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First sock in progress. I tried another pattern before but I gave up and it was ugly. Now I am trying on another pattern, knitting from toe up. It is progressing nicely. At least for a beginner... I am using yarns that I had in my stash for ages, from the stone age when I only could crochet. It is cheapass acrylic yarn, at least the pink is definitely acrylic. I hope the red one is aswell... :D (at least it does not smell wool) 4,5 mm wood needles. I wanted plastic but I could not find in that size, smallest being 5,5 mm. Wood is a good second only it is a little too tight sometimes to slide around the work. Metal is best in that aspect but I hate the feeling "click click" and itchy feeling.
The only booboo with this one is that this is slightly big (as for width) even though I went down in stitches more than what was stated in the pattern.
Cadishead and Irlam Guardian 1981
IT'S FIRST YEAR
Irlam and Cadishead's Citizens' Advice Bureau has dealt with more than 2,400 inquiries since it opened a year ago. Bureau organiser, Mrs Marian Snook, now heads a team of 10 which includes deputy Mrs Norah Johnson and nine voluntary part-time workers.
During the year, Mrs Snook has been made only too aware of Irlam and Cadishead's ever growing unemployment problem. She and her team of advisers have tackled many of the problems which have arisen through redundancy particularly the problems of those involved in the Gardner's dispute.
"A large percentage of our clients are unemployed. We have dealt with family and personal problems which arise when a person, who has been made redundant, is around the house all day or because of a shortage of cash. We have had many inquiries about job release and early retirement schemes and from disabled people who have been made redundant," said Mrs Snook.
SATISFIED
Recently the bureau started visiting disabled and hous-bound people at their homes to give them advice. They also meet members of the disabled group at Preston Hall, Irlam, to check they are receiving benefits they are entitled to. Mrs Snook intends to visit occupants of the town's sheltered housing in the near future.
Mrs Snook said "I am well satisfied with the way the bureau is operating. Each day's work reinforces my belief that there is a great need for a Citizens' Advice Bureau in an urban area like Irlam and Cadishead.
"At first the inquiries received were of a superficial nature and it seemed that perhaps local residents were not plagued with the deep-rooted long term problems that I come across in other areas.
The way we work, within strict bounds of confidentiality, does not seem to inspire trust, and as the year has progressed we have found that as well as the employment supplementary benefit, consumer, housing and other matters, we are being approached more and more on very personal and monetary matters."
Where necessary and with a client's permission, the CAB liases with statutory bodies such as social service, social security, housing, probation, police, courts and local Councillors and claims to have "an excellent relationship with them all.
Workers at the branch are trying not to limit the dervice to straightforward advice-giving or signposting, but will draft letters for clients, make phone calls and from this month, refer suitable cases to a free rota solicitor scheme.
TRAINING
"Our voluntary workers have had a heavy workload over the year and each has undergone a lot of ongoing training to keep them up to date with the copious amounts of legislation which has been passed throughout the period," said Mrs Snook.
"Often clients will say 'I don't know if you deal with this, or, I don't know if I come to the right place'. Our answer is that we always try and help or advise on any subject. Many people seem to feel better after talking the problem over with a worker, even if there is no action or solution to be found. After all a trouble shared is a trouble halved, so they say."
It is Mrs Snook's ambition for the future to install ramps at the CAB office at 604 Liverpool Road, Irlam, for disabled people in wheelchairs who encounter difficulties getting into the office.
Although a shortage of funds restricts this idea at present, Mrs Snook hopes to get temporary ramps in the near future.
The area that is St. Croix State Park was developed as a Recreational Demonstration Area in the 1930s. Forest and submarginal agriculture lands were purchased by federal and state agencies for recreation development. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided manpower to construct facilities.
The rectangular frame structure was built in 1937 by the WPA and CCC enrollees from nearby Camp Yellowbanks. The rectangle building was located at the entrance to Norway Point Group Camp and was the camp office. The structure is covered with horizontal siding to the sill level and board and batten siding above, capped by a gable roof. A recessed central entrance is on front façade, another entrance is located on a side wall.
St. Croix State Park is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the office is a contributing structure. In addition, St. Croix State Park is a National Historic Landmark.
Another go at the selective coloring fun, this time trying to take a rather boring shot of the COP sign and giving it a little pop.
Bronze sculpture by Yang Ying-Feng commissioned by Lien Ying Chow on 8.8.1988 at Battery Road. Raffles Place.
For my BF Angela. I've got to get this done this week because I'm going to Cali to visit her and her new baby!! The colors look weird here, it's better in person.
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Government Spending Undercover
Doing What Works on Tax Expenditures
April 13, 2010, 10:30am – 12:00pm
To watch the video, click here: www.americanprogress.org//events/2010/04/dwwtax.html
Congress has started its review of President Obama's $4 trillion budget request. But this review process largely ignores nearly 25 percent of government spending.
This undercover spending is made up of tax expenditures — tax subsidies for companies and individuals that are often enacted as substitutes for direct government spending. When government gives oil companies billions of dollars in tax breaks every year, for example, the outcome is the same as simply writing checks to oil companies. The oil companies are billions of dollars richer, and government revenues are billions of dollars reduced. All told, tax expenditures cost the federal treasury $1.2 trillion a year.
This is not to say that all tax expenditures are bad. They also help people save for retirement and provide incentives for companies to invest in green energy technologies and general research. But tax expenditures deserve as much scrutiny as direct federal spending. Those that work should be retained, and those that don’t should be eliminated or reformed. Our country's fiscal condition makes this especially urgent. We must maximize value out of every dollar spent — tax expenditures included.
Please join the Center for American Progress's Doing What Works project for an event that takes a closer look at our system of tax expenditure spending. This event will give particular attention to energy tax expenditures, which have soared over the last decade to more than $10 billion
Featured Speaker:
Congressman Lloyd Doggett, House Budget Committee and Senior Member of the House Ways and Means Committee, U.S. Congress
Panelists:
Kate Gordon, Vice President for Energy Policy, Center for American Progress
Matt Rogers, Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of Energy
Eric Toder, Fellow, Urban Institute; former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis, Department of Treasury
Moderated by:
Michael Ettlinger, Vice President for Economic Policy, Center for American Progress
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Lambert Shading and Bezier Curve evaluators. My my, I have smart friends. Andrew Bell, one of the newest Barbarians, helped me understand a bit more about vectors and tutored me into creating a basic Lambert shader for the flowfields. They are tuned down a bit for this image, but they are there when I need them. And dear old Ryan Alexander (oddly a friend of Andrew Bell's from an older job) helped me get the bezier evaluator in place. You might notice the curves on this image are very very smooth compared to the previous versions. Ryan gave me some code to allow for bezier interpolation with my original set of points. It runs a good deal slower, but makes for better large scale images for print.
Check out the large size.