lost power for a few days, we parked his bus in the front yard, hooked up our Klipsch house speakers to it, built a bonfire, tapped a couple of kegs and had a party. Great memories.
And the drugs for entertainment were cheaper than movies are today.
Chip H
My 1st car was a 78 Bug Convertible... didn't take long to blow the injected motor and transplant one from a '72. Added a big bore kit, roller rockers, single Weber and headers. Found wheels from a trashed 914 and added a rear swaybar.
It wasn't fast but it was much less slow.
My first "NEW" car was a 64 Beetle convertible. Aqua-green with an aqua-blue top. Drove it 84K trouble free miles in two and a half years and then traded it even for my 55 XK150 Roadster.
A great car.
CarNuts
These click through slide shows really Bug me
True. But better than some deluded person doing a suicide bombing in your vicinity.
Alexander Dewitt
If I had money to drop I'd try to get one of those early split-windows for my father in law (who is also my mechanic). He has helped a couple of his customers restore the mechanical bits of gen 1 beetles of various ages and said he wants as close to an "original" beetle as possible. What a crazy history this car has had.
Did C&D ever get the 0-60 time on the 1960 model, or is it still in progress at the track?
Yes. Wait.
Bait83
I am not sure it's possible in today's regulatory climate, but the market sorely needs a car or truck that adheres to the original Beetles ethos.
Simple, inexpensive, practical and reliable.
Cars have gotten, so big, so complicated and so expensive...
maarp
Thing is, every time someone tries, the car gets bashed so horribly that no one buys it (see Mitsubishi Mirage, Nissan Micra).
The missing ingredient in those two is an engaging personality. Could you imagine Herbie the Love Bug being a Mitsubishi Mirage?
What was engaging about loud, cold, and spartan? It's more of a nostalgia thing, I believe. A lot of baby boomers learned to drive on a Beetle, and have fond memories about them (like most of us do about our first cars). But I can't imagine anyone wanting to use that kind of vehicle as a daily driver these days.
Zorin
People do really like this kind of basic transportation to this very day, which is highlighted by the fact that the 60PS and 75PS versions take place No.4 and No.10 on the list of bestsellers in the private car sales statistics for Germany in 2014.
By that logic the Yugo should have been a success of equal proportion.
No, the VW was a superior product otherwise it wouldn't have stayed in demand and production for so long.
Ain't it the truth, when you pop the hood on newer cars you need to be a master mechanic just find the oil dipstick.
JimmyS
The Beetles then, today and other VW's have an inherent build quality, engineering that's unique ... and better. The other utilitarian Japanese, Korean, American attempts at the concept like those you mention wind up being just appliances. Engagement is good word. The Germans have that quality.
The closest I ever had was a 01' Hyundai Accent 3-door hatchback, manual trans. Under $10k new, frugal in every way, never broke and was actually kinda fun to drive.
It didn't have the style the original Beetle had, but it was as close you could get during my lifetime.
So true. Top Gear did "world's worst cars" once and they ended up saying expensive cars were much worse than dirt cheap ones.
Sure the pointed out the numerous flaws in the cheap ones, but at the end of the day decided they were great anyways. Because it's easy to forgive their short comings when the price is so right. Cheap is a very endearing quality.
On the flip side, the more expensive a car becomes the more we expect from it. So often the most expensive cars never live up to their price tag. They hated the Ferrari F50 and Lexus SC 430 for these reasons. Both way over promised.
C&D never looks at price as a real issue. They'll compare a Vette to a Porsche that costs close to twice as much and they'll test cars loaded to the moon BS options that almost no one really buys. I guess it's not easy to have a clear perspective on this when it's not their money.
Terry S.
The VW Bug was and is a fantastic & Iconic Automobile. It wasn't the first car that I learned to drive a manual transmission (too many Tractors, Trucks & other Farm Vehicles) but it was one of my favorites in High School & in my 20s. The only car I loved more was my 1965 Corvair Convertible, which had 4 on the floor & I loved it. But the VW was important to me in a very different way, as it was a very safe car, in fact, it saved my mother's life (before I could even think of being old enough to drive) - my mom was at a stop sign, and a lady driving a Cadillac not paying attention to what she was doing, hit my mom in her VW at 40 mph - pushing her through 5 yards, 4 fences (3 of them wood, one brick), but it was the engine in the back that absorbed the majority of the damage. My mom had glass (from the rear windshield) work it's way out of her skull & head for years, but it saved her life - the entire engine was totaled (except the generator), but the Doctors, Police, mechanic & the insurance adjuster agreed, if it were any other car that didn't have the engine in the back, and the structural soundness, she would have not survived the crash.
T M
I learned how to drive a stick back in 1967, partly on what I'm pretty sure was a CJ3 Jeep and partly on a VW Bug, of what vintage, I am not certain. I DO know I had a grand time driving the Bug, and my experience with it put a bug in me about manual transmissions which persist to this day.
I never owned one, though, and kinda wish I had!
lasvegascolonel
Though I was told some of the early Beetles didn't have gas gauges---you simply dropped the reserve supply when it started sputtering, my 71 Bug was so much fun except when the blizzards came along and you didn't have a defroster or heater, but in many ways it was much less complicated than today's Beetle----no coolant, no radiator, no water pump, etc. and the traction was great in the snow. it's simplicity and uncomplicated approach would be a welcome asset today. Though the air-cooled Corvair was roomier, I found it much noisier and not as much fun.
Automotive Hall of Fame
While Mr. Stoklosa did not state it was Mr. Hoffman that was pictured, it should be noted that the man pictured to the left in the 6th photo is NOT Maximilian Hoffman, but rather Ben Pon, a dutch businessman who was the first true importer of the Beetle to the U.S.
Though Mr. Hoffman was not the first U.S. importer of the beetle, he was considerably more successful in selling the vehicle to U.S. consumers. Maximilian Hoffman was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2003.
J Baustian
Almost everyone who ever wanted a Beetle has now owned one. So I don't see the point in continuing to make them. Beetles have the most-rapid depreciation of any VW sold in America, so used ones are available for anyone who insists on buying one. Use that assembly line in Puebla for something else, perhaps a small pickup?
Sean P.
I know several folks that want a modern Beetle. R-Line Beetle holds re-sale as good as any car in the class. Mine actually went up in value on year 2 because VW takes care of it's customers. Have a nice day. Haters are just no fun .......VW Beetles are a lot of fun.
Sid SB
That was a pretty quick way to learn about the bug development. Seem a lot of renovated bugs in my area and a few shops that specialize in fixing them.
A really good book on the history of the Beetle is "Small Wonder: The Amazing Story of the Volkswagen Beetle" Paperback – January 1, 1965 by Walter Henry Nelson.
It was "Required Reading" when I first went to work for Volkswagen of America (VWoA) in Culver City, CA back in 1976..
Dave Brumley
Thanks for the information. I shall check it out. My first driver was an early Vdub, early 60's model I believe, that took me back and forth to work faithfully for about 4 years before I joined the AF. I will never forget those heater boxes that could not be used until I was past the Gypsy Drive-In if I wanted heat instead of a surprise of cold, cold air in wintertime, but it would plow through snow and ice like a champ.
The VW Beetle has put more people in our world behind the wheel of a car than any other in history of autos...simple, reliable, rugged...Vie Gehts von Deutschland!
Love my 2014 R-Line! Love MY 1965! Both are Beetles...Which makes them special. My R-Line will beat up on your Honda.. and I like Hondas. Dodge Dart? Sure...Bring it on lol!
B R.
Well lets get nostalgic shall we? My first car was a yellow 1973 Super Beetle. Bought it used from a doctor couple. Sadly, as with most people, maintenance was never done. I changed oil 10 times over the summer and got oil consumption down from a quart per fill to an 1/8th of a quart between oil changes. Replaced the gas heater down pipe, as they rot. Loved it and it was the only car that appreciated in value. Loved it.
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It's very rare that the pen pal community and mainstream news intersect–and yet the recent announcement that US stamp prices will go down by 2 cents come April is undoubtedly the talk of every American snail mailer. It's easy to see how this might be misinterpreted, at first, as good news. You'd think that the postage drop, if tiny, will make the pen pal lifestyle slightly less pocket-draining and more accessible.
In reality, cheaper stamps are ultimately terrible for a postal system that is already struggling to keep itself afloat financially. Folks, the USPS is amazing! Isn't it wonderful that we can just fling letters and packages in blue boxes and they will magically travel across the country and around the world?
To put it in unnecessarily overdramatic terms, no post = no pen pals in America. Truly the darkest timeline.
So let's do what we can and support the postal service, okay? In April, I urge you to help keep our mail system alive by investing in lots of the beautiful new stamps available for 2016–and sending off extra letters to faraway friends.
I use Global Forevers constantly–and, to be honest, I'd grown a bit tired of the standard wreath-bedecked world design from 2013! I'm so glad the post office decided to send their most useful stamp from Earth to the moon this spring.
True story: on Saturday I stood behind three near-identical, elegant older ladies at the post office, and all of them bought a book of these gorgeously vintage floral First Class stamps. If the classiest women in Hampshire County are doing it, why don't you?
Though this isn't quite a new release either, how could I leave out the lovely stamps that pay tribute to the phenomenal Dr. Angelou? It's always wise to send her words through the mail.
How do you feel about the proposed postal change, American readers? To those of you reading (and writing letters!) from abroad–when's the last time your country's postage rate went down?
I absolutely love all those flower stamps! They're so colourful.
I don't think the postal rates here in Ireland have ever gone down – just steadily risen. The most recent increase was last summer where it went up 2c for national and 5c for international.
I know! I feel like these flowers were made just for me, haha 🙂 Our international stamps started out at 1.10, jumped to 1.20 last year, and will now return to 1.15–a wild ride indeed!
I love all the stamps out right now. I'm really surprised by the dropping rate! Hopefully the model will be able to stabilize itself with some help from the people in our country!
I am not sure what the conversion from dollar to euro is, but 47 cents is cheap! Here in France a stamp costs 70 cents (almost a dollar I think)!
Those are all beautiful stamps, hopefully I'll receive letters with some of them on 🙂 Royal Mail prices for European post is going up 5p at the end of this month to £1.05, and it all adds up!
Those small changes do make a big difference, it's true! I hope you do get some of these pretty stamps sent your way soon from the States!
In Australia, the price of stamps has just gone up from 70c to $1. It's a huge jump and many people were outraged, but realistically, our postal service is on the verge of bankruptcy as well, so what else can they do?
Beautiful blog, by the way, I found it just now and I'm going to have a good browse.
Thirty cents?? Ye gads! I hope the extra cost has helped stabilize the post a little bit? And thank you so much! I've just looked at your blog, too, which is lovely–I'm always happy to find fellow appreciators of the mori girl lifestyle!
I've purchased most of these stamps, too! I already used all of the floral ones, & ordered a new batch. I think the moon stamps are just plain awesome.
Aren't they the best? The number of space and cosmos stamps coming out this year is a dream come true!


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CROSTHWAITE, Cumberland - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"CROSTHWAITE, a parish partly in the ward of Allerdale-below-Derwent, and partly in Allerdale-above Derwent, in the county of Cumberland, half a mile N.W. of Keswick, and 13 miles S.E. of Cockermouth. The Penrith, Keswick, and Cockermouth railway is at present in course of construction. This extensive parish, which is 10 miles long by 10 broad, comprises the townships of Braithwaite, Coledale or Portingale, Castlerigg, and Underskiddaw, and the chapelries of Borrowdale, Newlands, Thornthwaite, St. John's, Keswick, and the hamlet of Wythburn. It also comprehends the beautiful vale of Keswick, with its handsome villas and pleasant hamlets, and the lakes of Derwentwater, and Thirlemere, including some of the most magnificent scenery of the Lake district. The river Derwent runs through the rich in meadows of Borrowdale, which is well wooded up the mountain slopes on either side, sometimes to the height of 300 or 500 feet. Further up is Rosthwaite, where three vales, called Stonethwaite, Seatoller, and Seathwaite, meet; the first leads to Langdale, the second to Buttermere, and the third to Westdale. There are many rich mines of copper and lead, though the celebrated mine of plumbago, called Giller Coom, is now worked out. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture, and in the mines. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Carlisle, value £430, in the patronage of the bishop. The parish church, dedicated to St. Kentigern, is an ancient fabric, roofed with slate. It contains a sculptured hexagonal font. There are also the following district churches or chapelries: St. John's, Keswick, a perpetual curacy, value £200, in the patronage of two trustees; Borrowdale, a perpetual curacy,* value £90, in the patronage of the Vicar of Crossthwaite; Grange, a perpetual curacy, value £30, in the patronage of Miss Heathcote; St. John's in the Vale, a perpetual curacy, value £63, in the patronage of the Earl of Lonsdale and landowners alternately; Wythburn, a perpetual curacy, value £82, in the patronage of the vicar; Newlands, a perpetual curacy, value £90, in the patronage of the vicar; and Thornthwaite, a perpetual curacy,* value £140, in the patronage of the Vicar of Crossthwaite, and the Incumbent of St. John's, Keswick. There is a grammar school with an income from endowment of £100; also National and other schools. The parochial charities amount to about £250, besides other charities, which produce £85; an unendowed schoolhouse in St. John's chapelry, and grazings in the parish for fourteen cows. There are two saline springs near the source of the Derwent." "ABOVE-DERWENT, a township in the parish of Crosthwaite, Allerdale ward, in the county of Cumberland, 2 miles W. of Keswick. It is situated near the foot of Derwent-water, and commands an extensive view of the lake, with the surrounding hills." "BRAITHWAITE, a township in the parish of Crosthwaite, ward of Allerdale-above-Derwent, in the county of Cumberland, 3 miles to the W. of Keswick. It lies near the northern extremity of Derwentwater, at the foot of the lofty Whinlatter Fells, from which there is a magnificent prospect over the surrounding district of mountain and lake. Some of the villagers are employed in the woollen manufacture, and in working the lead-mines." "BRIERY-COTTAGES, an extra-parochial district in the ward of Allerdale-below-Derwent, in the county of Cumberland, near Keswick. It is joined with the district of Greta Mills." "COLEDALE, (or Portingscale), a township in the parish of Crosthwaite, in the ward of Allerdale-below-Derwent, in the county of Cumberland, 1½ mile N.W. of Keswick, its post town. The heights command good views of the Bassenthwaite and Derwent lakes." "GRETA MILLS, an extra parochial place in the ward of Allerdale-below-Derwent, county Cumberland, 3 miles from Keswick. It is situated on the Greta river, a tributary of the Derwent, and is united with Briery Cottages. Greta Bank and Greta Hall are the principal residences." "LANGTHWAITE, a village in the parish of Crosthwaite, county Cumberland, 6 miles S.E. of Cockermouth. It is situated on Crummock Water, in the midst of lake scenery." "LOWTHWAITE, a hamlet in the parish of Crosthwaite, county Cumberland, 3 miles E. of Keswick, and 21 S. of Carlisle. It is situated on the river Greta, at the bottom of Derwentwater." "PORTINGSCALE, (or Coledale), a township in the parish of Crosthwaite, ward of Allerdale-above-Derwent, county Cumberland, 2 miles W. of Keswick. It is situated at the foot of Derwentwater, with a prospect of that and the adjacent lakes." "ROUGHA-BRIDGE, in the parish of Crosthwaite, county Cumberland, 2 miles S.E. of Keswick, and 23 S.W. of Carlisle. It is situated at the bottom of Derwentwater, and has a view over the vale of the Greta, with Skiddaw, Saddleback, and Helvellyn in the distance." "UNDERSKIDDAW, a township in the parish of Crosthwaite, ward of Allerdale-below-Derwent, county Cumberland, 6 miles N.N.W. of Keswick, close to Skiddaw."
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The High Commissioner was addressing the inaugural session of the 18th International Congress of International Society for Ethnopharmacology and 5th International Congress of Society for Ethnopharmacology, India (ISE-SFE 2018) with the theme 'Ethnopharmacology & Drug Development: Innovation meets Tradition'.
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The High Commissioner said India and Bangladesh are traditional repositories of ancient systems of healing, including Ayurveda, Unani and other such systems which have been widely practiced by our people since times immemorial.
He said the signing of the MoU on cooperation in traditional system of medicine and homeopathy between India and Bangladesh in 2014 has provided an impetus for joint collaboration in several aspects of traditional medicines.
The areas are joint research, mutual recognition of pharmacopeias and formularies, exchange of experts and mutual recognition of traditional preparations, he said.
High Commissioner Shringla said the sharing of knowledge and experience between the participants will enrich our cumulative knowledge in this field which could be used for the betterment of the people of the two countries.
"Globalising accumulated local knowledge in the field of traditional medicines and the promotion of scientific studies on naturally derived products would go a long way in establishing the future of ancient systems of medicine," he said.


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New taxpayer-sponsored grocery store to open in southern Dallas food desert
The city of Dallas agreed and spent $2.8 million in taxpayer dollars to get the store up and running in a food desert.
A new Save-A-Lot grocery on Simpson Stuart Road near Bonnie View Road is adjacent to some apartments behind it and separated by a low metal fence. Save-a-Lot is requesting $20K more from the city of Dallas to build a wall between it and the complex just south of it. (Guy Reynolds/The Dallas Morning News)
By Tristan Hallman
11:06 AM on Oct 27, 2016 CDT
Standing between the row of saltine crackers and a cash register, Linda Jones sees a bright future for herself and her neighborhood.
Jones helped put the finishing touches on the Save-A-Lot grocery store, which officially opens Friday in the low-income Highland Hills neighborhood of southern Dallas. To the 48-year-old, the city-subsidized store she now calls her workplace and her local grocer is a ray of hope.
"This is going to be a great opportunity for this neighborhood — some growth," she said. "We need some spending up in this area."
City Hall spent $2.8 million in taxpayer dollars to get the store up and running in the spot that had been a food desert. Officials are hopeful it can spur future growth in the area.
The store is blocks away from Paul Quinn College — and around the corner from some crime-ridden apartment complexes.
Meanwhile, Wednesday night, Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell accepted a $1.1 million check from the Dallas Impact Investing Collaborative to help develop a nearby mixed-use apartment complex.
In his remarks, Sorrell talked about the violent and dangerous conditions that his students living near campus have to endure. One complex nearby, Estell Village, has been a murder scene multiple times in recent years.
But Sorrell believes the neighborhood is on an upswing thanks to the activist role his university and the city have taken.
"It will be a wonderful place for people who have held on for 30, 40, 50 years for just the promise of a better tomorrow," he said. "A better tomorrow is arriving."
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Erik Wilson, who represents the area, said the taxpayer money was well spent and necessary. The neighborhood shouldn't have scared off grocers, he said.
"All those people eat every day," he said.
The store itself, Wilson said, is "beautiful, it's needed and it's going to be a great asset to the community."
It was Wilson's council predecessor, Tennell Atkins, who helped secure the funding for the store. He was met with some skepticism from his fellow council members, who didn't believe it could succeed.
Former Dallas City Council member Tennell Atkins stands in the new Save-A-Lot grocery store at 3450 Simpson Stuart Road. Atkins helped get city funding to build the store when he was on the council. (Tristan Hallman/Staff).
Those critics haven't been proved wrong yet. Time will tell if the grocery store can survive and thrive.
But for now, the store's advocates are preening and the store shelves are stocked and orderly. Atkins called the new location "an oasis."
"It's the best investment ever done south of the Trinity River," he said.
He said he tried to get other major grocers to open shop in southern Dallas. But none would bite. Only Save-A-Lot agreed to build at the site of another failed grocery store.
"Could we do better?" Atkins said. "Yes, but they didn't come to the plate."
Joseph Kemp, 66, who was helping construct the store, is now running the entire show. He became a Save-A-Lot franchisee when others weren't willing to work in Dallas. He said he stepped up because he wanted to help the area.
Joseph Kemp stands in front of produce at his new Save-A-Lot store at 3450 Simpson Stuart Road. The store received financial subsidies from the city of Dallas. (Tristan Hallman/Staff)
Kemp said the $2.8 million didn't cover his costs, and he had to take out a loan to finish the project. He has a 10-year lease on the store and is on the hook financially if it falters.
But Kemp, who lives in Cedar Hill, has no experience running a grocery store. His background is mainly apartment complexes. He owns one nearby, though, and knows the neighborhood.
"I'm all about treating people right and being honest with them," he said. "I'm hoping that it will spill over into this grocery business."
Kemp said he has plenty of interest in the store so far, especially for jobs. He has been flooded with hundreds of applications and resumes.
The store will have 25 to 30 employees, he said. It will also have a Dallas police officer nearby. Their salaries start at $9 an hour. Seven are full time. The store manager will get about $9,000 a month.
Jones, 48, said she prayed for the job after her interview. She lives nearby and had been laid off months earlier from her job of 18 years at a financial investment company.
She will work full time hours and has plans to get promoted.
"I am here to grow," she said. "I'm here for advancement."
Tristan Hallman
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American Forces Network to broadcast NFL's championship games despite shutdown
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady throws a pass during first half of the AFC championship NFL football game against the Jacksonville Jaguars (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
WASHINGTON -- The American Forces Network will broadcast the NFL's conference championship games on Sunday despite the federal government shutdown.
There was some question about access to the games for the U.S. military after the AFN put a message on its Facebook page on Saturday that its services would not be available because of the shutdown. The network airs American radio and television programming in Europe and other locations outside the U.S.
AFN programming relies on civilian government employees, according to Department of Defense spokeswoman Dana W. White, and they were furloughed at midnight Saturday. Two of AFN's eight channels - one for news and a second for sports - will remain on.
"Thanks to uniform leadership at AFN, our comptroller and legal team, we were able to turn on one channel based on operational necessity and FY17 funds had already been paid on the contract," White said in a release. "The sports channel was turned on because it doesn't cost any more money or manpower to manage a second channel."
New England takes on Jacksonville in the AFC championship, and Minnesota faces Philadelphia in the NFC championship.
"We appreciate the efforts of everyone who made it possible for our brave service members around the world to get a taste of home and enjoy today's games," NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in an email.
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Mexico's biggest television network sold prominent politicians favourable coverage in its flagship news and entertainment shows and used the same programmes to smear a popular leftwing leader, documents seen by the Guardian appear to show.
None of the other politicians named in the documents would talk to the Guardian. The current wave of protests against perceived media dirty tricks was triggered on 10 May when Televisa first ignored an anti-Peña Nieto protest at a private university where he was giving a campaign speech – and then gave wide coverage to accusations that the protest was staged by non-student troublemakers.
US Drug Thirst, Gun Sales Must Share Blame for Monterey Casino Tragedy, Mexican President Says …..
Mexico City – His voice cracking with emotion, President Felipe Calderon said Friday that the United States bore some blame for "an act of terror" by gangsters who doused a casino with gasoline and set a blaze that killed at least 52 people.
The attack Thursday in Monterrey, an industrial city of 4 million barely a two-hour drive from Texas, stunned Mexicans and seemed likely to mark a watershed in the country's intensifying war against criminal syndicates.
In a 20-minute televised address to the nation, Calderon gave an unusually blunt assessment of the causes of Mexico's surging violence before flying to Monterrey to place a wreath at the burned-out hulk of the Casino Royale.
He referred repeatedly to the attack as a terrorist act, elevating the conflict to a new level, at least linguistically, and casting it in terms of a broader struggle for control of Mexico.
He said rampant corruption within his nation's judiciary and law enforcement bore some blame.
But in unprecedented, direct criticism of the United States, Calderon said lax U.S. gun laws and high demand for drugs stoked his nation's violence.
Calderon declared three days of national mourning. The motive of Thursday's attack wasn't clear, but authorities indicated that it might have been part of an extortion campaign against one of many casinos that operate in Mexico on the margins of the law.
Calderon's blast at the United States underscored frustrations here that there's little appreciation north of the border for the role Americans have played in strengthening the cartels that are responsible for the grisly violence that's claimed as many as 40,000 lives in the last five years.
With weapons bought in the United States, the gangs, whose roots lie in drug smuggling but which have branched out into a variety of criminal enterprises, are better armed than the police tasked with combating them.
While Calderon's government has captured dozens of mid- and upper-level gangsters, beheadings, public executions and kidnappings are epidemic, and many Mexicans feel less safe than ever.
Of the 52 who died in Thursday's firebombing, 35 were women, mostly in their 40s, 50s and 60s, who were passing time in the casino on a weekday afternoon, civil defense officials said.
Ten people were injured in the blaze.
A video taken by a closed-circuit camera that overlooks the casino's entrance showed that the attack unfolded in only two and a half minutes.
Four vehicles can be seen pulling into the driveway of the Casino Royale, on San Jeronimo Avenue in a posh area of western Monterrey, at 3:48 p.m.
Gunmen jump out of the cars and enter the casino, carrying three canisters apparently filled with gasoline.
Moments later, gamblers and employees are seen scuttling from the building.
Black smoke then pours from the casino as the assailants jump into the vehicles and drive off.
"It was an indescribable scene," said Reynaldo Ramos of Monterrey Civil Defense.
Most victims died from smoke inhalation rather than direct contact with fire, he said.
Cell phones on the bodies of victims rang constantly as rescuers removed them, he added.
No arrests were made immediately.
The Attorney General's Office offered a $2.5 million reward for information leading to the conviction of the attackers.
Monterrey is seen as a bellwether for Mexico's rising chaos.
Home to some of Mexico's biggest companies and with the highest standard of living in the nation, with a per capita income of $18,000 per year, the city has been identified with booming entrepreneurship.
As recently as early last year, Monterrey was hailed as a safe, prosperous city, a Mexican version of Dallas or Houston.
But a turf war between large criminal syndicates, the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, now unfolds in city streets daily.
Drive-by shootings, roadblocks, gangland grenade attacks and bodies hanging from overpasses are common.
Earlier this week, gangsters hung a still living victim by the neck from a pedestrian walkway in the city in broad daylight, then took potshots at the victim with weapons.
Local media said that one of the main investors in Casino Royale is a company, Atracciones y Emociones Vallarta, that operates 26 casinos across northern Mexico.
Its owners are reportedly relatives of a former mayor of Monterrey.
Gangs routinely shake down casinos for payoffs.
On Wednesday, gunmen threw a grenade at a casino in the city of Saltillo in northern Coahuila state.
Anger at Calderon, who's in the final 15 months of his six-year term, boiled over on social media, a sign of the sagging support for his policy of direct confrontation with cartels.
Since he came to office in late 2006, Mexico has tallied around 40,000 murders.
"Sometimes I would like to leave the country but it is MY COUNTRY. Make them leave," a Twitter post by Roduguevara said.
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U.S Government Smuggled Missles, Grenades And Other Military Grade Weapons To Mexico Drug Cartels …….
The nation was shocked when the U.S government was caught red handed smuggling guns to drug cartels in Mexico after government supplied guns were linked to the murders of law enforcement officials working along the U.S. Mexico border.
The scandal deepened when the hacker group 'Anonymous' leaked reported government documents on the Internet which appear to show that the leader of the La Familia cartel in Mexico was actually the feds point man for the gun smuggling operation. Although the revelations revealed in data release was not confirmed by the Obama administration the information became part of a congressional investigation into the scandal.
Soon after the news of La Familia cartel scandal broke, the leader of the Zetas cartel leader Jesús Enrique Rejón Aguilar, aka El Mamito was arrested in Mexico. During an interrogation by the police, El Mamito stated the Zetas cartel was exclusively supplied guns by the U.S. government.
Critics charged that while the Obama administration was smuggling guns to criminals they were using the violence perpetrated by those same criminals as a justification to take guns away from U.S. citizens.
As the congressional investigation into the scandal continued new discovered evidence revealed the government gun smuggling operations were not limited to Mexico. In fact, congressional leaders uncovered a sister operation ran out of Florida being used to smuggle guns into Puerto Rico and Honduras.
As the Obama officials moved to distance themselves from the growing scandal Kenneth Melson, the ATF's acting director, came forward and accused the Justice Department covering up evidence to shield officials from the scandal.
Today comes reports that a wide array of U.S. government military grade equipment is being stashed in safe houses inside of the U.S., that that controlled and owned by the Zetas drug cartel, from where they are smuggled into Mexico.
"Jesús Rejón Aguilar, the number three man in the Zeta's hierarchy, disclosed last week that the Zetas bought weapons in the United States and transported them across the Rio Grande. Mexican federal authorities captured Rejón on July 3 in the state of Mexico, and presented him to the news media the next day. His recorded video statement was uploaded on YouTube.
[Former CIA Agent Phil] Jordan agreed with Plumlee's allegations that the Zetas are operating in the Columbus-Palomas border.
Plumlee, who has testified before U.S. congressional committees about arms and drug trafficking, said the roads in Southern New Mexico provide smugglers easy access to Mexico's highway networks.
This is very strong evidence and brings the gun smuggling operations to an entirely new level as the military grade weapons are being used by the cartels to commit acts of terrorism in Mexico and inside the United States.
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Directing the Assembly of Multicomponent Organic Crystals. Synthesis, characterisation and structural analysis of multicomponent organic systems formed from dynamic processes.
Directed assembly of molecular solids continues to attract widespread interest with its fundamental application in a wide range of commercial settings where control of the crystalline state of materials corresponds with product performance. These arenas include pharmaceuticals, personal care formulations, foods, paints and pigments and explosives. In recent times, the assembly of multicomponent organic systems has achieved considerable impetus with the widespread interest in co-crystal systems. However, cogent assembly (or engineering) of multicomponent materials is still in its infancy. Considerable advances in crystal design have been made through consideration of intermolecular 'synthons' – identifiable motifs utilising hydrogen bonds – but the translation of other molecular information (conformation, chirality, etc.) into solid state properties (e.g. long-range (translational) symmetry, crystal chirality) remains poorly understood. In this study, we have attempted to evaluate the influence of a chiral centre adjacent to molecular synthons to identify potential translation of information into the solid form. We have compared the co-crystallisation of nicotinamide with both the racemic mixture of malic acid against that with an enantiomerically pure form of the acid (L-malic acid). As well as DL-phenyllactic acid and L-phenyllactic acid. iii It is apparent that recognition between enantiomeric molecular forms play a significant role in the assembly of these systems. This mechanism can be considered independently from the H-bonding networks supporting the hetero-molecular interactions (e.g. acid-amide recognition). Discrimination and control of such interactions may play a role in transmitting chiral molecular information into solid state multi-component assemblies. In order to develop an understanding of co-crystal formation in chiral and achiral forms with intermolecular interactions, the CSD and crystal structures were obtained to do the analysis of how co-crystals pack. This study has also investigated the use of boronic acids. The aim of this study was to investigate the modification of the hydrogen bonding environment within the hydrogen bonded multi-component systems of boroxines. The study also attempted to determine how the starting materials drive the systems between the boronic acid co-crystal and the boroxine adduct.


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Reviews	• NYC • Off-Broadway	Published 23 July 2020
Review: The Weir at Irish Repertory Streaming
online ⋄ 21st – 25th July 2020
An online rendering of Conor McPherson's The Weir highlights our pandemic loneliness. Pat Maley reviews.
Sean Gormley in The Weir (Photo: Irish Rep)
Much of the narrative around quarantine and our efforts to sustain a sense of community through technology has used terms like "alone together."
That weekly Zoom chat with friends or family has taken the space formerly occupied by actual togetherness, and so we are alone in front of our computers, but together, at least to some degree, in a virtual space. Loneliness, perhaps for a short period, is abated.
What better playwright, then, to invite into a quarantined world than Conor McPherson, the great bard of loneliness? From his earliest monologue plays to Girl from North Country, the Bob Dylan jukebox musical whose Broadway run was interrupted by quarantine, the Irish playwright has probed the angsty psychology of lonely souls. His characters seem to crave companionship, but are never quite certain how to navigate the world of other people.
In his 1997 play, The Weir, this struggle takes place at a bar—remember bars?
It is a small place in the rural outskirts of northwest Ireland run by Brendan (Tim Ruddy) and frequented, as on this night, by locals like Jack (Dan Butler) and Jim (John Keating). The scuttlebutt around town is that a woman from Dublin, Valerie (Amanda Quaid), has just bought a home in the area, and local businessman and self-assured cock-of-the-walk, Finbar Mack (Sean Gormley) is showing her around, with a tour that will include Brendan's pub.
Over the course of the one evening that comprises the 100-minute play, the men attempt to welcome Valerie warmly to the neighborhood, but cannot seem to stop themselves from telling the sort of ghost stories that live in the very fabric of their rural environs, a practice that Valerie joins with a story that trumps them all.
Amanda Quaid in The Weir (Photo: Irish Rep)
Under the guidance of co-artistic director Ciarán O'Reilly, the Irish Rep has shown a particular knack for producing McPherson's evocative world. Along with recent productions of Dublin Carol (2019), The Seafarer (2018), Shining City (2016), Port Authority (2014), and St. Nicholas (2010), the theater has twice staged The Weir, once in 2013 and again in 2015, both directed by O'Reilly. The current production welcomes back four-fifths of the 2015 cast, and Butler from 2013; Keating and Gormley reprise roles from both earlier shows.
Each of the previous productions has been sensitive and warm, deftly in tune with the quiet struggles that define each of these characters. O'Reilly has proven consistently adroit at getting to the heart of McPherson's challenging psychology.
But, of course, this quarantine production brings with it the new challenge of social distancing. Theaters around the country have tackled quarantine closure in a variety of ways, from streaming recorded performances to using video chatting technology for staged readings or, as with Richard Nelson's What Do We Need to Talk About? at the Public, new work written into the virtual space.
For their part, the Irish Rep has made efforts to simulate the staged experience: each performer filmed their role remotely, and then they were edited together (Sarah Nichols) in front of a virtual background of Brendan's pub. Actors are always alone in the frame, but, occasionally, the allusion of togetherness is achieved by leaning out of frame to accept a cigarette light or a drink, and some sense of movement is achieved by navigating the performers and their gazes in certain directions.
The effect was certainly imperfect—the digital background was never particularly realistic, and the efforts of achieving togetherness were often strained—but the effort is laudable: the Irish Rep should be applauded and supported in their efforts to explore the possibilities of staging quarantine theater.
Dan Butler in The Weir (Photo: Irish Rep)
And what seems most intriguing, after all, is not to judge a performance like this against the standard of a live show, but rather, as an entity in and of itself, as a medium of "performance on screen" rather than a derivative attempt at replicating in-person theater.
In that regard, the sound performances here and the acute direction capture the intricacies of The Weir with unique skill. For although McPherson's characters spend a night together in a tiny pub like they have done countless times before, it would be a mistake to presume that they ever come to an understanding of one another or of themselves. These characters are perpetually alone together, an aspect that the framing and imperfect efforts at community attempted by the Irish Rep accentuate intriguingly.
This is production tells us that our sense of halting yearning for togetherness is nothing new in quarantine, and invites us to reexamine how we have ever managed our loneliness.
Review: The Weir at Irish Repertory Streaming Show Info
Produced by Irish Repertory Theatre
Directed by Ciarán O'Reilly
Written by Conor McPherson
Scenic Design Sarah Nicols (video editor), Charlie Corcoran (scenic), Leon Dobkowski (costumes)
Lighting Design Michael Gottlieb
Sound Design M. Florian Staab
Cast includes Dan Butler, Sean Gormley, John Keating, Tim Ruddy, Amanda Quaid
Review: (Still) Asking For It at Joe's Pub


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An asteroid will zoom by Earth this week and you can watch live
A newly discovered asteroid will come very close to Earth this week.
Asteroid 2023 BU measures between 12 and 28 feet wide (3.8 to 8.5 meters), and was just discovered on Saturday (Jan. 21) by astronomer Gennadiy Borisov at the MARGO Observatory in Crimea. When it passes by Earth at its closest on Thursday (Jan. 26) at 4:17 p.m. EST (2117 GMT), the space rock will be within less than 3% of the average Earth-moon distance at an altitude of just 2,178 miles (3,506 kilometers) above Earth's surface.
For comparison, most geostationary satellites orbit at an attitude of around 22,200 miles (35,800 km).
Most asteroids aren't bright enough to be seen without a powerful telescope; luckily, you can watch asteroid 2023 BU make its close encounter with our planet thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project. Astronomer Gianluca Masi will be hosting a free livestream of the asteroid's pass on the project's website (opens in new tab) or YouTube channel (opens in new tab) on Thursday (Jan. 26) starting at 2:15 p.m. EST (1915 GMT).
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An illustration of the orbits of asteroid 2023 BU and Earth showing the asteroid at perigee on Jan. 26. (Image credit: TheSkyLive.com)
The asteroid is currently in the Ursa Major constellation. Due to its small size, asteroid 2023 BU is fairly dim at magnitude 19.15, but it might be visible through a powerful telescope operated by a seasoned skywatcher.
Luckily for those of us who aren't veteran asteroid chasers, the Virtual Telescope Project will stream the whole thing. "Asteroid 2023 BU will have an extremely close, but safe, encounter with us, coming [within] less than 10,000 km from the Earth's center, about 25% of the geostationary satellites' distance," writes Masi on the project's website (opens in new tab).
Asteroid 2023 BU is known as an Apollo-type asteroid, which means its orbit crosses that of Earth but spends most of its time well outside the path of our planet, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (opens in new tab), which is based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. 2023 BU orbits the sun every 425 days and will not pass close to our planet again until Dec. 6, 2036.
While asteroid 2023 BU will pass extremely close to Earth, it is not categorized as potentially hazardous. That's because its small size means it would likely break up and incinerate in Earth's atmosphere.
Hoping to catch a glimpse of asteroid 2023 BU? Our guides on the best telescopes and best binoculars might help you get started on the path to right optics. You can also check out our guides on the best cameras for astrophotography and best lenses for astrophotography to get started.
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