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Launch Radio playerUPDATE / July 26: A bill that would extend paid parental leave from 14 to 26 weeks passed its first reading in parliament last night.
As expected, the Maori Party and United Future MP Peter Dunne, who usually vote with National, supported the private member's bill, introduced by Labour MP sue Moroney.
Finance Minister Bill English says the government will use a special financial veto power to stop the bill becoming law.
There is provision for the government to veto bills which trigger more spending or taxation, even if parliament votes for those bills.
Mr English says the bill would cost $500 millon over three years.
Ms Moroney says she has Department of Labour advice estimating the cost at $285.6 million over the period.
A second Labour-backed private member's bill, for "Monday-ised" holidays, also passed yesterday.
Government to veto paid parental leave bill
April 10: Extending paid parental leave will not be a priority even when the government returns to surplus.
The issue of paid parental leave was thrown up again this week when Labour MP Sue Moroney's private members bill, extending paid parental leave to six months, was pulled out of the parliamentary ballot.
Unlike many other countries, New Zealand paid parental leave is funded out of general taxation rather than a levy on employers.
Acting Prime Minister Bill English told a media briefing this afternoon the government would use its veto to stop the bill becoming law, even if the bulk of Parliament voted for it, as the current numbers indicate.
The bill is backed by Maori Party and United Future MPs, who normally vote with the government.
There is provision for the government to veto bills which trigger more spending or taxation, even if Parliament votes for those bills.
"It's very important for parents and children to be getting support ... that's why we've maintained support like paid parental leave. It's a bit soon to be trying to expand entitlements when our big challenge has been to maintain them as they are, so we are likely to veto that bit," Mr English says.
"It's a bit surprising, not having heard much from the Labour Party all year, their first thing is to borrow half a billion dollars over four years for this proposition."
Parliament could "vote for all sorts of irresponsible things", but the government had to find the money to pay for them.
The extension of paid parental leave in the bill would cost an extra $150 million a year, he says.
Even if the government's books returned to surplus by the end of the 2015 financial year, as planned, there are other priorities, Mr English says.
These include building up the Earthquake Commission's natural disaster fund after the Canterbury earthquakes cleaned it out, and also restarting payments into the New Zealand Superannuation Fund.
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What an irresponsible comment.
Please ask yourself: how can employers afford to pay a 6-month parental leave.
We can't afford this. If this bill gets through, I'll think of a way to fire any expecting employee. It's ridiculous to shell out $50k per employee for absolutely no work done for my company.
The issue is that Bill english can veto the majority decision of the government. Why bother with 120 MPS why not have a vote once every 3 years and elect a dictator. This is not a democratic process.
By the way the government funds the costs not by your business. your attitude makes me very glad I do not work for you.
thinking about this 119 MPs at $120,000 a year - that is $150m - so this is self funding if we go to a dictatorship.
Might want to check your maths.
$120K x 121MPs is $14.5M not $150M.
The government funds the costs!!!!!!!. The government does not have money. IT is always someone elses money.
Bill English is quite rightly and desperately putting the breaks on endless stupidity.
Julie attacked my comment re this being undemocratic - i.e. China. I did not argue for or against the bill. I pointed out how disappointed I was to discover that the minority party can over rule the majority - what is the point of our democratic process. By the way apparently Labor did this also.
I pointed out to Julie - lets sack anyone who might cost me money (slavery is illegal) - was that she as an employer did not pay the government did, so her objection was not factually sound.
Can we afford it - probably not, we cannot afford a lot of things, but I personally think the over riding of the demoncratic process is worth more than $150m.
Hear, hear!
It's a veto by the majority. Educate yourself.
"your attitude makes me very glad I do not work for you." - it is your attitude that keeps you toiling for others (forever).
Bill English has said he will veto the bill even if passed (that is by the majority of parliament) so that is by default a minority decision. Yes National has a confidence and supply agreement to give them a majority but this bill does not appear to be covered by that. The point is that the Maori Party and United First are likely to back this bill so it will get passed. With English saying he will veto will guarantee that the others vote for it - nothing to lose.
What is worst is that English has said without even bothering to listen to the debate it is a dead duck. Unfortunatley we will pay MPs to sit around in parliament and discuss this - pointless waste of money - given the dictators position.
By the way you do not know what I do, I actually have my own business and have until this year employed upwards of 10 people. I have exited that business to foucs on a personal investment portfolio in private businesses.
My issue is and will remain that it is the lack of a democratic process that is the issue for me.
This shows you how NZ employers operate today. This Glasgow woman would "think of a way" to sack expectant employees, not because of issues such as the employees' ability, but because she didn't favour such a law. Disgraceful.
How is it that the majority can support an issue like paid parental leave, but it gets thrown out? I thought NZ was a democracy? Its not like the government doesnt have money to throw at things they want to support hhmm... like the South Canterbury Finance bailout (that was awesome).
There is no way that the government wanted to support South Canterbury Finance. They rightly or wrongly were forced to by Australia protecting their deposit money and we had to do the same.
The capital flight out of NZ would have been massive.
Labour used the same vetto power around 20 times
Hate to state the obvious, but the majority is the coalition govt that WON the election. And they are doing what they were elected to do - manage the country's finances, not pander to expensive social programmes as is the socialist vote-buying preference. . This is representative parliamentary democracy - the most votes form a govt and make decisions. Try to get it right.
Agree with Mr English,
This is a balance thing,
What exists is reasonable, extending limits money in other areas for government spending ( kiwisaver ),
If you can't financially plan and afford to have kids then don't have any.
My kids were attending daycare at 3 months allowing the parent to go back to work part time. After 3 years your daycare becomes subsidized again by the government anyway.
If this wasnt veto'ed, don't complain about the cuts to your superannuation or pension plans or even a GST increase, you can't have everything.
Remember that America is a good example of government debt. If we don't reduce the debt then we the taxpayer start paying interest on that debt.
America defaulted on a large part of theirs and had their credit rating cut by Standard + Poors.
We've had our credit rating downgraded as well which means we pay higher interest on borrowed money. Therefore tax + interest + credit downgrade= even higher taxes.
We need to reduce the government debt and get out of the red.
This is why Labour lost the last election with their old policies of beneficial spending. It wasn't doing us any good as a country.
If you want to be angry at someone, take a look at local government, ie City Councils and check out the spending and the debt they are accumulating, they're having a field day. Same applies as above except we pay for it not through taxes but through rates increases. It's extortion!
I agree with the above mentioned comment
Good comments that probably only scratches the surface.
We are so drugged on benefits and handouts we have lost sight of the destruction it causes. 600.000 on superannuation, 400.000 on WFF,350,000 on direct welfare, thousands on ACC etc,etc.On and on and now wanting more PPL.
We have got to turn around thinking to produce citizens who are independent, resilient and who are responsible for their own decisions. Not expecting everyone else to pay.
I find it rather ironic that the labour party colours are in fact red. Given their monetary policy it seems very apt don't you think?
Good on you Julie - some of us had to learn the hard way so I don't see why we should pay for these mums to stay home longer. 15 yrs ago I had my daughter and decided to take 3 months off work to stay home with her - did I mention we didn't 'GET PAID' in those days to stay home? After just one month I had no choice but to return to work as I needed money to pay the mortgage, bills and food. My partner and I were both working so Social Welfare made it clear I was only entitled to $40 a week and must pay the lot back when I return to work which I turned down and went back to work just after one month at home.
Now, everyone's complaining about not getting enough pay/support and time at home with their kids. How about putting them in daycare and get back to work like the rest of us. My daughter turned out great just like every other kids out there with working parents. The young mum on the NZ herald this morning is sitting on the couch with her little girl and a 'wow' laptop on her lap - meaning, more time at home to play games with no interruptions when baby is asleep??? No worries - Labour Party will borrow more money to help you!
But wait - if you have another child and another one and another one - Labour Party will definitely pay you a lot more to stay home permanent - a lot more than working parents - perfect advise for your young generations!
If you can't afford to have kids - please don't!
Last night on TV3 news one of the whingers was a whinging pom.
She belaboured (Pun intended) the fact that if she had stayed in the UK she would have had 52 weeks of paid parental leave.
Well she can, she just needs to go back to the UK and bludge of them. look at what a great lesson to us all that has been.
Anonymous, to be a purely democratic process surely there would have to be no prime minister? It would simply be an us versus them vote constantly to pass what the people want.
A quote by Franklin Roosevelt; Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
I feel comfortable in trusting Mr English's educated decision, it's not a lack of democratic process. It's a decision made for the financial benefit of the country at present against those that perhaps have rose coloured glasses on...
I wonder if you have forgotten the recent economic endangerment by our current government, when it gave very expensive tax cuts to those on the top marginal tax rate. I believe this shows National is out of touch with basic economics (as you say Labour is), it was very expensive and we are all paying for it still, with increased borrowing needed to pay it.
Why should the rich decry this and not their "bonus" in these tough times? Maybe an increase in the top tax rate would pay for those most needing PPL, benefitting our youngest members of society, our future leaders?
The top marginal rate are still paying a lot more in tax than those on the lower incomes, as for GST we're all in it together.
You assume people on higher incomes are rich and receive bonuses? An un-informed generalization. The ones that are wouldn't account for much more than 1%.
The younger generation have been doing very well out of the government for the past 10 years with their interest free student loans accruing debt and leaving university with a qualification (if any?), no work experience and cirrhosis of the liver. Now they are protesting in the streets because their easy money is coming to and end. It's about time they started getting off their backsides and started doing apprenticeships again and restoring some skills back into our workforce.
The bonus I referred to was the tax reduction when 30% is now paid instead of 38/39%, not cash payments from employers - sorry to confuse you.
I get the irony of the "older generation" commenting on students being ungrateful for interest-free student loans, when they benefitted from not having to pay exorbitant fees to study. These students would also like work at the end of their studies (I spotted this theme on the cover of this week's Listener) - jobs are actually hard to come by.
I would assume anyone paying the top tax rate and wasn't rich was still benefitting from a higher standard of living than the poor, even if they choose not to invest their more-than-minimum=wage pay :-)
31 comments!!, and about five of them indicate that the writer understands basic economics, and more importantly has a grasp on NZ's precarious financial state.
A state legislated by the Clark /Cullen mismangement Team, who were real dictators.
The remainder of the comments are obviously from the 'hands out' brigade, and the Duty Bloggers of the Labour Party and unions.
Wonder why Labour didn't do the paid parental leave caper when they sat on the treasury benches for nine years. Also, is this the greatest need at the moment for NZ? Shame on Peter Dunne ,would have thought he was more intelligent.Seems Dunne won his seat on the pretext he would have the child support shared maintenance bill through by June2012.Next time he wont get my vote,seems he runs with the hounds and the hares.Will i trust his election promises again?yeah!right!
This generation of 'baby producers' need to realise one thing...If you can't afford to look after yourself and any off-spring '...don't have the off-spring..It's not 'rocket science'. As a father of two (both successful professionals) we got no help in raising our kids. No family benefit; No 'working for families; No paid parental leave; No free 20 hours child care. This generation are mentally weak and are well and truly indicative of the destructive 'hand-out' mentality which is so engrained in the population of this country.
There should be no parental leave at all.
Nobody owes anybody anything. It is not government money, its a transfer of someone elses earnings. A freezing worker, shearer, minor, fisherman, dairy worker, who starts at 5am is expected to pay for this nonscense.
Just more socialist dreaming and im amazed Peter Dunne is a part of it.


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Hometown: | Landenberg, PA |
Current Residence: | Lancaster, PA |
Born: | 1988 |
Joined National Team: | 2005 |
Position: | Midfield |
Number: | 29 |
Caps: | 179 |
Pairing successful knee surgery in 2011 with an aggressive rehab schedule, midfielder Falgowski was back on the turf preparing for the London Olympic Games in April. She was the youngest collegiate athlete on the Beijing Olympic Roster in 2008. A debilitating concussion in 2010 and a torn anterior cruciate ligament could not slow down this rising star on the world stage. Falgowski led the Tar Heels to the final of the NCAA tournament and played in the match of her life, shutting down Argentina's top player in the Pan American Games final, all with a busted knee. Not surprisingly, she was named a 2011 World All-Star by the International Hockey Federation and was also a nominee for FIH Young Player of the Year Award; given to the finest field hockey players under the age of 23.CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- 2014: Champions Challenge (1st, Glasgow, Scotland), Rabobank Hockey World Cup (4th, The Hague, Netherlands)
- 2013: Four Nations (Auckland, New Zealand), World League Round 2 (1st, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- 2012: Champions Challenge I (2nd, Dublin, Ireland), U.S. Olympic Team (12th, London, England)
- 2011: Nominated for FIH Young Player of the Year Award, Named NFHCA/Longstreth Division I National Player of the Year, Pan American Team (1st, Guadalajara, Mexico), Champions Challenge I Team (2nd, Dublin, Ireland), Named Player of the Tournament at the Women's National Championship (Washington, D.C.)
- 2010: AtaHolding World Cup Qualifier Team (2nd, Chula Vista, CA)
- 2009: Junior World Cup Team (Boston, Massachusetts), Earned All-America and All-ACC honors, Recipient of the UNC Anderson Mark of Excellence Most Valuable Player award, All-NCAA Tournament selection
- 2008: Beijing Olympic Team (8th, Beijing, China), Olympic Qualifier Tournament (1st, Kazan, Russia), Only collegiate athlete named to the Beijing Olympic Team roster, Second-team All-America honors, All-ACC and All-ACC Tournament
- 2007: Pan American Games Team (2nd, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Champions Challenge Team (4th, Baku, Azerbaijan), Named 2007 ACC Freshman of the Year, Led the nation in assists, Named Second-team All-America, Named All-ACC and All-NCAA Tournament
- 2006: World Cup Team (6th, Madrid, Spain), Youngest USA player to compete at the World Cup (17 years, 11 months)
- 2005: Named to the Women's National Team, Earned first international cap vs Canada (8/28), Junior World Cup Team (7th, Santiago, Chile), Pan American Junior Championships (2nd, San Juan, Puerto Rico)
- 2003: Youngest player to be named to the USA U-20 Team at the age of 14.
Nickname: Falgo
Twitter: @Falgo23
High School: St. Marks High School '08
Club: Strikers
Futures: 1999-2003
College: University of North Carolina '11
Major: Communications
Names of parents/guardians: Ken and Cindy Falgowski
Names of sibling(s): Kerry, Carly, Tim
Year you began field hockey: 1998
Game day mantra: The world is your kite, go fly it. Dare to be brilliant.
Club: Strikers
Futures: 1999-2003
College: University of North Carolina '11
Major: Communications
Names of parents/guardians: Ken and Cindy Falgowski
Names of sibling(s): Kerry, Carly, Tim
Year you began field hockey: 1998
Game day mantra: The world is your kite, go fly it. Dare to be brilliant.
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Back in about 2000 I was living in Brooklyn, I was trying to finish my first book, I was wandering around dazed every day because I wrote from 12 a.m. to 5 a.m. So I would walk around in a daze during the day, I had no mental acuity to speak of during the day, but I had flexible hours. In the Brooklyn neighborhood that I lived, in Park Slope, there are a lot of writers — it's like a very high per capita ratio of writers to normal people. Meanwhile, I had grown up around a lot of teachers. My mom was a teacher, my sister became a teacher, and after college so many of my friends went into teaching, and so I was always hearing them talk about their lives, and how inspiring they were, and they were really sort of the most hard working and constantly inspiring people I knew. I knew so many of the things they were up against, so many of the struggles they were dealing with. And one of them was that so many of my friends that were teaching in city schools were having trouble with their students that were keeping up at grade level on — in their reading and writing in particular. So many of these students had come from households where English isn't spoken in the home, where a lot of them have different special needs, learning disabilities. And there are — and of course they're working in schools which sometimes and very often are under-funded. And so they would talk to me about this and say, "You know, what we really need is just more people, more bodies, more one on one attention, more sort of hours, more expertise from people that have skills in English and can work on it with these students one on one."
Now, I would say, "Well, why don't you just work with them one on one?" And they would say, "Well, we have five classes of 30 to 40 students each. This can lead up to 150, 180, 200 students a day. How can we possibly give each student even one hour a week of one on one attention?" You'd have to greatly multiply the workweek and clone the teachers. And so I started — we started talking about this, and at the same time I thought about this massive group of people I knew: writers, editors, journalists, graduate students, assistant professors, you name it. All these people that had sort of flexible daily hours and an interest in the English word. (I don't have an — I hope to — have an interest in the English language, but I'm not speaking it well right now. I'm trying — that clock has got me. All right.) But everyone that I knew had an interest in the primacy of the written word in terms of, you know, nurturing a democracy, nurturing an enlightened life. And so — but — and so they had, you know, all of these sort of — their time and their interest, but at the same time there wasn't a conduit that I knew of in my community to bring these two communities together.
So, when I moved back to San Francisco, we rented this building. And the idea was to put McSweeney's — McSweeney's Quarterly that we published twice or three times a year, and a few other magazines — we were going to put that — we were going to move it into an office for the first time — it used to be in my kitchen in Brooklyn — we were going to move it into an office, and we were going to actually share space with a tutoring center. So we thought, We'll have all these writers and editors and everybody — sort of a writing community coming into the office every day anyway, why don't we just open up the front of the building to come in there after school, get extra help on their written homework, so you have basically no border between these two communities. So the idea was that we would be working on whatever we're working on — at 2:30 the students flow in and you put down what you're doing or you trade or you work a little bit later or whatever it is you give those hours in the afternoons to the students in the neighborhood.
So, we had this place, we rented it, the landlord was all for it, we had this mural, that's a Chris Ware mural that basically, talks about, basically explains the entire history of the printed word, in mural form; it takes a long time to digest and you have to stand out in the middle of the road. So we rented this space, everything was great except the landlord said, "Well the space is zoned for retail; you have to come up with something, you've gotta sell something. You can't just have a tutoring center." So we thought, "Ha-ha! Really!" and we couldn't think of anything necessarily to sell but we did all the necessary research and — it used to be a weight room so there were rubber floors below, acoustic tile ceilings, fluorescent lights, We took all that down, and we found beautiful wooden floors, whitewashed beams, and it had the look, while we were renovating this place, somebody said, "Well, it really kind of looks like the hull of a ship." And we looked around and somebody else said, "Well, you should sell supplies to the working buccaneer." And so this is what we did. So everybody laughed and we said, "There's a point to that. Let's sell pirate supplies." This is the pirate supply store. You see, this is sort of a sketch I did on a napkin; a great carpenter built all this stuff, and see that we made it look sort of pirate-supply-like. Here you see, ah, planks sold by the foot, and we have supplies to combat scurvy, ah, we have the peg legs there, that are all handmade and fitted, up at the top you see the eyepatch display which is the black column there for everyday use, your regular eyepatch, and then you have the pastel and other colors for stepping out at night; special occasions, bar mitzvahs and whatever.
So we opened this place, and um, this is a vat that we fill with treasures that students dig in; this is, ah, replacement eyes in case you lose one, these are some signs that we have all over the place: Practical Joking with Pirates. While you're reading ths sign, we pull a rope behind the counter and eight mopheads drop on your head. That was just my one thing, I said we had to have something that drops on people's heads. It became mopheads. And um, this is the fish theater, which is just a saltwater tank with three seats, So, and then right behind it, we set up, ah, this space. Which was the tutoring center. So right there is the tutoring center and right behind there are the McSweeney's office, where all of us would be working on the magazine, and book editing, and like that.
The kid would come in — or, we thought they would come in. I should back up because we set the place up, we opened up, we spent months and months renovating this place, it was ah, we had tables, chairs, computers, everything. I went to a dot-com auction at a Holiday Inn in Palo Alto and I bought 11 G4s with the stroke of a paddle, and anyway, ah, we brought 'em, we set everything up, and ah, we waited. It was started with about 12 of my friends, people that I had known for years that were writers in the neighborhood, and we sat and at 2:30 we put a sandwich board out on the front sidewalk, and it just said, "Free Tutoring for Your English-Related and Writing-Related Needs — Come In, It's All Free." And we thought, "Oh, they're going to storm the gates, they're gonna love it." And, ah, they didn't. So we waited, we sat at the tables, we waited, and everybody was becoming very discouraged, because it was weeks and weeks that we waited where nobody came in. And then somebody alerted us to the fact that maybe there was a trust gap. Because we were operating behind a pirate supply store. We never put it together, you know? And so then, around that time, I persuaded a woman named Nineveh Caligari, a longtime San Francisco educator, she was teaching in Mexico City, she had all the experience necessary, knew everything about education, was connected with all the teachers and community members in the neighborhood. I convinced her to move up from Mexico City where she was teaching, she took over as executive director. Immediately, she made the inroads with the teachers and the parents and the students and everything, and so suddenly it was actually full every day.
And what we were trying to offer was, every day, was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students. You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year, with one-on-one attention, you can get one grade level higher. And so, most of these students, English is not spoken in the home, they come there — many times their parents, you can't see it, but there's a church pew that I bought in a Berkeley auction. It's right there and the parents will sometimes watch while their kids are being tutored. So that was the basis of it, was one-on-one attention. And we found ourselves full every day with kids. If you're on Valencia St. within those few blocks at around two or 2:30, you will get run over, often, by the kids and their big backpacks or whatever. Like, actually running to this space, which is very strange because it's school, in a way. But there was something psychological happening there. It was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. If kids weren't going into the "Center for Kids that Need More Help" or something like that. It was 826 Valencia. First of all, it was a pirate supply store, which was insane. And then, secondly, there's a publishing company in the back. And so our interns were actually working at the same tables very often. Shoulder-to-shoulder, computer next to computer with the students. And so it became a tutoring center — a publishing center is what we called it. And a writing center. And so, they go in and they might be working with a high school student actually working on a novel because we had very gifted kids too. And so there's no stigma. They're all working next to each other. It's all a creative endeavor. They're seeing adults. They're modeling their behavior. These adults, they're working in their field. They can lean over, ask a question to one of these adults and — and then it all sort of, you know, feeds on each other. There's a lot of cross-pollenation.
The only problem, especially for the adults working at McSweeney's who hadn't necessarily bought into all of this when they signed up was that there was just the one bathroom. With like 60 kids a day this is a problem. But, you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, getting all this attention, they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV. They're allowed to go home at 5:30, enjoy their family, enjoy other hobbies, go outside, play. And that makes a happy family. A bunch of happy families in a neighborhood is a happy communities. A bunch of happy communities tied together is a happy city and a happy world. So, the key to it all is homework. There you have it. You know, this one-on-one attention.
So we started off with about 12 volunteers and then we had about fifty. And then a couple hundred. And we now have 1,400 volunteers on our roster. And, all of them, we make it incredibly easy to volunteer. The only key thing is even if you only have a couple of hours every month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts, and their self-expression is going to be absolutely transformative because so many of the students have not had that ever before. So we said, even if you can have two hours every Sunday every 6 months, it doesn't matter. That's going to be enough. So that's partly why the tutor core grew so fast. So then we said, well, what are we going to do with the space during the day, because it has to be used before 2:30. So we started bringing in classes during the day. So, every day, there's a field trip where they're together. Created a book. You can see it being typed. Above, this is one of the classes getting way too excited about writing. And, you just point a camera at a class and it always looks like this. So, this is one of the books that they do. Notice the title of the book that they — "The Book That Was Never Checked Out: Titanic." And the first line of that book is "Once there was a book named Cindy that was about the Titanic." So, meanwhile, there's an adult in the back typing this up, you know, and taking it completely seriously, which is is, you know, blows the mind.
So then we still had more tutors to use. This is a shot of just some of the tutors during our — one of the events. Then we said — the teachers that we work with — and everything is different to teachers — they tell us what to do. We went in there thinking we're ultimately, completely malleable. You're going to tell us. The parents are going to tell us. The teachers are going to tell us how we're most useful. So then they said, Why don't you come into the schools? Because what about the students that wouldn't come to you, necessarily, who don't have really active parents who are bringing them or aren't close enough? So then, we started saying, well, we've got 1,400 people on our tutor roster. Let's put out the word. Teacher will say, I need 12 tutors for the next five Sundays. We're working on our college essays. And, send them in. So we put that out on the wire. 1,400 tutors. Whoever can make it signs up. They go in about a half an hour before the class. The teacher tells them what to do, how to do it, what their training is, what the project is so far. They work under the teacher's guide and it's all in one big room. And that's actually what the brunt of what we do is. People going from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands of more students. Then another school said, "Well, what if we just give you a classroom and you can staff it all day?" So this is the Everett Middle School's writer's room, where we decorated it in buccaneer style. It's right off the library. And there we serve all 529 kids in this middle school.
This is their newspaper, the Straight-Up News, that has an ongoing column from mayor Gavin Newsom in both languages — English and Spanish. So then, you know, one day Isabel Allende wrote to us and said, "Hey, why don't you assign a book with high school students. I want them to write about how to achieve piece in a violent world." And so we went into Thurgood Marshall High School, which is a school that we had worked with on some other things, and we gave that assignment to the students. And we said, Isabel Allende is going to read all your essays at the end. She's going to publish them in a book. She's going to sponsor the printing of this book in paperback form. It's going to be available in all the bookstores in the Bay Area and throughout the world on Amazon and you-name-it. And so these kids worked harder than they've ever worked on anything in their lives. Because there was that outside audience, there was Isabel Allende on the other end. I think we had about 170 tutors that worked on this book with them, and so this worked out incredibly well. We had a big party at the end. This is a book that you can find anywhere. And so, that led to a series of these. You can see Amy Tan sponsored the next one, I Might Get Somewhere. And so this became an ongoing thing. More and more books.
Now, and, we're sort of addicted to the book thing. The kids will work harder than they've ever worked in their life if they know it's going to be permanent, know it s going to be on a shelf, know that nobody can diminish what they've thought and said, that we've honored their words, honored their thoughts with 100s of hours, of 5 drafts, 6 drafts, all this attention that we give to their thoughts. And once they achieve that level, once they've written at that level they can never go back. It's absolutely transformative. And so, then, they're all sold in the store. This is near the planks. And so we sell all the student books. And where else would you put them, right? And so, we sell them, and something weird had been happening with the stores. The store, actually — even though we started out as just a gag — the store actually made money. So, it was paying the rent. And, maybe this is just a San Francisco thing — I don't know; I don't want to judge — and so, but people would come in, and this was before the pirate movies and everything. It was making a lot of money. Well, not a lot of money, but it was paying the rent, paying the full-time staff ember there. (There's the ocean maps, you can see on the left.)
And it became a gateway to the community. People would come in and say, what the — what is this? I don't want to swear on the web. Is that a rule? I don't know. And so they would say, what is this? And people would come in and would learn more about it, and then, right beyond — there's usually a little chain there — right beyond you would see the kids being tutored. This is a field trip going on. And so they would just be shopping and might be more likely to by some lard or millet for their parrot, or you know a hook, or hook protector for night time. All of these things we sell. So the store actually did really well. But it brought in so many people: teachers, donors, volunteers, everybody. Because it was street level. It was open to the public. It wasn't a nonprofit buried, you know, on the 30th floor of some building in downtown. It was right in the neighborhood that it was serving and it was just open all the time to the public. So, it became this sort of, like, weird, happy accident.
So, all the people I used to know in Brooklyn, they said, Well, why don't we have a place like that here? And a lot of them had been, you know, former educators or would-be educators, so they combined with a lot of local designers, local writers, and they just took the idea independently and they did their own thing. They didn't want to sell pirate supplies; they didn't think that that was going to work there. So, knowing the crime-fighting community in New York, they opened the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company. So, this is Sam Potts' great design that did this. And this was to make it look like sort of like one of those key-smiths shops that has to have every service they've ever offered, you know, all over there? So they opened this place. Inside it's like a Costco for superheroes. All the supplies in kind of basic form. They're all — these are all hand-made. These are all sort of re-purposed other products or whatever. All the packaging is done by Sam Potts. So, then you have the villain containment unit where kids put their parents. You have the office. This is a little vault you have to put your product in there, it goes up an electric lift and then the guy behind the counter tells you that you have to recite the vow of heroism, which you do if you buy anything. And it limits, really, their sales. Personally, I think it's a problem. Because they have to do it hand on heart and everything. This is some of the products. These are all hand-made. This is a secret identity kit if you want to take on the identity of Sharon Boone, one American female marketing executive from Hoboken, New Jersey. It's a full dossier on everything you would need to know about Sharon Boone. So, this is the capery where you get fitted for your cape and then you walk up these three steel-graded steps and then we turn on three hydraulic fans from every side and then you can see the cape in action. There's nothing worse than, you know, getting up there and the cape is bunching up or something like that. So then, the secret door. This is one of the shelves you don't see when you walk in but it slowly opens. You can see it there in the middle next to all the grappling hooks. And it opens. And then, this is the tutoring center in the back. So you can see the full effect.
But, you know, this is — I just want to emphasize — locally funded, locally built, all the designers, all of the builders, everybody was local, all the time was pro-bono. I just came and visited and said, Yes, you guys are doing great or whatever. That was it. You can see the time in all five boroughs of New York in the back. So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principals. One-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless sort of optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas. And this all sort of — this switch is flicked in their heads when they walk through those fifteen feet of this bizarre store, right? So it's school, but it's not school. It's clearly not school, even though they're working shoulder-to-shoulder on tables, pencils and papers, wherever. This is one of the students, Khaled Hamdan. You can read this quote. Addicted to video games and TV. Couldn't concentrate at home. Came in. Got this concentrated attention. And he couldn't escape it. So, soon enough, he was writing, he would finish his homework early, got really addicted to finishing his homework. It's a very — it's an addictive thing to sort of be done with it and to have it checked and to know he's going to achieve the next thing and be prepared for school the next day. So he got hooked on that and then he started doing other things. He's no been published in five books. He co-wrote a mockumentary about failed superheroes called "Super-has-beens." He wrote a series on Penguin Balboa, which is a fighting — you know, a boxing penguin. And then he read aloud just a few weeks ago to 500 people at Symphony Space at a benefit for 826 New York. So he's there every day. He's evangelical about it. He brings his cousins in now. There's four family members that come there every day.
So, I'll go through really quickly. This is L.A. The Echo Park Time Travel Mart. "Whenever you are, we're already then." This is sort of a 7-11 for time travelers. So you see everything it's exactly as a 7-11 would be. Leeches. Mammoth chunks. They even have their own slurpee machine. "Out of order. Come back yesterday."
Anyway, so I'm going to jump ahead. These are spaces that are only affiliated with us, doing this same thing. Word St. in Pittsfield, Massechusetts. Ink Spot in Cincinnati. Youth Speaks, San Francisco California, which inspired us. Studio St. Louis in St. Louis. Austin Bat Cave in Austin. Fighting Words in Dublin, Ireland. Started by Roddy Doyle: this will be open in April. I'm going to — now I'm going to the TED Wish. Is that okay? All right.
All right. I've got a minute. So, the TED Wish: I wish that you — you personally and every creative individual and organization you know — will find a way to directly engage with a public school in your area and that you'll then tell the story of how you got involved, so that within a year we have 1,000 examples — 1,000 examples — of transformative partnerships. Profound leaps forward. And these can be things that maybe you're already doing. I know that so many people in this room are already doing really interesting things. I know that for a fact. So, tell us these stories, and inspire others on the website. So, we created a website. I'm going to switch to "we" and not "I" hope. We hope that the attendees of this conference will usher in a new era of participation in our public schools. We hope that you will take the lead in partnering your innovative spirit and expertise with that of innovative educators in your community. Always let the teachers lead the way. They will tell you how to be useful. I hope that you'll step in and be and — and help out. There's a million ways. You can walk up to your local school and consult with the teachers. They'll always tell you how to help. This is with the Hot Studio in San Francisco — they did this phenomenal job. This website is already got a bunch of stories, a lot of ideas. It's called Once Upon a School, which is a great title I think. The site will document every project that comes out of this conference and around the world. So you go to the website, you see a bunch of ideas, you can be inspired by them, then you add your own projects once you get started. So, Hot Studio did a great job in a very tight deadline.
So, visit the site. If you have any questions, you can ask this guy, who's our director of national programs. He'll be on the phone. You email him, he'll answer any question you possibly want. And he'll get you inspired and get you going and guide you through the process so that you can affect change. And it can be fun. That's the point of this talk is it needn't be sterile. It needn't be bureaucratically untenable. You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person. Your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion. Sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time. Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are. How smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them one human interaction at a time. So we hope you'll join us. Thank you so much.


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Hi all. I've had Sirius III, a Pearson 365 for over a year. Its parked in Ladysmith B.C. I also have a 44' Nakade wood troller/longliner called Robust that I fish from border to border out of Ucluelet. Glad to be here.
Hi Pete... yet another BCer, nice to see... we'll take this board over yet!;)
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Prospects for Jatropha-based Biodiesel in LAC
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Jatropha touted as "one of the best alternatives" for biodiesel production in the Americas
Argentina, Brazil and Costa Rica discussed the generation of fuels from Jatropha curcas, also known as physic nut or piñoncillo.
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Se crean red centroamericana para impulsar la biotecnología
Saturday, September 12th, 2009Desde el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID):
BID crea red de centros de desarrollo tecnológico en Centroamérica y República Dominicana para impulsar la biotecnología
El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo facilitará la creación de una Red de Centros de Desarrollo Tecnológico para Centroamérica como parte de una estrategia regional que busca definir políticas, atraer inversiones, y crear incentivos [...]
A Regional Waste Exchange for Central America
Monday, August 3rd, 2009For years I've advocated establishing and heavily promoting subregional (or in the case of huge and diverse market of Brazil, at least a national) waste exchanges as one way to promote more reuse and recycling and to minimize wastage. It certainly makes more sense than national waste exchanges, particularly in the case of a collection [...]
Eye on Ads: Latin American Idol Urges Paper, Tetra-Pak Recycling
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World No Tobacco Day 09: PAHO Calls for All LAC Nations to Adopt Pictorial Warnings
Friday, May 29th, 2009From the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO):
PAHO Calls for Pictorial Warnings on Tobacco Packaging
Countries urged to follow the lead of Brazil, Canada, Chile, Panama, Uruguay and Venezuela
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LAC Projects Receive 2009 SEED Award
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009The World Health Organization (WHO) has confidently announced that they can still roll back malaria worldwide while phasing out the use of the hazardous pesticide Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (DDT) through the use of pesticide-free Integrated Vector Management (IVM) techniques. Why is WHO so confident it can be done? Because they have already successfully tested the proposition through [...]
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Panama to consolidate energy sector reforms with support from the IDB
US$100 million loan will underpin the country's growth and help reduce poverty
Panama will consolidate reforms needed to ensure the sustainability of its energy supplies, underpin economic growth and reduce poverty with financial and technical support from the Inter-American Development Bank.
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ACODECO "Declares War on Junk Food"
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009To commemorate World Consumer Rights Day, Panama's Authority for Consumer Protection and Defense of Competition (ACODECO) hosted a forum on "No to the Marketing of Unhealthy Foods Targeted at Girls and Boys."
ACODECO's Administrator, Pedro Meilán, opened the forum by noting the Authority's role in protecting consumers in Panama and the alarming fact that Panama is [...]


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Now Foods, Liver Powder, 12 oz (340 g)
By Now Foods
57 Reviews-
Expiration Date:?Sep 2016
Expiration Date
The length of time for the expiration date or "best used before" date depends on the type of product, as well as the brand.
Perishable items (such as flax oils or certain probiotics) generally have shorter expiration dates. Although our warehouse is fully air-conditioned, these more fragile items are put in cold storage (freezer or refrigeration unit) for maximum freshness.
Our receiving department does its best to verify and then enter the correct expiration dates for all incoming products. However, discrepancies do occur from time to time. This being said, the exceptionally high turnover at iHerb ensures that our inventory is among the freshest in the industry.
Shipping Weight:?1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
Shipping Weight
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- Product Code: NOW-02450
- UPC Code: 733739024503
- Package Quantity: 12 oz (340 g)
- Dimensions: 3.5 x 3.5 x 6.5 in, 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
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Total: $18.69
Combo Discount: -$2.10
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Product Overview
- Genuine Whole Food
- Argentine Beef
- Super Food
- Low Heat, Desiccated
- Non-Defatted
- GMP Quality Assured
NOW Liver Powder delivers the natural nutrient profile found in Genuine Whole Foods.
NOW Beef Liver Powder provides a convenient way to obtain all the legendary health and nutritional benefits of liver without the inconvenience. Our powder comes from fresh, hormone-free Argentine Beef Liver carefully processed to preserve all the fragile nutritional elements. Enjoy the results!
Suggested Use
Take 1 rounded tablespoon daily mixed in tomato or vegetable juice, or other liquid.
Other Ingredients
Beef liver powder (Argentine, low heat) (desiccated).
Not manufactured with yeast, wheat, gluten, soy, milk, egg, fish, shellfish or tree nut ingredients. Produced in a GMP facility that processes other ingredients containing these allergens.
Caution: Do not eat freshness packet enclosed.
This product is sold by weight not volume.
Store in a cool, dry place after opening.
Supplement Facts | ||
Serving Size: 1 Rounded Tablespoon (10 g) | ||
Servings Per Container: 34 | ||
Amount Per Serving | % Daily Value* | |
Calories | 40 | |
Calories from Fat | 15 | |
Total Fat | 1.5 g | 2% |
Cholesterol | 10 mg | 3% |
Sodium | 0 mg | 0% |
Total Carbohydrate | 0 g | 0% |
Sugars | 0 g | |
Protein | 7 g | 14% |
Iron | 4% | |
Vitamin B-6 | 250% | |
Vitamin B-12 | 4% | |
Not a significant source of saturated fat, trans fat, dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C or calcium. *Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. |
iHerb Customer Reviews
This product has really improved my hypothyroidism. I guess I am different than the previous reviewer; the only way I can take it is with tomato juice, it hides the bad taste really well. I wish the iron content would be listed, though, if it really is an issue.
I love this stuff. Feel so much better when I take it. I put a tablespoon of the po0wder in my mouth, hold my breath, and swig it down with a couple gulps of water. This takes nerve, but the results are so good you actually get to like it.WHATEVER YOU DO--DO NOT MIX WITH TOMATO JUICE--the resulting slush is so thick I guarantee you won't be able to keep it down. So, if you have to mix it with something, mix it with some THIN liquid. Of course, I don't mix it with liquid, prefer to just slug it down in a lump, without breathing. I can certainly understand where some might be repelled by this revelation, but it has given me stamina through some incredibly chaotic, difficult times. Be careful if you have high iron levels, though.