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SIPTU members to consider industrial action after break down of bus talks
SIPTU members in Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus will meet tomorrow (Tuesday, 31st March) to consider balloting for industrial action following the break down of talks, facilitated by the Labour Relations Commission (LRC), on plans to privatise 10% of public bus services.
SIPTU Utilities and Construction Division Organiser, Owen Reidy, said: "The talks, between representatives of the transport unions, the National Transport Authority (NTA), CIE and the Department of Transport, broke down today following a threat by the NTA to implement the privatisation of routes without agreement with unions.
"SIPTU opposes any privatisation of public bus routes. However, our members accept that if such a process is going to be implemented there must be agreement on what impact it will have on workers in terms of transferring to new employers, pension entitlements and other areas of concern."
SIPTU Sector Organiser, Willie Noone, said: "These talks had been going on for several months. SIPTU had submitted a number of questions to the NTA in relation to our members concerns. Today, the NTA responded to these questions in a completely unsatisfactory manner, which fails to indicate how key issues such as the transfer of undertakings and legacy costs will be dealt with if routes are privatised.
"Without an adequate response to these issues it is impossible for our members to agree to participate in the NTA plans. However, when this was indicated to the NTA its representatives threatened to implement the privatisation of routes without agreement. It was at this point that SIPTU representatives withdrew from the talks and will not re-enter them until the threat is lifted.
"Tomorrow the members of the SIPTU Bus Éireann and SIPTU Dublin Bus committees will meet to discuss what course of action to take in light of the NTA threat. These meetings will consider the holding of a ballot for industrial action, up to and including strike action."
Dutch students fight for University free from commercialisation & colonialism
The resurgence of student protests in Amsterdam, and in particular the highly publicised appropriation (occupation) of the Maagdenhuis building , have succeeded in pushing the issues of democracy, transparency and accountability to the heart of a public debate about the management of higher education in the Netherlands. The success of the movement has been remarkable in the extent to which it has reconfigured this debate on its own terms and broadened the scope for what it is possible to demand and pragmatically expect to achieve through protest and struggle. Within this context, a group of students concerned about the various mechanisms of discrimination and exclusion in operation at university level have used the space of the Maagdenhuis to address these concerns and to push for them to be integrated into the demands of the broader movement. In order to see proof of such mechanisms of exclusion, one need only look at the glaring disparity between the diversity of the city of Amsterdam on the one hand and the uniformity of the university staff and student body on the other. A core organising principle has therefore been that as long as the issues of race, class, (dis)ability, gender and sexual orientation remain absent from our critique of the higher education system, then steps toward democratisation of the university will remain necessarily limited.
We have thus far organised several public lectures in the Maagdenhuis with the aim of highlighting the academic and societal relevance of this struggle. On 17 March, social and cultural anthropologist Professor Gloria Wekker gave a public account of the phenomenon of what she calls 'Dutch White Innocence,' and the manner in which it manifests itself in academia through the stubborn resistance that many have encountered (Professor Wekker included) in attempting to include topics relating to Dutch colonialism and the slave trade in course content. The following week, we hosted Dr Sandew Hira, Director of the International Institute for Scientific Research and an expert on the history of Dutch slavery. His lecture was on the Eurocentric ideological biases of various university courses and the strategies that are best suited to decolonising education and the mind. The most recent talk was given by Chandra Frank, a Dutch/South African PhD candidate at Goldsmith's in London, and was centred on the theme: "towards a decolonised university." In this lecture, Frank examined decolonial and feminist research practices within neoliberal Western university settings.
Upon the basis of these perspectives and others, we call for a decolonised education system that acknowledges the contemporary link between Eurocentric university curricula, the uniformity of the academic staff and student body, and a lingering unresolved colonial mentality. We have recently published a list of demands directed at universities in the Netherlands that aims to translate these principles into practice. These include but are not limited to: the establishment of critical studies departments that privilege such disciplines as postcolonial and decolonial, critical race, queer and women's studies, the inclusion of non-Eurocentric disciplinary perspectives in university curricula, and the immediate implementation of policies that break down barriers to higher education by promoting universal accessibility and institutional diversity. While some of these demands may be further out of reach than others, they are all equally necessary if the process of democratisation of the university is to be substantive in nature and does not ultimately end up reproducing the exclusionary mechanisms that are currently in operation within the education system.
The occupation has sent messages of support to the University of Cape Town who have been fighting for decolonisation of their university through the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.
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The government is reining in the development of labour organisations. New ones have been shut down. Factories are having difficulty making decent profits and many are moving outside the Pearl River Delta and even China, triggering a series of protests where workers demand severance compensation. Furthermore, the old-generation migrant workers (aged over 50) are retiring but find they don't have proper social insurance in place. All those factors lead to the escalation of collective labour incidents in China.
This week, USi talked to a Shenzhen-based labour activist, who has been involved in major labour conflicts in the past few years. Recently he quit his job from a prominent labour NGO. He shared with USi his observations over the challenges of China's labour movement, and his plan of setting up his own labour NGO.
Due to the sensitivity of the issues discussed, we decided not to reveal his true name in this story.
USi: What are the external environment of China's labour movement in your opinion?
Labour activist (LA): We face both external and internal challenges. Externally, China's economy is not performing as well as before. Governments are reluctant to support workers' collective actions, and employers are financially limited to make compromises.
USi: How about internally?
LA: I think the biggest dilemma is how we can cultivate the new generation of labour activists. There is not much career progression for young people at labour NGOs.
Also, we have the long-standing problem of organisational management, which is an issue prevalent not only in labour NGOs but in all types of NGOs in China. The resources are always controlled by founders, and there's a lack of supervision on how those resources are managed and allocated. There is a popular term in our circle, 'founder syndrome', which means the founder has the biggest say, and some are reluctant to accept young people's ideas or recognise our talent.
USi: That must be frustrating. Is it the reason why you decided to leave this area for the moment?
LA: That is one reason. Another reason is I realised I can not be working on the frontline like our senior labour activists. They have protection but I don't. I still need to make a living and support my family.
USi: You must have a plan of your own.
LA: Yes. Actually it would be a good idea if young people can set up their own labour organisations. We have our natural advantage. We are politically clean. We can work on a lot of issues that old NGOs cannot work on.
USi: What projects do you have in mind?
LA: I know collective bargaining is definitely the most important and promising project that may bring about an institutional breakthrough. But collective bargaining also requires the trainers to possess practical skills to handle immediate risks (e.g. police harassment). If the government thinks your involvement is too much, it can impose crackdown anytime. I think I will leave collective bargaining to the brave-hearted pioneers.
For me, I'd like to focus on community capacity-building, which is less sensitive and facing less pressure from the authorities. We can deliver training to raise workers' citizen awareness and equip them with legal knowledge. The downside is the project outcome is often difficult to evaluate.
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Blacklisting – still going on?
A damning new report by the Scottish Affairs Committee (SAC) published on Friday (March 27), found that construction companies involved in the blacklisting scandal have hardly atoned for their sins.
It's been six years since the Information Commissioner's Office first discovered a database containing the names of more than 3,000 construction workers. Those on the list would find themselves secretly barred from finding work anywhere in their field for reasons such as being a trade union member or raising a health and safety concern.
Since then, a compensation scheme was set up by 8 of the 30 companies who were caught using the blacklist to bar workers from employment, but the SAC report is scathing in its criticism of how little the scheme has done to secure the blacklisted workers justice.
The companies which set up the scheme claimed that it was agreed to by unions, when in fact, it was not. Thus far, only 149 workers have received any compensation. Compensation levels, which start at just £4,000, are far below what many of the blacklisted workers – some of whom were unable to find work for decades – should be entitled to.
The committee report slammed the scheme, calling it "an act of bad faith", and adding that it was "likely to be motivated by a desire to minimise financial and reputational damage rather than being a genuine attempt to address the crimes of the past."
The report concluded that much more was needed to be done to both redress the blacklisted workers and make sure it never happens again. The committee recommended that the companies involved put greater effort into contacting all workers on the list, including family members if the workers may now be deceased.
The greatest concern MPs sitting on the committee expressed was whether the "odious practice" of blacklisting may still be ongoing. The only way to find out, the committee concluded, was to conduct a full public inquiry.
Unite assistant general secretary Gail Cartmail hailed the report, saying its recommendations covered Unite's main concerns.
"The report by the Scottish Affairs Committee is a damning indictment of the underhand and cruel tactics that the construction industry employed against decent workers prepared to stand up and be counted on such issues as health and safety," she said.
"We welcome, in particular, the employment of 'blacklisted' workers," Cartmail added. "This is the only 'proof positive' that these major contractors are on the road to cleaning up their past dodgy employment practices.
"However, it is clear from the report that many companies are dragging their feet on the issue of compensation to remedy what the committee calls 'the sins of the past'.
"Whoever is in government after May's general election must respond to the repeated call for a full public inquiry into the long-running issue of 'blacklisting'.
"The Scottish Affairs Committee, as a whole, and its chair Ian Davidson have shone a light on this murky world of blacklisting. We are indebted to them for their work and dedication in seeking out truth and justice," Cartmail concluded.
Labour has pledged to conduct the full public inquiry on blacklisting if it is elected in May.
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150 staff at Marks and Spencer's Swindon distribution depot are to be offered permanent jobs after a campaign by the GMB against zero hours contracts.
The union has been fighting against a two-tier workforce that has seen agency staff being paid £2 less an hour than permanent staff.
GMB organiser Carole Vallelly said: "We welcome the news that DHL are to offer 150 permanent jobs to workers on the Marks and Spencer distribution site.
"This means our members will have the opportunity to have permanent, secure contracts, and will end the precarious nature of so many peoples working lives.
"We hope this is a move towards ending the two tier workforce and eventual pay parity across the site, with all workers, whether agency or permanent receiving the same pay for the same work."
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Rolls-Royce is set to deliver a blow to the Scottish economy as it announced plans on Friday (March 27) to further axe over 200 jobs at two aircraft engine plants in Inchinnan and East Kilbride.
An estimated 180 jobs will be cut at the Inchinnan site, which manufactures aircraft engines, and will entail slashing the total number of shop floor workers by a third. At the East Kilbride repair and maintenance facility, 30 job posts are expected to go.
The latest announcement follows an onslaught of 500 job cuts since 2007 at the Inchinnan site. Unite has called on the company to give guarantees over compulsory redundancies and assurances over the future of aerospace engineering in Scotland.
While the company has claimed that the cuts are needed following a drop-off in customer demand, Unite regional officer Debbie Hutchings argued that this strategy was short-sighted.
"These cuts are a huge loss of skills to the Scottish economy and will lead to a further hollowing out of the company's skills base in Scotland," she said.
"Decent jobs are being taken out of the local economy in a short-term move which will undermine Scottish engineering.
"There is every danger that Rolls-Royce will shoot itself in the foot with this move and face a skills shortage when there is an upturn in orders," Hutchings added.
"The company needs to give assurances over its long term plans for manufacturing in Scotland and provide guarantees over no compulsory redundancies."
In November of last year, Rolls-Royce, in a vicious cost cutting measure, announced it would slash 2,600 jobs globally over the next 18 months, with an estimated two-thirds of the cuts to be made in the UK, according to the BBC.
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Charities bring Easter cheer
Food banks are gearing up to address growing demand during the Easter school holidays. Hard-pressed parents have to step in with lunches normally provided free at a school and may rely on charitable food banks for the kids meals.
As well as three-day food parcels, charity the Trussell Trust will provide Easter eggs as part of the food parcels to make "Easter a little brighter for families and children who are struggling to put food on the table."
Last year a cross-party group of MPs recommended that free school meals should be provided to vulnerable kids during school holidays. Their report – Feeding Britain – recommended working to make the UK "hunger free" and called for a rise in the minimum wage and scaling back benefit sanctions that left claimants without money for food.
The latest report from the Department for Work and Pensions Select Committee published on March 22 demanded the government provides evidence the sanctions regime was not just "purely punitive".
Sanctions and food poverty
Dame Anne Begg MP, who chairs the select committee said: "Recent research suggests that benefit sanctions are contributing to food poverty. No claimant should have their benefit payment reduced to zero where they are at risk of severe financial hardship, to the extent of not being able to feed themselves or their families, or pay their rent."
The Committee said a hardship payment system designed to prevent people being left without money was not effective. This is because "hardship payments are not available until the 15th day of a sanction period. It is not reasonable to expect people to live without any source of income for two weeks."
Prime minister David Cameron was challenged on the rise of food banks in the first TV debate. Interviewer Jeremy Paxman pressed Cameron in the increase in food banks from 66 in 2010 when he took office to 460 at the end of those five years.
While Cameron has been vocally supportive of food banks, some parts of government and his cabinet colleague Ian Duncan Smith have been scathing. Duncan Smith has accused food bank providers Trussell Trust of "scaremongering" while the DWP has accused them of "misleading and emotionally manipulative publicity-seeking" and accused the charity of "aggressively marketing their services".
The charity has confirmed that Iain Duncan Smith has still not met its chairman Chris Mould. This is despite a request dating back to 2013.
But Trussell Trust, a Christian charity has refused to curtail its charitable activities despite the ire of Duncan Smith and the DWP. Having provided more than 1,000,000 food parcels in the last year, they have comfortably fed more than the 5,000.
Trussell Trust UK foodbank director Adrian Curtis says: "School holidays are especially difficult for low income families whose children usually receive free school meals or support from breakfast clubs. Many of the UK's poorest parents are concerned about being able to feed their children over school holidays, and many skip meals to feed their children.
"Benefit delays and changes – including sanctions – are the trigger for 45 percent of referrals to Trussell Trust foodbanks nationwide. Over Easter many foodbanks will give out Easter eggs alongside the standard three day emergency food parcels to help make Easter a little brighter for families and children who are struggling to put food on the table."
If you would like details of how you can assist Trussell trust, please visit its website here.
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Hudson representative John Master Lee held a Q&A thread recently, posters were invited to ask any Hudson-related questions they wanted. He revealed that a sequel to marble game Kororinpa might be on in the future.
"It's one of those games that hardcore gamers seemed so ready to write off, but ended up being a real treat for those who love a more casual experience. I loved the Apple level, where you can turn the apple all around and you have to navigate through the grooves".
"As for a sequel, it would be great to see one. If we did do one, it would be deeper and have more levels to better suit US gamer tastes. US gamers sure seem to demand more when it comes to gameplay depth and the amount of content in a game".
Despite some mediocre reviews from the press (not mine!), John says the game sold very well in the US, causing them to run out of inventory. Most promisingly, in a later response he said this:
"But I'm glad to see you LOVED Kororinpa. I think you'll be happy again in the next year!".
That sounds like a definite hint to a sequel, or some kind of ball-rolling game at least.
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Awesome. I still haven't played the first, but it looks great.
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OH GOD PLEASE! I so want another kororinpa.
Bobo said:
Yay! I totally want the first one and I would get the sequel if there is one.
Sarah from the UK said:
I'm half way through it (the first one). But it would be good for a second.
Cyndy said:
Marble Mania 2 is a MUST! A group of us has played and want more. A Haunted House with a graveyard theme would be a good level.
Pam said:
Love the first one! Finished up the two player, regular and mirrored. Now playing the one player and up to secret level 12. Sure hope there'll be a sequel.
Brent said:
Make kororinpa 2 now and add an option to make custom levels.
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Would be great to see a new version using the new balance board.
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This is great; but when was this story posted? Nothing here has dates, which makes it impossible to know if next year was really last year and there is no new game that came out or will be out any time soon.
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The big thing with Non Compete is not soliciting their customers. As a Businessman your should practices the same morals as you want others to practice. It is hard getting a New Business off the ground and stealing customers from your old boss is easy but also STEALING.
it is one thing to do a off label applications. It is total stupidity to post it on the world wide web and expect people to approve.
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I just want to thank everyone for your responses to my question. Being a week or more out from the original post I made I realize it wasn't a good look on some of the things I said, I was angry when I initially had seen some stats online and posts I had read about pay and needed to vent.
And for the guy who said if I "demanded" anything I'd be gone in his business I would reply, maybe "demand" wasn't the best choice of wording, but as I told my wife, few non owners in the lawn care profession probably hold the cards like I do in our company. Given the owner rarely works in the treating side and has taken over the 25 accounts we have in mowing after his other son got a construction job for the summer, and our fertilization/weed control dept has 2 full time workers and 1 part time(3 days a week) and I as 1 of the 2 full time do 390 of our 630 customers, I don't know how they would handle it if I said I'm out.
Finally, I have decided that long term I'm going to leave. I just need to decide if I really want to do lawn care long term. As I got into this after I got a job the summer after graduating college as something to tie me over until I got a teaching job(my degree) and I liked it and saw an opportunity to buy the business. So I'm up in the air as to long term forecast but I've decided I cant stay here long term.
thanks again to everyone
If I read that last post right you have a degree in education? Maybe I am not seeing something but around here ( in indiana like you) they are needing teachers bad... Money is better then most lawn care jobs ( maybe not at first but most pay plans are front loaded) summers not winters off ... Unless I am missing something I strongly encourage you to go that route.
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Considering importing roses? Something to be aware of.
"Meloidogyne hapla is one of the most damaging plant-parasitic nematodes in temperate regions. This nematode has a wide host range with more than 500 plant taxa including roses."
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Here is my annual rundown of the top MR posts of 2014 as measured by page views, tweets and shares.
1. Ferguson and the Debtor's Prison–I'd been tracking the issue of predatory fining since my post on debtor's prisons in 2012 so when the larger background of Ferguson came to light I was able to provide a new take on a timely topic, the blogging sweet spot.
2. Tyler's post on Tirole's win of the Nobel prize offered an authoritative overview of Tirole's work just when people wanted it. Tyler's summary, "many of his papers show "it's complicated," became the consensus.
3. Why I am not Persuaded by Thomas Piketty's Argument, Tyler's post which links to his longer review of the most talked about economics book of the year. Other Piketty posts were also highly linked including Tyler's discussion of Rognlie and Piketty and my two posts, Piketty v. Solow and The Piketty Bubble?. Less linked but one of my personal favorites was Two Surefire Solutions to Inequality.
4. Tesla versus the Rent Seekers–a review of franchise theory applied to the timely issue of regulatory restrictions on Tesla, plus good guys and bad guys!
5. How much have whites benefited from slavery and its legacy–an excellent post from Tyler full of meaty economics and its consequences. Much to think about in this post. Read it (again).
6. Tyler's post Keynes is slowly losing (winning?) drew attention as did my post The Austerity Flip Flop, Krugman critiques often do.
7. The SAT, Test Prep, Income and Race–some facts about SAT Test Prep that run contrary to conventional wisdom.
8. Average Stock Returns Aren't Average–"Lady luck is a bitch, she takes from the many and gives to the few. Here is the histogram of payoffs."
9. Tyler's picks for Best non fiction books of 2014.
10. A simple rule for making every restaurant meal better. Tyler's post. Disputed but clearly correct.
Some other 2014 posts worth revisiting; Tyler on Modeling Vladimir Putin, What should a Bayesian infer from the Antikythera Mechanism?, and network neutrality and me on Inequality and Masters of Money.
Many posts from previous years continue to attract attention including my post from 2012, Firefighters don't fight fires, which some newspapers covered again this year and Tyler's 2013 post How and why Bitcoin will plummet in price which certainly hasn't been falsified!
The picks for the finest magazine covers of the year are starting to trickle out. Coverjunkie is running a reader poll to pick the most creative cover of 2014. Folio didn't pick individual covers but honored publications that consistently delivered memorable covers throughout the year; no surprise that The New York Times Magazine and Bloomberg Businessweek were at the top of the heap.
See also the best book covers of 2014.Tags: best of best of 2014 design lists magazines
(inspired by Zombies: Seriously, Enough, Zombies Are So Overdone, and Scifi/Fantasy Stories Editors Are Tired Of Seeing: Zombies)
He walked into my office and threw the manuscript on my desk with a thud.
"It's called Thankful For Zombies. A zombie story where…"
"Nope," I said.
His face deflated like a balloon. "But I didn't even…"
"Zombies are overdone," I said.
"But this is a zombie story with a twist!"
"Zombie stories with twists are super overdone."
"But this is a story about an extended family who get together for Thanksgiving dinner, only to be interrupted by a zombie apocalypse. It's a Thanksgiving story about zombies. You have to admit that the combination of zombies and Thanksgiving has never…"
"Done," I said.
"Wait, really? The family starts out estranged and suspicious of each other, but then when they all have to work together to…"
"Done," I said.
"How could that have been done?"
"Listen. I know you won't believe me, but for the past ten years or so, the best literary minds of our generation have been working on creating zombie stories just different enough from every other zombie story around to get published. First the clever and interesting twists got explored. Then the mediocre and boring twists. Then the absurd and idiotic twists. Finally the genre got entirely mined out. There is now a New York Times bestselling book about zombies invading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. If your idea isn't weirder than that, it's been done. And that's the logical 'if'. If your idea is weirder than that, it has also been done."
"I will get Thankful for Zombies published," he said.
"You won't," I advised him.
"I just have to think of an original angle."
"You really won't," I told him.
"The zombies are the good guys," he proposed.
"The zombies are smarter than humans."
"In the end, we ourselves are the zombies."
"A human girl falls in love with a zombie."
"Okay, fine. Toss the Thanksgiving angle. There's got to be some zombie plot that will be fresh and new."
"I promise you, there's not."
"Zombies in space."
"Zombies from space."
"Zombies are space."
"Zombies in Victorian England."
"Zombies in Edwardian England."
"Zombies in Shakespearean England."
"Shakespeare was a zombie, and all of his plays are just the word BRAAAAAAIIINS repeated over and over again."
"Done, for some reason."
"A young zombie comes of age."
"A middle-aged zombie wonders if her single-minded focus on career success has prevented her from becoming the kind of zombie she wanted to be when she was younger."
"An elderly zombie contemplates death."
"Zombies are already dead."
"Then I can…"
"…and yet it's still been done."
"A zombie in the Vietnam War."
"A hippie zombie at Woodstock."
"Strong female zombies."
"Jewish zombies."
"Black zombies."
"A gay zombie struggling to fit into a homophobic zombie society."
"Come on, this is the 21st century. Done like ten times. One of them won the Booker."
"Gender-questioning zombies."
"An immigrant zombie comes to America, with nothing but the decaying shirt on his back, knowing only a single word of English."
"All zombies only know a single word of English. Also, done."
"Nazi zombies."
"Vampire zombies."
"Pirate zombies."
"Obstetrician/gynaecologist zombies."
"Zombie Hitler."
"Zombie Henry VIII."
"But what if it was told from the perspective of Anne Boleyn?"
"Zombie Leonardo da Vinci."
"Zombie Jesus."
"Done. By three guys named Matt, Luke, and John."
"Zombie Buddha."
"Zombie Mohammed."
"Done. As is the author, if you get my drift."
"Zombie Zoroaster."
"A parody subverting zombie stories."
"Super done."
"A parody subverting zombie stories lampshading how overdone they are."
"Super duper done."
"Hmmmm." He thinks for a second. "Hold on, I'm remembering something from my college math class that might work here. You take all the zombie novels ever written, and you put them in some well-ordering, for example from first to last published. Then you make a new novel, consisting of the first page of the first novel, the second page of the second novel, and so on. But you change each page just a little bit. Since we know the first page of the new novel is different from the first page of the first novel, and the second page of the new novel is different from the second page of the second novel, by extension we know that there is at least one page on which the new novel is different from each zombie novel currently in existence. That means that the new story is provably original."
"I don't think you understand; it's mathematically impossible for…"
"No, I mean there's a story about a zombie doing that."
"Oh." He furrowed his brow. "A zombie superhero."
"Steampunk zombies."
"Done. I think now you're just trolling me."
"Motorcycle gangs of zombies."
"A zombie story that's a metaphor for how…"
"I didn't finish!"
"You didn't have to."
"A zombie gets cancer."
"A zombie gets depression."
"A zombie tries to write zombie fiction."
"A zombie tries to write zombie fiction about a zombie trying to write zombie fiction."
"A zombie tries to…"
"It's done all the way down."
"Young free-spirited zombies trying to see America."
"A story that starts off as being about a fantasy society of knights and damsels, but at the very end it's revealed everyone is a zombie."
"A story that starts off as being about a young woman's struggle to succeed in 1980s Wall Street, but at the very end it's revealed everyone is a zombie."
"A story that starts off as being a paleontology textbook about the fauna of the Lower Cretaceous, but at the very end it's revealed everyone is a zombie."
"Twist zombie endings are done."
"A zombie…a zombie riding a giant purple emu through 17th century Ireland teams up with the pre-ghost of Thomas Jefferson to investigate a crime in which time-traveling flamboyantly gay sapient hippos have murdered the Secret Protestant Pope in order to initiate the Jain apocalypse, with liberal quotations from and allusions to the works of Edgar Allen Poe Thomas Pynchon and the medieval Rolandic cycle, and also the whole thing is a metaphor for Republican resistance to climate change legislation."
I thought for a moment. "Okay," I said. "That particular plot has not, technically, been done. But no one would read it."
"They will," he said.
"You'd be wasting your time to write it."
"I'm writing it," he said.
"Suit yourself. Put it on my desk when you're finished, and I'll take a look at it. But your chances aren't good."
"I don't care," he said, and left.
I sighed, finished up my last couple of pieces of paperwork, and shambled home from the office. On the way out, I ate my secretary's brain.
In 2006, the year after the storm, wage and salary income for the average Katrina victim in our sample is roughly $2,200 lower than their matched counterparts. Remarkably, the earnings gap is erased the following year, and by 2008, the hurricane victims actually have higher wage income and total income than control households.
That is from a new NBER working paper by Tatyana Deryugina, Laura Kawano, and Steven Levitt. I agree with this claim:
…strong ties to a place, especially a place with limited economic opportunities such as New Orleans, have adverse economic consequences. When forced by an exogenous shock to migrate, people are able to choose from a wide range of possible locations to move to, and they seem to choose places that offer them better economic opportunities.
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A Colorado man, from Fruitvale (I am not making this up), was arrested for pointing a banana at the police. What makes this actually scary is the language of the police report:
The officers wrote in the police report they feared for their safety despite observing the supposed weapon was yellow.
"I immediately ducked in my patrol car and accelerated continuing northbound, fearing that it was a weapon," Officer Joshua Bunch wrote in the report, according to the newspaper. "Based on training and experience, I have seen handguns in many shapes and colors and perceived this to be a handgun."
The man was fortunate that he was only arrested. Had he been wielding a pointed stick he would surely have been shot.
Consider GiveDirectly this holiday season for your charitable giving. As you may recall, GiveDirectly was started by four economists and it gives money directly to the very poor in Kenya and Uganda. GiveDirectly is a top-rated charity by GiveWell. The founders are committed to providing independent, randomized controlled trials of its process. One RCT has already been conducted with positive results and 3 others are under way. GiveDirectly publicizes the trials of its process before the results are produced. Impressive–the drug companies had to be forced to do this. Check out their website, they even provides real-time performance data. Here's a bit more on their process.
Huh. Someone built a working particle accelerator out of Lego bricks. Ok, it doesn't accelerate protons, but it does spin a small Lego ball around the ring much faster than I would have guessed.
Update: I stand corrected, the Lego particle accelerator does indeed accelerate protons, just a lot of them very slowly, accompanied by all manner of other particles.Tags: Legos video
The excellent Akos Lada, a graduate student at Harvard, has a new paper on why countries sometimes invade their neighbors, it is called "The Dark Side of Attraction," the abstract is here:
I argue that the diffusion of domestic political institutions is a source of wars. In the presence of an inspiring foreign regime, repressive elites fear that their citizens emulate the foreign example and revolt. As a result, a dictator starts a war against an attractive foreign regime, seeking to destroy this alternative model. Such wars are particularly likely when there are strong religious, ethnic or cultural ties between the dictator's opposition and the inspiring country – connections that allow citizens to draw easy comparisons. My posited mechanism explains three case studies. The first describes the Russian invasion of Hungary in 1849. The second case study analyzes the origins of the First World War (1914-8), where Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia. The final case study discusses the Iran-Iraq War (1980-8). In all three cases, a dictator started a war in order to extinguish the foreign flame that fueled his domestic opposition.
Akos occasionally writes blog posts here. Here is our previous coverage of Akos Lada — he stands a good chance of being one of the significant new "big picture" thinkers in economics.
That's African immigrants to the United States, here is the fact:
In 2009, 41.7 percent of African-born adults age 25 and older had a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to 28.1 percent of native-born adults and 26.8 percent of all foreign-born adults.
The source is here, further information about African immigrants is here. They speak good English at very high rates — close to three-quarters — and they are more likely than other immigrants to be participating in the labor force. And their importance is rising:
Though African immigrants represented only 0.4 percent of all foreign born in 1960, this share grew to 1.4 percent in 1980, to 1.8 percent in 1990, and to 2.8 percent in 2000…
People born in the U.S. were roughly four times as likely to report engaging in violent behavior than immigrants from Asia and Africa…
The future of immigration to America is likely African, some south Asian, and Chinese, with Latinos continuing to have a presence as well.
Any punishment designed for deterrence is based on the following calculation. The potential criminal weighs the benefit of the crime against the cost, where the cost is equal to the probability of being caught multiplied by the punishment if caught.
Taking surveillance technology as given, the punishment is set in order to calibrate the right-hand-side of that comparison. Optimally, the expected punishment equals the marginal social cost of the crime so that crimes whose marginal social cost outweighs the marginal benefit are deterred.
When technology allows improved surveillance, the law does not adjust automatically to keep the right-hand side constant. Indeed there is a ratchet effect in criminal law: penalties never go down.
So we naturally hate increased surveillance, even those of us who would welcome it in a first-best world where punishments adjust along with technology.
According to a recent survey1 of citizens in 14 countries, the United States ranks second in the amount of ignorance about things like teenage birth rates, unemployment rates, and immigration. Only Italians were more clueless. You can take a version of the test yourself and then view the results (results for the US only). Some of the more notable results:
- Americans guessed that the unemployment rate is 32%, instead of the actual rate of 6%.
- While 1% of the US population identifies as Muslim, Americans guessed 15%. 15!
- 70% of Americans guessed the US murder rate was rising. It has decreased by more than half since 1992.
- Americans guessed that almost 24% of girls aged 15-19 give birth each year. Actually, 3.1%.
Then again, what do Americans hear about constantly on the news? Unemployment, Muslims & immigration, murder, and teen pregnancy. It's little wonder the guesses on those are so high.
As you know, survey results are to be taken with a grain of salt. ↩
We've now seen a good twenty-five years of autocrats backing down, ceding power, and refusing to escalate, starting around 1989 if not earlier. Arguably North Korea and Saddam Hussein have been partial exceptions, but even there North Korea has stayed in its shell and Saddam had in fact largely disarmed his WMD. We also see many autocrats — most notably those of China — who pursue remarkably sophisticated courses of action. Just think how much more deftly they handled Occupy Hong Kong than the Ferguson police dealt with their situation. Even the Iranian leaders seem quite sophisticated, even though most of us do not share their goals or endorse their means.
I call it The Great Autocrat Moderation.
If we look back in history, are autocrats generally this rational and conciliatory? I am struck reading the new Andrew Roberts biography of Napoleon how he grew drunk with success and overreached and of course eventually failed (twice). Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao are some additional obvious examples of autocrats who, in terms of procedural rationality, simply collapsed at some point and very dramatically overreached.
Of course these are tricky examples. The most famous autocrats are arguably going to be more subject to overreach, which in part drives their fame (infamy), and so if we consult our historical memories we may be selecting for overreach. Your typical earlier autocrat may have been more rational than this list of ambitious tyrants might imply. Was the typical dictator of Paraguay, historically speaking, really so irrational? Still, it does seem that autocrats have been relatively benign as of late.
So how about Putin? Is he like the autocrats of the last twenty-five years, or he is more like Napoleon and Mussolini with regard to his long-term procedural rationality?
I do not myself expect The Great Autocrat Moderation to continue for much longer. Let us not forget that some autocratic "tournaments" select for overreach, namely the autocrat had to think he could, against long odds, rise to the top and stay there.
I am indebted to a conversation with John Nye about the topics of this blog post.
Tyler Cowen comes to his defense.
I've disagreed with Gruber from the beginning on health care policy and I thought his ObamaCare comic book did the economics profession — and himself — a disservice. But I'm simply not very interested in his proclamations on tape, which as far as I can tell are mostly correct albeit overly cynical.
My remarks:
1, Gruber is not paid the big bucks to be a political tactician. In particular, whether or not Obamacare was sold deceptively was not his call to make.
2. For me, the problem with democracy is not the intelligence, or alleged lack thereof, among voters. I just think that the wisdom of crowds is channeled more effectively through exit than through voice. As for democracy, it is a good way of arranging for the routine replacement of high-level officials. It is otherwise much over-rated.
3. Gruber is paid the big bucks because he has a quantitative model of how insurance health reforms will play out. Relative to most academic economists and policy makers, my level of trust in such models is rather low. For me, it would be a better world if Gruber and his model were not held in such high regard. But I would have made this point, and probably did so, before the recent controversy.
4. If you need proof of Gruber's contempt for your intelligence, all you need to do is skim the comic book to which Tyler refers. The comic book left me with the impression that Gruber lives in a Krugmanesque bubble, in which any disagreement must be dismissed as stemming from extreme ignorance and/or evil intent.
5. I think that the extent to which the attacks on Gruber have become personal is something that every economist, regardless of ideology, will come to regret. I am all for criticizing the ideas and the world view that underlie Obamacare. However, a world in which every economist who steps into the policy arena is subjected to opposition research and "gotcha" attacks is not going to be pretty.
One of the better things I've done with this blog was help popularize Nicholas Shackel's "motte and bailey doctrine". But I've recently been reminded I didn't do a very good job of it. The original discussion is in the middle of a post so controversial that it probably can't be linked in polite company – somewhat dampening its ability to popularize anything.
In order to rectify the error, here is a nice clean post on the concept that adds a couple of further thoughts to the original formulation.
The original Shackel paper is intended as a critique of post-modernism. Post-modernists sometimes say things like "reality is socially constructed", and there's an uncontroversially correct meaning there. We don't experience the world directly, but through the categories and prejudices implicit to our society; for example, I might view a certain shade of bluish-green as blue, and someone raised in a different culture might view it as green. Okay.
Then post-modernists go on to say that if someone in a different culture thinks that the sun is light glinting off the horns of the Sky Ox, that's just as real as our own culture's theory that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas a great big nuclear furnace. If you challenge them, they'll say that you're denying reality is socially constructed, which means you're clearly very naive and think you have perfect objectivity and the senses perceive reality directly.
The writers of the paper compare this to a form of medieval castle, where there would be a field of desirable and economically productive land called a bailey, and a big ugly tower in the middle called the motte. If you were a medieval lord, you would do most of your economic activity in the bailey and get rich. If an enemy approached, you would retreat to the motte and rain down arrows on the enemy until they gave up and went away. Then you would go back to the bailey, which is the place you wanted to be all along.
So the motte-and-bailey doctrine is when you make a bold, controversial statement. Then when somebody challenges you, you claim you were just making an obvious, uncontroversial statement, so you are clearly right and they are silly for challenging you. Then when the argument is over you go back to making the bold, controversial statement.
Some classic examples:
1. The religious group that acts for all the world like God is a supernatural creator who builds universes, creates people out of other people's ribs, parts seas, and heals the sick when asked very nicely (bailey). Then when atheists come around and say maybe there's no God, the religious group objects "But God is just another name for the beauty and order in the Universe! You're not denying that there's beauty and order in the Universe, are you?" (motte). Then when the atheists go away they get back to making people out of other people's ribs and stuff.
2. Or…"If you don't accept Jesus, you will burn in Hell forever." (bailey) But isn't that horrible and inhuman? "Well, Hell is just another word for being without God, and if you choose to be without God, God will be nice and let you make that choice." (motte) Oh, well that doesn't sound so bad, I'm going to keep rejecting Jesus. "But if you reject Jesus, you will BURN in HELL FOREVER and your body will be GNAWED BY WORMS." But didn't you just… "Metaphorical worms of godlessness!"
3. The feminists who constantly argue about whether you can be a real feminist or not without believing in X, Y and Z and wanting to empower women in some very specific way, and who demand everybody support controversial policies like affirmative action or affirmative consent laws (bailey). Then when someone says they don't really like feminism very much, they object "But feminism is just the belief that women are people!" (motte) Then once the person hastily retreats and promises he definitely didn't mean women aren't people, the feminists get back to demanding everyone support affirmative action because feminism, or arguing about whether you can be a feminist and wear lipstick.
4. Proponents of pseudoscience sometimes argue that their particular form of quackery will cure cancer or take away your pains or heal your crippling injuries (bailey). When confronted with evidence that it doesn't work, they might argue that people need hope, and even a placebo solution will often relieve stress and help people feel cared for (motte). In fact, some have argued that quackery may be better than real medicine for certain untreatable diseases, because neither real nor fake medicine will help, but fake medicine tends to be more calming and has fewer side effects. But then once you leave the quacks in peace, they will go back to telling less knowledgeable patients that their treatments will cure cancer.
5. Critics of the rationalist community note that it pushes controversial complicated things like Bayesian statistics and utilitarianism (bailey) under the name "rationality", but when asked to justify itself defines rationality as "whatever helps you achieve your goals", which is so vague as to be universally unobjectionable (motte). Then once you have admitted that more rationality is always a good thing, they suggest you've admitted everyone needs to learn more Bayesian statistics.
6. Likewise, singularitarians who predict with certainty that there will be a singularity, because "singularity" just means "a time when technology is so different that it is impossible to imagine" – and really, who would deny that technology will probably get really weird (motte)? But then every other time they use "singularity", they use it to refer to a very specific scenario of intelligence explosion, which is far less certain and needs a lot more evidence before you can predict it (bailey).
The motte and bailey doctrine sounds kind of stupid and hard-to-fall-for when you put it like that, but all fallacies sound that way when you're thinking about them. More important, it draws its strength from people's usual failure to debate specific propositions rather than vague clouds of ideas. If I'm debating "does quackery cure cancer?", it might be easy to view that as a general case of the problem of "is quackery okay?" or "should quackery be illegal?", and from there it's easy to bring up the motte objection.
Recently, a friend (I think it was Robby Bensinger) pointed out something I'd totally missed. The motte-and-bailey doctrine is a perfect mirror image of my other favorite fallacy, the weak man fallacy.
Weak-manning is a lot like straw-manning, except that instead of debating a fake, implausibly stupid opponent, you're debating a real, unrepresentatively stupid opponent. For example, "Religious people say that you should kill all gays. But this is evil. Therefore, religion is wrong and barbaric. Therefore we should all be atheists." There are certainly religious people who think that you should kill all gays, but they're a small fraction of all religious people and probably not the ones an unbiased observer would hold up as the best that religion has to offer.
If you're debating the Pope or something, then when you weak-man, you're unfairly replacing a strong position (the Pope's) with a weak position (that of the guy who wants to kill gays) to make it more attackable.
But in motte and bailey, you're unfairly replacing a weak position (there is a supernatural creator who can make people out of ribs) with a strong position (there is order and beauty in the universe) in order to make it more defensible.
So weak-manning is replacing a strong position with a weak position to better attack it; motte-and-bailey is replacing a weak position with a strong position to better defend it.
This means people who know both terms are at constant risk of arguments of the form "You're weak-manning me!" "No, you're motte-and-baileying me!".
Suppose we're debating feminism, and I defend it by saying it really is important that women are people, and you attack it by saying that it's not true that all men are terrible. Then I can accuse you of making life easy for yourself by attacking the weakest statement anyone vaguely associated with feminism has ever pushed. And you can accuse me if making life too easy for myself by defending the most uncontroversially obvious statement I can get away with.
So what is the real feminism we should be debating? Why would you even ask that question? What is this, some kind of dumb high school debate club? Who the heck thinks it would be a good idea to say "Here's a vague poorly-defined concept that mind-kills everyone who touches it – quick, should you associate it with positive affect or negative affect?!"
Taboo your words, then replace the symbol with the substance. If you have an actual thing you're trying to debate, then it should be obvious when somebody's changing the topic. If working out who's using motte-and-bailey (or weak man) is remotely difficult, it means your discussion went wrong several steps earlier and you probably have no idea what you're even arguing about.
PS: Nicholas Shackel, original inventor of the term, weighs in.
If you believe in gravity, then you know that if you remove air resistance, a bowling ball and a feather will fall at the same rate. But seeing it actually happen, in the world's largest vacuum chamber (122 feet high, 100 feet in diameter), is still a bit shocking.
In the late 1500s, Galileo was the first to show that the acceleration due to the Earth's gravity was independent of mass with his experiment at the Leaning Tower of Pisa, but that pesky air resistance caused some problems. At the end of the Apollo 15 mission, astronaut David Scott dropped a hammer and a feather in the vacuum on the surface of the Moon:
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That is the title of Francis Fukuyama's latest book. I have started reading it. So far, I would summarize it as saying that government must overcome both market failure and government failure. That is, it needs to be effective at providing public goods while serving everyone equally (not succumbing to the problems of public choice). I might summarize this as follows:
|Public Goods Provided
|Public Goods Not Provided
|Treats People Equally
|good government
|weak government
|Privileges Elites
|crony government
|predatory government
Think of Denmark as good government, China as crony government, Zaire under Mobutu as predatory government, and Afghanistan as weak government. I assume that "political decay" will mean the movement from good government toward either weak government or crony government.
For a review by someone who has finished the book, see Michael Barone.
A resurrection today, due to unforeseen circumstances.
Original theology article from B&W.
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When Google wants to create its Street View maps — the ones that show the buildings and sidewalks that line the world's streets — it sends a funny-looking car with a camera on top off to capture the footage.
Those StreetView cars work great in places where there are roads. But in the world's more remote locations — a desert in Abu Dhabi, lets say — vehicles don't cut it. Enter Raffia, the camel carrying a camera across the Liwa oasis to produce more Google Maps.
Of course, the camel carrying a camera is not an everyday sight. But whats more striking about the video is the sheer size of the Liwa Oasis, an expansive stretch of desert that runs along the Persian Gulf.
This is a somewhat surreal video of Raffia, with her guide, in action.
You can see the results of Raffia's work on the Google Treks site, replete with many more camels who were not carrying cameras.
Online education continues to expand rapidly:
WASHINGTON—Saying the option is revolutionizing the way the nation's 3- and 4-year-olds prepare for the grade school years ahead, a Department of Education report released Thursday confirmed that an increasing number of U.S. toddlers are now attending online preschool. "We found that a growing number of American toddlers are eschewing the traditional brick-and-mortar preschools in favor of sitting down in front of a computer screen for four hours a day and furthering their early psychosocial development in a virtual environment," said the report's author, Dr. Stephen Forrest, who said that the affordability and flexibility characteristic of online pre-primary education are what make the option most appealing, allowing young children to learn their shapes and colors on a schedule that works best for them. "With access to their Show-And-Tell message boards, recess timers, and live webcams of class turtle tanks, most toddlers are finding that they can receive the same experience of traditional preschooling from the comfort of their parents' living room or home office. In addition, most cited the ability to listen to their teacher's recordings of story time at their own pace as a significant benefit of choosing an online nursery school." Forrest added that, despite their increasing popularity, many parents remain unconvinced that online preschools provide the same academic benefits as actually hearing an instructor name farm animals and imitate their noises in person.
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The decision concerns the painting Old Man with Beard by Salomon Koninck (1609-1656).
At the beginning of the Second World War the painting was sold by the art gallery Firma D. Katz in Dieren to the German Alois Miedl, who shortly before had taken over the Amsterdam gallery J. Goudstikker N.V. The work was then sold on to an art buyer acting for Adolf Hitler's proposed Führer Museum.
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No information was found during the Restitutions Committee's investigation about the moment at which the painting left the possession of 'Stettiner, Paris'.
The Restitutions Committee concluded that the right of ownership of the Stettiner family and/or the Stettiner et Cie. gallery in Paris during the period relevant to the restitution application is not highly probable, and it therefore advised the Minister to reject the applicants' claim to the artwork.
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In June 2011 the City of Ghent turned down the claim of the von Klemperer heirs to the painting, now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent. The panel it had appointed concluded that the painting was not sold under pressure and that its ownership by Ghent was indisputable both in Private International Law and in the context of post-war Allied and West German restitution laws.
Professor Flamée, a distinguished Belgian lawyer, has analysed the decision, examining whether the panel correctly drew the line between fairness and arbitrariness in accordance with the Washington Principles. He questions whether the panel should have been tasked with combining the two different approaches, 'positive law' and 'fairness', looks at whether the panel took into account all known facts and whether, when taken into account, a different decision might have been reached. He investigates who bears the burden of proof and for which facts, and queries whether any part of the burden should have rested on the claimant. Finally, he explores the concept of fairness and how the prescription of fairness derived from Washington might apply to works of art acquired prior to 1998.
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on 4/5/2011 12:34:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
Got this eyeliner after coupons and sales etc. at CVS for about -1.00. Yeah I made money on this which is why I bothered to get it.
I got this in ultra black which it is. Pigmentation of the liquid was so so. I had to do a second pass for the liner to be opaque, that however rubs off some of the previous layer! Staying power was eh. I inner line the top and tightline the top and I had smudges on the bottom of my eyes, but this liner isn't waterproof though although it promises up to 24 hours of wear...hmm.Its kinda a pain to remove too which is weird since the staying power isn't great.
I wouldn't buy it again but only bought it to make a dollar that day.
on 2/25/2011 11:21:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
Lasts a very long time, at least is did for me. However it dried out after 3 weeks of daily use....
on 2/18/2011 5:23:00 AM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Other, Other, Other
Eyes: Other
There really isn't much I could say about this product without actually having much experience with it to begin with...due to the fact that it dries out like no tomorrow. I can't even make it half way across my lid before it dries out.
Quality: 2
Packaging: 3
Price: 4 (for the price of what i was getting, it was NOT worth it)
Overall Rating: 1
on 2/5/2011 5:54:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Very Dry, Dark, Warm
Hair: Black, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Brown
This is theeee WORST felt tip eyeliner I have ever used!!!! OMG this sux!!
It dries out extremely fast. It was a waste of time and money for me. I returned mine the same day!
on 1/25/2011 9:30:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Dry, Olive, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Wavy, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
I can hardly believe how terrible this liner is. It is truly awful.
I literally cannot get through two eyes before it dries out and there is literally NO product on the tip of the felt.
Last time I used this- I did one eye, when I tried to do the other there was *no* ink on the felt tip left. I thought ok, I have to finish the second eye, of course...I will take a break, get dressed and come back in 15 minutes. Surely by then the tip will have filled up with some ink. *nope* I was wrong, there was hardly enough to finish half my second eye.
If a liner can't even sufficiently line *both eyes* it should be taken off the market. Honestly, I got this at 75% off and it was still a waste of money. Please, please do not waste your money on this. Even if it is $1...it is *not* worth it.
on 12/30/2010 2:48:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
This is my first review, and the only reason I decided to write it was because of how much I HATE this product. I consider myself very knowledgeable about all things beauty related, and have tried TONS of different eyeliners - I wear eyeliner every single day. I was excited about this since it seemed like it would be easy to use. I was wrong. The tip dries out allll the time, i can barely get 1/4 of my eye lined before its dry. Also, the staying power is laughable. Honestly, it's gone before lunch, GONE! I would not recommend this product to anyone.
on 12/17/2010 1:13:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Fair, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Other
Eyes: Hazel
This eyeliner is absolutely horrible. I seldom write reviews, but I felt like I just had to with this product. The applicator isn't that ready to work with, which I think is the main purpose of these pen style liners...it dries out like mad and has zero staying power. This was a complete waste of money.
on 12/10/2010 10:52:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Tan, Neutral
Hair: Brown, Curly, Fine
Eyes: Brown
I wont totally dis this It does stay, I do like there liquid eye liner with brush set better. This however is great when it's on, the pen itself is hard to put on because it drys out. Once this happen I put the cap back on wiggled it like you would do with pen once it's out of ink, but the ink went all over the place when I uncapped it. Oh well cleaned it up and next time I'll just tap it on a table, but it drys out about once each application. Tap again, seems kind of annoying. Although one huge pro is that you don't need to set it with powder. Put this in the maybe pile.
on 9/8/2010 11:48:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Mixed reviews on MUA... Hm. I like it so far, it takes a little practice getting the line just right, but nothing we can't learn. I keep the skin taut before applying, which helps with skipping or uneven lines. The liner def lasts. The shade I got, ultra black, is very intense, great for a doe-eyed look.
on 8/16/2010 4:25:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I decided to try this because it was on sale. I was pleasantly surprised the first week I use it. It was easy to apply and the color was amazing. The tip was very hard but nothing I can't work with. However after two weeks of using it, the tip became unbearably harder to work with and then after a couple of days, it dried out! The color was barely visible. I had to throw it away. It was a waste of my money.
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