hey, I don't suppose you've got a gif of that bit in the episode where they go to brazil and homer gets kidnapped, where marge is like "I'll worry and dance" and like dances all happy for a second and then stops and starts looking round all scared? (I hope this makes sense - it's a little hard to explain!)
This is by far the most abundant ink I have in my house is that of inks made from flowers. This is the easiest and fastest inks to be made and require the least amount of materials to produce brilliant and soft colors. The inks from flowers can be either stunning and dark, or a lighter and more pale like one would expect from watercolor. Flower inks don’t last as long as inks produced from berries or nuts, and being left in the sunlight will fade their colors faster, but since this ink is so fast and easy to make, it can always be in supply. The shelf life of this ink is about a month if kept in the dark, but this is dependent on the color itself.
Materials:
Glass containers (preferably mason jars or drinking cups)
A pestle or other wooden tool (to crush the flowers with)
Boiling water
Cheese cloth
Rubbing Alcohol or 100 Proof Vodka
Glass storage container
Optional: Gum Arabic
Steps:
First, gather the flower petals of choice for the color desired (note some flower ink isn’t the same color as the flower petals).
Take these petals and crush them into the glass container, stuffing as many as you can in 1/3rd of the container as possible. The more crushed the petals, the more color will come out.
Fill the container with just enough boiling water to barely cover the flower petals. Do not fill the container, as this will dull the ink.
Set this container aside to brew overnight (I actually leave mine in the window to brew for 24 hours).
Strain the flower petals from the liquid, pouring the colored ink into a clean glass storage container.
Add 1 part alcohol to the container and shake gently (do not shake hard enough to form bubbles).
Optional: You may add Gum Arabic to give the ink a thicker consistency.
A recommendations on flowers, I have found that roses and other soft petaled flowers make a stronger ink.
Under threat of a military coup, Evo Morales has stepped down as President of Bolivia today, November 10th 2019. Though not above criticism, Morales’ government over the last 13 years has been one of the most impressive examples of progressive social democracy in modern times. As the first indigenous president of a nation long dominated by a small wealthy white elite, he resisted pressures from the IMF and the US government in turning Bolivia into a Latin American success story. From a new CEPR report on Bolivia’s economy under Morales:
Bolivia’s economy has undergone structural economic transformation during Evo Morales’s presidency. Real (inflation-adjusted) per capita GDP grew by more than 50 percent over these past 13 years. This was twice the rate of growth for the Latin American and Caribbean region. Even as the Latin American regional economy slowed over the past five years, Bolivia had the highest growth of per capita GDP in South America.
For most of the past 13 years, Bolivia has had balance of payments surpluses, which helped to maintain macroeconomic stability. The country’s solid economic growth has contributed substantially to the reduction of poverty and extreme poverty. The poverty rate has fallen below 35 percent (down from 60 percent in 2006) and the extreme poverty rate is 15.2 percent (down from 37.7 percent in 2006).
Bolivia’s economic transformation was possible due to overarching political transformations in the country. These included a new constitution with significant economic mandates; nationalization and public ownership of natural resources and some strategic sectors of the economy; redistributive public investment and wage policies; policy coordination between the Central Bank and the Finance Ministry; and monetary and exchange rate policies directed toward de-dollarizing the Bolivian financial system.
The core of Capitalism is not “Individualism”, but rather submission by the majority of individuals to a smaller class of individuals. Similarly, the core of Socialism is not “Collectivism”, but the collective liberation of every individual. In this sense, I’d say that true Socialism is the healthiest and most pure form of Individualism.
Under the new conditions Individualism will be far freer, far finer, and far more intensified than it is now. I am not talking of the great imaginatively realised Individualism of such poets as I have mentioned, but of the great actual Individualism latent and potential in mankind generally. For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. Private property has crushed true Individualism, and set up an Individualism that is false. It has debarred one part of the community from being individual by starving them. It has debarred the other part of the community from being individual by putting them on the wrong road and encumbering them.
—Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man
both good points
wait are you trying to tell me that information conveyed via a colorful infographic intended for mass distribution might lack nuance
In
the next few days and weeks you’ll see issues with Royal Mail in the
news. You’ll see the union are preparing for a strike. You’ll see the
news try and put the union in a bad light and make them out to be the
bad guys. They couldn’t be more wrong. We’ve had an agreement in place
for over a year and all we are asking for, is for this agreement to be
honoured. Instead the CEO is trying to bleed the company dry and destroy our service, and we are simply trying to protect it.
Many postal staff wake up at 4am every day, working in all weather
conditions facing all sorts of hazards with a busy workload that
dictates what time we get home to our families, all to provide you with
the service you deserve. We may strike for a day, we may strike for
two but compared to what would happen if we didn’t it’s minimal
disruption. Don’t fall for the media lies. Instead of asking why we
would strike close to Christmas or a general election which we didn’t
even know the dates for, ask yourself why Royal Mail aren’t honouring
their agreement. They’ve had months to sit down and talk with the CWU
National Officers, but have treated the mediation talks with very little
respect. You have to ask yourself why would RM do that? All we ask the British Public to do is back your Postman and Women and show them your support, they deserve it.
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