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John Mackey and Whole Foods: Biting The Hands That Feed Them
Posted: January 16, 2013 | Author: bostonboomer | Filed under: Affordable Care Act (ACA), open thread, U.S. Economy, U.S. Politics | Tags: Bread and Circus, Erewhon, fascism, John Mackey, Libertarianism, natural foods, organic foods, socialism, Whole Foods | 16 CommentsWhen I first moved to Boston in 1967, there was an amazing natural food store on Newbury Street called Erewhon. It was started by Michio Kushi and his wife Aveline and focused on Kushi's macrobiotic diet. You could get all kinds of interesting foods there like tamari sauce, miso, natural peanut butter made out of just peanuts, and all kinds of strange grains, beans, and vegetables. The store had sawdust on the floor and big barrels with foodstuffs in them. I used to take the T downtown to shop there and then drag my purchases home in great big cloth bags. Eventually Erewhon expanded and opened a store in Cambridge and it got easier to shop there. Erewhon was a pioneer in making organic foods available to the public.
In the late 1970's another natural foods store opened in Brookline. It was called Bread and Circus, and the company soon expanded into Cambridge, Wellsley, and a few other Boston suburbs. It was a great place to shop and didn't have the "health food" aura of Erewhon, where you would see lots of sickly-looking macrobiotic mavens. Unfortunately, in the early 1990's Bread and Circus was bought out by the Texas company, Whole Foods Market. And it's been pretty much downhill from there. The prices are sky high and the standards for what constitutes "whole foods" have slipped.
Under co-founder and CEO John Mackey, Whole Foods is much more focused on marketing than on health. Mackey is an obsessive libertarian, who in 2009 wrote an obnoxious op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he suggested that Obama's health care initiative was socialistic. Here's just a taste.
With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are rapidly running out of other people's money. These deficits are simply not sustainable. They are either going to result in unprecedented new taxes and inflation, or they will bankrupt us.
While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward less government control and more individual empowerment.
In 2010, Mackey tried to save the company some money by punishing employees with exercise and garcinia cambogia supplementation for those whom he deemed to be too fat, giving them smaller discounts for their purchases from the stores than thinner employees got. The reaction was swift and negative, and from what I can tell, the initiative was quietly dropped. The company would have been sued over it anyway. Oh, and Mackey hates unions too.
I don't know who shops at Whole Foods in Texas, but around here it's mostly the ex-hippies like me along with what we used to call "yuppies" and other politically liberal types. As Mackey found out in 2009 and 2010, his libertarian lecturing doesn't go over too well with his clientele. After each of these episodes, I became less interested and wasting my "whole paycheck" at Whole Foods. I still go there sometimes, but usually only to buy things I can't find anywhere else. After today, I'm going to feel even less enthused about shopping in Mackey's Markets.
I'm sure you've heard by now that today Mackey told NPR that Obamacare is worse than socialist–it's fascism! It's seems Mackey has a new book out called Conscious Capitalism. He told NPR that his goal is to convince people that corporations aren't really "primarily selfish and greedy."
Mackey sat down with Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep to discuss his philosophy and the new book he co-authored, Conscious Capitalism. Part 1 airs Wednesday, Part 2 on Thursday….
When Inskeep asks him if he still thinks the health law is a form of socialism, as he's said before, Mackey responds:
"Technically speaking, it's more like fascism. Socialism is where the government owns the means of production. In fascism, the government doesn't own the means of production, but they do control it — and that's what's happening with our health care programs and these reforms."
Apparently NPR has been dissing Whole Foods for awhile now. There was funny piece about it at The Atlantic in 2011: NPR Is Slowly Breaking Up with Whole Foods. Mackey would probably be more comfortable appearing on right wing talk shows; but he wouldn't reach his target demographic that way, so he has to go on NPR. There's a real mismatch between this CEO and his customers.
Well, around here, lots of the supermarkets carry organic fruits, vegetables, eggs, butter, dairy products and meats now, so there isn't as much need to go to a specialty store with sky-high prices. My biggest problem is that Whole Foods recently bought out a local food chain that ran the most inexpensive and convenient store in my neighborhood. By next fall, the closest grocery store to me will be a Whole Foods. Can I resist stopping there and drive 15-20 minutes to get to another store when I'm in a rush or tired? It won't be easy but I'm going do my best.
Anyway, this is an open thread. What's on your mind tonight?
Michael Bloomberg Suggests Elizabeth Warren is a Socialist, Will Bring Back USSR
Posted: October 21, 2012 | Author: bostonboomer | Filed under: #Occupy and We are the 99 percent!, 2012 elections, U.S. Economy, U.S. Politics | Tags: assault weapons ban, communism, concealed carry, Elizabeth Warren, gun control, Michael Bloomberg, occupy Wall Street, Scott Brown, socialism, stop and frisk | 23 CommentsWTF?! NYC Mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg gave an interview to The New York Times on Friday in which he criticized both President Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Today, the Caucus blog reports that Bloomberg also had a few choice words for Elizabeth Warren, who is running to unseat Bloomberg's chosen candidate Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown. Check this out:
"What I've tried to do is find liberal middle-of-the-road Republicans and Democrats. In the Senate, Scott Brown, who single-handedly stopped the right-to-carry bill. You can question whether he's too conservative. You can question, in my mind, whether she's God's gift to regulation, close the banks and get rid of corporate profits, and we'd all bring socialism back, or the U.S.S.R."
Really? I'd say Bloomberg's policies are a lot more reminiscent of the Soviet Union than Warren's, e.g. stop and frisk and his violent crackdown on Occupy Wall Street.
Bloomberg claims he supports Scott Brown because Brown is for gun control.
"The biggest reason the mayor is supporting Senator Brown is the senator's help on one of our biggest gun issues: opposing concealed-carry reciprocity that would let people with gun permits from rural states like Arkansas and Kentucky carry hidden handguns in New York City," Bloomberg spokesman Stu Loeser told the New York Times.
But Scott Brown has an "A" rating with the National Rifle Association, supports concealed carry laws, and opposes bringing back the assault rifle ban. Elizabeth Warren supports most gun control policies and wants to renew the assault weapons ban. I think we all know why Bloomberg supports Senator Brown (R-Wall Street), don't we.
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What the Socialists just said …
Posted: December 12, 2010 | Author: dakinikat | Filed under: just because, The Media SUCKS, the villagers | Tags: Comrade Obama, democratic socialism., socialism | 38 CommentsWell, here goes my shot at ever working again. I've not only proclaimed this week 'I love Senator Bernie Sanders Week', I'm going to quote the World Socialist Web Site and agree with socialist Barry Grey.
To be honest, the U.S. really doesn't have an active Socialist movement or anything close to the socialist left in Europe let alone other places. WSWS is one voice of socialism. Glenn Beck and the Tea Party are regaling themselves as mainstream and the dude they're reading these days thought President Dwight Eisenhower was a communist agent. If that's the new normal, then, maybe I am a Marxist by that silly ruler. But, anyway, at the risk of being labeled a red, here we go.
Grey's article talks about Progressive (TM) hand wringing over Obama's supposed lurch to the right. There was no lurching involved imho. Obama is just one of those pols that says one thing and does another. I frankly have no idea what he actually thinks. So, the fun part of this blog post is reading Grey dissect what is "more repugnant", the villager's "stupidity or their cynicism". Grey cites a bunch of whiny, disillusioned villagers in the process. He identifies their central theme as:
The general theme of these commentaries—amidst the pleading, scolding and whelps of despair—is that Obama must reclaim his "core values" and start fighting the Republican right. It is summed up by Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, who writes: "At this point, the strategy is to shame [Obama] into fighting."
So, this is my first issue. I just was talking to BB earlier and I personally believe that Obama has no "core values'. He just says what's expedient for the moment that gets him where he wants to be. He's like the ultimate pragmatist; whatever works for the moment. I even wrote a post to that effect years ago here that accused Obama of always "doing the chameleon". It's his past MO that convinced me of this two years back. There are way too many 'present' votes in the Illinois legislature and tales of Obama hiding in the bathroom to avoid votes for there to be evidence that he'll fight for anything other than a chance to get to higher office in a shorter period of time. He seems to have joined and ditched groups–ask Jeremiah Wright–more for the connections than for the higher purpose. As my post notes, he flip flopped all over the place during 2008. Why should we expect anything different?
The article cites lots of examples of villagers looking for Obama redemption.
Among the notable examples of such lamentations is Frank Rich's column in the December 5 New York Times, which makes the tongue-in-cheek suggestion that Obama has been taken hostage by the Republicans and his behavior is best explained by reference to the Stockholm Syndrome.
Rich writes: "The captors will win this battle [over extending Bush-era tax cuts for the top 2 percent of US households], if they haven't already by the time you read this, because Obama has seemingly surrendered his once-considerable abilities to act, decide or think."
Liberal economist Paul Krugman, in a December 2 New York Times column written in response to Obama's announcement of a two-year freeze on federal workers' pay, is harsher:
"After the Democratic 'shellacking' in the mid-term elections, everyone wondered how President Obama would respond. Would he show what he was made of? Would he stand firm for the values he believes in, even in the face of political adversity?…
"It's hard to escape the impression that Republicans have taken Mr. Obama's measure—that they're calling his bluff in the belief that he can be counted on to fold. And it's also hard to escape the impression that they're right."
David Corn, the Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones and a columnist for PoliticsDaily.com, writes, more in sorrow than in anger:
"President Obama, in the instance of this apparent tax cut compromise, seems to be settling without waging a principle-driven battle, and that is puzzling many of his progressive loyalists… His reasons for eschewing a showdown remain a mystery… A deal like this … will drive many progressives crazy, for they're looking to Obama to lead a charge against the Republicans, not yield to their threats."
Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun, suggests that the best way to "get Obama to become the candidate whom most Americans believed they elected in 2008" is to challenge him from the left for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2012. The idea is not to defeat the incumbent, but to "pressure Obama toward much more progressive positions and make him a more viable 2012 candidate."
As Eleanor Clift notes in Newsweek, "MoveOn.org is running ads with the theme 'Bring Obama Back,' calling on the president to 'be the president we fought to elect' and to hold firm on his promise to end tax breaks for the richest Americans… It's a chance to reclaim his convictions, and Obama should seize it."
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of the Nation, bemoans "Obama's Disastrous Path" in her December 7 column in the Washington Post. Defining herself as a "progressive supporter" of Obama, she lists the president's right-wing moves since the mid-term election debacle, ranging from his abject apologizing to the Republicans to effectively abandoning his July 2011 date for beginning to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
Vanden Heuvel objects to Obama's leaning toward the notion that "we should impose austerity now, instead of working to get the economy going." The operative word here is "now," as it implies her agreement with the official line of the administration that whether sooner or later, austerity must be imposed.
Absurdly inflating Obama's stature, she declares: "This president has a historic mandate. Just as Abraham Lincoln had to lead the nation from slavery and Franklin Roosevelt from the Depression, this president must lead the nation from the calamitous failures of three decades of conservative dominance."
This, she continues, "is the necessary function of a progressive president… If he shirks it, [Obama] risks a failed presidency."
I still don't know what some of these people have been smoking or drinking. I don't see anything in Obama's past history that would give me the impression he would wage a "principle-driven battle" on anything. He says he supports GLBT rights and then he shows up with some of the most notorious homophobic religious nuts in the country and expands their role in 'faith driven' government GOTV grants. He doesn't appear to be using his bully pulpit or his pen to remove DADT. The most he appears to be doing is a few symbolic finger waggings. He says he supports a woman's choice on reproductive health and then immediately sells every women's uterus to the Stupakistan terrorist groups to drive through Romney/DoleCare; the healthcare reform that was less liberal than Richard Nixon's plan. He says he doesn't support War or torture, but then sends Holder on an endless mission to defend the Dubya policies and people at every turn.
What core values? What principled actions?
I even read an Ismael Reed Op-ed this morning that says that Obama can't afford to get angry without being tagged a militant black man. Was any one ever intimidated or upset when Steven Urkel got really mad? Even the Steven Urkel character had scripted moments when he took principled stands. No one wrote any thing about intimidation into the script and TV scripts love stereotypes. We can't get a little righteous anger from our Nerd-in Chief?
Better questions come from Grey:
They all proceed from the premise that Obama is a "progressive." Why? On what basis? There is nothing in his political career either before or after his election that suggests anything other than a conventional—i.e., right-wing—American bourgeois politician.
In the end, they brand Obama a progressive on the grounds that he is Democrat and an African-American. Here on full display is the political bankruptcy of the rejection of social class as the basic criterion in politics and its replacement by race and other forms of personal identity.
Yes, yes, yes. That is it. (Well, except I wouldn't call him an "American bourgeois politician" since I really am not a socialist by nature.) The richest among us slice and dice us into neat little angry groups of Tea Partiers and New Black Panthers so that we get more mad at the idea of Raj in Bangalore taking a job or the idea that civil rights can cause 'reverse discrimination' against white men or that we're being invaded by Mexicans who are driving all of our wages down or all white people are natural born racists. It's all the poison flowers of the same ugly little divide and keep them in corporate serfdom seeds.
Continue on with Grey. He's so worth reading.
What are the "core principles" that Obama has supposedly abandoned and must now reclaim? The only principles he has evinced are the defense of the global interests of US imperialism and the wealth and power of the American financial aristocracy. Aside from occasional cheap demagogy, he has shown nothing but indifference and contempt when it comes to the American people.
The apotheosizing of Obama by this political milieu is ultimately a function of their own social being. They represent a very privileged, comfortable and complacent layer of the upper-middle class, and their pro-Obama, pro-Democratic Party politics reflects very real, material interests—interests that are sharply at odds with those of the working class.
One need only ask, in precisely what does their "progressiveness" consist? They do not advocate serious social or political reforms, let alone socialist policies. On the contrary, they tenaciously uphold a political system dominated by two utterly corrupt and reactionary parties of the American plutocracy.
They do not, for the most part, even call for an end to the US wars of aggression that are killing hundreds of thousands and destroying entire societies in the Middle East and Central Asia.
The people who are writing these words are–as Grey writes–writing from the comfort of their own social being. Dana Millbank and the other villagers are the constituents defending the Obama tax cave-in because they will be some of the few beneficiaries. Check out this FDL Diary from Blue Texan and check out the comments. You can check out more on this vapid Dana Millbank column at Economist's View. Krugman, Thoma, and Dean Baker all take a punch at Millbank who just loves him some hippy punching. Krugman has a statement about the topic here too.
So look at how the Village constructs its mythology. The real story, of pretend moderates stalling action by pretending to be persuadable, has been rewritten as a story of how those DF hippies got in the way, until the centrists saved the day.
The worst of it is that I suspect Obama's memory has gone down the same hole.
Grey states it eloquently.
What really upsets them about the crass manner in which Obama prostrates himself before the Republicans and Wall Street is how thoroughly it exposes their own role in promoting him and aiding the marketing campaign that was used to get him elected. They are terrified that their political dog and pony show built around Obama has so quickly and ignominiously collapsed.
So, this is what REAL socialists say about Obama. Actual socialist thought is not the Glenn Beck/Rush Limbaugh fantasy philosophy that scares working class whites into seeing brown people as the threat. It's not found at all in progressivism (TM) that has warped like some magical Madison Avenue Marketing brand enshrouding Obama and the village into enabling the misguided notion that it's only white men that can prevent liberty and justice for all. Ultimately, socialism asks people to look at how the very rich and the very powerful use divisive tactics to stop us little people from realizing who is taking the fruits of our labor from us. Even if you aren't a socialist, this is an exercise worth entertaining. Now, comrades, have fun with those links!!!
On Redefining Illiteracy and Innumeracy
Posted: August 26, 2009 | Author: dakinikat | Filed under: A My Pet Goat Moment, The Media SUCKS, Voter Ignorance | Tags: Bernie Sanders, Glenn Beck and the Becksters, Keith Olbermann, Misinformants, socialism | Comments OffI've been highly frustrated recently by the appalling level 0f uncivil discourse at town hall meetings. Here's the latest experience for Howard Dean as reported by the Hill. Yesterday, I watched Senator John McCain's meeting and his was booed several times for making statements that were true by definition. The hatred in the air is palpable even over a TV screen. What reasonable person could argue with something that is true by definition? It's the most basic proof of all.
Well, we seemed to have lost our ability to present opposing viewpoints with the use of logic, data, and information. I was thinking about this on my drive across the bayous to campus this morning for several reason. First, I had a run-in with a group of Beck worshipers (yes, he's a loser babee, but he's not the singer). Second, I'm in my first set of lectures where I have to set up some definitions so we can move forward with the rest. That's when I figured it out. There's an entire misinformation industry out there making money on confusing the intellectually vulnerable on standard definitions. It's now so bad,that you can say that's untrue by definition or it's a tautology and folks will tell you it's just skewed data or your opinion.
How can you possibly reason with any one who thinks your data is bad because their basic definition is flawed? How do you debate some one who has refitted and redefined a definition to match their argument rather than some one who looks at the definition and tries to fit the argument to the definition? Well, you can't. Especially when they actually believe that the generally excepted definition is arguable. To me, this redefines both illiteracy and innumeracy.
When we are very young toddlers, we start learning to posit definitions with the help of our elders. Every one who has seen a toddler call every four legged furry animal a doggie has seen this happen. We say, no, that's not a doggie, that's a kitty or a horsie or a moo cow, until the toddler can put the animal into the correct set. The correct set is the universally agreed upon definition of the term. The toddler does not argue that your definition of kitty is your opinion. We'd never be able to communicate with any one if we each had unique definitions for every word. Yet, there are those with political and personal agendas that would make it so.
This is what has happened in political discourse. The generally accepted and agreed upon definitions of socialism, fascism, liberalism, racism, and other related terms are now malleable and debatable. Glen Beck is one example of a person that redefines and distorts these generally accepted definitions for a living. He's the reason I beat my head against the wall whenever I have to tell person, that by definition, Barack Obama is not a socialist or a fascist. Keith Olbermann is another example. He's the reason I beat my head against the wall whenever I have to tell a person, by definition, that Bill Clinton is not a racist. These 'misinformants' have completely made up their own definitions. As a result, those of us that follow the traditional, universally agreed upon definitions set up by scholars in the fields cannot have a civil discourse with any of their minions.
Here, let me show you. I'm going to borrow the Merriam Webster Dictionary of definition of Socialism. It's short and sweet.
Main Entry: so·cial·ism
Pronunciation: \ˈsō-shə-ˌli-zəm\ Function: noun Date: 1837 1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2 a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3 : a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
Take a good look at that definition and tell me, just once, when anything Barack Obama has said or done to date has had anything to do with advocating collective or governmental administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. He didn't do it with Chrysler, he didn't do it with GM, and he hasn't done it to any financial institution that was held in momentary receivership, given TARP funds, or pushed towards bankruptcy. What he has done has been to take public funds and pour them into privately owned means of production and distribution of goods. GM is still owned by stockholders and now, very much, by its unions who have been enriched by tax payer dollars. All those financial institutions have not been nationalized but they have been given sweetheart loans. If he was a socialist he'd have jumped at the opportunity to grab their assets and he did nothing of the kind. If anything, he typifies cronyism. He is not a socialist.
Also, the socialists themselves don't claim him. I've been reading the very left leaning Black Agenda Report for months. They can't stand him. The one openly socialist Senator we have, Bernie Sanders, doesn't agree with Obama's policies on health care or corporate bail outs or trade. Heck, even Socialist activist John Pilger thinks he's a "clever corporate marketing creation."
So, give then definition above and the data below it, can I get a shout out that BY definition, Barack Obama is NO socialist !
No? Are you going to give me the guilt by association argument? He knows a few socialists, therefore he is a socialist? (In that case I should be a Christian and a Republican because most of the folks I know, work with, live by and are related to are those and I'm neither.) What else can you do? Well, if you're a Glenn Beck Acolyte you will take his misdefinition and tell me, just wait because I will eventually be proven wrong or that my data is skewed or that I really don't know a thing about real socialism. I was even told by several Becksters that my data was skewed and my facts were wrong when I sent them to look at the CIA website containing the CIA factbook. I was told that all sites can be hacked. What do you say to people that think the CIA website can be hacked and that they manipulate their data to make Cuba look good?
Anyway. I picked this example, but I could've just as easily deconstructed the Bill Clinton is a racist meme which I just
may do when I get pissed enough about that too! This is the deal. We are letting a few on air personalities turn people into illiterate and innumerate shrieking morons. It's a problem when you're in a democracy. I may have a captive group of students with whom I can reasonably demonstrate what socialism is and is not because that's part of my job. But how do you reach the millions of folks that listen and watch these gasbags? They all need to be removed from whatever airwaves because they're damaging the democracy for their own personal gain. Their corporate masters need to be boycotted and punished for profiting from the proliferation of ignorance.
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I have never had an aphid problem like I have had this year. They have taken over all of my annuals in pots. So sad. I tried the soap sprays and fungicides but nothing seemed to work. What are the remedies for getting rid of these pests? I want to change out my sickly petunias for some mums but worry that the aphids will spread to them if I use the same pots. Anyone ideas welcome. Thanks. |
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Hi, comfortdog, |
Though everything that ZM says is perfectly true, it's worth mentioning that many gardeners and growers won't use a systemic pesticide, especially one containing Imidacloprid, out of respect for those critters that feed on nectar and pollen and even guttation fluids. That includes bees of every kind, butterflies, moths, hummingbirds and others. Another problem associated with Imidacloprid is that its use can cause a secondary infestation of spider mites on treated plants. Comfort, please be more specific about what you've used. I'm sure that you didn't mean to say 'fungicides ', which would be totally useless against aphids. As for the soap sprays, did you use commercial insecticidal soap or a home-made concoction? Of all of our usual garden pests, aphids are usually the easiest to control.....but it takes persistance, the right techniques, good cultural practices, and patience. |
- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Tue, Aug 27, 13 at 13:59
oh crikey i wish i knew where you are.. but everywhere.. it will be sept next week ... THROW OUT YOUR ANNUALS ... including all soil ... though i have no aversion to systemics.. what is the point of spending money on something that has shot its wad for the season .. what.. for an additional $20 investment.. you will get a few more weeks out of your $10 annuals??? while you have the pots empty ... bleach them out.. sterilize some new potting media ... and start fresh ... since you will be throwing out ALL annuals.. then you will be no residual aphid problems ... clean up this weekend... buy mums.. next weekend ... aphids will not hang around for a week .... ken |
- Posted by comfortdog (My Page) on Tue, Aug 27, 13 at 14:13
all info good. thanks. I did use a homemade concoction of soap. Definitely didn't work. I can't remember the commercial product I used but it did say it was good for aphids and other fungals. Ken, your advice is more predictive of what I thought I would hear. I am in OH which has had a cool wet summer. At first I only had them on the side of me house then it transferred to my beautiful petunias in the front. It is definitely time to throw them out. I purchase nice mums today but will wait to transfer to pots until I sterilize well. Do you have to use bleach? |
The homemade soap mixtures can often be a waste of time. Aphids can be controlled with the real stuff, though. They can also be rinsed away with a fairly strong spray of plain water! Aphids are INSECTS....I still think that you might be confused about terminology. A fungus is a disease...fungicides are chemicals used to control fungus diseases. Now, you might be using Neem oil, which can be used as a fungicide, an insect anti -feedant, and insect growth regulator. A good scrubbing with the hose water is really all that is necessary. Allow the containers to dry in the full sun....ken may disagree with me, but he tends to be a bit of a germaphobe. :-) Good luck with the mums! Inspect for aphids when you deadhead....squish when you find them. |
- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Wed, Aug 28, 13 at 11:26
There are ladybug larvae everywhere at this time of year, if you can find one or two of those, put them next to the aphids. Then you can watch part of the food chain in action. Trying to get rid of every pest you see is really counter-productive. Sure, don't let something as easy to combat as aphids ruin your plants, but there needs to be pests for beneficials to show up. Whatever chemicals that might be harmful to aphids are also likely harmful to whatever predators that may have started working on the problem, as well as the 'good' wildlife mentioned above. I think aphids are somewhat host-specific, meaning that aphids that like petunias may not necessarily find mums palatable. Rhizo will correct me if this is wrong, but if it's true, she's probably my source of this info. |
Hmmmm, wasn't me, purp, I don't think. But there ARE some species of aphids that are very host specific. That fancy milkweed /oleander aphid, for example. It's developed an ability to take in that gluey, toxic sap while others cannot. The Crape myrtle aphid is another; it is the only aphid found on Crapes, ever....and won't experiment on other plants. There is a Chrysanthemum aphid, also exclusively host specific. But I have no idea if any of the free agent aphids out there will feed on them, as well. |
- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Thu, Aug 29, 13 at 15:46
TY! "Free agent aphids" I don't like them, but this cracks me up! I'm sure these are the ones the darn ants are conspiring with. The ant/aphid axis of evil. I really do this, with the ladybug larvae, helpful little eating machines. They're not very smart or thorough, maybe easily distracted, maybe got eaten by something mid-shift, not sure which, but very effective right where I put them. Maybe I didn't make it clear yesterday I wanted the whole vine cleared before moving on, or something else... another tip on this vine could use a visit from one of these, but it would be a monumental crawl for the tiny helper. Anyway, this is a lot easier than trying to wash the aphids off (don't want to add any extra water to the ground right now,) or squish them on tender rex Begonia vine (Cissus discolor) without squashing the fragile/succulentish vine and delicate tendrils, flower buds. The little eating machine just cleans the vine with no damage at all. It would also be possible to snip the tip and just smash it underfoot, if I felt like it. It would grow back quickly. There are a lot of easy ways to deal with a few aphids. I don't see them spreading to other plants when I do nothing at all. A lot of plants have had problems in this summer of way too much rain. Weakened plants with mushy, rotting roots are exactly the kind pests like. The last petunia to die here this year was in a big mixed pot with other plants. The other plants are still in the pot, doing great (Pentas, heliotrope, purple heart - Tradescantia pallida if curious.) Petunias are fussy diva plants that always want more sun than you have, or less, or more water, or less water, or more fertilizer, or different soil PH, or something. Sure there are great ones every year, but of all of the plants sold as annuals, few come close to petunias for being impossible to please. I've bought some every spring for like the past 25-30 years and don't recall ever seeing one killed by frost. I'm sure it happens, but I gave up expecting such in my yard a long time ago. Happened to get one through to fall a couple years ago and put it in the ground. It showed back up the next spring, then died mid-summer, like all of the others. I'm convinced they like spring, but not summer. The patches of wild white/light pink ones are gone by now too, no longer a roadside attraction. I commend you for not having to decide yours officially look terrible until so recently, Comfortdog. Are these pots the hanging kind? You may like Calibrachoa for a similar look next year, if longevity is worth smaller, unscented flowers in your book. |
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As Austin Carver lined up for the 20-yard field goal that would give Gilbert its first win of the season, students climbed over security gates in anticipation and Tigers quarterback Conner Helvig tried his hardest to keep his eyes on the field.
"I didn't even want to look," Helvig said. "I was praying it was going in."
Carver, though, didn't let the moment affect his kick, and the ball sailed through the uprights with 6 seconds on the clock to give Gilbert a 38-35 victory over visiting Mesquite in a Division I game Friday.
"They make it way worse for me in practice, so it was pretty easy," Carver said. "I felt good, and I couldn't feel any better right now."
Carver's game-winning field goal was set up by Helvig's 24-yard run two plays prior that put Gilbert on the Mesquite 3-yard line.
It was big play after big play at the end of the game for the Tigers, as Helvig's run came two plays after James Hardman intercepted Wildcats quarterback Payton Haslam and put Gilbert at the Mesquite 36-yard line.
The Tigers defense had missed a few previous second-half opportunities against Haslam, letting potential interceptions slip through their hands and allowing a couple big pass plays.
"I think making some of the big plays that we made enabled that intensity to continue in the second half," Gilbert coach Leland Rodgers said. "And really, coming up with that interception at the end there, that was huge."
Gilbert (1-3) turned three Mesquite turnovers into 17 points. Two of those turnovers came on special teams.
"We're a young team," Mesquite coach Matt Gracey said. "We had a dog fight for the first time."
The Wildcats (0-4) played well and never trailed until the Tigers went up 35-28 with 5:52 left in the game. Haslam finished with 353 passing yards and five touchdowns.
"It's frustrating because I felt we should've won the game," Gracey said. "But again, we're building something, working with young guys, and sometimes we make young-guy errors.
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While Mesquite must wait another week to try to get its first win, Rodgers could finally celebrate his first win as Gilbert's coach. And the fact that it came against Mesquite, Gilbert's rival and the team he was the defensive coordinator for prior to leaving for his new position, just made it that much sweeter.
"It feels good," Rodgers said. "There's a lot of history with the coaches and even some of the players. So I would have liked to have gotten a win earlier in the season, but if it had to be the first one, it was good to get against our rival."
The players also felt a sense of relief.
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Marine Sargent Paul Ruiz, left, and Army Sargent Jason Wilson cheer before The Chicago Blackhawks take on The Detroit Red Wings during their game at the United Center in Chicago on Friday, April 12, 2013. The veterans were brought to the game by Craig and his son Matt Steichen who run a non-profit taking veterans to professional events. | Brian Powers~Sun Times Media
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The biggest crowd of the season roared through the loudest national
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Bitter rivalries don't end much sweeter than that.
It was the Hawks' seventh consecutive victory against their hated rivals, who'll be moving to the Eastern Conference next season, and capped their first season sweep of the Red Wings since 1976-77.
''It's been good for us against them this year,'' said Hawks goalie Corey Crawford, who made 27 saves and came up big in the shootout.
It has been good pretty much all season for the Hawks (31-5-4), who are 6-0-1 in their last seven games and have a seven-point lead on the second-place Anaheim Ducks with a game in hand and only two weeks left in the regular season.
At this point, the Hawks pretty much could put it on cruise control and glide into the postseason as the top seed in the Western Conference. But if there has been one common theme this season, it has been a distinct lack of contentment in the dressing room. There's
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Brandon Saad wasn't happy to be 0-for-3 in shootouts this season, so he did his homework, studied other people's moves and waited for his next turn. He saw a miss from Jonathan Toews in the first round of the shootout and figured if he got his chance — after the first three shooters, coach Joel Quenneville was calling off names one-by-one with little warning — he knew what to do.
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''I was just thinking about earlier moves, what the guys did and how to capitalize on mine,'' he said. ''I saw when [Toews] made his move, if he would have got [the puck] up, he would have had [Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard] beat. So I just tried to do the same thing to the other side. Ended up working out for me.''
Crawford wasn't happy about how he performed in his last shootout, giving up four goals in six rounds in a loss to the St. Louis Blues in his last start. So he broke down video all week, realized he was moving back too fast and worked on being more patient. It paid off, as Crawford denied four of the Red Wings' five attempts.
''I was moving a little too fast backward, and it was kind of getting me out of control,'' Crawford said. ''So I just slowed things down a little. I was able to move side-to-side a lot better tonight.''
And Toews wasn't happy with all the squandered opportunities the Hawks had, particularly early in the first period and throughout the third. A goal by Viktor Stalberg early in the second period gave the Hawks a 1-0 lead, but two goals in two minutes by the Red Wings' Johan Franzen and Cory Emmerton — Franzen's on the power play, ending the Hawks' streak at 21 consecutive kills — put the Hawks down 2-1 entering the third.
Toews kept chipping away and scored on a rebound of a shot by Johnny Oduya with 2:57 left in regulation to send the game to overtime.
''I had been looking for one of those all night,'' he said. ''Had some great pressure in that third period. We knew if we kept that pressure up, we could find a way to tie things up.''
With the division title locked up, the Hawks can look ahead to the top seed, the Presidents' Trophy, then the playoffs. But the way the Hawks see it, there's still plenty to work on in their last eight regular-season games, including a power play that's has one goal in its last 24 chances.
''We're going to keep going,'' Toews said. ''We got our division, we got home ice in the playoffs and we just keep building. I think this really shows that we're hungry and we're really motivated to improve every single night.''


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Hi. I'm Ed Ray, president of Oregon State University, and I'm pleased to have the opportunity to talk to you today about what we consider Job One here at Oregon State: the success of our students. We understand that our graduates are the most important contribution that we make to the future. And we take our responsibilities very seriously.
I want to talk to you briefly about some of the things we do to provide access, retention capabilities and, ultimately, success for our students here at Oregon State University.
There are two programs that I think are worth mentioning about providing opportunities for students to come here at Oregon State University and finish their degrees. One that we are very proud of is what we call our degree partnership program. We have agreements with each of the 17 community colleges here in Oregon at which students can enroll, either here at Oregon State University or at the community college, register for courses, arrange their financial aid, figure out their programs for the future with the help of advisers and do it in a kind of one-stop shopping where they either go to the community college or come here to the Corvallis campus. And as long as they are taking 12 or more credit hours they can quality for student financial aid, Pell Grants, etcetera, to help them afford the education that they are trying to ultimately attain. This is a program that we started back in 1998 with Linn-Benton Community College down the road. In the 10 years that that program has been in place, we've had 3,500 students start their education at a community college and finish here at Oregon State University. We're very, very proud of that.
We also have a program to help students with their finances. As a result of the shared-responsibility model which Governor Kulongoski, in collaboration with the support of the legislature, has put in place - with the help of our donors through philanthropy - to set up scholarships. We've had donors fund 330 scholarships in the early part of our current Campaign for OSU. We're able to combine the help of the funds that we're able to get from our donors, from the state, from federal Pell grants and elsewhere so that this year we'll be initiating what we call our Bridge to Success Program. It will provide full financial aid for tuition and fees for 1,500 incoming students from Oregon (Editor's note: Some 2,400 students have been offered assistance this fall.)
We also understand that sometimes students have a difficult time making the transition from high school or even from community college to the university itself. And so we've created programs to help students to persist, and we certainly want them to be able to persist through to graduation.
One of those programs began with student athletes two summers ago. It's a summer bridge program that helps them come in before classes start in the autumn, learn how to navigate the campus, coping skills, study skills, take some credit hours just to essentially get acclimated to campus life. It's been a tremendous success, and now over the next two or three years we're going to extend that program to all of our incoming students to help them get off to the right kind of start. In fact, through the help of a generous donor, we're in the process of creating a student success center, a building that will house academic advisors, career councilors, tutoring, mentoring services. It will help all of our students be as successful as possible and, as I said, persist through to graduation.
There are a lot of things for students to do while they're here at Oregon State University. We have a number of programs affiliated with our colleges that help them understand what the world of work and what the real world is all about before they graduate so that they can connect the dots between the learning that they're doing at the university and the issues they're going to have to deal with after they graduate. A great example is the MECOP program in our College of Engineering. The College of Engineering works with firms around the state to place some of their best and brightest students in summer internship programs to, as I said, to help them understand what the world of work is about. It's been a tremendously successful program.
Another area that we're very proud of is our Honors College. We have one of only a dozen or so separate honors colleges here at the university. It's a wonderful learning environment for extraordinary students. They take courses from every part of the campus. They have an opportunity to work with some of our best and brightest faculty in great learning environments in small classrooms.
We also have wonderful international exchange programs. A couple of years ago, I went along with colleagues to China and Taiwan and Thailand. We visited a dozen universities and reinforced exchange programs that we had in place and created new exchange programs. We'll be making a trip later in this year, in November, to India for that same purpose of meeting colleagues there and creating exchange learning opportunities for students and faculty that simply aren't available yet but need to be part of the expanding program for exchanges that we're creating here.
So we're very proud of the work we're doing to provide access both in terms of the mechanics of it through things like the degree partnership program, through the financial aid programs that we're able to put together like the Bridge to Success Program. We're also very proud of what we're doing to help our students persist through to graduation. Many of our graduates have, and I know the students that we have here with us today are also going to make their mark on the future. We're very, very proud of them. As I said, this is Job One. Thank you for listening.


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1 So now, those who are in Christ Jesus are not judged guilty. | 1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, |
2 Through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit that brings life made me free from the law that brings sin and death. | 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. |
3 The law was without power, because the law was made weak by our sinful selves. But God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son to earth with the same human life that others use for sin. By sending his Son to be an offering to pay for sin, God used a human life to destroy sin. | 3 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, |
4 He did this so that we could be the kind of people the law correctly wants us to be. Now we do not live following our sinful selves, but we live following the Spirit. | 4 in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit. |
5 Those who live following their sinful selves think only about things that their sinful selves want. But those who live following the Spirit are thinking about the things the Spirit wants them to do. | 5 Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. |
6 If people's thinking is controlled by the sinful self, there is death. But if their thinking is controlled by the Spirit, there is life and peace. | 6 The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; |
7 When people's thinking is controlled by the sinful self, they are against God, because they refuse to obey God's law and really are not even able to obey God's law. | 7 the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. |
8 Those people who are ruled by their sinful selves cannot please God. | 8 Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. |
9 But you are not ruled by your sinful selves. You are ruled by the Spirit, if that Spirit of God really lives in you. But the person who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Christ. | 9 You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. |
10 Your body will always be dead because of sin. But if Christ is in you, then the Spirit gives you life, because Christ made you right with God. | 10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. |
11 God raised Jesus from the dead, and if God's Spirit is living in you, he will also give life to your bodies that die. God is the One who raised Christ from the dead, and he will give life through his Spirit that lives in you. | 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you. |
12 So, my brothers and sisters, we must not be ruled by our sinful selves or live the way our sinful selves want. | 12 Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation--but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. |
13 If you use your lives to do the wrong things your sinful selves want, you will die spiritually. But if you use the Spirit's help to stop doing the wrong things you do with your body, you will have true life. | 13 For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, |
14 The true children of God are those who let God's Spirit lead them. | 14 because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. |
15 The Spirit we received does not make us slaves again to fear; it makes us children of God. With that Spirit we cry out, "Father." | 15 For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, ""Abba," Father." |
16 And the Spirit himself joins with our spirits to say we are God's children. | 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. |
17 If we are God's children, we will receive blessings from God together with Christ. But we must suffer as Christ suffered so that we will have glory as Christ has glory. | 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. |
18 The sufferings we have now are nothing compared to the great glory that will be shown to us. | 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. |
19 Everything God made is waiting with excitement for God to show his children's glory completely. | 19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. |
20 Everything God made was changed to become useless, not by its own wish but because God wanted it and because all along there was this hope: | 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope |
21 that everything God made would be set free from ruin to have the freedom and glory that belong to God's children. | 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. |
22 We know that everything God made has been waiting until now in pain, like a woman ready to give birth. | 22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. |
23 Not only the world, but we also have been waiting with pain inside us. We have the Spirit as the first part of God's promise. So we are waiting for God to finish making us his own children, which means our bodies will be made free. | 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. |
24 We were saved, and we have this hope. If we see what we are waiting for, that is not really hope. People do not hope for something they already have. | 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? |
25 But we are hoping for something we do not have yet, and we are waiting for it patiently. | 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. |
26 Also, the Spirit helps us with our weakness. We do not know how to pray as we should. But the Spirit himself speaks to God for us, even begs God for us with deep feelings that words cannot explain. | 26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. |
27 God can see what is in people's hearts. And he knows what is in the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit speaks to God for his people in the way God wants. | 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will. |
28 We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him. They are the people he called, because that was his plan. | 28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. |
29 God knew them before he made the world, and he decided that they would be like his Son so that Jesus would be the firstbornn of many brothers. | 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. |
30 God planned for them to be like his Son; and those he planned to be like his Son, he also called; and those he called, he also made right with him; and those he made right, he also glorified. | 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. |
31 So what should we say about this? If God is with us, no one can defeat us. | 31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? |
32 He did not spare his own Son but gave him for us all. So with Jesus, God will surely give us all things. | 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? |
33 Who can accuse the people God has chosen? No one, because God is the One who makes them right. | 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. |
34 Who can say God's people are guilty? No one, because Christ Jesus died, but he was also raised from the dead, and now he is on God's right side, begging God for us. | 34 Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. |
35 Can anything separate us from the love Christ has for us? Can troubles or problems or sufferings or hunger or nakedness or danger or violent death? | 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? |
36 As it is written in the Scriptures: "For you we are in danger of death all the time. People think we are worth no more than sheep to be killed." | 36 As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." |
37 But in all these things we have full victory through God who showed his love for us. | 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. |
38 Yes, I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor ruling spirits, nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers, | 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, |
39 nothing above us, nothing below us, nor anything else in the whole world will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. | 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
Scripture taken from the New Century Version. Copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Century Version Online Bible) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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This product has been discontinued
this is my FAVORITE powder ever! I love that I don't need foundation before it, last me all my night looks flawless on me !! I can't believe its discontinued I'm higly upset about it ...i hope they bring it back !
Discontinued?!? Well that's it. Boycotting Maybelline. I've used this product for 7 years!!!! Only powder I've ever stuck with. Tried tons and always went back. I am so upset! Maybelline, why discontinue something that so many people use??? It's y'all that is loosing money!!!!
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SO SAD THIS PRODUCT IS DISCONTINUED! This is the only powder/powder foundation I've thoroughly enjoyed. I use it in combination with CoverGirl Outlast Stay Fabulous 3-in-1 Foundation, and it is the only way I've been touch up free throughout the day! I do not have to worry about the foundation saturating, or oxidizing on my face. I also have a yellow undertone that is almost impossible to match, yet this powder foundation in Nude was perfect. I am not even sure what I am going to do next! There is no comparing the staying power of the powder, nor the price! Not a fan of square compacts, but whatev. Sorry to see you go, Maybelline PureStay Powder Foundation :(
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I really like this powder.The only thing is the packaging is such a let down, and I barely use the sponge.It mattifies and lasts about 3 hours. I'm not sure why this foundation isn't easy to find anymore.
Loveeee the product! Great coverage, has SPF and doesn't look cakey or chalky! Only con: HATE THE PACKAGING. I have a feeling it's being relaunched or repackaged though because it's become very hard to find so.... Definitely a must for my beach bag.
**I bought 2 for $5 at CVS last month. Stores are trying to get rid of them bc it's discontinued so scavenge around and stock up!**
I've been using this product since 2005 (maybe before that). I've strayed from this powder numerous times just out of curiosity and bought higher priced products such as Lancome's dual finish (which is pretty good too but very fragranced) but I always come back to this because it's exceptional.
I have VERY sensitive, acne prone skin and this powder foundation has never ever caused a breakout for me. It glides on SO smooth and seamlessly with exceptional coverage, yet feels light. It doesn't dry my skin out. The added benefit is the SPF 15. I've been in situations where I didn't had SPF on hand and used this on my face, and it protected my face from burning. I wouldn't use if for prolonged sun exposure, but it works for those times you need a little something. I hope they never discontinue this or change the formula. I wash the sponge it comes with every few weeks just to make sure it's germ free. The sponge is key -- you have to use the sponge it comes with. I lost it once and other sponges/makeup applicators didn't do as good of a job.
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Amazing. Always try to find new foundations to try . But always go back to this. I can only find it online now- they discontinued my color TAN 110 . I wish they would but the original colors back !
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This powder foundation is amazing. I've been using it for years and have heard it's being discontinued.
Snap it up if you see your shade on clearance somewhere!!!
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It's fantastic. The shades are a pain to match to my skin but i combine Ivory and Nude and it seems to work. I think it's being discontinued because it's harder and harder for me to find it in stores. So each time i see one, i buy it and stock up. Why does that always happen? Crappy products stay around forever but things that are actually good get discontinued. This gives a flawless finish, stays put, doesn't oxidize, doesn't cake, it's light and feels like you have nothing on. Perfect alone or on top of skin perfector or other liquid foundation. It's wonderful and if i could give it 100 stars i would! Please Maybelline, DO NOT discontinue this! Maybelline foundations in general are wonderful and i wear them exclusively!
UPDATE - 7/25/2013 - I have to downgrade this a bit. Now that L'oreal came out with the Nude Powder Foundation, it blows this and all the other foundations out of the water. Sorry Maybelline. Still love you but L'oreal got one up on you now. :)
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The Light and How to Swing It: First look at protection in Mists beta {WoW}
Mar 30th 2012 2:37PM You forgot the cool glyph changes, like being able to put consecration anywhere you want like the do tanks get to do with their spell.
Breakfast Topic: Is that you? {WoW}
Jan 14th 2012 4:01PM My main, Therigwin and my wife's main, Daraia, are extentions of ourselves, but with their own unique in game love story, etc.
My alts, however, are 3rd persons that support my main's story with some sub plot stories on the side.
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Know Your Lore: Master Mathias Shaw of SI:7 {WoW}
Feb 2nd 2011 10:09AM I think this was an ok attempt to get to know the Alliance's top rogue.
But I still think Daraia does it better on her blog in her "Know your Rogue Lore" series.
While done back in 2009, it still paints an even more complete picture of the man and his organizations.
SI7 and the Stormwind Assassins are two different organizations with some overlap and it is important to know the differences.
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The Light and How to Swing It: Cataclysm class preview wishlist {WoW}
Apr 13th 2010 6:31PM Actually come the changes, all tanks and dps plate wearers will have the same gear. The only ones left alone, the healers in plate.
So make it an even playing field for all and instead of a boss dropping healing boots, dps pants, and tanking shoulders, they drop plate... period.. and all can use it.
But if they do not do that, what we will see is a boss dropping plate healing boots, and tank/dps shoulders and pants. Then the tanks and the dps fight over that while eventually all the healing plate gets sharded.
I think they should do the same thing for shammies and mail, and caster druids with leather.
If they are going to simplify it, then simplify it.
The Light and How to Swing It: Cataclysm class preview wishlist {WoW}
Apr 13th 2010 6:16PM Honestly guys... mana starved in 5 mans?
Learn to play your class better.
I am never mana starved in 5 mans and I run it in T10 or equivalent gear.
Then again, I do cheat, I have two prot specs, one with Seal of Command glyphed so I get mana back from that.
My word of advice is to start reading Maintankadin or Honor's Code if you are serious about tanking with Paladins.
My one hope for that no one has predicted is that there will be no spirit/int plate gear, but a talent point in holy tree that converts strength to spirit/int for our healers mana.


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Is marriage becoming less of a political wedge issue?
on Jul 08, 2011 at 03:00 pmIn the wake of the marriage victory in New York and six national polls saying a majority of Americans favor the freedom to marry, the issue is also gaining ground among political insiders.
Poll: Majority of Americans Oppose DOMA
on Mar 15, 2011 at 02:47 pmThe survey also found that a majority are against the decision by the House GOP leadership to defend the law in court, now that the Obama administration won't.
States Update: Vote Delayed in MD, Calls to Let Marriage Resume in CA, Encouraging Polls in IA & NC
on Mar 01, 2011 at 04:57 pmTwo Maryland House members hold up the marriage bill vote, and California's Attorney General asks the federal appeals court to lift its order putting the Prop 8 decision on hold.
New Hampshire Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Marriage
on Feb 09, 2011 at 06:27 pmThe survey finds that 62% oppose a bill that would take away the freedom to marry in the state.
The Marriage Generation Gap
on Feb 08, 2011 at 12:52 pmFreedom to Marry's New Media intern Joe Girton takes a closer look at the rising tide of support for marriage among younger people.
Freedom to Marry's Sean Eldridge on Marriage – Personal and Political
on Feb 02, 2011 at 02:30 pmIn an interview on Swirl Radio, Freedom to Marry Political Director Sean Eldridge spoke about the state of the marriage movement in America, as well as his own recent engagement to Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes.
Barbara Bush, marriage equality & Obama
on Feb 02, 2011 at 12:30 pmJonathan Capehart makes the case for President Obama conducting a "series of under-the-radar meetings to help him in the 'evolution' of his stance and thinking on marriage for same-sex couples."
Two Iowa Senate democrats say loyalty to Gronstal trumps support for marriage amendment
on Feb 02, 2011 at 10:00 amA handful of Senate Democrats who would be the deciding votes on an amendment to ban marriage equality said Tuesday they won't join minority Republicans to force a vote this year.
Barring a change of heart, that means the effort to allow a public vote on a constitutional amendment to ban the freedom to marry is dead in the Iowa Legislature this session.
Eric Hartley: Still waiting for 'the real thing'
on Jan 31, 2011 at 11:30 amWhile many gay or lesbian couples from Maryland got married in Washington, D.C., after that city legalized same-sex marriage last year, Barry Kessler and David Hankey have waited. The Arnold couple was a bit wary of a D.C. marriage. The Maryland attorney general says the state can recognize out-of-state marriages, but what if it didn't for some reason?
But the real reason they're waiting is less legal and more profound: They want "the real thing," as Hankey put it.
RFK Jr. for N.Y. Marriage Equality
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Apple released the latest beta of iOS 5 and iOS 4.3.5 recently. Both of them turned out to be jailbreak friendly, but the procedure involved pointing Redsn0w to the last firmware to get the jailbreak done. iOS 5 beta 6 can be jailbroken using the same method, however, it's a tethered jailbreak. The same goes with iOS 4.3.5, point to the iOS 4.3.4 ipsw and get your device jailbroken.
Luckily, the iPhone-dev team has released an upgrade for Redsn0w, which doesn't require you to point to any previous firmware files. It's still a tethered jailbreak, which would require you to connect your iDevice to the computer and boot using Redsn0w. Looks like there isn't going to be any untethered jailbreak coming our way until iOS 5 is officially released an out of beta. The team also seem to have fixed a certain error with the CDMA iPhones that occurred after jailbreak. They explain;
Apple updated the iPad1 iOS5b6 IPSW without changing its version number or filename, so we're releasing redsn0w 0.9.8b7 to handle both the original and changed IPSW. We've also added explicit support for a tethered 4.3.5/4.2.10 jailbreak (instead of pointing at the 4.3.4/4.2.9 IPSWs) and fixed a 4.2.10 problem.
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