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Cumming, GAUSA
March 1, 2012
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Not an early bird at all!
Welcome to Lake Lanier Summer Singles, Lewis!! Nice to have you on board! I hope you are looking forward to the lake this season as much as I am!! Whoot! Whoot! Thanks for joining the group!
Hello Lewis
I hope you have a great weekend.
Hey Thanks for recently joining the Group! We are looking forward to meeting and entertaining you @ our FREE COMEDY SHOWS
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Hi Lewis, I see you are in Cumming---we have group classes in our Alpharetta/Roswell location on Saturday evenings--Beg. Ballroom at 6 and Beg Salsa at 7...Can you start this weekend? Check out www.allaboutballroom.net for more details, I hope to meet you soon.
HI Lewis =) IM PAO zumba instruct. SINCE'08 (www.zumba.com/profiles/21370); I LUV2dance, meet people, help to reach goals, and be healthy. Come join my classes any time. I?m certified ZumbBasics1, Z-basics2, aquaZumba, ZumbaTonic &I am a Fitour certified instructor of Pilates, Yoga, Wateraerobics, Personal Trainer& CPR/AED. I teach @vitality method pilates on peachtree ind. Blvd mon & tues 6:30pm in the link I posted you can C all locations and times as well .tnx!
Hi Lewis!!! Welcome to the Georgia Adventurers Group.
Hello, Lewis! Welcome to our group. We are looking forward to meeting you at one of our upcoming meetups. Visit our website for the most current list of classes and events. www.crsdance.com Also, be sure to set your email preferences for our group. I try not to bug people, but I do want you to know about upcoming classes, so you may get more emails than you want. See you soon! India Vasicak
Hey Lewis, welcome to the group!
Hi Lewis, Welcome to fly fishing. This time of year it is a good time to learn by reading, watching and maybe getting in a class or two. There are a few events coming up that will help you get started. Stay in contact and I hope to see you join in. To answer the question of what fly tying is...That is when we spend hundreds and thousand of dollars to 'save money' on buying flies and create them ourselves! It's pretty cool, I just got done making some poppers for the summer.
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Jim Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: Stocks Are Where It's At
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- If you care about making money, stocks are still the only place to be, Jim Cramer told his "Mad Money" TV show viewers Monday, after another up day on Wall Street. Cramer said the bears are beginning to come out in droves, proclaiming that the top has arrived, but that simply isn't the case.
With the markets up 24% for the year, Cramer said, history remains on investors' side. Historically, markets that are up more than 20% going into November have only added to their gains. Stocks have been a great place to be since the lows of March 2009. Add to that a steaming hot IPO market, and the effectively nonexistent yield from all other forms of investments and it's easy to see why stocks remain the place to be.
There are no real alternatives to stocks, Cramer continued, and with the S&P 500 trading at just 14.7 times forward earnings, stocks really aren't that expensive either. Some sectors, like biotech, continue to rally with names like Celgene (CELG), Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Regeneron (REGN) continuing to shine.Yes, there are some stocks, like the newly minted Twitter (TWTR), that ARE wildly expensive, but that doesn't apply to the market at large. The analysts who are calling for a top in the market are those who never had any conviction in the rally to begin with, Cramer said, but in reality, stocks remain the only game in town.
Executive Decision: Dave MelcherIn the "Executive Decision" segment, Cramer spoke with Dave Melcher, president and CEO of Exelis (XLS), the defense contractor that's seen its shares rise 66% since Cramer last checked in back in September 2012. Despite the ongoing sequester, shares of Exelis still offer a 2.6% yield. Melcher started off commenting on Veterans Day, noting that veterans are the fabric of America and offer many talents to the companies who hire them. Nearly 10% of Exelis' workforce are veterans, he said, adding that hiring vets is just "the right thing to do." Turning to the business of Exelis, Melcher said that while his company can't control the top line given the continued budgets cuts, it does have control of the bottom line, which is why it has been cutting costs and reducing head counts where to bolster earnings.
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Dexter is one of the best shows in television history, and as of the end of this season (season 8), it will be no more. For fans like me, this news is very sad, indeed. Now, there are rumors of a Dexter spinoff and they are just loud enough to make me wonder if there might be some merit to them, after all. But would we want that?
Rumor has it that the spinoff would focus on Deb and delve more into her new career as a private investigator and maybe (maybe?!) her new relationship with her boss.
Of course, Deb isn't the only one on this show who could have a spinoff worth watching. Here are some other ideas:
Who would you like to see get a spinoff?
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I am a huge Dexter fan, and if there is a spinoff, I would hope Dexter is one of the main characters... if he's not even apart of the spinoff, I doubt I would watch the show! But I have a bad feeling that this season/show is going to end in a way that we are all left shocked and like "wtf". lol
Spin offs are risky.Dexter is classic and I hate that it's leaving.


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November 2011
PUMA BOXPARK – SHOREDITCH, LONDONNovember 29, 2011
December 1st see PUMA opening a new London store at BOXPARK, Shoreditch. For the un-initiated, BOXPARK is a new retail revolution opening in the heart of Shoreditch. BOXPARK strips and re-fits shipping containers to create unique, low cost 'box shops'.
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June 2011
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He's at it again – the World's Faastest Man is still the fastest! After almost a year off from racing, Usain Bolt kick starts his Championship season with two big wins at the Diamond League event in Rome last week and the Golden Spike meet this week in the Czech Republic. He hit 9.91 for both 100m races, capturing first with a late kick to beat out fellow Jamaican, Steve Mullings, in the second one.
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Just announced last week, the partnership between PUMA and Cedella Marley, fashion designer and Reggae Legend Bob Marley's eldest daughter, is underway. Fabrics selected, designs reviewed, and more legends to be made. Both Jamaicans and Marleys are used to breaking records, and in London they will be able to break records together.
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The Fastest Man in the World and his teammates will be breaking PRs in true Jamaican fashion during the 2012 Olympics.
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"The States Are Not An Alternative America": Republican Control Of Governorships Does Not Indicate A Solid Majority Of "The People"
There are two perpetually silly memes going around the commentariat these days in connection with the very limited but loudly expressed self-examination of the Republican Party, both involving the GOP's relatively strong standing at the state level.
The first, which I've attacked before (here, here and here), and will keep attacking as long as it rears its ugly head, is that there is this essentially moderate (or at least "pragmatic") brand of Republican pol operating at the state level who "gets it" and is free of the ideological manias of Washington-style GOPers. Give them the leadership of the party, it is often said, and "reform" will take care of itself.
When you start looking for these "pragmatists," however, they seem to be in short supply. You can apply the label to Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell, I suppose, but these gents are not about to be handed the leadership of the national party, having just been excluded from the national party's most important 2013 event, CPAC. Looking deeper in the gubernatorial ranks, though: Does Paul LePage "get it?" Is Rick Scott a "reformer?" Are Rick Perry or Bobby Jindal or Nikki Haley or Phil Bryant or Mary Fallon or Scott Walker or Jan Brewer "non-ideologues?" Is John Kasich really "reaching out" to non-GOP constituencies? Is Rick Snyder exhibiting freedom from conservative litmus tests? No, no, no, no and no.
A closely associated meme, which CNN's Roland Martin articulates in a well-meaning but misguided column, is that Republicans by focusing on state politics are actually running the country as the two parties wrangle in Washington. So:
[M]any Republicans have told me they couldn't care less about Washington, because legislation with real impact is being proposed and passed in the states. That's why you've seen groups quietly backing initiatives on the state level and bypassing the hot lights and screaming media in Washington….
Think about it: Obama won Ohio, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Nevada, all states with GOP governors. So clearly voters in those states chose the Republican alternative in statewide elections, but when it came to the presidency, said "No thanks."
I'm not buying for a second this silly notion that the GOP will have a Damascus Road experience and drastically change. It's not going to happen. There will be some movement on the national level, but Republican grass-roots organizers are very well aware that the message the GOP is selling statewide is a winning formula.
Sorry, Roland. Republicans are touting their success at the state level not because they don't care what happens in Washington, but because they didn't win the presidency or the Senate in 2012 so what else are they going to tout? Their control of 30 of 50 governorships does not indicate a solid majority of "the people" in the alternative America represented by the states, but just a majority of state governments according to measurements whereby Alaska and North Dakota count the same as New York and California. And most important of all, their victories in 2010 and defeats in 2012 did not represent some self-conscious "split decision" whereby voters preferred Republican leadership at one level and Democratic leadership at another, but different election cycles that featured different electorates. So even if Democrats decide, as Martin wants them to do, to "focus" on state elections as Republicans allegedly have, 2014 will be tough for them because of the landscape and the shape of the midterm electorate, just as Republicans, no matter where they are "focused," will face a stiff wind in 2016.
Sorry to keep harping on these issues, but Lord-a-mighty, these are fairly simple empirical matters that an awful lot of well-compensated and highly visible writers and talkers just can't seem to get straight, or don't want to because it interferes with a desired grinding of axes.
By: Ed Kilgore, Contributing Writer, Washington Monthly Political Animal, March 19, 2013
Why Swing State Republican Governors Will Get President Obama Re-Elected
The other shoe in the saga of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's union-busting crusade dropped last week, and it landed with a ton-and-a-half thud. That's the literal weight of the more than 1 million signatures in favor of Walker's recall that progressive activists gathered over a 60-day window.
That's more than 16,000 signatures collected per day. It's nearly as many people as voted for Walker in his 2010 election (1.1 million) and roughly the same number that voted for his opponent. Roughly one in every three registered Wisconsin voters signed up. And since the threshold for a recall election is 540,000 signatures, it virtually guarantees Walker will face the voters this year.
But its significance extends beyond the fate of one right-wing zealot. Walker is the best known of a class of freshmen GOP governors whose conservative power grab might be Barack Obama's not-so-secret re-election weapon.
Walker, you will recall, ran for governor with nary a word about breaking the backs of the state's public unions and then made it a key part of his signature administration policy, an action he later compared to dropping "the bomb." He sparked a backlash that initially took the form of mass protests, with tens of thousands of enraged Wisconsinites occupying the state capitol before "occupy" became a movement.
The 1 million signatures should send a chill up the back of Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or whoever the GOP taps to bear its standard. Wisconsin is a key swing state and the progressive movement just flexed some awfully strong organizational muscle there, sparked by Walker's ham-fisted overreach. The recall election, likely to occur in the late spring or early summer, will serve as a perfect progressive dry run for the Obama re-election in the fall.
And Wisconsin is not an isolated example. The Cook Political Report lists 10 states, with 142 electoral votes, as toss-ups. In that group, with 73 total electoral votes, are four states, including Wisconsin, where first-term Republican governors are foundering in the polls after their excessive policies spurred the kind of grass-roots movements that can be a huge boon to a presidential campaign.
Take Walker's neighboring colleague, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. With the help of a GOP-controlled legislature, Snyder enacted a law that allows him to appoint "emergency financial managers" in financially troubled cities and school districts. These appointed individuals would have the power to fire actual elected officials, void union contracts, terminate services, sell off assets—even eliminate whole cities or school districts. And these localized tyrants could take these actions without any public input.
It's no wonder that Michigan State University's "State of the State" poll, released in early December, found that only 19 percent of Wolverine State residents rate Snyder's performance as excellent or good (down from 31.5 percent in the spring). Critics of the law have already collected nearly 200,000 signatures for a November referendum on the law.
Snyder's neighbor to the south, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, whose approval rating languishes in the mid-30s, received his stinging rebuke from the public last November. By 62 to 38 percent, voters repealed his legislative centerpiece, a Wisconsin-like law that barred public sector strikes, curtailed collective bargaining rights for public workers, and terminated binding arbitration of management-labor disputes. Opponents collected more than 1 million signatures (there's that number again) to get the issue on the ballot, and raised $30 million in support of repeal, outspending the law's defenders 3 to 1. It was a stunning win for labor unions, with help from Obama's Organizing for America, a mere year after the Ohio GOP had swept every statewide office and won the legislature. "Unions and their allies have done a lot of things transferable to next year," the University of Akron's John Green told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "In some respects, the campaign was a trial run for the presidential."
A bonus for the Obama campaign: When Mitt Romney made an October swing through Ohio, he unbelievably pleaded ignorance of the law, prompting speculation that he was trying to avoid endorsing it. So the next day, in Virginia, he announced his foursquare support for it, masterfully reinforcing his reputation as a political calculator even as he landed on the wrong side of the biggest issue in Ohio politics.
Rounding out the four horsemen of the GOP's gubernatorial apocalypse is Florida Gov. Rick Scott, whom Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling declared in December to be the nation's most disliked governor when he scored a 26 percent approval rating. That was due in part to the $1.35 billion Scott and the GOP legislature cut from education last year, as well as his push to drug-test welfare recipients. Apparently able to read the polls, Scott now wants to put $1 billion back into education funding, offsetting the spending by cutting $1.8 billion from Medicaid.
While a recent Quinnipiac poll found that Scott's approval rating has soared to 38 percent (with 50 percent still disapproving), the same survey showed voters against cutting Medicaid to pay for education by 67 to 24 percent. Perhaps most alarming for Scott and the GOP is that independents disapprove of the governor by an even wider margin than Democrats.
After South Carolina, the Republican presidential traveling circus will move on to Florida. Watch as Mitt Romney embraces his toxic GOP colleague and listen for the sound of cheers from Obama 2012 headquarters.
By: Robert Schlesinger, U. S. News and World Report, January 25, 2012
With The Death Penalty, "Probably" Isn't Good Enough
The death penalty is a barbaric anachronism, a crude instrument not of justice but of revenge. Most countries banished it long ago. This country should banish it now.
The state of Georgia was wrong to execute convicted murderer Troy Anthony Davis as protesters and journalists kept a ghoulish vigil Wednesday night — just as the state of Texas was wrong, hours earlier, to execute racist killer Lawrence Russell Brewer.
That's hard for me to write, because if anyone deserved a syringe full of lethal poison it was Brewer. He was an avowed white supremacist who had been convicted, along with two accomplices, of the 1998 hate-crime murder of a black man, James Byrd Jr. They offered Byrd a ride, beat him up and then killed him by chaining his ankles to the back of their pickup and dragging him for more than two miles. When police found Byrd's body, it was dismembered and decapitated.
"I have no regrets," Brewer said in an interview with Beaumont, Tex., television station KFDM this year. "I'd do it all over again, to tell you the truth."
Sweet guy, huh? Still, I can't applaud his death at the hands of the well-practiced Texas executioners. It's not that I believe his life had any redeeming value, just that the state was wrong to snuff it out.
The Davis case drew worldwide attention because of questions about the evidence of his guilt. Davis was found guilty of killing a Savannah, Ga., police officer, Mark MacPhail, in 1989. The conviction was based almost entirely on eyewitness testimony, and in the two decades since that trial, seven of nine witnesses have at least partially recanted.
The case became a cause celebre. Luminaries who could never be accused of being soft on crime — such as former FBI Director William Sessions and former GOP Rep. Bob Barr — argued that Davis should not be executed because of doubt about his guilt.
Wednesday night, in his last words, Davis told MacPhail's family that "I did not personally kill your son, father and brother. I am innocent." Then a deadly cocktail of drugs was pumped into his veins.
The Davis case makes a compelling case against the death penalty — but not because it is exceptional. On the contrary, it's fairly ordinary.
Despite what you see on "CSI," there isn't always DNA or other physical evidence to prove guilt with 99.9 percent certainty. Jurors often have to rely on witnesses whose field of vision may have been limited — and whose recall, imperfect to begin with, degrades over time. Even when there's no "reasonable doubt" about the defendant's guilt — the standard for conviction — there's often some measure of doubt.
And there are questions of process. Were witnesses coerced into testifying against Davis? A few say now that they were. Did prosecutors prove their case? The jurors certainly believed they did. Could racial bias have been a factor? Unlikely, given that the jury included seven blacks and five whites. Should Davis's attorney have done a better job of presenting a defense? Almost surely.
It's a mixed bag. I can't ignore the fact that over the years, not one of the many judges who examined the case concluded there had been a true miscarriage of justice. This suggests to me that Davis was probably guilty.
But "probably" isn't good enough in a capital case — and this is why the death penalty is flawed as a practical matter. Someone who is wrongly imprisoned can always be released, but death — to state the obvious — is irrevocable.
In scores of cases across the country, newly examined DNA evidence has proved that inmates jailed for rape or other sexual crimes were in fact not guilty. It is not just likely but certain that some defendants now on death row are innocent. Even if only one is eventually executed, that will be a tragic and unacceptable abuse of state power.
There was a chilling moment in a recent GOP candidates' debate when Texas Gov. Rick Perry was asked about having authorized 234 executions, more than any other governor in modern U.S. history. The crowd, drawn largely from Tea Party ranks, cheered this record as if it were a great accomplishment. "I've never struggled with that at all," Perry said, referring to execution as "the ultimate justice."
But he should struggle with it. We all should.
By: Eugene Robinson, Opinion Writer, The Washington Post, September 22, 2011
Eric Cantor Is A Hypocrite On Disaster Relief Spending
Buried in this Saturday's Washington Post Metro section was a short piece about the request from conservative Virginia Republican Gov. Robert McDonnell for $39 million in federal disaster relief for his state.
This was an initial request for 22 localities in Virginia hard hit by Hurricane Irene. According to the article, other local governments can request more aid and, in addition, McDonnell also asked for Hazard Mitigation Assistance for all Virginia localities.
This comes from a governor who, along with his Republican congressional counterpart Eric Cantor, rails against Washington and "government spending."
What makes this quite interesting is the position taken by Cantor last week on Federal Emergency Management funding for disasters. We have had a record 66 natural disasters this year and Hurricane Irene was one of the 10 most costly ever.
Cantor, whose district was hit hard by the earthquake and the hurricane, has said that any spending for FEMA should be tied to cuts elsewhere, dollar for dollar, "Just like any family would operate when it's struck with disaster," says Cantor. Funny, that is not how he felt back in 2004 when he appealed for money for his district after another hurricane and voted against the amendment by Republican Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas to do require offsets.
Did Eric Cantor ask for dollar for dollar cuts to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Did he ask for dollar for dollar cuts to pay for the Bush tax cuts for the millionaires and billionaires? Did he ask for dollar for dollar cuts to pay for increases to homeland security? How about border agents?
Another very conservative congressman from Virginia, Leonard Lance, totally disagrees with Cantor. Help is needed now. Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, no friend of government spending, talks as though Eric Cantor has lost his marbles: "Our people are suffering now, and they need support now. And they [Congress] can all go down there and get back to work and figure out budget cuts later."
It is time for a host of protesters to go to Cantor's district office and call him on his absurdity. Does he believe we should help the victims of these disasters? Is that what government has done for over 200 years? Does he just want to play politics and delay help? Does he represent the people of Virginia? Does he care about the others who have been the victims of tornadoes and floods across this country?
It reminds me of a Senate debate where a certain Republican from Idaho was complaining about a bill that included funding for rat control in New York City.
"In Idaho, we take care of our own rats," to which the New York senator replied, "In New York, we take care of our own forest fires."
That about sums it up.
By: Peter Fenn, U. S. News and World Report, September 6, 2011
Texas-Style Tort Reform: Rick Perry's Texas Health Care Hoax
In his quest to win the Republican presidential nomination, Texas Gov. Rick Perry is perpetuating a convincing hoax: that implementing Texas-style tort reformwould go a long way toward curing what ails the U.S. health care system.
Like his fellow GOP contenders, Perry consistently denounces "Obamacare" as "a budget-busting, government takeover of healthcare" and "the greatest intrusion on individual freedom in a generation." He promises to repeal the law if elected.
Unlike those in the "repeal-and-replace" wing of the Republican Party, however, Perry has emerged as leader of the "repeal-and-let-the-states-figure-it-out" wing that believes the federal government has no legitimate role in fixing America's health care system.
"To hear federal officials tell it, they've got all the answers on health care and it's up to the rest of us to sit, wait and embrace whatever solution — if any — they may eventually provide," Perry wrote in a newspaper commentary in 2009. "I find this troubling, since states have shown they know a thing or two about solving problems that affect their citizens."
Even as he points with pride to the alleged benefits of malpractice and other tort reforms that have been enacted during his tenure as governor of Texas, Perry says he is opposed to tort reform at the federal level. He cites the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which states-rights advocates say limits the role of the federal government.
But if Perry had his way, all the states would do as Texas did in 2003 when lawmakers enacted legislation, which he championed, limiting the amount of money juries can award patients who win malpractice lawsuits against doctors and hospitals. The legislation capped non-economic (pain and suffering) damages at $250,000 in lawsuits against doctors and $750,000 against hospitals. A few months after he signed the bill into law, the state's voters narrowly passed a constitutional amendment, also endorsed by Perry, which had the same effect. Proponents of the amendment wanted to be sure the new law would be constitutional.
Texas, he wrote in that 2009 commentary "stands as a good example of how smart, responsible policy can help us take major steps toward fixing a damaged medical system, starting with legal reforms."
As a result of the 2003 tort reform law, malpractice liability insurers reduced their rates in Texas and, according to Perry, the number of doctors applying to practice medicine in the state "skyrocketed."
He says that in the first five years after tort reform was enacted, 14,498 doctors either returned to practice in Texas or began practicing there for the first time.
Tort Reform Backfires in Texas
That certainly sounds impressive — so long as you look at that number in isolation. But when you look at how Texas stacks up with the rest of the country in terms of physician growth in direct patient care, tort reform appears to have given Texas no leg up in competition with others states for doctors. In fact, according to statistics compiled by the American Medical Association and other physician organizations, Texas has actually lost ground when it comes to the number of doctors practicing in the state since tort reform was enacted. Big time.
In 2008, the number of physicians in patient care per 10,000 civilian population in the United States was 25.7. At just 20.2 doctors per 10,000 people, Texas ranked near the bottom of the 50 states. In fact, only nine states fared worse. In 2000, three years before tort reform, Texas was still bringing up the rear, but not as badly. Back then, 11 states fared worse than the Lone Star state.
Even more revealing, the number of doctors in patient care increased 13.2 percent nationwide from 2000 to 2008. It increased only 12.8 percent in Texas. The rate of growth was actually greater in 41 other states and in Washington, D.C. than it was in the Lone Star state.
It is true that malpractice insurance rates dropped in Texas after tort reform was enacted, but Texans would be hard pressed to claim any direct benefit from that drop — except, that is, Texans who are doctors.
The Dallas Morning News published a chart earlier this year showing that the average malpractice rate charged ob/gyns in Texas by the state's largest domestic insurer of physicians fell from $53,752 in 2003 to $33,881 in 2011. The paper reported drops of similar percentages for doctors in family practice and general surgery.
Advocates of tort reform have long claimed that one of the reasons for escalating health care costs is the "defensive medicine" doctors practice, such as over-treating and prescribing more medications and diagnostic tests than necessary, out of fear of being sued. Well, if Texans believed their own health insurance rates would go down once tort reform made defensive medicine less prevalent, they have by now been disabused of that notion. The chances of a Texas family saving a few bucks on premiums would actually be greater if they moved to another state.
In 2010, the average premium for family coverage in Texas was $14,526. That's $655 higher than the U.S. average. Those numbers seem to indicate that doctors have not passed on their own insurance savings to their patients and that they are not practicing medicine any less defensively than before tort reform was enacted.
Not only are Texans paying more for their own insurance while doctors are paying less for theirs, their chances of getting employer-subsidized coverage is less than it would be if they lived in another state. The Dallas Morning News, citing statistics from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and other sources, reported that a smaller percentage of employers in Texas offered coverage to their workers last year than in the U.S. as a whole (51 percent and 53.8 percent, respectively). And the Texans who do have coverage through the workplace are contributing far more out of their own pockets for that coverage than people who live in most other states. In Texas last year, the average employee contribution toward company-sponsored coverage was $4,500. The U.S. average was much lower: $3,721.
Another statistic Perry is not likely to mention when he talks about the benefits of tort reform is the number of Texans who are uninsured. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that Texas continues to be the state with the highest percentage of its residents without coverage, a whopping 25 percent last year, compared to about 16 percent nationwide. It was dead last in 2003 and it is dead last now.
All this should leave us wondering what "thing or two" states have come up with to solve the problems that affect their citizens. Considering the dismal state of health care in Texas, perhaps Perry had Massachusetts in mind.
By: Wendell Potter, Center for Media and Democracy, September 1, 2011


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There are fewer than two weeks left to register for fall classes at Hartnell College, which begin on August 21.
"This fall is a bit different from last year in that our classes start on a Tuesday," said Director of Enrollment Services Mary Dominguez, "and we will not be offering extended late registration. Therefore, students will have to pay close attention to our deadlines."
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When I was young, a group called the 5 Man Electrical Band recorded a song called "Signs." I loved it, sang it all the time (my favorite part–and I could mimic it very well–was the part where Les Emmerson went "ugh!") and drove my parents crazy. "Long haired freaky people need not apply" was killer then and it's killer now.
I think "Signs" are telling us that Ales Hemsky won't be here a year from now and I feel another "ugh" coming on.
In Fluto Shinzawa's latest column (always a great read) there's a quote about the Bruins and David Krejci:
- The Bruins and David Krejci have initiated talks regarding a contract extension. If recent history is a benchmark, he should be signing a new deal before the start of the season. Last fall, the Bruins locked up Zdeno Chara and Patrice Bergeron during camp
Certainly the Bruins are in a far different situation than the Oilers. Boston is coming off a Stanley win and are in a window that could last for several seasons. Hemsky has missed a lot of games due to injury that clouds his contract value (how much should he get? 5.5M? 5? 6?). There's also the matter of Oiler kids who are going to be looking for big money over many years in summer 2013, making a long term deal with 83 even more difficult.
I think the signs show Hemsky will start the season as an Oiler, get every chance to post high boxcars and be sent away any time after November 15th. They might have traded him earlier but he's been injured so much other teams probably want to see at least 10 games before making an offer.
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As a contribution to the Ramsar-CBD River Basin Initiative (RBI), the Global Environment Centre (GEC) is preparing a guideline for South East Asian countries on "Integrating Wetlands, Biodiversity and River Basin Management". This will build on the Ramsar Handbook 4 on "Integrating wetland conservation and wise use into river basin management". It will be produced in English and four Asian languages: Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Malay. The project is funded by the ASEAN Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation (ARCBC).
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Published on - December 10th, 2009 (by J.D. Roth)
I'm getting more requests this year for holiday tipping info than ever before. For example, Nina wrote: "Can you provide some guidelines for Holiday Tipping Etiquette for the holiday season? I'm at a complete loss…"
To be honest, I don't know much about holiday tipping. It's not something I was raised with. I covered it briefly in my guide to how much to tip, but I'm basically as in the dark as Nina is. To learn more about the subject, I did a little research. I learned that in some places and for some jobs, holiday tipping is customary.
The December 2009 issue of Consumer Reports includes a survey on holiday tipping habits. Housekeepers are by far the most commonly tipped profession. A full 75% of folks tip their cleaning person — and no wonder. More than half tip their child's teacher. Other than that, holiday tipping is more sporadic. (Only 8% tip the trash collector.)
Here are some general holiday tipping guidelines:
- Holiday tipping is never required. Even when it's the social norm, you shouldn't tip if you can't afford it or you don't feel the person deserves it.
- Tipping tends to be more common (and on a larger scale) in big cities than in small towns. The best way to determine the etiquette in your area is to ask around.
- In general, you should consider giving a holiday tip to the folks who take care of your home and family, especially those you see often. The more often you see someone and the longer you've known them, the more you should tip. (Someone who works in your home regularly — such as a housekeeper — usually expects a tip.)
- For personal services like manicures, massages, pet grooming, and fitness training, tip up to the cost of one session, but only if you see the same person regularly. For example, if you get a $60 massage every six weeks, your holiday tip should be about $60.
- Public servants are not allowed to accept cash tips in the U.S., but it's acceptable to give a non-cash gift of up to $20. You might give a plate of cookies to your mail carrier, for example, or a book or a gift certificate to your child's teacher.
- When you give a tip, include a card or a hand-written note thanking the person for their service.
- If you tip cash, crisp new bills make a better impression than old wrinkly ones.
Here's a list of people who often receive holiday tips and what they typically receive:
- Babysitter: one week's pay
- Nanny: one week's pay
- Housekeeper: one week's pay
- Gardener: one week's pay
- Doorman: $10 to $100, depending on what they do for you
- Garbage collector: $15 to $25
- Janitor: $15 to $25
- Newspaper delivery person: $15 to $25
- Parking attendant: $15 to $25
This is just a list of people who commonly receive holiday tips. Tipping service people with whom you have regular contact can build goodwill. Everyone likes to feel appreciated; we tend to remember the little gestures others make on our behalf. If you want to tip the bus driver, go ahead. Use your best judgment.
What's your experience with holiday tipping? Is it customary in your area? Who gets tipped and how much?
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I don't know anyone who does holiday tipping around here.
I was a server to get through college, nannied, and cleaned house and never knew about this Holiday Tipping idea. I have lived in Alabama my whole life and cannot tell if this is a cultural expectation, or, as other posts have alluded to, an issue for those of a higher standard of living… I would like to say for those in Alabama and other places, your server's pay check from the restaurant does not even cover taxes! If you are eating out on a big holiday, your server would much rather be with their family and friends than waiting on you, so a bit extra definitely helps our moral for the night! (sorry for the soap box proclamation)
chacha1 said: "Those servers do not even make minimum wage and the tip is what keeps most of them solvent."
It depends on the state. In several states (including mine) servers get a full minimum wage and tips are on top of that.
I never tip out of obligation. I have a super awesome postal carrier – he brought me mail from another building (I moved two blocks away) after my forwarding already expired – he deserves something extra but I don't know him well enough to get him an actual gift.
So I get him a gift certificate for the neighborhood coffee shop. Hopefully that way he can stop in for a cup if it's too cold during a shift break.
As for my housekeeper – It's my only luxury and she is invaluable. I really think that my partner and I might not still be together if not for her So I like to get her a bar of chocolate and a bottle of wine. I know she likes those things – but again I don't know her well enough to get her a gift – so it's my small way of saying thank you for the hard work that you do and that we value you.
Dont' tip if you don't want to but don't not tip someone whose service you value out of frugality. Even if you just give them a card it's better than nothing.
I've never tipped my trash collector, but I kind of want to… because they have hauled away a whole lot of crazy stuff. Rain soaked memory foam mattress pad, decrepit lawn mower, huge tower of rain soaked cardboard boxes, etc. Technically I'm allowed 96 gallons and 1 bulk item per week. But they take everything and anything I put out there. It's such a nice feeling to see that empty curb. Some places you'd be lucky to get one bulk pick up in a year!
In the battle against STUFF, these guys are champions for me.
My father works as a UPS driver in a commercial district. The companies there will tip him in the hundreds every time christmas comes around. I guess companies really value having a driver who doesn't destroy their packages.
It seems like the same people who always object to tipping always do so on the same principle: they feel they should not have to pay "extra" to a person who is already compensated for doing their job. Can we get over this already? Tipping makes me feel good. It's a way of rewarding the actual person who provides me with excellent service. Postal carriers work extra hard around the holidays to get all of our gifts and cards to our loved ones on time. And babysitters and nannies take responsibility for OUR CHILDREN when we're not around. If we give cards and gifts to family members we never see or friends we don't particularly care for, why skimp on the people who watch your kid or your dog or keep your building safe?
I'm not saying you have to break your budget out of a sense of obligation, but the holidays are the time to look around you, be thankful to all the people who make your life easier, and show them you appreciate them. Holiday tipping is a GIFT, not a payment. And if it isn't the norm where you live, obviously it's not expected and this article doesn't apply to you.
I feel so sad when I read all of these comments. The holiday tip is a way of saying thank you for doing a good job this past year and showing them that you appreciate them. Some of these people do not make minimum wage and require tips, like servers in restaurants to make above minimum wage, and servers tips are often shared with other workers like bus boys or bartenders. I was raised that if you didn't have money to leave a tip at a sit down restaurant, then you need to go to McDonalds.
The amount you tip or what you give them can be different than what is listed based on how often you see them and how good of a job they do. My entire family sees the same hairstylist every six weeks, so why would I not give her something extra or a little present at the holidays? The same goes for my daughter's dance instructor and her daycare providers. They see us daily/weekly and provide excellent service. In a way, they are an extension of my family, so I treat them as such.
If you don't have a lot of money, why not bake cookies or something of that nature. It's the thought that counts. It's the holidays, and it is about taking care of one another.
I have to agree with PK (#7) and Tyler (who's comment about 19th century England made me laugh) – I've only heard of holiday tipping by reading personal finance blogs. Maybe it's because I'm a big DIYer and don't employ all these service people. I have a mail carrier and a garbage company, but the actual people driving the trucks varies by the day/week.
I tipped myself an Ipod Touch for Christmas this year, does that count?
I will say my wife, a preschool teacher, gets a ton of gift cards from her students' parents. It is nice since we usually eat our weekly "out of the house" meal for free until about March.
I guess my "rule" is if I encounter anyone who goes above and beyond my expectations for doing their job, I'll tip them – or at minimum send them a nice note of appreciation.
Sorry, I am perplexed by the holiday tipping thing too. Never heard of anyone doing it, not in my entire life. Of course, I live in a flyover state!
I buy a christmas (& birthday) present for our daily babysitter/nanny, and I give a couple bottles of wine to the housecleaners at christmas. I also give gift cards to my secretary and other office employees. I never really thought of these as tips, though–just "thank yous" to people and friends that always come through to help me when I'm in a pinch.
I can't imagine tipping the mailman or garbage men–I never see either of them. I don't have a gardener–I use a snow removal service in the winter but it's always a different guy each time driving the mini tractor. I tip my hairdressor 20% or more whenever I see her–but that's only about 4X/yr so usually doesn't happen around the holidays. I always tip 15-20% for waiters and cabdrivers.
Based on these comments, holiday tipping seems wonderful where there is a real relationship and it's basically a gift exchange and an extra show of appreciation. In other cases, it sounds like extortion (especially when someone really can negatively impact one's life, like a door person) and an oppressive social custom. It's also rather arbitrary. Lots of people provide services who don't make the typical "tipping lists" including accountants, lawyers, healthcare providers, fast food workers, car washers, and hundreds of other professions. And plenty of "professionals" like some accountants earn less than unionized laborers. The whole system strikes me as arbitrary and odd.
If I know someone well, including a service provider, and want to give him/her a gift, I'll give a gift. If I want to tip someone, I'll do that whenever I partake of his or her services throughout the year.
I'm the resident manager at a small apartment building. Ostensibly my job is just to keep an eye on the place and do things for the owners. However, I do extras for tenants such as sign for packages, show them how to fix their garbage disposals ("showing" them means I pretty much end up doing the work), take in and store mail when people are on long trips, etc. I've also done some REALLY beyond-the-call-of-duty stuff, such as being awakened at 2 a.m. by a frantic phone call from an out-of-town tenant whose car had just been towed and who needed a copy of the car's title retrieved from the apartment and faxed to the towing company.
No tenant has ever tipped me. Then again, I don't really expect it. I'd probably be stunned if anyone did.
Just goes to show you how unclear/random this tipping thing is. I grew up in Pittsburgh and my parents were big tippers (wait staff, bellman, limo driver, etc.) but I never remember them tipping the garbage collectors.
I love the idea of showing appreciation for those who work for you closely & regularly and with whom you have a relationship. I don't have any of these things despite living in NYC and Chicago (I don't even have a hairdresser) but if I did, I'd be more than happy to show them my appreciation.
I suppose I do have a postal worker but it seems to be always a different person and they all do a terrible job, so I've never really considered tipping them. Maybe my mail wouldn't get shredded if I shelled out some cash…
Wow! I had no idea some of the holiday tips were so much money. I have a babysitter and a house cleaner for this first time this year and at least now I have a better understanding.
To those wondering how to tip the trash collector. We put $ or a gift card in an envelope with a card and put it in a clear zip lock bag which I tape with packing tape to the top of the trash can. I guess someone could see and steal it but that is so low and it's not a large tip. I hadn't heard about tipping trash and recycling guys until my friend told me a few years ago. I now have a much easier time if my boxes aren't tied or I have big items…
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I have heard from several people, in different neighborhoods that you should trip the trashman. And these neighborhoods are across the socioeconomic spectrum.
If we have a large amount of trash like spring cleaning day or leaf removal my dad will often be waiting for them on the curb, help them load it, and then tip them. We have thrown out couches, appliances, grills, and 40 bags of leaves and they have never left anything. That includes different drivers, they all seem to know my dad will take care of them and they make sure our stuff gets picked up.
@Brent 14 and 22 — I think if you took the approach you do in #14, you will benefit the company and the bureaucracy but not the employee who helps you and works with you directly. The company is not going to pass that money down to the employee — in a world of "standardized pricing and labor liquidity" why should they? I don't want to have my world Walmartized and so I will continue to build social and economic relationships with individuals, not with firms and corporations.
And @22 — obviously tipping is for the people who factor big in your world. Try not to take JD's suggestions so literally. He's not a tyrant trying to make you do things you don't want to do. He says himself, in the article: "This is just a list of people who commonly receive holiday tips… Use your best judgment."
JD it is NOT illegal for teachers to get monetary gifts. Only the post office has that tag.
42.chacha1 when the last minimum wage law went into effect all servers and bussers are required to be paid AT LEAST minimum wage. Tips are on top of that. My nephew cleared $60,000 working at a nice place one year. Slightly double what the teacher at the local school made.
I tip for good service. I don't tip my mail delivery peson- it changes all the time. My garbage man is union and makes the same amount as me….
@JD – I think I've heard about holiday tipping previously from Free Money Finance, but he rehashes magazine article for most of his posts anyway, so you're probably right about the idea coming from Money or similar.
It really makes me happy to tip someone who is not expecting it. I usually give any holiday tips 2 or 3 weeks before the holiday so i can be the first one, and I tip more than what would be expected. reputation is important to me. Good service will follow, but a tip is a thank you for service Already received.
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I think part of the amount of a tip should depend on how much time and personal service they give you. A newspaper carrier can have up to several hundred customers. It seems like $5 should be plenty.
If everyone gave them that much, they'd have enough to buy a new tv and not just a "little bit" extra. Other people don't have the time to have "lots and lots" of potential clients (like housekeepers/nannies), so the gift would be naturally bigger. At least, I'd assume that.
But I come from a family that never gave out tips, though I thought a small tip to the mailman or newspaper person would be neat, but I mean, small like $5, figuring if "everyone did", it would be a great Christmas bonus for them.
Some of these professions don't make much sense. If you tip your hairdresser every time you see them, why do they get a holiday tip? I understand a gift if you have a close personal relationship but some of the other people aren't getting anything all year long. The one that makes the most sense to me is the doorman and here's why. Doorman often do much more than just the simple job. They may walk you to your car, get packages from your car, make sure that the maintenance staff is attentive to your needs, etc. We had some great doormen when we lived in a highrise and it made perfect sense to tip them. But if they don't do anything extra for you, then don't tip them.
Realistically though, many people are having a tough time making ends meet in this deep Recession. If you aren't getting a bonus or a raise this year, its hard to want to turn around and dole out dozens of holiday tips.
I am an expatriate living in Indonesia where the norm is to tip one month's salary every year to everybody who works for you (At Idul Fitri – sort of like Islamic Christmas). This includes everyone from Maids, Drivers, Security guards to anybody else who directly or indirectly provides you with a service.
It gets expensive but you learn to include it in your yearly budgeting.
I'm surprised your favorite bloggers are not on the list to be tipped. They work hard all year on delivering information and entertainment …
We give gift cards to our son's regular child care givers, and when he is in school someday, I plan to give to his teachers. But I don't even know who our mailman is or if it is the same person usually. I don't think you should have to tip faceless people or those that you don't have a regular relationship with.
We usually tend to load up tipping at the holiday season, but I have a bit of a different thought about that.
Most people on the receiving side of tipping are pretty flush this time of year because of the trend toward holidy specific tipping. But it might be better to wait until Jan or Feb, when our own cash flow is back to normal, and tip workers tips are down. You can even give it to them in a Christmas envelope, and maybe even a litte more than you could at the holiday because you don't have money going out all over the place.
Bet that'll be appreciated every bit as much as the holiday tips!
Actually, thanks for posting this. We live in grad student housing and our building manager is just the greatest. I'd still feel weird giving him money, but I do think I'll go ahead and bake something for him and his family… wasn't sure if that would be appropriate. I had no clue it might be _expected_.
I only ended up tipping a few people this time of year. Our trash guys (its been the same two for at least three years now) get $30 each and in return they will take anything we leave out, ring the doorbell if the can isnt there, and have even helped carry the big stuff out of the garage. Its been invaluable to me and my husband. We get milk delivered so he gets a tip and then we take breakfast to our service manager and his crew at the car repair place.
I dont tip because its expected but because I appreciate these people and the value that they add to my life.
I've never done holiday tipping. I don't really have regular people to tip. This year I'm going to tip the pet sitter, she's new to my household this year and has been a lifesaver. I was thinking about leaving some cookies and a starbucks gift card and a note on the table for when she is here over new years.
I suppose it's really up to the individual—if the person in question makes your life more enjoyable somehow, why not show your appreciation? The only thing that makes the issue irksome is that people have come to expect and feel entitled to an extra holiday tip. Kinda sucks the joy of giving right out of it.
I have occasionally done holiday tipping—I've always looked at it as a holiday bonus for service providers where the direct recipient of the service is not the company they work for. For example, I'm a book editor and I would be shocked if a reader sent me a holiday tip for the work I do because my work flows back into the publishing process and the company I work for. (Though, on occasion, we have had individual authors send holiday gifts as thank yous for editing work.)
However, if the service provider is someone I would normally tip as part of their service (e.g., hairdresser or parking attendant) I do not give an additional bonus at the holidays. A babysitter or housekeeper would probably be an exception, but since I don't use either of those services, it's moot.
For the first time in years it seems we have a regular postal carrier (and we actually get our mail!). I see her every morning as I leave for work and we exchange greetings, so I will probably give our postal carrier something this year. My parents used to tip the rubbish collectors each year, but that was back when they had to get out of the truck, lift the can, and actually interact with people. Nowadays, instead of a 2-person team it's usually just 1 and they sit in the cab of the truck operating levers that do all the physical work for them and there's no need to get out of the truck and run the risk of actually having to talk to anyone. While it's still a service, it is so automated I don't feel compelled to give a bonus.
We work as part-time janitors for a large accounting office and a law firm. We've never been tipped. We've been working for them for about 7 years, faithful and reliable as can be (and we don't snoop – you'd be amazed at the private information left lying around). Oh well…tip or not, we'll continue to dust the photos of their glamorous vacations.
I'll add one more service person to the list of those to consider tipping – the farrier (that's a horseshoer). We finally found a reliable one – we definitely want to keep him!
It isn't really customary down here in my area (Well its the Caribbean) to do Holiday tipping. Though, I've found when I have done so I've made a loyal friend.
I'm delighted to be the recipient of holiday gift giving. I babysit for a family, and the mom always gives me a gift certificate (usually a bit more than one week's work) and "personal" gifts, like jewelry, baked goods, etc. I tell her she doesn't need to, but she says the same thing every time – YOU TAKE CARE OF THE MOST VALUABLE THING IN MY LIFE.
I think that's smart. Is your babysitter going to up and steal your kid because you didn't leave a tip at Christmas? No, I can't see that happening, and hopefully you checked them out. But when you're a parent, you're paranoid about everything, and I can see the logic of trying to make sure the people who take care of your family are happy.
Federal employees may not accept gifts for doing their jobs. Tipping your mail carrier forces him or her into a compromising position.
J.D.: Non-financial magazines (eg. Real Simple, Oprah, Good Housekeeping, etc.) also cover this topic. Personal finance blog-wise, Bargaineering recently covered it, as did FrugalZeitgeist (which linked to a three-part series on holiday tipping etiquette on the financial blog on NYT). Also on Curbed (a real estate blog in NYC, where this sort of thing is widely practiced/debated):
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When I was delivering newspapers, I was amazed at the number of people who didn't tip…I always assumed they thought I was paid by the paper. Paper carriers are independent, using their own cars/gas to deliver. Believe me, cash tips are very welcome!
It is my understanding that tipping is given to those who provide a personal service, but not the owner of a business. So, my haircutter who owns the shop gets nothing while her employees, if one of them cut your hair, would receive a tip. I do tip my housekeeper at Christmas, I do not give her extra each time she comes. My paper carrier I tip regularly each month, as there is a lot of turnover in that business. I also give a little extra at Christmas. At my local eatery where I am a regular, I tip generously throughout the year but do not tip at Christmas. I did notice as a paper carrier that the big houses gave me nothing or very little while the more modest houses were generous. I found that to be an interesting social comment.
I tip my hairdressers – my colorist and the hairdresser who does my perms etc – generously throughout the year. I also tip my aesthetician generously, so why is it that I should tip more at the holidays? I love them dearly and I think I show that each time I go to them for service. But I am curious as to where this custom came from – and also curious to know why wouldn't a hairstylist give the client a gift? After all, if I tip regularly, have been loyal for many years, then why shouldn't I get a little token to say "thanks for sticking it out with me." There are a ton of hairstylists and aestheticians that are quite good, but I remain loyal. So why not me?
I am FAAAAR from rich, but I have found that to maintain my sanity I had to build into my budget enough money to pay for a housekeeper every other week. Yes it is a luxury, but I didn't hire her to polish my Bentley or anything.
Anyway, I bristle at both of the two extremes…"you must be rich if you pay people to do things for you, so you'd better tip really well" and "people do things for me because I pay them. Why would I pay more?"
You know that bonus or that gift or those hours you get off during the holidays, or even just the fact that you get to wear a holiday shirt and jeans to work…? THAT feeling. THAT is why you tip. To anyone else out there who has ever received a surprise holiday tip, or even a surprisingly generous everyday tip…you know that delight…so you tip someone who will appreciate it; someone who means something to you.
Or don't tip. Whatever. I doubt many people would be shocked NOT to receive a tip.
I tip my paper carrier $50 a year, at Christmas. That's about 15%, which is the norm for services received. They get up in the middle of the night, 6 days a week, 52 weeks a year and put up with all kinds of nasty weather. If you can afford it, anything less is shameful IMO.
Rodger, I wish that you'd been on my route when I was delivering! I NEVER saw a $50 tip, and I was a great carrier! I'm sure your carrier appreciates your generosity!
WOW…I was reading through these and can't believe the amount of occupations that get tips. I tip my hairdresser and newspaper carrier.
Some people have the money to be financially generous. I am a dog groomer, and yes as a general rule we get tips. At Christmas I usually put together some type of cute gift for my clients that I work all year on to thank them for their continued service. But I in no way expect christmas tips (or tips of any sorts) I do appreciate them, but do not expect them. I have one client who made me pot scrubbers, someone picked up a dog calendar, someone got me a dog book. I like the creativity of the gifts. And by no means do I expect or want lavish gifts. I know my clients appreciate me, and just a thank you card at christmas means a lot! So in my opinion if you can afford the tip it is greatly appreciated, but I do not treat the dogs any different when their owners do not tip!
One weeks pay!!!? That's not a tip, that's a bonus. It should be referenced as a small holiday gift, rather than a "tip". These people get full salaries, not $2 an hour! I would compare it/value it to buying the person lunch for casual, like mail carrier, trash collector. And a nice dinner for more common like housekeeper, nanny. So $10-20 or $40-50. Cash if they are allowed or restaurant/gift card. A weeks' pay to the yard guy… sheesh.
The holidays are the perfect time to show your appreciation to those you provide you with helpful service throughout the year. When deciding on who and what to tip, be sure to take into consideration how often you/they visit, the personal attention you receive, and most importantly your budget!


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