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A court ruling could put more money in the hands of thousands of state workers.
An Alameda County judge ruled Thursday that Governor Schwarzenegger illegally furloughed more than 50,000 state employees.
The state must now pay all employees their full salaries and stop the three-day per month furloughs.
The governor implemented the plan last year to help ease California's cash crisis.
For state workers on the Central Coast, the ruling could not have come sooner.
After months of protesting local state workers and union members feel their voices have finally been heard.
"He should have worked with the local labor organizations," said Bruce Corsaw, a representative of SEIU Local 620. "He should have abided by the laws of this state."
"We've always thought that they were illegal," said Aaron Henkel of PECG, or Professional Engineers in California Government. "This just confirms from another judge that what Arnold did to the state employee was illegal."
The mandatory time off amounted to about a 15 percent pay cut for state workers.
It's also frustrated California residents at places like the DMV, which had to close its doors the first three Fridays of every month.
"This is the second time we've been here this week because the lineups were so long," said Elaine Archer, a DMV Customer. "There was no way we had time to get in and get her test taken."
However there is still a long road ahead.
A spokesman for the governor has already said the administration will appeal the decision.
"Eventually I think it will end up in the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court will make the final decision on if the furloughs were legal or illegal, and if the state employee is due back their back pay," said Henkel.
The ruling does not affect CSU faculty because the governor does not have direct control over those jobs.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (www.incnow.tv) This month's Extra Mile – Circle of Giving story involves an electrical company who warmed the hearts and home of a grateful family.
Michele Berkes-Adams knew her house had electrical problems so she called her handyman friend. Who replaced some of the breakers and everything seemed to be fine for a couple of hours..until the breaker box caught on fire. That left Michele and her family without power for the entire wintry month of February.
They had to stay with friends. Michelle lost income because she works out of their home. Meet Bill Fairfield from Fairfield Electric. Who went the extra mile by doing all of that work at no charge to Michele.
She says, "Having this electrical work donated to us means the world to myself and my family. It means that we get to finally come home… and it gives me my work back so this is really wonderful. Very, very thankful for this."
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You might have noticed you could see Michelle and her children- Caedmon & Delphi's breath as they stood inside the family home. That was back in early March where the tempurature in the home was only 32 derees – the same time Fairfield Electric turned the power… and the heat.. back on.
Michele and her family plan to complete the Circle of Giving by paying it forward by lending a helping hand in the future.
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The Rectify boat party is back with Shiprect 2 making a splash at Maid of the Loch, Loch Lomond.
Kicking off at 4pm on Saturday 21st July, you can expect beats to cater for everyone; as well as facepainting for those who like their clubbing colourful, bongos, fire juggling and saxophones to entertain in between raving and we hear there's even special Shiprect cocktails!
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Downward deficit: How Patty Murray will negotiate the next budget crisis
The American outcry from last week's budget debacle was intense: Dysfunctional D.C. We need to vote them all out. How did it come to this? Onto the next crisis.
How does Dec. 13 sound for the next showdown? Sure, we don't hit the next debt ceiling until Feb. 7, but Sen. Patty Murray, chair of the Senate budget committee, and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., this week launched a new budget conference charged with working out a budget deal by mid-December.
They will have their work cut out for them: The Washington Post published five things to know about the conference, including the fact that nine of its Republicans voted against the compromise that ended the government shutdown. More on the conference committee and Murray's role in a bit. First a quick review.
Despite disparate views about the budget impasse, a collective sigh of relief greeted morning newspaper readers on Thursday after an 11th hour deal in the U.S. Senate to avert what many expected to be a financial meltdown. The relief was as palpable and just as dense as Puget Sound fog.
The New York Times front page focused on the political gamesmanship: "Republicans back down in fiscal standoff." The other NYT headline lamented the splintered Republican gambit: "Losing a lot to get little." The Seattle Times published those New York Times stories under their own front page headline: "Out of jeopardy, but for how long?"
The Wall Street Journal took a different approach. Editors at the Journal shrugged: "Congress passes a debt bill." The Journal also noted that businesses were voicing frustration with the GOP.
The Journal editors didn't snap at the bait of congressional antics. Instead, above the fold on the front page, they presented a large, data-rich and ominous graphic about the actual substance of the debate: the debt itself. The reader's eye was drawn from the left side of the graph with its seemingly modest debt ceiling of $4.9 trillion in Clinton's 1993 to the $16.7 trillion debt ceiling in Obama's 2013. The graphic looks like one side of Mount Rainier. It's steep and dangerous. The following day, The New York Times ran a graphic showing the proximity of Republican and Democrat approaches on deficit reduction, except for health care.
Seeing the Journal's debt chart reminded me of the words this summer of former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyoming, who came to town to preach the gospel of fiscal responsibility and federal debt reduction. Dripping with sarcasm and cynicism at what was still to come, Simpson said Americans were fixated on drama and hatred for politicians, not solutions and ideas.
As if making his point months later, a pundit this week equated the deal to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling with saving a patient who was very near death. But where's the analysis of why the patient is dying? To use another morbid metaphor from public health, who's looking upstream to see where all these dead bodies floating downstream are coming from? It's growing governent borrowing, stupid.
Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles would say it just that bluntly. They were the bipartisan co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. I'd suggest Northwest Republicans and Democrats dust off the Simpson-Bowles recommendations pronto. They outlined a thoughtful approach that balances the needs and concerns of both parties — discretionary and mandatory spending cuts, tax reform, social security reform and improving the process we all witnessed fall apart over the past two weeks. Former Republican Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici and former White House Budget Director and Federal Reserve Vice Chair Alice Rivlin have also published a bipartisan blueprint for deficit reduction that is worth studying.
These ideas are getting some attention from Washington's Sen. Murray. During a phone call Friday, her communications director Matt McAlvanah said Murray will use Simpson-Bowles and Domenici-Rivlin as something of a litmus test for deficit reduction proposals. He acknowledged that Murray "looks for smart entitlement cuts." It's an open question (and a tough conversation) whether Democrats will agree with her, he said.
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Posted Sat, Oct 19, 5:10 a.m.
Patty Murray, the third highest spender in the senate, will
doom this committee just as she did in the 2011 super committee
that she helped head. She has no concept of what it means
to actually cut spending or what it involves.
Posted Sun, Oct 20, 11:57 a.m.
I remember Patty Murray shutting down the super-committee after the Republican members left town rather than work on a deal. I predict the same thing will happen this time -- there will be some progress towards a deal, then the Republicans will abandon the committee and go home to raise money.
Posted Sat, Oct 19, 7:19 a.m.
The Simpson-Bowles Report has as many readers in DC as the Bible has in Seattle, for the same reason: Nobody really believes it. And asking Patty Murray to lead the Senate committee in finding places in the budget to cut? Beyond laughable. That's like asking Donald Trump to start eating his meals from the dollar menu at McDonald's.
What's to come would be comical if it wasn't OUR money and OUR debt.
Posted Sat, Oct 19, 1:16 p.m.
I was in Washington DC for spring break last April. I took my children to a Senate committee meeting, chaired by Sen Murray, where a senior person from OMB was presenting the President's budget (which by the way was way over due).
It was really discouraging. First, though there were 11 or 13 senators supposedly on the committee, only a few (maybe 3) were in attendance the entire time. Second, Sen Murray's questions were focused on how much spending there was in the President's budget for salmon recovery. I had sent email to Sen Murray's office earlier asking how they expected to be able to keep funding the deficits. Who is going to buy this debt that the President's budget forecasts will be issued? I did not get a solid answer from Sen Murray's office.
The ranking Republican, Sen Johnson from Wisconsin, was very focused on entitlement issues and long-term social security finances. He also was asking the question I asked about "how are we going to fund these deficits."
I hope someone raises this question again: "how are we going to fund these deficits?" And then a related question is "what happens if we can not?" What happens to the dollar, what happens to retirement savings, what happens to "guaranteed" pension benefits that taxpayers are on the hook to pay, and most of all, what kind of a mess are we leaving to our kids?
More than anything, DC seems like One Big Bubble. It is quite striking to read that 7 of the 9 highest income counties in the country are in the DC suburbs. Also, if you drive around the Virginia suburbs, you see these ginormous houses that remind one of the Loire Valley chateaux.
I hope that in follow up interviews with Sen Murray, you can ask this question: "how are you going to fund the deficit?"
I also took the family to Sen Cantwell's coffee hour, available to any constituents who are in DC on a Weds when the Senate is in session (Sen Murry does the same thing). I asked Sen Cantwell the same question, got a sort of answer, and then we discussed how these deficits are mind boggling, the unfunded liabilities are unfathomable, and how No One from congress ever communicates this to the country. The chief of staff said "we want to do some communication." I can hope this is the case. I sent some follow up emails and did not hear back.
I am very nervous for the future of our country. Unfortunately, lots of people benefit greatly from the status quo, which is the continuation of borrowing.
Posted Sat, Oct 19, 10:35 p.m.
Murray has a reputation for not being (how to characterize this charitably...) particularly intellectually rigorous. Readers here may remember that she asked Vice President Gore's advice as to whether she should voice her disappointment that president Clinton had committed felony perjury. Needless to say, she took Gore's advice. A real profile in courage, that. She will be a non-blinking doctrinaire toe-er of the party line in this process and, as a result, no real progress will be made. Mom in tennis shoes. Good enough for government work.
Posted Sat, Oct 19, 10:59 p.m.
I would like to see the Democrats take a page from the Republican playbook and insist that every dollar of spending cuts has to be matched by three dollars of tax increases on the wealthy.
Posted Sun, Oct 20, 5:05 a.m.
And the Wealthy will be defined for taxing purposes as anyone who has a job.
Posted Sun, Oct 20, 5:50 a.m.
The Title of the article must have gotten changed in editing, it should have been "Can Patty Murray direct the Economy downward?
to which we can all agree the answer is a big "yes"!
Posted Sun, Oct 20, 9:11 p.m.
At first, I thought Crosscut was putting out its April Fools edition early.
Posted Sun, Oct 20, 11:55 a.m.
The deficit has fallen by almost 50%, actually. Alan Simpson never seems to mention this little fact.
I hope Patty Murray does not give away anything valuable in this senseless quest for a "grand bargain". I hate the sequester, but it would be a huge mistake for the Democrats to agree to slash Medicare or Social Security in exchange for some temporary breaks in spending cuts. Besides, the next round of the sequester mostly hits the defense budget, which is bloated anyway.
Posted Sun, Oct 20, 4:35 p.m.
The minor drop in the deficit is a temporary phenomenon, I think deficit growth is projected to seriously resume in about 2017. See the CBO projections (http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44172) out to 2023. The deficit is only diminished in 2013 because 2011 and 2012 were so terrible. The "fallen by nearly 50%" claim sounds good; where does it come from? and compared to what?
Posted Mon, Oct 21, 7:43 a.m.
One aspect missing from the consideration of the U.S. GOVERNMENT'S $ 17 TRILLION DEFICIT is that the incurred debt is money taken from circulation in other countries, anyhow 15, the remaining 2 are said to be held by the Fed. Weird book keeping for sure.
The Iraq adventure is said to have cost one trillion, ditto I expect for the Afghan war. There an international police action would have sufficed to hunt down Bin Laden. Ye olde Taliban whoever they really are is of course another matter - that requires the question of why and whence that reaction to what is called "Modernism", insufficient colonizations is perhaps one answer!
Carter Brzezinski's destabilization + the town of Truth and Consequences! Reagan/ Casey, the mujaheddim
Regarded from this perspective the "deficit" is part of U.S. exceptionalist domination and exploitation of the world, it takes money out of circulationn world wide that would be better spent on infra structure, health, small lending - all less secure, until recently, than investing in Uncle Sam.
Posted Mon, Oct 21, 9:45 a.m.
We don't have a $17 Trillion DEFICIT. We have a $17 TRILLION DEBT. There is a massive, massive, huge, important difference. Just want to make sure we're accurate with each other.
Also, I have a real problem with the base assumption that the government budget and financial system should have ANY resemblance to household, business, or even corporate finances and budgets. Yes, the bookkeeping is weird IF YOU THINK it should look anything like YOUR bookkeeping. In the context of every other sovereign national budget and bookkeeping, the basic concepts are pretty rational, actually.
Posted Mon, Oct 21, 9:13 a.m.
I don't believe Republicans can claim the "party of finance" any longer. There is no scenario where we cut our way out of these deficits, and it doesn't end up killing economic growth.
The simple fact is, every time Ryan says we cut, he records it as a pure savings that costs us nothing elsewhere in the system. Having more uninsured people? Free. Totally free. Zero extra costs elsewhere in the system. Cutting education funding? Free - doesn't hurt economic growth at all... all projections for economic growth stay the same. Cuts to unemployment benefits? Zero cost there.. no knock-on effect on the economy.
And this is the supposed party of sober fiscal analysis. They believe we can extract portions of the foundation piecemeal, and the house will remain as sturdy as it always was.
Add that to the fact of Republican ignorance about what the government they partially run actually does. If they knew what government actually DID, would they have done this: NIH shut down = kids not getting their trial cancer drugs? Whoops, my bad, let's turn that back on. E-coli outbreak you say, well the states will just handle... oh, wait, they can't? Sorry y'all, turn the Dept. of Ag. and FDA back on. Hurricane headed for the Gulf Coast? That's cool, people will just take personal responsibili... oh... er... let's have FEMA back online.
They think cuts are free and they don't even know what they're cutting does.
They believe the Laffer Curve is bottomless in its economic potency, Ayn Rand's sullen 8th grader "it's not FAIR..." philosophy has a place in the real world, and "freedom" is nothing more than a justification for blind, unquestioning, self-serving myopia.
The only thing that matters about Paul Ryan's budget is the extent to which politically he can agree to altering it and accepting additional revenues.
Posted Mon, Oct 21, 12:56 p.m.
Employees of Fuse Washington should have their posts moderated here. I mean, NullBull, the front page story is really about Patty Murray's level of influence on a very difficult issue. Are you proposing that Patty Murray is thought of in the same league as Paul Ryan? You may be suffering from the same intellectual impediment that has dogged Senator Murray her entire career in politics.
Posted Thu, Oct 24, 1:22 p.m.
I'm suggesting that Patty Murray is in a position of dealing with a person who believes in a fantastical fiscal world manufactured in his adolescent mind as an equal, rational party. And that is bad for all of us.
I had to Google Fuse Washington - never heard of it.
Posted Mon, Oct 21, 12:52 p.m.
Patty is generally not thought of in the Senate. For anything. Period. She is a sharp departure from Washington's history of strong leaders like Jackson, Magnuson, Evans and Gorton.
To even put a story like this on the front page advancing such a foolish notion that Murray would have influence over anything that goes on in Washington DC is simply a fairytale. I mean, even if you are a Dem, is she your first stringer? Her verbal and intellectual firepower have never been more potent than a party popper; she will get run over in any negotiation.
Posted Mon, Oct 21, 2:23 p.m.
It appears Mr. Shaw buried his lead: the fact -- clearly stated in his final graf -- that Murray (again) intends to inflict on Social Security and Medicare recipients the silent genocide of cuts that kill.
Not that I'm surprised by Murray's closet Republicanism. Murray the Mental Midget -- living proof of the fact education is the easiest major on campus -- will obey the Democratic Party's Wall Street masters no matter how vicious their demands.
That's because -- like any other Republican whether overt or clandestine -- Murray answers only to the Money Men, humanitarian needs be damned. Such is Ayn Rand feminism in action.
Nor is the attendant brand-deception anything new. Note Obama the Orator's shape-shift into Barack the Betrayer, the total-surveillance tyrant who now out-Nixons Tricky Dick.
Indeed it's the central Big Lie of the all-time cosmic whopper peddled as "American democracy": vote for a Democrat, get a hard-Right Republican. Vote for a Republican, get a bonafide Fascist.
Such are "free elections" in a nation ruled exclusively for the One Percent by One Party of Two Names – moral imbeciles who profit obscenely by minimizing wages and savaging social services.
The result – and our plutocratic overlords damn well know it – is genocide.
Yep, the despots want us dead. Especially us uppity geezers who (subversively) remember when – at least if you were white – this used to be a pretty livable country.
Which suggests a new slogan: death – it's now the only "change we can believe in."
Posted Tue, Oct 22, 5:45 a.m.
Oh, please. We have certain demographic trends- people are having fewer children so fewer working age per retiree. Additionally, people are living alot longer. When Social Security was implemented, the age was set so that few people would receive benefits for more than a few years. It was also not meant to be one's sole source of income. So we have a system that is not sustainable. Means testing, changes in how cost of living adjustments are made, etc. must be considered. Its not a right-wing plot.
Posted Wed, Oct 23, 1:58 p.m.
To use your own stipulation, Seasoned "when Social Security was implemented," half the U.S. population was not permanently imprisoned at or below official lower-income status.
Nor was the USian 99 Percent officially designated, by United Nations and World Health Organization criteria, as the most oppressed people in the industrial world.
And what about all the formerly middle-class USians whose carefully managed retirement investments were obliterated by the most recent economic contraction?
When you're 30 or 40 or maybe even 50, you might have a chance at recovering from such a debacle. But if you're already retired, you're doomed. No recovery is possible.
Such is capitalism in action: infinite greed exalted as ultimate virtue, and devil take the hindmost.
In this context, to argue that demographics mandate slashing Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and other safety-net programs -- imposing cuts that anybody with a lick of sense damn well knows will kill people -- is hardly different from the Nazi Germans arguing that slave labor and death-camp genocide was mandated by economic necessity and realpolitik.
As the slogan says, "budgets are moral documents" -- and what USian budgets increasingly do is reflect the Ayn Rand greed, malevolence and outright murderousness by which the One Percent define the conditions of USian life for all the rest of us.
Posted Thu, Oct 24, 8:09 a.m.
lorenbilss, I hope for all of our sakes that your response was tongue-in-cheek. Social Security was established in 1935. What was happening in 1935? (think about it).
For pepole whose investments went down, if they did not liqudate at the bottom, they have seen significant recovery in their principal. All thinking adults should know that investments can go down in value as well as up so diversification and understanding of risk is essential if one is to invest.
As to all of the fixes to Social Security, these are targeted toward those who have not yet retired, and those who are not close to retirement.
According to the Social Security Administration the ratio of contributors to recipients was 16.5 to 1. In 2010, the ratio was 2.9 to 1. This is because we are living longer, much longer than we did in the past and are having fewer children.
Additionally, cuts are not "slashes". Equating trying to fix the current budget mess we ar in with Ayn Rand and Nazis goes beyong the pale of ideology toward irrational rantings.
Posted Fri, Oct 25, 8:13 a.m.
Simple solution. Eliminate the ceiling on earnings that are taxed for SS. Crisis averted.
Posted Fri, Oct 25, 10:10 p.m.
Seasoned, there's nothing "tongue in cheek" about the differences between the United States in 1935 versus the USian Empire of today. The two realms are as different from one another as -- if you'll pardon the cliché -- day is from night.
But first let's deal with your repetition of one of the more common Big Lies by which stealth austerity is being imposed by the Republicans and their Democrat enablers, including the president who campaigned as a Democrat but has since revealed himself to be – in nearly every way possible – an ideological Republican.
You say, "...the fixes to Social Security are targeted to those who have not yet retired, and those who are not close to retirement."
This is simply not true. The proposed "fix" – and it is indeed a slashing – is immediate imposition of the so-called "chained CPI." This would impact all Social Security recipients, present and future, hacking an average of $1,000 per year off each of our individual stipends. (See, for example, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/13/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20110713) Imposed before 1 January 2014 – not likely but surely possible – it would abolish this year's tiny 1.5 percent cost-of-living increase.
(To show the extent to which that miserly 1.5 percent increase is already inadequate, note that Group Health, rated as having one of the best Medicare programs in the country, is gentrifying its membership by imposing an $80-dollar-per-month premium increase effective the first of the year. Compare this – reportedly the biggest and must deliberately exclusionary premium hike in Group Health history – to a Social Security increase that averages only $17 per month.)
Now, with Social Security as a contextual microcosm, let's return to the differences between 1935 and 2013.
Politically, the United States -- the nation in which I was born in 1940 -- was in 1935 a functional constitutional democracy with an electorate powerful enough to force governmental amelioration of the horrors of the Great Depression.
Today, the USian Empire is an absolute oligarchy in which both political parties have been captured by the forces of unrestricted capitalism, which defines infinite greed as ultimate virtue and governs from a paradigm of absolute power and unlimited profit for the One Percent, total subjugation for all the rest of us.
Thus our so-called "free elections" have been, save in a few local matters, reduced to meaninglessness. The USian electorate has been so mercilessly robbed of its former power, it has no more say-so over national governance than the peasants and proletarians of the Russian Empire had over the decrees of the Tsar on the eve of the revolutions of 1917.
The extent to which We the People have been disempowered is exemplified not just by Obama the Orator's sneering shape-shift into Barack the Betrayer, but by the ever-intensifying despotism of hard-right, often definitively fascist policies embraced with equal enthusiasm by the two major parties.
Indeed -- given Wall Street's total control of both parties -- it is more accurate to describe them as One Party of Two Names.
Which brings us to the economic differences between the United States in 1935 versus the USian Empire of today.
In 1935, just as you say, the Social Security Act was passed. What you omit is it was part of a much larger package of long-overdue democratic and humanitarian reforms that included the Wagner Act, which empowered organized labor, and the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, which created the Works Progress Administration to rescue the millions hurled into joblessness by capitalist greed. (The Civilian Conservation Corps, another federal employment program, had been in business since 1933.)
We the People were increasingly optimistic and, particularly as personified by the greatness of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, we had undeniably rational reasons for so being.
Bottom line, life in 1935 might not have been pleasant, but those who were alive then knew the future would be better.
In the USian Empire of today, government at every level behaves as if the prime precepts of governance were either the Antoinette dismissal of starvation, "let them eat cake." or Ayn Rand's dismissal of every humanitarian moral precept ever uttered. The politicians bend over backwards to help the Imperial One Percent, but savage the 99 Percent at every opportunity -- repeatedly slashing or eliminating social services just as constant unemployment combines with nosediving wages to make those services more vital than ever.
We the People of the 99 Percent are thus in 2013 increasingly pessimistic. We have discovered the "audacity of hope" is in fact the imbecility of hope. We sought "change we can believe in" and instead got betrayal we cannot deny. We know the good times will not return no matter how hard we work. We know the Imperial One Percent is too malevolently greedy to ever again share its unimaginably vast wealth unless it is forced to do so by revolution.
But we also know revolution is impossible; technology has given the total-surveillance state and its thoroughly militarized secret-police apparatus the zero-tolerance omnipotence of the biblical god. Now we are learning what people of color have always known – that we are like a conquered people in a conquered land – and our formerly local police are increasingly forced to soldier in a de facto army of occupation that serves only the One Percent.
Bottom line, unless one is very wealthy or has thus far been very lucky, life in 2013 is a deadly triumvirate of wretchedness, anxiety and exhaustion, made all the more so by our certain knowledge our poverty and enslavement is forever – that our future will be unimaginably worse.
In this context to denounce the influence of "Ayn Rand and Nazis" is merely to speak truth to power.
Posted Mon, Oct 28, 7:16 a.m.
Your degree of hyperbole is amazing. First of all, no one in 1935 "knew" what was going to happen. If you actually spoke to people who were adults at that time, you would not say this. What got us out of the depression was the WWII buildup.
Scondly, the chained CPI is just one of the possibilities being floated.
But basically, your mindset is that everyone else is selfish for not putting your personal concerns above theirs. This last recession was caused by people enabled by loose lending standards to gut the equities of their homes to buy cars, big screen tvs, vacations, etc. If it were not for ignorant, greedy and gullible people who refuse to act like adults and exercise impulse control, a downturn in the econmoy, if any, would hsve been softer and shallower.
We took our industrial supremacy borne from the fact we were the only large industrial country in the world not devestated by WWII and instaed of truly building upon it, became fat, dumb and lazy. We went out and bought foreign cars and cheap third world products, and did not maintain good workmanship. We tossed incredible amounts of money at education, but refused to value education as in pushing our kids to do their best at math and science, or at least read books, instead of sports. We shove junk food in large quantities, watch endless amounts of mindless TV and wonder why we are all so overweight and why the rate of diabetes is so high.
We have done all of these things, refused to take personal responsibility, and bleat for mommy or daddy to bail us out.
Posted Thu, Oct 24, 1:37 p.m.
What's the difference between "news analysis" and "op ed"? Just wondering.
Posted Fri, Oct 25, 8:59 a.m.
Treker, why do people assume that there is the great untapped number of "rich" out there? The SS max is now $113,700. Maybe 4-10% of people working exceed that salary threshhold. Most nominal corporate salaries are maxed out at $1,000,000 due to IRS rules that limit deductability over that amount (the rest of compensation is typicaly stock options).
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Everyone's fave sex-deprived TV star, Tina Fey, lost her virginity at the ripe ol' age of 24 to her hubby, "Saturday Night Live" musician Jeff Richmond. Fey explained the long wait to Howard Stern. "I don't know, I was a drama major, so it was me and 100 gay guys, so maybe that was my problem."
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Rend Lake South Tourism Information Center Re-Opening Expected to Add $2.9 M in State Tourism Spending Creating 27 Illinois Jobs
WHITTINGTON � Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) Director David Vaught today visited southern Illinois to announce the re-opening of the Rend Lake South Tourism Information Center located in Whittington, Illinois. The re-opened tourism information center will help increase tourism spending and revitalize the local economy and surrounding southern Illinois communities.
�The tourism industry is an integral part of the Illinois economy. By investing in the state�s tourism industry, we are creating more jobs for hospitality and travel workers, supporting long-term economic growth and making Illinois an even more attractive place to visit and do business,� DCEO Director David Vaught said.
The state�s tourism information centers (TICs) serve as a gateway to Illinois and play an important role in the state�s efforts to encourage domestic and international visitors to stay longer and see more of Illinois. Starting today, the Rend Lake South Tourism Information Center is fully staffed and will be open Thursday through Monday of each week. Travel counselors will be available to assist visitors with travel information, provide brochures, and make hotel reservations as needed in order to generate more revenue during a visit/stay in Illinois. Typically, travel counselors are able to increase the length of stay in Illinois and visitor expenditures by an additional $45 on average per visitor.
The Rend Lake South Tourism Information Center is one of 11 tourism information centers to re-open after being closed in June 2010. All of these TICs were selected to re-open based on the volume of visitors/traffic that the facilities received. Through increased visitors, the re-opened Rend Lake South TIC is expected to bring in an estimated $2.9 million in additional tourism spending to the southern Illinois economy over the next year, which would create approximately 27 jobs.
�The Rend Lake South Tourism Information Center is vital to making sure visitors have the latest information on tourist attractions, lodging and restaurants in the area, which will help provide a much needed boost to the local economy,� said State Representative John Bradley.
�The re-opening of the tourism information center at the I-57 welcome center will help bring more visitors to local tourist sites,� said State Senator Gary Forby. �With more information about area attractions, people will stay in Illinois longer and spend more money in the southern Illinois economy.�
The TICs are funded through the Tourism Promotion Fund, which is funded by a portion of the state's hotel motel tax collection. In 2011, state and local tax revenues from tourism totaled more than $2.3 billion, which is an increase of more than $300 million. State tax revenue rose 20 percent to $1.64 billion while local tax revenue rose 5.1 percent to $706 million.
�I am very pleased that the state has decided to re-open the Rend Lake South Tourism Information Center. This will not only help local tourism but tourism throughout the lower 22 counties of southern Illinois,� said MaryLou Galloway, Director of the Southern Illinois Artisans Shop and Visitors Center.
Governor Pat Quinn recently announced that the Illinois tourism industry generated a record $31.8 billion in 2011, up 8.4 percent from a year ago. The increase of nearly $2.5 billion was fueled by a record 10 percent increase in leisure travel. The robust results mark the industry�s return to pre-recession levels and emphasize the critical role tourism plays in fueling Illinois� economic growth, creating jobs and providing additional revenue to the state.
Illinois travel industry estimates indicate 4,490 jobs were created in 2011, increasing the number of travel workers in Illinois to approximately 291,990.


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A birth injury lawsuit resulted in a $78.5 million dollar verdict in a case of a three year old who suffered brain damage at birth. The case was brought by the parents on behalf of their child, Parrys Nicholson-Upsey. The case was filed in the Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia.
The mother was 36 weeks pregnant when she went to the Pottstown Memorial Medical Center for abdominal pain. An ultrasound showed no detectable heart movement. It took approximately one more hour to perform an emergency caesarean section.
The infant was "hypotonic and lethargic" and the newborn was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital for brain cooling treatment to spare the brain cells from additional injury.
Unfortunately, the endotracheal tube became clogged with blood during emergency transport, according to the complaint.
The child now has spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy that was preventable, according to the complaint.
The defendants include Bryn Mawr Neonatal Associates, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc., Main Line Health, Inc., Jefferson Health System, Inc., Women's Health Care, P.C., and Pottstown Hospital Company LLC, according to the court docket sheet.
According to the plaintiff's attorney, no amount of money can ever make this child whole. However, the funds can improve the quality of the child's life.
The cost of taking care of babies injured at birth can be astronomical, as this verdict shows. Click here for the full story from the Pennsylvania Record >>
The law firm of Michael M. Wilson and Associates has successfully represented a number of children who have suffered at or near the time of birth. Please call us if you believe that we may help in your case.
The information on this website is for general information purposes only. Nothing on this site should be taken as legal advice for any individual case or situation. This information is not intended to create, and receipt or viewing does not constitute, an attorney-client relationship. Not admitted in Maryland or Virginia.
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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Burdukova, Polina URN etd-09282010-170400 Document Title An analysis of the status of orchestras in South Africa Degree MMus Department Music Supervisor
Advisor Name Title Prof J deC Hinch Supervisor Keywords
- Playhouse Companies
- National Arts Council
- Culture and Heritage
- White Paper on Arts
- Department of Arts and Culture
- Educational and Community Projects
- KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra
- Cape Philharmonic Orchestra
- Business Arts South Africa
- National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund
- Arts and Culture Trust
- Music agencies
Date 2010-09-03 Availability unrestricted Abstract Over the past few decades Classical music, as an established art form, has increasingly struggled world wide as a sustainable industry. The music preferences of the general public have been moving away from the traditional symphonic concerts, and both public and private sponsorships have been diminishing. In South Africa, orchestras moved from fully government subsidised organizations to self-sustaining companies after closure of almost all orchestras in 2000 due to new political leadership and cultural funding redirections.
The South African government's policy on Art and Culture has been completely restructured in the view of the post-apartheid government's new priorities. The creation of a National Arts Council saw the end of separate provincial art councils and centralized the distribution of private funds. The annual ring-fenced funding for the three orchestras in three different provinces was eventually established. The Department of Arts and Culture realized that funding of all cultural institutions in the country cannot be achieved by government alone and therefore created various companies and trusts, such as National Lottery, to generate additional funding. The private sector is also being encouraged by the ministry to provide assistance and collaborate in supporting of arts and culture.
The three full-time orchestras - two established post 2000 - that have persevered in the new conditions and are functioning to this day are KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, Cape Philharmonic Orchestra and Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra. All three had to adapt to new work loads and undergo a difficult transformation into money-earning business way of conducting their day-to-day operations. New concepts for the running of an orchestra, such as budgeting, advertising, planning, audience creation, outreach education, management reconstruction and fund raising, were slowly taken up and old mentalities associated with how orchestras were previously ran were finally discarded. This dissertation describes the status quo and traces the history of South Africa's orchestras over the past fifteen years.
© 2010, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
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Burdukova, P 2010, An analysis of the status of orchestras in South Africa, MMus dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09282010-170400/ >
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text: Does anyone remember a restaurant on the Grand Concourse Level of the Contemporary called the Pueblo Room? They had a breakfast casserole there with eggs over a sausage and spicy tomato sauce. I think later it might have been served in Coconino Cove or the Outer Rim. I looked in my old "Cooking With Mickey, Vol. II" and couldn't find any reference to the recipe or the restaurant. Any help in finding this recipe is greatly appreciated.


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I'd like to see "Jury-rigged" changed a bit.
Firstly, I'd suggest removing the ability to reduce the Advantage cost on triggering a weapon's quality, because it makes Auto-fire broken again. I'm fine with the +1 damage and reduced Critical cost, but reducing Auto=fire back to just 1 Advantage per activation makes this a very powerful option.
Also, the text doesn't cover what happens when the weapon or armor in question is lost. Assuming the bonus does not automatically convey to another of the character's weapons or pieces of armor, then the character has in effect lost XP equal to the cost of the talent. Is this what the designers' intend?


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Sep. 24, 2009, at 12:31pm
In an online interview I came across recently, the interviewer, obviously annoyed by president Obama's frequent exhortations to "move beyond the ideological battles of the past", asks: "Since when did ideology become evil?" Why is "adherence to a coherent set of beliefs" bad, while "pragmatism, doing whatever fits the moment, the panacea?"
If ideology were nothing other than "adherence to a coherent set of beliefs," then there is nothing wrong with it. But that is not all it means. An ideology is in some way disconnected from reality. A coherent set of beliefs becomes ideological as soon as it is no longer tested against the concrete facts on the ground and adjusted accordingly. Ideologies are not just partial and incomplete, like any world-view, but closed off to genuine dialogue and to the correcting influence of stubborn facts.
This is why the call to put ideological battles behind us is rhetorically clever (and often so frustrating). It obfuscates the important difference between principled opposition to nationalized healthcare, say, and merely ideological opposition to it. It is also the kernel of truth in that call. Few of us are immune to the danger of unreality in our approach to politics. We do well to be on guard against it.
As Russel Kirk famously argued, "conservatism is the negation of ideology". We should oppose mere pragmatism in politics, not with ideologies but with true principles.
Katie forwarded me a link to a great 1977 speech by Ronald Reagan, in which he expressed something similar to the above:
I have always been puzzled by the inability of some political and media types to understand exactly what is meant by adherence to political principle. All too often in the press and the television evening news it is treated as a call for "ideological purity." Whatever ideology may mean—and it seems to mean a variety of things, depending upon who is using it—it always conjures up in my mind a picture of a rigid, irrational clinging to abstract theory in the face of reality. We have to recognize that in this country "ideology" is a scare word. And for good reason. Marxist-Leninism is, to give but one example, an ideology. All the facts of the real world have to be fitted to the Procrustean bed of Marx and Lenin. If the facts don't happen to fit the ideology, the facts are chopped off and discarded.
I consider this to be the complete opposite to principled conservatism. If there is any political viewpoint in this world which is free from slavish adherence to abstraction, it is American conservatism.
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You can't get farther away from land than 'Point Nemo.'
This image from Google Earth shows the coordinates of Point Nemo. Google Earth also displays a subtle message 'written' on the sea floor. Can you spot it?
Want to get away from it all?
You can't do better than a point in the Pacific Ocean popularly known as 'Point Nemo,' named after the famous submarine sailor from Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
This remote oceanic location is 2,688 kilometers from the nearest land—Ducie Island, part of the Pitcairn Islands, to the north; Motu Nui, one of the Easter Islands, to the northeast; and Maher Island, part of Antarctica, to the south.


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Max Occupancy: 2 guestsVictorian London hotel in Paddington, walk to Kensington Gardens
Located in Paddington, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Whiteleys Shopping Centre, Royal Albert Hall, and Selfridges. Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park are also within 15 minutes.
Hotel Features
This smoke-free hotel features 2 restaurants, a fitness center, and a bar/lounge. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include a coffee shop/café, a snack bar/deli, and coffee/tea in the lobby.
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All 389 rooms provide free WiFi, 24-hour room service, and flat-screen TVs. Guests will also find coffee makers, free newspapers, and hair dryers.
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Bugzilla – Bug 4595
wsrf-query with a bad XPath query returns "null"
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ip-156:~/pkgs/globus-4.0.2 bacon$ bin/wsrf-query -s http://126.96.36.199:8888/wsrf/services/DefaultIndexService Foobar null This is the same result as if there were no results returned: ip-156:~/pkgs/globus-4.0.2 bacon$ bin/wsrf-query -s http://126.96.36.199:8888/wsrf/services/DefaultIndexService '/Foobar' null I would suggest that the first should generate some kind of "Invalid XPath expression: Foobar" error, and the second should return something like "No results found for XPath expression '/Foobar'". We saw the "null" result in a tutorial today, and it didn't help the student understand what had gone wrong.
Both expressions are valid. I will, however, update the client to display a nice error message if no results were returned.
Committed a fix to trunk to display a nice error msg when no results are returned: $ wsrf-query.bat -s http://192.168.1.102:8080/wsrf/services/ContainerRegistryService foo Query did not return any results.
Committed that fix to globus_4_0_branch too.


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The fall is an opportunity to treat trees successfully by tree injection with micro-nutrients and systemic insecticides.
Absorbing and storing minerals
With cooler temperatures and fall precipitation (and moist soils), trees naturally absorb and store minerals in preparation for the next year's growth. This is an ideal time to inject micro-nutrients (e.g., MIN-jet Iron) into trees. In the Midwest, oaks, maples and birches suffering from Iron chlorosis (expressed as leaf yellowing) will benefit from fall treatment without the concerns of foliar burning that may occur to tender leaves, or slow uptake in hot weather or in droughty conditions. Likewise in the south and west, injections in palms with PALM-jet to alleviate symptoms of Manganese deficiency ought to be made in the relatively cool, moist conditions that often occur in the fall. This is also an ideal time to apply ROOT-jet Iron to the soil for trees to absorb and store.
Evapo-transpiration in the fall
Evapo-transpiration continues in trees in cool, moist conditions, resulting in improved uptake in the fall. Trees transpire through leaf stomates and lenticels in the bark. These pores are essential for gas (H2O, CO2 and O2) exchange. It has been estimated that 90% of the water absorbed by roots is lost to evapo-transpiration. Stomatal opening and closure is under circadian and environmental control. Generally, stomates open in the day and close at night. Guard cells surround the stomata and their function is to open and close the pore. When ambient temperatures increase and humidity drops, the guard cells loose turgor (water), become flaccid and close the pore. This behavior has survival value, conserving water in the tree. This event occurs most frequently in hot, dry weather and in dry soils.
When soil moisture is adequate, root uptake keeps up with moisture lost to evapo-transpiration, the guard cells remain turgid and water moves easily from roots to shoots. This event most often occurs in the fall and spring in most areas of the country. Tree injection relies on this upward movement into the canopy, therefore is most efficient when trees are actively transpiring. A liquid injected into the tree's sapwood (the transport tissue) moves up the stem from the point of injection into the branches and leaves. The rate of movement of the liquid depends on the physical chemistry of the formulation placed into the vascular tissues.
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
Early fall is a key time to treat hemlock trees infested with Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA). HWA resumes feeding in the fall following summer aestivation (dormancy). Fall injection exposes the piercing sucking insect to the insecticide when it is most vulnerable. Hemlock retains its foliage from 3 to 6 years, so injected chemistries, such as Imidacloprid (e.g., IMA-jet) accumulate into the extant and newly developing foliage for multiple year of efficacy (Doccola et al., 2007). Currently IMA-jet has a label approved for up to 2 years of HWA control from a single application. Although not yet approved on the label, new research has demonstrated 3 years and suggests up to 4 years of control from a single treatment with IMA-jet.
Spiraling Whitefly
In southern Florida, the spiraling whitefly feeds on a broad range of ornamental and shade trees. It feeds on the undersides of leaves on plant sap, rich in carbohydrates. The whiteflies produce copious amounts of honey dew, which sticks to surfaces and supports the growth of sooty mold. It completes its life cycle in ~35 days. We havereceived reports of injections with IMA-jet controlling the spiraling whiteflies in gumbo limbo trees (Bursera simaruba) in as little as 4-days. It has also been reported on Calophyllum species, black olive (Bucida buceras), Brazilian pepper (Schinus terebinthifolius), live oak (Quercus virginiana), and on several species of palms including, Veitchia species and coconut (Cocos nucifera) (Mannion, 2010). Spiraling whitefly remains active in the cooler weather, and therefore susceptible to fall applications.
Emerald Ash Borer
Fall applications for the treatment of Emerald ash borer in ash (Fraxinus species) trees can be made in ash when leaves senesce (start to turn color), with specific systemic insecticides that have demonstrated efficacy and residual activity in trees (Smitley et al., 2010).
Doccola, J., E. Bristol, S. Sifleet, J. Loyjko and P. Wild. 2007. Efficacy and duration of trunk-injected imidacloprid in the management of hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae). Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 33(1): 12-21.
Smitley, D., J. Doccola and D. Cox. 2010. Multiple-year protection of ash trees from emerald ash borer with a single trunk injection of emamectin benzoate, and single-year protection with an imidacloprid drench. Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 36(5): 206-211.
Mannion, C. 2010. Gumbo Limbo Spiraling whitefly, a new whitefly in south Florida. University of Florida, IFAS, Tropical Research and Education Center, Homestead, FL. 6 pp.


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Ephedra Sinica: Organic and natural Dieting and Calorie Burning
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Ephedrine, also referred to as mormon tea, is attention that have been gained by an herb in the fields of body building and weight reduction. In 2005 ephedrine and products containing it were prohibited in the United States Of America as a result of significant safety hazards, including cardiovascular events and death. Ephedra Alkaloids contains ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, which stimulate the central nervous system and can result in possibly harmful effects on the adrenal glands. ephedrine hcl dosage.
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Ephedrine, Caffeine, and Aspirin Weight Loss or Online
Ephedrine is just a naturally occurring herb also referred to as mormon tea. The drugs pseudoephedrine and ephedrine are chemically based on it and can be used for medicinal purposes. Psuedoephephedrine is really a well known cold medicine that is sold over the counter. In line with the University of Maryland Infirmary, as a dietary supplement ephedrine is produced from ephedrine extract and was once sold. Because of many side effects, the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, banned the sale of ephedra sinica and ephedrine as a weight loss supplement.
Ephedrine vs. Pseudo Ephedrine For Diet to Losing Fat
Ephedrine is just a drug used to dilate bronchial tubes for asthma sufferers and also to treat nasal congestion. Drugs.com explains that ephedrine is also used in hospitals as an emergency medicine for low blood pressure, intense asthma attacks, along with other conditions. Your blood pressure is increased by it and the quantity of blood pumped by the center. It has many side effects, including fast or unusual heart rhythm, high blood pressure, nervousness, confusion, and headache. The most common oral dose of ephedrine for adults is 12.5 to 25 mg every four hours, to not exceed 150 mg in a day. Ephedrine is really a prescription drug.
Liporene and Ephedra Fat Burning And Supplements
Increased bleeding may occur when taking ephedra while making use of aspirin and blood thinning medicines. Ephedra with Clonidine and other blood pressure lowering medications may produce adverse effects. Caffeine could intensify the medial side effects of ephedrine alkaloids. Morphine, codeine as well as other pain or cough medicines may interact with ephedrine. The asthma medicine, Theophylline, should also not be used with ephedra sinica. ephedrine diet .
Pseudo Ephedrine 30 MG From Supplements
During the mining era, this tea, which acted as a tonic, was the beverage of choice in the waiting rooms at houses of ill - repute. Ephedrine's active component, ephedrine, was isolated from the product in 1887. In 1924, doctors began using it as a decongestant and a bronchodilator. An ephedrine-based product called Zoom entered the fitness nutritional supplement market through the 1980s. Ephedra Sinica weight loss supplements were soon manufactured by other companies.
Short-term use of ephedrine is connected with a significant increase in weight loss, based on a scientific review of 52 controlled tests by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and reported in the 2003 book "Ephedrine and Ephedrine for Weight Loss and Sports Performance Enhancement." Investigation of the examined scientific data shows weight loss in about 2 pounds. more monthly, for up to four to 6 months, in comparison to individuals taking a placebo.
Ephedra Sinica does occur naturally in the Chinese herb Ma Huang. Synthesized versions of ephedrine, such as pseudoephedrine, function as a short-term treatment for asthma, allergic reactions and bronchitis. Before 2004, if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the sale of ephedrine, manufacturers also sold ephedra sinica products that claimed to help with weight reduction and athletic performance. Many risks were posed by these products to consumers, particularly those who had heart - or blood - related difficulties. ephedra pure.


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Attacking Web Services Pt 2 – SOAP
Application Security, Hacking
In the previous article, we discussed forming a SOAP request based off the operations listed in a WSDL file and automating this task with Buby and Burp Suite. Additionally, […]
Attacking Web Services Pt 1 – SOAP
Application Security, Hacking
I often receive testing related questions from AppSec folks new to web services about the techniques used to discover and attack them. Often, web services are seen as difficult […]


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I use the whole line and my skin cleared up because of these products in conjunction with the masks from Artistry.
To me, this is the nicest moisturizer I have ever used. Applying it feels so refreshing. It doesn't heat up my face like my other moisturizers did, it smells super pleasant too. And it makes my face light up and seem dewy. I always buy another pack right after one gets finished, it last very long though. It last me approximately 10 months and I use it everyday, twice in a day. It doesn't give me breakouts. The only thing I dislike about it is that it's not tinted, lol! Yea only that :D
hey guys let me know about dis product dis amway product really works or not as i am at age of getting married i wanna try these product 2 improve my skin i.e., AMWAY MOISTURIZER SPF 15 N ATTITUDE TONER
For the price of this and the reputation of the product line I expected a lot more then I got. It's a fine moisturiser, but it's not great. I can buy a comparable one from Walgreens and it would work the same.
The packaging is alright, not bad a little bit on the fancy side because of those gold linings there.
I bought the whole set of Artistry set. And this definitely cleared me up, but my only reason that I don't buy it anymore because it is being sold exclusively by amway members. I mean I want something I can buy off the shelf! And amway members are hard to find nowadays, and you are just sometimes forced to buy off them. :( That was was the only bad point.
This moisturizer smells like makeup. Not bad makeup, but good makeup. It is on the thick side, not on the light side, and it easily dries up (evidently seen on the cap!) It didn't cause me breakouts at all. I just loved it. It didn't oil me up nor made me dry.
This is deffo a good product for me! My acne cleared up because of this set.
Btw. I was 16 or 15 when I started using this.
moisturise my skin well and not greasy at all ... nice smell ... love the spf 15 ... which is enough protection for me ...and it took me ages to finish one =)
Oops... I used four dots of this on my face. Much more than what the previous reviewer used. I'll try with one tiny weeny dot tomorrow. Spreads easily although initially I was sceptical because it is cream based. It did leave my face greasy, but it was absorbed in around 1 minute. Additional bonus was it came with SPF 15 and is packaged in a tube. Overall first impression: good!
This tiny 2.6 oz bottle of moisturiser cost me about $30, but I say it was well worth it. Only a small, teeny tiny amount is needed to apply over my whole face (it spreads out nice and smooth). It is not greasy or oily at all, absorbs quickly, and leaves my skin feeling fresh and matte. The quality is great. It has everything I need in here (well, except for the fragrance. But, that does not irritate me at all). It has the grapeseed extract, sun protection, vitamins, and more good stuff.
I have oily, acne prone skin. Surprisingly, this moisturizer is helping to keep my skin matte-er than usual.
This is the perfect moisturiser for my sensitive, combination (oilier and sometimes dehydrated in summer), acne prone skin. It's light and doesn't break me out, and my skin feels hydrated, soft and smooth. It also has an SPF 15. In winter I use Artistry Moisture Rich Protective Moisturiser.


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Ed Andrews, former NY Times reporter and predatory lending victim, has a few words for the Oracle of Omaha in his latest blog post. Andrews was obviously hoping to get some straight talk from Warren at yesterday's hearing, but he proved to be just like every other financier dragged in front of Congress who tries to Birnbaum his way out of answering questions. Ironically, it's probably the first time Andrews and Charlie Gasparino have ever agreed on anything. Read more »
look what you've done Charlie Gasparino
On October 6, Sallie Krawcheck appeared on CNBC to say that she is "very much focused" on her job running Bank of America's wealth management unit. According to the Post, this SKraw's way of "going public with her ambitions to run the bank." A couple days later, the paper claimed this (fake) campaign for Lewis's job somehow "got a big boost," when shareholder Jonathan Finger stated that the board should pick an outsider to run the bank, despite the fact that The Kraw currently works on the inside. So you see everything was chugging along nicely and girlfriend probably would've gotten the gig she was so desperately and publicly begging for and them bam!


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Zachary Steve will be on First Shift this morning at 7.50am to discuss the Detroit Occupy our Homes initiative.
The Occupy our Homes (Detroit) organizing meeting takes place tomorrow at 6pm, at the Arab Community Cntr for Economic & Social Svcs,** 2651 Saulino Ct, Dearborn, MI 48120-1556.
The Occupy Detroit organization meets tomorrow at 5.30, and has some overlapping goals with Occupy our Homes. I'm not sure of the difference between the groups or why they wouldn't work together. (Maybe they will). If someone has the answer, please let us know in the comments
Tony Trupiano's show can be heard live at www.thetonyshow.org
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Zang – Fu Organs in Traditional Chinese Medicine
The concept of the organs in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is radically different from that of contemporary western medicine. Understanding this difference is very important because the physiology and pathology of the Organs is fundamental to the understanding and treatment of disease. Chinese medical theory is not a quick study, but we have tried to break it down for you throughout this website so that you can be a better advocate for your own health and wellbeing.
Zang – The Yin organs Kidney, Liver, Heart (Pericardium), Spleen, and Lungs are considered as deeper than the Yang organs, generally more solid, and are involved with the regulation, manufacturing and storage of fundamental substances such as Blood and Essence.
Fu – The Yang organs Stomach, Gall Bladder, Large Intestine, Small Intestines, Bladder, and San Jiao are the hollow organs are viewed as being closer to the surface, or exterior of the body. They are not store substances, and are instead involved with an ongoing process of change through functions of receiving, separating, distributing, and excreting substances.
To a modern westerner, the Chinese concept of organs might seem unusual as the Chinese medical concept of organs lack emphasis on a physical structure. Although many terms used when speaking of organs are similar to western concepts, they do not always refer to the specific organ tissue or structure, but rather to semi-abstract concepts of interrelated functions.
Each organ system has an impact on the other organ systems when it becomes imbalanced; additionally, each organ has an impact on the emotions. Chinese medicine views the individual person as a whole, interactive entity rather than individual parts and pieces. This is how Chinese medicine is able to differentiate disease patterns and devise effective treatment strategies. One disease can have many different patterns depending on a person's individual body make-up, genetic dispositions, and lifestyle habits. The functions listed are not based on surgical discoveries, but on clinical observation of patients over many thousands of years, making Chinese medicine very practical in actual application.
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As a physician specializing in children who are overweight and have a poor body image, I support Mrs. Obama's multi-pronged approach and her call to action on multiple levels. Published 2:55 p.m. February 17, 2010 - Comments
It can be so expensive to go out for dinner on Valentine's Day, and if you do decide to go out and spend the money you are always stuck with those prix fix meals. Published 12:46 p.m. February 12, 2010 - Comments
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Entertain your friends with these delicious recipes that will taste great and fit right into your super bowl party. Published 11:29 a.m. February 3, 2010 - Comments
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Upon graduating from the California School of Culinary Arts in 2002, Chef Mary Payne Moran began her professional career shelling crabs at the world-renowned restaurant, Michael's in Santa Monica. Simultaneously, she launched her own company, Hail Mary's, founded upon the belief that good food nurtures the soul, and began catering weddings, parties and large corporate events.
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But it isn't always easy and it doesn't come overnight.
It requires adequate funding.
It requires proper facilities and reliable infrastructure.
It requires forward-thinking leadership.
It requires school board volunteers who share a vision.
It requires commitment, and personal conviction, by all players — from support personnel to secretaries to principals to supervisory staff and all the way to school system directors or superintendents.
But most of all, quality education requires quality educators. This is a must. School systems can struggle through aging buildings, reduced budgets, limited staff, conditional support from government and community, inconsistent parental involvement and outdated materials. But teachers whose mindset is always to go beyond the extra mile are critical.
Without quality educators there can be no quality education.
As we have written before, one such educator was the late Lillie F. Fitzgerald, a 37-year English and speech instructor at Bradley Central High School. It is this impassioned, and talented, former teacher for whom an Excellence in Teaching Award is named.
And this brings us to our point.
This year's deadline is looming for nominations for the 2012-13 Lillie F. Fitzgerald Excellence in Teaching Award. It is April 15.
The award is presented each fall during teacher in-service. One teacher from either Cleveland City Schools or Bradley County Schools is selected. With the award comes a $3,000 cash prize, but the greatest tribute is knowing that a recipient will share Mrs. Fitzgerald's legacy to excellence in teaching.
Nomination criteria include:
1. Must be employed as a full-time, certified, K-12 teacher in Cleveland City Schools or Bradley County Schools with a minimum of five years' experience.
2. Demonstrates a passion for teaching and inspires students with a love of learning.
3. Communicates effectively across all racial, cultural and economic backgrounds.
4. Utilizes creative, current and relevant teaching strategies.
5. Is admired and respected by students, parents and colleagues.
6. Must be involved personally in the community.
7. Embodies the spirit of teaching demonstrated by Lillie F. Fitzgerald; that is, being professional, articulate and passionate about education.
Once the deadline has passed, all nominations will be reviewed by a panel of evaluators unrelated to either school system. Complete application guidelines and additional information about the award can be found on the Bradley Cleveland Public Education Foundation website at www.bcpef.org.
BCPEF administers the annual competition each year and works in partnership with Dr. Rodney and Margo Fitzgerald who endow the award. Rodney, a former educator and now retired from Cleveland State Community College, is the son of Mrs. Fitzgerald.
In prior editions, we have extolled the virtues of this marvelous teacher and pointed to her commitment as a poster child for all educators — past, present and future.
It is through her legacy and in her honor that BCPEF presents this Excellence in Teaching Award each year.
For those still planning to nominate an educator or who want more information, we recommend visiting the BCPEF website or making a phone call.
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"Always go for the Samsonite, son."
Nighttime in downtown Manhattan, about a year ago, and I see this kid tearing down the street on a BMX bike—with a piece of carry-on luggage balanced on the crossbar between his frantically-pumping knees. It looked so un-doable, but the kid was moving so fast, that he clearly had practice doing it. What was weird was that I knew he was probably headed for Baxter Street.
I'd basically just witnessed Phase Two of a common local crime. To explain, I live near several popular hotels, and incautious tourists have been getting separated from their luggage for years. I knew that after snatching the bags, the thief would take them to a quiet street like Baxter or Crosby, rifle through them to take whatever was worthwhile, then ditch the bags. I deduced this by frequently spotting Phase Three—new pieces of some poor sap's luggage sitting in sidewalk trash piles, his clothes strewn about, every zippered pocket flayed open. What I didn't know was that the thief could execute Phase One—the snatching—via bicycle.
In any case, this is my roundabout way of saying I spotted a cool concept for luggage by London-based RCA student Rodrigo Garcia that I'd never dream of using in a city, but I still think the idea has merit. Check it out:
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If you could only work out some kind of security measure—I'm a big fan of punitive electric shocks, I'd like the thing to fire some kind of taser if the wrong person grabs it—then yeah, I could see going through JFK with this thing. What would you like to see? A turtling lockdown capacity, noxious gas, an on-board cobra?
Tangentially, I'm reminded of something one of my design professors used to say at Pratt (though now that I think of it, he probably said it more to shut us up than impart an important design lesson). Whenever a student would theoretically discuss an end-user misusing a product design, the professor would snap "Well look, you design a car, someone will use it to rob a bank." Never thought I'd see a kid steal luggage with a bike.


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On 5/1/07, the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law held a hearing entitled "An Examination of Point Systems as a Method for Selecting Immigrants." Testimony from the hearing is available below:
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Testimony of Stephen F. Clarke, Senior Foreign Law Specialist, Law Library of Congress
Testimony of Lisa White, Foreign Law Specialist, Law Library of Congress
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Testimony of Demetrios Papademetriou, Ph.D., President and Board Member, Migration Policy Institute
Testimony of Howard D. Greenberg, Partner, Greenberg Turner, A Human Resources Law Firm
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The crackdown on unlicensed drivers has been made official in China, with changes to how taxi apps are allowed to operate.
The streaming service will pull dozens of titles from its streaming catalog on July 1, but it's also adding dozens of new titles.
The Uber competitor is showing strong growth in Southeast Asia, with 400,000 active monthly users and two bookings made every second.
A new law in France includes several provisions, but one is especially damaging to Uber: no sharing location via GPS.
Taxi use in the city has tumbled by 65 percent over the last year -- much of this is attributed to the growing use of ride-sharing services.
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My brush is quite old ('95) and is numbered 6 0B, though it is badger. It was at the time the DEFINITVE slanted eyeliner brush for powder or liqid (gel.) The hairs are VERY short and just SLIGHTLY angled. It's medium to firm so it holds powder shadow for eyelining w/out fallout and for exreme deposit. This is THE BEST eyelining brush period. It was always even better than MAC's original #22 made in France brush (which is now #266 made in Japan and not nearly as good as the #22.) I don't know what it cost now, but I know it was rather expensive in 1995 when I first purchased it. To this day it looks and performs as well as it did in 1995. Now that's saying something mighty fantastic about the QUALITY of this product. If you don't have one GET one as you won't believe the way your eyeliner looks and wears. I know they sell Shu Uemura at Nieman Marcus's. I believe that is where I got mine from. THE BEST BRUSH MADE FOR THE PURPOSE OF EYELINING!!!!!
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The size is perfect and so far, its best gel eyeliner brush for me
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This is my first eyeliner brush (I use it with the Bobbi Brown gel eyeliners) & I absolutely love it ! It makes my eyeliner very clean & precise. It also works really well getting to the spaces in between my eyelashes.
One thing I`ve noticed though, is that the eyeliner stains my brush a little bit. It`s hard to get the pigmentation off even after washing my brush with cleansers/oils/soaps etc. But maybe thats the gel eyeliners fault (:
I got it as a gift so I can`t comment on the price. Technically I won`t be buying this product again -- because I`m pretty sure this brush can last for a looong time unless I lose it or something, but I just wanted to give it a great review !
I use this brush for applying shadow in the upper and sometimes lower lashline. I use my Chanel #4 (which is stiffer) for smudging/working my eyeliner into my lashline and use this 5f brush for applying shadow over it or sometimes just the shadow in my lashline. This brush gives a more precise smudge whereas my Nars 15 is too fat and gives a wide smudge. It retails for $24.
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Awesome brush! It works so well with gel eyeliners. It gives you a really thin line. I must say, you do need some expertise to draw a good line because the line you produce is so thin. I have had to get less sloppy and concentrate more... Otherwise you end up with wobbly lines. Soft, well constructed brush.
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I wish I could give the 5F sable brush 10 lipsticks...this is the ONLY eyeliner brush you'll ever need. I've been using it exclusively for about 10 years, and I have yet to come across an eyelining effect that it can't create; this brush is versatility defined.
Like all Shu Uemura brushes, the quality is impeccable, and the design is sleek. The bristles are fine sable, and the handle is lightweight and comfortable. After using the 5F, I turn my nose up at push eye liner brushes...they can't even begin to compare. Buy this brush!!!
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A really great brush, my current favourite. I always use MAC 212 to apply/smudge my gel eyeliners on, and then billy b paint brush TEN for a precise "tail", after which I would use powder to set and further smudge the dark colors close to my lashline and upwards.
Before I got this brush, I've been using my Shu Uemura 60B (meant for eyebrow) for the above last step with powder, but it's juz too scratchy. I tried MAC 266 (too thin), NARS smudge brush (too big, I'm tiny Asian with tiny eyes), MAC 231 (doesn't pick up enough powder, I have to repeat the step too many times) and the list goes on.
I was watching TV the other day and saw this Japanese makeup artist applying a beautiful smokey yet thin line on the lower lashline of the model using a rectangular-shaped-head brush and that gave me the idea to hunt around for similar brushes.
Boom! Found this Shu Uemura natural brush 5f (do take note, I almost bought the wrong one coz I juz said "5f" and the lady gave me the synthetic one initially) and it gave me the exact results I was after: a gorgeous thin(not VERY thin) natural smokey line, for smudging ur liner above or the under lashline with powder. It's perfect.
I can't imagine applying my everyday eye makeup with it. At S$33, it's totally worth the purchase^^
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This is my staple brush to line my eyes (love it with the Trish eye definer). It was jammed in a makeup bag years ago causing it to bend slightly which actually improved its function by creating a wonderful little angle. Nothing works better for a precise line
I'm always on the hunt for brushes and I really like this one for gel eyeliners - does work well for pencil and liquid also. Just the perfect width for my little-lid eyes.