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How does feeling powerful prepare individuals for exercising self-control, i.e. to pursue long-term goals? Laypeople seem to agree that powerful people such as organizational or political leaders should be particularly persistent, disciplined, and responsible (Lord, Foti, & Vader, 1984). Two influential theories in power research – the approach/inhibition theory of power (Keltner et al., 2003) and the social distance theory of power (Magee & Smith, 2013) – make opposite predictions with regard to the effects of power on self-control.
Within the framework of the approach/inhibition theory of power, Keltner and colleagues suggest that (1) high power activates the behavioral approach system which is sensitive to rewards and opportunities, and (2) low power activates the behavioral inhibition system which is sensitive to punishment, threat, and uncertainty. Briefly summarized, Keltner and colleagues propose that high power triggers approach-related positive affect, attention to rewards, automatic cognition, and disinhibited behavior, whereas reduced power activates inhibition-related negative affect, systematic cognition, and situationally constrained behavior. Accordingly, due to their heightened attention to rewards and their drive to experience these rewards immediately, powerful people should show relatively poor self-control.
In contrast, the social distance theory of power (Magee & Smith, 2013) assumes that high-power individuals exhibit better self-control than low-power individuals. Magee and Smith propose that asymmetric dependence between two individuals gives rise to asymmetric experiences of social distance, with the high-power individual feeling more subjective distance than the low-power individual. Based on assumptions of construal level theory (Trope & Liberman, 2010), the authors assume that because high-power individuals perceive larger social distance, they engage in more abstract mental representation (i.e., higher level construal) than low-power individuals. High-level construals have been shown to have a positive effect on self-control (e.g., Fujita, Trope, Liberman, & Levin-Sagi, 2006; Schmeichel, Vohs, & Duke, 2011). Accordingly, due to their use of high-level construal of goals and situations, powerful people should show good self-control.
In line with the assumptions of the social distance theory of power, Joshi and Fast (2013) showed in three studies that experimentally induced social power benefits the pursuit of long-term goals by reducing the preference for smaller immediate gains over larger future gains (i.e., temporal discounting). When two theories make different predictions and only one is supported, the question arises as to what extent the other theory should be modified or discarded. Given the practical importance of self-control among powerful individuals, research must identify the conditions under which one or the other theory is correct.
However, considering that the only available evidence on the research question comes from a single lab, it seems reasonable to first ask if the effect found by Joshi and Fast (2013) is robust before future research can systematically explore moderators of the effect. This first step is an important one: As all findings result from a combination of signal (an underlying effect) and noise (systematic error in form of moderators as well as unsystematic error in form of measurement error), direct replication is the only way to separate the noise from the signal and average across different types of error (Simons, 2014).
The current work was an attempt to replicate Study 3 from Joshi and Fast (2013). This study was chosen for two reasons. First, it is the only one that had a 3-cell design (high power, low power and control condition) and would therefore show whether the effect is attributable to high or low power (Singh, 1998). Second, it was assumed that preferences for gains in air quality (nonmonetary temporal discounting) would be more comparable across industrialized nations (USA vs. Germany/Switzerland) than preferences for monetary rewards where differences in currency, purchasing power, and inflation might play a role.
In the original web-based study, 78 students experienced a power or control priming, then completed a measure of connection with their future self and finally the nonmonetary temporal discounting task. We conducted a pre-registered direct replication study (osf.io/um3rq) based on the Replication Recipe (Brandt et al., 2014) using a substantially larger sample. A successful replication would find a significant effect of the power manipulation, in that participants in the high power condition would have lower discount rates than participants in the neutral and low power conditions.
All study materials and procedures can be accessed via osf.io/dqr4m. The present research was done in accordance with the checklist issued by the responsible ethics committee of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zurich, meaning that no formal approval was needed. This research respects the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct by the American Psychological Association (APA) as well as the Ethics Guidelines for Psychologists by the Swiss Psychological Society.
Sample size was determined based on considerations of statistical power. Simonsohn (2015) noted that the conventional approach of using the effect size estimate of the original study may be problematic. First, publication bias may inflate published effect sizes. Second, a replication may be uninformative when the confidence interval of the replication effect size does not only include zero, but also a detectable effect, that is, an effect size that the original study could have detected with 33% power. According to the recommendations by Simonsohn (2015) at least 2.5 times as many observations as the original study should be collected to have about 80% power to reject the null hypothesis of a detectable effect (i.e., in this case NOriginal = 78, minimum NReplication = 195). In the present case, a power analysis assuming Joshi and Fast's (2013) sample size, equal per cell sample sizes1 and statistical power of 33% indicated that the minimum detectable effect was equal to Cohen's d = 0.35. The desired sample size was set to NReplication = 258 because this affords 80% power to reject the null hypothesis that the effect is zero if the effect is detectable (i.e., d = 0.35) and (at least) 80% power to reject the null hypothesis of a detectable effect if the effect is in fact zero.
In total, 636 participants gave their consent to participate in the study (210 participants in the high power condition, 218 participants in the control condition, 208 participants in the low power condition). On the third page of the online questionnaire where participants were meant to experience the power priming, 129 participants in the high power condition, 69 participants in the control condition, and 103 participants in the low power condition dropped out. Comparing all three groups, the dropout rates differed significantly, χ2(2) = 38.64, p < .01. Taking only the two power conditions into consideration, the dropout rates still differed significantly, χ2(1) = 5.53, p = .02, with 61% vs. 50% dropping out of the study after reading the instructions for the high vs. low power priming. This could be a cause for concern if dropout was systematically related to individual differences. Unfortunately, participants were asked for their demographics (gender and age) only at the very end of the experiment (in line with Joshi & Fast). Accordingly, we were not able to test if gender and condition interact in predicting dropout rates. However, if this was the case we would observe different proportions of men in women in the three conditions, which we do not, χ2(2) = 0.82, p = .66 (high power: 36% men, control: 40% men, low power: 43% men). Furthermore, if age was confounded with condition, we would observe differences in the mean age across the three conditions, which we do not either, F(2,278) = 0.04, p = 0.96 (high power: 27.24 years, control: 27.29 years, low power: 27.56 years). Likewise, proportions of students vs. professionals did not differ across conditions, χ2(2) = 0.09, p = .96 (high power: 45% students, control: 45% students, low power: 47% students). In light of these results, we believe that systematic dropout does not affect the validity of our manipulation.
Finally, several participants were excluded based on the following a priori exclusion rules: no answers to either the questions referring to the connection to the future self or the temporal discounting questions (31 participants), inconsistent discounting pattern (16 participants), no discounting at all (6 participants), no meaningful description of the situation in which they had/did not have power/were shopping (19 participants). In summary, 22 participants in the high power condition, 24 participants in the control condition and 26 participants in the low power condition were excluded. The exclusion rates did not differ significantly across condition, χ2(2) = 4.768, p = .092. The final sample consisted of 263 participants (Mage = 27.21 years, SD = 7.21 years), 98 men, 147 women and 18 participants of unknown gender.
A convenience sample was invited via snowball sampling to take part in an online study on decision behavior. Participants gave their written consent and were then randomly assigned to one of the following three conditions: participants recalled and wrote about a situation when they had power (high power, 59 participants), or when they lacked power (low power, 79 participants) or when they last went to the grocery store (control condition, 125 participants). Following the power manipulation, participants completed a measure of connection with the future self. Participants selected one of seven, increasingly overlapping pairs of circles to indicate how "connected" and how "similar" they felt to their selves in 10 years. These two items were averaged to form a measure of participant's connection with his/her future self with higher values indicating a stronger connection.
The next part of the study consisted in the nonmonetary temporal discounting task. Within this paradigm, a participant makes a number of choices between a larger and several smaller rewards, where the smaller reward is available sooner than the larger one (Green & Myerson, 2004; Smith & Hantula, 2008). Participants were provided with eight binary choices between "improved air quality immediately for 21 days" and "improved air quality one year from now for [number of] days." The number of days in the future was 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, or 35. A single indifference point for each participant was obtained. This is the point at which participants equally value present and future gains. It was calculated by averaging the number of days between which participants switched from preferring the present option to preferring the future option. A high indifference point represents a tendency to prefer a smaller and more immediate reward or a failure to consider long-term potential consequences.
Next, participants completed the Personal Sense of Power Scale (Anderson, John, & Keltner, 2012). Participants stated their agreement to 8 items such as "I think I have a great deal of power" on a scale from 1 (I disagree) to 5 (I agree). Cronbach's alpha was α = .72. All the original materials for the study were available from the authors. All instructions were direct translations.
After the direct replication, we collected additional measures that are not relevant for present purposes. For more information on the procedure and results related to these measures please consult the separate report on the Open Science Framework (osf.io/j67ep). Finally, participants were asked for their demographics.
A few details differed between our study and that of Joshi and Fast (2013) beyond the obvious differences in language and national context. First, we did not counterbalance the order of the connection with the future self scale and the temporal discounting task because the former was described as a mediating variable by Joshi and Fast. Second, our sample did not only include students (110 participants) but also professionals (135 participants, no such information available for 18 participants). Although professionals were older (Mstudent = 24.55, SD = 2.92; Mprofessional = 29.38, SD = 8.77), t(169.02) = 6.01, p < .01, and reported a slightly higher socioeconomic status (Mstudent = 3.12, SD = 0.84; Mprofessional = 3.31, SD = 0.94), t(241.06) = 1.77, p = .08, these two groups were collapsed as the effects in the two groups were similar. Third, in the original experiment participants took part in exchange for course credit. In our replication, participants were invited to take part in a prize draw, in which they could win one of three vouchers worth 30 CHF/30 EUR (corresponding to approximately 33 USD) each.
Two coders, who were blind to both conditions and hypotheses, categorized what type of relationship (e.g., manager – subordinate, teacher – student) was described in participants' responses to the writing prompts. They were instructed to reach agreement for this categorization. Table 1 shows that 98.3% of participants in the high power and 92.4% of participants in the low power condition wrote about experiencing power (or the lack thereof) in various relationships. Their responses were rated by the same two coders for how much power the participant reported having using a scale ranging from 1 (none at all) to 5 (very much). The interrater reliability (agreement definition) was good, ICC = .84. We used the mean rating of two raters as dependent variable for the manipulation check. Participants described themselves as having more power in the high-power essays (M = 4.02, SD = 0.58) than in the low-power essays (M = 1.39, SD = 0.66), t(127) = 23.66, p < .01.
|Type of relationship
|High power condition
|Control condition
|Low power condition
|Manager – subordinate
|Parent – child
|Teacher – student
|Romantic/dating/sexual partners
|No power relationship/Unclear
A one-factorial ANOVA on the personal sense of power revealed no difference across conditions, F(2,259) = 0.28, p = .75, ηp2 = 0.002, 95% CI [0, 0.02]. Furthermore, there were no significant differences between conditions in temporal discounting, F(2,260) = 0.27, p = .76, ηp2 = 0.002, 95% CI [0, 0.02], or the felt connection with the future self, F(2,260) = 0.20, p = .82, ηp2 = 0.002, 95% CI [0, 0.02] (for descriptives see Table 2).
|High power condition (n = 59)
|Control Condition (n = 125)
|Low power condition (n = 79)
|Personal sense of power
|3.97 (0.48)
|3.91 (0.59)
|3.93 (0.47)
|Connection with future self
|4.30 (1.45)
|4.31 (1.44)
|4.42 (1.39)
|Discount factor
|0.39 (0.27)
|0.42 (0.26)
|0.43 (0.25)
Table 3 shows the intercorrelations of all measured variables. Only one correlation was significant: Personal sense of power was positively related to a stronger connection with the future self. Although only correlational evidence, this supports Joshi and Fast's reasoning that high power should increase the connection with the future self.
|Personal sense of power
|Connection with future self
|Connection with future self
|Discount factor
Joshi and Fast (2013) reported a significant contrast between participants in the high-power condition and those in the low-power and baseline conditions combined. The same analysis performed on the present data indicated a non-significant difference in the same direction as the effect reported by Joshi and Fast (2013), t(261) = 0.71, p = .48, d = 0.09, 95% CI [–0.15, 0.33]. Thus, the confidence interval indicates that the effect is consistent with the null hypothesis of no effect but inconsistent with the null hypothesis of a detectable effect (which was determined to be d = .35 see above). As for the presumed mediator of the effect observed by Joshi and Fast (2013), high-power participants did not score higher on the measure of connection with the future self than did participants in the other two conditions, t(261) = 0.33, p = .74, d = 0.04, 95% CI [–0.20, 0.28].
Replication constitutes an important contribution to cumulative science because it allows for testing the robustness of results and hence provides researchers with greater confidence about the existence and direction of effects (Brandt et al., 2014; Klein et al., 2014). Given the importance of understanding the relationship between social power and self-control, we sought to replicate Joshi and Fast's (2013, Study 3) finding that power increases self-control (d = .53). Using a much larger sample size but nearly identical procedures as Joshi and Fast we obtained a much smaller effect (d = 0.09, 95% CI [–0.15, 0.33]). This non-significant effect is informative because it is significantly smaller than an effect that would give the original study a statistical power of 33% (i.e., the minimum detectable effect; Simonsohn, 2015) and that the current research had 80% statistical power to detect (i.e., d = .35). One straightforward implication of this result is that future replication studies relying on the procedures used by Joshi and Fast (2013) should be prepared to collect even larger samples to achieve adequate statistical power.
Ultimately, though, researchers are likely to be more interested in the validity of the theoretical claims about the effects of social power than in the reproducibility of one particular study using a specific methodology. On the face of it, the null finding regarding the relation of power and discounting would seem to disconfirm the predictions derived from both the social distance theory of power (predicting a negative effect) and the approach/inhibition theory of power (predicting a positive effect). However, every empirical study involves auxiliary assumptions regarding the operations and measures used to test a theory, and those may be wrong as well. Most prominently, the validity of the manipulation and measures might be questioned.
Temporal discounting as operationalization of self-control is a well validated and common paradigm in psychology and economics. It has successfully been used in pathological (e.g., substance addicts, MacKillop, Amlung, Few, Ray, Sweet, & Munafò, 2011; pathological gamblers, Dixon, Marley, & Jacobs, 2003) as well as in normal populations, in student as well as non-student populations (e.g., Buono, Whiting, & Sprong, 2015), in the USA as well as in Germany and Switzerland (e.g., Gianotti, Figner, Ebstein, & Knoch, 2012; Peters, & Büchel, 2009).
Admittedly, the air quality delay discounting task that was employed in the original study differed in two aspects from more widely used versions of this task: the number of delays and the discounted reward. Although it is more common to administer temporal discounting tasks with several delays, the one-shot discounting task chosen by Joshi and Fast should yield comparable results to a more comprehensive version of this task. Reimers, Maylor, Stewart, and Chater (2009) compared a one-shot discounting task with a discounting task with several delays and obtained comparable results. In a similar vein, Yi, Pitcock, Landes, and Bickel (2010) found that valid and sensitive discounting indices can be obtained with fewer indifference points than the standard number of 5 or 7. Regarding the nature of the discounted reward, an improvement in air quality for 21 days may seem relatively intangible (and maybe irrelevant) in comparison to receiving (hypothetical) monetary rewards for oneself. However, previous studies showed that temporal discounting occurs when environmental rewards are in question (e.g., air and water quality, Guyse, Keller, & Eppel, 2002; nuclear and hazardous wastes, Moser, Stauffacher, Smieszek, Seidl, Krütli, & Scholz, 2013; improvements in green space and storm-water control as well as reducing greenhouse gasses, Richards & Green, 2015). Furthermore, we did not find an effect of social power on monetary temporal discounting either2 (see supplementary material available at osf.io/j67ep).
Regarding the manipulation of power, it must be noted that the episodic power priming is also a widespread paradigm (Galinsky, Rucker, & Magee, 2015) that has already been successfully used in German and Swiss samples (e.g., Schmid & Schmid Mast, 2013; Scholl & Sassenberg, 2014). In fact, noting that sometimes one and the same article reports similar findings across studies with priming or role-based manipulations, power researchers have argued for the superiority of priming manipulations because it "remove[s] issues of conscious awareness or intent" (Smith & Trope, 2006, p. 580) or because "it can be difficult to manipulate power in an ethical, believable, and effective way in the laboratory" (Smith & Galinsky, 2010, p. 928).
However, we think it is possible that the simplicity of this paradigm is offset by its inability to reliably produce a sense of power that would affect participant's decision-making – at least when administered online. Although our manipulation check indicated that participants followed instructions and provided examples of situations that differed in experienced power, a closer look at the properties of the texts produced by participants reveals that the intensity of the manipulation may have been rather low. Participants in this online study wrote on average 264 characters (SD = 246, range from 13 to 2352 characters) and took about Mdn = 197 seconds to do so. Assuming that the average reading speed (German, aloud) is 11.5 characters per second (SD = 5.5, Trauzettel-Klosinski & Dietz, 2012) and the average typing speed is 2.82 characters per second (Soukoreff & Mackenzie, 1995), participants would have needed about 118 seconds on average for reading and writing and accordingly would have had 79 seconds left to find a suitable situation and put themselves in this situation. This might not have been enough time to really experience the imagined situation. In fact, the differences in sense of power that we observed across conditions were non-significant and negligible in terms of effect size. Although this may in part be due to the fact that we did not modify the original items so that they would explicitly refer to the current situation (as opposed to the dispositional sense of power), it is noteworthy that a standard power manipulation did not leave its mark on a reliable measure of felt power.
In order to enhance the effectiveness of the episodic priming manipulation, a reviewer suggested freezing the survey on the manipulation page and asking participants to visualize the respective situation (e.g., by adding the prompt to picture the faces of the other people involved, to imagine talking with the person and to try to feel the other people there with them). We agree that these additional instructions may serve to intensify the priming manipulation. Another explanation for our inability to replicate the effect of power on self-control could be a weak explicit concept association between social power and self-control. Given that priming occurs as a result of spreading activation of related concepts in memory, larger effects should be found for strongly associated concept pairs (Salomon, 2016). We have reason to believe that the concepts of power and self-control might be only weakly associated (data from an unrelated pilot study).
In summary, as the power manipulation used here did not affect felt power, it seems fair to begin by questioning the superiority of the episodic priming paradigm rather than by concluding that there is no effect of social power on self-control. Perhaps the claim that "[a]ll the ways of manipulating power seem to have similar effects" (Smith & Galinsky, 2010, p. 928) should be evaluated more systematically, either through meta-analysis or via pre-registered comparisons. The alternative hypothesis would be that some of the effects of power require more intense feelings of power and/or conscious awareness of being in a powerful or powerless situation. Future research using different manipulations and operationalizations of both constructs is needed to clarify this effect and help adjudicate between the opposite predictions regarding the direction of the effect. The present research suggests that episodic priming may not be an ideal vehicle for this effort.
1For simplicity we report calculations based on the assumption of equal per cell sample sizes because assuming unequal cell sizes does not alter our conclusions.
2Note that comparisons with the monetary delay discounting task have to be interpreted with caution as due to dropouts the sample is much smaller than in the main analyses.
We thank Carolin Lorber for her support in data collection, and Naomi Gellner and Simone Sebben for their help with coding the responses from the priming task.
The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
The authors have no competing interests to declare.
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$13 to $25 an hour
|Hi, I am making this account on behalf of my daughter, Kieya Hakein. Kieya is an energetic, fun, creative, and organized fifteen year old who absolutely adores children. I have twelve siblings so Kieya has grown up taking care of my siblings chi Read More
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Jennifer W.
|Hoboken, NJ
35 years old with 10 years of experience
$15 to $25 an hour
|I was previously a teacher for over 10 years. I am Montessori certified for birth to age 3.5 but I have also worked with 4-6 year olds. I also have a Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy and have provided therapy for children in the past. I Read More
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Angie C.
|West New York, NJ
18 years old with 1 years of experience
$15 to $25 an hour
|Hi my name is Angie I'm very kind and loving Im the oldest of seven children so I have experience in the children department I'm In college my schedule is very flexible whenever you need me I'm there. Read More
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Elaine Q.
|Jersey City, NJ
26 years old with 5 years of experience
$20 to $35 an hour
|Hello! My name is Elaine, I am an employee and a graduate student in the behavioral health field, and am very dedicated to serving people needs! I am energetic, active, compassionate, and efficient with my time and accomplishing tasks. I know as a pa Read More
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Kiannna W.
|Bronx, NY
25 years old with 10 years of experience
$16 to $20 an hour
|Hi my name is Kianna. I have lots of experience with kids, including babysitting for friends, family, and coworkers since I was 14. I am passionate about children because, I have 7 siblings. I understand the responsibility it takes to be able to mult Read More
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Khloe D.
|W Caldwell, NJ
22 years old with 4 years of experience
$10 to $20 an hour
|I am Khloe! I am 21 years old and a college student at Purdue University. I am looking for opportunities to baby sit and pet sit. I have 4 years of pet care and child care. I am very outgoing, kind, organized, empathetic and responsible. I have my ow Read More
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Jamie M.
|Maspeth, NY
36 years old with 17 years of experience
$15 to $25 an hour
|Hi my name is Jamie and I genuinely love children and enjoy interacting with them. I have been a nanny for over 17 yrs and I still enjoy it. I have experience with children newborn all the way to 9th grade. I also have an Associate's Degree in Educa Read More
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Heather H.
|Yorktown Heights, NY
40 years old with 25 years of experience
$15 to $30 an hour
|SAHM for over a decade with 4 children of my own and lots of experience watching other people's children! My life and house is always full of children, fun, and laughter. I'm looking for some daytime hours helping out other families as a way to eas Read More
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Alma B.
|New York, NY
23 years old with 5 years of experience
$17 to $25 an hour
|Originally from Miami, grew up in very family oriented neighborhood. Throughout my high school years I was babysitting about 5 different families. The children weren't only my dedication but they were a part of my life. The more Id get to know the mo Read More
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Tamesha B.
|New York, NY
23 years old with 1 years of experience
$12 to $20 an hour
|I previously worked at a daycare and I've also volunteered at an afterschool. A lot of my experience before working at these jobs came from watching my little cousins and also mentoring an 11 year old. I am very fun, enthusiastic , and caring when Read More
|Message Tamesha B.
Melissa V.
|Clifton, NJ
21 years old with ~1 years of experience
$10 to $15 an hour
|Hello, my name is Melissa and I am an educated, caring, and energetic college student looking for a babysitting job. I am a full time student majoring in psychology. I have cared for my younger cousins under the age of 5 as well as my younger sister Read More
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Daphni E.
|Brooklyn, NY
30 years old with 4 years of experience
$18 to $40 an hour
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Carol T.
|Nutley, NJ
69 years old with 10 years of experience
$13 to $18 an hour
|LOVE CHILDREN,OLDER PEOPLE,& PETS.HAVE OVER 3 YRS OF COLLEGE.WANTED TO BE A NURSE.HAVE A LOT OF EMPATHY & COMPASSION. I'M A MOM,RAISED 2 CHILDREN OF MY OWN.I HAVE BEEN A TEACHER'S ASSISTANT,BUSINESS OWNER,SALES,BABY-SITTER,HOME-MAKER,REALTOR,SOL Read More
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Price of a Babysitter in 10965
|1 Child (per hour)
|Multiple Children (per hour)
|With Tip (per hour)
|$14.4 – $21.6
|$14.4 – $24.8
It costs about $14.4 per hour (for one child) to hire a babysitter in 10965, that's about $0.96 more than the national average of $13.44 per hour. Additional children can cost up to 50% more per child that needs care but many sitters charge much less or nothing additional for two kids. A tip is not always necessary but always appreciated. 10 to 15 percent is common but again, not a requirement.
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Grey's Anatomy Review: Love, Loss, Legacy, Penis TransplantsCourtney Morrison at .
A crazy surgery? Check. Extended family showing up? Check. Emotional stress? Check.
It's pretty clear that Grey's Anatomy has stepped its game back up and is on a roll with Season 8. From Zola being admitted to the penis transplant, "Love, Loss and Legacy" brought the show's A game. So sit back and relax; time to dig in.
Catherine Jackson. Well, well. It is nice to meet the lady who produced the man with the gorgeous eyes. Debbie Allen stepped in front of the camera to guest star as Jackson's mother. The sometimes GA director made quite the appearance, bringing with her a penis transplant and her meddling ways. Jackson was sweet to send Lexie away while his mother came to town (of course we know this is because Chyler Leigh is taking some time off) but how great would it have been to see Momma Avery go toe to toe with Little Grey? Lexie's blink and you miss it appearance had me so blindsided I almost missed the few lines she said. Although, I was able to admire her hot haircut. Seriously, girl is rocking those bangs.
Baby Girl Zola. MerDer's daughter Zola was admitted for a bowel obstruction and stirred up plenty of feelings for the docs. Alex did the right thing by his friend by telling Meredith and Derek that their girl was in the building. Great performance by Ellen Pompeo with her emotional breakdown. Even though I am not the biggest fan of the show's golden couple having the baby, this episode may have changed my mind. Here is hoping that things can be worked out for the family.
Who else noticed Owen's reaction watching Cristina with Zola? She was great with her, but this is just a reminder to Owen that this is not in their future. Will he be able to stick around for the long haul?
McDreamy? More like McJerk. TV Fanatics have been coming out in force that Derek is no longer the guy we all fell in love with and Meredith should leave him. I have been hoping he would come around, but even I have to admit, his attitude is getting old. Derek admitted to not being able to forgive Meredith to Owen. He needs to get it together before us viewers are unable to forgive him. First step forward? Singing to Zola over the phone. Loved it.
Relationship Drama. So Jackson admits (sort of) that he is love with Lexie. Within one visit, Catherine was able to pick up on Sloan's feelings... so is Jackson oblivious or just pretending to be? Bailey broke up with Nurse Eli and Ben is still waiting for her. What's a girl to do??
- Sloan has really come around for Jackson. Icing on the cake? Slapping him on the butt when sending him into competition.
- Who else predicted the winner of the competition to scrub in? Meredith is a natural and Jackson is the Gunther.
- Bailey - time to forgive Meredith. Or at least let her in on your trial so we can enjoy some funny scenes between the two of you.
- Anyone else feel that Callie is being underused these season so far?


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Good Data
• Sales tax data
• Income tax data
• Truck tonnage moved
• Port shipping container traffic
• Air transport
• UPS, FedEx, and other major shippers' volume
• Corporate Revenues (just added to list)
Well, here's the data from the top of the list, the only data the government releases that meets Chris's "good" criteria.
And how's it looking? Is it down the .7 or even 5% that comes out of the massaged and adjusted data? NO! It's down, wait for it, 22% year over year for Federal individual tax receipts and it's down a horrific 57% for Corporate Income Taxes!
Now that's a crash of revenue, just when our government is RAMPING spending all while simultaneously spending trillions of your dollars to bail out the central banks and pay bonuses on Wall Street!
What will that mean for our deficits? GAME OVER! The math is simply so far from working that there is NO WAY to keep the game going very much longer. You can ignore it, call it looney Tunes, whatever, the math simply tells the truth and cannot lie.
Federal tax revenues plummeting
AP ENTERPRISE: Plummeting tax revenues starve government just as Obama embarks on big plans
By Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press Writer
On Monday August 3, 2009, 8:51 pm EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The recession is starving the government of tax revenue, just as the president and Congress are piling a major expansion of health care and other programs on the nation's plate and struggling to find money to pay the tab.
The numbers could hardly be more stark: Tax receipts are on pace to drop 18 percent this year, the biggest single-year decline since the Great Depression, while the federal deficit balloons to a record $1.8 trillion.
Other figures in an Associated Press analysis underscore the recession's impact: Individual income tax receipts are down 22 percent from a year ago. Corporate income taxes are down 57 percent. Social Security tax receipts could drop for only the second time since 1940, and Medicare taxes are on pace to drop for only the third time ever.
The last time the government's revenues were this bleak, the year was 1932 in the midst of the Depression.
"Our tax system is already inadequate to support the promises our government has made," said Eugene Steuerle, a former Treasury Department official in the Reagan administration who is now vice president of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
"This just adds to the problem."
While much of Washington is focused on how to pay for new programs such as overhauling health care -- at a cost of $1 trillion over the next decade -- existing programs are feeling the pinch, too.
Social Security is in danger of running out of money earlier than the government projected just a few month ago. Highway, mass transit and airport projects are at risk because fuel and industry taxes are declining.
The national debt already exceeds $11 trillion. And bills just completed by the House would boost domestic agencies' spending by 11 percent in 2010 and military spending by 4 percent.
For this report, the AP analyzed annual tax receipts dating back to the inception of the federal income tax in 1913. Tax receipts for the 2009 budget year were available through June. They were compared to the same period last year. The budget year runs from October to September, meaning there will be three more months of receipts this year.
Is there a way out of the financial mess?
A key factor is the economy's health. The future of current programs -- not to mention the new ones Obama is proposing -- will depend largely on how fast the economy recovers from the recession, said William Gale, co-director of the Tax Policy Center.
"The numbers for 2009 are striking, head-snapping. But what really matters is what happens next," said Gale, who previously taught economics at UCLA and was an adviser to President George H. W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers.
"If it's just one year, then it's a remarkable thing, but it's totally manageable. If the economy doesn't recover soon, it doesn't matter what your social, economic and political agenda is. There's not going to be any revenue to pay for it."
A small part of the drop in tax receipts can be attributed to new tax credits for individuals and corporations enacted in February as part of the $787 billion economic stimulus package. The sheer magnitude of the tax decline, however, points to the deep recession that is reducing incomes, wiping out corporate profits and straining government programs.
Social Security tax receipts are down less than a percentage point from last year, but in May the government had been projecting a slight increase. At the time, the government's best estimate was that Social Security would start to pay out more money than it receives in taxes in 2016, and that the fund would be depleted in 2037 unless changes are enacted.
Some experts think the sour economy has made those numbers outdated.
"You could easily move that number up three or four years, then you're talking about 2013, and that's not very far off," said Kent Smetters, associate professor of insurance and risk management at the University of Pennsylvania.
The government's projections included best- and worst-case scenarios. Under the worst, Social Security would start to pay out more money than it received in taxes in 2013, and the fund would be depleted in 2029.
The fund's trustees are still confident the solvency dates are within the range of the worst-case scenario, said Jason Fichtner, the Social Security Administration's acting deputy commissioner.
"We're not outside our boundaries yet," Fichtner said. "As the recovery comes, we'll see how that plays out."
The recession's toll on Social Security makes it even more urgent for Congress to address the fund's long-term solvency, said Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., chairman of the Senate Aging Committee.
"Over the past year, millions of older Americans have watched their retirement savings crumble, making the guaranteed income of Social Security more important than ever," Kohl said.
President Barack Obama has said he wants to tackle Social Security next year, after he clears an already crowded agenda that includes overhauling health care, addressing climate change and imposing new regulations on financial companies.
Medicare tax receipts are also down less than a percentage point for the year, pretty close to government projections. Medicare started paying out more money than it received last year.
Meanwhile, the recession is taking a toll on fuel and industry excise taxes that pay for highway, mass transit and airport projects. Fuel taxes that support road construction and mass transit projects are on pace to fall for the second straight year. Receipts from taxes on jet fuel and airline tickets are also dropping, meaning Congress will have to borrow more money to fund airport projects and the Federal Aviation Administration.
Last week, Congress voted to spend $7 billion to replenish the highway fund, which would otherwise run out of money in August. Congress spent $8 billion to replenish the fund last year.
Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees fuel taxes, is working on a package to make the fund more self-sufficient. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which doesn't back many tax increases, supports increasing the federal gasoline tax, currently 18.4 cents per gallon.
Neal said he hasn't endorsed a specific plan. But, he added, "You can't keep going back to the general fund."
BUT WAIT! That's actually an improvement in Corporate tax receipts… then a funny thing happened on the way to look at the St. Louis Fed's charts. It seems that this chart series, (FCTAX), the only one that presents federal tax data on the Fed's site, has stopped reporting data! Below is the same series chart that I posted on April 10th of this year:
That's right, you can see that corporate tax receipts were down well over 70% at that time!
Now, when that same data series is pulled up, you will find that the data begins in 1996 and ENDS in 2008!
In fact, do a search at the Fed's site and you will find that all aggregate tax receipt information is suddenly only reported to the beginning of 2008!
Fred Search, Gov't Receipts, Expenditures & Investment
Why would they do that? Oh, go ahead and ask. I can already guess their response… "That data is no longer relevant." Or, "It was an error and will be corrected [when the recession is over]." LOL, seriously, when they were playing games with the "excess reserves" charts, they came up with all types of excuses and now it's impossible to know exactly how it's calculated.
One more time:
The BEA, the BLS, in fact ALL government reports are suspect. All reporting of government statistics should be scrapped. The Fed should be abolished, The central banks and bankers should be removed – as in gone, a new money system should be put in place, there should be a Constitutional Amendment dictating the SEPARATION OF CORPORATIONS AND THEIR MONEY FROM STATE, and finally, there should be a new government agency responsible for collecting and reporting economic statistics and that agency should have a mandate to develop data collection methods that cannot be changed over time and there should also be a mandate to release RAW DATA with every report, there should be absolute transparency in that all the calculations and all collection methods should be easily viewable by anyone. Oh, and NO ONE, not even the President should have access to the information before the public!


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I first became aware of Seattle native writer Ijeoma Oluo and her work early January after a link to a Twitter conversation she was engaged in was shared on Facebook. The title "Win of the Day: Woman Defeats Twitter Troll with Words, Kindness on MLK" immediately caught my attention. The injustice of the non-stop onslaught of deaths of black children, women and men at the hand of police officers had left me raw. I was emotionally exhausted from grief and anger. I was ready for kindness. Reading through the exchange brought tears to my eyes in a way that only true compassion can. Ijeoma reminded me that compassion was a tool that should not be easily forgotten.
I met with Ijeoma over brunch and she is as funny and witty in person as is reflected in her writing, with a confident firmness that serves her well in her profession as a writer who has chosen to tackle the uncomfortable intersecting topics of ethnicity, social justice and feminism. Although I had never met her, our interaction was easy and she unflinchingly discussed with me topics that most shy from, especially with someone they don't know well.
Alexis: We've discussed how you began writing as a form of self-care. Writing offers something that many other forms of self-care do not, a voice. How important do you feel, in our current environment, is it to engage in a way that gives a voice to the complex emotions many are feeling?
Ijeoma: I think that giving your experiences the respect that they deserve is important – regardless of how you express that. I think that a lot of people (especially women and people of color) are told that their experiences don't matter, that they aren't worthy. Even if you never share your words with someone else, they are worth your time. Never be afraid to take up space.
Alexis: The attacks to your articles online are vicious. I find myself compulsively reading the comments even though I know I am descending into the underbelly of humanity. These attacks are usually very personal, from your appearance to your name. Do you read all of them? Are you able to remain detached?
Ijeoma: I do read a lot of them, but there are certain publications where I know the comments are going to be pure hate, so I avoid them. But I like to read comments because there are some really great ones in there – some insight that I wouldn't get otherwise. The hate doesn't bother me at all. I don't know these people, they don't know me. They are having an impulsive, ridiculous reaction to something I said that obviously touched a nerve. It's my job to be out here, to challenge the status quo, to be where they say that black women should not be. The hate comes with that. If it didn't, I wouldn't need to be out here.
I get far more upset by the "well-meaning" people who are so caught up in themselves that they don't want to see how they are contributing to a racist, patriarchal, classist, ableist society, so they take up your time trying to get assurances that they are good people instead of actually doing good. That sort of entitlement wastes everyone's time and takes away from the issues at hand.
Alexis: It would seem that some people are simply incensed by your audacity to discuss race as a biracial woman. Thoughts on the obsession with your ethnic identity?
Ijeoma: The obsession with my racial identity is really weird. As a kid, it was other black kids who insisted that I wasn't "black" enough. Now as an adult, it's mainly white people trying to take my blackness from me. Although the moment I make some black people mad, the fact that I have a white mom is always brought up.
I think that this all ties into white supremacy – their owning and defining of blackness. Unfortunately, some black people have internalized that – but I find that is becoming less common. But this thought that white can be anything, but black can only be one thing, is a tool that white supremacy uses to imprison us. We should always be aware when that creeps up in our consciousness.
I'm black, proudly black. And I've always identified as such. My mother is white, which means that I have a lot of experience with Whiteness (and the privilege afforded to lighter skin), but the Whiteness from a parent doesn't get passed down to brown children. White is a pretty exclusive club, they don't let us in. Knowing half of my ethnic heritage is from a population actively working to suppress my racial identity has always been really strange. I think a lot of people are threatened because they see my identification as black as a voluntary rejection of Whiteness – which it is. But let's not be fooled, it's not like I have much of a choice.
Alexis: Beyond ethnicity, there is the added layer of your unapologetic femininity. Your writing is bold and clear. Why do you think there is such an issue, still, with accepting such straightforwardness from a woman?
Ijeoma: Men are very, very threatened by strong women – surprisingly so. I think that when you are raised to think the world is yours, you view women's actions as a direct statement on you. Women doing for themselves means that men aren't doing enough. Women voluntarily being single means that men aren't good enough. When we have a society of men raised to believe that women are here for their benefit, any action we take that doesn't directly benefit them is an insult.
Alexis: You don't appear to be afraid of vulnerability in your writing. You speak of your fears, hopes, struggles and dreams openly. Is this an active choice or does it just come naturally to you? Has anything you have every shared ever been used against you?
Ijeoma: I've always written, even as a little kid. But sharing my feelings and experiences with others did not come naturally to me at all. I had a wonderful and horrible childhood – all at the same time. And my role was always as the protector, the one who fixes it all. It was never about me. My brother was always the storyteller. But I realized that I was missing from the narrative. I realized that I couldn't own my life if I couldn't face it. So I started writing.
The first really personal piece I wrote was "There's a Penis on my Backpack." I almost had a breakdown writing it. I kept thinking "you selfish bitch, nobody cares about your story." I cried and cried the entire time. I was terrified. But I wrote it anyway. Then Jezebel picked it up.
Everything I feared would happen did. My mom was devastated. We had a huge fight. She felt betrayed. Some commenters were awful. But I survived, and it was out there. From there on, I knew I could do it.
Alexis: Since the discussion about racism has moved to the mainstream, a common experience of people of color has been the painful silence of white friends and/or loved ones. You've experienced this. What advice would you give to those who remain silent to the people of color in their life?
Ijeoma: My advice would be to listen and offer support. Don't make it about you, but definitely show that you care, that your sense of community goes beyond skin color. A lot of people say "all lives matter" and that shit, but they have nothing to say about the systemic oppression that affects a lot of those lives.
People act like racism is a POC problem, but it's a white problem. It's a problem that the white community has to fix. There is no action that a person of color can take that will end racism and racial oppression. It has to be ended by the oppressors. So just silently being "not racist" is doing absolutely nothing to help when you are still part of a system actively oppressing people of color.
Alexis: I don't have children, but love the articles you have written on parenting especially "We Should Raise Our Brown Kids to Talk Back." You write of your children "I want them to live fully in their own power. This is how many white children are raised. They are raised to inherit the future, to build a great tomorrow in their names. They are raised to argue, to demand. I want my kids to do the same." A parent must be free to pass on the spirit of freedom instead of oppression. How did you come to your freedom of spirit?
Ijeoma: I definitely got my freedom of spirit from my mother. It's funny, because she was never a very confident woman herself. She's always second-guessing herself, rarely reaching for big things. It caused a lot of pain in her life. But none of that ever applied to me or my siblings. She always thought we were magic – that we could do anything. We never heard "you can't do that" from her. Anything that we said we wanted to be she put her full support behind. She honestly believed (and still does) that we could change the world. I'll always be grateful for that. My mom has never had money, fame, prestige – but everything that my brother, sister and I accomplish – that's her legacy. Her love helped build that.
Alexis: What's in the future for Ijeoma? Where do you plan to take your writing?
Ijeoma: I'm now writing full time! I'm very excited and terrified about the change. I would love to get into writing longer pieces. I'm starting to do more investigative work. Also, I've been drawing cartoons – which is great fun. A lot of these concepts around race and gender work well in animated form. I'm also going to be teaching a class on culture writing this summer, with Teen Tix. I'm really just trying to put my whole heart into communicating, as long as there are people who want to hear what I have to say.
More of Ijeoma's work can be found at ijeomaoluo.com.


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Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has received the 2018 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. SIUE joins a select group of 30 institutions that have earned the distinction for five consecutive years.
As a recipient of the annual HEED Award—a national honor recognizing U.S. colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion— SIUE will be featured along with 96 other recipients in the November 2018 edition of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.
"The HEED Award process consists of a comprehensive and rigorous application that includes questions relating to the recruitment and retention of students and employees — and best practices for both — continued leadership support for diversity, and other aspects of campus diversity and inclusion," said Lenore Pearlstein, publisher of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. "We take a holistic approach to reviewing each application in deciding who will be named a HEED Award recipient. Our standards are high, and we look for institutions where diversity and inclusion are woven into the work being accomplished every day across their campus."
INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine selected SIUE based on its exemplary diversity and inclusion initiatives, and the ability to embrace a broad definition of diversity on campus, including gender, race, ethnicity, veterans, people with disabilities, members of the LGBT community and others.
"SIUE values and appreciates a diverse and inclusive campus community," said Dr. Venessa A. Brown, associate chancellor and chief diversity officer. "We are intentional about discussing various issues in our state, region, nation and world that impact our campus culture. Our strong commitment to diverse programming, and our diversity and inclusion online learning community position SIUE as a model for the region."
Brown listed examples of upcoming diversity programs at SIUE:
- Campus Community Book Clubs Oct. 16 and Nov. 14
- Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15-Oct. 15
- SIUE Inaugural Diversity Day, Oct. 16
- Celebrating National Coming Out Day, Oct. 11
- United Nations Day, Oct. 24
- Celebrating National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Oct. 25
- World AIDS Day, Dec. 1
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Aladdin Disney Black Hole lunchbox
The Aladdin Disney Black Hole lunchbox is a vintage lunchbox based on the Disney science fiction film 'The Black Hole'.
'The Black Hole' is a 1979 Disney film about the crew of the exploratory spaceship, the USS Palomino, and their encounter with evil scientist Doctor Hans Reinhardt aboard the USS Sygnus. The story centres around the idea of travelling through a black hole, and features a number of themes and ideas unusual to previous Disney films including death, religion and physics.
The film was the first Disney title to receive a PG rather than U certificate, a featured pioneering use of computer graphics along with being the first feature film with a digitally-recorded soundtrack.
As with most Disney titles, the film produced a wide range of merchandise including a series of action figures by Mego, a board game, comic books and a metal lunchbox made in 1979 by Aladdin Industries.
The Aladdin Disney Black Hole lunchbox
The box has a black border and handle, with artwork on the front, back and sides and a matching flask with a black lid.
The front of the box shows the spacecraft USS Sygnus being sucked into the black hole, along with the words to the film's title as they curve around on themselves against a backdrop of stars.
The reverse of the box shows the evil red robot Maximillian attacking the good robot V.I.N.C.E.N.T, whilst the robot Old B.O.B lies damaged on the ground between them. The sides of the box feature an image of Captain Holland, Dr. Kate McCrae, Harry Booth and Dr. Alex Durant travelling through the ship with B.O.B and V.I.N.C.E.N.T, Doctor Hans Reinhardt and Maximillian, and two of the lobotomised robot crew.
The flask features a similar image to the front of the box, along with illustrations of other characters such as B.O.B and V.I.N.C.E.N.T.
How much is an Aladdin Disney Black Hole lunchbox worth?
In good condition, and with their flasks intact, boxes can sell for up to $50 on sites like eBay. Used boxes with wear and tear such as rust and scratches can sell for $20 - $30.
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Top Zip Bags Set
Stitch fully lined, monogrammed, quilted front and back bags with the zipper at the exact top completely in your hoop in just ONE hooping!
4 sizes are included.
The bags are fully lined.
The zippers are at the exact top of the bag.
The ends of the zippers are finished.
The back side of the bags are quilted also.
Each size includes a full, embedded alphabet on an applique frame.
There's lots of great detail. See full style of the alphabet below.
4 sizes of bags are included.
Hoop sizes are:
6x10, 7x12, 8x12 & 9.50x14
See the actual design file dimensions below under DESIGN INFO.
Bags finish to these sizes:
6x10 finishes to 5.75" x 5"
7x12 finishes to 6.50" x 5.50"
8x12 finishes to 7.50" x 5.50"
9.50x14 finishes to 9" x 6.50"
Letter style embedded into bag files
Files are also included with a blank applique frame
and fully blank with complete quilting on both sides.
Actual design file dimensions
6x10 ~ 6" x 9.83"
7x12 ~ 6.98" x 11.41"
8x12 ~ 7.82" x 11.52"
9.50 x 14 ~ 9.21" x 13.34"
DST, EXP, HUS, JEF, PES, VIP, VP3, XXX formats included
NOTE: VP3 is not included in 8x12 size
JEF & VP3 is not included in 9.50x14 size
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Wasteland Twinning Forum , ZK/U, Berlin-Moabit, 21-23.09. 2012
The Anxious Prop collective has been invited to join Wasteland Twinning Forum in order to build another version of the Y-table that facilitate the generation of collective knowledge. Research vehicle called Objective Dialogues served as analytical station, proposing diverse methods for investigation of the wasteland-objects submitted from seven different sites. The table was equipped with 3d scanner and 3 stations (digital scale, measuring tools, magnifying glass), attached to the classification shelf, allowing pairs of investigators to build narratives around chosen object. The whole process concluded by recording a short summary and bringing generated sheet of information back to the cabinet, permitting other participants of the forum to read and reinterpret presented data.
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Creating a forest garden
A Forest Garden is a brilliant way to grow food, either in a garden or a larger site situation. It is about establishing a low maintenance long-term eco-system, that you can eat. It is best thought of as a 'forage' garden, somewhere you can seasonally pass through and gain some tasty yields.
Anna has designed and planted up over 50 'forage' gardens of varying different sizes. She feels passionately about empowering others to create their own and holds frequent workshops on the subject.
It is highly recommended to attend a workshop if you are interested to plant a forage garden. However if you don't have time or are new to gardening then why not have one designed for you? It works well to turn the shady unused back of the garden over to something more useful that looks after itself or to make more of a feature of it. Every garden is so different Anna has all the skills to understand the needs of your project and choose the plants that you want AND that will work in your conditions.
If you would like her to visit your garden or potential forest garden site, just phone to book in – cost £40.
Forest gardening is probably the world's oldest form of land use and was used in prehistoric times for producing food. Originally used in tropical areas, the technique was adapted for use in our temperate climate In the 1960s by Robert Hart.
Forest gardening is a low-maintenance sustainable plant-based food production using the woodland ecosystem. It makes use of companion planting, by intermixing fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables to grow in a succession of layers, to build a woodland habitat.


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Welcome to Yammas Grill in Wasaga Beach
Family owned and operated since 2012
Breakfast at this Greek restaurant starts at 8 am during the week, and 7 am on Saturday and Sunday. The Breakfast menu boasts omelettes and a special Protein Breakfast for the health conscious eater. Lunch and dinner include daily specials along with Greek specialities such as Souvlaki, Gyros and Greek Salad as well as a traditional Canadian fare.
Meals at Yammas Grill are prepared in a stainless steel open concept kitchen, allowing you to watch the chef at work. Nikos uses authentic mediterranean herbs and spices and pure olive oil which is imported directly from the Patrianakos village in Lakonia, Greece. This delicious olive oil is also for sale at Yammas Grill, allowing you to take the mediterranean flare home to your own kitchen.
Yammas Grill offers all menu items for take out. Please call (705) 352-4000 to place your take out order. The restaurant can also be booked for your special family event or business event. Ask for our catering service!
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Watch out closely for what you are eating to ensure food safety at all times. Millions of deaths worldwide are caused due to unsafe food practices and talking about all-round development seems bogus when these basic standards are not met. We all have an important role to play in ensuring food safety and quality. Here's what you can do:
- Ensure that the raw materials for your food such as fruits, vegetables, and grains are farm-fresh and cultivated using organic means of farming. Less use of pesticides means the food is chemical-free and healthy too.
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Repairs & Patching: DYI or Hire a Professional?
Making the decision to hire a professional hardwood flooring installer to help you patch up or repair your hardwood floor can be influenced by various factors. Your expertise level when dealing with hardwood floor repairs, the difficulty and scope of the repair needed and your budget will impact your decision.
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P.O. Box 12068, State Capitol
Austin, Texas 78711
Tel. (512) 463-0112
May 12, 2000
FLOWER MOUND -- State Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, will give the commencement address at her alma mater, the University of North Texas, during graduation ceremonies that begin at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 13, 2000, at the UNT Coliseum.
"It is an incredible honor to return to this university that I love so much and address the first graduates of this new century," Senator Nelson said. "I'm sure this will take me back to my commencement and remind me of the excitement, and the hope, and the uncertainty I felt during this ceremony."
Senator Nelson's speech is titled "Daring to Dream" and will focus on the importance of setting and working toward individual goals, as well as sharing in the responsibility of our collective future.
"These scholars stand at a very special place in time -- both in the history of this university, and in our shared history as human beings. Their dreams and their life's work as individuals will determine our collective future in this new century and this new millennium. That's an important challenge."
Senator Nelson earned her bachelor's degree at North Texas State University, now UNT, where she was an education major and a member of the Delta Zeta sorority. Upon graduation, she became a public school teacher and went on to serve two terms on the State Board of Education, on which she led the fight to correct more than 5,000 factual errors in public school textbooks.
In 1993, she was elected to the Texas Senate, becoming the first woman to represent Denton County or Senate District 12 in the upper chamber. Senator Nelson represents Senate District 12, which includes parts of Dallas, Denton, Ellis and Tarrant counties. She is Chairman of the Senate Health Services Committee.


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No lessons learnt from Babri incident?
In the race to win Muslim votes, Congress and the Samajwadi Party are fighting each other, the BJP is making hay and innocent people are losing their lives, says Sharat Pradhan
Uttar Pradesh appears to be, once again, turning into the centre-stage for the murky drama of communal politics.
This brand of politics had touched its nadir with the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in December 1992 and the ensuing communal flare-up across the country.
In fact, the political build-up to the Black Sunday of December 6, 1992 -- the day the Babri Masjid was brought down -- brought both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Samajwadi Party to the forefront.
Right from its inception, the BJP had grown essentially on the strength of its politics of Hindutva.
The Babri incident made Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav realise the increasing influence of religion on the minds of the voters.
Though his initial rise in Uttar Pradesh was attributable to the need for change -- the need to break the shackles of a prolonged and discredited Congress rule -- it was the support of Muslim voters that took him to new heights.
Even today, when the nation stands at the threshold of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Mulayam is clearly all set to play up the Muslim card. So what if that amounts to handing over an opportunity -- to exploit the emotive spirit of Hindutva -- on a platter to sworn rival BJP?
A series of events in the past have led to the common perception that the visible rivalry between the BJP and the SP was actually more of posturing -- essentially aimed at polarising their respective vote banks of Hindus and Muslims.
Now, when political experts are predicting a hung Parliament after the Lok Sabha election, Mulayam sees it as a major, and perhaps the last, opportunity to fulfill his long-cherished dream of reaching the prime minister's chair. And he knows that it will not be possible without the en bloc support of 21 per cent of voters in UP, who happen to be Muslims.
After all, in a caste-ridden and religion-guided voting scenario, Muslim voters alone can help SP win half of UP's 80 Lok Sabha seats, giving Mulayam more bargaining power in a possible Third Front coalition.
His PM dreams could get shattered if a section of the Muslims were weaned away by the Congress, whose political fortunes are also heavily dependent on the support of the minority vote-bank
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Image: A rally to protest the demolition of Babri Masjid
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Did Mulayam ink a secret deal with the VHP?
Guided by desperation, Mulayam seemed to be going blatantly overboard to impress upon Muslims that he alone was their true messiah.
He did not hesitate to even strike underhand deals with his otherwise sworn adversaries in the saffron brigade, if that served his ultimate goal.
What was the BJP's interest in playing along with Mulayam? Well, a Muslim tilt towards the SP would automatically weaken the Congress in its competition with the BJP in the ultimate race for power in New Delhi.
This posturing was exposed when battle lines were purportedly drawn between the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Samajwadi Party over the 84-kosi parikrama yatra near Ayodhya from August 25.
The VHP neither had the intention nor the capability to undertake such a yatra, while the SP regime, which declared a vociferous ban on the parikrama, was actually keen to see the parishad pushing its plan aggressively.
Critics aptly termed the event as one of 'match-fixing' between VHP chief Ashok Singhal and SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, as the three had remained closeted for two hours, just before the VHP gave its call for the parikrama and the SP government issued the ban order .
The communal violence which broke out in large parts of Muzaffarnagar district and then spread to neighbouring villages in the surrounding districts of Saharanpur, Meerut, Baghpat and Shamli took nearly 50 lives -- the official toll is 38 -- over a span of just 48 hours.
While UP has witnessed over 30 major and minor incidents of communal violence since Akhilesh Yadav assumed power in March 2012, a communal riot of such a large magnitude broke out in the state after nearly two decades.
Ironically, Mulayam still had the cheek to publicly pat his son on the back and proclaim, "The Akhikesh government deserves praise for controlling the situation in just two days".
The action by the state government reportedly followed a prolonged spell of passive 'wait and watch' approach.
The inactive administration, in fact, allowed an incident of eve-teasing to snowball into one of the worst communal riots in recent memory.
Widely recognised as a key hub of western UP -- often referred to as the state's 'wild west' region -- Muzaffarnagar and its neighbouring areas are infamous for their firm belief in settling personal scores with the power of the barrel.
Here, personal disputes get settled with muscle power and gun power, not by the law of the land.
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Image: Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader participate in a demonstration at Ayodhya
Photographs: Reuters
No effort was made to thwart the riots
A social scientist, on condition of anonymity, aptly described western UP as a land where "gender bias is so blatant that women are treated with open contempt, centuries-old social inequalities reign supreme and the law of the land is of no consequence."
How did the riots start?
On August 27, when two young Jat boys went over to confront a Muslim boy in Kawaal village of Muzaffarnagar for allegedly teasing a girl, all three boys were killed.
The policemen chose to look the other way, even though the nearest police post was less than a km away from the site of the violence. The scores were settled in a manner typical of the 'wild west'.
But the one-sided manner in which action was initiated by the local authorities, who chose to book a large number of Jats for the crime, gave the BJP an excuse to perpetuate its own politics of religion.
On the evening of August 27, both the district magistrate and the senior superintendent of police were suspended for dereliction of duty, though a lot of policemen blame the initial inaction on their political bosses (read Mulayam Singh Yadav who was personally monitoring the developments.)
And before the new police and administration officials could even get their bearings, the Jats rose up in arms to convene a maha panchayat to lodge their protest on August 31, but the event failed to attract too many people.
The Jat community soon gave a call for a bigger show of strength, with another panchayat on September 7. Other than clamping Section 144, which bars the assembly of four or more people in any public place, the state administration did nothing to douse the simmering rage.
In fact, no effort was made to prevent the assembly of thousands of people at the venue.
The BJP found this an ideal occasion to emerge as messiahs of the Jats and a huge band of party leaders, led by veteran leader Hukum Singh, converged at the event.
"Not only did the statements issued by local authorities to the media explicitly say that there was no restriction on anyone to attend the maha panchayat, none of the several police pickets en route to the venue stopped me or even cared to question me while I was on my way to the panchayat," Hukum Singh told this scribe after being charged with violating Section 144.
Criminal cases were also registered against BJP leaders Suresh Rana and Sangeet Som, Congress Member of Legislative Assembly Harendra Malik and Bharatiya Kisan Union leaders Rajesh Tikait and Naresh Tikait for making inflammatory speeches intended to arouse communal passions and foment trouble.
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Image: The swearing-in cermony of Akhilesh Singh
Photographs: Pawan Kumar/Reuters
Full-scale war erupted between Jats, Muslims
Hukum Singh alleged, "These two panchayats were convened after we saw Muslims staging a major demonstration in Muzaffarnagar town on August 29 -- in gross violation of the provisions of Section 144 -- with men brandishing sharp weapons at the gathering. Pictures of the gathering, with demonstrators carrying weapons, were carried by some leading dailies but the administration preferred to turn a blind eye".
By the evening of September 7, 11 people had been killed, including TV channel IBN-7's Muzaffarnagar correspondent Rajesh Verma and local photographer Israr Vakil .
While Rajesh was shot dead in the cross-fire between the two communities, Israr was abducted by a mob, carried to Sakheda village and lynched to death after he tried to escape.The brutal killing took place barely 100 metres from the local police station.
A full-scale war soon erupted between the two communities and spread like wild fire -- not just in Muzaffarnagar town but also in the neighbouring villages.
The state government promptly called in the army, a tacit admission that it had failed to handle the situation.
But then, in all communally sensitive situations in India, members of the Muslim community always feel more secure with the army around than they do with khakhi-clad policemen.
Homes were attacked, shops were torched and properties were burnt, compelling Muslims to flee Jat-dominated villages and Jats to look for safer havens away from Muslim-dominated villages.
"This was unprecedented as rioting had rarely spread into the rural pockets, where Jats and Muslims have been known to co-exist in harmony," pointed out a senior IPS officer who had completed a successful stint as the district police chief of Muzaffarnagar.
The situation worsened even though state Director General of Police Devraj Nagar had set up base in Muzaffarnagar.
His second-in-command, Additional Director General, Law and Order, Arun Kumar, who had been repatriated by the Union home ministry for alleged mishandling the Arushi murder case, was flown to Muzaffarnagar to take command of the deteriorating situation.
Kumar failed to make any difference in the riot-hit region, other than touring the affected areas in a 20-vehicle long motorcade.
But not only did the violence continue, it even spread further, compelling Kumar to admit before TV cameras, "No one can guarantee that there would be no more violence."
More incidents of shoot-outs and stabbings were reported from new areas as rioters continued to go on a free run.
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Image: Akhilesh Yadav
Photographs: Reuters
BJP, Samajwadi Party blame each other
Back in Lucknow, Mulayam Singh Yadav called the shots via 1990 batch IAS officer Anita Singh, who, despite being just one of the several secretaries to the chief minister, is better known as one of the five "de facto chief ministers".
Rather late in the day, after 36 innocent lives had been lost and communal riots had spread to four neighbouring districts, the government decided to wake up from its studied slumber.
A major shake-up was carried out in the police administrations of Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur as well as Shamli. District police chiefs, deputy inspector generals, zonal inspector generals as well as the commissioner were given marching orders.
The licenses of nearly 1,900 firearm owners were cancelled and a crackdown was ordered on the mischief-mongers. As many as 700 people were arrested overnight, while less than 200 arrests had been made in the 12 preceding days.
While blaming the entire violence on the BJP, UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said, "A minor scuffle between two individuals has been blown up into a riot simply because it was fuelled further by BJP leaders. Such incidents do occur sometimes, but currently these small incidents are being used to serve the communal ends of political parties like the BJP, who have nothing else to bank upon at a time when general elections are not far away."
He added, "Earlier, such incidents were treated like routine crimes and dealt with accordingly, but the BJP used it to communalise the atmosphere so that it could win the votes of Jats in the region."
Akhilesh sought to also pass the buck to Bahujan Samaj Party, whose leaders Swami Prasad Maurya and Naseemuddin Siddiqui had sought the dismissal of the Akhilesh government over, "the complete breakdown of law and order."
Maurya and Siddiqui also urged state Governor B L Joshi to recommend the imposition of President'' Rule in the state.
Meanwhile, in his report sent to the Union government, Governor Joshi has squarely blamed the Akhilesh government for the rioting.
According to a highly-placed source, "The governor has said that the state government failed to take stern and timely action when the issue was simply limited to an isolated incident of eve-teasing."
The report reportedly observed, "The large-scale violence that followed ten days after the August 27 incident could have been avoided if firm action had initially been taken by the state government."
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Image: A woman and her child, who were injured in communal clashes, rest on a hospital bed in Muzaffarnagar
Photographs: Reuters
Congress, SP fight for Muslim votes; BJP makes hay
Political analysts believe that the governor's report was aimed at serving the Congress party's interests and keeping Mulayam on tenterhooks. They pointed out that the Congress has begun to view the SP as a major threat to its own aspirations for Muslim votes.
Meanwhile, in an obvious bid to soothe ruffled feathers, Akhilesh hastily appointed a one-man judicial commission to inquire into the riots, headed by retired high court Judge Vishnu Sahai.
But those hit by the riots do not expect much from the commission's report, which is expected to be released in two months, given Sahai's widely known proximity to Mulayam.
After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi's highly-publicised visit to Muzaffarnagar, Akhilesh planned a hurried trip to Muzaffarnagar -- ten days after the riots actually broke out.
But the only measure he could take was the suspension of the senior superintendent of police, who had already been shunted out, and doling out monetary sops like Rs 10 lakh (later raised to Rs 15 lakh) to the next of kin of the victims.
He even promised jobs to family members of the victims, while Dr Singh and Gandhi had laid stress on ensuring that terrorised families, who were still holed up in relief camps, could return home.
In this race for Muslim votes between the SP and the Congress, the BJP is making hay -- paving the way for polarisation of the Hindu vote which is crucial to the saffron brigade.
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Image: Mulayam Singh Yadav at an event