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BEIJING (AP) Boxing ended with a big thud for China, thanks to an Italian policeman with no intentions of turning pro.
Roberto Cammarelle stopped Zhang Zhilei in the fourth round of the final bout of the Olympics on Sunday. Cammarelle was way ahead on points after battering his Chinese opponent, who had won two routs and a walkover to get to the gold medal bout.
Zhang was the only one of three Chinese finalists to lose, and he was clearly overmatched by the 28-year-old veteran and 2004 Olympic bronze medalist. Cammarelle battered Zhang's head so effectively in the last round that the referee had no choice but to stop the bout.
"I wouldn't say it was easy, but in the end the bout turned out the way I expected," said Cammarelle, the 2007 world champion. "He is a dangerous giant, but I badly wanted to win."
What he doesn't want badly is a pro career. Cammarelle said he will remain an amateur, fighting for his club in Italy, and defend his world title next year.
"I'll keep on going in the Olympic, or amateur level, and compete for my police club and try to defend my world championship in Milan, my home city," Cammarelle said. "Then perhaps I will retire because I will be at that age."
Cammarelle is the first Italian to win boxing medals in successive games. He figured to have a difficult chore against Zhang in front of the loud, partisan crowd. But he had his share of supporters, too, and when Cammarelle won, coach Francesco Damiani leapt around like a child.
"It was a fight with no story," Damiani said. "After the first round, it was clear who would win. I never feared my athlete could lose this final."
Nor was Cammarelle ever worried.
"I could even have won with five Chinese judges," he said, smiling broadly.
That also brought a smile to Zhang's face during a news conference. Moments earlier, Zhang playfully tapped Cammarelle in the shoulder several times.
"All I can say is my opponent was doing an excellent job," Zhang said. "I was a little nervous in my home country and there was a lot of pressure. I did not do as good a job as I should have done."
Cammarelle learned plenty at the 2004 Athens Games - mainly that he just wasn't good enough for gold.
"Compared to four years ago, I became a different boxer and I improved," he said. "My first two matches here were hard fights, and the third and fourth I won based on technical skills. I can adapt myself to my opponents, but I perform best when it is a technical fight."
Actually, in Beijing, he performed best under all conditions.
"I knew I'd always win," Cammarelle said. "It's just a matter of how I win."


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Empire State Games organizers launch fundraising campaign with Rochester scheduled to host in July
A public fundraising campaign for the next scheduled summer Empire State Games is underway, with help from Greece native and New Jersey Devils winger Stephen Gionta.
There is an effort to revive the summer Empire State Games after issues with funding the Olympic-style event for state residents
led to two cancellations since 2009. No summer Empire State Games were scheduled for 2012.
The Empire State Sports Foundation calls this outreach for upcoming games in the Rochester area on July 24-28, "Fuel The Torch''. There is a website connected to the campaign, including as a place to collect donations and information, www.empirestatesummergames.org.
There are quotes of support for the games attributed to Gionta, along with Olympic soccer star and Pittsford native Abby Wambach on the website.
"These games were one of the best experiences of my hockey career,'' Gionta is quoted in a media release. "It was an experience that changed my life, and I hope that all alumni, and New York sports fans as a whole, come together to support the work of this foundation and help relight the torch.''
Calling bowling teams: The organizer of the Tom Sullivan Memorial High School Holiday Classic wants to welcome more bowling teams into his varsity boys and girls event, Jan. 26 at Crystal Lanes in Corning.
Six schools committed to bring teams on the original
date of the tournament, including Fairport. Mike Donovan, the tournament director, has a goal of 12 boys and 12 teams. Medals go to the top 10 individual performers, while the top three teams in each division receive a trophy.
Proceeds from the tournament go toward scholarships for bowlers in Corning and Painted Post, which is in Section IV. Non-perishable food items will be collected for the Southern Tier Food Bank. The tournament also is a tribute to Mr. Sullivan, a key individual in the establishment of high school bowling in that portion of the Southern Tier.
"As of five years ago, we didn't have high school bowling," Donovan said.
Donovan can provide more information after being contacted at email@example.com or 607-962-0844.

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Debates of Feb. 28th, 2011
House of Commons Hansard #135 of the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was americans.
- Question Period
- Libya
- First Nations Financial Transparency Act
- Privilege
- Strengthening Aviation Security Act
- Conestoga College
- Roy F. Dickieson
- Claudette Poirier
- Energy Prices
- Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
- International Rare Disease Day
- Curling
- Denis Villeneuve
- Private Thomas Lawless
- Curling
- 2010 Winter Olympics
- Asbestos
- Bloc Québécois
- Drummondville Customs Office
- Canada at the Oscars
- Gulf War Anniversary
- Political Financing
- Foreign Affairs
- Political Financing
- International Co-operation
- Political Financing
- Public Safety
- Former Public Sector Integrity Commissioner
- The Economy
- Seniors
- Oil Industry
- Political Financing
- Public Safety
- Research and Development
- Access to Information
- High Tides in Eastern Quebec
- Status of Women
- Anti-drug Strategy
- Access to Information
- Quebec City Arena
- Government Response to Petitions
- Committees of the House
- Petitions
- Questions Passed as Orders for Returns
- Request for Emergency Debate
- Privilege
- Strengthening Aviation Security Act
- Privilege
- Strengthening Aviation Security Act
- Business of Supply
Anti-drug Strategy
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Steven Blaney Lévis—Bellechasse, QC
Mr. Speaker, honest people from all regions of Quebec are worried about the drug scourge ravaging our communities. When he was in Val-d'Or, Abitibi, our Prime Minister was asked why we are not doing more to help the regions fight against drug traffickers.
Could the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice tell us what the government is doing to fight drug trafficking involving our children in all regions of Quebec?
Anti-drug Strategy
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Daniel Petit Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice
Mr. Speaker, our priority is to fight crime and ensure the safety of our children in all regions of Quebec. Unfortunately, this priority is not shared by the Bloc and the leftist urban elite from the Plateau. That is why they voted against our Bill S-10.
This Conservative bill would ensure minimum sentences for criminals such as the one in Val-d'Or who sells drugs near schools. We hope that the Bloc will finally stop listening to its leftist urban elite friends from the Plateau and will listen to families in all regions who are asking for minimum sentences for the drug dealers who threaten our children.
Access to Information
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Carolyn Bennett St. Paul's, ON
Mr. Speaker, the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics twice tabled a report on the urgent need to reform the way that Canadians access information from their government. This report had all party support. What did the government do? It ignored it. Now the Minister of Justice has misled Canadians, saying he is waiting for the parliamentary committee.
When will the government stop misleading Canadians and implement the unanimous recommendations of the parliamentary committee on access to information?
Access to Information
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Stockwell Day President of the Treasury Board and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway
Mr. Speaker, this year over 75,000 requests have come in, which is an all-time record, because we as a government have encouraged this type of action from citizens. The majority of those requests are responded to within 30 days. At times when they are not responded to, over 80% of those times it is because individuals making the requests also want to access personal information from Canadians. Those parts of the reports have to be redacted. I think Canadians want us to protect their personal information from the requests of others.
Quebec City Arena
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Michel Guimond Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, QC
Mr. Speaker, while the Minister of National Defence has come out strongly in favour of a football stadium for the city of Halifax, the Conservative members from the Quebec City area are giving more excuses for their lack of action. Unlike Quebec City, Halifax does not even have any private partners.
How can the minister responsible for the Quebec City region explain that her Nova Scotia colleague is able to support a project that is just beginning to take shape when she is incapable of defending a project supported by the people, the City of Quebec, the Government of Quebec and the private sector?
Quebec City Arena
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Josée Verner Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
Mr. Speaker, once again, the member is incorrect. Our Quebec caucus has fully supported the project from the beginning, and we did not wait for Bloc questions to do so.
That being said, what applies to Quebec City applies to all other cities: a business plan must be prepared and submitted to us for every project.
Government Response to Petitions
Routine Proceedings
3:05 p.m.
Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre
Tom Lukiwski Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8) I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the government's response to nine petitions.
Citizenship and Immigration
Committees of the House
Routine Proceedings
3:05 p.m.
David Tilson Dufferin—Caledon, ON
Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the ninth report of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration in relation to the supplementary estimates (C), 2010-11, votes 5(c), 7(c) and 10(c) under Citizenship and Immigration.
Routine Proceedings
3:05 p.m.
Pat Martin Winnipeg Centre, MB
Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise today to table a petition signed by literally thousands of Canadians from coast to coast.
The petitioners call upon the Government of Canada to recognize that asbestos is the greatest industrial killer that the world has ever known, yet Canada remains one of the largest producers and exporters of asbestos in the world, dumping nearly 200,000 tonnes of asbestos into third world nations and developing nations. They also call upon the House of Commons to take note that Canada spends millions of dollars subsidizing the asbestos industry and blocking international efforts to curb its use. The petitioners call it "corporate welfare for corporate serial killers".
Therefore, the petitioners call upon Parliament to ban asbestos in all its forms and institute a just transition program for asbestos workers and the communities in which they live. They also call upon the government to end all subsidies of asbestos both in Canada and abroad and to stop blocking international health and safety conventions designed to protect workers from asbestos and curb its use, such as the Rotterdam convention.
Criminal Code
Routine Proceedings
February 28th, 2011 / 3:05 p.m.
Borys Wrzesnewskyj Etobicoke Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36 I am pleased to present a petition signed from Acadia University and Queen's University students in support of Bill C-380. The purpose of this bill is to add "sex", the legal term for "gender", to the list of identifiable groups, which currently includes "ethnicity", "race", "religion" and "sexual orientation" in relation to hate propaganda provisions in the Criminal Code.
These university students are well aware that half of Canadian women have experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16 and that violence against women is often motivated by gender-based hatred.
For the sake of our sisters, our mothers and our daughters, the petitioners urge the government to adopt Bill C-380 and add "gender" as a category into our hate crimes legislation.
Routine Proceedings
3:05 p.m.
Jim Maloway Elmwood—Transcona, MB
Mr. Speaker, I have a petition signed by dozens of Canadians calling for an end to Canada's military involvement in Afghanistan.
In May 2008, Parliament passed a resolution to withdraw Canadian Forces by July 2011. The Prime Minister, with agreement from the Liberal Party, broke his oft-repeated promise to honour the parliamentary motion and, furthermore, refuses to put it to a parliamentary vote in the House.
Committing 1,000 soldiers to a training mission still presents a danger to our troops and an unnecessary expense when our country is faced with a $56 billion deficit. The military mission has cost Canadians more than $18 billion so far, money that could have been used to improve health care and seniors' pensions right here in Canada.
In fact, polls show a clear majority of Canadians do not want Canada's military presence to continue after the scheduled removal date of July 2011. Therefore, the petitioners call upon the Prime Minister to honour the will of Parliament and bring the troops home now.
Online Sexual Exploitation
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
Anthony Rota Nipissing—Timiskaming, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present four petitions signed by my constituents in Nipissing—Timiskaming.
The first three encourage the government to review the current legislation surrounding the sexual exploitation of children over the Internet.
Public Safety
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
Anthony Rota Nipissing—Timiskaming, ON
Mr. Speaker, the fourth petition calls upon the Minister of Public Safety to approve Marc Emery's transfer from an American prison once that transfer request is received.
I am proud to table these petitions on behalf of the engaged and interested citizens of Nipissing—Timiskaming.
Questions Passed as Orders for Returns
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre
Tom Lukiwski Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, if a supplementary response to Question No. 591 originally tabled on January 31, 2011, could be made an order for return, this return would be tabled immediately.
Questions Passed as Orders for Returns
Routine Proceedings
3:10 p.m.
The Speaker Peter Milliken
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Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has been initiated by Government of Pakistan with initial allocation of Rs.34 billion (US $ 425 million approximately) for the year 2008-09 which is the third largest allocation in the total budget and is 0.3% of the GDP for the year 2008-09. The Programme has been initiated to partially offset the impact of inflation on the purchasing power of the poorer sections of the society.
In the years 2005-07, inflation stood at almost 10% with food inflation in the range of 13-15%. In the year 2007-08 sharp rise in oil prices and primary products in the international as well as domestic market resulted in double digit inflation rate, which has almost halved the purchasing power of the people. Hence there is urgent need for direct and speedy relief to the poor sections of the society and BISP is the response to the above compulsions. The Programme is aimed at covering almost 15% of the entire population, which constitutes 40% of the population below the poverty line. A monthly payment of Rs.1000/ per family would increase the income of a family earning Rs.5000 by 20%. BISP will cover all four provinces including FATA, AJK, FANA & ICT. Husband, wife and dependent children constitute a family.
Chairperson Benazir Income Support Program: MS Farzana Raja
Beneficiary Eligibility Criteria:
The following categories of families are eligible:
a) Possession of CNIC by female applicant/ recipient.
b) Monthly family income is less than Rs.6000/.
And subject to conditions (a) and (b).
c) Widowed/ divorced women, without adult male members in the family.
d) Any physically or mentally retarded person(s) in the family.
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f) Where any member of the family possesses a Machine Readable Passport.
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Where's Hailey's Father? Family Members Give Conflicting Reports
COLORADO CITY, Texas - KTXS has received conflicting reports from family members as to the whereabouts of Hailey Dunn's father, Clint Dunn.
On Thursday the mother of Clint's second daughter and step-sister to Hailey, Naomi told KTXS Clint was working on an off-shore oil rig.
Naomi told KTXS the family relocated to San Antonio where they were waiting for Clint to return sometime next week, and then planned to return to the Big Country to be near the on-going investigation.
KTXS also contacted Clint's mother, Connie Jones, but she said she no longer speaks to Clint. Nevertheless, she said that a friend of hers told her she had seen Clint driving in Snyder.
The attorney for Billie Jean Dunn confirmed that she is back in the Colorado City area.
Shawn Adkins' attorney also said his client was in the area and cooperating with law enforcement ? although he wouldn't reveal exactly where Adkins was.
Adkins remains the only named suspect in the disappearance of Hailey Dunn.
Hailey Dunn, then an eighth-grader at Colorado Middle School in Colorado City, has been missing since Dec. 27, 2010.
Her disappearance sparked a massive search by law enforcement and by hundreds of volunteers over the next few months searching through rugged areas in Mitchell and Scurry counties and surrounding areas.
She has never been found, and there have been no arrests in connection to her disappearance.
The last person who claimed to see her alive is also the only named suspect in the case: Shawn Adkins. Adkins was the live-in boyfriend of Hailey's mother, Billie Jean Dunn, and lived in the same house with Hailey.
Adkins left his job the morning that Hailey disappeared, and Adkins' story about where he went that morning has raised questions among law enforcement, but he admitted to authorities that he traveled to his mother's house in Big Spring on that day.
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Danielle Garbe currently serves as the Turkey Desk Officer.
My first four months as the Turkey desk officer in Washington who covers the political dimension of our bilateral relationship has felt at times like the dance of the whirling dervish. I started in July when Turkey was spinning on the political currents of historic parliamentary elections that resulted in the return to power of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) by a 14 percent higher margin than it had received in 2002. Prime Minister Erdogan resumed his office and the parliament elected his foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, as the next president. Some in Turkey had questioned whether Gul could be president because his wife wears a traditional Muslim headscarf. Turkey resolved the issue through a free and fair election that demonstrated the strength of its democracy and rule of law.
I experienced the excitement of Turkey during an orientation trip to Ankara and Istanbul the week of September 10. Though you can learn much by reading about a place, there's nothing like experiencing it first hand. Turkey is a beautiful and fascinating country with centuries of history that are particularly evident in the minarets and domes of the Sultans' mosques and palaces that punctuate the Istanbul skyline and the banks of the Bosporus. The Bosporus itself is an amazing waterway that unites two continents. It is at once an avenue for the container ships of global industry as well as a diversion for the thousands of Turks who line its sides and perch over its bridges each day to try their luck at fishing. While Turkey's impressive history is well known, its future is even more promising with modern, dynamic cities and an average of 7 percent GDP growth over the past five years that is seen in new construction sites and increased trade throughout the country. The Turkish government officials, think tank members, academics, and community leaders I met described this new landscape for me and painted a much broader picture of Turkey and its citizens, its interests, and its views of the United States than I could have seen from my desk in Washington.
One of the things I was most interested in understanding better was why Turkey, which has been a strategic ally and partner of the United States for decades, has such a low public opinion of the United States. The 2007 Pew Global Attitudes survey shows only 9 percent of Turks have a favorable attitude towards the United States. One reason for those opinions became evident in the blazing headlines in Turkish newspapers during my visit – the lead story emblazoned across the front pages on September 11 was the erroneous claim that U.S. soldiers were meeting with Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists in northern Iraq.
Our Embassy in Ankara denounced these fabrications with a strong statement. I raised the issues as well during my meetings, working to reassure our Turkish counterparts that the conspiracy theories about U.S. support for or involvement with the PKK are patently false. The PKK has killed over 30,000 Turkish soldiers and civilians in the last two decades, and the United States joined Turkey in declaring the PKK a terrorist organization in 1997. The United States has since worked to disrupt the PKK's criminal and financial networks in Europe and its operations in northern Iraq.
I returned from my trip just as our Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns was arriving in Turkey to engage with the new government. He had outlined his goals for his visit and the strategic importance of Turkey in a speech at the Atlantic Council just prior to his departure for Istanbul and Ankara. At the United Nations General Assembly just a few days later, Secretary Rice had her first meeting with the new Turkish Foreign Minister, Ali Babacan. I was able to go to New York to take notes for that meeting, in which they reaffirmed the Shared Vision statement Secretary Rice and then-Foreign Minister Gul had signed in 2006.
Just as the United States was working to increase our cooperation with Turkey, so too, was Iraq. Prime Minister Maliki visited Turkey in August, and his Minister of the Interior followed in a visit that resulted in the September 28 signing of an agreement on counterterrorism cooperation. We welcomed these developments, but the PKK did not. On September 29, the PKK attacked a bus in Sirnak province near the Iraq border, killing 12 innocent civilians. On October 7, the PKK attacked and killed 13 Turkish soldiers near Sirnak. The PKK followed those attacks with another on October 21 that left at least 12 soldiers dead and took hostage another 8. In a three week period, over 50 people had lost their lives to terrorism.
We cannot allow the PKK to drive a wedge between Turkey and the United States or between Turkey and Iraq. The last few weeks have been a whirl of diplomacy as we have worked with our counterparts in Turkey and Iraq to facilitate increased cooperation and concrete actions to stop PKK terrorism emanating from northern Iraq. Secretary Rice traveled to Turkey November 2 and 3 for meetings with her Turkish counterparts. She then held a meeting with Iraqi FM Zebari and Turkish FM Babacan in Istanbul on the margins of the Expanded Iraq Neighbors Ministerial to further support and facilitate our trilateral counterterrorism cooperation. PM Erdogan was in Washington November 5 to meet with President Bush and to underline the importance Turkey places on its strategic partnership with the United States and our coordinated efforts to combat terrorism around the globe. As President Bush said, the PKK is an enemy of Turkey, an enemy of Iraq, and an enemy of the United States.
The dazzling sights of Turkey, the vibrancy of its culture and its economy, the passion of its people and their government as they work to improve their lives inspire all of us who are responsible for fostering our relationship with Turkey. I am only a small part of a large team of diplomats here in Washington and in Turkey who work every day on a number of issues including countering terrorist threats, assisting Turkey on its path towards EU accession, fostering political and economic reforms, increasing trade and economic development, and strengthening cultural ties between our two countries. Though I am now far removed from the sights and sounds of Ankara and Istanbul, I think of the wonderful people I met in Turkey. We owe it to all our friends there to make sure that they can live their lives in peace and prosperity, free from terrorism.
Murat in Turkey writes:
I personally thank you for your comments about our country and our people, and your encouraging remarks against the terrorist organization. According to my observation, Turkish people have long felt sincere friendship and sympathy towards America. When I was a child, even there were young people wearing clothes with U.S. flag on them. However, this positive mood was reversed in the last years due to some disappointments.
Now, a majority sees America as a friend to whom we have given all our support within our democratic processes but received much less support than we expected (Note: this is what I observe). In my opinion, this is partly due to some foreign policy conflicts and partly due to the anti-American propaganda that is deliberately conducted by extremist evil forces all over the world.
On the other hand, still there's no severe antipathy towards American brands, businesses, people or way of life here and the negative mood is limited to current political affairs. Anyway, I still believe that the current mood is temporary and common long term interests and sincere friendship between our countries will help us overcome this situation.
Steve in Maryland writes:
Do you really think that public opinion in Turkey can be blamed on bad media?
Is there no sense that maybe our failed policy in the Middle East (i.e. Iraq, Israel/Palestine, etc) might be to blame?
I was a high school in Turkey in the early seventies and I remember a lot of goodwill back then, even after our disgraceful response to the Cyprus crisis.
As a former FSO, I look forward to hearing some vigorous debate on this site.
Lemane in Ohio writes:
I would like to express my opinion about the guys from department of states who speak Arabic and started recently writing in some Arabic blogs.
I think that it is a great idea to start a communication with Arabic world myself I read a conversation on one of those blogs and added a comment I realized how it could correct the image in the mind of Arabic people about America.


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Skip to comments.Newt Gingrich says he's dropping out 'about' May 2 and endorsing Romney [VIDEO]
Posted on 04/29/2012 3:29:52 PM PDT by Innovative
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told The Daily Caller in a video interview that he is dropping out of the Republican presidential race 'probably about Wednesday' May 2 and endorsing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Gingrich, alongside his wife Callista, said the GOP's message in the general election should be, "Can you afford four more years like this? Not complicated. Do you want this much unemployment, this high a gasoline price, this much deficit spending? You have a great president but if you don't want this, you better vote for somebody new."
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Do they allow "pinch hitters" in presidential campaign debates? We'd love to see Speaker Gingrich in there! The contrast would be striking.
Until he actually drops out, I'm still with Newt. Guess it won't be long now.
Only thing left to do is pray for lightning to strike the convention, Romney sees it as a sign to drop out, and they draft Sarah Palin.
Otherwise, I'm writing her in.
I STILL won't vote for Romney in the Texas Primary. No Way, No How.
I'm also STILL Mad as Hell that my primary vote won't count for shiite.. again.. as in 2008. Biggest population Red state, and two Presidential elections in a row, we get Zero input. That just ain't right.
Let's go back to the smoke filled rooms .. we got better candidates from them.
Yeeeoooow....love your optimism but I highly doubt that would ever happen.
Sarah will endorse Mitt, that will be a thread to end all threads.
Nevermind, Newt. Forget the convention. Everybody takes cover behind the tree labeled, "ABO".
I'm looking for a LEADER. Hells Bells, Ron Paul is the only stayer among our motley crew.
NO REBELLION IN ANY OF THEM. Did someone threaten their life or something. I mean crickets everywhere.
Sarah Palin
Rick Santorum
Michelle Bachmann
Herb Cain
Rick Perry
All crickets and covering their locks with "ABO" as the cop-out, betrayal, white flaggers and no fighters, they have all proved thenselves to be.
There are no General Washingtons' among us. Huh. Who'd a thunk it? I'm stumped.
But hoo ray for Trey Gowdy anyway. Gowdy for President.
Well, Palin will also endorse, support and campaign for Willard. So you are going to write in someone who doesn't want your vote, has no electors and can't win, and who will be actively backing a candidate (Romney) who is so terrible you won't vote for him (yet Sarah will be asking you to do just that). If you are standing on principle, what is the point of writing-in someone who does not share it and is actively working against you?
my vote won't matter either so it really doesn't matter.
either way, I guess we're just plain screwed, we either get a lib or a marxist.
Thanks Innovative.
Well, politicians are nothing if not pragmatists. She's in the ABO camp, and that's fine, she's got every right to endorse Mittens. I imagine she's been waiting to see what Newt did before making any such move.
The only way she could avoid endorsing Mittens is if she were going to mount a serious third party run, which ain't happening this year at least.
So I'll write her in. I live in upstate NY, and the sheer weight of the Democrat majority in NYC means that my state will go hard for Obummer regardless of my vote. So I might as well write her in and feel that I've expressed my belief, which is that she is the best we have available for America.
People in California or other hard-Democrat states should consider voting their consciences, IMO. Nothing to lose, and maybe somebody will notice.
Come on lightning!
All our "name" candidates are under rocks now. Hiding out under "ABO" so they don't have to mount a rebellion which is so sorely needed and we are begging for.
But they will ALL have their cheery little faces in the camera trying to string us along again in the future.
Not a chance here. I am looking for a leader that stays to play all the way to hell and back, who doesn't duck out when the going gets tough, or when at the cliff's edge, or when careening into a brick wall, and certainly not because they sit on millions and then say they have run out of money.
"Can you afford four more years like this? Not complicated. Do you want this much unemployment, this high a gasoline price, this much deficit spending? You have a great president but if you don't want this, you better vote for somebody new."
She's gotta do what she's gotta do -- she's a politician and her viability depends on that. I understand that.
It doesn't detract from her executive ability and general right-thinking. Which are why I continue to think she is the best we have today for America. It's just unfortunate that she's not running.
I guess that tells us all we needed to know about Noot.
I can see him dropping out if he's out of cash, but no way can I see him endorsing Romney. FU Noot!
You realize of course that this is precisely the argument that people make to excuse Romney's taking liberal positions in uber leftist Massachusetts. That he's gotta do what he's gotta do to stay political viable in a deep blue state.
Maybe not this time, who knows, maybe if enough regular people keep making noise -- and we FReepers do know how to make noise -- then somebody will notice for next time.
> ...a rebellion which is so sorely needed and we are begging for
We have to keep the pressure up any way can! IMO, voting for Mittens is working against the rebellion.
My daughter just turned 18 last year, and this is her first election. What a shame the choices are so poor...
I understand staying in the race, I understand getting out of the race, but I don't understand announcing a date that you will stay in the race until.
Thanks Vintage Freeper for posting this:
Trey Gowdy is my rep and I helped put him there. He faces very significent opposition in his next Republican primary. And the Dems will be able to vote against him in our open primary system here. The going is not going to be easy but we're still standing.
So far, the GOPe has successfully executed their plan: Place still-unknown obstacles in SP's path to deter her run and to splinter the conservative vote. Next time, conservatives have to pick one candidate EARLY in the primary season.
But, Rita, the game is still on...
We can't do write ins here but I might go third party...all depends on what the circumstances are when the time comes.
Grrrr, I still can't believe the mess we're in, damn it all!
Yeah, that's true. The difference I see is that endorsements are words. Signings of laws are deeds. Her deeds as Alaska's executuve were worthy.
I don't believe she's going to campaign so much on the idea that Romney is the best thing since sliced bread, but rather that "we must get Obama out of office". There's an important distinction there.
I'll cut her slack, so far. We'll see what she does.
Very good point. Reminds me of some anti-war activists who asked, "Is it okay to support a war now that Obama is the president?"
Except for prayer, I'm out of answers.
Probably she will. But let's wait to see how she actually handles it before lumping her in the same bag as the others.
Yes, you are correct. That is precisely what I think she is likely to do, and I agree with her.
—— Newt Gingrich says heâs dropping out âaboutâ May 2 and endorsing Romney ——
It sounds like he's having a hard time choking the words out.....
Now, I'm quite comfortable. Yes, he has some history that makes me cringe, but he also has a good understanding of economics and the vital importance of not putting our precious Military into the (rhetorical) wood chipper.
Unless I run, there will never be a candidate with whom I completely agree.
However, the prospect of four years of an Obama who feels "flexible" to say things to the Russian president that he feels we Americans don't need to know?
Romney will at least be better than Obama/Clinton (as an aside, I'm bravely predicting that the plan is for Biden to fake an illness, and Hillary will "reluctantly" step in as Obama Veep.)
More like marxist Muslim or Moronic socialist...
Would you like your arsenic with Perrier or goats milk?
I'm for Newt until he officially drops out then I'm against Romney until he's officially the nominee, then I'll be faced with an unplesant and odious descision.
Where is the game still on? I wanna come.
It better be a new face rising because it's clear to me all the others have ducked and run. Fool me once.....
I look at Trey Gowdy and see him take Sebelious apart, hand her own head, and I wonder....could he go all the way, and maybe not duck and run????
My generation has sure chucked the wagon that's for sure, and I am sorry but that includes SP.
They have ALL penned hours of snark on why they were in it, but not to win it, why they exited, or why they didn't run at all.
I mean we just watched a political genius with an unmatched record of accomplishment and in-your-face-take down artist and intellect, LOSE.
We saw an eager beaver stellar record on family values, LOSE.
We saw a black eager beaver economic conservative, LOSE.
We saw a TEA PARTY power with all the right credentials and a legislative record as long as my arm, LOSE.
What we need is a MOVEMENT—SOMEONE WHO STAYS AFTER THEY LOSE!
It's a like a travesty of justice to have to say that the ONLY one who is still breathing in and out AFTER HE HAS LOST is the likes of RON PAUL, for crying out loud!
You gotta hand it to the man, he's turned out to be the true turtle in the race against the hare still trying to amass delegates.
That's the kind of TRY one hopes for, but in the right man.
Is that anything like Pabst vs Blue Ribbon?? LOL, I gotta run, the dog just puked on the kitchen floor....no kidding!
Lets go back to the smoke filled rooms .. we got better candidates from them.Better than "Republican primaries" where dems have the right to vote, I suppose. But remember who's going to be blowing a lot of the smoke... Karl Rove types.
LOL! THAT is FUNEEEY!
Dog didn't like the way this conversation is going either, huh? :)
Now, it just appears Newt is giving in to the RINOSTIC Romney and the GOPe. I am very disappointed, but these events cause me to want to press on that much more and become a complete obstinate agitator to wrest control and power from this class of wanker GOPe PRIX!
Until all conservatives realize the GOPe is the enemy within, we are screwed as far as gaining any control to effect the direction of the country!
I see your points.
By saying the game is still on, I'm saying that events not expected can still occur. Some of the events may be planned by politicians; others may surprise everyone. That's how I think.
I hate to say this but it does leave Ron Paul as the only alternative left. I don't even know if he's on the ballot in NJ. If he is, I'm voting for him.
That may make you feel good, but it won't accomplish a thing. People are not going to follow "complete obstinate agitator" behavior.
You want change, you put your happy warrior game face on and haul yourself down to the local Republican party office (start at the precinct level if you haven't done it before), sign up, attend meetings, go to events, bring family and friends, and push that little piece of the political landscape to the right. Move on from there. Sorry, but this is a ground up process. Screaming, yelling, threatening to be disagreeable at the convention, etc, won't do a thing.
If you already are an active party member and have done this stuff, all I can say is encourage others, use social networks to get more people active (that means out from behind the keyboard), etc. The more actual conservatives take part in the process, the less the hug-the-center establishment gets its way. I know people don't like hearing this, but that is how it really works. The rest of this talk about starting new party's, voting 3rd party's, writing in candidates, waiting for the White Knight to swoop in and save us at the convention, etc, is just the same silly bluster and fantasy we hear every 4 years.
The FIX is in by the GOP-E, on these "open primaries".
That has to stop.
Precinct meetings and platform proposals are where this crap changes.
It is the last bastion of grassroots democracy—precinct meetings. How hard is that for our, "ain't it awful" crowd?
When is Trey's primary, November, I presume? He is cool as ice and deadly serious when faced off against these thugs who presently have the run of the field. Sebelius had to be sweating bullets in that video. I mean BULLETS!
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Inspired by Ilurvemakeup...
So today I called in sick...my busy schedule has gotten to me. Last night I took a nap to recover and woke up and my throat and glands were soooo swollen. I took the day off and slept in till 1:30pm! So I had some time to recover...and play with makeup!
If you haven't checked out www.asianbeautyblog.com, go now! It's a great resource for beauty especially if you are of Asian descent. The community offers so much support and constructive criticism. It's especially good if you're starting out in makeup b/c the ladies offer step by step tutorials and lots of different looks. One of the members, Ilurvemakeup has been rocking some white eyeliner in her looks and it is HOT!
The technique of layering white eyeliner on top of black eyeliner is actually reminiscent of something I used to do back in the day. Actually I still do it now when I layer black eyeliner on top of bright colored liquidlast liners or fluidlines.
So props go out to Ilurvemakeup. I did a look where I incorporated the whiteliner that made her famous. I didn't want to do anything too complicated...so I basically just used two colors: white and blue eyeshadow and then put a highlight color on top. Took 5 minutes to do!
Here's what I used (All MAC unless otherwise stated):
-soft ochre paint pot
-gesso e/s
-atlantic blue e/s (pro color)
-naked lunch e/s
-revlon colorstay liquid liner in blackest black
-nyx white eyeliner
-shiseido mascara base
-diorshow mascara
-eyebrow pencil in spiked
-cork e/s
-mineralized skinfinish natural in medium dark
-mineralized skinfinish in warmed
-totally it lipglass
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- Gee said...
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- March 11, 2008 at 8:41 PM
- Gee said...
Ah! I accidently deleted my comment. Sorry! Hehe...
I said that I love your edgy hair cut suits your makeup style! Love this look!
P.S. I have you listed on my blog as a link, I hope that's ok :)
- March 11, 2008 at 9:05 PM
- Mrs. Lynne, MakeupFix.net said...
beautiful sis! reminds me of alexander mccqueen minus the corner shapr :)
- March 11, 2008 at 10:08 PM
- Joyce said...
Ooohhh love your look sis! Might have to try the two eyeliner look one day. And I hope you feel better!
- March 11, 2008 at 11:01 PM
- ilurvemakeup said...
Now YOU can rock the blue shadows!!! GORGEOUS! Your hair suits you so well, I love it! It's cute and fun! I'm still growing mine out, I want to make my donation very long ^_^
I'm with you, I used to do the white eyeliner a lot during HS... but the girls always said I looked tacky ;_; I'm so glad not everyone thinks Iit looks tacky or ridiculous :)
You did such a more fab job than me girl! :D I need a better white liner, my pencil aren't cutting it anymore. Making the wing at the end with white liner gets difficult so I just leave it as is half the time lol
- March 11, 2008 at 11:01 PM
- Christiana Divine @ Memoirs of A Shopping Addict said...
sexyness sis! you rock that white liner! lurve it. :D
- March 12, 2008 at 2:51 AM
- Sheila Ferrari said...
LOOOOOVE THE WHITE right above the black liner. u have inspired me.
- March 12, 2008 at 5:20 AM
- Bliss said...
Hope you get well soon, pretty blue look from you :), your hair is fabulous, now i wanns try the white eyeliner tip.
- March 12, 2008 at 8:33 AM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
Gee: no prob girl, i just added you too :) yup i've noticed this hair is a lotttt easier to style too..quick zap of the blowdryer and i'm done!
mrs. lynne: thanks sis! i try ;)
joyce: thanks hon...trying to get better...but i made it to work today, so i'm better than yesterday
ilurvemakeup: well you just singlehandedly brought back this look hon :) i think the key with this look is to keep on sharpening the white liner...cuz mine got kinda crazy at times too, he he
chris: heck yah!
sheila: oh i know you could definitely rock this look missy
bliss: you should try it hon! it makes the eyes pop!
- March 12, 2008 at 9:24 AM
- mina said...
That look is cute on you, very Egyptian like! Hope you feel better soon!
- March 12, 2008 at 11:23 AM
- Ethereal Prey said...
<3 Halo Halo!!!! :P
- March 12, 2008 at 1:21 PM
- xppinkx said...
lovin the new look! how do you like short hair! i cut mine short a while back and now im missing my long locks! you skin is very glowy and dewy....when i use white liner i just look all weird maybe becasue im all pale now...it just blends in!
- March 12, 2008 at 2:04 PM
- princessnordia! said...
hi ren! it's my first time commenting any blog, ever, lol.
i just wanted to know how that nyx white eyeliner pencil is? good for waterline?
- March 12, 2008 at 8:19 PM
- yummy411 said...
i love your looks.. so cute~
- March 12, 2008 at 10:15 PM
- Emilee @ GMM said...
Ooh, I really want to try it, but I don't know how that'd turn out on me, haha.
By the way, your hair gets cuter everytime I see it! :)
- March 13, 2008 at 7:52 AM
- (g)ezebel said...
oooo, i love how you blended the white line with the white shadow. i have GOT to do that. in fact, i'm gonna do THIS look. :0)
- March 13, 2008 at 4:15 PM
- Fei said...
I actually couldn't get it to work for me the first time I tried it, but it looks terrific on you! Perhaps I'll give it another go... XD
- March 13, 2008 at 11:20 PM
- Vanessa said...
This looks hot to trot! :)
Hope you are feeling better sis, I feel ya, i've been insanely busy I hardly have time to comment everyone, but I think about y'all!
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RAY BROOK – The state Adirondack Park Agency Board of Commissioners is expected to vote today on a recommendation by its staff to establish a 23,000-acre wilderness area around the Hudson River Gorge and a 9,800-acre primitive area that includes the Essex Chain of Lakes.
The decision, a recommendation to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who has the final say, will be one of the most closely watched votes by the agency board in years. It comes after months of intense debate among the Park's environmental groups, local government officials and recreationists about how much public access should be allowed to these lands, some of which have been in private hands since before the Civil War.
"This day has been a long time in coming," APA board Chairwoman Lani Ulrich said at the end of the agency's first day of deliberations on Wednesday.
The lands the agency will consider for classification include roughly 22,000 acres in the towns of Minerva, Newcomb and Indian Lake that the state bought this year from The Nature Conservancy: the Essex Chain, OK Slip Falls and Indian River tracts. The board is also considering reclassifying another 20,000 acres of adjacent Forest Preserve land.
APA staff have recommended a plan that would designate much of this acreage as either wilderness, the state's most restrictive classification, or primitive, which is managed as wilderness but has some nonconforming aspects. The existing Hudson River Gorge Primitive Area would become part of a larger Hudson Gorge Wilderness Area that would also include the OK Slip Falls tract and part of the Indian River tract.
Most of the Essex Chain tract, particularly the portion around the Essex Chain of Lakes, would be designated primitive, although northern sections would become wild forest, the least restrictive Forest Preserve classification.
The staff's plan would also create a snowmobile trail corridor through the heart of the property on lands designated as wild forest, running along the border between the new Hudson Gorge Wilderness and the new Essex Chain Primitive Area.
However, the snowmobile corridor would require a new bridge to be built over the Cedar River, and that couldn't happen without two changes to state regulations: one by the APA, another by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
"The bridge would probably be 100 to 120 feet," APA legal counsel James Townsend said during Wednesday's deliberations. "To get that span in a wild forest area, you need to reinforce it somehow. How that happens would require a change in our wild forest guidelines. In the (draft) resolution, we commit to undertake this.
"The second change that needs to be made is by (DEC) of its scenic river regulations, which currently prohibit snowmobile bridges over a scenic river," Townsend added. "They've committed to undertake that."
"It's going to take changes and a lift, and that's a completely secondary process," Ulrich said.
More than a half-dozen options for classification of these lands had been proposed by the APA and were the subject of a series of public hearings this summer in the Park and around the state. In the end, though, the option agency staff recommended wasn't on that list.
Earlier Wednesday, APA planner Kathy Regan outlined why some of the other choices weren't picked. In her explanation she focused primarily on the Essex Chain tract, as that was where most of the variation was in the classification options.
Regan said the natural resources of the Essex Chain of Lakes were deemed to be sensitive enough to justify making it wilderness, but that certain "intangible considerations" preclude a wilderness classification. Those include a series of easements and reserved rights held by the two hunting clubs that have leased the lands. Until October 2018, the Gooley Club and the Polaris Club have limited motorized access to their camps. The Nature Conservancy also has a right to motorized access to the Essex Chain until October 2019.
While those are temporary easements, there are also more permanent restrictions that Regan said preclude a wilderness classification for the Essex Chain, including rights The Nature Conservancy granted the towns of Minerva and Newcomb to allow for floatplane access to First and Pine lakes.
"These activities would be nonconforming in lands classified as wilderness," Regan said. "The presence of floatplanes in such proximity to the chain lakes would prevent the sense of remoteness expected in a wilderness area."
Creating the Park's second canoe area, another classification option for the Essex Chain, was ruled out for the same reasons. Regan said the motorized access allowed by easements and other rights would not comply with the state's criteria and guidelines for a canoe area.
The agency also weighed two options that would have designated much of the Essex Chain as wild forest. They were crossed off the list, Regan said, because the sensitive natural resources of the lakes, ponds and wetlands in the tract "require wilderness-type management.
"High value wetlands ring the lakes and are found in the channels which connect the lakes," Regan said. "These resources require protection from overuse. Motorized watercraft would degrade the aquatic ecosystem usage patterns would likely disturb the habitat of fish and wildlife and lead to the destruction of aquatic plants."
The proposed classification drafted by agency staff has drawn mixed reactions from the Park's stakeholders.
Hamilton County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Farber said local government leaders don't like everything about the package. They would have preferred some motorboat access to the Essex Chain of Lakes.
But he says local government got most what it needed, including some access to these new lands for floatplanes, and trails for snowmobiles.
"At first blush it looks encouraging that many of the uses that were most important to the towns may be sustained," he said.
Nature Conservancy spokeswoman Connie Prickett says her organization worked hard to make the deal work for local communities.
"We asked the towns what kinds of opportunities would be of interest to them," she said.
Specifically, the Conservancy hard-wired into this deal that there would be opportunities for the kind of motorized recreation that local leaders wanted, including floatplane access to two ponds.
"We made a promise that we would do that," Prickett recalled, "as we did with the snowmobile connector trails."
Peter Bauer, director of Protect the Adirondacks, says he loves a lot of this land classification plan, but he says some of the details make him nervous.
"What's being proposed here, with a motorized wild forest corridor through the heart of a major new forest preserve area, bridges over wild, scenic and recreational rivers, this is really the new normal for Forest Preserve management and classification in the future," he said.
Today's agency meeting is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. It will be webcast live at apa.ny.gov.
Brian Mann, Adirondack Bureau Chief of North Country Public Radio, contributed to this report.
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Ever since Tiger Woods' car accident has made its way into the news, the media has been thrown into a frenzy speculating about what really happened that night. However, Tiger has yet to explain what really happened to him that night.
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The decision to move up in divisions was made out of necessity, he says.
"After the tournament, I took a break for 10 days to see my family in Armenia," says Mousasi. "I decided, Lets put on some weight. I just start eating and I didnt train, and after that, I was 96, 97 kilos [216 pounds]. I gave my body a little bit [of] rest, and my body grow because of my age. I didnt let my body grow and now it grows naturally. I need to go up."
The growth spurt probably hasnt thrilled Dream executives, who had just crowned their first-ever middleweight king and a good one at that, but Mousasi says a weight cut at this point would be unhealthy for him.
"They wanted me to defend my belt one more time, but going from 216 to 185, its not possible for me anymore," he says. "I have to move up."
Gegard Mousasi has certainly put himself on the map as one of the world's top middleweights, and there are a plethora of potentially great matchups for him at 185. I'm not sure if "necessity" is the proper term to use in describing the move, but he seems determined to make said move. Mousasi goes on to explain his ultimate goal:
"To be honest, I want to go to heavyweight," he says. "I think if its something you do and you win, people will be surprised, and I like that. It was always my dream to be the best. If you say, Im the best heavyweight it feels like youre the best heavyweight in the world. If you say, 'Im the best middleweight,' theres always a couple of guys above you that could beat you."
If all goes as planned inside his cool but calculated mind, Mousasi will make his U.S. debut at Affliction and M-1 Globals third event in June or July carrying 225-230 pounds on his frame the natural way.
Mousasi has also been influenced by Fedor Emelianenko, who has made his last two appearances in the States and trumped two former UFC champions, Tim Sylvia and Andrei Arlovski, in a combined 3:50. Emelianenko and Mousasi are both managed under the Red Devil International banner and have worked out together.
"Training with him, thats also one of the reasons I thought I can be a heavyweight," says Mousasi. "Standing next to Fedor, I feel so much bigger than him. When you train with him, he feels like a middleweight. Hes as strong as a heavyweight but as fast as a middleweight, so I think that makes him special. If I can take my speed as a middleweight, have that explosiveness and mobility and move up to heavyweight, I think thats something a lot of them dont have."
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Fanta's Before and After
About two or three weeks ago, I had makeup lessons with one of my youtube viewers. She was such a sweety and eager to learn.
When I do makeup lessons, I encourage the client to bring over their makeup bag and brushes so that we can ensure that he/she can translate the tips into looks with his/her own products.
Fanta is a new makeup junkie and she had some brand new products which were fabulous! I let her pick out a few of my eyeshadows to experiment with. Like many of us, she fell in love with MUFE no. 92 eyeshadow, the best purple ever.
When I do a lesson, I do one side of the face piece by piece and have the client do the other side. After 2 hours, she blended that eyeshadow like a pro.
FYI, I used the Makeup Forever camouflage palette in no 5 to conceal her undereye circles. I know a few of you were asking about it.
One topic we covered was highlighting and contouring. You can definitely see the difference in the top pic. The makeup application is subtle yet yields dramatic results at the same time. Highlighting and contour accomplishes many feats: camouflages a double chin, thins the nose, and makes the cheekbones pop!
Among other things, I taught Fanta how to do the lid, crease, and highlight method on her eyes to get the gradiant effect. We used MUFE no. 92, carbon, and nanogold.
Till next time, Ciao Bellas!
Atlanta Makeup Artist
17 comments:
- Askmewhats said...
yay!!! great before and after shots! I'm sure she had fun as she looked FABULOUS!!!! It looks like the make up was done by ONE person!!! :)
- December 17, 2008 at 10:50 AM
- slvrlips said...
Very pretty look! I can't wait until I get back to the ATL so I can have my makeup done.
- December 17, 2008 at 11:08 AM
- xppinkx said...
damn girl!!! now that is what i call before and after...her skin is sooo glowy and she looks alive!!! and the purps on her eyes make them look energized!
yay for you loving my man look!!! i wanted to look like a boy but in a very feminine way...you know like PRINCE!!! when you do the look let me know and take pics...me wants to see!
i hope you having a merry holiday!!! and all is well
- December 17, 2008 at 11:32 AM
- T.R. said...
She looks awesome. Nothing like one on one tutorials. She did a great job.
I want to learn how to do the graduation effect and contouring. It definitely brings something out in the face.
- December 17, 2008 at 11:44 AM
- Katrina said...
Her makeup turned out goood.
Makes me want to purchase MUFE e/s
- December 17, 2008 at 11:53 AM
- Mrs.Young_fashion said...
very very nice. she looks Gorgeous!
- December 17, 2008 at 11:54 AM
- Amina said...
you did such a great job! I need to get that e/s..
i want you to beat my face too...
- December 17, 2008 at 12:07 PM
- tdavis said...
That MUFE No.5 Pallette is no joke. I have it and it works wonders in regards to my dark circles. ITS A MIRACLE!!! Great job Ren and Fanta.
- December 17, 2008 at 12:23 PM
- Alyssia said...
wow! what a difference a lil contouring can make! she looks wonderful, and if she did one side of her face she is a very fast learner! I can barely tell the difference! Great post mamas!
- December 17, 2008 at 12:58 PM
- Girl with Curl said...
That's really a transformation. I love how makeup can make such a difference. If I'm ever in Atlanta I'm going to have to get a one on one makeup lesson too.
- December 17, 2008 at 2:30 PM
- mayaari said...
great before and after - she did an awesome job recreating what you did - i can't see a difference in the makeup application :)
- December 17, 2008 at 3:18 PM
- marnibarney said...
Oooh it looks very nice. Nice one RenRen, Fanta looks fabulous!
- December 17, 2008 at 4:37 PM
- A. Rose said...
wow. i really need to get that MUFE shadow now...both you and your client did such a great job!
- December 17, 2008 at 9:15 PM
- M said...
wow, i love the before and after shots you do. she looks fab with her glowy skin!
#92 is seriously the best purple out there
- December 17, 2008 at 9:48 PM
- Groovy Black Chick said...
You betta GO girl! That's all I can say! (except the pic of the two of you is ador-a-ble).
- December 17, 2008 at 9:54 PM
- yummy411 said...
ren she looks amazing. do you have a product list for her.. namely foundation and blush? what did you base her eyes with? lip color?
i love your purple and blue shadows too!
- December 18, 2008 at 9:39 AM
- Kay said...
i`m too mad you dont live in NY, i guess i`ll have to practice on my own lol
- December 18, 2008 at 10:41 PM


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Unlike competitors in Silicon Valley who've suffered falling share prices, Facebook has almost no vocal Wall Street investors supporting the company's current stock valuation. Currently, Facebook remains relatively un-owned by the hedge fund community, even as the technology and internet sectors become a favorite of hedge fund activists and value investors.
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