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What the federal court decision in favor of same-sex marriage will do for gay couples and their children is heartening and welcome. What it will do for our law and politics -- well, that's a different story, and a dismal one.
If I favored a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, I would have considered Wednesday a very good day. When a judge in California found that same-sex couples have a right to wed, he cemented the widespread notion that the courts are out of control and that the Constitution means whatever judges want it to mean. The verdict will go far to energize and expand opposition to gay rights, at a time when they were on the rise.
Let me be clear: Had I been a Californian, I would have voted against Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage. I would like all 50 states and the federal government to grant same-sex couples access to marriage. But it would be far better for that change to come from elected institutions than from the courts.
U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker struck down Proposition 8 because it "fails to advance any rational basis for singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license." But it's silly to believe only nut jobs and bigots could rationally oppose same-sex marriage, or that millions of Californians who accept other laws protecting gays were acting irrationally.
They might reasonably fear that in some subtle way, the legalization of gay marriage may gradually weaken the appeal of marriage among heterosexuals. They might think it will modestly increase out-of-wedlock childbearing. They might believe our understanding of the possible repercussions is so limited that we shouldn't tinker with an age-old institution in this way.
Are those concerns persuasive? Not to me. But they are plausible enough to contradict Walker's assertion that the only real justification for the ban is "the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples."
Most people and judges agree that the Constitution doesn't allow the government to outlaw interracial marriage. Most would also say the Constitution does allow the government to outlaw polygamous marriage. Those who applaud this ruling should ask themselves: Would they feel the same way if the court had ruled in favor of polygamy?
The same arguments, after all, apply in both realms. The judge said authorizing same-sex marriage would further social goals like fostering stable relationships, protecting children and allowing adults to follow their natural sexual desires. Ditto for permitting polygamy.
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Probably fine, but C200 was a budget alternative to even Superia 200 (which I use, and is definitely a good film). It's no longer manufactured, nor is Agfa Vista+ 200 listed anywhere. It's fine to use end-of-line budget films from discount stores, but I still suggest spending a little more on premium brands initially. That way you know that bad images are not the result of bad film or bad film storage. Once you have a baseline, use any budget film and if it turns out good, it's good!Agfaphoto Vista Plus 200 is Fuji C200 repacked. Cheap, but good!
For me, I would rather load known-good film bought from a mainstream outlet, which I know has been stored properly, than save £3-4 and risk taking all the time and trouble shooting a whole film on a budget roll, only to regret it when the images come back.
@Rookie. the XA is a great camera - one of the best small cameras, but as a compact you don't really have the scope to be creative with depth of field, and camera shake on a compact is always a greater risk than on a larger camera. I suggest complementing the XA with an SLR. Check out completed listings on fleabay for Minolta X300's (IMO one of the best cheap SLRs out there) and you'll see many get sold for <£20, One kit sold for £1.36 plus postage!! Try and find one with the 50mm F1.7 lens and you won't be disappointed!

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This started out as an exam project for school, but I ended up (trying) to expand it - but my hdd failed, saving me a lot of work at the end. :P (And yeah, the hand is 'invisible' and can only be seen in the mirror). This won 2nd price at The Gathering 2004 (#1 was way better and #3 was crap, hehe)
Best cargame since carmageddon... This was shot in-game using Fraps. Flatout 2 is out now, looks even better (just as good as it plays), just as fun, awsome music, and runs on amazingly low system specs with no bugs! (oh, and I'm not affiliated with them, I just like the game) :D It's well worth the money! (or the download) (Just to make it clear. This is the first Flatout that came out.)
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I've found this forum by accident. Opinions expressed here are extremely interesting.
Ive just started blog (Candid Street Photo) that is almost solely dedicated to this topic.
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I've found this forum by accident. Opinions expressed here are extremely interesting.
Ive just started blog (Candid Street Photo) that is almost solely dedicated to this topic.
Greg Yarmit
To talk about "Rules" of street photography as like talking about the "Rules" for pickpockets, the only rule is don't get caught, because once your subject is aware of your presence and start posing you've blown it.
I quite like Streuli's photos. They lie somewhere between the typological (think bechers) and the iconic. To compare Streuli to a "street" photographer like Frank, Winogrand, Friedlander etc. could be an interesting exercise in understanding how differences in artistic strategies shape not only the individual's work but that aspect of "modernity" or timeliness intrinsic to it. But to judge Streuli's work solely on the tenets of a mode of photography whose period of relevance ended thirty years ago is an exercise in futility.
Struelli's photos all look as if they were shot from far off, using a tele lens. Everything looks kind of flat.
On Streuli:
As a matter of interest the work of Struelli is included in an exhibition "The Adventure of Reality" at the Kunsthall in Rotterdam (Netherlands)!
These are not street photography just as shooting a cat off your back fence is not hunting and 2minute noodles is not cooking. What saddened me were the portraits, a terrific opportunity wasted, they conveyed nothing of the subject and even in terms of a style, none was evident. I can still love images that can be regarded as clinical but these were not even that. I searched the site for any reference to street and I'm pleased to report that the site made no such reference.
But its all OK, panic is over ...they are not street photographs. OP you said you don't do street photography I believe you ...
The more you make yourself move out of your comfort zone and get closer to people when doing street photography, the sooner you will get past your nerves and become comfortable getting close to your subjects - and the sooner you will start to create rewarding images.
Anyone can make street photos from a "safe" distance - and they will end up with mundane images with no clear subject and no visual impact. Commit to getting close and overcoming your nerves - the rewards are well worth the effort.


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Investors pulled $7.33 billion from U.S. stock mutual funds last week, the most since the week of Sept. 1, while adding money to bond funds.
Funds investing in domestic equities saw withdrawals of $6.86 billion in the week ended June 15, the Washington-based Investment Company Institute said today in an e-mailed statement. International stock funds lost $463 million, and investors put $2.41 billion into taxable bond funds and $75 million into municipal funds.
U.S. mutual funds have lost $13.1 billion in the past two weeks, the most in nine months, and have seen eight straight weeks of net withdrawals. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index, a benchmark for large U.S. Stocks, has fallen 5.6 percent from its high for the year on April 29 amid concern that Greece may default on its debt and that the U.S. economy is losing steam. The Federal Reserve lowered its growth forecast today, with policy makers saying the economy was recovering "somewhat more slowly than expected."
"People are going defensive, they're coming out of the markets," Geoff Bobroff, a fund consultant in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, said in a telephone interview. "They're not rushing to emerging markets, they're not rushing to commodities. They're reducing their risk or eliminating it as much as they can."
Bobroff said he expects investor uncertainty to persist until after the Fed finishes its $600 billion bond-purchase program this month and unemployment numbers are released in July. The political battle over whether to raise the $14.3 trillion U.S. debt ceiling by Aug. 2 is also making investors jittery, he said.
"Until we get greater clarity, I can see why people have gone defensive or pulled in their horns, so to speak, until we see what ultimately may come out of all of this."


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From plastic plants to fake fur, we are surrounded by items that are not "authentic" or real, but imitations – some good, some not so. (Has anyone been to NYC's Chinatown recently?) This transition has come about for a variety of reasons, including lower cost (polyester vs. silk), reduced maintenance (plastic plants vs. real ones), or a belief in not causing harm (fake fur vs. pelts) that may make the authentic item less desirable than the imitation.
While such replacements might mean less cost, less upkeep or an increase in longevity, there is normally a tradeoff. It might be easier to take care of a silk version of a Stargazer Lily, but it lacks the fragrance of the real flower.
Every day, each of us makes tradeoffs between benefit and cost in numerous personal decisions. I might go for a silk fern, but would never consider carrying a knock-off Chanel handbag.
With the popularity of tabloid magazines and the ubiquity of advertising, we are surrounded by pictures and ideals that most people cannot meet, naturally. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 11 million cosmetic procedures were performed last year in the United States costing $11 billion. This might lead one to think our society prizes outward appearance more than authenticity.
What one may perceive as authentic may not actually be authentic. Authenticity requires a focus on core beliefs and the strength to stand firm amidst changing events over which one may have no control. In contrast, the perception of authenticity can be imparted even if it's ungrounded in truth.
You rarely see the words "politics" and "authenticity" in the same sentence, unless the reference is derogatory. People often think of politicians as polished, controlled and contrived, not authentic and real.
David Greenberg's recent blog in "The New Republic" notes that "since Truman it has been extraordinarily hard to find any politician presumed to be genuine," and that "The most common way to attack a candidate today--to go to the heart of his or her legitimacy--is to charge her or him with being phony."
If our society is looking for an authentic candidate, maybe we should first define what it means to be authentic. The online Merriam Webster dictionary defines the adjective as: "worthy of acceptance or belief as conforming to or based on fact….true to one's own personality, spirit, or character."
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Thunder guard Russell Westbrook, left, will most of the first half, putting pressure on forward Kevin Durant. / Mark D. Smith, USA TODAY Sports
For a team that has championship aspirations, the Oklahoma City Thunder face an early season of uncertainty.
More than five months after point guard Russell Westbrook tore the meniscus in his right knee in the Thunder's first-round playoff series against the Houston Rockets, he had arthroscopic surgery on the same knee the day training camp started and was expected to miss the first four to six weeks of the regular season that begins Oct. 30.
While Westbrook was not experiencing pain in the knee, swelling persisted, he had the knee examined and it was determined he needed to have the procedure to find the source.
During the arthroscopic surgery, a loose stitch was discovered that was the origin of the swelling. Thunder general manager Sam Presti, who deemed the loose stitch an outlier, says Thunder team physicians were present as observers for the meniscus procedure and arthroscopic surgery.
The good news for the Thunder - and there isn't much - is twofold: It was better to solve the swelling mystery now rather than learn of the loose stitch midway through the season, and Presti says the doctors determined during the latest procedure that the meniscus was fully healed.
"We're very, very encouraged to be able to say that the meniscus itself is healed and healed as well as could have been expected," Presti says.
"We thought it was important to identify the source of the swelling, as well, because we didn't want to be in a position where we're faced with this decision in an on-again, off-again situation as the season progressed."
But the bad news - and there is plenty - is that the Thunder already were losing a grip on their spot among the Western Conference elite.
Presti says that being without Westbrook would help the team get stronger for his return.
"I think that over time, as we work through this period, when Russell comes back and joins us, he'll be as good as ever and ... the team will be better than the one he last played with, based on the fact that they're going to have to play through some situations that are not necessarily the way that we expected them," Presti says. "I've got a lot of confidence in our staff and in our players to make those adjustments."
The Thunder lost shooting guard and third-leading scorer Kevin Martin to the Minnesota Timberwolves via free agency over the summer, so Kevin Durant's load will be even heavier than it was during the Westbrook-less playoff run in which Oklahoma City fell to the Memphis Grizzlies in five games during the second round.
Third-year point guard Reggie Jackson likely will start in Westbrook's spot, though the Thunder re-signed veteran point guard Derek Fisher, too. Second-year shooting guard Jeremy Lamb, by default, is an even more vital piece of this puzzle than before despite having only 23 games of NBA experience.
"We've been through about everything," Durant said after the news of Westbrook's surgery came out. "There's nothing new for us. We hang our hats on being resilient. That's what we have to do now. We just have to have guys step up and help the team out, and everyone is willling to do so."
Before his injury in the playoffs, Westbrook had played every game for five consecutive NBA seasons and four of those seasons the team made the playoffs. It didn't start there. Westbrook also didn't miss a game in his two seasons at UCLA nor did he miss any time when he played high school ball.
What will that do for the psyche?
"He's a very, very smart guy," Presti said. "He understands that, although there's some loss of time here - a small amount from what was initially forecasted - what was gained was a tremendous amount of confidence in the healing of the knee. â?¦ I think he understands that this bodes well for him, not only for this season but with the foreseeable future with the Thunder."
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What games are you going to this year?
Yes, I made a thread to gloat. But I am going to be doing some hard hitting reporting this year live from big games:
9/11/10: Won the OSU alumni lottery to get tickets to Da U @ Ohio State. Taking my brother, and going to be doing some filming, Vlogs, etc.
10/09/10: Pitt @ Notre Dame. First time going up to Notre Dame, going with my other brother. Should be pretty exciting.
I'm also going to apply to try and get some press passes for Pitt games at home.
Probably MSU @ Iowa with my fam. My cousins all go to/went to MSU, so we've been going to the game every year for the last couple years.
Hopefully maybe either PSU@Iowa or OSU@Iowa with friends. Both games should be **** shows and awesomeness.
I will be at Da U game too JBOND...
I've gone to the Michigan game for the past six seasons, regardless of location and will make it 7 this year.
I'll probably go to a smaller game too, hopefully Indiana or Eastern Michigan.
every Rutgers home game, obviously. Student season tickets for the epic win, including the bus trip up to the Army-Rutgers game at Yankees stadium. yea, I win
You guys are so lucky. You will be able to watch the JaHeisman Show in person.
I am definitely trying to make it to a UM game this year. I'm debating which one, though. Michigan State or Wisconsin are the likely ones. Also, if I can find a reasonable ticket for the PSU game, I may go.
JBond, sounds like you have quite the schedule. Good for you.
All of the PSU home games. So nothing great. Looking forward to next year (my senior year). 'Bama, tOSU, Iowa, Wisky, maybe Neb, all at home. Hope we find a QB by then.
All the MTSU games I can as well as whatever UT tickets I can get my hands on. I might go to a Vandy game or two this year as well. Their tix are cheap and I haven't been in a while.
you better come to a lot of games so we can hang out!
The only game that interests me in the regular season is about 3 hours away. That is UofA-Iowa.
I would be interested in going to the Insight, Fiesta, and NCG(I think it's in AZ this year), but I'll be in PA by then.
prolly gonna go to a ND homegame somewhere in late septermber early october, when my thesis is under official evaluation
me and 2 friends are takin a road trip to auburn for the lsu or georgia game.
if i pass through your state we should have some beers!
I've got season tickets (meaning my dad does) so I'll go to almost all of the OU home games. I'll probably go to the bar to watch the Iowa State game. I want to go to OU/TX if I can get some friends to go.
Graduated Penn State so won't going to those games so that will be sad
planning on going to Miami and Pitt to see Baldwin and Romeus
all wvu home games
My dad and I have made a tradition to go to one SEC Bowl Game every year, even if the Vols aren't playing in it. Last year it was South Carolina/UConn (LOL Spurrier), and the year before that was Vandy/Boston College. I'm hoping for the Chik-Fil-A Bowl this year, the Bowl that the Vols go to (knock on wood), or the Outback Bowl and celebrate New Years on the beach.
My dad was brave enough to walk all the way up to the nosebleeds on the Gamecock side of the stadium wearing his bright orange Tennessee Vols sweater. It was awesome. It was freezing, but we came prepared after freezing our asses off the year before in Nashville (8-degrees out, next to the TN River, all the way up in the nosebleed section). Vandy won though, which was an amazing feat for them, so it was cool to experience all that.
Kent State, Illinois, Michigan and Michigan State at Penn State. All PSU wins. And Indiana vs Penn State in DC where I live. Another PSU victory.
Most likely PSU bowl game in the BCS Championship game of course too.
Possibly PSU at Alabama but we shall see depends on my Detroit at Green Bay trip cost.
I usually get back to Natchitoches to see 2-3 NSU games a year. We play Air Force this season so I really want to make that one and show some support for NSU's cadet corps. One of these days the Independence Bowl will be on a day other than my anniversary and I'll be able to go to it.
Bought season tickets to the University of Michigan this year as I'll be heading there for grad school but will not once say "Go Blue" or ever wear a piece of clothing supporting the maize and blue. Rather, I'll just wear anit-the other team stuff (except for the Badger game, where I'll be in full support of UW). Pretty excited to see the Big House, although I've heard it's eerily quiet.
I would love to go to the Texas - Nebraska Game.
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I've found that printing Ilford Mg WT with Zonal Pro warm tone developer at 1:10 and then fixing and washing etc normally, then toning in selenium 1;9 gives a nice warm brown tone.
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Y'all got my spot ready in the corner?
I thought we agreed if you post dumb ish stand behind yo dumb ish.
OB/GYN school??? Bwhahahhhahahahha. That made me LOL for real.
Can ya'll tell me if I really had all my 3 kids? No rips,tears or cuts! And pain med free!!
Have me here scratching my got damn head like wth is obgyn school??? does she mean med school or did this heffa think her point would be validated by saying obgyn school??
The fake baby bump post. The OP said she was in obgyn school therefore she knew Beyonce was not pregnant and cannot conceive. smh
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And on it goes
Not a big fan of archipelagos in general, but i'm sure you will make it something to look at. Looking forward to the progress!
I'm trapped in Darkness,
Still I reach out for the Stars
I'd love to see all the pieces stitched together eventually, in a massive wall-map.
@Eilathen: Now I know the ULTIMATE map to irritate you: an archipelago with triangle mountains.
@ Eilathen : I like archipelagos shapes but I don't find that many archipelgos maps. Though it has less features on them, I'm not sure it's the easiest maps to do ( not that much room, harder to label etc.)
@ Lingon : my idea is some tropical/volcanic islands, let's see how this will go
So, judging by the color scheme (which I dig), will we see a more southern part of Oraven this time?
I am a big fan of archipelagos myself, and can't wait to see what you do. Is there a reason it is in a sort of a swirl shape in your world, or is it just a design thing? I find that to be very interesting.
As am I a fan of them.
Max, I like what you have here so far. You really are very prolific! Do you plan to use these Oraven maps in the future?
Thanks guys
@ Failtality : The hard part of an archipelago is to have enough lands room to place geographical stuff and labels while having a pretty good convincing islands landshapes so the swirl shape was drawn regarding the format of the page but it sure has some explanation in the backgound story of the place
@ Viking, yes:


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As posted yesterday on the Server Cloud blog, we have released the Release Candidate of Operations Manager 2012. This is a significant milestone release, and in this article we will explore how Operations Manager 2012 Release Candidate delivers application performance monitoring.
For those of you who have downloaded and tested the Operations Manager Beta, there is new content and capability in the Release Candidate, so read on!
Operations Manager for many years has delivered Infrastructure monitoring, providing a strong foundation for which we can build on to deliver application performance monitoring. It is important to understand that in order to provide the application level performance monitoring, we must first have a solid infrastructure monitoring solution in place. After all, if an application is having a performance issue, we must first establish if the issue is due to an underlying platform problem, or within the application itself.
A key value that Operations Manager 2012 delivers is a solution that uses the same tools to monitor with visibility across infrastructure AND applications.
To deliver application performance monitoring, we provide 4 key capabilities in Operations Manager 2012:
So it must be hard to configure all this right? Lots of things to know, application domain knowledge, settings, configurations? Rest assured, this is not the case! We make it incredibly easy to enable application performance monitoring!
It's as easy as 1 – 2 – 3 …
1. Define the application to monitor.
2. Configure server-side monitoring to be enabled and set your performance thresholds
3. Configure client-side monitoring to be enabled and set your performance thresholds
And that's it, you're now set to go. Of course setting the threshold levels is the most important part of this, and that is the one thing we can't do for you … you know your application and what the acceptable performance level is.
It's great that we make the configuration of application performance monitoring so easy, but making that information available in a concise, impactful manner is just as important.
We have worked hard to make the creation of dashboards incredibly easy, with a wizard driven experience. You can create an application level dashboard in just 4 steps:
1. Choose where to store the dashboard
2. Choose your layout structure. There are many different layouts available.
3. Specify which information you want to be part of your dashboard.
4. Choose who has access to the dashboard. As you will see a little later in this article, publishing information through web and SharePoint portals is very easy.
And just like that, you've created and published an application performance monitoring dashboard!
Anyone who has either worked in IT, or been the owner of an application knows the conversations and finger pointing that can go on when users complain about poor performance. Is it the hardware, the platform, a code issue or a network problem?
This is where the complete solution from Operations Manager 2012 really provides an incredible solution. It's great that an application an associated resources is highly available, but availability does not equal performance. Indeed, an application can be highly available (the '5 nines') but performing below required performance thresholds.
The diagram below shows an application dashboard that I created using the 4 steps above for a sample application. You can see that the application is available and 'green' across the board. But the end users are having performance issues. This is highlighted by the client side alerts about performance.
Once you know that there is an issue, Operations Manager 2012 provides the ability to drill into the alert down to the code level to see exactly what is going on and where the issue is.
An important aspect of application performance monitoring is to be able to see how your applications are performing over time, and to be able to quickly gain visibility into common issues and problematic components of the application.
In the report shown below, you can see that we can quickly see areas of the application we need to focus on, and also understand how these components are related to other parts of the application, and may be causing flow-on effects.
With Operations Manager 2012, we have made it very easy to delegate and publish information across multiple content access solutions. Operations staff have access to the Operations Manager console, and we can now easily publish delegated information to the Silverlight based Operations web console and also to SharePoint webparts.
And best of all, the information looks exactly the same!
It looks great, you want to get started and see how Operations Manager application performance monitoring will work for you in your environment, so where do you start?
Hi Adam,
are there anywhere information's which applications OpsMgr 2012 RC can monitor? What are the detailed enviroments supported by OpsMgr 2012? .NET Applications can be monitored - OK I'm fine with that but suppose the following:
We came to a customer and he want's to have monitored his apps. Is OpsMgr able to monitor _all_ .NET apps the customer has or how can we identify (even if SCOM is not implemented yet) that we can monitor the apps?
Thanks - Peter Forster, Microsoft MVP 2011


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Burt's Bees Naturally Nourishing Milk & Honey Body Lotion
388 reviews
68% would repurchase
Package Quality: 3.8
Price: $$
Package Quality: 3.8
Price: $$
Not tested on animals
Burt's Bees is a Cruelty-Free Subsidiary.
INGREDIENTSwater, decyl cocoate, glycerin, sunflower seed oil, beeswax, fragrance*, shea butter, cetyl alcohol, glyceryl stearate citrate, polyglyceryl-3 stearate, coconut oil, olive fruit oil, grape seed oil, nonfat dry milk, milk powder, honey, aloe barbadensis leaf juice, rosemary leaf extract, tocopherol, beta-carotene, xanthan gum, sucrose stearate, soybean oil, canola oil, lactic acid, citric acid, sodium stearoyl lactylate, sodium benzoate, magnesium aluminum silicate, phenoxyethanol, benzyl alcohol, benzyl benzoate, benzyl cinnamate, citral, coumarin, limonene. *natural fragrance
Age: 19-24
Skin: Oily, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
Goes on nicely, but the smell is TERRIBLE! I thought it smelled like household cleaner, not at all like the milk and honey it professes to be made of, so I googled the product just to make sure I hadn't purchased a bad one, and soon found out why: Burt's Bees was bought by Clorox. No wonder the smell is so pungent! The lotion aspect is nice, but the odor is horrible. You smell like you just perfumed yourself with Windex.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I bought this lotion when it was on sale at my local Big Lots. I have never tried anything from this line minus the balms so I said why not?
The scent is fine, the moisturizing capabilities not so much. The lotion is on the runnier side. It penetrates my dry skin but it doesn't keep it moisturized for a very long period of time. I've tried this lotion out during the winter and the summer, so there is no excuse.
Overall this product was a fail. I would never spend that much on a lotion again.
Age: 30-35
Skin: Normal, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
I bought it at the Vitamin Shop - it goes on okay - I bought the naturally nourishing one - it's a bit sticky on my skin though, but I can tell that itsa good moisturizer - I usually just rub Vitamin E Oil all over my skin after I step out of the bath or shower. My one big complaint is the smell. I don't like it - it smells "old lady-ish" with a hint of coconut. I thought the smell would dissipate after an hour or so, but it doesn't! i really don't want my boyfriend smelling me like this.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
IDK What happened!
1st of all, before buying this, I already knew that the formula was changed and it wouldn't smell like pure honey, and when i bought it, I thought i smelled a little like mint..:P ... and i actually liked it.
Also, I remember it moisturized very well.
Sadly, one day after using it for like 1 month or something when I used it, It smelled so powerful and strong like a strong mint and maybe... just maybe... rancid smell.
Now i can't use it due to the overpowering unsweet smell
and it's really expensive and tehre's better natural lotions out there like the one from live clean
Age: 36-43
Skin: Acne-prone, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
I got this in a kit which I am glad I did as I am not a big fan of this lotion. I don't care much for the strong honey smell. When I squeezed some out of the tube it looked nice rich and creamy but when I went to rub it in it was like water. I have never had a lotion do that before and then the over powering smell of honey that lingers on for awhile. I will definelty not be buying this again.
Age: 30-35
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Cool
Hair: Blond, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Blue
Oh Burt's Bees, why did you have to do this to me? The Milk and Honey Body Lotion used to be my signature scent. It was light, non-greasy, and made my skin silky and soft. And it smelled amazing. People commented on it all the time. But then you had to go and change the formula. I appreciate the impulse to make an all natural formula but the new lotion is not a patch on the old. It's much thicker, comes in a smaller bottle, and isn't nearly as moisturizing. Honestly, though, if it wasn't for the smell, I'd still be buying this. It's not the worst thing I've ever smelled, but it makes me miss the old scent so much and it's absolutely no substitute. Am now on the hunt for a reasonably priced all natural body lotion to become my new staple - Nubian Heritage Goat's Milk and Chai may be my new choice.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Sensitive, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
I am a huuuuge fan of the entire Burt's bees line. This lotion always brings memories of summer, almost a suntan lotion. The only thing that I don't like is how runny the lotion, but I suppose that is the toss up for lack of chemicals. I am always being complimented on the smell.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Green
Milk and honey sounds lovely, doesn't it? You'd expect a creamy, sweet scent with a lot of zing from the honey. Another reviewer described the scent perfectly with the word "rancid". It reminds me a bit of the body lotion by Fresh. That one smelled like hot garbage, and while this one doesn't smell nearly that bad, the same notes are present. The scent is not pleasant, but is not unusable either. It fades to smell reasonable within a few hours. The lotion itself is a thicker texture than most lotions, which is nice. It's very creamy and moisturizers quite well, but doesn't sink into the skin as well as I'd like. There's still a waxy feel to the skin several hours after application, like it never absorbed in all the way.
Performance: Just okay. There are much better lotions out there.
Scent: This is really important to me, and the scent on this one is quite unpleasant for awhile. Not good.
I like that Burts Bees uses more natural ingredients than other companies and that they don't test on animals.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Medium Brown, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
This lotion is another reminder of why I adore the Burt's Bees line so much. This lotion is really rather moisturizing. It makes my skin very soft, especially when I apply it after using 100 Percent Pure's Organic Coconut body scrub. HEAVENLY. My skin is impossibly soft at the moment, and this lotion is a huge part of that. The scent is something I personally like. Because it's "milk & honey" it smells super creamy, but there is also a very fresh citrusy note in there as well. This component makes me think this may be better for summer use. In cool weather, it's okay as the milk and honey smell gives it a super warm and creamy scent yet I still feel this lotion has summer written all over it. It doesn't feel heavy on my skin. I feel well moisturized all day and I apply it all over my body after each shower. My skin looks and feels very healthy at the moment. I will get myself another bottle when the weather heats up for sure.
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
If it wasn't for the scent I would give this product a higher score. I love that it doesn't have all the bad chemicals of other lotions and it is creamy. It's effectiveness in smoothing rough skin is good. My husband and I both had problems with the strong, not great scent and couldn't wait to finish it. I was quite disappointed about that because I really was excited about this product.
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Kupang's oldest church building
The Dutch who landed in West Timor brought their protestant religion with them. There already was a congregation in 1614 (see "Grave of the Unknown Minister"), but the oldest church building - which now serves the Timorese faithful - dates back to 1882 and is designated as a cultural heritage. The tablet reads: "This church building was constructed in 1882 by J.H. de SISO at the time of assistant preacher J.F. Niks and financed by the congregation."
We just walked onto the premises and someone turned up keen to show us around and explain things.
The church building is too small for the growing number who want to attend service, but being a cultural heritage it cannot be changed or replaced. The solution was to build an awning in front of the entrance, for those who do not fit inside.
Address: Jalan Soekarno no 23, Kupang
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Airmata Mosque
Kupang's oldest mosque would have been older than the oldest church, if they had not rebuilt it recently. The original mosque dates from 1806, and an old photograph shows what it looked like. Unfortunately the building did not have the status of cultural heritage, and because of the growing number of believers it has been replaced by a bigger building on the same site.
Because it is located in kelurahan Airmata, the mosque is known as Airmata mosque, but officially it is now the great mosque Al Baitul Qadim.
The caretaker, mr Abdul Gani Mustafa, was eager to show us around, pointing out a few relics from the earlier mosque: drum, pulpit and cupboard for the holy qur'an.
Address: Jalan Trikora, kel. Airmata, Kupang, NTT
- Religious Travel
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Grave of the unknown minister
Inside the church on Soekarno Street are listed the ministers of the protestant church of Kupang, starting with Van den Broek in 1614. Not all of them are known, there are gaps in the list.
So much do the Timorese hold their ministers in high esteem, that they have a grave for "a minister whose name is not yet known".
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Colonial buildings
For those interested in architecture or history, there are a few colonial buildings in Kupang still unchanged.
Our first picture shows the EMTO building, it once was the office of the electricity company "Elektrische Maatschappij Timor en Onderhorigheden". This 1920's style building was desiged by a well-known architect, Ir Soekarno, who later became the first president of Indonesia!
The second picture shows the one-time ice factory "Minerva".
Both buildings are on Jalan Siliwangi.
- Architecture
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Kupang Governor's Residence and Office
It's what Timorese want you to see, anyhow you pass by when you drive to town from the airport: the residence and office of East Nusa Tenggara province's governor.
Put up a polite conversation with the guards, and they are keen to pose with you.
Location: On Jalan El Tari, the four-lane road to the airport.
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A WWII Relic
If you happen to stay at the Sasando Hotel, ask around for this World War II anti-aircraft gun (well, that's what we think it is).
It is in the kampung downhill of the hotel, fenced in and named a Cagar Budaya (protected cultural relic).
- Historical Travel
Waterfall in the Mountains
Our local friends convinced us to go to a Waterfall up in the mountains. It took us about an hour on the bikes to get to this place. Can't remember the name????
You can jump off the top into the deep water below.
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Obamacare: One Year Later, Even Less Popular
11:41 AM, Mar 21, 2011 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON
One year ago today, the then-Democratic House of Representatives openly disregarded the cool and deliberate sense of the people and rammed Obamacare down the American people's throats. At the time, the Democrats claimed that their bill would become more popular once Americans found out what was in it (a process that, as Democrats explained, required passing it). A year later, polls show that Obamacare's popularity has declined even further.
Take the monthly Kaiser Health Tracking Poll. The Kaiser poll is an outlier poll that almost always indicates stronger support for Obamacare than other polls convey. Shortly after passage, the Kaiser poll actually showed respondents having a favorable, rather than unfavorable, opinion of Obamacare, by a margin of 6 points (46 to 40 percent). Since then, that margin has moved 10 points against Obamacare — from plus-6 to minus-4 — as those with unfavorable opinions (46 percent) have come to outnumber those with favorable ones (42 percent).
It's not hard to tell why. The Kaiser poll shows that, in the intervening year, people have become more convinced that Obamacare would raise their health costs and lower the quality of their health care. Shortly after passage, the poll showed that its respondents thought Obamacare would raise, rather than lower, their health costs, by a margin of 12 points (37 to 25 percent). Now, that margin has grown to 19 points (42 to 23 percent). Shortly after passage, the poll's respondents thought that Obamacare would reduce, rather than improve, the quality of their health care, by a margin of 4 points (27 to 23 percent). Now, that margin has grown to 12 points (32 to 20 percent).
The most telling thing, however, is this: Even though the poll is heavily skewed toward Democrats, the Kaiser poll shows such unfavorable results for Obamacare. In the current Kaiser poll, 34 percent of the poll's respondents are Democrats, which essentially matches the percentage of Democrats (35 percent) in the exit polling for last November's election. Meanwhile, only 23 percent of the poll's current respondents are Republicans — 12 points below the percentage of Republicans (also 35 percent) in last fall's exit polls. In fact, the Kaiser poll's 11-point advantage for Democrats over Republicans is 4 points higher even than the Democrats' advantage in exit polling during the 2008 election, yet Obamacare's unpopularity still manages to shine through.
A recent Bloomberg poll has a similar party split — 30 percent Democrats and 22 percent Republicans — and shows similarly bad news for Obamacare. Despite grossly under-representing Republicans, the Bloomberg poll shows that 52 percent of its respondents favor Obamacare's repeal, while only 42 percent oppose it.
The only poll that regularly screens for likely voters is Rasmussen, and it offers perhaps the worst news of all for Obamacare. In the first Rasmussen poll taken after Obamacare's passage, likely voters said that they thought the overhaul would be "bad," rather than "good," for the country, by a margin of 8 points (49 to 41 percent). A year later, that margin has doubled, to 16 points (50 to 34 percent). Meanwhile, 50 percent of likely voters now think repeal is either "somewhat" (34 percent) or "very" (16 percent) "likely," while only 37 percent think it's either "not very" (31 percent) or "not at all" (6 percent) "likely." So, 94 percent of Americans disagree with the proposition that Obamacare is "not at all likely" to be repealed. What odds would President Obama have put on that a year ago?
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Roberto Colom studied Psychology at the 'Universidad Autónoma de Madrid' where he received his PhD in 1989.
Since early in his career, Roberto was very keen to study human intelligence and he has been influenced by researchers such as Earl B. Hunt, Patrick C. Kyllonen, Hans J. Eysenck, Arthur R. Jensen, James R. Flynn, Richard J. Haier, and Paul M Thompson among many others.
He is currently Professor of Individual Differences at the Dpt. of Biological and Health Psychology in the same university, and he has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses and supervising PhD students since 1990 (many of whom are now teachers and researchers).
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He has also done applied research in areas including mental disability, crime behaviour, personnel selection (ATC), and test development.
Prof Colom is on the editorial board of the journal 'Intelligence' since 2000 and he acts as reviewer for several scientific outlets.
He was a founding member of the Iberian-American Society for the Study of Individual Differences (1996) and served as President-Elect from 2006 to 2011.
He is a member of the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) since 2000.
The mass media often request his opinion on a variety of topics, but mainly related with human intelligence.
Spain: Francisco J. Abad, Eva Alfayate, Antón Aluja-Fabregat, Antonio Andrés-Pueyo, Juan Álvarez-Linera, Juan Botella, Emiliano Bruner, Miguel Burgaleta, Lara Cuevas, Sergio Escorial, Manuel Froufe, Luis F. García, Juan Antonio Hernández-Tamames, Oscar Herrero, Joost Jansen, Manuel Juan-Espinosa, Manuel Martín-Loeches, Kenia Martínez, Julio Olea, José Ángel Pineda-Pardo, Vicente Ponsoda, Gerardo Prieto, Jesús Privado, Mª Ángeles Quiroga, Francisco J Román, José Santacreu, Pei Chun Shih, Ana Beatriz Solana
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Drama, drama and more drama were on the program for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's performance Friday evening in Uihlein Hall.
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No one turns into a pumpkin at "Midnight in MKE," the Skylight Music Theatre's season launch party at 8 p.m. Friday at the Wherehouse, 818 S. Water St. The season will be filled with fairy tales and fantasy — from Rossini's "La Cenerentola" to "The Wizard of Oz" — and the party will reflect some of that fun. La Prosette, sometimes known as Anja Notanja Sieger, will take typewriter in hand and help attendees write their own fairy tale ending. Partygoers may also think they have a fairy godparent when they win some magical jewels from Lizzibeth. Everyone will feast on treats savory and sweet from Kasana and Indulge. Buy a ticket online at www.skylightmusictheatre.org for $15 or at the door for $20. Partygoers must be 21 or over. »Read Full Article


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On The Podiumhttps://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/STRATPWP_200.jpgSingle7100061-ST$ 39.957100061-EX$ 59.957100061-W$ 149.95Genre: Funky, Retro, Corporate/Technology, Vintage, Disco, Funk Production Types: Commercials, Corporate, Corporate Communications, Product Videos, Training, Background Emotions: Driving, Energetic, Happy, Positive, Cool, Cheerful, Competitive, Confident, Motivating, Pulsating, Fun, Festive Instrument: Bass (Electric), Brass Section, Drums, Guitar (Electric), Percussion, Strings, Synthesizer, Instrumental, Guitar
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Hour GlassThings aren't as simple as an hour glass, with this dance-grooving club beat and beautiful background vocals. Features Vocals. I wish I made a left, and not a right, So that I wouldn't be awake all night, I wish that I could turn back, the hands of time, Stop it on a dime and set things right (oh-oh-oh), , But there's no about face, you only get to choose one way, Easy to get off track, Tomorrow is unnamed (unnamed) I'm gonna stake my claim, And there's no looking back, , (Oh) We can't rewrite this (Oh) Dust will settle down, (Oh) But all I really want now (Oh) Is to turn around, , It's not simple like an hour glass, Soon as it's over then it's just the past, No sense in dwelling on the falling sands, And if you're fallin better learn to land, , Something about today, something in the sky, Everywhere I look I see your eyes (See your eyes), I wonder where you are, and if the world reminds,, Reminds you of the time when you were mine, , And as I look ahead (Ahead), I still look behind, Just takes a photograph Ooh, A simple black and white (Black and white), Simple as those times, you set me on my path, , (Pre-Chorus), CHORUS [2nd time, only lead vocal], , (Solos), , (Pre-Chorus),https://www.smartsound.com/voxation/images/VOXJEL_200.jpgSingle68005-ST$ 39.9568005-EX$ 59.9568005-W$ 149.95Genre: Funky, Sophisticated, Soulful, Club, Jazz, Indie Artist, Dance, R&B/Soul, Funk, Urban, Vocal Production Types: TV/ Film Drama, Commercials, Indie Film Emotions: Sensual, Soothing Instrument: R&B Band, Bass (Electric), Piano (Electric), Vocal
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Funk JamAn edgy and expansive funk track ready for some big-time fun.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/STRATFC_200.jpgSingle66604-ST$ 39.9566604-EX$ 59.9566604-W$ 149.95
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Funk CityWailing tenor sax and soaring guitar take control in this funky shuffle.https://www.smartsound.com/producer/images/ps04_210.jpgSingle30403-ST$ 39.9530403-EX$ 59.9530403-W$ 149.95Genre: Funky, Soulful, Funk, Urban Production Types: On Hold Music, Product Videos, Background Emotions: Cool, Fresh, Lively, Strutting, Slammin Instrument: R&B Band, Brass Section, Guitar (Electric), Saxophone, Instrumental, Guitar
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Funk MachineA healthy jolt of R&B funk, comin' at ya. Good for use in retro projects.https://www.smartsound.com/producer/images/ps09-210px.jpgSingle30904-ST$ 39.9530904-EX$ 59.9530904-W$ 149.95Genre: Funky, Soulful, Funk, Electronic Production Types: Background Emotions: Edgy, Confident, Punchy, Raw Instrument: R&B Band, Instrumental
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Factor It InElements of funk and jazz collide in this hip, beat-driven ride.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/strataFT_200.jpgSingle58304-ST$ 39.9558304-EX$ 59.9558304-W$ 149.95Genre: Funky, Jazz, Downtempo, Funk, Urban Production Types: Indie Film, Background Emotions: Cool, Hypnotic, Slick, Slammin Instrument: Electronic, Instrumental
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These pork tenderloins look so good and it is an easy recipe. Look for the Apple Summer Slaw recipe I will post to have as a side dish. Yummy! This recipe comes from Pillsbury Cool Cooking for Hot Days cookbooklet dated July 1997 #197.
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- 1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves, crushed
- 1 teaspoon dried marjoram, crushed
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon onion powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 lb pork tenderloin, cut into 1/2-inch slices
- 1 tablespoon margarine, or butter
- 2 tablespoons real maple syrup, or Hungry Jack microwave ready regular syrup
- In a plastic, resealable bag combine the first 5 in bag. Seal and shake well.
- Add pork slices to bag, reseal and shake to coat the pork well.
- In large nonstick skillet melt margarine or butter over medium-high heat. Add pork mixture to skillet, cook 8-10 minutes or until browned and no longer pink. When browned, add syrup and glaze pork well while stirring.
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Great flavors from the seasoning and maple syrup. It's not too sweet. That was perfect. I just omitted the salt. Thanks lauralie :) Made for PAC Spring 2012
Excellent recipe,Lauralie. Even though I had to hold the tenderloin for over an hour after it was browned, (!!, don't even ask!) the meat was not dry or tough. Kind of a miracle, I think. Just a tad too much thyme in my opinion. And I would rub the seasoning in, not shake in a bag. Some pieces lacked much seasoning. All in all, a good experience . . . . Janet
This was a great recipe. We live in a small town in Michigan where we have an annual Maple Syrup Festival, so we were eager to try this recipe. My family raved about it for days.


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By Ikenna Emewu 08078011807 E-mail: [email protected]
As a student of Archaeology, I was taught that there are just two options open to human beings for survival. One of them is adaptation and the other migration. That truism applies to all mankind, and Nigerians are no exception. Therefore, whenever Nigeria is no longer conducive, the Nigerian/s without the adequate adaptive radiation to keep living must try the other option – migration.
Migration remains migration. It only changes shape with time and consequences. In the early Holocene, the first man, Homo erectus, explored the low ebb that exposed the Horn of Tangiers, moved across Africa, his cradle, into the Atlas Mountain region, call that Spain and later all parts of the world. Another circumstance of migration apart from the voluntary one is forced migration. Hundreds of years ago, some people came here and forced Africans under duress to migrate to other worlds with the first batch arriving the shores of Virginia, USA in September 1619. It has not stopped and can never stop.
But the lamentation is that nation in today's world that still forces its citizens to migrate to other lands. Nigeria is a good example of such nation. In the Bible, the eleven spies Moses sent to search out details of the land the people of Israel were heading to came back and said the place they saw is a land that eats up the inhabitants. It is possible that land the men spied was this land. The difference is that if the agents of Moses saw a land that lacked resources to cater for the citizens, thereby eating them up, Nigeria is the opposite. This land flows with milk, butter, bread, honey, and even amala, but the leaders are kakistocrats that eat up the people. Leadership has made Nigeria a place almost worthless. It spews its inhabitants and they desperately traverse the entire world in search of a place that is habitable. Then in an attempt to solve the problem, the same leaders, pricked by the trend of forced migration of desperate men, their
own creation, last week made laws to jail such migrants, especially those of them that coerce or lure others to migrate against their wish. A law to punish forced migration is like the one that punishes suicide. Only the one that failed in the attempt faces punishment. Those that succeed are never punished because they would be somewhere outside the reach of the law we talk about
I bet you that that law is an unpopular one and would be obeyed only in breach. That is the fate of all bad laws. Whether Nigerian lawmakers like it or not, the truth of human behaviour that makes him defy the pains because of the expected gains must always nudge Nigerians to migrate and to force others to migrate for profit. It is called the pain-pleasure-principle. Ask a good psychologist and you would be told better that no extent of harsh laws ever deterred a man who is chased by hunger from looking for a place to find food. Even if the nation barricades the borders with electrolyzed cables, it won't stop a determined man from the business. It never made sense anywhere before to make laws that punish food thieves when there is no food for them. It makes better impact to forget about legislation and criminalizing theft of food and make food available to the people. Immediately they have food within their reach, they have no business stealing food.
In Egypt, I was told on good record that it is criminal offence to own a power generator. A friend, who visited the country and also told me the story, said there is no reason anybody would offence the law because there is no condition for that when there is adequate power supply.
This is our dilemma: we face unusual situations and conditions of living in Nigeria. The nation's plight is hardly known anywhere else. The citizens do everything for themselves and even for the government. The people that migrate are those that can't cope any more with the vagaries and endless task of swimming against the tide. They manifest in real terms the dysfunction that has eaten deep and keeps eating deeper everyday into the fabric of the society. When the bombardment on their frail structure becomes unbearable, they cave in and resort to paths of survival – migration we seek legislation in vain to suppress. These people are just but the tip of the iceberg of Nigerians and humanity depicting our collapse. Laws or threat of jail can never stop them.
There is just one thing that would stop them – jail poverty, outlaw poverty instead of these traffickers. When did trafficking in human being confront us? Did we know what is human trafficking in the years before 1985 when IBB hijacked power and wickedly crashed the economy, exposing it to all manner of voodoo machinations that he even had to admit his surprise the economy even still existed. Those days, there were chains of factories and working industries along the Oshodi-Apapa expressway in Lagos. In such days, the mills and wheels in Bompai Kano turned endlessly. Today, of over 40 such mills, maybe, you can't have more than four still limping and on life support. Those same days, there used to be so many kicking factories on the Onitsha-Owerri Road, Atani Road and others in Onitsha. Those of us who grew up there knew so many unskilled hands that trouped out early every morning to find livelihood in those places. It was the same in Aba and also
the refineries in Kaduna, Port Harcourt, Eleme and Warri. They employed Nigerians. Today, where are they? Did we have okada riders then? No.
I keep saying this because I know it is sure fact that in about 1998, I used the National Bureau of Statistics library on Broad Street, Lagos for a research and read a book that had data that Nigeria's economy was 12 percent industry based when IBB took over power in 1985, and by the time he left in 1993, it had dropped to 4 percent. I bet you that it must have dropped further to sub-zero today. Working hands have grown idle and rusty. They find alternatives, including forced migration of all shades. So those of you that intend to stop a fight, as my people wisely say, do please first stop the quarrel that leads to a fight. You can't stop forced migration that manifests as human trafficking until you stop poverty and idleness.
Managers of the nation admitted that 39 million are idle and jobless, not because they don't want to work, but because the lawgivers who want them jailed for finding survival in odd and criminal things against their wish have kept quiet about job creation to keep them busy. Do you beat a child and also deny him shedding tears? Even those citizens that created alternative jobs were frustrated by the same system in multiple taxation, non-existent power supply and other disguised criminalities of state and they go into human trafficking as a way to survive.
Dora Akunyili as minister started the slogan of re-branding Nigeria and told us to speak well of the nation and nothing more. Is it possible for a child to speak good of a father who you know is rich but refuses to send you to school or feed you or assist you create your future?
The NAPTIP chief executive once told The Sun Newspapers in an interview that the most lucrative international crime in Nigeria is human trafficking and pegged the monetary returns in billions of dollars earned every year by operators of this illegality. It is a cancer now eating deep into our system where young people who could not cope with the hardship in their nation are forced out against their wish. Many of them that leave the shores never arrive Europe alive after an endless wandering in the wilderness like in the book of Exodus. As most of them die, end in jail or take to drugs without actualizing their intention, many still brave it because what pursues them in Nigeria has not abated. What they face is a situation of choosing between two deaths – the death through hunger in Nigeria and another in bravery at least making attempt to survive.
Although the FG through the economy minister admitted some months ago that 39m Nigerians are jobless, a World Bank record of March 2009 painted a worse picture even the FG admitted then as correct. Since the body was right then, then that would mean we have about 32.77% joblessness today, or about 42m people without jobs. They are the human traffickers and the victims of trafficking. Legislation to jail them won't be a deterrent. So, let's rather jail poverty and all the factors made in the factory of the government that create it instead of wasting time on a law no determined trafficker is ready to obey.
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Hayes on LessigMay 29, 2008 - by Donny Shaw
In the latest issue of The Nation, Christopher Hayes has a great profile of Lawrence Lessig and the core ideas driving his Change Congress movement. The article outlines Lessig's unique path as he transitions from working within the system of Washington on reforming intellectual property laws, to working on reforming Washington itself before corruption steers the system into making some very dangerous policy decisions. "What gives Lessig a unique credibility as he embarks on his new career as process reformer is his former life pursuing substantive reform," Hayes writes.
What also makes Lessig's Change Congress movement unique is its use of the social Web to connect more people, more intimately, to the cause than other process reform organizations have been able to.
>"There have been all sorts of DC-based organizations that have tried to crack this nut, and I think they've hit the limit of what the 'Let's send out an e-mail to our 100,000 members and tell them to write their Congressmen' model can do," he says. "We have an opportunity—and it won't last long—to take advantage of the uncertainty that Congress has about how the Net actually works. They don't get it right now. And while they've learned how to ignore 1,000 e-mails, they haven't quite figured out what to do about fifty blogs talking about various legislation or meet-up events. So there's an opportunity to leverage the technology and the irrational insecurity of members of Congress, who look at any objectively insignificant resistance as something to be dealt with immediately."
>Ellen Miller, a veteran of campaign finance reform battles, who co-founded the Center for Responsive Politics and Public Campaign and now runs the Sunlight Foundation, says "there was some skepticism" among campaign finance activists toward Lessig's initiative. But, she says, "organizing around issues happens differently than any of the old-line reform groups ever thought it did," pointing to "the online-offline combination, using social media to build a community of people that might have already existed out there [that] Common Cause and Public Campaign couldn't figure out how to reach. He can figure out how to reach them, how to create communities that would have been impossible to find before."


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