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I have Silver hair I used This Product and it Turned my hair PINK. I contacted Luster and even e-mailed pictures of my damaged hair. After pictures were sent none of my Phone Calls were retuned. I have had Pink hair since Feburary Also I have used this product before back in the day with NO problem Maybe this was a BAD Batch or Its not Good for Silver Hair?
This product is really hit-and-miss! Despite all the mineral oil and petrolatum, it's light enough that it works great for *some* but not-so-great for *others.* I think that's because it's basically a low-moisture sealing treatment.
Anecdotally, in my childhood when my hair was finer, often processed, and required less moisture than it does now, it appeared to work a little better to make it more manageable. Now I have healthy but thick, low porosity 4a (tightly coiled curl pattern) hair which needs all the moisture this product utterly fails at locking in (even when I try to layer it over others). Meanwhile, my mother's thinner, relaxed hair loves this stuff to death! It somehow makes *her* hair soft, shiny, and smoother, yet not particularly greasy. I don't think much has changed about this stuff over the years, either.
Bottom line:
If your hair is very low porosity &/or needs help absorbing all the moisture it can get. If you are particularly high or low porosity (basically everybody with curly hair except those few in between, lol), this is *not* the product you want.
If your hair is relaxed (chemically straightened), heat-treated, or in need of a *standalone* product to lock *out* moisture (anti-frizz), this might be the right thing for you.
If the package advertising was accurate I'd have at least given this product a 3/5 overall, but it basically claims to be everything for everybody, and that's not cool at all.
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do not buy this crap or any of its other brands , im not black but i use this on my hair and been using it for years , was wondering why my hair would not grow and now i know why , it also makes your hair dry , dust and gives you split ends , i have to keep cutting my hair more than 3 inches but i will never touch this brand again. its going in the trash , for all of you that wants to put oil moisterizers in your hair dont do it! it just sits on your hair , leaving it to rip the natural moister out and dry out your hair. use a serum , like nexxus , this brand is crap.
The smell was horrific. It smells like STRONG, bad perfume and the smell DOES NOT come out no matter how many times after you wash your hair.I tried covering the smell with perfume, and scented lotion....but no matter what I did I smelled like this horrible Pink Luster crap. I think it took a week of washing my hair and not using this for the scent to be gone.
Never will I ever buy this God awful crap again.
So I just use this product after drying my hair to get the fly aways down. I use a little bit on the palms of my hands and rub them together and run my hands through my hair. I make sure to put a little bit more on the ends, but not too much because than my hair will look oily and gross. It works really well it moisturizes and softens my hair and the fly aways go away. I don't think I use the product like you're suppose to but it works for me. Better than spending a lot of money on John Frieda Frizz ease products that don't work as well for me. It does smell a little weird, but it's not a big deal.
This time, even I must agree with the others. This product sucks! I have mid back length 3b, 3c and 4a part ethnic curls which are dry, frizzy and coarse, and this product did nothing to treat any of these problems. This product is based on melted petroleum jelly and as such, it coats the hair, actually preventing moisture from coming in. On my hair, the results were a waxy, non-shiny mess. On the other hand, I'm not a 'natural products only' junkie and am well aware that there some very moisturizing and nourishing non natural hair moisturizers out there, such as the one I prefer to use on my hair. These are thick, nourishing moisturizers loaded with moisturizing ingredients(glycerin, various oils such as olive oil/coconut oil, etc.). Do yourself a favor and look for these moisturizing ingredients in the product, look for thickness of texture, and steer clear from coating ingredients and ingredients which may provide temporary shine but are stripping and drying in the long run. Your hair will thank you by being so healthy, it shines from within.
Once I stopped putting this crap in my hair it actually grew past shoulder length. This junk adds nothing of nourishing quality to hair. My hair is now bra strap length, I keep it off my shoulders, out of my face and use mostly natural ingredients in it. Most of the products (gel included) aimed at black women are of no use or quality. Do yourself a favor and do more research into natural products that will benefit you and your hair because this is not it. MUA should really consider a 0 star option.
I'm soo surprised by all the bad reviews! I'm caucasian, with bleached platinum blonde hair, and I LOVE this stuff... like so much, that I would buy stock in the company and even do commercials for them if I could lol. Usually I avoid products with alot of 'fillers' and non-natural ingredients, but this stuff WORKS so I stick with it. My hair isn't typical white girl hair though, its naturally very fine and dry, compound that with bleaching the crap out of it, and you've got yourself a hot mess. Enter: Pink oil moisturizer. It literally seals in moisture and keeps my hair healthy and shiny. I refuse to heat style (too damaging), so I get my hair straight by roller setting my hair in large rollers when its wet (my hair's naturally wavy). I wash my hair with Pantene conditioner, rinse out about 75% of it, then run the Pink oil stuff through it before putting it in rollers. It comes out shiny, bouncy and gorgeous. This product is definately a keeper for me... but different products work different on everyone! I basically use it as a 'setting lotion' to control frizz and seal in moisture when I put my wet hair in rollers. I'm not impressed by the mineral oil content, but it's taken me years to find something that tames my hair so I'm not gonna shun it cause of that! :)
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I'm amazed by all the bad reviews for pink oil. I use it as a sun protectant and frizz tamer/leave-in conditioner for my hair. It works great, not leaving it smelly, greasy, or frizzy. It's the perfect amount to weigh down the frizz and big hair look I get in humid weather. It works great to coat and protect my hair before swimming or beach going as well.
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Experts believe ex-utility executive a wise choice as commerce secretary
NEW YORK / BEIJING - United States President Barack Obama's selection of
John Bryson, the former Southern California utility executive, as commerce
secretary speaks to the White House's push to develop clean and renewable
energy industries in the US and develop a stronger partnership with China
in the energy sector, experts said.
"China has been surging ahead on clean energy with the understanding that
investments in the energy sector will lead to economic prosperity. I think
the US can really learn from this . It is in danger of losing its
competitive edge because of the lack of clean energy policies," said
Rebecca Lefton, policy analyst at Center for American Progress.
In selecting Bryson, 67, Obama chose a private sector executive who has
the support of the US business community and helped lead Edison
International as CEO for 18 years to the top of the solar and wind-power
industries. Bryson's selection is subject to Senate confirmation.
Since last September, Bryson has been chairman of BrightSource Energy Inc
in Northern California. The company makes solar power plants and is
seeking to use solar-thermal technology to generate vast amounts of power.
Early in his career, Bryson was the co-founder of the Natural Resources
Defense Council, a national and international environment group.
It is this expertise in the clean energy sector that Obama noted when he
nominated Bryson. Obama added that the development of clean and renewable
energy will help improve US export competitiveness.
Lefton said China-US collaboration on clean energy represents a win-win
for the two countries.
"There is a great relationship that has already been developed on clean
energy, and we hope it will continue to develop. It's really important to
watch how these two countries will work together," Lefton said.
Lefton said these deals are a positive step, but that the US needs to
strengthen and enact clean energy policies.
Melinda Kimble, senior vice-president of United Nations Foundation, said
Bryson's selection was an encouraging sign that Obama will seek avenues of
innovation in the alternative energy sector to boost manufacturing and
"But we need to first improve our clean energy policies and change our
infrastructure and adapt to a new system that encourages clean energy
investment. These new approaches will naturally generate employment," she
Bryson's pending nomination will be a step toward leveraging the private
sector's participation in clean energy technologies, said David Burwell,
director of the Energy and Climate Program at the Carnegie Endowment.
Burwell said it is possible to achieve the 2020 goal of 17-percent
reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that the US committed to at the
Copenhagen climate talks, but it will require significant participation
from the private sector.
"The Obama administration's goal is for Bryson to engage and stimulate the
private sector to move. We got a very good candidate to meet the job. It's
a good news for the US, China and low-carbon economy," Burwell said.
Joe Romm, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, said that a
collaboration between China and the US is very important.
"The US and China are the biggest energy users. We are the biggest
generators of greenhouse gases, so we have an obligation to employ clean
energy technologies. Obviously, China has a very aggressive policy on
alternative energy. There's a lot of opportunities for the US and China to
collaborate," Romm said.
The US energy sector could benefit if Bryson's focus includes more than
utility-scale projects that are either land-intensive or polluting, said
Kyle Ash, senior legislative representative of Greenpeace USA.
"Because the secretary of commerce can influence how we invest in energy,
he would be right also to promote adding flexibility and decentralized
power generation to the grid," Ash said.
In talks with China about energy, the Obama administration has emphasized
fossil fuels and nuclear. Ash said Bryson can help the Obama
administration's priorities in bilateral energy cooperation become "more
in line with Obama's professed goal that US energy both cost and pollute
On the other hand, a new nominee will not be able to make a raft of
changes to the US' development, said Ge Yong at the Institute for
Environment and Development, a Beijing-based NGO.
That relationship was jumpstarted by a 2009 meeting between Obama and
President Hu Jintao. The two signed a joint statement that recognized the
importance for both economies to transition to green and low-carbon
economies, which in turn would create jobs.
Then this January, the two leaders coordinated numerous deals worth more
than $45 billion between US and Chinese energy companies.
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Alexandria, Virginia - Capping off a stellar week of shooting sports celebrities, industry insiders, and our little gang from the National Firearms Museum, NRA News wraps up "Straight Shooter Week" on the Sportsman Channel with NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre.
Hosted by Cam Edwards, NRANEWS Cam & Co. features in-depth news and views of the Second Amendment and other freedom-related issues. If you'd like to show your support or ask a question, tweet #Gunversation on Twitter.
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I know that you, as gun owners and NRA members, deeply care about our Second Amendment freedom in the United States. The Second Amendment is not just words on parchment. It was not a frivolous "suggestion" from our Founding Fathers to be interpreted according to whim. It lies at the very heart of what this country was founded upon. Our Founding Fathers knew that without the Second Amendment, all of our other freedoms could be in jeopardy. Our individual freedoms — that we have as American citizens — are the very essence of America. They are what make America unique.
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When the Sportsman Channel welcomed NRANews to their airwaves, they probably dreamt of a lineup like this. For this week, NRANews host Cam Edwards welcomes a star studded selection of guest including Ted Nugent, five-time Olympic medal winner Kim Rhode to our very own Wayne LaPierre.
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Nashville, Tennessee - On Thursday, February 14th, NRA Executive Vice President spoke to those attending the National Wild Turkey Federation's 37th Convention in Nashville. The following is Mr. LaPierre's response to President Obama's State of the Union Address:
Two nights ago, President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union Address. In that speech, the president displayed a level of political fraud and public deception that cannot be ignored.
Before we get to that, let's go back about two months. Days after tragedy struck Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, the president held a press conference at the White House.
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Nashville, Tennessee - Later this afternoon, in Nashville, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre speak at the 37th Annual Convention and Sport Show of the National Wild Turkey Federation. Coverage of the event begins at 5:00pm eastern standard time.
Fairfax, Virginia - January closed with a great deal of discussion surrounding the Second Amendment. New proposals, new bans, new legislation coming down the pike. And at the forefront of each and every discussion has been the National Rifle Association.
A great deal of the discussion have included questionable claims, slanted stats and outright misinformation. Fear not, for this morning we will clear everything up.
At 9am eastern time, the Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, Mr. Wayne LaPierre himself, will appear on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace to set the record straight.
So fire up the television, set the DVR, and ask your friends, family and fellow Second Amendment supports to watch along side with the rest of us. And don't forget to check back later for a recap of the show.
Fairfax, Virginia - If you've been watching the news this week, then there's a good chance that you've seen a number of NRA officials appear on a variety of shows. Just last night, Past President Sandy Froman was on with Anderson Cooper while Chris Cox appeared on Lou Dobbs Tonight on the Fox Business Network.
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The National Rifle Association's 4 million mothers, fathers, sons and daughters join the nation in horror, outrage, grief and earnest prayer for the families of Newtown, Connecticut … who suffered such incomprehensible loss as a result of this unspeakable crime. Out of respect for those grieving families, and until the facts are known, the NRA has refrained from comment. While some have tried to exploit tragedy for political gain, we have remained respectfully silent.
Now, we must speak … for the safety of our nation's children. Because for all the noise and anger directed at us over the past week, no one — nobody — has addressed the most important, pressing and immediate question we face: How do we protect our children right now, starting today, in a way that we know works?
The only way to answer that question is to face up to the truth. Politicians pass laws for Gun-Free School Zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them. And in so doing, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are their safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk. How have our nation's priorities gotten so far out of order? Think about it. We care about our money, so we protect our banks with armed guards. American airports, office buildings, power plants, courthouses — even sports stadiums — are all protected by armed security.
We care about the President, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents. Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by armed Capitol Police officers.
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Dawood Public School, a renowned girls school in Karachi, came into news when Daily Ummat published a story about the school having a Science textbook in its curriculum containing sex education.
After the case of Al-Umer Foundation School and the demise of Yaqeen Educational Foundation in Karachi some serious steps by the government and education department should have been taken but it looks that all efforts of journalists and media are ending in smoke as another educational crisis hits Karachi.
Later it was known that such controversial stuff was also included in classes 6 and 7. When students of the school and Parents protested against teaching 'sex education' and 'family planning' to immature minds of students, the management expelled students of Class 6 and 7 namely Alina Salman, Maheen Salman, Rabia Merchant and Aisha Merchant.
On Wednesday, parents of expelled students protested against the expulsion and immoral course material at the school which quickly gathered media attention. In reaction to which the management shut down the main doors and allegedly did not allow the students to go home. However, parents forcefully opened the doors, after which the school administration rusticated many students from the school. CEO of Dawood Public School Ms. Sabrina Dawood reportedly misbehaved with the parents and after the protest she left the school.
Dawood Public School started to get modern and enlightened since Sabrina Dawood joined as CEO (fancy having a CEO in a School). A graduate from University College London with MSc in Medical Anthropology and qualified with a BA in Anthropology and Law from the London School of Economics, Ms Dawood took intiatives to "liberalize" the school, accommodating more than 1500 girls.
Starting with a protest rally against swat girl flogging and a concert of Zaib and Hanya, Dawood Publich School had recently made it mandatory for girls to have guitar lessons and even ordered them to purchase the instruments.
Dawood Public School is teaching foreign syllabus using international books to children. The controversial material is from science book 5A published by Marshall Cavendish. The book of class 7th 'Science Matters volume B' contains diagrammatic representation of reproductive process in animals including human and information about safe and secure sex and birth control methods.
According to School Principal Mrs Waqar the controversial matter in the books are stapled and not being taught adding that the book, in which the 'objectionable' chapters were included, was being used by many other schools. However, the book mentioned in the newspaper is not listed in official curriculum listed at school's web site (check science book for grade 5)
The view of school administration regarding the course material was published in Daily Times, August 07:
"We should be progressive. We are not providing sex education rather it is basic biology taught all over the world in elementary classes, "The reproduction process is something natural and children should learn it," the administration argued. "Children are like scientists and they want to learn about things happening around them. Science provides them with answers so there is no wrong in it," the school administration added, defending the inclusion of the chapter. "Of course we are tense as some elements are bad mouthing us and giving us a bad name," the administration said.
In the same news report Sindh Assembly member Humera Alwani, who is also a member of Special Inspection Committee on Education, endorses the opinion. "Children should learn about natural processes, adding that the government supports the inclusion of such topics in the curriculum. We cannot leave our children in darkness any more," said Alvani while vowing that the government would not let anyone come in the way of providing modern education to the masses"
Commenting on the incident, Naveed Zuberi, adviser to Education Minister Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq, said that they would not allow any school to teach such courses, saying:
"This is not USA or Europe, this is Pakistan and our culture does not allow us to teach these things at school".
On Thursday, a team of Ministry of Education along with media representation and members of "Parents Action Committee" raided Dawood Public school and after having negotiations with the Principal and Management, decided to:
- Seal Dawood Public School
- Confiscate controversial teaching material, including Science and Islamiat Books
- Instructed the administration to change school timings with respect to Ramadan
- Make Guitar learning classes optional for students.
Parents demanded the arrest of CEO Sabrina Dawood and ban on male staff to enter girls section, especially the toilets.
Whatever the school administration and parents say and wherever they want their children to study, one thing is clear that all the private schools in the city, in collaboration with the Sindh government, need to clarify their curriculum to the parents and let them decide what they want their children to learn. If they continuously keep their curriculum uncertain such controversies would likely arise. Also, the Education Deparment should play its part and pro-actively monitors the curriculum and activities of schools across Karachi.


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Gravity Is Not a Major Determinant Of Housing Prices
I just saw a rather clever video someone did called, "That Last Dip's a Doozy!" Someone took housing prices 1890 to present and graphed them to a roller coaster ride. Just before the end, he turned the track around so that you could see where you had been and saw how high up you were. The thing was a work of genius; and yet it is still both misleading and wrong, in that a sense of "what goes up, must come down" permeates and becomes the basis for thinking.
In the real world, this is correct. Gravity is a force to be reckoned with. Everything that does go up has to come back down to some sort of supported, stable resting position before it breaks down, runs out of gas, etcetera. Furthermore, roller coasters have to go all the way back to their exact starting point, or used coaster cars are going to start piling up somewhere!
The problem with this thinking is that the graph of housing prices takes place in a mathematical construct world, not on Planet Earth. It's a Cartesian Plane, not a jet plane. Indeed, if you'll remember all the way back to beginning algebra, we can choose any origin and any orientation we like, and the representations are still equally valid. There is absolutely no mathematical reason we can't choose today's prices as our origin. Are there then some sort of magical restorative forces then created that bring us back to our new origin of today's relatively high prices? Not likely! Or we could choose 1000% of today's median price as our origin. Would that cause prices to be inexorably drawn upwards by a factor of ten? Absolutely not. The concept of the origin is a useful one, but don't take it for more than it is. The prices of 1890 were the prices of 1890 because that's where supply and demand were in equilibrium under conditions pertaining at that time. The equilibrium that prices would attain today has precisely nothing to do with those conditions. Do you think we're going back to the days of the federal government selling land at $1.25 per acre under the Homestead Act of 1862? I don't, not even adjusted for inflation or cost of living. Those market conditions no longer apply, therefore there is no rational reason to expect housing prices to return to that state.
Nor are housing prices determined nationwide. We do not have one nationwide housing market. We have a mathematical amalgamation of hundreds of local housing markets. The amalgamation has its virtues and gives us some information, but don't exaggerate their usefulness. Just because some clever person draws us a mathematical picture of a roller coaster that's going to have to fall further than any material known to man can rescue it from and retain structural integrity, does not mean it has any relationship to the amalgamated real estate market in the United States of America, Planet Earth, or any of its component local markets.
This is not to say that housing prices cannot slip further or go down. In fact, we very well may see more of a decline than even areas like my own locality have already seen. But the forces which decide that are purely economic ones (mostly bad loans, at this point). The only role gravity plays in housing prices is in physical structure requirements, a comparatively minor component. There is no requirement to return to the mathematical origin, nor are there restorative forces pushing us in that direction.
The big factors are, as always, supply and demand. When somebody tries to tell you something questionable that has to do with economics, go back to the basics of supply and demand and it is unlikely that you will go wrong.
Supply and Demand. We've done just about everything conceivable to stimulate the demand for housing, and just about everything conceivable to constrict the supply of housing, and people wonder why houses are so expensive?
I'm trying not to be one of their folks with their heads You-Know-Where considering the consequences of people being unable to afford housing, or just barely being able to afford it. I originally wrote The Economics of Housing Development back in 2005, and I've updated it since. But blithely assuming that this whole high housing prices thing is just some kind of bad dream and that it'll all go back to normal soon, is not likely to be correct and is not likely to be of benefit to those folks who are getting priced out of housing. Indeed, basically everyone is likely to get priced out of housing at some point if we keep our collective heads You-Know-Where long enough.
Supply and demand. Let's go over the major factors that make up supply and demand, and see the effects they are likely to have.
Consider demand first. What are the major components of demand? Population, how desirable an area is, and how wealthy the population is. Our population is growing. We just hit 200 million in 1967, and less than 40 years later, we've got another 100 million net. That's a fifty percent gain in a generation. This is a good thing for the most part, but every time we gain a person without a corresponding dwelling being built, we price someone out of the housing market by driving the price beyond what they are willing and able to pay, and the population is growing considerably wealthier in the aggregate. The average house of the 1930s was about 700 square feet. The average house being built today is over 2000. The family of the 1930s might or might not have one automobile, while the average number per family now is over two - and for smaller size average families. Clothes, dishes, appliances, vacation time, average distance from home on vacation, every standard of living has increased, faster in the last twenty-odd years than previously. A time traveler from the 1920s would have recognized more of the lifestyle in the late 1970s than a time traveler from the seventies would recognize now. We can all afford to pay more for a place to live, and most of us are doing so, particularly in the more desirable areas. In fact, those areas seen as desirable or scarce have led the charge up in values. Manhattan Island most of all, but southern California, Florida, southern Arizona, the San Francisco Bay area, the Sun Belt and the coastal areas in general, and of course anywhere especially handy to some popular form of recreation. The population crowds into these places especially and demands housing, as a result of which, the average price of housing in those areas rises faster, while it has more effect on the average citizen simply because an ever larger proportion of the citizenry lives in these places. If going surfing 365 days of the year is the most important thing to someone, they'll do what it takes to live where they can go surfing 365 days a year. If you haven't noticed, a very large proportion of the population seems to want to live within an easy commute of the ocean, and seems to be willing to pay whatever it takes, both in terms of smaller less desirable housing and in terms of spending more to get it. The effect causes prices to increase far more than linearly.
Now let's talk about constrictions on supply.
Sheer room. If every available square foot has already been built on, there isn't any more housing coming without demolishing some other existing building first. There aren't many areas yet where this is a real issue. We've still got lots of open space in this country, but let's consider Manhattan Island, which is completely built over. Every buildable square foot of Manhattan is covered, almost all of it more than one story deep. Prices of Manhattan real estate have been legendary for decades. You think they're coming down to what average everyday folks can afford any time soon? I'll bet you any amount you care to name that's not going to happen. The average folks get pushed out to Brooklyn and the Bronx and Staten Island and the rest of New Jersey. The well off who control or are valued by the cream of the Corporate headquarters, and get paid hundreds of thousands or even millions per year, can afford to pay, will pay, and have been paying for decades. Because those who are financially powerful congregate there, others who are wealthy want to be in the same location. It's worth the extra money to them, and they have it to pay. The demand is not only there, supply is so highly constricted despite everything that can be done that the prices are and will remain sky high by the standards of the rest of the world.
Ability to acquire regulatory approval. If the city, the county, or the state aren't going to allow it to happen, it's not going to happen. Period. It's pointless and expensive to try and force it, and very few people try any more, while every year the hurdles to get permits are higher, tougher, more expensive.
Environmental regulations have taken on a whole new life of their own since 1973. Tests, reports, studies. It can take over a decade to get approvals to build new housing, and if it fails any of the tests, studies reveal any likely issues, or people use environmental issues as a cover for NIMBY or BANANA behavior and sue in court, the whole thing goes down the drain. I happen to agree that we need environmental regulations, but they need to be re-written with more consideration that all economic choices are trade-offs, because the way they are written right now, they form an excellent basis for anyone who wants to stop any development at all to do so legally. Every time we stop a new development, the people who would have lived there need to find some other housing somewhere else. Going along the chain of A prices B out, who then prices C who is lower income than B out of lesser housing, every time we have a new American without building new dwelling space for them, somebody is going to end up homeless, and the price of housing goes up incrementally.
Open space requirements are a big thing in California and around here specifically. Not just open space, either, but maximum building densities. A large part of San Diego county has a maximum building density of 1 building for 40 acres. Well, if you have a maximum building density of 1 building for 40 acres, the only people who can afford to buy that property are those who can afford to buy 40 acres of land. Those who could barely afford a condo - if there were condos there - don't have that option. At some point, if you have too many people competing for too few condos, the price of condos goes up to where those people cannot afford them. And if there's no buildings at all, well it doesn't take a genius to see that nobody can afford to live there, unless it's under a bush or in a tent.
Many building materials have become much more scarce of late, as it's getting harder to obtain them. Lumber, Drywall, etcetera. Every time the materials get more expensive because they're harder to obtain, the price the builders need to charge for the same number of the final product also rises. If they can't make that much, fewer dwellings get built until they can. Nobody is going to build if they know they're going to lose money in advance. If they can make more than that, more dwellings get built.
Last and most importantly, Cost, which most of the others also contribute to. The more it costs to build a dwelling, the fewer that will get built. The cost of the permits isn't just the money the city charges so they can do the inspection. It's the cost of having someone fill out all the paperwork, having someone else make certain that all the requirements are adhered to before that, and of designing the requirements into the construction before that, which not only costs money for the architect, but also for the reduced benefits to the builder. All of this takes time, which means it has what economists call opportunity costs, as well as actual costs. If I can get a better return on the money doing something else, I'm not going to build housing. If I have a hundred acre parcel for dwellings, and the regulations say I have to set aside half of it for other uses besides actual dwellings, then I can only build dwellings for half as many people. If I try to cut the size of the individual dwellings in half, the plans don't get approved, people don't want them, and they don't buy. What this means is that I can only get half as much revenue as I might otherwise get. What the decreased potential revenue means is that projects which would be profitable at full density would lose money at half density - and therefore don't get built.
I've already touched upon Manhattan real estate. Coastal Southern California isn't there yet, but you can see the trend if you watch. In San Diego, there is essentially no more dirt to build on. Open space requirements, minimum lot size requirements, maximum density regulations, and we're hemmed in on about 330 degrees of the circle by four obstructions: Mexico, the Pacific Ocean, Camp Pendleton, and Cleveland National Forest. The I-15 Corridor is one of the few places new development can go, and it's solidly populated all the way to Riverside now - over 100 miles. But people still want to live here, and there are still jobs here, some of them highly paid. We can build higher density housing or we can price people out of ownership and into apartment buildings - and rent is going to get more expensive as well. The highly paid professional doesn't particularly suffer - it's the $15 dollar per hour worker who gets stuck unable to buy, even a condominium, with an ever larger percentage of the paycheck going towards rent.
No matter what market you are in, prices are not going to come crashing back down because that is what will enable you to buy a house. Prices did get over-inflated in a lot of places for reasons I went over in Fear and Greed, or How Did The Housing Bubble Get So Big?. But just because they're higher than they should be now doesn't mean they are going to come crashing back down any further than the place were demand meets supply, and that place is higher than most bubble proponents are willing to admit. The pricing support is there for $350,000 to $400,000 starter homes in San Diego - a family earning two median incomes can afford it. A family earning less than two median incomes can afford it. Furthermore, unless our local housing policy develops a sudden massive attack of rationality, houses are going to start getting less affordable once again as soon as the excess inventory has cleared. Thirty years from now, tiny 1 and 2 bedroom condos will be going for more than that, even adjusted for inflation and standard of living, simply because nobody can build and the demand keeps going up. "Low income housing" and similar things are nice for the beneficiaries, but they are basically a band-aid on a severed carotid artery. The only effective way to fix the problem is to build more housing, period. There are three ways to motivate someone to leave or not to live here: love, money, and force. As long as San Diego has sun and beaches, people are going to love it here. The second way is pricing them out of the market, which is what I'm talking about and what has been happening: People decide that their standard of living would be so much higher elsewhere that they are leaving for economic reasons. The third way is force, and unless you want to see the United States ordering people to move at gunpoint the way Arab countries kicked their Jewish populations out in 1948 (I don't), pricing is by far the preferable way to do it. Pricing people out is ugly, but it's a lot less ugly than the alternatives. Unless we decide to reverse out policies of the last thirty-odd years, we're going to get more of it, and it's going to get ugly. Until we do start building more dwellings, steadily inflating housing prices are here to stay. Especially in the highly popular, highly populated areas where everybody seems to want to live.
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HEREFORD - News 4 Tucson's Lorraine Rivera toured an area evacuated by the Monument Fire to see the damage and destruction left in its wake.
To date, an estimated 58 homes, 4 businesses and 14 outbuildings have been damaged or destroyed by the Monument Fire.
Check out the video and pictures above to see the aftermath of the Monument Fire. We'll have more video and information from the evacuated area tour on News 4 Tucson this evening.
Residents of the following streets and areas are now allowed back into their homes:
Andalusian /Arab /Big Oak/Big Spur/Black Bear Oak/Blue Oak/Bryerly/Bull Rope/Bunkhouse
Calle Cola Blanca/Cool Oaks Road/Covey Run/Darley/Elohyna/East Indigo Sky Road
East Thompson Park Road/Fairfield/Grand Oak/Hackney/Herder/Heritage Oak/Hickory
Hidden Oak/Hunter Creek/Kinjockity/La Pradera/Lippizan/Mighty Oak/Molly/Morgan/Mule
Oak/Oakridge/Palisades/Paseo Venado/Polo/Red Oak/Roaring Oak/Roberto/Ruby/Saddlehorn
School House/Seven Oaks/Sexton/Shire/Silver Concho/Silver Leaf/Silver Thorne/Sophia/South Rock Ridge Road/Stoneridge Road/Sun Quail/Swiss/Three Canyons/Vaquero/Welsh/White Leaf
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South of Three Canyons East of Highway 92/Stoneridge South of 92 which includes Thompson Peak, Rockridge Road, and Indigo Sky Road. Prince Placer Road west of Stoneridge will remain closed.
For information on obtaining a permit to return to your home, call the Cochise County Sheriff's Office at: 520-803-3850
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MIDDLEBURG– The Snyder County Commissioners are continuing to enhance security at the courthouse in Middleburg. Starting in January the courthouse featured a new entrance as well as sheriff's deputies overseeing security for the building.
Snyder County Chairman, Joe Kantz spoke about the added security, " Now when you enter the building, you will enter through a new door at the right of the courthouse and you will exit through a separate door, which is a exit only. That allows us to keep security a little bit tighter on the building, because we have seen unfortunately a number of cases across the country where people are able to bring weapons into courthouses and cause problems."
Snyder County also plans to do a major lighting project in the courthouse and possibly the county prison throughout this year. Kantz spoke about the cost saving project, " Our anticipation is, once we make this transition to the new lighting we could save as much as $30,000 a year at the prison and the courthouse combined."
The lights currently in the courthouse are over 30-years-old. The next Snyder County Commissioner's meeting will be held Tuesday February 18th. ( Sarah Lagerman)
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A royal 13th century deer park has been identified at Brynkir in Gwynedd, North Wales, following a season of excavations led by Cardiff University.
Likely constructed under the reign of Llywelyn the Great who brought unity to Wales in his time, the discovery was made during the 2012 excavation season by a member of the team from Manchester Metropolitan University. The royal deer park dates pre 1230 when Llywelyn moved his regional centre elsewhere to Criccieth.
Now, eight Cardiff University archaeology students are helping uncover more of the history of Brynkir in a follow-up excavation directed by Cardiff postgraduate researcher Mark Baker who's joint History and Architecture PhD is funded by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.
"The importance of Brynkir has been re-emphasized by the work undertaken by the University. The former royal deer park of the native Welsh Princes, set within a far larger landscape designed for hunting and other sports, illustrates how much there is still to learn about the lives of the Princes," said Mark.
"Identifying deer parks in a royal Welsh context helps reinforce the European dimension to studies of Medieval Wales. With the aid of the Welsh Historic Garden Trust's Gwynedd Branch, a geophysical survey will aim to record the medieval gardens of the later manor house, which was owned by the descendants of Owain Gwynedd and which overlaid the earlier deer park," he added.
Three pieces of evidence alerted archaeologists to this lost park: the shape of the enclosures - oval with a smaller area thought to be used for seasonal culling of the herd; the name Brynkir itself - meaning 'Hill of the Deer' in Welsh; and finds of banks and ditches in this area.
In the final week of the project an open day will give the public a chance to see up-close the finds and find out more about the latest discoveries. The Brynkir 2013 open day takes place on Friday 30th August [11am - 4pm]. The excavation is supported by Snowdonia National Park Authority and the charity Love My Wales.
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If anyone has an idea on the manufacturer of the furniture set that would be great. It has 8 chairs buffet and two rolling foot stools brass fitting on all corners and wicker backs on the chairs. Thanks in advance, Matt |
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Matt, There are lots of styles combined in this set......Campaign Style, (brass accents) Asian, (frame details) Contemporary, (glass top inserts) combined with the elm burl veneer & mahogany frame. I would guess it's an import and not from any of the major manufacturers, & i'm guessing it's from the 70's, though it could have been made yesterday. You never know. Have you checked inside the drawers and under the table for any brand markings? |
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Just scanned it quickly - reads like somebody's blog - but didn't see anything glaringly wrong with his definitions and very general information, etc. A lot of this stuff is just to put things out there to get you thinking about what might resonnate in your own individual circumstance. I would venture to say that what you see is what you get - these websites certainly aren't going to provide tailor made plans. The only thing I'd ask you - how close are you to retirement and what have you done to prepare for it so far? Being young and planning for the distant future is one thing; trying to get a jumpstart or play catch up at age 55 (or whatever) is another. |
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I used to be super hardcore but this changed when I had kids.
Crying at the drop of a hat, though, in my universe usually indicates one of 2 things:
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2. There is some underlying issue in my life that needs addressing but which I am failing to confront.
I will say, though, that you should really not underestimate the power of hormonal changes in this regard, especially if there's recently (or even not that recently) been a change along the lines of weaning from the breast or resuming your menstrual cycle after having a baby. Sometimes, these changes happen over many months and can affect you long after you thought that everything had returned to normal.
I am a crier. Anything can set me off. BUT. I am very private about it. I need to fully trust people before I let my guard down like that. So I will only cry in front of VERY close friends, my parents and my DH. Even my kids.
ps…meant to say that it seems to get worse as I get older. Every single tweet from @melindaconnor set me off these past few days!
I'm a cryer. I cry when I'm happy and when I'm sad.
I watched a Youtube video about some actress the other day (can't remember her name) and she said that if her emotional state wasn't in the range 3-7 (out of 10) she'd cry… I'm the same
Oh I am like you and somehow the last 2 months have just been strange too – crying a lot. Even cried with a client the other day. Totally unheard off.
I cry when I am incredibly frustrated. Sadness (and happiness) tend to be kept under wraps even though I may be feeling the emotion. Odd?
I'm not a crier either. Although I'm more likely to now that I'm on a different birth control. I never thought of how much my mood was affected by hormones until the change. Its funny, my husband never cries (he could probably count on one hand the number of times), but cried at our wedding (there are pictures!) but I didn't shed a tear.


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We got a quote from an Andersen dealer (VERY HIGH!) but I think it's because the sales guy is trying to push his latest model.
I want double hung (easier to clean), but do I need Hp smart sun glass? What about TruScene? He won't even talk about the 400 series saying that those windows are inferior to what he is offering me. We have Pella out here, but as far as I know, Pella and Anderesen are the biggest names around these parts. |
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- Posted by mightyanvil (My Page) on Tue, Oct 7, 08 at 17:19
Andersen's Renewal is made with "Fibrex" a sawdust and PVC composite material. There are two Andersen 400 series double-hungs: the Tilt-Wash and the Woodwright. They both have PVC-clad wood frames but the Tilt-Wash has a special paint on the wood sash and a PVC compression jamb and the Woodwright has a Fibrex wrapped wood sash and a wood "hidden" jamb. I would consider the Woodwright to be superior to any other Andersen non-architectural series model and any other Pella roll-form aluminum-clad model. You need to get someone to advise you will put your interests above theirs. I would at least start with another Andersen dealer. |
- Posted by mariposatraicionera (My Page) on Wed, Oct 8, 08 at 14:58
Thanks Mightyanvil. I am going to visit a couple showrooms and see what I can learn before committing. I am really confused by the "sales" talk I got about needing Hp smart sun windows. |
- Posted by mightyanvil (My Page) on Wed, Oct 8, 08 at 15:39
You should also look at Marvin's Infinity fiberglass windows. |
- Posted by mariposatraicionera (My Page) on Thu, Oct 9, 08 at 0:53
I will! Just found out there are two dealers in my area. Thanks for the suggestion. Do you prefer their windows over Andersen or Pella? I asked the same sales guy today about Woodwright windows and he gave me the long story about having to paint or stain them because they're wood and not terratone. |
- Posted by mightyanvil (My Page) on Thu, Oct 9, 08 at 8:30
The only wood showing on the Woodwright is on the interior where paint or stain is fine. I don't know what you mean by "terratone". What model are you comparing it to? You should try to avoid asking for opinions about brands without specifying the models; it's just a waste of your time and invites kneejerk irrelevant responses like you are getting from the salesman. |
- Posted by mariposatraicionera (My Page) on Thu, Oct 9, 08 at 12:32
The terratone he's pushing does not have to be painted which is his selling line apparently. There is no model number on the quote. I believe he said these are being made specially for this company, and is different from the 400 series. Of course he claims it's superior! |
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- Posted by mariposatraicionera (My Page) on Thu, Oct 9, 08 at 12:48
Okay, so I called the same salesman and asked for a model number and he said it is called "Renewal by Andersen" which is custom made, and is "superior" to the 400 series. Whatever. Then I called the Marvin dealer and they will send someone out. At least I will be able to see other options. Thanks again. |
- Posted by mightyanvil (My Page) on Thu, Oct 9, 08 at 19:20
By considering the Renewal by Andersen window you have left the normal world of windows and entered the world of REPLACEMENT WINDOWS. They are sold by an entirely different kind of sales force that uses all of the tricks and exaggerations typical of home improvement sales people. I would not trust anything they told me. Andersen's normal windows are sold for replacement and I would consider them for a superior comparison. |
I just purchased Andersen Woodwright Insert windows - installation starts today. So I've been through all the decisions. These are the "400 Series" - I thought that Renewal by Andersen windows were the lesser "200 Series" - but I'm not sure. I assume that you are looking at "insert" replacement windows and not sash replacements nor new construction windows. I looked at Pella, Marvin, Harvey (a regional brand?), and Andersen - I didn't look at Renewal by Andersen because I just didn't want to deal with any pushy, franchise salesperson. For looks, build-quality it came down to this for me - Marvin, Andersen, Pella, and then Harvey. Harvey was a lot cheaper but I just didn't like the look/quality. I didn't get a price from Pella - seemed like they wanted to send a sales person to the house. Marvin - of course - turned out to be the most expensive - about $150/window more than Andersen. I just couldn't justify the extra expense for something I only liked marginally better. But you should compare prices since they vary by size and options. I would start by going to a good window/door distributor - who should have sample units on display. You can price installation separately. Andersen "Sun" glass is just darker - lets in less light as far as I know. "Terratone" is just a color - brown. TruScene is just a more transparent screen - nice but expensive - for me it was about $50/window. Hope that helps! |
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