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Scottsdale Unified School District in Arizona has completed the first phase of a district-wide strategic security master planning process designed to boost safety and support student achievement. The district recently received results of the security assessment from GE Security, including recommendations on ways security might be further improved throughout the district's schools.
The study, which lasted four months, encompassed 32 school campuses serving 26,000 students. The security assessment report included recommendations to improve security by integrating all systems on a single technology platform, further upgrading current security technology, and creating a school district emergency operations control center. Other recommendations included hiring a security director for the school district to centralize security oversight under one person.
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Other GE Security clients include Victor Valley Union High School District in Victorville, CA, New Haven Unified School District in Union City, CA, and Lynn Public Schools in Lynn, MA.
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In the Blink of an Eye
In the blink of an eye, they visit the rockpurslane (Calandrinia grandiflora).
Now you see them, now you don't.
They're a sweat bee, a little larger than most sweat bees, but a little smaller than a honey bee.
Halictus farinosus (family Halictidae) are often see pollinating blueberry fields, foraging among California golden poppies, and visiting members of the sunflower family, to name a few.
They're commonly called "sweat bees" because they're attracted to perspiration.
This one below is a female, as identified by native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis. Note the apical whitish abdominal bands that distinguish this genus from the related genus Lasioglossum (its bands are located basally, not apically).
Halictus has been around for millions of years, paleontologists tell us. In fact, known fossil records date back to the Eocene epoch, which took place 58 to 34 million years ago.
They definitely have persevered.
Sweat bee, Halictus farinosus, prepares to leave one flower for another. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Sweat bee, Halictus farinosus, foraging in rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Getting the Red Out
"Where do bees get red pollen?" we were asked. "We've seen bees packing blood-red pollen at the entrance to a hive."
Well, one flower that yields red pollen is rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora). It's a drought-tolerant perennial, a succulent.
Interestingly enough, the blossom itself is neon pink or magenta, the kind that cyclists wear to be seen.
Rock purslane attracts its share of honey bees, bumble bees, carpenter bees, leafcutter bees and sweat bees. Other pollinators, including flies, land on it, too. It's a good plant to brighten your garden and to observe the wide variety of floral visitors.
Other flowers that yield red pollen include henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) and horse chestnut (Aesulus hippocastanum).
Bees collect pollen as a protein source to rear their brood.
"The importance of pollen to the health and vigor of the honey bee colony cannot be overstated," writes Norman Gary, emeritus professor of entomology, in his book, Honey Bee Hobbyist, The Care and Keeping of Bees. "Honey satisfies the bees' carbohydrate requirement, while all of the other nutrients--minerals, proteins, vitamins and fatty substances--are derived from pollen."
"Nurse bees consume large amounts of pollen, converting it into nutritious secretions that are fed to developing larvae," Gary points out. "During an entire year, a typical bee colony gathers an consumes about 77 pounds of pollen."
And some of it is red!
Honey bee packing red pollen from rockpurslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee heading toward rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Sometimes you get lucky.
While watching floral visitors foraging last week in our rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora), we noticed a tiny black bee, something we'd never seen before.
Native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at the UC Davis Department of Entomology, identified it as a female leafcutting bee, Megachile gemula, "which has an all-black form."
It's a rather uncommon bee, but a distinctive bee, said Thorp, who is one of the instructors of The Bee Course, offered every year in the Southwestern Research Station, Portal, Ariz., for conservation biologists, pollination ecologists and other biologists who want to gain greater knowledge of the systematics and biology of bees. Participants come worldwide to learn about bees.
Megachile gemula is native to the United States. The females snip round holes in leaves and line their nests with the material. From egg to larva to pupa, a new generation emerges from the sealed nest.
Meanwhile, if you want to go on a walking tour with Thorp, mark your calendar for Friday, June 22. Thorp will lead a Tahoe National Forest Service tour of native plants and pollinators in the Loney Meadow, near Nevada City, Nevada County. The tour, free and open to the public, will take place from 10 a.m. to approximately 2 p.m.
The walk is provided as part of the Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region's 2012 Pollinator Special Emphasis Area "which has been developed to call attention to the importance of butterflies and native bees in providing important services for food production and ecosystem health," said Kathy Van Zuuk, Yuba River Ranger District botanist and forest level non-native invasive plant coordinator.
And what bees might tour participants encounter? Probably bumble bees, mining bees, digger bees, leafcutting bees, mason bees and cuckoo bees, Thorp said. Other floral-visitors are expected to include flies, butterflies, and beetles, he said. Van Zuuk and fellow botanist Karen Wiese will identify the native plants.
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Female leafcutting bee, Megachile gemula, on rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Female leafcutting bee, Megachile gemula, exiting rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
In the Pink
Honey bees in the pink?
If you plant rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora), a perennial succulent, be prepared for a posse of honey bees.
Our rock purslane is drawing so many bees that you'd never know there's a declining bee population and that there's a new sheriff (colony collapse disorder) in town.
They buzz, two or three at a time, toward a single blossom, and lug huge red pollen loads back to their hives.
We're glad to see there's so much interest in bees. A documentary making the rounds now is Queen of the Sun, an advocacy film probably playing in a theater near you. It's playing in Davis June 17 through June 23 at the Varsity Theater, downtown Davis. We saw it at a personal showing at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis a few weeks ago. The photography is stunning. Just as we prepared to watch it, one of the bee folks quipped: "This is a bee-rated movie."
For a good look at bee behavior, there's an online video titled "Bee Talker: The Secret World of Bees." Bee behaviorist Mark Winston, professor of biological sciences at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C., guides us "beyond the biology of the creatures to show us that our honey-producing neighbors have broader implications for humans and the plant."
For another good look at bee behavior, step out into your yard. (That is, if you have bee plants in your yard.) "Won't the bees sting you?" some folks ask. No worries. These bees are foraging. They're not defending their colony.
Pollen-packing honey bee heads toward a rock purslane blossom already occupied by another worker. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee, packing a gigantic load of red pollen, heads for another rock purslane blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Red-Eye Flight?
Unlike airplane pilots, honey bees don't file a flight plan.
They know where they're going because their sisters tell them with their waggle dances.
Pollen. Nectar. Propolis. All good.
Bees seem to really like the pollen on rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora). It's red, but they can't see red; red appears to them as black.
Gardeners who grow rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora) in their yards are accustomed to seeing bees gathering red pollen.
Beekeepers? When they open their hives and see all the different colors of pollen--including yellow, orange, pink, purple, white and red--do they know where the red might have come from?
Interestingly, last year a beekeeper in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., reported seeing red--red honey. Finally, she realized her bees had been sipping maraschino cherry juice from vats at a nearby maraschino cherry company and bringing red "nectar" back to the hives.
It didn't taste like honey. That's because it wasn't.
The New York Times noted: "A fellow beekeeper sent samples of the red substance that the bees were producing to an apiculturalist who works for New York State, and that expert, acting as a kind of forensic foodie, found the samples riddled with Red Dye No. 40, the same dye used in the maraschino cherry juice."
Bee can't see red but a lot of other folks did.
Pollen-packing honey bee heading toward a rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Cleaning her tongue as she flies, a honey bee is on a mission: rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)


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When you install a Setup program that is based on Windows Installer Setup technology, you may receive the following Windows Installer error message:
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MSI (c) (6C:54): Package name extracted from package path: 'somesetup.msi' MSI (c) (6C:54): Could not create LFN path for package: 'H:\tmp\apps\coreapps\somesetup\somesetup.msi' This installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package. MSI (c) (6C:54): MainEngineThread is returning 1619.
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On the directory in which the .msi file is located, and in all subdirectories, assign List Folder/Read Data NTFS permissions to the user who starts the Setup program.
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But aside from that concern, your beans and farm look great. Congratulations!
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The Times reports on Margot Wallström's Blog and how the comments are dominated by eurosceptics
Sometimes the comments descend into English nationalism. A contributor called Kissingengland listed triumphs from the Magna Carta to the defeat of Fascism, adding: "This free, unconquered nation of mine, which has nourished, defended and preserved its institutions and liberties through eight centuries of continental despotism and warmongering, has nothing to gain from suborning itself to the inferior political structures of the EU."
Descend, Descend? Those truths are in the eyes of The Times obviously a descent from the high lofty ideals of Europe - bastards.
But the article makes me smile with the the arrogant self-delusion of Ms Wallström's spokesman: "It's true a lot of it comes from the UK. It's a pity we get so many comments from people who seem to be very eurosceptic. It proves those in favour are the silent majority ."


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Last night I dreamt about you. Too bad I already fucked everything up. Too bad I said too much, or too little. Too bad I didn' know. Right now I am at home. Thinking about that dream, and watching Problem Child 3. It's pretty good... funny as hell... the kid is awesome. Anyway. I am sick today again. Partly self induced, partly real. YAWK! No body likes a flem ball... yikes. I have so much work to do. Alex and I are having major problems because aparently I have been abandoning my old friends. She is worried I am gonna turn into a druggy/slut. Ugh. My work load is obviously no excuse and the concert last friday doesn't count as me and Alex hanging out, so whatever. If she wants everything to go to hell then it will. Chris G. told me that I am gonna lose everything. He actually told me that. I told him I aready had and he said that I had given it up, not lost it. Yesterday sucked my ass. But now I am just bitching. This is the Lich Queen signing out- Peace.
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Known for having one of the smoothest voices in country music, Jake Mathews' RED TAIL LIGHTS is a follow up to his 2004 release, "Time After Time", which was voted that year's Best Album by Country Music News.
Considered one of the most anticipated albums in recent years, RED TAIL LIGHTS reveals Mathews' maturity of voice and a new level of songwriting sophistication on the six tracks. Every one of the disc's songs are co-written by Mathews, exploring themes both personal and popular.
"I've taken my time with this album, writing and producing songs that I believe in. Time and experience; growing as an artist; and even being a dad, have all contributed to the overall feel of the project."
Radio listeners have already responded positively to Mathews' new music, with the first single from the new album, "If I Had It My Way", becoming a Top 10 hit and spending a whopping 30 weeks on the Canadian country music charts.
Mathews is no stranger to musical success. Born in Sudbury, Ontario, he began singing, playing guitar and writing his own music at age 14, inspired by his large musical family. In 2002 he released his self-titled debut CD which spawned several Top 20 radio and video hits including "That's How Long", "Rush", "I'm Gone" and "I'll Do You One Better". His 2004 release, "Time After Time", furthered Mathews' success at radio and featured the hit singles "Signs of You Everywhere," "Kings For A Day" and "Arizona On My Mind". The success led to national touring and nominations for Rising Star in 2003 and Independent Male Artist of the Year in 2004 and 2005 from the Canadian Country Music Association.
"It's exciting to be back," says Mathews of his return to the country music scene. "I'm excited for fans to hear, what I think is, my best material yet."


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The area's newest congressman continues to establish his credentials as one of the House's most conservative members. On Wednesday, Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Ponte Vedra Beach, introduced a bill to freeze pay for federal employees and extend a freeze on pay for members of Congress.
"American families are tightening their belts. Members of Congress and the federal government must do the same, especially when Congress hasn't been able to get spending under control or pass a budget in over 1,350 days," said DeSantis, whose Sixth Congressional district includes all of Flagler and most of Volusia County. "My first piece of legislation tackles Congress and our bloated federal government head-on by freezing pay."
Twenty-eight fellow lawmakers have signed on to the bill, which seeks to overturn an executive order issued by President Obama implementing an across-the-board pay hike that will cost taxpayers $11 billion in new spending over 10 years.
"The President has once again demonstrated his penchant for unrestrained spending by giving federal employees, including lawmakers, an across-the-board pay hike and sticking the rest of us with the $11 billion bill," DeSantis said in a statement released by his office. "At a time when spending is out of control and the average federal worker compensation is nearly double the median U.S. household income of just over $50,000 per year, we simply cannot afford this unnecessary and unilateral action by the President."
With the debate over spending heating up, DeSantis has pledged to be an agent for conservative change and limited government. Earlier this week, he joined the Fix Congress Now caucus and announced he will co-sponsor No Budget, No Pay legislation which prevents lawmakers from being paid if they don't pass a budget.
"We're in a battle against a government that is growing larger and more costly by the day and a Congress that is broken," he added. "Just like American families, the federal government needs to tighten its belt, and my actions this week are just the first steps in bringing accountability, reduced spending and conservative change to Washington."
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Shiny golden spheres congregate by a cozy fireplace inside Arata Sushi's dining room. Though they're attached to the wall, they seem to drift across space like tiny suns or undersea bubbles. Perhaps they're an homage to the fish that comprise the restaurant's colorful sushi lineup, which the Courier-Journal has dubbed "highly imaginative." In the kitchen, chefs whorl fresh seafood with rice and veggies to form more than 45 types of maki. Several rolls, such as the Cardinal, showcase fruits such as kiwis and strawberries alongside savory ingredients such as fried shrimp and cream cheese. At the bar, diners can sip wine and sake while watching the chefs slice bright-orange salmon and tuna as red as a comet wearing a clown nose.
At Kobe Japanese Steakhouse, patrons can enjoy entertaining teppanyaki-style dining in front of a limber habachi artist or opt for more intimate seating in the dining room. The teppanyaki experience invites bold guests to take seats at a square bar and watch Kobe's centrally located master chefs juggle flames, knives, vegetables, seafood, meats, and appetites as they whip up meals before diners' growling stomachs and flickering eyes. The Iron Plate Grill menu tantalizes tongues with fried oysters ($5.95), soft shell crab ($7.95), pan fried dumplings ($3.95), and more. If you choose to snuggle up in the dining room, temp your tonsils with filet mignon ($17.95), lobster and steak ($23.95), or beef teriyaki ($14.95). Sushi, noodles, fried rice, salads, and hot and cold appetizers round out the edible roster. Everything on the menu can be enjoyed with a premium Japanese sake or a Kobe sake cocktail, like the Sea Splash, made with blue curacao, triple sec, and pineapple juice ($5.50), ideal for easing lingering tidal stresses.
A ring of rice encircles the Caviar roll's morsels of yellowtail tuna, smoked salmon, avocado, and cream cheese. The roll's exterior is just as complex, with its delicate crust of masago, tempura flakes, and eel sauce. Sushi chefs assemble hearty sushi rolls such as this at the spacious wooden sushi bar, which curves and twists its way from the front to the back of the dining room. Sushi is the focal point of both the dining room and the menu itself—chefs slice 80 different rolls, ranging from traditional crab and avocado to exotic flourishes such as squid and kiwi. To enhance their sushi selections, diners can consult the sake menu, or fold it into a paper plane and drink whatever beverage it lands on.
Chefs in tall blue toques command Mikato Steak and Sushi's ten tabletop grills, where they combine culinary derring-do with entertaining showmanship while frying rice with steak, seafood, and vegetables. The main kitchen bustles with activity, as well; chicken katsu joins other Japanese cuisine such as broiled eel and shrimp teriyaki, and sushi chefs slice sashimi and coil specialty rolls. In addition to sating hunger of all stripes, Mikato Steak and Sushi welcomes families with a children's menu and kids' birthday special, which includes ice cream, a Japanese rendition of happy birthday, and a senryu about the transitory nature of life.
Head chefs Shawn and Henry Shin—who has been a chef since he was 19—curate Wasabiya Japanese Cuisine's menu of traditional and contemporary Japanese food including more than 65 sushi rolls. Whether classically prepared, partially fried, or oven baked, each roll follows an inventive recipe. The New Orleans packs spicy crawfish and cucumber, and the Kentucky Derby unites spicy crab, shrimp, scallop, and cream sauce while 165,000 people watch you eat it. Wasabiya's staff rounds out the menu with cooked entrees such steak sukiyaki and shrimp and vegetables battered in a light layer of tempura crunch.
A sake pub, Maido is a slang word commonly used in Osaka, Japan. The literal translation is "every time", but it has evolved to be used as a common greeting between businessmen and now means something more like "I look forward to doing business with you again," or "thank you for giving me all of your money." However one deciphers the sentiment, the food at Maido Sake Bar speaks for itself. The expansive menu revolves around a large selection of maki and small plates intended for sharing. Bento boxes and udon noodle dishes round out the menu options and sate those in search of a warm dinner.


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chough1992 on 10/1/2014 3:06:00 PM more reviews by chough1992
Age: 19-24 Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium Hair: Blond Eyes: Brown
I've only used this once. BUT I think the Neutrogena triple moisture masque works just as well after one use... I'd say this is slightly better than drugstore stuff, but not worth $60. I'd only repurchase if I had tons of money to blow on random hair stuff, but I don't. Also people say the smell is amazing? I mean it's not bad by any means, but it smells like old lady rose perfume to me. I've also heard this line is all silicone based (granted I haven't done the research myself,) but I feel like if this is true I can see exactly what they mean. My hair LOOKS healthy but it doesn't seem any healthier beneath the surface. I'd say try it once--it is a miracle product to some, plus we all deserve a little splurge once in a while--but don't put all your eggs in one basket in hopes that this will cure your hair.
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RedLipstickPout on 9/4/2014 5:26:00 AM more reviews by RedLipstickPout
Age: 25-29 Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium Hair: Blond Eyes: Blue
I cannot recommend this product enough for dry, thick, frizz prone, damaged hair.
I use this as a conditioner, and my hair is in amazing manageable condition. It is pricey yes, I get mine from a salon near me, I pay £25.50 for it, it lasts me 4 weeks.
After the first application the difference to my hair is amazing. I have very thick wavy hair that is frizzy and unmanageable, it is highlighted every 4 weeks and I straighten my hair every day. When I use this product on my wet hair after shampooing, I can comb it through so easily when wet, and when I have rinsed it off it still feels soft and easy to comb through. My hair drys quicker and when it is dry, oh my god it is so soft and shiny. The condition of my hair improves each time I use it. I use the Kerastase Nutritive Shampoo as well. This product is amazing, without it my hair becomes dry, frizzy, dull, it breaks and I get split ends, I cannot live without this product! All Kerastase products are fantasic, but this product is my favourite.
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urs123 on 9/3/2014 9:09:00 AM more reviews by urs123
Age: 30-35 Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Warm Hair: Blond Eyes: Brown
So I found this one after looking at reviews on this site. I ran out at lunch and bought it for $60. Tried it that night. My hair definitely felt softer. But...it didn't look very good. Thinking I was just not getting it, I tried it two more times. Again, my hair felt soft, light, flowy - it had more volume...but it looked - frizzy. Messy. Unkept. Even with loads of serum I looked like I'd been electrocuted. Maybe because my hair is blonde coloured, not virgin hair (?). And the smell I found a bit face-scrunchy. Old school. Ho-hum. Not for me. I got much better results from Redken Butter Soft Heavy cream before they took it off the market. May go back to Redken All Soft Heavy cream.
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Hautelover on 5/23/2014 6:47:00 PM more reviews by Hautelover
Age: 30-35 Skin: Combination, Olive Hair: Black Eyes: Hazel
Hair only felt soft and nourished when wet once dried couldn't tell the difference from non salon treatments.. Expensive ? Yes.... Amazing? Hardly... Buy again? No!
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grinchy73 on 3/30/2014 2:14:00 AM more reviews by grinchy73
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Acne-prone, Fair Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue
I am a hairdresser,
since i work in the hair industry i change my colour quite a bit,my hair is currently in reasonable condition (coloured with bleach splices throughout top section) this mask will always be in my ever-growing hair care collection, this is moisture based so i can leave it in while i watch a movie or do some house work which is great because i don't have to worry about 'over-doing' it, the consistency is very thick (to the point where you can tip the pot upside down ,shake it and nothing comes out!)the tub will last me quite a while since i dont use alot and i only use it once a week to up-keep the moisture in my hair, i like the scent its a nice clean smell which i have noticed stays in my hair until i wash it next,leaves my hair touchably softer and healthier looking, if your hair is fine be careful as this can make your hair a bit greasy! -
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mihoz on 3/11/2014 12:54:00 PM more reviews by mihoz
Age: 25-29 Skin: Combination, Olive Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
I have fine hair, yet use the thick hair mask: This is THE best MOST moisturizing hair mask I've used. Even though i dont luv the smell, its acceptable.. Compared to other products I've used:
1) Redken Diamond oil - Masquintense thick feels much nicer & gives me a better shine and moisturizing feel
2) Loreal Prof. Absolut repair - this is the closest to masquintense yet doesnt give the best results like masquintense - i even split my hair into two sections and applied each on one side - masquintense gave a greater shine after blow dry.
Didnt use loreal mega moisture as it aint sold here - so cant comment on that!
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*TOP REVIEWER* fuzzysham on 10/24/2013 12:47:00 PM more reviews by fuzzysham
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Black, Straight, Fine Eyes: Hazel
I live in Southern Georgia and we have pretty hard water here. I actually have fine hair, but this is so much more moisturizing than the fine hair version ( which I also have and works better when I'm in SC visitng my parents- we have soft water there). Every wednesday I put coconut oil in my hair and put it in a bun, then go swimming and do aqua zumba, later that evening I use Redken's Cleansing Cream and then put masquintense for thick hair on and put a shower cap over it. I leave it in for a few min while I shave my legs. EVERY wednesday I use this my hair feels AMAZING after! Whether I blow dry it with nectar thermique or let it air dry with nectar thermique, it feels like silk. I've even gotten compliments from my hair stylist on how much healthier my hair is since I've started using this!
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*TOP REVIEWER* GrRoxxy on 7/17/2013 7:16:00 AM more reviews by GrRoxxy
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Warm Hair: Blond, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Grey
I always tried to avoid spending too much on my hair products but I spent fortune at hairdresser... I have A LOT of thick, long hair, which curl nicely and I never had problem with them until like... 4th or 5th bleaching. I was recommended Kerastase products by freelance fashion industry hair stylist and so I thought- she is not paid to sell me these so...
I got a shampoo, masquintense and two oils.
This masque is AMAZING. Seriously I always thought all the masques are the same- cheap or expensive... Oh boy, I was wrong.
It is thick masque, in contact with wet hair it kind of... glides on better to cover every strand. I leave it sometimes for one minute, sometimes for 20 minutes and I always get soft, easy to manage, shiny hair. The scent is great, the packaging is great... I dont know what are the bad sides. I thought maybe the price but the fact that you need really small amount unlike cheap masques makes it so worth it!
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KandyKiss on 6/20/2013 4:38:00 AM more reviews by KandyKiss
Age: 25-29 Skin: Oily, Olive Hair: Brunette Eyes: Hazel
If I could choose a life partner for my hair I would wed her to this treatment. Oh how i love it! My hair is like a poor little refugee trying to flee the war zone that has been endless bleaching and hot irons and curlers and silicones and she's at her end people! And here this treatment comes along like some wealthy aristocrat ready to whisk her away to a world of shine, bounce and less breakage and whispers of natural volume and beauty! It has all these things and more! Now that I have found it me and my hair couldn't live without it. Hoorah!
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*TOP REVIEWER* raspberrysorceress on 5/12/2013 7:25:00 AM more reviews by raspberrysorceress
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair, Cool Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium Eyes: Blue
Oh, how I love this. Kerastase has been around for so long - my Mum was a hairdresser in the 1970's and she remembers this being a very elite line of products and nothing has changed since then.
I currently have very damaged hair. In the last four years I have been switching my hair from platinum blonde to brown; receiving a full-head of foils every month for a year consecutively and straightening once every three days. As a result my hair has thinned dramatically and I have had to cut it very short. My hair is at its worst and my hairdresser says that if I put bleach on my hair one more time, it will all snap off, 100%. Now my hair is back to brown (my natural colour) and I'm getting regular cuts and growing it out again.
This is where Kerastase masquintense comes into play. I've been researching the best products to use on my hair, and this one came up. I can tell you after only two uses of this stuff that it is helping my hair unlike anything else ever has. What I do is I wash my hair with my regular shampoo and then put the masquintense ALL over my hair. I use a fairly large amount and rub it into my scalp and all through the rough, brittle areas of my hair. I put on a disposable plastic shower cap and leave it in for a few hours. Some people say that conditioner works instantly and there's no need to wait, but I'm not sure if I agree with that. After the four hours I hop in the shower and wash it all out. There is no need to apply a regular conditioner after this because this acts as a conditioner as well as a mask. When it's washed out, I let my hair air-dry.
Oh my god! The first time I used this I couldn't believe the condition of my hair. It was so smooth, soft, silky and shiny. It feels as though nothing as little as a hair dryer has ever been in contact with my hair, let alone bleach, peroxide and over 270 degrees heat which I have been exposing it to! I remember going to bed and feeling my hair flopping around at the roots because it was so soft.
Best of all, my hair is NOT greasy or oily and it isn't heavy. My hair, after using this, is purely soft and smooth. I liken it to silk.
I only use this once a week because unfortunately this is very expensive. $70 AUD for a 200ml jar is extremely pricey, but I'm willing to pay that much due to how it leaves my hair feeling.
If you're thinking about buying this, do it. I promise you, your hair will be thanking you after you do it.
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A Point of View: The Trojan horse
Will Self considers the story of the Trojan horse, and finds a parable for the political climate of our own times.
Those Trojans, eh? A gullible lot weren't they? I mean to say: You've been fighting those mythomaniacal Greeks for many years and many of your people have been hacked apart most horribly, then one day you arise from your perfumed cushions in the seraglio, head to the battlements for a morning constitutional, and discover they've all upped sticks and gone. Not only that, but they've left behind what appears to be a gift of some sort. True, the era of Scandinavian-designed wooden objects lies well in the future, but even to your Bronze Age eyes there appears nothing more pleasingly innocuous than this hand-crafted horse. A statue of one of their gods might be troubling, and an obviously bellicose object, such as a shield or helmet writ large, would cry out not to be touched - but a lovely horsey! Well, you just can't wait to get hold of it.
Yes, gullible lot those Trojans, but when I consider the strange ideological involutions that have characterised British politics throughout my adult life I wonder if we aren't quite as credulous as they. After all, in the final analysis, it all comes down to gifts - presents that we save up for through that countrywide Christmas club we call progressive taxation, and which are then handed out by the jolly, ho-hoing Government in the form of public services. The strange thing is that although these "gifts" are seldom anything like as nice as the packaging they come wrapped in, we seem to fall for the little joke every time it's played on us.
Take state education for a start. Universal free and non-selective education was always presented by those on the left as simply a way of increasing social mobility. The old 11-plus-mediated separation of secondary modern goats from grammar school sheep was divisive and obviously unfair. But of course, inside the gift of the shiny new comprehensives crouched the vanguard of the proletariat. The same Labour government that pushed for them also seriously considered the abolition of all fee-paying schools, and their aim wasn't simply to level the playing field in terms of opportunity, but to turn the education system into the incubator of a future classless society.
The Trojan war
- Most famous story in Greek mythology about 10-year-long war between Greeks and Trojans
- Prompted after Paris, Prince of Troy, stole Helen, wife of Greek king Menelaus
- Siege ended after many years when Greeks hid themselves inside wooden horse, then crept out and opened city gates to their troops
- Myth inspired countless works of art and literature, from Homer's epic Iliad to James Joyce's novel Ulysses
Then on the other hand we have another gift - the huge give-away of public housing stock that began under the Thatcher government in the 1980s and which has continued to this day. What could be more generous than offering the less well-off an opportunity to become homeowners, especially at a 50% reduction on the market rate? Why, this doesn't just seem like a year-round Christmas - it's more like a permanent January sale. But of course, inside the pebble-dashed bellies of those properties there crouched a different detachment of warriors. These ones, quite as much as the revolutionary vanguard, were ideologically motivated. While they trumpeted domestic virtues, what they really championed was capital accumulation. Their fervid hope was that if some of those upwardly mobile council house purchasers were canny enough they might even factor their walk-up flats into a portfolio of shares in, say, the newly-privatised utilities.
Nowadays things aren't quite what they used to be, and gifts don't seem to be either. Instead of unwrapping a positive good the electorate are handed a negative capability. "Vote for us!" the main political parties cry, "and we'll return the favour by not taxing you punitively or alternatively by not still further eviscerating your already gutted public services." Still, while the gifts may have become intangible the packaging still has that familiar equine shape, the main purpose of which is to convince all us Trojans that we've been remembered on this special day. The ideological siege may have been lifted, but the key rhetorical terms remain portfolio ones - inclusiveness, fairness, equality. These are values that we all earnestly endorse, even as our society becomes relentlessly less inclusive, more unfair, and remains manifestly unequal.
And in the middle of all those ticklish horse feathers the same old warriors are hiding, while trying hard to stifle their giggles. The right, it is said, believe with utmost sincerity that their policies are best for the poor, because only a red-blooded capitalism can hope to deliver enough wealth for the overall standard of living to be raised. What they're less keen on admitting is that so long as there are "haves" there will obviously have to be "have-nots". But by the same measure, those on the left who believe it possible for everyone to have a bit, don't like to come clean that this means a few will definitely have to have a lot less.
Rather than do this, both sides indulge in a little dressage - grooming the horse, curry-combing its forelock and buffing up its hoofs - and come each budget announcement and election time the horse is rolled out in front of us. But I say "Ca suffit!" It's time that our political culture grew up enough not to depend on the subterfuge of such spurious gift-giving. After all, the suppressed premise on both sides of our increasingly prefabricated party wall is precisely the same. All our problems - as a society, a nation, a culture - can be easily circumvented so long as we feed the horsey the right fodder to ensure its growth. Ah! Growth! Everybody loves growth, don't they? Without growth we'd be back in the dark ages with oxen pulling the plough, wouldn't we? And - if you'll forgive the extended chimerical analogy - an economy is also like a shark, isn't it? Unless it keeps on consuming natural resources and transforming them into the flexible cartilage of technological innovation, it dies, and we die with it.
In the years leading up to the financial crisis of 2007-8 the most plangent buzzword in our political discourse was "sustainability", a term borrowed from the life sciences that denotes an ecosystem capable of maintaining itself without depleting its resource base. Sustainability is, of course, still in, but over the last five years it's become strangely entwined with the convolvulus of "growth". The notion of sustainable growth is verging on the oxymoronic - and yet no one but the most extreme Luddite would dream of speaking out against it. Why? Because the assumption is that to deny growth to any one part of the economy - no matter how bloated that may be - is by extension to deprive its most meagre portions of the nutrition they so desperately need. And yet what a curious notion this is really. Having laid to rest as grotesquely unfeasible - and worse, flying in the face of human nature - the socialistic conceptions of equality of income and collective ownership, we now discover that a system predicated on divisiveness nonetheless demands of us that we all be in it together.
Will's (Greek) words of the week
- Myrmidons: Elite warriors, famed for their bravery, commanded in the Trojan war by Achilles
- Cassandra: Daughter of Trojan king Priam, given gift of prophecy by the god Apollo, but denied power to make anyone believe her
In psychology, a situation in which a vulnerable person is stymied by mutually incompatible statements is called a double-bind. We've all experienced this - "I love you!" our loved ones have sometimes screamed at us in the most hate-filled of voices. It now seems to me that the double-bind has been extended from the private and intimate realm to the public and social one. Some radical thinkers in the 1950s hypothesised that repeated exposure to the double-bind might be a cause of schizophrenia, and while this theory is now just as out of fashion as socialism, I'm not so sure that constantly hearing those in authority say one thing while meaning quite another hasn't made of our entire society a rather craven and psychically split entity.
So, those Trojans, eh, a gullible lot weren't they? Yet perhaps they weren't so much credulous as confounded. For years they'd been repelling Myrmidons while listening to their leaders tell them to just sit it out and eventually the Greeks would go away. From the battlements of Troy the wooden horse appeared altogether innocent, while Cassandra's prophecy was just yesterday's news - and we all know how much attention we pay to that. Besides, the Trojans were only presented with this pseudo-gift once, while we've opened the city gates and rolled the things inside time and time again, until being bamboozled is just another tradition - like the trooping of the colour, or the state opening of parliament, that, while vacuous in itself, nonetheless constitutes a vital part of our identity.
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The mention of council houses for sale, at a discount of 50%, should be qualified with the fact that many of them (built for a few hundred pounds) had been paid for several times over, by 20 or 30 years of rent. Also, once working people had these properties, many used the new-found collateral to borrow & start businesses. By this means, Thatcher achieved what Labour had promised for years - 'a fundamental shift of wealth and power, in favour of the working classes'.
This is an extremely accurate description of what has been happening over the last thirty or more years. No matter how you try and show people the truth, the gullible remain the gullible and the greedy only get the bug for more. As power corrupts, others only see one way forward and that is to follow the leaders of power and greed. This in turn allows the con artists to lead the followers into the debt crisis and leads them to disaster. Education or lack of it is at the root of the problem. As long as the elite can control the education level of the masses the problem will remain. Without education we can only rely on our values. Inherited values are no longer. Everyone now wants instant success and religion has been trashed. What is left - the country and its young must learn to say no and mean it. Politicians and bankers must be brought under the control of the law of the jungle if we are not to follow the cycle of success to failure and become a third world country for someone else to help. Growth in itself only survives with controlled periods of failure that demands re invention. We have caused the inventors to flee leaving only an empty horse to the lions.
As in all things in life there is right and wrong on both sides and it is the lack of imagination that prevents us from reaching a compromise. One way of squaring this circle is voluntary taxation but with ring fenced spending. You, as an individual, will decide how much tax you pay and where it is spent (this will never happen as it will deprive the political class of their power). That way if society wants more, or less, resources spent on x people will contribute, or withhold, these resources willingly. Tax avoidance abolished at a stroke and wanted spending prioritised.
"Having laid to rest as grotesquely unfeasible - and worse, flying in the face of human nature - the socialistic conceptions of equality of income and collective ownership..." You, a minority of others and I may have realised socialistic concepts like equality of income and collective ownership are infeasible and contrary to human nature, but the vast majority of people haven't. This is evidenced by the fact that we still have a socialised healthcare system, a social security system, a socialised education system, socialised public transport and utilities (a system of government-granted franchises/monopolies is not a truly 'privatised' free-market solution), and a socialised infrastructure. Further evidence is that whenever those in authority propose to merely reduce the size and scope of any of these, which isn't often, it is met with angry resistance and moral outrage by the public. Anyone who goes further and proposes the dismantling of such systems so that free market, non-coercive solutions may replace them is intellectually burned at the stake and not even allowed to sit at the mainstream debating table. It's clear that every member of every mainstream political party, from left to right, still believes in the feasibility and virtue of a degree of socialism because decade after decade the party in power has enacted interventionist policies, and every time their opponents have 'opposed' them with somewhat different interventionist policy proposals. This pattern shows no sign of stopping. Socialism and interventionism are closely related as political/economic theories because they are both founded on the same false premise that capitalism is fundamentally flawed; in other words that individuals interacting freely with each other and disposing of their property as they wish is ultimately deleterious to producing the greatest good for the greatest number. The two theories only differ in their view as to what degree capitalism is flawed. Socialists believe capitalism and private property to be entirely flawed and immoral, and therefore that both must be prevented by force, whereas interventionists believe that capitalism is not entirely flawed and can go some way to achieving the greatest good for the greatest number but only in the presence of a coercive authority, which is required to control it in order to overcome its perceived flaws and excesses. Interventionism, an offshoot of socialism and perhaps the result of an emotional unwillingness or inability of some to abandon the dream of the socialist utopia, has been rampant since the second world war and the man on the street has no idea. The vast majority of people are entirely ignorant of the fact that they live in a society heavily sculpted by generations of subscribers to interventionism. Even Thatcher, who was perceived as the very embodiment of capitalism, privatisation and small government was an interventionist. People today believe they live in a 'capitalist' society, one quite distant from socialism, but they are mistaken. Our society is much further along the spectrum towards socialism than they realise, and it's only likely to get closer as people continue to demand that the government be given more power to take from the rich in the wholly mistaken belief that this will arrest the downward spiral of their standard of living.
I'm particularly struck by the analysis of oxymoron of "sustainable growth". I think a true blue capitalist would claim that there's always potential for growth in an almost infinite universe, which (whilst needing to be looked after carefully and not wastefully). Unlike the "Trojan Horse", politician's "gifts" often lack the elegance of the Greeks in terms of enabling "sustainable growth". In selling off Council houses at cut price, Thatcher depleted the stock of homes for the most vulnerable and needy people to live in. Worse still, Councils were less likely to build houses because they'd just be snapped-up and not provide the long-term stability required to compete with the market. I think, as usual, Will Self is altogether too pessimistic in his analysis. If, as I believe, God has created a wonderful world for us to enjoy, explore and develop (in accordance with His plans, which makes everything turn out much better) then he obviously misses the crux of the matter.
Was there so much sense in the legislation of Labour or the actions of Thatcher? Hope in non-selective schooling was feeble, in fairer distribution of opportunity unfairly to be top-dog rich. If that hope was mouthed as of 'classlessness', it was no more than half-echo of half-baked reaction to hierarchy, transfer to 'public ownership'. As if no lessons learned from a century dictators, from harm to all in conflict between unions and management, from consumption of our own future as Trojan election gift, we seem content - whether in private or public sector educated - that periodic political choice should rest between the competing nobilities, fairness in 'more equality' or fairness in 'more inequality'. If we accept as gift the supposed necessity of unity in division, we surrender power to those stronger in finance (whether by inheritance, luck or skill, criminal or legitimated) above all to decide our collective direction, to dictate the meaning of growth, and to change in their favour the share-out of any real output. Still in our mock-debate, in the clash of straw-men and lying facts, in the cheering of sophisticated ambiguity and falsehood as disarming truth, the properties of equal partnership are excluded from consideration. Today's Trojan's are trapped in conflict of interest, confined to despair, in a City that prefers democracy to remain outside. Will Self does well to mention "equality of income" at all, suitably tagged - even if ironically - as "grotesquely unfeasible", expecting Midas to count "a lot less".
The people fall for sweet words, small gifts and promises as we are so desperate to believe that politicians may actually care about equality, liberty and justice. The brainwashing of the proletariat is all but complete and honest people, speaking from the heart are given no oxygen.
I think that one reason why we let a lowering of our standard of living just pass, is because fundamentally we don't believe we deserve any more. Since industry has largely disappeared and the service sector is pretty much all that's left, we compare our non-productive lives with those of doctors and businessmen and celebrities and we question the value of our input. Fundamentally I believe we think 'they are worth more'. Where a miner, or a factory worker could point to their production at the end of the week and weigh it with their pay packet and always say that they earned their wages...and more, in the service society we can't point to the papers we shuffled and call that productive. This is the invisible mind trick that has been pulled on us. And those who are unemployed have even less to point to and so have even the paper-shufflers looking down on them. And even they start to believe that it's their fault. Generally though, it's not.
Sustainable what? Impermanence is an absolute truth. As the Buddha said "all composite things decay". We love to draw a ring around something and say "that was sustainable" but of course that statement is always in the past tense. Something "outside" our fantasy system has stopped it being sustainable by the time we point at it and that is because there is nothing outside any system. Everything is interconnected without exception. Even if we had a harmonious human system covering the entire planet an asteroid would soon come along and ruin the party. What people crave is certainty and, because there is none, they give us Trojan horses instead. At least a wooden horse is solid and can be kicked. In reality nobody knows what any of these political horses really contain.
At first we may read these comments as though spoken by a man stood upon his soapbox, but no, they are actually an honest assessment of British politicians. Words that in another land would surely result in the death penalty! My own assessment is as follows: This is supposed to be a democracy, as in rule by the people for the people. But what actually happens is that we are bombarded by so many promises made by the politicians, both the real and the hopeful, and then when they actually do get into office they suddenly change into autocratic bureaucrats, people who by some sudden change in the wind direction forget those who trusted in them. So why is it that a politician is so reluctant to listen to the wishes of the electorate? "They are not capable of deciding for themselves what is in their best interests, so they have appointed me to make those vital decisions on their behalf ... " But, wait, is it not those same poor dumb, stupid, disadvantaged people who were trusted to vote in the first place? If they are so senseless as to need a politician (just another human, after all, like one of the voters really) to make their decisions for them, then why are they trusted to vote in the first place? So you see, for all that it is acclaimed as the 'only way' to rule, the only working, practical political concept, it is broken. The democratic political system is fundamentally flawed. If anyone should doubt this, let him listen to broadcasts of parliamentary proceedings. And what does he hear? Does he hear well-reasoned debate, engaged in by polite altruistic individuals. Does he hear several possible solutions to a problem analysed so carefully, and weighed in the balances? I do know what I have heard, and it is not in any way comforting or reassuring. I will not try to put my reaction into words, as I wish to use respectful language, albeit frank. Do I vote? Why would I? If I did would my vote really make any difference? You do already know the answer to that, but if you have just spent the last few days carefully fashioning a horse, then I would not trust your opinion anyway.
I fail to see the point here. The battle between socialism and liberalism continues as before, and both arguably have the same old down sides. The trouble is that politicians always present rosy pictures when asking for our votes, but they are never accountable for breaking any actual or presumed promises.
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Down syndrome often affects the muscles in the mouth, causing the
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Does her family know how sick she is?
- 11Asked the doctor this morning. I told him that they come in a lot and he mentioned comfort care, which can mean many things, but it always means end-of-life.
They had come in to see their mom and I opened the discussion. "Why didn't the doctor tell us this?""Have you talked to him?" "Yes, this morning." "I guess because no one likes to talk about it so it falls to the nurses."
Anyway, I explained that there are various ways to handle their mom, including extensive measures and also including not even using antibiotics. I told them that she would recover from this bout of pneumonia but that her heart is failing and she will get penumonia again and soon. And that this will continue. I also assured them that should they decide to continue hospitalizing her that we would support that as well. And to take their time in figuring it out.
I got thanked for my honesty. They're going to call a family meeting and hash it out.
I love my job when I feel competent. But it's a bittersweet love.
- 1Jun 21, '10 by elizabeth321I am not sure I understand your post...but based on what I can determine from the content I think you were out of line.
- 0Really? Then who is supposed to open discussions about death?
- 2Jun 21, '10 by mamamerleeIn this case, the doctor. Unless he specifically asked you to talk to them, this was his place.Last edit by mamamerlee on Jun 21, '10 : Reason: addition
- 0He did. Implied.
- 4And where does this come from that only the doctor can talk to families? I have heard this time and again and it is simply not accurate.
- 5Jun 21, '10 by bosnanurseReading this I almost can see myself sometimes from both perspective : WHO will say it and SHOULD I say it? This topic is always so sensitive that it is almost hard to ever honestly open it up. I think that docs are those who should say it but they DO NOT. So, we are often left with the person who is suffering in the bed, with the family that suffers around the bed and us who suffer with them all, because feeling of failure that you can not save it from death or from sometimes prolonged suffering.
Gosh, it is always hard to even question how much do they really understand? When they need to see whole picture and do they see it or they are fed with a few sentences of docs saying " oh we started a new antibiotic and it works fabulous" Depends also where you work and what relationship you have with docs , what is his vision on death and dying...I know that some of them would put me on the wall if I mention DNR to the patient and patients need to know their options. So, question is who really should do it?Who is the one who opens that box ?
I usually question family about how they see situation , what is their expectation , what are wishes of their loved one to put it from their perspective and at the same time to try to open their eyes so they can question docs plan of care.
I give them our plan of care: "So, Mrs. N at this moment we are monitoring your husband, turning him and positioning q2 hr, looking his skin,a feeding tube, breathing through ventilator,and checking his vital signs as often as prescribed by doctors. We also take care that your loved one does not have any pain but we are not sure what are his wishes? Does he wants this kind of care where we are doing everything possible to keep him alive or he would like something different?what is your view on all this care that we are providing and doctors are prescribing , are you satisfied with it or you are scared from this or would like something else? " I know it is almost going around hot milk but it gives them time to think about it. So , I do not think that we are out of line mentioning other options , and I would like if someone would "protect me" from love of my kids or husband, or stubbornness of my doc if I have to go. God bless .
- 8Jun 21, '10 by Forever Sunshine, LPNIt's important to ensure that the patient(if alert and oriented) and family are aware of whats going on with their care.
I don't think you were out of line, maybe the doctor did tell them but they didn't understand what the doctor was saying.
- 10Well, I have discussed this with my usual doc in the past and she is adamant that I SHOULD open the discussion and that it is not only the doctor who can or should. S. made it very plain without directly asking me to do it that he wanted it done -- and asking me if the family knew how sick she was after he had already spoken to them made that pretty clear.
Anyway. I felt good about it, and am confident that I did the right thing. Thanks for the support.
- 8Jun 21, '10 by Hospice Nurse LPNQuote from elizabeth321Why was this out of line? When we get a referral to hospice, we'll call and set up a time to meet with the family. I wish I could remember how many times I have asked, "What do you know about hospice" and the family is surprised because the doctor didn't tell them he was going to refer the pt to hospice. He told them, "I'm going to have some people call and set up a meeting to discuss your family member".I am not sure I understand your post...but based on what I can determine from the content I think you were out of line.
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Background screening reports and the FCRA: Just saying you're not a consumer reporting agency isn't enough
You know that phrase "If it quacks like a duck. . . "? It's applicable in the Fair Credit Reporting Act context, too. If a company meets the legal definition of a "consumer reporting agency," it's a consumer reporting agency. Including a disclaimer that says, in effect, "But we're not a CRA!" won't change that. That's one important takeaway tip from the FTC's settlement with Filiquarian Publishing, the agency's first FCRA case involving mobile apps.
Filiquarian advertised that people who bought its apps — available for 99 cents from app stores like iTunes and Google Android (now GooglePlay) — could conduct a "quick criminal background check for convictions" in specific states. Filiquarian also said that its apps could access hundreds of thousands of criminal records, and that users could conduct searches on potential employees as part of the hiring process. But according to the FTC, Filiquarian, owner Joshua Linsk, and Choice Level, LLC (a related company that provided the criminal records) made a major mistake: They failed to comply with the FCRA.
A company is a "consumer reporting agency" under the law if it assembles and evaluates consumer report information for the purpose of providing those reports to third parties. Reports include information that relate to a person's character, reputation, or personal characteristics. Typically, they're used — or are expected to be used — for employment, housing, credit, or the like. That's what triggers a company's obligations under the FCRA. But a business that uses consumer reports for employment purposes has to comply with the FCRA, too. Failing to implement any of the accuracy, dispute, or other safeguards required by the law could harm people's reputations and employment prospects.
So how does the FTC determine if a business has reason to believe that its information is being used for employment or other FCRA purposes? Lots of factors may be relevant, but one approach is to look at what the company says in its own ads. In Filiquarian's case, it specifically advertised that its reports could be used for hiring decisions on potential employees:
Are you hiring somebody and wanting to quickly find out if they have a record? Then Texas Criminal Record Search is the perfect application for you.
Here's an interesting point for disclaimer mavens. Filiquarian and Choice Level included statements in their apps and on their website that their background screening reports weren't to be considered screening products for insurance, employment, loans, and credit applications (among other things) and that they weren't FCRA-compliant. That disclaimer didn't cut much ice with the FTC, especially since it contradicted express representations in Filiquarian's ads urging people to use the reports to screen potential employees. Just saying that the info can't be used for FCRA purposes doesn't absolve a company from liability, concluded the FTC.
If you've been following mobile apps and the FCRA, you should feel a sense of déjà vu. Last year the FTC sent public warning letters to developers of six apps telling them:
If you have reason to believe that your reports are being used for employment or other FCRA purposes, you and your customers who are using the reports for such purposes must comply with the FCRA. This is true even if you have a disclaimer on your website indicating that your reports should not be used for employment or other FCRA purposes.
Sound familiar?
According to the FTC, what Filiquarian produced were "consumer reports" under the FCRA. Specifically, the complaint charged three key FCRA violations: failure to maintain reasonable procedures to verify who their users are and that the information would be used for a permissible purpose; failure to have procedures to ensure that the information they provided in consumer reports was accurate; and failure to provide notices to users and to those who furnished Filiquarian with information that was included in consumer reports.
The consent order contains provisions designed to ensure future compliance and requires the respondents to circulate the order to staffers with FCRA responsibilities.
What should businesses take from the case? The mobile app angle offers a 21st century twist, but the message remains the same: Companies offering background screening products for employment or other FCRA purposes — and the businesses that use them — have to stay in line with the law. Another tip: It's wise to pay attention to what the FTC says in warning letters to other companies.
For more information, visit the BCP Business Center's Credit Reporting page.
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Lets talk real world. Companies are outsourcing the background checks and the people they are paying are cutting the corners for them. On a standard arrest you need to goto the local courthouse and check the disposition of the case.(they simply will not do this as it cost too much money) This is not happening. The application is simply thrown out when certain charges show up. The companies trying to protect themselves by using subcontractors to run the checks are now getting hammered by lawsuit after lawsuit. Dismissed charges and very old misdemeanors need to just drop off the arrest records.....some states have modified the laws on background checks however the ones that have not are contributing to crime as these people cannot find work so they turn back to feed themselves... the system is broken------
There is no question about it that there is a warm fuzzy feeling that comes with knowing that we are protected as consumers. Unfortunately, not every independent agency out there is following the rules. Use caution and report anybody you suspect is involved in wrong doing to the FTC. Thanks. For some good related information, please go here [link deleted]
That is good for the consumer....
The topic seems fairly straight forward. When a company seeks background information for any reason, on an individual, then they're acting in a capacity as a CRA. But not all marketers are aware of this fact, or even that they need to be in compliance with the FTC's regulation. Perhaps the FTC should create an app...I do have a concern about the distribution of information on directory sites by individuals. Companies have started using systems and processes for Reputation Marketing but individuals are at the mercy of CRAs and other sources which may be flawed. I am concerned that big brother, while watching, may be missing quite a bit.
That is FANTASTIC that the FTC protects consumers info and how its used. The FTC catching companies like that really show just how much they do. The FTC is all about the ppl, which is an awesome feeling. Ty
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After my post at the weekend, I thought today I would share some ideas we can steal for bringing natures treasures into the home.
I love the leaf garland. And not just for Autumn either. Why not try making this with Spring daisies and fresh lime green leaves too.
The glitzy acorns are my nod towards the shimmering season...yes people it's not long now. Time to start making! I am hoping to make some of these to decorate my Christmas Market stall - gorgeous aren't they. Perfect for adding a natural sparkle.