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"Film LA, an organisation that co-ordinates permits for film shoots in Los Angeles, says that without California's own tax credit, "2010 would have been the worst year" since the mid-1990s for filming in Hollywood."
Actually, I'd suggest that 2010 was one of the worst years since the mid-90's, measured by the quality of what's put out. Movies are getting pretty awful at a noticeable rate. Music is still enjoyable, and theater has suddenly become interesting again. I wont shed any tears for Hollywood.
In harsh economic times it helps to "appear" to be trying to stimulate the local economy. People forget that having the buzz of a film crew in their state is a feel good activity that helps boost the general morale of the population. Personally, I would not waste the taxpayer money on hollywood types. It would be more advantageous to put the money and the natural talent in the state to creating some sort of fine arts establishment...That would be a public work of permanent not temporary status.
The logic in this article applies to any business subsidies, and to job creation in general. Any industry-specific or job-specific subsidy is bound to fail over the long term because your neighbor can and will match it beggaring both you and your neighbor. States or municipalities can only gain a real advantage through non-monetary advantages that are not easily duplicated. Low business taxes, a minimum of regulation (for film crews, a one-stop office that efficiently navigates the local bureacracy, for instance), a pool of trained labor, and a city where that trained labor wants to live, are all selling points which are much harder to duplicate than cash handouts.
As a TV producer who benefits from subsidies, I'd like to refute a few simplistic assumptions in this article. First of all, the show I run is in it's 2nd season and we're producing the 17th episode in Georgia. We employ 22 to 26 people on any given show and they work at least two weeks per month. Some are local production crew and others are local construction personnel. They are mostly independent contractors. Because of the tax incentives offered in Georgia, we can afford to develop other shows and bring more work here. Because of the incentives, I will continue to fight to keep our show here. We spend thousands of dollars with local vendors every month, from caterers to furniture stores. Beyond that, Georgia is building up it's base of crew and local talent because there's more work here than ever before. I've been in this market for 30 years. When we have tax incentives, we have an economic boost for our industry. When we don't, people leave to work in states that do. At least film and TV production is a clean, low to no impact industry that hires lots of small business services and local contractors. I'd prefer it over big polluters that pay minimum wage in dead-end jobs.
Politicians who support such biased corrupt legislation should be in jail as fraud artists.
Strange that the photo accompanying this very good article is from "Eat, Pray, Love" and was shot in Indonesia. That film used its locations because they were called for in the script, not to get tax credits.
I have always wondered about the balance between tax credits and the increased costs due to lack of resources. So many people and goods have to be brought in to make the films; does the production really save money, ostensibly the reason for going to subsidy-doling states? Doubtful. I truly hope the trend has peaked, and the work comes back to California.
Can you say placement ad? Oh wait - states dont have tourism ad budgets do they?
Some films have represented awesome value for their subsidisers.
The film works blog mentioned in the article is fantastic (filmworksla.com). California is not playing the incentive game because it wants to, it's playing it because it has too. So long as other jurisdictions are willing to distort the market and tilt the playing field, what choice does the state have but to level it with its own incentive. What's the point of growing any industry if someone else can just poach it when it matures. Sorry to the "picking winners vs. losers" folks, but protectionism is needed on occasion. Otherwise, why bother with economic development when others will just use economic hijacking?
This is perhaps a simplistic view of the matter. States could believe that they could shift the equilibrium of the movie making market by offering tax credits and that producers would stay for the other benefits. I don't think that this is the case but it at least deserves mentioning.
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Gun-control advocates seized on the mall shooting as a possible result of the expiration in 2004 of a national ban on assault weapons.
"Santa Claus could have been shot in the mall," said Penny Okamoto, executive director of Ceasefire Oregon, in an interview with the Portland Tribune. "If you're sick of this, you should call your legislators to tell them to fix the laws so that assault weapons don't end up in the hands of felons."
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I remember, long ago, hearing John Templeton tell Louis Rukeyser on Wall Street Week that "This time is different" are the most deadly words in finance. Of course house prices have to maintain a reasonable relationship with local household incomes. Yet I never managed to get anyone to sell at the top of a real estate boom. For most people, belief is much stronger than sense.
The odd thing is that given the premise that banks should not be too big to fail, we have landed up with even fewer, and one suspects even bigger, banks in the post Lehman phase. It also seems to me that Lehman had indeed been singled out for failure - regulators it would appear did not act in good faith - and that it was a rival of Goldman Sachs may have something to do with it.
As far as I know the Economist still has not reviewed Thomas Sowell's best selling "Housing Boom and Bust".
This is in spite of the fact that Thomas Sowell is not an evil Austrian School man (a school of economic thought that Economist detests so much you pretend we do not exist), and actually makes favourable comments about the Economist in his book.
Thomas Sowell points at the specific government interventions (rather than the greed and folly of bankers) that caused the housing/banking mess, and argues for less government - rather than more.
These are the reasons you have not reviewed his book and will not review it.
Any more than you will review Thomas Woods "Meltdown".
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SKULL VALLEY, Tooele County — The blistering heat and thirst were greater enemies than the people lingering next to the watering trough.
A solitary, gray stallion fought through his instincts to flee and instead wandered closer and closer, beaten down by perhaps days upon days without life-sustaining water.
"His thirst has made him bold," said Kevin Lloyd, the West Desert wild horse specialist with the Bureau of Land Management in Utah.
"Under normal circumstances, these horses would leave; they would move off right away."
But life has been anything but normal this summer in the desolate expanses of Skull Valley in Tooele County, where the Cedar Mountain herd of wild horses is enduring a second straight year of drought. The springs and seeps that normally support the herds just aren't enough.
Since late June, the Bureau of Land Management has orchestrated the delivery of water to troughs some 22 miles into the hills off state Route 196.
The herd of about 570 animals was draining the trough, which operates on a float system — a float valve that controls the water coming in — and is fed through a pipe.
Lloyd said the protracted heat is taking its toll — and even though there may be another spring with some water about eight miles away, the horses won't seek it out.
"Horses are creatures of habit. They will wait at a dry site. There'd be horses that would stay there and die."
The Cedar Mountain herd is healthy. The horses remain muscled up and their bellies aren't drawn in from poor condition.
Lloyd wants to keep them that way.
Although he lives in Fillmore, more than three hours away, he makes the trip to the BLM's Muskrat Fire Station four or five times a week to load up with 1,000 gallons of water and venture out 90 minutes west.
Sometimes he goes to the troughs twice in one day, and it isn't uncommon for him to see 50 to 60 animals at the troughs at any given time.
"It's a good day when I get there and there's not a horse at the trough," he said, which means the horses have already had their fill of water.
The BLM in Utah is trying to avoid the untenable situation that has confronted its counterpart in Nevada, where many members of the Seaman herd are in extremely poor condition and at imminent risk of dying.
Nevada has been hauling water to its horses, too, but many are too skittish to get near strange troughs and so thirst-deprived they ignore what is in front of them.
"It's not pretty and it is not an easy thing to see," Lloyd said. "They will stand in dry water until they die."
Lloyd said the hope for Utah's Cedar Mountain herd is to keep the weekly waterings up to stay ahead of the problem posed by the drought.
Just Wednesday, the BLM hauled out three more round troughs to give all the herd a better chance at getting water.
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So now that's out of the way, how did the products themselves measure up?
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I also got an Orly Nail Lacquer in Ruby, a beautiful maroon wine sort of colour. This goes on so easily and was very nearly opaque and streak-free with a lovely glossy finish after just one coat. I only applied this to my toes, so can't comment on how long it would last on fingers but as soon as my silk wraps are off, I'm trying it!
At first I wasn't inspired by the FAB Gentle Body Wash, figuring it was just like any other shower gel until I bothered reading the label. It's got "antioxidant booster" and can be used to "cleanse, calm redness and relieve dry skin." I'm a massive sufferer of dry skin, and have enjoyed using this instead of my hot cloth cleanser.
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Scrabble word: FROCK
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Definitions of FROCK in dictionaries:
- noun - a habit worn by clerics
- noun - a one-piece garment for a woman
- verb - put a frock on
- A woman's dress.
- A long, loose outer garment, as that worn by artists and craftspeople; a smock.
- A woolen garment formerly worn by sailors; a jersey.
- A robe worn by monks, friars, and other clerics; a habit.
- To clothe in a frock.
- To invest with clerical office.
- verb - to clothe in a long, loose outer garment
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Oregon's 2012 offense: What might have been
Posted by Rob Moseley
Following up on my story from this morning, here's a look at what Oregon's 2012 offense might have looked like in a perfect world.
The assumptions here: Everybody redshirts, nobody gets hurt, nobody transfers, nobody leaves early. All veterans meet expectations set for them as recruits, and aren't passed on the depth chart by younger players.
This is an imperfect exercise, because the results of each recruiting class affect recruiting targets for the next several years. Also, Oregon's recent recruiting classes have been very highly ranked, suggesting the Ducks are signing higher quality players under Chip Kelly.
But if you care to play along ...
QB: Darron Thomas, Bryan Bennett
RB: LaMichael James, Lache Seastrunk
WR: Chris Harper, Blake Cantu
TE: Mychal Rivera, Curtis White
OL: Nick Cody, Jake Fisher
OL: Jamaal Burrell, Nick Rowland
OL: Karrington Armstrong, Hroniss Grasu
OL: Trevor Fox, Ryan Clanton
OL: Everett Benyard, Tyler Johnstone
WR: Braxton Lane, Josh Huff
WR: Diante Jackson, Nick Cole
Of the 22 players listed on that two-deep, 10 are still here, and only one of the listed starters above, Cody, is an actual starter. Hence, the Ducks' use of 15 freshmen and sophomores for their actual two-deep last week against Arizona (I'm subbing in freshman Dwayne Stanford for the injured Huff, and redshirt freshman James Euscher as a backup tackle in place of the injured Kyle Long, which is how I think the Ducks compensated for those absences against the Wildcats).
UPDATE: As commenters pointed out, I should have included Carson York. I went back to the 2008 recruiting class when looking this up, for guys who would be fifth-year seniors now, and thus overlooked York, who signed in 2007 then greyshirted. So he'd be one more veteran on hand.
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August 25th
She'd heard the word from Theodore Rhodes first.
Age eleven at the time, he'd been deeply engrossed in one of his more barbaric videogames when something odd happened: an object, not one of any obvious importance or appeal, had somehow wound up in the middle of his digital path. The brawny thug under his control had inspected the object, jumped on it, punched it, and finally shot at it several times before Theodore decided that the object was just an error, a mistake. A glitch.
And Glitch fancied herself just that.
But even now, as the approximate seventeen-year-old sat at the end of the table two years later, it was clear to her still that something was indeed wrong. For although the girl should have been obvious with her brightly-colored clothing and her friendly demeanor, the people with whom she sat seemed hardly aware of her presence.
There was an odd quiet that hung over the family of five as they ate their breakfast. Mr. Rhodes had buried himself in his newspaper, but felt too unexplainably tense to take in more than the headlines. Mrs. Rhodes too felt out of sorts, and found that she'd completely lost her appetite as she frowned over her Danish pastry. Even the children, Theodore included, were in no mood for their usual quarrelling, and took the time instead to divide whole-grain letters from marshmallows as they ate in puzzled silence.
Glitch watched them, her second helping of breakfast gone. She smiled.
"If I didn't know better," she said, "I'd say you were all pouting." She collected her dishes in a pile. "Well, it won't do you any good, because I'm leaving. I've taken advantage of your hospitality long enough. Heh, unintentional as it was," she added quietly.
No one so much as blinked at the comment.
"Oh, come on, guys!" Glitch continued. "You're not usually this quiet, even with me at the table! Mr. Rhodes, tell Mrs. Rhodes what a crazy, mixed up world we live in—it's your favorite subject!"
Mr. Rhodes gave an uneasy grunt, then shook his paper out as if to shake off his unease. He said nothing.
"And how about you, Mrs. Rhodes? You're usually so cheerful at breakfast! Can't you smile? Even a little?"
But it was no use and Glitch knew it. So she stood, taking one final look at the family she'd grown to love so well. "Play nice, kiddies," she said. And with that cleared her dishes and slipped silently through the back door.
Mrs. Rhodes started, rubbing her eyes as if just awaking from an odd dream. "Dear," she said, turning to her equally-bewildered husband, "did you say something?"
Three years later
Glitch held her breath as she made her way down the crowded boulevard. She'd made an effort to keep to the far side of the sidewalk, but somehow an endless stream of bodies still managed to bump up against her, knocking her back and forth like a pendulum. No one apologized, because no one had noticed her—a true oddity considering her unseasonable attire. As far as anyone was concerned, they'd never seen the girl at all.
But Glitch was there, much more so than she'd have liked to be. With a groan she pulled her bright red hoody more tightly around her, sweating buckets beneath it. Then she buried her exposed hands beneath folded arms. She was used to this: the heat, the crowd. But it was a small sacrifice when her education was at stake. And Glitch, despite her peculiar circumstances, had an unquenchable thirst to know everything.
She quickened her pace, breathing heavily, head down. She reached the street corner and waited.
"Are you all right?" said a voice. It was a man's, friendly and distinct above the city din. Glitch spun around. But as usual, the question had been directed at someone else; a young mother was struggling to keep three rambunctious little boys under control while carrying several large grocery bags. The speaker, a tall red-head in a university T-shirt, approached her.
"Here," he said, and removed two of the bags from her hand. Then he shifted them both into one grip and used a free hand to scoop up the smallest of the boys. "Up we go! Wheeeeeee!"
The child, upon hearing the stranger's exclamation, gave a squeal of delight as his brothers, impatient for their turns, followed closely behind. They crossed the street together.
Glitch stared after them. "Nice guy," she said. Then she hurried off towards campus.
January 13th
Since that morning on the street corner, Glitch had never once seen the guy unhappy. 'Focused', maybe. 'Rushed', perhaps, but never out and out gloomy. Glitch liked that; Lars had a nice smile, broad and sincere, and it would have been a shame to waste it on someone who's default emotion wasn't 'cheerful'.
But now, seeing him slumped in the snow against the side of a building as if his world had collapsed on top of him… it was like seeing snow in the middle of summer.
"Hey, you okay?" She set down her bag and crouched down in front of him. "What happened? I've… I've never seen you like this before."
Lars, of course, didn't respond. He just stared right through her, his expression absent, the rims of his eyes swollen and red.
"Look… I know you can't hear me," said Glitch. "Or see me. Nobody can and I'm not sure why. But hey, I'm here." She reached out then, her coat sleeve stretched over her hand. She touched his arm.
"Gosh, I hope he's ok," said Lars. Glitch recoiled.
"Can you…?"
Lars shrugged. "He's always been a healthy guy, always exercising, watching what he eats. And he gets plenty of sleep." He choked out a laugh. "Then why?" he said weakly. "Why?"
Shoulders heaving, he caved in, his fingers twining through the thick waves of his hair as if he meant to pull it out.
Glitch closed her eyes. What she wouldn't have given for a moment, just one moment to tell Lars how sorry she was, to be able to touch his hand, to really touch it without...
"God?" Lars looked up. "Please," he said, "please don't take my dad."
February 20th
Glitch was late. The funeral would be starting soon, and if she didn't hurry, she'd miss the ceremony entirely.
Lars's father had showed few signs of recovery since that cold, cold day in January, until it soon became clear that no hope remained. He'd passed away just a few days ago.
And now? Now Lars needed Glitch more than ever.
She picked up speed, despite the ice that covered every street and sidewalk. She had to get there on time. She just had to.
Suddenly—"EEP!" Her feet went flying out from under her. She shrieked, her arms flailing, then, before she could stop herself, she hit the ground with a nasty THUD.
She moaned.
But before she could check herself for injuries, she heard a cry of alarm, and realized with a gasp that she'd fallen into the path of an oncoming bicycle.
Her arms flung protectively over her face, but the bicyclist managed to skid to a halt, stopping mere inches from where Glitch lay. She peered up. A dark-haired boy with sunken cheeks and grey eyes dismounted. He was scowling in her general direction.
"Hey!" he shouted. "Watch where you're falling, will ya?"
Glitch twisted around, expecting to find another unfortunate soul behind her, but there was no one. She looked to the left, to the right. No one.
"Are you deaf?" the boy repeated. "I said watch where you're falling! What were you thinking, rushing across the ice like that? Idiot!"
Glitch took a deep, long breath. Her voice was faint, monotone. "Excuse me," she said, "Um..." She swallowed. "Are you talking to me?"
The boy laughed humorlessly. "Of course I'm talking to you. Are you stupid, or something?"
But Glitch couldn't answer. Instead she gaped at him for a long, long moment. Then she buried her face in her hands and wept.
February 21st
"All right, I'm convinced." They were sitting on a bench in the subway: Mike, the grey-eyed boy, sitting at one end, Glitch on the other. "I'm the only one who can see you. You're 'invisible.'"
Glitch shrugged. "I don't think I'm invisible, exactly. I think…" She paused. "It's more like people just forget that they've seen me really, really quickly."
Mike took a long drag on a cigarette. "And this is where you woke up?"
Glitch nodded. "It's the earliest memory I have. I woke up spread out on this bench. I don't know how I got here. I don't know my name. I think I'm 20-something, but I'm not even sure of that."
"And no one can see you or hear you."
"Except me."
He took another drag. "So, what, am I some sort of 'Chosen One'? Do I have to free you from an evil spell?"
Glitch shrugged. "It kinda seems that way, doesn't it?"
Mike put out his cigarette on the edge of the bench. He flicked the smoking stub away. "Is this like a fairy tale? Do I have to kiss you?" He moved towards her, but Glitch scrambled to her feet.
"No," she said nervously. "Don't touch me."
"Whoa, chill!" he said, throwing his hands up. "Geez, what's the problem?"
Glitch bit her lip. "It'll hurt if you do," she said. "Really badly."
Mike snorted. "What, like, emotionally?"
"I wear this for a reason, you know." She tugged at the edge of her hoody. "If someone touches me, if a hand brushes mine, or even if someone's hair whips against my face, it feels like… like I'm on fire, like a someone's burning me with a white-hot iron. I know because it happened a lot the night I woke up here." She shuddered at the memory. "Never, ever touch me, Mike. Promise?"
Mike took his time looking her over. He smirked. "Alright, Glitch," he said. "If that's the way you want it."
But Glitch did not feel safe. She did not feel safe at all.
April 20th
He was angry, angrier than Glitch had ever seen him before, and that was saying something. She'd thought he was asleep when she'd sneaked out a few hours ago, but he himself had been out all along, and was furious when he'd found her gone several hours later.
"Well? Where were you?" Mike slurred, gesturing towards her with an empty liquor bottle. "I didn't give you permission to leave!"
"Mike, I didn't think you'd care so much where I went." She folded her arms, her red hoody the only armor she had. "Really, I thought—"
"SHUT UP!" He hurled the bottle at her. She dodged just in time, and watched it smash against the wall behind her, excess alcohol spattering everywhere.
"Stop it, Mike!" she said, trembling. "Stop it, I'm sorry!"
"You were out with him, weren't you? That Lars kid!"
Glitch gaped. He knew. "Of course not," she said quickly. "He can't even see me."
Mike sneered, teetering dangerously as he got to his feet. "That's right," he said. "He can't see you. No one can, 'cept me! You belong to me, and when I say stay in the apartment you stay."
Glitch opened her mouth, then closed it. She frowned. "No."
Mike's brow raised. "What did you say?"
"I said 'no.' I don't belong to you. I don't belong to anyone. I can do what I please and I can go where I want." Her jaw tensed, but she kept her eyes down. "I don't need you, Mike."
Mike chuckled darkly. "Is that so?" He lunged.
Glitch turned to run, but Mike was too fast, even in the state he was in. In one swift movement he grabbed the hem of her jacket and pulled her back, kicking and screaming.
She sobbed, pleaded. He whipped her around to face him and she raked her nails across against his face, tore at his shirt. But he held fast, and her world flashed white-hot as Mike's hand gripped the back of her bare neck.
He held it there until white-hot became black.
Glitch didn't know how long Mike had held her for, but as she lay on the ground, sick and convulsing, she was certain of one thing: it had been far too long. Mike stood over her, swaying, wiping the blood from his cheek where Glitch's nails had raked across.
"You don't need me," he said quietly. "No one does." Glitch whimpered, holding her neck protectively. "Well then," said Mike. "I'll get out of your way."
He opened the door and stumbled through, leaving nothing but the hall light to illuminate the place where the invisible girl lay.
She was pretty sure she knew where he was headed. In her mind's eye she watched him staggering down the subway steps, down one floor, than two, back to the place where Glitch's earliest memories lay buried.
"Mike?" Glitch called into the underground. But her voice was lost in a horde of oncoming people. Burying her hands deeply into her pockets, she forced herself through the thick wall of bodies and muscled her way to the floor below.
"Mike! Where are you?" She winced as a hand brushed against her exposed wrist. "Mike!" She should be halfway to another state, she knew that. But something inside her wouldn't let her leave. She had to find Mike, make sure he didn't do anything stupid. Then she'd would find a new town, get a job, maybe, a new life. She might even find another Lars.
She turned a corner, and stopped. There he was, reeling at the edge of a platform. "MIKE!"
Glitch ran towards him, heart pounding, head pulsing. "MIKE, NO!" she cried. His limp body dropped onto the tracks below.
No one else had seen him, and she couldn't call for help because no one would hear her. With no other choice, she leapt onto the tracks below. He was right; she didn't need him. But right then he needed her.
She wrapped her arms around his waist and pulled upward. But he was heavier than he looked, and his dead weight barely budged under her desperate pull.
"Come on," she said, "come on!"
"Hey!" a voice called down to them. "What are you doing? Get out of there, now!"
Glitch froze. She knew that voice.
From the black tunnel to her right, a chilling sound echoed through the darkness: the train.
"Leave him! There's no time!" cried Lars. He was lying down, leaning over the edge, his hand outstretched. "Give me your hand!"
"You can… see me?" Another blast of the train horn reverberated out from the tunnel. Glitch rearranged herself, pushing Mike's unconscious body up from behind. It worked. "Take him!" she cried.
"No!" said Lars. "Give me your hand!"
Glitch looked up at him then, and oh how she wanted to. He could see her, hear her! And she had so many things to tell him.
"Lars," she said. A bright light rushed towards them from the darkness. "Here!" With all of her might, she thrust Mike's body upwards, up into the safety of Lars's embrace.
Then the light was upon her. She closed her eyes.
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"It's good to see you again."
A familiar voice resounded within her being. She smiled.
"You too, Joe."
A deep, warm chuckle. "I told you, you're not supposed to call me that. My full name is—"
"I know, I know. Gosh, you Guardian Angels have the stuffiest names."
'Joe' shrugged. "Too true. But hey, if you're lucky, you'll be getting your own stuffy name soon—if the Guardian Council is smart enough to pass you."
The young trainee smiled. "I dunno, I thought 'Glitch' suited me fine. But I guess… that's behind me now."
The pair of old, old friends sat in comfortable silence.
"Where are we, anyway?" She looked around. "Some sort of heavenly waiting room?"
Joe shrugged. "Something like that. The Guardian Council did some remodeling while you were down there. I think it looks kinda stupid, myself." He ran a long, brown finger down the arm of his marble chair. "And these seats are so uncomfortable." His face took on a sly expression. "So, that guy. Lars, was it? What—?"
Suddenly a pair of double doors flew open. A brilliant light flooded the room as an enormous, muscular man stepped in.
"Show offs," Joe muttered. He took his friend's hand and they stood.
"The trainee may enter," boomed the glorious figure. "But you, Jeduthun, are to stay here."
Joe snorted. "Ridiculous. What for?"
The Guardian eyed his fellow angel. "You aren't appropriately dressed," he sniffed.
"What? Just cause I don't feel like runnin' around in a bathrobe."
"It is a uniform. We have no choice."
"Whatever," said Joe, but he winked at his friend. "Go get 'em, kid." Then the doors closed between them.
The trainee stood before the seven thrones of the Guardian Council, neither anxious nor eager. She kept her eyes on her feet, her mind on other things.
"Well, my dear, that was quite a performance." It was a woman who spoke. She was seated in the center throne. "I don't believe we've seen such results on one of our tests in the history of time, have we, gentlemen?"
There was a murmur of agreement from the other Council members.
"Thank you," replied the trainee. "Though it would have been nice to have remembered that I was being tested while I was down there."
"Nonsense," the woman replied. "This was a test of your true character. To be aware of your identity would have defeated its purpose entirely. But it's all over now, and here you are." She studied the trainee for a moment. "Well? Wouldn't you like to know your results?"
Glitch nodded.
"You failed."
Silence. The trainee gaped. "What?" she gasped.
"You failed," the Head Guardian repeated. "You will not become a Guardian Angel."
The trainee laughed. Surely this was a joke. Surely. But as she looked to each Guardian Council member one by one, she found that they'd never looked so serious. And that was saying something.
"Why?" Her voice was a whisper. "I was the best guardian that guy ever had! I saved him! I died for him!"
The Head Guardian silenced her with a gesture. "I'm sorry, but the vote is unanimous. You will not be a Guardian Angel, not in this millennium."
"Because," she continued, the corner of her mouth twitching, "we have a very different reward to offer you for your efforts."
Joe beamed as his friend emerged through the double doors. "Well? How did you do?"
And with the biggest smile he'd ever seen on her face, his friend replied, "I failed."
April 20th
She opened her eyes. An unpleasant brightness flooded them. She winced.
"Thank goodness!" said a voice.
"She's waking up!" said another.
Then more voices.
"Is she hurt?"
"Did someone call an ambulance?"
"She's fine, guys." Her heart fluttered inside her chest; this voice she knew too well. "Get that flashlight out of her face!" Suddenly, she was being lifted up into someone's arms. Skin touched skin. Painlessly. "Oh, and someone keep an eye on Mr. Tipsy over there."
The light gone, she opened her eyes again. "Hello," she said.
Lars smiled down at her. "Hello."
"Thank you for saving me."
"It was the least I could do. Can't count the number of times you've been there for me." He shrugged. "Just thought I'd return the favor."
She blushed. "And here I'd thought you'd never noticed."
"Noticed? Who wouldn't notice you?" He cleared his throat. "In that bright red hoody, I mean."
"You'd be surprised." But she sent a knowing glance heavenward. Some reward, she thought with a smile. It would seem someone's memory has been conveniently jogged.
Lars walked over to a bench by the wall and sat down, still holding her. They were quiet as another train roared past them.
"Hey," he said. "You're still shaking."
"Hate to break it to you, but it's you who's shaking."
"Is it?" Now Lars was blushing. "Oh. I, uh, guess you gave me quite a scare back there."
"Well," said his rescuee, "maybe I'd better hold your hand. You know, to make you feel better."
Lars beamed. He reached, then paused, his expression serious. "On one condition," he said.
"What's that?" she asked.
"That you tell me how on earth a girl like you ended up with a name like Glitch."


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Mathildish on 3/19/2014 6:24:00 PM more reviews by Mathildish
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Cool Hair: Blond, Straight, Medium Eyes: Blue
Such a cute dusty rose-brown colour.. Lovely for contouring as well as a blush! :)
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MadameButterfly on 3/3/2014 7:45:00 AM more reviews by MadameButterfly
Age: 25-29 Skin: Normal, Fair, Neutral Hair: Brunette, Curly, Medium Eyes: Hazel
First, let me just say, the packaging and name is too cute! Benefit blushes and bronzers also have a strong fragrance, which I actually like. I can't really describe the scent, except that it's a pleasant powdery smell. Dallas is a light taupe/brown with slight bronzey plum undertones, but it hardly even contains bronze or plum. It's almost straight up dark taupe/brown, with no pink or coral, so it's not flattering on fair or cool toned skin. I'm borderline able to wear it (I have light olive/neutral NW15 skin), but I have to use a very light hand. Dallas is very pigmented! The texture is also very soft and smooth with a slightly shimmery finish.
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*TOP REVIEWER* babyblue59 on 3/2/2014 7:55:00 PM more reviews by babyblue59
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral Hair: Blond, Straight, Medium Eyes: Blue
Love this blush! It is the most glowy, healthy and natural looking color. It's one of those products that kind of works as a blush and bronzer in one. It's a bronze rosy color that is so effortless and beautiful for everyday. It's also a great product if you're in a rush and need one product to liven up your complexion.
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jaraloo on 1/12/2014 4:29:00 AM more reviews by jaraloo
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
I love the color. It is kind of a bronzer blush in one. Very natural looking. Stays all day even without foundation or primer. Does not irritate my skin. Packaging is very messy though and the powder messes the box and the mirror inside. I dont use the brush given. Fluffy blush brush would be better. The price is really not worth what you get. A Very good dupe would be Maxfactor's blush in Naturelle.
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qhqy on 12/28/2013 4:31:00 AM more reviews by qhqy
Age: 19-24 Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
i LOVE this product!
This shade is a cross between a bronzer and a blush and gives you the most natural flush of colour. It has a slight scent to it which doesnt bother me, it does smell great. It does have a slight sheen to it but it looks very natural when applied.
This product is for days where you need to rush out the door - sweep it across your cheeks, temples and down your nose, it looks like you have just been out in the sun! loveee it
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Naromantica on 12/14/2013 4:06:00 PM more reviews by Naromantica
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine Eyes: Blue
Ok. First of all, this was the shade I'd been looking all over the place for when I at last laid my eyes upon it in a Sephora-store. The perfect shade yup.
So here's the deal, it makes my cheeks brake out every time I use it, now this is worse than the kids-fun-for-play-makeup-blush I used before (it also had the perfect shade, hah).....
I think it might be the talc what makes my skin react, I have quite sensitive skin and do my best to use skinfriendly-tested products but I just could not say no when I found this shade and I had no time to investigate the brand so...
I'm not in love with the packaging either, I'm not fond of plastic in general and would rather appreciate a smarter version of fitting the brush inside the case. ... Though, the design is nice, yes...
If it didn't give breakouts on the spot every time I used it I would give it 5+ in everycategory just out of pure love though..... Too bad for me...
EDIT: Gave it to my sister.... she got the same breakouts as I did!
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Disintigratedwoman on 12/14/2013 1:38:00 AM more reviews by Disintigratedwoman
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Blond Eyes: Brown
Really great blush/bronzer! I have pretty pale skin and this definitely gives my face a pop of colour, and adds contours to my rounder face. For girls that don't really like to wear bronzer, this is a perfect product. Really makes you look like you spent the day outside and got a glow from the sun and exercise. It's also very pigmented, this product has been lasting me for years as I need so little.
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GirlieReview on 12/5/2013 1:39:00 PM more reviews by GirlieReview
Age: 36-43 Skin: Very Dry, Fair, Neutral Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
Dallas is a dusky pinky brown. It reminds me a lot of the Tarte Amazonian Clay blush in Exposed or the Estee Lauder Pure Color blush in Rebel Rose. Shades like this I really like for using as a blush/contour. I just apply it along the back of the cheeks and it gives both definition and color without being over the top blush or contour.
The blush has good color payoff. There isn't any obvious shimmer, but it has a satin finish. I found that it blended easily and wore well. I got a solid 8 hours out of it before there was any noticeable fading.
The biggest downside (as always) with me for this, and all, Benefit blush is the packaging. At this price point, I don't want cardboard packaging. And I think I have an older run of the product because the lid isn't attached at all. Attached or not, I despise the packaging.
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christinemclaughlin on 11/26/2013 1:15:00 PM more reviews by christinemclaughlin
Age: 25-29 Skin: Very Dry, Fair Hair: Blond Eyes: Green
I'm a bit disappointed in Dallas because it's too orange/dark for my fair skin. I think the packaging is so cute and the brush that comes with it is not that bad, either. It is high quality and highly pigmented, but if you are fair like me, apply with a light hand and blend well!
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dawny1980 on 11/2/2013 3:54:00 PM more reviews by dawny1980
Age: 30-35 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Brunette Eyes: Hazel
i absolutely adore dallas and have re-bought numerous times. i am a fan of benefit powders but thia is by far my favourite. i am pale skinned and when i first used it was afraid it would be too dark for me and that i had wasted money buying the product. however, it is really buildable and provides great colour that lasts all day. one of my hd blush/bronzers and great for contouring. nice, quirky packaging and the product lasts forever. i've had my latest one over 6 months, use it daily and have most of the product left. love love love.
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I am not going to feed your egos because they have to be destroyed. That's what the whole effort is: how to destroy you - because once your boundaries are destroyed you are infinite. Right this moment this can happen. There is no barrier to it - there is only your clinging.
Many people come to me and they ask: "Have we been with you before?" If I say yes, they feel very good. If I say no, they feel dejected, depressed. Why? We live in fictions. You are here with me - that is not so significant. You were with me in the past - that seems to be more significant. And you are missing this moment when you can really be with me - because to be with me is not a physical phenomenon. You can sit by my side and you may not be with me. You can cling to me for years and you may not be with me for a single moment - because to be with me only means that you are not.
I am not, and if even for a single moment you are also not there, there will be a meeting - then two emptinesses meet. Remember, only two emptinesses can meet, there is no other meeting possible. Whenever you have a meeting, it means two emptinesses merging.
The ego is very solid, too substantial to merge. So you can struggle, clash, but you cannot meet. You may think that this clash of two egos is a meeting; it is a sort of meeting. You come together, but you are never together. You meet and still you don't meet. You touch each other and still you remain untouched. Your inner emptiness remains a virgin land, it has not been penetrated.
But when the ego is not there, when you are not feeling much I, when you are not thinking about yourself at all, when there is no self, that's what Buddha calls anatta - no-selfness. He was very much misunderstood, because In India people were talking of atman - the self, the supreme self. Everybody was searching for the supreme self - how to become the ultimate self. And then Buddha comes and he says: "There is no self to be attained; rather, please be a no-self." His teaching could not be accepted. Buddha was thrown out of this country. He was not accepted anywhere. A buddha is always thrown out. Wherever he goes he will be thrown out, because he hits on you so deeply you cannot tolerate it. He says you are not.
When you are empty, when just a vacuum exists, meeting happens. Anybody who is capable of being empty will merge. And this is the only way to become one with existence. You may call it love, you may call it prayer, you may call it meditation, or whatsoever you like.
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Occupy evictions include Pittsburgh, Miami and Portland, Maine
Occupy evictions have been occurring with some frequency over the past few months. A camp in Portland, Maine is one of the most recent among Occupy evictions.
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A tent city that's among the longest-lived Occupy protest encampments is coming down as part of a new wave of eviction orders against demonstrators aligned with the movement in communities including Miami, Washington and Pittsburgh.
Occupy Maine demonstrators removed several large tents over the weekend, and the city on Monday gave them additional time to remove the rest.
Demonstrators who established the encampment just two weeks after the Occupy Wall Street encampment set up shop in New York City vowed to continue their work to call attention to corporate excess and economic inequality.
"Just because the occupation is changing form doesn't mean it's going away," Heather Curtis, one of the campers, said Monday before she started hauling away her belongings from snow-covered Lincoln Park.
The encampments that were the heart of the movement are becoming scarcer. On Monday, a judge issued what appeared to be the final notice for Occupy Pittsburgh to leave. Over the past week, police began removing demonstrators in Miami; Austin, Texas; and Washington, D.C.
The voices are still making themselves heard, though.
On Monday, about 20 demonstrators disrupted a legislative budget hearing in Albany, N.Y., shouting that millionaires should be taxed more. Albany's camp was busted up in December.


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