Political Surprises Are Due To Changed World Realities

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2016_WHITE_HOUSE_PATH_50950809  This photograph of the White House, published in the Chicago Sun Times , represents the presidency.  Right now candidates in both parties for their nominations to run for the 2016 presidential elections are undergoing surprising changes in their statuses.  Presumed front-runners are not certain of their party’s nomination.

None of the Republicans address the biggest main issue, that of climate change, neither do they mention the major economic upheaval caused by the extremely large, and ever-growing,  income disparity.  The best spokesperson for these issues among the Democratic candidates is given short shrift in the mainstream media.

These issues, especially the economic one at the moment,  serve as the background for much of the dissatisfaction felt across the nation, which is totally independent of  party identity.

Institutionalized discrimination, differential law enforcement, poverty, lack of access to economic and educational opportunities,  and  climate change, threaten not only our personal securities, but the futures of our children and grandchildren, because there is a cascading effect down generations.  We  feel that these issues have not been addressed, and so both parties are seeing that their supporters are not behaving as expected.

Crochet Rate Base On Two, Fifteen Minute Samples, Is 900 Stitches Per Hour

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DSC07449 These motifs contain close to the same number of stitches.  The lacey flower, done in size 10 crochet cotton, contains about 230 stitches, and the double crochet coaster, done in kitchen weight cotton #4 yarn, contains about 225 stitches.   The first can be done in a little over a quarter of an hour, and the second in a little less than a quarter of an hour.    The reason that the second takes less time is that  the stitching is very repetitive.

My stitch counting scale is a chain equals one stitch, a single crochet equals two stitches, a double crochet equals 3 stitches, and a treble crochet equals four stitches.

This is  simply useful information in case I need to know how long it takes me to crochet something.  This does not include how long it takes to figure out a pattern.

I can crochet about 900 stitches per hour.