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Hyperpigmentation Facial $80.00
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Reduce the appearance of uneven skin tone and hyperpigmention due to sun damage, hormones, post-acne scarring, and certain prescription medications.
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Microdermabrasion $30.00
Diamonds are brushed against the skin to abrade surface dead skin cells. This replaces your manual exfoliant.
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Chemical Peel $15.00
23%, 30%, 35%, or 50% chemical peel added to your facial to replace your manual exfoliation. Type of chemical peel and % used will be determined by the esthetician.
Ultrasound $15.00
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Decollete Treatment $10.00
All steps performed in the facial are included on the Decollete area.
Hot Stones $10.00
Hot stones are placed on various areas of the body to heat and relax the body. They are also used to cleanse and exfoliate the skin as well as during the massage.
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Going Dutch in SF Next Week
In case you didn't watch the World Cup this year, orange is the official color of the Netherlands. And it's the inspiration for a week of Dutch design events in San Francisco starting on November 14 called Seeing Orange. The week will feature Dutch creativity that includes not just architecture (hi Rem and friends..) but design, fashion, graphic arts, and so on. One of our favorite events is a bike tour (makes sense.. have you ever been to Amsterdam?) of Dutch design highlights led by architect David Baker and urban planner Robert Bregoff. The tour will visit places like My Dutch Bike, which sells handmade Dutch cycles and gear, Hedge Gallery, which features art by Dutch designers, Propeller, showing off sleek Dutch furniture and accessories, and several other destinations. Another highlight: UN Studio founder Caroline Bos will talk with CCA students and faculty about the firm's "Deep Planning" techniques. Sounds mysterious, but great. The full list of events is here. No word yet on whether there will be any of those great Dutch pancakes, but we'll keep you posted..
SFMOMA Extension: Channeling Your Inner Maya Lin
On Tuesday, SFMOMA will reveal the final contenders for the city's most prestigious project of the moment, the extension of its 1995 Mario Botta building. But imagine an alternate universe, where an open competition would invite a broad range of concepts from established firms and fresh talent alike. This parallel world could be experienced a couple of weeks ago, during a final review for an architecture class at CCA. Read More
City Stunts
A new exhibition at the Graham Foundation's Madlener House puts urban residents on notice: engage your community, become amateur planners, designers, and architects. Actions: What You Can Do with the City was organized and curated by the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and seeks to challenge traditional planning's organization of the built environment into work, residential, and leisure zones. The exhibition is composed of 99 actions, "common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening that are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition." The actions range from cheeky solutions to lying down on hostile benches (Action #38) to sensible maps of how and where to forage for urban fruits and vegetables (Action #9). Read More
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Tags: anti-god, anti-religion, antitheism, antitheist, atheism, atheist, complacency, religious, tolerance
atheist groups.. humanist.. freethinker groups are usually non-prophet.. get it? ; )
got that from 120 apparel...
the about us is cool.. intelligence barometer.. ha!
"god works in mysterious ways",
ha, yer brains do more-so.. i.e. wishing to the point of hallucination? were u beat about the head as a kid and got stuck with feelings of afterlife!? megh~ kagh~ go! ; )
When engaged with a theist in any religious discussion, the most anti-theist comment you can make, the most devastating statement, the most accurate shot at the very essence of the theist's world, is a simple, and irrefutable statement you make about yourself, and that is: "I'm sorry, (insert name here), but I do not share your faith in the existence of a supreme being".
It is not necessary to challenge the "existence" or "non existence" of the object of their faith.
That you confess to your lack of faith, focuses their attention on the affirmation of their own faith. It is effectively anti theistic because it turns their attention toward the very foundation of their view of a god-centered world by forcing them to justify the existence, not of god, but of their faith. Introspection is an enemy of ignorance. Introspection sparks inquiry.
Attacking what they have faith in is never effective.
But, making them think about the nature of that faith is the first step in removing the cornerstone that will ultimately bring down the entire structure. A most satisfactory conclusion, I would presume, for the most anti-theistic among us.
I cannot say that I believe religion to be wholly evil, but I do believe it to be unhealthy from a psychological and mental viewpoint. I can't comment on whether gods are evil or not, because I do not believe that they even exist to be so. So I doubt I will be any help, but I do hope you save some minds from the crumbling outhouse of religion.
Travis, I like your statement about crumbling outhouses. This is how I feel about religion and I agree that religion does some good. In my mind the good religion does cannot outweigh all the evil it has done and continues to do throughout the world.
Religion does charitable work and helps people in need. But, I contend that all the good that religion does or portends, (more to the point: the people of a religious belief) can be done without the pretext of religion.
Good can and should be done cleanly, without the religious drapery adorning these actions of good deeds. Religion therefore gains undeserved credit, when the good could have or should have been done with out it.
"It" hasn't done anything, it is not something that can act. Religion is just like a gun, knife, or other tool. People use it to justify all sorts of idiotic and vacuous things, but that is more a reflection on the human race than religion itself. It is, after all, a reflection of humanity.
I agree that good can and should be done for its own sake, but a lot of people just will not do it unless there is some kind of perceived reward(however imaginary). Again, more a reflection on mankind than anything else. It is appalling but also true. In fact, any good deed done in the name of reward isn't really a good deed, but simply a perceived transaction. Ergo, no credit or respect can or should really be given to anyone or anything for it. I simply do not believe that concepts(like religion) are capable of enacting "evil". People can, and regularly do, enact these things without the pretext or even the justification of religion.
It is unhealthy, though. Any system that relies solely on delusion cannot be healthy, in any form, ever. It poisons the mind, essentially corrupting a persons ability to distinguish between good judgements, ideas, and actions from bad ones. It promotes the idea that a person should continue deluding themselves long after they are shown to be absolutely mistaken, misinformed, or just plain dishonest.
My argument against religion relies far more heavily around what it is(a self-enforced and inflicted illness) that what it does(nothing by itself).
Eric, I have taken my atheism to the level of anti-theism. However, I am not trying to be "evangelical". I only engage in arguments with religious people if they make the first attempt to debate; to me, this is an opening to say what I think of their beliefs and to provide good reasonable arguments to pin point the "holes" in their faith.
However, the funny thing is that the people that I have had arguments with have never changed their mind, or even considered examining the evidence I present. Usually the ones who have, in my experience, embraced some level of doubt, are the "bi-standers" that happen to be present during those arguments. But I cannot say for sure that I have changed somebody else's mind.
In my not-so-humble opinion, I applaud what you do. I think we need more people who are willing and able to take the position you take, after all, why not do that since the religious are almost always doing it. Perhaps I don't completely do what you do because I might not be equipped to do so.
Great post Eric, thank you.
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Caitlin Masley's recent series of drawings in ink, acrylic and graphite can be seen as detailed abstractions or perhaps as detailed maps where each and every building has been carefully accounted for, at least in spirit. The blank spaces are the waterways, all with such jagged shorelines, built up to the very edge, and the tiny spaces in between the greys and black the linking passageways. Some of these works are quite sizeable and one cannot help but wonder what thoughts flowed through the artist's mind as she toiled.
Artist: Caitlin Masley
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Caitlin Masley will be exhibiting at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis through October 21.
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The Whitney is closed in preparation for the opening of our new building downtown on May 1, 2015.
Explore the buildingDan Graham: Beyond surveys the artist's career from the mid-1960s to the present. As one of contemporary art's most innovative and influential figures, Dan Graham has been at the forefront of many of the most significant developments in art, including conceptual art, video and film installation, performance, site-specific sculpture, and musical collaboration. This exhibition—his first retrospective in the United States—examines each stage of Graham's career through his photographs, projects for magazine pages, films, architectural models and pavilions, performances, video installations, prints, drawings, writings, and his work with musicians Sonic Youth, Glenn Branca, and Japanther.
Graham was born in Urbana, Illinois, in 1942 and grew up in New Jersey, a suburban landscape that would inspire him throughout his career. He began his career as a writer, and founded and directed the short-lived John Daniels Gallery in New York in 1964, exhibiting the work of a new generation of conceptual and Minimalist artists—including Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Smithson. This experience had a deep influence on Graham's subsequent work, particularly the artist's relationship to his peers and to the culture at large as well as his interest in art's economic and social framework.
Graham's rejection of the high-seriousness of modern art emerged at the same moment as Pop art in the early 1960s. "I love magazines because they are like pop songs," he once explained about his early conceptual magazine works, "easily disposable, dealing with momentary pleasures." He infused his approach with a wide range of literary, anthropological, and scientific influences, from cybernetics and topology to the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre, Gregory Bateson, and Margaret Mead. Graham's performances of the 1970s and his architectural pavilions of the 1980s to the present, with their kaleidoscopic refraction of bodily experience, demonstrate his interest in revealing the private self as part of a social, public context.
The fluid, democratic quality of Graham's work continues to exert a powerful influence on younger generations of artists. His desire for a connection to others mirrors our own; yet his work offers a way to critically explore that desire at a moment when interconnectivity and instant feedback are conditioning our collective consciousness to an unprecedented, global degree.
The exhibition is co-organized by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Bennett Simpson, associate curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Following its presentation at the Whitney, Dan Graham: Beyond will travel to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 31, 2009–January 31, 2010. The exhibition was also presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, February 15–May 25, 2009.
Dan Graham: Beyond is organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Dan Graham: Beyond is presented by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. The exhibition is made possible through endowment support from the Sydney Irmas Exhibition Endowment. Major support is provided by The Suzanne M. Nora Johnson and David G. Johnson Foundation. Generous additional support is provided by Hauser & Wirth Zürich London; Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris; The MOCA Contemporaries; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; Mary and Robert Looker; the Pasadena Art Alliance; Betye Monell Burton; Peter Gelles and Eve Steele Gelles; John Morace and Tom Kennedy; Eileen and Michael Cohen; Bagley and Virginia Wright; and Marieluise Hessel.
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Singer Ne-Yo hosted a charity event in East Hampton this weekend where he partied with his ex-fiancee Monyetta Shaw, Adrienne Bailon, Luke James and more. See the pics inside and check out Willow and Jaden Smith partying with Kylie Jenner for her 16th birthday.
Last night, Ne-Yo and his charity, the Compound Foundation, honored Academy award-winning actor Louis Gossett Jr. and celebrity photographer Johnny Nunez at their 2nd Annual "Fostering A Legacy" Benefit. The private function celebrated the strength and creativity of youth in foster care.
Neyo spoke about this year's honorees saying,
"I truly admire Louis Gossett Jr. for his bold initiative to adopt his son when he was in need. Johnny Nunez, who has been an advocate of our cause for years and Stuart Snyder, an active supporter of the foundation, are both well-respected individuals who we cannot thank enough. It is only right we honor these extraordinary men at this year's benefit."
The event was co-hosted by actor/comedian Kevin Hart who had a very successful summer with his film Let Me Explain.
The event was attended by some of young Hollywood's most talented stars including Ne-Yo's artist Ravaughn Brown, Adrienne Bailon, and singer Luke James.
Singer Bridget Kelly was also among the attendees. She posed with Kevin, Adrienne and Ne-Yo.
BET executive Stephen Hill was spotted posing with Bridget, RaVaughn, Adrienne and Estelle.
Ravaughn, who's been in the studio working on her debut album with Ne-Yo, was on the evening's entertainment lineup.
"Call These Boys" singer Estelle entertained the audience a few of her hits. She also posed with fellow singer Mario.
It's great to see that Monyetta and Ne-Yo are still greap friends since their breakup. She posted several pics of herself partying with her friends and tweeted, "Hampton Nights at the Compound Foundation Event w/ great company @adrienne_bailon @eyesofbk @itsravaughn @t2dawy @vonsmith1 Whoop!Whoop! #giveback #grownandsexy"
And in Los Angeles…….
Willow and Jaden Smith were seen at the AT&T Center yesterday.
The two were there to celebrate the 16th birthday of their friend (and Jaden's rumored girlfriend) Kylie Jenner.
Kylie's big sister Khloe Kardahsian was seen arriving at the party (which carried an Alice in Wonderland theme) with her bff Malika Haqq.
And for the record, Khloe has changed her Twitter icon to a pic of her and Lamar Odom. It looks like rumors of a split aren't true…..
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development meets today and tomorrow in Istanbul as the 34 countries it invests in, from Russia to Morocco, seek to kickstart their economic recoveries.
EBRD President Suma Chakrabarti will try to convince the development bank's shareholders at their annual meeting today that more of the 30.5 billion euros ($40.1 billion) it has to invest through 2015 should go to building projects and small-and medium-sized businesses to fuel economic expansion, he said in an interview last month. He will also urge nations receiving EBRD funds to overhaul their economies to enable faster growth.
"In this period of continued weak growth it is particularly important for the region to tackle important structural reforms," Chakrabarti said in a May 2 statement on the London-based lender's website. "The EBRD will support the region in this drive."
Emerging Europe, where foreign capital inflows and easy access to credit fueled growth of more than 5 percent a year before the global crisis of 2008, is being hurt through trade and banking links to the recession-hit euro area. The euro crisis and western banks' efforts to clean up balance sheets have undermined a growth model in the post-communist East that was propelled by exports and foreign investment.
The MSCI Emerging Europe Index fell 0.6 percent to close at 470.87 yesterday in London.
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The EBRD will publish its new economic projections at 12:45 p.m. Istanbul time today. The bank in January predicted 3 percent growth this year in eastern Europe. Egypt, Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia, where the bank is preparing to lend as part of an expansion, will grow 4 percent this year, it said.
Eastern Europe's growth is lagging other emerging markets as foreign lenders such as Italy's UniCredit SpA (UCG) and Austria's Erste Group Bank AG (EBS), which own about three-quarters of banking assets in the continent's east, trimmed financing and capital to their units.
Support from western banks to the region grew to about $1 trillion in 2008 from about $200 billion in 2002, representing a quarter of the area's gross domestic product, the IMF said in a report last week. About a third of those inflows were withdrawn between 2008 and 2012, it said.
While the process known as "deleveraging" slowed after the European Central Bank helped provide liquidity to banks, credit growth has remained impaired by a stock of bad loans and sluggish demand from borrowers amid an economic slump, the Vienna Initiative, a group of banks, regulators and policy makers that helped prevent an east European financial collapse in 2008 and 2009, said in a May 2 report.
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To help cash-strapped businesses, the EBRD is focusing its resources on companies rather than direct support to banks, Chakrabarti said last month.
The EBRD invested 8.9 billion euros in its 30 recipient countries last year, mainly from the former Soviet bloc, financing a record 388 projects. It also committed 181 million euros to six projects in the southern and eastern Mediterranean region, where it's expanding.
The bank has said it will invest as much as 8.5 billion euros a year through 2015 in its current recipients. It also plans to bring annual investments in new countries to 2.5 billion euros by that time.
The EBRD, owned by 64 countries and by the European Union and the European Investment Bank, was created in 1991 to help former communist countries from the Balkans to central Asia transform their economies. It has lent 80.9 billion euros since then.
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At the heart of the Willamette Valley, Albany is a great headquarters for your Oregon visit. Arrive by car on Interstate 5, or take Amtrak to the historic, and newly remodeled Albany Station.
Just minutes away, Oregon State University is home of the Beavers and Pac-10 athletics. Award-winning Willamette Valley wineries nestle to the north and west. Visit the Carousel Project and watch the construction of a traditional, hand-carved and painted carousel.
The Historic Downtown features some of the most interesting and varied architecture of any communities in Oregon including lodging options in historic buildings. "Oregon Fever" broke out around 1840, when trains of covered wagons moved westward. The offer of free land brought many settlers. Between 1850-1855, the Donation Land Claim Act granted each white male citizen over the age of eighteen 320 acres of land if he was single and 640 acres of land if he was married.
The first settlers to the Albany were farmers who came in the 1840's. Oregon settlers went south for gold, leaving the old men, women and children to hold down many farms. When they returned home they had nuggets which started a new era in the Oregon Country.
In 1847 Walter and Thomas Monteith arrived on the future site of Albany and purchased the Smead claim for $400, as well as an adjacent claim. Town lots were laid out on a portion of claims on the east bank of the Willamette River, just below the mouth of the Calapooia River and a new town had been founded. The city was named Albany, after the Monteith's home state capitol, Albany, New York.
The city grew and prospered at a slow and steady pace. Each year, houses and commercial buildings were built in styles fashionable at the time. New industry moved to the outskirts, the main highway bypassed the downtown and post-World War II housing developed outside the original core of the city, leaving the old downtown and residential neighborhoods almost intact.
Albany is credited by historians and architects with having the most varied collection of historic buildings in Oregon. This collection includes styles from the 1840's through the 1920's and is concentrated within an area of approximately 100 square blocks. Three Albany Historic Districts are listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.
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A member of the council of a city which has been admitted into the public employees' retirement system may elect to join the system himself at any time during his term of office without violating Article XI, § 8 or Article XXX, § 1 (Amendment 54) of the state constitution; and the city which is involved may constitutionally make, on behalf of the council member becoming a member of the retirement system, the employer's contributions required by RCW 41.40.361.
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May 20, 1975
Honorable Gary M. OdegaardState Senator, 20th DistrictLegislative BuildingOlympia, Washington 98504 Cite as: AGLO 1975 No. 51
Dear Sir:
By letters previously acknowledged you have described to us a factual situation in which a certain fourth class city in your legislative district became a participant in the public employees' retirement system in accordance with RCW 41.40.410 (optional entry of political subdivisions) some years ago. Now, one of the members of the city council, having previously elected not to become a member of the retirement system in accordance with the option afforded to elected officials by RCW 41.40.120(3), has changed his mind and desires at this time to become a member. He is, however, currently in the middle of his term of office on the city council. Therefore, the following two questions have arisen:
(1) May this city council member constitutionally become a member of the public employees' retirement system at the present time in view of Article XI, § 8 and Article XXX, § 1 (Amendment 54) of the state constitution?
(2) If question (1) is answered in the affirmative, may the city which is involved constitutionally make, on behalf of the council member thus becoming a member of the retirement system, the employer's contributions which are required by RCW 41.40.361?
We answer both of these questions in the affirmative for the reasons set forth in our analysis.
Chapter 41.40 RCW codifies the laws governing the public employees' retirement system (PERS). While all state agencies are mandatorily covered by this system as employers, cities, towns and other political subdivisions are generally not. Instead, except in the case of school districts, such municipalities have an option of joining or not joining in accordance with RCW 41.40.410 which provides, in material part, as follows:
[[Orig. Op. Page 2]] "The employees and appointive and elective officials of any political subdivision or association of political subdivisions of the state may become members of the retirement system by the approval of the local legislative authority: Provided, That on and after September 1, 1965, every school district of the state of Washington shall be an employer under this chapter and every employee of the school district who is eligible for membership under RCW 41.40.120 shall be a member of the retirement system and participate on the same basis as a person who first becomes a member through the admission of any employer into the retirement system on and after April 1, 1949. Each such political subdivision becoming an employer under the meaning of this chapter shall make contributions to the funds of the retirement system as provided in RCW 41.40.080, and 41.40.361 and 41.40.370 and its employees shall contribute to the employees' savings fund at the rate established under the provisions of RCW 41.40.330. . . ."
Question (1):
We will make further note of the last quoted sentence of this statute regarding employers' contributions in responding to your second question. Insofar as your initial question is concerned, however, the next section of the law which must be noted is so much of RCW 41.40.120 as provides that:
"Membership in the retirement system shall consist of all regularly compensated employees and appointive and elective officials of employers as defined in this chapter who have served at least six months without interruption or who are employed, appointed or elected on or after July 1, 1965, with the following exceptions:
". . .
"(3) Persons holding elective offices or persons appointed directly by the governor:Provided, That such persons shall have the option of applying for membership and to be accepted by the action of the retirement [[Orig. Op. Page 3]] board, such application for those taking elective office for the first time after May 21, 1971 shall be submitted within eight years of the beginning of their initial term of office: . . . And provided further, That any persons holding elective offices or persons appointed by the governor who are members in the retirement system and who have, prior to becoming such members, previously held an elective office, and did not at the start of such initial or successive terms of office exercise their option to become members, may apply for membership and be accepted by action of the retirement board,to be effective during such term or terms of office, and shall be allowed to recover or regain the service credit applicable to such term or terms of office upon payment of the employee contributions therefor by the employee and employer contributions therefor by the employer or employee . . ." (Emphasis supplied.)
Council members in a city such as you have described in your letter are elective officers. See, RCW 35.27.070. Thus, following the entry of their city into the retirement system under RCW 41.40.410,supra, they (along with any others elected or appointed to the city council at a later date) had a right themselves either to become members immediately or to stay out and then join the system at some later point in time. Furthermore, by reason of the portion of RCW 41.40.120 which we have underscored in quoting it above, any such later admission into membership may statutorily, ". . . be effective during such term . . . of office . . ." as a particular council member is serving at the time he applies for membership.
In other words, it will thus be seen that the actions contemplated by your first question are expressly authorized by statute at the present time. Your question, however, inquires as to whether those actions would be constitutional ". . . in view of Article XI, § 8 and Article XXX, § 1 (Amendment 54) of the state constitution" which read, respectively, as follows:
Article XI, § 8:
"The salary of any county, city, town, or municipal officers shall not be increased except as provided in section 1 of Article XXX or diminished after his election, or [[Orig. Op. Page 4]] during his term of office; nor shall the term of any such officer be extended beyond the period for which he is elected or appointed."
Article XXX, § 1 (Amendment 54):
"The compensation of all elective and appointive state, county, and municipal officers who do not fix their own compensation, including judges of courts of record and the justice courts may be increased during their terms of office to the end that such officers and judges shall each severally receive compensation for their services in accordance with the law in effect at the time the services are being rendered.
"The provisions of section 25 of Article II (Amendment 35), section 25 of Article III (Amendment 31), section 13 of Article IV, section 8 of Article XI, and section 1 of Article XXVIII (Amendment 20) insofar as they are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed."
Apparently the reason for your concern with these constitutional provisions stems from such cases as Bakenhus v. Seattle, 48 Wn.2d 683, 296 P.2d 321 (1956), in which public employees' pensions in this state have been held not to be gratuities, but, instead, to be a form of ". . . deferred compensation for services rendered." Thus, the argument which is suggested is that because an elected official entering the retirement system during a given term of office could, conceivably, qualify for the receipt of some form of pension even before the expiration of that term1/ his entry at that [[Orig. Op. Page 5]] time could pose the possibility of a "mid-term increase in compensation" and thus be unconstitutional.
Our initial response to this argument is of necessity one based upon policy. Inasmuch as RCW 41.40.120(3), supra, which expressly authorizes the acts contemplated by your request, has already been enacted into law we must refrain from issuing any opinion which might have the effect of casting doubt as to its constitutionality. This office since its inception has continually followed a policy of presuming all duly enacted statutes to be consitutional until they are otherwise held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction. Perhaps the most succinct explanation of this policy appears in AGO 1945-46 [[to John T. Welsh, Prosecuting Attorney, Pacific County on July 17, 1945]], page 269, as follows:
". . . The power to declare an act constitutional or unconstitutional is vested solely in the courts. Consequently, nothing can be gained by this office expressing an opinion as to the constitutionality of a statute. A pronouncement of unconstitutionality would merely cause confusion and disorder among the administrative officers whose duty it is to give effect to the presumption of constitutionality which attaches to all laws until declared otherwise by a court of competent jurisdiction."2/
In addition, however, it appears to us that the procedures authorized by RCW 41.40.120(3) with respect to the mid-term entry of elected officials into the retirement system are, in any event, constitutionally defensible. Although the constitution at one time contained a general and all-inclusive ban against mid-term pay increases for public officials, both state and local, serving fixed terms,3/ [[Orig. Op. Page 6]] this is no longer so. Instead, by reason of Article XXX, § 1 (Amendment 54), supra, the constitution now only prohibits those public officials having the power to fix their own compensation from exercising that power in such a manner as to provide for themselves, during their terms of office, increases in the level of that compensation. Accord, AGO 1974 No. 9 [[to Smith Troy, Prosecuting Attorney, Thurston County on April 10, 1974]], copy enclosed, in which we distinguished between legislatively granted salary increases for certain local officials and those granted by the local officials, themselves, saying:
". . . Neither the spirit nor the letter of the constitution is violated by the payment to a county commissioner of a mid-term salary increase provided for by the legislature ‑ as distinguished from one which is granted by the commissioners themselves. In the one case, the new salary is fixed by a state law enacted by the legislative authority of the state; in the other, it is fixed by a county ordinance or resolution requiring the approval of the commissioners themselves for passage. Therefore, it is our opinion that the members of a board of county commissioners or other county legislative authority may, during the remainder of the current terms they were serving when the salary increases provided for by the legislature in chapter 88,supra, became effective, receive those increased salaries."
In the instant case it is true that the city council members involved do have the authority not only to fix their own salaries (see, RCW 35.27.130) but, under RCW 41.40.410,supra, to provide for the entry of their city into the public employees' retirement system. However, the individual act of a given council member in joining that pension system under RCW 41.40.120(3), supra, does not constitute an exercise of either of those powers. Instead, the council member in question is simply exercising a statutory right granted to him or herby the legislature through its enactment of the statute.4/
[[Orig. Op. Page 7]] Likewise, this situation is distinguishable from the mid-term provision of health care benefits to county commissioners or city council members serving fixed terms ‑ a question to which we also addressed ourselves but answered in the negative in AGO 1974 No. 9,supra, and, earlier, in AGO 1969 No. 2 [[to Robert V. Graham, State Auditor on January 20, 1969]]. There the premium expenditures themselves are expressly declared by the applicable statute to be the "compensation" involved,5/ as opposed to the insurance benefits which may result to the covered official at some later [[Orig. Op. Page 8]] time either before or after the end of his or her current term of office. In the instant case, on the other hand, it is the later pension benefits which constitute the "deferred compensation" under the Bakenhus rule, supra, and not the employers' payments to the pension fund.
Also, in that other situation regarding medical insurance, the action which we said would be unconstitutional was that of the legislative authority in extending coverage to its own members (or increasing their previous coverage) on a mid-term basis ‑ and not (as is the case by analogy here) the election by an individual county commissioner or city council member to avail himself or herself of a plan earlier adopted by the legislative authority.
In summary, we therefore answer your first question by concluding (1) that a city council member in a fourth class city which is participating in the public employees' retirement system under RCW 41.40.410 may become a member of the system in accordance with RCW 41.40.120(3) at any time during a given term of office; and (2) that such a procedure does not violate the provisions of Article XI, § 8 or Article XXX, § 1 (Amendment 54) of the constitution.
Question (2):
Having thus answered your first question we turn to your second. Assuming the foregoing answer, you have then asked:
". . . may the city which is involved constitutionally make, on behalf of the council member thus becoming a member of the retirement system, the employer's contributions which are required by RCW 41.40.361?"
As noted earlier, RCW 41.40.410 includes the following directive relating to employers' contributions:
"Each such political subdivision becoming an employer under the meaning of this chapter shall make contributions to the funds of the retirement system as provided in RCW 41.40.080, 41.40.361 and 41.40.370 and its employees shall contribute to the employees' savings fund at the rate established under the provisions of RCW 41.40.330. . . ."
[[Orig. Op. Page 9]] Of the sections of chapter 41.40 RCW thus referred to, however, we need only concern ourselves here with RCW 41.40.361. The otherstatutes cited with respect to employers' contributions, RCW 41.40.080 and RCW 41.40.370, are basically procedural rather than substantive.
RCW 41.40.361 has two separate facets to it. First, this statute requires all employers (state agencies and political subdivisions) to make monthly payments to the retirement fund based upon a percentage of the monthly compensation payable to each employee who is then an active member of the retirement system. See, AGLO 1975 No. 50 [[to Frank J. Warnke, State Representative on May 12, 1975, an Informal Opinion AIR-75550]], copy enclosed. Secondly, in the case of employers admitted into the system after April 1, 1949 (including political subdivisions admitted under RCW 41.40.410), subsection (5) of RCW 41.40.361 provides as follows:
"Any employer admitted to the retirement system after April 1, 1949, shall make an additional contribution until such time as the sum of such additional contributions equals the amount of contributions which such employer and employee would have been required to contribute between April 1, 1949, and the date of such employer's admission to the retirement system: Provided, That either the employee or employer may make the contributions the employee would have made during the same period of time:Provided further, That all additional contributions hereunder and under the provisions of RCW 41.40.160(2) must be completed within fifteen years from the date of the employer's admission. Employee contributions for these periods must be made before the member will receive credit for those periods of service, pursuant to such regulations as the retirement board may adopt."
The issue raised by your second question is whether either of these two requirements of this statute can constitutionally be adhered to by the city involved in the situation covered by question (1), above.
Insofar as current and future employers' contributions are concerned, we would regard our affirmative answer to your first question as also being determinative of the constitutionality of such payments as are required by RCW 41.40.361 to cover creditable current and future service by a city council member becoming a member of PERS under the circumstances therein considered. The contributions thus to be made are not, themselves, a form of "compensation" [[Orig. Op. Page 10]] (as opposed to any resulting pension payments to the member); moreover, even if they were, their payment by the city would not be the result of action by the council but only that of the individual council member in electing to avail himself of a statutory right established by the legislature.
The constitutional issue raised by the so-called "arrearage" contributions required by RCW 41.40.361(5), supra, is also readily answerable, in our opinion. The problem, however, in this case is not limited to those instances involving elected officials of political subdivisions who are serving fixed terms. The statute requires a political subdivision coming into the retirement system to make arrearage contributions on behalf of all of its officers and employees thereby becoming members of the system to cover their periods of creditable service ". . . between April 1, 1949, and the date of such employer's admission into the retirement system. . .," and the issue is whether this requirement violates a different section of the constitution than the two which we have heretofore been considering; namely, so much of Article II, § 25 as states that:
"The legislature shall never grant any extra compensation to any public officer, agent, employee, servant, or contractor, after the services shall have been rendered, or the contract entered into, . . ."
This provision, although expressed solely as a limitation upon the legislature, has also been applied to local governmental units in numerous decisions by our state supreme court. See, AGO 63-64 No. 97 [[to Cliff Yelle, State Auditor on April 8, 1964]]and cases cited therein; also, AGO 1974 No. 19 [[to Gary Grant, State Senator on September 18, 1974]]. It is not, however, violated by the making of arrearage contributions under RCW 41.40.361(5),supra, for the following two reasons:
(1) For the same reason that an employer's contributions do not constitute the "compensation" to which Article XXX, § 1 (Amendment 54), involving mid-term increases is addressed, they likewise would not themselves be a form of "extra compensation" under Article II, § 25; and
(2) In any event the pension benefits which these contributions are to fund, although measured in part by periods of previous service, are only payable for service rendered after an individual's admission into membership in the retirement system.
[[Orig. Op. Page 11]] As was explained by the court in Aldrich v. State Employees' Retirement System, 49 Wn.2d 831, 833, 834, 307 P.2d 270 (1957), upholding the constitutionality under Article II, § 25 of prior service credit (i.e., service credit under RCW 41.40.010(10) for service rendered prior to the date6/ upon which the retirement system first became operative):
"Prior service credit for services antedating the effective date of the state employees' retirement act cannot, standing alone, support a pension under the rule of theBakenhus case. There must be, in addition thereto, some service rendered after the effective date of the act, so that the act will constitute a part of the contract governing the subsequent employment. Then the pensions provided for under the act constitute deferred compensation for the subsequent service and are not gratuities predicated merely upon the prior service."
Likewise in the case of such previous service credit as is to be funded by employers' contributions under RCW 41.40.361(15), supra, ‑ credit for service to the employer after April 1, 1949, and the date of its entry into the retirement system ‑ no such serviceby itself can or will support a retirement allowance. Therefore, the retirement allowance when ultimately received by an employee entering the system under RCW 41.40.410, supra, will not be in the form of an unconstitutional payment of extra compensation in violation of Article II, § 25 of the constitution. Instead, it will simply be a form of deferred compensation for services rendered after the date of entry into the system ‑ measured, in part, by a formula which allows credit, as well, for previous service.
Accordingly, we also answer your second question in the affirmative.
We trust that the foregoing will be of some assistance to you.
Very truly yours,
SLADE GORTONAttorney General
PHILIP H. AUSTINDeputy Attorney General
1/Under RCW 41.40.200 a member may qualify for a duty disability retirement allowance at any time after becoming a member. In addition, although at least five years of covered service are required for either a nonduty (RCW 41.40.230) or a service (RCW 41.40.180) retirement allowance ‑ a period by itself extending beyond a city council member's ordinary four year term of office ‑ in a given case the individual involved could have had some earlier covered service in another capacity and, hence, become eligible for retirement during the same term as he was serving when he joined the system.
2/This policy of presuming the constitutionality of all duly enacted legislation is, of course, to be contrasted with our role, during a legislative session, of providing advice to members of the legislature with regard to the constitutionality of proposed legislation.
3/See, Article II, § 25, Article III, § 25, Article IV, § 13, the original text of Article IX, § 8, supra, and Article XXVIII, § 1 (Amendment 20).
4/Accord, a legal opinion previously prepared for the mayor of the city involved by the Chehalis, Washington law firm of Baker and Lund, a copy of which you have provided to us. On the first page of that opinion, dated February 7, 1975, the following similar analysis is set forth:
"RCW 41.40.120, Section 3, provides that all persons holding elective offices, or persons appointed directly by the Governor, shall have the option for applying for membership and to be accepted by the action of the Washington State Retirement Board so long as such application is made within eight years of the beginning of the initial term dated from the 21st of May, 1971. The legislature, by this provision, has created a vested right of entrance into the State Retirement System which can be exercised at any time within the eight year time period after the 21st of May, 1971. This is an emolument which is provided by the Washington State Legislature through its creation and amendment of the Washington State Pension and Retirement System. Individuals who sit as elected officers or persons appointed directly by the Governor have the option to exercise the choice of joining the retirement system or not joining the retirement system. This is an individual action and not a council action, and therefore, when the individual elected official opts to participate in the system or not to participate in the system, this is not an official action taken by the members of the municipal legislature to increase their compensation within their term."
5/See, RCW 41.04.190 which, referring to the group health insurance policies authorized by RCW 41.04.180, provides that:
"The cost of any such group policy or plan to any such public agency or body shall be deemed additional compensation to the employees or elected county officials covered thereby for services rendered, and any officer authorized to disburse such funds may pay in whole or in part to any such insurance carrier or health care service contractor the amount of the premiums due pursuant to any such contract."
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These are so cute. Luvs, you are such a good painter, just print out what you want to say on the computer and then transfer it to the piece you are painting. I bet you can do as good a job as the one you purchased. B |
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I've just recently returned to research on my GRAHAM family tree (& other lines), after decades of no activity. But it's good to be back into genealogy! I have vital stats and family stories of my GRAHAM ancestral line back as far as my 3-great grandfather, Rev. Windsor GRAHAM, d. 1865 Henry Co. GA. He's named as son and heir in the will of a William GRAHAM of South Carolina, m. Mary (maiden name not given). My Xmas wish is for concrete info on the parents, grandparents and siblings of Rev. Windsor GRAHAM, especially if any of them immigrated from the British Isles (Ireland or Scotland?). Please make my wish come true! And Merry Christmas A.D. 2011 to y'all! Notify Administrator about this message?
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Net-a-Porter's having a major, up-to-50-percent-off sale right now. On one hand, it could be a decent excuse to invest in a digitally-printed Mary Katrantzou cocktail dress, a pair of Charlotte Olympia kitty flats or something else fancy-fashion-designer-y at half the outrageous cost. But since that price tag would still be pretty hefty, I'd argue taking a different approach.
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I cannot get my Epson perfection V100 scanner to even start correctly. It is telling me that there is an error but it doesn't tell me what error it is. I cannot seem to find my orginal disc :( So I went to the website and downloaded the newest driver ( for Vista) it told me that the driver was already updated. Well everytime I sign on to my computer, it says searching for driver. I am so confused. Also, when I checked in the device manager there is nothing there. No scanner I mean. I give up! Any suggestions? Thanks Sharon |
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Hey fellows, I've seen the other champions in the league starting these. So I decided, its time for me to do one! Fire away with your questions, Not really please don't hurt me, just mail them. The new Mail System I am working on is not ready yet so sadly, we couldn't fire them anyways, oh the sadness... - Insincerely, Ziggs, The (Completely Sane) Hexplosives Expert. Mail System Status: In The Works!
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Dear Ziggs, As it would seem you have been roped into giving the summoners a chance to message you, I have a request, It might be an opportunity for profit. Can you keep a secret? -Zed
Ok, I have sent for the powder and speaking of the hand, you wouldn't mind making me a few Noisemakers? It will reduce the cost to 950+950... if you can get me 5 At least. Anyways I'm bad at Math, My Hexplosives use math that's why my bombs explode so large. 12 pounds is too much, I'll have to go get make some more. -Ziggs P.S. : Why are noisemakers so Private... Are you SURE your just making noisemakers...
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Mack sent a little holo bot to Ziggs. "Bloody balls... This thing working? Ah, it is... Ziggs, I suggest a little project that both of us work on. Don't worry, it is something explosive. The bot lays out a plan for a cannon. "It's called the Self Working Explosive Howitzer. I have the materials, but I have no way to work the explosives that are required, so I need your help. Do you agree?" The bot reveals two buttons, one for agree and self destruct, another for disagree and return to sender.
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WPDFD Issue #81 - December 01, 2004
Yes, the fans of Firefox have certainly been working hard and have managed to persuade some seven and a half million surfers to download it onto their computers. No mean feat! But, with all the hype, how good is it really? Even with seven and a half million downloads, its impact on Explorer's dominance is only a pin prick. Does it stand a chance? Recent browser surveys show that in the last few months, IE has been losing market share to Gecko-based browsers Mozilla, Firefox and Camino.
For me, the World Wide Web started in 1993. By then, I was already a seasoned 'interactive multimedia' veteran with a client list that included VideoLogic, Apple Computer and Canon. I had been an 'early adopter' when personal computers hit the scene in the early eighties. I was working in new product development, packaging design and advertising during the day and, at evenings, weekends and on the bus to work, I was programming games for Sinclair and Commodore computers.
I don't think that there's anything more pleasurable in life than helping someone. From what readers have written and told me, this site has given a great deal of help to a lot of people over the years and a small amount of gratitude was all I needed to keep going. As I mentioned in the introduction, WPDFD is going to remain as an archive of past articles so that it can continue to be a valuable source of information for designers, newbies and anybody else who cares about the craft.


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Networking and Social Mobility
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You know that you're a bit behind the times when you're blogging about an article that was published almost a month ago, but I've been busy recently, and was so incensed by this nasty little article I feel I should write something. On July 11 the Guardian Graduate section put out a piece about networking and finding graduate jobs. We are told by the Guardian that in times like these, when there just aren't that many jobs around, and there are tonnes of new graduates, the best approach is to network, to get in with people you know, rather than sending off tonnes of applications. Well yes, I mean I'm not going to pretend that the world of work is not horribly nepotistic, but maybe we should be thinking about the wider social consequences messages like this have.
Of course social mobility should not be necessary, but in a highly stratified society such as our own, it is something we can fight for. It is something that may at least start to bring about some equality even if that equality is not systemic. But the problem with networking is that it does the opposite. If you happen to be the child of some posh liberal guardian readers, and spend your time hobnobbing with media types over quiche and claret, the networking agenda means that you are more likely to find your feet somewhere warm and comfortable than if you spend your evenings having a few mates round with a few cans of stella and a take-away pizza. There is nothing clean or reasonable about networking, when the reality is that it simply means opening opportunities for those with one background over another.
And isn't this what was fought against 30 years ago? Just because your old boys network now has women, just because they didn't go to public school, just because they have some stories about 1968, it does not mean that in networking you aren't excluding others from jobs. We have fought the case for fair access to universities, and yet people who proclaim themselves to be liberals cut off all of the benefits that may be gained as soon as the degrees are handed out. So maybe, if you think you're a little bit left wing, and you're considering exploiting your contacts, or even worse if you're setting up contacts for your kids, you should have a long hard think about those, who work bloody hard, who you're screwing over in the process.
But the consequences of a networking society run deeper. The political abhorrence has a nasty personal obverse. Now, maybe I'm old fashioned, but I'm quite interested in people because they're people. I quite like talking to people because they might have something interesting to say. But all of this is now undercut by the notion that people only enter into social interactions for purely self-interested reasons. Yes, I'd like to get to know you, and no, I don't want you to try to get me a job. Is that all you consider yourself to mean? Is that all you consider my approach to you to be about? All relationships become a practical matter of self-interest, none are permitted to remain outside of the sphere of pervasive networking.
And so I appeal to you to throw out this idea of the network, to take a bottle of tippex to your address books, taking out all those repugnant souls whose numbers you wrote down because "they might be useful" leaving only those people who wouldn't mind sitting down for a pint with. I appeal to all those who engage in networking to remember that the system you are buying into is essentially a constriction on the life possibilities of the poor, and of people who have been born into poor families. Just because everyone might be doing it, or because the Guardian tells you that it's ok, it doesn't mean you are innocent.


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A small but desirable segment of the seafood industry, langostinos are a limited-distribution product caught primarily by Chilean producers for sale within the United States.
The langostino industry is an example of how well a government can regulate and manage a fishery, says Robert Landy, VP of frozen purchasing for Stavis Seafood in Boston. Under direction of Sernapesca Chile, the Chilean fishing authority, the fishery has rebounded, he says. The harvest hit a low point in 2001, but quotas and landings have increased annually since.
There are two langostino fisheries in Chile: red langostinos (Pleuroncodes monodon) found in the south, and larger yellow langostinos (Cervimunida johni) in the north. Once cooked and peeled, the langostinos look the same, says Landy.
About 90 percent of the quota — which was 1.2 million pounds of finished meat last year — comes to the United States as a chemical-free, frozen cooked product, says Landy. And of that, a little more than half is 60- to 100-count per pound, with the remainder 100- to 200-count.
Most of the langostinos come to the United States because the market was established here, with major restaurant chains utilizing it, notes Landy. Because prices have increased in recent years, jumping from around $7.50 a pound to $11, Landy says it has started to compete with American lobster (Homarus americanus).
When it was less expensive, langostino was used as a filler for lobster rolls, and still is often found as an ingredient in seafood bisque or as a seafood garnish on entrées, he says.
Langostinos have sometimes been confused with lobster, given their similar appearance, although they are much smaller in size and yield less usable claw meat than lobsters. They are also referred to as scampi, which evokes images of shrimp or even crayfish, although that is a misnomer as well.
Restaurant chains such as Red Lobster, Long John Silver's and Rubio's were early langostino buyers, according to Todd Wendt, VP at Seatech Corp. in Lynwood, Wash. The product was initially marketed by some restaurants as lobster, until the Food and Drug Administration intervened in 2005 and approved the use of "langostino lobster."
Even though those chains aren't marketing langostinos regularly these days, Wendt says demand is still strong, "but supply has been down a bit and price has increased."
He still brings in a couple of containers to supply mostly full-service restaurants, he says. The QSRs helped to increase the popularity of langostinos, says Wendt, who has also seen it sold at Costco and Trader Joe's, depending on market prices.
Langostinos should continue to be popular, he says, although sales to Asia could impact what happens in the United States.
"Opening Asia has been a bit of a game changer," he notes. "If it becomes popular in China, that would diminish the amount coming to the United States."
Similar to Stavis, Seatech deals primarily in cooked meat in the 60- to 90-count size, but he has brought in raw, shell-on product in the past.
There are also other species of langostinos that have garnered some attention — a Chinese langostino (Metanephrops thomsoni), also known as the red-banded lobster, and a species from El Salvador.
Yet another species is Pleuronocodes planipes, which is harvested in deep waters about 20 miles off the coast of Nicaragua and El Salvador, and produces very small meat in the 200- to 300-count size, says Landy. However, he notes, that fishery died off in 2011, possibly from an algal bloom and hasn't recovered yet. Both Landy and Wendt don't see the Chinese product as a viable alternative because of its inferior quality.
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Also part of the mix, although a different species, are the langoustines that are found in the cold waters of the North Sea and Northeast Atlantic. Landy recalls bringing in tails from Iceland and now deals in head-on langoustines from Denmark (Nephrops norvegicus) or New Zealand (Metanephrops challengeri).
These langoustines are a boutique item, says Landy, and mostly end up in high-end restaurants. The head-on versions sell for $10 a pound, but only about one-third of the animal is edible, he says, so it is more in the range of $30 to $35 a pound for the meat.
"It's like a large, head-on shrimp, in that it's a very specialized item," says Landy.
Most countries producing langoustines sell them domestically, he notes, such as South Africa, which has a quota of just 30,000 pounds.
Scotland is a major player in langoustines, accounting for more than 70 percent of the total landings within the United Kingdom. In 2011, Scotland landed 24,340 metric tons (MT), while the rest of the U.K. brought in just over 10,000 MT. It also lands more than two-thirds of the worldwide quota for the Nephrops species.
Much of Scotland's production stays within Europe, with product exported primarily to Italy, France and Spain, although Denmark, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Portugal, Malta and China are also buyers, according to data supplied by Seafood Scotland in Edinburgh.
Scottish langoustines are mostly trawl-caught, with smaller vessels operating inshore and larger ones offshore.
Nicki Holmyard, communications and public relations for Seafood Scotland, says the Scottish langoustines aren't common within the United States. In fact, she notes, langoustines were being used in the World Association of Chefs Societies' Global Chef Competition semifinals around the world throughout 2013, but weren't allowed into the United States because there was no paperwork in place.
Browne Trading Co. in Portland, Maine, has been offering the New Zealand langoustines for many years, says Nicholas Branchina, director of marketing. "It's a legacy item," he says. Browne sells langoustines through wholesale channels, its retail store and online.
Clients often become familiar with langoustines during their travels to Europe, he says, or they've experienced them at a fine restaurant and are looking to recreate the experience at home.
"It's a delicacy, a novelty and an investment," says Branchina.


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Visceral Games and publisher EA currently have no plans to release a Wii U version of Dead Space 3.
That's according to the blunt words of Visceral Games' vice president and general manager Steve Papoutsis, who told NintendoWorldReport recently that a Wii U version is "not currently in the plan."
Wii U - which will be on technical parity with Xbox 360 and PS3 - will be out later this year. Dead Space 3 has been given an official release date of 'February 2013'.
EA has already admitted that it's "holding fire" on two unannounced Wii U games, and while Dead Space 3 may not be one of them, we wouldn't consider it a huge surprise if a Wii U version of the game was announced before it arrives next year.