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Labor Faces Many Obstacles in Its Quest for Justice
Original post made by Oliver Towne, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Sep 1, 2013
First, capital (corporations) thrives on the IDEA that we live in a free marketplace where laws of supply and demand hold. This idea is phony, through and through, which is why capital pays so handsomely to have it presented as something other than its phony self.
The idea of free marketplace is phony because it does not exist outside of certain abstract models developed by some economists. There is no free marketplace in the real world when workers are forced to work for someone else or face starvation. There is no free marketplace when workers find they must continue to work their jobs for exploitative wages or else see their children's stomachs go empty.
There is no such thing as a fair contract between free and equal beings when workers are forced to work or continue working for exploitative wages, under coercive, unhealthful, inhumane conditions. There is nothing free about workers having to settle for less because to not do so would mean total devastation for themselves and their families.
The game has been and continues to be rigged by capital. Capital says, "Work for us at these exploitative wages or we will hire some other desperate soul who will; and if these wages are rejected even by the most desperate in this society, we will go overseas in order to exploit labor elsewhere even if it means exploiting children."
Second, many are susceptible to the ruse of (corporate) capital because they do not know any better. This is no accident. Capital spends a great deal of its profits (excess from workers' labor) so as to own and control the flow of information within society. Capital owns and controls today's mass media, and capital maintains its ownership and control through a carefully attended to working relationship with those it serves -- advertisers, for example.
The upshot from the symbiotic relationship between capital and media control of information is that people's ideas about the world become skewed. Rather than form judgments and courses of action that are founded upon truth, they instead think and act like audiences at a professional wrestling match. Individuals, after all, cannot be in Munich, Cairo and Pleasanton all at the same time. But the corporate media can be, which makes us all highly dependent on the corporate media's cut on things.
Our dependence on today's corporate media means we are not subjected to anything that refers to the significance of social class. We live in a class-divided society, of course, but we do not read about this in the media. For if we were to discuss chronic problems in society in terms of social class division, social class exploitation, social class struggle, we would soon find a way to change the game that is ongoingly fixed by those who have rigged the game in their favor.
So, today, labor faces an uphill struggle. Not only must workers labor under conditions that human beings should not be faced to endure, but they have very few means by which to speak the truth to (corporate) power. The powerful corporate media company, the New York Times, will offer its once-a-year watered down Labor Day piece while avoiding any discussion about why and how capital has succeeded in turning workers against workers (e.g., private workers v. public workers) in our society. And smaller media venues will lose sleep in their efforts to ensure that labor's voice is effectively muted, disappearing readers' expressed ideas, and doing so without providing rationale (for there usually is none).
There are hopeful signs on the horizon. Two days ago tens of thousands of fast food workers staged a work stoppage and marched in nearly 60 cities. It is ordinarily easy to 'disappear' these workers, ignore them, despite the fast-food service industry being America's greatest growth sector over the past two decades as manufacturing has plummeted and retail sales has remained flat.
The response by the corporate media has been predictable. One by one they trot out a legion of 'commentators' who exclaim, 'Wow, if fast-food workers make $15 an hour instead of $8, how will they be able to pay for a bump of .18 cents on a hamburger?' This is the same worry that is expressed every time the Democrat party, in response to American labor's organized push, attempts to raise the minimum wage. What happens after a bump in minimum wage? Not much beyond workers having a few more bucks to spend on baby formula, diapers, a gallon of milk at the grocery store.
The physical presence of these workers, tied to below poverty line wages and forced to endure inhuman conditions of work, impossible work scheduling, and arbitrary firings, is a hopeful sign for America. Because these tired and desperate workers are America. They and those who came before them have built America through sweat, tears and blood, and today their coming together with a unified voice represents a real challenge for capital and its media servants. To what lengths will capital go to suppress workers' voice? How many strikes will it ignore? How many stories or opinions that expose the exploitative nature of capital will it feel the need to squash?
Despite the insecurity of capital's ownership and control, made apparent by its relentless efforts to suppress the voice of labor, the struggle to bring about justice in this world continues. For no ideology, however uniform in its media presentation, puts bread on the table; no desperate disappearing of citizens' opinions does anything to alleviate the hunger of children in this world. That is why labor's struggles will continue. If you can't lend a hand in this struggle, kindly step aside. Justice for all is on the horizon.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Sep 1, 2013 at 11:20 am
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"where it keeps labor disorganized and voiceless" Yet fast food workers walked out together.
"workers are forced to work for someone else or face starvation"
"workers are forced to work or continue working for exploitative wages, under coercive, unhealthful, inhumane conditions"
If by forced you mean they are unskilled or uneducated or take the jobs that are available to them.
"how will they be able to pay for a bump of .18 cents on a hamburger" What are the demographics on those buying those hamburgers? No regard, as in BART, for those who actually buy (use) these products (services) and cannot afford the increases. (Except the employees may benefit from free/discounted food (services).
"so as to own and control the flow of information within society"
"makes us all highly dependent on the corporate media's cut on things" Social media shows us otherwise.
"alleviate the hunger of children in this world" But you must not want to feed them, at least not anyone earning a living in another country via American corporations.
"If you can't lend a hand in this struggle, kindly step aside. Justice for all is on the horizon." So buy into your "argument" or step aside? That's not how the world works. How will this bring justice for all?
a resident of Birdland
on Sep 1, 2013 at 11:38 am
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Mike Cherry continues his ludicrous tirades. This from the one that has used so many aliases to post that he himself has lost count.
His comments regarding, "There are hopeful signs on the horizon. Two days ago tens of thousands of fast food workers staged a work stoppage and marched in nearly 60 cities. It is ordinarily easy to 'disappear' these workers, ignore them, despite the fast-food service industry being America's greatest growth sector over the past two decades as manufacturing has plummeted and retail sales has remained flat" ignores the facts that most fast food restaurants are franchises owned by individuals. As opposed to those workers employed by the restaurant, the owner has sunk his/her money into the endeavor and has worked 24/7 for many years to make it successful, all without time off or any assurances that they would succeed. It still comes down to an individual's willingness to learn and work, not an individual's wish without any effort. Real compensation is and always has been tied to the value of the work that is done. Except when government or unions get involved. Does Mike wonder why the fast food industry (in his words) is "America's greatest growth sector"? A major part of the growth can be attributed to the fact that the food is reasonably priced allowing all to afford it.
If you ever wonder where our manufacturing jobs went, you might want to query government and unions. In essence they've priced many an industry out of business with wage demands that exceed the value of the work.
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Until Mike Cherry (or whatever other aliases he chooses) actually believes in his tirades and becomes a registered member, he will continue to be taken as the village imbecile, continued ranting with nothing to back his ranting's.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 11:45 am
A developed counterargument? Nope, cuz Kath ain't got none. Her only resort is to toss more mud on the wall in the form of scatter-brained questions that go nowhere. Let's see how long PW editors allow this to go on before they close off the site to protect her as they have done to others.
Most of the questions Kath poses could be answered by herself or any other grade schooler with equivalent intelligence. Beginning with her first question, she reveals she hasn't read my opinion piece with any understanding. She asks how fast-food workers could have walked out in unison when corporate media attempts to keep workers divided. But I address this: propaganda works only to a certain extent. In the final analysis, we believe the pain in our stomachs more than the ideologically saturated swill that passes for media-manufactured information. File this under: Kath has poor reading comprehension skills.
Her next 'question' is telling. You see, Kath prefers to see unskilled and undereducated workers go hungry. On Kath's view of the world, unskilled workers and their kids deserve this fate. Nice, Kath. File this under: As long as Kath gets hers, the 'unskilled' ones -- you know, like the fast-food worker who posted yesterday, who can communicate in three languages, and who thoroughly embarrassed the 'skilled' and 'educated' Kath -- can go starve for all she cares.
Finally, Kath apparently doesn't realize the effects of corporate reach within the third world. She might take note of how indigenous peoples have often done very well until capital moves in with, for example, commercial agricultural operations that decimate local economies. See Monsanto.
So, I'm forced to make the plea again. Can someone with intelligence help Kath out? No, I'm not talking about editors disappearing my comments or shutting down a topic yet once again as soon as she finds herself in trouble. I'm talking about an intelligent, well-read contributor who has something of substance to say in her defense. Please, step forward. Or perhaps there are none?
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Sep 1, 2013 at 12:36 pm
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All I have to do is let you run off at the keyboard. You do damage only to yourself.
Nice piece in corporate media (Parade magazine I believe) today about the comeback of manufacturing in the US that will require more skilled labor and training the workforce for those jobs. Apple computers was one example. Robert Reich even rings in on the topic, possibly to promote his book. I'm sure you'll want to pick it up.
But to address some of your nonsense, I didn't ask a question about fast food workers. I said
they were still able to walk off their jobs even though your claim is they are voiceless and disorganized.
Nowhere do I suggest people should starve. What put the person who speaks three languages in a fast food job? What other skills might the person have? Unless explained, there is no way to know the qualifications or circumstances that led to the situation.
I don't expect anyone to defend or even support my opinions. This isn't a popularity contest. Perhaps, though, your concern is for why so few every agree with your opinions. Or you don't get much of a rush or appreciation from going somewhere else where you'd only be preaching to the choir.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 12:55 pm
Ah, Parade magazine. Now there's a pithy source for us all to run and pick up.
But, really, here we go again. Note how Kath shifts the topic. It isn't about the ideas I posed in my opinion piece. No, it is about what she means, how she's so misunderstood.
Well, Kath, that's what you get when you intermix scatter shot questions and churlish remarks outside the boundaries of a well-formed, coherent argument -- something, by the way, I have never seen you offer. No, all you're good for is a catty little remark here or there and then pouty, little-girl lamentations about how you're so misunderstood.
If I've done damage to myself, as you claim, if my arguments seem invalid or unsound, you should be able to systematically pick them apart. But you aren't capable of so doing. My arguments are too sound, for one thing, and of course you on your end have nothing except a narrow set of beliefs that you zealously cling to while at the same time demonstrating an inability to express your beliefs in any kind of coherent way.
Well, take comfort, Kath. We all know who you are. We know what you believe. Unfortunately, none of us are able to figure out why you believe what you do. Beliefs call for validation through reasoned argument. Without such, you're left sputtering nonsense within your own private little 'true believer's' universe of fantasy.
a resident of Birdland
on Sep 1, 2013 at 1:12 pm
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It may come as a big surprise to Mikie (and Mikie only) that the reason that his comments disappear and topics are limited to registered readers is more a direct relationship to his incessant derogatory comments and unsubstantiated postings. I have yet to see where Kathleen or anybody else espouses unskilled and undereducated workers go hungry, but rather has encourage all to strive for better paying positions through education and willingness to work, rather like the foundation this country was built on. Unions were of value at one time, however that time has passed as unions are used to protect the ones that want without any effort and at the same time members watch the union high hierarchy line their pockets at the expense of the very people that they supposedly represent.
For example: Richard Trumka, President AFL-CIO has reported total compensation income of $301,932 for 2012.
The balances of the following are 2011 reported income
National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel – $460,060
Service Employees International Union President Mary Kay Henry – $290,334.
American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees President Gerald McEntee – $512,489.
International Brotherhood of Teamsters President James P. Hoffa , Jr. – $372,489.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten – $493,859.
International Association of Fire Fighters President Harold Schaitberger – $323,811.
United Food and Commercial Workers President Joseph Hansen – $361,124
One has to wonder what unofficial stipends they get outside of the reported income. Do they get per diem for travel, lodging, meal, etc? Are these costs even tracked and are they within the cost of living? Also, are they staying at luxury hotels, eating filet minion or saving the union members' dues by staying at Motel 6 and eating at Mickey D's?
And these are the people that Mikie Cherry feels are underpaid and unappreciated?!
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Sep 1, 2013 at 1:34 pm
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Here's the line: Web Link You can always refute any facts. Robert Reich's comments: Web Link And apologies, it's a film, not a book.
I ask questions; you respond. Beliefs call for validation . . . personal reflection, certainly; with those close to you, often; with the likes of you, good heavens, why?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 1:48 pm
Dave addresses me using a derogatory address form and then accuses me of derogatory speech. Go figure.
Thanks for posting those salaries you cite, Dave, as they show relatively modest salaries for union officials. Heck, most of those salaries aren't enough to enable a home purchase in Pleasanton. But you pose these salaries as somehow being too high. On what basis? You have no basis. Your private little language, doesn't count, Dave.
You wouldn't want to note how all the salaries you mention, combined, don't add up to half of what McDonald's CEO earned this past year? I wouldn't expect you to note such because, after all, the kind of hatred you have exhibited toward organized labor, on this site and others, blinds you to those kinds of facts. You and Kath seem to share a certain distorted reality, the reasons for which are beyond my surmise.
Were you to take off your blinders, you might also note that these union officials were elected by rank-and-file workers, and that their salaries are established by rank-and-file workers. Do you think fast-food workers at McDonalds have these kinds of choices with regard to the $8.1 million salary (excluding bonuses) awarded to McDonald's CEO this past year?
Finally, Dave, when someone advocates a current economic system and chides exploited workers whose wages are well below poverty line to acquire more skill and education, the inference is clear enough: "If you don't like your wages, find time between unpredictably assigned working double shifts and taking care of the kids to get additional skills; if you can't, tough toenails."
Your inability to grasp the reality of modern day labor, Dave, is matched only by your confused, envy-laced pronouncements. It's unfortunate but true. Try thinking with both sides of your brain next time you post.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 2:05 pm
Parade magazine. Printing a feel-good piece in the midst of an extraordinary effort by nonunionized fast-food workers in America to gain a slice of economic justice. Nice! This only verifies all that I've been saying -- that which hasn't been disappeared by PW's editors -- about corporate media.
You see, says Parade, labor costs were once so low in China, America's corporations "just couldn't resist." For, how can capital resist the chance to "hire" child labor and keep them chained to sewing machines at gunpoint?
And what about the mass protests, marches, mass suicides of China's workers, not to mention American workers' boycotts of certain goods coming out of forced sweat shops in China, owned and controlled by American corporations? Oh, I guess we won't talk about that. Hey, wages just started to rise, you know? Really! Just ask Parade magazine! That's how the world works!
Nice try to evade an obligation to defend your ideas, Kath. Nobody buys it.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Sep 1, 2013 at 2:18 pm
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Yeah, I don't want to use the lens you have to look at the world. There is all kinds of information available. Even puff pieces can have something to offer, in this case a bit of good news.
You don't mention that Mr. Reich states: "The good news: This overhaul has increased demand for higher-paid, skilled workers . . . Our challenge now is to produce more workers who have these skills. Employers are often reluctant to invest in technical training, fearing workers will cash in on their skills at another company." Huh, workers cashing in, moving freely to other higher-paid jobs. Who knew.
"mass suicides of China's workers" citation please.
a resident of Birdland
on Sep 1, 2013 at 2:26 pm
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Mikie (is Mikie considered derogatory somehow; it's what a parent would call their child, isn't it?) your statement "Were you to take off your blinders, you might also note that these union officials were elected by rank-and-file workers, and that their salaries are established by rank-and-file workers" would only make me believe that you are gullible beyond words. Do you honestly think that the Jimmy (or should I say James so as not to be derogatory?)Hoffa's of the union higher hierarchy don't control the outcome of most if not all union officer elections? Come on, even you can not be that gullible.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 2:28 pm
Right, because in the face of a solid critical argument, it's better simply to cite a Parade magazine fluff piece.
The good news, Kath, is that workers are organizing across state boundaries in their quest for economic justice. Parade seems not to want to notice this? Why? Because this piece of good news for America's workers is bad news for capital. Well, we know what Parade's mission is, and it certainly isn't about writing favorably about impoverished workers mobilizing themselves across the country in the face of quite formidable opposition.
Go use your social media to find the information yourself. I don't cater to the wishes of those who play dumb.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 2:33 pm
If you think your boss is making too much and you are not making enough and you are highly qualified, start your own business. It is done all the time.
Seems to be a lot of hostility out there for business owners. If we did not have business owners, there would be no jobs.
I encourage you to use the free-market system. Shop at places you feel meet your standards and do not shop at the others. Tell your friends about it also. Personally I pay more for some things because I like the ethics and service of the business I am dealing with. That is my decision. Everybody has to make up their own decision.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 2:42 pm
Your depiction is a bit odd, lcl. IF you think your boss is making too much ... AND you are highly qualified ... start your own business.
Wow. What if you're not highly qualified? Then apparently you must swallow the gruel served to you in the form of below poverty wages and inhumane work conditions? With the amount of due respect that you deserve, that's gotta be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard.
You seem to be missing a number of cards from your deck, lcl. And, oddly, your um 'reasoning' seems consistent with another partial deck user who just recently posted. I won't spend any more of my time responding to someone whose deck is so obviously incomplete.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Sep 1, 2013 at 2:57 pm
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If you are not highly qualified or higher skilled--you could get the training/education/skills nights and weekends. Staying in a low skilled job claiming it's the fault of others is called whining. Find a need and then find a unique way to respond to the need.
Only find where there were threats of a mass suicide, hence the question. You consistently make assertions you can't back up.
Organize, demand, and ignore the impacts, like increased prices and job loss.
a resident of Birdland
on Sep 1, 2013 at 5:13 pm
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Wonder how Mikie Cherry will handle this one as he pushes his "woe is me" story.
Don Loos, a former Department of Labor official who is now an adviser at the National Right to Work Committee, said labor leaders with compensation that is worlds apart from those they are representing make it difficult for them to empathize with life in the trenches.
"Look at SEIU: That's a union of janitors, and you've got people at the top making $500,000 a year, plus a lot of them have their hands in more than one till — they're making additional money from the pension funds. A lot of these groups were a part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and they really pushed the notion of 'fat cats,' but union bosses have always been fat cats," he said.
Perhaps Mikie should start questioning how his brethren is getting ripped off by those that supposedly represent their interest. In reality, the union upper echelon is interested in only one thing; that is, stuffing their own pockets.
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 6:08 pm
Your worth to a company is what you receive in pay. You want more money? Do as Kathleen suggests, get the training to make yourself worth more.
Society does not owe you anything. If you are flipping burgers and are not going for additional training, expect your paygrade to be about the same. Don't like that? Then work towards a job that requires more skill and thus will pay more.
Most everybody in life starts out in an entry level job. Through more training you can advance to a higher level job where you work, or to another place of employment. Then repeat. Sort of like reading the directions on a bottle of shampoo; lather, rinse, repeat. With a few exceptions, people who are in high paying jobs and are the corporate employees you talk about did not start there. They started at some type of entry-level job and had ambitions to work their way up. They did not whine that they were not paid enough. Instead they spent their energy on working their way up.
a resident of Livermore
on Sep 1, 2013 at 6:38 pm
It's my hope that after the 60 day cooling off period, that BART UNION EMPLOYEES STRIKE!
Hopefully, management will then take the union members seriously and negotiate a reasonable contract meets the union demands.
a resident of Livermore
on Sep 1, 2013 at 6:40 pm
Correction: ...negotiates a reasonable contract that meets the union's demands...HERE HERE!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 8:11 pm
Cholo made bail!
Welcome back. I hope BART goes on strike, too. It will be especially entertaining if the strikes become violent, which always makes for good TV. Then, the public will really get behind firing the occupants of the BART jobs and replace them with workers more motivated to earn their keep.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 8:19 pm
The presumptuousness and disdain for working-class people virtually oozes out of Kath's and Davey's and lcl's words.
When Martin Luther King marched and gave a speech on the necessity of black folk unionizing -- yes, even the unskilled sanitation workers, especially the unskilled sanitation workers -- I can just see Kath and Davey and his namesake lcl standing in the background, lips curled up and teeth gnashing as they screamed at the workers to "quit whining" and "go to school!" "We're individuals here!" "Stop trying to change a system that isn't working for you very well at all but sure has favored me and my kin."
The idea of Americans telling other hard-working Americans to relinquish their quest for justice because it amounts to 'whining' is simply too distasteful for any decent person to stomach. The ignorance and bigotry in such statements is appalling.
Yes, indeed, some regular posters really showed their true colors today. I'm relieved and take comfort in the idea that the majority of Americans reject the kinds of embarrassing displays of disrespect and loathing that we have seen evidenced on this page.
Welcome back Cholo. Your insightful comments show so much more humanity and rationality than those of so many other commentators. So, did you get to Bilbao? Tell us about your trip!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 8:43 pm
Oliver -
What is the quest for justice? How will we know when when we get there? What is justice for the BART worker? What is justice for the fast-food worker? And if we get there will the demands stop?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 9:29 pm
Are you a little bit concerned that workers getting their fair share in return for their labor might cut into your own privileged life, Nomad?
Right now fast-food workers are demanding anywhere between $12-15 per hour. In terms of real wages, that would have them earning approximately what minimum wage workers were making in the late 1960s.
You want to philosophize this, you go right ahead. Let me know what philosophical framework you desire to work within, and we can have a real discussion. Otherwise, your questions are transparently insincere and churlish.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Sep 1, 2013 at 9:32 pm
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Really Oliver? Brave of you to invoke MLK and use a term like "Black folk." Unable to bring yourself into the present; can't write unless it's about history; able only to falsely accuse others in order to make your vapid points.
Working hard and doing what it takes to get ahead is not a shameless endeavor.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 10:01 pm
Math check time: Oliver, using the Federal Labor Stats data, minimum wage in 1968 was $1.60, and adjusting that for inflation, it becomes $10.34 as of the end of 2012.
Fact check time: I haven't read anything in any of these discussions that indicate that anybody's anti-worker. What people are saying is different - that they're firmly in favor of free market determination of value.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 10:14 pm
Please do let one of the thread's bigots presume to tell me, an African American, how I've misused the term 'black folks'.
No false attributions here. Kath embraces the current economic order in which she presumes below-income wages for fast-food workers are just. Why? She can't tell us. It just is, that's all. You see, on her view (undefended), workers should naturally make below poverty level wages, while the 'highly skilled' ones like secretaries who answer telephones and type up boss's memos should be paid for their impressive levels of skill. What a laugh.
She disdains collective efforts by the below poverty wage-earning laborers to raise the bar.
She prefers we live in a society where hard-working laborers make wages well below the poverty line.
She disparages who workers are, the work they do, and tells them that if they don't acquire a skill to her liking then such workers and their families deserve to live below the poverty line.
The system that keeps workers' wages well below poverty line is just; it's the workers who are flawed - yes, all those millions of unskilled and semi-skilled laborers, all flawed. Kath says so.
Kath has provided us with a perfect example of class bigotry. Loud and clear. Now add to this the high percentage of fast-food workers who are people of color, and what have we got? Class bigotry doesn't even begin to capture the depths of bigotry that are at work here.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 10:26 pm
Joe, time and again we catch you misusing statistics (lying).
Chew on this:
"Since the 1970s ordinary workers' wages have failed to rise along with the economy as a whole. The massive rise in non-wage income (dividends, interest, and capital gains) has made workers' wages a smaller and smaller slice of the overall pie. America's total personal income per capita — including income from all sources — has risen much faster than the Social Security AWI.
Between 1974 and 2011 the AWI rose a cumulative 17 percent (adjusted for inflation). Per capita personal income, on the other hand, rose 57 percent (adjusted for inflation). Had the minimum wage been indexed to per capita personal income growth starting in 1974, the minimum wage today would be $14.41 an hour.
That's a far cry from $7.25.
By today's standards $14.41 an hour might sound like a lot for a minimum wage, but it doesn't have to stop there. At the top 1 percent of the American income distribution, average incomes rose 194 percent between 1974 and 2011. Had U.S. minimum wages risen at the same pace as U.S. maximum wages, the minimum wage would now be $26.96 an hour.
The difference between $7.25 an hour and $26.96 an hour shows just how much inequality has increased in America over the past four decades."
You see, Joe, any idiot can post some selective data. Analyzing it requires some basic intelligence.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Sep 1, 2013 at 10:41 pm
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Sorry, should say "not a shameful endeavor."
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 11:32 pm
Mike/Oliver your 'justice' crap is so repulsive, I'm not bothering to read any more of your whining diatribe like in your other threads. When I have an unemployed male family member, your arrogant greed is intolerable and makes me want to puke. Stay off the streets.
I know the uneducated union bosses fill the empty union worker heads with such convoluted crap, you all are clueless on basic economics and the world of the educated, but declining, middle-class all around us. You pathetic gullible peons, being clueless, just spew the crap you are fed. You have no idea just how stupid it makes you sound to repeat such junk.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 11:47 pm
So, Anti-union, with yet another member of your household being unemployed, that must now make six of you, no?
Ya know, it sounds like you find my ideas to be infringing on your right not to read me if you don't want to. What to do, what to do?
Now regarding your deadbeat son, you might try using Kath's bigoted logic. Why whine about an unemployed son? After all, you should have taught him to be more highly skilled and educated. (Apple? Tree?)
Or, better yet, maybe your son can find employment in the fast-food sector. The pay will keep him below the poverty line, but given his educational and skill deficiencies, he deserves to be impoverished, despite the hard work he might contribute to the firm that hires him. That would only be just, right?
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Sep 2, 2013 at 7:21 am
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Oliver Twister, I do not know the circumstances of anti-union's unemployed person, but there is no evidence the unemployed, underemployed, and employed would better be served by organizing into a union(s). Again, just one example is the denim industry, organized and shuttered. Viva unions; viva job loss.
You take a superior tone and attitude, quote all manner of books meant to show you know so much better than us mere mortals, yet civil discourse, good manners. and not being a bully have escaped your vast "education."
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Sep 2, 2013 at 7:41 am
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For the "black folk" rant: The term 'black folk' is colloquial and demeaning. If you are African American, there are other terms you might use that are even more demeaning. But just because you feel you have some right to use the terms, it doesn't make it right.
Keep repeating the lies and hoping they will come true? I asked you to justify fast food workers making $15 an hour, keeping in mind the potential for rising costs of the products, the demographics of those buying the products, and the value of the skills being provided. I made no assertions about what the answer is.
Come on, you keep telling us how smart you are, just ask you. Explain the correlation between services provided, skill level, and potential income. I would rather everyone, regardless of whatever drivel you wrote above, have the opportunity, and make the effort, to advance through earned promotion, education, ingenuity, entrepreneurship.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Sep 2, 2013 at 8:25 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
So Joe, the quote provided above is a 2012 piece from: Web Link inequality.org
2013 minimum wages, by state: Web Link Nearly 20 states pay more than the federal level, including California ($8.00), Washington ($9.19), and Oregon ($8.95).
Jobs available at MacDonald's in California Web Link . Some provide benefits. Some list restaurant crew jobs at $8.00/$8.75, so in California you earn more than $7.25 and can earn more. This is their benefits page: Web Link which includes training for better paying positions.
And here is the list of the best companies to work for in the Bay area that "that foster creativity, morale and culture, making it fun to come to work each day." Web Link
This is not to say it's all sunshine and roses. Getting any one of these jobs is often a job in itself. But contrary to what one person is saying, there is opportunity, there is opportunity to grow, and given that union jobs are only at 11%ish, the best opportunities are not always as a member of a union.


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Misled By Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque
08 Feb 2014 - 12 Apr 2014
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON
Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroqueexamines a range of contemporary artistic production defined through an emphasis on material excess, accumulation, bravado, asymmetry and theatricality. The presence of neo-baroque affectation through processes of ornamentation, heavy glazing, the application of outdated techniques, and the use of a myriad variety of curios and aestheticized found objects have been recurrent facets of contemporary production in Canada and internationally in recent years.
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Alberta.
Lee Bul
After Bruno Taut (Negative Capability), 2008
Crystal, glass, and acrylic beads on stainless steel armature with
aluminum and copper mesh, with chains made of PVC, steel, and aluminum, 274.3 x 296.4 x 213.4 cm
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Courtesy the Artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
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dang 4th awesome score!!!!!
4th - I do wish I could find those kinds of deals on chinese AK's.
"To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em."
Ted Nugent - speaking at the NRA convention April 17, 2005
dang 4th awesome score!!!!!
ill buy it from you fo 450 ;-)
She wanted $250 I gave her $300.. Deals are out there, you just have to have a few bucks and be in the right place right time..
Bro here put a small add in our local podunk paper. "Always Buying Guns." Damn you should see the stuff he is picking up.. Economy is bad, people need money.. Plus the panic seems? to be tapering off..
He started out small, traded up, made a few bucks. Now he has cash to work with.. Lot of my cash..
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
That's what I've been saying for 6 months now,,lots of great deals right now if you look around some. Even if it temporarily cuts into savings sometimes you can put it back pretty easy with some profit for the pocket book!
Wait till the panic buyers start selling,, another wind fall coming there I'd think when the glut hits the market. Lots of people will be selling cause they didn't consider ammo first. And now can't get any at a reasonable cost, they'll consider it to be, to expensive a hobby to stay in sense there not real hunters or gun guys to start with. They'll burn through the 3-400 rounds they initially bought and end up dumping the gun later on when they can't afford or find ammo.
Keep your eyes peeled guys, lots of good deals around on older stuff right now.
Exactly twa.. After the first panic when Nappy was elected, people bought like the world was ending.. Then stores were filled with used weapons..
Look at the magazine scare. Whoops panic.. Now their all over the place for a decent price.. Bit higher, but considering inflation, hell at least their available..
America is pro gun, always has been, always will be.. Think the commies is D.C. are learning to keep their stupid mouths shut.. All they do when they open them is increase sales..
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
yep--you can't lose on a $300 akm and a pre-ban chicom at that --
now 4th i got a deal for you-- a "lightly" used ar-15 , only made a few trips on the tractor before fudd dropped it down in the bush- hog --and its a REAL steal for $$$$---
Looks like the bbl already has the STg44 corner shooting device built in, I'd charge extra for that feature!
hey 4th
did you buy the rifle from this chick http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b69_1376878619
seems like you got it at a good price made me wonder???
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Hey Bee People,
Mark your calendars and spread the news, Bee People. Two weeks from today, we will be starting our third season as a club. Starting February 15th, the Milford Bee Club will be meeting every third Tuesday of the month at the Methodist Church on Ann St. at 7 PM, and remember as always, everyone is welcome. We are located in Milford, PA 18337
Sean Donlon
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The Citizens Law Enforcement Academy or (CLEA) is jointly operated by the Muscogee County Sheriff's Office and the Columbus Police Department. This is a rare opportunity for private citizens to obtain first-hand knowledge about law enforcement and public safety operations. Instructors from all areas of both departments discuss the "hows" and "whys" of law enforcement.
During the academy, students are exposed to a variety of topics in an assortment of settings. Emphasis is placed on "hands-on" subject matter to give everyone a more in-depth understanding of law enforcement. Subjects presented include the following:
Students will also be offered the opportunity to ride along with on-duty Sheriff's Deputies or Police Officers during normal patrol operations.
The goal of the Academy is to enhance the relationship between private citizens and the law enforcement community. This will provide the citizens with a better understanding of law enforcement to dispel suspicions and misconceptions and to increase police/community rapport. By the same token, law enforcement becomes more aware of the feelings and concerns of the community. All this helps to establish open lines of communication and cooperation.
Classes are held twice a year, in January and July. The Academy is 14 weeks long, including 12 weeks of instruction plus orientation and graduation. Classes begin at 6:00 P.M each Thursday of the class term. Most classes are held in the training facilities of the Columbus Police Department, 510 10th St. In addition, some classes meet at other areas including the Muscogee County Jail and the SWAT training facility.
The Citizens Law Enforcement Academy is free to all participants. You must be 21 years old or older to apply. Preference is given to Muscogee County residents and those who work in Muscogee County; however, substantial numbers of others have been accepted. Participants will be screened for suitability. Persons with a known criminal history will not be considered. Also, persons with an extensive driving record will be examined to determine if their reasons for wanting to attend conform to the goals of the academy. A "printable" copy of the CLEA application is also available. A copy of some form of an official photo ID should be included to facilitate a background check. For more information about CLEA contact Sgt. Robert McAneny at (706) 653-4225 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Completed CLEA applications may also be mailed or delivered to Lt. J. Ross at the Columbus Police Department:


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Spitzkoppe - Matterhorn of Namibia
Trip Start Jun 17, 2009
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I'm glad and I'm sure that most of them were as well pleased that we did spend just one more night camping amongst the red granite smooth rocks in this ancient part of Namibia, Spitzkoppe is also known as Matterhorn of Namibia rising some 600 m above the flat surrounding land. It reminded me a bit like Red Rocks in Morrison, Colorado, America.
A short walk to see some rock paintings one had to wear closed shoes for fear of snakes or scorpions. Coming from a country where we have no poisonous animals like snakes, this was a novel departure. Actually I didn't see one snake or poisonous animal out in the wild on my whole trip.
Again with literally no light spillage from near by village, we had a wonderful starry night with several shooting stars. The peacefulness and stillness ... yes, you can just hear the music coming from the distance local village but soon this little bit of noise disturbance was lost amongst the overall beauty of this place.
Up early well before sun rise to be amongst the rocks was magic for me as again the skies colours every slowly changing from being pitch black, to dark blues, reds and pinks and reflecting amongst the cotton wool clouds. Sorry that I am boring you with posting so many sunset and sunrise photos on this trip! These are but a few!!!!
Then away to Cape Cross on the Atlantic Ocean and to be amongst the thousands of smelly, noisy fur seals before the short drive down the coastal road with sand dunes on either side passing some of the many many ship wrecks into the German influence city of Swakopmund and several days R&R in another real bed.
So from last night's sunset to this morning's sunrise amongst Spitzkoppe's red granite rocks with the ancient rock art drawings to now facing the strong Atlantic on shore wind with being for thank goodness spending only an hour amongst the really, really, smelly fur seals; having crossed across from one side of the African continent from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, Capetown doesn't seem that far away and the end of the trip seems only a short distance away. Signs of homesickness? No, just knowing with the fur seals that the animal part of this African journey is finished, it is just the even more ancient Namib-Naukuft desert sand dunes that lies ahead of us before the drive down to the bottom of South Africa to Capetown and journey's end.


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Traffic Control
The city of Starkville is home to some 25,000 residents. However, on gameday, the city more than triples in size! On gameday, Davis Wade Stadium becomes the second largest city in OUR state! This increase in pedestrians and vehicles interferes with traffic flow both on and off campus. Please remember to be both patient and courteous to others on the road when entering and exiting campus.
The University's traffic management plan is coordinated with local and state law enforcement to give fans a safe and timely egress solution.
Staff will be positioned at major intersections and parking lots at the conclusion of the game to direct traffic flow off campus. Please keep in mind that staff may be forced to change directions and routes on a game by game basis because of unforeseen circumstances such as accidents, traffic and other issues that often arise on gameday. Please note that these actions always have the fans' best interests and safety in mind and are in no way meant as a hindrance. The goal of MSU staff and law enforcement is to provide the safest and most efficient routes, both on and off campus.
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text: The two most common questions I receive from individuals who are studying for an exam or selecting between certifications are: "What is the difference between the ACE-Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) and Group Fitness Instructor (GFI)?" and "Which certification is best suited for me?" While there are similarities in what draws individuals to both professions — like a quest for health, passion for exercise, and a desire to help others – there are significant differences in scope and delivery between a CPT and GFI. The answers to those two common questions can be found in understanding who the ACE GFI is. Range of Services: Personal Trainer vs. Group Fitness Instructor GFIs and CPTs work in a variety of settings – from teaching in large health clubs, small studios and wellness centers to operating their own business. Although they may work in the same settings, their range of services varies. The ACE CPT designs structured exercise programs for one-on-one and small group personal training sessions. He/she also conducts health history interviews, determines appropriate assessments, designs and modifies programs to meet the client's goals, and refers the client to appropriate health practitioners when necessary. Conversely, the ACE GFI provides general exercise leadership in a variety of classes through safe and effective program design and teaching techniques geared toward a group setting. This requires knowledge of exercise science, music selection, cueing to the beat, the ability to teach and modify exercises for a variety of participants (beginner, intermediate, and advanced), and applying effective communication in group instructional methods. Traits, Knowledge and Skills of the Group Fitness Instructor Building rapport An important element in leading a group fitness class is to create a welcoming atmosphere in order to develop rapport with class participants. Personal attributes can affect how you motivate your class, from communication quality to attire choice. Pay attention, greet class participants as they enter the room and get to know their names. Appropriate exercise attire, timeliness and sensitivity to class participants reflect your professional demeanor, and when combined, these elements will ultimately create a positive group fitness experience for participants. Understanding your studentsWho are you teaching? Whether it's a team of athletes, older adults, youth, or women aged 20-40, knowing a bit about the population you are teaching is imperative in preparing for your class. Preparation starts with the class objective, layout, and design. Where and how will you lead the class? Leading does not have to always occur in the front. Instructors may consider moving around during segments of the class they are teaching to interact with more participants and further develop rapport with each individual. Teaching techniques and considerations Exploring your teaching style is like being a kid in a toy store trying to choose which color toy you really want. It's personal! Teaching styles range from the common command style (a "follow the leader" type approach) to inclusion, reciprocal, or self-check. The style you choose will depend on the type of class, its participants and your personality. Being able to teach using a variety of styles throughout a class can help to effectively guide the entire class, and create success for each individual participant present. Another important element is incorporating music that fits the class format. Selected music aids in setting the pace of the class and provides motivation for the participants. Things to keep in mind when selecting music are purpose and audience. Nothing is worse than attending a class where the music selection is poor and does not fit the style of the class, or participants involved. When building your class, decide on a music style and whether it will be used in the foreground (movement to the tempo) or background (used solely as motivation). Finally, cueing is vital to conveying your message. Methods of cueing include verbal, visual, and kinesthetic. When cueing, you want to remember to: (1) Cue to safety – this includes alignment of the body and use of equipment; (2) Cue to purpose – what relevance does this exercise have and how can the exercise progress or regress for varied levels?; (3) Cue to movement – this includes direction and spatial cues; and (4) Cue to motivate – cueing is used to encourage and reinforce the effort participants are giving. As a GFI, you are not only the expert, but also each individual's cheerleader. Ready to get certified as a Group Fitness Instructor? Sign up for our free study coach program to help get your preparation for the exam underway! Also be sure to check out the wide variety of study materials available to prepare you for your future as a Group Fitness Instructor, including the newly released "Essentials of Group Fitness Instruction" DVD by world-renowned ACE Group Fitness Instructor, Lawrence Biscontini, which focuses on mastering the skills to become a great instructor for any group fitness class format! Still unsure if this certification is right for you? To develop a deeper understanding of the role and responsibilities of the Group Fitness Instructor, take a moment to review the exam content outline, which details the knowledge, skills and job-related functions of this profession.


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Allowing Women to Serve in Combat
A longstanding ban on women serving in combat is expected to be lifted. They've been prohibited in ground combat units since 1994. Senior defense officials say Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will take action Thursday that will reverse the ban.
"During this campaign we have had women who have died and women who have been prisoners of war. They've been in a war zone and they are serving our country in a war zone," said David Marrero, a U.S. veteran.
David Marrero says there shouldn't be any gender barriers for women in the military. He argues they're already in harms way and should be entitled to the same high-ranking positions available to men. But his wife, Patricia, disagrees.
"It's a lot of hardship on a woman being on the front lines, competing and maintaining their competition with men," Patricia said.
Their daughter is in the Army, stationed in Virginia. If she chose to serve on the front lines, Patricia says she would discourage her daughter but ultimately support her.
"I've always raised my daughter that she can do anything that she put her mind to," David said.
ABC News reports these changes could start going into effect as early as May.


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UTSA announces new faculty research funding
By Christi Fish
Public Affairs Specialist
(May 14, 2009)--The UTSA Office of the Vice President for Research announced the funding of nine UTSA faculty research programs to establish innovative, collaborative multidisciplinary research programs in fiscal year 2010. The funding is through the Collaborative Research Seed Grant Program (CRSGP) and the Tenure-track Research Award Competition (TRAC).
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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It was announced in February that approximately $242,000 would be available through CRSGP and TRAC to help faculty establish research programs in one or more of UTSA's five strategic areas of excellence: health, security, energy and the environment, human and social development, and sustainability.
"Normally, we expect to receive around 40 to 50 funding proposals," said Jeffrey Kantor, UTSA senior associate vice president for research development. "The submissions are well written, and there is keen attention to detail. Our faculty proposed many unique collaborations."
Funds awarded through CRSGP and TRAC will be disbursed by Sep. 1, 2009, and must be expended by Aug. 31, 2010.
To learn more about the CRSGP and TRAC programs, contact Jim Massaro, UTSA assistant vice president for research development, at (210) 458-6691.
Collaborative Research Seed Grant (CRSGP) recipients
(contingent on FY 2010 funding)
(*Projects will receive $30,000 in funding. **Project will receive $25,000 in funding.)
Evaluation of Borrelicidal Small Molecule for Control of Lyme Disease*
Principal Investigator: Janakiram Seshu, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, College of Sciences
Co-PI: Felix D. Guerrero, Research Physiologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Co-PI: Andrew Y. Li, Research Entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Preliminary Research for the Development of the Lampshade Compton Camera*
Principal Investigator: Bruce Douglas Smith, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Co-PI: Thomas H. Prettyman, Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute
Lipid-Based Biofuels Using Algal Feedstock Platforms*
Principal Investigator: Kyle E. Murray, Assistant Professor, Geological Sciences, College of Sciences, and Assistant Director for Undergraduate Research Development, Honors College
Co-PI: Frank Healy, Assistant Professor of Biology, Trinity University
Development of Novel Biomedical Probes Incorporating Rare-Earth Nanocrystals**
Principal Imvestigator: Dhiraj K. Sardar, Ashbel Smith Professorship, College of Sciences
Co-PI: Andrew T. Tsin, Professor of Biochemistry and Physiology, College of Sciences
Tenure-Track Research Award Competition (TRAC) recipients
(Projects will receive $22,000 in funding.)
The Evolution of Terrace Farming in Mountainous Environments: Archaeology, Historical Ecology and Ethnography in the Eastern Andes
Principal Investigator: Sonia Alconini, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, College of Liberal and Fine Arts
Synergistic Effects of Chemicals Released from Mountain Cedar and Global Warming on Native Grasses and Plant Community Structure
Principal Investigator: Janis K. Bush, Assistant Professor, Geological Sciences, College of Sciences
Toward a General Understanding of Sediment Deposition on River Floodplains
Principal Investigator: Judith K. Haschenburger, Assistant Professor, Geological Sciences, College of Sciences
Breastfeeding, Poverty, Segregation and Childhood Asthma: A Population-Based Study of Individual- and Contextual-Level Correlates
Principal Investigator: Patrice Johnelle Sparks, Assistant Professor, Demography and Organization Studies, College of Public Policy
How Does Aging Affect Biochemical Neuronal Function?
Principal Investigator: Fidel Santamaria, Assistant Professor of Computation and Neural Systems, College of Sciences


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Nice job.
looks comfy
I haven't lived the life I wanted, just the lives I needed too at the time.
Svelte. I like it.
Great job. Looks more like handle 103.
Went all out with three mosaics! Lookin' good, Rick.
The difference between try and triumph is a little "umph"! NO EXCUSES!!!!!!!


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Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:57 AM
"Nicki Taken Over"
NICKI MINAJ is Officialy the Queen ... She is Taken Over the World Right Now. As Far as I know she Already Broke about 3Records......... Do Any of you know Exactly how many records & exactly which one's She's broken this year? --->
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I wonder if Mao's flutzing is getting better lately. Any news?
I wonder if Mao's flutzing is getting better lately. Any news?
Personally I hope that it's Mao's Lutz that's getting better, instead of flutz.I wonder if Mao's flutzing is getting better lately.
As for Mao's progress, this was posted by a Japanese user on Mao's fan forum:
And in today's web article the reporter said:I read the newspaper, It says that Tarasova is going to Japan in mid-August in order to check Mao's skating.
Mao is working on fixing her lutz and she says that its showing good progress so far!
No practice footage, sadly, though perhaps it's for the best that the media don't bother Mao too much. Though, selfishly, I would like to see the 3A combos that Tatiana said Mao was nailing in practice.(...) She is also working hard on fixing her weak point. Last season she was troubled by the deductions caused by her habit to do the take-off of the Lutz jump from the inside edge. After the World Championships she earnestly began her practice to fix the jump without failure.
Not of the triple lutz but there is practice some footage on youtube.
I've seen those already, I just meant I wanted to see things Tarasova talked about in the interview (3A combos and "things no other skater did in practice"). :lol: But thanks for the links anyway!
First of all, Mao does not need a 3Z. She has so many points going for her in her program that she can still win with a Flutz -1.
Mao is the top Ladies skater in the World right now. TT does not want to have her in any place but first. It will not look good for TT.
I'm not so sure TT is a jump coach. Kulic and Yags both had jumps without her, and Sasha never got the 3Z which she needed.
TT is an excellent choreographer.
Thanks for posting the interviews. Mao and Terosova seem to get along very well, but that back brace has me worried. I hope Mao is OK. The programs look amazing.... we expected nothing less. It does seem as if Mao and her coach have used the "waltz" selections from Masquerade for at least part of the program. We have not seen Mao skate to such powerful music as of yet.
The only reason Mao needs to work on her flutz is for the personal satisfaction of doing so, like she has worked on her triple Salchow and triple toe in past seasons.
Anyway, good for her if her goal is to make herself into the consumate complete skater.
Didn't YuNa win the Free Skate in Gothnborg? Mao did win overall, but YuNa crashed in the SP. Right now, I do think Mao has an easy win with or without TT.
What's important for Yu-Na is to get her Triple Loop consistent, only planning a six-triple-program against Mao is probably not going to be enough.
What hurt Mao the most in Gothenborg was not the lutz deduction or lack of 3A, but, ironically, low levels on spins and spirals, which are usually her forte.
I think that's definitely one of the reasons... Mao is a perfectionist through and through. I don't think she is very much worried about the points - she keeps working on things that are not much worth under CoP - spiral positions, a classical layback... Hopefully the hard work will pay off.The only reason Mao needs to work on her flutz is for the personal satisfaction of doing so, like she has worked on her triple Salchow and triple toe in past seasons.


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Coldplay frontman Chris Martin was hot at play in the city this week before last night's packed stadium show at Mt Smart Stadium.
Martin preferred jogging in his leisure time, appearing to shun the freebies visiting rockers and celebrities are often wooed with here.
Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (Ateed) typically offer top acts a portfolio of complimentary trips and activities.
The tourism organisation hopes to get word out to massive overseas audiences who follow the stars' social media sites.
"Celebrities push out positive messages on Twitter and Facebook that are seen by millions," Jason Hill, Ateed acting general manager of destination, said. "The key to getting the right message over is it has to come from a credible and authentic source. "
Favourite activities for visiting stars are trips to wineries on Waiheke Island including Stonyridge, Mudbrick and Cable Bay, plus jaunts on an America's Cup yacht, Hill said.
British musicians New Order took a spin around Waitemata Harbour with Auckland Adventure Jet before a concert at the Vector Arena in February.
Ateed has only a small budget for celebrity tourism activities and relies on individual operators offering services for free, Hill insisted.
A big recent success was inviting popular Chinese television actress Dong Xuan for a packed itinerary. Dong is an extensive blogger and social media user with a fan base of more than 3.2 million on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent to Facebook.
Last night, a delighted Martin shouted to the crowd after the first few songs of the show: "It appears we had to wait 18 months of our tour to play the greatest crowd we've ever played." He dedicated the hit song Yellow to the Pike River miners and Christchurch earthquake victims.
About 100,000 Kiwi music fans have shelled out more than $8 million for tickets to see gigs in the past two weeks by big names such as the Black Keys, Ben Harper, Radiohead, Mumford and Sons, and Coldplay.
Manolo Echave from Chugg Entertainment, which promoted last night's Coldplay show, said travel-weary bands appreciated organised activities.
He revealed Radiohead arrived in New Zealand almost a week before their gig at Vector last week and Coldplay also touched down a few days ahead of schedule.
"Auckland is now becoming the place for rock musicians to hang out and relax during a break on a gruelling world tour," Echave said.
However, big outdoor stadium shows are becoming fewer and farther between. The last big outdoor rock headliner was U2 at Mt Smart in November 2010.


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To celebrate the end of the road for the Vanquish, AM will make 40 special Ultimate edition cars. All will be black, with special interiors and numbered sill plates. Sign me up!
Nice but they still bore me when I can buy a F430 instead
Very Special cars.Only for those concerned with having a one of a kind car.


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exotic wonder with an amazing capability of making weird faces and doing flexible things with her body. also a species of rattlesnake.
can you do a daranee with your hands? what the fuck man, she's daraneeing everywhere! Dont touch the daranee, it is dangerous and bites.
by RaymonDez November 12, 2013
The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush


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deboraho wrote:There are a few out here, like this, that the rejectionator needs to get.... These are wasted votes that could go to valid submissions !!
I agree!!
Re: Time Warp Again
Re: I love carrots!
Carrots... nom, nom, nom
Re: Open your mind
Rejectonator make his work!
If he consider that my Chewie design must be rejected for me is ok.
I have do my homework
Feel free to check them and vote them.
Thank you!
Re: Creepy Pregnant
A must buy :-D
I love it, but the best seems small... It might just be me, but I think other shirts in this style take up more of the sides and the design takes up most of the shirt. Otherwise I absolutely love it!
Re: Zombified Chocolate (Yellow)
Clever design! Nicely done.
tehbronson wrote:I like this, too, but wouldn't it be better if the shirt is the same color as the vest? I assume that's not possible with the shirt color options, but just a thought.
I actually like that idea but you know what would be awesome is to utilize the whole shirt. However with these restrictions I think this and what you say works. I wanted to keep it all blue because his sleeves and one under shirt is blue. Red seemed like it wouldn't have read well. Next time or for another derby!
hopelesscause07 wrote:I love it, but the best seems small... It might just be me, but I think other shirts in this style take up more of the sides and the design takes up most of the shirt. Otherwise I absolutely love it!
I agree but if there wasn't a specific size where the shirt could be place then this would be even better! I think I should make one that takes up the entire shirt. Thanks for the comment!
Is there a back?
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Is there a back?
Re: Vader Armor... with Labels
I'm all for schwartz controls!
fuacka wrote:Well, my design have details too that others designs don't
No doubt! The shirt on the other link posted looked a lot less detail-oriented than yours. Still hoping you win...I'm desperate to get this for my husband.
Re: Fishin Shirt
Wear to the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance..
Re: Another Day at the Office
I feel like this definitely needs his attorney badge on the lapel.
Re: The Heliocentric Model
The shirt appears to be missing a planet.
Re: Down the Rabbit Hole
So I know this is late but I couldn't get this idea out of my head. Hope you like it! Please Vote!
No, thanks for the feedback.
crystalinfire wrote:I like this design but it would be better if you did it in greens. Maybe add some stripes. I think it's supposed to be a T rex but I didn't really recognize it as a dinosaur at first. My apoligies if I'm totally off base.
kylemittskus wrote:I just had a seizure after looking at this shirt.
I nearly had one making it. :P
real cute
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yourservants wrote:No doubt! The shirt on the other link posted looked a lot less detail-oriented than yours. Still hoping you win...I'm desperate to get this for my husband.
You're so glad!
Thank you very much!
kaseyfleming wrote:awesome
Thanks a lot!
Re: Glad to meet you
Ha !! Creepy and funny at the same time....
orabbit wrote:I just realized that for some reason I put a shadow under the lamp instead of a pool of light. Derp! Here's a close up of the final version.
actually the entire leg lit up in the movie not just the bulb at the top.
still voted for it though B^)
Re: I Feel Like A Donut
come on people!!! this design needs more votes!!! i really want an Eddie Izzard / JFK shirt.... though im sure the artist didn't mean for it to be B^P
Re: A Major Award
Thanks j5, mistressofpez, cdrewlow, and L3g3ndQ. @L3g3ndQ - It also doesn't have a FRAGILE tag on it in the movie, but I thought this way best communicated the key points at a glance. Thanks for holding your nose and voting! ;)
j5 wrote:For a good time, call 555-5555
Ha! I see what you did there.
Re: Chestburster
Take your pick.
Not details that alter the idea behind it. The Vader shirt is making fun of it, the labels weren't really there. With this, the difference is the style and execution--and I agree, yours is well done--but that's not the point. The 'similar shirts exist' rule means just that. A shirt with the same idea is already available. If woot chooses not to reject this, that's their right. They aren't that consistent with enforcement.
kylemittskus wrote:How is this a costume?
Burgundy would have been a good color. Thank you Woot for not plastering the sign across the image. I thought it was very polite of you. And it took me hours to get that image to work on the computer. You can tell I am a paper drawer.
Re: Cute as button candy
Usually don't go for "Cute", but considering the derby, this works great. Takes me back to my favorite paper-backed candy. Very clever!
YES! Awesome idea! Totally GMV
Re: The Doctor, Who?
Want to dress up as "a doctor" for Halloween? Why stop there? Just compliment this shirt with a pair of blue scrub pants and dress up as "the doctor" complete with Gallifrey Medical id badge and sonic screwdriver.
Note that the bar code reads "The Doctor".
Re: The Parting of the Red C
A costume of BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS!!
But if it wins it will be available in ML, MM, MS....
Yeah Debated long and hard whether to include Pluto... it almost won a spot due to the fact I'm a sentimentalist - but in the end the shirt looked too crammed with it. Poor Pluto
Thirdbase9 wrote:The shirt appears to be missing a planet.
Mavyn wrote:Similar shirts abound.
Here is just one.
Yeah... and I don't like that one at all. This one is better.
rizaroni wrote:Yeah... and I don't like that one at all. This one is better.
Sadly, the 'similar shirts exist' rule is not quality driven. It's about being a new idea, not an improved execution of an old idea.
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An instant classic when it was composed it has remained a favorite ever since and Minuet composed in 1876 from String Quintet in E Major Opus 11 Number 5 (G 275) is Boccherinis best known composition. It has been featured in numeours films including The Good Wife, Alienation of Affection, Beur sur la ville, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, The Vampire Diaries, Family Guy, A League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Master and Commander The Far Side of the World, A League of Their Own, Tiny Toon Adventures and The Muppet Show Lead Sheet transposed to Eb with melody and chords for Alto Saxophone including a non-transposed version in C for easy accompaniment, arranged by Lars Christian Lundholm. Boccherini's Minuet is also known by alternative title: Minuet de Boccherini, String Quintet in E Major Opus 11 Number 5 (G 275). - Instrumentation: Alto Saxophone - Level: Medium - Score Type: Solo Score - Tempo: Medium - Genre: Romantic - Composer: Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini - Year C...
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che trasforma Venezia in un mondo magico
The new edition of the Dance Biennal will start on 2nd May 2013.
"Abitare il mondo (Living in the World) - Transmission and Practices" is the title of the three-year program of the new director Virgilio Sieni. The intent is to open to a fundamental reflection on the body, interpreted as man's journey to discover its function.
The activities of the Dance section of la Biennale di Venezia will kick off on 2 May 2013, to conclude on 28, 29 and 30 June with three consecutive days that will see, from morning till night, in two different areas of Venice - San Marco and the Arsenale - the public presentation of short choreographies, all of them new, the result of the different training and creation programs that are the subject of the Biennale College Danza.
Sieni's new project for the Dance section, titled Abitare il mondo, for 2013 includes a series of training and creation courses on the language of contemporary dance ending in short performances - individual fragments or in the form of a diptych - open to the public in the last three days of June.
Every day, from morning until night, one area of the city of Venice - or polis - will have the starring role, populated with the results of the Biennale College Danza. Each area, with its campi, campielli, courtyards and cloisters, palace halls, theaters and arsenals, will become an articulated system of places, set in relation to the creation process, but also traversed by the public in a pathway that leads from the intimacy of the closed spaces to the choral nature of the open ones, and vice versa.
Getting the merits of the program, Dance Biennale will be divided into five training courses that involve dancers and choreographers with teachers, artists, and different audiences, from children, the elderly and the visually impaired.
In particular, Prima Danza (First dance) will develop some choreography projects, chosen from among the proposals of young choreographers/performers. The program will take place in two stages: from May 2-15 and from June 17-30.
Invenzioni (Inventions) will instead see young dancers working with three choreographers. During the period from June 10-30 each choreographer will develop, through the dancers and with the dancers, a show.
Agorà will be a program led by three choreographers, who will work on "the adjacency of bodies and listening to others in relation to the sites chosen for the final demonstration open to the public."
Finally Trasmissione (Transmission) will engage five young choreographers/dancers in two compositional programs involving non-professionals: to the dancers there will thus be added kids, and mothers with their children.
With the unique Vita Nova program, the hope is to create a contemporary dance repertoire aimed at the very young, extending the project to the national level via the Regional governments, starting this year from Veneto, Tuscany, and Puglia.
Characterised as a project open to the community, Abitare il mondo will allow the stranger and the inhabitant, who traverse the areas of the city, to share a common ritual, putting them in close proximity to the sense of the dance.
Abitare il mondo – Transmission and Practices
Final stage with the presentation of the performances: 28, 29, 30 June 2013
Each day will involve a part of the city, through a layout of spaces:
June 28, Arsenale / Castello
June 29, City Center / San Marco
June 30, City Center / San Marco


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Because then you guys would complain that we copied zombie master
Because then you guys would complain that we copied zombie master
So you took Zombie Master's name and concept, and you don't expect people to think you ported over the code? Gee, that's some smart thinking.
And if a mapper has a problem with us using their map, they can contact us.
Stop posting, katherine's just trolling.
Note that all terms of the license apply exclusively to the Zombie Master code.
In order to (for example) redistribute the Zombie Master maps, models,
textures, and other art assets, you will need to get separate permission from
the respective authors.
And if the mapper has an issue with it they can contact us, not you. Go the fuck away for fuck sakes you aren't making any fucking point.
I'm sure they won't care that we're giving their maps life.
You're not Pi go away.
Here's what you can do, Have your mapper buddies that you care so much about contact their lawyers, and mail us the summons.
Note that all terms of the license apply exclusively to the Zombie Master code.
In order to (for example) redistribute the Zombie Master maps, models,
textures, and other art assets, you will need to get separate permission from
the respective authors.
The reason that it's included in the source code is so you can see how a map is supposed to work in Zombie master, not so you can use it as your own without their permission!
(User was banned for this post ("Troll" - grea$emonkey))
Sure, we don't have the mappers permission to use their maps, if they even care that much.
Katherine, read kevin's post, he just said "we don't care, sue us".
This is actually quite fun, I kind of feel sorry for the people who have to browse through it.
Here go bother Sassilization for using css deathrun maps, then when you're done go bother whoever is porting models from so many games into the source engine! YEAH MAN WE'LL GET EM ALL! YAAHHH!
your argument went from "we're doing nothing wrong" to "sue us"
Are you Katherine's friend?
sure is good thread around here
You got it.
I know this is Facepunch and all but that ban was pretty uncalled for. Kat has a legitimate point there about getting permission from respective authors. I think the moderator might want to rethink the difference between disagreeing with someone and having a healthy argument about content permissions. Pi Mu Rho Would be the one you'd need permission from to use or package in any of the default ZM maps. In most cases maps can be freely used but here it is laid down plainly for all to see that permission is needed.
Also please don't lower yourselves to the level where you just say "I'm using it, sue me." That's just wrong and you know it. If that's how you feel about permissions then I'm not so sure I'd want my ZM maps associated with this.
Other user created maps are totally different from the default ones as far as usage goes. When a user decides to release a map to the public and says nothing regarding permissions then it's free for use. This however is different. These are considered property of Pi and it is expected of you, since you're remaking the original game in a different medium and using it's content, to contact him and make sure he personally agrees with you using the maps.
We're not making money off it, it's all for fun, to give Zombie Master a new light.
Lets get back on track here.
Hey guys look what i made. You only get 12 ammo per ammo can you pick up. So pistol clips make more sense.
But it's only right that you understand BKU, the dev you contacted has the authority to give permission for the code, not the maps. The mapmaker himself is the only one that can give permission as says the README file. That would be Pi Mu Rho and no one else.
Swearing constantly in your posts will hardly make people take you any more seriously or legitimately, you know.
I do hope you do not use any of the weapon models, either, as that falls in the same line as the map stuff.
In anycase, I always thought a flame thrower was necessary. Also a special chaingun.
I swear cause I really don't fucking care if you take me legitimately, We're making the game and we're making it fun, don't like it? Then don't fucking play it.
Anyway, we are adding flares, and are working on other new weapons...
Finally someone constructive, thank you. We do not plan to steal their weapon models. And I'm going to be modeling most of them. A chain gun seems like a great idea, it will be heavy and take a while to spin up. It would add to the gameplay tactics.
Stop derailing the topic please.


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In a once-abandoned storefront in Providence's Olneyville neighborhood, three actors are going over their lines for an upcoming performance. The space is filled with props in various states of completion — a cardboard wheelbarrow, a bunch of carrots — and a handmade sign on the wall instructs players how to pronounce the word Woonasquatucket: woon-AHS-kwa-tuk-it. Bass thumping from a neighboring apartment reverberates the walls like a giant heartbeat as the director asks them, for the fifth time, to take the scene from the top. One of the actors starts to sweat. The playwright, not present, is in the fourth grade.
The play, titled How Red Carrots Can Walk, is part of the latest installment of shows put on by the Manton Avenue Project (MAP), a nonprofit uniting children from Olneyville with local artists to create original theater. It works like this: third and fourth grade students from William D'Abate Elementary School write plays with the help of a MAP dramaturge, and a volunteer cast of adult actors performs them for the community. "There's something really incredible and weird and magical about the plays," says Erin Olson, an actress who's been working with MAP since 2007. "It sort of just allows your brain to enter this kid state. It's amazing."
Founded on the idea that theater is a powerful tool for personal and social change, MAP is now in its ninth year. Executive artistic director Meg Sullivan says the program's success lies in the talent of its dedicated volunteers and the amazing brains of Olneyville students. "I am always so moved by the very radical action of putting a child into a position of power," she says. "MAP kids come up with characters and creative solutions to problems that are so beyond the box." Olson agrees with this sentiment. Her eyes light up as she gives a synopsis of one of her favorite MAP plays involving a Grammy Award-winning Shar-Pei and the world's saddest lighthouse. Says Sullivan, "It's a transformative experience for everyone involved."
Olneyville is a neighborhood that's as renowned for its arts community as it is for having one of the city's highest concentrations of families living below the poverty level. This, Sullivan says, is why MAP took root here. "Olneyville is a community with amazing families and teachers and an incredible sense of community and history, yet it's a neighborhood in which incomes are low, unemployment is high, and families have been hit hard by the foreclosure crisis." As an underserved population, says Sullivan, students here reap tremendous benefits from having their ideas and voices not only heard, but heralded as works of art.
Likewise, audience members benefit from being exposed to memorable theater experiences — like the upcoming play about a friendship forged over a mutual love of vegetables that hilariously turns into a promo for a fried chicken restaurant in Eagle Square. That particular play, Dangerous Rabbits, will appear as part of this season's show, for which MAP playwrights have teamed up with South Side Community Land Trust to create works based on the experience of planting and growing. Jealous carrots, vengeful bunnies, and tomatoes skilled in the art of self-defense are just some of the characters that pop up over the course of nine plays. And because adults never edit the playwrights' words, audience members can expect dialogue and narratives that are at times profound, bizarre, and magical.
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Bullet hits fan at NMSU game
Las Cruces, New Mexico - A woman is now recuperating from a gunshot wound to the leg, and New Mexico State University police are on the hunt for a shooter.
It all took place at Aggie Memorial Stadium, where nearly 25,000 people were in attendance.
The random shooting has left a lot of football fans and NMSU students in shock.
Tyler Chavez, NMSU student, tells ABC-7, "It's a crazy occurrence, I've never heard of that happening."
"I've been to this stadium a million times, and for something like that to happen to a woman randomly, It's pretty scary," said NMSU student Kristoffer Keorper.
NMSU students can't get over the news of a women receiving a gunshot wound to her leg.
NMSU Deputy Police Chief, Andy Bowen tells ABC-7 they quickly assessed the scene. "We were able to establish by all the witnesses and bystanders, that there did not appear to be any sign of gunshot in the stadium."
Bowen said by the injury and trajectory of the bullet, they established the bullet came from outside the stadium, from a shot fired into the air.
The woman was taken to University Medical Center, where she was treated for her wound.
But why wasn't the game stopped? Bowen said it was actually safer to keep everyone inside.
"We didn't want to have people go or have most of the people outside the stadium, so that's why the game wasn't stopped and the people weren't evacuated," said Bowen.
Now NMSU plans to beef up their security.
"We are going to start spreading our efforts further out and focusing on heavier patrols outside their stadium as well as inside," said Bowen.
Police officials tell ABC-7 that the woman is now out of the hospital. She is doing well and her name will be released Monday.
NMSU police also urge anyone with any information to the shooting to call 575-646-3311.


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Castellana Bussines Luxury Bernabeu
Size145 m²
Floor No.(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
- Washer/dryer
- Elevator in building
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
Accommodation summary
|Paseo Castellana, 28039 Madrid, Spain
|Property type
|Property ID
Spectacular 140 m2 Penthouse apartment with stunning views over Paseo de la Castellana, with 3 bedrooms, which can accommodate up to 6 people. It is spacious and bright. It has a unique design, it´s cosy and it has all the comforts from home: air conditioning, heating, full kitchen, plasma TV 42 ', DVD, stereo, Nintendo Wii + Wii Sports, French pool table and with full integration of new technologies: high-speed Internet, Wi Fi, Apple TV.
The apartment has also a mini-gym area, a fitness mat for yoga or pilates and some exercise videos for you to keep in shape during your vacation or business trip.
For its exceptional location, it is very family-friendly and very appropriate for romantic couples, fine cuisine lovers, art and history lovers, for night adventurers, students, or as a base camp for business.
An alternative with advantages over a traditional hotel.
Designed by a prestigious Spanish decorator using furniture from Charles Eames and Le Corbusier, and elements of distinction as a French billiard table, it creates an atmosphere of style and glamor.
The large living room, very spacious and bright is composed of distinct areas.
The first is the "French area" which is the reception and were the French Billiards table is. There you can spend the evening playing a few games of pool with the family or friends and listening to good music with the stereo.
"FAMILY LIVING" is the meeting point of the room, with Le Corbusier sofas facing the plasma TV 42 'with DVD, Nintendo Wii and Apple TV.
At the end, there is the "Dining Area" with a design glass dining table and design chairs.
The living room also has a sitting area with a chaise lounge sofa from the renowned architect and designer Charles Eames.
The living room is covered in part with exquisite Italian wallpapers. In addition to the natural light, you can also modulate the lighting of the room to be indirect through lamps, to generate a very comfortable and intimate atmosphere.
In the kitchen, you'll find all the high-end appliances from Siemens. It is very spacious and has also a high round table with three stools for quick breakfasts or a small snack.
The master bedroom, with double bed has a large window with lots of light. The second bedroom also has a double bed and plenty of natural light too. The third room has two single beds. All rooms have their bedside tables and bedside lamps.
The main bathroom is a design bathroom with shower and hydromassage. The toilet also has a very nice design to it.
The apartment is equipped with the latest technology to make your stay more rewarding and intense: high-speed ADSL, Wi-Fi, Apple TV and an Apple Wireless Keyboard to enjoy the best contents and movies without leaving the apartment, or hear your music and watch your pictures on the TV directly from your iPhone or iPad.
A mini-gym with several dumbbells, a fitness ball, a Abdo Gain special for crunches, a Body Power for toning muscles and a mat for yoga, pilates or fitness, with special exercise videos so you do not stop doing sports during your stay in Madrid.
If you want to enjoy a luxurious and glamorous stay, in a nice and well connected area of Madrid, this is your apartment.
Furthermore, it is located in one of the many centers of Madrid. A short metro ride from the historic center, the apartment is a the top of Paseo de la Castellana, one of the most popular and most traditional streets of the city. The apartment is right where the imperial city meets with the new business center from Plaza Castilla and the new commercial towers.
Walking along la Castellana, which is divided into Paseo de la Castellana, Paseo de Recoletos and Paseo del Prado, we will see how the tradition coexists with current trends. From the impressive building of the National Library to the historical Cibeles, only ten minutes walk from the apartment, we arrive at the Santiago Bernabeu, the glorious Real Madrid stadium. Fashion galleries, restaurants for all tastes, outdoor terraces, typical "tapas" bars, the most exclusive nightlife spots, nineteenth century mansions, and modern skyscrapers. Passing through the famous Plaza Colon which gives us access to Serrano, Goya and Velazquez streets, which also have many luxury boutiques, affordable fashion shops, shopping centers, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, theaters, cinemas, etc. La Castellana never sleeps, especially where it meets Gran Vía. Although, if you wish for some peace you just have to walk a few minutes until you hit the gardens surrounding the Paseo del Prado, the Mile of Art, where the Prado Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza and the majestic Retiro Park are located.
House rulesBe respectful of the neighbours.
No parties.
Extra guests or visitors are not permitted.
No smoking.
Bed linen and towels are provided.
A €150 security deposit is required and is refundable upon successful check-out.
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
|Monthly rate for up to 2 guests
|Price for > 2 guests
|$ 29 US per guest/night extra
|Maximum nights
|1 year
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|On arrangement
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The Luxury Design Flat in Madrid has thoroughly enjoyed it. The apartment was centrally located to the center and close to the motorway. The facility was equipped adequately and with extras such as a pool table. The delivery and return of the apartment went very smoothly and correctly. Especially hevorzuheben was the most flexibility for the time of handover. Otherwise we liked in Madrid. The well-known for a big city noise through traffic is good to hear even on the 7th floor. Who plans the consistent use of a rental car, should take into account that parking in the parking zone in front of the house for max. 4 hours is possible and causes stehts costs.
Das Luxury Design Flat in Madrid hat uns sehr gut gefallen. Das Appartment war zentral zum Zentrum und zur Autobahn nah gelegen. Die Einrichtung war ausreichend und mit Extras, wie Billardtisch, ausgestattet. Die Übergabe und Rückgabe des Appartments verlief reibungslos und korrekt. Besonders hevorzuheben war die Flexiblilität für die Zeit der Übergaben. Ansonsten hat es uns in Madrid gut gefallen. Der für eine Großstadt bekannte Lärmpegel durch Verkehr, ist auch im 7. Stockwerk gut zu hören. Wer die durchgängige Nutzung eines Mietwagens plant, sollte einkalkulieren, dass das Parken in der Parkzone vor dem Haus für max. 4 Stunden möglich ist und stehts Kosten verursacht.
Fantastic apartament. Great owner , very helpfull. Good location, nearly metro. No problem with contact.
A fantastic apartment which left nothing to be desired!
Moving in and out again was very comfortable and the communication was smooth.
We loved our stay in Madrid! The Appartment is lovely, clean, spacious and luxurious. Our host Roberto was very nice and helped us in any way possible. The hamburger restaurant and Italian restaurant just around the corner are very good! We parked the car in front of the Appartment up to the time we wanted to leave, and went by car to the starting point of the bus tour, because we had to fill the meter anyway. Tip; before going to bed, fill the parking meter and you do not have to get up before 9. We thank Roberto very much, and if we would visit Madrid again, we would love to come back!
The apartment Castellana Penthouse Deluxe is a great apartment. Centrally located and nearby the metro and bus station.
The apartment is very comfortable and fully equipped. We stayed there with 5 persons and we had a great time! Thank you very much Roberto Punset for your hospitality. We can highly recommend this apartment to anyone who is interested to visit Madrid!
Hello Roberto! The truth is that the apartment is great, is spacious and pleasant. This very well located in a quiet area. The treatment has been very good and we are very pleased with the experience. Not bad. A hug.
Hola Roberto!!! La verdad es que el apartamento esta fenomenal, es amplio y agradable . Esta muy bien situado, en una zona tranquila. El trato recibido ha sido muy bueno y estamos muy contentos de la experiencia . Sin duda repetiremos. Un abrazo.
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Staying at home was very nice, we have been very comfortable, thank you for your kindness.
Nuestra estancia en su casa ha sido muy agradable, hemos estado muy cómodos, gracias por su amabilidad.
Very centrally located in Salamanca apartment that is very close to the subway station Ventas. There are many shops and restaurants right in the area. The landlord tried stehts reached and to find solutions. The apartment is chic, balcony chairs and a bed but must be replaced. During our stay it licked when it rains through the bathroom ceiling.
Sehr zentral in Salamanca gelegene Wohnung, die ganz in der Nähe der U-Bahnstation Ventas liegt. Es sind viele Geschäfte und Restaurants direkt in der Umgebung. Der Vermieter war stehts erreichbar und um Lösungen bemüht. Das Apartment ist schick, Balkonstühle und ein Bett müssen jedoch erneuert werden. Während unseres Aufenthalts leckte es bei Regen durch die Badezimmerdecke.
Mutual pleasure, a perfect host. The very clean apartment, well located and comfortable. As is reflected in photographs !!! We will consider it for future travel and above all highly recommended !!!
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Un placer mutuo, un perfecto anfitrión. El apartamento muy limpio, bien ubicado y confortable. Tal cual se refleja en las fotografías!!! Lo tendremos en cuenta para un futuro viaje y sobretodo altamente recomendable!!!
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thats about what i'm seeing. hot light 9mm form a 16" is giving about 480-500 ft-lbs of energy at muzzle.
the standard load from a 357sig from a 4.5" barrel is about 490 ft-lbs. ( not counting light loads which dip down into 9mm p+ loads)
my guess is a 357 sig would do 700 ft lbs from a 16" barrel --a hell of a lot of punch from such a small package--LOL
the problem with the 357 sig is expense, but it would make a hell of a pistol powered carbine--
take a look at the ballistics --
BBTI - Ballistics by the Inch :: .357 Sig Results


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An address at Hope College by two researchers from the University of Michigan will examine their team's effort to improve nursing care by standardizing the way that clinical data is collected and understood.
Dr. Gail Keenan, who is the project's principal investigator, and research associate Julia Stocker will discuss the "Hands-on Automated Nursing Data System" (HANDS) on Thursday, Feb. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Maas Center conference room. The address is the first being sponsored by the Hope College Student Nurses Association.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
While nationally accepted standards already exist, the researchers found that interpretations have varied by setting and institution, with the result that data concerning similar care situations is not always comparable. The computerized system that the team is developing is intended to provide a means of collecting and sharing a standardized nursing data set across settings.
The researchers believe that the consistency and the availability of the information will ultimately benefit patients by helping health care providers, researchers and organizations to be more efficient and effective.
Keenan is on the faculty in the Division of Nursing Business and Health Care Systems at the University of Michigan School of Nursing in Ann Arbor. She has written or co-authored multiple book chapters and articles in professional journals. A registered nurse, she has had clinical experience in a variety of settings.
She holds her doctorate in public health/health resource management from the University of Illinois, and was a postdoctoral fellow in nursing informatics at the University of Iowa College of Nursing. She holds a master of science in nursing services administration from the University of Illinois, a bachelor of science in nursing from Rutgers University and a diploma in nursing from Saint Anthony's School of Nursing.
Stocker is a student in the doctoral program at the University of Michigan School of Nursing in Ann Arbor. She is also a registered nurse with experience in a variety of clinical settings.
She holds a master of science in community health nursing from the University of California, San Francisco, a bachelor of science in nursing from the University of Michigan and a diploma in nursing from Bronson Methodist Hospital School of Nursing in Kalamazoo.
The Maas Center is located on Columbia Avenue at 11th Street. More about the research project may be found online at: www.umich.edu/~handsmi/