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If You Could Control the PUSD Budget
Original post made by Really! Really!, Bordeaux Estates, on May 19, 2011
So the question arises: If you could choose, what PUSD programs would you cut, maintain, or expand in this time of limited funds? What are the reasons for your choices? Thoughtfully consider which programs/ideas provide a positive benefit for their costs and those which don't.
And, remember, now that the Parcel Tax has failed, you have the freedom to donate to PUSD and specify where you wish your funds to go (CORE, PPIE, CSR, Barton, etc.), so don't be afraid to put your money where your mouth is.
a resident of Bordeaux Estates
on May 19, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Barton reading is a one on one program... Not much bang for your buck. PPIE does a great job of funding specific programs for dedicated professionals. This money will go to teachers who really want to make a positive impact on THEIR (meaning more than one) kids. Can't count on the DO to make the sound choices.
a resident of Bordeaux Estates
on May 20, 2011 at 8:16 am
...except the one-on-one is provided by trained volunteers (non-paid) working with over a hundred students, so huge bang for very little buck.
a resident of Del Prado
on May 20, 2011 at 10:38 am
Summer School should be cut down, If kids are doing what they are suppose to do during regular school year you don't need summer school. If some one feels their kids need extra help, they should pay for it.
a resident of Laguna Oaks
on May 20, 2011 at 10:51 am
All programs are important and it's a shame the state has mismanaged the budget impacting all school districts throughout Calif. The struggle is there is just not enough money to pay for all these programs. Certain programs are near and dear to some families, with others being the favored programs for different families. My fear is that donors donate to specific ones but don't raise enough to impact one given area. I like the CORE program through PPIE as it addresses tech and library supporting ALL teachers and students. All teachers and students rely on technology in some way. We currently have NO tech support budgeted! We have beautiful computer labs, media centers, language labs; can you imagine no one available to maintain them? No one to train teachers and students? No one to update software? Not to mention the Econnect, School newsletters and Zangle; the main source of parent communication. Considering a lot of the curriculim is now technology based....it's scary to think there may be zero tech support. Additionally, imagine your school library closed for the majority of the day. Can't go read, check out a book, do some research, use a computer or do some homework. That's just wrong!! CORE will provide this support to ALL students.....not just those that benefit from smaller class sizes or those that need reading support. My dollars will be going to CORE first....and I plan on doubling up to assist a few families that can't donate at all.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 20, 2011 at 4:07 pm
I have already donated to CORE, and plan to donate to CSR as well as to my school's PTA, which amounts to about $650 total. Much. much cheaper than private school.
Also, I do believe in CSR. My child attended 1st grade with 20 kids, then 2nd with 25 kids. What a difference 5 kids made. The K teacher spent less time on crowd control and more on teaching. And for PUSD, we're not talking about hiring new, inexperienced teachers to have CSR--we're talking about KEEPING the experienced teachers we currently have to maintain smaller class sizes.
I do believe in Barton, as well. It is an excellent program for those who need it. But it is also staffed by volunteers and MOST students do not need to use it.
CSR benefits every student and studies show that the quality of K-3 education follows the child throughout the rest of their school years. While $350 per child is not cheap, I consider it an investment in my child, with a payback many, many more times valuable.
a resident of Highland Oaks
on May 20, 2011 at 5:11 pm
Going to the root of the problem will give you a better shot at finding an effective solution. By seeking donations to fund programs that are being cut based on their relative merit vis-a-vis the district's dwindling resources, you treat the problem symptomatically rather than working toward a cure.
To wit, stop diverting such massive amounts of money to unsustainable pension programs, and the problem goes away. Stop scurrying willy-nilly to collect a few hundred bucks here or a grand there while millions of dollars are falling out of your back pocket.
a resident of Laguna Oaks
on May 20, 2011 at 5:33 pm
@ Anonymous..... I believe in all these programs...there's just not enough money to support them. Although there are no studies available that show that reduced classroom sizes are beneficial(per Superintendent Ahmadi), we all know that the rewards of smaller class sizes are huge. It's just a big price tag with no funds to support it. I truly wish there were!
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on May 20, 2011 at 5:41 pm
Pleasanton resident, FYI, summer school has been dramatically cut back over the last two years.
I'm donating to CORE because I think literacy is the heart of education, and the library can be the center of the school, especially in elementary. Teachers work with librarians to select resources for students to use on different research projects, and to inspire students to write by reading good writing. I don't want to see libraries open only two hours a day.
I also support funding for Barton and reading specialists. Folks seem to think the Barton program is less important because it is not used by all students. About 25% of kids have difficulty learning to read, and would benefit from working with a trained volunteer or a reading specialist. The current level of funding in Pleasanton does not permit all first-graders to be formally screened for reading difficulties. When those kids don't get help in first or second grade, their difficulties can slow down class for all of their classmates. Getting them the one-on-one or small group help they need means that teachers can move ahead with the rest of the class -- all students get their needs met.
If I was going to cut something in the school budget, I would pick legal costs. I wish the district would consider dropping some of the lawsuits that have become black holes for taxpayer dollars.
Cutting something that affects students? Testing. We pay a ton of money to the companies that develop and score standardized tests, and then we don't even get the results back for months! I am allergic to the idea that we can capture meaningful learning through multiple choice questions, and I would much rather sit down and review my kid's work with the teacher. Compare an essay from the beginning of the year and one from the end. Listen to them talk through a practical math problem. Watch them carry out a science project.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 20, 2011 at 7:18 pm
Optimistic Mom,
I like your comments very much. I disagree a bit on your assessment of the objective tests. Although I do not think 'teaching for the tests' should be a school's primary goal, I do think they are a helpful diagnostic, perhaps no less so than a teacher and parent tracking essays, math progress, and science projects.
After spending considerable hours this spring with my son preparing him for the star test, I must say that he learned a good deal, and improved in such areas as concentration, mental quickness/agility, and analytical reasoning. Fact is, I think, that educating our kids today is a far greater challenge than it may have been even a generation ago. The pace is faster (and in some ways less forgiving of students who fall behind), the environment far more competitive, and teachers are faced with greater diversity (and now numbers) in the classroom ... and this is not even to mention all the 'type-A' parental personalities that insist (with good intentions) on getting more involved with classroom teaching.
At the same time, there's the obvious: there isn't enough money to support teachers and the kinds of diagnostics needed. That a community like P could not raise a couple million in support of the challenge continues to boggle my mind. I think about it every day, have applied for a job transfer, and so most likely we will sell our home and leave the area.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 20, 2011 at 7:37 pm
I would have negotiated 3 furlough days to (1 instructional, and 2 non-instructional) to generate $1.4 million in savings. And use those savings to pay for CSR. I would rather have 179 days of CSR programs, than 180 days without it.
2 more furlough days would have brought back collaboration at the high school level.
5 furlough days total and we'd help K-5 and high schools. A very slightly shorter school year, yet richer in helping the kids.
So, exactly where are the PUSD school boards priorities? Protecting teacher salaries? or providing the best education for our kids?
a resident of Amador Valley High School
on May 20, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Nomad, the question is, why would middle and high school teachers vote to take furlough days in order to save elementary teachers' jobs?
(OK, now I sound cynical rather than optimistic, but there it is. Teachers are not even backing each other up any more, because they are so bruised from the onslaught of public criticisms.)
And Not so, I do understand your point about testing. I'm not saying I'm completely opposed -- just that if I was going to make a budget cut, I'd make one there. Teachers can write their own test questions, whether multiple choice or short answer, and grade them in house. It's not clear to me what the benefit of paying test-making companies to write the questions and score the answers, if they take so long to return the scores to teachers and students.
a resident of Ruby Hill
on May 21, 2011 at 8:06 am
I'm not sure why the lack of support for the Barton Reading Program, staffed with volunteers with 1 on 1 tutoring for "kids who don't read good." All joking aside, I have seen positive results from the program, and it seems like it fits the bill of a high impact - low cost initiative.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on May 21, 2011 at 6:00 pm
I think I would advocate for starting in the classroom and moving out from there. Maybe you end up with the district as is; maybe it looks entirely different. I think we could learn a lot.
For example, would you consider small schools of K-3 only and slightly larger schools of 4-5 or 4-6? If 4-6, can middle schhols have a smaller population? Could high schools be subdivided into magnet academies? Would technology and assistant teachers and free work time be a better model for the classroom?
One thing is for sure, if something is there already or recently lost, someone will argue it has to remain. It's one reason why the current delivery of education looks much the same as it has for years, one teacher, x number of kids.
a resident of Avila
on May 21, 2011 at 9:06 pm
The first thing I would do in order to save money is completely cut the laptop program. I feel that the program encourages entitlement among the students (I realize that most parents pay for their own laptops, but also know there are some that get their laptops through PUSD. In addition, it costs money to update the technology for this program).
I would add a vice principal to each of the middle schools. They are in desperate need of help in the office, especially monitoring student behavior. I would also make sure that there were 3 counselors at each middle school. The recent suicide of a student has proved that our children need support.
I'm obviously a middle school teacher and while I completely understand the benefits of CSR at the elementary level, I do struggle with agreeing to furlough days in order to save CSR in K - 3 and 9th grades. We have absolutely no at risk programs (no Barton or anything else), and are dealing with class sizes that range from 32 - 34. On top of it, we are expected to keep the test scores up. Optimistic mom is correct - it is difficult for middle school teachers to take furlough days when there are no immediate benefits to our programs.
a resident of Parkside
on May 21, 2011 at 9:42 pm
So Teacher Comment just wants to add more teachers and bureaucracy at the expense of us trod upon taxpayers who are forced to let her laze about without taking any furlow days at all.
Lets' follow Kathy Ruegseger. Aren't you listning Teacher Comment! We can't afford more! Enough is enough! Like Kathy says we should be using more technology instead of more lazy teachers. I'd much rather have my sixth grade kid in a class of 45 with a good internet in front of him than some lazy and pathetic teacher who doesn't no math. Like Kathy says, someone like you will always want to remain. Even when your expendable.
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee. Not one nickle more!!!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 21, 2011 at 9:52 pm
K said:
"For example, would you consider small schools of K-3 only and slightly larger schools of 4-5 or 4-6? If 4-6, can middle schhols have a smaller population? Could high schools be subdivided into magnet academies? Would technology and assistant teachers and free work time be a better model for the classroom?"
I say good god, why would you want to do any of that. I say we should keep doing what we are doing now and not change at all. We're doing fine and our schools are good. Let the other districts tinker if they like. They are the ones with all the problems. Things are just fine as they are.
a resident of Vintage Hills Elementary School
on May 21, 2011 at 10:18 pm
I said start in the classroom and work you way out . . . I posed questions of possibilities, not absolutes. It is a conversation--change, don't change--just asked you to think about it. And to clarify, I meant a teacher with an assistant teacher, not to take teachers out of the classroom.
a resident of Downtown
on May 21, 2011 at 10:46 pm
[Post removed because it was disrepectful to another commenter and didn't further the conversation]
a resident of Vintage Hills
on May 21, 2011 at 11:13 pm
Todd, flat out wrong on all counts. And the topic, as noted in the title, invites thoughts on addressing district budget issues.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 22, 2011 at 9:00 am
Kathleen- what a switch on words- you invite thoughts on district issues yet you rewrite the superintendents letter to the paper, as you think it should have been written? Never have I read such a blatant disrespect for our leadership, and yet you claim to be a friend, a supporter? Where is that post now? Did you request it be taken down?
We will not be reforming any of the programs in our schools now as we spend all of our time preparing to go into triage mode with further cuts thanks to your "work" here. The excellence committee had many reform ideas that the community, staff, and administration came together to create- that is now lost due to lack of funding.
I believe you are disillusioned to the role you have taken in cutting major funding from our schools and the views this community has toward what you say vs. what you do.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on May 22, 2011 at 9:30 am
Stacey is a registered user.
The ideas from the Excellence Committee were NEVER funded. The Board authorized hiring more counselors from the Committee's suggestions without identifying funding, just left it up to Casey to figure out where the money would come from. Worse still, some on the board at the time suggested using one-time reserves to hire the extra staff. Others on the board thought the worse we could do was hire staff and lay them off the next year.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 22, 2011 at 9:38 am
". I would also make sure that there were 3 counselors at each middle school. The recent suicide of a student has proved that our children need support."
I disagree. I think the recent suicide of the middle school child shows that the counselors at more than one PUSD school failed. They failed to come up with good solutions.
Everyone knew this kid had problems and what did PUSD do? Transfer him to another school and then finally to the "middle school program" at Village.
I thinkt that the counselors in PUSD are not capable of dealing with true crisis. Sure, they will manage a little thing here and there, but when it comes to the real stuff, they have no idea what to do.
The type of professional help that troubled teens/kids need should be sought outside of school, with people with true credentials.
I would get rid of the counselors. That way, if a student is troubled, his/her parents can be notified and advised to seek professional help, rather than being led to believe their child is getting the help he/she needs at school.
a resident of Vintage Hills Elementary School
on May 22, 2011 at 10:01 am
I didn't start this topic and I didn't request the other be taken down. The parcel tax wasn't going to fund the ideas of the excellence committee. If it was, it should have listed them. Yes I support public education and this administration, but I don't agree with everything either. I don't think the two Haave to go hand in hand.
I'm not sure what your expectations are. I donate, I participated in the process for the parcel tax, I am one vote. I cannot believe 6000 voters are making their decisions based on my comments; that would seem to be what is delusional.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 22, 2011 at 1:17 pm
"Yes I support public education and this administration, but I don't agree with everything either. I don't think the two Haave to go hand in hand. "
Stop saying that. You do not support public education. If you did, you would not have spoken so loudly against measures E and G. After all, you benefit from a parcel tax in the community where you work.
You are an older person from what you say about having grandkids, so you are basically paying very little in taxes already. Your taxes probably do not even pay for the services you do use in Pleasanton, yet you complain about 98 dollars.
Stop saying you support schools, because you do not. How obnoxious of you to suggest you can write the letter better than the superintendent. Do you have nothing better to do but criticize everything PUSD does?
I wish your Palo Alto boss could see everything you say online.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 22, 2011 at 1:31 pm
[Post removed because it was a personal attack on another commenter and didn't further the conversation]
a resident of Bordeaux Estates
on May 22, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Well, that went downhill fast!
I was truly hoping to generate ideas for educating our students, who deserve it, on the budget we have. I am, obviously, a strong proponent of Barton because it is cost-efficient, incredibly effective, and engages members of the community in the education if its children. Middle school teacher, if you do not have Barton at your school, perhaps you need to advocate to get it there. The program exists at Harvest Park and Hart because they have requested and supported to have it there. Therefore, I can only guess you are at PMS, where it is not supported by administration (according to my sources).
We can do better for our kids than bickering and finger pointing among ourselves.
a resident of Vintage Hills Elementary School
on May 22, 2011 at 4:10 pm
You'd have to describe your idea of an older person, because I don't pay less or use more. It is not the amount of the parcel tax I have objected to, either time. I do support schools. I didn't write it better; I wrote it differently.
Sorry Really Really about the diversion. If I could control the PUSD budget, it would be important to know what parents valued for their students, what teachers need to meet those values, and how best to support those 26 or more individuals in every classroom (that's at least 25 students and a teacher). Personal biases include but are not limited to professional development and additional site support from district-wide grade level teacher specialists for collaboration on best practices to appropriate resources for students that include libraries and technology. I really would take all the money in the pot and start working from each classroom out. Maybe that would only confirm what we already have.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 22, 2011 at 5:00 pm
"You'd have to describe your idea of an older person, because I don't pay less or use more."
Really? You have been a resident of Pleasanton for a long time. So if you own a house you are paying a lot less than most people thanks to prop 13. By older I mean you have grandkids and have lived in Pleasanton a long time - maybe you started young, but it's the same concept: your property tax bill, if you own a home, is not as much as that of younger families who bought later than you, perhaps during the Bush terms.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 22, 2011 at 5:06 pm
Oh yeah and if the rest of us paid as little as those who like yourself enjoy the benefits but do not pay your share thanks to prop 13, you can be sure that there would not be money even for basic stuff like police and roads, which YOU use.
But you refuse to pay 98 dollars, maybe in the future, with no high earning work force, high property tax payers in place, since we are not educating our children properly, prop 13 will have to end!
a resident of Vintage Hills
on May 22, 2011 at 5:10 pm
I am a post prop 13 homeowner, both times we moved here. Donated more than $98, more than $233, more than one year. I think Prop 13 was the wrong answer to a real problem.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 22, 2011 at 5:20 pm
One last comment about property costs and taxes; in general for all properties: The kind of peoperty people bought in say, 1997, pays way less taxes than the same property bought later. Having paid PMI due to only a say 10 percent down, does not mean the taxes are going to services, it is a fee for not having the 20 percent down. And as for the market crash: may have had something to do with banks letting people borrow without the 20 percent down payment.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on May 22, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Those who bought in '97 may pay less than those who bought in a few subsequent years, but then the housing bubble burst, and you could practically buy a house at '97 prices (an exaggeration to make the point). Generally, the last guy buying will pay more in taxes than someone who bought the same home before he did. Also, with the downturn in housing values, homeowners seeking value reassessments (can't blame them) means there are fewer tax dollars generated.
When I first moved here, someone told me that I just had to adjust to paying for the privilege of living in California. I said I didn't mind as long as they were paying too. I doubt there is political will to change Prop 13--as time marches on, there is likely to be a large percentage of homeowners who are happy not paying as much as those just buying in.


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Stephen Cauchi January 04, 2013
An idiot driver did a burnout in front of police on Thursday night before crashing into two cars in the subsequent pursuit. He then assaulted a driver of one of the cars.
The 19-year-old male, who was driving a white Holden Commodore station wagon, did the burnout on Southbank Boulevard just after 8pm and then refused to stop for police.
With police in pursuit, the Commodore crashed into a Holden ute at the intersection of Power Street. The offending vehicle then allegedly crossed the centre median strip of Southbank Boulevard, travelled in the wrong direction up the Westgate Freeway off ramp, and crashed with a Mercedes sedan.
The offending driver then assaulted the male driver of the Mercedes sedan and fled.
Police arrested the Narre Warren man shortly after.
The driver of the Mercedes sedan, a 40-year-old man from Camberwell, was taken to The Alfred hospital with minor injuries as was his female passenger in the same vehicle.


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Despite an attractive price point, this hand cream ends up shortchanging your skin! You get mostly water, glycerin, emollient, Vaseline, silicone, fragrance, and preservative. Nice, but nothing special—and the amount of fragrance is enough to be a problem for those with sensitive or seriously dry skin.
In terms of this forming a shield on the hands that can hold up to hand-washing, that's true of lots of hand creams with oil-based emollients like this one—but those ingredients will eventually succumb to frequent hand-washing, which means you'll need to reapply this throughout the day, just like any other hand cream.
Speaking of "throughout the day," this hand cream is suitable for daytime use only if you follow it with a product rated SPF 15 or greater. Hands are vulnerable to sun damage, and this product's lack of sun protection is definitely not the "ultimate shield" if you want to prevent brown spots and crepe paper–thin skin. (Why double up on two hand products when there are hand creams with sun protection built in for daytime use?)
One more comment on the scent: The amount of fragrance in this hand cream is cause for concern (see More Info), and it's disappointing that fragrance takes precedence over the intriguing ingredients like the antioxidant vitamin E and peptides.
Daily use of products that contain a high amount of fragrance, whether the fragrant ingredients are synthetic or natural, causes chronic irritation that can damage healthy collagen production, lead to or worsen dryness, and impair your skin's ability to heal. Fragrance-free is the best way to go for all skin types. If fragrance in your skin-care products is important to you, it should be a very low amount to minimize the risk to your skin (Sources: Inflammation Research, December 2008, pages 558–563; Skin Pharmacology and Physiology, June 2008, pages 124–135, and November-December 2000, pages 358–371; Journal of Investigative Dermatology, April 2008, pages 15–19; Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, March 2008, pages 78–82; Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, January 2007, pages 92–105; and British Journal of Dermatology, December 2005, pages S13–S22).
Instantly, hands feel noticeably softer and smoother. Forms a defensive shield that lasts through hand washing. Contains Cationic Conditioning Technology with Natural Moisturization Factor to help prevent moisture loss. Non-greasy.
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Sally Hansen At-A-Glance
Strengths: Inexpensive and widely available; provides complete ingredient lists on the Web site; some fun lip products; a handful of worthwhile cuticle moisturizers; Airbrush Legs is an intriguing alternative to body makeup and hosiery; one good lip gloss.
Weaknesses: An abundance of mediocre to poor lip products loaded with irritants; most of the hand creams lack sun protection; several foot creams with irritating fragrant oils; no well-formulated exfoliants for managing dry, cracked skin and calluses on feet; spray-on self-tanner contains a lot of alcohol.
Sally Hansen, having long been synonymous with affordable, well-distributed manicure products, without question is a well-recognized staple on drugstore shelves around the country. Owned by global beauty brand conglomerate Coty, Inc., Sally Hansen has now dipped its perfectly polished toes into selling makeup and a broad selection of body-care products, most focused on hand and foot care. This range of lip, hand, foot, and novelty body-care products extends well beyond this brand's bread-and-butter nail polish and dubious "nail strengthening" products, giving Sally Hansen even more visibility.
Sally Hansen's new lip product selection is so large that in many stores it occupies a display that is entirely separate from their vast selection of nail products. Dubbed the Lip Lab, this section of the Sally Hansen display is where you'll find an assortment of lip plumpers, lip moisturizers, and so-called lip treatments, nearly all of which claim to make lips look fuller and younger. Of course the sculpting, lifting, and plumping claims are outrageous and deceptive, but what's worse is the ingredients in almost every one of these products end up doing just the opposite of the claims because they include irritants like rosemary and peppermint extracts, which actually break down collagen and impair the lips' protective barrier. Not surprisingly, the lip plumpers are the worst offenders; with ingredients like cinnamon, ginger, and black pepper, they deliver some of the most acutely painful experience we've endured from applying a lip product. None of these products come close to professionally administered lip injections, although the claims are certainly intended to lead you to believe otherwise.
Hansen's makeup range extends beyond the lips, with a few spray-on tan and shimmer products, although we're not sure why they added these ancillary products. Regrettably, most of the makeup products are a disappointment and poorly formulated. There are a handful of reasonably priced lip products that make lips look lovely without making them hurt, too. As if copied straight from the department store brand trends, two of Sally Hansen's best products are veritable knock-offs of Smashbox and M.A.C. lip glosses—at less than half the price! Also worth noting is Sally Hansen's unique Airbrush Legs spray-on body makeup, which looks, feels, and wears better than expected.
If you're shopping this brand for hand and nail care, prepare to be overwhelmed. The selection of hand creams and cuticle products is daunting, and frustrating, too. Why frustrating? Mostly because the formulas are repetitive, but they have different claims, which makes no sense. As for the claims themselves, prepare to read about everything, from oils stimulating nail growth to minerals making nails stronger to vitamin E being the cure-all for ragged cuticles. The company can't make up their mind about what works.
None of this is legitimate, but when you're offering as many hand and cuticle options as Sally Hansen does, you have to have product-specific hooks or consumers may be tempted to look elsewhere. Overall, there is nothing spectacular about most of these hand and cuticle products, although there are a couple of inexpensive options worth your attention.
When it comes to foot care, Sally Hansen offers several creams, balms, and odor-fighting products. Most are gimmicky and have average formulas and some contain irritating ingredients that no one's feet truly need. Perhaps most disappointing is the company's limited offerings for dry, cracked skin on the feet. They offer only thick moisturizers, but those aren't enough to handle the problem. Those help, but if you're not taking steps to remove the thickened layers of unsightly dead skin, you'll see little improvement. What you need is an exfoliant before the moisturizer, but there is not such an option in this line. That's to your detriment, because skipping the exfoliation step is like covering acne with a layer of makeup rather than taking steps to treat the blemish and encourage healing.
For more information about Sally Hansen, owned by Coty, call (800) 953-5080 or visit www.sallyhansen.com.
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Here We Go Magic frontman Luke Temple has released a soulful new track, Florida. The song is part of his upcoming solo LP, Good Mood Fool, set for release on October 15 via Secretly Canadian. Florida and its two single predecessors, Katie and a cover of Curtis Mayfield's Suffer, show Temple's musical direction drifting apart from Here We Go Magic's.
The song's warm bassline is accompanied by some thought-provoking lyrics inspired by a friend who became addicted to drugs after her father's death. Lines like "Florida, don't let your daddy get you down/That good in you will make it easier somehow," paired with Temple's almost pleading vocals give the tune a sense of power that will inevitably hit some emotional chords. Stream the track below.


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A boy accused of murdering his neo-Nazi father when he was 10 years old went on trial in California on Tuesday, with prosecutors portraying the child as violent and troubled and a defense lawyer saying he acted to protect his family.
Both sides agree that Joseph Hall, now 12, shot his father, Jeffrey Hall, at near point-blank range on May 1, 2011. He is being tried in juvenile court and could be sent to a juvenile facility until age 23.
The closely watched case in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, has drawn attention for Jeffrey Hall's neo-Nazi associations and for the unusual circumstance of such a young child accused of murdering a parent.
Because Joseph Hall is a juvenile, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Jean Leonard, who is conducting the two-week trial, will not decide guilt or innocence, but make a finding of whether the allegations are true - a decision that hinges on the boy's understanding of right and wrong at the time.
"Joseph has had trouble all of his life. He's attacked teachers, tried to stab them and strangle them with cords. Every institution expelled him," Riverside County Deputy District Attorney Michael Soccio told the court in opening remarks.
"Jeffrey Hall was given full custody of Joseph and his sister. He tried to help him. His son had these issues long before he was a Nazi and (was) just a plumber. (Joseph) has ADD (attention deficit disorder), impulsivity and a violent streak," Soccio said.
The prosecutor, who displayed grisly photographs of the slain man showing a bullet wound above his left ear, said Joseph Hall knew that the gun was dangerous and had planned the crime, telling his sister about his intentions the day before.
"He understood that if he shot someone in the head, they'd be gone," Soccio said. "He knew what he did was wrong. He knew full well what that meant."
But Riverside County Deputy Public Defender Matt Hardy, in his opening statement, focused on the boy's upbringing by a father with ties to the National Socialist Movement that had "conditioned him with racism and violence."
The defense attorney said Jeffrey Hall, 32, took his son to neo-Nazi rallies. Child protective services had been called to the home 20 times, Hall added.
"Joseph, for his own reasons, decided to kill his father, to protect himself and his family, to stop the violence and be a hero," he said.
Hardy said that on the night before the shooting, Jeffrey Hall had gone to a National Socialist Movement party and left the gathering with a woman, returning home at 3:30 a.m.
On the night before the killing, Hardy said, Jeffrey Hall sent a text message to his wife, Joseph Hall's stepmother, reading: "Bitch, get out of the house, I'm divorcing you."
Joseph Hall attended the proceedings but showed little reaction to the statements or to the grim photographs of his dead father.
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Educational and professional qualifications
|Postgraduate Certificate Higher Education , Kingston University
|PhD Globalisation and Human Rights In Colombia , Middlesex University
|Certificate in Research Methods , Middlesex Univerity
|BSc Hons Economics and Sociology , Bristol University
Professional experience (post-1990)
|Principal Lecturer, Kingston University
|Senior Lecturer, Kingston University
|Assistant Researcher, Kingston University
|Part-time Lecturer, Kingston University
Undergraduate courses:
Level 1 Studying Politics
Level 2 Introduction to Latin American Countries
Level 3 Themes in Latin American Politics
Level 3 Crimes of the Powerful
Level 3 Marxist Political Thought
Postgraduate courses:
Masters International Political Economy
Research supervision
Second Supervisor of PhD candidate on Security and Development in Nigeria
Supervisor of six Master students dissertations per year
Supervisor of six undergradutae Level 3 dissertations per year.
Research areas
|Helen Bamber Centre for the Study of Rights, Conflict and Mass Violence
International connections
|Brasilia University, Brazil
|UNAM, Mexico
|University of Tolima, Colombia
Research outputs
Higginbottom, Andrew (2014) 'Imperialist rent' in practice and theory. Globalizations, 11(1), pp. 23-33. ISSN (print) 1474-7731
Higginbottom, Andrew (2013) The political economy of foreign investment in Latin America: dependency revisited. Latin American Perspectives, 40(3), pp. 184-206. ISSN (print) 0094-582X
Higginbottom, Andrew (2012) Structure and essence in 'Capital I': extra surplus-value and the stages of capitalism. Journal of Australian Political Economy(70), pp. 251-270. ISSN (print) 0156-5826
Higginbottom, Andrew (2011) Gold Mining in South Africa reconsidered: new mode of exploitation, theories of imperialism and 'Capital'. Économies et Sociétés, Série 'Developpement, croissance et progres'(45), pp. 261-288. ISSN (print) 0013-0567
Higginbottom, Andy (2008) Solidarity action research as methodology: the crimes of the powerful in Colombia. Latin American Perspectives, 35(5), pp. 158-170. ISSN (print) 0094-582X
Book Section
Higginbottom, Andy (2016) Anti-apartheid, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism : liberation in South Africa? In: Ness, Immanuel and Cope, Zac, (eds.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. New York, U.S. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 544-569. ISBN 9780230392779
Higginbottom, Andy (2012) New Strategies for Mobilising International Public Opinion against the Corporate Takeover of Latin America. In: Novelli, Mario and Ferus-Comelo, Anibel, (eds.) Globalization, Knowledge and Labour: Education for Solidarity within Spaces of Resistance. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 182-205. (Rethinking Globalizations) ISBN 9780415436632
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Higginbottom, Andrew (2011) The limits to Harvey : capital's contradictions and imperialism. In: Eighth Historical Materialism Annual Conference: Spaces of Capital, Moments of Struggle; 10 - 13 Nov 2011, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Higginbottom, Andrew (2010) Underdevelopment as super-exploitation: Marini's political-economic thought. In: Historical Materialism: Crisis and Critique, 7th Annual Conference; 11-14 Nov 2010, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)


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If Nelle Harper Lee ever wanted proof that fame has its drawbacks, she didn't have to look farther than her childhood neighbor, Truman Capote. After her enormously successful first novel, she lived a life as private as Capote's was public.
Nelle—her first name was her grandmother's spelled backward—was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama. Her mother, Frances Cunningham Finch Lee, was a homemaker. Her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, practiced law. Before A.C. Lee became a title lawyer, he once defended two black men accused of murdering a white storekeeper. Both clients, a father and son, were hanged.
As a child, Harper Lee was an unruly tomboy. She fought on the playground. She talked back to teachers. She was bored with school and resisted any sort of conformity. The character of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird would have liked her. In high school Lee was fortunate to have a gifted English teacher, Gladys Watson Burkett, who introduced her to challenging literature and the rigors of writing well. Lee loved nineteenth-century British authors best, and once said that her ambition was to become "the Jane Austen of south Alabama."
Unable to fit in with the sorority she joined at the University of Alabama, she found a second home on the campus newspaper. Eventually she became editor-in-chief of the Rammer Jammer, a quarterly humor magazine on campus. She entered the law school, but she "loathed" it. Despite her father's hopes that she would become a local attorney like her sister Alice, Lee went to New York to pursue her writing.
She spent eight years working odd jobs before she finally showed a manuscript to Tay Hohoff, an editor at J.B. Lippincott. At this point, it still resembled a string of stories more than the novel that Lee had intended. Under Hohoff's guidance, the perspective was changed to Scout as a child, and two and a half years of rewriting followed. When the novel was finally ready for publication, the author opted for the name "Harper Lee" on the cover, because she didn't want to be misidentified as "Nellie."
To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed the bestseller lists, where it remained for eighty-eight weeks. In 1961, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize.
Lee later researched a book, similar to Capote's In Cold Blood (1966), about a part-time minister in Alexander City, Alabama, accused of killing five people for their insurance money and later himself murdered by a victim's relative. However, she dropped the project in the 1990s. It wasn't until February of 2015 that news of a second novel surfaced, when Lee's publisher announced a newly discovered manuscript for Go Set a Watchman, the novel Lee wrote before To Kill a Mockingbird.
In the meantime, To Kill a Mockingbird has sold more than thirty million copies in forty languages. In 2011, President Obama awarded her the National Medal of Arts. According to biographer Charles J. Shields, Lee was unprepared for the amount of personal attention associated with writing a bestseller. She led a quiet and guardedly private life. As Sheriff Tate says of Boo Radley, "draggin' him with his shy ways into the limelight—to me, that's a sin." So it would be with Harper Lee.
Nelle Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends in the early 1930s as kindergarteners in Monroeville, Alabama. They lived next door to each other: Capote with aunts and uncles, Lee with her parents and three siblings. From the start they loved reading and recognized in each other "an apartness," as Capote later expressed it. When Lee's father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories. Although Capote moved to New York City in the third grade to join his mother and stepfather, he returned to Monroeville most summers, eventually providing the inspiration for Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird.
In 1948 Capote published his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms. Around that time, Lee quit law school and joined Capote in New York to work at becoming a writer, too. Years of menial jobs followed until To Kill a Mockingbird was ready for publication. Capote read the manuscript and made editorial suggestions. She, in her turn, accompanied him to Kansas to help research In Cold Blood.
After To Kill a Mockingbird was published, Capote resented Lee's success. He could have tried harder to dispel baseless rumors that the novel was as much his work as hers. Their friendship continued during the 1960s and '70s, but Capote's drug and alcohol abuse strained the relationship. Later he would stop publishing and sink into self-parody, sponging off high society and making endless rounds of the talk-show circuit. When Capote died in 1984, Lee confided to friends that she hadn't heard from him in years.


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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (August 4, 2012) – An accomplished colt with graded-stakes wins on his résumé, Stud El Aguila's Indiano proved too classy for his eight overmatched sprinting rivals when running off to a 5 ½-length victory in the $55,000 Giant Ryan Stakes at Calder Casino & Race Course Saturday, running the 6 ½-furlong distance over a fast track in 1:16.84.
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"When we came to the stretch, I just had to touch him a little, and when I did he took off," Saez said
Trained by Marty Wolfson, Indiano returned $3.20, $2.60, and $2.20 for his popular win. Abdel's Ghost paid $7.20 and $5.20 when holding on for second, while the late-running Close It Out returned $3.20 when beaten an additional 1 ¾ lengths in third.
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Submitted to: Western Section of Animal Science Proceedings
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Citation: SHORT, R., HEITSCHMIDT, R.K. SOME THOUGHTS ON ANIMAL AGRICULTURE, TECHNOLOGY, ENERGY, HUMANS, ANIMAL SCIENCE, AND HOW IT ALL FITS TOGETHER. WESTERN SECTION OF ANIMAL SCIENCE PROCEEDINGS. 51:9-17. 2000. Interpretive Summary: The world we live in is changing rapidly, and these changes are creating unique problems and opportunities for animal agriculture. These problems must be addressed, and the solutions are best identified by a coordinated, scientific approach. The American Society of Animal Science and The Western Section, ASAS are well suited, based on historical contributions, to be major players in this coordinated, scientific solution to problems so that animal agriculture will continue well into this century as the major supplier of high quality foods and other services to humans.
Technical Abstract: Agriculture is the management or manipulation of the natural (land, water, air, and energy) and biological resources and processes whereby solar energy is captured and processed by plants and animals to produce food, fiber, and other products to provide for the well-being of humans. Cultural energy is that energy applied to do the work to manage and manipulate resources to accomplish agriculture. This work is performed by humans, draft animals, and a variety of engines, motors, tools, and machines, with the energy to accomplish the work being derived from within the system (e.g., food for humans and draft animals or renewable biofuels such as wood and plant oils for engines) or external to the system (e.g., nonrenewable fossil fuels and nuclear energy for motors and engines). Several problems confront modern day agriculture: 1) human populations are increasing exponentially but natural resources to drive agriculture are stable or decreasing. 2) Fossil fuels are the main source of cultural energy. These fuels are finite and have potential negative effects on the system. 3) Agriculture is becoming heavily industrialized which presents unique social and pollution problems. 4) Agriculture is a minor part of developed nation's economic structure and suffers from societal constraints on use of animals and access to technology and natural resources, all of which are vital to the continued success of the ability of agriculture to meet the needs of the earth's human population.


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Ozarks celebrates Earth Day 2007
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University President Dr. Rick Niece puts the first spade-full of soil around a small red-oak tree that was planted on campus as part of the Earth Day 2007 celebration. Several student organizations worked together to coordinate the week-long celebration.
On Wednesday, representatives from various environmental groups and student organizations set up educational booths on the campus mall.


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This Saturday I will be giving a public presentation, with video, at the Presidio Yacht Club in Fort Baker at the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge in Sausalito. This place has special memories for me – last summer's successful row from San Francisco to Hawaii launched from there. The presentation is free and will be followed by a "Santa Maria" Barbeque dinner downstairs … Continued
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The debate over commission rate grids – the split of commissions shared between the company and advisers – is often a talking point.
He tipped that more firms would lower commission rates paid to brokers so as to share the higher cost burden.
There are various tiers but industry estimates have advisers receiving about a 40 per cent to 50 per cent cut of commissions.
Morris said rates needed to fall to somewhere between 35 per cent to 50 per cent – the range now paid at Ord Minnett, which is weighted by how much commission a broker earns for the firm.
The departures of UBS private client advisers
The pair are among UBS's biggest revenue writers, and are considering setting up a boutique advisory firm. Insiders claim as many as 12 other UBS employees, largely based in Melbourne, including some support staff, may follow.
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Morris said broking houses had borne too much of the pain through lower returns on their investment.
Another senior broker agreed. "Something has to give [on commission-sharing arrangements]," he said.
But as trading volumes wavered last year, advisers also took a big hit to their bottom lines. Some looked for other ways to boost their pay, including large sign-on bonuses.
There has also been a rush in recent years into the shadow broking market, which was a topic of conversation at the annual Stockbrokers Association of Australia conference last week.
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Our Wonderful Master Bath/Dressing AreaMonday, September 6th, 2010
As always with pictures on the internet, the colors are a bit off. The room isn't even close to the yellow shown in the picture, but the wonderful outcome of the project still comes through.
Once again, you'll notice the superb craftsmanship of the cabinets created by our cabinet maker, Tom Woodruff.
We got the hardware from Rejuvenation House Parts in Portland Oregon.
Originally we were leaning towards black hardware, but Tom talked us into going with the chrome.
We are not sorry. It looks great!
Notice the glass work along the top of the enclosed toilet towards the back. Our contractor, John Meuller, designed this transom feature.
The toilet stall is very small and would be very dark if it weren't for the natural light this feature allows in.
We are extremely pleased with how this turned out.
We got the ceiling light fixtures from the Rebuilding Center in Portland Oregon. They sell vintage house parts recycled from old houses that have been torn down.
Though the lighting fixtures don't show up well in the picture, they are perfect for the house. We will have a separate post about them later.
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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty brings Single-player campaign experience onto the next level. This time, there is in-game interaction, upgrading your components and stuff but most importantly, the plot will blow you away. Do take note that at some points in the campaign, you will be prompted to make a decision.
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For those who aren't aware, there is a mini-game "Lost Vikings" in the single-player campaign itself. Try figure out where it is. (Hint: it's pretty obvious).
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I have to confess that I am no expert to tell you the very micro balance mechanics between each unit or how a map should be made to be balanced. Battles and unit control in StarCraft II is simply awesome. The usual shortcut keys and that familiar feel of the original StarCraft still remains. Awesome firefights, zerglings drop and your hit and run experiences are top notch.
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allowed themselves to be rather attracted by his pictures, self-distrustfully bought
one or two of them at prices which would appear so incredibly low, in these days,
that I really cannot venture to quote them. The picture was sent home; the
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ask the artist to his house and introduce him to the distinguished individuals who
frequented it; but would never admit his picture, on terms of equality, into the
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predecessors; and its only points selected for praise were those in which it most
nearly resembled the peculiar mannerism of some Old Master, not those in which
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than doubtful old pictures at great prices. The consequence was, that some of
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the very few of them who still remain alive.
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