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Trolling the belly-dancing section of the record store, and out of curiosity, I recently bought an album called "Tribal Beats For The Urban Streets". What could that be? Belly-dancers doing hip-hop? Rappers undulating to tambourines? I was hoping it might have a kind of Yemenite flavor, so I bit.
It's a little different than I expected, but there are a few tunes I really like: particularly "Sun Dance" by Ruben van Rompaey.
14 Eylül 2012 Cuma
Joe, And The Sewage Pipe Saga
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M.: Thank you for letting me wash my clothes here. Where's E.?
Marc: She's at her boyfriend's place.
M.: Don't tell Joe I was here. He is trying to round up a crew to replace my sewage pipe. I refused to go along with the trenchless people.
Marc: I'm so sorry I hooked you up with Joe. I figured, what can go wrong? Your washing machine drain was clogged, so all he had to do was unclog it. Simple, for a plumber. Then he discovered the roots in the line, and the dirt, and how the line was compromised. Then he dug that line completely up, and discovered that drain was no longer hooked up with the main sewage line. Then your toilet backed up, so he tried unsuccessfully to clear it. Then he started to completely replace the main sewage line.
M.: I'm afraid I might lose the sewage line from the garage apartment too. Do you mind if I have a drink of tap water?
Marc: Have a much tap water as you want! Indoor plumbing is a true luxury!
E.: MMMMMAAAAAAARRRRRCCCCC! (Angrily) Didn't you get my message?
Marc: (oh no, she's back!) Yes?
E. I can't park - someone's car is in my space. Oh! (sneeringly) What's she doing here?
Marc: Joe has wrecked her plumbing. I'll move my car in a moment so you can park.
(after car-shuffling)
M.: Joe's efforts to get help aren't working well. Yesterday's helper quit on him. And he's not young himself anymore.
Marc: I told him to stop with just the washing-machine drain line, but his ego is now involved, and he's just not listening anymore. He's taken on much more than he can handle by himself.
M.: I don't understand how he's spending my money, either. He says it's in the receipts, but I don't understand those. And I had to get a loan for this too, and I'm on a fixed income! How will I pay all of this back? And Joe won't explain what he's doing!
Marc: He needs to sit down with a piece of paper and explain all that! Why won't he do that? I told him to STOP, but he's not listening!
M.: I'll start looking into a better-staffed company to maybe finish the job off. Thanks for the water!
Marc: Anytime!
Marc: She's at her boyfriend's place.
M.: Don't tell Joe I was here. He is trying to round up a crew to replace my sewage pipe. I refused to go along with the trenchless people.
Marc: I'm so sorry I hooked you up with Joe. I figured, what can go wrong? Your washing machine drain was clogged, so all he had to do was unclog it. Simple, for a plumber. Then he discovered the roots in the line, and the dirt, and how the line was compromised. Then he dug that line completely up, and discovered that drain was no longer hooked up with the main sewage line. Then your toilet backed up, so he tried unsuccessfully to clear it. Then he started to completely replace the main sewage line.
M.: I'm afraid I might lose the sewage line from the garage apartment too. Do you mind if I have a drink of tap water?
Marc: Have a much tap water as you want! Indoor plumbing is a true luxury!
E.: MMMMMAAAAAAARRRRRCCCCC! (Angrily) Didn't you get my message?
Marc: (oh no, she's back!) Yes?
E. I can't park - someone's car is in my space. Oh! (sneeringly) What's she doing here?
Marc: Joe has wrecked her plumbing. I'll move my car in a moment so you can park.
(after car-shuffling)
M.: Joe's efforts to get help aren't working well. Yesterday's helper quit on him. And he's not young himself anymore.
Marc: I told him to stop with just the washing-machine drain line, but his ego is now involved, and he's just not listening anymore. He's taken on much more than he can handle by himself.
M.: I don't understand how he's spending my money, either. He says it's in the receipts, but I don't understand those. And I had to get a loan for this too, and I'm on a fixed income! How will I pay all of this back? And Joe won't explain what he's doing!
Marc: He needs to sit down with a piece of paper and explain all that! Why won't he do that? I told him to STOP, but he's not listening!
M.: I'll start looking into a better-staffed company to maybe finish the job off. Thanks for the water!
Marc: Anytime!
Mars Curiosity Descent - Ultra HD
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Jawdropping!:
Jawdropping!:
Independent video producer Bard Canning spent four weeks painstakingly reprocessing imagery released earlier by NASA showing the rover’s near-perfect descent as captured by its onboard Mars Descent Imager (MARDI), a downward facing camera.
...Canning used a video processing technique known as motion-flow interpolation, which involves creating new frames to fit in between existing frames, increasing the overall frame rate from the original, which was just 4-frames-per-second, and making the video appear more fluid at 30 frames-per-second. He also enhanced the color and the detail of the imagery and re-rendered it at “enterprise-quality 1080p, 50,000 kbps (instead of the usual ~1000kbps).”
Blood In The Water - Mitt Romney And The GOP Are Doomed
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My dreams are coming true!:
Nevertheless, there are alternative paths that end up in the same place. It's been crystal-clear since the 2003 Valerie Plame controversy that, much like the Bolsheviks in the old USSR, that the GOP considers party loyalty more important than loyalty to country. The alacrity of Romney's attack on Obama regarding the embassy attack in Benghazi and protests elsewhere in the Middle East show that the GOP has no interest in American solidarity on foreign policy. No interest at all. And that (to some surprising) development has alienated the crucial mainstream media that dominate Washington, and therefore American, opinion. Maybe permanently! This is in addition to the many, numerous ways the GOP has been angering and alienating crucial segments of the American voting population over the years. Women, for example. Or Latinos. Or gays (who are wealthier, on average, than the general population). Or anyone else earning less than $250,000 per year.
More than one way to skin a cat!
Demographic developments will favor the Democrats in years to come, particularly the aging of the overall population, lop-sided birth rates, continued immigration, and all the rest.
Yes, Romney will lose the 2012 election, and the GOP will learn nothing from it. Then they'll rally with a new candidate in 2016, but lose again, and maybe henceforth - just like California's example! There is a real chance that George W. Bush's will be the last Republican presidency I'll have to suffer through in my incredibly-long lifetime!
Halleluljah!
For Mitt Romney, the past week has been defined by bad polling news, brutal press coverage and some very public second-guessing from his own party.This is a similar sort of dynamic that happened in California in 1994, when Governor Pete Wilson staked his entire reelection effort on the polarizing, anti-Latino, Proposition 187:
...If there’s been a dominant theme in the response of conservative opinion leaders to Obama’s recent surge, it’s been this: How the &%$@ can this be happening?! On his radio show Monday, Rush Limbaugh put it this way: “If Obama wins, let me tell you what it’s the end of: The Republican Party. There’s going to be a third party that’s going to be oriented toward conservatism.” Laura Ingraham struck a similar note the same day: “If you can’t beat Barack Obama with this record, then shut down the party. Shut it down, start new, with new people. Because this is a gimme election, or at least it should be.”
...Based on what we’re hearing now, though, the Obama won’t win any new respect from the right if he prevails in two months. Instead, conservatives will regard him as the fluke winner of an election he had no business even being competitive in – the lucky beneficiary of the opposition party’s decision to field a flawed candidate who wouldn’t and couldn’t sell real conservatism to the public.
[P]olls surveying community responses showed that Proposition 187 began with widespread support - a 37-point lead in July 1994, and 62-29 percent lead among likely voters by September 1994. Proponents of the bill estimated that California spent $3 billion per year on services for illegal aliens, about half of which provided education to children of illegal aliens.It wasn't clear if the entire United States would, or could, follow the California path. There are good reasons to think it couldn't. There just aren't enough Latinos nationwide to constitute a dangerous-to-alienate voting bloc.
Governor Pete Wilson, a Republican, was a prominent supporter of Proposition 187, which ultimately became a key issue during his 1994 re-election campaign against Democratic opponent Kathleen Brown.
...In the days leading up to the referendum vote, Latino students organized large protests of Proposition 187 across the state, including a mass boycott of high schools.
On November 8, 1994, California voters approved the proposition by a wide margin: 59 percent to 41 percent. ...Latinos totaled 8% of voters, although they comprised 26% of the state's population.
...After the bill's passage, activists on campuses, churches, and ethnic communities in California and across the country rallied to express opposition to Proposition 187.
...Noting a rapid increase in the Latino participation in California elections, some analysts cite Governor Wilson's and the Republican Party's embrace of Proposition 187 as a cause of the failure of the party to win statewide elections. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is the only Republican to win a California gubernatorial, senatorial, or presidential election since 1994.
Nevertheless, there are alternative paths that end up in the same place. It's been crystal-clear since the 2003 Valerie Plame controversy that, much like the Bolsheviks in the old USSR, that the GOP considers party loyalty more important than loyalty to country. The alacrity of Romney's attack on Obama regarding the embassy attack in Benghazi and protests elsewhere in the Middle East show that the GOP has no interest in American solidarity on foreign policy. No interest at all. And that (to some surprising) development has alienated the crucial mainstream media that dominate Washington, and therefore American, opinion. Maybe permanently! This is in addition to the many, numerous ways the GOP has been angering and alienating crucial segments of the American voting population over the years. Women, for example. Or Latinos. Or gays (who are wealthier, on average, than the general population). Or anyone else earning less than $250,000 per year.
More than one way to skin a cat!
Demographic developments will favor the Democrats in years to come, particularly the aging of the overall population, lop-sided birth rates, continued immigration, and all the rest.
Yes, Romney will lose the 2012 election, and the GOP will learn nothing from it. Then they'll rally with a new candidate in 2016, but lose again, and maybe henceforth - just like California's example! There is a real chance that George W. Bush's will be the last Republican presidency I'll have to suffer through in my incredibly-long lifetime!
Halleluljah!
Objects In Your Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear
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I'm just mystified by the stupid.
Yesterday evening, about 7:10 p.m., I was waiting at the 15th St. traffic light, in the middle lane of westbound "W" street, prepared to enter the on-ramp for westbound Highway 50, headed to Davis. (Both left and middle lanes allow entry to the on-ramp, but only the left lane allows turns onto 15th Street).
All of a sudden, I see the backing lights on the car in front me. The driver calmly and deliberately accelerated backwards, and plowed into my car.
We pull to the side of the street. The driver, male, early 20's, and his passenger, female, early 20's exit their car. I exit mine.
"Why did you back up?", I ask. "I wanted to turn left," he answered. "Didn't you see me behind you?" I asked. "I thought you were further back," he answered.
Like maybe he couldn't check his rear view mirror first, before backing up.
"Are you all right?" his companion asked me. She looked a bit flustered - breathing deeper than usual.
What a passive-aggressive sort of question!
"Well, you were in the car too," I answered. The cars didn't hit hard enough to cause injury." Pointing out the obvious, I thought.
When our cars separated, my front license plate assembly got caught in their bumper, and was torn from the car. Otherwise, no real harm. Except that I expect the Universe's moron index leapt up.
We exchanged driver and insurance information, but didn't call the cops.
I'm just mystified by the stupid.
Yesterday evening, about 7:10 p.m., I was waiting at the 15th St. traffic light, in the middle lane of westbound "W" street, prepared to enter the on-ramp for westbound Highway 50, headed to Davis. (Both left and middle lanes allow entry to the on-ramp, but only the left lane allows turns onto 15th Street).
All of a sudden, I see the backing lights on the car in front me. The driver calmly and deliberately accelerated backwards, and plowed into my car.
We pull to the side of the street. The driver, male, early 20's, and his passenger, female, early 20's exit their car. I exit mine.
"Why did you back up?", I ask. "I wanted to turn left," he answered. "Didn't you see me behind you?" I asked. "I thought you were further back," he answered.
Like maybe he couldn't check his rear view mirror first, before backing up.
"Are you all right?" his companion asked me. She looked a bit flustered - breathing deeper than usual.
What a passive-aggressive sort of question!
"Well, you were in the car too," I answered. The cars didn't hit hard enough to cause injury." Pointing out the obvious, I thought.
When our cars separated, my front license plate assembly got caught in their bumper, and was torn from the car. Otherwise, no real harm. Except that I expect the Universe's moron index leapt up.
We exchanged driver and insurance information, but didn't call the cops.
Michigan Governor's 2010 Executive Budget
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Message from the Director, Bob Emerson
As Director of the Office of the State Budget, I would like to invite you to explore and make use of the many areas of our Web site. The State Budget Office is responsible for coordinating all aspects of the state budget including development of the Executive Budget recommendation, presentation of the budget to the Legislature and implementation of the budget after enactment. The Office also supervises and manages the collection and dissemination of educational data through the Center for Educational Performance and Information.
I am committed to providing comprehensive and useful information regarding the state budget and responsibilities of this office. I hope you find what you are looking for within our Web site.
**Governor Granholm's 2010 Executive Budget Addresses Structural Deficit, Protects Families
**Fiscal Year 2010 Executive Budget
Michigan Treasury
As Director of the Office of the State Budget, I would like to invite you to explore and make use of the many areas of our Web site. The State Budget Office is responsible for coordinating all aspects of the state budget including development of the Executive Budget recommendation, presentation of the budget to the Legislature and implementation of the budget after enactment. The Office also supervises and manages the collection and dissemination of educational data through the Center for Educational Performance and Information.
I am committed to providing comprehensive and useful information regarding the state budget and responsibilities of this office. I hope you find what you are looking for within our Web site.
**Governor Granholm's 2010 Executive Budget Addresses Structural Deficit, Protects Families
**Fiscal Year 2010 Executive Budget
Michigan Treasury
The Tax Saver's Credit Toolkit
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A new resource from AARP—a Retirement Made Simpler partner—has been developed for HR professionals to help employees make the most of the Saver's Credit—a federal income tax credit of up to $1,000. Toolkit materials include intranet content, an e-mail message, materials for open enrollment packets, FAQs and more.
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