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The Primacy of (All) People in Catholic Social DoctrineBy
I'm used to being told I am wrong, but in an internet discussion I'm not used to my critics being respectful and actually reading what I've written. Perhaps Dan's recent post is a forerunner of a wave of combox civility and reason; huzzah! It's also beyond question that Dan, Bishop Blaire, and Catholic social theorists throughout history have the noblest of intentions: seeking the good of workers in economic relationships. For that they have my deep respect.
Dan takes issue with my critique of Bishop Blaire's Labor Day Statment and with what I perceive as the Church's misunderstanding of labor versus other factors of production. He believes I "elevates conservative economic doctrine higher than Catholic social doctrine;" he later recognizes consistency between Marxist and Catholic views on just wages, not because the Church agrees with Marxism but because Marx agreed with the Church. I might adopt the same approach and suggest that economists don't necessarily agree with conservatives but conservatives tend to agree with basic economic principles more so than liberals, progressives, populists, greens, etc. There are certainly conservative economic positions that virtually all economists would reject: trade and immigration restrictions, massive subsidies to domestic industries, and other xenophobic policies that (don't really) help American companies at the expense of foreign companies.
I said nothing in my previous post that would be considered outside of mainstream economic thought. It is all standard microeconomic theory and can be easily verified by looking at, say, the textbook we use in my micro principles class (whose authors can hardly be characterized as hard-core conservatives).
I certainly support and defend Catholic dogma, but I'm unaware that the Church's teaching on a living wage requires the same degree of assent as Her teaching on the Real Presence, the Trinity, or the Assumption. Indeed, some of our Bishops recognize the limitations of their economic expertise.
As to Dan's two key points:
- "Labor has primacy over capital." We think of capital as impersonal machinery, and would rightly fault a business that chose to replace all of its two-year old but perfectly functional and efficient computers with brand new (and unnecessary) ones instead of using those funds to augment salaries. But recall that capital equipment itself is produced by laborers, and its purchase by companies is typically financed by savers being frugal, so reducing the reliance on capital will itself harm laborers and other people who make capital available. Capital makes labor more productive; the reason a backhoe operator gets paid more than a guy with a shovel is precisely because of the capital. I.e., if we want to increase the chances that people will get paid at or above a living wage, we need more capital, not less.
- "It is appropriate and just to pay someone based on their needs, not merely their production." It may be appropriate and just, but as I argued earlier, it is unrealistic in certain circumstances and may in fact be unjust. In my earlier post, see the examples of the two teenagers, Alan and Bob. As another (extreme) example, say that my brother opens a business that sells mud pies and he hires me, a lazy guy who just sits around at work all day blogging. Should he pay me based on my needs (main breadwinner to my wife and two sons)? It would be wonderful if he could, but realistically he won't be able to because no one wants to buy mud pies (so the company gets no revenue to pay wages), and I am not contributing anything to the production of the business (so whatever he would pay me would come out of his or other hardworking employees' pockets, an injustice to them).
Dan asks later "do you believe that revenue and price considerations are all that matter?" No, but it's hard to pay a living wage if you have no revenue. Avoiding financial realities is a surefire way to doom a company, leaving its employees without jobs. "[D]oes work…have a subjective dimension that goes beyond that?" Yes, aside from the productivity of an employee, an employer certainly should consider that employee's work ethic, loyalty, ability to get along with others, creativity, and lots of other subjective characteristics in determining their salary.
"[D]o you back a doctrine developed over better than a century by an array of popes, or one pieced together by a slew of intellectuals at conservative think tanks?" This neglects the largely free-market economic thinking of the medieval scholastics at Salamanca, but even if we consider 1891 to be the beginning of Catholic social thought, Rerum Novarum is still preceded by the Wealth of Nations and thinkers like J.B. Say, David Ricardo, and Bastiat. The economics Dan criticizes is not a modern ultraconservative offshoot devised by cigar-smoking intellectuals in dimly-lit offices of the Heritage Foundation or Cato Institute; it is mainstream economics. (Most economists, by the way, lean Democrat, and the premier international association, the AEA, certainly is left of center).
The main point in my previous post was to demonstrate that all factors of production (land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship) essentially relate to persons, and therefore all of these persons have a right to justice in economic relationships. Land is owned by landowners, who deserve justice in being compensated for their contributions in production. Capital is made by laborers and financed by savers, so if you rage against the machine at least don't rage against the people who make the machine and the laborers who are more productive because of the machine. Entrepreneurship involves people who use their creativity and foresight, while taking considerable risk and usually delaying any compensation for themselves for years, to produce goods and services that make customers' lives better.
Catholic social teaching develops, as it has since 1891. My hope is that, going forward, it gets away from the antiquated notion of a constant struggle between laborers and rich capitalists with their machines, and recognizes the reality that economic relationships are relationships between persons, all of whom deserve justice and respect no matter their role.
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Okay… I am utterly baffled as to why my comment got disliked 54 times. There is no dissent in it from Catholic teaching. I was advocating looking at RERUM NOVARUM as a guide for thinking about the relationship between capital and labor. I supported Pope Leo XIII's view that Marxism is NOT consistent with Church teaching (in opposition to the blogger's friend, who claims that Marx IS consistent). Pope Leo is very clear in RERUM NOVARUM that the elimination of private property (a key goal of Marxism) is antithetical to Catholic teaching. I did mention that traditional and quite conservative Latin Missals list "defrauding the laborer of his wages" as a "sin crying out to heaven for vengeance," along with murder and sodomy – a point that indicates that treating the laborer with proper dignity is traditionally considered important. If I am reading the blogger correctly, then he would agree that the just treatment of the laborer is important – as is the just treatment of capital. I did not in any way indicate that labor supersedes capital. In fact, if I recall, RERUM NOVARUM argues in favor of a key point the blogger makes – i.e., that economic relationships are relationships between persons and that persons must be treated justly. If I disagreed with a point in the post, it was that Catholic Social Doctrine historically sees a binary opposition between capital and labor. I don't recall that being the case in RERUM NOVARUM. But aside from that small disagreement, I don't understand what was problematic about my comment. Can someone please enlighten me?
May I complement you on a civil response to his civility in questioning you? I am impressed not so much with the content of the response- that I may or may not take issue with – but with the respectful tone in answering.
This is how to have true Catholic conversation on important issues. Respect for the other person's thought and examination of our own thoughts, do they actually mirror what we believe. Openness to the questions of others can lead to the needed dialogue, and not to the mere positioning that some many of us have become too comfortable with.
Thank you for your article and your example.
If you want to see an economic model based on Church social teaching, the Economy of Communion – developed by the Focolare Movement and mentioned in Pope Benedict's encyclical "Caritas in veritate" (section 46) – is structured to help address the questions of economic justice in a practical way that keeps the human person as a valued individual in mind. http://www.edc-online.org/en.html
If you want to see this economic model based on Church teaching I would point you to the Economy of Communion as envisioned – and practiced – in the Focolare Movement. This is the model mentioned in Pope Benedict's encyclical "Caritas in veritate", section 46.
I am not an expert on economics, and I'm not an expert on Catholic Social Doctrine. But I have read RERUM NOVARUM, and I don't recall it posing a binary opposition between capital and labor. If I recall, it supports your view that both groups deserve justice and respect. It is also clear that for Pope Leo XIII, Marx did not agree with the Church. In fact, Marxist views of private property were described as antithetical to those of the Church. It is also true, however, that the following are listed in my Latin Missal (1962 Roman Missal) as "Sins Crying to Heaven for Vengeance": "Wilful murder | The sin of Sodom | Oppression of the poor | Defrauding labourers of their wages." So we see here that traditional Catholic teaching does hold sins against the poor and against the laborer as equal to the sins of murder and sodomy. I don't know what generalizations to make from all of this, but it seems that economic issues are important in authentic Catholic Social Doctrine and that both the poor and the laborer must be treated with dignity. Basically, I would just say that we should all start with reading and studying RERUM NOVARUM if we want to gain insight into the origins of Catholic thought as it grapples with labor and economics in an industrialized society.
In addition to Rerum Novarum (1891), Laborem Exercens (1981) brings Church teaching on economic relations more into the present day. In it, Pope John Paul II emphasizes "the priority of labor over capital." The first "is always a primary efficient cause, while capital, the whole collection of means of production, remains a mere instrument or instrumental cause." Thus appears the error of economism, "that of considering human labor solely according to its economic purpose." CEOs et. al. are more than justly compensated for their contribution to the production and distribution of goods and services. Indeed, they are unjustly compensated at the expense of workers and consumers which remains the crux of the problem. Greedy unfair workers, indeed.
I don't agree with everything you stated, but I don't understand why 54 people disliked what you wrote. The same happened to me weeks ago and I was completely bewildered at the negative reaction because what I wrote appeared to me to be reasonable.
Antonio, I can't imagine you writing something that I would give a "dislike" to. I sometimes disagree with you on prudential matters, but you are grounded in Catholic orthodoxy and you always write in a reasonable tone. (Catholic orthodoxy is what matters most to me). I, on the other hand, got angry in a couple of posts late last week after I learned about the abortion exceptions on the Romney ticket and wondered if the negative reaction to those posts was following me to other threads. At any rate, I'm sorry to hear that you got such a negative reaction to one of your posts.
It's a surprise to me that protectionist subsidies are considered "conservative" economic measures. I must have skipped Adam Smith's chapter endorsing those.


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The streaming service claims Facebook deleted its page and app, and disabled the log-in integration "in error". A blog posted a week ago on their site said:
"Grooveshark's Facebook app integration and our Facebook page were disabled by Facebook [last] Saturday afternoon. We believe they were disabled in error and we are in communication with Facebook to try to understand exactly what's going on, so we hope to see a resolution to these problems soon."
A week later and Facebook's block is still in place, Grooveshark spokeswoman Danika Azzarelli told Evolver: "I don't have an update beyond what's on the blog posting, we continue to work with Facebook to reinstate the Grooveshark page and expect it to be back up shortly."
Grooveshark is currently facing lawsuits from all four major labels, and continues to distribute free music without permission by obeying part of the copyright law from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
The law says as long as the service deletes user-uploaded songs that infringe copyright when notified, all over sharing is ok.

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We caught up with Angela Rosas, Founder and CEO of Chicas Latinas de Sacramento, to discuss her BIG IDEAS and how this fall's LATINAS THINK BIG ™ event left a lasting impression on her and her viewing party guests!
Tell us a little about yourself: What do you do for a living? What are your professional goals?
My two official titles are Founder, President & CEO of Chicas Latinas de Sacramento and Marketing & Business Development Coordinator for Eric Ratinoff, of Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff.
I've been at Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff for less than a year, prior I was working as a PR and Social Media Consultant while I further developed Chicas Latinas de Sacramento and applied for our 501©3 nonprofit status. For two years I was a full-time volunteer and part-time consultant – I feel as though I've just recently reentered the professional world and can now refocus on identifying my professional goals. I am very excited for this new chapter in my life!
My current goals are to gain stable funding for my organization and ultimately step down as President & CEO of Chicas Latinas de Sacramento. It is important to me that I allow a more experienced and qualified individual the opportunity to provide my organization with the leadership and experience it needs to truly make a difference and succeed in the community as a nonprofit. Once this occurs, perhaps I'll have room to develop a more personal professional goal. Marketing and business development is a very natural role for me to have, as I thoroughly enjoy the art of story-telling, inspiring, working and building in the community, and discovering partnerships, synergies, and unique opportunities. I can only assume my professional growth and goals will continue in this direction.
How did you come across the LATINAS THINK BIG initiative and the ELLA Leadership Institute?
I have been aware of the ELLA Leadership Institute for sometime and have always wanted to be involved and share it with Chicas Latinas de Sacramento members – LATINAS THINK BIG was the perfect opportunity to make it finally happen!
I regularly follow social media discussions focused on Latinas and leadership. I was made aware of the event on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+; and I couldn't wait to join in.
Why did you decided to host a viewing party?
I had originally planned on viewing and joining the event by myself and sharing the information with my members, should they also want to tune in. That plan faded quickly when I realized 1) my members are more likely to tune-in if I host a viewing party, 2) I want them to tune in… the more locally inspired Latinas, the better, 3) inspired Latinas = inspired discussion = inspired action… which is exactly what happened.
How did you invite guests to view the LTB livestream with you?
I created an Eventbrite event which I shared on both Facebook and Meetup.com. I invited both Chicas Latinas de Sacramento members as well as community members – I didn't want anyone to miss out on this opportunity.
Did you already know your guests from face-to-face interactions or did you connect with them online?
I knew a few of my guests, the others were "fans" of Chicas Latinas de Sacramento, or found the event by chance. It was a really great mix of individuals.
Where did you host your viewing party?
The viewing party was held at a collective workspace in Sacramento, Thinkhouse Collective. Thinkhouse is a great supporter of Chicas Latinas de Sacramento, often donating conference and meeting space to our organization for meetings and events.
Describe how the viewing party went and how it was received by guests?
Because it was held on a Friday evening, we decided to sit back, relax, and enjoy the event with a glass of wine in hand. Thinkhouse set us up in a conference room with a projector, and it worked out perfectly.
I'd say it was a great way to wind down after a long work week: Chicas Latinas de Sacramento members, wine, and inspiring presentations and discussions. Everybody really enjoyed themselves and took away something special from the event.
What kinds of discussions did the LATINAS THINK BIG event spark?
We enjoyed the diversity in presenters and the overall theme. Having attended many "women" focused conferences; I'd say this one will leave a lasting and positive impression.
The theme of our discussion was centered around, "we do it anyways." Despite struggles, setback, and obstacles – we do it anyways. We do it because we care, we can, and we do it for ourselves. I, as well as the viewing party attendees, felt that the presentations and stories were powerful, yet oddly familiar.
While it was great to hear the stories of triumphs and the "sí, se puede" message – it wasn't what my particular group needed to hear. What we needed to hear and appreciated the most, was the message that we were not alone in our unique struggles. Being a leader in itself can often be a struggle, being a Latina leader makes it a different kind of struggle and often a lonely experience, but we're not alone in our struggles or our visions. The familiarity was comforting and acted as an invitation to recognize opportunities to uplift and support others.
Share three thoughts or ideas that you were able to take away from the LTB event:
Communicate – ideas, passions, visions
Connect – ideas, passions, visions
Support – ideas, passions, vision
We're not alone, we have a voice, and there is power in numbers. So let's get on the same page and make magic happen! (We were also a bit shocked by the Nielsen report – now is the time for us to communicate, our numbers are there to make a real impact.)
This fall's LATINAS THINK BIG event was hosted by Google Hangouts On Air. To find out more about how you can host a live stream event, visit: http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html
To learn more about Angela and Chicas Latinas de Sacramento, visit:
* Chicas Latinas de Sacramento, Mission: Our mission is to make a positive impact in both the Latin and Sacramento community by improving, connecting and embracing our culture and the community in which we call our home. (By… giving back to our community, utilizing our people and our culture to educate, inspire, and lead.)


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MACON, Ga. -- A dream start was too good for the East Tennessee State basketball team to handle.
The Bucs jumped out to a commanding 15-1 lead in the opening minutes, but couldn't maintain the momentum as Mercer earned a 73-63 victory Monday night at Hawkins Arena.
"I'm glad we jumped out quick, but we just didn't play well enough to win," ETSU coach Murry Bartow said. "I was thrilled we were up 15-1 to start. But we obviously knew we were on the road, playing a good team and we could feel them coming back."
The Bucs held Mercer scoreless for almost five minutes while scoring the first 10 points. The Bears, who missed their first five shots, finally scored 4:53 into the game when Monty Brown hit a free throw.
A minute later Rashawn Rembert hit a confident-looking 3-pointer and ETSU was up 15-1.
"We know we're capable of that," ETSU forward Hunter Harris said. "When we're on a run, we're on a run. We knew Mercer's a good team and it wasn't gonna be easy, but we had the confidence that we could come in here and beat them."
As any coach will tell you, that kind of early lead is the most dangerous advantage in basketball, and Mercer showed why over the next 10 minutes. The Bears outscored ETSU 29-8 and went up 30-23 on back-to-back 3-pointers by Jibri Bryan, who more than doubled his scoring average in just six minutes. Bryan came in averaging 4.3 points a game and finished with a season-high 16.
"I thought our subs came in and made huge contributions tonight," said Mercer coach Bob Hoffman, who had two starters go scoreless. "We had a lot of guys come off the bench and help us get the win over a very talented team."
Mercer (12-5 overall, 3-1 Atlantic Sun Conference) was clinging to a tenuous 53-51 lead with 7:45 left in the game before pulling away for its 20th victory in its last 21 regular-season A-Sun home games.
"At the end, we just didn't make a lot of winning plays," said A.J. Merriweather, who led the Bucs with 20 points and nine rebounds. "We didn't play very well offensively or defensively."
The Bucs fell to 8-7, 1-1 thanks, in part, to cold shooting. They made 39.7 percent of their shots and their regular "shooters" struggled. Rembert went 2 for 10, Jalen Riley was 2 for 8, Lester Wilson was 1 for 6 and Kinard Gadsden-Gilliard was 2 for 7.
"To win on the road, everything has to go right," Bartow said. "You're obviously very reliant on your key guys and when they're not making shots, it just puts a lot of stress on your team.
"I thought Hunter played a great second half and A.J. gave us all he had other than the missed free throws."
Merriweather finished the two-game road trip with 39 points and 19 rebounds. His only blemish was missing five free throws against Mercer. Harris made 7 of 10 shots and scored 14 points.
The Bears were up 37-29 at halftime thanks to a 5-for-9 performance from 3-point range.
ETSU withstood a continued Mercer 3-point barrage as Langston Hall made two and then was fouled on another and swished all three free throws. That put the Bears up 48-33, but Merriweather scored six straight to fuel an 11-0 run that got the Bucs back in business.
Harris and Merriweather combined to score the Bucs' first 17 points of the second half.
Rembert connected on a long 3-point shot from the right wing to cut Mercer's lead to 53-51 with 7:45 left.
Five seconds later, Harris, who had made his first seven shots, picked up his fourth foul and Mercer scored five straight to begin to pull away again.
Hall led the Bears with 19 points, going 10 for 10 from the foul line.
The Bucs play host to Lipscomb on Thursday night. Seven of their next nine games are at home.


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Keeping a watchful eye on Portland's 'world famous' transit system Trimet! (known to the locals as the Trimess)
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Cameron Johnson has a little chat with Beth Dehammel
"I am really disappointed that the only time those of you with power at TriMet ever bother to speak with a rider is when you are personally offended."
And I'll say this. I'm pretty offended too, Ms. DeHamel
Read his entire post HERE!
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So disapointed and very sorry you were treated so poorly by Beth Dehamel @TriMet. It's just another indicator of how far they have fallen.
Great post by the way. Long may you run!
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Logic is directly related to arguments.
Yes, of course. "Every effect has a cause" is an assumption, and there's nothing wrong with that. Arguments are based on assumptions, all informal logic, all rhetoric, is probabilistic, is based on assumptions. If it didn't, it would have to rely on a formal language, like Logic does. (Aristotelian rhetoric/informal logic is based on three assumptions, for instance. You can't have a rational or informal logic without these assumptions)
I don't even necessarily disagree with assuming causal relationships. But my point is that the event isn't reduced to cause and effect in a lot of philosophical systems, current and ancient. The informal logic you cite, the naturalistic panpsychism of panspermia - these are hard to reconcile with strict causality. But you're insisting on it. I'll admit these are minor points in the scope of the argument, but they're technical points worth mentioning.
The slippery slope is an argumental fallacy that debunks the random series of events. The user who linked these events is guilty of using a slippery slope. Perhaps my wording left a bit to be desired.
No, the wording was ok, I just don't believe the definition is correct. If you were talking about random connections between premises and conclusion, you'd be talking about non sequitur arguments.
Slippery slope arguments are generally intentional, and they're often effective (and valid). I feel like the appearance of the slope is what makes the "butterfly effect" rhetorically powerful, actually: there are so many steps on the slope with seemingly weak causality. But it's actually the steps that exhibit strong causality, and our perception of the steepness of the slope that makes us doubt the accuracy of the scientific model. It's the impossibility of the scale between the butterfly and the storm that intrigues us, but exhibits coherence when you focus. It mimics the models chaos proposes. It's a great metaphor.
Again, these are quibbles, kind of a fallacy in itself.
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Constant rain has put a "liquid speed bump" on outdoor city operations.
"We continue to do what we can in the rain but the materials you use in the rain, you can't get concrete wet it destroys it and asphalt it can't go down properly," said Dothan Assistant Public Works Director Charles Metzger.
After waiting days to begin one of the city's biggest road projects on Barrington Road, clear skies finally gave crews time to lay some ground work.
"We have a 2.5 million dollar city wide resurfacing project we're trying to get started on and obviously with the rain you can't put your asphalt down," Metzger said.
Crews hope once the tar and rocks settle, they'll be able to lay the concrete.
"It is frustrating trying to complete projects and then having headaches of dealing with the constant complaints of flooding and other things," Metzger explained.
Another project that hit a speed bump is the Foster Street project.
"That was slowed tremendously with markings in the road trying to finish the asphalt work we're still trying to do some concrete curbing and sidewalk work," said Metzger.
Grass is another hurdle.
"The grass is growing like crazy but as far as being able to get out and maintain our right away and stay up with that it's tough," Metzger said.
Officials say they need clear skies and dry roads to get the ball rolling.
Metzger says a ditch improvement project on Wilson Street is also at a stand-still.
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the minimum information that should be included. As part of the accreditation and certification processes, laboratories and forensic scientists should be required to utilize model laboratory reports when summarizing the results of their analyses.
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Research is needed to address issues of accuracy, reliability, and validity in the forensic science disciplines. The National Institute of Forensic Science (NIFS) should competitively fund peer-reviewed research in the following areas:
Studies establishing the scientific bases demonstrating the validity of forensic methods.
The development and establishment of quantifiable measures of the reliability and accuracy of forensic analyses. Studies of the reliability and accuracy of forensic techniques should reflect actual practice on realisticcase scenarios, averaged across a representative sample of forensic scientists and laboratories. Studies also should establish the limits of reliability and accuracy that analytic methods can be expected to achieve as the conditions of forensic evidence vary. The research by which measures of reliability and accuracy are determined should be peer reviewed and published in respected scientific journals.
The development of quantifiable measures of uncertainty in the conclusions of forensic analyses.
Automated techniques capable of enhancing forensic technologies.
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I finally saw The Avengers last weekend. Great movie. Loved it. Joss Whedon does many things well: action, humor, villains, and heroes, but the one thing he does best is develop strong characters, especially women. Most of the characters in The Avengers are men, but the three main women: Black Widow, Agent Hill, and Pepper Potts all made an impact.
But as I read my Facebook timeline the next morning, I noticed a lot of posts with the same topic: where are all the strong heroines? Really? And what struck me as odd is that while we complain there are too few female heroes in fiction, we don't give them enough attention when they do appear. Last summer I dedicated a whole blog week to my favorite kick-ass chicks, but it got very little action. If you take a look at my list, you'll notice some of these ladies have been around for more than a decade.
The Avengers' Black Widow is my newest favorite. She didn't need a man to rescue her. She didn't need anyone to rescue her. She fought off the Hulk, and (mild spoiler) she was the one who figured out how to save the world. Black Widow gets as much screen time as the male Avengers. Even Pepper Potts, who only had two short scenes, was established as a genius equal to Tony Stark with just a few telling details.
Unfortunately, I don't have much time to watch TV or movies lately, so I'm not familiar with more recent heroines. Maybe they aren't as common in current popular fiction, but if that's the case, we have only ourselves to blame. Hollywood claims they produce what audiences want to see. If we don't applaud stories with strong women, those stories won't get told. So stop complaining about the strong heroines who don't exist and celebrate the ones who do. Or create your own. :)
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Q: Will hiring a lawn service to do my mowing make me soft?
Preston Culberson, Nacogdoches
A: Well, boy hidy, Mr. Deep Pockets, seems somebody has suddenly found himself standing in some mighty high cotton. And, at the same time, in some increasingly tall grass. Did your numbers hit? Ol' Aunt Hattie, bless her soul, remember you fondly in her will? Well come in? However it happened, you now face one of the classic quandaries of the freshly minted. It is not so much the softening that comes with newfound wealth that should concern you; in many world cultures such plumpness is a badge of honor. No, what you need to protect is the pride you now take in a job well done by your own hand. For this there is no substitute. Who feeds and waters the patch of God's green earth on which you reside? Who risks life and limb repelling columns of indestructible fire ants and sortie after sortie of dastardly chinch bugs? You do, brave sir. And if you are anything like the Texanist, you do it with a passion that few comprehend. Apocalyptic drought? Mounting water bills? A stream of threatening notices from the local water authority? None have kept you from pouring your heart, soul, and previously paltry savings into the shorn seas of verdancy that surround your abode. And when strolling strangers stop to admire your turf while you, filthy and sopping in last night's beer-and-hot-wings sweat, nod proudly from behind 190 cc's of roaring John Deere, it's all worth it, right? The feeling that rushes over a man at that moment is pride. Pride as sweet as the aroma of freshly cut grass in early springtime and as addictive as the fumes from an open gas can. It's clear that you have reached an income level at which domestic help becomes affordable, yet in the case of your landscape, think hard about what you will be giving up. Money can buy many services, but the self-wrought happiness derived from a perfectly mowed lawn carries no price tag. Don't do it.
Q: Almost every time I go to a Mexican restaurant with a hankering for enchiladas the mood is ruined by a paralyzing indecision between the red and the green salsas. Can you help me?
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A: Dear lady, Tex-Mex cuisine, in all its glorious variations, seems an odd thing to kvetch about. In his vast experience the Texanist has found, nearly without fail, that a platter of cheesy enchiladas will go down well with most any salsa, no matter its color. The old "icing on the cake" axiom, for instance, implies that having cake is a good thing, but having cake with icing is even better. The particular type of icing is not germane to the enhancement of the cake. The cake is simply better with icing. Enchiladas are good, but enchiladas with salsa—red, green, or mole—are even better (enchiladas with icing, on the other hand, are disgusting). It's really quite simple. The Texanist wonders if you experience the same discombobulation of your undergarments when making other choices between two good options (corn or flour tortillas, tea or coffee, sherbet or praline). If so, you may want to seek the counsel of one who, though not an official designee of any medical board, is nonetheless capable of prescribing an old folk remedy, which will have the effect of making you okay with anything. ( Editors' note: The Texanist, while licensed to hunt, fish, and drive a car in the state of Texas, is not authorized to dispense pharmaceutical or herbal medication. Please do not encourage him.)
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Anida Yoeu Ali: "Mistaken for Muslim"
Via Muslimah Media Watch, Anida Yoeu Ali's "Mistaken for Muslim" is a powerful video that juxtaposes diverse images of Muslims, and the artist herself, with a poem relentlessly detailing xenophobic and Islamaphobic hate crimes in post 9/11 America:
1700% Project: Mistaken for Muslim from Anida Yoeu Ali on Vimeo.
Read poem's text here.
The video won One Chicago, One Nation Online Video Contest's grand prize and is just one segment of the 1700% Project, which uses "art as intervention" to counteract violence against Muslims while fighting the perception that Muslims are somehow monolithic (1700% being the increase in hate crimes against Arabs, Muslims and those perceived to be Arab or Muslim since 9/11). Even though video was made this spring, and the poem written earlier, it's frightening how incredibly relevant the project is to today's ugly Islamaphobia. Check out the other 1700% Project projects, including an installation that "made visible" omnipresent hate crimes. (Ironically, this piece was vandalized in May while displayed at the Chicago School of the Art Institute. Ali filed a report and used the incident to create a facilitate a dialog at a performance after the defacement.)
Ali's identity (Khmer Muslim born in Cambodia and raised in Chicago) has always informed her art. She performed with the pan-Asian spoken-word group I Was Born With Two Tongues, and her performance and multimedia pieces have seen international galleries. Keep up with Anida at her blog, Atomic Shogun.
A Poignant Poet: Anida Yoeu Ali and the 1700% Project [Muslimah Media Watch]
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Pretty amazing video and
Pretty amazing video and poem! Glad it's getting so much recognition.
I watched this yesterday and
I watched this yesterday and knew that I felt uneasy about it but was unsure why.
I took some time to think about this before making this comment.
This video conveys strong emotions - I think this is why one needs to step back and think about it after watching it. The emotions are valid expressions of anger and frustration.
Islam is certainly diverse and has many faces across the globe. Racial profiling hurts everyone. All facts many of us know, of course more people could know it and collectively things could improve.
In expressing valid anger/frustration the video fails to be as educative as it could be and also, more crucially, fails to create the space for dialogue. In my view, education and dialogue are the only way we can get through this. Seeking to invoke feelings of shame in those we wish to educate/dialogue with will always be met with resistance and our aims thwarted.
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More from last week's IATA conference in Istanbul, including comments from Boeing's Scott Carson and John Leahy of Airbus about the timing of new jets to replace the 737 and A320 families. [Read More]
Airbus: A350 will be on time
Back from the IATA conference in Istanbul, where many of the world's airlines made it clear the industry is facing a major crisis because of high fuel prices. Today's announcement from Continental is further proof. [Read More]
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At this week's IATA conference in Istanbul, Turkey, I spoke with a number of 787 customers about the delays. I have wrapped some of those interviews into my Aerospace Notebook that will be posted online in a few hours. Here is that report. [Read More]
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Airline executives meeting in Istanbul were told Monday the high cost of fuel will rob the industry of any profits in 2008. My story on Monday's events at the annual IATA conference is below. [Read More]
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Over the last few decades, the public has been – and still is – creating awareness on the values of organically produced foods. For many foodies an important value of organic foods is the pure production process, without synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
The food industry tries to capitalize on this by increasing their yield in other ways. To minimize crop losses and thus maximize revenues, they have started to engineer killer bugs. These bugs are programmed to act as pesticides, eating and killing insects to protect the crops.
However, an ethical question arises. Are we now relocating the chemical process of crop preservation from the crops themselves to the insects? Is it better to modify and "enhance" these bugs, so the issue shifts from the crops to a new species and thus an altered ecosystem?
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Using only plastic sheets and an irrigation-nutrient system, a Japanese researcher has found a way to change agriculture as we know it. Professor Yuichi Mori argues in his talk at TEDx Tokyo that a film made of hydrogel with nano-sized holes in it is the most important ingredient for growing crops.
The roots of plants will attach themselves to the transparent membrane plastic and the technique uses much less fertilizer and one tenth of the water to produce the same amount of crops as in conventional agriculture.
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Miami's coaching staff is wrapping up its 2012 recruiting class, and there are still nearly six months until national signing day.
The Hurricanes have 24 commitments on board—the average signing class is generally around 25 to 28 players.
The latest to pledge to the Hurricanes is Earl Moore, one of the top prospects from the Tampa Bay area. Moore is a 6-foot-1, 280-pound defensive tackle out of Hillsborough High School in Tampa. He is the 13th player to commit to Miami since the beginning of June.
"When I was at the school and after the scrimmage (this past weekend) I was just hanging around the players and I felt like it was the right place to be," Moore told Sporting News on Monday. "I think that their defense is something I can be a part of. All the players I talked to were cool and they treated me like family. Coach (Al) Golden is really cool and he always tries to make you better. He's a really funny guy ... I'm hoping that we can win some championships."
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Experience Vatnajokull a day full of glaciers, icebergs and waterfalls at Iceland's jewel.
This great tour takes us along the impressive south coast to the village of Vík and on to Iceland's biggest glacier Vatnajökull. We will have plenty of time exploring the picturesque lagoon with it's floating icebergs.
Lunch break can be taken at the Lagoon Service Center, not included in price. On our drive back we will visit the waterfalls Skógafoss and Seljalandsfoss.
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The name in Karate Kyokushin is Mae Mawashi Kubi Geri. Was created by the Brazilian Ademir da Costa the Fight Karate Kyokushin. And used in K1 by Francisco Filho. And used in MMA by Alexandre Cesar Breck and Maciej Górski.
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There is no "origin" to this technique. It is found in many places, in many styles including Muay Thai. Muay Thai varies from camp to camp and region to region. Those that do this kind of technique are consider "tricky" or "slick". I use a fake front to round kick, and fake round to front kick in Muay Thai, and it is quite common among the "Slick" style fighters in Thailand.


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airport problem please help me
hey guys,
ive had my ibook g4 for almost two years now and yesterday i started encountering huge problems with my airport and wireless internet.
yesterday morning i sat online chatting for a good 4-5 hours without a problem. i went out for a few hours and come home, open the lid of my ibook to check my mail and then poof suddenly no internet. nothing not a razo. the aiport was turned on but there was no signal, not even a week one.
so i think oh i'll try turning it off and then back on. nope didnt work. i restarted my computer. still nothing. so i turn on the home pc take my laptop off the access list, reboot the router , add myself again and still nothing. so i restart my ibook again. i get a signal. 3 bars of strength.
5 minutes later, im trying to load a web page and nothing, no signal again. so i reboot my laptop. it gets signal again, full strength.
then i went to bed. thismorning i wake up up the lid of my ibook to check myemail b4 work. and again, no friggen signal. nothing. i reboot AGAIN and it finds the signal.
i was wondering whether anyone may have encountered a problem like this or has any ideas as to what might be wrong? could it be some of my settings or something like that? it just seems odd how all of a sudden there was a problem, when in the morning it was working fine.
i would really appreciate some help on this. thanks a lot in advance :)
I am having a similar problem with my Intel iMac. For some reason when i boot up or if it sits idle for long time (several hours) it loses connection to my wireless network. All i have to do it click the radio waves on the top and click my wireless network. After about 10 seconds i'm back online. This never happened before until the last series of updates but i'm not sure if it was from 10.4.7 or 10.4.8. I'm pretty sure its something in software but i'm not sure.
Update - This morning i turned on my Mac so i could VNC into it and it would connect to my wireless network. kept giving me an error. I had to turn the airport off and then back on and reconnect. Very strange.
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Twitter has simply exploded into the social media sphere in the past three years and the medium now has millions of users all over the world. However, for us at JetBlue, the best thing about Twitter is our ability to communicate with our passengers in a 'human way' and to keep up with the real-time pulse of our operations from the words of our customers.
Instant access
With a scan of brand mentions, anyone, from leadership to front line, to the customers themselves, can get a small sample of how we're doing at that very moment.
This makes it a really powerful tool that allows us to make minute changes to hone our processes and deliver an even better experience. This is an opportunity that you simply do not get through other media, as they are not instant.
As Twitter is targeted at a mobile audience, we realised that mention of our brand was popping up from customers actually in airports or preparing to purchase a ticket online. When we realised that we could potentially help to inform them and recover their experience before any potential damage was done, we quickly began reaching out to tweeting customers with advice or guidance.
Engaging on an individual level
This was just one part of the steep learning curve that we have been through with Twitter. From the beginning it became clear that we had to earn the right to talk about new routes to our audience.
When we first started using Twitter in May 2007 we pushed route and sales announcements. This failed horribly until we actually began engaging with customers on an individual level.
With the vibrant community of followers we've built through dialog and collaborative growth, we're thrilled to see customers asking us for route announcements and helping to spread the message to their followers. In recent months one of the more common questions we have received is: 'When are you going to start flying to/from my favourite airports?' This is a wonderful problem to have.
Collaborating with airports online
It's also gratifying to see more and more airports and tourism authorities getting involved in Twitter.
In one instance, when engaging our audience to talk about their Richmond Virginia travel tops in our regular 'Tuesday Travel Tips', Troy Bell, director of marketing & air service development for Richmond International Airport rallied his own community to help support the idea through his Twitter account @flack4RIC. We were able to develop a really robust amount of travel tips, and a great deal of excitement about an often-overlooked vacation destination.
Tweeting team
We have evolved in many ways since we first started using Twitter, and have grown from a single individual based in the Corporate Communications team to a working group that spans Corporate Communications, Marketing and Customer Commitment. We feel there is great advantage to having those subject matter experts assist directly from the various business units.
Looking ahead, I believe we will see increasing involvement and engagement between customers and crew members through various social media channels. Social media has the potential to connect the humans behind the brand with their customers – and our responsibility from a corporate standpoint is to make sure our people have the best resources to represent us responsibly.
Top tips
• Monitor first – Twitter is a great ear to the ground for operations
• Engage with audiences – you will be surprised at how willing your audience is to help build your presence
• Inform – be ready to answer even the most seemingly minute questions with backing resources
• Add value – it's a good opportunity to get important information out to your audience. Engaged readers will even help you spread those messages
• Be a human being – Twitter is about humans talking to humans. Prove you've got a pulse and a brain
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COLUMBIA CITY — The 2012 salary for elected officials – specifically a raise in the mayor's pay – dominated Tuesday night's regular meeting of the Columbia City Common Council.
Mayor James Fleck advocated a change to the salary at the previous meeting, which he hopes will put the position of mayor on the same pay-grade as that of department heads.
The original alteration called for over $7,228 to be added to the mayor's salary, raising the annual salary from $54,132 currently to $61,360.
By the end of the meeting, that figure had changed to $2,500 and was passed for a second reading.
Councilman Donald Sexton said though the original one-time 13 percent hike in pay was knocked down to roughly 4.5 percent, he still believed it was too high of a number.
Sexton said even a 3 percent raise was generous enough, but wondered if that was even necessary.
Councilman Walt Crowder said it was important to acknowledge that only one-fifth of the raise is paid by taxpayers, citing the four utilities that comprise the rest of the funding.
The council voted and the motion carried 4-1 to approve the second reading and move it on to further discussion and a final vote.
Sexton was the lone vote against.
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The elusive alpha channel remains one of the most misunderstood yet powerful tools in Photoshop. Alpha channels are collections of luminance data that control the transparency of an image, and they inform just about every aspect of Photoshop. As he builds transitional blended layers, fashions a depth map, makes edge adjustments, and takes on extreme channel mixing, Omni Award-winning expert Deke McClelland teaches Photoshop users that where there's a will, there's a way. Photoshop CS3 Channels and Masks: Advanced Techniques covers mapping texture on an image, turning flesh into stone, using vector masks, working with all different channels, creating a rustic edge effect, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
Download Deke's customized keyboard layouts for Channels and Masks from the Exercise Files tab."
All right gang, if you have been working along with me here then you know that our goal in life or at least our goal in this small portion of our lives is to see the Add and Subtract modes in action combined of course with the Calculation command, and that's what we are going to do, and when I say 'Action' I mean with this guy here Mr. Superhero hair.psd found inside the 14 Calculations folder. An image, that is a by-product of the work of photographer Chris Schmidt of the U.K. All right, so we can generate a mask for this guy, an Alpha channel version of this guy that is going to work for us using either the Add or Subtract mode.
Turns out that the Subtract mode is probably going to work a little better for us, but we might as well try both, I figure, just so that we have some hands-on experience. All right, so let's go ahead and switch in my case because I have so little screen real estate to work with. I am going to switch to the absolute Full Screen mode so that I don't have those scrollbars showing up at the bottom window and I can see more of the vertical image at a time including all the way to the top of the head. I really need to see that part because that's the part that's in the worst shape where masking is concerned.
Now let's go up to the Image menu and choose Calculations command, and let's wander through the channels here, and we can wander through the channels using Source 1 by changing Source 1, because Source 1 is on top of Source 2 as long as Blending is set to Normal and Opacity is set to 100%. So go ahead and make that occur first. And now we can see the Red Channel. So this is another way just to go through the channels as opposed to having to click on each one of them out here outside of the Calculations dialog box. All right, so we are doing everything inside the dialog box in other words.
This is the Red Channel, it looks pretty darn good. I should move the dialog box over just a little, and actually, you know what, I will move the image over a little bit too because we really need to keep an eye on the contrast between the hair and the background. And it's pretty darn and good at this point, obviously, it's hopeless at the top of the image, but that's going to be the case throughout the channels. Now let's try the Green Channel just to get a sense of what's going on, and now it looks pretty darn good. It looks better, we've got a high degree of contrast going between hair and background that probably if I was generating a mask from a single channel, Green is what I would select for this image. But let's move our way down to the Blue Channel because really we haven't seen it yet, and it looks like this.
Now the Contrast is weaker between the hairs and the background, much weaker in fact, but one is the Blue Channel have going for it empirically if you sort of take a look at it here. What it has going forward is it very accurately imparts the degree of difference and focus between the different hairs. So for example the foreground hairs are very, very dark; the background hairs are very, very light, almost indistinguishable from the background blue, and we need that in order to be able to accurately generate the various levels of focus associated with his hair. So we need that Blue Channel. We also like the Green Channel, so let's work with both of them.
Now in each case the foreground image is showing up darker than the background image. So we need to invert the channel. So let's go ahead and set the top channel to Green, and we will set it to Invert of course, and that's what it looks like when its inverted and then we will set the bottom channel, the channel underneath the Blue and we will invert it. Now we didn't make any change to the Composite View here, and that's because Blending is set to Normal. So we are only seeing the Source 1 channel. Of course we are not changing the Source 1 image. It's going to be Superhero.psd, and then actually happens to be the image that I can choose at any rate, and then layer is going to be background because there is only one layer inside this image, the Background layer.
All right, now let's go down to Blending; let's just give everybody else a slip. If you wanted to fool around with the channels, we would start with Hard Light just as I was showing you way back at the outside of this chapter and then we would try out the other modes by arrowing through them here on the PC or selecting them manually on the Mac. However, I know that I am going to be working with Add or Subtract. Now Add and Subtract are simpler blend modes that most of the other blend modes. We know that Add is the same as Linear Dodge at face value because they both add luminance levels. However, where they get more complicated because adding and subtracting are pretty simple formulas, is with the Scale and the Offset values that gives us control over the blend mode process. And actually between you and me it'd be great if we had those kind of controls with all of the blend modes. Although, it really would up the complication, quite considerably I think, but still my goodness, the stuff we would be able to get done.
Anyway, let's go with Add and it goes ahead and adds the Luminance levels. This is the same effect we would get with the Linear Dodge mode. Now then I could say, well, okay, that's too high. So let's go ahead and take the Offset value down, and what I typically do is I select the Offset value and then I start pressing Shift+Down Arrow. When I am working with Add, when I am working with Add, I take the Offset value down, when I am working with Subtract I take the Offset value up because you are trying to balance the equation. So you Subtract from Add you Add to Subtract. All right, so I am going to Shift+Down Arrow with the Offset value until I get something that looks a little more reasonable. So we have a higher degree of contrast between the background. We are really trying to darken up this background while keeping the hairs nice and light. And we can take this value pretty darn low because the hairs are very, very light and the background is pretty darn light as well.
Now if we start finding that we have too much choppiness between the hairs and the background, in other words; we have got too much noise; we have got too many jaggies; we have got too much contrast in general, then we can soften things using the Scale value. Now the Scale value is a little more difficult to work with, because notice, if I just start pressing the Up Arrow I really can't go down, the Scale value varies between 1 and 2. But if I start pressing the Up Arrow I am changing the value in 1 -- what is that 1000th of an increment here, that's craziness. It is just so small, and even if I press Shift along with the Up Arrow, I am only adding 100th of a divider here.
And so that's not changing things very dramatically or very quickly for me, but what I can do is I can press Shift and the Up Arrow key and hold, and then you are going to start making some big changes very quickly. All right, so Shift and Down Arrow, hold as well and you will see that value scale along right there, and then at this point you might say, well gosh, something like I think a value of something around the neighborhood of 1.4 does a good job of softening the effect, but now I have over-darkened it because it's Offset down too far. So let's Shift+Up Arrow this value. You can also just press the up or down arrow key if you prefer to vary the value and increments of 1, but I prefer to work in increments of 10 because that gets the job done quicker essentially.
All right, so let's go with these values right here, Offset of -90, so Add of course; we've got the Add Blend mode; we've Offset -90; we've got Scale of 1.4. So we are darkening the results of the Add equation here, and we are also scaling it so that we have softer transitions. Not way soft transitions, just softer transitions. So we don't have too many jaggies going on. And then note of course Channel just to make sure Channel is set to Green Invert. This channel is set to Blue Invert, and we are done. Go ahead and click OK and that becomes our Add Channel. Let's go ahead and name it, so I will call it Add and then I will call it -90, 1.4, and I know that that means an Offset value of -90 because it couldn't mean a scale value of -90 and a Scale value of 1.4.
All right, so there the deed is done and this is the Alpha Channel that we come up with at any rate right here. In the next exercise we will try something similar with a Subtract mode and we will decide which of the two Alpha channels we like better.
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Adds beauty to my kitchen nook I absolutely loved this light when I saw it and it is better than the pic represents..... am considering placing Edison type bulbs for a retro look currently have the clear "candle-like" bulbs and the light it puts out is sufficient I just love retro-style bulbs....so we will see. June 10, 2015
Perfect size This chandelier meets all of my expectations and then some. Our dining area is small and I was concerned this chandelier was too big for our round dining table for 4. On the contrary, it fills the space nicely and provides wonderful lighting projections on the ceiling resulting from the design. It is a wonderful, unique addition to our dining room. May 21, 2015
Beautiful light cast by this sculptural feature Worth. every. penny. The chain is easy to shorten, just like with other chandeliers. I also recommend edison type bulbs. The warm amber light compliments the rustic fixture. The shadows cast are also lovely. April 23, 2015
Great chandelier, love it!! I have been looking for the perfect chandelier for our dining room for months and saw this and knew it was the one. My husband installed it and was able to adjust the chain and cord without too much trouble. My only complaint is that it isn't very bright but not a big deal. I highly recommend it, great fixture at a very reasonable price! January 28, 2015
looks much more expensive than it is! First off I have to say that I have been on the hunt for this type of pendant for some time now-I have found many that I like, but they were very pricey ($400 & up) I just didn't want to spend that kind of money on a dining table light...anywho after much searching I came across this lamp (on sale!!) & without seeing it in person I ordered it and crossed my fingers...Wow, was I surprised. The globe looks much better than it does in the picture, it's also a little larger than I expected (which was a good thing) and it feels very sturdy without being overly heavy. The globe came quickly, was very easy to install (my husband) & it gives off a lot of light while putting wonderful pattern on the walls. I'm considering buying a second one for my rental apartment! Love it! January 20, 2015
Love the style, love the price!! Bought this light for our casual kitchen and I am very pleased with it. We had no difficulties with installation. My only issue is that it took very long to receive because it was on backorder for a length of time. January 18, 2015
Fantastic light! I absolutely love this light fixture! I have it in my bedroom and love the look of it. I had a professional electrician friend install it so I cannot comment on the ease of the process, but the light looks amazing. This light fixture would look great in any room. It is quite bright, though, so having it on a dimmer in a bedroom would be ideal (or use table lamps if diffused or lower light is desired). I highly recommend this fixture! November 24, 2014
Love this light! Beautiful chandelier that works perfect in my space. Modern Rustic October 9, 2014


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